yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] durbshas:
Hey guys I have a question about flashing stock firmware on my Nexus 5.

A while back I wanted to flash Android M preview, so I made a backup and attempted to flash it. Something went wrong, so I ended up having to factory reset - no big deal right? Well when I tried to restore from backup on CWM, none of my backups would work (as if they were corrupt somehow) and I was stuck in a bootloop. I kept getting an error saying "archive does not contain boot.sig" After trying many things, I ended up having to manually flash the factory images in fastboot, and I got the phone back working. I decided to go with Android M.

Fast forward to yesterday, and I got bored with Android M and it's bugginess. I wanted to go back to stable (lol) 5.1.1. So i tried to just downgrade the same way you would manually update Android by using the flash-all.sh file. I took out the "-w" part so my data would not get wiped. I kept getting errors "line 17: fastboot: command not found" all the way up to line 23. I tried a workaround that had me changing everything that had "fastboot" to "./fastboot-mac" and that seemed to work, until my phone would go through the "Optimizing apps...", complete it, then reboot and start all over again.

So again I had to manually flash everything using fastboot. Everything went fine until I got to the point where I typed the command "./fastboot -w update lmy48b.zip". It went through the whole process and then I got the message

"archive does not contain boot.sig

archive does not contain recovery.sig

archive does not contain system.sig"

but as I thought it was finished here, it kept going and everything was completed, and I was back on 5.1.1.

tl;dr flashing stock images constantly gives me bootloops, requiring manual flashing of images from fastboot and a complete device wipe

So my question is, why is it that every time I want to flash a stock ROM - whether it be an update or from recovery - does it constantly fail, give me a bootloop, and require manually flashing from fastboot? Am I doing something wrong, or is my device somehow corrupt? I ask this because I want to be rooted and have custom recovery, but will also want to update to Android M official version when it comes out, but I don't want to completely wipe my device every time I do this.

Thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] ravendb:
Anyone know were to get a Android 5.x Lollipop ROM for iNew i4000s?
[General Questions and Answers] :
I'm on the nexus 6 but I owned the 5 as well. Personally, I don't bother with -w. Flash-all doesn't work at all for nexus 6 so I just flash factory images manually with fastboot. All that wiping really isn't needed.

Example:

I just unzip factory image twice so I end up with bootloader, radio, boot, system, recovery, userdata, and cache images.

Then I just fastboot flash each file individually. Starting with bootloader then radio then rebooting to bootloader before flashing everything else. If I want to keep my data in tact, I just don't flash userdata. fastboot format cache before flashing cache. If flashing userdata, I'll format that first too.
[General Questions and Answers] durbshas:
I will try this. Would I have to erase boot, cache, recovery, and system each time before I fastboot flash them? This would leave me without root and custom recovery right? I'm sure I could find a guide somewhere that explains the steps exactly how to do this.
[General Questions and Answers] :
You can, but I don't. Yes, this would be 100% stock and ota capable. From here, I would just boot to android and make sure it boots OK. Then I'd boot right back to bootloader, flash TWRP recovery then boot to recovery and flash superSU. Then I'd be stock rooted. :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
Will f4k's kernel work with resurrection remix v5.5.0?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
No erase needed, when you fastboot flash it formats and overwrites the partition you're flashing to, similar to reinstalling windows on PC.
[General Questions and Answers] XxsythonxX:
No absolutely not, i highly doubt that its my pc to be honest, but i found out that you just have to reset the phone a couple of times, thx anyway :D
[General Questions and Answers] durbshas:
Hey guys, back again about my Nexus 5. I was using Snapchat and it gave me the error where the camera will not open, and you have to reboot. So I did, and after the boot animation my device said "Android is starting apps..." as if it were finishing an update. Should I be worried about it doing this, or is that the normal boot up for 5.1.1?
[General Questions and Answers] :
There is a dedicated section for the N5,

http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5

:good:
[General Questions and Answers] yakimiko05:
ACER liquid Z520

::confused: HI CAN YOU HELP ME ABOUT MY DEVICE? I CANT FIND A CLOCKWORKMOD COMPATIBLE FOR MY PHONE.... ANY ONE CAN BUILD CLOCKWORKMOD FOR me ACER Z520 pls help....
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
http://cwm-twrp-android.org/download/acer-liquid-z520.html
[General Questions and Answers] Faisal Z Ahmad:
So i want to unlock bootloader on my Sony z2 i have some questions

1-which is better to unlock from sony website or using flashtool?

