yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] splscs:
Sony Xperia U network unlock

It's probably a n00b question so apologies in advance, but if I root / bootloader unlock and Cyanogenmod flash an Android phone that's locked to a certain network, will that network lock be removed along with the official default Android ROM? Or is the lock at something like a BIOS level (or whatever the smartphone equivalent of a BIOS is)?

I bought a pre-unlocked Xperia U about a year ago that I've been using on Vodafone and had to return it under warranty (got stuck in a boot loop despite the fact that it's totally unmodified, not even rooted, honest!) and the replacement they sent back is locked to Virgin Mobile. They're telling me that the phone I sent them was originally sold to Virgin in France and locked to Virgin before I bought it, and that they've therefore fulfilled their responsibility. So I'm just wondering now about unlocking, and I've always been curious anyway about how / if bootloader unlocking, custom ROMs etc are related to network unlocking.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide with this!
[General Questions and Answers] ozonclub:
Yes brow it worked like charm!
[General Questions and Answers] daddymikal90:
non wifi or 3g calling and texting app

Im new to this forum but i read how to root my droid x from here and it worked perfectly. What im wanting to know is if there is an app for android for free calling and texting, that doesnt require 3g/4g or wifi. An app that can allow free calling and texting using only my phones regular phone signal.
[General Questions and Answers] umer.yamin.9:
Latest stock ROM, don't want to root yet.
[General Questions and Answers] Triple999:
I have no idea how to check checksums to be honest sorry (
[General Questions and Answers] godkingofcanada:
Ok so I just contact the paranoid android team basically. Thanks :)

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Was also you would point me in the direction of a how to for upgrading a ROM to a newer android version. Unless I just take the nougat cm or aosp base and add the PA files into it? I asked for permission already I'm just waiting on a reply. Even if they say yes I'm not sure I want to really release it lol. It's kind of just something I took on as a personal challenge to learn
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You'll need to compile the nougat ROM from AOSP or CM/Lineage nougat source or even use the PA source that was used to build the PA ROM you mentioned and just update the source to build nougat then use that new PA nougat source to compile a ROM.

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[General Questions and Answers] godkingofcanada:
Thank you. That's my new project

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I got a reply from them saying I can learn from a site how to compile a rom for a device that doesn't have support, they have no s5 repo. So I'm guessing that's their way of saying if I want to do it then go learn and do it.

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I got a reply from them saying I can learn from a site how to compile a rom for a device that doesn't have support, they have no s5 repo. So I'm guessing that's their way of saying if I want to do it then go learn and do it.

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I got a reply from them saying I can learn from a site how to compile a rom for a device that doesn't have support, they have no s5 repo. So I'm guessing that's their way of saying if I want to do it then go learn and do it.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You said that you already had a ROM that you wanted to work on that already existed. I meant for you to contact the person that made that ROM to ask THEM for permission to use the work that THEY did. I did not say to contact the PA team. You need the stuff that was used to build that ROM, ask the person that did it, the OP of the thread should be who you need to talk to.

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[General Questions and Answers] godkingofcanada:
That's the thing. It came off of a filesharing server. No name. No name in the ROM at all. There's literally no info about who made the ROM. I asked if they know but they have never supported klte. So whoever it was uploaded the files to share but didn't leave any contact or name.

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The mof at the PA forum didn't think I'd be able to use the lollipop Rom to make a nougat one and told me to do my own basically.

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The mof at the PA forum didn't think I'd be able to use the lollipop Rom to make a nougat one and told me to do my own basically.
[General Questions and Answers] Amaan007:
How to enable otg on huawei y6
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
If you're rooted and your device has the hardware to support OTG, you can use the Stick Mount app at the PlayStore.

Or use a custom ROM or Kernel that has OTG support.

If your device does not have the hardware to support OTG then there is nothing you can do regardless of what software or mods you use.

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[General Questions and Answers] napsterworks:
Into a Stock Firmware, rooted phone, Lenovo vibe p1m,

Problem : Hardware keys mapping is not proper, long press gives access to recents list whereas i want recent list to appear when i press menu key once.

Solutions that i tried:

1. This is an app i tried (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.homebutton&hl=en), it worked alright, but when this app is removed from recents list the effect of hardware buttons goes away and then again i have to grant the buttons mapper accessibility and keep it in recents list. I tried making it a system app by relocating the app folder into /system/priv-app. Same problem persists...

