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[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] D.Eternity:
I know fastboot and adb are separate things, this is why I assumed cwm recovery image was flashed succesfully (despite it took only a few seconds). Now I`m trying to get into CWM, but when my phone is plugged (standard mode), adb reboot recovery returns Device not found. I haven`t the original cable here, but in the office (where I have motorola cable) it was the same. Truth is both my computers are Win7 64bit. Is it possible adb has problem with 64bit system?

Thank you for helping me:)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Nope, I have 2 Win7 x64 machines - adb to this device is not a problem on either.

I would use the OEM cable for sure. I have heard other cables can cause issues. I only use the OEM cable to adb, and I've never had an issue.

Once you resolve the adb issue, you should be able to install CWM. Just like in adb you can check 'adb devices', you can also do 'fastboot devices'. Use this for troubleshooting, let us know.

Good luck.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] gtuck1002:
usb debugging mode

Be sure you have usb debugging selected in developer options
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] D.Eternity:
You were right. I used my old "moto" cable. It works with the new one!

But... when I follow this instructions http ://theunlockr.com/2012/09/07/how-to-root-the-motorola-photon-q-4g-smartphone/ and reboot into recovery, I can see only the dead android again. When I want to apply update from external storage, it returns "signature verification failed".

It looks like I did something wrong with CWM, but flashing recovery image seems to be ok

sending 'recovery' (6632 KB)... OKAY [ 0.780s]

writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 1.650s]

finished. total time: 2.430s
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
So after it writes recovery, what happens when you reboot to recovery? Just goes right back to the dead android dude?

If so, something is up with your CWM download I guess? Download another perhaps. Something didn't take.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] D.Eternity:
Rooted!

Problem was in recovery-from-boot.p file. It flashed android recovery after booting. I removed this file and everything went just fine. I`m sure it was Sent17nels problem too. I wonder why it`s not mentioned it howtos....
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Never heard of this before, and I certainly never ran into this issue when rooting...

I would guess that's why it's not mentioned in the how-to's. I imagine you did something else wrong, but since I didn't see what exactly you did, I can only speculate.

Regardless, I'm glad you got it all setup :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Al936:
Right. If you at least once installed OTA update there is /system/etc/install-recovery.sh script which actually doing stock recovery restore during each booting.

During OTA update flashing 3 files is being installed for recovery restoration: /system/etc/install-recovery.sh, /system/etc/install-recovery.cfg and /system/recovery-from-boot.p.

So it is better to delete install-recovery.sh.

If you flash full rom or never installed OTA, there are no these files in the phone and therefore stock recovery is not updated during phone booting.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] D.Eternity:
How Al936 said, it must because of OTA update. I bought this phone via ebay as never used with bad ESN. Then I only soldered t-mobile sim card, so somebody in USA had to do some updates before sending me. It was a trap!:)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] rpankoe:
Has anyone been able to root on ASA-14 without unlocking the bootloader? Unfortunately I'm already on the update and I haven't been able to find a way to get back to ASA-10 to use the motofail2go root method that works without unlocking the bootloader. What options do I have to root with the locked bootloader?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] yogi2010:
I guess it's looking like no options at the present time? I bet Motorola implemented the same security here as in the official GB release for the Cliq 2..... That version has been out for a year maybe without having been cracked at all!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Uhm... I'm sure you know Moto released an official unlock of the bootloader.

If you really want it, go that route I guess. I don't see what it matters if they did implement any security, since they offer the official unlock.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] yogi2010:
Yeah, there's the official bootloader unlock of course, and that's what i did from the beginning. He was asking about any methods without unlocking tho, perhaps for warranty concerns or whatever. It seems they patched up the alternative(s).
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Which, if true... is unfortunately unsurprising.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] yogi2010:
yeah, everyone seems to be saying Motofail2go doesn't work anymore after the latest update. It's probably just that cat and mouse game between the manufacturers and 3rd party devs. And Moto doesn't want us rooting in any undetectable ways lol.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] MrSing:
Trying to root

I am not sure it is dooable right now, I have tried quite a few things. When I tried to unlock the phone bootloader the Motorola site said that my device did not qualify to be un locked.

I have tried to recover, fastboot, fastboot through adb, rsd. Well at least I have not bricked the thing and thankfully Mybackuppro still works

I would really like to get my titanium backup and a couple other apps working again.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] yogi2010:
Do you have the Sprint version of the Photon Q? I would be surprised, and disappointed, if they took away the official bootloader unlock for this device....
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] MrSing:
Nope you can still unlock it. Was my mistake, left a zero off the end when I requested the key.

