yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] herogjan:
I'm downloading the torrent at the moment at 100kb. Is it an option to post the files in usenet (unlimited bandwith)? Anyway, i can't wait flashing. Thanks for making this possible.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hassanmahmood:
I just wanted to confirm that the method works flawlessly.

Follow the instructions and there is no reason you should have any problems upgrading to a rooted .290 from a rooted .532.

Fully functioning root, .290 and dual recovery.

The only recommendation I'd make is to take screenshots of your access point page so that you can have your LTE and MMS up and running instantly - the option to 'download settings' does not seem to actually work - at least it didn't with Bell.

Thank you SO much [MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION] and [MENTION=3534362]blueether[/MENTION] - I know I was a huge headache to you both with my endless questions.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hassanmahmood:
Also - I have tested my bluetooth headphones on .290 after reading [MENTION=4663180]pTeronaut[/MENTION] had a negative experience with regards to the audio dropping/skipping.

I paired the headphones with both my Alienware 18 and the Xperia Z Ultra - and then I walked away into an area with obstacles - the signal dropped a little from the Alienware - but not even once from the Xperia Z Ultra.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] [NUT]:
Endless or not, you are simply careful, nothing wrong about that :good:

I'm just happy I was able to convince you to do it and to be able to provide you with a pain free update process :)

Have fun with your renewed phone :D
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hassanmahmood:
I've hit my limit on thanking today - but I shall definitely hit whatever thanks buttons I can tomorrow!

Not only did I figure that out - but I managed to get effing Sony to accept my credit card details so that I could claim my 60 day trial of Music Unlimited - I think I'm going to be a paid subscriber after this!

The only downside is not being able to pick the save location - because I think my internal memory is likely to be filled up fast if I keep downloading music for offline mode.

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I feel like my Ultra is warmer to the touch on 290 than it was on 532 - is this cause for concern?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] nexus 4 noob:
I have successfully upgraded to 4.3 by using another laptop! I guess the laptop I used before has a problem... Just wondering now how to choose data only restore on philwiz... Help pls...

Thanks!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
Much the same thoughts here as [NUT], take your time and read/search and ask clear intelligent questions and folks are happy to help

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I've felt this at times, mostly when doing dirty flashes, trying to keep all settings etc. It seems to be the consensus that a wipe fixes this most of the time
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hassanmahmood:
What kind of a wipe?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
I believe that's factory reset/wipe is suggested, but that will wipe data etc
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hassanmahmood:
I wiped everything before flashing though?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
I presumed you did...

But you trued to restore user data?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hassanmahmood:
Nope - completely clean.

Used Google to restore my apps/settings.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] [NUT]:
As long as it isn't hot as in too hot to touch there is nothing to worry about. I'm sure sony will fix that with the next update.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] herogjan:
Up and running, good to have root back! Device not warm, automatic internet settings worked fine. Thanks mate!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mac231us:
Trimmed the quote to reduce space used. Thanks [NUT]. Question to you/anyone. What options need to be checked or left unchecked for flashing this 532 for C6833? This is to downgrade from an unrooted 290 4.3.

Thanks.

EDIT: In one of the replies I see this "Flash 14.1.B.1.532 excluding everything but the kernel, cache, system, userdata and appslog partitions"

excluding everything but..so that means to INCLUDE (check box) kernel, cache, system, userdata and applog partitions? Hope someone can clarify. thanks again
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
See answer in other thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49887840#post49887840
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mac231us:
blueether..thanks. I replied to your post on the other thread (some questions)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] techpal:
[MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION]

Hope you make root possible for .136 fw for XZU too as you done for Z1 here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2628185?? :)

Would be great to have root without downgrading etc..
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
I haven't tested without wiping data, only tested using default options

OK [MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION] will this work without wiping data? and should it just be flashed with default options? (your downgrade to .532)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] [NUT]:
Yes I will :)

I did it a couple of times, it's possible but remember to wipe dalvik-cache to prevent bootloops and FC's :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pdaaalex:
Wrong firefox tab, sorry
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] [NUT]:
There is no way around it unfortunately. You can skip wiping data though during the downgrade.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] konpakuyomu:
I did it just before. And now I noticed system sounds and animations are that of pure android. Is this nomal on sony's 4.3 rom?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hassanmahmood:
Dirty flash worked great - thanks again [MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION]

And the Clear Audio and other sound settings are all working with Power Amp - no problems.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] [NUT]:
To make some room and clean up a bit, I've removed the files to install this ROM from my server.

