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[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
If you are unrooted then the su binaries should be removed. You didn't unroot correctly. I'm going to assume that you only uninstalled your root managing app(kinguser/SuperSU) instead unrooting properly.

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It doesn't backup everything, only your apps and data.

There are other switches that are used in the adb backup command to include more in the backup.

The command you used doesn't get everything.

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You probably got one or more of the commands wrong or what you used was meant for a different model of your device. If either one of those possibilities are true then your device is probably hard bricked and un-repairable.

If the device won't charge, has no LED on when plugged in, won't boot to any of its modes, no vibrate when power held, no connect to PC, not recognized by PC, doesn't show in device manager when connected to PC and gives no response of any kind then its hard bricked.

If that is the case then your only chance is a repair shop and that isn't guaranteed, or you can replace it if it is still under warranty.
[General Questions and Answers] Wildwolf7:
So what do I do now? Above is a suggestion to reflash the stock rom. Would it be helpful?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Certainly, they told you correct.

That's the simplest/easiest solution. I was just telling you why you had the issue so you don't repeat it.
[General Questions and Answers] Wildwolf7:
Ok THANK YOU very much friend!!!
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I've seen it deceptively install 3 additional apps, not just one. Are you sure you haven't missed the additional ones?

Also, were you aware that Kingroot collects data and sends it back to unknown/questionable servers in China where they do who knows what with it?

China is basically Hacker Central these days, a large majority of softwares of all kinds that comes from China have exploits buried in them to gather your information.

I would even wager that some of the cheap knock-off brands and clones of android devices coming from China also have exploits hidden in them to gather information preinstalled on them when they are bought. China is doing a lot of things to hack everyone and gather as much information as they can. Pay attention to the evidence and you'll see what I mean.
[General Questions and Answers] Wildwolf7:
Thanks! I will search for the tutorials right away!
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
You should find plenty, as I already have stated "don't use format function" it kills imei..

And if you don't mind hit the like button [emoji6]

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@droidriven

I have a short question, as you use the epic S3 4G too..

I read about backing up the esf partition and some say it's not sufficient to only backup esf, also the nvdata should be necessary..

I always thought that backing up esf via twrp is sufficient, so do I really need a special tool to backup nvdata too?

Can you please clarify?

Thx
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yes, I have a Sprint S2 Epic 4G Touch(not S3).

I have a Straight Talk(Verizon) S3.

But to answer your question, yes an efs backup is recommended because Samsung screwed something up in the modem partition that cause the IMEI to randomly get wiped when booting after flashing. This thread explains backing up IMEI/efs. It explains backing up efs via adb and via Terminal Emulator (terminal emulator actually does a NVdata backup). Its not as reliable as PC method because it doesn't always restore NVdata correctly, it works but it leaves the device in roaming at all times after that with no known or documented fix that I know of.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1852255
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
Ok, so is my efs backup via twrp sufficient? Cause I read that it's always required to do both, efs + nvdata with another tool.. And I was always the opinion that a twrp efs backup is good enough..
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
It doesn't hurt to use all methods just to cover the bases, better safe than sorry, also make a copy of your efs folder and keep a copy on PC and a copy on extsdcard.
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
Yeah, of course it's on exrSD and PC.. Im absolutely aware of this precaution and ever had handled it this way but today I first heard of backing up the nvdata separately with another tool than custom recovery.. Then started my confusion and I didn't find that exact information, the article I read said that even stock rom is required to obtain nvdata and actually I don't want to go thru the pain of restoring stock rom when not absolutely necessary..

But as much as I understand esf backup with twrp should be sufficient if worst comes to worst..
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
So are you saying that your backup is not a stock efs/NVdata backup?

I make mine on stock then flash my ROMs and keep the stock NVdata to restore.

By the way, if you do the NVdata backup in Terminal Emulator, it writes that backup to a place that stays safe through flashing and wipes(provided you don't do a full wipe of the entire device or reflash stock firmware).

And remember that if you ever do the NVrestore via Terminal Emulator, it restores from where it was saved and then the backup is gone, you'll have to create another backup at that point if you want to keep it backed up.

If you have a stock nandroid you can restore it then make the NVdata backup then go back to whatever ROM you're on. It is always best to make all necessary backups with stock because it is what you know is guaranteed to work with your device where the custom may run perfectly flawless on a device, it may however not backup and restore as properly as stock would.

Note that this is only recommended for qcom and not exynos.
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
Well, there you mentioned one important point, I have i9305 with exynos 4...

And I have efs made under stock conditions and one under resurrection remix.. So both is present [emoji4]

When you talk about efs is Nvdata included?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yes, technically efs backup and NVdata backup are the same thing, just done a different way and they both do not contain exactly the same thing but they both have what is important.

