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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] alexandnen:
Hello, I recently rooted my wifes Note 2 that was on the latest OTA 4.3. Was not easy BTW. I did a back up in recovery of boot, system, and data. I figured I was good to go and start trying out other roms.

The first one I flashed was Macks Allstar 5.0 rom. Everything was great. Then my wife informed me that she did not have all of her contacts backed up to google and some were only saved to her phone. So then I figure I could just restore the original backup and extract the contacts and be able to install them to any rom.

Thats when everything went wrong. Everytime I tried restoring the back up,it would crash and recovery would do like a reboot. After many attempts I figured id try another version of recovery. After flashing many earlier versions of twrp and trying to restore, I finally was able to complete a restore from version 2.6. I was ecstatic. But then my heart sank again when boot always hangs on samsung logo. And that is where I'm stuck. I am able to flash other roms no problem but cant restore my original backup.

Needless to say my wife is ready to kill me.

Please if anyone could help me I would really appreciate it. I have searched throughout this forum and internet for hours and can not seem to find any help with this issue.

I am thankful to have been able to get this far with the help from the XDA community posts I never needed direct help even with prior phone rootings but this one has got me stumped. Thanks in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tx_dbs_tx:
You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] alexandnen:
Thank you for your reply. I am at work right now and left the phone with my wife with a working rom. I will try phils recovery when I get home. As far as backups, I have two copies. One on my SD card and the other on PC but if they're both fried I guess that negates my efforts in redundancy. It's hard to believe the backup got corrupt so quickly. I have another backup of the 2nd rom I flashed and that one wont install as well.

Is there something I am doing wrong? If the backup file is corrupt, is there a way to extract contacts seperately out of backup?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ColeTrain!:
Method b.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2648855

My wife does that too. Sorry
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] alexandnen:
Life of a married man. Haha!

Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.

I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tx_dbs_tx:
That's exactly right. Bootloader isn't playing well with TWRP recovery. Phil"s 6.0.7.9 seems to be compatible in most ROM vs bootloader situations. Don't use latest version of Phil's recovery as it doesn't work as well and most people recommend this as well.

If Phil's recovery won't flash your restore then Odin all the way back to stock unrooted LK8 ROM then root it with the Toolkit and flash TWRP from the toolkit at the same time. Then see if you can restore at that point.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] alexandnen:
Looks like this project has come to an end. My wife likes her new rom and doesn't want to let me work on her phone anymore. She was able to get most of her contacts back I will make sure she backs her contacts to google and I will try to convince her to install Titanium backup to backup all her app data.

Unfortunately all I have is a work issued iphone that I have no interest in jailbreaking. I really don't see the point.

I am still confident that I could have eventually restored her backup successfully with the help here.

Thank you tx_dbx_tx and coletrain for your help.
[Lenovo A850] MichaelCycleTheBycle:
Hey, as of today I bought the Lenovo A880, I know this is an A850 forum but there doesn't seem to be any A880 forums. I looked at the specs and there are little differences between the two phone, same OS, processor etc. But different GPU (Mali-400), 8GB storage etc.

This is my first time buying a phone from China, or even outside of my home country (Ireland), but may I ask is there anything I need to do to the phone in order for it to work in the European market or even in Ireland?

I'd love some decent advice as I said, I'm a noob at this!

Thank you
[Lenovo A850] GreatApo:
Most shops sent the device ready for use (inside Europe). There are some people saying that they have signal problems (in USA for ex.) but generaly i think you will not have any problems :)

If the phone does not have a playstore, rooted and install it or flash it with a pre-rooted rom... most times all these are by default.
[Lenovo A850] MichaelCycleTheBycle:
This kinda has me confused, the phone is made for the Chinese market but I can use it in Ireland as if I walked to my local phone shop and bought any phone? Am I getting this much right?

Would you mind explaining this to me? I'm well used to working with computers, this will be the first time I having done anything technical with phones, I just generally used them for calls, texts and social media.
[Lenovo A850] GreatApo:
Yes, most times it is like getting the phone from your nead store.

ZTE are chinese phones but you can go out and buy one from a near store. On the other hand, Lenovo has not expand its phone devices in europe, so there may not be your language in the phone (but good devs have cooked the officials ROMs so these things are available).

