yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevenma61:
ok, i just want to know if the procedure as they decribe will work, as i cannot test it, as i don.'t have the phone.

did u manage to get the preloder from them.

if u get the preloader from smartdigi , u stilll get the "DRAM fail" , then i think , may be their phone is an older batch,

for me, if u can read back from from the SP flash tool, (version 3.1316, (i justy learn that there is v3.1328 available)), then definitely u can flash yr phone with this preloader.bin

note

since u can't even go to recovery, then there is no way u can flash the rom with card flash rom from smartdigi, the only way to recover yr phone is tru cable flash rom that mean, u have to pass tru the "DRAM fail"
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Voliminal_8:
Well, I found the problem, the drivers installed are MTK USB Port, and not Preloader VCOM drivers.

I use windows 8 x64, I restarted with bypassing the signature thing.

The problem is, when I try to manually select the vcom driver, after the installation it shows up as MTK USB Port, and not as a vcom port.

Any solution?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevenma61:
no, it does not matter if it is preloader port or vcom port, actually they don,t make difference if u flash the rom.

that mean yr computer is talking to the phone correctly.

now the most important part is the "preloader.bin" file in yr rom must match the dram in yr phone.

that is why u hve to ask who has yr exactly same model of yr phone to create a preloader.bin.

or just try to download the preloader.bin as many as u can.

if u have a friend who has the phone same as as yours, then i can help to create from his phone, or u can create the preloader.bin from his phone

edit,

try to download the latest sp flas tool v3.1324 or v3.1328 ,flash the rom with it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Voliminal_8:
I tried several roms, with different preloader.bin files, non seems to work.

I tried with all sp flash tool versions, all 3.13904.0.119, 3.1308.0.125, 3.1316.0.150, 3.1328.0.183

Some versions of SP, are not showing up all the files gathered from the scatter file. Some other do.

Well, a smartdigi member, told me to use windows 7, because the mediatek drivers have gone as fas as windows 7 x64.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevenma61:
ya, u could try with win7.

for me i can flash with win8 also.

i use win 7 at home, win8 at office, no problem.

u could try with win7, i think most likely , u will get the same result.

i had brick my s7589, i unbrick it with the right preloader. after that i tried with the preloader.bin that was originally came with the rom.

this time , it can pass tru the "dram fail", get the purple color, then yellow, then finish with green color. then i try to swith on the phone, but, no response from the phoe. it was bricked again.

then i flash back with the right preloader.bin, the phone back to life again.

did u manage to get preloader.bin from smartdigi?

for me, it is the best solution to unbrick the phone. may be there is some other ways that i don't know
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Voliminal_8:
Well... installed windows 7 in another partition.

It was like I never did it, exactly the same result. Everything behaved the same.

I don't know... maybe I have crappy mtk drivers, or I'm doing something wrong while installing them.

Let me describe the steps, and if I'm somewhere wrong you can tell me.

Well, after a clean windows 7 install, I connect the phone to the pc (with or without battery,I think I tried both, didn't see something change) it gets to "other devices" as an "unknown device". right click to update driver software, select the folder with vcom drivers.

It gets recognized as a mtk usb port.

Try to flash like that, same results.

Then I go to update driver again, but this time I click "let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer." I uncheck show compatible hardware, then I choose MTK Preloader USB VCOM Port.

the device now shows up to the device manager as "MTK Preloader USB VCOM Port".

Try to flash, everything is the same...

I read somewhere, that the normal installation of vcom drivers is kinda different, that it get's shown up as "MTK Preloader USB VCOM Port" right away, and I read that when you install the vcom driver correctly, it connect and disconnects the device every 3 seconds.

Well.. I didn't manage to get the preloader.bin yet, I'll ask for it, but why the official rom on needrom.com preloader.bin is not working with my phone? And why would smatdigi preloader.bin would work for me?

I tried roms that are for e2001v21_v89_zlh_hd but even their preloader wouldn't work for me.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chrizzly92:
first of all, stop playing with those preloaders. random flashing will brick your motherboard of your computer too, if you flash a wrong BIOS file. clear? okay. the DRAM error occurs if the Rom is mismatching the "signature" of your device. so, before trying to flash it, take another one, in this case, the right one. ( for example: my device (n9770) got few cameras, few board revisions, ddr or ddr2 Ram and so on, only one Rom or a mix of different files will work)so flashing a wrong firmware causes more "damage" or "errors". have you backed up your firmware before rooting?

you need to find a full backup of your device ( most likely a Rom directly from your vendor) including ALL needed partitions for flashtool. ROM's of new devices are hard to find, even for n9770 (mt6577) there are ROM versions from 06-2012 till now. so, if you got a "newer" device, you need to get the correct firmware and flashtool should flash without problems. also, your drivers are working perfectly, otherwise flashtool won't show the red bar wich is checking the device.you may need to check if the "second" driver is installed correctly, because the device will switch from preloader mode to "flash mode". maybe the driver for the preloader is installed correctly, but it can't switch to flash mode.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Voliminal_8:
Clear bro, but I never really managed to do a flash. Just never. I only get dram failed.

