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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cmonet24:
So I tried rooting my phone last weekend using every method i could found possible for this phone and i always get stuck on the same part...I cant get twrp or cwm to mount on my phone! ive read a thread about how to flash a working one thru adb(i have no clue what that is) and odin but i cant figure out for the life of me how to do it. Is there some way that I cant install my root and the recovery at the ame time without all the extra stuff? Sidenote...i got my gs3(i have the purple one) back around the end of August and it has version 4.1.2. Sorry if im asking a stupid question but im new to this phone mod stuff
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] metalfan78:
You probably aren't using one of the modified recoveries for new phones.

---------- Post added at 06:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:53 PM ----------

Try one of these

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2391616

New recoveries for new phones that won't mount storage!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cmonet24:
how exactly do i do it though? I dont have the abd thing thats mentioned and i think i tried it before with odin and it screwed my phone up
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] metalfan78:
You'll need to use Odin or learn to use ADB.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] rayhodge02:
I'm a crack flasher and was wondering how can i keep my root/watch settings when I flash a new rom? TIA
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] rayhodge02:
Mod close I figured it out
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] 3vo3d:
Care to share?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] tr72:
I use g cloud on my phone to save my setting. Maybe it can work on gear with Null_rom. Need tethering gcloud backup on web
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] ktetreault14:
Titanium backup??

PS: won't have my great until 8 more days

Sent from my SM-N900T
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] richlum:
If you do a TWRP backup on the Gear, when you re - pair the Gear, it should restore all the Samsung settings, then if you restore the data only from the TWRP backup it will restore all of your sideloaded apps, Nova settings, widgets etc.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mempho69:
I am looking for a black mms theme for my sprint Samsung galaxy s3 that will work with the Android 4.4 system. The white background is too much to look at and the I am not really crazy about the bubbles. If their is anybody out their can help I will give them a great big thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mempho69:
I found the solution in the play store. I downloaded 8 sms stock messaging app and in the setting it has an entry for dark theme and when it was checked in two places it switched over to a black background. when I tried to check it in the stock messaging app it did nothing. So I hope that this helps anybody that has switched to Android 4.4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Xdevillived666:
Here too

This is the one from the nexus 5,but dark themed. Myself and some others are trying to get an mms akin to the one used from 4.2 (bubbles,custom background,etc),so if you know anything about theming,feel free to join in:)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2536748

With this app,you have o be rooted and then push this to system/priv-app ,fix your permissions to rw-r-r and rename the old one to Mms.bak. Have fun
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mempho69:
I just downloaded and flashed your black mms theme. Its perfect just what I was looking for, gave you a thumbs up and thanks for all of your help!!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Xdevillived666:
No problem! Be sure to give the Dev on that page a thanks as well!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mempho69:
Will do!!!!!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slicc98:
Man AT&T is pissing me off with how restrictive they are with this phone! This is ridiculous!

I originally rooted with RDLV MI9, unbloated my software and life was semi-good.

The OTAU came, and I wasn't able to use survival mode on SU.P. I had to fully reset using oneclickbin.exe

After that, I took the plunge with Kingo. I've never seen root acquired that fast. That's f*cking spooky, man...for real.

But now I'm back to this disappearing app nonsense. Some apps seem to magically download to my SD card. Then they fade away into 0.00B files. Its been the same ones, too!

I JUST did root...not 10 minutes ago, and now they disappear. There weren't problems before that.

My questions:

1. How do I configure play store to never save apps to External SD?

2. Is there anyway to get those external SD apps back to internal without deleting? (I KNOW I can use some sort of cut and paste from file explorer..but will that bring the data back?) Is this a dumb set of questions??

3. Can anyone find a higher up At&t software engineer to threaten, harass and falcon punch until he gives DG a way to unlock the bootloader?

Thanks for your time.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] powdered_donuts:
If you odin mi9 over mj5 you have some problems. You cannot downgrade the bootloaders. Odin should have shown some errors after flashing. Try flashing just the pit file see if that helps. Search is your friend
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slicc98:
Wait....what?

I might have explained that wrong.

I was NOT able to OTA root to MJ5 from MI9. So, while still on MI9, I one clicked rooted, factory reset everything, and THEN took the OTA root once I was back on stock.

Now I'm on MJ5. I reset the bootloader, then went UP. Sorry about the confusion.

I did all the searching that was possible.

