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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itpromike:
So I've tried all the custom ROMS under the sun and I'd like to go back to stock. Not AOSP, but stock retail Android. I downloaded the factory image from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#occam however I'm wondering how I can go back to stock without:

1. Loosing Root

2. Erasing all my apps and settings

Is this even possible? If so, what's the best way to go back it?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
1. Backup apps and app data using Titanium Backup, then copy the Titanium Backup folder to a PC

2. Flash back to stock using this guide

3. You will lose custom recovery and root by doing the above, so download a recovery and then use "fastboot boot recovery nameofrecovery.img" to temporarily boot into it

4. From there you can flash a root.zip

5. Reinstall Titanium Backup and copy the backup of the Titanium Backup folder from the PC back to the phone.

6. Use Titanium Backup to restore app and app data.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] js11222:
Welcome
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dreDrennon1:
I love red and black themes this my setup now all I need is the red and black settings and dialer and contacts I used 3minit for the status bar and notification drop down
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] roninep:
Hey dre - what is the third screenie of ? is that the "pie" app ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] 12MaNy:
I might consider making a red theme. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mrbracht:
Haha. It's you! I remember you from the bbfuzion days. :P
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dreDrennon1:
Yes sir it is Pie
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dannieloco:
What software do u need to get started on theme making?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bayniner:
would love a red theme its the only thing my s4 is missing
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] reverepats:
No software, but these are he essentials

Apktool

7zip/WINrar

GIMP/Photoshop/Paint.net

General idea where things are at

I Mean, the Stausbar and dropdown images are easy. Wouldn't make me long to do that. But a full theme, it's ridiculous how long it takes. Things are so different from the S3 too. I'm not even close to being done with mine lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dannieloco:
APK tool is the only app I dont have. Is there a guide U recommend I could use?? Im ready to get started :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] reverepats:
Yeah of course. Lemme track one down for ya now, u first you need to DL the Android Sdk and Java JDK. But that stuff may be part of the Guide that I'm looking for. Hang tight!

I always liked this guide for ADB. Setting up he system variables is very important. That where the PATH comes into play with ADB.

http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-set-up-android-adb-and-fastboot-on-windows-tutorial/

Take a read here for apktool

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2213985

I must warn you, with our devices there are work arounds with a bunch of system apps and framework as well. Before you jump n with both feet, I'd do a bunch of reading as you go along. I mean read abut everything.

How to properly edit .9 PNGs

Xmls

Smali

And such......

But once you get the android Sdk installed and apktool (make sure you extract all 3 files to your Windows directory) the easiest for me to start with was the systemui.apk. That's where you'll find the statusbar Icons, and toggles, dropdown, and such. I could keep going, and going lol but I sure don't have the time for tht lol. There are a TON of amazing Guides out there. I'm still a novice myself, but there's always something to learn. Hope this helps ya out a bit
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dannieloco:
Thank you! this seems pretty thorough, tho im not gonna lie, it seems intimidating.

I understand computers and used to make themes for Nokia and blackberry but never go into it in android. :rolleyes: gonna give it a try
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] 12MaNy:
Hey.....arent you the guy that screwed one of the co-founders out of that site after he and his sister created a beautiful flash homepage for it?

GTFO of here.....

Everything that reverepats said....plus it really helps being friends with othere themers. It doesnt matter how good of a themer you become, there will come a day when you're gonna need a themer buddy to help you with something live on messenger. ;)

Yeah.....a full theme can take months.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] reverepats:
Yeah it is super overwhelming alot of the times. Unfortunately for myself, Instead of focusing on one task at a time, i try to do 6 or 7 at a time. Dont do that lol, cause you'll stress out. I don't mind admitting that:thumbup:

But if i were you, you already have the SDK and I'm assuming ADB all set. Extract the 3 necessary files for apktool. Rip my SystemUI.apk from my ICS theme, and see what I edited. Look at the titles. Same may look and sound familiar and most will boggle yur mind. Take all those images from drawable-xxhdpi and put them in a new folder. Grab a Fresh systemui.apk from a stock ROM and decompile it. Take my images and start changing the colors. Be careful of the .9 images. You'll see the Black ticks on the outside of them. Make sure they don't get touched, or the apk won't compile, and if it does things will not look right or even FC.

