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[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 21th century apes:
bro i hope you can help me solve tiz things off.during backup nand.for the first time.its stuck and as i mention previously its stuck 5 hours but for almost 2 days.its still not finish.am i brick my fire?am i miss out something?later i'll attach picture for your preferences.i think when i already booted up kindle fire,its consider no such big issues.maybe for me that not familiar.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b63:
if you managed to install bootloader and twrp then you are good to go.

you tried to make a backup of the stock firmware and now the twrp is stuck.

i don't know what options you checked, but this should be no problem.

just hold the power button for ~20sec till it turns off and try again.

check only options which exist on your device then the backup should be done in ~10min.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 21th century apes:
Thank you dude.Finally im able to use custom rom.oh,yeah :D.Btw,i got one last question.Why i cant connect my kindle with computer.instead its show my kindle,its only charging.coz i need to backup all my stuff inside my kindle to computer.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b63:
that depends on the rom you used. some have a option to enable this function.

the best advise would be to search or ask in the section of the rom you used.

great that it's working now - much fun with your kf :)
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 21th century apes:
hey dude.im already killed my kindle fire and now its dead.here the stories :

i try to backup all my stuff to my computer.as what you told me before,i try to follow.pick ROM that have usb debugging option for transfering data.okay done.but when i transferring my data from kindle to pc.(i dunno what happen) accidentally my kindle fire hang and i disconnect all the cable hoping that my kindle fire will be okay.but thats the end of my kindle fire.its failed to boot.just plain black screen.when i plugged in the cable.led light blinking.like normal.red and yellow.but there's nothing i can do.i open up device manager on my pc,instead of android phone appeared during time im connecting my phone with pc,its appeared usb mass storage (code 10).device cant start and load.hope you could guide me.anybody.

all guide will be kindly appreaciated.thanks.
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] apsdude:
Yesterday I flashed Pyramid V2 ROM(4.2.2) successfully. What I found was that the Dual SIM Icons are removed from notification pull down by default. I think this is very useful feature but removed from this ROM. I searched threads all over grand forum. I know about themes & mods section and I flashed Balli's Dual SIM mod about restoring Dual SIM Icons but it didn't work. Finally I am posting here. If u guys know then plz help me.

It is better to give flashable zip file.

Thanks for helping me.
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jayc137:
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[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] firasel7elo:
same problem lol plz help :)
[Android Apps and Games] hessan:
Hi everyone,

I have recently published a new app called Friend Brush. Using this app you can create collages of smaller photos that look like a single photo when seen from distance (or zoomed out). You can pick your tiles from various sources, namely Facebook, Google+, or your device's gallery. For the big picture, you can either choose from your gallery or simply take a photo with the camera. Below is a sample of what can be done using this app:

[YOUTUBE]yOkFeCBf0zk[/YOUTUBE]

I would highly appreciate any feedback, especially on stability and user experience of the app.

Download from Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=annahid.apps.friendbrush

In case there are some issues in the public release, you can try bleeding-edge beta versions of the app using one of the following options:

OPTION 1:

Become a Google Play beta tester for the app. I have enabled beta testing for XDA Android App Testers Community.

OPTION 2:

Download the testing version from my official website. This version has all the basic features of the app, plus a report button you can use to contact me about a bug.

If you like the app, please make me extremely happy by tipping this to XDA Portal!
[Android Apps and Games] hessan:
Friend Brush has just been updated. Now everyone can choose large tile photos. I also found some bugs in the previous versions and fixed them.
[Android Apps and Games] benkxda:
Great, thanks for sharing your work. Really nice idea to honor your friends with being a part of a new picture. :D
[Android Apps and Games] hessan:
I have uploaded a new version to beta channels. I have tried to fix previous bugs. All the new features of 1.2.x are still in beta and not open to public. So, you can have first-hand access to those features (and help me perfect them). Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] bezrodnyigor:
Nice idea and good work! Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] hessan:
Thanks! Please let me know if you find any problem. :)
[Android Apps and Games] hessan:
I have just published a new APK to beta channels. Saving creations to storage is now available right from the beginning. Enjoy! And please let me know if you face any bugs.
[Android Apps and Games] benkxda:
Your app is on the portal now: Easily Create a Photo Collage with Friend Brush :highfive:

