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[General Questions and Answers] jpgracey:
Rooted SM-T810

I am running stock 6.0.1 on a rooted Samsung S2 9.7,SM-T810. So the OTA's aren't running. How would I update to Nougat manually? Any suggestions or directions are greatly appreciated!
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
By flashing a copy of the updated firmware for your model number and region via Odin. If the firmware is available this is the method I would prefer.

Or you can unroot the device and then try the update, you'd also need stock recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] MigoMujahid:
Obviously no one can help you, i tried Google and couldn't find anything, then how do you expect to get a stock ROM that doesn't exist?!

You should give it to an Alcatel service center near you, maybe they can fix it for you, you should also keep searching the internet, you might find something..
[General Questions and Answers] jpgracey:
Thank you

Thank you for the fast response! Although I have seen Nougat versions for other countries I haven't seen one US specific. Are there functional differences in the various country specific versions? I have only ever used custom roms on previously rooted devices so I'm kind of ignorant on the stock country roms.
[General Questions and Answers] shhnedo:
According to gsmarena, your specific device does not have an official 7.x update. You're currently running the latest official firmware. If you want nougat - custom roms.

I forgot to actually check sammobile(dumb me), you do have official 7.0 firmware, but not one for the US.

As far as I'm aware, different countries/carriers have different bloatware. I'm not aware if the bands are affected by the rom(maybe they are).

If you're willing to test for yourself, it would be best to research working root methods for your device while running Nougat, then manually flash the latest firmware, then root the device.

If I were you, I'd go the custom rom route.
[General Questions and Answers] jpgracey:
Thank you

Once again, thank you! I have been reading up on custom roms out for my device. Now I just need to pin one down and give it a shot.
[General Questions and Answers] sameer22:
Mi Note 4, is not accepting the phone password and since the phone was restarted, it's not accepting the finger print either. Suggestions as to how I unlock the device.
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
You have TWRP?

Boot to recovery and go to Advanced > FileManager , navigate to /data/system , and delete all of the locksettings.* files (such as locksettings.db)

This works on the HTC 10, so I'm assuming that this might work for the Mi Note 4 as well.
[General Questions and Answers] PhotonRez:
Can CSC changes be detected in a service?

Do CSC changes affect performance in any way?
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
CSC? Correction Services of Canada? Are you in some kind of trouble?

But seriously, no idea what CSC is (unless you are having trouble getting cell service in a Canadian prison)

EDIT: Customer Service Code. A Samsung thing. I had to Google it. No idea myself, sorry.
[General Questions and Answers] PhotonRez:
Ahaha nope. CSC stands for Consumer Software Customization and it's something specific to Samsung firmware. All legit, I promise xD
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I think not.

It should have nothing to do with performance.

The part of Samsung firmware that effects performance should be in the AP part, the part that contains your system.img and kernel.

Network optimizations are effected by the Modem.

What you can flash is effected by BL.

CSC is an identifier for your device, the country it was released in and the firmware that the device is supposed to have and few other things that I don't know the details of.

And yes, a service center that knows what they're doing would be able to tell if your device is using a different firmware than what it is supposed to have. Whether they care or if Samsung cares is a different story.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Please edit your post above to remove all the duplicate posts and leave only one post.

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I don't know where to even begin to answer your question with a "how to" but I can tell you that there are gonna be some things that you'll have to setup along the way that will almost certainly require root access, so I suggest you start there.

I also suggest that you install a custom recovery so that you can make a full nandroid backup before you go about making the modifications that you'll need, this way if you get messed up you can just restore the backup and start over. As you start getting things set up and each step you take works as it should, make another backup at that point then ignore your previous backup but keep it for safe keeping just in case, then just keep making backups with each successful step, ignoring or deleting the previous one. Keep the first backup and the current successful step, no need to keep the ones in between along the way.

