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[General Questions and Answers] Augusto.Nascimento75:
I need help

I have a Tmobile Galaxy s4 M919.

After the 4.3 update, i am not able to completely flash a stock rom in order to have my phone working again.

Tried root, tried CWM ot TWRP, Odin stock, Kies, but every attempt got stuck for ever on the boot logo screen with blue letters on the left hand up corner saying recovery booting.

I can't access download mode but not recovery.

Only onceworked, and i could flash thru KIES and the download screen after that shown:

System Official Samsung

Binary Official.

After that i start to have an issue with SIMCARD non detected, and had to restart and never worked again.

Seems like Knox is dealing with custom rom or bootloader and keeps on bootlogo screen.

Any help will n]be very appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] Olycius:
Best thing to do is use odin on your pc and get the stock rom from samsung or another source, then completly flash it so it will wipe out you phone completly and then reinstall stock. This happened to my m919. If you need more help on how to completly replace the stock rom using odin there are plenty of videos that show you step by step. You just soft bricked your phone so it's fixable.
[General Questions and Answers] Augusto.Nascimento75:
I have flashed several times via odin and kies, but everytime i still with Binary Official and System Custom.

Seems like the flash does not overwrite the kies bootloader, thats why i am stuck on boot revovery.

Once it worked, the system and binary became official, then i flashed knox free stock rom via recovery.

As i told, i can acces download but not recovery.

Does anyone know any knox free stock rom flashable via odin???
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kelford:
I found this thread on aximsite, a forum I still visit from when I had a Dell Axim and it looked interesting. I didn't find the app in a search here, so I thought I'd post it for anyone who might be interested.

UPX is apparently an app that lets you compress .exe and .dll files without really impacting perfomance in any noticeable way (per the postings in the thread.) I haven't tried it yet, but might give it a shot. It seems the app is not resident on the pocket PC, but needs have files moved to the pc, compressed, then moved back. It's a little bit of work, but it only needs to be done once, so after the set up, it sounds like you're good to go.

Anyway, just thought I'd pass it on as an FYI for anyone who might be interested.

Oh yeah, and it's free too.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Chatty:
Finally UPX is available for WinCE. You should have posted in "General" in the first place.

This program makes your programs even start faster (less to read from usually slow SD card, storage, ...).
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] stanip:
For a non-technical person, I am a bit confused... Reading thru the thread, it seems that more ram are required to run the compressed apps.

What exactly do we gain if the apps are stored on a storage card where storage space is not really the issue? Need help.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Wow, thank God. UPX is old skool genius.

Can someone give it a go on the enormous Skype executable? I'm not near my phone for a while and can't check it.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Chatty:
vijay, I tested it on the big MobileNavigator.exe which is around 3,7 MB originally. UPX'd only 1,1 MB or so. And it runs! Even Voice Command (300KB down to 100KB). Since I have it installed in Storage it starts faster (Storage is soo slow).
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Thank goodness. This is a God send, when reversing PPC binaries you can see that they're full of so much slack.

I had a look at UPX quite a while ago - I use it to compress all my PC VB and C++ stuff, but was disappointed to find it didn't work on PPC. I'm :D now.

Decompressing presumably incurrs some overhead, but it'll help us out when we've got limited storage.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Chatty:
I can't agree with that. You can read on the authors page, that

Although decompression takes some time it is still faster, because it is read into RAM a few times faster than it normally would. This saves more time than it takes.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Good point Chatty. My concern was CPU overhead on slower processors (OMAP), but as you say, since you're using RAM or faster storage, it'll probably compensate.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Bartjan:
i tried it with opera and tomtom which are both on my main memory

results:

original opera startup 14 sec

upx opera startup 9 sec

original tomtom startup 15 sec

upx tomtom startup 14 sec

i also tried it with tcpmp which is on my SD card

original tcpmp startup 3 sec

upx tcpmp startup 2,5 sec

so it seems to speed things up a little :D

HOWEVER... in opera the the '-' buttons dont work anymore.. they do work when you use them through the touch screen though..

and the text ('Stop'/'Go to' and 'Menu') is aligned to the left of the screen instead of the normal at 1/3rd and 2/3rd of the screen.

