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[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] albnigxda:
Arrogant Microsoft knows better and removes synchronization over Wi-Fi possibility in ActiveSync 4.0 and Windows Mobile 5.0 - more information available

May 23, 2005 [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)]

Competition is adding features in new versions of mobile platforms. Microsoft is removing some features.

We have mentioned it already previously, that no longer ActiveSync over Wi-Fi will be possible in Windows Mobile 5.0, and now there is some addtional background information available about this serious mistake of Microsoft with regard to Wi-Fi synchronization:

the wifi/ethernet sync capabilities had to be removed in ActiveSync 4.0 for security reasons. When decision was made, there was plenty of disappointment internally and a number meetings where smart folks tried to find ways to keep the feature in without risking security and without slipping the schedule commitments we had made. Unfortunately, that ended up not being possible for AS 4.0.

To read more on this topic (rather lame justifications from Microsoft employees) click here.

Conclusion: again Microsoft behaves in a totally arrogant and disrespecting (for end customers) way: removes the feature that was heavily used by many people. While other corporations are innovating strongly (example: next version of iTunes will include native support for Podcasting, while next Windows Media Player and ActiveSync will not support it), Microsoft is removing features and not innovating at all - just imitating features that others had 2-3 years ago (as it is with camera API in Windows Mobile 5.0). Clearly Microsoft needs some urgent changes because something is wrong there.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] sunish:
This is the only reason i'm not upgrading to WM5...

WM5 needs AS4 and AS4 does not support sync over wifi, this is the feature i love most in my ppc, getting my mails, documents... everything while sitting in a meeting room.

hell... i need some alternate to activesync b4 i upgrade to wm5
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Mastiff:
My guess is that it won't be long before some third party is out with a solution that fixes that problem (fake serial driver accessible via WLAN or something).
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Inforcer:
I really cannot believe this!! I had a Himalaya and was happy with it. I bought a Wizard now for good money, just to have WLAN/WIFI and - I swear to god - in order to use it for Activesync!! I had a WLAN SD Card in my old Himalaya and it worked FINE!! Damn!
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] xplode:
This news are almost a year old
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starstremr:
can you use live wallpapers with 7.4.3? if so how?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JulianPaoloThiry:
You cannot use any wallpapers in this version by default. There are system level changes that prevent it. There is, however, a patch floating around the forums that can fix this.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starstremr:
if you see the link please post it here
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
here's the fix for no wallpaper, i have made it as safe as i can, though there is always a small risk of getting stuck in a bootloop, which is easily recoverable via fastboot or twrp, much easier thru twrp once i add a new feature to the script. I am going to put this in my sig now that im finally on my pc again. Please read the instructions before just running it. I suggest running it without having a alternate launcher installed already, among a few other things. Anyways, here ya go!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=42181794&postcount=75
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starstremr:
says that awk.exe is not 64bit
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
Yea I heard about this on my thread a few days ago, can't debug it till my dad brings his laptop from work home on Friday, I don't have any other pc,'s with a 64 bit os. If you need a workaround use a Ubuntu live disk with my script until I can fix, if I even can, don't know why a simple 32 bit program like awk won't work on a 64 bit is, should easily be backwards compatible, maybe it has to rely on the 32 bit c++ redist , and my program doesn't tell the user to DL the 32 bit version unless they are on a 32 bit os. just a guess though, I'll test it out this weekend.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starstremr:
ok so i tried it on my other laptop with XP and i get

Your system partition is too low on disk space to complete the procedure, please delete your alternate launchers, widget picker, and live wallpaper chooser installed and try again

i do not have live wallpaper piker or app widget but i am running go launcher HD

this is a Kindle Fire HD with 32g why would i be out of space?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
Ah that's be cause you don't know what a partition is. You know how on windows your hard drive is usually c:\ ? Well that just represents a partition on the hard drive, not the hard drive itself, you can split the hard drive into several partition and have multiple drive letters, like how most PC's have a recovery partition and a system partition. Well the kindle does the same, it has a partition separate from your 32gb primary area, this is where the system files are stored, and its rather small. Thus you ran out of disk space because you already have a launcher installed. I am planning on making a release this weekend and doing something to avoid that error by making the backup in a different area so the system partition doesn't run out of disk space, because while this new message is rather annoying, it is now saving more people from bricking their device.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starstremr:
is there a app to see individual partition sizes and space left?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
Found one, was kinda surprised the usual commands I use in Linux don't seem to work on emmc. I don't think this has the capabilities to edit partitions on your kindle because i never got a root prompt, but if it does, do NOT under any circumstances try to modify your partitions, it will hard brick the kindle.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cls.partition
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starstremr:
how much space do you need to install it?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
My fix needs around 64 mb after backup and copying the new fix over. I will release a version this weekend that doesn't need near as much space because I'll be rerouting it to /data/local.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starstremr:
cool thanks i will wait till the new one is out....
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maopr16:
I have all the same problems.. thanks for all your hard work!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwahchees:
Hey XDA,

Not to sound like a nerd about benchmark scores, but testing using 3D Mark, my Graphics Score w/ a 600 Mhz overclock can't beat my Nexus 7 2013 at 487 Mhz.

