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[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhanudude:
Mine is a Defy (MB525) green lens and not a defy+ (mb526). U sure that i should follow this guide...??:confused::confused:

Also i Cant manually power on my device...!!! even if i flash some sbf from the list of sbfs the rsdlite will show pass but i wont be able to power on my phone... help help...
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotdog125:
I think you just flashed a bl7 sbf (Defy+) meaning your phone now has Defy+ firmware with green lens. If you've tried everything else and it didn't work, then do that as a last resort. Both CM10 and CM10.1 will work.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhanudude:
Btw, this is the information i get when i connect my phone to my pc through rsdlite...

IMEI/ESN/MEID: N / A

Technology: N / A

Software Version: N / A

Flex Version: N / A

Bootloader Version: v0x000910

DRM Version: N / A

AP Die ID: 04500210611268010000dcff0200

BP Die ID: 0000000000000000000000000000

AP Public ID: 0a637f619605568d5c5aa50534a5bd6f5d743076

BP Public ID: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotdog125:
To confirm you've gone to BL7, you can try flashing froyo sbf. There will be a bootloader error. If that's the case then follow that thread and CM10/10.1 or MS2Ginger are the only options I think.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhanudude:
Thanks a lot Hotdog..!!

my defy is finally alive..!!!

but now its mb526.... so some feature wont work right..?? cn u tell me how to go back to defy from defy+ ???
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotdog125:
Yes, the camera won't work since it is green lens. The sbf you flashed in the beginning (DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP-231_CEE_ROOTED_No_Signed) made your Defy into Defy+. That sbf was meant to be for Defy+ users.

You cannot go back to Defy. Since your phone is now BL7, you cannot go back to froyo.

So now you can flash MS2Ginger/CM9.1 (by walter79)/CM10/CM10.1 or any 2ndboot ROM. I think you can't install CM7 also.

You can find MS2Ginger,CM10/10.1 ROMs by Googling. Download CM9.1 by walter79 here - http://d-h.st/users/walter79/.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lews01:
HI, I believe I have the same problem... I tried flashing my defy + with a portuguese version of android 2.3, when I was at 2.3. Now all I have is black screen with white led and it is not recognized by rdslite. As far as I understand I have first charge the battery with McGyver method or other charger, which will make the rdslite recognize the phone, and after that I can flash it with a newer firmware and get it back to life. Is this correct?

Thank you!
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotdog125:
Unless your battery is low do not use McGyver. Use it only as a last resort.

You must have tried to downgrade:o, which is not possible in Defy+ through RSDLite.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lews01:
Do you know if there is any way to recover my phone? It is not being recognized by rdslite anymore. While rsdlite was recognizing it I tried flashing with JORDN_U3_97.21.51, but nothing happened.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotdog125:
The usual. Update drivers and RSDLite, make sure you are in bootloader mode. If all else fails, go McGyver and get RSDLite to recognise the phone.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droid_<3er:
Y U FLASH ECLAIR SBF? You happened to find the retarded Eclair SBF that has a CG version of 5. Make sure that you are in bootloader, then make sure that it is really a low battery problem (either the phone doesn't turn on at all, including regular boot, bootloader or recovery) or it says "battery low, cannot program" in bootloader.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lews01:
And after that, with firmware should I flash it?

Thanks again!
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stridertn:
How did you do that if you can't access the recovery ??????????????
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhanudude:
From my Experience ::

1. cross your fingers :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

2.Use the Mcgyvor's method to get your phone recognized by rsdlite. (Only as a last resort)

3.After that just follow the procedure in Hotdog's Guide ( 2nd or 3rd reply in this thread)

4.After that your phone will become MB526.

5.flash any ROM designed for both 525 and 526

Cheers..!! :good:(You can treat me If you want.. ;):p:p
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikBre:
Please help!:crying:

I can't find the sbf....the links from here doesn't work http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1618718

Where did you find the sbf??
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droid_<3er:
You're gonna have to wait, buddy. It says right up on the website: "Quit e-mailing me about "no links" lol ..... there was a HDD failure - links are being recovered (will take some time)."

