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[Windows RT General] SixSixSevenSeven:
RTM is the final build, it stands for "Release To Manufacturing", or basically the version the device you buy in store would have pre-installed.
[Windows RT General] CptGloval:
Good morning

I've been looking at installing this 8.1 version ahead of release. Saw some cool videos for it being able to send video to xbox. I see a lot of people have done this with now with no issues. I was just wondering how safe security wise the iso is?
[Windows RT General] rabilancia:
Very interesting--I'd not heard about this. Can you please point us to the video. Thanks in advance.

UPDATE: found it. I knew of all the pieces, I'd never thought of doing it. Very cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFnCOMn-qLU
[Windows RT General] CptGloval:
Also see this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7FUherhyvI
[Windows RT General] Osprey00:
It'll be nice once someone comes out with a TV dongle (or similar) for Windows devices (like Chromecast for Android devices) so that an Xbox isn't necessary. There are likely some other ways to do it--maybe mods for media center software and code for the Raspberry Pi--but a simpler, "plug 'n' play" solution would be nice for the majority of users.

If you mean "safe" as in someone might've tampered with the ISO and put malware into it or something, the original ISO that was released is bit-for-bit identical to what Microsoft released. The second ISO is just that original ISO with the Surface RT drivers injected into it. I highly doubt that the person who uploaded that (maybe even a user here at XDA) messed with it in any way. I think that someone else may've even done a bit comparison and verified that that ISO was no different than the original ISO with drivers added manually. Anyways, I'm sure that it's perfectly safe. I've been installing leaked pre-release copies of Windows since before Windows 95 and I've never come across or even heard of a tampered-with Windows ISO... not that they've definitely never existed, but if you go with the flow and install what everyone else is installing, especially after it's been out a while, you really shouldn't worry.

If all that you meant is that it's a new version of Windows and might have vulnerabilities that haven't yet been discovered or patched, yeah, that's quite possible, but that's more an argument for not rolling out 8.1 to your business machines just yet. It's a rather trivial concern when it comes to a personal tablet, especially one running Windows RT (on which most malware and hacker tools won't even work).
[Windows RT General] netham45:
You can send video to any DLNA-enabled device. I have a Sony TV I can send to, you can also open WMP up as a DLNA server on Windows 8 x86/x64 and stream directly to that.
[Windows RT General] Osprey00:
Oh, very nice. Thanks for the info. I wondered if it used DLNA, but wasn't sure if that's all that was required. You would think that that would be talked about more, but it's mainly just "you can stream to Xbox." Maybe that's largely Microsoft's fault, for marketing it that way to promote Xbox, even though the feature isn't exclusive to it at all.

Anyways, a dongle for this would still be nice, especially since not all output devices (especially lower-end and older models) have DLNA (some don't have network connectivity, period). I'm in such a situation where none of my output devices support DLNA, so a cheap dongle would be nice until I upgrade some equipment. In the meantime, you're right about it working in WMP (choose Stream->Allow Remote Control of My Player, and it works in Windows 7, too, FYI), which is neat (though not the most useful, unless you have an HTPC or something).
[Windows RT General] Homey:
Just (yesterday) got my Surface RT and am ready to update to 8.1 RTM.

I've extracted my product key (using the bat file) and verified that it's valid

I'm backing up the recovery partition to a USB stick (taking ages...)

I've nearly finished downloading the "Drivers_for_surface_only..." ISO

I've got Osprey00's excellent guide open

...nearly ready to go!

Just want to make sure of a couple of things before I start:

1) I understand a version of Office with Outlook is included. Is this the case? Also is this a permanent, full version - ie it won't expire after a month or something!

2) Once the update is done, will the tablet just get updates from MS as normal?
[Windows RT General] wardh:
1) Yes, it's the full version of Office RT with Outlook.

2) Yes
[Windows RT General] Homey:
Woohoo!
[Windows RT General] Homey:
All done, everything's fine but my xbox live avatar has vanished!