An other issue is when the phone is "locked" and this means that is ment to be for only specific companies (ex Vodafone) but most phones are unlocked ;)

Root means gaining administrator access over your phone. Normally, when you buy a phone you are a user not an administrator. When we talk about android, root access is having administrators rights, on iPhone it is called jailbreak (also on playstation 3 or PSP :P). Why to gain access? Then you will have the full control of your phone, which for a normal android user it is not so usefull BUT since you have an XDA account your are not a normal user :D

The Google Play is the largest app store on androids (most devices have it as a default) but if you do not have it you need root access to install it. Then you can download apps easily from there :)

Flash means sth like formating/changing the operation system (ex. windows) of your phone. There are ROMs (phone firmwares) made by some developers that may be better than the one you may have. Example: you may be able to move apps to SDcard, the google play will be installed and the phone will be rooted. Most chinese stores install such ROMs before they sent the phone to you ;)

The difference with the PCs is that each ROM is specified for each phone (drivers issues). So you can't just grap a ROM from a850 and put it in a880. The flashing process is also defferent from phone to phone (most times between companies). Ex: if you want to flash a sony phone you do not use the same program you use for a MTK device (like Lenovo's), and yes you flash your phone while you have it connected with your computer.

I wrote you some general info, you can google anything for more details. I hope you got the general idea :)
[Lenovo A850] MichaelCycleTheBycle:
Gotchya, I definitely made sure that the phone was unlocked before I actually bought it, I just can't get over the price difference between Chinese phone companies and International phone companies, for the A880 I paid in the region of €100-€150 I've done a bit of research and what not on it and it's a tad more powerful than the Samsung Galaxy S3 which would cost someone €600-€700

Aha! :highfive: I know what you're talking about now, the word 'root' was throwing me off :)

I have a slight idea of it now, I nearly **** myself earlier because I thought I made a HUGE mistake aha! I'll definitely look into it more, thanks for the replies, really appreciated. I'll definitely let you know how I get on and how well the phone works, if you are interested :D
[Lenovo A850] GreatApo:
Price differences are true. Lenovo a850 (my phone) costs 120€ from china and 240€ in Greece. This is because of the taxies, some stores order these phones (since lenovo has not open its phones in Europe) so there are more taxies.

On the other hand, there are some good choises made by Lenovo to hit the market with a lower cost. Your screen is not the same with S3, it may have twice the pixels your phone has, with a better screen quality. Is this so important? For me, no, but it is for sure more expencive.

The phone's camera most times is lower, and most people (people that do not know anything of computers) search for a new phone based on the camera and the logo on the phone, plus it is more expencive to have a better camera. Less RAM is an other feature of Lenovo phones, based to other devieces you can compare them...

From my stand point, you take what you pay. The trick is to take the phone from China, its half the price. Since i want to have a fast phone, i am ok with a lower camera, i do not care. About the screen, MY TV IS FULL HD, why the hell should my phone also be??? This is far too much... :P
[Lenovo A850] MichaelCycleTheBycle:
I've always had an under-powered phone compared to family and friends, and being into computer I'd much rather have processing power, RAM and the likes. The screen on the A880 will be probably be the best screen I ever had as well as the camera. The most pixels I ever had is probably 2.5 haha

Really? The A880 has 1GB of RAM I thought that was good since the bog standard desktops at work have 2GB of RAM

Yeah and you could buy a half decent camera for €50/60 and still save a couple of hundred Euro!

I just found out that the phone comes already rooted with Google Play installed, sweet! :D
[Lenovo A850] GreatApo:
Lenovo A850 is a cheap edition of Samsung Note 2 (no in the appearance). Note 2 has 2 GB of ram... i do not know if is is too much but i know 1GB is good enough for me :)

I told you, most sellers take care of such things.
[General Questions and Answers] djkms:
I recently upgraded from android 4.2 to 4.3 as I read around the web that AVRCP 1.3 is working in android 4.3. For those that might not know, AVRCP 1.3 sends the artist and track info of your song over bluetooth. I am on a Verizon galaxy s4 (rooted) Build MK2 .

I hop in my car (2014 Ford Fusion with Sync) and start it up. I read a couple of places in order to get the track info showing you have to re-pair the device. So I deleted my profile and re-paired the device. Started Google Music up and.............nothing......

So is this an android issue or sync issue?

Thanks for your help,

Kris
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tylerm63:
Hey everyone I need a few questions answered for a cracked screen. I slipped and dropped my phone and cracked the screen and the touchscreen doesnt work anymore. I was wondering would I need both a digitizer and lcd screen? Or can I just get one or the other. Please help me Im using a lg optimus now it sucks!! And normally where can you find the cheapest repair parts?
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smeth_90:
Hello everyone..i already search in this forum for stock jelly bean firmware but no file attached to being download.

so i need suggestion who have stock firmware or any link that can help me to download the stock firmware....

Android version 2.3.6 need update to jelly bean...................
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razvan:
And this thread is not enough?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2110245

Powered by CM11
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
Please refer to thread linked to above.

