yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] r6680jc:
I have questions regarding the mtd partiton map, especially on xperia 2011 devices;

1. Can we also alter/change the pagesize? for example, st18i and st15i both have pagesize of 256, can we change it to 128?

2. What is gonna happen to the partition layout and pagesize if we flash ftf for the phone with pagesize of 256 to the phone with pagesize of 128 (or vice versa)?

*doing this without turning phone on after flashing as this may cause something we don't want (touchscreen issue for example).

Will it change the pagesize? or will it mess up the partition layout? or will it cause something bad (damaging the nand flash chip maybe)?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] CosmicDan:
From memory, specifying a different pagesize simply didn't work e.g. I/O error flooding output.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mikeioannina:
Let me add my results of custom partitioning here:

Custom layout is tested and works on all 2011 mogami xperias, at least when the ICS .587 ftf is flashed (I haven't tried any older ftf). I have read here in this thread that appslog partition is not writable in some of the devices but that's not true, I safely overrode that partition and had nothing strange happen.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] r6680jc:
in your latest cm11 kernel for xperia 2011 devices, do you remove the appslog partition?

and from your experience, what minimum size of cache partition we can have that is safe without having any problem?

and last, you don't change the pagesize, do you?

so we have no option to change pagesize? only custom partition size and layout?

is there any way to keep the new partition scheme when we want to flash stock ftf? (yes I know, we can add the new partition scheme to the kernel and make flashable zip of stock rom, but i'm talking about flashing ftf without error and without affecting new partition scheme).
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] puppet13th:
Custom mtd size and layout only works on custom kernel,as we know stock kernel read mtd size and layout from atag.currently there is no way to modify atag.

If i'm not mistaken,all kernel read atag for mtd size and layout,then we override it using kernel command line argument.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] r6680jc:
Flashing stock Arc S / Neo V ftf to Arc will change the partition layout and size, and flashing any custom kernel (that doesn't specify the partition layout and size) after that won't affect it, so that means the partition layout and size can be altered without flashing custom kernel, and it also means either the partition size and layout are also specified by the stock kernel, or something inside the ftf has access to atag to modify the partition layout and size.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] CosmicDan:
You misunderstood me -

Over a year ago I was asking DoomLorD and a few other veterans if they knew anything about how the sector count of all mtd blocks don't add up to to the total NAND size, none of us really had any idea. I discovered that there was a ~55MB chunk of unallocated data on the R800a/i. They have no vendor/appslog partition at all, it's a soft-link to /system/vendor (which many devices do) and Sony must have just forgotten to expand userdata over it.

On the Play, it's writeable only after you flash the vendor partition from Neo L (it has identical NAND map). I remember this specifically, I repartitioned /system to cover this chunk and then dd'd from it and had a bunch of I/O errors that equated to about 55MB. It wasn't writeable or even readable because it was not "initialized" on the NAND, I'm not sure on the engineering. I was stuck on this mystery until the Neo L firmware came out and I learned that it was an identical board (minus some of the upper HAL) with an identical NAND chip and partition layout, but their FTF's had a vendor.sin (which no R800a/i's ever had).

Actually I've theorized that this former ~55MB of AWOL space is a DRM-related data chunk for PlayStation Certified gaming which may become "unallocated" once the user unlocks their bootloader. But I can't remember if that was disproved or not.