This is where I started, with the systemui.apk. But Read, Read, read. It'd the best way to learn. I could help with the basics, and some other things, but i still bug the he'll out of other themers. Mainly Dazednconfused and Rompnit, but there super cool about it. They love that they can give back. Anyway, im turning this into a Guide/Novel haha.... You can hit menus on Gtalk if ya need to. I'm always around pate in the afternoon reverepats09@gmail.com

Jon
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] 12MaNy:
Porting a theme is also a great way to learn the ins and outs of theming.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Boris31:
Is that just my phone or all others have a melting battery % on their eyes. When i use phone i constant lose 3-4% in 5-7 minutes with normal use.

Sorry for bad english. Greetings :)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Omario-242:
All have kind of poor battery life :)

The thread for the baseband_xmm_power wakelock is there for a reason. And if I use my phone the battery sometimes loose like 10 percent in 10 min and then the other day it just gets along with 5 percent per hour :P the battery life on our device seems inconsistent as hell!

Sent from my LG-P880
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Boris31:
Is that karnel or rom related? And are there any solutions?

Sent via LG OPTIMUS 4X HD
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Omario-242:
All ROMs and kernels have quite hard drain and they all work on getting this solved. Even the stock roms have drain thats to hard :)

Sent from my LG-P880
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Boris31:
Thx for quick answer :)

Sent via LG OPTIMUS 4X HD
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] generalriden:
my signal is quite low after downgrading to 3.25 RSU version. i tried this because im not satisfied with my signal after cooking a newROM with WIN 2003. now im trying to search the forum and no really an exact answer. I have now a fear of touching my RSU version coz accdg to other forum it may turn ur XDA dead. I just want a stronger signal from my phone. PLEASE HELP..do i need to install & upgrade to RSU 4.21? I dont want to return to my ROM version to 2002 anymore... but will intslling RSU 4.21 will make my signal stronger???
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] generalriden:
pls help
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] cruisin-thru:
IS the signal acually low, can you make calls ok without the radio dropping connection? The signal strength meter is not very accurate. If the phone works ok I would leave it alone.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] LumpiStefan:
I think you're posting is too late....

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=13815&highlight=
[General Questions and Answers] Exbruce:
Can you guys please send me the links for some inverted social apps and can you please give me suggestions for some new ones ,
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djskarpia:
hello everybody... i have a big question that maybe (but i hope no) hasn't an answer... For first, i have a Samsung i9300 (sgs3) with cm10.1 rom... i love keep all my wallpapers ( i have lot of... more than 1 gb) online into Google+ Photos (or picasa, depends on the name you want to do at it) ... I have replaced the gallery2.apk from cm10.1 (that isn't google original gallery) with the original one from Android 4.2 ... it works... and it see the online albums... the problem is setting as wallpapers... if i open with gallery the wallpaper that is stored on google+ photos these are the cases i have:

1) if i choose - set as wallpapers - and then select nova as cropper -> unable to load image (seems like gallery doesn't create a temporary copy into storage so Nova is unable to open and crop to my home screen

2) if i choose - set as wallpapers - and then select Gallery as cropper -> it works but the way it crops i don't like... it crops only like a scrollable wallpaper so if i need only the last piece on the right it's impossible to select with the central zone...

how can i resolve this problem? there is something i can do? there is an app that can solve my problem without downloading on the storage card all wallpapers?

same thing for Icons... with Nova Launcher i can't apply icons that are stored on google+ photos... in 4.1.2 i was able to...
[HTC EVO 3D] Mummydroid:
how to install cusrom cm 10.1 with out s-off

thanks ...
[HTC EVO 3D] donkeykong1:
That depends on your H-boot

Sent from Mwakious powered EVO 3D using Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adam.male:
Hi there.

