yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] demetrios3:
It has a lot to do with the original question. The question was whether or not to root and the answer mitigated the danger of having a root gone bad. It had nothing to do with being Lazy. I wasn't able to fix the phone in 10 clicks or 1,000 clicks and I spent much more than 10 minutes trying. After trying to flash the firmware didn't work I began to run out of idea's but it didn't stop me from trying. It's a new device and I wasn't able to locate many resources to help my guess it they haven't been created yet.

I said it's not something I normally do but I justified it because of the 10 years of repressed anger I have towards Sprint. I'm still annoyed at having to pay a monthly surcharge for having a smartphone beginning in 2010 with the HTC EVO 4G. And despite Sprints marketing the phone as 4G I never got 4G with that phone. Then there was the mismanaged OTA ICS update from Sprint. I could make a list of things to complain about to Sprint but there is no recourse after you sign the contract because you have no leverage.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] musclehead84:
It's very hard to Odin a stock tar and unbrick it. Cmon Kevin Rocksman that's a lot of work
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ampularity:
I have a Verizon G2, regular root method and stock rom. Under application manager, under All apps, the largest app is Contacts Storage at 4GB. What's taking up so much space??

Edit: I don't have the Facebook app, and I use the stock messaging app, contacts whatever. Also I have two google accounts tied to the phone but only syncs with one. Anyone have any idea why it takes up 4GB? (shows as data in app)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ampularity:
Anyone have the faintest idea? I can post a screenshot if that would help. I only have around 200 contacts synced to my google account.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android404:
You cab try and see if diskusage from the store gives you a more detailed view on what this is.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ampularity:
Thanks for the reply. I installed diskusage but when I expand contacts, all I see is a 4096mb data file. I imported all of my old text messages using SMSbackup, could that be what's taking up 4GB?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android404:
The bible is about 4MB big. As long as you don't have messages worth a thousand bibles that can't be the reason. You could try to backup all the contacts that aren't on Google to your sim and then clear data for the contract storage in settings-apps-all-contact storage. But i don't guarantee that you won't miss any contacts. Maybe back it up with titanium too begotten clearing data?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ampularity:
I'll do both before I wipe the data and I'll post what happens after. Thanks!!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ampularity:
So I backed up Contacts Storage with Titanium Backup and Super Backup. Then I cleared Contacts data in Application Manager (it warned me that it would delete data, accounts, and some other things). I lost all my contacts but a minute later they all appeared again from my phone syncing my google account. Now Contacts Storage app says 1.71MB! I wonder what took up all that space though. I don't seem to have lost anything else but maybe I'll find something later as I keep using my phone.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geekybiker:
Contact photos maybe? Still a ton of storage for only 200 contacts even with high res photos.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ampularity:
Definitely not contact photos. I only have photos for like 10 contacts and they are blurry as heck, haha. Been poking around on my phone for a day now and I still haven't found anything missing after clearing the 4GB of contacts storage. :confused:
[Themer General Discussion] EatHeat:
First of all, this is not meant as a disrespect to anyone at MyColorScreen or the team behind the Themer App.

Secondly, I'm not affiliated with them in any way.

I have been a part of the Beta team for quite some time and while this is a great app, it lacks something basic.

The ability to publish themes to the Play Store

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For a long time I was being bugged about this, that why we couldn't publish our themes to the Play Store unlike other launchers. From what I saw till the last version was that I had to be logged in to download themes or access the themes that I had downloaded. If I logged out, I couldn't access the downloaded themes anymore. (No idea if this was by default or a bug). With the amount of permissions the app takes, I did not feel secure being logged in through the app all the time.

Then I mailed the admin at MCS and he said that all themes are to be sent to him for now, which means we cannot publish our themes to the Play Store which in turn means that we could not get proper feedback for what we made.

So, I looked through the app thoroughly to understand how it works and found a workaround to publish our themes to the Play Store. Its pretty simple and the themers don't have to do anything except change the package name and copy their themes into the app.

This app is completely open source for everyone to integrate it with their themes. Use it like I made it or change it however you want. You are free to do anything with it.