FYI, the Play is not a mogami-based board - it's zeus, the odd-one-out of the Xperia 2011 line. Regardless, all moot I think - the current Play community doesn't seem to give a crap about custom partitions AFAIK.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] CosmicDan:
Yes the partition layout can be changed without custom kernel, but that's obviously limited to official FTF/SIN binaries from Sony. ATAG variables (or "tagged parameters" as they are technically called) are requested by kernel from the bootloader (which is skipped once we provide the mtdparts kernel parameter); I'm 99% sure that the tagged parameters for the bootloader are in the fota*.sin binaries (which themselves seem to be a subset of executable instructions for the bootloader, comparable to the SBL in a Samsung or the REX in HTC). AFAIK, many Qualcomm-designed ARM platforms have a read-only bootloader whereas other platforms which have a reflashable-bootloader have the tagged parameters right in the bootloader itself.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mikeioannina:
I was referring to posts #48 & #49, I know the difference between mogami & zeus.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] JunDavis:
Good to see you again Dan, nice work.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] CosmicDan:
Oh right, good point. That was a wild guess, thanks for confirming the contrary. So as of yet there is no mogami device with "locked" or "unallocated" or otherwise lost/forgotten partition.

Heh howdy, I still float around every now and then. Every device I work on these days is a 16GB+ eMMC device so none of this really applies to me anymore :p

I can continue to update the original post but I can't remember if someone has confirmed the layouts for devices I've not listed - and I dunno if to list the old/new maps for ones that resized via an official update.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hootnath:
would it be possible for you to share the FTF with the following configuration that you mentioned as an example?

reserved | boot | /system | /data |/cache|

80MB | 12.5MB | 280MB | 639MB | 8MB |

Note: Not to scale :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] r6680jc:
for what phone?

AFAIK, for xperia 2011 devices, it's not possible to modify partition scheme using ftf.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hootnath:
hmm ... using a simple ftf, some partition sizes were able to get enlarged. putting arc s's ftf allows arc to get an increased /system from 380 to 400 and /data from 380 (i think), to 420. i read though that the first and the last partition are fixed in order and all the space in between can be meddled with.

it'd be super nice though to grab some of the 101mb /cache and around 120mb out of the 400mb /system for use in /data.

as for model - sony xperia arc or arc s, either.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] r6680jc:
the problem is we can't modify ftf to have custom partition layout/size as we wish.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] 1-0-1:
So would it be possible to shrink just the /data? I am trying to resolve my phone encryption problem by reducing the /data a little as some unallocated space is needed for the phone encryption to work. Can /data only shrink be performed with destroying it?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] rasoooli:
[Request]

Request :

I find

this

Chinese ics Rom that change Vengeance 1.38 kernel To this partition table (system=210mb | data=714mb | cash=5mb )

I Need a ICS Kernel ( Vengeance or Luous or ... ) with this Partition kernel (system = 300 | data = 620 | cache = 9 ) For My Arc-s
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bsined:
I've got a newer device (Xperia TL - LT30at) but I guess the same principles apply. I first, recorded the original partitions, then did the calculations for the new sizes of Userdata and SDcard, opened partition-info.sin in a HEX editor, adjusted the values, saved the file, made an FTF in Flashtool, and flashed. The result was strange: fdisk displayed the results I expected, sdcard0 (emulated external storage) was sized properly, but internal storage was still at 1.97GB. Any idea what I missed?

My bootloader is locked and cannot be unlocked.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yagosalva:
Im having a problem when flashing gapps in the lastest cmw it didnt matter the rom that i had flashed before. I tried flashing the old cmw but it said that the file was bad. I dont know what to do. Help please.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yagosalva:
Problem solved. Close thread please
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] ScreenWhine:
All that I could find is that the P1000 uses a BCM4329 and that the P3100 uses a BCM4330.

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b00f:
Hi

I have tried searching the net, here, and everywhere else.

I am unsure if I am even searching using the right terminology.

I have a A501 and a SGSIII.

I want to mount the Tablet in my car and then have the ability to remotely (Bluetooth preferable, but if I have do it WIFI that is ok.) control my phone, which may be in my pocket or in my bag.

So basically have the tablet display my phone screen.

Be able to stream the music from there.

Use Data (Maps and other Internet based things.)

So, is it possible?

I know there are "Mimic" head units available.

This is something similar, but would prefer it not to be handled via a cable, and just use my current tablet as the external screen for the mobile phone.

