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[HTC Droid DNA] dvigue:
i bought a new DNA from soemone. he used it once hated it so he sold it to me. i am still on a 3g phone. and i had a 4g sim card that was able to get activated. BUT, i could not ever get my DNA fully activated. it never would show my phone number on the about screen. it was all zeros. after about 2 hours with tech support, 2 sim cards (that i had already), 2 factory resets they are trying one more thing, shipping me a new sim card. they dont think it is a hardware issue since i do get a 3g signal, i can recieve data but cannot make calls nor get them...another strange thing is i can get texts but cant send them. the techs (2 different ones) think it is somehting with the "system"

the ONLY thing i never told them was right when i got the phone, i used moonshine to get s-off and installed a custom rom....would unlocking teh bootloader etc BEFORE i activated the phone cause this? jsut to be safe i restored to 100 stock LOCKED so when i get my new sim i will be able to try from scratch

anyone else ever have this issue? i wish i would of activated it the say i got it when it was 100% stock..

thank you
[HTC Droid DNA] Bigandrewgold:
Moonshine should have no affect of activating your phone.
[HTC Droid DNA] jasoraso:
Are you on a custom rom? I have had problems on other phones if I was running a custom ROM and then switched sims - the new sim/phone number wouldn't activate.
[HTC Droid DNA] rwcasto:
I have had issues activating a phone that was rooted with Verizon- Verizon could not activate my phone until I went back to stock and un-rooted
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harlandraka:
Hi, i have a HTC Desire HD that can only boot to bootloader and recovery (CWM), when booting to system it stucks on the green htc logo with white background, and i can't use it.

I also tried with placing PD98IMG.zip in the sdcard root, the bootloader flashes it but the system still remains unbootable.

I was wondering if i can put it in S-OFF mode so that i can install a custom rom so that i can at least boot to the system and use the phone.

Is there a way to S-OFF my desire hd with recovery or bootloader=

Thanks in advance
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bananagranola:
What have you done to it to get it in that state? What does the bootloader say: is it locked or unlocked?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Conte7:
If you have unlocked bootloader you don't need S-OFF to flash Custom Roms..Just download .zip ROM, place it on sd card and in cwm chose "install zip from sd card" ... After that you must flash boot.img..Here is tutorial for everything I say: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2168500
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harlandraka:
Hi, thanks for your answer!

Unfortunately i got the phone in that state, i didn't pay it, a friend gave it to me because it doesn't boot and warranty is out of date.

I would like to "restore" it, the bootloader is unlocked, this is what i see:

*** UNLOCKED ***
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0029
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.14.04.28_M
eMMC-boot
Dec 22 2011,14:28:19

Is this what you were asking for?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harlandraka:
Hi! Thanks for the tip.

I didn't know i have to also flash the boot.img, is it a Ace thing? because i also installed a custom rom on my galaxy s+ and i didn't have to flash the boot.img after flashing the custom ROM
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bananagranola:
The Ace unlock given by HTC is a partial unlock. It sounds like your other phone was a full unlock. And yes, flash the boot.img.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harlandraka:
This made it work, now i have a fully working JB HTC Ace, thank you! :laugh:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamdek:
My Nexus 4 seems a bit Hit & miss with its ability to take a good photo. The main problem appears to be missing data when the subject of the photo is moving. Attached an example. Is this a common and/or a known issue?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Karo.:
go home right side man u r drunk

try another apk like fx camera
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamdek:
Thanks for the suggestion - but that's just another Instagram like app which I've already got a few of. It's the HDR option that looks to be the problem.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruskylfc:
Hello, I did a backup of all my apps+data and now I'm trying to restore it but it gets stuck at the "com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox". Does anyone have a guess of what's going on?

Ps: I'm still trying to run it but it's like more than 10 minutes that way

Edit: the toolkit said the process was completed, but not all my apps are there.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
restore your nandroid backup the right way, not through a root toolbox. restore it in/with your custom recovery.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] republicano:
you dont backup usual apps in system partition as it will hang or reboot, just backup user data, and use CWM
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Nagy:
Please help me to Download WINDOWS 2003 operating system for Pocket PC T- Mobile Model No PW10A1
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] LumpiStefan:
Where is the problem?
[HTC One X] joostverdoorn:
Hey there. My One X seems dead.

My One X (international) will enter hboot on boot, and unless USB is disconnected it will be stuck on 'Checking SD card update...'. So when I disconnect my USB it will enter hboot, and from there I can also enter fastboot. However, when I reconnect USB and enter fastboot (or the other way around, it doesn't matter) fastboot freezes. It will un-freeze as soon as I disconnect the USB. ADB can't find my device, and neither can fastboot on my computer (running Linux), even though they both could in the past.

