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[General Topics] iosonofrancesco:
yes!
[General Topics] CallerHoller:
I like CameraZoom fx, but I'm liking Perfectly Clear too.
[General Topics] LeaoTiago:
camera zoom fx ;)
[General Topics] zangetxu:
+2 . Also stock application of galaxy s4 is also good.
[General Topics] justmpm:
There is a thread dedicated to discussing the merits of different apps. Feel free to repost this in the App discussion thread.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChoiceMC:
Hi.

I have been looking through the forum, and can't seem to find a proper solution for my problem.

My sisters boyfriend owns a SGS2 i9100, and as far as I can tell, it's bricked. When turned on, the SGS2 logo shows, and then just goes black. Waited 10mins, nothing. He says he did't do anything, all he did was changing the battery, he bought the extended one.

Now the problem is - he really needs to get the data off the phone! He has some work-related stuff on it (notes, pictures, etc...) he needs asap...

I can get into recovery and download mode, I already installed CWM (GT-I9100_JB_ClockworkMod-Recovery_6.0.2.9.tar) but I fear I flashed the wrong one, because he told me AFTER flashing, that his SG2 was running on android 2.4.x...

I tried mounting emmc and internal sdcard, but my PC wont detect it, so I could copy the data off it...

The phone is not rooted and runing on stock ROM.

Any ideas how to get the data out? :(

tnx for all your help & replys in advance, I hope someone can help, would appreciate it.

Merry christmas to all :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortalneo:
android 2.4? or u meant 2.3.4?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChoiceMC:
Well he said 2.4.3... I thought it was weird too, but I have no ways of checking for sure. My guess would be 2.3.4, jeah :)

Any ideas on how to get his data out?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortalneo:
If you can root and flash CWM, then you can try entering recovery and making a nandroid backup. Then extract its contents using apps meant for the same. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChoiceMC:
Hey, good point! I'll try that, thanks!

Will report :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
If the phone actually is bricked & you don't end up being able to get it working normally, you have no chance of recovering data from it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChoiceMC:
[MENTION=3556242]immortalneo[/MENTION]

I made a nandroid backup from CWM and saved on PC... I have all the data, tnx! :D

Next question is - where (in all those "data" and "system" files), can I find his notes, that were saved in the stock notes app? I'm searching through the files and can't seem to find it :(

Tnx again man
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jocazmaj:
Flash the same rom that was flashed before the brick.

Then install titanium backup pro and use "extract from nandroid backup" and find the app you want to restore and restore just DATA.Restart the phone and that's it.

I've been doing this for a long time now, restoring sms mesages,notes,game saves....

Sent from my 3D spaceship
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChoiceMC:
Nice one, tnx! A very usefull tip.

There remains only 1 problem... samfirmware.com download links are dead, due to hotfile.com closure... where can I get a stock 2.3.x ROM to flash via Odin? I am looking thru the web, all links point to samfiwmware.com or are dead links... :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortalneo:
Check out www.androidfirmwares.net or www.samsung-updates.com
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChoiceMC:
[MENTION=3556242]immortalneo[/MENTION]

Tnx, that wasn't necessary ;) I just tried flashing CF-root via Odin, and the phone booted just fine, just did a factory reset :D

Then I just imported the missing files from nandroid backup into the new, fresh stock rom (tnx for this one man!) and we're good to go.

Man I really love and appreciate XDA, people don't realize what good men (not to mention developers, etc...) we have here. I hope you all realize how gratefull we are for all your work, help and efforts.

Please, keep up the good work!

PROBLEM SOLVED
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortalneo:
Good for you mate!

Do add [SOLVED] to the title of your post then. :good:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChoiceMC:
;) :good:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jocazmaj:
Nice.:)

I own LG P920 and I really don't know how I ended up in here in the first place,haha:D, but I'm glad I could help.:)

Sent from my 3D spaceship
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChoiceMC:
Hahaha, nema veze, hvala ti puno ;)

Tnx all.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jocazmaj:
Hahaha kralju, nema na cemu.:thumbup::D

Sent from my 3D spaceship
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
Hello my device is stuck in bootloop and wont be reconised by my computer unless it is connected by a factory cable i bought from 'EarlyBird' on Amazon.

