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[General Questions and Answers] dubbie:
recover deleted bookmarks?

Hi. I'm a noob and I only used an Android smartphone while I was travelling and sitting on trains a lot, an old Xperia with Gingerbread 2.3. Unfortunately, one day I accidentally cleared the app storage data for the Web Browser (via Settings>Apps), and lost all my bookmarks. There were many (several hundereds) because I had been doing research for things I was going to do when I got back.

I turned the Xperia off because I know operating systems will eventually overwrite free space with new data, and have kept it off, except for a few times when I started the phone to try various recovery methods (with adb etc).

How can I get these bookmarks back, for free? I've tried various guides online to get to a point where I could dump the flash memory via USB/ADB, but have not gotten any to work. I thought I could then search the resulting image file for urls, hoping the bookmarks would be in a contiguos block.

I thought about desoldering and dumping the eMMC chip but I don't really have the tools or skill.

I'm lost there is just too much information... Would really appreciate if somebody can narrow it down!
[General Questions and Answers] SidneyD:
Prevent Android from sleeping after timeout?

On my phone if I go to Settings > Display & Lights > Sleep I can set the timeout interval until the phone sleeps. Options range from 15 seconds to 30 minutes. I would like to set it to "Never". In other words, I never want it to timeout. I can simply press the power button to shut the screen off/put it to sleep.

How can I configure this? Is there a magic line that can be added to build.prop? Please don't suggest an app. I don't want to download another app just to change a single configuration setting.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Probably a ROM or kernel issue. Post your issue in the thread where you got the ROM and/or kernel and let the developer of the ROM or kernel see if it's something they can fix.

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They should have been stored in /data/data/com.android.browser.

Recovering data on android doesn't always work and you probably won't get all of it back even if you find a method that works.

About all you can do is try all of the free data recovery softwares and hope one works.

In the future, make sure you have the device set to backup your data to google, it will back up your contacts, bookmarks, user apps, app data and etc...

Then you can just sync/restore that data from google with ease.

On a side note, I suggest you get a more up to date device. Gingerbread is, for the most part, no longer supported. There are a lot of things that don't work on GB and it is quickly getting further behind. It's an outdated android version for the most part. I don't know how you're still using the device without having compatibility issues with more modern apps.

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[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You can try what is posted in the screenshot I've attached.

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[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
Which browser app were you using?
[General Questions and Answers] EigentlichPeng:
maybe he should simply login again to her google account to sync bookmarks ... or to the account from browser provider sriron or what ever...

sorry that i have quote your answer ^^ this should goes to the person who a posted the qwestion :highfive:
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
They didn't want an app and I posted a screenshot with the line to edit in build.prop already.

It's much easier to modify the build.prop on the device itself using a file explorer with root explorer or a root browser, then opening it on the device in note editor to make the edit then save it on the device itself then reboot, no PC needed.

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[General Questions and Answers] Mahtabul Islam:
Is there any custom rom for Samsung Galxy A8 model SM-A800F
[General Questions and Answers] bigbabo:
Not yet
[General Questions and Answers] Mahtabul Islam:
Can i root the samsung A8
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
Typing this question into the Google search bar would save you the wait (literally)... Just saying
[General Questions and Answers] cool_sid:
I want to build a custom kernel but I have insufficient knowledge of governors and binary scripts

Can someone plz guide me a little plz.

Google didn't help much
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
https://xdaforums.com/android/software/ultimate-guide-compile-android-kernel-t2871276

https://xdaforums.com/android/software/guide-easy-kernel-building-tutorial-t3581057

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1748297
[General Questions and Answers] cool_sid:
Thanx dude
[General Questions and Answers] bigbabo:
Yes
[General Questions and Answers] tiago_luz:
Hello guys, I have now a Samsung J5, since my moto E I have this trouble, If I hold a place in the screen sometimes It zooms and get this Orange Edge, It sucks, I need to close the app to remove this "amazing" feature. Can someone help me?
[General Questions and Answers] Ibuprophen:
That's an oddity for sure!

I did a quick search and only found 1 post with a similar issue (from another member) with no real results in a solution.

I'm thinking that it may be a type of defect for some with the stock Keyboard and all i can recommend is to try a different keyboard app to see if it results in the same issue.

Anyway... The following area may be more helpful to you as your more likely to receive an answer from a member who also has the same device.

Samsung Galaxy J5 Questions & Answers - XDA Forum

With that stated, the following thread is within the Samsung J5 portion of the Forum and could be a good start for posting your question.

?Thead for discussions, conference room and compiler errors and bugs by Demicro

I wish you the best of luck!

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PLEASE NOTE: I welcome any member to help with further valuable information/clarification for any of my posts.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
It should be a setting in system settings>Accessibility somewhere, it is called magnification gestures, you can turn it off.