Thread closed as it's a duplicate.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] sumilux:
Finally I have what feels like a fairly snappy MDA pro response wise. I did this by soft booting just as it starts its post hard reset, Tmobile rom extras install and thereby gaining a significant amount of ram space. All I've noticed so far is that the phone dialer is missing its ugly tmobile default skin, the video call ability, the Htc 'Smart dial' function and an MMS mailbox / client.

What else does the Tmobile rom auto install on first boot beside these phone features? Also can I install the video/smart dial without too much of a hit on memory / device speed?

Though I don't plan to make many video calls I guess it would be nice to have the ability and I do miss the smart dialer. I do want however MMS, what steps are necessary for this to enabled?

I've dumped spb plus which was great on my old Orange m2000 but not quite so on the MDA Pro where it seems to affect device speed in a bad way.

I can also confirm that spb diary has a negative effect on screen update speed but I've grown to love its features so Im going to put up with its slowdown which is just manageable (so long as SPB Plus isnt running as well)

A basic install with just wisbar ran stunningly fast, portrait to lanscape switch was absolutely instantaneous. This phone is super fast in its virgin state and oddly wisbar advanced 2 doesn't cause slowdown.

So my current setup is Wisbar advanced, Pocket weather (amazing, I love it, spb weather pales in comparison) and spb diary which I prefer to pocket/contact breeze for the simple reason that I can sms directly from the home screen. SBSH CBreeze doesn't have an sms option in the popup menu for whatever odd reason.

I also have Opera, Sprite backup and Resco explorer running on the SD card. All in all I have 22-25mb of free ram after a softboot and it runs great.

So do any of you feel instalation of the advanced phone functions would be detrimental to performance and memory?

Any advice much appreciated.

Thanks.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Shaunfarris:
Hi Ya

I've done exactly the same with my Orange M5000

and have the same problem no MMS Mailbox

I have configured MMS and GPRS settings but still no Mailbox

Have you managed to resolve this??
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HackpleDroid:
I recently updated my at&t note 3 to 4.4.2 kitkat and everything was fine, no problems whatsoever. However yesterday, my mobile data will not turn on for some reason. I tried deleting and re writing a new apn. But that did not fix anything. I tried downloading a data toggle widget, and theat didn't work either.

Will I have to to a factory reset? Or should I wait for a root and custom rom for the galaxy note 3 sm N900A
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerrycoffman45:
or you could call att and see if the problem is on their end
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] upndown4par:
I installed DoubleTapToSleep on my Galaxy Note 2 but when I DoubleTap on the notification bar, the World Clock shows up but the phone doesn't sleep.

Has anyone run into this before and if so, what can I do to fix this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Ron
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] upndown4par:
I'm surprised that nobody has had this happen to them or at least has an idea of what might be causing this issue. Anybody? Please???

Failing that, does anybody know how I can get in contact with the developer of DoubleTapToSleep?

Thanks.

Ron
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viruscro:
Hey, I've been wondering, after finally making my S2 work after ****in up in the flashing the ROM I finally made it all work properly. Until I've tried to take pictures. The "default" camera app is not working, it continues to crash. I've googled and found that I should download another app and try it. So I got "Camera ZOOM FX" with which I can take pictures, but once I switch to video recording crashing. Since then I've been googling a lot and checking these forums and havent found a solution.

So I'm askin all you pro's out here, is there a fix to this at this time, or is it to me to wait for a fix?

Please forgive me for any grammar/spelling mistakes. Also sorry if this is already somewhere resolved.

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DomagojR:
Clear camera data
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viruscro:
reply

Works! :D

Thank you so much for this! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] deler2000:
BUBBLE EASTER EGGS

Bubble Easter Eggs will take you to the world of colorful easter eggs and beautiful wallpapers!

Try to test your skills across over 42 levels of the colorful eggs!

The game require strategic thinking and making quick decisions.

Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.pulm.bubbleEasterEggs
[Sony Xperia ZL] Trozzul:
Hey guys im thinking of buying a sony Xperia ZL but on amazon there are 2 different model numbers i have phone which are C6502 and C6506. the C6506 looks like its the LTE version which is around $450 and the C6502 which is non LTE is around $360-400. would Roms work for both phones? does the model number really matter?
[Sony Xperia ZL] redneck82:
If ur network provider have 4g or lte buy 6605 if not buy 6602 , firmware ftf files can be flashed , network is hardware no software, actually i have 6602 is 3g red but i have it with official firmwarw 6603 working with no problems :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] jcdr12:
C6506

i have the C6506 because of the 4g,

the C6506 can be 3g or 4g but the C6502 will never have 4g because of hardware limitations

also u could resell it a little bit higher

and yes, roms will work no matter what model u have, because if u buy the C6506 and the rom u like its for C6502, u can flash the C6506 baseband with flashtool and get 4g
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tomoms:
Hi everybody!