Details in the next post.
[Themer General Discussion] EatHeat:
How it works:

This app will copy your theme and screenshots to the users Exported folder. They can use it anytime by opening Launcher Menu>My Themes>Exported>"THEME".

You can even add more than 1 theme in this app

. Just put the Theme and the screenshots in proper place and it will all work out fine. Sneaky yeah?

How to use:

Get the source from my github

here

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Import it in Eclipse or whichever IDE you use.

Right click on src, go to Refactor>Rename and rename it to your package name.

Now get your exported theme and copy it to assets>zip>"HERE" (Delete my zip)

Now there will be 4 images formed in your SD Card after u export your theme in this directory:

/mnt/sdcard/MyColorScreen/Themer/Exported/thumbs/"HERE"

If you gave your exported theme the name "MyTheme" , there should be screenshots of your theme formed in the "thumbs" folder like MyTheme.png, MyTheme00.png, MyTheme01.png and MyTheme02.png.

Copy these 4 images to assets>thumbs>"HERE". (Delete my screenshots)

Now copy 3 of your screenshots to res>drawable-hdpi>"HERE" and name them screen1, screen2, screen3. (Delete my screenshots)

Next go to res>values>strings.xml and change the theme name and my name to your theme name and your own name.

Finally, go to res>xml>prefs.xml and change the links redirecting to my Play Store account to links redirecting to your Play Store account. If you do not need it, then just delete it.

Most important step. Publish your app. :D

That's it. Seems like a lot of work but its really nothing if you take a look through it once.

Screenies of app:

I just exported the default theme of Themer to use it as an example.
[Themer General Discussion] EatHeat:
Explanation for permission:

WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Needed to copy the Theme to the SD Card.

Since the app is completely open source, you can check out the complete sources just to be sure.

If you get stuck anywhere, ask in thread. I'll help you out. I commented the code heavily too, so it should be easy for you to understand how it works. If you still get stuck anywhere, ask me.

Download the app if you want to test it out first.

I made this for 4.1+ since Themer is only available for 4.1+. If Themer comes to lower versions, so will this app.

Just a few words.

No need to ask me for permission to use this. Use it however you want to. Just give credits where it is due. It would be nice if you can add a link to this thread so more people can find about this.
[Themer General Discussion] EatHeat:
Links:

Themer App

Github Sources

Sample App
[Themer General Discussion] EatHeat:
Reserved. Just in case.
[Themer General Discussion] ssojyeti2:
Nice!
[Themer General Discussion] QNBT:
Thanks for sharing this with us! I was personally thinking about the same thing so I'm glad someone took the initiative. I'm still working on the actual concept on my upcoming theme in photoshop, as for now I have nothing to test with but at least I can keep this thought out off my mind.
[Themer General Discussion] Ramazor:
This is great! I will try it tomorrow, but I will probably upload it to Google Play later since I am switching accounts on it.

Thank you for making my life easier :)
[Themer General Discussion] EatHeat:
You are welcome. :)
[Themer General Discussion] naifaharsy:
This work with aosp rom?:what:
[Themer General Discussion] EatHeat:
This will work on any ROM. But to be functional, you need Themer to be running on that ROM of course.
[Themer General Discussion] naifaharsy:
I see..install the apk and download the theme
[Themer General Discussion] EatHeat:
Yes, this makes Themer just like any other launcher. Download theme and choose from settings.
[Themer General Discussion] leyneli:
I dont understand anything. Because my english not perfect.

Can you show screenshots, haw can i do ?
[Themer General Discussion] EatHeat:
You are welcome to go through the full code. Its hosted on Github and link is given on the first page.
[Themer General Discussion] EatHeat:
A Themer theme based on this and published to Play Store.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2508713

Feel free to use this template. :)
[Themer General Discussion] the1dynasty:
nice... when i get some time i'm gonna check this out!! thanks for sharing
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SuperHanss:
I was getting bored of the stock Sony boot animation on my XZ and decided it was time for a change!