I don't think I did any more harm, since nothing really fot flashed.

Not I don't have a backup :/

I bought it from focalprice, even if they send me any rom, it will be one of the officials found in needrom.com ... So I don't think they'll handle it.

How can I check that the second drivers is installed correctly?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chrizzly92:
just open your device manager and check, if the device gets recognized correctly. start a flash and check, if there are any devices gets loaded while trying to flash. if so, install the correct driver. there are some issues with that sometimes.

if this won't work, try using MTD tool. flasing through there should work always, but it got some issues with vcom drivers. you need to assign every vcom port to the mtk device. explaining of this is retty hard since english isn't my motherlanguage, so its best to check google or xda for that.

also, can you start your device into recovery, or is it really "dead"? no bootlogo, nothing?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Voliminal_8:
No the device is hard bricked, no recovery at all. Not anything. :/

I can't use MtkDroidTool, it doesn't detect my device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chrizzly92:
hmn, i would suggest its a hardware failure. never saw a device "dying" without flashing before.

btw: i meant SPMultiPortFlashDownloadProject tool, this is a more advanced variant of sp flash tool. just google for it and put a log in here, so i (we) can check whats the matter.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Voliminal_8:
I already have this tool and used it with the same results.

Which log do you need? It has 3 but 2 of them are really long, cant fit them in one post.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevenma61:
did u manage to get the preloader from smartdxxx............. ???????

it just takes 5 minutes (the most) to create the preloader from the phone.

take up the battery from the phone, run sp flash tool, connect the phone to computer, 5 sec, the rom_0 is read

put back battery, on the phone, connect the phone to computer, run mtk droik tool, 30 secs later, the preloader is created.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manit40:
china phones

been to a lot off repair phones shop and all stead screen x920 done buy a SquareTrade 2 yr warranty £30.99 ins on phones
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Original Android Development] KennyG123:
Just wanted to clarify what the differences are between android and original development. Here are some KEY points by our very own pulser_g2.

The following are most likely “Original Development”:

*Official releases of highly original and upstream custom ROMs (built from the ground up with significant original development within them

*Official releases/development of such original ROMs, perhaps posted by the maintainer or their nominated person.

*A significant “first” in development for a device. Significant is subjective, but it is likely something which took considerable time/effort, and is generally accepted by developers to be significant and non-trivial.

*Kernels which are built with beneficial changes that are not simply pulled from other kernels already available. Some element of original work is expected.

*ROMs where the developer has made a custom kernel for it.

*Tools and utilities with a clear purpose, and which are well-made, and useful to users. They should have an element of originality, either in purpose or through significant improvement in the means of operation.

*

Significant

port of a ROM from one device to another, giving enhanced features or functionality to users of the target device. The port should be beneficial (a port from two virtually identical devices isn’t original development, it’s winzipping, and nobody really benefits from this, as it’s not development)

The following are most likely not “Original Development”, and should be posted in the “Android Development” subforum:

*Your own “unofficial” stock build of your favorite original, source-built (or otherwise) ROM, particularly where an official or maintainer-endorsed thread exists already.

*Minor derivatives of other ROMs with little or no changes, or ROMs consisting of “placebo” features as a main constituent or claim.

*Renames or rebadges of others’ work – these don’t belong on XDA at all! Refer to rule 12 for more information.

*Reposts of existing ROMs with small changes (i.e. kitchen work, such as adding a couple of apps). If you could realistically distribute your changes as an “addon pack” above and beyond a ROM, you should do so. In addition, your “ROM” would not be original development as it would be substantially identical to the original ROM.

*A thread created with unrealistic goals that are clearly unachievable by those starting the thread. This is not intended to discourage high aspirations, rather to prevent threads porting Windows Phone 8 to the HTC Wallaby. This is pretty much common sense.

*A ROM where a main or significant claim/feature is graphical changes to the user interface (ie. Themed ROM)

You can find all the info for it here. Threads will be moved if they do not meet the "Original" development requirements. Thank you guys and have fun!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] KennyG123:
Just wanted to clarify what the differences are between android and original development. Here are some KEY points by our very own pulser_g2.

The following are most likely “Original Development”:

*Official releases of highly original and upstream custom ROMs (built from the ground up with significant original development within them

*Official releases/development of such original ROMs, perhaps posted by the maintainer or their nominated person.

