yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Like they've all said, they can't do anything without root. As also stated, they can disable or freeze unwanted apps, as for what was said about being careful which you disable so as not to mess up the phones function, look for a "safe to remove" apps list for that particular device and stock ROM, that way issues can be avoided. But they will only get minimal results that way, most likely there will be a lot of apps that they won't be able to do anything with, they will probably still have a lot of stuff that they don't want and won't be able to change it. As stated, rooting then removing the bloatware would be the only option that would be worth it, otherwise its just a waste of time.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
If they are still on stock with stock recovery then they can probably download the update manually then flash it through the stock recovery instead of trying to do it OTA.
[General Questions and Answers] :
Ugh, I know. I've wasted ~4 posts already just trying to explain the goshdarn reference! :eek:

:laugh:
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Yea but I had this feeling that they got it the very first time.

I guess they were just messing around with you...[emoji14]

Anyways, getting far off the topic, let's end this here. [emoji111]
[General Questions and Answers] Purerawenergy:
A priest and a monkey walk into a bar.......[emoji13] just kidding.

Smile guys its the weekend!

from my Bacon-wrapped Lolli(Bliss)pop 5.1.1
[General Questions and Answers] mrrocketdog:
a skeleton walks into a bar and asks for a beer and a mop.

"all i can really do , is stay out of my own way and let the will of heaven be done"
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
A fly goes into a bar, lands next to a guy and says "I like that stool you're sitting on".
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I'm having an issue that I can't quite place. I've been shopping for PC parts on pcpartpicker using mobile browser, previously when I'd select a part to view it would load fine but now when I select them to view them I get "page not found" and it says because it was denied. But when I go straight to the site that the part is at instead of going through pcpartpicker the pages load with no problem and I can view the parts. I haven't changed anything on my phone and it only does this when trying to view the parts on certain sites, some of the others that have the same part load fine when selected to view through pcpartpicker. Is this an issue with my device or with the browser accessed mobile pcpartpicker?
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
I think it's neither your device nor the browser but the website itself since you get the error while trying to access certain websites only.

Anyways, it's not like I'm an expert with these things.

Did you try on any other phone?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
No, but I can. I was just thrown off by the fact that it use to work just fine.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Maybe servers of those websites aren't responding well to pcpartpicker's serves, might be a temporary issue.

Like I said, not a pro at it. Let's see if someone else more knowledgeable responds.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I just tried on another phone and everything worked as it was supposed to so it must be my phone or browser.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Did you try to clear cache on the browser? Might help.

Or maybe you could use another browser.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yep, uninstalled and reinstalled, checking to see if it works now.

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Cleared cache, data and defaults for browser and still nothing, uninstalled and reinstalled browser, still nothing. It keeps saying connection refused
[General Questions and Answers] redlum:
Rooting a MT6571 based phone

Hi there,

First of all thanks for this thread and the opportunity to ask any question.

I need to root a BLU DASH JR 4.0 K device (running Android 4.4.2) based on a M6571 chipset and I can't seem to find a way to do it. It uses UBIFS as a file system which means that unfortunately MTK Droid Tools are useless (unless someone knows otherwise). I have a couple of stock roms that I am able to flash on the device and I was wondering if there is any way to tamper with those roms to root the image before flashing the phone ?

If someone has any other idea on how to root this device I'd be more that happy to hear it.

Thanks all for your help and since it is the week-end, here's another bar joke:

The NSA walks into a bar.

Bartender: "Got a new joke for you..."

NSA: "Heard it."
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Well that is unusual.

Did you try some other browser?

That's my last suggestion, don't know what's going wrong.[emoji29]
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yeah, that was my next step, I'd hate to think they are discriminating against me. Would they block my IP for some reason? If another browser doesn't work that would be the only other thing I can think of.
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
I did not get it and still only kind of do. I've never heard the song, and I don't intend to.

I almost never listen to radio/pop music. \m/
[General Questions and Answers] bittooshubham:
Thank you so much for the help..:D
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You're welcome, but as I said, thank [MENTION=4987085]xunholyx[/MENTION] for posting that. Thank the guy that posted right above your post, he posted that screenshot for me when I asked about the same thing, I just passed it along, I take no credit for something someone else did.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Did it work?

By the way about that other device you tried it on, was it on a different Wi-Fi or mobile data than yours?
[General Questions and Answers] @moi@:
belkin n300 wifi usb adapter

Hello.

I'm currently testing a WiFi antenna equipped with a Belkin n300 key.

I would like to connect my android tablet but I can not install the drivers (Realtek_RTL8191SU).

