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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ce3ar:
Guys last night i decided to unroot my s3. I thought i have done everything write: i downloaded the firmware than i used odin to install it. Everything was ok then the phone started booting, i thought it was normal to take some time after this but after 10 mins i realized i am softbricked. I have rooted and unrooted my s3 once i unbricked it and everything was successful but now i am really worried and i don't know what to do!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wangdaning:
Have you booted to recovery and wiped everything?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evertjr:
Shutdown your phone then turn it on holding power button, home and volume up at the same time until you see the GSIII logo, after that you should see a Android robot. Now that you're in recovery, using volume buttons to go up/down and power button to select, chose wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache partition then reboot the phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ce3ar:
yess !! :good::victory: i did it !! thanks for the help guys i don't know why i hadn't thought of that. everything works fine now
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slimlo:
Has anyone flashed the 19000m or any other stock 19000 filmwares on stock telus t959p i would assume it would work without bricking the phone ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdahlke:
My phone has gone into emergency recover and I've tried to recover it by flashing it with both "Odin" and the samsung "SimpleUpgradeTool" but it has failed everytime I've tried it.

I have the SCH-530 from US Cellular and am unsure on what to try next.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

The following is the ouput message from Odin ---

<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..
<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/003> Initialzation..
<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/003> recovery.img
<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/003> cache.img
<ID:0/003> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HS™:
While flashing with odin make sure ur kies is completly closed or from kies tools, preferences, uncheck option open kies while phone connects restart and try should work
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
I have the SCH-530 from US Cellular and am unsure on what to try next. Wrong forum its not I9300 . Firmware / mods from here will brick your phone . jje
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] meltedmoops999:
What is the difference between the 'Original S3 development' and 'S3 development' forums?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Original development is for anything built from source or from the ground up as I understand it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
Or anything completely original
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zeushvk:
And the other one as you can guess is all the ported, tweaked stuff but nevertheless effort spent in making roms is same! ! ;)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] klin1344:
This thread should give you some info about what belongs in original development, and what doesn't.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762951
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Yup!

ALWAYS, read the stickies!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twinair:
hiya!

I've been working with the I-mate(XDAII,02) and basically it's end of life soon.

I've had HTC send us some of their new devices, the imate PDA2 and PDA2K.

is there anyway I can extract the EXROM & ROM from these devices.

I know previously, if i wanted to add my custom CABS to the EXROM, i had to wait till a ROM update was available for download before I could reverse engineer it.

But are there any tools available out there, so that I can plug my device into the cradle, and then extract the ROM to my laptop ?

not sure if this can be done, but i'm hoping so !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xda-rocks:
At the moment you can unhide the ExtROM using the old XDAII tool v2.2, but you can not unlock the rom, so you can't change anything.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twinair:
what would it take to actually edit the EXROM?

I have WM 2003 ROM Editor, for my current device. it works a charm as long as you have the password.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xda-rocks:
There is no solution to this question at the moment.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] FDPM:
Isn't there any news about that?

I've been looking aroud the forum and searching inside it but I couldn't even find a tool to unhide the extended rom.

I remeber I saw it should be just a reg key, but I do not remember which one.

Regards,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] M4io:
@fdpm

are you talking about himalaya ; then it's this: http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=8422&highlight=extendedromunlocker

it should work on Blue Angel as xda-rocks said (only unhide)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] FDPM:
thanx a million :)

Cheers
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amicose:
For a long time I found it strange that my Gmail contact list was a list of phone numbers. I just installed Hangouts and saw that all that all my phone numbers had been imported into Hangouts. There doesn't appear to be a way of blocking this.

It's obviously a useful thing to have your phone numbers backed up but I don't want my backup being fed automatically into Google services. So - does anyone know of an alternative backup service? I'm using a HTC One X.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amicose:
For instance it would be amazing if I could save contacts as Phone contacts (not google contacts) and back them up somewhere that had nothing to do with google
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamareebjamal:
Super Backup from Play Store
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] xLoveHateLegend:
So, I just recently got this 'fuzzy screen' problem (again). The first time I got it, my phone would randomly do it and I'd have to reset it. I still got messages and calls, as I could hear the ringtone but this (see pic) is all I can see. Eventually my phone started flickering on/off randomly, then the 'lcd' just died. So I replaced the lcd and the phone still didn't work. I ended up replacing the flex cable and it fixed the display issue. Now, I'm getting the fuzzy screen again and hoping it's not going to do what it did last time this happened. Do you guys think it could be my flex cable that's the problem? Or maybe the motherboard?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] CornholioGSM:
30% you have "little disconnected" flex cable from the board

50% broken flex cable

20% display

first check connection
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] schmandroid:
Hi there, I had this when running CM10.1 just after the mSD card failed to read. I rebooted a couple of times & still the same.