My One X is RELOCKED (as it displays at the top of the screen at hboot) and it also prints "Security Warning".

Regards,

Joost
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Unlock the bootloader, try to install a custom rom. See if that helps
[HTC One X] joostverdoorn:
Thanks. The problem however was that fastboot wasn't responding, and as such I couldn't do any over-USB stuff. The problem - somehow - seems to have fixed itself after leaving the phone inactive for a while.
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Okey nice..... :thumbup:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meleelord:
So until a couple of days ago when I was in the phone and started typing a name it would then show the contact with there number. Now however it only picks up the number and not any letters. Can anyone tell me if I have done something to change this?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mathrania:
are you getting a FULL screen keypad ???? If yes, then get back to smart dial keypad in settings.....
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meleelord:
Figured it out! It's because I deleted the sense keyboard! :banghead:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Sherlocked:
Well, i already warning my english is not good.

My trouble is when i'm install the "Arcatarc's SuperleggeraV6", i do "full wipe": factory reset, wipe data, wipe system...

So flash the " Arcatarc's SuperleggeraV6" base rom, after i install the patch for my neo v, i reboot, and the phone keeps rebooting, appears the kernel logo, so appears "xperia" what is the rom starter, and the phone reboot again, and start all of this.

Someone can help me?

notes:

the kernel works in another ICS rom, i followed every step of the thread, and i'm not a noob (i flash roms by the last 2 years)

Arcatarc's SuperleggeraV6 thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2290310

Sorry again for my horrible english.

(i learned by myself)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] arcatarc:
You need to flash: 1 baserom->2 odexed or deodexed pack->3 device patch..

Inviato da me!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Sherlocked:
Thanks, i will try.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Sherlocked:
thanks man, i had installed your rom right and i tested the rom, sorry, but, the rom don't work perfect on my phone, it keeps "lagging", i will come back to another rom, sorry.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] arcatarc:
Hmm,strange,you're the first one reporting lag on Superleggera....

Inviato da me!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Sherlocked:
Maybe i had done one thing wrong, but nice rom anyway.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gggg:
We (Austrian family) are about making a trip to the US (NYC, PHX, Grand Canyon, Tuba, Page, Kanab, LAS, SFO, LAX) and I am wondering which telephone provider / mobile plan I should choose regarding 3G data.

I think the ARC S LT18i has 3G in the bands 900 and 2100 (no AWS).

Band....frequency....Uplink...........Downlink

I...........2100......... 1920–1980.....2110–2170

VIII.........900............880–915,,,,,,,,,925–960

f-Bands UMTS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands

Following Infos from http://prepaidwithdata.wikia.com/wiki/USA

AT&T:

2G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE): 850 and 1900 MHz

3G (UMTS/HSPA): 850 and 1900 MHz

4G (LTE): 700 and 1700/2100 MHz(AWS)

T-Mobile:

4G & 3G speeds require your phone to support AWS UMTS (1700/2100 Mhz), otherwise you will only get 2.5G EDGE (requires 1900 MHz GSM PCS supported phone).

2G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE): 850 and 1900 MHz

3G (UMTS/HSPA): 1700 and 1900 MHz

4G (LTE): 1700 MHz

Readysim:

uses T-Mobile ???

4G & 3G speeds require your phone to support AWS UMTS (1700/2100 Mhz), otherwise you will only get 2.5G EDGE (requires 1900 MHz GSM PCS supported phone).

2G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE): 850 and 1900 MHz

3G (UMTS/HSPA): 1700 and 1900 MHz

4G (LTE): 1900 MHz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_virtual_network_operators

1. Does this mean I wont have 3G, not even EDGE with any of them ? only 2G EDGE ?

I think the worst part of our trip regarding coverage will be from Grand Canyon to Las Vegas.

2. Which provider would you suggest ?
[General Questions and Answers] leoandre91:
Hi good morning, I have a problem, I have a BLU TANK 4.5 W110i, wanted to root, and lower the recovery for this phone, an image called recovery.img that was installed on the smartphone through a program called Smart Phone Flash Tool, did all well until the point of burning it arrives on the phone, gave no Download, and gave Flash, it made ​​the process, but the phone will not start now and do nothing, I need help please, not to do. .HEELLPP PLIZ, I want to try to burn the original rom BLU TANK 4.5, but can not find, can not find the scatter-loading file of this phone ...
[General Questions and Answers] nay1221:
help me

hi got the original ROM blu tank 4.5 is that the need to revive mine:crying:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adizzzle:
So I am ultimately trying to implement 3minit mod into my Rom. I've never had to use the updater script until now, but im having difficulty adding in the proper lines to make this mod work...

