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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] fletch33:
I believe this information should be out there for all Android users and i dont recall seeing it anywhere but i hang out here right now and thought i would share what i discovered on accident.

i reference a RAZR M here but INSERT any Android phone as far as i can tell.

***please Devs and such i am not one so ignore my possible misuse of how exactly it operates but i just wanted to share the point of this not how the Android OS operates :)

i had a RAZR M with ROOT and installed Avast Mobile Security (i believe many others would do this as well) and since i was root i installed it as a /System app. this as some of you may not know makes it kinda part of the OS now. this means that a Factory Reset does not remove it but instead installs it again. i will explain how i discovered this:

- had a RAZR M as mentioned and i installed Avast as /System

- you can rename the app itself to whatever you want like "fletch33" and so anyone who finds your phone wouldnt know it was a security app and try to uninstall it. this is a great feature so i renamed it.

- this will do the standard stuff like locate your device, wipe it, make it beep, etc....

- i decided to give the phone to someone else and they wouldnt want root items or anything so i did a factory reset forgetting i had installed Avast as /System so they would have a clean start with the M

- since Avast was /System it became part of the Factory Reset process and so a what i thought was a clean fresh phone actually still had Avast on it but now since it was fresh and clean there were no signs like an app to remind me i had installed it as root. i honestly forgot it was on there.

- i had selected to get notifications of where the phone is if it traveled a distance but could see it whenever i wanted with a browser login to website and although i had reset it that STILL WORKS! i am getting emails when it moves and can login and see it.

- there are no visible signs that this is on the M (insert any phone)

- in my knowledge the only way the tracking etc... would stop is if i were to ODIN or SBF or whatever the equivalent is on that particular device or i would have to re-install Avast and it would then allow me to put in my passcode and then i could uninstall it.

the moral of the story is that any used phone could have had this done and if not by accident like mine but on purpose for whatever reason.

fortunately i gave the M to a family member and i will fix it for him but it really made me think what it could be used for ....

if this has been mentioned or i am incorrect i apologize in advance but when i started getting emails about where the phone i gave away was located all the time from Avast after a Factory Reset i decided i should share this so that others might take precautions with their second hand Android device.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] barrackOBAMA:
1. I always Odin my phone and procedure to rooting with in a few short hours of owning device.

And if not, I'm pretty sure unlocking the device will erase everything. (in a lot of my previous cases)

2. And I see nothing wrong with the previous owner being able to track me picking up his wife and taking her back to the white house to make her my First lady ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brizey:
Yep, first thing I would do is wipe the phone properly.

"Factory reset" is a really bad name for the process...it does nothing of the sort.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] TechSavvy2:
Um, makes complete sense that you can still track the device. I assumed that before you even posted it. Same way you can track devices through android device manager, moto software, etc etc.

You're forgetting a huge oversight here.......it doesn't really do much good if stealing someones phone, then wiping it, would get rid of all tracking options. Kinda defeats the purpose. Otherwise people would steal someone's phone, factory reset, then go about their merry way and you're SOL...:eek:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] fletch33:
sure but since most Android phones dont offer a iPhone like recovery and most users dont even know what root it then to me its those people that should have concern.

i always ODIN or SBF etc.. myself if i pick up a used phone but most people woudnt even know about that.

Manufacturers should release iPhone like recovery system so that an average person can clean their phone without tech knowledge and downloading a file somewhere.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAVVAS.:
I am wondering which one is more important when you are about to play games using emulators on your phone! I may be wrong but I if you were about to ask me I would have answered with quite confidence that CPU

is way more important

than GPU :eek: So anyone here can precisely answer this question?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnZl:
Ca anyone build miui with leaked fw?
[Galaxy S III Mini Themes and Apps] Reza Kashkuli:
Hi bodies

Can you give me a mod that bring multi windows function in s3 to our s3 mini?

It could be wonderful ;)

Thank you all
[Galaxy S III Mini Themes and Apps] mkruseonline:
No- or not yet
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlCapone:
You know the cool effect of finger over lockscreen, even before you touch it ?