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[edit] extra information

original opera 4,86mb

upx opera 1,63mb

original tomtom 2,62mb

upx tomtom 1,67mb

original tcpmp 1,21mb

upx tcpmp 1,21mb

not only a speed gain but it also saves room :D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Bartjan:
OPERA

after a few tests i found out the opera.dll is responsible for the movement of the ´-´ buttons and the not functioning with the keyboard

the opera.exe, xmlparse.dll and zip.dll have nothing to do with it..

with the upx´ed above three and the standard opera.dll startup takes 12 sec so its still some faster then all original files :)

however the original opera.dll is 4,74mb and the upx opera.dll is 1,57mb, so it doesnt save much room :!:

im just glad ill receive a 4gb SD card today which will give me some extra breathing room compared to my 512mb :D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Chatty:
Re: OPERA

1/3! What do/did you expect? I find this rather great!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Bartjan:
i meant:

when you use the original opera.dll so the ´-´ buttons still work right, you dont save much room compared to the all original opera :roll:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] PReDiToR:
I went through last night and UPX'd every DLL and EXE that I could, including WisBar (and Desktop), Resco, Opera, PocketInformant and other stuff.

PocketInformant won't start if one of the DLLs is UPX'd, but I don't remember which one. The rest of them and all the EXEs are fine.

Opera - as above. Screw the soft keys, 3MB is a lot of slack to be rid of.

Resco was interesting. The Today plugin messed up at one point, and the Explorer went completely scatty with fonts. Even after uncompressing all the Resco files again the Encrypt/Decrypt context menu items were blank but functioning.

WisBar (compressed) can now live in the 10MB Ext_ROM along with Opera and Resco.

All in all it is something to use carefully, but can save a LOT of space.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] hanmin:
Hmm.. so far the responses from the trial seems good. I'll give it a try too later this weekend :)

--- UPDATE (12 May 06) ---

My results, using UPX -9 (e.g. max compression)

All programs are working so far, but performance are negligible (e.g. less than 2 seconds improvements)

from \Windows

PITools.dll 1.18M -> 504K (save 700K)

from \Program Files

Mobibook.exe : 1.61M -> 619K (save 1.0M)

Tom tom navigator : 1.59 -> 692 (save 900K)

WorldMate.exe : 747K -> 207K (540K)

So, that is a saving of 3M of space! Anyway, for those of you that are adventurous, there are various 500K size dll files in \Windows folder, which I doubt can save much (e.g. the effort/space ratio isn't that attractive).

Anyway, I've found the following files on \Windows that seems to be compressable.

ppt.exe (powerpoint)

gwes.exe (???) <-- DO NOT RUN. It will hang your unit.

gdiplus.dll (???)

msxml3.dll (???)

However, I'm not sure if it is a good idea to compress the ppt that is in ROM, and others are unknown programs (e.g. not sure how to test it after compression)

I've also looked around my SD card and found the Tennis.exe game that I have, that is 2.4M in size which were then compressed downed to 2.17M, which is a bit disappointing. I didn't test if it runs on my unit or not.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] belfast-biker:
An pages anywhere with a list of what NOT to compress?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] acetuk:
This is an excellent app! I have compressed all of my apps and have not had any problems.

The big ones for me are PlanMaker and TextMaker - both have compressed to a fraction of their original size. Infact I was running a little tight on space I hadn't even installed TextMaker. But now I have compressed both it isn't a problem.

The only strange one so far is ListPro which works fine but loses it's icon.

I haven't tried to compress everything possible, just the apps and may be the main dll.

I have now got about 5mb more storage space than when I started with TextMaker installed.