Can anyone help with this?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrej201:
man just odin back to factory reset
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slicc98:
Still nothing. Reset everything.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 17mayis:
my phone was just laying down on my desk i pressed the home key to wake up the phone nothing happened i was so scared as i bought a phone yesterday, then i pressed power button to turn it back on as i said it might turn it of by accident but no respond i got so i had to take the battery out then reinserted then powered back on but this time i saw a little written on left down corner says Safe mode i'm so scared i had to reset the phone then back to normal is this something seriuos shall i return the phone to where i bought it ?

i installed this program last thing i did

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.remotefairy&hl=en_GB

is this cause the problem probably ? sorry for my bad English
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaythenut:
remove the battery for 60 seconds and then replace it .. then once the phone has restarted safe mode will be gone

safe mode will sometimes enable itself as a security procedure.. for example whens something is installed ... however you can enable and disable safe mode in the following way

1) enable safe mode ....

Power off the phone

Turn it on while pressing the Menu button, keep holding it until home screen appears

The home screen’s lower left corner should contain the words Safe Mode.

2) disable safe mode ...

Turn off the phone

Remove battery for some time (1 minute is good)

Insert battery and turn it on.

in summary safe mode is enabled when some programs are run or installed on your phone ... however its hard to pinpoint which program and why this happens... however personally i think its a security feature .. ( since safe mode has less user privelages then normal running mode )

i hope this helps
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borkan:
Does anyone know the method needed to remove the "Sprint" from the lockscreen on rooted stock? I'm assuming it requires Framework-Res edits but I'm honestly not sure and would rather ask to see if there is a simple solution before I go apk editing.

Thanks!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidInsanity:
I have searched this but could only find one other person having this issue and no one really knew. But when I charge my htc one to 100% take charger out and then put it back in it shows 98% all of a sudden.

So I let it charge more and take it out and in again still does same thing. Done it repeatedly too. Anyone else having this issue ? Or a solution? It is like it thinks it's charged fully put it hasn't. And it's annoying. Thanks
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ktan188:
Try the battery calibration app from the playstore, that might fix the percentage drops.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wicked Stunts:
this is normal behavior, my one does that too and gets perfect battery life. this happens because the phone charges to 80-90% very quickly then trickle charges (on and off) for the remainder of the capacity. this is to prolong the battery lifespan and is a healthy way to charge the phone. my iphone 5 did the same thing.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidInsanity:
I tried calibration didn't work :/ and oh good stuff. Just found it a little frustrating. Thanks guys
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] monteleoneant:
Hi all,

I've an O2 XDA Mini S buyed in germany.

So I need to change the ROM to have italian language 'cause for me its impossible to work with dutch.

This is the first image on phone startup:

IPL 1.03

SPL 1.03.0000

GSM 1.8.10.0

OS 1.3.4.2

Can someone help me?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junaid1788:
Hi,

so i followed the steps to flash android on my nexus using ClockworkMod recovery.

I did the following steps and now I am stuck. my phone wouldn't load and I cant do anything about it

1. Bootloader was unlocked and I installed the clockworkmod recovery.

2. backed up my phone

3. I copied the ROM zip file to storage of the phone. (I cant find it through recovery now)

4. rebooted into recovery mode

5. did the nAndroid backup (which is not working now and hence my phone is spoiled)

6. performed complete wipe of the device including factory reset, cache partition and dalvik cache.

the problem is that I cant restore the nAndroid backup which i created using the recovery any more. I also tried mounting the USB storage using recovery but it still doesn't work.

I am also not able to see the phone as a Storage device in my computer any more otherwise I could load the ROM file again and try.

Please suggest any ideas or solutions.

Regards
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junaid1788:
error while restore

Whenever I am trying to restore the backup it shows error "MD5 mismatch"
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
Okay, first what rom are you flashing. And did you do a factory reset in the recovery before you flash it?

By flashing in custom recovery means you are flashing an unofficial version of KitKat, because normal you use fastboot method to flash the factory image from Google. Try using this stock rom from fireb33: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2010887

Secondly, did you flash the latest version of CWM recovery: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2198942

If you used latest recoveries and factory reset, and it still doesn't boot, then backup your nandroid and use the fastboot method to flash the factory stock image (link in my sig).

To backup your nandroid, you need to locate where it is and use "adb pull" command, try this: adb pull /data/media/clockworkmod/ C:\backup\

The MD5 mismatch means your file is not original or corrupt, it could be due to various reasons.

Nexus devices do not have microSD card so they cannot use the mount USB storage feature.

I am willing to bet most of your issues could be avoided by using TWRP recovery instead of CWM. Get it here: http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/mako, flash it in fastboot by "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img", it is not compatible with CWM nandroid.

If you neeed to send certain files to your phone, don't forget the sideload feature if you want to flash a zip file from your computer. Enable sideload in your recovery, and type: adb sideload *.zip
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anto.danny:
the only optionyou have is to flash a factory image through fastboot..head over here --> Click Me
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] podagee:
i downloaded the factory image from google extracted then did the same fastboot flash as the 4.3 but switched the names to the files in the krt16o zip. it worked perfectly for me. tried using wugs toolkit and everything went to crap. i say do the same method as 4.3 but rename all the files accordingly.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junaid1788:
XDA FORUMS.. 3 words.. YOU GUYS ROCK !!!!!! :victory::victory::victory:

this post HERE saved my life
[General Questions and Answers] ksina:
Hey XDA folk,

I've been a big fan for a while, but am only just submitting my first post.