So I took the boot animation from the Galaxy S4 Google Edition and replaced the Google logo with the Xperia logo using Photoshop :)

Hope you like it!

It works on any firmware on the Z, ZL and ZU.

Installation using CWM/TWRP (ROOT IS REQUIRED!):

Download and flash the XperiaGoogleBootAnimation.zip file from the bottom of this post, simples. ;)

Or if you don't have a custom recovery (AGAIN ROOT IS REQUIRED!):

Download bootanimation.zip from the bottom of this post

Copy it to your SD card (internal or external)

Using Root Explorer or ES File Explorer, move the downloaded bootanimation.zip to /system/media and overwrite when prompted.

Make sure the permissions are set to rw- r-- r--

Reboot and enjoy! :D

To revert to the stock boot animation:

Flash the StockXperiaBootAnimation.zip file from the bottom of this post using CWM or TWRP.

Please ask me first if you want to use it in your ROM.

Preview:

Downloads:

Xperia Google boot animation flashable zip - http://www.mediafire.com/download/f8xp6gmqv63j6n2/XperiaGoogleBootAnimation.zip

Mirror - http://d-h.st/EV6

Xperia Google boot animation manual install - http://www.mediafire.com/download/lf0xo8vbhc3c6ks/bootanimation.zip

Mirror - http://d-h.st/Gk5

Stock Xperia boot animation flashable zip - http://www.mediafire.com/?76e3ubw6umyj4rj

If you like it please press the Thanks button! :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SUPERUSER:
Looks good! :good:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Very nice!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] avetny:
Nice work....very nice
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hamdogg:
So does the flashable work for CM10.2 as well as the sony ROM's?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] avetny:
Try it manually ;)

(Backup stock bootanimation.zip)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hamdogg:
Yeah just confirming for others that the cwm zip file may not work for their ROM.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mcteague:
Looks great
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] grasshoxda:
im on paranoid, Xperia Google boot animation manual install worked no problem
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kidiauk:
I will be listing my XDA EXEC which is unlocked on ebay this evening at 9:30pm.

I will post the item number this evening. If I forget the title will be:

O2 XDA EXEC - UNLOCKED - 1p Start, No Reserve

Listed in category: Mobile & Home Phones > Mobile Phones > XDA

Also listed in: Computing > PDAs > XDA
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Liverpool:
id buy it from you before you put it on ebay, depending on the price
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kidiauk:
I will be online to listen to offers for the next 30mins but once the auction starts I will not end it early.

Bidders may end up with a real bargain as the auction starts at 1p with no reserve.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Liverpool:
all i can afford at the moment is around £350 please tell me wat u expect
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kidiauk:
That seems a bit low to accept.

You could try bidding when the auction goes live.

Who knows if I have a bad auction you may get it at £350.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Liverpool:
wat would be the minimum you would accept please
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kidiauk:
Item number: 6448046024

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6448046024

Auction only open to UK bidders.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kidiauk:
There is about 9 and a half hours remaining for this auction.

Get a bargain on a new unlocked Exec.

Due to requests I will post to Europe as well as the UK.

Postage to Europe will be £25 and payment has to be made by Paypal.

GOOD LUCK.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kidiauk:
1 Hour 45 mins remaining.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kidiauk:
15 mins to go.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supers2k:
How do you unroot from N900AUCUBMI1 back to N900AUCUBMI9 I tried the option unroot in superusr and it just made all the force closes worse
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Agent:
Try to PM designgears and ask him. I asked in the first user post if he could post an original ROM or something for users to unroot, but I guess he didn't think that was a good idea.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joe ferreira:
I have not received any force closes. did you perform a backup and your attempting to restore data?

install the app from this thread and run the fix.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2473090

---------- Post added at 11:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:34 AM ----------

It has been posted multiple times and it is in the OP of the root thread but I will repost it here

"Why N900AUCUBMI1?