If this was easy it would not be any fun. I am getting closer, going to wait till tomorrow night to try again. Getting the signature failed issue and unrecognizable fastboot command when I try and write rom with RSD.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] MrSing:
install-recovery.sh

Ok

After reading through thread I think I have to delete install-recovery.sh to be able to boot into CWM, Now I can't seem to delete the file without root access. I really feel like I am on the merry go round after taking the last update from Sprint.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] yogi2010:
If you unlocked the bootloader and flash CWM, hold the volume up button as soon as you issue the 'fastboot reboot' command. That way you will boot straight into CWM before it gets overwritten, and can flash SU in CWM. Then when you boot up you will at least have root access :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] MrSing:
Can't boot into wmw

cmwrecovery loaded with no problem. Someone said it should take about a minute to load, mine took 3 seconds. When I try to boot into cmw and release the upper button it just launches the standard recovery memory.

I thought I should be able to recover to a stock file like photon 4 glte new but just get the signature validation error. I have rebooted this phone so many times I am going to wear out the volume buttons.

Thanks
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] MrSing:
Finally got it to work after re flashing cwm a few times
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derpingtimmy:
Hey people!

I'am new here but i have been looking at the forums for quite a while now and thought i should make an account, so here I am :).

Lets get to the point, I would love to buy this phone, it looks awesome, its fast, its all i want BUT i got some serious worries about the glass at the back. or the yellow tinting of the screen. The glass worries me the most. Would a screen protector or Soft, hard case help against cracking?

As i said i would love to buy the phone when it is available agains

What are your opinions? (and the case answers ofc since i have no cllue about what helps against what)

PS: If a post like this exists, please link it to me and i'll remove this post.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mb3030:
Well, obviously the phone has a chance to break. I've been using mine over a week and I don't have an issue. Then again my near one year old gnex is near flawless, so I guess it depends on how you use your devices and how you handle them.

In regards to yellowing screen or other issues, they shouldn't be enough to dissuade you from buying it. All phones have issues, in fact, all electronics have issues. There is no evidence so far that any of these supposed issues are widespread. I think its just more likely to find people complaining on boards like these than those going out of there way to say how great the device is.

I for one have no issues my n4 and I've yet to have an issue my n7 or gnex either (both day one purchases). I'm either really lucky or things aren't as bad as the boards make them seem.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Red Wolf:
well you can always use a case, and this is the best android phone out there in my opinion. I have used note, S2, S3 and switched to N4, even though my version has some problem i would say best android phone out there.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirlinux03:
I'm exactly in the same boat. I want this N4, but with all those bad things you have mention I am really undecided between the N4 and the Note2.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rec71:
I have an N4 and don't have any yellow tint. But the glass back is a worry. If you drop this phone then it will break.

But it's so fast! And it's a Nexus. I spent so much time trying different ROMs with my old arc S which I don't need to do now. Games just fly on this phone with 2GB of RAM.

I do think the arc has a better camera than the N4 though.

I miss my arc but it was time to move on and now I have a Nexus I won't ever get anything else.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derpingtimmy:
Thanks alot for the great input :) I have decided and placed an order at the german store, Since i am from holland. Now its just waiting till they have it. Can probably take a while x)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] joelespinoza:
The Sprint S3 is my first smartphone and this forum has been AMAZINGLY helpful to me and I thank everyone here greatly. Sadly at this point I dont really have anything useful to give back, however I do get comments and questions on my ghetto battery modding by people at school all the time, so maybe a few of you will get a chuckle out of it too:

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I bought 2 extended batteries, a 4800mAh no name off ebay and a 4500mAh onite off amazon, then I stripped off their casings and seperated the cells then I stripped the cover off my stock battery and carefully lined up everything and glued all 5 cells together with arctic silver thermal adhesive. After that I carefully wired them all together in parallel and cut a hole in my otterbox so that they all stick out the back. I figure I now have between 10500mAh and 11400mAh.

Ghetto eh? But it works great, it charges just like normal and while I can kill it by gaming all day, it lasts about 3-5 days under normal usage for me depending on how I have my settings. An unexpected benifit that I discovered completely by accident is that if you drop it from about 3.5-4 feet up it seems to always land flat on the battery (I tested this by standing on my bed doing drop tests).

