yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] mj.vikram:
what happen dude, i am the same...

"Odia" is user name on XDA he have one tool which will write IMEI number even though you dont have EFS backup , i heard he took small donations and corrected the IMEI for Galaxy S2 user's, so i asked him to contact ODIA.....
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] pankajramnani:
now that I have seen this thread, I want to be safe be backing up my efs folder.. But can anyone tell me how to make a backup of it? Do I just copy that folder and paste it onto an external SD or is it something different?
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] mj.vikram:
Use EFS back up pro best app ....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1724440
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] D™:
No buddy, not like that. I was wondering coz My Lil bro did the same (means typed something which was become questions to all peoples).

BTW use orange backup. Coz I have seen that it takes backup of /efs.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] Zachinater:
Hey anyone know how I can get the soft keys and notification bar sperate just like on the nexus 10 and nexus 7?

It kinda shots me having them combined

In on cm10 with book HD + dual booting

Help

sent from Barnes and noble book HD + dual booting cm10
[Nook HD, HD+ General] leapinlar:
See answer in other thread.

Sent with XDA Premium from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] lucasleal:
I bought at DX a bluetooth controller. It works pretty good with a -just sometimes- little delay. So, for super mario it can make you die but for fighting games like MK or Tekken it is OK.

This one is a chinese version of Gametel device, but with more buttons and two analog sticks. It is made by ípega, a popular company in China.

Attached a pic (bad quality, taken with my second phone);

View attachment 1681308
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] Sami Kabir:
This is nice.... thnx for sharing.... this can be used for any games right?

Sent using XDA-Developers' App from my GT-i9070
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] lucasleal:
All games that I tried works. The device has 4 modes, one for iPhone only, mouse, keyboard, and joystick.

For xperia optimized games u can use joystick, emulators run on keyboard, and touch games like angry birds lie on mouse mode.

I could not make mouse mode works, maybe i'm dumb, ill keep trying.

Edit. Mouse mode works by right analog stick, left click with left top button and right click with top right button.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] Sami Kabir:
Thanks for the info... but where can I get it? And what is its name? Which company?

Sent using XDA-Developers' App from my GT-i9070
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] lucasleal:
If you search for "ipega bluetooth" you will find it, I bought at DX.com
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] kofiaa:
Thanks, I nearly bought one from eBay. Can't wait to test it out on vice city and other games
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] lucasleal:
GTA3 works with joystick mode, VC should work too cus they have pretty much the same engine.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] kofiaa:
:D how long did it take you to receive it from dx? I ordered mine last night.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] lucasleal:
About 45 days
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] kofiaa:
www.droidgamers.com just created a forum for the real android gamers. Get involved, it's hoped that devs will also get involved and offer beta tests. This our chance to have a proper android gaming community :D

http://www.droidgamers.com/forums
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] kofiaa:
Lucas, have you tried connecting your ipega via usb otg?

I don't always want to be using bluetooth.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] lucasleal:
No man, the USB is only for charging it.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] kofiaa:
Ok. Dx just told me they have no stock and asked if I'll wait. I can't so I'll pick up a 360 or ps3 controller instead.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] lucasleal:
As an owner, waiting worth it. With ps3 or xbox you will always need apps to make it compatible etc etc.

But only a few games need the app gamekeyboard to work with the iPega controller, and it work as mouse too which is a bonus.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] happy3777:
Hello friends

Can anyone give me an overclocked kernel for xperia u???

.54 or c.10 based?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doctor_droid:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1934093

Here :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] happy3777:
Thanx...

:)

Do I need to root seperately??
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Min3r:
Not sure what you meant mate. If your rom is already rooted, flashing a kernel wont change it :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] happy3777:
Ya I know

But I was just asking,

Was thinking to flash it over stock!!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] tangosierra_:
you will not lose root unless you flash a stock .ftf file or a rom that (somehow) is not pre rooted
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] rdeckerr:
**** Major Update: Thanks to imnuts and his alternate restore, I'm back on track and unrooted stock again.

For some reason the sboot.bin causes ODIN to fail. If this is just an isolated incident, cool, if not, this could mean getting back to stock out of necessity may be harder than we expected. Something to keep an eye on.

For reference, imnuts' post with the stock restore images:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2040264

*** UPDATE: Still can't update with the stock image but I used the root66 stock rooted image and ODIN was able to complete. I'm able to boot the phone normally however it won't activate. I am completely lost here. ***

Was stock rooted no mods, so I flashed back to stock so I could perform the OTA update. That went fine so I installed the update.

Using Adam's new post OTA root the process didn't take so I tried a second time. The process hung and I had to do a battery pull.