Well, this is all I have access to right now. Once I have N900AUCUBMI9 files, I will update the process."

designgears does not have the N900AUCUBMI9 files.

no one does yet.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supers2k:
yeah I tried the TB fix it just made it so I could restore all the apps. maybe i'll try again when I get home later. I know like instagram would close saying something about the system and quadrant standard also closes. Do those close for you also?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joe ferreira:
I will check them now.

just keep in mind that you need to run that fix everytime you restore with tibu or any other backup app.

here is what I would like you to do. help me help you :D

install alogcat from here on the market

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jtb.alogcat&hl=en

provide us with a logcat output. then I can get a better idea of what is going on.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Agent:
Well maybe I need to post multiple times that I didn't ask for it.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lamwong3:
I had the same issue when restoring apps with tb. I found out if you restore apps with data it will force close
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joe ferreira:
quadrant standard runs but tells me it can not contact the network to submit the results.

I do not get a force close

but it sounds like a issue with quadrant standard and android 4.3.

googling "instagram issues with 4.3"

returns a lot of results. I do not think it has anything to do with the note 3 and we need to wait for them to fix the app as well.

---------- Post added at 12:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:59 AM ----------

dg said if you want to unroot use supersu's unroot option. but this will not fix the issues this user is posting about as it has nothing to do with the root or the rom.

---------- Post added at 12:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:01 PM ----------

update on instagram:

I just installed instagram and it seems to open just fine and I took a pic and posted it to my facebook.

try reinstalling it.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supers2k:
I already unrooted my phone using superuser. I will have to re-root it again later tonight and. I wont use titanium back up and hopefully everything works fine. I'll just wait till we can flash back stock. Thanks
[HTC One X] knightfire:
Ok guys.

Firstly I have searched and read till my eyes bleed, but cant find the solution to my update problem. Here goes.

Had my HOX replaced by insurance company coz i dropped my phone ,ooops, when i got replacement phone it was still on Android 4.0, so tried to update using About, check for update etc etc. Phone kept returning No Update available. So did the stop google framework stuff, that gave no results either. So i Unlocked bootloder at HTC DEVS rooted phone flashed new ruu, killed phone Double OOOPS!. Phone then would not boot or charge. so called HTC not terribly helpful, took phone to local repair shop, MMMM "sorry mate cant fix it" so decided to have another go. I have now got phone to come alive, i flashed android 4.03, with sense 4, and all is well, exept i still cant get the current update GRRR!, so my question is How can a get my phone to update to Sense 5 and JB 4.2.2. The phone appers to have been a Orange phone, but it has been supplied to me as an O2 phone, according to HTC at least. I have posted the Specs below as written in the Fastboot section

****RELOCKED****

ENDEVOUR PvT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-0-95.0000

CPLD-None

MICROP-None

RADIO-2.1204.127.19

eMMC-bootmode: dissabled

CPU-bootmode: dissabled

HW Secure boot: enabled

MODEM PATH : OFF

May 8 2012. 21:32:10

Software version

1.29.401.12

HTC Extension

403_1_GA_7

I hope you guys can help, coz a really dont want another phone, i love my HOX but i do want sense 5 etc.

Cheers

Alan
[HTC One X] Thant:
Post the result from command fastboot getvar all delete S/N and IMEI
[HTC One X] knightfire:
Hi Thanks a mill for helping buddy!! See Below

version: 0.5a

version-bootloader: 0.95.0000

version-baseband: 2.1204.127.19

version-cpld: None

version-microp: None

version-main: 1.29.401.12

serialno:

imei:

product: endeavoru

platform: HBOOT-T30S

modelid: PJ461****

cidnum: None

battery-status: good

battery-voltage: 3973mV

devpower: 89

partition-layout: None

security: on

build-mode: SHIP

boot-mode: FASTBOOT

commitno-bootloader: None

hbootpreupdate: 2

gencheckpt: 0

Alan
[HTC One X] Thant:
I see you relocked your bootloader this is good download this RUU 3.14.401.27 and install. After this check again for update.
[HTC One X] knightfire:
HI

Unfortunately Error (132) Signature error came up, Only exit button available. It Did also say please use correct rom update utility. Any Ideas??

