yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cpspecial:
Hey all, I've recently had to sell my Galaxy S4 and go back to my Bionic.

I've tried this method 3 times now, and while I get through everything with flying colors, still no root. I also have done the suggested button toggling talked about, but nothing.

Just wondering if anyone has had any luck lately?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mjf55:
Marty, thanks for an easy and interesting way to root.

I did have the invalid ip address problem as others have had, but by restarting the VM multiple times I was able to get through it.

Later, I started thinking it may be some kind of a timing issue in my host so I played a little.

First, my host system is Fedora 19.

When I boot the VM, and it failed with the invalid Ip address, I cntl-C out of the script. In the root_bionic.sh script, just before you do the IP check, I added another sleep 10 to give my network time to settleout. Rebooted the VM and it works perfectly for me each time.

It may just be some thing strange on my system, but this may help others having this issue. The 10 second sleep was an arbitrary number, i did not experiment with it.

The other issue I had, was purely my fault, was that on my VirtualBox, The USB does not attach automatically to the guest. I forgot to attach it for a while and started going down many rabid holes (choice of words intentional ). Woke up in the middle of the night, realized what I did wrong, and rooted my phone in 3 minutes after that.

Again, thanks for a great method to root my bionic.:good:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] stubey:
Trying to root a friend's Bionic(stock JB) for him. I've rooted a few other phones, but I have a few questions.

1. What apps need to be installed BEFORE using this root method?

Superuser?

Rom Manager?

Clockworkmod Recovery?

2. Or does this root method install a custom recovery and bootloader?

3. After phone is rooted, do you install custom ROMs the usual way? Through CWM or another recovery?

Is the only custom recovery for this phone called "Bionic Bootstrap Recovery" found here:

http://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-09-16/bionic_bootstrap_recovery

Thanks for all the help

-Stu
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Slayerdogg:
I never used Ubuntu before personally nor VM, but I got this to work after the second time. I missed the improtance of the function keys pressing the first time around I'm assuming cuz the 2nd time I ran it the exploit went fine...

Thank you big time, I now have root access again on Jelly Bean.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cpspecial:
Just wanted to let anyone still tracking this thread that I was successful tonight. It took three times but I'm rooted and everything went smooth. For whatever reason, it seems that it just won't catch the exploit sometimes. But no matter, rest assured it works, just keep trying haha.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] kesparate:
does anyone one know if it is possible to disable the autosave feature or perhaps to alter the period to something longer then five minutes or whatever the default is. i work with really large documents and am constantly being interupted.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] ezzkht:
There's no any registry hack for this :?
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] kesparate:
suckzor!!!
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] kesparate:
the joy of techie buddies

i gave it to a friend of mine and he came up with this

registry editor

hkey.current.user

software

microsoft

windows ce sevices

change value flag to 0

seems to work, but i'm wondering what else this might do...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greendoki:
Hi can you send me a link how can i install the the omega rom emoji keyboard (which is looks like swift keyboard so if you push for 2 secs the 'H' you get the '-' or something like that)?

Thank's for your help!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
this is a development section, what have you developed?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ansonchan:
wrong section and u mean emoji or symbol? lol
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
!ALL QUESTIONS GO IN THE Q&A FORUM!! OR THEY MAY BE DELETED!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greendoki:
i've developed nothing trying to delete this question
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
don't have to anymore, it's been moved. Pay more attention next time
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jstag:
So i recently learned the L7 finally got the JB update. I decided to try it out, but i didn't like it overall.

So i have been trying to downgrade it, but no luck. I have been trying to use cmahendra's guide (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2085344), but this is meant for L9, and it keeps getting stuck on 4%, despite reinstalling drivers and following the trouble shooting on the guide.

Is there a way to downgrade to ICS, another guide maybe?

Thanks in advance
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moulwxtos:
I did it with the same guide and I had the same problem while downgrading (Lparam 1002 Error on 4%).

Check out my solution HERE

If you are afraid of doing changes at the MIDDLE of the operation, wait for it to get stuck, tell you to restart and before restarting it do the same changes i am proposing.

Cheers,

Moul
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pemon:
Solution

Here is the solution :) !!!...

http://www.taringa.net/posts/celula...-Jelly-Bean-a-ICS-LG-L7-P700---705---708.html
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moulwxtos:
That's what he has been doing .... LG mobile update tool is using KDZ-Updater.exe to do this job. You should check on Update tool's folder. There you'll find KDZ Updater ;) I've been doing that also, correctly doing the same steps as EVERY guide online about KDZ updater, but still had the same issue.

It seems though that LG has some issues on downgrading firmwares, and I posted my solution to this problem.

P.S.(For JStag) Be sure you have :

1. Installed drivers correctly

2. Disable LG Modem driver in Device Manager

3. Have USB debugging on IF you are doing this with phone turned-on. If not, better if you put battery off and enter Emergency Download Mode before starting it.