Someone can explain me pls ...: Confus:

[IMG="wifi antenne"]https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10361037_1566720100255349_7734945354635595832_n.jpg?oh=30ada62f8810d37b01aefb95eb8bb4e2&oe=56091C66[/IMG]
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
your best option is to reinstall stock firmware and then once you've done that u can install twrp again.

Sent from my GT-I9195
[General Questions and Answers] Mehran k:
Hi I have s4 mini and cm12. Whenever I go to about phone CyanogenMod updates it downloads the update but when I install it it goes to cwm recovery and says installation aborted. Help!
[General Questions and Answers] divyans:
cool
[General Questions and Answers] madbat99:
You have to use cm recovery to do cm ota. Just boot to cwm and install the update manually.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
No, it hasn't worked yet, I tried on my dad's phone, its a different phone than mine but its on the same carrier and I used his mobile data same as mine. I'm considering formatting system and data then restoring or reflashing to see if that works. I haven't changed anything but I did try another ROM the other day and had to restore the ROM I had before I tried, I restored the backup that was setup the same as before so nothing should be different as far as the restore goes but it may be something still hanging around from the other ROM I tried, that's why I'm considering doing the format to see if it potentially gets rid of anything that may be hanging around.

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As [MENTION=6576153]jimbomodder[/MENTION] said, reinstall your stock firmware. But you'll have to root the device again before you install TWRP again. I only posted because he forgot to mention rerooting and I wanted to make sure you didn't try just installing TWRP and get confused if it didn't work in case you overlooked having to root again.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
I think you're getting too worked up.

Might just be a temporary issue. Give it some time, it might start working on its own.

Anyways, that's my advice.

If you really want to format, then give it try.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
No, I'm not getting worked up, I can still do what I need to do, I just have to do it in a round about fashion instead of directly which works but is inconvenient. I'm just not discounting anything and considering all possibilities. I'm in no hurry to fix it. Its been like that for days now. I figured it was a temporary thing that would straighten itself out but it hasn't so that's when I started wondering if it may be an issue in my device/apps.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
I thought the issue came up just yesterday.

I guess formatting is the only option now, if even that doesn't work you can contact the website.
[General Questions and Answers] madbat99:
What browser? And are you using any ad blocking? If its chrome, try chrome beta.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
The stock browser in the ROM I've been using for months with no issues, this just started a few days ago for some reason.
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
has the browser had an update?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I checked that, I even uninstalled and reinstalled the apk I had backed up on my sdcard and still no luck. I don't know what could be screwing with me, I've been all around it trying to troubleshoot, I'm gonna try starting over with a completely clean flash of the ROM I'm using to see if that does it, just waiting for my battery to full charge first.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Haha, I just checked if my ad blocker was on and it was, I turned it off and it works fine now. I thought it was already off, I didn't think I had it on when I made the backup that I restored but I guess I did. Don't know why I missed that or didn't think of that myself, thanks for putting an end to the hiccup in this head of mine, lol.
[General Questions and Answers] madbat99:
I had something similar happen (well my wife's phone) a while back. So I thought that might be it. She was fuming that certain links wouldn't work. I knew all I did was install ad blocking, turned it off and it was fine. I think some links (depending where they are) are encoded like ads to send data to ad counters. That's how they get paid for ppl clicking them.
[General Questions and Answers] warduke:
Ok This is really weird. I have a Samsung Galaxy Avant sm-g386t1. Phone was working great. I went out of calling area for a few days and was in an area where signal was very weak. Then out of no where phone stopped working properly.

I brought it to a MetroPCS corporate store and they were dumb founded. after 1 hour of trying, they saw the KNOX Warratny bit flagged and refused to help any further.

I got back home to the MetroPCS calling area NEW YORK CITY and the phone will only register on the MetroPCS network if im very close to a tower. If I go to my house the phone will no longer register on the network and will only work via WiFi Calling. If I use My wifes phone which is also a 4G LTE Samsung AVANT on MetroPCS her phone works fine. It can be sitting right next to my phone, hers will say MetroPCS mine will say searching and phone not registered on network.

My APN is set properly.

If I go into network search on my Samsung it only shows T-Mobile, 31160, Verizon as available

If I go into network search on my wifes Samsung it shows MetroPCS RAT: LTE MetroPCS RAT: WCDMA MetroPCS : RAT GSM, ATT Rat:WCDMA ATT RAT: GSM VERIZON: RAT: LTE 311 660 RAT:LTE

like I said if I walk 2 blocks away and stand next to the cell tower My Samsung will then register on MetroPCS and the 4GLTE works fast.

