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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ara Seferian:
If ur bootloader is not unlocked u cant flash any custom kernel

Mmm u can flash Sony official stock kernel using flashtool (by downloading a stock ftf for ur xperia u can find here on xda)just try to flash the kernel and start charging

Hope u can fix it :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] clauclau:
Ok, thanks, I downloaded the stock firmware debranding my phone, xperia is12s and everything is ok now! Thanks for your help! :laugh:
[Nexus 7 General] HandyAndyXDA:
Hello Everyone,

So I have had a Nexus 7 for about a few months now and I love it! I have done some research and I am getting mixed answers.

My question is: Is it possible to Unlock a Nexus 7 without having to wipe the data.

Thanks so much in advance.
[Nexus 7 General] bftb0:
No.

The tablet can now be rooted without unlocking the boot loader, however.

There is a third method for re-locking & unlocking without touching the data - but it requires at least one prior unlock which does destroy all data.
[Nexus 7 General] HandyAndyXDA:
I am checking this out now.

Just wanted to say thanks ahead of time :)
[Nexus 7 General] bftb0:
[MENTION=231553]handy[/MENTION]

If you were asking about this because you were contemplating rooting, please be advised about the importance of making full nandroid backups. Perversely, the rooting guides fail to mention how important this is... especially if you are averse to wiping the tablet.

The reason? If you are rooted and you wedge your O/S somehow with a "mod gone bad", the only means of rescue will be unlocking the boot loader (to be able to use the advanced capabilities of fastboot), which wipes the tablet.

The way to do this with a locked bootloader is to flash a custom recovery to the recovery partition (from a root shell command line) after you have rooted.

That way if something goes wrong with booting the regular OS, you have a custom recovery to fall back on - and hopefully you used it to create a Nandroid backup before modding your lightly rooted stock ROM.

good luck
[Nexus 7 General] ashik992:
I agree with [MENTION=2341536]bftb0[/MENTION]

Just make it clear, I't possible to root without wipping. But you are still locked. Not possible to Unlock without wipping yet. If your data and OS is important for you (not for me) you must keep a backup first. Don't rely on the words I'll be successfully rooted with my OS and data

anything can go wrong at any moment.
[Nexus 7 General] HandyAndyXDA:
I just want to thank you all very very much!

I was successful using the method linked in the original post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2233852

I have been researching for ways to root my Nexus 7 without having to unlock it since unlocking would mean losing all my data and the sole purpose of wanting to root my nexus 7 was to gain access to good backup programs and methods like titanium backup and full bit by bit NAND backups. Which I am still not sure I can use full bit by bit nand yet but hey this is a start in the right direction. And I didn't lose any data doing this. :D

Thanks so much and I will keep in touch with how it goes.
[Nexus 7 General] bftb0:
Get started on installing a custom recovery (either CWM or TWRP) immediately so that you can make a Nandroid backup.

And then get a copy of that off the tablet for safe keeping.

Note (here I am reading between the lines of your post) that on the N7, Nandroid backups exclude /data/media !! - Basically, everything that you see in "/sdcard" is NOT BACKED UP by Nandroid.

You need a full Nandroid backup in the event of some kind of disaster (rooting experiment or mod gone wrong), but you also do need to backup stuff you feel is worth keeping from your /sdcard. You can use MTP for that if you want.

good luck and be careful.
[Nexus 7 General] HandyAndyXDA:
Thanks for the backup tips! I was not aware that it won't backup sdcard directory.

Not to get off the thread topic because the whole purpose of rooting for me was to gain the best backup possible and being able to use USB flash drives now is nice too.

Anyway, I would like to know what you recommend for backup and how it works / how to use it. I would love to have something that works like acronis. I am really interested in making a bit by bit image that I can store on my desktop or flash drive that I can recover from.

I am researching on my own but I'd love to get input from you guys if you don't mind.

PS: Thanks again! You have been great help!

And now that I see the thanks button, everyone of you is getting a thanks!:good:
[Nexus 7 General] HandyAndyXDA:
Forget my last question asking about backup. That would go in another thread anyway and besides I ventured into using TWRP that I installed using GooManager and its just awesome. Thanks again everyone and be well.
[Nexus 7 General] Pirateghost:
TWRP does exactly what you want with backups
[Nexus 7 General] HandyAndyXDA:
Unfortunately TWRP does not backup everything! Luckily I didn't do a hard factory reset when I was testing it out so I didn't lose any data.