I saw it earlier on my device, but it's gone now.

it works , I can hover ove SMS ans read it, but no hovering effect at lockscreen.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlCapone:
oops, discovered that it works with "no security" lockscreen, as soon I use "pattern" it stops..

can anyone confirm this ?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RavenZwei:
Using a live wallpaper? Did you change it

Watercolor by accident?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] force70:
Mine works with pattern..you must have unlock effect turned off.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nshyam668:
So I'll start at the beginning. I have a Alpharev Data++ hboot with a data++ compatible CM10.1 VJ Data++ ROM running and I wanted to tinker around with the development settings (to see if I could make graphics performance a little better) and i stumbled across something along the lines of simulate second screen. So i clicked on it chose the lowest resolution number on it and waited for some magic to happen!! It didn't -_-. My phone froze for about 30 mins which is when I pulled the plug on it. Tried to reboot and froze on the cyanogen mod spinning circle boot sequence. Did this a few times all frozen at the same stage. So I thought that maybe it was messed up so I went into recovery and backed my system up. It all backed up successfully (or so I thought). I went ahead and wiped data, cache, dalvik cache etc. basically wiped everything. Then when i went to restore my backup......"MD5 mismatch"!!! Tried it again..and again and again but still the same.

So i looked it up and people were talking about how you have to delete the contents of the "nandroid.md5" file in the backup folder. But when I checked my backup folder, nothing was there. The only files in there were the following: android_secure.vf; boot.img; data.yaffs2.img; recovery.img and system.yaffs2.img. No nandroid.md5. I have another backup with the my stock system and that contains nandroid.md5 but this one doesn't.

Can anyone suggest a way to overcome this problem or will I have to just flash the ROM again and start from scratch.

Thanks for any help
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Whats wrong with flashing the rom from scratch if you already wiped the data partition?

Restoring the system partition = reflashing rom from scratch (unless youve made a lot of changes in your system partition)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nshyam668:
I have flashed the ROM again anyway and yes I do realize that wiping data is basically a new ROM but how do I get restore my backup because all my messages are there which I have foolishly forgotten to back up!! Is there anyway or is my backup corrupted or something?!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Yep, the nandroid probably got corrupted somehow. Its happened to me a few times.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nshyam668:
I have tried this in my ROM Terminal Emulator:

adb shell

# cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2010-06-29.20.22.53

# rm nandroid.md5

# md5sum *img > nandroid.md5

With the correct filename but after every line it says file not found or error device not found.

I have also realised that superuser is not installed at all on this ROM which is a little weird!

Thanks
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] saq:
Got my BA (sx66) recently and while I love this thing, the battery life compared to my old 6315 is better than expected, but for how much I am away from a desk I would definately like a little bigger battery.

I've read all the posts in this forum on extended batteries but I don't seem to find anyone doing a review of the battery after they have it. There seems to be quite a few different batteries available so I think a battery roundup would help with a few peoples deicisions, myself included.

First off, current shipping batteries, I've seen mentions to a 1900mah battery, a 2000mah battery, an older mugen 2200(?)mah battery, the current 2400 and 3300 mugen batteries. Are there any more I am missing?

Some pictures of the batteries in the device to get an idea of size increase would be great! If you got them lets see them! I can provide webhosting if needed so email me at saq@thesaq.net with the subject involving HTC BA Battery or something similar.

Compatible accessories. Do any of these batteries fit in the cradle? If so do they fit in the extra battery charging spot? What cases do you know they do not fit in properly, and what ones do they fit properly.

Last but not least, where did you buy it and how do you rate the battery. Does it give as much of a life increase as the size increase would indicate?

Lets see it! This is the greatest PDA community around I know we can get a real nice roundup together.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] richardkemp:
Well this thread seems to be getting rather ignored.. I too would be interested in a battery roundup!

If I get one I will leave comments here!
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] MugenPower:
dear saq,

it's a good idea to have a battery round up. So that the users in this forum can know the quality of the battery on the market.

But I do have a suggestion, I think you need to do a more details testing with all the environment the same...for the battery testing.