*A significant “first” in development for a device. Significant is subjective, but it is likely something which took considerable time/effort, and is generally accepted by developers to be significant and non-trivial.

*Kernels which are built with beneficial changes that are not simply pulled from other kernels already available. Some element of original work is expected.

*ROMs where the developer has made a custom kernel for it.

*Tools and utilities with a clear purpose, and which are well-made, and useful to users. They should have an element of originality, either in purpose or through significant improvement in the means of operation.

*

Significant

port of a ROM from one device to another, giving enhanced features or functionality to users of the target device. The port should be beneficial (a port from two virtually identical devices isn’t original development, it’s winzipping, and nobody really benefits from this, as it’s not development)

The following are most likely not “Original Development”, and should be posted in the “Android Development” subforum:

*Your own “unofficial” stock build of your favorite original, source-built (or otherwise) ROM, particularly where an official or maintainer-endorsed thread exists already.

*Minor derivatives of other ROMs with little or no changes, or ROMs consisting of “placebo” features as a main constituent or claim.

*Renames or rebadges of others’ work – these don’t belong on XDA at all! Refer to rule 12 for more information.

*Reposts of existing ROMs with small changes (i.e. kitchen work, such as adding a couple of apps). If you could realistically distribute your changes as an “addon pack” above and beyond a ROM, you should do so. In addition, your “ROM” would not be original development as it would be substantially identical to the original ROM.

*A thread created with unrealistic goals that are clearly unachievable by those starting the thread. This is not intended to discourage high aspirations, rather to prevent threads porting Windows Phone 8 to the HTC Wallaby. This is pretty much common sense.

*A ROM where a main or significant claim/feature is graphical changes to the user interface (ie. Themed ROM)

You can find all the info for it here. Threads will be moved if they do not meet the "Original" development requirements. Thank you guys and have fun!

NOTE: IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHETHER OR NOT YOUR WORK QUALIFIES FOR OD THEN POST IN ANDROID DEVELOPMENT AND CONTACT A MODERATOR TO REVIEW IT. THANKS!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Original Android Development] KennyG123:
Just wanted to clarify what the differences are between android and original development. Here are some KEY points by our very own pulser_g2.

The following are most likely “Original Development”:

*Official releases of highly original and upstream custom ROMs (built from the ground up with significant original development within them

*Official releases/development of such original ROMs, perhaps posted by the maintainer or their nominated person.

*A significant “first” in development for a device. Significant is subjective, but it is likely something which took considerable time/effort, and is generally accepted by developers to be significant and non-trivial.

*Kernels which are built with beneficial changes that are not simply pulled from other kernels already available. Some element of original work is expected.

*ROMs where the developer has made a custom kernel for it.

*Tools and utilities with a clear purpose, and which are well-made, and useful to users. They should have an element of originality, either in purpose or through significant improvement in the means of operation.

*

Significant

port of a ROM from one device to another, giving enhanced features or functionality to users of the target device. The port should be beneficial (a port from two virtually identical devices isn’t original development, it’s winzipping, and nobody really benefits from this, as it’s not development)

The following are most likely not “Original Development”, and should be posted in the “Android Development” subforum:

*Your own “unofficial” stock build of your favorite original, source-built (or otherwise) ROM, particularly where an official or maintainer-endorsed thread exists already.

*Minor derivatives of other ROMs with little or no changes, or ROMs consisting of “placebo” features as a main constituent or claim.

*Renames or rebadges of others’ work – these don’t belong on XDA at all! Refer to rule 12 for more information.

*Reposts of existing ROMs with small changes (i.e. kitchen work, such as adding a couple of apps). If you could realistically distribute your changes as an “addon pack” above and beyond a ROM, you should do so. In addition, your “ROM” would not be original development as it would be substantially identical to the original ROM.

*A thread created with unrealistic goals that are clearly unachievable by those starting the thread. This is not intended to discourage high aspirations, rather to prevent threads porting Windows Phone 8 to the HTC Wallaby. This is pretty much common sense.

*A ROM where a main or significant claim/feature is graphical changes to the user interface (ie. Themed ROM)

You can find all the info for it here. Threads will be moved if they do not meet the "Original" development requirements. Thank you guys and have fun!
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] lukair1983:
Hi

I have the Spigen armor case for a little over a week, which I love. But after just couple days (5-6), I noticed some bad discoloration on the edges of the case. It's not completely terrible, the color is actually not the worst it could be (considering), but still I would preffer for it to stay at the white color.

I did hear about people talking about discoloration, but I didn't think it will be after just couple days of usage. Since it is my first case like this, is this normal? And if it is, is there some way I can clean it up + prevent it from appearing so soon afterwards?

