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[One (M7) General] horsetastic:
There's something in origional dev but I can be arsed dual booting..... I literally want both actual phones haha.
[One (M7) General] IINexusII:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smugmug.android.cameraawesome&hl=en
[One (M7) General] horsetastic:
Don't think it does slow motion video for HTC one though
[One (M7) General] IINexusII:
it does, but only for Tegra 4 devices
[One (M7) General] horsetastic:
Exactly.... So not for the One, thus although it's a good app and good suggestion... It's still not a patch on the stock HTC One camera software IMO.
[One (M7) General] IREWolfman:
I think he means Zoe
[One (M7) General] horsetastic:
Who means Zoe, and by saying what does 'he' mean Zoe?
[One (M7) General] monkeypaws:
Quick question: those running the latest 4.4.2 gpe getting better signal with the stock radio or the latest Tmobile radio? I was about to download the Tmobile radio from 4.3 . also are there any issues with running a 4.3 radio on a 4.4.2 base? Thanks
[One (M7) General] tibere86:
I get better call quality + 3G reception ( ~7 dbms) with the 4.4.2 GPE radio vs. the latest Tmobile radio (4A.21.3263.03) on my TMOUS converted to GPE HTC One. LTE reception seems identical, at least in my testing.

I haven't been able to find any feedback about performance on the latest 4.4/Sense 5.5 Developer RUU radio.
[One (M7) General] shaitan667:
I was using Venom for a while on 4.3, then did a GPe conversion to 4.4.2. Used stock for a day. Then Sinless for quite a few versions.

Went back to Venom, now onto ARHD 6.0.

For a manufacturer's skin, Sense wasn't too bad at all. Nice and snappy, nice enough to look and not bad at all to use, but I really do like the Stock Android look - Previous phone was a Galaxy Nexus

I'm not much of a photo taker, so the Google camera does me just fine.

As for audio, I use Project Era and Viper4Android and it sounds great after a bit of playing around!

I would much rather use something like SlimKat, or some other CM based ROM, but the audio is just not there when using the speakers. And for customisation, Xposed does the job.

Also using the GEL.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] confused computer:
I never want my Nexus 7 to update to Android 4.4 because I need the ability to use the Flash Player in the web browsers.

I also have some very important Apps and I am afraid of the possibility of them not being compatible after I update to Android 4.4. I know some Apps become broken after an update to a newer version of Android. Some of the Apps I need haven't been updated in a long time, so they might possibly never be updated to work with Android 4.4 if any glitches occur.

Is there something I can do to make sure it never updates to Android 4.4?

My Nexus 7 has shown a message for the past few days saying that it has downloaded the update to Android 4.4 and it wants me to install it. Is there a chance that it will eventually automatically update itself without my permission? I am afraid of that happening!

I looked in the "/cache" folder to see if the update file is there for me to delete it, but the folder is empty.

Is there a way to remove the notification about the update from appearing in my notification panel? I'm afraid of accidentally clicking it one day and updating when I don't even want to!
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] z0phi3l:
What you do is get over the dumb Rains you created and update like a normal person would
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] k3lcior:
Check this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2249350
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] sfhub:
If you add a single space to the end of your /system/build.prop file you can guarantee that no OTAs will install even if accidentally selected.

If you want to remove the notification, just go into settings->app->all

select google services framework

uncheck notifications
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] RR215:
How does that old beer commercial go.................oh yea.........BRILLIANT ! :good:
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] knotle:
Do you mean single space to next line of file, or just hit space bar at end of last line of the file?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] sfhub:
Just add an empty line at the beginning or end of file. Any change to build.prop, however minor will stop an ota
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] knotle:
Thanks for the info.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] bur2000:
I'm not sure if that is a solution for you, but Puffin web browser supports Flash in 4.4: Puffin Browser

Just because some apps might not work, you don't want to update, ever? Why not just do a nandroid backup, update your system and see if it works?

Not updating software is in most cases not a wise choice.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alfonzo1955:
After updating my Nexus 4 to 4.4 KitKat, I have lost all of my SMS messages and contacts. Is there any way for me to get them back? I am doing a full phone image right now, and I hope I can get something out of that. It would really suck to lose all of my texts and contacts.

This is what I did to update:

Reflashed system and boot as I had mocado toolkit installed

Sideloaded the OTA

Sideloaded SuperSU without rebooting first, got stuck in a bootloop

Sideloaded OTA again

Got a inconsistent system UID problem

Used "fix permissions" on twrp recovery

Realized that I had lost all of my texts and contacts

None of my other data is gone, even my internet usage graphs are still there. It seems that only my texts and contacts are missing.

