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[Moto X Q&A] gammite:
I got off of the spec war bandwagon years ago. I am not sure I was ever even on it. I have never owned an iPhone and don't plan to.

I have always chosen my phones by how well a phone will allow me to accomplish my tasks daily. be it for work, vacation, entertainment, etc.

in all honestly my first smartphone a sx-66 blue angel from nearly 10 years ago can do nearly everything modern phones can do. it made phone calls, played music and video, played games, browsed the internet, etc. yes it was on edge and is a dinosaur by todays standards but a power user (that knew how to get the most performance out of it) could still get by with that phone.

at one point I was working for ATT corporate in wireless after the merger. I had my choice of any phones I wanted. I always went for what allowed me to get my job done and still handle my off job duties. being a power user I knew how to overcome potential shortcomings to make up for what might be considered "spec shortfalls."

I kept my moto atrix that I had from launch till I got the moto x at launch. before that I had a tilt 2 forever. at least over 3 years.

this ridiculous cycle of upgrading for specs that do not help the user experience is sickening and only designed to line companies pockets. I really appreciate the moto x not only as a device but for what it represents. it is the first device in the smartphone wars to really focus on the productivity of the user. and no iphones do not do that either. not only that, I have received more support on this device in the 7 months that I have owned it than in all of the years I have had my other devices.

the moto x as a product gets it. I am disappointed with the sale to Lenovo for a number of reasons. I really hope that other companies understand the importance of the moto x and move away from the spec wars. I also hope that motorola can keep this up under their new ownership.
[Moto X Q&A] eksasol:
I beleive Motorola have much more potential to grow after being bought by Lenovo than staying with Google. Google is not a hardware company, they only bought Motorola for the patents. Motorola exec said that the Moto G and X are not down to Google, neither is Active Display or Touchless Control. All these were down to Motorola. They might have gotten faster updates, they can continue to deliver that. On the hardware side, Lenovo can give more for Motorola than Google does, they will also give them better distribution channels. I think if Motorola had stayed with Google they will grow stale and become just secondary Nexus-like devices (not a bad thing, but not very unique or exciting in term of hardware either). The worse case scenario is that Motorola won't lose as much money as they did when owned by Google.

There is no reason why Motorola build quality will suddenly become terrible, adopting a bloated UI like LG / Touchwiz, their radio reception become poor, or their softwares update come to a halt and their apps will no longer get updated from the PlayStore due to the buyout.

The only difference I think is more money will flow to China, not that they were making profit to start with.
[Moto X Q&A] buton2:
I might update since on this new firmware 4.4.2 they screwed up the battery life...
[Moto X Q&A] eksasol:
What if an update for the S5 screwed up its battery life?
[Moto X Q&A] sumonmolla:
yeah.. I am also used xperia Z2 and feel better..
[Moto X Q&A] charlie-n:
I think I'm gonna go for the s5, just because I have an upgrade, then sell it in August for the Moto x 2
[Moto X Q&A] T-Keith:
Not interested in the s5 other than for the camera. I'd be better off getting the Sony add on camera and saving the money.
[Moto X Q&A] pingpong1109:
Nah, Touchwiz is ugly
[Moto X Q&A] :
Bet the s5 won't be able to root. Samsung gonna shut the door soon. ;)

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Moto X Q&A] x2h:
It would only be a MOTO X2.
[Moto X Q&A] Puzzlegal:
No. I bought the X for its size, and I still like the size. I frequently wish it had wireless charging, and I occasionally wish it had an IR blaster, but that's all I am really missing. In theory, I'd rather have a replaceable battery, but I can live with this one.
[Moto X Q&A] Solutions Etcetera:
I miss wireless charging, but for IR, I have placed Global Cache iTachs in each room I have gear in. I can now control everything in my house from every device I have, no matter where I am.
[Moto X Q&A] thedosbox:
The S5 doesn't have many of the attributes that are key to the X's appeal (i.e. active display, one handed friendly form factor, stock android).

