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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sarah_noel:
Hey XDA!! I came here because I know you're quick to deliver the help. I'm not sure if this should go in Q&A or the Development section, and you'll see why in a bit.

A friend of mine (we’ll call him M for ease) recently came to me with a concern. His coworker's ex-boyfriend has been hassling and harassing her using her Android phone. **BEFORE I go any further, YES I have suggested that the proper authorities get contacted.** At first he was allegedly sending texts to MY friend via the girl’s phone. He had some forwarding/spy type app (that’s all I could figure out from some research) on her phone that would allow him to text it, and then those messages would forward to M as if they came from his coworker. I have no idea how he could have done that, and I couldn’t find a lot of apps in the play store that seemed to have similar functions.

But now, he is apparently trying to get the poor girl to install a GPS tracker on her phone (unwittingly, I assume) so he can, well, know where she is. M can’t tell me the name of this app because he’s unsure.

So at this point I’m thinking that we not only have someone who’s being evil, but who is *maybe* making his own apps to stalk and get this girl, and my friend, in trouble at work.

I found a GPS spoofer on the play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakegps&hl=en I have offered to help root phones and install this and do whatever is necessary to get this guy off their backs. I can test it all day long since I have a rooted device—my question is, I don’t have a spy app to spoof, nor do I know what exactly I’m trying to spoof, so how do I know this will be helpful?

I’m also considering finding a custom ROM and helping this girl lock her phone down more. Or telling her to call her carrier and change her number. Beyond that, does XDA have any suggestions or advice? I’m not a coder, but I can follow directions to change things if you tell me exactly where to go and what to change (i have dabbled a teensy bit in android source code before breaking my phone >_>)

The girl has a Samsung Dart, I’m currently unsure of the version of Android it’s running, but should find out soon and will edit the post.

Thanks for all the help!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] electrux.chirag:
You can format the phone and see if that works. Plus there are many text blocker apps on market.

Hope i helped :) .
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prince147:
Yes ,I patiently read the entire story! Wipe the phones data !

As far as the text problem you said I don't think there is anything like that which could receive an sms from a number and then forward it to another number. So there are two options either the girl sent the text or the guy semt the text with a spoof number!

And as far as the GPS is concerned, one doesn't need a GPS tracker to know where one is! Just Google maps is enough if the guy has the girls mail in his contacts. Ask her to change the mail id it should be enough!
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] bubuphonik:
im from pr and bougth a galaxy w t679 from claro and im trying to find roms for it but seems to finds either galaxy w i8150 or exhibit t679 it seems that the exhibit is the same but can i flash things from exhibit tmobile? being a cellphone from claro will everything work?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] arco68:
T679 is the Exhibit 4G.

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2026
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] bubuphonik:
yeah but claro puerto rico call it galaxy w for some reason but it says sgh-t679

i manage to install the cwm and cm9 from the exhibit 2 forum but dunno if with other rom will work and wont give me problems with the data staying in edge all the time so far cm9 is doing the work
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trout14:
I just bought a used G2 for my son to be used as a wifi phone. I successively rooted and have Andromadus jellybelly on there. The phone was sold as unable to read the sim card, and I am wondering if there is a method to figure out if the reason is software related vs physical/hardware related? Any suggestions on what to try?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
If it didn't work stock and still won't work after tooted and custom rom I doubt its software/firmware

So that leaves hardware, it seems the sim tray comes detatched from logic board on some of these, you can try and resolder the tray or pick up a new one. Possibly something else but it will be hard to determin other than trial and error
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Authorita:
Look at the contact pins in the sim slot, make sure that they're straight and "up". If there are any that are bent over or not sticking up properly, those aren't making contact and therefore the sim won't work.
[LG Optimus Black] jsmth:
I guess this is a dead end, but I'll ask anyway...