It seems to me that TWRP does not backup internal storage. On another note these android directory names and aliases are really making me crazy lol.

I would really like to be able to recover from a hard factory reset including all data on the nexus 7. Is there any way possible to do this with TWRP or anything else?

Thanks so much.
[Nexus 7 General] Pirateghost:
so, if TWRP were to back up the internal storage, where would it store that backup? It wouldnt be able to store a backup of itself ON itself...

if you want a backup of the internal storage, just copy it to a usb thumb drive over OTG or to your computer, nandroids are not meant to back up 'sdcard' storage and never have been

want to recover from a complete loss of everything?

make TWRP backup

copy /sdcard contents to USB OTG or computer, your TWRP is on that directory so you would be copying EVERYTHING
[Nexus 7 General] HandyAndyXDA:
Thanks and sorry I didn't mention that I was backing up using TWRP to a usb flash drive all along. I am having trouble copying /sdcard now for 2 reasons:

1) Sometimes its called "Storage", sometimes its a directory within others, sometimes its called "internal".......I am just not sure what the actual directory is anymore.

2) I have tried copying as much as i could manually to my desktop via usb. but does windows see all that i need to copy and each time i select all and copy it, windows explorer lags and eventually crashes lol.

As of now I am trying to copy one fold at a time to windows. .....no I don't know what I am doing. Just getting frustrated so I am trying to copy it all on my own as well as useing TWRP lol
[Nexus 7 General] Pirateghost:
since MTP came about copying using windows explorer or any file browser, just plain sucks.

you have a couple of options here,

1. Use AIRDroid and copy it over your wifi

2. Use ADB and simply do 'adb pull /data/media C:\path\to\your\backup\folder

personally i prefer adb, i make regular backups of my phone and tablet and keep them on USB thumbdrive or sdcard on my laptop
[Nexus 7 General] HandyAndyXDA:
Already tried Airdroid which was working great until about 20 minutes later when it just stopped. Guess its just too much for airdroid too.

Yeah MTP isnt great lol.

And thanks again, I will give the adb method a try.
[Nexus 7 General] HandyAndyXDA:
Oh, one more thing:

Am I correct in saying that all that Windows sees is the total internal storage? In other words every file that I can explore using Windows is what TWRP doesn't backup?
[Nexus 7 General] HandyAndyXDA:
I got the adb command line tool. I have it running, but how do i direct it to the nexus? I mean there is no drive letter for the tablet.

Sorry to be a pest.
[Nexus 7 General] Pirateghost:
Yeah. Pretty sure.

Look at the command that i posted. You don't use a drive letter.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Nexus 7 General] HandyAndyXDA:
Tried that exact command aside from changing the save destination and no luck.

I don't know what I am doing wrong lol :(
[Nexus 7 General] bftb0:
I have not been able to convince myself that the MTP implementation is deterministic, although in theory it is impossible for it not to be. (Translation: I don't trust it at all)

"adb pull" will work best when the remote shell automatically acquires root privileges, but that requires a modified boot image (the /default.prop file in the boot ramdisk) for rooted-stock ROMs, but this shouldn't be needed for "adb pull /sdcard/" - it is needed for pulling files from other areas of /data, or /system, etc though.

You previously mentioned "bit for bit", and that won't happen for adb or MTP as all timestamps, ownership, and file mode info will be lost when files are transferred to a Windows filesystem. The latter two are not particularly important for /sdcard, and I suppose that a lot of people won't care too much about timestamps either. You might feel differently though.

Actually attempting to do something closer to "bit-for-bit" brings it's own set of problems. You could use a (busybox version of) "tar" program in either the recovery or the OS, but you probably need to write the output to a mounted NTFS filesystem because of large-file ( > 2Gb) limitations of FAT filesystems. That's a non-starter with a stock kernel (for the regular OS, anyway) and it is my impression that TWRP's kernel isn't mounting NTFS in rw mode yet (I don't know about CWM)

To date when I've needed to wipe the tablet and restore it I've just used Nandroid backup/restore plus adb pull/push for /sdcard. (I wish adb was faster - it seems to be 3x-5x slower than MTP)

I suppose there are other alternatives (network mounting of CIFS shares using compatible kernels, etc) but I haven't tried them so far.

good luck
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_acalves:
I'm wondering if I'm the first guy on earth experiencing this problem.