2-is there anu HIGH RISKS?

3-i know all data will be wiped just a silly question,i have xposed install (lollipop) flashed it and a sound mod i flashed will also be gone?

I hope a proper answer
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
1)Get the Unlock Code from the Sony Website and Unlock using Flashtool.

2)You'll lose your DRM functions.Backup the TA Partion using TA Backup Tool before unlocking.so that when you relock the bootloader,you can restore the TA Backup.

3)Everything including the Internal SD Card will be wiped.So take a backup before proceeding.

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Faisal Z Ahmad:
So also i have to reflash xposed lollipop and sond mod after unlocking?
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
Yes!

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
How is Xposed for lollipop?

Sent from my GT-I9195
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
Still alpha!

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Faisal Z Ahmad:
HELP!

After i enabled init.d from:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1933849

I cant access my recovery please Help!
[General Questions and Answers] Faisal Z Ahmad:
Please someone reply i dont want to do anything so the the problem gets bigger

Should i reinstall TWRP recovery?
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
Yes try to reinstall twrp

Sent from my GT-I9195
[General Questions and Answers] brodev:
Cubot X6

I have just got a Cubot X6 and I would like to know how to get what is on my screen to mirror on to TV. As I understand the X6 doesn't support MHL so can anyone tell me if it is possible to do what I want and if so, how to do it? Thanks.

First post and I am 75 so please be gentle :)
[General Questions and Answers] Abhishek B:
I flashed aceroms build cm 11 hover halo feachered rom but when i want to go back to my stok rom or my mobile original rom then the odin says falls what to do

i asked at aceroms thread but ther is no replay please help
[General Questions and Answers] :
I have some news : when I go to safe mode, there are not longer reboots. So I think it is not error from twrp or the sd fix. What can you suggest for me please? Personally i think that it is a 3rd party app that is starting automatically causing the problem. Have i reason?
[General Questions and Answers] Hackerpunk1:
Xperia M

I have an Xperia M C1905, I was using the phone with stock 4.3 JB, with locked bootloader, rooted with towelroot. The device was working properly, infact it is my secondary device which I only use to take photos as it has some network problem. About a week ago, the battery died, so I left it as I wasn't using it. Then after 3 to 4 days, I plug it to charge, no LED was indicating it was charging, I left it and went away. Then after 2 hours, I came back and notice no LED. Then I did unplug it. After 2 days, I removed the battery and plug it into my universal charger, the battery was charging. But when I put into the phone. Still not powering up. I did try testpoint, does not detect. What should I do?

Thanks in advance!
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You can use the process of elimination and flash your TWRP, ROM, Gapps and SD fix, then install your other apps one at a time and wait some time between installing each app to see if you can pinpoint it.
[General Questions and Answers] :
Sorry but what is process of elimination?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
It is the process of doing a series of actions one at a time, if an action makes no changes then you know that isn't the problem then you do the next action if still no change that that isn't the issue either, and so on until you've tried all possibilities or found the solution.

In your case as I said, start over with installing TWRP, ROM, Gapps, and SD fix, then install only one of your apps that you have backed up then wait to see if the device still has the issue, if it doesn't change then install another user app that is backed up, only one of them then wait to see if it changes, if it doesn't install another only one user app and then wait to see if it changes, keep doing it like that until one of them starts the issue again, start with a completely clean install of everything one thing at a time until something happens.
[General Questions and Answers] :
Ok thank you for your precious help! I will try it tomorrow because i am tired:)

EDIT : I think i don't need to flash the rom, twrp, gapps and sd fix as when i boot to safe mode, it doesn't reboot. Do i have reason?
[General Questions and Answers] PalmCentro:
So iv'e been playing around with system/etc/hosts i wanna block ww.google.com, but what i saw that images.google.com doesn't get blocked

Is it possible to use wild cards in host blocking?
[General Questions and Answers] Hackerpunk1:
use *.google.com
[General Questions and Answers] PalmCentro:
This doesn't even block google.com
[General Questions and Answers] codenation:
The funny thing is, we can't talk about freedom on a site that promotes that for our devices ;)
[General Questions and Answers] :
I'm going to assume you are joking. ;)

The freedom to unlock the full potential of our devices is not at all the same as discussing an app that steals from developers... On a site created for development. :silly:
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
You might not know, but Freedom is an app similar to Lucky Patcher.

So,yeah.....
[General Questions and Answers] :
You get to know all the bad stuff soon enough as a Moderator

....yes, I know all about those apps. :p
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
Couple of questions, can I format usb-otg and make it usable? Also I see a resize option, does this mean I could remove say 500mb of space from system and give internal storage an extra 500mb?

Sent from my GT-I9195
[General Questions and Answers] mfmohamedbilal:
which is the best launcher?
[General Questions and Answers] heisenberg-001:
I like Nova launcher.
[General Questions and Answers] mfmohamedbilal:
:confused:

i need a different launcher for my mobile.

pls suggest me some awesome launchers......
[General Questions and Answers] xenreon:
There isn't a "best" launcher..... It completely depends on what you like
[General Questions and Answers] mfmohamedbilal:
i need a different launcher...

it shld be different from others....
[General Questions and Answers] heisenberg-001:
Just use nova and customise it the way you want it.

See the attachment. This is how mine looks like. I like it black and sinple. I can go to the drawer by pressing the small beats icon. And I use gestures for accessing phone , message, what's app etc..
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
How can i set twrp to horizontalvinstead of landscape ?

Could I flash T230 twrp for T210 or would that mean the end of the line for my tablet?
[General Questions and Answers] PalmCentro:
There should be a poll rating moderators cuz you're definitely a good one! :good:
[General Questions and Answers] tzveti:
Is there any way to control app permissions using root? I know that before you could use app ops, however now it doesn't work.
[General Questions and Answers] :
Thank you guys for all your help! I did the process of elimination and I found that the problem came from the app Dumpster. THANKS!
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Es file explorer has an add on app for managing app permissions, you can find it in the playstore.
[General Questions and Answers] gracefang:
as the thread title says ask any question so i would like to ask that how can i apply to be a moderator i read on xda about moderators application but when you follow the link it says that xda moderators forum no longer accepting responses so what should i do kindly guide me thank you
[General Questions and Answers] :
I can tell you, almost all Moderators took this step first.... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1646309

If you really want to skip that step, then here is info on becoming a forum moderator. http://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?f=263#td_post_75

In either case, read the prerequisites carefully.