Here are the mod's and rom's updater-script's, can someone possibly take a look and possibly tell me how to add in the mod's script successfully into the Rom's script?

I'd be eternally grateful if somebody could help me out with this! Cheers!

http://db.tt/8stxr0Bo - Mod Script

http://db.tt/a30UMwHj - Rom Script

And here is what I've compiled so far:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51213674/updater-script
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adizzzle:
Here is my current updater-script in a .txt format
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adizzzle:
The flash fails sadly so it's back to the drawing board.

Thanks so very much for your reply though, It definitely clears

a few things up for me. :good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adizzzle:
Can anyone else weigh in on this with their opinion?

I can now get the Rom to flash, but I still am having

boot-loops...

updater-script:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51213674/updater-script

:crying:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris-tia-n:
Hello

I have looked all over the internet and cant find a answer to my problem. I have a i9300 16 gb. with super nexus rom installed. I want to do a complete wipe with the scripts from here. I have transfered the files to my external sd cards but when i reboot into recovery mode it cant mount the external sd Card. I have tried formatting it to fat, fat32 and exfat non of it Works. I have noticed when i browse to the Card on the phone the sd Card is located at /storage/sdcard1/ and when it want to mount it writes /extarnal_sd/. Can that be the fault? if so how do i change the mount route.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
No, external_sd is normal for recovery. No problem there.

EXFAT not really supported. Fat32 is best. You could always replace cwm with philz. Recovery. Its based on cwm but much better
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris-tia-n:
i will try that. is the best way odin or just flash it with cwm?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
I always flash recovery via odin. Something just feels wrong to me flashing recovery from recovery. But it is possible yeah
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris-tia-n:
Just tried philz did not work either. I also tried the free browser funcktion but it said it was not a valid folder. Any other suggestions?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Reformat the card again
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris-tia-n:
I tried but did not Work (only tried fat32) . I can see the files when i use root file manager.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris-tia-n:
When i use the free browser i get:

E: unknown volume for path [/sdcard1/]

e: Cannont mount custom path [/sdcard1/]

E. You must first setup a valid folder

E. Switching to default mode

E: Can´t mount /external_sd/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
No idea then, sorry
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris-tia-n:
I tired TWRP and it worked, so problem solved :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Not do much solved as worked around. All recoveries should see your sd card
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aketo25:
Hey guys i own a htc one SV and it's rooted and the bootloader is unlocked i flashed the stock rom odexed and as there are not many custom roms on htc one sv i would like to know if i can flash a dedicated rom for htc one S ? thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] longlongriver:
that`s impossible,these two devices has different hardware ,you may broken your devices if u do that
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warped420:
Really!! listen to longlongriver and his previous post

As i learned the hard way, flashing a rom from a different phone, can and will brick your device

First it will format it

then it will try to implement the other roms config files

then it will look like everything was completed properly

AND when you boot up

BRICK!!!!!!!

Read my thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2314836

read other threads , and build yourself a $ROM$
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aketo25:
i'm not a developper i don't any programming language :\
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warped420:
Good thing , is you don't need to know a programming language at first, read my thread, it's all there, join legion mods on my thread and we will help you...
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] zouganelis:
OK IMEI-CHECK charge £20 to unlock the phone, and I say fair enough. Why am I posting this? Did you know that their method is probably writing a NEW locking code using some other algorithm? If you run their software, it will inflate and write (about 4K of data if i remember correctly) in the part of the Radio ROM, where you only get access from the bootloader (memory address h'0' to h'10000'). Now here's the thing: I bet if I call T-mobile and ask for the unlocking code, it won't work in my phone, as these guys are actually modifying the Radio ROM without even telling you. Have you guys thought about insurance? For those who don't pay £9.99 or whatever extra cover, what if you pricey and precious pda goes bonkers? I think they should tell you *before* doing anything, about any possible problems.

Come on you guys, someone said he has compiled a few logs/imei numbers. Let's crack this thing, it has been done before for xda I and II, why can't we do it for IIs/IIi?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] no1:
If that's the case, then I wonder what's in those .uif files they ask you to send back to them? Could it be a backup of the sections of the radio ROM that they're replacing?

Also, if they're writing a fixed set of data to the radio ROM, how come everyone seems to have different unlock codes? Could they be replacing the actual algorithm that calculates the unlock code so that it only accepts certain combinations of codes from them?

-no1
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] no1:
Just had another thought - what if they're replacing code in the radio ROM with code from the Himalaya so that the unlock process then works in the same way as the Himalaya?