Excellent! :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] PReDiToR:
You're right that compressing something that is in ROM isn't a good idea, that takes up space!

If you have a file in ROM like \windows\PPT.EXE and it is 1MB in size, then compress it to 500KB, copy it back to \windows, you actually USE 500KB of Program Storage rather than saving it.

Your ROM is Read Only, you can't delete files from it or overwrite them.

What actually happens is that you create another file with the same name and the OS ignores the one in ROM.

I do this with ClearStorage.exe.

I created a .TXT file and in it put

Clear Storage is dangerous.

then renamed it to ClearStorage.exe. I put it in the \windows folder to stop anyone erasing my device by accident(!).

If I need to clear my device I can delete the file and the original ClearStorage.exe is still there.

Try it yourself.

There is no easy way to save space.

If you want to load your apps to ROM and delete the crap ones that come with the OS this will work, but you will have to decode the ROM, edit the hive files, re-encode the ROM and flash it.

This is no small task, but it can be done (I plan on doing it myself actually).
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Rabangus:
Wow - This is fantastic. In just a short amount of time I have saved several meg of space, and some programs (such as TomTom) run significantly faster.

Superb!

Cheers

Rowan
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] monx®:
Amazing. My Big Storage now BIGGER :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] CameronJ:
Some results (on a Wizard)

MS Communicator Mobile - Compressed the exe and one dll down to 33% (1.3mb). The app would not run with one dll (lclang-res96.dll) compressed.

GoodLink - Compressed GoodApp.exe (the biggest file) from 3.5mb to 1.2mb successfully, however by compressing the largest dll (GoodLinkRes_EN.dll) I lost the soft key labels (and probably some other stuff).

TomTom Navigator - 41%

MS VoiceCommand - Compressed from 1.6mb to .6mb

Those were my big files on my device. Using UPX gained me an extra 6mb storage memory - which was a 50% increase (I went from 12 to 18 ). Off to try it now on my Storage Card apps.

Also, .NET files are not currently supported.
[General Questions and Answers] kecahh:
Hello guy's . Newbie here , i was looking for wpa Wi-Fi hack without wps enable . I'm from Malaysia . View attachment 2584778 . can solve it for me ?
[HTC Droid DNA] findinghomer:
does anyone know if there is a kernel that will allow me to use a Y (on the go) cable, to not only read the meenova sd card reader, but also charge it simultaneously? i really would like to keep charging while in my vehicle. if not, does anyone have any other suggestions to achieve this (using external storage while charging) ? thanks

oh btw, i am using viper 2.5.2
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sNaiL094:
Hello XDA community!

I will be short! There's a half working cwm to Alcatel 6034R. The CWM boots, but there is some error messages:

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

If anyone can give me some help, I would be so happy!

Thank you so much!:highfive:
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woody1:
About half the time, when I swipe the lock screen to unlock, the camera app opens. This is annoying. Is this a bug, or is it a feature? Does anybody know a way to turn it off? I can't find anything in settings that seems to do it.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hesian:
It is a lock screen widget.

You get this by swiping from the right bezel across to the left bezel when on the lock screen.

The default is the camera.

To remove:

swipe from left bezel to the right bezel

press 'Tap to add widgets'

un-tick Camera (top left icon)
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woody1:
For me, swiping from left to right either unlocks the tablet or will cause the time indication to scroll across the screen. It never brings up a "Tap to add widgets" option. Does that work differently for you?
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hesian:
If I disable the camera, and have no other lock widgets selected, then the swipe from bezel to bezel (in either direction) just (slighty) rotates the large digital clock
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woody1:
So, how do you get to the option to disable the camera widget?
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hesian:
To remove:

access the lock screen

swipe from left bezel to the right bezel (not just screen swipe, it must be from bezel)

press the large 'Tap to add widgets' icon on the middle of the screen

un-tick Camera widget (top left icon)
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woody1:
Once again, when I swipe bezel-to-bezel or otherwise, I never get a "Tap to add widgets" icon. If I touch the clock, I get a large empty rectangle at the bottom of the screen. Not sure how to get the "Tap" option.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hesian:
All my notes above were for portrait mode.

