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[HTC Desire X] nightcrow:
Re: [TUTORIAL][DEPRECATED] How to fix USB mounting issue in custom recoveries[15/1/20

In addition to OP here's a tutorial to get ADB and UMS working in recovery and normal mode in Windows 7 (home premium 32 bit):

In recovery:

- reboot into recovery and mount USB Storage

- connect device to pc and go to device manager

- refresh device manager and uninstall driver under 'USB Controllers' - 'USB Mass Storage' that has an exclamation mark

- refresh and then double click the new 'Android Phone' under 'Other Devices' and manually update that driver to 'Android USB Devices' - 'MyHTC'.

- you´ll now have two MyHTC´s and ADB will work.

- to get UMS to work manually update the driver of the one that has USB Mass Storage as an option to 'USB Mass Storage'.

In system:

- reboot to system and connect device to PC, mount USB Storage and go to device manager

- refresh and update the driver from 'USB Controllers' - 'USB Mass Storage' that has an exclamation mark manually to 'MyHTC'.

- from the two 'MyHTC's' manually update the driver that has an option USB Mass Storage to 'USB Mass Storage'

- USB Storage and ADB will now work
[HTC Desire X] rogio2:
This is a temporary solution to the problem, it should work for a non CWM touch of Claudyy, attaches to a PC and it works

;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] WorstCases:
Hey folks,

My SD Card shows empty once the phone is booted. Can't create folders either. Same with different cards.

SD card can be read in recovery mode...

Is there a security feature (never activated/installed anything) which could cause this?

I'm on Pro x-rom 2.3

(did backup to older Version which used to work witht he cards)

Kernel 2.6.32.9-perf

I'm afraid that it's a phone issue. Sometimes it says error when trying to read files in recovery too. Happens with multiple SDcards too.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] abcdjdj:
Try using an application called "Rescan Media" available on playstore for free. Could be a problem with the media scanner of your rom.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vaibha:
Format memory card
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] torpedo10:
DELETED:p
[HTC Rezound] Phaded:
I'm curious how much of the 16GB is actually available to store data on. I only ask because in the storage settings I only show about 5GB free. I've gone through every folder and I really only have about 3GB of data on there, which is mostly app and game data. No music, pictures etc. That equals up to 8 gigs. Is that all we really "have"?
[HTC Rezound] shrike1978:
I think the 16GB is the total internal storage. I'm showing 10.48GB total available as user storage, 2.34GB as app space (/data). That's 12.82GB binary. Assuming they do like most storage manufacturer and use decimal GB in their ads, that's actually 13.13GB decimal. My assumtion is the remaining ~2.5-3GB is use by /system, /cache, other file systems and formatting loss.
[HTC Rezound] Phaded:
I see. I'm down to about 11 usable then including app storage.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dumbl3:
Hello.

I was running cm9 for a few months without problems. But since the update from Januari the 13th apps started crashing.. I then tried to completly reinstall (wipe everthing), but got stuck on bootloop. Then I thought lets try cm10, and also I get stock on the booting screen.

These are the steps I did.

Flashed LT26i_6.1.A.2.50_1257-5499_WORLD.ftf to go back to stock rom.

Went trough the wizard and all and let it settle down for a few minutes.

Shutdown.

Fastboot boot.img from FXP202-cm-10-20130110-UNOFFICIAL-nozomi.zip

Fastboot reboot

Enter recovery

Flash rom FXP202-cm-10-20130110-UNOFFICIAL-nozomi.zip

Flash gapps gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip

Wipe cache

Wipe dalvik

Reboot system

But it never boots, I get stuck on bootscreen (same procedure I did with CM9, but also got stuck on bootscreen),

What am I doing wrong?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mracer164:
Try doing full wipe and reinstall CM 10 as you did previously
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dumbl3:
I tried that too. Like this you mean

1. Fastboot boot.img

2. Fastboot reboot

3. Enter recovery

4. Factory reset

5. Wipe/format system, cache, data, dalvik

6. Install Rom zip

But then I get error and says installation aborted..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Zo&roid:
I have the same problem:( My phone not boot in just freexperia logo and cwm5.5.0.4. My /data partition can't mount and format:( I can't install any rom:crying: Heeeeeelp:crying:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] apsanchezs:
All will be fixed

Follow this thread for Kernel and Rom installation; http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1879982

Follow this other to select your Rom; http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1642480

And take that cm-10-20130110-UNOFFICIAL is CM 10.2 for such reason look for JB Gapps For Android version 4.1.2

I flashed the Rom very well, also the kernel. my problem were the Gapps. I see there that you do not have the correct gapp zip for cm-10-20130110-UNOFFICIAL;This is CM 10.2 after installation and you need a 4.1.2 JB Gapps. Try and repeat the process.

