yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] Danny123173:
How do I install an APK in a locked rom?

Basically I bought my son a tablet for his birthday which is designed for children, unfortunately the manufacture company turned out to be lazy and design a launcher which only allows you to access games online and the store is an alternative to the play store more expensive. There is no web browser how ever I do have access into setting and turned on the unknown sources option. I am confident all APK files will run on this its not to locked down. Its simply a custom rom removing features such as the web browser and playstore.

Is there a way to install on APK such as aptoid in order to access other apps or any idea guys? :fingers-crossed:
[General Questions and Answers] tirtha231:
You can use the All-In-One (AIO) package to root and install recovery on your phone. Also you can use mtmichaelson's one click tool. And I think second one is the easier one and you can also unroot with it.

Avatar ROM is the best custom ROM (CM based, android 4.2.2) available for your device.
[General Questions and Answers] krnmamty:
HTC PICO

Hey I installed this rom Miui v5 3-7-19 from here

http://xdaforums.com/show...&postcount=384

I successfully installed bt it stucks at HTClogo

I did this procedure :

1 wiped cache dl cache n system

2 installed zip file of MIUI

3 factory reset

n finally restarted

but it stuck at HTCLOGO....What to do know....plz help
[General Questions and Answers] Poor Grammar:
O.noooooooo..

Help..ok..This is what i did..used fl24 tar file from qbking77 how to flash agat recovery.now my phone acting all weird..stays on about 1 min then restarts.i did everything he showed me.looks like google play was trying to update when i flashed because its still trying.im on fl24 4.0.4.ics..i can boot into agat recovery no problem..but wanna make sure im doing right thing..plse help ..stuck in bootloop maybe:crying:
[General Questions and Answers] xenreon:
Guys let's end this "thanks argument" ;)
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
OK guys if you still wantcto argue make an argument thread. Leave thus as a HELP thread please :thumbup:

Sent from my GT-I9195
[General Questions and Answers] xenreon:
Guys can anyone please give me a white and a black transparent blurred PNG......I mean about 80-90% transparent and fully blurred...Please make sure it's PNG and the resolution is 100(height)×400{width) oh and I need both at same transparency level..... And is there any app for it..... I don't have a PC so that's the main problem..... I tried with photo Editor by dev.macgyver but not a great photo Editor(me not the app) so having trouble..... Thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] Hgneto:
Hey guys. I found an icon pack similar to this a while back on the playstore, but I can't find it again... Can you help me find it please?

View attachment 3346916

Thanks in advance!

Sent from my LG-D855
[General Questions and Answers] HollyWood88:
Text relocation issues... LG Optimus F60 MS395

I need help please? I'm running KitKat 4.4.2 on my rooted LG F60. I installed "bash" into "system/bin" via Android Terminal Emulator. When I did, "sh" got renamed to "sh0". When I removed "bash", by just deleting the file, I renamed "sh0" to "sh". After that, A.T.E. would not start. I restarted my phone and then almost NOTHING worked. Couldn't install APPS, I lost acces to my 2nd partition with Link2SD, and more. Long story short, I flashed "sh" back to the phone via TWRP recovery and everything works again. However, my issue now is that following any command in A.T.E. I get this message: "WARNING: linker: /system/bin/sh has text relocations. This is wasting memory and is a security risk. Please fix."

How do I fix this? Please help.
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDroid519:
Can someone tell me how to tell what custom going in currently using? I have looked in all of my font apps and can't match it up with anything and using for explore is useless because I have a lot of them.

I've been doing so much with my phone lately I forget where I did some things. :P

Sent from my Alcatel OT 6040A using SlimCat v2.1
[General Questions and Answers] hellakarsh:
I'm also on mobile... But I made them about 85% transparent and of your desired resolution... I can't make them blurry on mobile... If u can make them blurry then try... :good:
[General Questions and Answers] hellakarsh:
Custom going???

If u mean custom ROM then,

Head to settings -> About device... U can find your ROM and kernel information there...
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDroid519:
I meant custom font. lol sorry
[General Questions and Answers] coachilla:
I use a motorola droid razr HD and i tampered with the phone testing menu.i selected the 'gsm only' option and did a hard reset,only for me to discover that i had permantly set EDGE network and whenever i change to 'wcdma only',instead of 3G coming up,the network reception goes away completely.please how do i address this issue? Im a total noob!:D thanks:)
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Sorry for such a late reply but I think that you're taking about the dialogue box that comes up when you're installing an app from an APK file rather than from the Play for the first time, asking you to let Google monitor what apps you install for security reasons or something.

