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[General Questions and Answers] Oliver541:
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[General Questions and Answers] Ibuprophen:
The real answers to these questions are probably known by very few members in the XDA Forum if any at all.

Your best bet in locating an accurate answer is by asking Google themselves via the Google Product Forum and/or the Google Play Store Forum.

I feel that your more likely to receive an assumption here on XDA because there's so much to the legal angle to whom owns what and does probably involve legal loopholes as well.

I, personally, believe that this is the best answer you're going to receive in various ways.

Good Luck!

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[General Questions and Answers] Weegee1:
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[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Flash your stock rom again with official tool (this is a generic solution), look at this models http://southerntelecom.com/polaroidsupport/firmware/
[General Questions and Answers] Weegee1:
I tried this but I don't know how to flash it. Adb sideload says signature verification failed
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
can you tel us more to someone can help; what SoC/chipset sports? and what tool do you use? your device never powered on? enabled options OEM unlocking and USB debug?
[General Questions and Answers] Weegee1:
My device will come on but won't boot past polaroid screen. I don't know what chipset you're talking about
[General Questions and Answers] johnick:
Unlock bootloader of Lenovo a1000m

Hello

Does anybody know if it is possible to unblock the bootloader of Lenovo A1000M?

I have tried the command oem unlock but nothing happened.

I also tried to root the device using applications like kingoroot but no luck.

Installing of custom recovery with Carliv image kitchen also failed.

Any help is welcome.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Download your stock rom if it is in the link, first look up your exactly model in the box and here is a guide to flashing Polaroid, compare files and check the boxes in the tool https://youtu.be/SdqySrpwFDA

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Are you in lollipop? upload your stock recovery, maybe can help you and sometimes works command "fastboot oem unlock-go"
[General Questions and Answers] johnick:
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Yes I'm in lollipop 5.1

The command fastboot oem unlock-go gives me three dots and that's all.

I upload the stock recovery image.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Mindralex:
Can't install S7 ROMs

I have an S7, SM-G930F, and I rooted it to install Batman ROM.

I followed Shark Jungle's guide, updated bootloader twrp and everything

Wipe the data, install the ROM and reboot

When I reboot, the phone is stuck on "Samsung Galaxy S7, powered by android"

I tried to root it again and the same thing

Rooted it via Max's Lee tutorial

The phone is working with just Magisk installed, but can't install any rom

Can anyone help me ?
[General Questions and Answers] Oliver541:
Thank you very much. One more thing, this will juat be a quicky, more like a general fact that situational.

Are all forks or derivative works from opensource materials, necessarily going to be opensource as well or it can be copyrighted ?

Thanks again ?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
As the other user says many of these issues are applicable to the legal aspect and although it can not be answered with absolute certainty by third parties but by the same Google we must assume that there are general principles that govern to take into account:

- Several of the applications of Google are developed under the principle of open source, this means that several elements that compose it come from here, but you can almost always see that there are aspects that are added to it and give that touch of Google (or of another company) that makes it recognizable and for that reason the final product will be subject to certain licenses under common rules of use that will be imposed by the manufacturer or its free distribution which is but to facilitate the access to them and that is implicitly allowed under the conditions of proper use and free redistribution in turn. I think there are no explicit agreements in the different hosts of applications or wallpapers across the internet but whenever you are subject to these rules somehow Google and other brands allow because it is also advertising for them (I bought a Xiaomi after a time to use Miui in my Galaxy Note 3) When a developer includes certain apps in custom roms if they are free it would be correct but it changes the thing when being paid and it would not be correct to include them. I think that you can not defragment an application (except for legal needs) by determining which part is the owner of the designer and which is not; much of these evidently come from open source but the final product and the use that is going to give it is owned by the publisher and also are duly digitally signed, the manufacturer to take the trouble to develop an application although some parts come from open source is finally who acquires the rights to the final product, take as an example an application of wallpapers containing an image of "La Gioconda", the photographer will own his work (photography) because it is his seal and its imprint even when this work of art is a legacy to humanity, it will be this photographer who imposes the levels of restriction of use, distribution and / or gratuity on his work.
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
See that is a huge grey area here. Mainly with many here breaking copyrights, it is not something that is overly worried about here.

As for "• Are the wallpapers, widgets and special features in Pixel 2 proprietary? What parts of it's software is not opensource ? what components are proprietary or otherwise?"

Many things in the base system for the oixel are closed sourced and if you built off of AOSP you would notice some things missing.
[General Questions and Answers] Ibuprophen:
Did you post this question within the following thread for further guidance with the Batman ROM?

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3635529

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[General Questions and Answers] reycute21:
Guys what is the compatible costum rom for o plus 8.38z
[General Questions and Answers] johnick:
I repost it because I think I did something wrong with previous post...

Yes I'm in lollipop 5.1

The command fastboot oem unlock-go gives me three dots and that's all.

I upload the stock recovery image.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] toarpad:
Bootloop, again.. (CM/Lineage based roms atleast)

There are some apps in the play store that cause bootloop on CM/Lineage based roms, but I don't know what's the pattern behind it.. Does anyone else encountered something similar in the past days/week? (5.1 and 6.0 versions)
[General Questions and Answers] one-dev:
[Help] Data Recovery after wipe? no much much operation after that

Hi,

more details here: https://xdaforums.com/general/help/help-recover-wiped-data-unlock-entered-t3693148

I did "./fastboot oem unlock" without expecting it will wipe the data.

But didn't do anything with smartphone after that, hope data sits there.

How can I recovery my userdata?

Smartphone is OnePlus One 64G, with unlocked bootloader now

My plan was to boot into fastboot with TWRP "./fastboot boot twrp-with-adb.img" and with

"adb pull myuserdata-disk" run there to copy the /userdata partition to computer and after that run some data recovery utility over that.

Are there better solution? Some readily available recovery tool for Android, stable, opensource and powerful. Like TestDisk-recovery-image but for Android?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Your recovery.img gives me error, maybe it`s not exactly same. Did you check this thread? https://xdaforums.com/general/general/lenovo-a1000-smartphone-reference-t3591955 it`s about your device, take a look
[General Questions and Answers] KillaMD:
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[General Questions and Answers] Galaxy droid fan 7:
Okay the icon notification badges( the red ones) coming from my email app the[ default client on Android ] are driving me crazy and cluttering up my" communication" folder where I have access to shortcuts like Textfree, email, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Etc. On My Galaxy Tab 3 smt 310 running Android 4.4.2 stock ROM with root. Is there a FREE app I can use to disable the red badges on just my email app while still keeping all the other email notification functions intact? As I said before I have root access so that's not an issue but the app has to be free. Any help would be greatly appreciated :) PS I also have exposed module installed just FYI
[General Questions and Answers] snowleopardmike:
what exactly is xinternalsd for? can i use it to install mc5 on sd card?
[General Questions and Answers] johnick:
This tread is about Lenovo A1000.

My device is A1000m but I will take a look.