Just one of those things that has different ways to do the same thing.

PC versions of backing up are better than a backup made on the device itself.
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
[emoji4] thanks, very much! That was the answer I was looking for!
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention.

Some of the Exynos devices have all Exynos chips but have a qcom modem, these can do a NVdata backup via terminal emulator safely.

Use an app like Samsung phone info to see if your Exynos has a qcom modem.
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
View attachment 3835933

Guess that's not Qcom modem..
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
No, that's qcom

http://www.techinsights.com/reports-and-subscriptions/device-library/Device-Profile/?SINumber=32828
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
Oh, damn.. You're right, guessing is messing [emoji85]
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I know my Sammys[emoji6]
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
A ONE HUNDRED ? Percent! [emoji123]
[General Questions and Answers] HΞAT65534vr:
Hi, [MENTION=5691352]Droidriven[/MENTION]. A while ago I used apps that could get paid apps for free, such as L**** P******, (you know the name), and others, but I uninstalled them and stopped using them awhile ago. Do I still count on the XDA Fourms? I hope so.
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
El Oh El
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
What do you mean still count, all that is required is to be a rule abiding, respectful, loyal member.

I doubt XDA cares what you did before you became a full fledged member here.
[General Questions and Answers] HΞAT65534vr:
You know how you said about that app that can be used for stealing, that if a XDA member uses it, they cant get support from XDA threads like this. See what i mean? Can i still get support?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
That applies if you are using it and we know it, or if using it is what caused your issue.

We just don't support theives.

There are those that use LP and other warez for a few legitimate purposes but XDA still doesn't support their use or anyone that uses them just as a general ever-standing rule in all situations.

It is because no developer wants their work stolen and its up to the community to make sure the developers get their rightful payment for their work.
[General Questions and Answers] HΞAT65534vr:
I do know my sammy 200 Percent!!!!!:laugh::cyclops:
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Lol, easy fella, sometimes they see the light.
[General Questions and Answers] iTouch24:
Can anyone tell me what to deactivate for my phone to stop asking me if I want to join guest Wifi networks.

AnThOnY- S7 Edge
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Yep, and apparently [MENTION=7167018]Val35353vr[/MENTION] has. I just thought the question was humorous.

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settings > wi-fi > three dot menu > advanced > turn off network notification
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I found it somewhat funny too. I guess he was just self conscious, why he would ask anyone, much less me, I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine.
[General Questions and Answers] tshearburn:
I bought a ipad 2 from craigslist. It worked just fine till i got it home. now its asking for apple id that was assigned to the device. Guy wont answer phone or return my calls. How do I restore or reset to factory settings or reassign the device to my apple id?
[General Questions and Answers] Salik Iqbal:
Keep calling him, do whatever legal actions you can do against him, there is no other way you can reset that id apart from knowing the old id.. no one will help you :) official or unofficial.
[General Questions and Answers] tshearburn:
effin screwed

I've been trying for a week and we meet at a McDonalds so i can't go to his house. I think I just got screwed out of 50 bucks

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Been looking everywhere too. youtube, apple support
[General Questions and Answers] Salik Iqbal:
As i said "no one will support you here, official or unofficial", only option is too find the owner and ask for the id and password, just be carefull before buying make sure the old apple id should be removed.
[General Questions and Answers] tshearburn:
effin screwed

Been looking everywhere too. youtube, apple support

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Why can't I get any help?? This guy ripped me off... intentionally or unintentionally, and he's gone. I've been trying to call him for over a week. I still need help !
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
Yeah bad luck for you, but think about the iPad was stolen right away and that guy you bought it from never had the apple Id cause he never was the legit owner...

Lern from it, make sure it happens never again and 50 bucks is something you should have been suspicious from beginning...

The apple Id should prevent theft and it does effectively..
[General Questions and Answers] MGlolenstine:
Stupid apple. Don't they support anyway of factory reset or sth? The only solution I can see, its the jailbreak...

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Stupid apple. Don't they support anyway of factory reset or sth? The only solution I can see, its the jailbreak...
[General Questions and Answers] andikas:
thank you ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
What are you referring to?
[General Questions and Answers] AkitaHaku:
I'm a new member, how do I post a question in this thread?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You just did, you should have just asked what you needed to know.
[General Questions and Answers] AkitaHaku:
Sorry I wanted to know how to post a question without having to quote, but I'll just do it this way

I have an lg viper stuck in bootloop I'm completely new to rooting stuff like that and thought this would be a good learning experience. anyway, this phone bricked because of a legit update . wiping the cache does nothing and factory reset does nothing,. Would flashing a ver of the stock rom though the install update ,recovery option work? Also Its almost impossible to find a stock rom for this phone online, is source code from lg the same as a rom?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You don't need to quote anyone to post your question. Quoting is for replying to someone's post so they know you replied to them.

