yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] hapticxchaos:
most recoverys are set up to format data without touching the internal storage. this is a feature, not a bug. if you want to wipe internal, go to format, then format internal. easy peasy :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] chocodough:
Here is what I do when I flash a ROM. I am a bit OCD for flashing cleanly.

1) Boot into Recovery

2) Wipe Data (Factory reset)

3) Wipe Cache

4) Wipe Dalvik Cache

5) Format /System

6) Format /sdcard

Then I flash my ROM. Those steps will definitely clean everything out before you flash. Especially formatting /system and /sdcard.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Russ77:
just make sure you don't have anything you care about, like Roms or nandroids, in /sdcard.

fwiw this isn't a CASUAL issue, its a TWRP issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Reinaldo33897:
Awesome was looking for the correct way to do a Total Full Wipe in recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
It's a little over kill. Just need to wipe the caches and data. If you wipe system, just make sure you do it before you flash a rom. And make sure you flash a rom before you boot. Wiping system and then rebooting is detrimental to your phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] chocodough:
Ya it might be a little bit overkill, but atleast this way you know everything is cleaned and wiped before you flash your ROM. I hate dirty flashing ROMS, so I prefer to be really thorough.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Reinaldo33897:
It might be overkill but I like to make sure its a complete wipe even if I have to overkill it. Thanks all for the replies.

EDIT: DO NOT FORMAT INTERNAL if you have twrp the part where you have to type in yes. You will have serious issues and will end up ODIN back to stock to repair. If you format internal in twrp phone will not boot up. You can enter recover but if you power off phone will not boot up again.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gongtar:
I installed windows 8, and the new version of flashtool, also drivers, everything was fine but when i enter in flashmode ftf files doesn´t appear in the box. I have used various versions of flashtool and problem continues. Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raminta:
Do u copy ftf in right place??? I mean in

C/flashtool/firmware
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gongtar:
Yes, thats the folder where i put the ftf file. I have tried to put in another folder but nothing yet
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raminta:
Re install flashtools maybe it solve ur problem
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frankieee:
Which ftf file are you using?

.62 should work, instead .42 doesn't on the last flashtool version (i read flashtool 0.6 recognizes .42 ftf but I never checked).
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gongtar:
Thanks

I reinstalled flashtool, and also used the version 0.6, nothing solved my problem. May be with the next update of flashtool
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gongtar:
Thanks again and solve it

Installed version 0.9 of flashtool and this recognizes ftf 42, not the other ones but something is something. Thanks by your answers.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hadi.oraniom:
Rename the file , and change the format ftf to zip , and open it , if there is a password u have to remove the password of the zip file , then rename it to ftf , then flash tool should recognize the file ;)
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xMaZ:
I have your problem but I couldn't solve it .

How do you solve it , please ?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluelightkatana:
I have the same problem, did you solve it??

Thank you.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plmosqueda:
hello i have the problem too, linux and windows
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gouster3:
when tft is not seen ,i recommend to extract tft content, and create new one using Tool -> Bundles -> Create.

If is file corrupted, you will see it during extraction process.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Analog Kid:
Here, aside from Flashtool not detecting FTF inside "firmwares", It also has no "Devices" info to choose from, so "Bundle" can't be completed as well... in other words, stuck at unable to flash firmware. I will try with an older Flashtool version later, cause I'm struggling with the very latest one...

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Wait. I kinda like your proposed workaround... though I haven't tried yet. How does this password looks like?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] STeeL835:
To whoever finds this thread in search of an answer, like I did, here's the solution that helped me:

Go to C:/Users/username/.flashtool/devices, delete all the files there and clone https://github.com/Androxyde/devices manually (I guess you can delete everything except .git folder, download repo as zip and extract it there).

Somehow flashtool doesn't clone it fully, and some devices folders end up not having .properties file.
[Java for Android App Development] GeekSpin:
hello xda

i am a new developer [Student] i need to submit my app for my project at school

so what i want to ask is

i want to develop a app that allows a person to chat like is i give one coustmer a no. [say 678567] and he shares it with other person so they can chat share files

its same as how i think whats app works

can someone please guide me to the right direction i am keen to develope this app and get good grades ^_^

thank you
[Java for Android App Development] forgin:
If i get you, you want something like whatsapp...

As far as i know, you will need different things:

A backend Server to manage and store users and manage files sended.

A client side with is the chat. If you doing it in Android, Java the process could be like this:

client get a list of friends, then stores in local files. To send a message, firstly can use push messages like GCM to send a message, if receiver is online with the conversation openned, it tries to stablish a socket connection to send messages each other. If no, then it uses the push GCM.