Thanks for your time and your help.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I can`t decompile your recovery and boot, they`re necessary to port a custom recovery. it gives an error in ramdisc.cpio, maybe anyone else know the method to do it (didn`t work carliv, kitchen, thai developer). Meanwhile you can try flashing a recovery for A1000 that is close similar to your device and has same mountpoints and from here root, backup and install a custom rom (there are many) to port
[General Questions and Answers] johnick:
When I used carliv to unpack the image and take the files I had an error because it couldn't find the ANDROID!.So I used hexed editor and removed everything before ANDROID!(maybe deleted important files) and after that used again carliv and it worked...I took ramdisk and all the files and followed the guide I found on xda of how to create a custom recovery twrp.So I created the custom recovery but I couldn't flash it...
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
And did you ported from other similar? you must replace specifically kernel from other similar to your device cause mountpoint are generic in a lot of mtk (mt65xx and other for mt67xx) and also for SPD chipsets. (provide the link to take a look). If you get flash recovery is not so difficult port a rom for your device and I ported many for mtk, I could give a try with this. If you think that your recovery was properly repacked you have 2 options to flashing; first; through fastboot typing in cmd and putting recovery.img in adb folder "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" and second with official SPD Upgrade Tool put your entire .pac rom and push option download when finish you find inside folder ImageFiles all the files and replace recovery.img keeping same name if recovery-signed (maybe you can delete all the rest of files to not flash all, trying first creating inside a Temp file and put the rest here), completed operation and closing tool all the files dissapear.
[General Questions and Answers] o0adam0o:
What is a good easy way to change the icon on apps to any image i want? I want to change the icon in the system.

I have a Nova icon pack. The icon pack has icons for most of my apps. Whenever it doesnt have a specific icon it will add an overlay(?) to the original system(?) icon to make it look similar. I dont like how some of them came out so i would like a way to change the icon for the apps in the actual system that way the icon pack can give it a better result when it adds the overlay.

I hope that made sense

Specs:

S7E - Not Rooted - 7.0 - Nova Launcher

Any help is appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] JocelynSachs:
Very poor GLES2.0 performance on Android - why?

I thought I'd start by asking in this thread, as it's my first post :)

I'm currently helping develop a game using a cross-platform language for iOS and Android. The upshot is that pretty much exactly the same GL calls are made on both platforms, in the same order, using the same resources (textures, models etc).

On an iPod6, the game runs and renders inside 11ms - well within the time needed for 60fps. On an iPhone6s, it finishes in under 8ms.

On a Note 5, however (with the game tuner screen set to 1920x1080), I'm unable to hit 60fps. There seem to be no useful graphics profiling tools available, so I'm forced to guess based on how much I have to strip from the scene to GET 60fps, but I'd estimate 20-30ms per frame. And that's AFTER I discovered (and corrected for) the fact that the Android GLES implementation isn't smart enough to realise a full-screen scissor rectangle means the previous frame's data can be discarded.

As you can surmise from the frame times on iOS, the game is not doing anything especially onerous. A few off-screen render buffers, a handful of 3D objects and some 2D sprites. 200 draw calls, tops.

What I'm wondering is: have I missed something else Android-specific (like needing to disable GL_SCISSOR_TEST before calling glClear in order to avoid a logical buffer load), or is native-compiled middleware like Unity the only way to get half-decent performance out of an Android device?

Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] theeflash1:
Really sorry to bother you with this matter but I'm trying to post to : Rikomagic 5th MK802 IIIS Bluetooth Dual Core CPU Android 4.1.1 Mini PC TV Box HD I have bought this new and do not how to do anything with it please help if you can
[General Questions and Answers] AmiablySoulless:
USB (Device descriptor request failed)

My Windows 10 desktop gets the error "Unknown USB (Device Descriptor Request Failed)" when I plug in my HTC One M8 running AOKP 7.1.2

My Windows 10 computer recognizes other android devices no problem (I tried some that have been plugged in before and some new ones to see if it pulls drivers which it does)

My HTC One M8 is recognized by other Windows 10 computers which it hadn't previously been plugged into.

The only problem that seems to reside is all of a sudden my HTC One M8 doesn't seem compatible with my specific Windows 10 Machine.

I've tried uninstalling and installing HTC drivers like an insane person. I'm not really sure where to go from here but i'm thinking maybe i need to erase some key or something on the device and the computer so they forget that they've ever talked before?

I could really use some help, or at least some direction!

Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] Manoj00:
Custom rom for intex cloud m6 16gb (2gb ram 16 gb internal memory. Cortex quad-core processor.....
A7

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Pls I request you ?????????
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Sometimes it solves installing official tool for device, in this case HTC Sync Manager
[General Questions and Answers] tweakguy:
in the developer options of your device, theres an option called "advanced restart" enable it and you should be good to go. if you dont know how to enable developer options, go to settings, about phone and tap on the build number 7 times. if the developer options in your phone do not have the option of an advanced restart, try flashing a custom rom like lineagOS.
[General Questions and Answers] DragonFire1024:
If rooted, Gravitybox also adds the option to boot to recovery through the power menu.
[General Questions and Answers] sanguinesaintly:
In the User Profile Statistics page, users' last login time is shown as "31st December 1969 11:00 PM". Anyone know what's going on here ?
[General Questions and Answers] one-dev:
Are there any ways to recover, extract my user data after wipe by "fastboot oem unlock" on OnePlus One CyanogenMod 11 ??
[General Questions and Answers] Fobos531:
Not really, the unlocking of the bootloader wipes your phone clean.
[General Questions and Answers] 93fuelslut:
Quick question guys. Some days Android system, Spotify and BT will only pull like 4%. And some days it'll pull this crazy amount. Any ideas why some days it'll pull more than others?

And would I need Better battery stats to see exactly what are the items listed under Android system? Because I don't know what they are and how to address them, like "fused location".

Google pixel XL

Rooted

Pure Nexus

Stock kernel
[General Questions and Answers] Raresh T:
Just saw some news about youtube go. Tried it, runs fast and feels snappy.

Can we mod this app in order to make it more data usage & battery friendly ?

1. Amoled black instead of white

2. White font instead of black

3. Instead of showing the video, can we only show the thumbnail in order to reduce data streamed ?

I might solve the first two myself, but i m lost at the third. Have anyone any idea if it is even possible ?
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
Instead of showing a thumbnail, you can just limit the resolution. There won't be a noticeable difference in battery life between showing a 144px video over 2" vs. 5" of screen space, it's the same data being streamed.
[General Questions and Answers] kos25k:
hello.is it possible when I have connected my tablet via mhl or wifi mirroring to my tv..to have my screen off for battery saving?thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Shadow Sphynx:
Titanium Backup is not working properly. I just installed Titanium Backup in my device with Lineage OS 14. But initially I was not able to set the storage path to my external SD card. I was doing this because my phone is always low in internal storage. By using Filesystem storage option, when I reached the external SD card it said that "This folder is not writable." Filesystem Storage - media option only showed the internal storage. Also whenever I clicked on the DocumentProvider Storage, I got this: https://imgur.com/a/pCJ8I

Then I made a small backup and copied that to a folder in external SD card so that the Detect option can automatically get this location. But then I am getting this: https://imgur.com/a/T1iMI and when I try to make a backup I get "Insufficient storage" error.

What should I do?

I am currently using Moto E condor.

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MemoryInfo-SwapCheck is not working. I installed this application for a swap file check. But whenever I open it, it gets stuck on the screen where I can only see: Roehsoft International ©2017.

After some time the whole phone gets stuck there.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the application but with the same results.

What should I do?

I am having Moto E (condor).

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MemoryInfo-SwapCheck is not working. I installed this application for a swap file check. But whenever I open it, it gets stuck on the screen where I can only see: Roehsoft International ©2017.

After some time the whole phone gets stuck there.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the application but with the same results.

What should I do?

I am having Moto E (condor).
[General Questions and Answers] fadival:
I need some help for the seo of my app, actually i have already done that but it isn't working, done adwords compaigns twice but downloads are not boosting and keywords still not ranked in top 250. Someone with app ASO experience here :confused:

App link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ime&pcampaignid=APPU_1_xbP3WYvZBszfgAaooq2ABQ
[General Questions and Answers] potan:
Hi, i have a question. If i change my phone IMEI to a modem IMEI will my phone atill work normally like it used to be?
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
Android no longer lets you give permission for any old app to read & write to the entire SD card. So you have you use a file explorer app (or terminal or adb) to create the following folder:

/storage/3E85-07E5/Android/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup
​

...and give the app permission to write in that folder.

