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[General Questions and Answers] Dart_Tech:
I have found many many guides and documents regarding many different devices for rooting. I was wondering if there was some general method of rooting a Android Device that would be universal for all devices?
[General Questions and Answers] RobPitt:
This application exploits the Exynos bug to root a phone. I think this is only for ARM-based devices.

If that doesn't work for some reason (or you are using an x86 based device), you can use Recovery mode to flash the Superuser ROM available in ROM Toolbox Lite, select "ROM Management" and download an appropriate ROM. The download will be in /sdcard/romtoolbox/downloads/downloads.noshufou.netdna-cdn.com
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockingrubberducky:
Hey guys, here's my situation. I'm buying a Nexus smartphone for development. This will not be my daily driver, my Verizon Galaxy S4 is used for that purpose. My two choices for Nexus phones are the Verizon Galaxy Nexus or Unlocked Nexus 4. I can get the Verizon Galaxy Nexus from a buddy for $160 or an Unlocked Nexus 4 for $299 through Google Play. I don't know what device to get and I need opinions.

Advantages for Unlocked Nexus 4:

Unlocked

Newer hardware

Better Design

Disadvantages fo4 Unlocked Nexus 4:

Higher Price than Unlocked Galaxy Nexus

Cannot throw in my Verizon SIM Card from my S4 to use in case I want to switch between it and the Nexus 4. ( I can however, do this with the Verizon Galaxy Nexus).

Advantages for Verizon Galaxy Nexus:

Cheaper

Able to use with my Verizon SIM Card

Removable battery

More storage

Disadvantage for Verizon Galaxy Nexus:

Older hardware

Not "brand new" (The Unlocked Nexus 4 will be)

So, what do you guys think?

Unlocked Nexus 4 or Verizon Galaxy Nexus?

Comment and tell me what you think! :thumbup:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
I would prefer a new Nexus 4 rather than a second hand Galaxy Nexus.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scream4cheese:
Is this a serious question?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RedBlueGreen:
... Development you say? Of course... get the older Nexus.. because.. you know... the older the fruit the more ripe it is.. unless its an apple... they turn rotten fast.

/sarcasm
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] republicano:
how long are you using the nexus for dev?, i would get the second hand one due to cost and removable backplate so you can get a new battery after so many years,if its only for dev you dont need a new phone.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] marzon:
Hi , I'm not really new here, only I've been reading quite a while whithout subscribing.

I live in the netherlands, work as boat mechanic.

My phone is LG C660 optimus pro, became slow and wifi got an error, won't turn on anymore, suddenly.

I tried to move to cyanomod, mainly to see whether it would fix wifi error, and I had cyanomod previously on my sony ericsson experia mini pro.

at the moment I have to use the sony again,

my LG C660 optimus pro is near bricked...

I did root it, went fine, ran clockworkmod recovery, also fine, then I tried to put on cyanomod stable version through MOD manager, went wrong somehow,

I now only get LG logo and it stays there.(it does get into emergency mode)

tried to reflash original using KDZ updater, program runs, have the firmware, finds connection witch my phone only if in emergency mode

(got modem disabled in system of windows)

KDZ starts working but errors and phone has no change

here's the log from KDZ :

22:10:02 : Launching SW update

22:10:02 : Unpacking KDZ

22:10:09 : KDZ file extraced

22:10:19 : Files were extracted.

22:10:19 : LGMobileDL Load.

22:10:19 : Port = -1

22:10:19 : Connecting to phone

22:10:29 : Check Phone mode = 1

22:10:47 : Phone type check.......

22:10:51 : LGMobileDL.DLL Loading....

22:10:51 : _SetAuthMark Fail

22:10:51 : AuthMark°¡ Á¤È®È÷ Phone¿¡ Write µÇÁö ¾Ê¾Ò½À´Ï´Ù!