I'm using Faux's Kernel, and I'm not sure what's wrong.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
your phone probably cant hand the overclock properly. just because you set it to a number, doesnt mean that your device can perform at that number.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwahchees:
Ah, yes, I just tested and noticed that it couldn't run at 600, 360 ran faster. Hm, time to figure this out.

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] SaltyFoam:
Hey all,

I am properly awed by the work done to achieve root on the OTA MF3 firmware: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2387577

Thanks!

So: understanding that the new security model in the boot loaders does a signature check on each subsequent step in the boot sequence I was left wondering:

If I install the root version of Avasts anti-theft software will it change the signature of the system in such a way as to prevent it from passing validation (i.e. soft brick the phone)?

Can anyone think of a safe way to test this without bricking?

Thanks,

Digitronically Yours,

SaltyFoam

:confused:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] RK:
AFAIK, modifications in /system partition (I.e. your ROM) only result in a boot screen that says system status custom. A custom system status won't cause soft brick. If the kernel is modified in any way, you could get a soft brick.

I have no idea what avast does but I doubt it messes with the kernel, and hence, I think it would be safe but I have never used it so I can't be sure.

That being said, the only way to check is to do it or to wait for as someone else to do it. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] SaltyFoam:
That sounds reasonable. I need to dig into the avast product a bit more. I will send their support a msg and see what they say...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] misael06:
I need a zip or the apk of the touchwiz launcher 5x6.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] marcoxx626:
Why don't you extract one from a rom that has it? That's what I usually do.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] misael06:
Is there a way to resize the widgets after I install the 5x6 because my weather widget looks huge
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] marcoxx626:
No, unfortunately I don't think there's a way to do that without actually modifying the apk. If you search around you might be able to find a flash able zip of the launcher with the widget. That's what I found back on my s3 at least.
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] funtoy:
I have been using RemountSD for a while and it works. I saw a write up about Link2SD here recently and wonder if some users that have used both of these apps can comments on the pros and cons of the two.

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] kayooh:
Hi guys,

I just bought a used AT&T Samsung NOTE 1.

The seller claimed it was unlocked which most probably it is not because it does not recognize any SIM other than an AT&T SIM.

This is not the issue, though. When I stick a T-Mobile sim in it it and turn it back on, it does not display "Enter Network Lock Control Key".

Is this a normal behavior or am I missing something?

Come to think of it, when I inserted two international sims the phone displayed the following message "sim not provisioned mm#2"

Thanks.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htconem7:
Hey guys, long time lurker and now first time poster. Shame it has to be something very stupid.

So anyways, I wanted to flash the latest CM10.2 Unofficial build so I did the usual and downloaded the zip & gapps to my phone. But upon wiping my phone via TWRP I accidentally left the wipe userdata part checked and ... well now I have no OS installed as well as no zip's :/

I have TWRP installed so I thought why not sideload it, however when I go to advanced -> adb sideload it never starts up. This is the log:

And it just stays there :(

I know that my ADB works as I have S-OFF & unlocked the bootloader and flashed the latest 1.54.0000 hboot so I can definitely use it, I just don't understand why it doesn't let me sideload for some reason.

Either way, I have full access to fastboot & TWRP recovery so i'm hoping this is a pretty simple thing to fix ... right?

Can anybody point me to the right direction?

Details:

No OS installed.

Access to TWRP & fastboot.

S-OFF, Modified Hboot 1.54.0000 (SuperCID) & Unlocked bootloader.

Windows 8 64-bit, drivers all work.

Latest SDK with all the binaries installed.

P.S. when I connect and try and use adb devices it doesn't recognise my device, and the cmd window gives the following when I try the sideload command:

Sounds like a driver issue to me but it doesn't make sense that the drivers would suddenly stop working ???

Here are screenshots of odd device behaviour when switching from fastboot to recovery (please copy & paste, I don't have enough posts to post images yet):

i.imgur.com/V79DFFA.jpg

i.imgur.com/MKD5C9U.jpg
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htconem7:
Bump for help :(
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redbull123:
I can't seem to get sideload to work in TWRP at the moment either. CWM works fine though, try flashing that and use the sideload feature.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htconem7:
Tried that already, same issue in not detecting the device. I'm downloading these drivers in a hope to fix something.