Try it in landscape mode. Just swipe left to right on the clock.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Master SURGE:
woody1 , i used to have the same issue .

when u are at the lock screen , keep swiping from left to right on the clock widget, u will eventually reach the "add" button , u can remove the camera from there.

interestingly, what i did to resolve the camera widget popping out issue, is remove all the clock widgets ,except one, on the lock screen ... without having to remove the camera widget itself. furthermore more , it seemed to resolve the weird slow downs i was experiencing. on the lock screen after wake up.

i dont know what caused these multiple clock widgets to appear ,but removing them solved it for me. i am pretty sure it is a bug
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woody1:
That did the trick! I'm surprised that nobody else has commented on this problem. Thanks much for your help!
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erwaso:
Never had this come up, i did what SURGE did a long time ago. Press and hold the clock and remove each one (not sure how i got 5 clocks on there) and just leave the one.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woody1:
Yes, it's a tricky thing. I switched to Nova Launcher a while back. I wonder if changing the launcher might have caused the multiple clocks?
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erwaso:
Possible, but i had the multiple clocks before i installed Google Now Launcher. Still debating if i should just throw Nova on like in my Optimus G ...:confused:
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Master SURGE:
i don't. think it is an alternative launcher issue , in my case , i only used the stock lg one .

in my case i had ALOT of clock widgets (i was maxed out on the possible amout of widgets on the lock screen ).

at first i thought it was a used unit issue , where somebody messed around with the tablet before repackaging it, but then i noticed a pattern where ,when i was waking up the tablet,it would slow down abit . then i would check the lockscreen and saw that a new widget was generated.

so i assume it is either a lockscreen app issue or a waking up the tablet one.

my question to both of you gentlemen is :

-which lock screen are u using (slide, pattern , etc ) ?

- are. you using a smart cover/case (you know the one that automatically wakes up the tablet when u open the cover ) ?

becoz disabeling the smart cover also seemed to stop the issue in my case
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woody1:
To answer your questions, I'm using the default swipe to unlock and I've never used a smart cover. I don't know when the multiple clocks appeared. They don't seem to have come back since I deleted them a few days ago.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blue_moon:
I need an app like haxsync. I was usong it but removed from market. I want to sync my facebook profile pics with my phonebook with full screen. Anyone know an app like haxsync?

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 10048208:
hey

Try UberSync
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geekboy26:
Man I used to love my BlackBerry for this!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] disturbd1:
Forgive me if this is not the appropriate placement for this thread...

I've got a nandroid (PhilZ/CWM-based) from my previous S4, which was on MDL and an AOSP-based ROM. There are a number of FILES (not apps or app data) that I wish to recover. Both Titanium Backup AND Nandroid Manager have failed me. They either can't find the directory I'm looking for, or when performing a restore, the data simply isn't there. My guess is the structural difference between what I was running before, which was 4.4.2, and the 4.3 I'm on right now. That's just my guess.

Please don't respond to this with hunches or a stab in the dark, as I'm looking for real solutions here. What I need specifically, is to recover image files. For some reason, those spread amongst my Downloads directory, my Camera photos, my ZoomCamera photos, my Cymera photos, Screenshots, and those hidden within KeepSafe are ALL missing, no matter how many times I tell it to restore data-only. Again, my guess is the difference in the naming-convention or folder hierarchy.