2. I tried doing this... to hide the app from recents drawer... It did not work or maybe i did it wrong since i am to new to these sort of things.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdU4zLSdZ-k

Should i edit build.prop to remap hardware keys since i am rooted?What might solve this problem? help? thanks in advance :)
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
People have reported success with this method:

https://xdaforums.com/att-galaxy-s7/how-to/g930a-android-n-offical-odin-package-t3567801

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[Guide] How to calculate checksum md5 in windows

More info: https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1238217
[General Questions and Answers] :
build/tools/device/mkvendor.sh missing from these repos:

repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-6.0.0_r1
repo init -u https://github.com/omnirom/android.git -b android-6.0
repo init -u git://github.com/minimal-manifest-twrp/platform_manifest_twrp_omni.git -b twrp-6.0

I have deleted repo folder and synced again because I thought I messed up. Went to the AOSP site and the device folder that is supposed to be in build/tools isn't there. Every tutorial I have read for the past two months references build/tools/devices/mkvendor.sh. Google give me the same information the guides & tuts give. I searched XDA threads and no one else is having this problem. I have searched on every notable and not so notable sites similar to XDA and no information is available. Looked for it on my computer using

find / -name mkvendor.sh 2> /dev/null

and it is not found, not even in the directories I setup for the ROMs and TWRP. The devices directory is not in Google Source Android 6.0.0_r1 or for the 7.0, 4.4, and other branches.

What do I do now?

Where can I get mkvendor.sh and the device directory from?

Is there a "new" command or way to get the same results that mkvendor.sh does?
[General Questions and Answers] Mitusek5445:
How to install stock 6.0.1 rom on Samsung J5?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I'm not sure if this is what you need or not, I'm not a developer so I don't know if you need a specific mkvendor.sh or not, but I found this:

https://sourceforge.net/u/lluct/me7...b8c92c43f/tree/build/tools/device/mkvendor.sh

What is your device model number?

If I'm understanding you correctly, here is a link to check out.

https://zifnab.net/~zifnab/wiki_dump/Doc:_porting_intro.html

Read on this page where it describes using mkvendor.sh script to generate skeleton files.

Note that it says it requires 3 parameters in the command:

1) vendor

2) codename of the device

3) boot.img(place a copy of your device's boot.img on PC somewhere)

For my wife's Nexus 5(hammerhead) it would be:

$ ./build/tools/device/mkvendor.sh hammerhead (path to boot.img stored on PC)

Also, some device don't have a standard boot.img, the mkvendor.sh script doesn't work on those. If your device is one that doesn't have a standard boot.img then this won't work for you, you'll have to research what has to be done differently for device with a non standard boot.img.

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Find the firmware for your exact model number then flash that firmware via Odin.

Or, you might can use Samsung SmartSwitch.

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[General Questions and Answers] :
Found a site like that. Because the device folder is not in any git repos, I downloaded the whole device folder and put it in build/tools/. In the process of converting it for my device. I am studying a few different device trees so I can make the {device,vendor}/blu/vivo_xl2/*.mk files manually. Almost done with that.

Phone: BLU Vivo XL2 V0070UU

Version: BLU_V0070UU_V07_GENERIC_6.0_25-11-2016 –full_gionee6737t_66_m0-user 6.0 MRA58K

Build Number: MRA58K

Kernel: 3.18.19

Baseband Version: MOLY.LR9.W1444.MD.LWTG.MP.V94.P26, 2016/09/19 10:21

Custom Build Version: BLU_V0070UU_V07_GENERIC_6.0_25-11-2016

Recovery: Ported TWRP 3.0 by Jemmini

Root: SR3-SuperSU-v2.79-SR3-20170114223742

I bookmarked and read all of that.

Seems to be the case for me. Managed to hack the stock boot.img to get adb to run in root mode. Although every the tutorial I read fail, I managed to extract the dtb and made a dts file, got partition layouts, got ProjectConfig.mk and other seemingly useful files from phone. Just need the kernel sources. From my research, BLU is going to give problems and delay as much as they can.

On the quest again, these repos ain't gonna fork themselves,*8-bit video game music playing in the background.
[General Questions and Answers] 421cookies:
help adding google account without have to logging in

there is a game that i play which need me to have gmail that registered with the game account signed in to be able to transfer account. unfortunately i can't access my old email that registered with the game account anymore. i have contacted the game's support service but they said they cannot change the registered email.

so i'm now thinking if there is maybe any way to mock the game to think that that email is signed in the device. anyone who have any idea on how to do it please your answer.

thank you in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] pixel989:
About!

Where can i find (Information About rom) i search in build.prop but there is nothing! Image attached!

Thank you!
[General Questions and Answers] ahmedpatel81:
Same files reappear after deletion.

Hi guys

There are two files which keep on appearing in the internal storage downloads folder of my Galaxy S7. No matter how many times I delete the two files they just keep on reappearing within a couple of hours with the same file name. I have scanned them with an antivirus and they are clean. How do I find out which application is causing these two files to reappear?