I got an AT&T unlocked HTC One (M7) in the US and brought it with me to Brazil. I introduced the SIM card in it and it worked perfectly for phone calls. However, I can't get the internet access through the network. Brazil only works with 3G at the moment.

I called HTC and they told me to dial *#*#4636#*#* and change the settings for the network under "set preferred network". They told me there would be no guarantee this would work, but I should try.

I tried all the options from WCDMA, CDMA, GSM Only and so on and still could not get the mobile data access.

Right now, internet works only with Wi-Fi. So, he said that I could try finding help on XDA Developers.

So, is there anyone who knows what I should do next?

I wonder if rooting would resolve it, but it seems pretty much a device problem.

André
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phositadc:
It's probably an apn problem. Call your provider and find out what apn you should be using.

Sent from my HTC One
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_acalves:
Using 3G network instead of 4G on HTC One

That I had not tried before. Thanks for the tip.

I did now though with the following info for my provider, but unfortunelly still didn't work.

Could it be something with the device that simply, does not work over here?

Name = VIVO Internet

APN = zap.vivo.com.br

Proxy = Não definido

Port = Not set

User = vivo

Password = vivo

Server = Not set

MMSC = Not set

Proxy de MMS = Not set

MMS Port = Not set

MCC = 724

MNC = 10

Authentification type = pap ou chap

APN Type = default

Andre
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sassafras_:
That proxy looks weird. Generally proxies are in the form of a website type address.

sassafras
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PcFish:
That just means undefined. There is no proxy.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_acalves:
Alright guys. Thanks for all the help. It was really a APN problem. I called my operator and I was on the right track, but didn't get the Authentification type right.

Everything is working now! Thanks for all the replies!

André
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sassafras_:
Clearly I don't speak portuguese.

sassafras
[Android Development on Bada] kevikevs244277:
guys, what kind of utility apps can i run on badadroid?

is battery saving apps and cpu tweaking apps ok to run?
[Android Development on Bada] martinjhm271:
please delete Thread . not follow the rules of xda and also those making a mess
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sadrock2000:
HI. WHO HAS A ORIGINAL RADIO STACK FOR XDA ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Rudegar:
ALL THE RADIOSTACKS ARE ORIGINAL
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sadrock2000:
currently upgraded to the latest stack. I want to get it back for easy exchage another model. Thanks.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Rudegar:
what radio stack your device had before 100% depend on when you got it and which rom it came with

if you dont know which radio stack you got the device with

then you have to find out somehow i guess
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jvrtl:
Hello community,

I write because I had a problem when installing CWM Recovery for my xperia zl (C6502), after doing the procedure, my devide did not boot again, I suspect that damage the bootloader that when connected to the PC does not recognize it, I can not even enter fastboot mode, just a light red flashes and does nothing more.

That option I have to get my device again?

Thank you for your contributions
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeathlessOne:
Did you root your device first?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] FiveOhFox:
So far every app I've tried just takes a black screen image instead of a screen shot. Anybody figure this out yet?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] flipq88:
You take screenshots by either pressing holding the power and home button, or go to Settings>My Device>Motions and Gestures>Palm Motions and turn on Screen Capture. Now you can take screenshots by sliding your hand from left to right or vice versa.

Sent from Flip's Galaxy S4
[HTC First] kpetrie77:
Thought I would share some information I wrote up on our site with you guys. The SIM unlock code on the HTC First is stored on mmcblk0p6 just it has been on several other HTC devices. However, in this case, it is not masked like it was on last year's HTC phones. So, if you have a rooted HTC First, all you need to do to get your unlock code is dd a copy of mmcblk0p6 and look at offset 00008939 in a hex editor to get the digits of your unlock code.

Instructions:

http://androidfannetwork.com/2013/05/13/free-sim-unlock-for-the-htc-first-facebook-phone/

Hope this saves someone a few bucks.

