yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 4 General] y0bailey:
I'm still hopefully someone will get it up and running with a Y-cable and a custom Kernal. I am keeping my fingers crossed. I did buy a Wi-Drive from Kingston that will keep me held over for now....but when I fly (very infrequently) I may be SOL due to it being a "wifi device" and I will cause a plane crash (not).
[Nexus 4 General] yoderk:
Yes! Very pleased with this phone so far. Came from the gs2 and it is definitely a fine piece of hardware!! :laugh:
[Nexus 4 General] chrondroid:
well said and I agree 100% OP
[Nexus 4 General] letom:
You forgot multitasking!
[Nexus 4 General] Dragooon123:
Oh yes, the huge amount of RAM certainly shows.
[Nexus 4 General] smooney3:
I got mine yesterday and agree 100%. Coming from the Galaxy Nexus, I'd add the speaker volume to the pros list. The sound quality isn't great, but at least I can hear my phone ring. I missed so many calls on my GNex...
[Nexus 4 General] co.ag.2005:
agreed... (plus I love the screen much more on the N4 than the GNex.. reason I sold my Gnex)
[Nexus 4 General] doctahjeph:
While the height is almost identical as my gnex, I love that it is slightly wider. I always felt my gnex was too skinny.
[Nexus 4 General] ogrillion:
Just wanted to comment, I to love this phone! I keep wanting to try custom Roms and kernels but trying to force myself to enjoy stock - first time on a nexus came from HTC and Samsung.

Only con would be battery life, doesn't seem bad but way less then the iPhone 4 I have been using for the last few weeks.

Maybe custom roms and kernels would help in that area though.
[Nexus 4 General] bleuiko:
Isn't Amex accidental coverage only 90 days? That's the time period for my Amex Blue.
[Nexus 4 General] slopokdave:
1 year? I see its 90 days.... what card are you using?

edit: bleuiko beat me to it, same question. My Gold and Skymiles both say its 90 days.
[Nexus 4 General] irishrally:
I love the phone but Charles Barkley thinks it's turrible, turrible.
[Nexus 4 General] xdviper:
Visa also offers insurance for these phones after the one year manufacturer warranty is done.
[Nexus 4 General] Dragooon123:
Agreed, added to OP. BTW, my phone has a small scratch/chip on the glass just above the volume rocker. Not really visible unless you hold it an inch close under direct lighting but kinda annoyed me for an hour before :P.
[Nexus 4 General] Dragooon123:
This phone has some crazy ass multi tasking capabilities, had two games downloading in background (those in app downloads) and playing a third while occasionally switching to music/web browsing and YouTube and didn't lose any one of them :D
[Nexus 4 General] galaxys:
For me so far, the N4 is a piece of classy art!
[Nexus 4 General] rosswaa:
Finally someone making a positive thread got this beast of a phone :)

Loving it so far, not a single problem
[Nexus 4 General] athani:
I didn't feel justified in opening a new thread just to ask this question.

I believe the phone IMEI is printed below the LG logo at the back. Is it possible to remove or scrape off the IMEI just for aesthetic purpose? Without spoiling the polish/finish, of course.
[Nexus 4 General] rosswaa:
No imei printed unless you've left the sticker on the back?
[Nexus 4 General] estallings15:
Look in the SIM slot. Yes, you can take the sticker off of the back.

Ordered my Nexus 4 on the 13th. Still waiting.
[Nexus 4 General] athani:
In fact, my phone is about to be delivered tomorrow. So the IMEI is on a sticker at the back that can be peeled off?
[Nexus 4 General] Dragooon123:
The imei is just on the back plastic wrapper which can be peeled off
[Nexus 4 General] gonintendo:
Its on the protective film.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Dragooon123:
After a couple of weeks I'm still happy with this phone, currently running Franco's kernel with slightly modified color values (238, 228, 240) and it blows my galaxy nexus out of water in every way. The battery life is awesome (I'm easily able to manage 3+ hours of screen life) and nota single scratch so far.
[Nexus 4 General] kkh786:
I agree with the OP apart from having the rattle issues no other problems. I love the screen. It's gorgeous. It's in a case from now but I'll take it off soon! :rolleyes:

