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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] maedondias:
I've been running CM10 for a while, and at some point my USB port quit working. I restored my backup from when I got the device [AMDL], but realized that backup obviously came from after i installed TWRP.

I can't seem to locate the matching stock recovery file to be able to flash via TWRP, and am planning to go in for a warranty swap in a couple hours, anyone happen to have the AMDL recovery file that i can either dd or TWRP into place?

Other thought, would an OTA update replace the recovery as well? I can attempt the MK2 OTA update since i had never updated to begin with?

So my overall challenge, how the hell to completely stock the phone without using Odin/USB cable. I just don't see any CWM complete stock ROMs around for the SGS4 like i used to for SGS1/SGS2.

Oh, and it's the AT&T i337 SGS4, I just realized this post is in a subset of the AT&T/CBell/Rogers/etc section.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ted77usa:
[MENTION=502681]maedondias[/MENTION] PLEASE DO NOT UPDATE OR WARRANTY SWAP. ...U WOULD END UP WITH MF3 /MK2 and u can't flash any GPE/AOKP/AOSP/CM roms anymore....I might have stock MDL/MDB recovery .....but i just got to work right now..... let me know tonight if u still need it.....:thumbup::D:thumbup:

Swyped From MK2 Dark Venom SS Edition
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] maedondias:
That's kinda where I'm stuck right now though.

My USB port is dead, I bought spare batteries and swap them on a wall charger every night. Also the volume button bent itself somehow and sometimes will just crank itself up all the way without warning... The device is just getting frustrating at this point.

Doing a warranty swap at least gets me a device that's got a functioning USB port, i guess worse case is I have to wait for the community to figure out how to break MF3/MK2 and i just hang around stock for a while.

So how I look at it, my options are:

* Stick with the bad usb port, keep swapping batteries and copying things to an sd card. This method has been getting difficult as every so often the internal storage seems to get unhappy, and attempts to download pictures/backup files from the internal storage will fail.

* Warranty exchange it, probably have a newer and more difficult stock ROM, but be able to use USB cables again and use the internal sd card as a storage device again, at the risk that I'm stuck stock for a while?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ted77usa:
[MENTION=502681]maedondias[/MENTION]

1.Google for Usb flex cable and it should come with usb port and pretty cheap less than $15 off eBay and pretty easy to replace.....:D but u can keep your RARE Firmware that able to flash any custom rom and custom kernel all the way to 4.4.2

2. MF3 is more stable than MK2 and u can flash any 4.2.2 rom including GPE .... but u need Safestrap recovery base on TWRP to work.

Swyped From MK2 Dark Venom SS Edition
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] maedondias:
lol The last phone i tried to replace hardware on didn't go well, I found a teardown guide for it and the guide missed telling me to disconnect something and I couldn't feel that it was connected. Ended up ripping up a couple more pieces and couldn't find them online without buying a whole board. That and opening it and swapping it, wouldn't that set off any internal warranty stickers?

I can try to push for an MF3 device. I know I'm a tad out of date with the latest messes in the i337 since i rooted, flashed, and never needed to come back :P I'm guessing the difficulties lately are all due to Samsung pushing Knox?

EDIT: I cancelled my warranty "appointment" since they made me make one on their web site. Going back to relooking at my options. The phone is on a family member's company plan, there's a good chance that we're all switching to Verizon in the next month or so but able to keep the old devices. So all of this may be unimportant. :-/

Edit2: I finally got a successful download of the odin AMDL rom, was able to get the recovery.img out, but i'm not going to bother flashing it for now.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00351:
Hello,

today I decided to unlock, s-off and root my phone, but before I'll start, I have some questions.

I'm running Android 4.3 with Sense 5.5 and HBOOT 1.55 on a german HTC One without branding.

Does a s-off work with my phone?

Which tool do I need now? Rummrunner or Firewater (firewater with temproot did'nt work for me)?

After HTC Dev Unlock, is it possible to go to completely stock (with s-off), so I will get my warranty back?

I mean really stock, so that HTC can't see that I used the HTC Dev Unlock?

Thanks for your help.

~Maik
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilmirza:
yes you can S-OFF easily using rumrunner or firewater ;)

and yes you can go complete 100% STOCK for warranty purposes :)

check my signature ;)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00351:
Perfect, sounds good :)

Thank you!

It doesn't matter if I use rumrunner or firewater?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilmirza:
it depends which works for you :p

rumrunner is quite easy and fast ;)

just follow the guide in my signature and you'll achieve it :fingers-crossed:

if not then try firewater :D
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00351:
Everything worked :D

Unlocked & S-OFF.

Now I want to remove this red warning text at boot.

My Build Number is "3.62.401.1".

Can I use the modified HBOOT 1.55 from Base 3.62 from HERE?

Or do I need exactly 3.62.401.1?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilmirza:
bro now you are S-OFF you should update your firmware to the latest for peak performance for your device ;)

latest firmware is 4.19.xx.xx something, you should get it, which you'll probably find without the red text :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00351:
Yeah, I updated now to Android 4.4.2 (Android Revolutiob). New Firmware is included.

So, now I need HBOOT 1.55 with base from 4.19, correct?

Edit: I already flashed newest HBOOT 1.56 with 4.19 base (without red warning).

Everything is fine. Thank you :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilmirza:
why do you need HBOOT 1.56? what is you goal?

kindly paste your "fastboot getvar all" remove S/N & IMEI

---------- Post added at 09:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:54 PM ----------

please downgrade your HBOOT below 1.56

because on HBOOT 1.56 you cannot access fastboot with Windows 8.1 and you cannot go S-OFF (again if on S-ON) with HBOOT 1.56
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00351:
I flashed this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2485651

After that I had newest HBOOT, Base and No Red Warning.

But okay, I will downgrade :o

Can you give me a tutorial for that?

fastboot getvar all:

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.56.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: 4A.23.3263.28

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main: 4.19.401.8

(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-OFF

(bootloader) serialno: ----------------------

(bootloader) imei: ------------------

(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000

(bootloader) product: m7_ul

(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064

(bootloader) modelid: PN0710000

(bootloader) cidnum: 11111111

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 3882mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: off

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-4dab9d12

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0

all: Done!

finished. total time: 0.064s

btw. I'm using Windows 8.1
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilmirza:
are you sure your HBOOT was 1.55? and after updating firmware it got 1.56?

and how did you managed to get fastboot working on Windows 8.1 :eek:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00351:
It was 100% HBOOT 1.55 before I did s-off and all the other stuff.

I had Android 4.3 + Sense 5.5 and HBOOT 1.55.0000.

I think HBOOT 1.56 came after firmware update (That can not be actually)...

And fastboot worked directly, I don't know why :D
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilmirza:
oh silly me :(

sorry i was wrong about Windows 8.1 fastboot issue :silly:

you don't have to worry about HBOOT 1.56 and forget about downgrading :D

courtesy by [MENTION=5458228]LibertyMarine[/MENTION] :

courtesy by [MENTION=2605798]nkk71[/MENTION] :
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00351:
Haha, okay :)

So, I'm up-to-date now?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilmirza:
yes :)

sorry again :(
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00351:
No problem, that happens. Thank you for your help!

The main thing is that everything works.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilmirza:
yeah congratulations

and please edit your OP and add FIXED/SOLVED :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LibertyMarine:
haha.. thanks :) this happend to me twice until I managed to conclude that this has to be an issue with windows 8.1 :p

So I wanna prevent others from doing this fault ;)

and I might should have read [MENTION=2605798]nkk71[/MENTION]'s instructions first :)
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwatson261:
Hi all, I've somehow cocked up during tinkering with this rom and now have no operating system on my phone and was wondering how i go about getting the rom & Gapps back on to the root of my phone using adb/fastboot/twrp or whatever as its no longer picked up as a storage device by the pc, although it does aknowledge adb mode. thanks in advance. Darren.

edit. after trying to push the rom im getting a "device not found" message in the command window.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] biglo:
Hey guys Im going to buy a case for my htc one and I want to find one that will kind of absorb the heat that this thing produces, cause lets face it this thing gets pretty damn hot if you use it continuously sometimes. I just want a case that will absorb the heat or one that wont get hot. I don't care if it damages the phone. Just want my hands to not be sweating and uncomfortable when using my phone. Thanks
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Crawshayi:
I guess pretty much any case that isn't super thin would work to be a barrier against the heat... the case I use 90% of the time is this one here: http://www.amazon.com/Incipio-HT-358-DualPro-Carbon-Fiber/dp/B00C0R3UOO/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1392162251&sr=8-8&keywords=incipio+htc+one

The case not only looks bad*ss but is really slim and sturdy. When the phone heats up there's enough layers from the case so that you don't feel it much at all. I have noticed to my surprise that I have to really be using my phone for a long time for it to heat up enough to notice... the only time it heats up quick is when I'm using GPS navigation. Other than that though, no major issues with heat.

The other case I have for "heavy duty" is a Seidio active with kickstand. That case also feels really good.
[HTC Tornado] chrissyboy6969:
Are there any programs to really close apps after use like there is for full pocket pc's seem to keep runningout of memory
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamFreddy:
Ok so I'm not even sure it's possible but I have a phone I'm not using so I was wondering can I set the apn settings to connect to a Wi-Fi network instead of a mobile network.

Thing is my Wi-Fi get a quarter meg dl n a tenth upload on my pc but 6 megs dl n 2 megs upload on the phone so I tried looking for a way to use it as a repeater but apparently it's nt possible with android so I figured if I used Wi-Fi instead of a mobile network n run my hotspot it may work something like a repeater.

So anyway my question is can I set the apn settings to connect to my Wi-Fi network rather than t mobile's mobile data network
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boynique:
well before i start, i have to apologize due to the fact that maybe this has been answered in a previous thread.

I have a galaxy gt-i9300 and is rooted.

Since the last year i was able to install all cfw especially miui that i have most enjoyed.

The last month i wanted to turn to cyanogen and have installed cyanogen 11 but due to the bugs i turned back to a more stable 10.2.

I recently updated also the clockwork mod recovery to 6.0.4.6.

Since then i cannot install any miui version i get (status 7) and i can install only omega roms (samsung based) and cyanogen.\

Could you pls help me

p.s. I have done the solution where you edit the zip file but nothing worked "installation aborted"

is it maybe the new clockworkmod recovery?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tallman43:
Try twrp recovery ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boynique:
I have to unroot first because i followed the instructions and installed twrp recovery but always boots in clockworkmod
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boynique:
I have changed through goo manager twrp recovery but still i cannot install miui v5
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
In recovery factory reset.

Flash stock rom via odin .
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boynique:
can you please be a bit more specific thank you
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tallman43:
JJEgan doesn't do specific :D Seriously though I think he means when you are in recovery mode use the wipe data/ factory reset mode before you flash your rom (although I normally do a full wipe) and if that does not work I think he is recommending to flash back to stock with odin then try again.If I have miss-understood his post then I am sorry :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boynique:
after full wipe

update partition details

installing ..... miui_i9300 4.2.7....

checking for md5 file

skipping md5 check: no md5 file found

formatting system

installing system files...

create system links

set permission

updae boot image

e:unable to open zip file

error flashing zip

FAILED
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boynique:
thank you very much i dont know what i did now but it worked and just install miui 4.2.7

gapps was the problem i think that i was trying to install with miui
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
I don't do specific as i expect users to have read the faqs and guides before messing with a phone .

yes wipe and go back to the very beginning solves many problems .
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tallman43:
I agree with you to a certain extent ;) But unfortunately we live in the real world and "expecting" users to have read the faqs and guides does not happen in quite alot of cases and if they did the Q&A section would be very quiet place ( I have seen people ask questions when the answer was answered two or three posts behind .People do and will post simple questions long after we have left this wonderful forum without reading previous posts.

My point was that when people answer a question putting has much information as possible or posting links to help guides helps the person find a solution more quickly instead of endless "what do you mean" posts.

Anyway glad the op solved his problem :)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bidshelf:
This the most strange think that I saw. A customer bring to me a Motorola Xoom2 tablet (MZ-616-32) that can't do a factory reset.

I tryed several times, on two diferent ways:

1) Privacy -> Factory Reset

2) By Recovery using Wipe Data and Wipe Cache

The tablet is 100% locked.

Everytime after the reset completed all information including google, mail accounts, user apps, wifi configs, remaining here.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Tenderenden:
Hi!

My neighbour asked me to root his phone. I tried with some tutorials who told me to use SuperOneClick. But I have some problem with USB debugging. It just don't show any information on status bar about it though I turned it on in settings.

Later neighbour said that there was something done with soft of this phone. He don't know anything about it and in service papers are written only that the soft was changed. I tried to find in phone info is the ROM or kernel correct but everything seems ok.

Can you help me with this?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] kralin:
There are several detailed root processes for this device in the sl i9003 forum. Just search it, read the comments and you ll be ready to do root
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Tenderenden:
But other methods are about flashing PDA file and I'm scared of doing that becouse I don't know anything about soft that the service installed (also I broke some phones while doing that). I will be greatful if you give me solution for my problem with USB debugging :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pezmet:
Are there any costum kernels for the 4.4.2 TW leak ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abemann:
No way atm, until the sources aren't released. The only i know is maybe the jeboo one from the shoStock ROM i think

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2639202

tapatalked by an Echoenian
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cooltwou:
How do you download Torrents on Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 because the Stock Apps Amazon has doesn't download the Torrents & it only gives you these 2 Apps: Crystal Downloader and Download Everything Pro and they will not download the Torrents at all
[Moto X Q&A] _slam:
Currently on VZN, XT1060, MotoX, DEV unlocked bootloader, TWRP, SuperSU:

version: 4.4

kernel: 3.4.42-xline-gf57cf5bdbbuild@ca88lnxdroid14#1

system: 140.45.5.ghost_verizon.Verizon.en.US

build: 13.11.1Q2.X-69-3

NO ROM And I only changed two items:

1. VzwEntitlementService.apk via [http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2536166] by changing the originalVzwEntitlementService.apk to VzwEntitlementService.apk.bak

2. Remove bootloader warning image

Question: for the 4.4.2 update (hopefully coming soon)

1. Can I just get the 4.4.2 update via OTA with my current setup

2. Or do I have a to flash back to stock

Thank you much.

and I'm new to xda.
[Moto X Q&A] dray_jr:
you need to flash the stock recovery and then run the OTA. after it installs flash your custom recovery back.
[Moto X Q&A] Cozume:
Thanks, if someone has an unlocked bootloader but is not rooted and they removed the bootloader unlocked message using the command:

fastboot flash logo logo.bin

and used a logo.bin file that has the original kitkat 4.4 logo in it, can they take the OTA without doing anything else?

Also, when you flash the stock recovery, you become unrooted and so then if you flash your custom recovery after the OTA, you reroot, right?

Are you supposed to wipe the davlik/cache or anything else like that before you take the OTA?
[Moto X Q&A] dray_jr:
as for the logo i am not sure i think you should be ok .

as for when you flash the stock recovery yes you loose root but when you reflash the custom recovery if you still dont have root just reinstall SuperSU and you will be good to go,

and anytime i flash something i always wipe the cache/davlik
[Moto X Q&A] Cozume:
really so when I flashed my custom recovery to root for the first time, I should have wiped that?
[Moto X Q&A] dray_jr:
you dont have too but it is recommended
[Moto X Q&A] Melarsa:
Hmm, I have a VZW DE, unlocked bootloader, flashed TWRP then SuperSU to get root, then flashed the stock recovery and still have root. I honestly can't remember if I re-rooted after flashing back to stock recovery, but I don't think that I did. Are you saying that flashing to stock recovery should have unrooted the phone? What does it mean if it didn't? I hope I'm remembering correctly.

I'd like to be able to get the OTA 4.4.2 update from VZW when available but I keep reading it's not possible with root. How do I remove root if reflashing the stock recovery didn't do it? I'm coming from a GNex which was much simpler so I want to make sure I'm prepared for the OTA when it arrives. Thanks!
[Moto X Q&A] flashallthetime:
OK,listen and listen closely, by far the best way to accept the ota is flash stock recovery and also flash your system.img, I don't care what other folks say, I've been here for 3 ota's , this will prevent any chances of having issues when accepting the ota. You may also flash Verizon's sbf firmware when available, the later is what I prefer

Sent on my Gummy running Lenoto X
[Moto X Q&A] Melarsa:
Got it, that's what I'll do when the time comes. Thanks!
[Moto X Q&A] fbiryujin:
Could I do a TWRP backup of /data and just flash the entire system back to new, take the OTA and TWRP restore /data?

Or does /data contain some stuff that is linked to the version of Android I did the backup with?
[Moto X Q&A] piccit:
Why would you need to do that? /data isn't going anywhere in the process of flashing system and recovery and then taking an OTA
[Moto X Q&A] fbiryujin:
I thought it might be different because I'm rooted, and encrypted.
[Moto X Q&A] flashallthetime:
You can try to restore your data after you upgrade, there is no guarantee you won't have any issues but it won't be a huge problem, you'll just have to factory reset. It no different when you flash a custom ROM , if the developer uses a new base then often they request you to do a clean fresh install, otherwise you'll have issues

Sent on my Gummy running Lenoto X
[Moto X Q&A] fbiryujin:
I'm not using a custom ROM though.
[Moto X Q&A] flashallthetime:
I understand that, try it and see what happens, you might be OK restoring your data , no harm in trying

Sent on my Gummy running Lenoto X
[Moto X Q&A] fbiryujin:
So far no official update available to me even after flashing the stock image from Moto. My biggest goal here is to find a way to backup and restore nandroids from the encrypted phone.
[Moto X Q&A] _slam:
Flash and relock Moto X manually

No lie my a$$hole did pucker up though the whole process but... success :D woohoo!

I followed the instruction on Motorola website [https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/standalone/bootloader/recovery-images] one thing I did not have is 'Motorola fastboot utility to flash (included in the Darwin/, Linux/ or Windows/ directory)' had to do some searching; came across [http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138092] Thanks for that.

DETAILS (So this is what I was working with):

VZN, XT1060, MotoX, DEV unlocked bootloader, TWRP, SuperSU:

version: 4.4 | system: 140.45.5.ghost_verizon.Verizon.en.US | build: 13.11.1Q2.X-69-3

Did this on my Mac, NOT on PC

Steps:

1. got recovery image

2. got Motorola fastboot utility from | http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138092 moto-fastboot-osx.zip

3. used the fastboot from Darwin folder

4. follow steps from motorola website, but did not oem lock [$ fastboot oem lock]

5. last step reboot [$ fastboot reboot] a$$hole pucker up

But success, everything booted up properly even had the warning bootloader unlocked image

There was one point when it got to the Verizon boot image; it took abit longer a$$hole pucker up but finished booting.

Then phone went through the setup process (like new).... It's Miller time! :p

Come on 4.4.2 update via OTA
[Moto X Q&A] shadowmonk36:
I just want to make sure that when you did this all it did was remove root and replace the bootloader, not any data or settings you had on your phone. That is the only thing that worries me before I decide to do the 4.4.2 update.
[Moto X Q&A] tcrews:
1) You don't need to do much. Revert the Entitlement hack you did, you need the one that came on the device, not a hacked one.

2) Flash the stock recovery back to your phone. You'll need the stock recovery to install the OTA. Just do it the same way you flashed TWRP to your phone but use the stock recovery.img file from the 4.4 .sbf ( http://sbf.droid-developers.org/download.php?device=0&file=5 )

You will NOT lose root flashing the stock recovery, you will NOT lose root taking the OTA.

After updating, use Xposed and the Moto Tether module for tethering instead of using a hacked version of the app.