I've tried to do a factory reset after flashing stock firmware via B2C, and I used the Erase user data(AP) option in SmartFlash tool to do so. After that, my OB doesn't even light up, or enter the S/W Upgrade screen. Looks like it's completely dead. Is there any way to get it working again?
[LG Optimus Black] N00BY0815:
If it doesnt react anymore, no except for you have special hardware, to directly flash the software. Otherwise you ll have to bring it to a LG service center. Maybe tell them, it stopped working, after you tried to update it to the most recent version ;)
[LG Optimus Black] jsmth:
Thanks for answer. What do you mean by special hardware? Don't tell me that NAND needs to be desoldered and reflashed via chip programmer... I guess that SFT's Erase user data also erases bootloader and stuff?
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
Not resoldered, but you need JTAG equipment to write to flash memory to resuscitate (I think that how you spell it) your phone. You must take it into service center. Say failed update.(like NOOBY said)

AP, which you erased, is everything on internal storage. (Bootloader,userdata the whole works).

Sent from my LG-P970
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] PVTD:
Hey all,

I fell on top of my A100 a few weeks ago (Don't ask me how) and the side had a nice hit.

I noticed the screen is checked, but the image is clean and perfect.

The touch is not working anymore except for on 1 location, on the top part, a few square cm,

My problem is that I don't have any insurance left (took off the void) soooo,,,yeah...

I want to use it as a media player, attached to my LCD with HDMI, using a mouse to controll it.

Thing is, no mouse gets detected on this rom.

I tried to downgrade to Gingerbread from ICS, so I reset user data and cache, downloaded the ROM, changed to update.zip, placed it into the SD card, volume up + power booted it, and I get this droid opened up with a red ! on it...

Everything I try doesn't react :(

The mouse is a very simple HID logitech BT mouse with USB, connected to microUSB in the A100, I tried the G9x logitech too, but no luck.

Can anyone help me here? I can't use the screen at all, I am desperate :P

Thanks!

PVTD
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] b1lk1:
The USB port on the A100 does not have host mode, you can't use it for any USB devices, it is just a way to transfer data with a PC. If you can enable BT on theA100 you will get a mouse/keyboard working, I am just not sure how to do that with no touch response on the screen.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] PVTD:
But I have seen multiple questions abut making host mouses work with USB on the A100, I'll try find the topics back :)

I could connect it by BT if I keep sinning the tablet around to make the few square cm work on the screen, but it wont be possible to accept :P

I tried using a screening app on windows, but sadly can only see immage from the tablet, no input remotely.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] justjackyl:
its not possible.

G2x-CM7 Nightly 11/25/12 Build, Trinity ELP Kernel
[Acer Iconia A500] nik592:
Hi,

So I thought I'd explore the world of custom ROMs on my Acer Iconia A501, which was previously on ICS. I used the A500APXFlash application to flash the tablet and managed to install CWM. Stupidly, I downloaded the Evil Alex II patch instead of the full ROM (just didn't realise), and wondered why it wouldn't boot. Finally when I realised what I'd done, re-did all the wipes, reformatted system & flexrom, and tried to install the full ROM, it did work briefly, but the Wifi crashed out (wouldn't respond) and I was getting a bunch of errors on google apps and google play, so I decided to reboot and ended up back stuck on the "Booting primary kernel image" screen. I've since made a few attempts to reinstall the ROM and even re-flash, but couldn't get anything different to happen.

I finally decided to roll back to a stock ROM, in case my initial mistake of trying to install the patch only had corrupted something. I could only get this working via the EUU packag, but this managed to get me back to Honeycomb and all seemed ok. So I thought perhaps I'd try I flashing again and then installed the root package which seemed to go fine. Then I tried the custom ROM again - no luck. Constantly stuck on that damn "Booting primary kernel image" screen.

I've watched a couple of video tutorials on flashing and installing a custom ROM to the A501 and I'm certain I've followed all the steps correctly. I've checked the forums and mostly this seems to be solved by reflashing and/or reinstalling the ROM, which I've done more times than I can count. Short of going back to the Honeycomb stock ROM (or maybe getting to an ICS ROM somehow), I've no idea what else to try. Can anyone help?
[Acer Iconia A500] VelosCohagen:
I think you should try to wipe the tab properly. Boot into cwm.

Under backup and restore activate toggle... of internal memory or similar

Go under Wipe menu and wipe cache, dalvik and battery stats, and wipe userdata.

Under Mounts and storage format system three!!! times and then format flexrom.