You will have to find your stock firmware, go to the LG website and see if it is available/linked there, if it isn't, email support there and request it.

If there is a stock update.zip for your model number you can flash it in stock recovery. No, the source code is not the same thing as ROM/firmware. It is what the firmware it is built from.
[General Questions and Answers] AkitaHaku:
Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] akhilesh vs:
Guys Can u help to find a stable rom for Galaxy J500G
[General Questions and Answers] Dellocatus:
TWRP failed to mount \data,... Need help!

Hi all,

After unsuccessfully asking for support in the LG G3 forums, I'm going to try it here. Please point me out to another thread, if this is the wrong place to ask those questions.

First of all: I am new to flashing etc, so I'd rather not just try anything without being certain about it. Also, my phone is currently running fine, so rather play safe for now...

LG G3, D855, Dirty Unicorns Rom v10.3, TWRP 3.0.2.0 installed, Viper4Android, nothing else (no different kernel or something)

Issue: I cannot perform any wipe in TWRP, as it "fails to mount \data, \cache, \system". Unfortunately, this prevents me from updating/changing rom. I've flashed other Roms before without encountering this problem. After flashing the current Rom, I did flash Vyper4Android. I think I did this using flashify, so not sure whether the issue already persisted then or whether it was caused afterwards. Interestingly, flashify thinks I am on "stock recovery", even after booting into recovery and restarting the device. It also refers to old backups as stock. Only the backup of the 2.7.xx TWRP is labeled as such.

I have done some fair share of googling. Most similar threads I have found were left unanswered. On some other devices, the problem could be solved by installing another recovery. But I did not find a CMW for the LG G3, so this won't work. I thought about just installing TWRP again (via flashify, or maybe install some older version/restore a backup), but I'm not sure whether this could do further harm, with the current state in mind? Other possibility could be reverting back to stock, but that would be a rather tedious approach.

I am really glad for any suggestion. I'm afraid of messing up my phone if I try to solve the problem without any assistance from you guys. I see this is an opportunity to learn more about all this android software manipulation. So let me learn from the masters! ;)

Thanks a lot!

Patrick
[General Questions and Answers] spookcity138:
You can manually mount the partitions inside TWRP. Then wipe. No clue why you're having that issue though. I'm sure someone smarter than I can answer that :D
[General Questions and Answers] md1982:
Thanks mate
[General Questions and Answers] iTouch24:
Crazy thing is that I have that turned off.

I still get the annoying notifications for guest Wifi from like New York city parks.

AnThOnY- S7 Edge
[General Questions and Answers] joughs:
Okay so I tried to update my HTC Desire 626s (tmobile) to android 6.0.1 marshmallow but when I went to update using my phone it said that it was meant for a32eul which my device is so I tried to update it using RUU and after I tried that I think I bricked my phone the RUU failed and I can only access boot loader download mode and stock recovery in stock recovery I am able to adb sideload but other than that my phone is not detected by adb on my computer when I do use sideload to try and sideload a zip or new recovery I get E: footer is wrong E: installation error installation aborted in download mode here are the specs

*** Unlocked ***

htc_32eul PVT S-ON.

LK -1,0,0,0000

RADIO- 1,0,0 1_U113251211_63,1060527G

OpenDSP-UNKNOWN

OS-2 ,17 ,531 ,1

and although it says I'm running the OS I'm not actually able to boot past the HTC symbol
[General Questions and Answers] HΞAT65534vr:
I know this is a dumb question, but I wanted to know, if I flashed the incorrect boot.img on my phone from another device 's rom, but with the same cpu model (eg, Galaxy a5 has msm8916 and the tab a has msm8916) will I still have acsess to recovery? Sorry for my bad english

Sent from the Wild West
[General Questions and Answers] androidarmy:
Can anyone tell me a good unlocking website. I bought a ZTE maven from best buy and wanted to unlock it but Everytime I went to att website and put imei it says the phone is active on different att account I don't have any att account I called them and they just referred me back to the same website.i have eBay and unlock store but no luck.

Can anyone help me please. it's ZTE maven z812

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] kellibeanerz:
KOBO Arc 7 HD - Dead horse?

I love this tablet. I don't want to buy another tablet. I have searched a found that someone found the time to create a mod for the Kobo 10HD very recently I may add....but I can't find anything for this poor beauty. DiD I miss something in my search?