I messed up things with roms & kernels and now my phone doesn't boot anymore, because I've flashed the latest firmware but flashtool on linux told me that there was an error. I'm sure that my flashtool works because I've used it a few weeks ago. This was Flashtool's log:

libusb_bulk_transfer (write) : No device

Error : did not write all data

libusb_bulk_transfer (write) : No device

Error : did not write all data

libusb_bulk_transfer (read) : No device

release_interface : No device

release_interface : No device

#

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

#

# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x004b7e70, pid=1832, tid=2408762176

#

# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (7.0_51-b13) (build 1.7.0_51-b13)

# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (24.51-b03 mixed mode linux-x86 )

# Problematic frame:

# C [jna3526413659658922044.tmp+0x8e70] Java_com_sun_jna_Native__1getPointer+0xf0

#

# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again

#

# An error report file with more information is saved as:

# /home/tfonda/Scaricati/FlashTool/hs_err_pid1832.log

#

# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:

# http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp

Aborted

Now my phone doesn't boot anymore. I plugged it to the wall charger and it shows the red led + sony logo (charging) for 1 minute, then -- green led without sony logo for a few seconds then -- red led -- and on and on...

What can I do?

Now I'll try another flash.

Thank you :good::good:

EDIT: I unplugged my phone and before the led and the screen turned down I had to wait half a minute.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joke19:
Battery was full at the beginning

Gesendet von meinem Xperia SP

---------- Post added at 07:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:03 PM ----------

When not it's hear hear like a empty battery then u must pull the battery out and separate charge or u don't know how to, bring it to a repair center and tell them to charge the battery separate. Or test to use ur warranty

Gesendet von meinem Xperia SP
[General Monetization] artouiros:
I live in a country that can't register a google merchant account. I have some free ad-suported apps, but I want to make an ad-free pad version.

I see two ways:

- a paypal donation for ad removing (but I read that it isn't legal and my accoutn can be banned)

- a link in my application to my website to buy a Pro add-free version (not everyone will install an .apk from some website)

Any other legal way to recieve money from users for removing ads?
[General Monetization] nibbcnoble:
Don't mess with z google!

I think the google terms of service basically forbids you from monetizing a paid version without going through them. I wouldn't try to work around this problem. Don't mess with google. I have an account that is still banned from Ad Words because some friends (6 years ago) started clicking like crazy on all of the banners on my website. So, don't try to do anything subversive, it won't pay off.

So, your real problem is to get a google merchant account. That really sucks that your country isn't able to get one. Is there any person or company out there maybe that could be a go-between from another country that can have a merchant account? I really don't see any other safe solution. Good Luck anyway!
[General Monetization] kadua:
I have some problem few months ago, however it's no longer a problem because few week later, i receive a notif with a good news that my country are supported so i can create a google merchant account.

But before, I also did some thinking on how to work around it, yet, can't find any way to do that which doesn't break google policy.

I can't suggest any way beside waiting and hoping that your country will soon supported by google (not useful enough, eh ?), who knows ?

Some idea come to mind though, if you ask someone from other country which supported by google, who kind enough to make a google merchant account for you, so you can access it Iater from your country when the account has already been made, I don't know if it works, anybody try something like this before ?
[Shield Q&A] Cable123:
Hi guys I'm trying to play two players on the Nvidia with one Bluetooth controller and one using the Nvidia controller I am using this in Nes.EMU Emulator The farthest I have got is the one player will control the one player person but the Bluetooth controller will control the second player and the first player is there something I'm missing on the set up for this I can understand why the Bluetooth controller is controlling first player to play console games from your couch but is there a way to get it to be it's own second player controller then I can enjoy games like my force thank you for any help or info on this maybe even a set up walk-through or maybe a different emulator I should be using thank you guys in advance for any help
[Shield Q&A] Cyborg_0tacon:
Hi, i'm not to knowledgeable on bluetooth controllers on the Shield or other android devices (such as the nyko line of bluetooth controllers). But the only method (that I have experience with) is with sony's six-axis controller for the ps3. I have two ps3 controllers and rooted multiple of my android devices (Asus tf700 tablet, Nexus S, and Shield) and paired my PS3 controllers by a simple procedure to get both to work on my device (using an app called "Sixaxis Controller"). This is the only method that i have experience with that would let you play with 2 controllers on a 2 player game running on a emulator. Sorry if this isn't the answer you're looking for, but this is the only method i know that works for me.

Requirements:

- rooted device

- two ps3 controllers

- pc

- Sixaxis Controller app