:good:
[General Questions and Answers] Shadow Sphynx:
MemoryInfo-SwapCheck is not working. I installed this application for a swap file check. But whenever I open it, it gets stuck on the screen where I can only see: Roehsoft International ©2017.

After some time the whole phone gets stuck there.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the application but with the same results.

What should I do?

I am having Moto E (condor).
[General Questions and Answers] GKL1520:
Need help remote connecting windows phone to router

Okay, first let me say any ideas are appreciated, but from my research so far the solution I need might be a real challenge for anyone, even the very tech savvy !

Let me first tell you what I am trying to do and the equipment I am trying to do it with.

All I want to do is to have just one ip network security camera on my home LAN that we can view remotely with our windows phones when we are away from our home WIFI and need to use our data plan.** Sounds simple right ?, but further down you'll see what obstacles I am running into !

Here is*our equipment:

Windows Phones:* Nokia Lumia 1520 and Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE (both running Windows mobile 8.1)

VPN* Router:* ASUS RT-ACRH13*

IP Camera:* HIKVISION DS-2CD2342WD-I**

The easy and simple solution would be if there was a windows phone client for OpenVPN but as far as I know there is not any yet.

Now (unless I'm mistaken) I'm finding out the windows phones vpn option "L2TP over IPsec" requires the vpn router to have a "L2TP over IPsec" server and it seems consumer class vpn routers only have OpenVPN servers which windows phones can't connect to and the business class vpn routers that do have a "L2TP over IPsec" server are way too expensive (over $200 and up) for the average home user on a budget and especially for me being retired on social security.

I have been asking for help on an ip camera forum but so far the only safe solutions offered were switching to android phones (not an option as our windows phones are fairly new) or getting a very expensive business class router, also not an option being on a budget on social security.

The other options that would work other than what I just mentioned were said to be very unsafe security-wise, and that is either port forwarding or using Hikvision P2P camera viewing service.

I'm somewhat tech savvy in general, but ip cameras and VPN is a new area for me and I'm quickly finding out the tech industry does not make it easy when it comes to compatibility options with windows phones.

It would be very much appreciated if any network savvy techs could look at my router specs at the link above and offer any other solution for having a working VPN connection to our Windows phones so we can remotely view our security camera thru data when we are away from our home WIFI.

Thanks !

Gary
[General Questions and Answers] ZaTaco:
Rooting htc and installing custom rom

I've been having performance issues with my HTC BOLT 2PYB200 boost mobile running Android 7.0 the cell network is slow opening apps pretty much doing anything on the phone takes awhile this device has too much bloatware I cant easily get rid of without root and a couple of the stock apps such as TouchPal keyboard and carrier services keep showing up as malware and have infected other devices on my network so would it be better to root replace the stock apps and delete the bloatware or just install a custom rom?
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
You could do both, and compare the results. If you haven't done it before, and you have the time, try the first method, make a backup, install a custom ROM & compare. You can always restore the backup.

Honestly, depending on your situation, you may be perfectly happy with just rooting & removing the problematic apps. In general, though, it is said that the only way to really be sure that you've removed malware is to wipe & reinstall the OS from scratch.
[General Questions and Answers] linken_lp:
Hello guys. I am thinking of buying Doogee Mix 2 ? On paper everything looks ok , but i see some bad reviews about the company. Can u give me a suggestion ? Have anyone has any experience with them ? Thanks

PS. Sorry if I wrote in the wrong topic, didnt know where to ask
[General Questions and Answers] IsuckatAndroid:
Keep getting an error in smart switch

(Notice

Atleast 8000mb of free space is required to perform the update)

I have enough space so Im completely lost

Anyways to fix this?