And a word of advice, the thing you are trying to do is pretty obscure, meaning that not many people have a need to do so. With that being said, this means you will have a hard time finding any kind of discussions about it, you can EXPECT the run around you are getting in your search because of the subject you have chosen. So cool your jets and start small, start simple, search for the first step to start the journey and not the final step that ends the journey.
[General Questions and Answers] 1scotch469:
Thanks Droidriven

I get what you are saying. I should root. I'm hesitant.

I have to ask.. how obscure can it be? Every app out there that wants to keep the standard look and feel of the device it is on will use the Android providers like MediaManager. Those Android providers like MediaManager return URIs like I detailed in my post. So surely to be able to use those URIs must not be a big ask. Surely every developer everywhere has a method to use the URIs locally on the device the URIs originated from..... No??

Why would I need root access to use a URI output from an app that does not have root access? I must be missing something.

The app that generates the spreadsheet I mentioned in my post does not have root access. It uses the media manager to either take a photo or select one. And uses the provided URI to access the content. When I export from that app it generates the spreadsheet. I can completely uninstall that app and it's data and reinstall it, then import the same spreadsheet, and everything works. No root. And the URIs (imported from the spreadsheet) still allows the app to access the images. (My understanding is that is because the URI doesn't change and will always reference that local file on my device - big paraphrase but that's the just).

So.... There must be a way to take the URI and use it...

For now that is all I want to do. Use the URI to upload the image the URI references. So use the URI in an API... I guess

I have Tasker and AutoApps and autoweb with drive api and sheets api and so forth. And I have used them to automate other google sheet manipulation and other drive uploads (like auto uploading %Foto and sharing it and returning the URL).

It is the URI bit that has me stymied.

I have tried just inputting the URI as "file to upload" but that didn't work for reasons that are not obvious to me. I have tried a number of other things,including python scripts that should "extract the path and filename from the URI" but the script was for KitKat and doesn't work with my marshmallow.... without a deeper knowledge of the Android system, I'm at my capacity, I have no other ideas, and information on URIs use outside of python and Java is hard to come by.

Surely now that URIs are the standard output of Android​Providers there must be a way to leverage it

Thanks again
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I'm just saying that to automate you'll probably have to create some scripts of some kind and Tasker is much more usable with root.

I'm not familiar with nor do I understand exactly what you're trying to do but I know android well enough to know that when you're trying to do something that is not exactly setup to do already, it requires root to make the mods or developing your app that works without root. If you want it and it doesn't already exist then it probably requires root for you make it the way you want.

You're wanting it to do "this" at "this" time and then do "that" at "that" time and then take "that" and put it "here" and do "this" with it then do "that".

I'm just saying that for you to control all of that automatically is probably gonna take root. It's not the "thing" you're trying to do that requires root, it's the "way" you'll have to do it.
[General Questions and Answers] l0rd_vader:
I'm Using Resurrection Remix 5.8.3 on Redmi note 3(Kenzo), rooted with MagiskSU and Magisk Manager, My Play store app displaying my status "Uncertified", So how can I Certify my device? Is there any solution for this. Somewhere I heard that it is solved by Magisk hide or anything like that..

Please help me, Thanx in Advance..?
[General Questions and Answers] kos25k:
hello.I need please help.I have a serious problem.sometimes when people call me,they say me that they hear normally the calling tone but my phone doesnt ring,doesnt open screen doesn't produce a missed call notif. nothing!like the csll never happened!what can be the cause?my device is moto x play 6.0.1.hiw can I refine if is network or mobile bug??thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] bigbabo:
Have you tryed factory reset?
[General Questions and Answers] kos25k:
yes.nothing changed.I am stock rooted.this is very ridiculous.I tryied just now my phone wasnt ringing but when I manually iowned screen it started ringing!
[General Questions and Answers] Amaan007:
Hello my Google apps stopped working randomly I tried clear cache and data and rebooted several times
[General Questions and Answers] l0rd_vader:
Do u use Battery Saver Or apps like Greenify?

Is yes the try turning off them..
[General Questions and Answers] kos25k:
nothing dude.very weird.I have root call blocker.but is turned off..it is very important bug and I need really help.
[General Questions and Answers] l0rd_vader:
Is it happened on every sim or just on your sim?

I mean check if the call forwarding or anything like that is on, and contact your network provider and ask for settings..
[General Questions and Answers] kos25k:
thanks dude.I have the same sim.but this doesnt happen always..so I dont think is call forwarding..
[General Questions and Answers] DeadXperiance:
We some user of Legacy Xperia CM 13 or CM 14 have also this problem as you said. . It is problem of deep sleep. The phone goes in deep sleep so doesn't wake up when someone is calling,but he hear calling tone.

You can see our discuss (chelsie and mine) on it may be help you. https://xdaforums.com/xperia-arc/development/dev-2011-unofficial-cyanogenmod-13-0-t3323975/page222
[General Questions and Answers] 007trains:
Issue with touch sensitivity

I'm having an intermittent issue with phantom touches. Sometimes when i touch the screen i get random touches above and below where i am touching.

I can use my phone fine for a while but periodically it gets really bad and at one point i wasn't even touching the screen while it was happening.

I enabled show touches and noticed the random touches are always vertically aligned where i am touching

I've tried increasing touch.size.scale and touch.size.pressure in build.prop but hasn't solved problem

Tried cleaning screen which sometimes helps

I've attached a screenshot i took showing phantom touches

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active running RR 5.8.2
[General Questions and Answers] MigoMujahid:
It's probably due to having a custom ROM which isn't officially made by the device manufacturer, i have that too, and any user who runs custom ROM should find it like that, nothing serious :)

Check the Screenshot..
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
Recently a Magisk Module was made (but only for the OP2) including a patch that makes Playstore "certified" again, either find someone who can port this to your device or find someone who is willing to include the corresponding commit to the rom you're using, I can confirm that it works..

See this thread for reference:

https://xdaforums.com/oneplus-2/help/module-fix-google-play-certification-t3602629
[General Questions and Answers] kos25k:
thanks dude,I now give it a try!today I tested.I called myself from another phone.it was call beeping about 4 times and my phone was dead!I then manually ioened the screen and it then started ringing!I hope this is the problem and not a hardware issue dude..

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edit:I went through battery settings and I disabled from doze,... telephone,contacts and some apps regarding this.if anyone knows what else to disable that regards this,please tell me!

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edit:I went through battery settings and I disabled from doze,... telephone,contacts and some apps regarding this.if anyone knows what else to disable that regards this,please tell me!

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edit:I went through battery settings and I disabled from doze,... telephone,contacts and some apps regarding this.if anyone knows what else to disable that regards this,please tell me!
[General Questions and Answers] lakija:
Hi to all

I have lg l fino d290 hardbricked....I have installed twrp and lineage os 14.1. First my wifi and bluetoth stoped working so i assumed thats a hardware problem ,but sometimes wifi turns on and working normaly couple of days and after phone is restarted i have same problem again. Then i wanted to do hard reset but phone stuck when i try to enter twrp recovery, so i did factory reset from system and now phone wont boot just stuck at lg logo. I cant enter recovery and phone is stuck at download mode. And finaly when i connect phone with usb on PC nothing happens....somethimes i hear a sound that something is connected and then disconnected. There is nothing on device manager...