22:10:51 : _SetAuthMark Fail

22:10:51 : LoadCDMAPhoneData() Error

22:10:52 : GetProcAddress Error(127)

22:10:54 : ===FINISHED===

CAN ANYONE HELP ???
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] rockingrubberducky:
Hey guys, here's my situation. I'm buying a Nexus smartphone for development. This will not be my daily driver, my Verizon Galaxy S4 is used for that purpose. My two choices for Nexus phones are the Verizon Galaxy Nexus or Unlocked Nexus 4. I can get the Verizon Galaxy Nexus from a buddy for $160 or an Unlocked Nexus 4 for $299 through Google Play. I don't know what device to get and I need opinions.

Advantages for Unlocked Nexus 4:

Unlocked

Newer hardware

Better Design

Disadvantages fo4 Unlocked Nexus 4:

Higher Price than Unlocked Galaxy Nexus

Cannot throw in my Verizon SIM Card from my S4 to use in case I want to switch between it and the Nexus 4. ( I can however, do this with the Verizon Galaxy Nexus).

Advantages for Verizon Galaxy Nexus:

Cheaper

Able to use with my Verizon SIM Card

Removable battery

More storage

Disadvantage for Verizon Galaxy Nexus:

Older hardware

Not "brand new" (The Unlocked Nexus 4 will be)

So, what do you guys think?

Unlocked Nexus 4 or Verizon Galaxy Nexus?

Comment and tell me what you think!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kvswim:
Gnex. It's cheaper, still has hardware comparable to the hardware that most end users are running, and Google will still support it through KLP. The crap battery will not matter since it's not your dd.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
What are you developing? Depending on that answer would depend on my answer. Dev work on a close to obsolete phone would be nearly fruitless. But if you are doing application development then it wouldn't much matter and I'd say go cheap

sent from my GE gs4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] rockingrubberducky:
Rom development
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
I'd say the n4 then personally.

sent from my GE gs4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dligon:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-57594103-233/get-50gb-of-at-t-locker-cloud-storage-for-free/
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Sledutah:
Had to go through the update 3 times for it to stick. Must be a lot of people doing the same thing.

Thanks for the heads up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mr_blanket:
The day I trust AT&T with my data....

:) But thanks anyway for the link! I'm sure several people will try it out!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Roy@lty1102:
Yup. Took me 3 tries too. I think, for obvious reasons, AT&T just doesn't want to give away the space. They're hoping you'll give up and say, "It just doesn't work" but stick with it...3 tries and my locker says 50 Gig. Thanks a bunch.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cdub5:
Worked for my wife and I. Thank you. I guess we were lucky, cuz it stuck after the first try. Now let's hope the locker isn't some crazy battery drainer, or just end up being some buggy, crappy AT&T garbage.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] OverHertz:
Thanks, worked and sticked on the first try. At least I got some space to store my stuff at. :good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] GuestX0019:
I set that up and pic uploading and assinging to folders sucked

i will stay with dropbox/shutterfly/google+

although i don't really use google plus, just play with it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bdougwrx:
Tried 3 times on the site, but it wouldn't go thru. Worked 1st try on their app.

Probably won't use it because of G+ and I have a 25GB Pogoplug account for life.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Matalim:
Already got the 50GB dropbox storage. Thanks though :) Maybe sometime in the future when i need more than 50GB cloud storage..lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] spd_rcr:
Good catch. After creating the locker account, the upgrade process was pretty clear the free upgrade to 50GB is a limited offer, but said nothing about it being free for a limited time. Hopefully that means it's a permanent, free upgrade.

Maybe a place to store another backup of my music files ? It's hard to think of anything I'd actually trust to put on any server related to AT&T 'tho.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] nthknd:
I use it for pictures.. you never know when your SD card or phone may have some kind of issues. Its great since it uploads automatically.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] RabanJr:
Nice catch. Worked just fine the first time. Can never have enough storage.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rockingrubberducky:
Hey guys, here's my situation. I'm buying a Nexus smartphone for development. This will not be my daily driver, my Verizon Galaxy S4 is used for that purpose. My two choices for Nexus phones are the Verizon Galaxy Nexus or Unlocked Nexus 4. I can get the Verizon Galaxy Nexus from a buddy for $160 or an Unlocked Nexus 4 for $299 through Google Play. I don't know what device to get and I need opinions.

Advantages for Unlocked Nexus 4:

Unlocked

Newer hardware

Better Design

Disadvantages fo4 Unlocked Nexus 4:

Higher Price than Unlocked Galaxy Nexus

Cannot throw in my Verizon SIM Card from my S4 to use in case I want to switch between it and the Nexus 4. ( I can however, do this with the Verizon Galaxy Nexus).

Advantages for Verizon Galaxy Nexus:

Cheaper

Able to use with my Verizon SIM Card

Removable battery

More storage

Disadvantage for Verizon Galaxy Nexus:

Older hardware

Not "brand new" (The Unlocked Nexus 4 will be)

So, what do you guys think?

Unlocked Nexus 4 or Verizon Galaxy Nexus?

Comment and tell me what you think!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cupfulloflol:
Another thing to consider, is that the GNex may be at the end with official updates. I would assume it will see 4.3 officially, but after that who knows. The N4 will get at least one more year of updates. Another thing to consider, is that the Verizon version of the GNex lags behind with updates. Perhaps 4.2.2 was the last update it sees, even if the GSM versions get another update.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
N4 has better aosp support.

a maguro wrote this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fedelamb:
I prefer the galaxy nexus. . .

I don't now why , but i like it rotfl
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ofsinreno:
It's funny, I'm having the same issue with T-Mobile. I have a Note 2, but I love the nexus phones for development. The GNex has always been my favorite phone, but I have a Nexus 4 sitting at home with the option to buy. I know the hardware on the Galaxy Nexus is aging at best, but damnit I love this phone! I think in the end I will keep the Galaxy Nexus but the geek in me is fighting me all the way.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
well, for dev purposes, it would be best to get the N4, since it has all the binaries needed to build, right now. It's unclear if the Gnex will get the remaining, missing binaries.

that said, i love my gnex (still going strong, no hw issues whatsoever)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leonardodettoileo:
I love galaxy nexus because it has a lot of mod, ROM and Kernel! The galaxy nexus is very fluid and it hasn't lag! I raccomandet it!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kaijura:
Save your money and go with the Galaxy Nexus if you can get it for under $200 US.

The only real reason I see to get a Nexus 4 is if you want the higher specs and intend to use it for more than just development purposes. Other than that there is no big benefit of having a N4 over the GN aside from the hardware.

Even if google intends to discontinue the maguro/toro before android 5.0, it will still be developed to work with 5.x down the line because of just the way the development community works. However, I think the maguro line will be more successful down the future since it's the GSM variant, as the toro is just limited to a smaller faction of primarily Verizon/USA users.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] foreverbelmont:
If you don´t play games on your phone, I think you can buy Galaxy Nexus.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Erclark93:
Please don't tear me apart if this is the wrong thread...

So I'm currently running CM 10.0 and I'm trying to upgrade (through CWM) to 10.1.2 stable, but I am running into a status 7 error. I have done the following (In no particular order)

-made backup and wiped phone (including cache and dalvik cache)

-flashed the latest bootloader

-double checked MD5 sum and it was a match

-upgraded to most recent CWM

-tried fixing the assertions (as highonandroid suggests)

So what am I doing wrong?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] KorGuy123:
Do a search for status 7

Because you've updated your cwm than your bootloader is out of date.

Brought up daily....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Erclark93:
What do you mean do a search for status 7? I've searched all I can, those were all the solutions I came up with. First I updated CWM, then I fixed the assertions, then I redownloaded it for a clean start and then flashed the latest bootloader, and none of that worked.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Erclark93:
No I am on AT&T
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] KorGuy123:
If you're on at&t than you can try the latest twrp.

What bootloader did you flash?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Erclark93:
I'm on I747UCDLK3

Do you really think I need to use TWRP? Because I'm perfectly happy with CWM and have never had any problems up until now with flashing a new ROM
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] KorGuy123:
Well this is the issue. Status 7 is

Out of date recovery

Out of date bootloader

So you have no other options really...