Flash your rom.

Gesendet von meinem A501 mit Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] nik592:
OK, so I have tried toggling the wipe of internal memory a few times before, and it never made a difference. I'd never tried formatting system multiple times (I assume that's the only bit that I needed to do three times). In any case, I followed your steps and no luck. Still "booting primary kernel image". :( Thanks for trying. Happy to try almost anything at this point, as long as it doesn't brick it.

I don't need to mount system or flexrom before or after formatting right? I'm assuming not, cause nothing has ever said to, and I don't think doing it before would make a difference. After maybe...
[Acer Iconia A500] nik592:
So that file you linked didn't have any PDF, just looked like a ROM, so I tried the update.zip method with a stock ROM I already had instead (which I had tried once before without success). The first time, still stuck on booting primary kernel. So I tried a different ROM. That one came to the Skrilax_CZ Bootloader screen, told me it was applying the update, which then failed, and then everything went wrong. Now nothing works. I can get into APX mode, but no longer have CWM. My googling finally brought me to another thread where I found the zip for timmydean's v4 euu but it won't complete. I had used another EUU package last night (possibly the same one), but it similarly won't complete.

So now I'm beginning to worry that it really is bricked. :( Thanks for your help, but I'm guessing I might be out of options.
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
I'm so sorry bout that, I've edited the post with the correct link...

I'm not sure I understand wot u have done Here.....more info please

U cannot run the update.zip with a rom??? Could u explain.....unless u mean u ran a "stock update.zip"

His did u "try a different rom "?

If the update.zip worked u would have stock recovery and be unable to 'flash ' a rom unless

the update.zip didn't work and u still had yr original custom recovery???

Again, to get this screen u must have flashed the unlocked bootloader somehow....more confused?

Yr tab said this??

Yes this would be where everything went even more haywire.....if u did have the patched bootloader with an incompatible rom and then flashed an update.zip as Wells.

then yr poor tab wouldn't know whether it was Arthur or martha:eek::eek:

OK when u day it won't complete. What error are u seeing??

If u press pwr and volume down do u see the dead android with yellow exclamation point

What about pwr and volume up....anything with that combo???, if nothing, then do a complete hard reset with the rocker switch method....then come back and tell me if it worked, tab should say erasing userdata/cache...don't do anything else in the meantime....

when u first applied the update.zip how did u do it?

Turn yr tab off....u need to save as much battery as possible...unless u can recharge, can u?? If you're stuck in apx mode u won't be able to.

No not yet you're not, but it's not gonna be a kwik fix either....u need to be methodical and go thru things one step at a time

To be clear wot is the state of yr tab atm?

no cwm

won't boot

Black screen with power led on

Is this correct??
[Acer Iconia A500] nik592:
Yes, sorry. A stock update.zip. The first one didn't take, and I ended up back at the Scrilax_CZ bootloader screen, stuck on booting primary kernel (the same screen I've found myself at everytime I've tried to install a ROM).

I went back into recovery mode and tried a different update.zip version, since the first one didn't seem to have worked. However, this time, instead of getting stuck on the booting primary kernel screen, it came to a screen which still had the bootloader message at the top, and then something about updating. My assumption was this is what happens after you correctly install a stock update.zip - that it may need to get out of the bootloader to wipe it fully, install the update.zip and then reboot again. What happened instead was the update told me it failed, at which point, I couldn't get back to the bootloader and it's stuck in APX mode.

No error, it just sits there for over half an hour without the progress bar moving. I know it's supposed to take a while, but that seems too long.

Power and anything leads to nothing on screen. The power LED will come on, and it can detect APX mode so the EUU package can try and do it's thing, but it just hangs at the same point (judging by where the progress bar stops). What is the rocker switch method, I can't seem to find anything on it?

Put update.zip on an sd, go into recovery menu, wipe, install zip from sd, select update.zip, wait til it says complete, then reboot.

Well, the tab has been off since I gave up on it last night, but also plugged into power. If I unplug it from power, I can power it down fully so the power LED goes off, but if I plug the cable back in the power LED comes back on. Which suggests it may be charging?