Alan
[HTC One X] robchongke:
try this one. http://www.androidruu.com/getdownload.php?file=Endeavor/RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_ICS_40_HTC_Europe_1.29.401.12_Radio_2.1204.127.19_release_271851_signed.exe
[HTC One X] knightfire:
Hi again

RUU installed ok, but still the same problem, "There are no updates for your phone" do you have any other ideas??

I am very grateful for any help you can give!!

Alan
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
As well ment additional info :

When somebody is lower than 2.17 software a JB ruu like the 3.14 doesn't work. Indeed several options like :

Install the 2.17.401 ruu and then the 3.14 or ota up via official updates, or advised the 1.29 ruu and ota up.

Cheers

Edit :

That ota from 1.29 to 2.17 is probably canceled (because it's very old)

Install the 2.17 ruu and then the 3.14.401.31 ruu. That will solve it.
[HTC One X] Thant:
In this case download RUU2.17.401.2 and install, after this try OTA update.
[HTC One X] knightfire:
Hi Guys

Well al i can say is a HUGE thanks, i did as you suggested in the last post and bingo all the updates came flooding through one after the other. PERFECT!!. Just a small thing though, the 2.17 RUU you linked to didnt work, the file seems too small, i did find another one, which did work though. again THANKS THANKS AND THANKS again!!!

Alan
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riz157:
To root or not to root

After my last bad experience and also after reading how some have faced issues after rooting their note 3 I was wondering if rooting has any adverse effects on the phones functionality. What are cons of rooting?

There's bit of lag on note 3 which is really annoying for such a beast.

Any advice would be much appreciated thanks

I own N9005 model from O2 unlocked.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elias2204:
There is an update from Samsung that should fix the lag.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolDevelopment:
I would wait until a good (really) good rom is out
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riz157:
No update available for my model unfortunately.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riz157:
Hmmm....are current roms poor or no improvement?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jigzopuzzle:
I've rooted my phone and hence sacrificed the ability to get OTA update from Samsung... but still, in my opinion, it really depends on the user own personal preference. I root my phone because there's a lot of apps that I am using requires root access (tasker, xposed, etc)...

There are currently not too many custom roms available for note 3 yet (as far as i know), better wait for a while if you're planning on rooting simply for the sake of flashing new rom. :good:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolDevelopment:
But for a popular device like taht i won't take too long
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.m0x:
I'm tossing up the same thing and wondering if anyone can answer this question. If I flash back to stock firmware after rooting will device status revert to official thus allowing me to have ota updates again or does setting the knox flag mean I will be system status modified forever?

I know knox flag can't be reverted but what about system status?

Sent from my SM-N9005 now Free
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikegrmn:
Same here.

Although I'd liked to get a good recovery, too. I just rooted with stock recovery, so I can't make a full nand-backup so far. I tried xposed yesterday, but it didn't work. And as long as there isn't a working recovery option (except for going back to stock and installing my apps again vs. installing the full OS including apps and settings), I probably won't try xposed again. But I do miss the "skip tracks with volume rocker" feature.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.m0x:
According to this website xposed should work? Are you using version 2.2?

Sent from my SM-N9005 now Free
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riz157:
Which is the safest way to root please?

My main reason for rooting is to reduce lag and install custom ROMs, at the moment their aren't many ROMs to choose from but I'm sure it won't be too long before that changes.

Also My phone is from o2 and they are one of the carriers who still have their ugly logo bootup at startup, shut down which is very annoying.

Also if things go wrong I can still revert back to stock via Odin?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nannlp:
Auto root by chainfire is the safest and easiest way ti root.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] batna.antab:
Rooting or putting a custom rom(based on touchwiz) won't probably change anything.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riz157:
Yes that's true simply rooting wont get rid of lag however my main questions are which is the safest way to root and would I be able to flash generic rom via Odin? It's been awhile since I used Odin.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riz157:
Ever time I consider rooting I come across post were user bricked phone. This is really of putting don't fancy bricking my phone. However can't do with lag which is very annoying.

Which is the simplest and safest method of rooting?

Not worried about knox my Model N9005 on MJ3 FW, unlocked version from the UK. Thanks