Regards
[LG Optimus Black] marckjao:
I just flashed Marvel v9 rom and everything went fine, my only problem is when i open Google play store and update apps this message keeps popping "Error downloading "name of program". There is insufficient space on the device, both my internal and external memory have more than 500mb of space. I've tried clearing cache, clear data but still no change, someone please help me :crying:
[LG Optimus Black] SoulExertz:
Try reflashing with full wipes
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dibyajyoti:
Hi!

I recently bought my Galaxy S III and it also happens to be my first android phone. Previously I was using iPhone 4S. Anyway the thing I wanted to talk about is it being a little laggy? Is anyone else facing this problem? I have the international version of the phone with exynos quad and 1gig of ram and yet it tends to lag up often. Like for example after using chrome when i press home button it takes a while before the icons show up. Just wondering if anyone else facing similar issues or probably its just ics? Should be smoother in Jelly bean.

PS: I've rooted my phone. I doubt that affects the performance of the phone, but I'm not sure.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolhof:
Why don't you use the search option and read before you post?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saywhatt:
1. root your phone

2. read a lot of topics in xda

3. apply

4. enjoy :P
[Motorola Photon 4G] ohword:
Does any1 know if i can just flash the kddi after i flash my rom or should i reflash back to stock than do the whole thing over again and flash the kddi before i flash my rom?
[Motorola Photon 4G] na7q:
shouldn't make any difference. just flash it. then you're good to go.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ohword:
Thank you very much
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] slaydog:
Is it worth it..?

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ekerbuddyeker:
Yes. Its not like iPad 3 to 4. Its a generational change. Everything is better. I used nova as my launcher to put 5x5 grid but otherwise its all stock. One word fantastic. I look at my note 1 and its like looking at my HD2 compared to my Note 1! Battery life is 2x.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jrockttu:
I love nova and use it on my phone and n7. Do you lose page buddy if you use nova?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] thershope:
Can we use Note 2 SPen on Note1 ?

HI,

Did you try using Note2 S Pen on Note1? Did it work ? I am curious to see if this works on Note 1 (SGH-i717)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] KosanRio:
While I don't own a Note 2 yet I know the Note 1's stylus will work on the Note II and vice versa since they both use Wacom UD digitizers. I actually use my ThinkPad X61 Tablet PC stylus on my Note 1 perfectly fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] gotshoaib:
Yes, both S Pen of Note LTE and Note 2 works on each other.

And about uograde , yes its worth it in every sense ,specially processer and battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mike2518:
Good that they work, but the first generation note stylus really sucked. New one is much better.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Nachiket.Namjoshi:
[q] i have put 6 lockscreens in systemui.apk but i cannot get the option for the lockscreen changing.... :'( plz help me ....
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] p337:
Have you tried to reinstall systemui.apk?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] wilfredcool007:
:confused: :confused: what do u mean u hav put 6 lockscreens in systemUI.apk .... Make a brief note of what u've done.... Also assuming u as a starter lookin at the junior member tag ... U hav to make a lot of changes to port lockscreens .... Files tat hav to be edited are framework-res.apk framework.jar services.jar settings.apk systemui.apk ... I would suggest u to learn development before u could start tampering with the system files else your phone would be doomed :D
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] deathnotice01:
Its not only systemui,

You need to modify framework-res and jar,

You also need to modify settings.apk and add the string to change the lockscreen

Also,

Im a potatoe...

this post is approved by the national potato safety regulation
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Nachiket.Namjoshi:
Thank you all for responding...

I am successful now...

You all can have a look at my rom

Just see in my signature... ;)

@ captain.. or any moderator..