So, no, not tempted. And to be honest, I'm not sure why anyone who owns a X would be unless they have a new gadget addiction.
[Moto X Q&A] alhadee12:
I'm a new gadget addicted trying to go cold turkey. Lol, but at this point I haven't read anything that would make me want to try it.
[Moto X Q&A] jackdubl:
I have never had to plug any of my phones in, ever. I just buy two spare batteries to make three and a battery charger or two. That is near impossible to give up, so there is little choice outside of Samsung for me. But my Bonestock S3 can easily wait it out longer. Hoping LG makes a removable battery phone(the Pro 2 is not a phone).

https://copy.com?r=cScoov
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phlanagan:
Hello. At first this may seem like I have not done my due diligence, and am posting a duplicated problem I have seen posted all over about using ADB to connect to a Kindle Fire HD 7' (mine is 2nd gen). I have installed jave/android sdks, eclipse, have updated everything, read through countless threads, followed amazon instructions to set up my environment for running apps on my kindle. The emulator is set up and runs. Here is where I am having serious issues:

My Kindle when I started showed up under portable devices in the device manager. I uninstalled the driver and have tried both the Kindle drivers from extras/amazon as well as google usb drivers. (I also even tried changing the google driver .inf file to include code for a Kindle).

This is where my problems seems to be unique to the countless thread posts I have read through. The drivers for both methods result in the driver showing "Android ADB Interface" without the Composite keyword. I have manually changed the driver by selecting to locate it myself. The only three options read "Android ADB Interface" each. I uncheck the box for "Show compatible hardware" and two more options appear:

"Android Composite ADB Interface Version: 1.3.1000.0 [12/3/2012]"

and

"Android Composite ADB Interface Version: 1.0.0.0 [8/20/2012]"

I have tried both. ADB devices from the cmd prompt still list zero devices.

If I update the driver to let Windows search for it in the amazon or google locations, it always gets (updated?) changed to just "Android ADB Interface".

This is driving me crazy. Any suggestions? I would really appreciate it or any links I can try reading.

Thanks in advance.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
Try the drivers in my signature, but as I remember it is supposed to say what you are seeing as the device name. I use Linux most of the time so I don't have any issues but I'm pretty sure that android adb interface is what windows lists it as.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phlanagan:
Thanks for a quick response.

Hey Stunts. Thanks for a response. I tried using your usb drivers from your signature. The updated driver list changed to list the Device as Android Device and the Driver as Android ADB Interface. It used to list the Device as Kindle, and the Driver as Android Composite ADB Interface. I ran ADB with your driver and it still lists nothing under connected devices (in the cmd).

Just to clarify: yes, ADB is enabled on the kindle (under security), and also it allows installation of applications from unknow sources (under Device).

Also, I can use ADB with other Android phones on my same setup. So this, I am assuming, is some sort of driver issue(s)?

Thanks.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
Interesting, usually when it shows up as an MTP device and a adb device there's also a composite USB device under USB devices, check for a composite USB device with a vid of 1949 and try uninstalling it if you find it, and then search for new devices and see what happens.
[HTC First] nikpmr:
Hi all,

I unlocked, rooted and s-off'd my First, but /system is still un-writable for whatever reason. Anyone know the quickest way to resolve this?

Thanks.
[HTC First] nikpmr:
Oops, nevermind, I figured it out. Easy as going:

# mount -o rw,remount /system
[HTC First] russian392:
Idk after s-off I was able to wrote just fine
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zsebob:
After flashing CM11 ( and other kitkat ROM )

I get issue quiet and pure outgoing voice.

Any solution?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nin.D.Tendo:
Hello, I have searched the Forums and Net , but couldn't find anything useful(for me) on HOW TO PORT A KERNEL.

I am somrthing like a noob. I have understandings(I think) but I dobn't know enough for porting something.

I have already decomplied the stock kernel of my SHV-e300s and the perrseus kernel.(The kernel I want to port)

So now I have the Question: How do I exactly do this?

Thanks in advance for any answer :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sashakisa2:
I bought a galaxy s3 from hands, for very cheap price, i after a while I noticed that several shades of gray, not gray and fiaoletovye and pink, and all the other colors displayed correctly without distortion, and in some applications, as a gallery, pictures have a very high contrast ratio, low-quality and highly visible spots. some pictures with many colors are looks like them in bmp format in 256 colors

I reaaly hope this is not hard ware problem like a display module fail, because i have no ways to back this phone or buy new parts.

Maybe problem in a rom , or video drivers or i need patch or fix , help please , and sorry for my english.

I will upload some images soon.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sashakisa2:
nobody knows?((
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Looks like screen/ digitizer damage .

You can try factory reset or flash stock rom via Odin .
[Android General] derget1212:
I've followed all these guides and haven't had any luck. I did use a CM 4.4 rom and some people are saying i need a debrick.img of a 4.4 to get it working again. i'm on an i-747. can you help?
[Android General] polobunny:
You don't need a debrick.img of a 4.4 to get it working, you need a debrick.img of the correct bootloader. If you bricked your phone by flashing an older bootloader after upgrading to the 4.3 bootloader, then you need a debrick.img with the 4.3 bootloader.
[Android General] derget1212:
how do i find out the correct bootloader? i was using this rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2518998 for a couple months and randomly got hard bricked yesterday. any help is greatly appreciated.
[Android General] DanKNugs:
Thanks for sharing this
[Android General] polobunny:
Explain your situation. Randomly bricked is very vague. Did you flash anything? Do you remember doing anything? It's important. Phones don't go and "randomly brick" unless of a HW problem, and to either confirm or eliminate that possibility we need more details.
[Android General] derget1212:
Like i said, it was totally random. My phone froze and rebooted yesterday. It got to the Samsung logo so i thought everything was okay. I fell asleep and woke up to a bricked phone. After all of my attempts, I got one debrick.img to show something on my screen and it shows "BOOT RECOVERY MODE". Odin sees my phone and tries to fix the PIT and the Bootloader but it always fails. From what i gather, it seems to be a hardware issue.
[Android General] polobunny:
Whoa whoa there, if your phone still boots in either recovery or download mode, then you don't need to use a debrick.img.

If you have a custom recovery, you can flash your custom rom. If you don't, you can flash a stock ROM using ODIN in download mode.
[Android General] derget1212:
It is hard bricked. Without the sd with a debrick.img installed, I get no response at all. And I've tried all the i747 debrick.img files I could find here with no success.

I can get to boot recovery mode with one .img I could find but boot recovery os different than recovery mode. It's essentially useless and Odin doesn't like it.
[Android General] dreamwave:
It really sounds a lot like the BRICKBUG to me, anyone know how to tell if a chip is insane without it working? And did you have the 4.3 bootloader? If you got that you should have been safe, but if you didn't then the kernel may have burned out the chips from the "bug" (it really doesn't seem too much like a "bug", more like an issue worthy of recall)

Sorry I don't know exactly what's wrong off the top of my head:(
[Android General] dreamwave:
If you get ANY response at all, then the debrick image is doing its job; what you need is a stock image, I'll try to find a link for you to use. Try using Kies or something, alternatively, as if you have the serial number you can apparently flash it quite cleanly, all data on the phone will be lost though, as it effectively wipes the eMMC.
[Android General] dreamwave:
Exactly
[Android General] dreamwave:
This image gets you in the clear if the ONLY thing screwed up is the boot partition, meaning modem/firmware/bootloader, it does NOT get you fixed if you got your rom F***ed up, and do not expect it to, this will get you into dmode so you can use odin or something like fastboot to flash a /system image or a FULL stock rom if you want to get your bootloader fixed without the SD card being in all the time.
[Android General] derget1212:
if anyone can find the correct debrick.img i need to use, i would greatly appreciate it. I have tried Kies and Odin without success. They can see the phone but seem not to be able to access it. I can't flash anything via odin or get to the CWM recovery or download mode. this is a really weird screen i haven't seen before.
[Android General] dreamwave:
Is there any way at all to get into dmode? What is windows recognizing it as?
[Android General] EvangelineX:
Thanks for sharing.
[Android General] dreamwave:
no problem, I hope it helped!:)
[Android General] dreamwave:
If you bricked the /system partition AND the boot partition you will need a stock rom as well, just use Odin or something if possible after using a 4.3 image, a 4.4 image is more or less the same as a 4.3 as far as I know, I mean I bricked mine after using cm11 by flashing the wrong rom, it's just that the rom you tried tried to flash a 4.1 bootloader, and thus tripped the eFUSE or something in the Knox bootloader, what you need is a 4.3 unbrick image, as 4.4 didn't really change the modems/bootloader from 4.3, and the unbrick image isn't really that much more than a collection of pieces from the boot partition that are used as an autoboot by the phone when the eMMC fails to load properly.
[Android General] halfdead1993:
This is pretty neat..

does it always work?