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Devildog78965:
This phone is a piece of awesome jelly beans in a glassy sandwich. :)
[Nexus 4 General] bljy:
Love the feel of this phone.
[Nexus 4 General] FallN:
I concur. :D

Sent from my Nexus 7
[HTC One S] Troute:
Got the update today, phone is rooted but otherwise stock. a few weeks ago I set supersu to deny MKSH (advice from Chainfire on these forums) but since this last update it's blocking requests from MKSH every minute or so.

I've not been able to find out any more than is already posted on the forum about MKSH does anyone have any more info? it's getting annoying having constant popups from supersu so I'm probably going to just let MKSH have the access it wants and be damned if HTC want to track my phone usage.
[HTC One S] usaff22:
mksh has nothing to do with HTC, only with SuperSU.
[HTC One S] Troute:
I understood that it's something that has always been active on htc phones but only the later versions of superSU is catching it?
[HTC One S] usaff22:
Yes, only recent versions. The developer of it made a post about it somewhere, can't remember where though.
[HTC One S] mirabilos:
The full solution to this is summarised here. In short, mksh is just running commands on behalf of something else, and it was always like this.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] killj0y:
Ok so my new S3 comes in today and I WILL have it rooted as soon as it is out of the box. My question is after checking out several root guides I see a pattern I'm curious about. I am coming from other rooted phones obviously and many of them required adb. basically it looks like i can just boot up odin and flash a a rooted rom and recovery essentially (assuming I don't care for stock rom/recovery and counter) is this about right? I ask because If i don't have to flash SU and a stock recovery then flash a rooted recovery or something like that than i'd rather not lol.

It looks like install samsung drivers, flash recovery, boot recovery, flash custom rom, profit! is this about right? (leaving out the wipes and stuff but that is obviously part of it)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] bfranklin1986:
I just odined stock Rom with root then flashed cwr and then flashed whatever I wanted
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] killj0y:
thats what i meant though it sounds like i can skip the stock rom with root...or am I wrong? Do I NEED to flash the stock rom with root or SU into the stock rom before flashing a custom rom or can i just go straight to a custom rom?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] bfranklin1986:
You should be able to just Odin a recovery and then boot right into recovery and flash

Here's link to Odin recovery

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=30795302
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] killj0y:
sounds good to me, I have all the necessary file and then some ready to go i'm itching to flash!
[Nexus 10 Themes and Apps] jeepguy04:
I have created an app that will help share apps across users on google's new 4.2 multi user feature.

Thanks to mentose457 and unwired for giving me the idea.

see this thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1994169)

It works by removing package elements from user's package-restriction.xml file to add the app and adding the package element back to remove the app. (located at \data\system\users\10\package-restrictions.xml where 10 is the user's id)

This is quickly thrown together and will likely have a ton of bugs, but I wanted to go ahead and get it out there for testing.

- This is BETA

-You must have ROOT

- This changes system data on non documented files it could screw something up.

- I'm not responsible for any problems this causes or lost data or bricked or broken devices

- please use cation

- it is currently built to run on main user to enable or disable apps on secondary users (once root is fully working on secondary users I will see about making it run correctly on secondary user's account)

- not tested thoroughly with paid apps*

- does not currently support system apps**

- due to the way I pull the app list from the package manager some installed apps may not show as available to add/remove

- apps installed first on a secondary user's profile will probably not show in the list to add/remove

*paid apps seemed to work but I did not have internet access during testing. My theory is that any paid apps that use Google's license verification will not work or not work for long. So adding your Google Account to the secondary user's play store is probably still the best way to share paid apps.

**The entries in the xml for system apps is different. Therefore I will have to research them more before getting it to work or deciding not to mess with those apps. Currently some will show not installed on other users even though they are and removing/adding them will not work correctly.