So you can see my concern and attempt at grasping at straws to help.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Erclark93:
Ok understood. I guess I can give TWRP a shot and I'll keep you posted.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] KorGuy123:
Only other thing I can think of is you flashed the modem not the bootloader
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Erclark93:
Well my baseband changed when I flashed it (brace yourself for a potentially dumb question(s) ) so did I flash a bootloader or a modem? Also what's the difference?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] KorGuy123:
You can have an old bootloader and have a newer modem.

Modem is your current baseband.

Here's an example. My bootloader is LK4 which is good for flashing and my modem (baseband) is MF1

Go in terminal emulator and type

su

getprop ro.bootloader

It'll tell you your bootloader if it's different than your baseband
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Erclark93:
And now is where I feel like an idiot...

The bootloader does not match my baseband, so since I am clearly incapable of flashing a new bootloader, can you provide me with a link that would help? Preferably one that could work with mobile Odin since access to a computer is limited for me right now
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] KorGuy123:
Ding ding ding we finally have a winner.

Chainfire doesn't recommend flashing a bootloader with mobile odin.

This thread has a recovery flashable bootloader you can use

Edit... Help if I have the link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2321310
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Erclark93:
And would you look at that

Running 10.1.2 smooth as butter, thanks for your help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irish-sid:
I dropped my phone and the screen won't turn on and doesn't respond to touch.

The insurance company is picking it up tomorrow (*hence the urgency) and would like to get some stuff off it. Most stuff is on my exsd, so I'm not too worried if I have to wipe it, but would prefer only to wipe it once everything is off.

I'm rooted and have a custom stock based rom and cwm installed.

Is there any way of doing this? I have the lock pattern enabled so when I plug it in nothing shows up.

If not, then how would I wipe it?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Fix the screen... Just kidding, if you have a custom recovery you should be able to get into an adb shell, from there pull what you need. Don't know your phone model or anything so can't be sure of how it works but most phones this is possible.

If it won't work hopefully your phone has a forum and maybe ask someone there
[General Topics] kakagak:
Hello,

I am trying to restore from a backup. It goest up to the end and show this message:

Restore could not copy the following file(s) to the device. To correct this error, close any programs on your device that may have these files locked and then press Retry.

Please help to how can I restore or how can I extract the Contact databese that is in the backup file that I have.

Regards
[General Topics] cruisin-thru:
Before starting the restore procedure have you clicked settings/memory and made sure you have chosen to close all running programs?
[General Topics] Rudegar:
well if you sync with outlook then the next sync should bring back all tasks and contacts and such

otherwise you need a .stg editor do a search it's been asked many times in the forum
[General Topics] kakagak:
unfortunately when I connected my device after losing all the data, my desktop also became like my device. so all the contacts got rested in my desktop.

Before connecting, I make an extra copy of .stg file which I think may be restored.

I will search for .stg editor and hope to find one.
[General Topics] Rudegar:
settings in activesync on your pc will deside if the pc should be forced to match the pda or the other way around

look around the options
[General Topics] kakagak:
Hello,

MobileVault just worked fine. I was able to restore my contact and appointments. Thank you very much.

MobileVault is a must program for ayone who has Pocket PC.
[Off-topic] Gab!:
Hello, i've been trying to connect my pendrive to a usb frontal port and it seems to not work. It says error 43 (Unknown device). This is weird because i've connected the pendrive to the other usb frontal port( i have two ) and it works perfectly.

I've been searching throught the internet and found solutions such as uninstalling all the usb driver that can be found at Device Manager, but It didnt work.

Something that i've noticed is that if i connect my phone(GS4) with the usb cable that it came with the phone to the usb port that is not working properly, the computer doesn't recognize the device(Same unknown device and code 43) but it seems to charge it.

I don't know what to do anymore, tried my best. Maybe my usb port is death.

Anyone knows a solution for this?

Thanks in advance.
[Off-topic] mark manning:
Please use this thread for a question like this :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1765837

Thread closed
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] BlackCarnelian:
Hi everyone

After updating to jellybean ,the messaging app keeps stop working.

I tried to restart the device,I cleared the data, but nothing changed.

Could anyone please help
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D1NONLi:
Well the title pretty much explains the question.

Can anyone help me out on this?