Right now only the 2012 and 2013 phones are up (etc. Droid Razr, Droid Razr HD, Electrify M, Photon Q).

Unless someone can upload the huge-a** file to some file-sharing service, you're out of luck. Sorry. I don't even have the Defy SBFs anymore.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikBre:
Restored my phone :good:

SBF from here

:victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory:
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sterver1:
Which SBF did you flash, please?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrankRb:
The thread is a bit old but...

There is a last resort...great but what is the McGyvor method because I really want to use it.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhanudude:
Basically its like jump starting your defy. its like a CPR for your bricked Defy.. ;)

Just go to the OP and follow the procedure.

Goodluck
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] boba7523:
Hi everyone,

So I dropped my phone, my power button got punctured inward and my screen completely blacked out. I'm taking this to a shop to fix it but I'd like to do a complete wipe on my phone before because my personal info is all on there.

Is there any way to do a complete wipe on the Samsung Note 2 via software, just like how the iPhone can be completely wiped using iTunes?

Thanks guys, much help appreciated!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] casis86:
Dont think they gone watch ur personell stuff while fixing ur phone. If ur lucky and tell em to not wipe ur phone they might leave it like it is since there is no software problem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] boba7523:
Bump for help :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] patrao_n:
Maybe you can hook it up to kies? I know some were able to hook the gs2 up to kies and factory reset everything without a screen. Couldnt hurt to try.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alekz2604:
Hello ! I have an Htc One m7 sim unlocked but Vodafone Romania branded. i tried revone and it does the job very well (s off, unlock bootloader) and i want to backup my firmware because i can' t find ruu for romanian vodafone branded. Cidgetter reports htc_032 , and maincid htc_001. I searched but besides nandroid backup , there is nothing else. Any advise, i would like to be sure that i can rever back to delivered version
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bhavpreet:
go into fastboot and instead of flashing a custom recovery, merely boot it.

Put the custom recovery in the same folder as adb, and then boot your phone into bootloader by pressing volume down and power when booting up. Plug it into the computer and it should say "fastboot usb" on the screen in red. Then type "fastboot boot recovery.img", replacing recovery with whatever yours is called. Then, just do a nandroid backup, and you have a backup of a completely stock htc one. if you ever need to revert, go back into recovery and restore using that nandroid. IF, for some reason, once you restore and you still have a custom recovery (happened to me), merely open your nandroid, remove the recovery image, place it in the adb folder, and type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" in the bootloader and youre good.

Just remember that you can remove the tampered and unlocked flags using revone, but s-off is permanent (i believe).
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alekz2604:
First of all thank you for the reply.

I tried revone with my stock phone and it dit s-off , bootloader unlock and then i locked bootloare ( locked not relocked) and s-on back

My big question is where i would get my stock recovery to flash it back in case of warranty claim. I understand that once i flash a custom recovery to make a nandroid backup, i overwrite the stock recovery

my mistake...i tried with your comand and i got "booting.... failed (remote not allowed)

2ND edit

after I did s-off and unlocked the bootloader I could boot the recovery, now it's backing up..THANK YOU
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bhavpreet:
ahahaha no problem :). Now once that nandroid is done, its a COMPLETE backup of your stock phone, so when you need it, restore that nandroid from recovery. I tried this once, and for some reason, i still had custom recovery after restoring the nandroid, but this can be easily solved by what i said in the last post, just take the recovery out of the nandroid, and flash it in bootloader.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stmilosh:
Alternatively you could point out your version-main from fastboot getvar and someone would post you a link for suitable stock recovery flashable image.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alekz2604:
It works, first i did s-off and bootloader unlock then i booted with twrp recovery, made a backup of all that i could select. After this i put supercid and flashed europe unbranded, afterwards i reboot with twrp recovery and i restored the backup and all went back to default. After that i did s-on and locked the bootloader.