In case you have any question about the mugen power battery you can contact me.....
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSuit:
I'm in need of help guys and girls.

The other night I decided to "increase my battery life" by "disabling" a few (probably system) apps, through the "Apps Manager / All Apps" tab in Settings.

Everything was ok for another 10mins, went to bed.

Woke up to the "Samsung" logo stuck on the screen.

I tried rebooting and rebooting after removing the battery (15-20 times),

this gave me the same result; self rebooting non-stop after freezing on the "Samsung" screen.

I cleared the Dalvik Cache.

This got me past the "Samsung" screen and went to "Updating Apps".

It initially completed the 192/192 (Number of apps on my phone),

but then rebooted, and continued to reboot every time it got to the "Android is updating apps" screen.

Will 'flashing' a (most likely stock, but suggestions are very much welcome) Kernel fix this problem?

I was stupid in not backing anything up on Titanium Back Up, and not setting up a regular backing up schedule, (since everything was running smoothly for 1 year)

I really have no back up of the data on the phone.

Please.

Please, some one out there, help me just get back into my phone with out losing all my data, and I promise I won't play around with system files any more.

Extra info.

I remember rooting the phone the day I got it, but can't remember what I did exactly. Probably a pre-rooted ROM.

It was a fire and forget thing, and I haven't played with Android software much since then. So now processes need to be explained to me like I'm 5. :good:

>TLDR; Think I disabled system apps. Can't get past "Samsung" / "Android is updating apps" screen. Constant self rebooting at these screens. No back up of any phone data. Will 'flashing' (stock?) Kernel fix this? (and not delete all my data) Please help, ****ting bricks here.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
Reflashing the Stock ROM should fix this, yes.

Clear the cache again once you've flashed it.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Leogp:
Mate,

For what you are saying, you have a recovery (Phil'z, Clockwork or TWRP). If so, try and Format data and cache. Doing that wont erase your internal memory, dont worry. I guess it should be enough to get your phone working again.

After that, BACK UP!:p
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSuit:
I'm at a recovery(?) screen. "CWM-based Recovery v6.0.1.4"

You mean to "wipe data/factory reset" AND "wipe cache partition" ?

Will I lose contacts, sms messages, S notes, emails, installed apps, photos, videos, the lot?

I'm still in semi panic mode and am afraid to do anything that might delete any of the above. :silly:

Through this "CWM-based Recovery v6.0.1.4", I have made a ".dup" back up to my external SD.

Is this enough before I do anything else?

I have other users saying I should, "Then flash a stock rooted rom and restore your data backup."

If so, should I flash JUST the stock ROM (which I don't even know where to get),

or should I flash the newer 4.3 Jelly Bean ROM since I'll be "flashing a ROM" anyways?
[Blade General] abumaha:
i buyed a zte blade with schematic password but not know

i want hard reset not found

tried severel methods

pls help
[Blade General] Blazed2:
Hard reset is normall Home+VolUp+Power or make an emergency call *983*987#
[Sony Xperia L] El Brillantinas:
Hi guys. I’ll try to be as clear as possible with my very, very weird problem.

I got my Xperia L last Friday. Cool phone, I’m kinda blown for it (hehe), I already love it. The same day I bought a 16 Gbs micro SD storage (Kingston), then I came to my office where I have an ACER PC with Win XP and Ubuntu, and started to synchronize my media... And the problem begun. After finishing synchronization, songs were damaged, they only played for 3 or 4 seconds and skip to the next, or didn’t play at all, the message “this song cannot be played” pop out in Walkman; same case with some images and videos I saved in the card, they were all damaged. I formatted the microSD, and stared all over again, but same situation happened.

Last Sunday I went to my girlfriend’s house, and asked her to let me use her laptop, an AMD G4 with Windows 7. The same thing than before happened, then I thought it was problem of the phone or the software, so I restored with Update Service, after that I tried to synchronize media again, and the problem persisted… I even tried to re-write partitions in the microSD with Gparted, but no.