Can anyone tell me how to get it back please?
[Windows RT General] wardh:
I see mine. Maybe it will get back after a while.
[Windows RT General] malberti1993:
Looks like they still didnt fix the standby battery drain issue. Had bluetooth off and the battery drained overnight from 90 percent. Put bluetooth back on and it fixed it.
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
have not tested this. Hope we get a fix when it's released officially.
[Windows RT General] malberti1993:
Also still have problem where surface wouldn't wake up from sleep (windows button vibrated but no screen) so i had to shut it off by holding power and down volume.
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
that issue certainly disappeared for me. I will test the bluetooth bug in the next couple days on mine.
[Windows RT General] malberti1993:
I put on bluetooth and the issue is fixed. BLuetooth uses little to no energy anyway. That reduce the battery down to around 5 percent during 10 hrs of standby. Took off wifi and left bluetooth on and i was down to 3 percent drainage. So take off wifi when not needed.

Please let us know your results
[Windows RT General] timn03:
nothing happens...

I've extracted the iso and copied the files to my surface rt. When I run the setup.exe file nothing happens. Tried running as an administrator, too, but still nothing. Anyone else have this issue? Thoughts?

Edit: I'm currently running the most up-to-date 8.0, no jailbreak.
[Windows RT General] Osprey00:
I suspect that the files are corrupt because they didn't extract properly. Which utility did you use? Update it if you're not using the latest version or try a different utility. I used 7zip v9.22 beta when I did my installation, so I know that that works. The latest WinRAR likely works, too.
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
hmm, why not run this from a thumb drive? I am not entirely sure but there may be a reason this isn't working from the Surface RT itself? (moving files upon upgrade etc).

Make sure the ISO has the correct file size. If drivers have been correctly injected the size is

2.49 GB (2,679,341,056 bytes)

(note that this assumes that drivers have been injected into the boot.wim twice, once in Index:1 and once in Index:2 - two partitions). Use Rufus to flash the iso to the thumb drive. Make sure the thumb drive is formatted Fat32 (MBR) if you want to boot from it, but just running setup.exe from within 8.0 on the Surface RT should work as well.
[Windows RT General] timn03:
I re-downloaded the file and my iso is the wrong size (2,675,169,280), so I've either got a bad link (I'll need to find a different one), or I'll just have to try injecting the drivers myself (which I've never done before and looks scary). I guess I'll keep messing with it and see what I can figure out.
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
the size looks about right. It's only 4mb off.

if you got the untouched RT iso from wzor (MDL), which comes with a zipped driver package, injecting is straight forward:

Extract boot.wim and install.wim from the iso (under sources folder, I use ultraiso). Let's assume you put them into c:\rt and the drivers from the zip file into c:\rt\drivers. You create a temporary folder c:\dump for mounting the wims. Then do the following.

1)
dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C:\rt\boot.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:c:\dump\
your boot.wim is in folder C:\rt and will be mounted in c:\dump

2)
dism /image:c:\dump /Add-Driver /Driver:C:\rt\drivers /Recurse
the drivers located in C:\rt\drivers will be injected into the boot.wim which was mounted to c:\dump\

3)
dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:c:\dump /Commit
the mounted boot.wim will be unmounted and the boot.wim in C:\rt itself updated.

now do the same again, but instead use Index:2

4)
dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C:\rt\boot.wim /Index:2 /MountDir:c:\dump\
your boot.wim is in folder C:\rt and will be mounted in c:\dump

5)
dism /image:c:\dump /Add-Driver /Driver:C:\rt\drivers /Recurse
the drivers located in C:\rt\drivers will be injected into the boot.wim which was mounted to c:\dump\

6)
dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:c:\dump /Commit
the mounted boot.wim will be unmounted and the boot.wim in C:\rt itself updated.

now do the install.wim
7)
dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C:\rt\install.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:c:\dump\
your install.wim is in folder C:\rt and will be mounted in c:\dump

8)
dism /image:c:\dump /Add-Driver /Driver:C:\rt\drivers /Recurse
the drivers located in C:\rt\drivers will be injected into the install.wim which was mounted to c:\dump\

9)
dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:c:\dump /Commit
the mounted install.wim will be unmounted and the install.wim in C:\rt itself updated.

take the install.wim from C:\rt and inject it back into the iso. Take the boot.wim and inject it back into the iso.
[Windows RT General] timn03:
Success!