Device info

Root: no root

Android version: 7.0

Kernal version: 3.18.14-11104523

Thanks :):)
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
A Google search of the file names reveals that they're related to Snapchat. It is unknown what they're for, because if you create a zero-length file of the same name, then change permissions to make it unwritable, Snapchat continues to work normally.
[General Questions and Answers] ahmedpatel81:
Thanks for the assist.

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Hi guys

I got a Samsung Galaxy C5 currently running Android 6.0.1. When I try to do an OTA update it just keeps on failing. The update file downloads and when I try to install it the phone reboots into recovery mode then a blue screen appears which reads applying Android update then it gets to about 25% and fails, shows the dead android mascot with the yellow exclamation point and the phone restarts and I get a popup stating that the firmware update failed. I have redownloaded the update multiple times and have tried the following to try and get it installed:

1. Removed memory card and try to install update

2. Factory reset phone and try to install update

3. Wipe cache partition and try to install update

4. Enabled developer options and tried to install the update with both OEM unlock turned on and off.

5. Tried to install the update immediately after the download completes.

6. Tried to install the update whilst the phone was charging and also when it wasn't charging.

Also when I connect the phone to smart switch no software update is detected (it says I have the latest firmware) but the phone is recognised.

In all cases the battery had more than 70% of charge left and there was more than 5GB free of internal storage.

Below is some more device information:

OS version: Android 6.01

Root status: no root

Model number: SM-C5000

Bootloader version: C5000ZHUIAPI2

Kernel version: 3.10.84-8450604 dpi@SWDD6302 #1 32-BIT

Build number: MMB29M.C5000ZHU1API2

What could be the reason for the update failing to install?

Thanks in advance :):):).
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
It says you have the latest firmware but the update might be just a security patch or a modem or bootloader upgrade, the update probably isn't a system/firmware/version update.

Try searching to see if the update can be downloaded in a stock update.zip that can be flashed in stock recovery, store the update.zip on the device then boot to recovery using the button combination. Then select the "apply update from sdcard" then find the update.zip apply and flash it.

Or search to see if the update can be downloaded and flashed via Odin.

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[General Questions and Answers] ahmedpatel81:
Hi

Do I need to have root status to do either of these procedures and will either of these procedures result in a format of the device?

Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] pig_slay:
Hi everyone, I'll just ask if I can use custom ROMs and Recoveries that are not for my phone? I can, however, find a phone that is similar to my phone

What I have:

Cloudfone Thrill Power

5,000 MAH

1 GB RAM

4 GB Internal ROM

Dual sim

Quadcore

Android 6.0
[General Questions and Answers] theimpulson:
I shouldn't recommend you that. It can have your device bricked. However I did a same experiment as you seek to do and fortunately my device didn't bricked. Still don't do that unless you got a a spare device and have a good cash!. :silly:
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
No, stock updates don't require root, in fact, applying stock updates on a rooted device tends to soft brick it.

Applying stock update won't wipe anything unless you choose to wipe.

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[General Questions and Answers] aviralrstg:
It won't work. The only case in which it can work is if a rebranded version of your phone(the exact same phone) has a recovery. For example, Gionee E7 is the same phone as IUNI U8 and Discovery Elite which means if you have a Rom or recovery for any one of those phones, it will work on all of them. For finding similar phone, most important part to match is the EXACT specific processor.
[General Questions and Answers] Frankie Bananas:
You thought you'd seen Noobs before.....

Lots of great questions and helpful answers here but I'm not even to the point of asking a specific, 'how to' question yet. Far from it. This is more of a, 'do I even understand the concept correctly' kind of question. Understand that you are dealing with someone who believes a kernel is some one who enjoys a certain military rank or a very small piece of corn. To me a driver is someone who provides me transportation to my destination while I sit in the backseat and enjoy an adult beverage. I'm not even certain I've posted this correctly.

In any case, here's where I am with things and what I'd like to accomplish. It wasn't until just recently that Google became so intrusive that they've decided it would be best for me if they take pics off my phone and transfer them to the cloud for their enjoyment whether I like it or not. Yes, I've turned off auto-sync, uninstalled/disabled every google app I can, it makes no difference. As long as I maintain a Gmail account, they are in my phone. Of course deleting your Gmail account keeps you from the Play Store. So I've decided that rooting may be my only solution.

So.......do I even understand the concept of rooting correctly? When you root a phone, all you've really done is to grant yourself permission to go make a bunch of changes you wouldn't have been able to previously. While I love the idea of getting rid of things like Facebook, Skype, Hangouts and such, the real objective is to rid myself of Google. But yet the same ROM you began with prior to root, the one the depends so heavily on certain Google apps to run properly, still remains. So I'm not free to just begin wiping Google apps away yet. I guess that's where the, 3rd party, custom ROMs come in (Hopefully I can find one without flame breathing dragons and bloody zombies. I just ain't that cool anymore). Presumably they are not dependent on Google to function properly. Is my understanding of rooting sorta, kinda, somewhere close to being right? Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] strongst:
Yes, your understanding of rooting is correct! You get administrative access to delete pre-installed apps or to install apps that need administrative rights.