After that, I was sure it was the micro SD problem so today I went to the store to apply for the warranty. They checked, formatted, saved media on it and asked me to put it on my Xperia, I did, and the content was good, no problems, music playing OK, etc. I was surprised that it didn’t cause any errors… The support guy told me that it may be a virus in windows or Android causing that.

I went back to my office and installed Avast in my Xperia and made an analysis. Nothing bad came out. Then I tried to synchronize media again, and guess what? The same ugly problem was there…I went again to the store and told them that the issue was still there. They formatted the microSD one more time, put even more content on it, then they put it in a galaxy s4 and made tests… Nothing bad happened, everything worked fine. After that, we did the same tests with my Xperia… And everything worked flawless! Not a single problem. However, I asked them to change the memory for another one, but they didn’t accept it, instead of that, I left the microSD, they told me they’ll do more tests in different phones, and if they find any problem they will give me another one or my refund. I'll go to get an answer tomorrow.

What do you guys think about this weird behavior? Could be a hidden virus on my files in my PC the responsible of this? If so, then the same virus is in my computer and the computer of my girl. As a fact, I tried to synchronized media with Ubuntu too, and same bad situation happened.

Oh yeah, I tried different synchronization ways in both systems: via USB cable, Bluetooth and even Airdroid, with no good results.

I also tried an old 4Gbs microSD and nothing bad happened...

And for the records: none of that happens if I synchronize media to the internal storage of the phone, things work OK there…

Any ideas? :rolleyes:
[Sony Xperia L] damian01211:
Wait are you copying files via a program in PCC or just by Copy & Paste option in Windows/Ubuntu ?

If you doing it via PCC try copying it normaly, like you do it windows with other files ;)
[Sony Xperia L] El Brillantinas:
I'm doing so. I never use PC Companion, neither for updating nor for copying media.
[Sony Xperia L] damian01211:
It's quite weird, maybe there is a SD problem as you said the old 4 Gb was working.

You can try copying some of the files to internal and the on the phone copying it to SD but this will take a lot of time.
[Sony Xperia L] getochkn:
wht do you mean by "syncronize media". Are you using something to do this?
[Sony Xperia L] El Brillantinas:
I've tried this already with ES Explorer, it tells me "operation failed" everytime, in every single file I try to copy from the internal to the SD.

Well, maybe I should said "copying" instead of "synchronizing". I'm doing the simple copy-paste actions.

Thanks.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Kotello:
Hi!

I would like to buy one of these tablets.

I was really excited about Nexus and I was ready to buy this. Then I read about that Kindle Fire HDX which has better GPU & CPU and still is available for better price than Nexus.

The only think which makes me wonder is Fire OS. This is very modified Android. If I own Kindle I would like to put there normal Android OS. Is it possible? I would really like to know this.

Or maybe you guys could suggest me any better tablet for similar price?

I would like to use tablet as a normal user mostly. For gaming, movies, music. GPS nav and maybe 3G (but it's not necessary, since Kindle doesn't have it, and about Nexus I am not sure).

Besides I would use this sometimes as an replacement for laptop. To read PDFs and Word documents for work. And record videos for Youtube. Idk what more, so I think that would be all.

Thank you for answers and I am sorry if I post this thread in a wrong place.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SadHeroXIII:
Hello xda-friends ....

I have one quistion 4 you,

how to install CWM ?

well I try to install it many time but allways fail !!

I don't try the way of odin, cus I hate !! I want to do everything using my phone !

and I don't want to get cwm that replace the stock one !! yeah, I want to install it everytime I want to use it ! :p

Waiting for your help :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JCM800:
I'm finding on stock browser and even chrome, that when I view a thread, xda for example, the first few paragraphs are a certain readable size, but further down the page the paragraphs then go tiny, and I have to zoom in the page to read them..

This doesn't happen on my Note 2, is it a glitch, or a setting I've over looked? Does this make sense?!

Thanks.
[HTC Desire X] sol1dsn4ke:
hello to all,

I have a big question that I would ask, I currently have a Desire X with version 4.0.4 ROM Shadow.

I would like to try the ROM version 4.1. How do I upgrade the version? with the ROM or is a separate process?