The screen turns on as well as the green light, it flickers and then goes black. This just REPEATS. (also the kindle fire logo shows in white/orange).

Plugged my kindle in with factory cable and showed up in Device Manager as KIndle fire like it should.

I have drivers installed so this is why.

How can i make the kindle boot up again and work like normal?!?

Thanks.

If you need more info or can help please reply to this thread or PM me.
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] mindmajick:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=43569633

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[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
Ok thanks for the link, but I don't understand what to do? Could you please explain? Thanks
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] mindmajick:
I recommend you read everything in that thread. Then read some more.

What I wrote in the original post is pretty self-explanatory. If you don't understand something I said then you haven't read enough.

This is NOT a basic device to work on. I also see you started in the Kindle fire 1 forums. If you flashed anything there you're already screwed.

--》Sent from my mind to your screen
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] LinearEquation:
The restore tool links are not working right now. Have to wait until it get's fixed.
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
Umm thanks for your help. I'll read through it ALL. And I thought my kindle fire was the 1st gen but found out was 2nd gen. Luckily I didn't get far another to do anything stupid to it.
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
I'm not sure if I said but my kindle fire isn't recognised when plugged in normal cable AT ALL so doesn't show up in adb devices. However when put in factory cable its recognised by device manager only. Adb devices does not see anything. Why is that ?

P.s remember my kindle is stuck at boot loop
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] stunts513:
Because adb doesn't work with fastboot, with fastboot you use fastboot commands. Once its in fastboot I suggest using this to restore it to working order: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2096888
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] mindmajick:
Give me a pm if you have issues with my download link. I think there is probably enough info here to help.

The main thing is to have the right versions adb and fast boot available and you should be able to restore ok.

--》Sent from my mind to your screen
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Moscow Desire:
The OP has a problem, and what happens? 2 users get in a territory dispute :confused:

And now a Mod has to do clean-up. If you 2 wanna argue, go take it to the playground or something.

And if you can't post something more constructive to the issue, then just don't post.

In the meantime, the OP still has an issue, so hopefully some of the KF folks that want to help will get your issue fixed.

Cheers

MD
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
So like he said, can someone help me! Thanjs
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Moscow Desire:
[MENTION=3234739]mindmajick[/MENTION] asked you to PM him if the links aren't working. I'm confident he can help you with some things.

Just make sure you read and understand everything. Several times if need be.

KF's can be a bit tricky. I know. I fixed a local guys for him (never owned one myself)

MD
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
I understand that your need to flash a new .IMG and a new system image. I believe that your download then has those files. I see from the text that I out the text/code into fastboot with kindle connect with fastboot cable. Then should reboot and work. Is that right? Does kindle have to show in adb devices for this to work as its not for me...
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] LinearEquation:
ADB is for pushing and fastboot is for flashing. No, while in fastboot you won't see ADB recognized. Try typing fast boot devices to see if fastboot is set up right and type fastboot getvar all in the command prompt to see if your device is recognized. Also if you're running Windows 7 X64 or Windows 8 you should disable Windows driver enforcement first.

Sent from Nexus 7 flo running SinLess ROM 4.4.2 with ElementalX kernel using xda app-developers app
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
So am I right in what I said?
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] mindmajick:
Yes you are correct. So is linearequation.

But use "fastboot -I 0x1949 devices" to be sure it's there. It MAY not show up otherwise.

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[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
Might be bad what i have done...

I found somewhere else to flash boot.img and recovery.img

so i did and now when i boot it shows this: (Hope you can see the photos)
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] mindmajick:
Something didn't work

Looks like one of the images didn't flash correctly.

What commands did you use?

--》Sent from my mind to your screen
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
iS THIS RIGHT?