You can delete this thread if you want. :)

Sent from something smoother than Hyperion xD
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaled hosny:
Hi

i bought Samsung galaxy S3 3 days ago

but unfortunately it's without warranty

i tried every thing before leaving the mobileshop but i didn't think to try phone calls !

after few hours i realized that there is no sound during the calls

what is happening is when i make a calls it starts and every thing is ok but there is no sound even in the speaker or the headphone and after 20:25 Seconds it switches to the airplane mode for 5 seconds and the signal come back again

No sound

and i tried to make a call through Viber and It Works and the Sound is perfect and this means it's not a hardware problem

so i thought it's a software problem

tried to Flash the new ROM jelly bean from sammobile.com ( didn't solve the problem )

tried the root with ics and jelly bean ( didn't solve the problem )

i did wipe cach and davlik and all these things !

i tried many modems but No change

every thing is fine and perfect but there is no sound during phone calls

please help me bacause i can't replace it :(

''sorry for my bad english"
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omega_:
1. Place your phone in sound mode (i.e not in silent or quiet)

2. Restart your phone

3. Play a sound file after restart

4. Try making a phone call
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaled hosny:
this simple solution didn't help

thanks for reply
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Faulty hardware more than likely .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badabing67:
I had the same problem recently, factory reset fixed the problem.

never had a problem before and I have flashed maybe 15 roms on my phone, maybe a bug in the rom
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magik_Breezy:
If sound normally works than it is most likely a software problem so just do a factory reset and if that doesn't fix it than I think you can manually the speaker without too much of a hassle
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fallenwout:
If you have this like in the YouTube links, then you have hardware failure. I had the same. Had to send it to Samsung for repair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo46OXWEcX0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENNa-Darfwg

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaled hosny:
hey guys

i realized that it's a hardware problem ( samsung Customer care told me this )

so i changed the mobile with another new one and it's working perfect
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] chitose_ndy:
Hello there,

I had installed many apps in my phone.

Let's say I installed 100 apps and there was no any problem.

But strangely, after I install new MODs , new ROMs, etc,

I want to restore all my apps (After wiping data and cache) with titanium backup.

But the installation failed and my phone said, "not enough free space on device"

How could it even possible?

I restore exactly the same apps, the same quantity, and the same data.

How could it no enough free space?

I checked using root explorer, there was still a lot of memory on device.

Any help?

Please?

:( :( :(

Thankyou so much.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjoy:
Hello guys. I'm using latest 2.10.26 MIUI rom but it draining battery a lot at standby mode. Plz suggest me any battery mod or any good kernel compatible with miui rom. Currently i'm using siyah 1.5.3 kernel. Thanx
[HTC One V] Joe-pr:
Hey folks, I have an HTC One V from Crickett Wireless and am wondering if there is a compatible RUU that works. From what I've read if I use one that isn't from my carrier I could mess my phone up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. :confused:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LancelotSA:
Discussion elsewhere. Thread may be deleted.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] geargamer:
I bought the HTC stereoclip for my s3 and it works great using the aptx media. The problem is it does not work with phone calls. So I got the idea to use my groove IP the make voip calls to fix this problem. It works when the phone is ringing but as soon as the person answers the sound no longer goes through the stereoclip. Is there any way to fix this? Get calls to work? I thought making my calls through voip would take care of this.

I'm disappointed that HTC would make such a good device and not have it work with phone calls. This kind of ruins it.
[Windows 8 General] giodelgado:
I installed Windows 8 Pro on my PC with two hard drives, SSD for Windows install and HDD for personal files and data, using Windows 7 I was able to add the 2nd HDD libraries manually and set them as default including the Desktop, I can do the same with Windows 8 but the problem now is that the specific Metro apps like Pictures and Music say that there's no files on my libraries...

My guess is that the apps want content to be strictly placed inside the SSD, a registry tweak might resolve this but before I do something I might regret I would like to know if there is an alternative...

All HDD folders have been placed inside the libraries as default but content isn't showing on apps!!!
[Windows 8 General] Rolandh:
You might have to use the Storage Space Control Panel App to get it to work, don't quote me on it though as my Notebook only has space for one HDD and I don't want to mess around with it using an external USB HDD.