Probably is dead but...hope dies last.
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
This might be a good read then :)

https://xdaforums.com/d290n/how-to/guide-how-to-unbrick-lg-l-fino-qualcomm-t3495192

But read carefully and recheck if specs & phone model match, good luck ?
[General Questions and Answers] lakija:
No luck

I cant select port to flash because my phone yust connect and then disconnect

This is device manager
[General Questions and Answers] phonetech101:
Hi just want to no will stopping these wakelocks break phone *launch* *dexopt* and *alarm*. Don't care if apps don't update or push notifications stop, what happens if I block these?
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
I just came to know that magisk can help to get your Playstore "certified", just go to magisk manager, settings, magisk hide and choose plays, then clear data and reopen, Playstore status should now be "certified", so no specific commit or magisk module necessary.. Simple thing and I can confirm that it worked for me
[General Questions and Answers] UziDerulo77:
Samsung Galaxy S6 Phone Boot Issue

Hi,

I'm new to XDA developers and pretty much a noob in Android related stuff, I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 with TWRP installed. Last week it went into a bootloop or something and wouldn't go past the "Samsung" screen. I wiped the caches but it didn't work, did a Factory reset but no good either, then used ODIN to install a Custom ROM in it but ODIN gave errors and that didn't work either. Basically, there was an error displayed in TWRP "No OS Installed. Are you sure you want to reboot?" I tried solving this following a Youtube tutorial. The guy flashed a Cyanogenmod in his phone using TWRP, I tried doing the same but TWRP gave an error " could not find meta-inf/com/google/android/update-binary in the ZIP file" . I extracted that file on my PC and it had only an md5 file in it"

Well I've been searching the internet a lot but haven't been able to find any S6 (920-F) Custom ROM which has a ZIP file that contains The META-INF folder (I'm not sure what it does) but I'll be really grateful if someone sends me a download link for it.

Or if there's some other solution for a problem then please help me out.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
You downloaded the wrong file (the one with the md5), and that's why it wouldn't flash.

Go to XDA's Samsung Galaxy S6 subsection, and you'll find Stock ROMs, custom ROMs, as well as places you can ask questions. You'll get better guidance there.

Good luck!
[General Questions and Answers] cwhiatt:
What variant of the Galaxy S6? (Who's your provider?)
[General Questions and Answers] jdnels:
Missing Sent Text Messages

I have posted this somewhere else but it is not getting answered. Since you were talking about changing messaging apps, this seems like a good place to try again. No matter what I do, I cannot get previously sent SMS to show up in third party texting apps. I have tried 5 with the same result. Only the stock app shows the sent messages. Samsung S6 with 7.0 as of 5/9/17, but the problem existed on 6.0 as well. Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] cwhiatt:
Generally they wouldn't necessarily just magically "show" up. They'd have to be exported and then imported.

Try using the SMS backup and restore app in the Google Playstore. Once you download it and run an export then go into your third party messaging app and see if it has an import option. Import the file and see if that helps.
[General Questions and Answers] jdnels:
But they have magically shown up on previous devices. Like I said, the incoming messages are there. Isn't is just odd that the sent ones do not display? I have tried several backup/export/import options. I am stumped. I do not like the stock messaging app, but I have no alternate with this bug. I need the sent histories.
[General Questions and Answers] jdnels:
I am going to add some more puzzling information. I have been playing around with more backup apps. When I actually look at the backup files, the sent messages are not in the backups. But if I delete all the messages in the stock app and say Chomp, then restore from the a backup, the sent messages do appear in the stock app. It's like the sent messages are invisible to any app other than the stock app. I'm lost.
[General Questions and Answers] cwhiatt:
I don't know what to tell you. I have a S6 (Tmobile variant). I use Signal as my text app (and SMS backup and restore when/if I need to re-flash ROM) and have never had any problems restoring my messages.
[General Questions and Answers] jdnels:
Yeah, I don't know. I contacted Samsung, which was a waste of time. I did some more experimenting and it looks like I do have some sent messages. Apparently, if they are older than December 2016, they backup and show up in third party apps. But anything from January to current, is only accessible/visible in the stock app. I assume there was a software update in December of 2016 that broke this for me. SMS backup and restore doesn't even grab the messages from January to current.
[General Questions and Answers] UziDerulo77:
SM 920F

I'm not sure what you're asking :P
[General Questions and Answers] cwhiatt:
If you are still having problems and getting a message that there is no OS installed then you will need to use Odin to flash the original firmware for your specific variant.