Regards,
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dumbl3:
I do have the correct gapps. This CM is android version 4.1.2. Here I downloaded the latest for CyanogenMod 10.0.x which is for android versions 4.1.x.

Anyway after a whole evening/night of flashing I finally managed to get it working via hei1125 cm10 version:

http://goo.im/devs/hei1125/nozomi

I dont know what I did to make it working again, but it does.. CM10 does look a lot nicer then CM9. Although I heard it has some bugs, which yet I still have to encounter..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] origpumu:
FXP202-cm-10-20130110-UNOFFICIAL-nozomi.zip fails

I'm on the same problem. Use FXP201 instead or wait until 203... The cm10-fxp202 doesn't work on my device too. Same procedure as Yours or update from 201 to 202 - all will fail on (my) nozomi.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] k161194:
Hello!

Hello! orange fix for this rom?if so, I would like to link to it? thank you very much :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] funky0308:
Had same problem with fxp202 ans SSpeed rom.

Just try to install another kernel.

I had same problems with rom's above, I installed nova kernel nozimi and I have no problems anymore.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] somrom:
i got same plobrem with You.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alexdan2302:
Hello,

I have a problem updating my nozomi (xperia s) to the newest cm version. I always get error 7 - some symlinks failed and i cant install an update without factory reset / wipe user data. After this step i can install the zip, but without wipeing, always the same error.

When i'm installing updates on my girlfriend's urushi (xperia ray), everything works fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] origpumu:
Enable signaturecheck in recovery before install. It worked for me.

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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SaZh047:
Make sure you flash the good .img before flashing the ROM !
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] funky0308:
It's always recommend to wipe all (cache, davlink even system) then flash.

Be sure to mount system and then try.

And of course, check is you zip file o.k (maybe download again)

Even if you updating cm to new version it's best if you wipe.

I know that's lot of work, but only then you'll have good battery life, smooth and fast ROM and stability.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] origpumu:
Reinstalled apps and Data from googleserver after a datawiped update shoudn't be a Problem, or?

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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xJokerz:
I had just the same problem today. I installed cm10 from recovery and did everything you did!!!!

What i did to solve this prblem is:

- Went into recovery.

- wiped cache

and

dalvik.

- flashed the latest CM10 (FXP215 to be precise) again!!

- flashed gapps again!!

-

after flashing both zips

I wiped dalvik and cache again.

- Than reboot.

If you keep getting into bootloops, keep doing these steps. Beliefe me man I had the exect same problam today and this solved it :). Just dont panic or do something stupid and have alot of patients! :good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] origpumu:
But this is not a so called clean install. I use factory reset to have a clean install or just wipe data partition. After 1st boot I restore only some of my saved data with titanium backup. :)

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[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dasmikko:
I have this annoying issue when I try to make a backup, It completes instantly, and has backed up nothing! What am I doing wrong? I'm running Windows 8 64bit.. I also have this issue with the other toolkit.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dasmikko:
Changing USB port fixed it.. Mod close thread...
[Galaxy S III General] adilrenzu:
I had HTC DESIRE HD before n tht i bought this phone n i am super disappointed after buying this phone. I wonder why did u go for this phone. I could hv gone for HTC ONE X+. May b i was drunk that time.

This phone has more ram thn my previous phone. More Cpu Power with 4 cores but still this phone freezes and dsnt perform multi tasking very well.

One thing I hv learned is that samsung phones are nothing but s***. Even the development is limited as sumsung doesnt release the source code. My advice HTC has been and always will be the best touch phone manufacturer. :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] gsw5700:
What rom and kernel was you using?

Did you remove bloatware?

If you were using stock, what version was you on and was it carrier branded (with even more bloatware)?