I think you can disable it by going to settings->security->verify apps toggle and turning the toggle off.
[General Questions and Answers] singh2vishal:
I am Alcatel OT idol x+(TCT 6043d/ TCL S960) user. I am facing the problem with MIUI Rom.

When I flashed it, Its showing in File explorer only 6.09MB available. But at the same time in setting>storage its showing total 13.23gb and 4gb available.

Even its showing Gallary and music library empty and In camera its showing SD card out of space.

While other users are using it smoothly without hving any problem. Plz help me out....
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDroid519:
I don't have an answer to your question unfortunately, but does that ROM work for 6040a do you know?

Sent from my Alcatel OT 6040A using SlimCat v2.1
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
I would suggest a full wipe and reflash.

(WARNING:You will lose all the data if you Wipe internal/external storage)

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P
[General Questions and Answers] singh2vishal:
Are u sure that !!! It will work ??
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
Try yourself mate.You are the one having the device.

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] hojunester:
Galaxy s3 wifi woes

ugh. I have the SK Telecom version of the galaxys s3, aka shw-m440s. I only recently jumped to lollipop after staying on kitkat for a while. Using this rom and arter97's kernel, the phone worked fine, with a few bumps here and there. Then, I upgraded to the latest release, and now, my wifi won't turn on. I've already tried wiping the cache and the data using twrp. Is there anything else that I can try?
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
Can you try clean flashing the ROM?

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Pukhton:
Go back then reinstall!
[General Questions and Answers] TechGeekD:
If it's mtk device I think MIUI swaps internal and external memory in mtk devices i had that issue twice on 2 different mtk devices
[General Questions and Answers] hojunester:
if you mean wiping the cache, the dalvic cache, and the data partitions before reinstalling the rom, I have done that. For now, I had to revert back to an old version of the rom :( The latest update had brought a good deal of fixes. If only the wifi had woked...
[General Questions and Answers] xenreon:
Hehe I can make it transparent but blur is my problem :P
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
Wipe System too.

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] hojunester:
ah, I have... I wiped all partitions except /sdcard (or whatever the internal storage partition is called) before reinstalling. :(
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
Is this a known issue of the ROM?

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[General Questions and Answers] hojunester:
I don't think so. I can't see anyone else complaining about it on the rom thread, nor can I see a wifi issue on their github. Also, I am using a rom that was intended for the international galaxy s3 on the south korean version. However, using roms built for the i9300 with the arter97 kernel hasn't caused any problems up till now, so I'm a bit lost. I'm not even sure where this 'bug' should be reported to.
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
So this happened only in the latest version,isn't it?

Have you noticed any big change/commit in their Github?

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] singh2vishal:
Yes its mtk device.

Is there any solution for stoping the swapping of internal storage and external storage with miui rom.
[General Questions and Answers] hojunester:
yeah. on their changelogs, they do mention that they did a general cleanup of the wifi firmware. I'm suspecting that "cleanup" is the culprit.
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
That's the key.Can you try to replace the kernel libs with the old one?

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] hojunester:
how would I do that? I assume by replacing a few files within the zip file with files from the old rom? which files are the wifi firmware files?
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
system/etc/wifi and for libs, system/lib

Replace the files in this folder with the one in the old ROM Zip.

Do make a backup before trying.I've no guarantee that this will work.Lets try anyway.:)

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] kassaaam:
Hi guys, I'm facing a weird problem for the last one or two months, my hox never goes to deep sleep. It's not a wakelock problem as I have even tried checking in safe mode. See the attached screenshots.

http://tinyurl.com/wakelockproblem

It's as if my hox has forgotten that it has a deep sleep core, for the past two months it has never been to deep sleep for even 1sec, I check it everyday. There seems to be a kernel wakelock process "main" that keeps it online for 100%, what is it?
[General Questions and Answers] hojunester:
thanks for the idea! I just went browsing through their github commits, and found the wifi firmware commit, and the specific files that were modified. I'll try overwriting those files only. Here's to hoping that it works...