Thank you for your help
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bhavpreet:
nooo problem :)
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] Trahald:
Hi guys, I have T-Mobile version. So, I have unlocked, S-OFF, changed to CID to 111111 and installed custom recovery. So now, am I able to have official firmware and software updates from T-Mobile or should I install Developer RUU from HTC? If I want to install Developer Edition RUU, which one should I choose? I have checked HTC website and I am lost :).

Thank you!
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] xitaxuta:
if you want to install the RUU and make ur tmobile one a dev edition you should install it from here http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads

should be the very top/first link on the list.

t-mobile havent released the RUU for their htc one variant yet... making very difficult for those who flashed a custom recovery and now want to go back to its original state and be able to instal ota updates again.

make sure ur CID have 11111111 (eight ones!!) before installing
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] Trahald:
Thanks for answer. I have a one more question though. What are the advantages and disadvantages of installing Dev RUU? When I install Dev RUU, am I going to able get official software and firmware updates directly from HTC instead of T-Mobile?
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] xitaxuta:
yup
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] Trahald:
I have final question :D. When I install Dev RUU, do I need to flash Radio seperately for T-Mobile or it is inside of RUU? If yes, how can I flash Radio?

Thank you very much!
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] xitaxuta:
No need to install radio
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] skinsfanbdh:
i think if you install dev ruu and changed your cid to the dev version you might be able to get otas directly from htc
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] Trahald:
Ok than, that means DEV RUU doesn't flash Radio. I red different about it on different topic, that's why I just wanted to make sure.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] skinsfanbdh:
even if it did it would still work. im on tmo with the leaked 4.2 radio and it works fine
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] tdagraca:
tmobile dev edition wont install ota..but it can check and find it?

i have the t-mobile htc one that i hcnaged to the dev edition. there was an ota update today (1.29.1540.17) and when it tried to install, it said that I am running a modified version of the system and to protect my phone, that it cannot update it.

i am not running anything modified... my phone is unlocked and s-off but nothing more...not rooted...no custom recovery...nada....... do i need to make it s-on or something ?
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] electrobento:
Hello. I followed the instructions to put CM10.1 on my Nook HD+ from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2317500

Most everything is working just fine except for one big problem--Youtube and Vimeo don't work.

Youtube says "There was a problem while playing. Touch to retry." and Vimeo says "An unknown playback error has occurred".

Some steps taken:

1) Changed to and from HQ.

2) Tried 4 different internet connections.

3) Cleared data/caches for the app.

4) Rebooted device.

Did I maybe miss a step on the installation?
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] View92612:
If you were using a browser, try a different browser or reinstall. Also, are you using any ad-blocker or special programs? Google hates those and I have no idea if any side effects would result from those. I had a similar problem with firefox after tweaking some parameters but a reinstall of firefox fixed it. (the error was unsupported format, though) Also, Youtube does have an app not installed by default in CM10.1 gapps. You may try the app if not already done.

You may also install an app called catlog, it is great for debugging purposes...and may show you any system errors if there were any.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] electrobento:
I'll try the catlog app.

I'm playing from the Youtube and Vimeo apps, not a browser, so it should work in those. I'm not using an adblocker or anything like that. I just tried wiping to factory defaults but that didn't fix it. Very perplexed.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] electrobento:
Hmm, well Catlog doesn't show any changes upon trying to load a video.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] electrobento:
Fixed it!

The problem was the I had changed my build.prop in order to install an app. This disabled Youtube and Vimeo for some reason or another. I did this, as described here ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2263553 ) :

Changing it back to the default, ovation, fixed the problem.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cruthck7:
Has anyone else experienced this issue? Youtube will not work for me either, but I never edited the build.prop. I double checked just to be sure and the ro.product.device is still ovation. I'm currently on the 7/3 build, but youtube hasn't worked for me in any of the previous builds either. Now I'm not getting an error message it just crashes the app every time.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cruthck7:
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamus28:
Yup. Youtube app(s) plays 1-3 videos per boot, then just freezes/crashes after. After a reboot it works again only to repeat.

