yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
It seems to me that you're best bet would be to do a full system format instead of a wipe or factory reset but you'll have to be careful with the steps you take, then after you are formatted you can flash your ROM, gapps and su.zip to get straightened out, this should clear your issues. Just make sure you have your zips to reflash after doing the format because if you don't your device won't boot because the format completely removes the OS. If that happens you MIGHT be able to boot to recovery and flash a ROM, if not then you'll have to reflash stock firmware using Fastboot on PC.

Doing your wipes and reflashing ONLY your ROM and gapps should fix you, leave the audio zip alone and don't use it. If that doesn't do it then do the format and reflash.
[General Questions and Answers] mkeyboy235:
Hello. Please forgive the total noob questions I'm about to ask! It's been such a long time since I did any sort of modding, I've got a bit lost looking for answers.

I have a Nexus 6, but I managed to smash it so I've had to send it off for repair. In the meantime, I've been using my old phone. I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300) and last night I decided to install cyanogenmod using the cyanogenmod installer, simply because I honestly couldn't remember the process I had used originally to root (as I said, it's been a long time). However, it didn't work, and now I'm left with a soft bricked phone. I've been reading for hours, and it would appear I need to flash a rom with odin to make it work again. I can get into download mode, but not recovery, so I'm looking for a rom. I'm struggling to find one, though. I just keep coming up with a lot of dead links, or sites that want me to pay, and tell me I've reached my download limit if I try to use the free option, even though I haven't (ever, in my life) downloaded anything from them! Loads of links to hotfile which of course don't work any more! If I use sammobile or similar I just get redirected to other hosting sites.

Can anyone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] nick491:
I can't seem to get USB otg to work in twrp recovery, anyone have any tips?
[General Questions and Answers] yusuf_adsas:
For i9300? I always go here http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9300

Chose the build for your region.

I always close immediately any popup ads that come out and click on download link again.

Make sure you gave a good and stable internet connection.

Sent from my handphone, not yours
[General Questions and Answers] varunwahi10:
Guys when i wipe /system , will any of my personal data also get wiped? No right? I had installed some mod previously so i want to clear all that out of the system before flashing a new rom.
[General Questions and Answers] Sami Kabir:
Yes. Cleaning /system partition

should

only remove all the files on your /system partition. Your personal data should remain untouched even after installing a new ROM because no change is done in the /data partition.

I always recommend to keep a backup anyway because in case something unexpected happens, you can always restore that backup :)
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You can save your personal like contacts, pics, user apps that you've downloaded, music and things like that with Titanium Backup then you're clear to wipe and install your ROM then you can restore the stuff you saved with Titanium Backup.
[General Questions and Answers] manav113:
I have cm11 and its pretty good but the problem is that the rom is not able to mount internal sd card...PLUS i too have problems with sensors and ghost touches,thats the reason why i want to go to stock...
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
"Best" ROM is a matter of opinion, what are you looking for in a ROM?

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If you are having trouble understanding how to use Fastboot to flash your stock firmware from what you posted then try to find your stock firmware in a complete file that can be flashed through Fastboot all at once so that you don't have to do it with such a complicated method, someone posted a question about using Phoenix USB Pro to flash their stock firmware, it requires finding your stock firmware in .img format so that it can be flashed through it, I posted a link to instructions for how to use Phoenix, see if you can find your firmware in .img format then follow those instructions to flash it, it might work for you.
[General Questions and Answers] sohel akhtar:
I'm using ultimate galaxy v4 ROM but gallery is not showing pics n videos after installation kindly suggest in matter
[General Questions and Answers] abhilash rcb:
Good battery backup,performance,ram and also image quality (camera tweeks)
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
ROMs don't change how much RAM you have, that's decided by your chipset. If you want a working camera then don't try porting a lollipop ROM because most devices are having serious camera issues, even the devices that get camera working don't have it working well, even with third party camera apps. Also CM12 seems to require a SIM card to work so if you don't have a SIM or a SIM slot you won't be able to use a lollipop ROM, kit kat will be what you need, CM has good kitkat ROMs but they don't have a lot of features, CM and CM based ROMs such as beanstalk, liquidsmooth, and a few other CM based ROMs have good battery life, as for performance that's a kernel thing, so you may have to modify a kernel yourself if you want overclock or use kernel tweaks, I still say that its really a matter of personal opinion when it comes to which one to use, why don't you look up a few ROMs and read what features they have, you'll be able to make the decision for yourself that way.
[General Questions and Answers] josephiskandar:
Have you restored your Titanium Backup?
[General Questions and Answers] sohel akhtar:
I having any titanium back installed in my mobile..... Does it has something to do with this rom
[General Questions and Answers] josephiskandar:
When switching to a different rom, you should perform a clean install, therefore the factory reset will wipe /data.