Is this the weirdest damn thing or what? I tried reflashing my phone with Odin with stock Firmware and this made absolutely no difference. I tried getting a new sim card and it made no difference. Please anyone who has any ideas let me know. I dont want to dump my phone its only 2 months old.
[General Questions and Answers] tzveti:
I know that if I use an app from the play store to hide my softkeys, the keyboard normally does not work. However I've also learnt that I can hide the softkeys by going into root explorer and going into the file Build.prop and then adding this line of code to the bottom: qemu.hw.mainkeys=1

This will apparently turn off the softkeys, however will I still be able to use my keyboard? (as i know this is a known problem on unrooted devices).

In addition, is this method universal for all android devices?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
It shouldn't affect your keyboard, that line governs the hardware keys(hw as is noted in the line you edit). As for whether its universal I'm not sure, all devices aren't the same, I think some android devices(especially tablets) don't even have hardware keys for navigation.

BTW, why would you want to disable the hardware keys? Are you using something that gives you a navigation bar softkeys at the bottom of your screen, if not then you'd be better off leaving the keys alone or you may render the device inoperable unless it is reflashed or restored from a nandroid backup so that the keys work again.

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Have you tried dialing MetroPCS's OTA programming number? It should start with something like *22plus some more numbers, I don't know metros number or I would have posted all of it. It might get you straight.

Can you explain why you have Knox tripped? It shouldn't have done that unless you've done something to customize your phone, such as rooting it, leaving your home area shouldn't have done this, is your device an actual metro device or is it from another carrier and has been switched to metro by flashing or using a SIM? If you have rooted it then you can use the superSU app to disable Knox.
[General Questions and Answers] warduke:
Hi *228 only works for the old CDMA phones. I tried. The Phone is a MetroPCS branded phone. Knox was tripped when I custom ROM and flashed it and rooted it.
[General Questions and Answers] tzveti:
I was led to believe that the edited line would disable softkeys. I want to disable them and use gestures to navigate to create more screen space.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Does your device have capacitive hard keys or does it have on screen softkeys? You're making it hard for me to understand which you have, come to think of it though, I believe I had to use that same line to disable the onscreen keys in a ROM I used a while back on an old device, give it a try, it won't hurt anything, you can edit it out if it screws anything up if you're using gesture navigation.

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Regardless, there should still be a number that you dial to program, what it is for you I couldn't tell you, but there has to be one. *228 isn't the only number there is. For example, my straight talk phone uses *22890, there is also *22891 for Verizon, there are many different ones depending on the carrier, find yours. By the way, the old *228 has a tendency to fry SIM cards, especially a 4G SIM.

Have you disabled Knox with superSU? You should have known better than to take a rooted phone to the store without covering your tracks. Its probably something in your ROM doing this, is your wife's phone rooted and ROMmed with the same ROM you have on yours and was hers out of your area when yours was, if so then it doesn't make much sense that yours did this and he's didn't. Have you tried a different ROM, did you make a nandroid backup of the stock ROM that you had and have you tried restoring it to see if it works?
[General Questions and Answers] warduke:
When I brought the phone to the store It had already been unrooted and flashed with stock firmware via Odin. Knox is disabled right now. *228 works but MetroPCS doesnt use it to update roaming list or auto activate. If you dial *228 it is the same thing as dialing 611. You get the MetroPCS customer service line where you can activate phone, pay bill , changes phone number and all of that stuff.

If I want to activate or change phones I log into my account on MetroPCS.com and I can swap phones by updating IMEI and ICCI/SIM card number myself. Ive been trying to auto update roaming list hoping that would help but they dont do that on GSM phones via *228
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
There still has to be a number or method to OTA program it, as in the way someone would program the SIM when bringing a phone from another network to Metro when they insert a new unprogrammed SIM in their phone, the SIM has to initially be programmed or it won't work for them, doing what they would do on theirs is probably what you'll have to do, is the ROM you used made for metro or is it for another carrier and happens to work on your phone? It sounds to me like with the ROM you're using your device can't figure out what carrier its supposed to be on, sounds like you've got to reteach it.
[General Questions and Answers] warduke:
Im not using a rom Im using STOCK FIRMWARE that is made for this phone and carrier. If you BYOD you have to buy a MetroPCS SIM card you cant use your old SIM card therefore there is no OTA programming. You simply have the IMEI and SIM/ICCI number added to your account and your phone is activated.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
It's always something stupid at the end, isn't it?...[emoji23]

By the way, which ad-blocker do you guys use?