It's nice to have such a recover method whenever something like this happens to you.
[Android General] dreamwave:
I believe it will work on basically anything, as in I haven't seen a case that can't be cured at least somewhat by this, I think it works like an alternative boot, as if the bootloader on the eMMC is corrupted, it seems to remove the boot flag, thus making it so that the phone does not detect a bootable partition, the unbrick image has a partition layout mirroring the one that is supposed to be on the phone, so it is used as the boot partition but then redirects control back to whatever is on the eMMC after the bootloader, think of it as a liveCD on windows, just one that hands control back to the system after it has gotten past booting the BIOS.
[Android General] dreamwave:
Glad to hear it!
[Android General] brickman7713:
when i open the odin file picker it is set to view md5, tar, and smd, but the debrick image is a bin file
[Android General] dreamwave:
can't you select show all files?
[Android General] brickman7713:
Yeah I can do that, but when I put the SD in my s3 it doesn't do anything.
[Android General] mrll2:
i need debrick file for SCH-R530 US CELLER 4.4.2 HELP
[Android General] kimber45:
http://teamuscellular.com/Forum/index.php?/topic/6836-Samsung-galaxy-s3-hard-brick-jig
[Android General] mrll2:
Thank you but i need the 4.4.2 NF3 this is Mja 4.3 not working
[Android General] kimber45:
There is also a cnd4 image posted in the thread, but you are correct there is no nf3. Might be worth asking if someone could make one, I would but there where issues with that update( why I won't update) and US Cellular pulled it and the S3 is my family's backup and don't wanna have issues with it.
[Android General] shnamm:
Hard bricked my AT&T i747 running on 4.4.2

A Wreckless me flashed the flashingdroid 2.2 rom on my device that was for a 9300 device and bing bang boom my phone is a paper weight.

I ordered a 16 gig sdcard and have a 2gig one should I need it.

I'm confused as to where I go from here. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate. I'm kind of tech saavy just need my hand held a little :laugh:

EDIT: Did some research, is the image hosted on the drive for 4.4.2 and can I mount it to a card on my tablet?
[Android General] dreamwave:
In the google drive folder it's the one with alive in its name
[Android General] dreamwave:
Did you have 4.4 on it as a stock rom? Also I don't have any 4.4 images
[Android General] shnamm:
I fixed it. Only question I have is now when I try to transfer the debrick.bin to my phone, my phone does not recognize that I have an SD card in. When I take it out, its fine until I reboot or turn off then of course back to brick.
[Android General] idungoofd:
Hello! First post. I've been using your guide and another guide to unbrick my SG3. So, I had 4.4.4 when I bricked. I should also mention that I may have used the wrong .bin, but I am unsure.

Long story short, I tried restoring to stock bootloader and it didn't work. I still brick without the extSD and with it on, after trying to restore stock bootloader, it won't go past the Samsung screen. I'm trying to see if I can succeed at just doing some sort of factory reset or something because I can get it into download mode (but not recovery mode). So far I've tried to unbrick it that way, with ODIN, but it always fails. I'm on a third try of something different. Any insight would be most appreciated.
[Android General] george241312:
Does anyone have a 4.4 l710 debrick img ? please i really need it.
[Android General] peppi929:
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Hello [MENTION=5315165]dreamwave[/MENTION] first thanks so much for your post I just unbricked my friends SGS3 I747M.

The way I did it was to follow this guys vide: youtube /watch?v=8MnikrpUKZw (sorry not enough post to make a proper link) or search for: Unbrick Galaxy S3 i747M v.4.3 - easy method using SD card & debrick image

He has instructions on his YouTube site.

Just for clarifications I used his unbricking file here: drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Rh2XPre9rOaFJqZlAzT3BSTzA/edit?usp=sharing

I used it and it actually worked... well kind of. After a few tries I got the battery image to appear. Once I saw that I knew I was close. I believe the batteries were really dead on the phone I had. I suspect once it got bricked the batteries just got drained. Anyhow just a note for some people. I'm not sure if the phone charges after the phone gets bricked or not so one solution might be a fully powered battery when trying this.