Just to mention it, the case was bought from their official amazon.co.uk site, so the product is 100% legit. Had the code inside which I checked and all.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] dazza7111:
Wow you should send it back? Guess should get black one then.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] lukair1983:
I want a white one, and even if this problem is known and normal, I still will leave this one on, as I want a black and white combo color configuration (I'm a guy, but... you know, I still want my stuff to look nice)
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] dazza7111:
Black and white, nice.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] lukair1983:
I sense sarcasm (?)

...

Anyways, please lets focus on the topic. I do want to find people's expierience about it.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] ranger4740:
Just sounds like your white case has just been stained by your skin oil to me. Maybe you have above average acidic skin oil or some other thing going on, maybe your hand was also a bit dirty when you touched it.

It is a white case after all, so I guess its naturaly going to get discolored.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] lukair1983:
Thanks for taking the time ranger.

It's deffinetly one of the possibilities, but still if that was the case I would notice it with other things I have, and that is not the case. Plus, bear in mind it happened literaly in less than a week, when I could notice the discoloration. If it was in months, or a year, that would be easier to understand for me.

So basicaly I'm just looking for others if had similar expierience.

I keep my hands clean at all time, almost paranoid about it, wash my hands many times during the day, but natural sweat could be a factor.

Anyway, whatever the reason, do you also had the similar expierience, and if so, what do you use to clean it (if it can be cleaned)?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] sohail99:
You could use a trim protectant on it like meguiars or 303 aerospace protectant to help keep it clean and protect against premature discoloration. But you will have to reapply it nearly everyday.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] trdspectacoma:
or you could get a sheet of the clear coat stickers and apply it.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] lukair1983:
Thanks guys for the suggestion, but to be honest I think it's too far to "protect the protective case". A bit too extreme for me ;)

Is there any traditional way to clean it. Maybe there is some chemical cleaner, which reacts very well and washes of this discoloration?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] trdspectacoma:
not sure the plastic might have been stained or the coating that they use can be stained
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] galaxy808:
try mr. clean magic eraser with a little dish washing soap and water, take the phone out first of course.:good:
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] lukair1983:
@Up

Thank you galaxy808. Is this just your educated guess, or you actuall have a white spigen case, and tried that (and worked)?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Kernelponik:
The case is good feeling in hand on. But the discolouration make it terrible. The White look pretty good. The black is so glossy.

Well better to buy the Slim Armor instead of Slim Armor S-View who was waste of money.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pnuda:
Hi, I'm looking for the samsung keyboard 2.3.6..it's the one which was in gingerbread stcok rom...now I'm using custom JB roms...I have the apk downloaded but it doesn't work, I can't install it.

Thanks for your help:)
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shut_down:
I do not think it will work. But only thing you can try is to push apk in system/app. System apps can't be installed like non-system.

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[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] King ov Hell:
Nope it will always (all of gingerbread stuffs) request Gingerbread's libraries and framework.So it's need to be ported or download a keyboard app from market.They have themes
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] szzlgupta:
You can use 'Thumb Keyboard' from goople play. It has a theme of Gingerbread Keyboard. (:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] thesid:
When I go to the wireless manager on my JasJar I can turn off and on the radio and bluetooth but the Wifi button cannot be toggled :x

Even when in flight mode it picks up wireless AP. Anyone else come across this ? and any ideas how to fix it ? I have the latest ROM installed.

Cheers

Alan
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] bryanblue24:
I'm new to my Galaxy Note 8, what rom is the best to use? Thanks for your reply!

What rom to use if i play casual games and regulary uses the note as a reader and for browsing. Thanks!
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] mankand007:
Why don't you just stick with the stock Rom and root it with xposed framework?
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] bryanblue24:
Ill be getting the LTE version. I hope it still 4.1.2 since as Ive read here in the forum, 4.2.2 has an offset Spen bug right? How to root using the xposed framework? Does framaroot works for our device?
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] mankand007:
You need to root using cf-auto-root. Xposed framework is an app using which you can make a lot off cool customizations to the tablet. Framaroot does not work with Note 8.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] bryanblue24:
Okay will search cf-auto-root to root our note 8 :) Thanks!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amdathlonuk:
A few times today I was showing people my new Note 3.

It is completely stock and running Touchwiz launcher.

However, after putting it back on the table it made a strange beeping sound as if it had a new notification.

I've not heard this sound before and haven't since.

There was nothing running only the home screen.

Anyone else experienced this?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ripnetuk:
Are u sure there isn't a nfc chip somewhere nearby?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amdathlonuk:
Not that I'm aware of, it was on my desk at work surrounded by a Note 1 and Galaxy S3....that's all.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joehandel:
I've never used NFC before so I'm not sure how that works (before the Note 3 I was using S2), but I know the S3 has NFC. Maybe Note 1 too. Coulda triggered something I suppose?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @rbiter:
Bump your phones and see if it makes same sound.