Now it either boots into the Plug into Kies for emergency firmware upgrade or the Samsung Galxy Note 2 boot logo and goes no further.

Again attempting to restore to stock I flashed with Odin and here's where it gets interesting.

The process FAILS at the sboot.bin element.

*** Is it posible the OTA update made the stock recovery image incompatable? ***

Using the instructions here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2024207

----- ODIN LOG -----

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> CI605_I605VRLJB_I605VRALJB_CL414933_HWID04_HW-Rev0406_low_ship_user.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/004> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/004> boot.img

<ID:0/004> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/004> cache.img

<ID:0/004> hidden.img

<ID:0/004> modem.bin

<ID:0/004> param.bin

<ID:0/004> recovery.img

<ID:0/004> sboot.bin

<ID:0/004> FAIL!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

----- END ODIN LOG -----

ODIN and Casual see the phone and can talk to it however KIES cannot so I can't do this emergency recovery the phone is telling me to do. KIES says the device is not responding and to reboot it.

I can boot into Download Mode. I was able to get into Recovery Mode but can't now. The error in Recovery Mode was something about /system not being found.

I have no idea what to do. I have tried the process on 2 different computers. Am I Bricked Bricked?

Thanks in advance.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] rdeckerr:
Under the root66 image the phone is only registering 4 gigs of available space.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] exmeaguy:
Junior member, where did you find the alternate restore method?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] rdeckerr:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2040264

Took me a moment to find it. The only difference between the 2 is that the alternate one is without sboot.bin.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] exmeaguy:
Thanks for checking. When I run the first method (3 times now) it fails at the sboot.bin step. I did download the alternate method once from the first site, but it said the file was not a PDA file. How did you get the alternate method file to work? I appreciate the help.

---------- Post added at 12:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:38 AM ----------

The file extension ends with XZ, which Odin said was not a PDA file.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] rdeckerr:
It has an odd file extension .xz (perhaps meant to be .gz) so I told 7zip to extract it. resulting file ended in .tar.md5. Then it works.

Hope this helps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] exmeaguy:
Thanks Junior member I will try that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
I'm curious why you keep calling him junior member?

Sent from my SCH-I605 (AKA NOTE 2)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] exmeaguy:
Oops, sorry rdeckerr, I was looking too quickly at the name and looked at the wring line.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] rdeckerr:
hahahaha

Wasn't sure if it was a newbie hazing kind of thing. That's funny though. No worries!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] exmeaguy:
I thought I saw on one of your posts that you used root66 (same as me) and that your phone only shows 4gb of space. Did you re-root with root66 or did you use another method?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] rdeckerr:
Originally I was rooted with Adam Outler's casual / ODIN method (which was flawless first time round). I had tried the root66 this time just to see if it would actually take with ODIN since the stock restore kept failing. I was just desperate to find a rom that would "pass" on ODIN. I just needed to know my phone was still capable of booting fully back into android. Even if it happened to be without radio / activation capability or a wrongly registered internal storage space (which was friggin wierd, couldn't even take a screenshot).

I will re-root with Adam's process, when the kinks are out (say next weekend when I have a couple days it doesn't matter if my phone is dead :). I had A.O.'s original root running for a couple weeks and it was great. The implementation was smooth, not requiring reinstalling / restoring anything. I'd backed up of course but it was one of those nice times the backups weren't necessary.

So at the moment for the sake of my job, I'm leaving it stock for the week. I just can't be without a phone for work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] w4rped:
Welli have the same exact issue. I am so lost its riddiculous. I have been working on this for over 20 hours and have gotten no where.

The only thing. Can add is that I attempted to root my device with the method that injects the 1 gig file in the system. Worked fine and installed cwm. Restarted and bricked with the unauthorized by verizon message. Downloaded the stock file without bootloader first and worked fine. I then tried every sinfle methodand trick I coild find to no avail.

Every time I try to install the baseline bootloader so I can unlock it fails at the end. If itry to put a full stock image on it fails at the beginning.

They both fail when tryinf to do the sboot.bin. so its obviously with that.

I need some ind of fix but no one seems to have it. I cant be doomed to a uncustomized device!

I am thinking of seeing if my verizon store will take it back and give me a fresh one so I can do the original exploit method.