Anyhow once I got the thing actually working I went to: sammobile.com and downloaded a stock firmware. I tried 4.1.1 & 4.1.2 & 4.3 all three failed to flash with Odin. It wasn't until I tried 4.4.2 stock that it took. I assume my friend must have installed 4.3 and that is why it was failing to install anything less then or equal to 4.3 (not sure mind you). Once I installed 4.4.2 stock I could then take out the memory stick with the unbricking file and things still worked :D.

Hope this helps some people out, remember to use a fully charged battery when doing this or at least not a dead one, and remember that using the memory card will only work as long as you keep the memory card in the phone. If you want a permanent solution you still need to flash a proper firmware.

Thanks again [MENTION=5315165]dreamwave[/MENTION]
[Android General] nsnobel2:
mine is I747 4.3, I try unbrick image posted in 1st post but no luck, will someone help me to share here 4.3 unbrick image, I bricked my phone during updating to 4.3
[Android General] brickman7713:
Finally got it! Found a debrick image online and burned it to sd then just stuck it in s3 and it booted fine. Thanks for the help. :)
[Android General] goatmale:
Does anyone have a debrick image for 4.4.4 I was coming from slimkat official 6 D2LTE and tried to flash an international rom. I'm hoping that I can just boot from a similar image. I have tried a bunch to no avail. Let me know,

Thank you!
[Android General] brickman7713:
So got my s3 running again and got it to boot without sd, but if I try to install a rom that uses the aroma installer it just bricks agian. Any suggestions?
[Android General] sintoo:
You can always zip them before uploading. These images files have lots of "blank spaces".

The 200 MB bin file will be as small as 77-79 MB once compressed.

Just use any thing (winzip, 7zip, winrar) to compress it. Thanks.
[Android General] dreamwave:
The problem with that is it can sometimes compress part of the signed section of the system and other partitions, so the phone doesn't consider it a recognized/signed/approved boot device and won't use it
[Android General] DJFEARLESS20:
can you get the i747m rogers 4.4.2 debrick img please?
[Android General] dreamwave:
I'll ask around, but if you know someone else who can stock root theirs and do that busybox command that should do it
[Android General] DJFEARLESS20:
ok thanks.........and no i dont know anyone that have this model
[Android General] dreamwave:
Ok I'll see what I can do, I hope I can remember to do it!
[Android General] dreamwave:
@adam_beers, @adarshaneppal, @Arcanium, @britzman, @cbeale85, @dweds, @Fuzionz, @geosa, @harijohn, @hatredg0d, @ILikeCoCoPuffs, @jagermeister31, @keepdahc, @MickeyJPerez, @nsnobel2, [MENTION=5412540]Saqib Mushtaq 74[/MENTION], [MENTION=5080342]SHINOJJOSE[/MENTION], [MENTION=4864295]TheKryptonite[/MENTION], [MENTION=5558057]westlife2206[/MENTION], [MENTION=3215950]YasharF[/MENTION], how y'all doing? Anyone fix it or is there a way I can?
[Android General] Marcolp98:
Debrick image i8160

Hi! :) i have the same problem with a samsung galaxy ace 2 (GT-i8160). Can someone help me with this problem? Thanks in advance :)

P.S= Sorry for the bad english :o
[Android General] DJFEARLESS20:
ok thanks a lot i really appreciate the help bcuz i dont have another phone to used whatsapp or anything
[Android General] Agra_:
Hard Bricked/Bootloader Bricked Sprint Galaxy S3

Please help. My Sprint Galaxy S3 was 4.4, and I tried to install CM using the installer. I finished installation but my phone kept booting to Touchwiz instead of CM, so I tried installing via recovery. Attempting to install the CM zip via cwm, it kept saying error, assert failed, and referring something about the bootloader. I assumed my bootloader and modem was outdated, and flashed the "MD4 kernel with jelly bean boot animation, adb, and init.d support" along with "Galaxy-S-fre3-MD4FirmwareModemAIO.zip", and rebooted back to recovery to try installing again. It still wouldn't work. I selected "reboot to bootloader" from cwm, and it would not turn back on after that, meaning it is indeed hard bricked. What debrick file img do I use? Please help, I just got this phone yesterday.

The CM version that I used was a CM11 snapshot.

The link to the MD4 and modem is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1910947