Thanks,

alfonzo1955
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
Your sms are probably gone, but if you use Google to sync your contacts you can just sync it back. Just check google.com/contacts.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alfonzo1955:
The contacts were synced, thankfully. Hopefully my data recovery efforts will work. I really don't want to lose all those texts, so many memories down the drain.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
Does it have your first date ask out?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alfonzo1955:
Maybe ;D
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alfonzo1955:
And I think I managed to recover the sqlite database using extundelete after I imaged the device.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yulasinio:
Can you please share how you managed to recover your text messages. I've the same problem after upgrading over to 4.4.

Thanks
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeynotrobot:
I'm experiencing the same issue.

Yesterday I was notified of the 4.4 OTA update. I updating my JB Nexus 4 (stock) over WiFi and upon rebooting I realized with horror that I was missing all my SMS messages among other software issues.

I'm currently doing some research for sideloading the official 4.4 image over to my phone, as I think my SMS data is still on my phone (storage size didn't really drop after the update). I'm currently stuck on detecting my device via usb running adb devices, but troubleshooting that today. If anyone has a resource/guide for using the SDK for sideloading 4.4 that'd be helpful (Windows 7 PC). I'm searching around for one currently.

If you have any information please let us know. I'd like to restore my phone back to normal with my SMS data in tact and I'm looking to do this without rooting my phone.

If this helps at all, here's a list of the software bugs I'm experience:

No lockscreen

Home button does not work

Top swipe down does not reveal any thing and the settings button does not function

Having issues receiving incoming calls and SMSs

Powering down the phone, the only optiont hat displays is "Power Off", everthing else is missing

-

Thanks
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeynotrobot:
Haven't gotten any further with this.

I just tried sideloading the KRT16S update via adb. This appears to have installed successfully, but there's been no changes to my phone or SMS. In fact, upon successful install and reboot the phone is the same as if nothing was changed (e.g. no tutorial on KitKat). I'm thinking I may need to sideload another factory install.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HARioV:
The SQL datatbase file for SMS is located here /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

while call logs are located in the file /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db

check if you can find any data there.

By the way, Root Browser application can view these files
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
confused on why you took this route to upgrade and whats wrong with simply downloading a stock rooted rom and calling it a day. Plus there are quite a few sms backup apps that could save all your precious text messages. If you used google to search this stuff then there would of been no need to start this thread.

good luck and I hope all works out well for you and anyone else with the issue. also there is already a thread on how to get back your sms when upgrading to 4.4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HARioV:
I have searched the forum, but I couldn't find any thread on how to restore lost sms when upgrading to 4.4. Can you provide the link for that thread?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
not sure if you found it already but check here
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oliviaellaschweitzer:
I think you need to recovery tool to get contacts and SMS back.

Myjad Android Data Recovery would suit your case.

That's what I searched from Google:

Myjad Android SMS Recovery

- Directly recover deleted SMS text messages from Android devices.

- Retrieve lost messages for various reasons: restoring factory settings, deleting, rooting, etc.

- Recover SMS stored in SD cards inside Android devices.

- Preview & selectively recover message contents.

- Support multiple Android phones and tablets include Samsung, HTC, LG, Huawei, Motorola and more.

- Risk-free, read and recover only,no leaking for the confidential messages.

Myjad Android Contact Recovery

An expert of restoring contacts from android smartphones

- Directly recover lost contacts from Android devices.

- Retrieve deleted contacts for various reasons: restoring factory settings, deleting, rooting, etc.

- Recover contacts stored in both Android devices and SD cards.

- Preview & optionally recover contacts.

- Support multiple Android phones and tablets include Samsung, HTC, Sony, LG, Huawei, Motorola etc.

- Read and recover only, 100% green and reliable, no worries for leaking private info.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kunnievic:
Android system? I only found a tutorial on how to recover iOS text messages. Have a try to Google further, you may get some useful tips. Good luck!
[Omni Q&A] wkwkwk:
Hi,

I installed a recent nightly and everything is fine, however, when restoring my TWRP backup (CM10.2), my encryption password is no longer recognised and system won't boot.

The password is accepted by TWRP and also by restoring the OMNI password, but when I restore the CM10.2 image, the password is not accepted.

Has anything major changed in dm-crypt?

Thanks.
[Omni Q&A] Mevordel:
Yes, 4.4 changed the encryption algorithm to use scrypt. It was converted when you upgraded, so you won't be able to switch between without removing the encryption

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Omni Q&A] wkwkwk:
Thanks, I had to remove encryption, restore and encrypt it again.

Looks like I have to wait a while until all features are added into omnirom (quiet hours, battery percentage (!) etc).
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] zpdy:
There is way to install ATOM ROM on JAM ?! Same hardware ?!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] heliosfa:
For a start, the hardware is NOT exactl;y the same, so no, it is unliely that you would be able to put the atom rom onto the Jam.