Cheers,

Moul
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pemon:
OK

Well, the important thing here is the special for the downgrade KDZ compiled by Homer ... As you mention if you are flashing a regular KDZ throws errors ...

===========

ESPAÑOL

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Pues aquí lo importante es el KDZ especial para el downgrade compilado por Homero... Como tu mencionas si flasheas con un KDZ normal arroja errores...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncannyValley:
i searched for this topic but I couldn't find any thread about sysctl tweaks for the Desire. So I think it's about time... :)

(hope this is the right Forum?)

I found one thing in a different device's forum though, that I did try on the Desire with success:

vm.swappiness = 0

even though Android doesn't have swap by default (and my Desire neither) there was vm.swappiness set to 20. so setting it to 0 should not make a difference...but it does!

it massively increased responsiveness and speed of my Desire, as well as raising the score in Antutu benchmark from around 2500 to around 2800 points!

And I don't see any disadvantages.

I'm not sure though if this setting is set on stock kernel too because I'm using CM7, but it seems the same (nexus7 has swappiness 60, and does it have swap? couldn't really see a difference there tho)

You mostly find posts where people wanna set it to some value if they use swap, but setting it to 0 seems to be some secret?

Is it the same on other ROMs/kernel/devices? Try it and report back please ;)

I like my 'new' phone but I guess there could be tweaked even more and people already tried...

So does anyone else have found good sysctl tweaks for our good old Desire? :)

to be continued...

Links:

Some infos on sysctl settings for HTC Flyer: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1470125

Some nice app to edit sysctl and other settings http://www.3c71.com/android/?q=node/916
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimHermans:
Tried it, don't really notice any difference not better nor worse.. Thanks for the tip though, gonna leave it to test for some longer time..

Greetz
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncannyValley:
hmm what ROM do you use? Maybe that makes differences. Or your Desire didnt lag before anyway :)

Thanks for your reply.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimHermans:
I'm on VJ's CM10.1 v6.2

Greetz
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pshearer78:
Okay so please bare with me as I'm not to savvy on the phone tech stuff and terms...

Recently I flashed a new rom onto my s3. I believe it was hyper drive but not certain. Any ways since then my screen orientation and voice mail notifications have not been working.

First with the screen. It doesn't matter the app or what screen I'm on on my phone, when it's vertical its fine, when I turn the phone horizontal left or right the screen turns upside down.

I've tried to change setting, loaded different rooms and it doesn't change. I haven't dug into the system files cause I don't know what to change or even look for honestly.

Also since the original hyper drive flash my vm do not come through to notify me. Same situation...loaded new roms with no affect.

Can anyone help?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Not sure about MMS but screen orientation inversion is normally kernel related. If flashing different roms the kernel that comes with it should fix orientation. If flashing a 3rd party kernel you are using wrong kernel for carrier. A complete wipe and reflash should fix mms. If dirty flashing (ie wiping only dalvic and cache) files may be sticking between roms not allowing a fix of mms. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pshearer78:
When I have installed roms I've always factory wiped at least 3 times then dumped cache and dalvik each time.

But an incorrect kernel...would that hold true for each rom though? I've installed at least 3 different roms since with different kernels and no change.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stassano:
Or am I wrong?

I had a demo unit in my hands today... I tried to play with the camera.

Changed it from center weighted to spot meter to find out it only measures the light value from the center (aka center weighted) no matter where you press to focus. My old SGS1 would spot meter on the focus point while the SGS3 and SGS4 don't do that.

Sigh... to have the uber best camera on the smart phone market and not have decent spot metering is just retardulous.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
NOTICE:

As of 6/1/2013 the builds on this thread are superceded by nightly builds from CyanogenMod.

Noobnl is your official CM maintainer and any issues with nightlies should be addresed to him.

Please go here for latest builds and thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2304936

Remaining thread and posts are retained for documentation purposes only.

DISCLAIMER:

Your device, your responsibility. I am not liable for anything you flash, including this.

As a result you'll probably want to read the rest of the thread and at least be aware of what you're flashing.

You've been warned.

CyanogenMod 10.1 RC1 for SPH-L720 (jfltespr) - UNOFFICIAL​

Features:

This is CyanogenMod as it is provided in the source repos. I will be keeping it as such.

Any modifications, enhancements, etc. will be brought in and supported through their Gerrit review process.

Screenshots:

Latest Build: 5/31 Repo Sync, Clean Build. Final build before nightly builds start on CM site.

Tar/ZIP Mirror: [ROM][BETA][UNOFFICIAL]CM 10.1 for SPH-L720 (Team SXTP Site)

Both contain a kernel and ROM. Latest GApps here courtesy Goo.im. Make sure to use the latest please.