I booted into recovery (where the screen worked fine) & flashed back to stock. Been fine ever since, mSD works fine again also.

Were you running a custom rom?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] xLoveHateLegend:
This problem was solved a long time ago, so I don't know what to tell you.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdsreference:
Hi I purchased a HTC one about 2 months ago every time I turn the phone on the horrible Vodafone branding logo appears. Is there any easy way of removing it Vodafone say no, but then they would

Thanks guys
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zinder33:
Yup if you are rooted you could download many bootanimations just google them you will find/plenty;)

sent from HTC One aka M7
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsktkr1:
ROM Tool Box Pro boot animation installation function won't work on my HTC One. I have a Sprint phone and the animation is not bad for Sprint.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HM796:
Sorry - trying to delete this, posted in wrong forum

Hello,

I've spent the afternoon reading and researching and I'm confused. I'm completely new to this and would love some advice. I have an HTC One, I BELIEVE it was a Rogers phone, canadian - not sure if this matters. The person told me it was Rogers and all I did after was pop in the imei number into one of the unlock sits to unlock it. I couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting any carrier updates when I finally figured out it had the Maximus 7 ROM installed.

So how can I tell if it definitely was a rogers phone? And does this matter if I want to restore it to factory?

It's currently not rooted, I checked with a root check app. The bootloader is unlocked. Can I follow mike1986's guide to restore it to stock?

These instructions specifically? He says only for users with .401 devices, how do I know if mine's a .401?

I've read and read and I haven't been able to find the answer. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Method 1 - only for users with .401 devices (for more info click here - RUU variants)

Visit this thread - [ROM] HTC One *STOCK* ROM

Download stock odexed version of most recent firmware and recovery.img

Move recovery.img to c:\mini-sdk location

Boot your device in recovery mode (power off the device and turn it on using power + vol down buttons and select "RECOVERY")

In main menu, select "install zip from sdcard" and "choose zip from sdcard".

Navigate to the location of stock ROM (zip) package and confirm flashing procedure.

After flashing process is complete, reboot the device in bootloader mode.

Connect your device to the PC

Boot your device in fastboot mode (like you did during unlocking bootloader - power off the device and turn it on using power + vol down buttons and select "FASTBOOT")

Open up command prompt ( Start > Run > type cmd and hit enter ). The window that appears is called Command Prompt. <click here to see the image>

Navigate to where you unzipped "mini-sdk" package (type in Command Prompt: cd c:\mini-sdk). Note: make sure the path is not c:\mini-sdk\mini-sdk

In the Command Prompt type following command: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

You have now stock boot, system and recovery partitions. Time to relock your bootloader.

In the Command Prompt type following command: fastboot oem lock
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] holodude:
I have a I9020A (crespo) Nexus S and I can't seem to figure out which ROM to try. I just tried SlimBean because it seemed to suggest it was slim, but it ended up being laggy and almost worse than stock. Doesn't seem so slim to me.

Here's what I'm looking for:

Battery life: Very important

Features: I could care less. If I need a specific feature I could install an app for it.

Smooth and quick: Very important. I want a responsive phone. I hate when I get someone's contact info and I have to wait for the phone to respond for like 5 seconds at the worst possible time. Jerky is OK as long as it is fast and usable.

That's it. What ROMs meet the above criteria?

If I recall correctly Gingerbread seemed to be pretty darn responsive when it was natively on my phone. But after the OTA update to ICS and JellyBeans it seemed to get laggy and slow. Of course I could be mis-remembering or it be related to the amount of stuff I collected on the phone.

Also, is there any rom that doesn't degrade performance so much when the phone fills up with content? Seems like 50% of the phone has to be empty for it to run decently.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] migueldbr:
try jellyshot
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ej8989:
Strawberry ROM. (4.1.2)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abccg:
I have the exact model as you. I would suggest in this order:

1) ROM: Jelly Shot with Marmite 8.6 CM version (non bigmem)

- Battery life 8.5/10

- Speed 9/10 (felt really smooth, no noticeable lag in ui or apps)

- Stability 8/10 (had one random reboot)

- Overall: 8.5

2) ROM: Rasbeanjelly with Marmite 8.6 CM version (non bigmem)

- In the process of trying this combo

3) ROM: CM 10.1 with stock kernel

- Battery life 7.5/10

- Speed 8/10 (pretty fast but I get the occasional lag once a multiple apps have been in use recently)

- Stability 7/10 (no real stable version of cm out yet, got some random reboots using it and force closes on some stock apps)

- Overall: 7.5

Add those with the free Greenify app and you should like how fast, smooth and long lasting your battery life/phone is.