It has been asked many a time for WM5 for the Magician, and it is not coming, simple as.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] zpdy:
I just love my JAM even more then my KJAM and more then my JASJAR :\

WM5 is missing :\
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] kuangtian:
:cry:

I've tried.Decode the Rom file and update with no_Id.flashing is smooth.but after hard-reset,stopped on bl stage.

so,give it up and back to 03se.

PS:I forgot backing up...cry myself a river...
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oadam11:
I have verizon variant with clockwork recovery installed. I know how to download the backup via the webserver but I would like to be able to transfer my backups to my computer using a USB cable. How do I do this?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alex72:
In order to transfer files between your phone and computer using USB cable, you should install USB drivers. You'll find them on LG support site. BTW, I used these drivers from LG G2 Forum.

http://g2-lg.com/download-lg-g2-android-usb-drivers-ver-3-10/
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] desikilla:
Just what the topic says. I just rooted my GG and I'm curious to know what people use on it, keyboard other apps, and how functionality is on a smaller screen.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] kakyyabata:
Perfect work your method is wonderful but its hard for not prof. people if we can make it like script it will be greet :good::good::good:
[Galaxy Note 3 General] robert1968:
Hi.

Great guide! Lots of work I assume...

Thanks.

No FC? No random reboot?

Regards
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
none so far. Although I need to investigate further to make sure everything is running without problems.

There are some errors in logcat, but I think they come from the rom itself and the modifications, rather than the install method.

And yea - its a bit much work, but if you want to retain warranty you gotta go this way for now.

ADD: The errors I'm getting in logcat are only minor as it seems so far - they are most likely caused by a: errors in the files itself b: me having run bloat_remove script and deleting all sorts of other system apps that were bloatware c: xposed + xprivacy and other modules running. No force closes or reboots or other error messages so far.

When I did this process the first time I did not delete everything in /system/app and /system/framework before copying over the contents of the custom rom. But instead just copied over the apps and deleted all odex files inside the folders afterwards. This left some "orphan" files as I later found out with titanium backup - those were showing as deinstalled apps with orphan data - but Titanium could only delete the data not the apps itself, so I had to manually find out the corresponding apks. To save this hustle just delete the everything in /system/apps and /system/framework before you copy over the new data - as I described above.

I did not do a factory reset after all this - maybe I should do that just to make sure. (well yea actually I really should.. meh)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
So I did a factory reset with most bloatware deinstalled, then I had some fc's with the phone app during boot. It was most likely caused by some apps missing that need to run at least once to set everything up after a factory rest.

Then I just copied over all the apps (including bloatware) once more and did another factory reset and everything worked fine then.

Afterwards I just ran the bloatware removal script again and will now remove the leftover bloatware.

Everything is working fine.

ADD:

If someone tells me how I could make the file copy process without overwriting anything (android is missing the "yes" command to automize the file copy confirmations) then I could write a script for this I'm sure.

Should be simple to do I guess, maybe I find something myself, but if anyone knows pls say so.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
so did anyone else here have the balls to do it yet? =)

(its so quiet so far.. sigh I really thought people would be liking this ... too complicated or is your warranty already gone? hehe)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] radicalisto:
Already tripped my KNOX otherwise I would have defo tried it. Seems like a good fix/alternative, Kudos man :)

EDIT: Altho saying that, I might try it when I get home from work, just too see for myself and then maybe claim a lost phone on my insurance ;) hahaha KNOX Free then eh :)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
well 1st it installs busybox which can be done by hand (copy over the busybox binary to /system/xbin and run " busybox --install /system/xbin/ ") or which already be installed if you did root with RDLV.

2nd the toolbox: Should already be symlinked on stock rom. Just leave the stuff that is already there.

3rd the additional scripts. Well look through them and see what they do, they usually install mods or themes etc. If you want their functionality you will need to mimic those scripts or just run them if they are sh scripts (make sure the file structure is how the script expects it though).

What I did was to compare folders and see what was missing or was changed in the rom installation. (compare the file sizes in a file explorer etc. if youre unsure).

Basically just mimic the stuff that is necessary.

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Since we are not working on the kernel and/or recovery I'm sure download mode will always work so that you can go back to where you started. (just reflash the odin file rdlv created - but it needs to be the full not the csc version obviously).

I had to reflash 2 times so far which taught me: Do not try to overwrite lib files which are currently in use. Do delete all files in /system/app and /system/framework before you copy over the new files if you are starting from an odexed rom - because else you might get the orphan apks without odex which are not present in the custom rom you are trying to install.

For first try I can suggest X-Note 5 installation - apart from the photoreader installation its pretty straight forward as described in the guide.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
I'll be real brave now I think:

I want to use simplistic framework and it only supports mj6 fully - but I'm on mj7 alrdy.

So I downloaded slim version of the stock mj6 and I will change the system.apks and the framework to the mj6 ones.

I expect it to work, maybe ill also change build.prop to get the correct info, but apart from that ill leave everything as it is.

But will have to factory reset afterwards just to be safe.. sigh once more. But then I'll hopefully have the ability to use simplistic framework, xposed + wanam together for maximum customization.

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If it doesnt work ill just have to reflash with odin..

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ADD1: So far I just changed the framework files to mj6 and deleted dalvik cache. And copied over simplistic framework. Booted up fine, lets see if it fully works now.

UPDATE: Although I'm getting no errors simplistic is not working so I will have to downgrade full to mj6 i think. Not sure if I gonna try odin downgrade though... could trip knox altough i actually doubt it as long as i only flash system img.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Killberty:
Oh my god u are a hero :D

Would be nice if you could write a script or smth ;)

I dont dare doing so many steps where a single fail you brick my phone :b

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] radicalisto:
I think he is still playing with a lot of it before script writing etc, but no doubt it is a very clever workaround... I'm surprised not many people have noticed this yet?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Killberty:
Yeah what a great pity...

I am quite new to android, never used adb - i felt like the bawwws when i used cygwin to make URDLV work on dmj7 (packed a tar.md5) :D

So i want that script -wouldnt it be possible to do all the steps from your pc via adb?

I mean just stop system ui and copy and set permissions recursively? Works in my head :p

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
yea would work. What would be needed though is a way to mimic the linux "yes" command. Unfortunately busybox does not have it. It's used to automatically confirm on user requests. So if you want to copy over all the libs without overwriting (to avoid crash) you would need to use the cp -i for interactive option, which asks before overwriting files, and "yes n|cp * /system/lib" would simply say no whenever there are file conflicts. This is why I said this step needs to be done with a file explorer, because else its a pain in the ass to type "n" and enter a 100 times. And if you want to do this in a script it has to work without user interaction anyway.

So find me a "yes" binary or some script that mimics that and maybe I can make a custom rom installer script.

But I'm also still fiddling around with things. To see which libaries are actually in use while the system runs without systemui (after you run "stop" in terminal or over adb).

I actually could overwrite quite alot of the libs without problems, but when I once copied over the whole folder it would render the device unbootable and I had to reflash with odin. (this happened because the file transfer was cut off mid transfer when some important libary got overwritten it seems.. but it also means that even with fked up libaries, where my phone wouldnt even show boot animation anymore, I could just odin back to stock and everything was fine again)

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Other thought: could the updater-binary be used to run the updater-script directly? But it would need tweaking i think, even if you can run the updater-binary I have no clue how you could call it from the zip itself. How does cwm etc do it? Their processes should be able to run on the system too, but then you need to be careful about the lib overwriting.

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What also would help is to have adb in stock recovery or something so we can actually manipulate the whole system. (but most libs are not changed anyway if you use the same base rom)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
sorry for multi posting but it gets ugly otherwise..

found out which libs run if you stop systemui:

/system/lib/D13QS_libchromatix_imx135_preview.so
/system/lib/hw/gralloc.msm8974.so
/system/lib/libc.so
/system/lib/liblog.so
/system/lib/libm.so
/system/lib/libnetutils.so
/system/lib/libsecril-client.so
/system/lib/libselinux.so
/system/lib/libstdc++.so
/system/vendor/lib/libQSEEComAPI.so
/system/vendor/lib/libdiag.so

those need to be deleted from the lib folder of your custom rom youre trying to install and then it can be all copied over - ill test it and report back =)...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Killberty:
Just for my understanding, those libs that run when u stop sysui - those are the same in custom and stock roms?

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
well, cannot be guaranteed, but in most cases they should be the same (as long as you have the same base as the rom youre trying to install)

I did a comparison of file size of my stock mj7 libs vs those from xnote 5 (on those that still ran i mean) and they were all the same.

Ill copy over the whole libary folder minus those on top now and then report back.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Killberty:
So you can just write a script which copies all apart from those.

If you need ideas or brainstorming i am your man :D highly intersted in this and i wanna help ;)

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
aww im dumb - forgot to leave out libc.so - it wasnt shown when I ran "lsof" to find out the necessary files.. sigh. (but i had this happen to me before, so i shouldve known lol..) back to odin..... argh.

Really need adb over recovery sigh =(
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
so when also leaving out libc.so (alrdy added it to the list on top) I can copy the whole lib folder.

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might do a script when i got time, but if you delete those libs you can basically just copy over the whole rom i think, but this needs testing and to be honest im quite fed up with flashing for now hehe..
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Killberty:
Go on with the great work!

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
still could use a substitute for yes command - on google I can't find anything.

What it does is to repeatedly write out a string (or y if none is given).

Could just put it into a script with loop, but how can it detect if the other piped command has ended?

I'm no linux pro neither...