As I told you, I like this app. Maybe a fantastic birthday present, when you make a big picture of your girlfriend/wife - of course with her on every tile :angel:
[Android Apps and Games] hessan:
Yea, that's really great news. I will try to keep the app fresh through new features. I actually gave out birthday gifts to some of my fiends before I released the app :) when they asked how'd you do it, I told them about the app.

By the way, thanks for tipping.
[Android Apps and Games] jerryhou85:
Looks nice, gonna try it.
[Android Apps and Games] ~wolverine~:
Nice idea but all my photos are on Google+ and I can't access them.
[Android Apps and Games] hessan:
Thanks for the feedback. I will add this feature in the near future. However, the best results are with profile pictures as mosaics.
[Android Apps and Games] Niteshdcool:
Hey..

This app is amazing.!! I shared a pic made from this with my friends and they all went bezerk.. :P

Well keep up the good work..

And ya one suggestion can u make it possible to add multiple albums from the phone gallery to one brush.. It would be quite nice coz like i keep all my photos segregated into different albums and love to use them all together..

Thankx.. :D (Y)..
[Android Apps and Games] hessan:
Thank you for your interest and your idea! Feedback like this helps me understand better what exactly users are looking for. Friend Brush was originally using just friend profile pictures for tiles (hence the name), and using photo albums was a late decision. So that part is still not mature enough. I will think about your idea to incorporate it in a user friendly way. Might not be in the next update, but for sure I will do it in the future. And if you like the app, I would be really glad if you rated it as I'm currently being stormed by haters on Google Play.

Thanks again!
[Android Apps and Games] Niteshdcool:
Haha.. Haters will soon know they were wrong.. And ya there is never a hurry.. U take ur time.. It wad just a suggestion..

Keep up the good work mate.! :D
[Android Apps and Games] adamkm:
Fantastic App! A few suggestions if I may.

1) I couldn't find anything that show's the full list of Premium features.

2) A little "help" about what the settings do would be useful. Like the random options of none to maximum. I tried both settings with the same brush and picture yet saw no difference.

3) It was not clear where the app was saving the creations or what it was calling them. Option to name them would be good. I plugged the phone in and searched the internal storage for "friends" to find where they were.

4) It would be great to be able to "favourite" the tiles you pick for the brush. In that if 2 tiles have virtually identical colour tags it would choose the 1 you marked higher priority. Although this is ofc a very minor suggestion

5) A bit of a "Tutorial" for want of a better word, more like basic help. As in the recommended number of tiles for the brush to get good results. I had about 200 of my little son and tried to make a creation out of that but the creation picture was poor. It was not really possible to make it out, this is most likely because of the lack of colours the app had available to make the creation because i had too few photo's. A little tip about this might stop people using too few and discarding the app as useless just because they didnt give it a fair shot.

6) Scrolling down the photo's in the creation is very slow (Xperia Z), maybe its possible for it to cache/thumbnail those. I have around 300 pics on my phone but it took a fair amount of time to scroll to pick a creation photo while it was loading them. It processed the brush and creation faster than browsing the album :)

Please dont take any of that as negativity, just suggestions. The app is absolutely brilliant and truly 1 of a kind!

Thanks

Adam
[Android Apps and Games] india86:
thanks for this wonderfull app....

one suggestion..when i am viewing the creation on my desktop while zooming the image it's blurred, but on phone its fine..can you have a look into this...
[Android Apps and Games] hessan:
Thank you. How much are you zooming? Tile sizes are limited (32x32 pixels by default). You can set them to twice this size (64x64) by going to Settings. Hope this helps.
[Android Apps and Games] Niteshdcool:
Well these can be found in Menu>Help... :)
[Android Apps and Games] hessan:
Thanks for your comments and your interest! :) I will answer your questions one by one here:

1) Did you click on "Why?" The button is available on the Google Play version, beside "Go Premium!" on Dashboard

2) There are Help pages about everything in the app. Just hit the menu button and choose Help from overflow menu. You can swipe to the screen you desire. Otherwise go to Settings and choose Help from there.