On my current device it is in system settings>accessibility>vision>magnification gestures.

Look through all of your accessibility settings until you find it, it's there, just find it.

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[General Questions and Answers] tiago_luz:
Worked perfectly.... Same place of tour device.... Obrigado
[General Questions and Answers] Son`Goku:
How do people create existing flashable templates zip?

Hi peeps,

Coming to the point, making flashable zips are easy for me, but only when there's an already (existing) flashable zip (or template zip) is given.

My question- see title

I wanna know EVERYTHING about it

Thanks :)
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
XDA has a search bar that works real good. :) You should try it sometime

https://xdaforums.com/sitesearch.php?q=flashable zip template
[General Questions and Answers] Son`Goku:
Thx for reply, but...

None of threads are telling how to make template zip :cyclops:
[General Questions and Answers] akhilnaidu:
is it possible to make a ROM in which location services always on in the background and even after factory resetting and removing google account you can track your phone when it's connected to data assuming the collected data will be sent to some server and we can track it?
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Ahhhhh.....I misunderstood your question.

Well, you would have to make your own flashable zip from scratch. Then save your work to use as a template later.

This thread will give you a general idea. It was written for the Galaxy Nexus, but it applies to all devices with some minor edits
[General Questions and Answers] Triple999:
Custom ROMs

Hi to all one question is it true that custom ROMs are not supported by apps and not have no optimisation to it ?

Asking because one guy is arguing in Oneplus 5 forums saying that custom ROMs are not optimized and trash comparing to stock rom.

Cheers people sorry.
[General Questions and Answers] ANDjROID:
hi, right to the point. i have a ZTE z837vl with 6.0.1 (breaker?, i think is what theyre calling it.) yes its a straight talk phone. can i root this phone? or does walmart have some kind of added lock? it has the debugging option, also has an option for the bootloader to be unlocked. but it seems like that is just a fake option. also, cant seem to find anyway to get it into download mode. when using adb i send the cmd to restart bootloader and the phone just reboots completely. or is there a way to unlock, root, and get twrp for this poor thing. im willing to try ANYTHING. i modded my BLU studio 6.0hd to perfection with the help of all of you. unfortunately i dropped it....... and yup, bye bye!!! i will get another one. but until then im stuck with this heap and cant stand it! im not very good (actually never done it) at compiling a recovery, and i cant seem to find anything out there. would someone be willing to help me out?
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Walmart won't and probably can't add a lock like that.

Maybe this can help you
[General Questions and Answers] bigbabo:
When you say fake option what makes you think its fake , if its selected in on position and you cant access it means its already bootloader unlocked
[General Questions and Answers] ANDjROID:
i can turn it off and on. i think that just on the way that it boots completely, on or off. also, i guess i just assumed straight talk or walmart would have some kind of EXTRA protection on it. if i could get a recovery made for it i would just try to root with the new flash method n see what happens.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
That depends on the level of skill the developer has.

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The Straight Talk ZTE devices typically have fastboot removed.

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[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
You don't need an entire ROM, there are apps which can do this. Cerberus is one which can be flashed into /system on any device, and even a factory reset will not remove it. That particular app lost favor among many who signed up for a "Free Lifetime" account under promotion, then had their "Free Lifetime" access revoked.

The bigger issue is whether it's actually any good. If you intend to protect against theft, any half-intelligent thief will immediately turn the stolen device off (or remove the battery), then remove the SIM. So, it may still be useful, but less so.
[General Questions and Answers] larrys_:
Trouble with Odin... help pls!

Odin trouble

Well driver trouble.. I installed windows 7 to a virtual box + guest additions on my mac. I installed KIES but still not working.. the driver is not working properly. Oden doesn't see the phone... It's a sprint samsung s5

imgur.com/E5V4EzG

Any help would be appreciated!
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Use JOdin3 for MAC instead of Windows in a VM, Odin doesn't always work on VM.

https://androidtutorial.net/2017/02/10/how-to-use-odin-on-mac-osx/

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[General Questions and Answers] amin616:
Hello I've been in xda for so many years but i wanna start being a developer now so where should i start digging ? any help would be appreciated .

i know there might be some other questions like mine but it requires a lot of time to read all the threads.

thanks in advance

Amin Omidi
[General Questions and Answers] Jalaj2201:
Need Urgent Help

Greetings

I am Jalaj from India. I am a student. I have a YU Yureka. I, unknowingly, wiped my internal storage and micro SD card in an attempt to restore the phone due to which the phone's OS deleted and therefore the phone won't boot. Furthermore, in order to fix this issue on my own, I flashed two random images of boot and recovery in the install option of the TWRP recovery menu because of which my recovery menu vanished and when I try to access the recovery menu it shows an android with an exclamation mark. I am in total despair and don't even have the slightest of idea what to do to get my phone back to normal. Please someone help me :(