When installing a rom update, you don't need to perform a clean install, but neither do you need to wipe /system as the rom update will overwrite it.

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Read the commentaries in both ROMs discussion threads and Q&A threads, you'll learn most of the possible issues in both and will have a better idea of the one you want to flash. Or, just try both and make your own opinion.

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You can download it from Play Store.

I am reformulating, have you done a backup before installing your new rom? Have you performed a clean install?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
This doesn't help this user with the issue they are having, it will help them do things right in the future but it does nothing for their current issue.
[General Questions and Answers] josephiskandar:
I am actually trying to understand what he has done, which isn’t clear yet.

If he did a clean install without previously backing up, then his data partition has been wiped.

If he did a dirty install without previously backing up, then his data partition hasn’t been wiped, and he should be able to access his files in his new rom by performing a clean install.

If he actually did a backup of user apps and data and/or a Nandroid backup and performed a clean install, then he may not be aware of how to restore his backup once his rom installed.
[General Questions and Answers] sohel akhtar:
Now what to do
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
If you don't know what titanium backup is then his reply won't help you. Titanium Backup is an app that is used to make a backup of all of your personal files such as photos, videos, downloaded files, user apps that you've downloaded and installed, anything you personally added that wasn't already on your device. In the future use this app to save everything you added then before you install a new ROM you have to do the factory reset, wipe cache and dalvik cache then install the ROM. If you did the wipes without saving your photos and videos before you installed your ROM then you probably wiped out your photos and videos in the process, if that's the case that stuff is gone unless you can use some kind of data recovery app or program on PC. If you DIDN'T do the wipes before installing your new ROM then you may be having a problem because of that, data from a previous ROM doesn't mix very well with a different ROM. Boot to recovery now and perform a factory reset, wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache then reboot back to system and your pics and videos might show in gallery if your problem was from not doing the wipes. If they don't show now then you probably wiped them out by mistake and they are gone.

Take some new photos and videos and see if they show in gallery. If they don't show then there is a problem with your gallery app or the ROM itself.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yes, I know. My point is what you just posted is what you should have posted to him to begin with. It was obvious from his first post that he didn't do a backup so your first reply was a moot point.
[General Questions and Answers] josephiskandar:
It wasn’t obvious to me, but I agree that my answer was maybe not the quickest way to find out, I still need some practice :)
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Its OK, I'm still learning myself, you were trying to help and that's what matters
[General Questions and Answers] bigbabo:
Its your kernel change the kernel and it will stop and what recovery are you using i dont have that option clean to instal new rom i have all wipes in one place and factory reset separate

IF I HELPED YOU HIT THANKS OR I WILL FIND YOU AND MAKE YOU PRESS IT ?
[General Questions and Answers] Shawn R:
I did all of that correctly. I think the problem is Window 8.1. I will try XP and post back.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
By the way, most modern recoveries don't wipe data/media but formatting does. How he is having this issue I don't know unless he did the format instead of wiping, or its a bug in the ROM he used.
[General Questions and Answers] aliazlan:
Root-un-root-Stuck at Boot Loop

I am in a very precarious position I rooted my phone via an application called root genius, It worked fine for a few days but now the phone is stuck in Boot-loop and will only go in recovery. my phone comes with a fixed battery so I can't take that out as some people have suggested in other forums So i figured out that I need to flash a custom firmware but that fails because my phone is rooted and does not support an OTA update because it's rooted :( Plz someone help me unroot my phone I can only go in recovery menu.

Thanks in advance to people who show concern :'(

My phone is Huawei Ascend G-630-U10. Please help.
[General Questions and Answers] josephiskandar:
You mean that a factory reset doesn’t wipe data? Because I’m using TWRP and it does. Look at Tip#5 of this tutorial, and at the first paragraph of this TeamWin page.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Do you have a custom recovery installed or do you still have stock recovery? If you have stock recovery and you're trying to flash a custom ROM then you will need a custom recovery such as CWM or TWRP. Install the custom recovery then you can flash a custom ROM. Actually, after you install the custom recovery you can boot to recovery and potentially get your device straight by doing the wipes in recovery then see if it will boot without looping, if that doesn't work then download a custom ROM and matching gapps and put them on ext SD then boot to recovery and flash the ROM and gapps and you'll be straight again.