It might work. Ive had the phone for less than a month.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] universexda:
Don't you need to flash a pit file if you're not doing so when you run into sboot.bin issues?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
No it fails at sboot because the ll4 boot loader is set to block any writing of a boot loader at all. That's why you need the alternate restore because it didn't write sboot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlegros:
Is there a fix for this? I have been getting the same error message via odin. Can someone post the fix or link so we can get back up and running...thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] universexda:
The alternate restore won't attempt to restore the bootloader to stock right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
That's right. It will restore everything except the boot loader. It's really to restore and keep boot loader unlocked, but add an added benefit let's unbrick the new ota.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] aka113:
Same problem

I have the same problem as the original post i keep getting stuck at shoot.bin, as it is know my phone is unusable! I was wondering if their is any method to get it back to the original FW.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Did you actually read any of this thread? We got his phone working.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] GaryAlpusa1:
Glad I searched and found this thread. Had the same issue and resolved it by using the alternate stock image. I originally used the Root66 to root my note 2. I was in a hurry and did not read ahead and did not realize that the bootloader was still locked. A few days later I tried to flash clockworkmod recovery from within the Rom mananger app. Got the dreaded yellow triangle that said unauthorized software was installed etc....I tried the stock recovery which did not work.....Odin failed at the sboot.bin. Thought I bricked it until I found this thread... I am now fully restored and am getting ready to root with the jailbreak method. I keep getting a message that my laptop does have the proper software to communicate thru the casual program so I have to do some more downloading. Thanks to everyone who helps here.. GA :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Nice to see someone search to fix there problem. Glad you're back up and running!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] zipwin:
Glad I found this thread...however, my 7zip will not extract the xz file, it says it is not an archive. Any thoughts?...I will try to re download and see if that's it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] urcboss07:
I am having the same issue and able to use alternate restore to get phone to work but I try to root and unlock bootloader, every method and time fails. Does anyone have successfully rooted after this issue? and how?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
read the stickies!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] KamelJabber:
Oops! I just posted a new thread with the exact same issue...I swear I searched and didn't find a solution but here it is!

daaaar.

downloading the alternate file now...PLEASE work! :(

EDIT, my phone is back! sorry for the posts...I was in a bit of a panic :(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] savagerider750:
Can't thank you guys enough as soon as the alt file finishes downloading I'm hoping this fixes my issue too. My phone isn't even 24hrs old and I seemed to have tried doing too much without reading. I'm hoping there will be a 1-click method that works as good as wugfresh did with my gnex. So if I do get it to flash back to stock do I need to do anything else before trying the Casual method again?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
Still a problem, I think...

Thanks for this thread, it saved me from boot loop hell!

When I first got into this problem I had Verizon re-activate an old phone because I needed service.

So, in order for me to get things right, I had to use the root66 file with the PIT file. That got the phone booting properly and download mode shows that everything is stock. Yesterday I tried to get Verizon to re-activate this phone and it failed over and over again, even after a new sim card. They want to warranty replace the phone but I'm afraid to send it in this way. The new Note 2 will arrive on Saturday (2 days) and I need to send back this Note 2.

I just tried the alternate method and it too seems to get the phone visibly fine.

Is there more I need to do to get this phone to be more "Verizon invisible" so I can safely return it?

HELP, please...

Thanks,

Marc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
Anyone here?

Does no one really know the answer to this, or was I not clear in stating my question, or maybe is no one here?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmonger11b:
The alternate restores keeps the bootloader unlocked have you tried running the normal restore since the phone boots up now? If you can it'll bring it back to shipping state
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
Normal restore attempts

Hi dmonger; Thanks for the reply.

Do you happen to know if leaving this alternate image installed would prevent the phone from activating on Verizon?

Thanks

Marc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
No it would not. The alternate restore is the exact same stock firmware, just minus the bootloader
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
Alternate image

Hi kintwofan; Thanks for the quick response.

After trying to install the stock image, after succeeding with the Alternate, I now have a yellow triangle when going into download mode, on the first screen and before hitting volume up. After volume up it is gone and "CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD" says "No".

Do I now need to root, so I can run triangle away, and then try to get the stock or alternate image in again?

Thanks,

Marc

---------- Post added at 09:48 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:37 AM ----------

Hi dmonger / kintwofan;

I have now tried the download link, as well as the two mirrors, just in case they might differ. I have also tried with and without the PIT file. Also, sometimes to get the phone loading again I need to use root66, but I don't know why. I am trying all of them as I write this again:

Download Me without pit fails at sboot.bin

Download Me with pit fails at sboot.bin

Mirror 1 without pit fails at sboot.bin

Mirror 1 with pit fails at sboot.bin

Mirror 2 without pit fails at sboot.bin

Mirror 2 with pit fails at sboot.bin

Alternate with pit works fine

Root66 with pit works fine

It seems that I can never load sboot.bin

Any recommendations? If I can get it to activate, I'd be happy... plus don't need to get Verizon involved.

Thanks,

Marc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Sounds like there is no need, but what does your flash counter show in download mode. By the way Thank you!