Update, this is an even easier way to pull the unlock code (root still required.)
[HTC First] kpetrie77:
Reserved.
[HTC First] fungflex:
Wow, glad to see your putting the first to good use already :)
[HTC First] deviantus:
Thank you! It does work!
[HTC First] AngSanley:
i think im interested to buy HTC First that just $0.99 LOL, but I live in country that doesn't have AT&T, but I can buy from ebay and I'm afraid the unlock can't be done and the first is useless :D
[HTC First] kornklown69:
$.99 with an upgrade, usually they r running for about $199.00 on ebay still not bad
[HTC First] AngSanley:
yeah, maybe
[HTC First] edxmon:
Show me a First for $199? I got mine for $220 a month ago and I thought I got a good deal.

I see one for ~$180 but it has a bad IMEI, so it's unusable
[HTC First] kurt.hewett:
Does that mean I can use the HTC first on a different carrier?

I'm considering on getting one just to unlock and use with a prepaid t-mobile plan.

It seems like a great phone but why is it so underrated?
[HTC First] bruinhoo:
That is correct. You do need to compare the frequencies that the phone supports to make sure that you will get data, and at what speed (whether it be hspa/hspa+/LTE). Per this thread, it seems like it will only get high speed TMO data coverage in areas that have been refarmed to 1900MHz, with just EDGE coverage elsewhere.
[HTC First] kpetrie77:
It has LTE on band 4 (1700/2100) as well.
[HTC First] ccrowe3:
This worked great for me. I used a Verizon SIM from an iPhone 5 with a nanoSIM adaptor. I was concerned that it wouldn't work since I wasn't prompted for a code while using the Sense ROM, but I restored to stock and I was prompted for my code and it was successful. I don't plan to use the phone with another carrier, but I prefer to have it unlocked for any unforeseen events.
[HTC First] NaterTots:
Got my unlock code today. So easy.

Thank you!
[HTC First] cknro:
Worked like a charm :) did it on latest stock rom, cwm recovery, supersu rooted and bootloader unlocked.
[HTC First] kancherlapraneeth:
great work. donated $$$ lol
[HTC First] movielover76:
Thanks

This is great, worked perfectly.

I actually just got this phone, I needed a cheap but decent LTE phone and since I'm partial to non skinned AOSP phones, this was a perfect choice.

Very happy with it once I got rid of facebook's horrid UI.
[HTC First] kcrudup:
Just picked up one of these for $150 on eBay- an excellent value. Anyway, just wanted to post a method you can run once rooted (or via recovery) w/o requiring anything except "adb":

adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 skip=35129 count=8 bs=1 2>/dev/null ; echo'
[HTC First] ludikreco:
doesent work for me on HTC Buzz Wildfire its ..i wrote this comand in terminal but it says No such file???
[HTC First] kcrudup:
"adb" has to be installed onto your system. I don't know how Windows users do that, though.
[HTC First] killall-q:
Put these files in C:\Windows\ and you'll be good to go.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DickyOhYK:
Hi do anyone have jellybean statusbar on Sony xperia z?? Because I don't like Sony statusbar. Can anyone help me?? :'(

Sorry for my bad english :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] race4life:
There are a few tweaks in the themes and apps section. The grey status bar does look bed here is mine with black status and nav bars
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moonsbabe:
Hi, I am rooted stock running great. I have TWRP but would like to have CWM. I used Droid Razr HD Utility to get the TWRP. My question is can I use the utility to get CWM? What happens to the TWRP? Thanks in advance for your help!!!

Rhonda
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcdonald58:
+1 there is a version out there but it isn't touch so I am using TWRP also
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moonsbabe:
My question is can I use the utility to get CWM? I don't want to use TWRP, which is on my phone now.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcdonald58:
I fastboot flash the image provided in the thread by epinter and Cwm worked fine but it wasn't touch so I flashed Twrp, Didn't use the utility so can't speak to that best of luck to you
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brsingr:
My nook was running fine as of 30 minutes ago. I turned it off when I left to go up to my college class. When i got up here, i turned my nook back on to check my email and it is freezing at 99% on boot, I took the sd card out (just a normal 16 gb card with movies on it) and it still does the same thing...is there a way to fix/diagnose this without having to reformat the whole thing? I can sill enter the factory reset, but i would really not want to. I saw something abou another user having a similar issue, but I cant find it now.