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[Galaxy S III General] dazza7111:
SAMSUNG S series always seem to hold there value quite well like iphone and screen s always good. Like removable battery plus sd card. Never had one x but older HTC phones would always get dust under the screens. Has put me off them for life as I work in dusty environment.

Also battery life on HTC phones really poor
[Galaxy S III General] 58285:
Then go with the One X.

I chose the SGS3 for these reasons:

Way better Quality Control, thinner and lighter, removable battery and SD card, better internals, performance, official updates (doesn't really matter now that I'm on CM10.1), AMOLED screen, no battery life and build quality issues, TW is lighter and closer to stock.

One X is a nice phone, but its just not for me, the only benefit I could see was the camera and thicker plastic.
[Galaxy S III General] qavro:
i have a good friend with HOX. At this moment his phone is one step below mine (quite a big step)

Maybe you've got a lemon or something is wrong with your rom/kernel? I know many S3 have suffered from lag/stutter and such other related things...
[Galaxy S III General] ououououo:
I had a HOX before my s3. Both are great devices. HOX multitasking was not good at all, perhaps better in the +version. Only thing i miss a little is that screen, but i enjoy amoled too. S3 handles most games better, except tegra ones of course.
[Galaxy S III General] adilrenzu:
yes i hv removed al the bloatware. I m on miui right now my. Which i felt was more fast n better thn the stock ones.

I had Desire HD for 2yrs never had a problem with screen only volume was an issue. Yes removable battery was also a reason i opted for s3 but apart from that it doesnt even come close to one X+.

Well i dnt think that samsung s3 has better internals thn one X+, even the battery is same as s3
[Galaxy S III General] Seraphic:
I had the HOX before the S3 and switched because of the battery life mainly. I much prefer the design of the HOX and, contrary to any review you'll probably read on the web, I found the camera on the HOX quite a bit better.

I'd probably swap my S3 for a HOX+ given the chance, but I'm happy with the S3. It does so many things very well.
[Galaxy S III General] Gustopher:
Your signature would suggest a degree of prejudice and would cause me to question why you would buy a Samsung phone in the first place. It would certainly suggest that yours is not the most objective of 'reviews'.

In the interests of balance, HTC have produced some decent devices, but as nice as my last HTC (HD2) was, the need to send the phone back three times in just over a year to repair screen issues and the Customer Service debacle that finally drove me away from HTC, swearing never to return, was quite enough to leave me convinced that Samsung, for all their foibles, are an infinitely better option.

The sharp drop in HTC's share price doesn't lie either...
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
I don't. The phone is great.

Thanks OP for your insight. Unfortunately it seems to me that you are biased. If you like a brand and its products you should stick to them.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
I regret reading this thread.
[Galaxy S III General] kaiur:
:laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Easy peasy dont like it sell it return it bin it .

But don't bother telling XDA SGS3 forum .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] barisahmet:
I LOL'd at your signature.
[Galaxy S III General] Steveon:
I had the same feeling during the first 2 months of using my s3.. UI redraw every time after i exit internet browser, experienced lag here and thr but after i decided to install custom rom and kernel and remove useless bloatware, it suddenly became the best smartphone i ever owned!
[Galaxy S III General] qtwrk:
This is great phone, 4 core, 1gb ram and external sd card, only thing I don't like is home button and 2 soft key, probably because I came from Galaxy Nexus which uses on screen virtual button, but everything is good

Well, maybe not, except SDS concerns me...
[Galaxy S III General] htcsnap93:
A. Sell it.

B. Give it to me.
[Galaxy S III General] buster041284:
in your signature. your using miui there is your problem or u using stock my friend got htc i would never get one in my life nice to hold but thats it try one of the custom rom's running great faster than any htc software

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i like B
[Galaxy S III General] adilrenzu:
I can bet samsung is and will be ur last phone. No offences. Thts y u lol. Its same with people who use iphone for thm iphone is better hands down.
[Galaxy S III General] adilrenzu:
Yeah the specs are goids thts y i m disappointed coz its not behaving as it has the exact specs
[Galaxy S III General] adilrenzu:
Hahahah may in exchange we can surely sort out something
[Galaxy S III General] henrybravo:
OP, find a better custom ROM. I had the HTC Inspire for a year (the American version of the Desire HD) and I can guarantee you the S3 is significantly better in all regards. The only thing negative I can think of is the S3 only has 1GB of RAM, but with a slimmed down ROM and a custom launcher, this isn't a problem. Certainly no worse than the Desire's 768mb of RAM and it's puny little 1260 mah battery, with no way to use a physically larger battery.