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aaand it worked! Thanks!! It is an ugly workaround, though. I've posted to the rom's thread. I hope the devs respond.
[General Questions and Answers] Anthony Finix:
Could anybody help me with this error

Happens only with apk..

Others (dex,lib etc) are linking with no problem
[General Questions and Answers] hellakarsh:
I tried to make them blurry with pixlr and picsart but after getting blurry they loose their transparency...
[General Questions and Answers] Fajormein:
anyone?

is there anyone that can port cyanogenmod 12 to lg l50 sporty and post me the installation tutorial? thx
[General Questions and Answers] xenreon:
Hmmm
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
I'm glad to hear that :)

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Hgneto:
Exactly! The problem is that I don't have that in settings... BlissPop 3.4 ROM

Sent from my LG-D855
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Wiping in recovery doesn't erase everything in internal memory, it doesn't wipe data/media because that part of internal is where nandroids made to internal are stored, if it wiped all of internal then those nandroids would be lost.

FORMATTING however DOES wipe everything on internal.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Do you have an extra device to donate so that whoever ports it can properly test what they are porting? It requires having the device, besides, if someone with the time and ability had that device then they most likely would already have CM12 ported to it.
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDroid519:
I'm still waiting for someone to port my phone for CM. :( there are ROMs on the Russian site but Google translate doesn't help noobs out very well
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDroid519:
Good? Lol

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Asking again
[General Questions and Answers] sivaiahmadam:
Sir send me link on micromax canvas a110q original rom
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDroid519:
Me? It's just a .jpg.
[General Questions and Answers] hellakarsh:
Here it is...http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2323893
[General Questions and Answers] hotshotbg:
I want to ask what exactly are the typical problems for developers when working with a different edition of a phone model? I'm using S4 I9515 and there aren't roms for it, unlike S4 I9505 with lots of roms. Can't the developers just download the original firmware, get all drivers from it and insert them in Cyanogenmod or other?
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
I'm a little confused, in TWRP if you go to advance wipe then you can wipe internal/external storage completely, can't you?

And aren't formatting/wiping more or less the same thing?

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
How do I change volume settings n a script? Mines set to full or nothing on my cm11 on t210.

Sent from my GT-I9195
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
I'm not familiar with that ROM but I think if you'll look hard enough in the settings you'll find it somewhere, it might be hidden in developer options.

Or if you're ROM has a thread you can ask about it there.

By the way, why do you want to turn it off? I mean it's just another simple invasion in our privacy by Google.

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
You can turn it off in Google Settings.

Google Settings -Security-Uncheck Improve harmful app detection and Scan for Security threats.

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yes, choosing the "wipe" options does format the partitions that they wipe but this doesn't include /data/media, it leaves part of the user space untouched. Modern recoveries don't wipe the entire internal user space.

Using the advanced options where you can choose your partitions individually(format system, format data, etc.) wipes the entire partition that you choose.

Try it out, look in your internal space and find all the files in your /data/media partition and take note of them, move whatever you feel is important to ext but leave the unimportant stuff in various places on internal(make a nandroid backup to your internal sd instead of ext) then go to recovery and choose the wipe options then reboot and check your internal space and you'll see that some of the things you left in internal are still there after doing the wipes, then leave those files that you left behind alone and go back to recovery and choose the advanced format options and choose to format data partition and any other partitions available from internal other than system(formatting system is unnecessary to demonstrate what I'm explaining), then reboot and go back and check those places that you left things(including the folder that contains the nandroid that was made to internal for the purposes of the demonstration) and see if those things were left behind like they were when you only wiped instead of choosing format. You'll see what I mean.

The term "wipe" usually refers to the normal wipes we do before or after flashing and it is those wipes that skip certain areas of internal storage but the term "format" refers to clearing everything in whichever partition you choose. The format options are what you use to completely wipe everything then do a clean install, "wiping" isn't the same thing. There is a subtle difference in their functions, it's designed that way to preserve some things so that they are still there after flashing.

You've never noticed that some things are still there after choosing the wipe options and flashing something new? You've never wondered why those things are still there?
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Yea, I know when you do a factory wipe before flashing a new ROM it doesn't effect the internal/external storage because all the music, photos and other stuff is still there but when you go to advance wipe in recovery and select internal/external then wipe, it's all gone.