I have a few questions about bounties that I'm curious to ask you all:

- How does the community feel about the use of bounties to achieve particular roots?

- Are there any particular devices/OS versions that there is a large demand for roots for other than iOS7?

- Is there anything else specific that you would bounty, other than device roots and unlocks?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afaned:
Hello,

sorry, out of stupidity I installed another kernel (I thought that will be needed for another rom) but after boot via fastboot, the phone will not turn on, but only one vibrates.

* So I tried to flash new stock firmware. but --->

16/054/2013 1:54:15 - ERROR - Error in processHeader 2: The system can not find the file specified.

16/054/2013 1:54:15 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted

Can you please help me? thanks
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afaned:
everything is ok now, sry :)
[General Questions and Answers] papoose515:
is android export a legit site? cause i am looking to buy a s4 clone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] youStolemylaptop:
Is there anyone else working with the hotspot? I don't have the portable hotspot / USB tether and it would come up with the webpage that wouldn't let me do anything on the browser. In 4.3 it would also come up, but I could use an user agent switcher to get it working. Is there any workarounds on 4.4?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miguelme:
I'm new here, and i have been having problems(After i updated to 4.3) with my battery (I have an s4 gt I9500), so i did a little research about wakelocks and i found that there are 2 that were making that my phone didnt go to deep sleep, the wakelocks were "exynos5-fb.1" and "l2_hsic" in the description of battery, it appears that "Android OS" is almost always working .I have restore my cell phone to factory settings and the problem hasn't gone yet.

If you could guide me or give me some help i really appreciate it. Thanks in advance!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilia987:
Have the same problem

4-5% drain an hour. After updating to 4.3
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BLEXXAR:
So, yeah! I tried to flash the Factory Images of 4.4 to my nexus 10 via fastboot and now its stuck in a bootloop. I tried to flash a custom recovery (twrp-2.6.3.1) and I was able to flash it. But, it says that the device is encrypted and that I need to enter the password in order to mount anything. I can mount my flashdrive, where I keep all my backups, via usb-otg and TWRP is able to recognize it but nothing can be flashed because, again, none of the partitions can be mounted... Can anybody help?
[General Questions and Answers] ProficienTICS:
This morning I have noticed on my s4 and n7 the menu option for add to home screen has disappeared from both devices.

Why would this be? I loved this feature.

Version 31.0.1650.60 on both devices.

The option has completely gone.

Any help?
[General Questions and Answers] ProficienTICS:
Any idea why add to home screen has disappeared?

When I press on pages I have already saved it says "app is not installed"
[General Questions and Answers] Dhe Constantine:
Using the costumizle launcher. ;)
[General Questions and Answers] jonstrong:
Google / Chrome devs acknowledge this, and say the feature will be back. Really annoying, as we factored it into a solution - i.e., build a proof of concept as a web app, and run it in fullscreen app mode on the phone and tablets. Incredibly disappointing that they handled it this way. There's also an experimental flag you can set to supposedly re-enable it (type Chrome://flags in URL bar, and scroll down till you see the option to enable it). Seems to work on ICS, but not on JB or KK (at least on my devices). Horribly disappointed.
[General Questions and Answers] ProficienTICS:
Well that's pretty lame, loved GEL up until now.

Thanks for the help, but no success.. This was one of my most anticipated features going into release. Especially because of the fullscreen mode... Where am I left with this? Removing GEL? Will this be available again sooner rather than later?

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] jonstrong:
Wish I knew. It was a mistake relying on a beta feature, but this was so good that we already adopted it for use in a product mockup / wireframe demo. Looked perfect on Android phones and tablets in Chrome...A real web app. Now...not so much.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxy2055:
Hi everyone

I am thinking to get G pad 8.3 but i want to know about battery life ,screen time on how long it will take.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denthnpalevw:
Around 5 hours with the screen always on. WiFi internet browsing with screen at 40%brightness.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bictor:
I think it's impossible to go through more than a day!
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WebDevAnalyst:
It is for me because I use the thing everyday. My Transformer Infinity would last a couple of days on a charge because I never used it since there was so much lag. The G Pad is so good that I actually look forward to using it over my G2 whenever possible. That wasn't the case with my Infinity.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ms.Dummbunny:
Same here! The best way I describe battery life is as follows:

Other tablets I've had: 99%, 73%, 49%, 31%, 11% Charge Battery

G Pad: 100%, 100%, 100%, 96%, 89%, 84%, 79%, 76%, 69%, 61%, 53%, 48%, 39%...etc etc etc : )