My advise is to use a more recent package (136) which will still remain online for a while.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Excessiveidling:
So just ordered my first uag navigator....normally I stick with the otterbox defender but as of late (on my gs3) the rubber around the corners comes loose..(I'm on my 5th or 6th replacement..which is awesome for customer support just wish I didnt have to do it). Anyone happen to know if the uag does this as well? Will I be 'looking forward' to calling uag for replacement rubber since it's stretched out or what have you?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] joshm.1219:
i have both cases i actually have a few defenders and never had that happen. seems unlikely on the uag its one solid piece

Sent from my CIA sanctioned device
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] tigerfrost:
The issue

Nexus 7 2013 has a problem where the tablet wont boot, it is stuck on the Google boot logo.

At that point i had tried the recovery mode, yet this flips back into the boot loop.

I had tried the charger option also... no luck there either.

The fix

I left the tablet for 1.5 hours then switched it on as normal.. the tablet decided to come back alive.

Its not the first time this has happened, the last time i done a factory recovery and that kind of solved it for a couple of days.

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It seems that this nexus 7 tablet is a lemon and needs to go back unless someone knows the answer >?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Hellrespawn:
I don't know if you've unlocked the bootloader, rooted or flashed a custom recovery/ROM. If you have, I'd suggest completely returning to stock and seeing if that helps. If you haven't done those things or returning to stock doesn't help, send it back.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] buelldozer:
That's how mine started too, it will get worse until it fails completely. Mine just came back from ASUS on Monday and by Wednesday night it was already boot looping again.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alex xander:
delete post please.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vringe:
Hi,

mobile data was not working in FXP301

Then, they rebuilded a new FXP301a with the following changelog:

CM11.0

- latest cm 11.0

- Fix Data (Z1, ZU)

- Enable LTE (Z1, ZU)

- Fix Camcorder (Z1, ZU)

My camera and camcorder is working fine.

But data still not works. (CM 10.2 worked fine)

I can't get any signal.

I'm from switzerland and I don't know if this is a problem :S

I have done a wipe/factory reset.

And I already tried newer releases.

I hope, someone have an idea. ;)

Regards,

Vince
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] bruce142:
If your phone's storage space is running low (your system partition is getting to big : everything over 3GB is abnormal) and you did download some heavy apps through the Windows Phone Store which failed to install due lack of free space, check this folder on your

Interop-Unlocked Phone with Full FS access

: \Phone\Data\SharedData\EdmCache\Lib. Go check in each folder for zmz files (they should have names like appbce with a GUID of the app you're installing) which take up a lot of space (Ideal there shouldn't be any of those zmz files in these folders) and delete those : I managed to free up 1,5 GB by doing this.

Edit another folder found causing the system partition to be bloated : Samsung ATIV S\Phone\Data\Users\WPNETWORKDRM\APPDATA\Local\Temp. Not sure if you may delete these files though. They are tmp files and cannot be opened.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
You sir, are amazing. But sadly I cannot enable full FS access on my interop-unlocked GDR3 retail ATIV S
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] ngame:
Even With unblock RPC ?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2573355
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] bruce142:
I had also problems with the full FS access. Is the problem you can activate this in SamWP8 Tools but your PC (presumably running Windows 7) can't recognize the phone anymore? My trick is to plug the phone in a USB port with a decent voltage, reboot the phone and unlock your phone with your SIM pin and/or optional lock screen pin. What you also can do is turn off the phone and let it wake up by plugging the USB in, if the lock screen pin window pops-up by itself (normally you have to swipe up), you have increased chance that your PC might recognize the phone. Also install the latest USB security updates (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2862330), I installed this yesterday and my phone was recognized for the first time I plugged it in, three times in a row now. Also check the Device Manager of your PC, if there is a yellow triangle with a exclamation mark near the Samsung Phone, you have to remove the usb cord out of your phone and plug it back in.

If you have difficulties activating the full FS access in SamWP8 tools itself (keeps turning back off), enable the Full FS access, open a page like accent colors, press back and you get a pop-up (I think) with the steps to enable the Full FS feature. If the Full FS switch is back off again, turn it on and reboot your phone immediately (without pressing back or something, use the phone's power button, immediately after you have turned the Full FS switch on). Worked for me.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Whereas, the solution for me is to un-install the WP8 drivers (both of them) in Device Manager, then switch on Full FS access and reboot both my phone and my PC before reconnecting the phone. This works, but it takes an annoyingly long time, and after I disconnect the phone I will need to reboot the PC again before it will see the phone again. Very irritating. I'm looking into possible ways (muck with the SecurityManager?) to fix this...