Roland
[Windows 8 General] dazza9075:
you have two choices,

firstly you can add your various library to your existing one, it doesn't move everything, all your stuff stays exactly where you left it, id recommend this, mostly because some programs may not like virtual folders and you end up with stuff installed all over the bloody place, to do it just right click on your My Documents folder or which ever one it is, and click add to x library

the other option is to change the location of the libraries, as I said above tho, you may find some programs might have an issue with this and attempt to dump stuff in old locations meaning stuff might not be so obvious to find, to change that just right click on the virtual folder of your choice, say my documents, and click properties, in there you can add and remove folders and more importantly set the folders to defaults for public and normal usage using the set save location and set public save location
[Windows 8 General] giodelgado:
yes, I had that setup with Windows 7, thing is that the Metro apps don't read outside the stock folder, I already removed it and made the 2nd HDD folder default, they're not virtual
[Windows 8 General] giodelgado:
I'm going to try this http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.8
[Windows 8 General] dazza9075:
they should do, at least the ones I have do, I have my main docs set on a second disk too, added that folder to the library and bobs your uncle

if you have an app that doesn't it might be worth feeding that back to the dev
[Windows 8 General] giodelgado:
I have attached my setup, the thing is that the Pictures metro app and the Music metro app doesn't aggregate those folder files...
[Windows 8 General] dazza9075:
interesting, that's the same setup as mine, see attachment.

when launching photos metro app at the bottom I have a list of small ish icons, one that says photo libraries, sky drive, facebook, and a couple of network shares, clicking on photo library then gives me a list of all the folders in all the locations
[Windows 8 General] giodelgado:
hmmm it doesn't to me, now see this two folder permissions

default permissions and 2nd hd permissions, the second one is missing SYSTEM
[Windows 8 General] dazza9075:
just checked mine, its exactly the same
[Windows 8 General] giodelgado:
testing an tweaking around with permissions I found out that I needed to add SYSTEM with full access to those folders, got it working although it gave me some weird errors and now I'm not too sure about it, maybe some folders were left out...

at least it's working now
[Windows 8 General] dazza9075:
perhaps uninstall the photo app, then reinstall it from the market place, I had all my folders setup before running it for the first time, not sure if you did but if you didn't perhaps that's what has gotten it all confused

the photo app is available on the market place, search for photos, its the blue one with only a couple of stars! :/ perhaps we should consider using a different app! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kenshintang1215:
Hi,

I shared the network to my SNS by windows 7.

1. switch on wifi.

2. input the following command in cmd.

"netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid="kenshin" key=kenshin1985"

"netsh wlan start hostednetwork"

then my SNS can connect to wifi provided by laptop, everything works fine. and the wifi icon is blue.

but if I don't use SNS for a while, the screen turn off, then the wifi icon becomes grey, and i can't access internet anymore.

Can't recive email, brower. no internet access.

if i turn off wifi, and turn on wifi, it works fine again, wifi icon becoms blue again.

Can anyone tell me how to make it always blue even if i don't use it?

My SNS android version is 4.1.2. and i checked the "Keep Wi-Fi onduring sleep-> Always", it doesn't work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jimmyco2008:
Windows 7 is hosting with ad-hoc?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kenshintang1215:
1

I don't know what is ad-hoc, i just follow this step to set hotspot by windows 7.

thecopypasteblog.com/enable-virtual-wifi-windows-7
[Galaxy S III Accessories] g2uzer:
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones-accessories/EFC-1G6BBEGSTA

was wanting to know if there's any reviews on this case .

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Accessories] otariq:
What is that a bumper case?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] elementaldragon:
It actually looks like it's similar to a lot of those other hybrid TPU and PET/Acrylic cases that you see on eBay and such where the rounded edges are a soft rubber, while the panel over the back of the phone is solid. Either that, or it's their own take on your usual two-layer protective cover, with a silicon inner layer covered by a hard plastic shell.