Flash Instructions:

1) Back up your current system and all data if desired.

2) In your favorite custom recovery, wipe data, cache and dalvik.

If you want to flash the ZIP version you'll need to format system as well.

3) TAR - Boot to Odin Mode and flash via Odin.

ZIP - Flash ZIP in recovery

4) Flash GApps

Summary Changelog:

Unofficial Beta Final (5/31/13) - RC3 tags, includes noobnl's hard work to rewrite the RIL class.
Beta 6 (5/10/13) - Contains RC1 tags. Just mainly FYI.

Older Changes:

Beta 4 (5/7/13 11:30 am CT) - Update defconfig and add commit from noobnl to remove clutter in device tree.

Beta 3 (5/7/13): Contains temporary fix that Beta 2 was supposed to have. Resolves inbound calls, hang up issue.

Beta 1 (5/5/13): Re-sync and rebuild from clean after Prealpha 15 booted successfully.

Prealphas 1-15 (4/29-5/5/13): Device Bringup to get adb/boot

Source:

CyanogenMod Official Repositories

Device Dependencies:

android_device_samsung_jf-common

android_device_samsung_msm8960-common

android_device_samsung_qcom-common

CM Sprint GS4 Device Repository

Sprint GS4 Device Repository

NOTE: Due to potential copyright issues I do not include a vendor repo.

You can extract the files from the phone or ROM as needed - should you decide to build on your own.

Credits:

Early Bringup Advice:

Entropy512, Shabbypenguin, Cordell12

Current Mentor/Collaborator:

Noobnl (CM CDMA Maintainer)

If it's working this well, chances are he's had a big hand in it!

Testers:

Mohogalore, robbyamor, crawj and others

Steve Kondik (Cyanogen) for CM development and jf common work

The CM maintainters who continue to improve CM along with Mr. Kondik

...and of course! You, the community, for your support as well! Thank you!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Known Issues

GPS - Sometimes doesn't lock. Current suggestion is ensure you get a lock in stock ROM before flashing.

Reboot - Extended reboot menu will power the phone off.Issues not identified by our build but possibly pertaining to it can be found on jira.cyanogenmod.org
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MoHoGalore:
Will flash shortly after my other task is complete! :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] five40:
WOW! That was fast

CM 10.1 within days of release
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] nothingblooms:
Just a quick question, would this feasibly work on US Cellular like the gs2 + gs3 roms did with some basic edits to the apns, eri.xml, and build.prop? Obviously this is not in flashable form just a simple innocent question.

Thanks,

nothingblooms
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Don't get too happy yet. Still doesn't boot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Not sure yet. I'll send you a pm.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] asafegous:
As Mario would say: Mamamia!

He also would say 'lets a go!'

Edit:

What's the link to our device branch?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
So... I realized something rather dumb on my part today.

I've been having you guys test just the ROM. Didn't dawn on me you probably need a boot.img because the ramdisk has probably changed, even if the kernel didn't.

Give me a few to get something together.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] ubnub82:
Looks like I found the ROM I'll be flashing in a month when i upgrade.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Edited - removed the next test. Wrong image name.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Work on hold pending Cyanogen's repo update. According to him it's fully working on T-mo so shouldn't be long before we have it working on Sprint.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
New builds based on Cyanogen's versions just uploaded.

Need someone to test and provide feedback ASAP please!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Unknown_Hero:
Flashed the rom and gapps with latest Alpha9 recovery.

Rom tries to boot with an all black screen with red notification light. The touch buttons light up but no boot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Sounds like downloads from rwilco12.com are buggy. Can you redownload from new mirror and try again?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Unknown_Hero:
Yeah same as before, will wait for update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Can stop testing that one. Found a few major bugs in changing from gsm to cdma. Rebuilding and will repost in a few hrs.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Prealpha 9 posted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Unknown_Hero:
Same as before. No boot, just hangs at black screen with touch buttons lit up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Dang it! I need to find out what's causing this.... :banghead: :banghead:

I'll see if someone can get into ADB and/or send me the logs.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] wojo797:
Can't believe this rom is only beta. . the only thing keeping me from using this as a daily driver is the poor lte I get. On a tw rom I get 12 mbs when I switch to Cm I get 1 to 2 mbs
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gobblenutz:
I know what you mean, this ROM is becoming too rock solid to remain in beta for much longer. Using the newest build as my daily driver.

Many thanks to garwynn and team sxtp for this amazing rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Nebbeh:
This was a problem for me with my old e4gt and wimax. Aosp ROMs just got terrible speed on 4g. Hopefully that can be fixed here soon
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] EPayne123:
Well, we shall see. Maybe we can use something from the AOSP based(Or CM Will) S4. Once that becomes a non issue along with NO eHRPD issues then I will have no problems playing with this for a little bit. Keep it up, devs... amazing job and from what I hear the best CM ROM out of ANY non-AOSP device out there this quickly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Image issue on OP should be fixed. If anyone not registered on SXTP still cannot see them let me know.