More or less like that....of course there are much more things to do and take care of.

hope i helped you a little with this info!
[Java for Android App Development] GeekSpin:
ya!! thats what i want , seems tougher for a amature android programmer

so here what i have

i have a server at school which we are allowed to use ;)

i have created a basic layout of the app(on a white board ;) )

since i do not have that much expirence with apps ( till now i have made calculator and simple sudoku :P) the problem is i don't know how can i make the app to contact with the servver complete noob in this thing

and

thanks for making me understand the working now i can tell my teacher how the app works

:)
[Java for Android App Development] swapnilraj:
You can use backends like Google Cloud Messaging or Parse, they're well documented and easy to use, just go through their documentation,
[Java for Android App Development] GeekSpin:
thanks for the reply actually i researched a little and found the GCM is not a good choice for IM as sometimes messages are not delivered so as for parse i have no experience with that and i found something that i need to have some connection between my android app to server (running php and mysql database)

the point where i am stuck is that

How to connect the app to server ??

and how to give a user his personal pin or username so he can share with others to chat ??

thanks
[Java for Android App Development] deniel:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2325799

it was just 3 post under yours :)

And just make that every user have an unique nickname and use it has a primary key.
[Galaxy S 4 General] xda2_haseeb:
Hey Everyone!

I was reading that an UK based agency, "We Are Social" has through research declared Galaxy S4 as the "most loved" smartphone. I have never got a chance to use the Samsung Galaxy smartphone lineup so i would like to heard your comments about what do you think about the Galaxy S4? What features about it do you like and what you dislike? Let's make this discussion constructive :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] shrutumhatre:
S4 is the best :laugh::laugh:
[Galaxy S 4 General] Zahid Ali:
I just hate bloatware came with it :/
[Galaxy S 4 General] nm8:
Its the best
[Galaxy S 4 General] xda2_haseeb:
Could you be specific by naming the apps you hated? :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dgrooman:
I've been trying to get a Rom on a S3 that the wife likes, so I've recently flashed the latest versions of Hyperdrive, Synergy and Wicked. I always follow the proper procedures of data wiping/factory reset, clear cache, clear dalvik, format system, and format data between each flash. I tried Hyperdrive first but had google sync errors, so went to Synergy. Synergy wouldn't connect to the nectwork so I went to flash Wicked v10 but the device wouldn't wipe/format data. I let it set for 20+ minutes and it never progressed. Pulled the battery and tried again but same result. I tried to restore to a backup from a week ago and it also stopped progress at the formatting data step. I would like to just start clean at this point, so is there any tool or work I can use to aid in that?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rani9990:
Wrong section bud. As for your problem, get mskips Samsung galaxy s3 toolkit, and select the option to download and flash the stock ROM. Make sure to backup pictures, etc, your SD card will be wiped.

Hit thanks if I've helped!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crashpsycho:
First off you need to post question in the QA section this the development section.

As for your issue use Odin to restore back to stock. And start fresh I use TWRP and it always work make sure the recovery is up to date now ask one of the OPs to move this the QA section
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Clark Joseph Kent:
OP, Please read the Forum Rules on posting.... Thread Moved to here.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] deathblade:
Search YouTube for how to root the Galaxy s3 it will give you links to get you back to stock root and I would suggest trying out jelly beans I'm currently running it its a stock rom with aosp theme and a few extra settingsvia xposed framework unless you're looking for an aosp based rom then I would have to suggest Beanstalk which is feature packed very smooth has halo and should have pretty good battery life
[Micromax A116] gregferns:
Anybody faced this problem ??

SO far my canvas hd was charging properly with the charger....

Now from the past 2 days whenever i plug the charger in the slot, it slowly slides out.

It does not remain fixed inside.... I have to literally use a small amount of force....

Any ideas guys ??

regards

greg
[Micromax A116] mehulboricha:
Have You Tried Going To Service Center

Have You Visited Service Center ...if not first do it......might be problem with Socket.
[Micromax A116] gregferns:
Not yet done that. Looks like we'll have t to do that only...
[Micromax A116] mehulboricha:
yes

Yes this might be slot hardware problem.....
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turko9999:
Hi, can anyone share me to full rosie.zip for SVHD rom pls?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranger4740:
I don't understand, I'm sure SVHD already has full Rosie? I believe you just need to get the Rosie.apk from system folder?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turko9999:
No actually it has bigger rosie, i wanna smaller rosie
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kRYySTy:
Hi!Today I tried to flash an recovery and my phone(I9001) got bricked.The problem is that my Home Button is not working and I can't acces download mode.

So my question is: Is there any way to enter download mode without Home Button?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freakymod2120:
Over ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ==> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1185044

Or this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kRYySTy:
How i can connect my phone to pc if it is soft-bricked?