I am keen to root my phone but am a newbie to the whole experience.

Could anyone direct me to the exact instructions required to root my N7000 (see detail attached)

Cheers, adam
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PJ147:
Yep. Read the stickies and guides in this very forum and you will have all the info you need. Always make a backup and start experimenting!

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidSlave:
Look at the PhilZ Kernel Thread. It is best root method available.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adam.male:
PJ147....what should I use to make a back up? Sorry if that seems like a stupid question, but I am a newbie.....also, in the past I've tried downloading roms but when it gets to the bit around extracting, because there's so many files, I get lost
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThaiDai:
You got already answers in your first thread four days ago related to the same question.

Why don't you follow the hints and given links to tutorial there?

And in April the same before.

And then one year ago in April 2012 again. And of course you made two threads even then.

Having fun with this method?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] howard bamber:
You will have the guy jumping out the window with the big brother act!

Lmbo you are 101%right though.

Dr Ketan has all he needs. Think he wants to post it to you to do..... :)

sent by reversed alien technology....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidSlave:
Dude spends over a year trying to figure out how to root when it takes about 30 minutes of reading stickies.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThaiDai:
It's not a big brother, I'm right now trying to get slim again.

I got used to look into older postings of a member when he asks a question. Sometimes you'll get the necessary details from his older posts.

Example: why searching for a mistake in a Rom when someone whines about freezes when a post before he wrote that he OC'ed his Kernel to 1600?

But in this case I acted like a BB after seeing the repeated orgy: it was even fun to answer him with his own history.

By the way: he got the Dr. Ketan link already in 2012...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adam.male:
Clearly I'm asking these questions again because I didn't have any success rooting the 1st time round.

As for orgies?!? Maybe opening the door and breathing some air would help remind you there's a big world outside with lots going on.

I was looking for some help delivered to me in a beginner's language I understand, not grandiose frustration that I had the idiocy to ask the same questions
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThaiDai:
Try to count again.

Since April 2012 members gave you the links to the tutorials all members used here. Most of them were beginners.

And if you didn't understand it after one year of trying you should consider not trying to root your device at all.

You might end in a bricked one.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adam.male:
For the record, I haven't been trying for a year, I tried twice.......(once managed to root but had problems afterwards, once, stopped trying as it became frustrating)

Maybe you should stop acting out your insecurities about yourself in a faceless blog and find peace with who you are
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] altae:
Look, in order to beeing able to help you it would be nice to tell us what rom you have got on your Note.

Starting with ICS (4.0.4) rooting is very simple. Just take a look in the settings what rom you have got and then head over to the PhilZ kernel thread in Original development. There you will find rooted kernels for all stock (Original) ICS or above roms. Dowmload the one matching your rom (choose the .zip version, not .tar). Then boot into stock recovery (press volume up, home and power buttons simultaneously) and flash the kernel. Bang, you got root. Not really difficult. What the hell have you been doing? I guess until today you have not really bothered reading the tutorials and threads. Because everything is explained there and all of us had start too by reading a lot. Good luck.

Sent from my revived Galaxy Note
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adam.male:
I have jellybean 4.1.2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adam.male:
please see picture attached
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidSlave:
Adam,

Why are you incapable of reading the guides that have been spoonfed to you?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adam.male:
severe dyslexia may have something to do with it but god loves a tryer!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adam.male:
and if my inabilities bother you sooo much, well, just leave the thread and take some responsibility
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adam.male:
I've only fine and rooted it :)!! Thanks flute your help and patience, especially you lp47 or whatever your gay name is!