So I guess wiping is like wiping a photo frame on the wall with a piece of cloth just to clean all the dust and you're left with a clean photo to view but formatting is like taking the frame off the wall and there's nothing left to see, is that sort of correct?

I think it's the terminologies that's causing the whole confusion.

When advised the user to "wipe", I actually meant formatting the whole storage.

By the way, what would happen if you format the system partition, would you be left without a ROM?

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P
[General Questions and Answers] gusky651:
I have a galaxy core 2. I got an sdcard, the phone detects it, but i cant install apps on it, and i dont see an option to set it as default.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Do translation fails?

It happens a lot, you need to retry, sometimes even 8-10 times for it to work.

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Ok, I figured you understood the difference, just wanted to clarify because some users don't realize the difference when advised to "wipe" or "format", you gotta be specific with some terms to save confusion since they may not know the difference.

Yes formatting system removes your ROM, its actually a good thing sometimes that can solve issues, just gotta make sure you have what you need to reinstall.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Maybe you could attach your phone to a computer and see font previews there.

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I'm not familiar with your device and haven't looked it up but does it support swap? If not then there may be a kernel for your device that allows it or there may be a way to enable swap, then you should be able to do it.
[General Questions and Answers] gusky651:
Im sorry but i dont know.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Is the phone rooted?

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDroid519:
Trandlations fail sometimes, but even when they work my android knowledge is still at noob level so it's like trying to understand two languages. The Russian site has ROMs in all different places and then patches in different places. It seems to be way less organised. There is a ROM called "Color OS 2.??" That everyone seems to use but due to lack of organization I have yet to find the actual ROM link or any instructions for it. I wish some one with semi decent experience with this sort of stuff would help me out for a day in finding a decent custom ROM for my phone that has theme capabilities and works with most xposed modules. If I can't find proper assistance soon I'm going to read how to build my own rom and give it a shot.
[General Questions and Answers] gusky651:
No it isn't. From what i heard it could be that the internal memory is emulated sdcard and it somehow ignores the other.
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Learning is great, you could try to learn porting before building a ROM of your own(Just a suggestion).

What device do you own?

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I would imagine that there are forums for those Russian sites, have you tried finding a user that speaks/reads Russian so they can help you understand and point you in the right direction?
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
If it's not rooted then there's nothing you can you do modify the system(unless you root it of course).

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P

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I went to /data/media but there are only two folders, 0 and obb and they both seem to be empty. 0_o

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDroid519:
I have Alcatel OT idol x 6040A single sim MT6589.

I've been reading a bit on porting as well but with a mediatek device it almost seems easier to just build one.

I'm honestly unsure at this point because I've been messing with my phone for about 2 weeks non stop trying to get a good ROM going. I've flashed so many ROMs and made so many edits I sometime lose my direction.

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I was going to register but they have strict rules about foreign noobs and I can easily see my curiosity and questions annoying the crap out of them
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
MediaTek, really?!

You know what, all of the Android phones I've owned(i.e., 2) have been Mediatek based devices.

Why is it easier to build a ROM for Mediatek than porting one?

I've never tried to build a ROM(although I want to), but porting between Mediatek devices is actually quite easy(in my option at least).

Any interesting links I should visit?

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDroid519:
I don't know if it's easier really.... Personally, I would rather work from the ground up to fully understand what I'm doing. That's just me.

But I have a link here that guides me through porting a color os ROM for my device on jb. I'm just a little confused on what to do with the folders at the end after I've made all the changes. Its for 4.2.2 which kinds sucks but I'm going to attempt it. I can't find a porting guide for color os kit kat :(
[General Questions and Answers] subterfugium:
Good to hear you got it figured out!
[General Questions and Answers] gusky651:
Lets say i root it. Then what?
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Usually after making all the changes you would zip the ROM again and then flash it.

Anyways, that's how I ported one for my old phone.

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P

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[MENTION=5691352]N_psycho_PD_uh?[/MENTION] Gave you some suggestions, try following them.

If you didn't get what he suggested, you could just ask for more explanation from him.

The day didn't shine as bright for the little guy but I guess, now he can do what he always was destined to but never could.... R.I.P