Edit:Windows recognize the device although it is soft-bricked,but ADB doesn't recognize my device
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sheikh.hamzee@gmail.com:
If u can't acess your phone and your phone is not going in download first try to apply jig if still not working then your phone is hard brick..then you should take your phone to shop for repair using jtag process..
[About XDA developers] fcasini:
Hellò to all,

I am looking for a software for my Jam to collect not only signal strenght but also information about CellId ,Local area code and Network id.

I need a software like Netmonitor for Nokia.

I was using on my old nokia 6600 a software fron A.Fisher in symbian that was able to collect this info and where i could edit to add information like description.

Is there something about? :roll:

thanks

fausto
[About XDA developers] tomerbn:
it's not fully answers your request, but give it a try...

http://www.mobilegx.com/ppc/p3kit/p3kit.html

GSM P3Kit (Radio)

Description:

Do you have a Pocket PC Phone Edition(P3), such as O2 XDA, T-Mobile? Turn your XDA into a GSM/GPRS radio quality measurement tool with this cool P3Kit program.

It shows REALTIME Radio Signal Strength from your PDA screen. It is tested on O2 XDA, but should work on other similar platform like i-mate, T-Mobile etc.

Try Demo version from MobileGX. If IMSI, IMEI, MCC, MNC, RLP info sound remote to you, check out 3gPP website.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheMayne:
Is there any stock ROM that is jelly bean 4.2.2 that is basically completely stock or close enough to it that is just as the S4? The different look of the settings and notification bar etc. is just appealing. So anyone know of any of these ROMs?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmxc23:
There isn't a touchwiz 4.2.2 yet for the s3. Itis the international S3 not the US S3 that was leaked for.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheMayne:
Aww thanks anyway
[Hardware Hacking General] mypetocean:
Hey! After many frustrated rides in crowded public transportation, unable to get full functionality out of my tablet, due to having to be reduced to using only one hand in confined spaces, I spent hours today searching online for a bluetooth trackpoint, trackball, or trackpad that could be mounted on that back of my tablet on the side near where my hand is comfortable and my fingers are free, so that I could accomplish this. But no dice.

The closest I could find was this small, reversed, stickable touchpad (Google "ergo reverse touchpad"), but it is wired and with a full-size male USB port no less! Plus, I'm skeptical of the usefulness of a trackpad even this large for this purpose, for precisely one reason: when you are holding the device with one hand, you lose the crucial ability to move your wrist in relation to the tablet: which is a serious trackpad buzzkill. So, only a finger-sized trackpad could do the trick -- if indeed a trackpad was the way to go.

THEN I ran into MicroPointing (Google "micropoint"). And the simple DIY multitouch mods using webcams (Google "dirt cheap multitouch pad"). And the fact that (YouTube ?v=bci7Gi05BNc) optical mice themselves are basically modified cameras. (Sorry, I had to redact the links because I'm new to XDA.)

And it dawned on me: There is a camera on the back side of my tablet.

So! I'm sure you can see where this is going. If I hadn't just started a new position as an IT manager, with a huge, looming learning curve hanging above my head, I would have tackled this project myself. But I can't. And it pisses me off. But there it is. Someone tell me I'm not the only person who would pay $100 just for a feature like this?

TLDR; ...Is anyone sufficiently intrigued to write an Android app to use a tablet/phablet/phone's rear-facing camera as an optical pointing device? :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrutumhatre:
My S4 Gt-I9500 IS heating whenever i play games,surf on stock browser, i had backup the bloatware and deleted all then also it is heating

Any ? suggestion

:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tclocki:
Nah, I see very little discussion about it now though. I think people just eventually realized that devices as slim and as powerful as the s4 will really heat up unlike our previous phones.

I've just gotten used to my phone heating up when playing games, and I don't browse on stock anymore, I'm always on dolphin browser.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omvir:
Yes, there is a solution. Install Perseus and undervolt the CPU, and GPU.

Sent from my GT-I9500
[HTC Droid DNA] Upstreammiami:
Hey guys finally found the correct libs...

Just flash in recovery this is mainly for aosp roms where ps wouldn't work.

http://db.tt/K01IihKn
[HTC Droid DNA] starcms:
The libs from this zip fixed it for me (after I renamed the camera from 4.3 to Gallery2.apk and pushed it to /system)! Thanks!