I used Rufus to create a bootable thumb drive using the newly-downloaded iso. Inserted it into my Surface, double-clicked setup and everything went smoothly. Setup, activation and updates all successful, up and running, including updates, after 50 minutes from starting the installation. Thanks guys for all the help!
[Windows RT General] temokk:
hello

i been trying to find a 8.1 preview for a tf600t ...download couple of torrents but they were missed labeled can anyone give me a magnet link to a real version please ive googled ones given were not arm based thanks in advance
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
I assume you mean 8.1 RTM. the preview of RT was pulled by MS. It's going to be difficult to find the correct drivers for hardware other than MS and you may have luck that somebody with the same tablet already made an ISO. I would try to find help and information at MDL first. Two places to start are:

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/48042-Important-Driver-integration-process-for-Windows-RT

and

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/48043-Leak-WINDOWS-8-1-RT-RTM

In one of these posts I've read that somebody extracted drivers from the Preview and used these to inject them into Wzor's iso. I can't remember where exactly that was posted.
[Windows RT General] temokk:
Any form to activate

any way to activate after installed ...thanks ]
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
If you saved your key from before upgrading then you use that key to activate.

see step 3. in Osprey's post here.

If you do not have your key one way is to flash back to 8.0, get the key and then upgrade to 8.1 RTM again. Or better perhaps is calling MS since officially have your own key that came with the VivoTab.
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
System Firmware Update 10/14/2013 - 9.7mb

published 10/13/2013

on my RT with 8.1 RTM

didn't see this coming. Saw that some major updates will come with the release of 8.1 in a few days but didn't expect a firmware update. Possibly to prepare the RTs for 8.1 release?

possible already posted. I apologize in that case.
[Windows RT General] wardh:
Did you update? I did and my touch cover stopped working. The trackpad and volume works but I can't type on it. Not sure if it's the update or if I broke it yesterday.

Edit: I reverted to before the update and keyboard works again. Going to try and update again and see if all is good this time.

Edit2: It works after the update.
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
same thing. type cover not working. will try what you did.

stupid question. how did you revert back? the firmware is not listed under remove updates and system recovery doesn't exist on RT.

looks like others have that problem too.

http://winsupersite.com/mobile-devices/microsoft-surface-firmware-updates-october-2013
[Windows RT General] wardh:
I did a recovery from Charms-Settings-Change PC settings-Update and recovery-Recovery-Remove everything and reinstall Windows.
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
hmm, that's drastic. will try to get this some other way. if not I bite the bullet as well. thanks
[Windows RT General] wardh:
I do that alot anyway. Trying things out and messing up. Please share if you find another solution.
[Windows RT General] johnchad14:
Just had this happen too, what a mess...no time to fix in middle of class!
[Windows RT General] cleonti:
I did this update on my RT 8.1 Preview system and did not have any issues. For those with problems - did you try powering off the device? Though a tablet and pretty stable, sometimes the solution is as easy as simply powering it off, wait 30-60 seconds and then power back on (same for almost any computer device whether it is a DVR, computer, phone or tablet).

If you want you can create shortcuts to Shutdown and Restart.

SHUTDOWN: C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 0

RESTART: C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00​

You can also just key or copy/paste these commands into the RUN line (WIndows+R on keyboard) or in the Windows Explorer address bar. I like having them on my modern interface screen to easily shutdown or restart the tablet. I don't use these a lot, but it is handy to just tap 'em when it is needed.

Hope this helps
[Windows RT General] wardh:
I did it on Windows 8.1 RTM not preview.

I use shortcuts like that to turn off my devices when using remote desktop since you can't reboot the remote machine the normal way.
[Windows RT General] rabilancia:
I too did the update on RT 8.1 RTM and my touch keyboard does not work either. I tried the SHUTDOWN suggestion (leaving my device off for about 5 minutes) but it did not resolve the issue.