Thanks for the reply :)

EDIT:

Finally got sideloading in TWRP to work, it turns out it was a driver issue :/

Anyways, these are the drivers that worked:

androidfiles.org/hasoon2000/getdownload.php?file=HTC%20Drivers/HTCDriver.exe
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IINexusII:
why is everyone always wiping their storage these days? just use CWM next time and you wont accidentally do this again..
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matt:
TWRP is much better for people who know what they are doing. There are more options and also a built in file manager. Also, the wipe button in TWRP wipes the 3 main partitions at once (data/cache/dalvik), so he must have actually selected internal sdcard from the advanced menu, and I have no idea why he would do that...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunnyman:
Doing the slider is all anyone needs to do in twrp to wipe yet I read more posts about people wiping with twrp than any other problem in these forums
[Networking] DOP:
hi guys,

i just bought an XDA II mini, and i heard there are a lot of problems with wireless lan, so im confused, can i use the sandsick wifi card with that phone and access the internet ? does it work well or do i have to trick somethign ? and what kind of card does work ? thank you for the help.
[Networking] Rudegar:
should be possible of cause you need something to connect to

so you need a wifi router or have access to a wifi hotspot somewhere
[Networking] chumkila:
My MDA Compact works perfectly well with the SanDisk Wifi with 256Mb memory. I didn't experience any problems, except setting it up! :lol: But now I know what to do, its perfect.
[Networking] DOP:
ah ok, so wifi and wireless lan are the same but ? meaning as long as theres a wireless lan internet hotspot around, i can use it right ?
[Networking] chumkila:
yep you got it in one. :D
[Networking] Rudegar:
well if the hotspot let you

if it's a private wifi network then unly if they dident make it secure

and if it public hotspot they may want to charge you for using it
[Networking] DOP:
yeah i know that, how bout security keys ? can the card handle 64/128 bit encryption when i know the key ?
[Networking] Rudegar:
looking at sandisks site would give the answer to that question i think
[Networking] DOP:
i got the card, and it was installed fine, also fins my wireless network, but i cant sue internet explorer, it always says i have no connection, and under modem settings i cannot choose wireless, only dial in or bluetooth/gprs settings :(
[Networking] Rudegar:
if you mean surf and not sue

then try choosing the connection

under advanced when you want to suft using wifi

you have to sellect that connection insted of the GPRS which is the std connection picked there
[Networking] DOP:
i tried that, but then in the modem settings there is no wifi option to choose, only gprs, bluetooth and a few others :(
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kzakhar:
Hi!

My Nexus 4 arrived yesterday. I unpacked it, put my SIM card in, updated to 4.3, didn't have time to add any apps. Everything seems ok, even notifications are not being delayed on WiFi, but notification volume seems really low compared to ringer volume. I tried a few different notification sounds, that didn't help.

Has anyone experienced this with 4.3? Is there an easy fix? :confused:

I would appreciate your suggestions :) Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] cnnxda:
any way to get vietnamese support on the s4?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Vaygr:
Have you tried More Locale 2 in google play store? (Root permission is required)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] cnnxda:
thanks for moving to the right section.

i downloaded morale locale 2 but it doesnt show a large list of languages. do i need to root first and then it will show?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Airtioteclint:
Isn't there an option in settings, language and input to select tieng viet?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] cnnxda:
I am trying to make the entire phone in vietnamese language, not just the input. There is Vietnamese input for the keyboard but I want the entire OS to reflect it. It only has about 5 languages
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Airtioteclint:
I guess the stock s4 rom is limited. Im running custom. On my tablet which has an international firmware it has full viet language. Maybe you can try flashing a vietnamese firmware or an international one may even work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] cnnxda:
its possible to flash an entire rom from another carrier on AT&T? wouldnt the radios be all jacked up?

what is the rom you have flashed with vietnamese language on it? I know its on your tablet but at least it can point me in the rigtht direction

thanks for your help
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Airtioteclint:
We have alot of custom roms based off the international firmwares for our att&t phones here. Look in the development section for any mga roms. I recommend twlight or goldeneye. They won't flash your radios.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] cnnxda:
will any of those roms also keep the stock s4 skin? this device is for my mom who doesnt speak much english
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] cmjkxa:
If you're rooted go to system/CSC in root explorer and delete language.XML. it'll enable all languages. This is stock rooted BTW.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] cnnxda:
sadly I can no longer root. the phone auto updated to the latest OTA firmware. gotta wait
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] hovax615@hotmail.com:
You can still root

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2387577
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] cnnxda:
thanks for everybodys help. i will give this a try tomorrow.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] cnnxda:
just wanted to follow up and got the device rooted and now the languages up and running!