:good:
[General Questions and Answers] gracefang:
thank you sir i have checked both links and i wanted to apply as a recognised contributor but i can only apply after august as only then my 1 year in xda will be complete and so i want to apply as a forum moderator it says that i need to be refereed by a current moderator if im a senior member so can you kindly check if im eligible for it and refer me thank you :o
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
How do we start a new forum for a device that is gaining in support so that the mods and ROMs for it can be gathered in one place for users of the device to more easily find, at the moment those users are having to lurk around in threads for similar models which makes all the info that is spread from here to kingdom come tricky to find. It would be helpful to those users to have a central location for the device.
[General Questions and Answers] :
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1660354
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Thanks bro
[General Questions and Answers] KinoTheMystic:
So I fell asleep, woke up, and noticed that the system ui had crashed. Rebooted my phone and the boot animation kept going and going. Pulled battery and went into recovery (4EXT Recovery). Wiped cache+dalvik. Rebooted. Same boot animation issue. Went into recovery again. Wiped cache+dalvik. Attempted to dirty flash the rom again (Villuminati CM11). It was taking an unusually long time and the last line said "installing update" or "unpacking update". Something like that. Took the risk and pulled the battery and turned it on normally. Stuck at boot animation again. Rebooted into recovery. Wiped everything except SD card. Stuck at formatting /system and /data. Rebooted into recovery again. Proceeded to wipe everything one by one. Cache and Dalvik wiped normally. Next up was /system. Stuck at formatting /system. Gave up. Came here. Please help...

HTC Evo 3D CDMA (Virgin Mobile)

ROM: Villuminati CM11

4EXT Recovery
[General Questions and Answers] :
If you can, flash stock or restore a backup. HTC, so I imagine there might be an RUU available.

Or ask here for more expert help:

http://xdaforums.com/htc-evo-3d/help
[General Questions and Answers] :
I would highly consider waiting, and going for RC honestly. :)

And being referred by a moderator means they likely know of you fairly well and to not even have a title and be referred for moderator would be a tall order. And very very rare.

Also, referring is another way of saying "vouch".

And the moderator would approach you to vouch for you.... Soliciting a referral isn't wise. :good:

Anyway, if you want to know more, you can pm me... This isn't the place for this discussion.

Cheers!
[General Questions and Answers] KinoTheMystic:
tried to restore a backup and it just got stuck...also tried flashing RUU and I dont notice any changes. I had posted a thread there as well. I really hope I can get this working again because I am stuck without a phone now
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Get into ADB/fastboot and do fastboot getvar all. Post the readout here (minus your IMEI and serial# ~ that is private info you should never share on a public forum).

With that readout, I should be able to direct you on the proper method to get out of this mess.
[General Questions and Answers] KinoTheMystic:
(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.50.5050

(bootloader) version-baseband: N/A

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main: 1.11.651.2

(bootloader) product: shooter

(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8260

(bootloader) modelid: PG8610000

(bootloader) cidnum: SPCS_002

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 3800mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: off

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

getvar:all FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

finished. total time: 0.099s
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Okay.

You could update using HTC's official RUU.

Link is here.

Scroll down to the "manual system update instructions" and read them. The RUU download is at the end of the instructions.

After you are done, re-install TWRP, then flash ViperOne's newest build.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS WILL WIPE YOUR PHONE!

Backup anything that is important to you before proceeding.
[General Questions and Answers] KinoTheMystic:
currently downloading the RUU. It doesnt matter that the page is for the HTC One M9?
[General Questions and Answers] gracefang:
Thank you sir I apreciate it :)
[General Questions and Answers] domensional:
Help a noob

Hi guys, Im here cause I screwed up lol.

Im really hoping someone can kindly help me out.

I have rooted and unlocked my phone, and used a few apps to do it. Its been a while but I think I unlocked it with an app called kingroot,

and rooted with a different app called kingoroot (slight variation in the spelling), anyways the root worked, but now I cant update my operating system, I tried to use the unroot feature on the kingoroot but every time I try to install update for android it restarts the phone and i see recovery mode with Chinese writing with the android logo in the background briefly , then phone restarts and update is not installed.. I tried doing a factory reset and when my phone goes into recovery mode its all Chinese writing.. Im too much of a noob to know what the heck is going on.. I assume the kingoroot app flashed a Chinese recovery or something? not sure of the lingo so Im sorry. Please tell me how I can fix the Chinese recovery mode and update my phone operating system. I would still like to have my phone rooted for an app I like to use after im all updated. if possible.