Is it effective?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I get that you're back on stock, what I'm saying is there are things that get changed that reflashing the stock firmware doesn't touch. What I'm saying is the ROM you did have may have changed something in certain partitions that the stock firmware didn't fix. Its happened before to users with my device, I've never used metro so I don't know the ins and outs of their system, regardless, their programming method should work for you, whether its OTA or through your account. If that's what you're doing and it doesn't work then something in a partition outside of the stock firmware may have been changed in the process of you customizing, what or where I couldn't tell you because devices are different.

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I don't know about madbat but mine is built in to the ROM I'm on.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
I didn't know they have adblockers integrated into the ROM.

Which ROM by the way?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
AICP(Android Ice Cold Project) lollipop for d2vzw(Verizon)
[General Questions and Answers] warduke:
Thats exactly what Im thinking. Some setting in a partition some where has been modified and needs to be reset to default. Its weird cause why does the phone work totally fine if I walk down the block from my house but it wont work once I go to a different street or avenue. Even when I went to NJ. there would be certain blocks where the phone would work and 4G worked fine but I go down the block and hte signal drops out to really weak and then deregistered /searching message appears but if I got ot that same block it works fine. There has to be some issue with cell handoff or something
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yeah, its getting lost when it has to switch towers, its weird and doesn't make sense, I think you'd be better off to go to your device forums or to the thread where you got the ROM you had, they would probably give you better answers.

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Just don't go to flashing modems trying to fix it unless you're certain of the modem you're using, you can really mess it up that way.
[General Questions and Answers] Maos_frias:
i will have to do that. Thats the only way.

Now i've another question.

My phone, when i send a sms it sends the same sms several times to same person. And i only send one.

There's a way to stop this?

and my network signal some times only let me make urgency calls. i've to tap plane mode several times to signal appears again.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
If you want to permanently remove those in built app, then yes.

If you only want to disable them so that they don't run in the background consuming your RAM, then no.

But all in built apps can't be disabled and it's also less effective that way.

Just go to apps section in the setting menu and try to disable the apps you don't want, if it turns out to be satisfactory then carry on unrooted, if not then you'll have to make a decision.

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Seems like network issues.

Since you're unrooted you should first try to contact your network operator.
[General Questions and Answers] madbat99:
I use aicp as well. But when the ROM I'm using doesn't have it to use ad away
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Is it effective?
[General Questions and Answers] madbat99:
Completely.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2190753
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Ok, get me straight here, your friends phone isn't rooted and yours isn't? Or yours is? I've got a friend that I helped with rooting and flashing his phone to lollipop and his was sending repeated texts also, he was having other issues too so I had him format system and data partitions through recovery then reflash his ROM and gapps and in the process it stopped sending repeated texts. If your phone is rooted and custom ROMmed then that may work for you also. If you're not rooted then as [MENTION=6084806]User17745[/MENTION] said you need to contact your carrier about this.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Downloading!!

Thanks

Too bad they pulled all the ad blockers from the play :/

When I was new to android I used adblocker plus but unfortunately it never worked for me, don't know why. Ever since then I've never used an adblocker.

Hope this one works.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
If you root your friends phone to remove bloatware then after rooting do some Google searches to see if you can find a "safe to remove" list of the apps that can be removed without causing an issue.
[General Questions and Answers] tzveti:
Sorry for any confusion, I have soft keys.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Ok, you can still give that line edit a try, it shouldn't hurt anything.
[General Questions and Answers] :
Yeah. Keep in mind that you can change it back to

qemu.hw.mainkeys=0

at any time if you need to re-enable your softkeys.
[General Questions and Answers] Maos_frias:
[/QUOTE]

Seems like network issues.

Since you're unrooted you should first try to contact your network operator. [/QUOTE]

The remove apps is from my friend phone. The network issues is on my phone. It's rooted with cm11.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Is it an official CM11?
[General Questions and Answers] warduke:
No need for any memory / CPU wasting software called ad blocking. Just replace your hosts file located in /etc with the one attached below and you will never see any ads again. The modified hosts files blocks all known ad servers. You have to rename this hosts file from hosts.zip to just hosts with no extension.

Or download the same hosts file from here https://mega.co.nz/#!u0dhGS4A!JodoVQTruILXP9NysCP0tmpHoFw-r0xFQuWgWjlkB38
[General Questions and Answers] Maos_frias:
My phone is rooted with last twrp and cm11 with partition ext4. Lollipop I feel that phone gets laggy. I didn't try 5.1.1 only 5.0.2.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
That's good info.

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Try doing the format in recovery and doing a completely clean reflash, just make sure you don't have anything important in the partitions you format so you don't mess your phone up. Formatting system and data partitions fixed that issue for my friends phone, it just might fix you too.