Also please make sure you thank noobnl for the big push to get it this far. It was his advice and support that got it this far this fast.

Looking forward to him doing Verizon. I've offered to make a few builds for him until he's up and running. In the meantime I'm doing what I can to test upcoming changes and see if I can help figure out the posted issues and how to fix them. Sure it will come in time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rdwyer228:
Is anyone having issues with NFC?

Not sure if this is a known issue or not but I can't get it to work for the life of me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
NFC not working yet in CM or other AOSP builds.

It's listed as a known issue and may take some time to sort out.

For reference:

https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/QSDB-34
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] dtr145r:
Check the version of nfc tags you have.

Ive read a certain version doesn't work with the s4.

If you try a tw rom and they work there they should work on cm.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rdwyer228:
Ah, makes sense. I wonder why when I was running CM 10.1 on my Galaxy Nexus NFC worked?

---------- Post added at 11:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:13 AM ----------

I have also heard that they are working on the Samsung Tectile's 2 which are supposedly the only NFC tags that work with the S4. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] dtr145r:
I had an issue with GPS today.

I could not get it to lock when connected to lte.

I went into mobile network and changed it to just evdo /cdma rebooted and it worked fine.

Tried evdo/cdma/lte. And it wouldn't lock at all.

Wasn't able to get a log.

I rarely am in an area that has lte so it doesn't matter much to me but it may for others..

Fyi.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Forboding Angel:
It appears that using regular headphones in calls doesn't work. Not BT headphones or anything, just regular old wired headphones.

If you plug them in you will hear sound just fine, like music and phone sounds, but it all stops working the moment you get on a call all sound is gone. Comes back when off of a call. Also no headphone indicator in the status bar when headphones are connected.

CyanogenMod 10.1 5/21/2013
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] teradark:
Bluetooth doesn't work for me. I can listen to music on BT or wired but can't make calls.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] dtr145r:
I think that's a known issue.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Forboding Angel:
BT is a known issue. Regular wired headphone calls not working is not mentioned though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Forboding Angel:
If you try to initiate a call from a phone number in your email, the phone will completely lock up. For me this was an 800 number that was blue in gmail and I clicked on it.

Repeated multiple times to make sure its a legit bug.

Gmail and syncing in general are a bit screwy.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Posted in OP but it merits posting here:

As a reminder, Noobnl is the official maintainer for this device.

I will be continuing builds at the moment but only because he's waiting for a few things.

Once he is ready I will be ending this thread and he will be starting a new one.

So don't be surprised when it comes.

My thanks to noobnl, Cyanogen and others for giving me the opportunity to participate this much in the effort.

Now back to getting another build out...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Shoulon:
Wish noobnl was a lil more active in regards to being social. He used to be in the ol days...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] squshy 7:
You can blame some members of the OG epic community for that lol...

Anyway, awesome sauce. I just got my S4 advocate device (sprint selects one employee in most stores to get the device). Sadly, it has to stay in the store on a demo number for the next couple weeks, so I need to keep TW on it for demo purposes. As soon as it goes on my line, I'll have noobnl goodness all over it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] genaro12543:
Used the HTC champions thing to get the HTC one then traded that for this bad boy and its only had tw for a day haha
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gobblenutz:
I've noticed today when using the calculator widget on the lock screen that the screen timeout is unaffected by me using the widget. So mid calculation the screen will time out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] agentfazexx:
Is there a mirror for this? The download keeps timing out... A lot of times after waiting an hour+. Getting like 20kb/s download speed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] asafegous:
Try dolphin browser
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
I can make a new mirror later today.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] agentfazexx:
Awesome.

Was timing out on my phone using Chrome. Downloaded on Firefox on my PC. Took forever though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] asafegous:
https://github.com/noobnl/android_device_samsung_jfltespr

Please don't eat the cat. :p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
I'm starting one right now but that's a clear sign he's wanting to take over soon.

I'd say my days left are shortly numbered... short of my own personal builds.

Also... looks like he's going to introduce the new RIL class in his repo.... one that he has been working on now for a few weeks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
5/27 sync/build up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gobblenutz:
I seem to be getting much better data speeds with the newest build.

Great work!

Edit: well that was short lived, back to slow data speeds. MMS taking forever to send and webpages timing out full bars 3g sprint.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] agentfazexx:
Today's build has officially been downloading for over two hours. How's that new mirror coming along?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
Ill send a link tonight. Pm rwilco12 and let him know about this also please.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] agentfazexx:
PM sent.

Trying to download again also.