3) The app saves the creations to Pictures/Friend Brush on your external storage. Naming option can be added in the future.

4) I am thinking of new options for tiles for future updates.

5) Obviously the app can't do magic. 200 photos is a good number if they have diverse color tones. Camera shots normally have very flat range of colors. The app works best with profile pictures of your friends. About 300 profile secures a diverse enough spectrum.

6) I will look into that.
[Omni Features Development] melkhatt:
I wich if we can have more freedom in Navbar Shortcuts customization, like in AOKP.

For example :

- The ability to assign any application to navbar button

- The ability to customize the Long-click in Home button

Or at least not override GravityBox customizations

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neox456:
Hallo,

I am sorry, to post it here, but I cannot post in the related forums below 10 posts.

So I had 4.1.5 and it was great. I flashed 4.2.3 now and it was great until after pretty much one day, when it becomes slow, had the same issues with 4.2.2 (becomes slow after a day until reboot or downgrade to 4.1.5) where I downgraded again, but it is not possible anymore without resetting the launcher3 due to some changes.

It will crash repeatedly.

Any help?

Kind regards

neox
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knuckles1978:
I've been using CM based Mackay ROM for a long time now, updating to every new version as they have been released, and have not experienced anything like what you are describing.

Also, you should have really posted in the Mackay ROM thread...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abobobilly:
[MENTION=5558385]neox456[/MENTION]! I am not sure I understand your problem fully. I have been using the same ROM since it came out for Kit Kat but never had a problem such as yours.

Could it be the no. of apps you have in your phone ? Or maybe because you aren't using low mem option (which was a feature of Kit Kat)?

It'd be good if you could explain your issues a bit briefly.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joedom1:
Did you install CM10.2 (stable) or CM11 before Mackay 4.2.3? This increases your partition giving you better performance and is recommended for KK roms. Try again with 3 wipes plus Format System first, then the CM11, 3 wipes and format again then the Mackay Rom. If you get into trouble, go back to GB 2.3.6 with ODIN like you did when you first rooted your phone and back up from there. Hope it works for you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neox456:
The difference was between 4.1.5 and 4.2.2/3. But I played around a little and the main difference was, that

KSM

was on with the later ones and not with 4.1.5 so I am pretty sure that slowed my device down after a while.

I'll try 4.2.3 without KSM now and see if it won't slow down.

I cannot answer on the official Mackay-Thread until I reached 10 posts!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joedom1:
neither can I yet...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neox456:
Naaah, it did not really help...

But I guess it is the KitKat slow downs... it is not as horrible as 4.3, but still far from well usable.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joedom1:
Very strange.. I went all the way back to GB 2.3.6 then CM 10.2 (or 11) then SlimKat and it works really well with no FC or lags. (well maybe say max 2 second delay opening Whatsapp but I can live with that. Plus they all seem to have a 1 or 2 second delay when a call comes in for the screen to register.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neox456:
Well... I am not sure... Maybe it is too many apps. At least they are not constanlty crashing like in JB4.3.

What about waking up the phone for you? Do you have a 2 seconds delay there, too? Well I sometimes have a more like 10-15 seconds delay. I press the power button and nothing happens and after a while you notice the phone is ready, because the LEDs are glowing and funnily you can already unlock it, although the screen does not show anything yet...

Well and sometimes it is only a few seconds...:confused:

I have always used CM or Mackay-CM... not sure, whether the other ROM will make such a big difference...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joedom1:
I had lags with CM in ICS so I went to Liquid smooth by aways .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2223729

I like that one, no problems opening apps or answering phone call. Pkus he uses semaphore and the Nova Launcher which has a nice look and feel. Pluis customisable.