As a side note, you can make the MTP service run from C:\ instead of the default location (public folder) even without changing what user it runs under. The PROTOCOLS service account (what MTPSVC usually runs under) can't read the entire file system and can't write to very much of it at all, but it does at least give you read-only access to places like the Windows folder and the root of the file system, plus you still get read/write in the public folder. For bonus points, it always works for me (i.e. if it would work with Full FS Access turned off, it works with it only "half-on" like that).
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] jessenic:
My Full FS Access works if I plug the phone with screen PIN locked and it'll detect it after a while and then it can be safely unlocked.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
I'm not really sure exactly what you're suggesting doing, but I'm pretty sure it won't work. To substitute one system file for another, you'd need to find a hash collision. Getting the file size to match won't even come close to being sufficient...
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] jessenic:
Wow, I just checked those files as my phone was running low on space and freed about 3GB! They were listed under "System" in storage settings, now my System is 2,93GB.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] lukas_ita:
I installed Sam8tools in past and enabled FS access. Then I installed the Samsung update that bricked the tool. Will this trick work?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] lukas_ita:
So, I need first to unblock RPC and then try this?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] bruce142:
Sorry for bringing up an old thread but I've found another folder responsible for clogging up your Windows Phone with

Interop-Unlock and Full FS access

: Samsung ATIV S\Phone\Data\Users\WPNETWORKDRM\APPDATA\Local\Temp. But I need some confirmation if these files may be deleted, they are tmp files and cannot be opened, can it do any harm to delete these files?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
will it be wise to delete the entire folder?

And can someone PLEASE help me? My system memory keeps hitting 0 bytes all the time and I have to constantly delete apps. I have 330MB left and I used to have 6.33GB of system storage but now I have 7.40GB of system storage and its rising by the day. [MENTION=3529492]GoodDayToDie[/MENTION] any method you can suggest for me?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Sunius1:
Did you actually try looking what takes space up if you have full FS access? Shouldn't be too hard with Native Access library.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
HOLY BALLS.

I got full fs access to work.

Just modify this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MTP]
"DataStore"="C:"

NO BACKSLASH.

EDIT: If that doesn't work, follow what I did:

First change the value to "C:\Data".

Reboot.

It will show contents of C:\Data.

Now change the value to "C:\".

Reboot.

It should work now
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] ngame:
Good . What about Other Drives like D: or E:

are they available too ?

ATTENTION : I don't have Ativ S to try it by my own so be careful
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
I can't find the folder specified. Am I missing anything? My ATIV S is interop unlocked.

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I didn't know Drives D: and E: existed. I know D: is most likely Micro SD but E:?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] lordmaxey:
Well, nice work :)

I hope i don't dissappoint you, but this is exactly what SamWP8 Tools does by toggling the FullFS-access option.

I just checked with registry tool, and if i press "read" it is showing "C:"

I have FullFS-access enabled in SamWP8 tools.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] ngame:
As I said I have no Ativ Device to try it .

I think D: is SD Card but I'm not sure if is E: F: G: or other Partitions existed
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
Yeah I knew that, but somehow using the registry to change it is more successful
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] lordmaxey:
Ah ok.

Sorry then, for missunderstanding. :)
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] -W_O_L_F-:
You have no write access ;)
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
hm... how do I get that?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] -W_O_L_F-:
Install SamWP8 Tools and...
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
SamWP8 Tools doesn't work for my retail GDR3 ATIV S. Any advice?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] djtonka:
This is something different than having Interoped GDR3?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] bruce142:
Did you reapply the EnableAllSideloading_Release_ARM.xap and BootstrapSamsung_Release_ARM.xap (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2435697) after updating to GDR3? It's worth a shot. It should work, it does work on other people's ATIV S phones.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
No, what he means is that the process of enabling Full FS Access doesn't work for him. It's very temperamental and usually doesn't work for me, either. It involves changing the configuration of the MtpSvc NT service in the registry, and something about the change causes the service to often not work. I've spent the odd moment thinking of reasons that might be, and how I could fix it.

Changing the root directory for the MtpSvc will allow you to see more of the drive, yes, and it will allow you to write to the handful of locations that the MtpSvc is *supposed* to have Write access (such as the Protocols user data directory) even though MTP clients aren't supposed to see that folder. It doesn't actually give the service any more permissions, though, and by default it lacks the permissions to write to most of the file system.

The NativeFilesystem library should expose the APIs needed to see what drive letters exist. C: is always present. On devices with microSD, it is mounted on D:. No others are used. The phone does have a number of other partitions, but they are mounted in the subfolders of C:, not in their own drive letters (you can do this with NTFS, even on desktop Windows, if you choose to). In fact, the phone has a huge number of partitions. Data (C:\Data) is its own partition, but there are a number of other more esoteric ones, such as the EFI System Partitions (C:\EFIESP) that are also present.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
But why is it that if using SamWP8 Tools you have more access but editing the registry directly will not be able to? For example, the folder SharedData doesn't exist under C:\Data but for others it does. Also when I access the EdmCache Lib folder, I can't find any zmz files even though I have 6.49GB of System Storage.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Because by default, the MtpSvc doesn't have permission to read those files and folders, so they don't show up. SamWP8 Tools edits the permissions the service runs with (no, before anybody asks, the same method cannot be used with apps).
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] -W_O_L_F-:
Full FS access contains two parts.