Hello, i used the .img 's from the guy who sent the first link andused then i did:

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot boot.img

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery recovery.img

IS THIS RIGHT? THANKS
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] mindmajick:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot boot.img

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash system system.img

Yeah... looks right. But you really need the system.img

--》Sent from my mind to your screen
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
i also did what it said by clicking the power button 5 times to reset factory defaults and came up with this: but then turned off and went back to red triangle/text screen
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
I will do that aswell now then....
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
Hello again. just did the fastboot -i 0x1949 flash system system.img and it said it had FAILED as remote: data too large?

How do i get around this then so i can flash syystem.img?
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
Do i need to create a flashable (sparse) system.img so that it can then flash like it saids in this post?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=43569633

(under additional info in OP)
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
UPDATE:

Ok so i used this tool called KF First Aide and tried flasheing everything. System(sparse),recovery and boot.img was flashed successfully howerver ii unplugged it and rebooted but got stuck in boot loop again as did at start. BUT then after about two reboots it apperared as working! it is now working and i am setting it uo now!!!!

THANKS FOR EVERYONE FOR THE HELP, WITHOUT U I WOULDN'T BE FIXING MY KINDLE FIRE. GR8
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] mindmajick:
Cool. Glad to hear it.

--》Sent from my mind to your screen
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Lewiswatson99:
Thanks! You have helped me very much, so glad its working.
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] AndroidContemplator:
Fix

What you do is, connect the kindle to your computer with the fastboot cable. After that open up your adb terminal and type in, "fastboot -i 0x1949 -w"

It should erase the whole kindle and reset it to factory defaults.
[Google Chromecast] usefulidiot127:
This isn't another repeat of the same question regarding apps/compatibility. I know there are some solutions out there and some that we'll have more access to shortly (i.e. Plex.)

My question is what is going to be the best setup for hosting and serving local media to a ChromeCast? I currently have an outdated (unsupported) Windows Home Server with 3TB of storage. With an Intel Atom CPU it still functions nicely as a lightweight, energy efficient file server. I'm concerned about it's capability to function as a DLNA server, however. It's powerful enough to serve raw files but I think that's about it.

I bought the Avia expanded feature set and haven't had much luck with it. I understand I can't use it to simply browse files on my server and play them, so I installed the Serviio DLNA server (http://serviiowhs.codeplex.com/) and the Avia app does find this media (although some files are sporadically missing.) Playing them on Avia doesn't work at all, either on my phone or on Chromecast. I turned off transcoding on the server but I'm just generally confused at where the video processing is all taking place and where I want it to be taking place.

Ideally I'd like to just serve files up to my ChromeCast and have it perform all of the decoding/video processing, I think? Is that ever a realistic option or do I need to find something that is going to work better as DLNA server? Maybe a NAS with some kind of DLNA functionality built in? Anyone else have opinions on the best setup?
[Google Chromecast] bhiga:
Hmm... Atom is fine for DLNA, but things that require transcoding (ie, Plex Media Server) will probably leave you wanting more horsepower.

I'm on WHS 2011 now, but IIRC WHSv1 supports UPnP and Windows Media Connect. It might show up for DLNA, but I don't remember if Windows Media Connect is turned on by default. Regardless, DLNA alone won't help you if your media isn't in a Chromecast-compatible format.

Chromecast's processor is powerful, but nowhere near as flexible as a desktop computer. You can't necessarily automatically download and install software CODECs like you can on a desktop computer.

Think of it more like an iPod - unless the media was made to be compatible, there will likely need to be some amount of "preparation" (ie, transcoding) that needs to be done to make it compatible.

Your options would be to convert/transcode your media library so it's Chromecast compatible, use RealPlayer Cloud (which will require you to upload any incompatible media to RP Cloud where they'll do the transcoding for you via their SurePlay feature), or use Plex Media Server so you have on-the-fly transcoding.
[Google Chromecast] usefulidiot127:
Thanks for the detailed reply. I'm guessing I'm running into issues with Avia/ChromeCast because I have transcoding disabled and the media may not be in a format supported by Chromecast? I thought maybe since my android phones/tablets with MX Player can process just about any file, maybe the ChromeCast could as well. (Not taking into account that ChromeCast is a vastly cheaper device.)

My best option might just be to run Plex on my full powered desktop and treat my server as network attached storage. I'll just need to turn the PC on when I'm ready to Cast (surely there's an app out there to wake a desktop from sleep mode...)
[Google Chromecast] bhiga:
Yes - most likely your media isn't in a format Chromecast can play.

You can test it by shooting a 720p clip on your phone/tablet and throwing that onto your server - that should be playable by Chromecast unless you have an uber-fancy device that saves in a non-mainstream format.

MX Player is pretty awesome - it really makes good use of hardware decoding and such, but of course today's phones and tablets are closer to desktop computer than appliance-type devices like Chromecast. :)

Yes, probably your best bet it to run Plex on a reasonably-fast machine. It might be worth trying it on your WHS box too, though it might be slow to start stuff, depends. My WHS 2011 box is an Atom 330 (dual-core), it was a good upgrade from my previous Atom 230 (single-core) but its CPU isn't much faster than those found in some of the more-powerful NAS units. I just use it as a fileserver, so it's not a huge deal and the primary design factor was small form factor (it's mounted to a plate mounted on the back of my TV).

As long as the network connection between your server and your Plex Media Server machine is good, it should work well. For a while I was running pyTivo on my desktop to on-the-fly transcode stuff to play on my TiVos...
[Google Chromecast] jsdecker10:
My Plex Server is running everything just fine off of an old Dell Dimension E510. The only upgrade I've made to that server was to boost the ram from 1gb to 4gb. It transcodes everything on the fly just fine. I'm quite surprised, actually.
[Google Chromecast] bhiga:
Looks like your E510 is an 3GHz Intel Pentium 4 531 (or at least the one CNET reviewed was).

My Atom 330 is still kinda poopy in comparison, but this at least gives me enough hope to perhaps try Plex server and see how it fares. :)

Thanks for that!
[Google Chromecast] jsdecker10:
Yup, you may as well at least give it a shot and just see how it'll fare because I wasn't really too optimistic about mine being able to handle the duties of transcoding either...ie. from mkv, from avi, etc. But to my surprise, it did the job just fine n dandy & I've been MORE than satisfied with my setup so far.
[Google Chromecast] Asphyx:
Doesn't WHS come with Twonky Server? Or is that just some Brands of it?

Twonky will do transcoding but you might need to install FFMPEG and set it up to do it.

Tonky is probably the best at transcoding and very configurable so if WHS has it I would look into using that first.

Yes the Atom is probably underpowered for good transcoding but provided your source files aren't too High Quality I think it might cut it.

As for anyone looking for the BEST WAY...The choices are pretty slim right now....

You have ONLY two choices right now....

Plex and Plex apps OR DLNA server and aVia and I think we established that aVia even with DLNA server that transcodes doesn't always mean a CCast compatible stream.

Maybe Bubble solves that or maybe some other player does but until they are released those are really the only two choices and answers anyone can give for people without a rooted CCast.
[Google Chromecast] xenokc:
I'm having best luck using PlayOn/Avia. PlayOn uses VLC player so can stream just about any format, haven't found one yet it can't do. Avia can fine PlayOn server via DLNC. Also doesn't require too much CPU, have even used a netbook as PlayOn server and works really well. Plus, you get all the PlayOn channels, which is a bunch.
[Google Chromecast] Asphyx:
And the PlayOn app will soon support CCast as well, At least they are advertising that as coming very soon.

Like I said there are going to be more options coming out soon that will change whatever answer is given today which is why I caution anyone from re-encoding their Library trying to fix a temporary problem!
[Google Chromecast] xenokc:
Good to hear CCast support is coming for PLayOn. Works OK with Avia but direct support will be great. The best thing about PlayOn is that is uses VLC Player so just about every format supported as well as low CPU needs.
[Google Chromecast] Asphyx:
Well it may use VLC to play on Android but there is no guarantee it will use VLC on the CCast.