Has anyone tried using the xda2unlock tool after running the program from IMEI-Check??? I can't test this just now, so it's just a guess.

-no1
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] zouganelis:
Yes I believe that's what they actually do. I tried to run their utility with a debugger but it does not allow execution as long as a debugger is running, nice one IMEI-CHECK. However, I have done a full USB port logging when the utility runs and I found out that they write a new image between addresses 0 and 10000 of the radio rom, and that they also read from 3FC000 the first 4000 bytes, and from FFFEF000 the first 20 bytes.

Yesterday I discovered something odd...after running their application, and by inserting a different SIM card, the attempts counter for the unlocking code had a negative value of several millions. Now I suspect that by writing in adresses 0-10000, i think they replace the default unlocking utility which allows to enter the code.

Another idea I will try will be to run a debugger in the PDA (if I can find one) and see if I can capture the memory address with which it compares the input code.

Come on guys, especially you who did the unlocking utility for XDA II!! Give us some help here!!!!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] no1:
Zouganelis,

That's excellent that you've been able to sniff the USB traffic. Keep up the investigations!

I wonder why they'd need to read sections of the ROM? If they're replacing the calculation algorithm section of the ROM with their own code, then they should already know how to calculate the unlock code - i.e. they shouldn't need the user to send them back the .uif file.

This makes me wonder if the code they are replacing is just a copy of the code from another device e.g. the Himalaya.

If they are replacing with code from the Himalaya then the unlock process may revert back to how it works on the Himalaya.

Has anyone been able to test this by running the xda2unlock tool for the Himalaya *after* running the IMEI-Check program?

Does anyone have the source code for xda2unlock by the way? I tried searching for it, but it doesn't seem to be available.

-no1
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] no1:
Another thing, does anyone know if it's possible to back up and restore this secret area of the radio ROM using the backup to SD method? I assume that when you dump your radio ROM to SD card it's not including this part of the ROM???

I want to be able to fully restore any bits that the IMEI-Check tool is changing, just in case.

-no1
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] zouganelis:
Come on guys, anyone else trying to crack this thing? We need someone who knows how to disassamble/reverse engineer this log file. It can't be that hard! Also, I think the key to understanding what their little proggy does, is to manage to run a debugger when the unlock program runs. It has some mechanism of detecting a running debugger and it quits if you have a debugger running at the same time. I bet my MDA III that some experienced programmer can overcome this and fool their application? I am running out of ideas guys and I am really against paying these thieves 20 quid for nothing. They MUST have done this using the previous unlocking methods for XDA I and II. Does any1 know who did those unlockign utilities? These guys must help us!!!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] HappyGoat:
Have you tried to run OllyDbg as a debugger tool to see what is happening? Your earlier findings were very interesting...let me study this and get back to you all... ;)

One remark upfront though: I do not think they are modifying your Radio ROM....this would mean that if you upgrade/replace your current Radio ROM, you would be SIM-lock free...and I do not think that is the case...
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] HappyGoat:
OK, some initial observations:

1. Lousy software...hard to use for novices...why have the phone enter BL mode automatically (using enterBL.exe)...I think we can do better!

2. Since the phone must be in BL mode, I do think it extracts some info from the radio ROM, but the SIM-Lock could also reside in the Extended ROM, since this is usually customized by the provider?

3. Interesting to see that the same proggie and procedure is used for all XDA-X models

4. Can anyone post a file (output of the proggie) of what they have mailed these folks, as an example?

5. I was always under the impression that the SIM-Lock resides in the SIM itself, so this is a software workaround? What happens if you upgrade your ROMs...you need to go through this process again? Does anyone have experience with this?

Thanks, and let's get this thing cracked!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] no1:
HappyGoat,

My understanding is that SIM lock is implemented by the phone itself rather than the SIM card.

In the case of our HTC devices, there seems to be a small area of the radio ROM that does not get written to (even when you upgrade your ROM). This area is where the SIM lock is located, and probably other information such as your IMEI number.

This is probably why your IMEI and SIM lock information never get replaced when you upgrade your ROMs. I seem to remember that an older version of the xda2unlock tool was able to change your IMEI number but it got pulled for legal reasons.

When I unlocked my Himalaya, it stayed unlocked even after later upgrading the ROMs, so the state of the SIM lock is being stored somewhere. It can't be on the SIM because what if you change your SIM after you unlock it? The phone would need to be able to read your old SIM to check if the phone is locked!

Zouganelis,

Have you got any idea if it's possible to back up the areas of the radio ROM you mentioned to SD card? Like the current SD card backup method, but getting ALL of it?

-no1