This has happened on every CM10.1 emmc and carbonrom so far. It also happens on my rooted HTC one S sometimes. I get catlogs relating to loading ads, so I assumed it's some google server-side issue.

I never bothered too much with it, because honestly, the less youtube in life the better.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nstamoul:
I have run into the same problem.

I didn't change anything in ro.product.device or something like that, just followed the standard instructions.

Has anyone found a solution for this?
[Android Apps and Games] mahesh48:
I guess everyone are aware of halo feature in PAC man ROMs its amazing. Can someone port this feature as an app so it can be used as a app on every ROMs.:thumbup:
[Android Apps and Games] jonahly:
Q&A? I believe.
[Android Apps and Games] DisposableHero1985:
It can't be done as an app since the code is built into the framework
[Android Apps and Games] 1Chef:
What about as an xposed module?
[Android Apps and Games] Soryuu:
Since Halo is now open source, any dev can choose to add it to their roms, its up to them really
[Android Apps and Games] deathblade:
Also it was paranoid android that made the feature PAC just used their source
[Android Apps and Games] N'da:
Hi, try "floating notifications ", not halo but quite the same, look in playstore.
[Android Apps and Games] ThePureHeart:
Really not the same.

Sent from ThePureHeart's I9300 Boss Edition
[Android Apps and Games] deathblade:
i second, it is close as far as the circle and notifications but doesnt give everythin its mini window, though does have some nice features that i think halo should have (ie. scale circle size, fade when not being used etc.)
[Android Apps and Games] carole6m:
Yep. Even the developer's thread says it's not halo, it doesn't have the app window and never will.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] ujj75:
HI!

This might be a stupid question...

During the day my O2 Mini is always connected to my laptop thru the USB sync wire and therefore its keeps getting charged.

Is that in any way harmful for the battery...does it reduce battery life over the long run??

Thanks.

Ujj
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] skjelnes:
No not Lithium Ion batteries. In fact it is better to charge the battery as often as possible.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Guest:
is that fact? i cant believe it.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] cruisin-thru:
It is the way the battery is designed, there is logic in the battery that cuts off voltage when the peak is reached as far as I know.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] ujj75:
Thanks cruisin-thru and skjelnes . :D
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] xda-rocks:
If you let them go flat for any length of time, they die completely.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] savas:
USB charging control

Still this whole battery charging and technology issue is quite ambiguous. No one can really guarantee that there is a clear answer. For instance why do you have to give the battery an initial 8-hour charging if it is a new generation battery?

In any case it would be interesting to know how the charging control works. There are some options:

- It can be controlled by a circuit which cuts off power at a certain level of charge (no way to play with this option).

- It may be controlled by software which would be great because one could (easily) interfere with it. In this case there must be some kind of relay switch controlled by the operating system.

- It could also be not controlled. In this case the battery never stops charging. Only the indication changes when a battery meter reaches a certain level. This looks more likely to be the case as the initial 8-hour charging might mean keeping the battery under voltage during the initial charge as even though the indication states that it is fully charged the charger is not disconnected by any control system.

Does anyone have some solid information on the above assumptions?

Note: I tried to isolate the power pin of the USB cable in order to prevent the device from charging but then it was not recognized by the USB (got a USB connection error). Obviously the power line of the USB is used for connection and signal as well and not only as a optional power supply to the connected device.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Guest:
I'm currently trying to find something in the registry about charge control....