Rooted......what now? :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Varad297:
You can get your hands on some of the custom ROMs, and flash them. But be sure to carefully read the thread of the ROM like what recovery is safe to flash it,etc. Also remember to wipe data, factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache before you flash a ROM. Enjoy!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] altae:
Glad you finally made it. See, rooting your phone using PhilZ kernel is really simple. If only you had bothered earlier to read through the PhilZ kernel thread :)

Sent from my revived Galaxy Note
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Man you got a bad attitude...

Good luck in real life with an attitude like that
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adam.male:
A wise man once said to me, "if you spot it, you got it".
[Xperia Play General] Frutak:
Hi im new on this forum's but i asked peopel who used xperia play because this phone is out:(( and how are you?;D
[Xperia Play General] abdel12345:
Im fine thanks for asking

Sent from my Xperia Play (r800x)
[Xperia Play General] cloudnineX:
lol well this is interesting...i'm good too... xD
[Xperia Play General] X-Giga:
Fine, thx :D

Sent from my R800i
[Xperia Play General] spitfire2425:
HOW ARE YOU?!? HOW DO YOU LIKE IT WHEN YOUR ASKED PERSONAL QUESTIONS?!? jk I'm great, how are you?
[Xperia Play General] CyberScopes:
Im..... great.

[] CyberScopes []
[Xperia Play General] TLRtheory:
Blessed...business partnership meeting turned into me driving against a tornado.

Easily #1 on my list of things I never wanna do again.
[Xperia Play General] bartmw:
Splendid!!! How about you? ;)
[Xperia Play General] DiamondBond:
Great, What about you?
[Xperia Play General] Visa Declined:
You're not in Oklahoma are you?
[Xperia Play General] TLRtheory:
I live in IL... was in North County MO on business when **** got real. Roads were hell, I could feel hail beating up the SUV, the SUV itself wasn't helping with it's top-heavy-ness, there were wrecks and pile-ups everywhere, sirens blaring and I was never sure whether I was getting closer or more distant... and now that my feed's blowing up with all the damages it caused I'm wondering how I made it out cause I could barely see... so yeah... I'm blessed.

From the looks of things, OK got roughed up something serious as well...
[Xperia Play General] Frutak:
Not bad:) this forum is best;D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yadinbilu:
hi,

i got galaxy s3 and i installed cwm v5.5.0.4 and installed dekdee.i9300...

now,iwant to change rom but i was needed to use downloadmod and when im trying to boot in just black screen is showed up..

so plz how can i fix it?

Thx
[General Questions and Answers] Riggs93:
Hi,

I've upgraded lately to MiniCM10-4.1.0 by [MENTION=788040]nobodyAtall[/MENTION] on my X10 Mini Pro. To get everything fixed, I've installed as always [MENTION=4392702]allesand[/MENTION] fixset... And here my problem occured. When I install it, HW keyboard works properly, LED works as charm, but I can no longer set brightness of a screen. When I use setting slider keyboard backlight changes just fine, but screen brightness is still the same. Only when I activate "Ultra brightness" it gets brighter. I've tried to install older versions of this fix but nothing works. I'd be grateful if someone would check that.
[General Questions and Answers] allesand:
it is a Problem of minicm10

please install the latest nigthly .. The latest"! It is fixed there
[General Questions and Answers] Riggs93:
Thank you very much. :)

Edit 1:

Nope, latest nightly didn't fix anything. Brightness still stays the same after installation of the fix.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miasmablk:
A few days ago one of my Nexus 7 devices decided to go belly up on me (entered APX mode, SOD) and to my dismay nothing i have tried including battery pulls and swaps has resolved the issue so my question of course is if I RMA this device with ASUS which did have an unlocked boot loader, was rooted and was running a custom ROM will ASUS be able to tell? even though the boot loader is completely fried/ missing? or will they even bother?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miasmablk:
bump
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Westervoort:
There's only one way to find out. Also, I've seen APX mode happening to people without root.