------> DOWNLOAD HERE https://play.google.com/store/apps/...tm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=app_announcement

I'd love to get feedback to what is working and what is not. Also if anybody figures out anything more about the package-restriction.xml file I'd love to hear it. Especially when it comes to system apps.
[Nexus 10 Themes and Apps] slydog43:
wow this sounds great, Thanks
[Nexus 10 Themes and Apps] XlAfbk:
after using this app i can no longer use any secondary user account. i started it from the main account, changed the visibility for some apps, restarted. now when i log into the secondary account i get FCs for all apps that try to start. I can manage to pull down the notification and access the settings from there and uninstall apps and so on, but that doesn't really help.

i then created a completly new user but it's exactly the same there. primary user is still working fine.

any idea what's going on?

Tapatalked
[Nexus 10 Themes and Apps] jeepguy04:
Are you sure those apps work correctly under secondary users? There are some apps that don't access the sdcard the correct way that will not work under secondary users until the dev fixes the app.

Try downloading the apps that you had trouble with directly from the play store and see if they work.
[Nexus 10 Themes and Apps] XlAfbk:
nvm, sorry. I had installed a theme at the same time I installed your app and apparently CM10.1 doesn't like themes on secondary users. Didn't think a theme could have such an effect so blamed your app :(
[Nexus 10 Themes and Apps] jeepguy04:
No problem. Glad you got it figured out.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] bodi524:
How to restore your Kindle Fire 2

Notes

Using the backup.sh from kinfauns that I modded because the partition table for the KF2 is not the same as the HD.

I attached the new backup.sh for the KF2 on this post.

Links

Restoration tool

I developed a Recovery Tool based of the one onemeila created for the KFHD.

This will restore your boot/recover partitions (good for if you are gonna mess with the Bootloader Crack)

Restore your system.img to a Deodexed Rooted 10.2.1 Software. I have stripped ALOT of Kindle Apps from this backup.

Erase userdata & cache cleanup should be done when restoring.

Credits

Kinfauns for the original backup.sh

Onemeila for his original Recovery Tool for the KFHD

Special thanks

verygreen, hashcode, and fattire for answering my endless and noobish questions and saying there HAS to be a way.

And all those who have offered to help me get a 10.2.1 system.img for the KF2

Enjoy!

Additional Info

The post here contains the partition table for the KF2.

How I did it:

Due to the raw system.img being too big for fastboot to flash back to the KF2 I had to make the raw image

a sparse image file using help found in this post.

Mount the raw system.img (created and extracted from the system.img.gz using the backup.sh)

mkdir sys
sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop system.img sys/

Create a new flashable(sparse) system image.

sudo ./make_ext4fs -s -l 929038336 -a system new_system.img sys/
sudo umount sys
rm -fr sys

With that all said and done I was able to flash the sparse system.img to my KF2 and restore it!

It was bricked big time!!!!
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] bodi524:
I was getting messages saying the google link wasn't working.

I uploaded to dev-host and updated this version to 10.2.3 with root.

http://d-h.st/Pv3
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] bqq100:
Awesome! Glad to hear you got this working and thanks for posting! :D

Looks like I need to bust out the soldering iron and build myself a factory cable to get into fastboot mode. Using your backup image I think I have an idea on how to create a rooted 10.2.3 image, but I'm not very confident it will work.

I think i'll have some free time next week, so time to get a CM10 repo/original KF device tree setup on my linux system as a starting point.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] bryanchapman9999:
Nice work
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] bodi524:
I got 10.2.3 working and rooted.

I am going to pull a new system image for restore later tonight.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] bodi524:
Sorry guys. I didn't get the image of 10.2.3 yet. But try this method for root:

This is how i got root.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35156970
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] bernmed2005:
root 10.2.3

where is it at exactly was hard to find the root method...please help this device is boring without root and gapps
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] irve:
I'm in....

Hi bodi524....

I can't download the Recovery Tool, it keeps opening as i should read it, not download it :eek:

I'm all in - what can I do to help...?