If I had been very careful I could have even kept the NFC antenna on the battery doing this, but I didnt know to watch out for it, so I accidently destroyed it.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] themadproducer:
Great story. You get your first thanks from me. I do crazy modding like this sometimes and love it if some else appreciates the ghetto inventiveness. Love the drop testing bit. Absolutely entertaining....and actually...the mod...for you...is very useful! :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] joelespinoza:
Thanks man! I appreciate it. And my wife has a normal S3... Honestly I like the way mine feels MUCH better, its just way easier to hold onto and easier to use one handed without it slipping around. The fact that I could use it to jump start my Honda in a pinch is a nice bonus too!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] themadproducer:
Ironically, my Honda battery is suffering during this colder season and could use such a boost! LOL

Honestly, I can't see how anyone could actually use the S3 without a case. I have never held such a slippery and uncomfortable device...begging to fly out of my hand. Too thin. But there are so many case options out there that compliment it. Love it. :good:

On the topic of "entertainment", here is a video for a new Griffen Survivor case that gives your BED DROP tests a run for the money...;)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ddurandSGS3:
all well and good but isnt this extremely dangerous to carry around like that?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] joelespinoza:
Dangerous? is it dangerous to carry a 9 volt battery? Fully charged this is around 4 volts, why would it be dangerous?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] MCL1981:
When that hack job goes into thermal runaway, it will be like a cutting torch in your pocket and you'll have a new asshole out the side of your waist. What a mess.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] joelespinoza:
Very unlikely, I wear carpenter jeans and and always use the leg pocket for my phone and nothing else goes in there, so there is almost no chance of it shorting out against anything. This phone has had this battery since about 3 weeks after Sprint released the S3s and it has never been an issue, and I recently redid the connections and switched from gorilla glue to thermal adhesive.

Not only that but if it did start heating up, there is nothing holding the battery in there but friction. Pulling the battery out takes me all of 1 second.

But worse case scenario if you wanted to do it and you were worried about it, just pot the side with the connections.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] RedJack117:
Hahaha this is great, love the idea!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ddurandSGS3:
i carry uncovered batteries (AA) like that for another device and shortly after use if they come in contact with anything metal they can combust, and at the very least burn a hole rught through your pants and severely burn your leg.

just asking. dont know naythign about batteries but i had one close call with the AA batteries.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] joelespinoza:
I work in IT and keep my pockets very organized, if I was tossing this phone into a purse or pocket with a bunch of loose change or other metal objects I would have it better insulated. I will probably do so anyway at some point but right now it is not an issue.

As a side point I seriously doubt anything but shorting out could possibly cause any kind of "thermal runaway" with this setup. The battery has 5 times the mass and better airflow then stock and the phone can only draw the same power. I do still get a warm screen with this setup (how the CPU/GPU dissipates heat) but the battery never gets much more then body temp, even under the most brutal use for hours at a time.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] nh97103:
That's frickin' sweet! Could you make a video of this? Lol. I'd attempt it if I had a video to follow.

Well it was sweet until I saw the pictures.. LOL! Not really something I'd want on the back of my phone.. It's usually function over fashion for me, but in this case I think I'll make an exception. It's not really the fashion thing, it's I think it'd be really awkward to hold.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] joelespinoza:
Keep in mind I am not trying to convince anyone else to do this, and I have readlly big hands as you can see from the pictures, but I find it much more comfortable to hold and use. 2 handed its only slightly better, but one handed its WAY better... the bottom edge of the battery fits right above my pinky and the weight centered in the back both give a much better feel.... when I hold my girlfriends stock s3 in one hand it feels like its gonna fall straight down out of my hand or fall forewards towards me, that might just be me though.

It also has what I call a manly heft. I don't mind it at all but if you are looking for a sleek featherweight device..... this isn't. But I like it :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III Accessories] nh97103:
Even if it was awkward to hold, the battery life would so be worth it.. Getting the battery life of my old flip phone would be an incredible experience on a smartphone. I don't think I'd ever attempt this, but I'm wondering did just kinda wing it, or did you know what you were doing..?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jvoisin:
Be super careful doing this. I know that lithium polymer batteries are really bad news if they are punctured or damaged... I believe this is also the case with the Lithium Ion batteries.. specifically if you inadvertently short them causing heat and internal breakdown.. Have seem my share of laptops that were burned when someone used the wrong laptop power supply (21V instead of 12V for example)

Not saying to not do this sort of mod... just saying to be VERY careful and don't risk your safety or risk burning down your house for the sake of extra battery life.. there are too many USB charging batteries out there to help with battery life extension if you are away from a USB port for too long. :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Ninolina:
Where are the pictures? I would like to see how it looks. :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] joelespinoza:
I added a couple pics in the first post.

I have done my fair share of messing with electronics, but im not an electrical engineer or anything... If you are comfortable soldering, its not that big of a deal. The hardest part is attaching the wires to the stock battery, because you have to lift up the small circut board the contact points are attached to, then resolder it back down after you attach wires underneth it. But to be fair you dont need the boards of the other 2 batteries so you can pratice on them. Then you line up all the batteries where you want them and glue them together. After that its all wire routing and ataching negatives to negatives and positives to positives.

It would probably be a good idea to have the main battery completely drained before starting. But having the other 4 with some charge would be fine if you are somewhat careful.

Be sure to pick a very thin wire with a decent casing, some kind of ribbon wire would probably work best I think, however, I just used ethernet wire I had laying around, but some of them had great insulation and some of them the insulation sucked.