But you might wanna try Strawberry 4.1.2 like the above poster stated, 4.1.2 has been said to provide much better battery life than most 4.2.2 ROMs and Strawberry is highly praised I've tried it in the past and I would agree it was pretty damn good.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Setting.Out:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2292111

+1 for JellyShot
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leap_ahead:
+1 for rasbeanjelly Bigmem
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jocheleSpain:
+1 JellyShot, is The Best
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] holodude:
Where can I download the Marmite 8.6 CM version (non bigmem)? The kernel I'm using for JellyShot doesn't seem very good. Still has lag issues while waiting for apps to load up etc.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lvnatic:
why non bigmem?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] velishka:
100.1% Google experience with Marmite kernel.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dark'em:
For what you described JellyShot with Marmite CM kernel or Devil kernel or RasbeanJelly with Marmite, they have the best batery life and smoothness and if you dont care about it beyng a 4.2 device try CM10 stable with Marmite or HellyBean 4.1 with the same one and only Marmite

Sent from a Nexus device
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] holodude:
I've been told its more stable. But if you give me the link to both I'll try em both!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warren_Orange:
I'm currently trying Jelly Shot with Devil kernel. It ticks all the boxes for me. Great sound quality with Voodoo and still nippy around the launcher. I found using bigmem Marmite I took a hit in sound quality.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriout:
you say that with bigmem there is a worst sound quality ??
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warren_Orange:
That is what I feel yes. Considering that I spend all day at a computer listening to my Nexus S (Tunein Radio and Google Music) I know how my phone sounds and I know the sound changes when i enable Voodoo. When I enabled Voodoo Sound with bigmem It did not feel as smooth as it did with Helly Bean/Devil Kernel combo which I had been using for months previously.

So when I tried the Jelly Shot bigmem combo which everyone raves about I dropped the bigmem kernel from Jelly Shot and used Devil kernel instead and viola - Voodoo Sound was back again. The ROM still runs super smooth as well, virtually lag free still after a week.

This is just my personal opinion, I may just be dreaming it, it could be the placebo effect who knows. But considering I listen to my phone all day everyday of the working week, what I stated above is what I detected.

For me its the perfect union :D
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriout:
have you tried non bigmem marmite too ??
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warren_Orange:
Yes I did. Just before Christmas. I was on a early Marmite version, maybe 6 or something lower and using it with stock ROM. I kept on getting random reboots when streaming radio. I then moved over to Helly Bean/Devil Kernel and I did notice that Voodoo was better. So maybe its Marmite in general.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] migueldbr:
Isnt devil kernel also bigmem?if i remember correctly, it is
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Setting.Out:
Yes, but adjustable using devil tools..
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warren_Orange:
See my previous post. I think it's marmite in general.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ttpm15:
I have 3 Galaxy Player 5 ( YP-G70 with 3 capacitive buttons ), only one of the actually have a working rom that i flashed a while ago.

The other two have a different rom that only have the back and menu button working ( the home button doesn't respond )

Is there a way for me to take the Rom and kernel off the working galaxy player so i can install it into the other two ?

A guide and/or video would be great, thanks a lot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoberGalarga:
Root your devices and install a custom recovery. This way you'll be able to make a backup of any device and install it to the others.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] paleman27:
Yes I lost manual recovery. I've tried many many times; with the power off I hold the volume up and the power button at the same time. As soon as I see the "little blue letters" on the left upper corner I let go. I've also tried volume up + home + power... However the cel vibrates again and does a normal system reboot.

I Odin it back to stock, factory reset...same deal.

I can reboot to recovery with Goomanager, but I can't understand why it won't manually.

Any help will be appreciated!

EDIT: Problem solved by scott14719. Here it is: As soon as you feel the phone vibrate, immediately let go of the power button but continue to hold the other buttons until the recovery boots, then let go of them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scott14719:
You mentioned GooManager so I'm guessing TWRP? Hold the home and vol up buttons just a little bit longer (few seconds) before you let them go.