If you're not willing to accept any suggestions, then I don't know why you even created this thread. Hopefully I'm not feeding a troll. Am I?
[Galaxy S III General] adilrenzu:
No u rnt
[Galaxy S III General] henrybravo:
I do agree with you about lack of full Exynos documentation, however. Samsung totally sucks in that regard.
[Galaxy S III General] Scarface1991:
From what I`ve heard is that HTC is even worse than Samsung when it comes to developer relations. Sony is the state of the art here, if you want to use CyanogenMod then Sony is the way to go.

BTW my phone is very fast. Almost no lag whatsoever. Multitasking working fine. I am using a custom ROM and a Custom Kernel. I don`t know how it is with a Stock Firmware because I can`t stand TouchWiz, so the first thing I did is to Root it and flash a custom ROM/Kernel on it. So far no complaints.
[Galaxy S III General] sathkartha:
A literate smart phone user can easily do some research before a purchase, not rocket science. Besides, a bad workman blames his tools.
[Galaxy S III General] coolhof:
I'm on stock ell4 delete all the bloatware and all the apps from samsung.

Deleted TW. and installed Nova prime.(put it in memory)

Kernel is siyah 1.8.8

OC to 1800mhz.

And now I have a beast of a phone.

Fast and no lags at all.

It response verry fast.

Verzonden door mijn GT-I9300 met xda premium
[Galaxy S III General] Scarface1991:
I think so too. Before buying a 550$ Device I would at least look at several different video reviews before buying it.
[Galaxy S III General] eitama:
To OP, and all the members who responded :

I owned an S3, And I feel exactly like the OP feels in term of the S3 being laggy, slugish, bad multitasker. I only knew how bad it was after moving the Note II.

I love Samsung's phones, I hate the no-sources policy obviously, but until the Xperia Z there was no real competition to the timely Samsung S Flagship.

The Note II is the real deal. Fast, No Lags, Insane battery, and insane multitasking.

With regards to the comment OP has :

I have around 6 guys at work who have the S3, They are ALL complaining. They all hate the device. 2 of them are considering getting the S2 again and selling the S3.

I understand them. I take a look and the device is so choked up, with no more then 10 user apps, stock firmware, up-to-date and it's crap.

Yes, I can download custom roms and kernels for them, remove crapware, and create cache partition on external sd-card - But why are we back in the days of the Galaxy S lagfixes??

An iPhone 4s or 5 just works out of the box.

The Note II, S2 and a lot of high end android devices have a great user experience out of the box. Why is the S3 so different that after 3 days it becomes Garbage?

I see all sort of workaround people propose :

Remove bloat, Format Cache, Use task manager to kill active tasks, Replace kernel, OC, What the hell?

Why should this be required?? Samsung messed up with the S3. It's proven. Search the web, people are suffering. Hacks are created - I don't know who they are selling so many - really.

And I am not biased, I think the S, SII and Note II are awesome, each for it's time.

The S3, Sucks on any scale.
[Galaxy S III General] spamtrash:
Secondly, to the OP.

I have no idea how it is in your country, but in UK you have "cool down" period of 7 days.

And, I used it. I took One + from carrier shop, played with it for 5 days, and returned it to replace with I9300.

And, if you are so excited with it, and if you hate so much SGS3, I see no reason why you did not bought it other than being a fan of masochism.:eek:
[Galaxy S III General] Scarface1991:
Well I had the SII for almost 1 year and then I moved to the SIII and I can definitely say that the SIII is faster than my old SII. The SII had lag here and there but with the SIII it`s gone.

3 Friends of mine have the SIII and they are all happy with it and I know others who are happy with it too. So I would say opinions clearly differ when it comes to the SIII.

Also a friend of mine has the Note 2 and to be honest I couldn`t notice any distinguishable difference to the SIII when it comes to speed.
[Galaxy S III General] sathkartha:
Nearly 40 million units already sold and still counting!
[Galaxy S III General] xanthrax:
OP !