Looking forward to it - Get me out of the Amazon world :D
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] BookCase:
When Launching the "SR Tool.bat" on Windows 7 X64-bit it is not recognizing the device in fastboot. I tried replacing the adb.exe, fastboot.exe files you included and that was no help. Any ideas?
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] chronicfathead:
Am I right in thinking that this will recover a KF2 that has the red triangle. I used Rom Toolbox to change the RAM settings, set the SD boost and change the font. When it rebooted I got the red triangle. Rebooting and pushing the power button 5 times reboots to the red triangle again.

Wondering if I should try this or just contact Amazon.

EDIT: The kindle didn't even register on my PC any more. adb devices doesn't list anything anymore either so I think it's truly gone. I think 4 days is a record for me.

Sent using my Jelly fingers.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] powerpoint45:
Factory cable?
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] Alin1997:
Work this on Windows?
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] BookCase:
Not for me.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] powerpoint45:
Thanks for making this tut. Yesterday I couldn't figure out how to flash my system back because It was too big. This method worked.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] chronicfathead:
Been looking for instructions on how to use the backup.sh, and I finally found them. Follow the instructions here to use the backup.sh located in the first post of this thread. DO NOT USE the backup.sh listed on the linked post.

Use this Backup.sh file: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1544517&d=1354900827

Follow the backup info here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32636163&postcount=1

None of my work, just thought it would help to make it easier to find.

The first time I ran the script, I could only see 4 zipped files. I copied those off and then ran the script again. The second time I couldn't see any files in the kindlebackups folder when using my PC, but I could see all the backups using ES File Manager. I ended up copying them to the downloads folder, and then I could see them from my PC.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] MisterSir69:
This works great but the op could use some organization. Took me a good while to Find the file but once I got it worked like a charm.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] iytrix:
ima fix that. I'm going to re-write this post. No idea if the OP will use my revision, but I did it for FMKilo and Powerpoint45 so far.

As a side note, if anyone else posts a main dev topic and wants me to do the layout and whatnot, let me know and I will. I don't mind doing it and making things clear for people since I have the time to do so :)
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] fmkilo:
lol, actually working at work...
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] iytrix:
Pfffffffft. I actually may have to start doing that sadly. I could still re-write 2-3 posts a day though (4 days a week while I'm at work) so even if we got a bunch of devs and I re-wrote all the posts, still do-able haha. Today or this weekend I want to get a bunch of color codes so I can get nice themes going for people. Yours is red, PPT teal/blue, and this one is purple but I think it would need neat to have each dev having their own color scheme. Maybe I'm just odd though.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] fmkilo:
sounds good to me...
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] fmkilo:
just wanted to say, if you are doing your own, the number after -l is the size in bytes of your image.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] grantpatrickfarrell:
Kindle Fire 2 Restore Question..

So I'm trying to get everything prepared for when my Fastboot cable arrives. Should get here today, thanks to Skoprn. Ive been reading these threads and think I'm still just a bit confused. Any help would be appreciated..

Current status of my KF2 is that it is just stuck in bootloop. The Kindle Fire logo just keeps flashing. Anyways, so when my fastboot cable arrives I connect it. It should boot up into fastboot and then what do I do next?

Download this "Restoration Tool" and then what? Unzip the file and run it and it will do it all by itself or..?? Do i need to run some commands in ADB/fastboot??

Thanks for any help!!
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] vinhntna608:
Can I use this tool when my current software version is 10.2.4
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] jutley:
What method where are the instuctions?
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] RevMike:
If system.img is too big

I had trouble using fastboot to flash the system partition. System.img was too large and I was having trouble getting the environment up to build the sparse image.

My boot and recovery partitions were, however, set up to successfully boot TWRP recovery. I booted into TWRP, then I used adb to transfer the system.img to the internal storage.

adb push system.img /sdcard/

The I went into adb shell and used dd to write the image.

adb shell

dd if=/sdcard/system.img of=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/system

Once this completed, I rebooted and the stock environment was in place.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] rickballs:
My. PC recognized my. Kindle but won't go to fast boot even with the cable. I reinstalled the drivers and all, but still can't do anything, please help
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] flopower1996:
AW: [Kindle Fire 2 Restore][Working!!!]-12/7/2012

Type:

ADB reboot bootloader

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[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] doctor_evil:
OK I have a bricked kindle fire 2nd gen that is driving me nuts. when I press the power button it shows the orange kindle fire logo for about 10 or 15 seconds and then it shuts down. I have a factory cable and used this utility to restore it, but it still will not boot.