THANK YOU ALL!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phoo94:
Ca anyone tell me how to re-lock my Nexusone?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
I haven't really keep up with the N1 lately but unless something has changed, I don't think you can re-lock the bootloader.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] david84us:
I need some help with this issue. My tablet is stock out of the box. I have been using it since last Friday. But today I turned it off then after an hour later I turned it back on, it gets stuck at x logo. I really dont know what issue is called? I have tried to restart the tablet several times by holding the powerbutton, but it is still stuck at X logo, and I have tried to use recovery mode in bootloading, but I get no command message everytime.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] mmikeee:
If you don't have a lot on your nexus and don't mind wiping then just hold power and vol up, which will data wipe your nexus. I know when I first started my nexus it would go to the welcome screen and then bootloop if I didn't click the next button fast enough. But you're saying you've been using it so dunno.

or you could fastboot then flash twrp and try to clear cache/dalvik and see if that helps
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] david84us:
Thank you for replying. I tried like you said holding vol up+power button, but I got no command message.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] dark2099:
First hold power+volume down to go to boot loader, then select recovery, then in recovery do power+volume up. I think that's the proper order.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] bangawasawa:
Just as a side-note, I've had 2 Nexuses 7 (the older versions) and BOTH of them did this to me when updating to a higher version of Android. I swore like a madman as I had to hard-reset the device thus losing nearly all my data. If anyone reports that this happens with the new Nexus, it might be the deciding factor for me to not buy it... unfortunately...
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] david84us:
Thanks, but I still get no command message screen.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] dark2099:
Try using the freshly updated toolkit by WugFresh.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] david84us:
Thank you for all inputs, but I am new/noob about these stuffs, and im still able to exchange, so I'm going to exchange for another one. Thank you everyone who tried to help me. Have a nice day.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] qwerty1gr:
It's really easy to do. I had the same issue as you and a factory reset corrected it. Just make sure to follow the steps and everything will be fine
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] aiiee:
Wugfresh has the best root toolkit for Nexus, period.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] blahbot90:
I'm having the same issue since last Saturday when I picked it up. Still running stock and it just would not boot up and it seemed no one else was facing any problems. So I did fastboot unlock, it reset the device and cleared all data. Since then, I've been running stock, and I'm still facing the issue. I'm not sure if it's actually an issue with stock or not.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] mzaur:
Just had this same problem on a brand new nexus 7 only a couple of days old. I really can't believe Asus/Google has these problems in 2013. Unbelievable.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] cyberprodigy:
Do you have a custom recovery installed?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] tvdang7:
Just happened to me very weird.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] david84us:
Have you guys tried 1 click factory reset?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Omar04:
It happened to me with old. Exchanged it. And happened today in new one this time I was able to turn it off then try again and it booted. Started after 6 days of flawless use. Weird.

Team SXTP
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] malanois:
Just happened to me...

I just had my

SECOND

one do this to me this morning. I bought the 2nd Gen Nexus 7 last week and it did this within an hour of using it (after an update). I took it back and got another one. This morning the second one did this after a simple reboot. I never had this trouble with my 1st Gen Nexus 7. I'm about to start trying the tips listed in this thread before I return yet another one. I'm wondering if this is the first reboot since the 4.3 update... maybe that is the issue.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] DaPhang:
Try Fully Charging?

Something similar happened to me on the first one I got, not sure if it will happened to the exchanged one since I only had it for a few days.

It happened after I shut it down one night, battery was about 80% or so. Next morning, I started it up and it actually loaded up fine but after a minute, it just rebooted, stuck at the X, then rebooted to the Google logo, over and over again. Did a factory reset and cleared the cache and still would get into the boot loop after 1 minute of successful boot up. Battery was about halfway when I decided to just charge it fully.

After the battery was fully charged, everything worked fine again. I suspect that the battery was run down next to nothing, but indicated that it was halfway. To me, that indicates a hardware issue so I exchanged it. I am wondering if they are using cheap batteries to keep the cost low. Not sure anyone else has seen this happened to them.

Anyway, if you watch the X, the colors move around, then suddenly stop after a while, it reboots again.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] razorj:
Same thing happened to me this moring around 3 a.m, shutdown and restarted and it was still stuck on the x screen. Tried wiping the cache from recovery and nothing. Had to do a factory reset in order to get passed boot screen. Tablet is working normally now.