Thanks to everyone for their helpfulness and patience.
[HTC Desire X] Lazar47:
You just need to download the rom with android 4.1

Then flash it ( install ).

Look around the forum for tutorial how to do it ; )

Good luck .
[HTC Desire X] GtrCraft:
If you have Hboot 1.25 above method will work, if you have Hboot 1.24 or lower you need to update with backuped stock rom and stock recovery
[HTC Desire X] Will_Xda:
Hi Snake I also recently updated and used this guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2212067 its pretty easy to understand and doesn't require alot of know how. Good luck with updating

Sent from my HTC Desire X
[HTC Desire X] neXus PRIME:
And the last ICS user at last upgrades to JB.

Welcome Mr batearsjoe....:cool:
[HTC Desire X] dansou901:
You forgot OP :p
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Themes and Apps] -CALIBAN666-:
Hey there i hope you feelin fine! :laugh:

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I open this thread to share my collected Wallpaper for Android and Computer in different size and format and with different topics like AOSPA,CM,RootBoxX,PACman,Android in general,Alienware and PC in general.

I have nearly 20gb of pictures,wallpapers etc.So i make packs now for sharing here for the bros on XDA,the first pack is just a mixed one,you can see on attached Pic.

Next updates comes for 100%,but it needs a lil bit time to sort/create/upload the Pics.I hope you like some of the pics!!!!!Many Greeeeetz

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"NOTE:All Pictures+Wallpaper except the ones from me are free to download+can be found on Google!!!"

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1. Pack mixed: http://www.mediafire.com/download/pq4549xdd4td4ej/wallies.zip

Abstract WalliePack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/1pkpd80kpnbrbeh/AbstractWalliePack1.zip

Paranoid Android WalliePack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/mum5scy1j98jdkg/Paranoid-Android-Walls1.zip

PACman WalliePack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/nuqqfsa3a9xt5lf/PACman-WallsPack1.zip

Alienware WalliePack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/so7vs8yjq01mz7w/Alienware-Wallspack1.zip

CyanogenMod WalliePack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/kvfcgor3w2w3a8n/CyanogenMod-WalliPack1.zip

HighRes+Plain WalliePack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/g926mel7naw8jb1/HighRes+Plain-WalliePack1.zip

Skulls+Friday13+HorrorPack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/uci0u9z3whwb1je/Skulls+Friday13+HorrorPack1.zip

DarkGinger+New Purity+SubZero WalliePack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/9da3zqqh3796h69/DarkGinger+New_Purity+SubZero_Wallie_Pack.zip

Bands(Metal)WalliePack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/lu9bjudrvxpilzz/Bands(Metal)WalliePack1.zip

Android(Logo+Robot)General Pack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/wzi7o36dltaihz8/Android(Logo+Robot)General.Pack1.zip

ICS-JB-GB-Fro WalliePack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/zbf7go1h7fzh2wf/ICS-JB-GB-FRO-WallpaperPack1.zip

MetalBandsPack2: http://www.mediafire.com/download/tvl9bc6c7ckd8b7/MetalBands-Pack2.zip

XDA WalliePack1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/dphddbfoaqcali5/XDA-Pack1.zip

KitKat Pack 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download/7wvs249z3yupg27/KitKat-Pack1.zip

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MORE COMES SOON!!!!! ;)​
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Themes and Apps] -CALIBAN666-:
thread updated..... :D
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Themes and Apps] eyesore123:
the links are dead:(
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Themes and Apps] -CALIBAN666-:
oops,i fix it.sorry
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Themes and Apps] -CALIBAN666-:
should work now have tested.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Themes and Apps] -CALIBAN666-:
first post updated,look at the last two packs.more to come.greeeetz :D
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Themes and Apps] SecretPandas:
thanks for this wallpaperpacks, gonna use them! :)
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Themes and Apps] niko9608:
Downloading, thanks!
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Themes and Apps] jonnybigodesPT:
amaizing! thank you very much :D
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Themes and Apps] -CALIBAN666-:
Thread updated with MetalBandsPack2+XDA Pack1.Have Fun :laugh: