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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] HwaA18:
I know exactly how to do that, but either way, it doesnt seem to cooperate. last time i tried, I couldn't get the kernel to flash properly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Mistertac:
Alright gotcha!

Wish I could help ya more, I've been on the safestrap side for a bit now so I'm not sure about that pre release kernel deal. Good luck man
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] HwaA18:
I read somewhere that if I did a adb backup and then did a full wipe restore then restoring my adb...would that work?
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilliman:
Is there a possibility to wipe out the Android and install Windows on a MTK6589 device? Thanks
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thals1992:
Read the FAQ.

NO!
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kunafpls:
Impossible. Windows Phone 8 doesn't have the drivers to run on other devices, unless you're willing to program them yourself. Furthermore, I believe it's hardware locked because of Secure Boot. All devices have secure boot (unlike Windows 8, where only some computers have secure boot) and it is (I believe) a requirement, hence the inability to boot Windows Phone 8 on an Android device. Unless you're willing to emulate secure boot somewhat as well, then go for your life.

Want Windows Phone 8 on an Android device? Buy a Nokia Lumia and sticky tape it on top of your current Android device. Voila! Results are instant.

Honestly, if you want a certain OS on your phone, buy the phone that has the OS. It's like buying a tomato and then saying "fudge, wish this tasted like a cucumber".
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilliman:
The idea comes straight from the world of PCs : there you can if you want to wipe the system clean and install almost anything you like. From MS-DOS to Windows 2, Windows NT, OS/2, dozens brands and copies of Linux, Unix mutations the list is almost endless.

The onboard ROM on a "PC" will happily run whatever's on the disk or CD or DVD or other boot device. This is a 1970'as design which has not changed.

If you are missing device drivers for a certain device on PC then it (a) defaults to basic functionality (b) this device does not work at all but it is not always a stopping block.

I did not know what the obstacles are on smartphones. I was hoping to find and understand more details.

The MTK65XX chip set is an Arm CPU for which Windows have a new system. Some Chinese tablets now sell with Android or Windows.

Thanks for the explanations.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoodDayToDie:
Yeah, you might have saved yourself some time if you'd done even a little research. Not only do ARM devices require a Board Support Package (firmware image, basically) that generally won't be available for an arbitrary device/OS combination (it's not just a matter of having basic drivers like on x86), but there isn't actually any installer (at least, not publicly available) for Windows Phone. There's only full device images available, which are specific to their intended devices. Custom ROMs, even for variants of the same OS that the device shipped with, are hacked together and often don't have full hardware support, especially when switching between OSes. You would need to build one nearly from scratch for a device like yours, given that the manufacturer of it doesn't (so far as I know) sell *any* Windows Phone devices so you couldn't even crib drivers from another phone. Additionally, nearly all ARM devices ship with locked bootloaders that will not boot a different operating system, or even allow the OS to be tampered with (although these days, consumer Android device bootloaders can usually be unlocked).
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thals1992:
Well then think of it this way, Install XP on a computer. Take the hard drive out and try to boot on another one. It won't work unless you have all the drivers or extremely similar hardware.

I don't have a complete understanding of ARM, but I assume these Qualcomm SoCs have the TPM built in. Its almost the bottleneck with using WP8, but we'll have to wait for HTC to release a potential dual boot Android Windows Phone. Things will align sometime.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilliman:
OK Here is how PC/Windows works:

When Windows boots it uses a thing called "HAL" (hardware abstraction layer) - and whilst booting it tries its best to cope with a number of chipsets, disc drive controllers, and other core hardware components. This is done on the fly because there are only so many chipsets out there and the drivers aren't that large. If you boot Windows in debug mode you will see it loading one million drivers for hardware which you definitely not have - and when you actually install it it does the same - it does not ask you " what CPU / north bridge / south bridge / other DMA/ chipset / and everything else you have?". It just tries it all and loads what fits. The only things left out are whatever you can load later, eg specific sound card drivers, wifi, video card etc.

So this is a marriage between the PC's BIOS ROMs and the OS - so that with one single CD you can install pretty much anywhere. And this idea and technology has been around since the 70s.

For Linux/Unix/OS/2 and anything else on the PC the idea is pretty much the same: the BIOS has " started " the machine for you, and you simply run your "application" which in most cases is a complete OS!

For example I once wrote a memory tester that booted straight off the drive, without any other OS being present, it is that simple once you have the BIOS in place.

In my complete ignorance of how smartphones are made, I assumed that the hardware manufacturer of each phone provides a BIOS which can provide basic services like on the PC. Is that what we call the "bootloader" ? Looking at the "scatter files" it appears there is a whole lot of binary images before the "android" image.

Are these images the "hardware layer / BIOS" then? And can we consider the "android" image to be the actual OS?
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcosmin222:
You don't understand the basic problem.

Windows (desktop) is an entirely different OS which has very powerful hardware at its disposal and it is supposed to run on various hardware configurations. It was designed to be this way from the ground up.

Windows Phone is just not like that. It is designed to work with one configuration, and one configuration alone. You can;t even flash the WP8 image from one device model to another without risking brick.

If you try to flash the lumia 1520 ROM on a lumia 820, chances are the lumia 820 will brick.

In other words, WP8 does not load "millions" of drivers in hope of matching the single one the system matches. There are various technical and marketing reasons why this does not happen.

And it is like this for android as well. Getting past the bootloader is easy (for android devices). Getting to actually boot something is an entirely different story.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jy_P:
Just a FYI, I did have a old mtk device once that has dual boot Android 2.x and Windows 6.1... I know that is old. But that was cool.
[General Topics] AndroidUser00110001:
So I need a new desktop system and the heaviest task I will be doing with it is compiling AOSP ROMs. I am going back and forth on hardware configurations and thought to get the input of others.

I am going to start off with 16GB of RAM and WD 1TB drives in RAID0.

I thought I was going to go with i5 but does not support multithreading so then I thought to splurge on CPU and go for i7. I could go with i3 and have 4 threads but less L3 cache than i5 and save money.

With motherboard I was looking at the Asus Z87 boards. Was thinking of Pro or Plus. I just need a stable motherboard with on board video. I do not plan on ever going with SLI setup or do any overclocking.

I am not sure on a power supply so any recommendations on one would be great.

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] senectus:
I have a XDA2 that I no longer need that I would like to donate to a Linux developer (specifically).

The is only one draw back.

The phone is "slightly" broken.

The little PCB pin in the base of the phone is broken so you can no longer charge it by cable or plug it into a PC. Other than that it works fine with no history of crashes or overclocking at all.

I no longer needed it because I upgraded to a TREO 650.

Could someone point out to me whom I should be talking to for making a hardware donation to a Linux Hacker/Group.

Thanks

Marcus
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ithamar:
If you still have it, I would be delighted to take it off your hands....

I've just started on working on porting Linux to mobile phones like this one :)

Ithamar.
[Moto X Q&A] Drahkarg:
I recently installed a stock 4.4 image thorugh RSD to my xt1058. Everything is working properly, but I'm not able to install a recovery. tried installing through fastboot in a command window, and while I didn't get any errors and the changes were reflected on my phone's bootloader screen, no recovery is accessable. I've tried several different recoveries, and I've also tried naming my recovery "recovery.img", replacing the recovery in the stock image, and flashing it all through RSD. Which succeeded... But still, no recovery is accessable.

I'm avoiding USB 3 ports and have been using the cable that came with my Moto X which is the only way I was able to get the device to show up in RSD.

My brain has stopped working. There must be something somewhere I've missed.

Some info:

RSD 6.1.4

Fastboot and ADB working, device shows up when pinged through command window. Moto drivers installed and recent (however mfastboot or moto-fastboot has never worked, not sure if these are required or redundant)

Unlocked bootloader (via code from Motorola)

System Version: 140.44.3.ghost_row.Retail.en.US

Tmobile 4.4 stock, stock kernel.

ISSUE RESOLVED on my own conviction. Needed to search through unorganized crap to install mfastboot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Aquarius169:
Need help with freeing up internal storage on note 2. I put a 4.3 rom using philz recovery and now I'm down to 888 mb from 16 gb need help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
...Move stuff over to an ExtSD card? :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] d3cypher:
Did you come from an older version of android?
[Sprint LG Optimus G] max12344:
Hi,

My LS970 works fine with the stock ROM (4.0.4) but as soon as I install a custom ROM with Kitkat neither 3G, 4G or Wifi work. I have tried CM11, JellyBam and SlimBeans but all show the same behavior. Does anybody have this working or an idea what could be wrong?

Cheers!
[Sprint LG Optimus G] engine95:
If your on Stock 4.0.4 that should be ZV9 and that radio won't work for JB and any CM Rom's. You need to upgrade your radio.

There are a few options:

Let your phone upgrade to ZVC. It should be trying to do that already.

Or, if you are rooted and unlocked already and have TWRP, then you can flash the radio/modem. I would also recommend using a Stock based Rom to start.

The flashable radio/modems are here. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40169203

The Stock Rom I would use is here. http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23212708291680187

So in recovery, flash the radio, then the ROM. It might not hurt to flash the radio a second time before you reboot.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] max12344:
I couldn't go back to stock and use the OTA because I have been told that using the OTA stock update will brick the phone if the bootloader is unlocked. So I have downloaded the file LS970ZVC-M9615A-CEFWMAZM-3.0.10646 from your link and flashed it.

WIFI works now. Thanks! But I still don't have 3G or LTE. Any ideas what else could be missing?

Thanks again! I was already ready to throw out the phone and get a Nexus 5.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] engine95:
Try flashing a stock rom, the one linked above. Then go to Settings>System Updates and update profile and prl. You can also go to Settings>Activate this device after those 2. This is the only way we can update those. CM/AOSP can't do that. That should get you going.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] max12344:
That did it. I have Wifi and 3G (no LTE but I can live without that) now. Thanks a lot!
[Sprint LG Optimus G] k5t4j5:
Sometimes I have to dirty flash "flash rom zip again over top of original flash" without wiping dalvik or anything to get signals to pick up and I'm current on Zvc , prl , ect. Never hurts anything and always seems to work if the traditional way doesn't, if you see this problem again might try.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elhombremacaco:
After reading and finding out about the debug mode by tapping the build number 7 times, i teyed multitapping in other greyed bits on my about phone on my z1. By tapping android version 3 times fast the phone displayed a massive jellybean on the screen with jellybean written under it. Was this already known to anyone and is there any sort of something else to it?

Also, are there anymore secret random things like this one by multi tapping?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xasbo:
Yes, this works in each Android version. These are the only two I'm aware of at the moment.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djg269:
They are called Easter Eggs and are in all versions.

http://www.howtogeek.com/121197/4-hidden-android-easter-eggs-from-gingerbread-to-jelly-bean/

sent from a Rooted & Unlocked Xperia Z1
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nb31b:
Long press on the giant bean and a ton of small ones appear which you can throw around the screen ;)
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elhombremacaco:
How random haha. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beaker319:
Hashcode thank you so much for all the work that you have done for the Kindle Fire HD! The new CM11 is working great on my device! I have read several of your post stating that you are trying to find the time to work on the OTG problem with the Kindle Fire HD. Have you or anyone else made any progress? I have seriously spent hours upon hours researching this topic on the internet. Watched every youtube video I could fine and have searched the XDA forums. I have tried every powered USB hub configuration I could possibly think of and I just can't find the solution. Is there something that I am missing? If you have any suggestions, could you or anyone else please point me in the right direction? I use my Fire HD for meetings and such at the office and a mouse, keyboard and flash memory would be so convenient!

Thank you again for all of your hard work!!

Regards,

Beaker319
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
It's disabled in the kernel, if you want it enabled you will have to compile your own kernel and flash it.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beaker319:
Thanks

Thank you for your reply! Is there a place I can start for a tutorial on how to do this? I really enjoy a puzzle!!
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
OK I have some experience with this but it's a bit different for mobile devices. Lookup a basic tutorial on Google for compiling a Linux kernel. And what I would do is install a Linux distro, like Ubuntu 13.10, and download the cm sources for cm 11 following hashcode's instruction on his post cm 10.1 post, but use the cm 11 and such repos instead. You will need I would recommend around a 50 GB partition for Ubuntu if you plan on doing this, because the source code of cm + the device tree is at least 15gb, probably bigger for cm, I am compiling a different ROM so it is probably less in my case, anyways the compilation of the ROM takes up a huge amount of space, but I'm a but unaware of the kernel compiling process for android devices in one sense, I am not sure if the kernel is recompiled by the ROM compilation or if you have to do it manually. If you have to do it manually you will want to load up a custom defconfig that hashcode made for our device then check off the otg support before compiling. If you never have compiled a Linux kernel before, I recommend trying to compile one for your PC first to get the hang of it.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blickblocks:
Did you end up compiling for USB OTG compatibility to be enabled?
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beaker319:
No

This looks way to complicated for me. I will leave it to the professionals.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webeltm:
After doing all the reading I can, I'm of the opinion that it just won't work. If it was as simple as enabling it in the kernel, I would bet that it would be done by now.

However, I don't know anything, so I'm at the mercy of all the smart people here!

-L
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ipipipipip:
The question is whether OTG detection is implemented for this device, there are two power controllers on this device that may handle ID pin of a USB port, and can handle power output for connected device. First twl6030, I believe it is used just as multi-channel power controller for SoC an other periferial devices, it also has OTG module and may supply power to connected device.

Second smb347, is actually a battery charget and I believe VBUS is connected to it, it supports USB power output of up to 750mA, but I am not sure if there is a driver in linux kernel that may use this IC to output this power.

So I believe it's possible to have OTG wokring, but it may need some R&D and not just enabling it in config.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webeltm:
Why would this be "disabled"? It looks like everyone wants this.. Did someone really "turn it off"? Doesn't make any sense.

-L
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] echodeluxe:
Go!

so far I'm using JellyBeans build 6 which is great, but i wanted to see if there was anything else running stock android/touchwiz with some more functionality like hiding headphone plugged in notification, power button screenshot, etc.

i also thought it would be great to have a comprehensive list, as i feel the information regarding this is a little scattered.

feel free to tell me im dumb!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jimmah555:
This Development section kind of is the list. Click each ROM's thread and read the features they have.

And also, this is posted in the completely wrong section.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b00mb00mchuck:
Well you said to feel free .... the sub you posted in has all the safestrap roms... and it can't be scattered ... there's only 24 posts here... all organized nicely for your viewing pleasure... without a bunch of random questions cluttering up the scenery... speaking of that this thread will be moved in 5... 4... 3... 2.......
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Development section is only for developers to post work

Thread moved to Q&A

Thanks

FNSM
[Nexus 7 Android Development] jblazea50:
This is built from Team CodeFireX source. All real work was done by Team CodeFireX. I just compiled it.

I do not take responsibility if you brick your device. You are flashing at your own risk.

CFX website: http://codefirex.com

This should be considered a beta. I have installed it on my Nexus 7 2012 and it is working. I tested the usual stuff (camera, wifi, sound, GPS, etc.) and they are working as it should.

Features

4.4 Kitkat

Linaro GCC 4.8

ZeroX Benchmark

File Explorer

Google Launcher

CFX Tools

Many many optimizations...just check out their site if you want full info.

Bugs

-CFX Tools - This is work in progress so some of the options may not be working (I noticed Theme doesn't work)

-you tell me

Downloads

CFX 4.4 20/01/14 http://d-h.st/uib

CFX 4.4 22/01/14 http://d-h.st/NZf

Updated to 01/28/2014

:

CFXE 01/28/2014

CFXE 01-28-2014 MIRROR

Official Beta/Nightlies

Official Beta/Nightly Downloads

Banks Gapps

SuperSu SuperSu v1.91

Installation Instructions

-Make nandroid backup of your current rom

-Full Wipe Device (DO NOT WIPE INTERNAL MEMORY)

-Flash Rom

-Flash Gapps

-Flash SuperSu

-Reboot

-Restore

-Enjoy

This is complied from source and Team CodeFireX's Git can be found here:

CodefireXperiment Git

Thanks to:

Team CodeFireX

Xboxfanj

ThatKawaiiGuy

BMP7777

ajf64

sylentprofet

Haze028

About Phone Screenshot
[Nexus 7 Android Development] jblazea50:
Updated to 01-22-2014: http://d-h.st/NZf
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Swords.Grizzlebee:
This is running quite nicely so far. It's fast and smooth and breathes some new life into my device. Thanks for your effort, it's appreciated!
[Nexus 7 Android Development] _frog hair:
Edit2: Veeerry nice build. Running smooth with ART.

I'd Like to build it my self.. Can you tell me how to setup building evironment for cfx?

//ttpro on Nexus7
[Nexus 7 Android Development] jblazea50:
Updated to 01/28/2014:

CFXE 01/28/2014

CFXE 01-28-2014 MIRROR
[Nexus 7 Android Development] jblazea50:
Beta rom can be found at the following link (this is through official channel):

Grouper CFXE Beta/Nightlies
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] DustCrow:
Hey! I need to get to the sprint store within the next 2 HOURS! My mom is coming down to get take my S4 and we're swapping numbers and I'm taking her Iphone 5s, we're on the same sprint plan, they do it for free, and quick!

Problem is... my phone is rooted and I have the latest version of the Sacs custom ROM, but is this a problem?

Would it cause problems in the number switching to the S4 if my phone is rooted and on the newest versions of Sacs? Does my phone need to be completely reset to 4.3 stock (Since I updated to MK2 firmware).

I need to know quick quick quick, thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] typxyt:
No. Just run the data rest or activation
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] imbmiller:
Late but for future reference it should not matter at all. You probably could have done it over the phone too instead of going in. The switch is on their end, not on your phone. If you think about it it would be pretty ridiculous to put that setting on the phone side, I would have all of my exes calls coming to me instead... Muhahahaha
[General Questions and Answers] hecdtec386:
I currently have an issue with the camera. It states that I've run out of space on my sdcard and that I should delete some files. Though this may be true of internal memory, I have a 32GB external sdcard with only 9GB used. I can't find anyplace in the camera's settings to use my external sdcard. When I do look at the files using efs manager it seems it melds the internal sdcard and external sdcard. Not sure if this has something to do with it.

Can anyone please help me with this issue? I would like to be able to take pictures and have 20GB of space left.:(
[General Questions and Answers] DayWalker:
well if you tried changing it in settings and its not there i recommend you use a camera app which can be downloaded thru Gplay..

HIt thanks if i helped.... :good:
[General Questions and Answers] hecdtec386:
Downloaded and installed CameraMX and got the same error and found no settings to us the sdcard instead of the internal storage. Uuuuugh! I'll try other camera apps but I think it's going to be the same issue.

I'm using Linaro's CM10 on a Samsung T679 Exhibit II 4G with a 32GB sdcard.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] alfadog77:
Is it possible or will I face a brick? I wanna try the MIUI v5 Rom but I can't flash since I don't have the old LTE bootloader
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] JustZaphod:
From personal experience..

Only flashing an older boot-loader if coming from the more recent one, that will brick your device..

Dont quote me on that.. But im pretty sure thats the case
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] alfadog77:
So i can't flash miui v5 at all? That's annoying :( i wanted to try it