Yes, no CWM, won't boot. Power on (with or without volume buttons) seems to bring it to APX mode - power LED on, black screen, detectable by the EUU package.
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
ok this is from another current thread....save me alot of typing

this is based on nvFlash and if windows detects it as u say, then u should be all good...then go to here and thank Danny2 for a great post..

btw when entering your sbk - no spaces and uppper case letters -
[Acer Iconia A500] nik592:
No spaces? It wouldn't work when I tried with no spaces, and when I check the nvflash help, it shows the SBK argument as 4 separate blocks.

When I run the a501 A.bat with the normal spaces in my SBK I get this:

Enter your SBK:0x34F51E00 0xE4C3DB01 0x0B8A3F03 0xC0782103
Nvflash started
rcm version 0X20001
System Information:
chip name: t20
chip id: 0x20 major: 1 minor: 4
chip sku: 0x8
chip uid: 0x037c61c844406197
macrovision: disabled
hdcp: enabled
sbk burned: true
dk burned: true
boot device: emmc
operating mode: 4
device config strap: 0
device config fuse: 0
sdram config strap: 3

sending file: flash.bct
- 4080/4080 bytes sent
flash.bct sent successfully
odm data: 0xb00d8011
downloading bootloader -- load address: 0x108000 entry point: 0x108000
sending file: bootloader.bin
| 714409/714409 bytes sent
bootloader.bin sent successfully
waiting for bootloader to initialize
bootloader downloaded successfully
setting device: 2 3
creating partition: BCT
creating partition: PT
creating partition: APP
creating partition: EBT
creating partition: GP1
creating partition: SOS
creating partition: LNX
creating partition: CAC
creating partition: MSC
creating partition: FLX
creating partition: AKB
creating partition: UDA
creating partition: GPT
failed executing command 12 NvError 0x120002
command failure: create failed (bad data)
bootloader status: fatal failure to read / write to mass storage (code: 9) message: nverror:0x8 (0x19000008) flags: 0

Press any key to continue . . .

I tried it a couple of times, same every time. From what I can find on forums about this error, this pretty much is bricked and needs to be sent back to Acer for repair?
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
yup its looking that way I'm sorry to say:(

sorry didnt expklain the no-spaces very well at all

some folk have had issues entering their cpuid into the sbk generator - they have by mistake copy/pasted an empty space with their cpuid which the generator recognises as a "character"

the format for your sbk is 4 sets of hex values that should look like this "0x22222222 0x11111111 0x000AAZZZ 0x00000AAA"

apologies for the ambiguity:o
[Acer Iconia A500] nik592:
So, a few weeks later and with a friend who had successfully rooted his phone, we tried one last time to fix it. For some reason, the tablet decided to boot into a Honeycomb (3.2) A501 ROM (without us doing much to it), so clearly something took, possibly from a few weeks back (not sure why it chose not to work then, but whatever).

So, I followed steps to downgrade to 3.0.1 and root, then ran blackthund3r's APX flasher to reinstall Clockwork Mod, which also took nicely. Then I carefully followed the steps to install the Evil Alex ROM (and made sure I downloaded the actual ROM this time and not the patch). Again, this all went fine, until I rebooted. At this point, it got to the ANDROID logo screen, but got stuck there. After about 10-15 minutes, I decided to reboot again - same behaviour. So I went back in to CWM, followed the steps above to perform all wipes, format system 3 times, then format flexrom again, reinstall the ROM. Now it gets stuck on the Skrilax_CZ's bootloader screen with "Booting primary kernel image" screen. I can still happily get into CWM, but I'm at a loss what else to try.

The only difference in what I did between the first install of the ROM (where it got to the ANDROID logo screen but no further) and the second was to remove the SD card after installing the ROM (before rebooting). Well, apart from also formatting system 3 times as mentioned above. I'm assuming removing the SD card or not shouldn't make a difference since the ROM should be installed by that point anyway.

Any thoughts?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sfetaz:
My screen just cracked, and I went through assurian for replacement. When I get the replacement S3, after I have rooted and unlocked it, can I safely restore a cwm backup from my cracked s3? Or should I clean install rom and restore apps from titanium backup?