However, I would recommend not flashing this zip because in addition to the correct libs, it includes an older version of the camera/gallery and an older version of GmsCore(Google Settings). Just unzip and copy and paste the 3 updated lib files.
[HTC Droid DNA] Sev3rino:
So I tried just unzip and paste files, but didn't work. What Should I do? I'm using Nexus for with Cyanogenmod 10.2

Thanks
[HTC Droid DNA] JWhetstone02:
make sure you set permissions as well
[HTC Droid DNA] Sev3rino:
JWhetstone02, thanks for reply. So how I can set the correctly the permissions?. Because I did the same (just copy and paste) for other library and worked without set any permission.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eng.helewa:
hello,,

i have a problem with my galaxy s3 GT-I9300

the problem is that i flashed MIUI and it worked perfectly .. after that restarted my device and it repeat restarting.

so i got to recovery mode and it failed to flash any zip file. and failed to wipe to factory reset and failed to wipe data.

i was on CWM touch 5.0.5 but someone here adviced me to flash Philez Touch and after that i couldn't access recovery anymore

i tried to flash from odin a stock rom

I9300XXELLB_I9300OJVELL3_I9300XXELLA_HOME.tar.md5

and here is the result

<ID:0/005> Initialzation..
<ID:0/005> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/005> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/005> tz.img
<ID:0/005> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/005> sboot.bin
<ID:0/005> system.img
<ID:0/005>
<ID:0/005> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

The Download screen says the following

ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9300
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: YES (5 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom

Downloading..

this is all i have .. please help me

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eng.helewa:
i am sorry .. how can i delete this thread :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
Dont just put help in the title it doesnt help at all. Anyways, so you're saying you get a low space warning with 700 MB and you can't delete files?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Eduardo9309:
Yes, i tried doing full wipe and reflashing and i believe that fixed, i Will wait because it shows when one doesnt expect it
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dc.wash95:
Yesterday night I was running the Viper ROM and decided to switch and try out a Sense 5 port. I booted to TWRP and wiped cache, dalvik cache, data, and system. I then tried to flash the Sense 5 port which failed. I tried to restore a backup and it failed. And now my sdcard/internal is not mounting so I'm at a complete loss. Any ideas on how I could get my phone back to a functional state?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] waterbound:
At least it isn't 'bricked' if you can still get to recovery which is good. Bricked is 100% dead which yours doesn't sound like it is. If you are able to get to recovery, are you jus notable to get to the external SD? Can you access the SD directly from a PC? If so, maybe copy what you can, format and copy back..try to mount again..
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dc.wash95:
I'm running 2.5.0.0
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Magnum_Enforcer:
Take a look at this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2354029

If you're on Hboot 1.12 or you're S-off you can disregard flashing the boot.img (kernel) separately.

I've never run across the issue where storage wouldn't mount, but the fix posted in the thread above seems to have worked for at least one person. Just make sure you back everything up to your computer before you start formatting anything.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dc.wash95:
Well, I could'nt access any storage on my phone through twrp or usb mounting and was getting the errors that this guy is showing here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2354029

I just wiped internal storage and was able to get a ROM to successfully flash so I lost all my photos/vids but at least my phones working now...

Do you know why this error might have come up in the first place?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Magnum_Enforcer:
Honestly, I've never run across the problem myself but I see it fairly regularly in these forums. I don't know what causes it, either. It's at least part of the reason I keep things like TWRP backups, ROM's, photos and so on stored on my external SD card. If there is ever an issue I can remove the card from my phone and copy files over to my computer, if the need arises (I also keep at least one recent Nandroid on my computer in case I run into problems along the way).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] CNexus:
This is great advice and good practice^

The Thanks button is just to avoid "THANKS" posts in threads. Nothing more. Don't defeat the purpose of why it was introduced.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dc.wash95:
Well I'll be adopting your gameplan as insurance if this thing happens again...thanks for the help everyone!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toonarmy85:
hi people I recently used moonshine to s-off and just wondering if theres a way to completely revert back to stock with bootloader locked and have s-on again as if phone hasn't had any modifications at all

thanks in advance for any help given :D
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toonarmy85:
Anyone know how to help
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redbull123:
I used Revone to s-off so I can't tell you much about moonshine. But I do know that moonshine flashes a custom hboot automatically so you will need to flash a stock hboot before you command s-on or you will permanently hard brick your phone...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a box of kittens:
http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?t=732397
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toonarmy85:
Yeah I kinda wish I had used the revone method as it keeps the stock hboot doesnt it?

Will flashing an ruu change me back to stock with stock hboot too or is it a completely different procedure

Sorry for my noobish questions ain't done all this for a while infact not since I owned a sensation lol
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a box of kittens:
Steps made out

Flash the locked bootloader zip

Run ruu

Do s on command

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I linked u to an excellent guide
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toonarmy85:
Absolute legend mate thanks very much :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toonarmy85:
Forgot to ask after doing this will my hboot change from 1.44.4444 back to the stock version forget the actual numbers but sure it's 1.44.0000
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a box of kittens:
Ruu will return everything to stock except s off
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toonarmy85:
Done it all thanks mate I've left it s-off so will I still need to reunlock the bootloader to flash custom roms again
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toonarmy85:
Anyone?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a box of kittens:
No if you have s off...sorry for the late response
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toonarmy85:
Dnt be sorry mate uve been more than helpful :)