Thanking in anticipation
[General Questions and Answers] Peregrinorum:
Stock LGMP450 Rom

I just made a backup of the stock rom for an LG Stylo 3 Plus (LGMP450) and I have no idea how to go about making it public. Can anyone help me with this, please?
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
•Find how to boot your phone info Fastboot mode (do a google search)

•Once you know how to boot into Fastboot, shutdown the phone and go to:

https://dl.twrp.me/tomato/twrp-3.1.1-0-tomato.img and click on the link that reads "Download twrp-3.1.1-0-tomato.img" to download the right TWRP for YU Yureka (You'll obviously be doing this either on a computer or on a different phone)

•Download and install minimal ADB and Fastboot drivers on a PC (again do a google search for that).

•In the installation folder of the ADB and Fastboot shells, do a right click and select "open a command window here"

•You'll now have a command prompt window in front of you. Now get your phone to the Fastboot mode and then connect it with the PC using a nice USB cable.

•On the PC, at the command prompt, type the following command:

fastboot devices

and press enter

If everything has been done correctly so for, then you should be able to see your device listed as connect in Fastboot mode at the command prompt.

Once this happens, copy the downloaded TWPR file that you had downloaded previously to the same folder where the ADB and Fastboot command shells are present and rename the copied file to : "twrp.img" (without the quotes off course)

•Now get back to the command prompt and type the following command:

fastboot flash twrp.img

It should show success.

•Now type the following command to reboot, and as soon the phone tries to restart, press the button combination to boot it into recovery(if you don't know the combination, just google it):

fastboot reboot

It's important to not let the phone boot normally and make it so that it goes to recovery directly after the first boot when you flash the recovery as sometimes, if you reboot normally after flashing then the bootloader/kernel reflashes the stock recovery in that scenario.

Once you do all this, post here again any anyone will easily be able to help you out.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
First of all, don't come here asking for someone to give you information because you think it is too much trouble to read through the threads yourself.

Since you have been here for years then you should know how to find what you're looking for here instead of being lazy like a noob asking for someone to hold their hand.

Get to searching, enjoy your reading.

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Can you boot to fastboot?

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[General Questions and Answers] larrys_:
Well I tried. No go. Heimdall would not install

imgur.com/6DWprPw

imgur.com/vT7jfbP

It said it was incompatible with this version of OSX.

I've got a gentoo box and freebsd. I've got a laptop that needs an OS.... any suggestions....how can I get this done?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
What OSX version do you have?

Install linux or Ubuntu on the laptop that needs an OS then use Hiemdall on linux. You can try windows on it also, you don't need a product key to install it, you can use Odin without activating windows.

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[General Questions and Answers] amin616:
Dear Droiddriven

You don't have to help neither bother yourself and tell me those sentences.

This lazy person works in an insurance company for 10 hours and 2 for doing sports and one more for reading so don't judge people that easy.

It could be enough if you'd have said start with java ! But trust me i don't your ethic lessons , if you're in charge you can block me, fire me or anything you want.

After all, any tiny help would be highly appreciated my friend
[General Questions and Answers] KuMbh:
CyanogenMod help

I flashed CM10.1-unofficial on my Xperia P. I can't seem to put the weather widget ( stock xperia widget, which I have already installed) onto the home screen. Its not even visible on widgets part of the menu. But it is visible in the Settings>Apps>Downloaded. One more thing I noticed is that whatever FM radio app I tried to run were "Stopped Unfortunately". Thank yu in advance for helping this n00b.
[General Questions and Answers] ozonclub:
Gionee Elife E5 custom rom

Have anyone tried to install any custom rom in Gionee Elife E5? Like MiUi for example. I see a lot of threat on E3 & Ed but didn't found much on E5 except for rooting :(...
[General Questions and Answers] ADDICT.ANK:
Use a flashable zip...Check the thread on making flashable zip put the original Bootanimation in there and flash it to the location...

It should definitely do the job
[General Questions and Answers] rahulmane080690:
Xperia Sl (LT26ii) got bricked

My Xperia SL got bricked after flashing with CWM which was not meant for my cell.

My phone does'nt get int flash mode not even getting LED. Nothing is happen.

please let me know what i can do??.
[General Questions and Answers] abbienormal:
I'm an idiot, Nabi 2 brick???

I should not do things that I'm clueless about. I'm aware of this. And I apologize profusely. Thanks in advance for your help.

About 4 months ago I got a used Nabi 2, so no warranty anyway. I got Gapps using the Victoria Antonio youtube video that says it's not a full root. When the OTA update came out about 3 weeks ago for the 2.1 release keys, I couldn't get it to update after the download. I didn't worry about it for a while, but got some time this morning and decided to walk through it again. I've read lots of forums, but can't figure out what to do.