Sent from my unlocked VZW Galaxy S3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kintwofan:
You can restore the backup without a problem

Sent from my SGS3 running Eclipse 2.1
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bloodrop:
Hello,

I've recently updated from cm9 to cm10 and noticed a bunch of options are missing from the launcher, like the transition effects for homescreens and drawer? Are they officially removed?? I still love the cm roms
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndyYan:
Trebuchet (the launcher) is updated to 0.2 in CM10; but I don't see the Transition option in CM9 either... Well IDK, use Nova Launcher (or Apex/Holo if you'd like)

Sent from HTC Incredible S @ CM10
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bloodrop:
I was using cm9 and I saw a bunch of transition effects for both homescreens and app drawer. for some reason they seemed to be disable for this version
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OpKnight:
CM10 transition FXs

I would assume hey will add in the "extra" effects once the core functions and features are completed. It is very impressive on what the team has accomplished so far! ;)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] gabryeludrea:
Hello!

My dear Galaxy S III had an accident lately, it fell down on the concrete and now it has a lot of scratches and scuffs on the back cover. I am so disappointed, I purchased it only a few days ago and now it looks very messed up. It was my big mistake because I didn't mount a case from the first second I put my clumsy hands on it.

So beware: It's very risky to use the S III without a case, that glossy plastic is very vulnerable when it hits something and it will become badly scratched very easily.

Right now I want to replace the back cover with an aftermarket one. I searched on the Samsung site and I don't seem to find one for S III. I want to buy one presented as OEM, from other sites and I want to know if some of you tried a case like that? It is really like the genuine one? The same aspect, the same quality of the material. I would be very thankful if you could share your opinions with me concerning this problem.

Cheers and take good care of your phones!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] frictionbuster:
Here you go bud!

Blue

White
[Galaxy S III Accessories] gabryeludrea:
Thanks a lot for your suggestion mate!

I am curious to know, did you buy any of these cases, I would like to hear some opinions, if they are the same as the genuine one.

I am a little skeptical in just trusting what the seller says, that's why I am trying to check if someone has some experiences with that kind of products.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Devilicus:
I just bought this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-Housing...320?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item337c476af8

Got it the other day and as far as I can tell it's 100% genuine; not cheap looking/feeling at all, the Samsung logo looks and feels exactly like the OEM. And he shipped it really fast too. I'd highly recommend this one.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] gabryeludrea:
Great! Thanks a lot for your reply! It was exactly what I needed to hear.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] loginatnine:
I don't use any lock screen and I always use the home button to wake my phone up.

Since official JB, the home button not only wakes the phone up but it closes the app I'm in. Example : I'm browsing something on chrome, the screen turns off bc of timeout, I wake the phone using the home button and I see chrome back but immediatly it closes down like if I had pressed the home button again (but I didn't). The same behavior does not happen when a lock screen is enabled.

I tried searching for an answer and tried the solution of editing the .kl files in system/usr/keylayout by adding WAKE_DROPPED or replacing WAKE with WAKE_DROPPED for every occurence of the home key (key 172) without luck. I tried fixing the permissions in CWM and I made sure the permissions are rw-r-r.

Running stock rooted with CWM.

Any other ideas? Thx!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pappcam:
I'm also curious about this. My temporary fix was to unfreeze S Voice in Titanium and then enable the double press of the home button to start S Voice.

I'd rather keep S Voice frozen and still keep the same behaviour of the home button in ICS.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] loginatnine:
Yes that does work indeed. However, it brings back the lag when pressing the home button. I'm also using home2 shortcut for some shortcuts and it completely breaks them!

The same problem arises also when you long press the home button to get to recent apps, if you have an app open in the background at that moment and you press the home button to get out of the recent app screen, it closes the app!
[HTC Sensation] XporteR21:
Hy i just wan't to ask if is poosibile to convert AOKP mms.apk to Bruce2728 mms.apk ? cuse i used bruces jelly bean 4.1.2... But aokp quickmessage is awesome :) and i wan't to have this in bruces rom ?
[HTC Sensation] heavy_metal_man:
Have you tried to remove Bruce's MMS and then push aokp MMS to system app?