This is on a rooted stock (latest version from B&N) HD+

At first i thought it was heat issues due o it being 90+ degrees up here, but im in he classroom atm and its sill having the problem.

EDIT:seems like something happened to where It reset itself when i plugged it into my computer at home...*not to self, make titanium backup, backup to ext_sdcard and NOT sdcard* not that i lost anything thankfully lol

im guessing something messed with the /system...but only thing i downloaded today was Ravensword, Fast Reboot(1st two from play store), and BT Controller 1.4 (outside source) (Most likely this)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] porfymartinez:
I'm trying to get my contact picture from the 'ME' contact. I deleted it by accident from my gallery but it is still on my contact. Is there a way to get it back to my gallery? (Wordage?)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] brikzpapi:
Awesome job
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tmcwilliam01:
Is there a way to tell the charging animation to start at the current battery level vs going all the way back to zero and going up?

Rocking a morphed GS3!

Card carrying Morphologist
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Whiplashh:
Well done :)

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Sprint Galaxy S3

Whiplashh Rom

Look it up. :trooper:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] studentjunk:
Yes, we can make the animations any way we want. This is like the gingerbread animation file. I'll post the xml file for you. i don't know off hand of any shortcuts to rearrange the line orders. You can do that part and if you have trouble compiling it let me know and I'll do that part.

Here is a link:

http://db.tt/0iPnBqWt

Edit: I bet we could use Excel to more easily manipulate the lines. I have to think about it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fryingpan0613:
Nice write up!

check out our rom website, http://updater.team-nocturnal.com/labrats/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tmcwilliam01:
So the file does not appear complete but from what I see you have to code the animation for every battery state. That will be a lot of copy paste but doable. I run MOAR and have no issues with decompile or compiling I may give this a go on my weekend.

Rocking a morphed GS3!

Card carrying Morphologist
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] studentjunk:
Correct. The xml needs to be redone before compiling. I will require a lot of work. I haven't seen anyone with an animation that way, so it would have to be made. The file is the same file for the gb mod, which seemed to work. It should be complete, just going the opposite from how you want it - going from the battery level to 100 instead of to zero, which is what you want.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tmcwilliam01:
I must have said it wrong before. I want it to go from the existing battery level to 100. Right now it goes from zero to 100 no matter what the level is.

Rocking a morphed GS3!

Card carrying Morphologist
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] studentjunk:
So you are currently using the MOAR animation. Make a backup and flash the GB file.

It's based on the xml file I linked, and seemed to work okay when I tested it. I only tried for a minute though, so report back if there is a problem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tmcwilliam01:
It works perfectly thank you. That looks so much better running the castaway battery.

Rocking a morphed GS3!

Card carrying Morphologist
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] studentjunk:
Glad to hear it works
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bog3nator:
Can someone one post a screen shot by any chance?

stock with goodies. anthraxed!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] studentjunk:
A screen shot isn't good enough. These are animations. I haven't figured out an easy way to show animations from the phone. Easiest that I know of would be to nandroid backup and flash a couple to see. What are you running on your phone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bog3nator:
I am running stock md4 with rejects 4 in 1 reboot and device status = normal mod. Is the stock one have the battery % mod on the icon?

stock with goodies. anthraxed!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] studentjunk:
You may have to flash your mods again after flashing this. The icon has battery percents on them. I used my favorite from the ROM fumbler. Simple battery, I think it's called. The version 26 of the ROM fumbler should have a completely stock battery if you didn't want to change that. Flashing a battery mod from the ROM fumbler wouldn't mess up any other mods.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] rsktkr1:
I can't get my Magic-Pro ProMini bluetooth keyboard to work with HTC One. When I scan for devices it never finds it. It does work with my HTC EVO. When I scan for bluetooth devices it does find my Apple bluetooth keyboard - but does not find the Magic-Pro Pro-Mini. I've tried Blueinput and BlueKeyboard Pro JP apps with no success. Anyone have any ideas? Oh as I mentioned in does work on my EVO - but its running CM7.