I too will be looking for a solution that is not as drastic as a recovery.

UPDATE: I decided to do the recovery. Since I am running a Surface RT with Windows 8.1 RTM I did the following:

Charms Bar -> Settings -> Change PC Settings -> Update and recovery -> Recovery -> Refresh your PC without affecting your files

I was prompted to: "Insert media: Some files are missing. Your Windows installation or recovery media will provide these files."

I therefore inserted the USB drive that I had used to install Windows 8.1 RTM. The process took about 15 minutes.

My Touch keyboard now works.
[Windows RT General] johnchad14:
Just did a refresh and it worked for me too. Took about 20 min, I guess not terrible for RT. I have read reports of this happening on Pro models too, which I suppose would be much more of a pain
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
darn, guess I am doing a reset as well here. Of course I rebooted, turned it off and so forth. I also uninstalled the trackpad app, hoping that would do something.

back later....

Ok, I did a recovery/refresh without affecting my files. That worked as well. Wasn't painful at all and only had to uninstall a few apps that were in limbo from a previous backup on my account. After updating to the latest updates including the culprit firmware everything is working great.

cheers
[Windows RT General] dllewis1:
Did you need any install files, an ISO or Windows 8.1 RTM files, to complete the refresh?
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
nope, I believe the 8.1 recovery is on my RT after I upgraded and it pulls the necessary files from that image. Didn't need anything other than the RT itself. Recovery, refresh and keep settings and apps.
[Windows RT General] cmoneto:
Hi guys I found a way to fix th touch cover problem. Please if someone can help me trying this. It worked for me.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=46697194&postcount=10

Good look !!
[Windows RT General] derausgewanderte:
cool, too late though. And 20 steps for each keyboard device is a little steep. Might as well do a refresh and keep settings and files. 20minutes no-brainer, while I have to pay close attention with the 20 steps from the link.

thanks anyway
[HTC One S] hrkh83:
I've just got my One S (S4) and didn't find the latest recovery .img file in the forum. So I decided to copy paste the link here for other users to find it faster! I am not the developer of this recovery and I am only providing the link for latest TWRP 2.6.1.0 recovery for S4. If you don't know whether your device is a S4 or S3 don't try to flash it!

Good luck!

http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/ville

openrecovery-twrp-2.6.1.0-ville.img

Put the device in fastboot... then issue this command:

fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.1.0-ville.img

done!
[HTC One S] Darknites:
There is already a thread for this here.
[HTC One S] hrkh83:
It didn't provide the links for the last two releases!
[HTC One S] Darknites:
It takes you to the goo app which will download the right one and even flash it for you.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] passenger001:
Hi,

I recently installed the SentinelROM on my GT-N7100 Note 2.

Link to the ROM page: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2253843

In the description, it says the camera has voice activated shutter option - I am however unable to find or enable this option.

In the camera app, there's one setting called "Persistent Handsfree", which doesn't seem to do anything....

What am I missing here? Is it really possible to enable voice activated shutter? If yes, what is the voice command I should use?

In the stock camera app, you could say Cheese, Shoot or Capture. :)

Thanks.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] passenger001:
Found it!

It's under the timer settings inside the camera app. Kinda hard to find, but it works fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] merak69:
So I did the touchstone wireless charging mod and about 2/3 of the time, everything works great. For the remaining 1/3 of the time, something weird is happening that I'm wondering if anyone has any insight into.

In these instances, I'll put the phone on the palm base and it plays the sound and gives me the notification message saying it's wirelessly charging. However, the battery continues to drain. For example, I put it on at 44% battery life and I came back 3-4 hours later with the phone at 41% battery life. The notification bar showed it was indeed charging.

When I look in SystemPanel, it shows "System Processes" as using a major amount of battery for those 3-4 hours. Inside of it, it says "irq/343-max7769" as the top system process hogging CPU power. When I look at CPU usage, it was fixed at 30% for the entire time I was charging. Soon as I took it off the charger, the CPU usage immediately went down.