If you would rather unroot and install OTA update then try installing superSU then open it and select the unroot option and uninstall superSU. Then you can do the OTA.
[General Questions and Answers] aliazlan:
Thanks for replying I have Stock recovery and I am going nowhere with it How to flash a custom recovery if i want to and how to do the OTA update I have the firmware and all but it won't update as it says it can't be done because of root. I would do the Super Su thing if only i was not stuck at boot-loop
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yes, it wipes data but it doesn't wipe ALL data, it leaves the data/media partition alone. Remember that not all devices have an ext SD slot, if data media were wiped then any nandroid backups that users with these devices have would be wiped and they would lose their backups, the nandroids on these devices are stored in data/media partition as well as pics, videos and certain music files depending on what they used to download the music are stored in the data/media partition also. Try it and see, take some pics and leave them in your internal then boot to recovery and do the wipes then reboot and see if your pics are still there. Also make a nandroid to internal and you'll see that it is still there also.

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The updater script in the firmware won't let you flash, the script can be edited, its not complicated but it isn't exactly simple either, look up how to edit your script then it may flash. Or you can do a Google search for "how to install custom recovery on (your device model)", then install it if you can then you can try the wipes first and see if it works or you can download and flash custom ROM and gapps and you'll be good again.
[General Questions and Answers] aliazlan:
Thanks for all your help means a lot to me but, I think no custom recovery is available for my model for now and even if i get custom recovery don't i need to get rid of this boot loop first in order to flash it? And i don't think their are custom roms available for my model either There is one Lollipop rom but it won't download it's on some website with surveys and credit cards. Probably fake.
[General Questions and Answers] josephiskandar:
Thanks! I actually had not realized that. You’re right, I flashed my custom rom with a clean install, and still had my photos and videos whereas I had just restored my Titanium user apps and data Backup which doesn’t include it.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I know that some huaweii devices don't have a "download mode" or whatever they call it on for huaweii. Does your device have this mode? I looked into modding my nephews huaweii and it didn't have a download mode but could be flashed by booting the device over and over until it gets "stuck" during bootup, its a glitch and its hard to get the devices to do it but if you are successful in getting it to glitch like that it gets hung just before boot, this glitch is like an open door that makes the system vulnerable to writing data on the device which allows you to flash it. I'm not sure how you would do it with yours though. Look into how to reflash your device with its original stock firmware using Fastboot software on your PC. Look into how this is done with your device if it can be done on yours.

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Here, try this with your stock firmware, if it doesn't work then see if you can find how use SP flash tool to restore your stock ROM from the state you are in.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1011527
[General Questions and Answers] aliazlan:
It has an option to update firmware and an option to apply update from SD card. 2 separate options to update from if that's any help. And what about ADB is that any help?
[General Questions and Answers] sohel akhtar:
Actually I had factory reset wipe cache dalvik n installed ROM ....some time it displayed my old contents n when I reboot my phone its gone....new photo which I take are displaying now...again these new photos gone when I restarts my phone ....pls note that the photos are still in my ext.SD card

Thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Adb won't help with flashing, that's done with fastboot.
[General Questions and Answers] sohel akhtar:
I'm using ultimate galaxy v4 rom
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
OK if you're saying that the photos on ext SD aren't showing then go to system settings>storage and unmount your ext SD then remount it and see what happens.

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Use the link I gave you, it restores stock firmware and stock recovery, follow it step for step and it should work for you.
[General Questions and Answers] sohel akhtar:
Nothing happened same problem bro
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Your issue isn't making any sense, I don't think you are giving me the info I need to give you a proper answer. Go back to stock or try another ROM and be done with it.

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You are leaving something out in your description that you've done. You've done something that you don't realize you did and if you can't tell me what that is I can't help you.

Boot to recovery then find the system format options and format your system and data partitions then reflash ONLY your ROM and gapps and don't flash anything else, no kernels, not your audio zip, just the ROM and gapps, that should absolutely fix your issue, if it doesn't then its a bug in your ROM and you need to use a different one. I'm not saying do the factory reset and wipes I'm saying do the format options, just make sure you have everything on ext SD before you format so you can reflash. Look through all your options in recovery until you find the format options.
[General Questions and Answers] srickardsson:
Kernel problem

I have a Note 4 910f eur version with cm12 custom rom lollipop 5.0.2. When i try to flash any of the avalible kernels for my note 4 version i always get boot loop on the samsung logo. (I do wipe dalvik and cache before flashing) My question is, what is wrong and how i can fix this?? The main reason i want to install a custom kernel is overclocking.
[General Questions and Answers] LS.xD:
May I ask which kernel you tried to flash? Your phone is available with different chipsets, so the kernel must be compatible with CM12 and your cpu. And I'm really curious what you wanna do with your phone that you need to overclock the 4x 2,7GHz :P
[General Questions and Answers] joykiller44:
Help please

ok so i am new to the whole rooting thing, and i am trying to find a rooting software that i can use without a computer. i have been searching for a rooter for my samsung galaxy tab 3.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
That's not enough info, what is your tabs model number? Your method depends on which model you have.
[General Questions and Answers] joykiller44:
i just checked and my model number is SM-T210R
[General Questions and Answers] James L:
LGL41C Tot and dll needed