https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s6/SM-G920F/

Once you are back up and running on the original firmware you can then go through the root and installing TWRP process. After you complete that you can then try installing a custom rom but be sure it is compatible with your specific variant of the Galaxy S6.
[General Questions and Answers] UziDerulo77:
Thankyou so much for the link. One last question though ? My phone is already rooted like 7 months ago. Does that make a difference ??? Also, like I mentioned earlier, I tried flashing a ROM using ODIN but that gave errors and didnt work for me so my last option is TWRP. I ll try it out when I get home and let you know if it worked. Thanks a lot bro !
[General Questions and Answers] cwhiatt:
If you have TWRP installed then TWRP is what you would use to flash a custom rom (usually a zip file) that ought to be saved to your device. If you have the custom rom saved to your phone then you could try to boot into TWRP and install the zip file and see if it boots up.

If you do not have the custom rom zip file saved to your phone then you can try to get it moved over to your phone so that you may then flash it using TWRP.

If you cannot get the custom rom copied over to your phone then you will need to probably start over from scratch with the instructions I previously mentioned. That would include having to re-root and re-install TWRP after you flash the original firmware via Odin.
[General Questions and Answers] UziDerulo77:
Yeah I finally get the whole story now, I have TWRP Installed and I can move Stuff to the internal storage of the phone. Only problem is when I try to flash a ROM, it says "Error : could not find META-INF/blahblahblah......./update-binary in the ZIP file" which is beacuse the ZIP files I tried flashing had .md5 files in them and no such thing as the META-INF folder. I just needed a link for the ZIP file having a META-INF folder with the update-binary file instead of a ROM with .md5 file
[General Questions and Answers] deathgaze2497:
ok is there a good easy tutorial video maybe?
[General Questions and Answers] MigoMujahid:
Try this one
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
No, you still aren't getting it. When you go to find your ROMs and download them, usually there will be the ROM.zip and another md5 file, the ROM.zip is what you want, the md5 file is a separate file that is used to check the ROM.zip that you downloaded to verify that the ROM.zip is complete and not a corrupted download. The way it's supposed to work is you download the ROM.zip AND download the md5 file, store them both in the same location, then when you boot to TWRP and flash the ROM.zip it also references the MD5 file and compares it to the ROM.zip, if they don't match it won't flash the ROM.zip. The purpose of all this is basically a safety feature to make sure you aren't flashing a corrupted download, flashing incomplete files can brick your device, this prevents that.

You were trying to flash the md5 file and not the ROM.zip. Technically you don't even need the md5, you can just download the ROM.zip and flash it without the md5. I've never used the md5 files, I always just download my ROM and go.
[General Questions and Answers] cwhiatt:
You're so much better with words than I. ;)
[General Questions and Answers] ThePeerlessFennecFox:
Host Cloud on android

Hello everyone,

I thought about hosting my own little cloud or a NAS server, just for myself. Maybe with owncloud, really have no idea what is best. I do not trust Dropbox, nor is its free storage enaugh for me.

Then I rembered that I still have some old smartphones lying around, which have everything I need: Processor, RAM, Wireless port, touchscreen, microsd slot and even internal power supply in case of power blackout.

I was wondering if there is an OS for smartphones, which is specifically designed to host a cloud. Or maybe there is a way to get some kind of cloud service running on android? Google did not really give satisfying results. I would like to

I'm looking forward to your Ideas! If there already is a thread that I just did not find, please link me to it

With kind regards

the Fox
[General Questions and Answers] tys0n:
I you by "rom" mean stock rom then yes, you will most likely get a zip with a tar.md5 file in it. That's an odin file.

Other roms comes in zips with /system, meta inf, & boot.img. those are made for flashing with twrp.

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[General Questions and Answers] ThePeerlessFennecFox:
Well, uhm, or should I instead try to install linux on the phone and then use the normal owncloud app?