Flash CodecRom and we'll talk afterwards :D
[Galaxy S III General] eitama:
Don't know what to tell you, I'm not lying, I don't have any reason to lie or try to influence Samsung sales. If anything, I love Samsung's innovation, and my Note II is my 5th Galaxy device in a row!!! I'll probably get the Note III too!

I guess all those people I know are just (ph)ucked, for some reason they got crappy S III which lag and waste battery. They are busy people who don't want to be looking after their phone and maintaining it.

I know all about Flashing via CWM, Odin, using adb, running scripts, reading logs, and lots more, but I can't help people who want to stay stock.

If you friends are running custom rom and custom kernel and all sorts of modifications, it's good for them, but it's not them I am talking about.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
I just laugh in the faces of people who claim iPhones work well out of the box. You've obviously never had an iPhone or had it for long. I haven't had one, nor do I want one, but I've read shocking examples of how iPhones explode, how they lag after a while, how apps force close (more than on android, by the way) and how many people generally are unhappy. Also, the bugs randomly affecting iPhones are also a blast to hear about. Especially alarm bugs or the do not disturb bug.

One time, this guy (not a friend of mine) noticed something I was doing on my phone and he asked why his phone can't do that, to which I replied that iPhones are ****. He walked away like those elderly rich ladies in Simpsons do when you offend them.

Though, I agree that the S3 could have a better memory management so that 2GB of RAM isn't needed to get a working multitasking,
[Galaxy S III General] Scarface1991:
No my friends are running fully Stock Firmware and they have no clue about Root or even CWM. I don`t know maybe some people have really high standards for their phones but. Actually it`s power-users like us who have really high standards. I don`t know I don`t have a lot of experience with Stock Samsung Firmwares since none of my Samsung Smartphones lasted even a day without being rooted and reflashed to a custom ROM.

Well if you use IOS and an App crashed it wouldn`t tell you that it crashed. You would just land on your homescreen again. That`s how the illusion is created that IOS Apps "never" crash as you often hear from people who want to find an argument against Android.

Android would at least show you that the App crashed and asks you what you want to do now, wither end it or have a report etc. but IOS just closes it, which is even worse.
[Galaxy S III General] Meemo23:
LOL all i know is in the future i won't be buying any more S series phone if the next one is a plastic phone. That is the only grip i can't come to terms with this phone is the fact that they used cheap ass mofo plastic.. I know a lot of other phones use it but it feels premium this phone however just feels plastic and missing the premium feel.. Other wise the phone is great in terms of functions and etc..
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Yeah, that sure is retarded. If something force closes, I'd wanna know about it before it's actually terminated.
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
HTC lock their bootloaders. From what I have seen around HTC don't tell you how to unlock them, you have to go through the community to find that out. Sony, whilst they do lock their bootloaders, a google search for "unlock sony bootloader" shows right at the top official instructions for unlocking the bootloader.

Samsung don't lock bootloaders at all. All we need from Samsung is the Exynos 4 sources and documentation, then the S3 would be very developer friendly.

I'm wondering though, because the Nexus 10 runs on an Exynos 5, does that mean Samsung will have released Exynos 5 sources? As far as I know google wants Nexus devices to be developer friendly, so I would expect it.
[Galaxy S III General] philicom:
Hi,

My previous phone was also HTC Desire HD, I am very pleased with my upgrade, although a couple of things I did prefer with the Desire HD.

1. Build quality

2. Keyboard (although I've since discovered SwiftKey)

I always found the battery life to be abysmal, I used to work 12 hour shifts and the Desire HD would last a pathetic 8 hours.

I will be honest when I first got S3 to start with I was a little unsure if it was the right choice, I too was contemplating the One X, but 5 months later I wouldn't change it for anything apart from an iPhone 5.

But only so I could sell it, buy another GS3 and have change to get smashed! :beer:
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Unless I'm mistaken, HTC unlocks bootloaders through http://htcdev.com/ but that means you're focked.

Yeah, N10 contains Exynos 5 and if Samsung don't want to make complete arses of themselves, they better had release Exynos 5 sources, which they will. The Nexus S came with Exynos 3, and that's why GS1 had a lot of dev love.