LGL41C Tot and dll needed. Anyone that can help, please do. Thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] srickardsson:
I havet tried the note 4 AEL kernel and the Nadia kernel several times, and the reason i want to overclock it is for benchmarks to compare with friends, hahah ;P
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Here ya go

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2681110&page=2

Sorry, I meant to link you to the first page in that thread, just go to the first page and follow what it says
[General Questions and Answers] LS.xD:
That are "TW" = TouchWiz kernels. They only run on stock or modded stock firmware and are not compatible with Cyanogenmod.
[General Questions and Answers] srickardsson:
Okay! Do you know of any other kernel that might be able with cm12 on my note 4??

Thank you for your help btw!!
[General Questions and Answers] LS.xD:
I'm not informed about such a kernel. Best chance to get further information you have HERE
[General Questions and Answers] dennisdenny:
Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding my JiaYu G4. While trying to fix the GPS antenna, I broke the power flex cable (Google Jiayu G4 Power button if you don't know what I mean, sorry can't post links yet), so I can't turn on my phone anymore. Support is non-existent where I live, and ordering a new one would take about 6 weeks.

All I have to do is turn on my phone once, and then I think I could change settings so that I can still use my phone while the new part arrives. However, turning it on this one single time is still a problem. Does any of you have a suggestion on how I can turn on my phone? I've tried connecting it to a PC, but instead of turning the phone on, it'll show a charging screen, from which I can't do anything :(

Any help would be much appreciated, and thanks in advance,

Dennis
[General Questions and Answers] :
Are there any other buttons on the device?
[General Questions and Answers] Ryan Jamal:
hi there, can i flash this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2360670 with stock recovery :confused:

Because i have lenovo A7 3300 Which no custom recovery for it.
[General Questions and Answers] gorillaz28:
You should be able to flash it with the stock recovery. But if you want to be sure, familiarize yourself with the stock recovery first.
[General Questions and Answers] NewportShortie:
Hello everyone, I'm a noobie here but I know fairly a lot about android, and flashing Roms, all that good stuff. I need some help with my "Hisense Sero 7 Lite". I bricked it a couple days ago and I tried flashing CWM through stock recovery to get a stock ROM CWM flash, but now I can't even get into recovery. When I hold down the buttons it just restarts the tablet. I messed it up and I need a way out. Does anyone have any advice to get this unbricked? Please and thank you.

Sent from my SPH-L720T
[General Questions and Answers] coolion:
Does he answer pm? He is not replying me for days
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
As I said to begin with he does a lot of things for a lot of devices so he's busy all the time and might not answer at all, he has bigger things to do than figure something out for a single user.
[General Questions and Answers] intenseevil:
any general settings in ROMs or Xposed settings which changes H/H+/3G switching?

I play MOBA games on PC through tethering. It used to work fine but recently I see constant switching between H/H+/3G which causes instant disconnection in games. I googled and found that phones might do this when idle to save battery. I never had this problem before and I think my regular tinkering with ROM and Xposed settings have caused this. How to fix? I have XBlast and Gravity box mainly and might have changed build.prop tweaks like optimize tcp, uncap 3g speed etc. Please Help
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
I have issue with tasker on my Xperia ZR running Resurrection Remix 5.3.7.

Nothing actually works.I've tried Secure Settings with tasker to automate aeroplane mode.It doesn't work.Tasker says mode active but no change in aeroplane mode.I've enabled Tasker and Secure Settings as device administrators.

And other profile doesn't work too.

This is a log inside tasker.It shows everything excecuted.But nothing actually happens
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You didn't disable wakelocks did you? If you have a kernel tweaker where you did the tweaks then you should have something there that keeps WiFi from sleeping, if not then look in your battery saver settings and see if there is a setting for this you didn't say what phone you have or what ROM you are running so I don't know what settings you have so I don't know where in your settings to look or if you even have settings for this.

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Could it be your kernel not allowing it to work?
[General Questions and Answers] :
He should answer you, but just make sure that your message was kind. Sometimes people may not visit the site for a while so he may not know about your message yet, so just give him time.
[General Questions and Answers] dennisdenny:
Thanks for your reply, the only two other physical buttons are the two volume buttons.