It is my hope that VLC (and all Player apps that are out there) will support CCast and create a DIAL registered Player App for Chromecast that other programs could use as well.
[Google Chromecast] xenokc:
Actually PlayOn uses VLC on the server side, not the client side.
[Google Chromecast] The S3 Kid:
Does anyone think we'll be able to use the 'Cast Screen' in the display settings with Chromecast anytime soon?
[Google Chromecast] ritzxda:
Ah, I've been wondering why this isn't working for me in OmniROM. Is this a standard feature/option even on the stock ROM for KitKat? Or are you using OmniROM as well? It doesn't detect my Chromecast. Thanks.
[Google Chromecast] bhiga:
KitKat is Miracast certified. Problem is, Chromecast doesn't support Miracast, at least not today...
[Google Chromecast] ritzxda:
Ah got it! Thank you. I thought it was something new due to the new "Cast" option in the settings. Thanks.
[Google Chromecast] Asphyx:
Thanks didn't know that.

if you mean on your KitKat Phone, as [MENTION=3050092]bhiga[/MENTION] noted thats for Miracast not CCast. You can however cast a screen from a Desktop Browser. It may be possible in the future to do screen mirroring as there is code in KitKat to do it but from what Koush sees it seems like it will be up to the manufacturer to cook it into the ROM which says to me it will need driver support in the Kernel to work.

Lets hope I'm dead wrong about that!
[Google Chromecast] m4f1050:
I have Plex, Twonky, Subsonic, Air Video, and from the 4, only 2 show up as DLNA on my network (plex and twonky) Now, I modified my Subsonic to play from the browser locally as well as remotely so I guess Chrome + anything that plays on chrome could be casted to Chromecast, correct?

Will try it out... Also, I can play Plex from Chrome browser, going to see if I can get a fullscreen going..

EDIT: I got all 3 Plex, Subsonic and Twonky to stream in fullscreen (but from Chrome it has a 720p limit - lame...) ---another note, for Twonky, when you pick the media, you have to cast the opened tab, not the one you are currently on when you select the media like the other 2, just like when you drag and drop .mp3 or .mkv to Chrome, whichever tab opens, you cast that one, only problem is when I drag an MKV to Chrome I get no sound, so I will stick to Plex/Subsonic/Twonky when playing .MKV... Saves me having to run an HDMI cable to the TV, I think it's still worth the $35 even if I can't root it :)
[Google Chromecast] bhiga:
Playing video via Chrome + Cast extension is more like playing video through remote desktop rather than playing directly. It's the least desirable solution for video playback, though a reasonable fallback in most cases.
[Google Chromecast] dougmouat:
dual core linux box and plex server to plex app in the house and everywhere I go..awesome.
[Google Chromecast] m4f1050:
Agreed, but what can you do? I hate it when they give you something for free then they want to charge you... I don't agree with that so I just play it 720p until they decide the "preview" is over I guess... I have 2 android tv's with great 1080p Plex playback and my 3rd TV I have an NetPC which plays 1080p flawlessly with the Plex app on Windows 8. This Chromecast is like a toy for me, I'll prob. end up giving it away after I get bored of it.. LOL
[Google Chromecast] bhiga:
It's called business, as the bills don't pay themselves. ;)

The key difference is Plex is sending video.

Tab and desktop casting from Chrome is encoding your raw tab or desktop on the fly. It doesn't have the benefit of a lot of buffering, plus you're probably doing stuff with your computer at the same time - after all, a static tab is kinda boring.

It's the difference between recording a phone call then transcribing the recording later and trying to transcribe a phone call while it's happening.

The former will always be more accurate, the latter is likely to take shortcuts and/or lose things.

It's pretty obvious looking to captioning of news broadcasts compared to captions of movies. Of course closed captions have length and timing limitations as well, but the comparison still holds.

It is nice that it's fairly inexpensive, and there seems to be a good stream of apps being developed. Whether they're free or pay, don't know though.