If you want to play around with it without jumping in with both feet you can take apart just about any old cell phone battery and see how they are put together, they are all pretty similar. My old verizon LG octane 950mAh battery actually runs my S3 and charges normally in it, it just has to be held in with a piece of tape.

Its like anything really, if you are patient and careful you will get a nice finished product, if you are not......
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Felnarion:
You need more protection. If anything ever, and yeah, I get it, you never have anything in your pocket, but if anything ever shorts that out, you're ****ed.

The whole "Never have anything in my pocket" argument isn't working for me. You could have it on a desk, bump something into it, and then burn down the building you're in. Just cover it up and it should be fine.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] joelespinoza:
I do agree I should probably slap some insulation on the side... However I think all of you people who are worried about something terrible happening are wildly overestimating the results.... I have shorted out this battery, its not a huge deal. Would it be bad if I purposefully directly shorted it out for a long period of time? Well yea... is it a big deal if it brushes up against something and I immediately pull it away? Has not been a problem so far,,,

This is not a single cell battery, its 5 cells connected by thin copper wire... I have actually used copper wire this thin as a fuse in a pinch, if it gets hot it melts then you are back to a single cell, assuming that the arcing didnt simply melt away the metal shorting out, which usually happens nearly instantly.

I know Lithium ion batteries can be dangerous, I also know how much abuse it usually takes to make them that way. I was around and saw some of these "tests" first hand with Luke:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dree...gcnR3aIyzfEYEaOlYsyQe_ANtSuo7U2FsvDnzcBTJK8yE
[Galaxy S III Accessories] welbongz:
an s3 commuter with batteries?

who does that?:laugh:
[General Questions and Answers] denden_fg:
Im just was using my Samsung galaxy note n7000 and when I go to used it again, i saw my cell phone was off and do not respond to anything, do not turn on, no recovery mode and my pc do not recognize. The repair store tell me the cell phone is hard brick, it's that possible?
[General Questions and Answers] Michael3214:
Sounds like its a hardware failure. If its relatively new u could exchange at the place u bought it or depending on ur carrier try a warrenty exchange. Last resort would be to send it back to manufacturer for service repair. So yes its possible that a device can fail even without flashing anything onto it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] midnightmach:
Recently I've noticed that my Gnex battery will LOOSE charge when plugged into any power source that isn't the Samsung charger. Weird right? If i plug it into my laptop, car charger, an LG wall charger the battery will drain. It has happened multiple times where i've hit 15% battery life and plugged it into my laptop or car charger and it will loose a 1% about every 2-3 minutes.

I've switched roms with no luck. What is going on?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gbarayah:
Its not uncommon for this to happen from a laptop port - especially if the phone is being used while plugged in. The USB output on laptops is likely not very high.

Check the amperage of the alternative chargers you are using. If its too low, they won't be able to keep up. Make sure its the same as what the stock Samsung one puts out. Can't recall its exact specs off the top of my head...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 063_XOBX:
Laptop and car charger are 500mah or less. Your phone is using battery faster that it's recharging. Nothing odd about that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] geynske006:
charger

I'm charging on my laptop with a cable of blackberry and no loss there. Charging with at the wall I'm using only samsung utilities so I can't help you out there..

Despite that I don't understand what that has anything to do with rom's?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Remuzzz:
Hi there,

I bought a Galaxy Nexus last month (came from a LG 2x speed, waiting forever for an ics upgrade) and I got a question. Been running stock android and I'm rather pleased with that. I had CM10 on my LG, and miss some features of it, like the toggles and volume options. But I really like the stability of stock android.

Since 4.2 I've been experiencing some lag, now and then. Especially when scrolling in Whatsapp. Does switching to a custom rom, like CM10, Paranoid Android or MIUI make the phone notably faster? I read some roms have GPU-overclocking, will this make the lag go away?

And are such roms stable? I hate removing the battery or not being able to answer calls, makes me feel like an idiot.

I know this question probably asked some times, but the rom development changes every month and I couldn't find a similar recent topic. Summarized: should I be rooting my phone and install an awesome rom that kicks the ass out of stock android, or should I better stay on stock?

Thanks in advance!!

Greetings,

Remy
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] phordych05:
Everytime I try to download something from the playstore I get an error message saying insufficient space...when I have plenty...I wip my caches and fixed permission s...whatbis going on...?...please help...thanks in advance...

Sent fromH-T999 using xda premium
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] shehade08:
Try going to settings, manage apps, clear data and cache of playstore and google play services and clear data of google framework and reboot
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] carhustler:
just reinstall gapps
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Chronei:
Did reinstalling gapps work? I'm having same issue:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2360840&highlight=insufficient+space

(EDIT: Reflashing gapps didn't do anything special)