I opened it up in TWRP, tried to install the OTA, but no luck. Then stupid me clicked the little square button in the upper right hand corner of the TWRP screen. It's now stuck (for the last hour anyway) with this on the screen:

* Verifying filesystems. . .

* Verifying partition sizes. . .

As you probably already know and is glaringly obvious to you, I can't get any buttons to work. It's stuck. I think I may have killed it. I know I'm an idiot, but I would appreciate any help you can give, preferably while using small words, as I think I've fried all my brain circuits this morning too.

Thanks much and, again, I'm sorry for being such a sterotypical noob.
[General Questions and Answers] Naineesh:
Re

checked already,.....android 3e recovery does not let me flash anything,.......:confused: :crying: :eek: :eek:

and now after so much frustration,.......i finally gave my phone to the service center,they told me my imei is not registered,...so no warranty,...i thought in mind,...there is no warranty anyway its rooted,...and i tested that person had no idea what root is,.....so they told me talk with the dealer,...i told them repair it ur way,..they said we will do,..but if its dead we are not responsible for it,.....i hope i did the right thing :eek: and i wish my phone get's normal again,.... :angel:

thank you very much [MENTION=5354640]ADDICT.ANK[/MENTION] for the help u did,..... :highfive: :good: THANK YOU
[General Questions and Answers] ADDICT.ANK:
U did it the right way just keep me osted for the cost of it.

Actually u can flash it urself by flash tools all needed was rom or kernel and even i couldn't find it...

And ur welcome for that...

Ur ph. will be alright..also ask them to give u a rom for the ph..Or we can extract it later...for case like this.

Post me and don't worry..

They'll flash the device.with stock rom

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Press the keys together for resetting

power + vol up and home if you have it...keep them pressed for a while and wait till it reboots...

or pull the battery out..

then from recovery make a backup 1st and clear cache then reboot

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reset it with power + vol up till three vibes..

If not the plug in to pc and see if it charges via pc...

Also after that plug in and keep vol up key pressed to check the fastboot mode is working or not...

Also retry for flash mode again..

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the widgets are incompatible so there would be conflict between them and cm rom..

And try fixing permissions and clear the data of the apps that are not working from settings..

So for widget use the cm compatible version
[General Questions and Answers] DJ's life:
I'm sorry I'm Italian but I really like the portal. I would like to inserirmi in some Nn tread but can not. I also read the initial posts but do not quite understand the speech .. Can you help?
[General Questions and Answers] DirtyBiz:
Volume problems with Slim Bean

I have an HTC One and have been running all of the previous Slim Bean Roms, and am up to date on their software. The problem I am having is that in every build when I am using the phone and the volume is either all the way down (vibrate) or all the way up if I try to use the volume rocker to move around (lower or raise the volume) the volume is stuck in the position it was initially in. To fix this I then have to use my finger and drag the volume slider a little then I can now use the volume rocker buttons. Has anyone encountered this with roms they are running or with the Slim Bean rom? Any one have an idea about a fix?
[General Questions and Answers] prav3955:
how to flash

how to flash custom rom ...will that change device performance
[General Questions and Answers] abbienormal:
Thank you!

Thanks for the patient explanation! I really appreciate it, and I've got things back to normal. The day I have to wake up hours before dawn with my toddler is not the day for me to fiddle with things too complicated for my brain.

Could you direct me to some (again, simple) tips of how to update my Nabi 2 to the 2.1 OTA update without getting rid of Gapps? I've read through the forums, but can't find anything that explains it well enough for me. Sorry and many thanks again!
[General Questions and Answers] Keshdirock:
Thanks for advise. Could you please tell me step by step instructions. Appreciate
[General Questions and Answers] Tim Gurney:
@ADDICT.ANK Great news

Hi there - Star N9776 from Sunday

You asked me to post results. Well success! I actually managed to find a usb driver that sort of worked and then flashed cwm recovery using sp flash tool. Then flashed a system image to the phone and voila. Fully operational. I will back up and root when phone is recharged. But just wanted you to know. It feels GOOD:victory: Many thanks for making me believe:good:
[General Questions and Answers] barclac:
Hi, I wonder if you might help. I've got a galaxy express gt-i8730 .i'm rooted but at the moment there is no custom recovery. So how can I backup my current stock rom .thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Rick299:
Ringtone folder location

I am using hyperdrive with ss on my galaxy s4 and would like to know where the ringtone folder is.
[General Questions and Answers] nathanotis:
This is a question about the forum itself... I've noticed sub forums under all the devices I've used titled; "Android Development" and, "Original Android Development".

What's the difference?