I am using HTC one m7 from Rogers (Canada)

Any help is greatly appreciated, keeping mind Im a technological idiot so please keep it as simple for me as you can :cyclops:
[General Questions and Answers] gracefang:
flash stock rom or flash any updated custom rom and simply change the recovery to CWM or TWRP
[General Questions and Answers] domensional:
Thanks for the help, am I looking for RUU or OTA files? Also I think I read I cant use some RUU's with s-ON , my phone is unlocked tampered and rooted but it says s is on, can you please give me some more info on what to get and where to get it? Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] gracefang:
im not a HTC user so im not having that much knowledge of RUU files or s-ON so what i recommend is that you go to htc one m7 thread here

http://xdaforums.com/htc-one and contact any dev there and tell him your problem he will surely assist you :)
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Yes it does matter. Sorry. I was helping on the M9 forums at the same time as helping you last night.

I can't find an RUU for your model. I can find one for EVO 4G LTE only.

I'll keep looking for a while. I may still be able to find one around somewhere.

My apologies.

---------- Post added at 10:19 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:56 AM ----------

From what I understand here you are still running your stock ROM. That is good. You'll need that. You also need the stock recovery and you can pull that from your OTA.

Using a file explorer, go to your download folder. The OTA should be there. Copy it to your PC and open it with 7zip. Look for the firmware.zip and unzip it. The recovery.img that you need is there.

Place the recovery.img into your fastboot folder, and hook up your phone to your PC. Get into ADB/fastboot and open cmd.

Issue the command fastboot devices you should see a bunch of numbers and letters/your serial#. That means you are connected.

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img will flash the stock recovery.

fastboot reboot to reboot your phone.

Disconnect your device. You will now be able to update using the Rogers OTA.

After you've successfully updated, don't use Kingoroot. Root manually. It's super easy.

Flash TWRP in fastboot, then use TWRP to flash SuperSU in recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
BTW, unchecking auto reboot keeps the recovery, letting the device auto reboot to system loses the recovery and the device reverts to stock recovery, I didn't think about that at the time but I remember now, its like that for Samsung. I haven't researched why it does that, I've always had to uncheck it to correctly flash and keep the recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
[MENTION=6090368]KinoTheMystic[/MENTION]

Here is the latest RUU available for your device.

It will jump you up to 2.89.651.2 firmware and Android ICS.
[General Questions and Answers] KinoTheMystic:
Does it matter that the file is the Sprint version? My phone is Virgin Mobile. I know that it's basically the same phone though
[General Questions and Answers] 93fuelslut:
How do I find out if my vs985 (lg g3 Verizon) is compatible with Android auto on my pioneeer 4100 nex ? Idk if some some roms are borked or just the hardware etc

sent from your moms phone
[General Questions and Answers] domensional:
Hey there, thank you for your reply. Im looking in the phones download folder and I dont see the OTA, there are a couple backup folders I made at some point , and some pictures from my phone :/
[General Questions and Answers] :
Check your system/cache folder. :)
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Sprint and Virgin both use this same firmware.
[General Questions and Answers] domensional:
no such folder on my devcice lol
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Ok? Cat got your tongue? Or should I say fingers.....
[General Questions and Answers] :
:):beer:

its always better to follow the method suggested in the thread. If xyz kernel needs you to go back on stock kernel you will have to. Because if there goes any error while installing kernel, you will not be able to boot into recovery, as it is stored in kernel.& you'll have to use download mode(samsung devices)

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
[General Questions and Answers] Bufff:
Thank you, I guess i won't be messing with Kernels ain't worth my time to be stuck on download mode.

BTW what is the safest way for me to get rid of yellow triangle?
[General Questions and Answers] :
Triangle away by chainfire maybe.

I have never seen the yellow triangle on my device, so a little.search might get you good results.:thumbup:

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
[General Questions and Answers] ckmahato:
How to reach the admins? One developer closed his thread and quit XDA because of somebody's hate. Check the thread below. Can't admins take care of such issues?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2025391&page=229