Anyone have any ideas?

For reference, I'm running ForceROM 2.3 (yes I know I haven't upgraded yet) with the "KT SGS4 (6/10/13)" kernel.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] merak69:
Anyone have any thoughts?

As a side note, I've noticed if I touch the screen for a few seconds after wireless charging starts the problem doesn't appear to happen. I'm going to test some more to see.

None of this happens when charging with a cable.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] merak69:
Never mind, just a placebo effect. Back to starting point.

Attached are two pictures of the same screen (one just scrolled down). You can see on the battery graph how it continued to drain even after charging started and at that same point it was a solid 30% cpu in the other screenshot.

1-2ish hours later the battery shot up.

Edit: dumb client wouldn't let me attach the second image...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JavaJunkay:
I was wondering if people are experiencing this problem, and is there a way to fix this. I really like that new purple wallpaper from 2013 Nexus 7 so I downloaded it in a full resolution and rushed to set it as a wallpaper. On my PC and in Gallery app, the wallpaper looks totally fine and without a single problem, however, as soon I set it as a wallpaper this happens (I made a comparison).

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4EcrjV4V656YWpzMG95bU02MUU/edit?usp=sharing

If you pay attention you'll notice that the central lines in the center of the wallpaper on the home screen are much worse.

It's not pixelization as much as it is some sort of quality loss, I guess there is a term for this, but I don't know. The same problem is present with stock 4.3 and Paranoid Android (4.2.2 and 4.3 versions).

So, how could I fix this?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] issak42:
Try resizing it with photoshop or similar (some programs resizing algorithms are bad, try different programs when resizing) to 1920*1280 and try setting it then.

Pixelization might be the result of a bad resizing algorithm. It's happened to me too before with different wallpapers.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bue maluco:
Try to search for nexus 7 on Zedge app ;)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] khdam:
Hi everybody, I'm using the MDA3 but with very old ROM version, pls help me upgrade it . I try some time I failed.

Thank you
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] z_rudy:
Please read the Wiki and follow instructions from there. It's very easy.

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_1.40.00_Upgrade

It doesn't matter how old the device is, you can upgrade from any version. If you still need help and you have read the upgrade procedure carefully and the FAQ, you can post again in here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] IDontKnowMang:
How do I manually update my boot loader to md4?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lancemulvihill85:
i downloaded the md4 baseband from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1787677

flashed via recovery and everything is working perfectly. only for sprint tho
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
Flash this in recovery. http://db.tt/Qt6NcH0a

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] IDontKnowMang:
Is u.s. correct?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] IDontKnowMang:
Also is this gonna finally solve my problem of not being able to flash out of 4.1.2? I had it on 4.2 before I hard bricked it like a dummy
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
This is the Sprint section correct? Sprint phones are US variants right? My sig says I support the S3 and Galaxy Nexus right? Your signature says SPH-L710 right? Too many rights for it to be wrong.

:D

If you sprint phone is not one of the new ones with the issue mounting storage then yes this will work for you. This updates your bootloader, fimware/modem to the latest md4 updates.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] IDontKnowMang:
Thanks ed. I wasn't sure because I had the JTAG done. I really thought this s3 was history. I wanna get it back to my 100% liking before I bother to fix this glass I broke. But this isn't the first time you helped me out and for that a million thanks dude:)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] IDontKnowMang:
Since I haven't flashed it yet do I have to factory wipe and all that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
No flash and reboot

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] IDontKnowMang:
I can not get that file to show up in twrp. I can flash it through too manager but I don't really want to do that how do I get it to show up?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
You downloaded that file right? When you boot into recovery click on flash zip from internal storage that's where it should be. Then look in the download folder.

When you download files you should be able to choose the download path, so that you know exactly where it's going.

I download everything to my external storage (sd card) then using root explorer I move it to my file system which I set up, roms, kernels, apps, mods, so on....

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] IDontKnowMang:
I had to update TWRP and I can see it now. There's no reason this should fail right I don't like this thing in paperweight mode
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
Nope that should never fail.

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