I even went so far as to go ahead and try to get TWRP installed so I could flash it with CM10.1 since It does boot to fastboot when I use the factory cable.

when I do that it doesn't show the blue kindle fire logo, it shows the orange logo, goes black for few seconds and then shows the orange logo again. it keeps doing this over and over.

using this utility to restore changes the boot behavior to shutting off again after displaying the logo.

Any ideas on what I can do to fix it?
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] jcnbama:
Kind of in this same boat right now. I've got a bootlooping KF2 after trying to restore a factory backup I made in TWRP. Fastboot cable on the way. Hoping to gather enough info from this post and others to stumble my way into getting drivers, a restore, and TWRP so I can get things going again. These dang Kindles are nuttin but trouble... I wish there was a comprehensive step by step guide... Information about the Kindle seems to be more spread out than other devices.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] doctor_evil:
It's driving me nuts, you would think that if fastboot works, that there is some way to fix what is causing this issue.

I just got done with fixing a pretty borked up Kindle fire (original) that was sticking on the boot logo. that one I had to flash it with FFF and twrp, then format the usb storage, then flashed with cotr then flashed it with the kindle fire update bin (renamed to update.zip) and was able to fully fix it and get it back running.

I'm suprised that noone has figured out how to fully unlock the bootloader on the 2nd gen Kindle Fires yet.
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] jcnbama:
This scares me a lot. I have a fast boot cable on the way and I'm just gonna try and wing it. I have worked with other devices but none like this. I'm gonna be lost. And all the info is spread out over about 5 different threads. I would almost pay someone to do this if there was a Kindle Fire fixing store down the road...
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] mindmajick:
Don't be scared. The dude you quoted doesn't even realize that its been confirmed impossible to crack our bootloader by hash code.

I promise you.. Things are actually pretty simple once you UNDERSTAND what you are doing. I promise once you get that cable, I'll help you.

I might even take the time to write a thread at some point EXPLAINING everything I had to learn piecemeal.

But here's the deal- use the right drivers AND ADB and everything works fine.

DRIVERS- USE THE ONES IN THIS POST- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1893838

ADB- USE THE ADB FROM THE KINDLE FIRE FIRST AID TOOL-

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2096888
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] RoboWarriorSr:
I have a red screen after installing automated freedom-boot. The program doesn't recognize the device any way to recover it? Also the device can be rebooted but keeps going to a red screen after the Kindle Fire logo boot up.l
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] flopower1996:
Look in the dev section.

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[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] arthur.:
Restoration tool is not availible anymore on dev-host. could someone please reupload it?
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] tmj115:
file not found, can any one please upload it again
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] flopower1996:
oh yes, it's down. Please can someone reupload?
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] flopower1996:
OK i managed to extract the boot.img and recovery.img from the amazon upgrade file. These two files are from the 10.4.3 firmware.

Fell free to share/mirror this.

[But be warned, i didn't test these files, so don't blame me when you brick your device!

This is only for otter2/Amazon Kindle Fire 2nd gen!

-Source-

https://s3.amazonaws.com/kindle-fire-updates/update-kindle-10.4.3_D026_4308520.bin
[Kindle Fire 2 Android Development] mindmajick:
Quick and Simple.

All- Here are all three files. I believe this is 10.2.1 but Honestly can't remember since it's been so long since I've used them.

They are pre-rooted and originally came from HERE: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2096888

So PLEASE thank the OP at the above link. I also provided a simple batch file that when used with the correct ADB and FASTBOOT executables will flash the images to your device.

If you brick your stuff by using this... it's not my fault and please leave me alone.

Thanks.

And HERE are the files:

http://goo.im/devs/mindmajick/Kindle2/Restore.zip