Maybe Microsoft has hidden a secret option somewhere in there... :?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] agiorgitis:
Sorry, forgot to log in... :oops:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Serge:
Re: USB charging control

Find everything you want to know on lithium-ion batteries on batteryuniversity.com

here http://www.batteryuniversity.com/partone-5.htm

and here http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm

Serge
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Anders Johnsson:
A litium-ion battery gets worn from three things:

* Normal use

* Heat

* Full charge

A short while after the Ipod battery dirty secret leaked, I read why the batteries only last for like a year. A NiCd battery HAS to be cycled completely to last as long as possible because of their memory effect. A NiMh battery LIKES to be cycled as completely as possible for longest life.

A Li-Ion battery does not have the memory effect - therefore a lot of people seem to assume that you can charge a Li-Ion battery any way you want. That is not correct... Everyone of you ever used a laptop with a Li-Ion battery every day at work, with the ac-adaptor plugged in knows that the battery is ready for garbage bin after one or two years.

Why? You've almost never used the battery... It's always fully charged... The battery should have lasted much longer you think...

Isidor Buchmann is president at the company Cadex which makes battery chargers. He has got more than 20 years of experience from the battery business.

At the site: http://www.batteryuniversity.com he has written an article where he explains the mechanisms inside a Li-Ion battery and provides tips about how to treat the batteries.

Finally he gives the following advices:

*Don't discharge the battery completley. It's better to discharge the battery a little more than halfe than making a complete discharge.

* Discharge the battery completely and then charge it completely to calibrate the battery meter

* Keep the battery cool

* For long time storage: keep the batteries charged at 40% in the fridge

* Do not use the ac adapter and the battery when the battery is fully charged. Heat and unneccesary charging after the battery is fylly charges destroys the battery

My 2 cents.

// Anders
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Ineedtoys:
Re: USB charging control

I think most questions have been answered, except Magician specific ones, i.e.:-

The Magician has to be initially charged for at least 8 hours to:-

1. Make sure the main battery is fully charged and formed, and charging logic calibrated (future capacity depends on this)

2. Charge the backup battery. Unlike the main battery, this only gets a trickle charge which starts after the main battery is at 100%. So it needs those 8 hours to get to full capacity. Remember to do this if you ever drain the backup battery.

Lithium charging logic is built into the battery, so no way to tamper with the settings. The NiMH backup battery logic will be built into the Magician.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Loboman:
Very interesting reading! I didn't know about the issue with laptop batteries.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Anders Johnsson:
Me niether. I knew exactly how to treat NiCd and NiMh batteries, but when I bought a laptop, I wondered how to treat Li-Ion batteries. After some search I found the info i just presented here.

// Anders
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] savas:
Very interesting information indeed! Just some more comments:

OK we can easily avoid discharging the battery below 50% or 60% at normal conditions even when traveling through a USB port of our notebook (3rd quote)

We should also avoid a USB connection at a 100% (2nd quote) or even at a 90% (3rd quote) charge level unless we can find a way to cut off the power supply to the battery. The only option would be to find a way to do this from the device, before the internal logic of the battery. As far as I can understand the internal battery logic allows charging whenever connected to a power supply and it only informs somehow the device of the charge level.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] belfast-biker:
OMG.

All this nonsense about batteries.... it's easier to just buy a new battery or a new device after 18 months, rather than let your charging habits be dictated by how batteries like to be tickled!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Loboman:
Easier yes, more expensive too.. Dell sure knows how to charge (!) you for a new batt with built-in subwoofer..
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] dacmo:
Does it matter if we don't charge it all the way till it's full? If I'm charging it till about 95% and I really need to unplug it. How much damage will it do to my battery?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Anders Johnsson:
I'm not following you - I think. If you unplug it at 95% it's a lot better than unplugging it at 100%.

Summary:

Full charge: BAD

Full discharge: BAD

Heat: BAD

Extreme cold: BAD

// Anders
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] dacmo:
This is the first time that I ever heard that charging up to 100% is bad. I know that leaving it on the charger for extended periods is bad but to say that charging to 100% is bad.. that's absurd!!! :shock: