yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] winosxbuntu:
reflash 4.3 and you'll be fine, just next time try an easier app that does not need ROOT

try myfonts from the play store that does not need root and DOES NOT PROMPT TO RESTART (easiest and safest way to change font) i have the app on my phone

i used font-installer and almost bricked my S3, since then i have not used it
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Deleted member 4493700:
thanks for the app suggestion. i'm looking forward to checking it out after i reset my phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Deleted member 4493700:
i tried to reflash 4.3 but i keep getting an error on both clockworkmod and twrp recoveries
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ropb:
Hey people,

I have downloaded miui clock 2widget,

Unfortunately I can't adjust it to center.

The 4 corners don't show up to move it to center...

Any idea,??
[Transformer TF300T General] tomlogan1:
I am using my tablet connected to an external monitor via HDMI and would like to "close" the tablet onto the keyboard without having it power down. Anybody have an idea how to do this? I am using screen standby for the market which blanks the screen, but when I close the tablet onto the keyboard it shuts down.

Thanks.
[Micromax A116] pinak.nubs:
Hello guys,

I need little help. I have rooted my phone as per instructions on youtube and upgraded to 4.2.2. but due to some reasons the OS keeps crashing on me. Also when i run root checker it says root access denied.

Now, I wish to factory reset the phone so that i can try rooting it again. Can anyone tell me how to do factory reset using CWM and will it wipe google play and stuff? I am ok with loosing data on SD card, its just songs and videos.

Pls help guys.

- Pinak
[Micromax A116] AndroMAN:
Bro, u need not factory reset your phone in order to root it. And if its saying root access is denied it means your phone is not rooted. U haven't mentioned if you have already installed CWM or you still need to install it, but if you already have, then doing a factory reset is very easy. Switch off your phone and go into recovery mode(power+ volume down button together for 10 secs), then it opens into recovery, u have directly select factory reset and press yes when asked for confirmation. It will reset your phone.

And if you do factory reset you won't lose any data from your SD card. It will be retained in their respective memories, unless specifically formatted.

You will lose all your downloaded applications and everything. You need to login into play store and download all the stuff again. If that's OK with you you can go ahead. If you want to save your applications and their data, then it would be good to use Titanium Backup application and backup everything before you reset your phone.

Hope this helped you. Don't forget to hit thanks :) :)
[Micromax A116] rajneeshk:
You can search & download mt6589_rooter on google.

** don't forget to enable usb debugging mode and ensure all drivers are installed.
[Micromax A116] pinak.nubs:
Hello Dr.Akram,

Thnx for the info...yes i have clockworkmod on my chd and super user. Im ok with any data loss except inbuilt apps like maps, play, keyboard, gtalk, settings app, contact manager and stuff like that...

I played around with some settings and now my touch on key board is not working properly, keep getting launch stopped error so want to factory reset. I dnt care foe game or app data or sd card data.

I read somewhere that if u do factry reset in cwm u will loose all inbuilt app or drivers like Google play..thats my worry. Is it true? Pls advice.

PS: wheres thanks button?
[Micromax A116] pinak.nubs:
Hello Rajneesh,

Can you pls give more info as to what the file ia all about and how to use it?

thnks for the help!
[Micromax A116] rajneeshk:
its for rooting, you just have to run a batch file.
[Micromax A116] AndroMAN:
Bro...if you factory reset, yes indeed all your applications will be reset to default. You won't lose Google play store. Its an application which comes in any android stock rom by default. What you are going to lose are the applications and games which you have downloaded from the playstore.

Hence in my previous reply I suggested to you to get Titanium Backup app from play store and take a batch backup of all your apps. Then you can reset your phone without any worries!

Hope this solves your issue. Happy to help :)

Don't forget to hit thanks! :)
[Micromax A116] pinak.nubs:
its iesliki

Hello mate,

i tried titanium backup but it wont work on my phone...kept saying it needs a rooted phone to work. anyways i am least concerned with the downloaded data from play...its imp apps like google play, radio and other such apps that i am concern with it...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] GoranNSW:
Hey guys, please help!

Anybody knows location of Xperia Neo L contacts database?

My friend made backup of contacts on SD card but he forgot to copy them to PC before he formatted it...and I installed him CM10 so they are gone for good.

I made CWM backup of stock ICS ROM but I can't find contacts database. I searched in \data\com.android.providers.contacts\databases\contacts2.db but it is empty. Other databases I have searched also doesent contain contacts.

Before everything I also made Titanium backup, but it also can't restore contacts....very strange.

I tought, with 3 backups, what can go wrong? :rolleyes:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] GoranNSW:
Little more searching paid off!

Everything is in \data\com.sonyericsson.eventstream\databases\eventstream.db, contacts are in "friend" table and calls&messages are in "event" table!

I'm so happy :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Hangker:
cannot save new contacts

Hello...

My phone Sony Xperia Neo L cannot save new contacts after I rooted my phone. Anyone can help me? Thanks.
[General Topics] hamzar:
Hi,

I have just installed tomtom 5 on my pda. looks good. I have changed my home location and added some favourites and changed some POI. if i exit out of tomtom and then go back in, all my changes are lost.

Does anyone know why and if there is a way to get round this??

Thanks in advance

H
[General Topics] tspirit:
thats weird, i have no problem with my tom tom and its cracked, are you using a legit one? and how have you installed the files, did you put the files on the defult directory being your mmc and not in folders?? if you are not using legit one you might have to download another one else where or download it again.
[General Topics] ian watson:
You do exit in the correct way dont you?
[General Topics] captainsensible2002:
Make sure all the files are not 'read only'...
[General Topics] hamzar:
yes I exit the correct way. how do I check if the files are read only?? and if they are, how do I change them??
[General Topics] paperboy:
TT5

hamzar,

Make sure your SD card is not locked, and delete the (map_name).cfg file in the map folder. Next time you start tomtom, the file is recreated. Should sort it, jobs a good'un, etc.
[General Topics] hamzar:
thanks paperboy. the great britain map.cfg was read only. deleted it and ran tomtom again all ok now.

thanks for you help
[Kindle Fire General] UrticantOwl:
Now that KitKat builds are coming out for the KF, I found myself dusting off my Kindle and trying to reflash my recovery to try out CM11.

Unfortunately, upgrading to Windows 8.1 re-enabled Driver Signature Enforcement on my PC, so I set off to find a signed Amazon ADB driver for the KF.

Since I couldn't find it on XDA, I thought I'd share it:

1.Download Current Amazon Kindle Fire ADB Drivers: http://kindle-sdk.s3.amazonaws.com/2ba63011a73a0a0d0f35e001696677ec92a825cb.zip

2. Unzip the zip.

3. Run KindleDrivers.exe

4. PROFIT! :victory:​

This URL is subject to change any time Amazon updates the driver. So if the link above is broken, try this:

Go to http://kindle-sdk.s3.amazonaws.com/addon.xml

(This is the URL that is used by Android SDK to download the drivers)

Ctrl+F and search for "Driver"

(This should take you to the right spot in the XML file)

Copy all text in between the sdk:url tags in the "Kindle Fire USB Driver" section

<sdk:extra>
<sdk:description>[COLOR="Blue"]Kindle Fire USB Driver[/COLOR]</sdk:description>
<sdk:vendor-display>Amazon</sdk:vendor-display>
<sdk:vendor-id>amazon</sdk:vendor-id>
<sdk:desc-url>http://developer.amazon.com/</sdk:desc-url>
<sdk:path>kindle_fire_usb_driver</sdk:path>
<sdk:name-display>Kindle Fire USB Driver</sdk:name-display>
<sdk:revision>5</sdk:revision>
<sdk:archives>
<sdk:archive os="windows">
<sdk:size>9386895</sdk:size>
<sdk:checksum type="sha1">2ba63011a73a0a0d0f35e001696677ec92a825cb</sdk:checksum>
<sdk:url>[COLOR="Red"]2ba63011a73a0a0d0f35e001696677ec92a825cb.zip[/COLOR]</sdk:url>
</sdk:archive>
</sdk:archives>
<sdk:uses-license ref="license"/>
</sdk:extra>

Paste the sdk:url text into the URL

[COLOR="Black"]http://kindle-sdk.s3.amazonaws.com/[/COLOR][COLOR="Red"]INSERT sdk:url TEXT HERE[/COLOR]

You should now be able to unzip and install your driver. :)

This process has worked on all 3 of my computers; Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 without issue - just like any other ADB driver.
[Kindle Fire General] mixxitdj:
i wish I would of seen this post before, this really helps.

Thanks TS
[Kindle Fire General] misagh99:
Thank you for saving me from the evil in my windows 8.1.
[Kindle Fire General] ibic00:
This is _very_ useful to a new Kindle Fire HD owner, like me. Thanks.:good:
[Kindle Fire General] ithinkurdumb:
For some reason this doesn't work for me =(

After the setup finishes, it shows a message saying "The drivers were not properly installed, or the machine needs to be rebooted."

Tried this on three PCs (two Windows 8.1 and one Windows 8, all x64) and all the same.
[Kindle Fire General] driz:
this driver works great for me while the rom is loaded, but not in recovery

running windows 8.1 x64
[Kindle Fire General] sd_shadow:
For those with Windows 8.1

Watch [Video] How to disable driver signature enforcement - Windows 8.1 & 8

and try

1. Open the charm bar and go into Settings and at the bottom click on Change PC Settings.

2. Go to the update and Recovery on left then Recovery

3. Advanced Startup > restart now

4 Choose the Troubleshoot option followed by Advanced options.

5. Choose Startup settings then on next screen click on ‘restart’.

6. select option

7. Disable driver signature enforcement

more here https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/disabling-driver-signature-on-windows-8/all

Windows 8.1 will now reboot and you can go ahead and install the Kindle ADB drivers
[Kindle Fire General] HamishAhern:
too easy! thanks dude! I used addon.xml how it is actually supposed to be used..

I opened my Android SDK Manager (my folder is e:\android-sdk_r08-windows\android-sdk-windows\SDK Manager.exe nb: your milage may vary)

and I went to tools->Manage Add-on sites..->User Defined sites->new

then i entered http://kindle-sdk.s3.amazonaws.com/addon.xml

Then their drivers appeared under Extras -> Kindle Fire USB Driver.. I ticked it, and press "install packages" volla.. done.. dude you rock.

and then using windows explorer I went to e:\android-sdk_r08-windows\android-sdk-windows\extras\amazon\kindle_fire_usb_driver\ and then run KindleDrivers.exe "tick trust amazon".

UPDATE: ok, it turned out none of that actually worked.. only this thread did.. http://www.kindlefiredriver.com/how-to-install-kindle-fire-adb-usb-driver/

I just swapped PID_0006 for PID_0122 instead.. and it finally worked. it was much easier than doing any of that other stuff.

I think amazon screwed up and forgot to include PID_0122 for the 4th Gen 4.5.2+ KindleFire tablets in their signed drivers in the links in the first post.

thanks again.
[Kindle Fire General] Patrick_445:
For my device (Amazon FireTV 2), the XML file for recommended driver (as posted here) is https://s3.amazonaws.com/android-sdk-manager/redist/addon.xml. When I try to use [MENTION=4450182]UrticantOwl[/MENTION]'s instructions to build the URL to the zip file - http://kindle-sdk.s3.amazonaws.com/kindle_fire_usb_driver.zip - I get an "Access Denied" response.

Does anyone know how to get the up-to-date kindle fire USB driver without having to install the Amazon SDK? The zip file's SHA1 is E096C52584558FA05ECBE96A39BFCB6F0C264145 (taken from the addon.xml file above).
[Kindle Fire General] sd_shadow:
https://developer.amazon.com/public...etting-up-your-kindle-fire-tablet-for-testing
[Kindle Fire General] Patrick_445:
Brilliant. The direct link (as of 2015-Dec-29) is https://s3.amazonaws.com/android-sdk-manager/redist/kindle_fire_usb_driver.zip. The sha1 hash matches what Amazon published (E096C52584558FA05ECBE96A39BFCB6F0C264145)
[Kindle Fire General] GuestD1099:
I as well dug my old Kindle Fire out recently to experiment around with it. I don't think I've every hat this little trouble with drivers for this thing. Thanks! :D
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] tropazr:
Thanks! I did the same thing using the same sources you mentioned but I never had time to type out a big list. I too can say that most of these work. I froze everything you mention...did not uninstall. I have never heard of Elixer...I will have to check it out!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mrbogusbaxter:
I did exactly that the second day I got my phone. there's no doubt about it ..uninstalling all of those apps results in an amazing transformation of battery life and performance for this phone. I'm quite surprised on how many bloatware apps was placed on this phone to begin with.... over 50!

most recommended that all follow and uninstall as much as you can your phone will be streamlined to the fullest.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] walidbang:
Hey guy. I cant use battlescreen for bf4 since its just for tablets. How can i change my build.prop to let it look like a tablet?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexsteaua999:
When I'm playing games with high graphic details, my Note 2 is getting hot. I know that the hot is from CPU/GPU usage.

Can I play freely and without beeing concerned after the phone is getting hot?

How long can I play after the phone is getting hot?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrevankyle:
For the most part it can get too hot to hold and not damage any of the internals. Although the battery will wear down quicker at high heat
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexsteaua999:
But can I play without being concerned even if the phone is getting hot?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antique_sonic:
For those game which need high consumption on your phone resources,... It is normal. Perhaps that's the reason samsung use hard plastic instead of metal :)

As long as your phone never face any sudden reboot due to heat, then it is fine. I've used many Samsung smartphone, from the lowest specs, till Note 2 (except Note 3... not enought budget so far :fingers-crossed:), and I know heat is normal for Android device. And please don't compare with iPhone, due to different O/S character.

And yes, when the phone get hotter, the battery will run down faster.

This is what I know. You may correct me if I'm wrong, I just wrote based on my experience.

but if you concern about the heat, then you can stop playing that particular game(s) on your Note 2, or you can try to change kernel. This might help a bit. Different kernel will give different performance.

Sent from the corner of this rounded earth.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexsteaua999:
Thanks for responding.

I can't change the kernel because my phone is still in warranty and I'm risking to lose it.

I knew that getting hot is normal, but even if I know that, I'm still concerned. That's the reason why I asked that Q. I hope is normal and I hope i can play freely on the phone without thinking at the worst.

Please excuse my english.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Kraizk:
Does anyone have the stock recovery and kernel for the Verizon HTC One?

I apologize in advance if this has been posted, search appears to either be broken or no one has posted it yet.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] santod040:
this thread....
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Kraizk:
I see the kernel here but somehow I am not finding the recovery....
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] mercer24:
See Post #2 towards the bottom.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] brymaster5000:
Post #2...
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Kraizk:
I am blind. I apologize for being "that guy"
[Nook Touch General] yeahman45:
when i open gmail app it says the account is not configured to sync automatically... where do i enable automatic sync? i also tried manual sync and does not seem to work
[Nook Touch General] straygecko:
In Gmail go into add an account and enter the same email you registered with and you will get to the account & sync for that email.
[Nook Touch General] J_Palito:
I think that's not the problem.

I have my account in my nook and I access it on the gmail.

I see there a couple of very old mails.

As soon as I sync, the app crashes.

When I restart it, the same old mails.

If I clean the app's data, I get it to sync for one time.

After that, on every sync it crashes.

Other thing, on the market I don't have any of my installed apps.

Can't update anything, although I can install.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mhd-kou:
Yesterday I purchased a Samsung Galaxy note 10.1 when I tried to charge it for the first time it draw a red X on the battery when I connected to the wall charger and it is charged but in very slow manner then i turned off and left it about 17 hours and when I came back I saw the battery charging picture on the screen so I turned it on and the battery has 100% capacity but after i remove the charger I feel it discharge in a fast manner

I tried to charge it from my laptop but the same thing I have a red X on battery when connecting it. I don't know what is the problem the android versing on my tablet is 4.1.2 plz any help.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwegiel:
Get a 1A charger or higher. Below that, it can only trickle charge or when it is off, as it consumes more power than it can get.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4rkkn16ht:
You don't supply enough info for us to be able to help you.

We need to know:

What charger do you use ? (stock charger or 3rd party charger)

What cable do you use ? (stock cable, 3rd party charger or using extension cable in combination with the previously mentioned cable(s))

Your cable & charger condition (very well stored & treated, abused or both);

Your GT-N80XX purchased condition (new,refurbished or used)

FYI:

GT-N80XX need around 2.1A or 2100mA in order to Fast Charge & a specially conditioned charger designed for GT-80XX.

Your laptop/computer USB 1.0 - 2.0 ports supply only 0.5A or 500mA while USB 3.X supply only 1A or 1000mA.

Third Party charger usually only supply 500mA - 1000mA unless it's stated clearly that it is a 2100mA charger.

GT-N80XX battery capacity is 7000mAh so you can count yourself how long it will charge using those power sources.

The cable itself also a bit different than most USB cable.

Most USB cable designed to only delivers 500mA up to 1000mA, some even designed to only delivers 500mA.

That's also applied to USB extension cable.

I also found many charging problem just because of the owner's abusive behavior toward it's cable/charger such as:

Trip over their cable/charger

Step on their cable/charger

Throwing their cable/charger after use

Rolling their cable in a way that it twists the cable so bad & breaks it.

"Broken" cable/charger sometimes seems to be OK,but it won't deliver it's full capacity when used for charging.

The Red X icon is showing you that the current isn't sufficient enough for it to do Fast Charging (2100mA)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mhd-kou:
thanks for your reply.The charger that I am using it is the original one that came with tablet
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mhd-kou:
Thank a lot for your reply.I use the original Samsung charger that came with the tablet with the original cable and I don't understand what do you mean by 3rd party charger but I read on the charger that its output is 5V - 2A. I read from another forum that the problem may be from the version of android which is on my tablet 4.1.2 but I am not sure about that.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohhdavid:
For some reason, on my Nexus 5 (also it seems on KitKat in general because I had this issue on a buddies Nexus 4) it seems that when I download an APK file (or if I try to click a link to install an app from Aptoide via Chrome) the downloaded file does not work right. For Aptoide files pops up a notification that says it can not open that type of file. For APK's, it oddly enough initiates a popup for Nova launcher to restore settings from another launcher to Nova. Please, do not suggest that I uninstall Nova.. that may possibly solve the symptom of opening up Nova when I click an APK but doesn't solve the problem. With Nova uninstalled, it just says 'can not open file' like the Aptoide files.

FYI Aptoide files, pre-KitKat on my old Nexus 4, would open up Aptoide and install the app I clicked on in the browser as it is designed. Obviously, APK files would bring up the built-in installer.

Suggestions? Anyone else have this problem?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neilgoldsworthy:
I'm having the same Nova/APK issue - on my GS3 (d2att) running CM 10.2 if I download an APK file then tap to open it from the notification bar or the Downloads app, it brings up the same Nova message you are getting. However, if I open the file from within the File Manager app it loads correctly. Very strange - wish I knew how to correct this without removing Nova...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandalz:
:confused:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohhdavid:
Bump... Anyone?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tidsoptimist:
Same problem here. "Solved" it by installing the apk thru root browser. Still not sure why it's behaving like this..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moscow Desire:
Thread closed

The application in question, is used basically like a client server app, similar to torrents. Unfortunately, although it can be used for good purposes, it also allows paid apps to be distributed, thus constituting "warez", which of course is against XDA rules.

Thread closed.

MD
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wsitu:
I think I might have messed up when i was updating a ROM, and now when I start up my phone, it's telling me that android.process.acore stopped, bunch of apps stopped, and the camera/dialer/gallery are missing. I made a backup using cwm prior to this, but when I try to return to the backup, cwm says there's an MD5 mismatch. I understand that in order to fix the MD5 mismatch error, I need to find the "nandroid.md5" file, which is located in the "backup" folder. The only problem is that I dont have a folder called "backup" in my clockworkmod folder, nor is it in my "data" folder. Does anyone know how I can find my cwm backup folder?
[LG Optimus 3D] ratluci:
Just wanna share some thoughts, tell me if you know better.. :)

After searching for fast browser and non-crashing one (because my stock do all that, don't know about yours?), i found "Angel browser". Fastest one that i tried on our LG 3D. It has nice shortcuts, and it's very customizable. I was using "Dolphin", it's OK but laggy.

Also, i'm annoyed about default launcher. So i searched for some custom, and found "Nemus launcher" (old, and not updated for a while but good). On Nemus there is not so much irritating loading, exemple when you go to app drawer and go back, nemus turn on first screen faster then default.

How's your phone doing this stuff? Have any advice how to improve device speed on that all day things.

I know that all this is about low RAM, so i installed "Auto memory" put agressive option and i think that i saw little improvement.

To add that i'm using rooted stock rom, wanted to install some ROMs but i tried this way first.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] astra:
hello

anyone have a idea to receive emails on ppc using the VPN.

beast regards