Then after to SlimKat, (after increasing partition using the CM11) which works pretty good. I will flash the mackay rom or the omni this weekend to see how it behaves in comparison.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neox456:
I am down to CM9 (still Mackay) now and happy with it. :angel:

Some features got lost, but I am happy, because in general it is way more useable.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Tsumi:
After several hours of trial and error, I found a way that worked for me. It will trip the Knox counter though. Also, what worked for me may not work for everyone else. If you brick your device that's not my fault in any way, so good luck :D

Using this guide, flash back to the stock TAR (not the UVUAMDL TAR). This restores 4.2.2, which allows access to the menu. However, this alone is not enough, as it won't give you access to the perso functions. Attempting to flash the UVUAMDL TAR will result in an error (at least, it did for me).

Second, extract the modem.bin from the UVUAMDL file, and flashed it to the phone using Odin. It's similar to the guide above, but instead of using PDA, you use phone. This gives you access to the perso functions, as it forces the baseband back to UVUAMDL from UVUEMK2. It may be possible to flash the UVUAMDL.tar modem files found in other threads, I haven't tried this out myself though.

Now, at this point you can follow the instructions in this thread, as every option should now be available. If they're not, make sure your Android version is 4.2.2 and that the baseband is UVUAMDL.

If it works at this point, great, go on to the next step (you may have noticed by now that your sound is not working). If not, use RegionLock Away to fully unlock the phone. At this point, your phone should be fully unlocked and you can see it connected to the network. However, dialing/calling lags significantly, and there is no sound.

The next step is to use Odin to fully restore UVUEMK2, which would restore full functionality. You can download the file from here, and flash using the same steps above. This will restore full sound and phone functionality, while your device remains unlocked. If it gets stuck during the boot animation, you simply need to do a factory wipe from recovery (not sure if this works, haven't tested it myself), or just install your recovery of choice from Odin and install whatever ROM you want to use (what I did, which still required a full factory reset from recovery). Skipping restoring UVUEMK2 and installing your ROM of choice does not work, however. You will still have no sound and the phone function will lag considerably.

If everything goes well, you should have a fully unlocked T-mobile Galaxy S4.

Better guide by kali323:

Some additional info:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ionutul:
hello,

i tried to flash the stock tar as you said, but i get an error.

it says:

write protection: enable

secure magiccode check fail : boot

what can i do in this case? :(

thank you!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Tsumi:
I'm not too sure actually, I didn't run into that error, and I don't have other S4s I can try it out on.

There were several things I did do before trying to flash back though, that may have had an effect. The first is rooting through motochopper's method. The second was installing and running regionlock away. Try rooting first and then flashing. Otherwise, I might have to chalk it up as something unique with my phone I'm not aware of.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dyangster:
HELP...!

Ok, I've been reading many many articles for the past few days and finally have mustered enough energy to attempt the unlock my T-Mobile SGH-M919 running MK2 firmware. Since I was unable to get into the service menu and input keys using the many directions on this site.... I attempt to flash to old older firmware, following this guide.

I followed each direction 1 step at and time and followed it to the "T". Anyway, long story short... I tried and it soft bricked my phone. I get the warning screen that the firmware was unsuccessful and that I need to run recovery using Samsung Kies. I download the software and attempt recovery. It got to roughly 90% and then it failed too. I reverted back to Odin and reflash using MK2. It too got to about 90% and fails. What is going on?

Any more tips to get this thing working again?? Help.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dyangster:
Got to only 93% via Kies... two times!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] egren58:
Um I'm almost sure once you are on mk2 your not able to go back to mdl. Do to the boot loader...

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If your rooted you can try region Loa away by chain fire see if it works.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dyangster:
wwwhheeew.... finally got it to unbrick. Took 4 hours to get this thing operational again. I thought the guide specifically says it can downgrade from MK2 to MDL? I already ran the Regionlock app and it appears to be done right, but it's still not sim unlocked.!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dragonhart6505:
same problem, RLA does not work on MK2, flashing MDL modem and going through the motions also does NOT sim unlock...cant seem to get this thing working.

funny thing is it wont even register on the network with a GoSmart sim, GoSmart being a TMO MVNO.

i hate sammy...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Tsumi:
I flashed to the stock firmware first, which I believe is the MDB firmware. It doesn't work attempting to go to MDL. Going to MDB gets you 4.2.2, but you would still be locked because it keeps the MK2 modem.

The second step was to extract the MDL modem.bin from the TAR, and then flash that on Odin via the phone method. That was how I was able to downgrade the modem from MK2 to MDL, but that screws up sound, but allows you access to the unlock functions.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] kali323:
Odin MDB and factrory reset in recovery. I was stuck at "Kernel is not seandroid enforcing set warranty bit: Kernel" at the boot up screen. I thought it didnt work and wasnt going to boot up and was looking MK2 tar and then out of nowhere after 5 mins I hear the tmobile boot up sound and this **** actually boot it. Im in MDB 4.2.2 with mk2 baseband. Just need to downgrade baseband and Ill let you know if it works guys. Ill post all files as well that I use

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I have successfully unlocked and I was at 4.3. Huge props to Tsumi. Ill post an updated guide of Tsumi unlocked method of all the files I used

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How to Unlocked M919 on MK2 4.3. This method has no been tested on the new MB4 4.4.2 update

Huge Props to Tsumi. Is his method and thank/donate to him. i use his guide but it wasnt clear enough so I went searching to internet for links for all the correct files.

Im not responsible for any bricks but if you follow carefully then you shouldn't

This method will trip KNOX

1. Download MDB Tar. Extract from 7zip file and then rename the file (remove the .md5) so the filename should be "SGH-M919-UVUAMDB-k0nane.tar"

http://www.hunterspad.com/Domains/S...ir=Xda/Galaxy+S4/T-Mobile+S4/Return+To+stock/

2. Odin the MDB Tar in the PDA slot and once it finish go to recovery and factory reset.

3. It will take forever to reboot and it will be stuck at the boot up screen for awhile with this error "Kernel is not seandroid enforcing set warranty bit: Kernel". In about to 5-10 mins it will boot up.

4. Now youre in MDB 4.2.2 with MK2 modem.

5. Odin the .bin file below. Use the PHONE slot in odin and not PDA. Again it will take 5-10 mins to boot up with the error "Kernel is not seandroid enforcing set warranty bit: Kernel"

https://mega.co.nz/#!S9AjUAYA!GOOIp2B4z5dIZy2RFxwQBsMz_v7nRJiOypoAjkuAwtc

6. Now you have MDB Rom with MDL modem

7.Odin CF AutoRoot with the link below in the PDA Slot. It will take 5-10 mins to boot up with the error "Kernel is not seandroid enforcing set warranty bit: Kernel"

http://download.chainfire.eu/328/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-jfltetmo-jfltetmo-sghm919.zip

8.Download RegionLock Away 1.3 App either in the thread below or buy it at the google play store to support the developer

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2470551

9. Run RegionLock Away and click reboot now. It will take another 5-10 mins to boot up and if you dont ask you for an unlock code with a non tmobile or non tmobile mnvo sim then youre are unlocked.

10. Odin 4.3 or 4.4 and youre done
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] masoodskio:
I'm curious, how come you didn't trip the Knox counter?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] JerkLife:
Help

Hey I Have A Tmobile Galaxy s4 and it says my sim isn't registered on the network i was just wondering if there was anyway to get this running, i tried the above method and it completed but i still can't use a tmobile sim on my phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Tsumi:
If you have a T-mobile S4 and a T-mobile sim, and it says sim is not valid, then you need to contact T-mobile about your sim card. Either that, or your phone has a bad IMEI (not sure what error message would pop up if you have a bad IMEI). Either way, it's not an unlocking problem. Either your sim or your phone is invalid on the T-mobile network.