Anyone who has experience in nit-pick type of file recovery, I greatly appreciate your wisdom. :good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
A nandroid is not going to have the picture files you're looking for. It does not backup those file locations.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] disturbd1:
Between TB and a nandroid, those files are skipped? Every time I've done full-wipes and then restores using only TB in the past, my image files were there. What am I overlooking?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
The image files are never touched so there always there. The only time they'd be wiped is if you did a factory reset in the stock recovery. Custom recoveries don't wipe the sdcard, internal or external.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ping33tx:
K have a AT&T Note 3 MJ5 baseband version. Well one day while sending out a text, the menu kept popping up. I closed the message app out and still the menu for the home screen continued to pop up. I checked the accessibility setting and everything looked fine. But every app i open the menu or the haptic feedback continues checked or not checked. So i rooted and installed safstrap and install several different roms but still the same thing. Its really bad when the keyboard is pulled up to send a text or write an email and also when its on the charger fully charged the device works great, but once its unplugged and a little bit of the battery is use this thing goes nuts. Stuff just popping on its own. Anyway thanks in advance for any input. Thanks million.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 440bro:
It sounds like your capacitive menu button is constantly being pressed. Has the screen been replaced by any chance? I'd revert it back to stock and have it exchanged for a new one.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ping33tx:
Thanks 440bro for replying, to answer question is no, as far as i can tell it has never been wet nor dropped to the effect that it would cause all this wacky stuff. Most of the time when i have the keyboard up for texting n emailing,the menu pops up n down or ill have to hit the return key. But as long as i have it plugged in charging or the battery is 100% it is useful. I'll make a short video and post it some time today i hope, Thanks 440 for the input
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 440bro:
I asked if your screen was replaced because the menu button is a very thin ribbon cable attached to the screen. Someone who's not careful could cut, or damage this part when replacing the glass. If it was pinched it could act like it's constantly being pushed. Maybe your phone was assembled on a monday morning by someone who was hung over and damaged it lol!

Even if you aren't the original owner I would walk up to an att store and ask for a replacement since it's still a new device.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solarenemy68:
Do you have a protector that over laps the top edge of the display? It is possible the lip on the protector is actually extending into the contact area of that button and causing it to think it is being pressed. If you have a protector or bumper of some sort, remove it and see if you still have the problem.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ping33tx:
I believe i am first owner of this device, and no i have never had it repaired in any kinda way,and the box nor the on the phone any where does it state refurbished anywhere.i ordered it when it came out thru att as a upgrade on my plan. and i do not have

a screen protector on it. it did but i removed it just to make sure it wasnt the problem.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ping33tx:
I took everything off lol otterbox the clear coat i had on it everything, as long as i have it on the charger and it being 100 i have no problems,but when i take it off and the battery get to 95 or less the menu pop up system or app setting menu pops up continues to where i can barely use the phone lol kinda getting use to it, i have even cleared everything used odin and flashed stock and still goes on,no matter what rom i use anyway thank yall so very much for all the input and help of ideas this forum is the best thank guys n gals,
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 440bro:
Revert it back to stock. Make sure there's no custom padlock symbol. You'll be able to swap it at an at&t dsc center no problem!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ping33tx:
Sounds good thanks for the help 440
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ping33tx:
440bro worked out just right,reverted back to stock made sure everything was back to stock and took it att and by luck is was still under warranty and got another one, Thanks for the help
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 440bro:
Glad to hear they swapped you. Thanks for reporting back!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrBooMY:
I swapped a Note 2 that I'd upgraded from. For some reason it kept getting the black screen of death (basically locking up). I reverted it back to stock and removed root. Had NO issues even though it was upgraded to 4.3 before I rooted it. No Knox trip or Custom status.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frome901:
And thats a weird and to spell wierd?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hapticxchaos:
After working in a sprint repair center for many years I saw this issue with the Galaxy S2 line constantly. An lcd replacement fixed it up.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Orkeren:
As it hasn't been uploaded yet:

https://www.mediafire.com/?wrd1buuu2ywz8rr

Proof: http://i.imgur.com/ml2noFf.png
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Bjarne73:
Why should we when you announced that you were doing it? ;)

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[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Kilek_360:
I tough I was dreaming

Thank you ;)