It was working completely fine a couple of days ago and I've tried uninstalling the messaging ups and installing them again and it doesnt seem to fix the problem.

The weird thing is that it's actually on both the stock messaging app and on go sms pro. I downloaded chomp and handcent and it seems to be the same with them too.

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks in advance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] traybent:
When I ever go to my browser ,why does it always open a new tab .. How can I prevent that .. I want to show where I was last at
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
Use Chrome.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] traybent:
I do .. Is there certain settings
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
Nope I open it up and picks up where ever I was including tabs I had open too.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandongohwh:
I've seen quite a lot of developers inverting the play store but the colours are not those that I wanted. Could someone please teach me or direct me to a site where there is information for me to customise my gapps?

Much appreciated :)
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grigtm:
you mentioned that your phone is rooted, and I suppose that you have recovery, so try this, connect phone to pc trough usb, boot into recovery, go to mounts and mount usb and see if your phone is recognized by pc(try LGMDP and if it does, update it, but you must have ADB enabled in phone settings development) and pop up the window with sd card content
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandomPersona:
Booting into recovery and doing that got me this:

E: Unable to write to ums lunfile (No such file or directory)

I couldn't mount "system" either. Well... maybe I did, but it didn't do anything?

Great. Just great. I am lost and confused like a little puppy dog right now... :/

I appreciate your suggestions. Thanks!
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grigtm:
read this threads to see if you get a solution, they are related to UMS file

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1342769

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1710556
[General Questions and Answers] willcorliss:
I'm running android-x86 in vbox on a Windows network in bridged mode. The device and all other computers are on the same network - 192.168.2.x. I have a router performing dhcp service and giving out the dns server ip address. A Windows 2008 server provides the dns services.

The android device can ping and nslookup all the other machines on the network. The other machines (all windows) can connect to the android device using its ip address.

I'd like to have a host record at the dns server so that the other computers on the network can connect to the android device using its name - "android-1", for instance, rather than 192.168.2.40.

Can anyone tell me how to make this happen?

Thanks.

Will
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Felix J:
Does any bady know if there is an HTC One variant that works in the 900 Mhz 3G band? I mean HSDP/UMTS 900 Mhz

Thanks in advance
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasalta387:
The one bought in EU certainly does... The htc one from EU doesn't have the UMTS 850 band, so beware...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul_59:
From HTC UK web site

http://www.htc.com/uk/smartphones/htc-one/#specs
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasalta387:
Oh yeah. HTC updated the specs site a couple of times. I was misled by other review sites which claimed that this phone was global for GSM and UMTS.

I anyways can't understand this fragmentation in the specs for different markets and wonder what the benefit for the manufacturer is.

First and last time I buy an HTC device because of this. Next time I will aim at an iPhone or a Nexus. These devices are global enough for my needs (roaming between EU and Americas).

I crossed out Samsung from the list because I don't like their untidy and cheap phone design. Yet their high-end phones are GSM and UMTS-global.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EverythingTech:
Hi everybody,

I've been at this for a couple days now, trying every solution I can come across, but nothing seems to work. My mom's Captivate decided the other day that encryption had failed (I don't think anyone ever told it to encrypt itself...). It said all I had to do was click the Reset button, but that didn't work. So back to ODIN I went.

Unfortunately, though I could swear I've used ODIN on this phone before (it was running CM10, and I'm pretty sure I messed up a couple times trying to get it on there), I can't get it to work again. I've tried the One-Click ODIN (which is what I would have used before), as well as downloading two different tar.md5s from sammobile.com and flashing them with a different ODIN.

After using the One-Click method, the phone powers on to the AT&T screen, and then it powers off, switching between different charging icons if it's plugged in. The other ODIN flashes got me to Installing packages.. after boot, but then it gave me rfs errors. So I figured I needed to flash a new PIT, but that didn't seem to help. Doesn't One-Click do that anyway?

I've tried two different USB cables and two computers (both Windows 7 SP1, one doesn't even have any antivirus program on it yet), but no luck. I had a different computer the last time I would have used ODIN on this phone. I believe this phone is a 1007 build, assuming I am looking at the right number under the battery.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!