1) Redirecting Phone folder to drive C:

2) Setting MTPSvc account to LocalSystem.

All troubles with this hack are in second part.

The way I use to enable it:

1) Connect phone to PC

2) Run SamWP8 and enable Full FS Access

3) Turn of the phone

4) It'll reboot because of USB connection

5) Everything should work now
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
Well that doesn't work for me because I'm on GDR3. I updated to the retail edition.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] ngame:
It's Really that thing I was looking for .

I can see many drives in my Phone ROM (or in Samsung and Huawei ! I don't know how to Extract HTC nbh files)

these images include many partitions but I couldn't access to all of them but some of them were listed on the main partition C: so I get confused about that!

So it's only mounted on C ok

try Downgrade your phone to GDR2 or Use the last release of Wolf's Rom
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
The reason I want to delete the zmz files is to avoid resetting my phone. If not, I would've done that long ago. Too much precious data to delete. Too much game progress to let go.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
If you still have interop-unlock, you can restore the full Samsung driver functionality by putting a file with a specific name in the Documents folder. That won't let you interop-unlock if you don't have it already, though; it will just make apps like SamWP8 Tools work again.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
Done that. What you mean is "Non-Production Errors.txt". Since I currently have access to System32, will it be wise to replace the FCRouter & CSCMgr.dlls?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] bruce142:
I thought this only worked if you haven't upgraded to GDR3 yet, because if you have done it before, the updater will skip the Samsung specific update (the one which breaks FCRouter and other capabilities) and thus interop-unlock and registry tweaks will still work after GDR3. If you have done it after upgrading to GDR3, the damage is already done, is it not?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
I have partial FS access so I can replace the FCRouter dll with one from GDR2
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
If you're interop-unlocked and have "Non-production errors.txt" then you *should* be able to use SamWP8 Tools... it's just likely to be very finicky to get the Full FS Access working.

Replacing a driver / service binary while it is loaded and running will probably not work. There's a mechanism in Windows to replace files at boot time; it normally requires writing multi-strings to HKLM, but I might be able to hack it. Haven't tried yet (on my to-do list).
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] thals1992:
I haven't had any issues with full USB on the Odyssey, though I'm not doing intensive transfers of +1gb files.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] lukas_ita:
To developers: is possible to create a Tool that delete these files? I can t enable FullFS and I have 5,6Gb in system memory!! :-S
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Sunius1:
If you don't have access to FS, how do you think the tool would access the files?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] lukas_ita:
Right! I read I can t enable RPC Functions too..but I can t see that folder when connect the device to the pc. I need FS for that too?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
The folder (and the rest of EdmCache) is visible in AllCaps version of the webserver. That probably means we have write access too, so it should be possible to make a clean-up app!
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] lukas_ita:
Great news! It will be very usefull tu user without FS!
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
It'll still require capability-unlock or at least interop-unlock - that folder is almost certainly *not* visible to any capability normally available to third-party apps - but it should work. May be a few days before I can code it up though, since I'm going to be traveling and not have easy access to my dev machine.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] lukas_ita:
You rules!
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
OK, got a early version hacked together. It needs work, but it's a start. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50484806

The biggest problem is that we often don't actually have *delete* access to a folder, even if we have write access. Thus a lot of locations have files we would like to delete but can't. I'm working on a solution.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] zaengi:
Samsung ATV S device not detected with full FSA enabled

Even both of you described this solution in detail, neither does work for my ATIV S WP 8.0.

Maybe I missed out to get the sequence right of rebooting PC and phone.

Is it just a question of luck?

When I use GoodDayToDie's idea of uninstalling drivers I get a failure on reboot that the "MTP-USB-Device" couldnt be installed.

I also deleted all the device subkeys in PC registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{EEC5AD98-8080-425F-922A-DABF3DE3F69A} without any outcomes.

Moreover my phone often instantly crashes and reboots when connected to a PC with full FSA enabled.

Somehow the detection seems to lead to a severe error in the OS.

Is there a chance to get details / logs about the crash?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Mistertac:
I'm gonna give this a try tonight. Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Gator Brah:
Awesome work! already running the SS restore version and its excellent! I'll give the zip install version a whirl and see how she looks.