To find out you unlocked your device, they must have access to your bootloader. Since that's impossible, I think you can give it a try. It's not that there are many other options left.
[General Topics] elio:
Hello, Anyone knows a good and easy to use database freeware with synchronisation between pocket pc and windows xp?

Thanks
[General Topics] iggy:
Try this http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=944
[Defy Accessories] runeupo:
hi,i found on Ebay a white battery back, it's $9,99 i think a bit expensive, compared to black battery backs.

it's Item #:121043335756

i haven't seen it in white before,

do you know this item?

and maybe little cheaper?

using xda app-developers app
[Defy Accessories] palmbeach05:
10 was reasonable back then, might be 5 today
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cosmo_x:
Hi,

After searching hours online for a solution, I decided to ask you for help.

I have a SGS3 T999V with cyanogenmod 10.1 on videotron, locked.

Videotron and Rogers are roaming partners.

When out of Videotron's range, my phone is supposed to go on Rogers partenaire network. It wouldn't do it by itself recently and I had to manually select the network and change it. After I did, I was online on Rogers with EDGE data connection. Back to Videotron coverage zone, I was still in roaming, searched for networks again and couldn't find Videotron network nor Wind (nor any other AWS band network)... all I could see was Rogers Wireless (X2) and Telus and Bell. On one of the Rogers networks on the list I had EDGE data and the other HSPA+ data.

I don't know it Videotron and Rogers roaming agreement supports V customers using HSPA+ on R, but it seems the phone is able to do it.

I decided to flash Videotron stock firmware back and was still stuck in roaming until I applied the VLDLL1 update. Then only could I see AWS network again, but had the problem again going on Rogers from stock ROM.

I downloaded data and made calls on both Rogers networks (EDGE and HSPA+) and didn't get billed for them.

Kinda lost here...

If anyone had an idea or experienced the same issue......

Thanks!!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] joallard:
I'm having the same issue, I've been looking for an answer for an hour now, but nothing's there. I'm trying to use my old Rogers phone on the Videotron network, and flashed a new rom in place. (It was sim unlocked in the past)

I'm trying to figure out how to switch it over to Videotron, cause I can't get data.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] kevinrubio1:
As I write this, I am currently 32% with 2 hours of display time. That's horrible compared to other people's battery.

I installed the ktoonez kernel and copied his exact settings but that didn't make a huge difference :/.

I have no idea what it is; I've disabled GPS, i have auto-brightness on, and i have sync turned off. I just don't get what's killing my battery...

If anyone who has the ktoonez kernel installed, may you please share your settings! It would help me a lot!

Or anyone who's reached 4 hour on screen time, please share your settings :)!

And I use the phone in a moderate fashion, just text, send photos and use the xda app!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The111:
Your phone is a phone. Which means that unless you're in airplane mode (which I'll assume you're not since you didn't mention it), it is always sending and receiving information over the air. The quality of your signal will determine how much battery you use. Comparing your results to others that have the same phone is meaningless unless you're both either (a) in airplane mode or (b) at the same location using the same cell towers.

Maybe you have a weak signal wherever you are running these tests, and your battery is working overtime because of that? That's just one guess.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] kevinrubio1:
We're brothers so we use the same signal and everything. I think it's an app or something?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The111:
Well if you want to be really scientific about it (though this will be a huge PITA), flash the same exact software image to both phones, then repeat your test using both phones simultaneously. After this, if the phones do not perform identically, then recharge the batteries, swap them, and repeat the test.

This would identify whether the problem is related to the battery or the hardware. If it's not either of those, then yes it probably is software. Good luck!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] theu2621:
hey, I have this issue where my internal storage bar is just straight green.. despite having a little over 5 GB of space. I had this issue before but after I installed a new Rom it went away.. only to return yet again. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] theu2621:
here's a screen shot
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tsangwc:
your applications are almost twice as large as the internal storage available. some apps are not behaving right.