Custom roms don't come with root privileges in general. It's also up to you if you "root" them. To install a custom rom you need an unlocked bootloader and a custom recovery to install not signed(custom) roms on your device. That's an easy explanation of what you're asking :)
[General Questions and Answers] godkingofcanada:
I'm gonna wing it on this question. I'm on an s5, ressurection remix 5.8.3 7.1.2 nougat. I can boot marshmallow Roms. Lollipop Roms and a kit kat ROM. Kit cat has no wifi. Lollipop works but the wifi is glitchy. And with KitKat I boot loop a few times before it works. Is this because I'm not supposed to be able to boot below 6.0 with the mm bootloader or is it just the Roms?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
More than likely it's the ROMs, custom ROMs are rarely perfect creations.

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[General Questions and Answers] godkingofcanada:
Is there a limit as to how far I can go? Or can i go from 1.0 to 7.1?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You're only limited by what is available.

Some custom ROMs require certain bootloaders but that doesn't effect how far back you can go(that I know of), it can effect how far you can go forward if you don't have the bootloader those ROMS require. Some devices only require updating the modem(radio). Also, some ROMs even require repartitioning the sdcard to allow for larger partitions so that the ROM has enough room to fit.

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[General Questions and Answers] Frankie Bananas:
Thx!

That clears it up a bit. I guess I had thought the point behind a custom ROM was it's inherent, built-in flexibility. Since I'm not after a new look or any real change in functionality, like adding edge features, I guess the thing to do is to root the stock ROM, stick with that, and then just declutter and de-Google it as best I possibly can. I don't care about losing things like Samsung Pay but I see that lots of custom ROMs can cause issues with Wi-Fi calling and the like, which I don't want to lose. Thanks for the GetBack!
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Some devices have modified stock ROMs that are stock(not custom), trimmed down with some extra features such as better audio, and other features that make stock way better than official stock. These aren't prone to issues like the custom ROMs are because they are based in the actual stock ROM and stock kernel, just tweaked to have other working features without disturbing the stock functionality.

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[General Questions and Answers] brill_e:
How can i make uploads? have a twrp recovery and supersu.zip for the zte blade a910
[General Questions and Answers] pig_slay:
Thanks! So what do you think should I do if I want to install a custom Rom and Recovery?
[General Questions and Answers] bantu97:
IP adress: unavailable, bluetooth adress: unavailable, IMEI; unknown

trying to help a friend who bought this secondhand samsung galaxy s5 model sm-g900p. it was working just fine until he decided t factory reset it. Now there no access to mobile and cellular data , and in the settings phone status shows the following info ; mobile network type :unknown, service state: out of service, mobile network state: disconnected, IMEI: unknown, IMEISV:00, IP address: unavailable, bluetooth address: unavailable

REALY NEED YOUR HELP GUYS.
[General Questions and Answers] theimpulson:
Search your device in Google. Most devices got a XDA thread. Use Xposed and to flash it without recovery use Chainfire's FlashFire and SuperSu
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Do a Google search for:

"Custom recovery for (your model number)"

And

"Custom ROM for (your model number)"

If you don't find anything then they probably don't exist.

If they don't exist, these are your options:

1) wait until someone builds a recovery and ROMs for your model.

2) learn to build a recovery and ROMs for yourself.

3) root your device then the Xposed Framework if it is available for your android version and/or CPU architecture(the type of processor your device has)

To root your device:

Do a Google search for:

"How to root (your model number)"

If that doesn't find anything then there isn't a known method to root your device.

To find Xposed for your device, do a Google search for:

"Xposed Framework for (your CPU architecture)"

The framework that you use must be for the android version that you're using. It is best to flash the framework in custom recovery instead of using the flashing apps, they aren't as safe as using recovery.

Also, if you use Flashfire or some other flashing app to flash the framework, be warned, this doesn't work on all devices.

If it doesn't work, you'll probably have to flash your stock firmware via PC and Flashtool to recover your device. If your stock firmware isn't available to the public for download then you might not want to try Xposed Framework because if you have issues you won't be able to recover your device.

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Are you sure that all he did was a factory reset?

He can try using Samsung SmartSwitch to repair the device.

Or

Do a Google search for:

"Return to stock SM-G900P"

That should find links to the stock firmware for the device, the tools to flash it and the instructions for how to do it. Make sure the firmware is the newest version available for the device and that it is for his country/region/carrier.