You can't get sboot because your bootloader is still locked. This will have nothing to do with service. Does your imei show in about phone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
Download mode results

You're welcome, we all appreciate your work and assistance, even if we can't do more.

If this is the flash counter, it says CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No

If it isn't, all I have on that screen is:

ODIN MODE

PRODUCT NAME: SCH-I605

CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No

CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official

SYSTEM STATUS: Official

the Android image

Downloading...

Do not turn off target!!

Thanks,

Marc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Sure looks like a stock phone now. What does your imei say in about phone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
IMEI

Sorry, this took so long the phone was trying to go to Verizon to activate and I had to wait for it to time out.

My About Phone contents show:

Model number: SCH-I605

Android version: 4.1.1

Baseband version: I605VRALJB

Build number: JRO03C.I605VRALB

AND, the IMEI number under status is correct and matches the printed number under the battery.

Do you think I'm safe to go to Verizon to get it reactivated, even with the yellow triangle?

Thanks,

Marc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Yes, there will always be a yellow triangle on download mode. What's important is the custom binary in the top and phone status
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
Ok, here we go...

Ok, I'm off to Verizon for a new sim card and see what happens. I'll let you know afterwards.

Thanks a million for all your help.

Marc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Let us know
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
Success!

Just got back from Verizon and my old Crapple iPhone is back on a shelf... the Note 2 is working like a dream and with all Verizon updates through VRAMC3.

Thanks again for all the assistance,

Marc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Nice! Good to hear
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bajasur:
Just want to make sure I don't need to flash the pit file when using this method?

Thanks again
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
Flashing PIT File

Hi Bajasur;

I had to flash the PIT to get things back right, but you can always try it without. If the phone won't boot, or ODIN gets an error while flashing, just do it again with the PIT.

Good luck,

Marc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bajasur:
Thanks Marc,

I have an even greater problem.

I have two note 2s in my lap. I've that Odin will recognize (my original)

And the bricked one that I can't get Odin to recognize. Drivers are installed but my bricked phone won't even register as connected to my pc.

Any ideas what you do
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
Are you using the same PC, same cable and same USB port for each? And you are remembering to put the phone in download mode first, and then connect the cable? I did mine on a Mac Notebook running Parallels and Windows 7 and only had problems at first getting my USB port to pass through to the Windows environment. I too was "bricked", all I had to start with was a perpetual boot-loop to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 screen.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bajasur:
Lol...

I literally just plugged my phone in 15 times and on the 16th it connected to Odin.... Trying now
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
Best of luck to you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bajasur:
This method worked! Back up and running.

Thank you for this. I can unfortunately see this happening to many others. Might be worth the OP starting a new thread or modifying the OP with specifics and instructions on this fix?

Just a thought.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Like this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=39299305
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MarcRJacobs:
Glad it worked out for you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bajasur:
Exactly like that. However that stickies OP doesn't mention the sboot.bin fail in Odin.

I discovered at least 5 threads outside of XDA where dozens of people have gotten stuck at this sboot.bin fail in Odin and had no clue what it meant or what they had done wrong.

That stickie is fantastic, it would be nice if the sboot.bin Odin was mentioned in the stickie OP or linked to this thread.

Thanks again for all your help [MENTION=4155494]kintwofan[/MENTION] you were a huge help for me yesterday as it appears you have been for many others!

:)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
I thought step 2 was pretty clear. I'll see if droidstyle will added a big bold sboot fails if you don't do this after it m
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bajasur:
Lol. It's pretty darn clear. Either way I'm just thankful you helped me out.

Thanks again
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
There you go droidstyle updated that post... and this one to be sure people know. He's the man!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=34891181
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] tclementi1:
What did he do to get the phone working exactly i dont quite understand exactly what to do??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] shangrila500:
Flash the alternative restore in Odin.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] roblikeschocolatecake:
I just tried doing so with no luck. I tried flashing the pit along with the alternative restore, when ODIN makes the phone reboot, it displays the verizon software error message. Then it reboots again and displays it again, yet ODIN says it has passed.

In download mode I see this:

ODIN MODE

PRODUCT NAME: SCH-I605

CURRENT BINARY: Custom

SYSTEM STAUS: Custom

RP SWREV: A3

Downloading...

Do not turn off target!!

Any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] trevor4:
same as person above..

I have used VRALJB, VRAMC3, and Root66 with success in Odin, but whenever my phone reboots it shows the Galaxy Note 2 text splash screen for half a second then goes back to yellow triangle of death! I've also tried the non-alternative versions of VRALJB and VRAMC3, but Odin failed at sboot. I keep thinking for sure the next flash would cause the phone to reboot normally..but each time it's the yellow triangle of death. I've looked all over XDA, Android Central, Rootz..I'm about to give up :(