Any Directional pointing would be appreciated

THank you
[General Questions and Answers] Madlock06:
Beelink Mini MXIII Amlogic S905 missing gamepad drivers

Hey, apparently my Beelink Mini MXIII 2gb-ram 16gb-rom, android 5.1.1, is missing gamepad drivers, PS3/PS4 controllers don't work (wired connection, or bluetooth in the ps4's case) nor does my generic USB control, but a bluetooth keyboard, usb mouse, both work perfectly. Googling exhaustively for 3 days now has turned up that many of these Chinese Amlogic S905 boxes are sold without the appropriate drivers. I have read that you need to get the proper drivers which are a .ko file? And that you need to alter/recompile the Kernel. I don't know HOW to do that, or if that is what needs to be done, but if anyone does know what I need to do to enable gamepads, the help would be sincerely appreciated. Id like to just get a catch-all set of drivers, as I would prefer to not need to do it in the event I see a new, nice gamepad, all over again. I'm also not really all that attached to my device's firmware/ROM, so if that is the easiest/fastest way, that is fine too if someone can walk me through it. I basically want to use this device for gaming/emulation primarily, ideally if up to 4 controllers can be supported. But id also like its bluetooth/wifi and IR remote to remain supported. I do hope someone can assist with this, id really like to use this device and not need to return it...

I was directed here from the XDA assist forum, so if this is too complex or the wrong place, my apologies.
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
You mean unlock from your provider AT&T? There is more than one website to "unlock" your phone.. But it's best to go back to your provider and ask again and say you could not make it work with the given website..

To buy a unlocked phone on first place would be have been the best idea.

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No, I wouldn't recommend it cause if kernel or system it has to been absolutely fitting for your device, and only same CPU isn't enough, what about ram, gpu etc,

If you remember boot/kernel is your phone's brain it connects hardware and software... So UI wouldn't risk anything with a maybe 70% solution.

If you after trying still can enter your recovery.. I don't know but normally recovery wouldn't allow to flash it, code 7 error.. Or something
[General Questions and Answers] WoutM:
Phone Got Reset

Hi.

my phone got reset (to fabric things)... I don't know why or how but that's not really a problem, since all my contacts and data are stored on my sim card and sd card. But now I need to set some settings. First of all it asks me to choose a language. Then I need to click that I accept the terms of services etc. Then I need to select if I want to use wifi and data plan, only wifi or set this up later. The "set this up later" option does'nt work, I can't select that one and it's light grey. For the option to have data plan and wifi: when I select that it asks me to insert a sim card... which is already inserted, AND I can't insert a sim card without removing my battery so yeah. I still tried this, put of my phone removed the battery and took the sim card out and put it back in place after that. when I start up my phone again it still says I need to insert a sim card (so I guess that option is also not really available, but I don't really have a data plan so that's not a matter) now when I select wifi only and I click next and it says: "select a wifi network" as title, and then beneath it it says "to see available networks, turn Wi-fi on". now there is no option of turning wifi on... I can't turn wifi on, there is nowhere a button to turn wifi on, and I can't swipe like from the top down to get that shortcut menu for settings thing. There is in the right corner also a button which says "skip" but I can't click that button... So at this point i'm kind of stuck and I can't get further. What can I do? Can I put wifi on manually via my pc or something? Or can I somehow still skip this?

Very much thanks in advance!

Wout

ps: I have the acer liquid z330, I don't know if that makes any difference .

(all help is welcome!)
[General Questions and Answers] Dellocatus:
Thanks for your answer. What exactly does this option do? Or, asked the other way round: it seems like the recovery actually HAS to mount the system etc to wipe successfully - so why is it disabled by default?

Further research lead me to this solution here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJRKuQf0puE&feature=youtu.be. This guy solves a similar problem by reformatting the file system, e.g. to FAT. Now, as this will format the partition - which means that I will have to flash something afterwards - I would like to make sure that this actually might help. Might my problem be caused by some falsely formatted partition? Could it be that flashing a ROM somehow makes changes in that regard and thus causes the problem? I'm just trying to see the causalities here...
[General Questions and Answers] spookcity138:
Well,first TWRP generally does do the mounting of partitions,so there is no need to do it manually. Obviously this isn't the case in your situation for whatever reason. I'd assume that it does have to do with corrupted partitions,but I can't say how or why. I'd also assume that reformatting would probably fix this. I am not positive however,so I'd wait until someone else replies with their thoughts.
[General Questions and Answers] TPMunster:
Hello.

I have recently changed dpi to 380, and now my emojicons are too big. It is only the emojis and it has never been a problem before.

I have rooted oneplus 2, SwiftKey and Textra installed which are the main programs acting up. At the moment, I use OxygenOs 3.0.2.

Do anybody have a solution?