If nothing else works try to flash OUDHS (CWM). Make sure you read the thread and follow the directions. Of course, anything you do to your phone has risk and it is your responsibility.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] paleman27:
thanx...I tried holding the buttons a little longer but it will do a normal launch.

I already tried solving the issue by installing cwm, nice rainbows btw. It installed well but in order to use cwm I had to reboot recovery thru goo...

The manual download works though....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] paleman27:
Edit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] waternut13134:
I have thus problem too. I'm just using goo manager right now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
You really need to wipe and start from scratch.

Odin stock rom, then boot to the rom, do complete device reset. Root, then load the recovery of your choice...15min procedure. Or keep trying things, and waste time. Can do this with my eyes closed as I have done this many times. Good luck.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] paleman27:
I did... no dice. Thanx for your time, I appreciate it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
Ouch!

---------- Post added at 08:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:52 PM ----------

Are you giving up? Because maybe you missed a step..because it WILL work.

---------- Post added at 08:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:54 PM ----------

I am telling you the boot partition is corupt. It has bs from both recoveries. Oh well. Might want to read up on odin and use the partition tools. Major sh$$ happening here. Just throwing ideas at you. I love these challenges. Wish I had the problem. Serious. I maybe wrong.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scott14719:
I'm wondering if there is something going on now. Normally 99.9% of these types of troubles are user error, but I've seen several people now (in the AT&T S4 forums) claiming they can not manually enter into recovery. Now I am assuming CWM hasn't been updated since the auto-loki version and I know it works correctly. So I am wondering (if there is a problem) if the problem might be with a change that was recently made to TWRP or maybe one of the new installation methods that have been developed to install CWM /TWRP? Even the people that are having the same trouble with CWM seem to have had TWRP installed first.

So, people that are having trouble please list the recovery you are using, the version, when it was flashed, and which method you used to flash it.

Or maybe it is still just all user error.

---------- Post added at 11:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:08 PM ----------

So what recovery are you on now? I have a feeling you might be holding the power button a little to long. As soon as you feel the phone vibrate, immediately let go of the power button but continue to hold the other buttons until the recovery boots, then let go of them. This is from someone that had the same problem as you (from another thread):

Give it a try, maybe it will work for you as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] htcslic:
Have you tried a normal reset while holding volume and home. This is what I do since I am to lazy to take the extra steps and use Goo. Been working on extended power menu for odex'd rom but I am doing something wrong and can't get it to work.

Tapped from the Shear Galaxy Near You!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] waternut13134:
I used motochopper and running the latest version of twrp. I can boot just fine using goo manager and once I'm in I have no problem at all flashing files or making a back ups. So I believe it may be something wrong with twrp recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scott14719:
When you try to manually boot into recovery are you holding the "power", "volume up", and 'home key' until you first feel the phone vibrate and then immediately release the "power" button but continue to hold the other button until the first splash screen and then let them go. I think a lot of people are holding the power button too long or the other buttons not long enough.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] waternut13134:
You sir are correct! I just tried it and it works. Kinda feel stupid now. Thank you so much!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] [Face]TigerBite:
seems so complicated... try just volume up.

For mine (ATT 1337, on OUDHS Recovery (cwm))

if your phone is on and while the screen is on, just hold power and select reboot. as soon as it vibrates, press and hold volume up (just volume up, nothing else, maybe wait till custom firmware padlock screen shows up), and wait for the blue text at the top left of the screen... let go vol up.

if for some reason u r frozen. press power (just keep holding) til it forces reboot, then after vibrate (or maybe padlock if its too soon), press n hold just the volume up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] pakxelaos:
I would restore via KIES instead of using ODIN,

It will reset everything, just like from factory.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Uppercuticus:
I've had this happen to me several times while playing around with flashing. Basically (without fail in my experience), hold power+volume up+home as you'd normally do until you see the booting recovery message and let go. It will do one of two things - boot into recovery- or - restart and vibrate-. If it restarts and vibrates, immediately hold power+volume up+home until the booting recovery message pops up again and let go. It should then boot into recovery and you shouldn't have trouble in subsequent attempts.

It took me a while to figure this out and I actually thought I had permanently bricked my phone as the phone wouldn't boot and I couldn't get into recovery. Hope this helps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] paleman27:
YAY!!!!!!! BINGO!!!! "As soon as you feel the phone vibrate, immediately let go of the power button but continue to hold the other buttons until the recovery boots".

A world of thanx!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] paleman27:
Thank you for moving the thread; I have had much better response here! I even got my problem solved! :good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] paleman27:
EDIT. Thanx for getting rid of that clown.