This tablets sips juice like a "fine classy lady at a cocktail party!"....(pinky raised and everything!) lol

Ms D
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hmsq:
As it stands I'm getting around 5hours screen on before it goes below 10%, well below a nexus 7 where I'm get almost 7 hours of similar use.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxy2055:
still better than my note 8 which only get 4 hours
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hmsq:
Amazing how the focus on android tablets is not on battery, compare this to apple products and they always aim for 10 hours.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxy2055:
I had before ipadmini the battery was amazing really better than my note 8 now ,which I can play games for long time not right know suck .
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WebDevAnalyst:
I honestly don't know because I haven't been paying attention, but I'm guessing that is harder now that the Mini has retina. I'm thinking that's why the first one didn't have it.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hmsq:
The new iPad mini comes with a even bigger battery that the old one, reason why it is slightly thicker and heavier.

I have all sorts of tablets, iPad last longest when it comes to browsing and standby, nexus 7 use is 2 days my lg g pad is one day, I find each has their selling point and sometimes I sacrifice battery for other things.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pingwinpower:
Battery life ok

It is off course difficult to say since consumption is very dependent on use.

In my case it is the screen that uses by far most power - around 70-80% I think.

I have light on auto and 50-100% on the slider and it generaly uses 10% pr hour of use.

When I don't use the tab and wifi is off it uses virtualy nothing and I think it would run for days
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swisstourist:
And how fast it charges...
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bigmille:
Slow as hell, 4 to 5 hours from empty to full.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erwaso:
Charging Time line while sitting on my desk

9am - 5% start

9:30 - 20%

10am - 44%

11am - 75%

Looks like a full charge by 11:30am. So from 5-100% in 2.5 hours.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerrya:
5 hours screen on for me for GPE

I just got it, first day I got 5 hours screen on time in 24 hour period and it was down to 10% when I charged it. Then it charged about 12% in 2 hours so I unplugged it and right back in and it started charging faster after that. Once charged it seems to go from 100%-90% fairly quickly then it levels out.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dEX2340:
I'm not complaining about idle time...
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lucien2:
I almost always use my tablets and phones with the brightness under 25 percent of maximum; that being said, I cruised through an entire weekend with the G Pad without searching for a charge, and that’s pretty impressive.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] thangbom:
Hi to all seniors, I am a newbie, and have seen on the Universal group, there is a new radio version 1.4.10, which was vaguely announced that the voice is better, and also quicker response. Has anyone tested it on XDA IIs? I am curious about this news.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] mwang:
Can't use XDAIIs , XDAIIs is 1.13.00
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] xplode:
Universal has difrend hardware, so it will not work at all, or maybe if you try to flash it into blueangel you may trash it
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zylyz:
Is Andriod 4.3 coming to Note ??

Cool
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android.zealot.fervor:
I don't think so that they will be updating it
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricardosteve:
I recently spoke to a Samsung rep (Samsung's website live chat) and with a Samsung rep (in person). Both said:

"it will be updated, at least to Android 4.3, but we cannot tell you when".

So I'm pretty sure we are getting 4.3 at some point. Heck, if the Note 2 and S III got it, it's only reasonable that our Note 10.1 gets it. It was the flagship tablet of its (short) time, such as the Note 2 and S III being flagships/high-end. Everyone's been saying that Samsung won't update it to force us go for the Note 10.1 2014 edition, so why did the Note 2 and Galaxy S III get the update (ok, ok, Galaxy Gear blabla)? Wouldn't they force you to go for a Note 3 and Galaxy S IV? You get my point.

So, be prepared to wait (wait... wait... wai...), and official news about the updates *cough kitkat* are coming.

My guess is: Android 4.3 and no Android 4.4, unfortunately but thankfully.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaun298:
Dont care, as I am happy with what I got. Anyway most updates after a certain point will start requiring more hardware power. Like going from win95 to xp. Thanks for the info :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sciurius:
I only want 4.3 since I hope that it will fix the USB host mode bug...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] komjin:
It's an one year old device, so hopefully they will update to 4.3
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klau1:
WHat is the bug?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sciurius:
The problem that USB connections (host mode) do not always work.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2328996
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klau1:
Maybe only on some country's ROMs?

HAven't encountered it on mine.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Edris89:
well.. actually with KitKat the have gone reverse. like a phone with 512 mb can run it.

Some older model (2010) phones are capable of running a slimed version of kitkat

So there is no chance that our beloved note 10.1 couldnt run it
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sciurius:
There are several other threads on this topic. It possibly depends on combinations of hardware and ROMs. I'm quite sure it started after the upgrade to xxucma8. It could be a combination of certain apps. But it's a nuisance.