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[Moto X Q&A] styndall:
I'm having some problems with NFC. Prior to Friday evening, my NFC was working great with Android Beam, Google Wallet, etc.

Friday afternoon I was playing around with Tasker and the NFC Locale plugin to create some tasks when a specific NFC tag was read. I made just a simple "turn on flashlight" task and was wowing myself with the magic of the tag. I also installed the Xposed module that lets you use NFC with the screen off. After playing with it for awhile I put my phone in airplane mode (I was in a poor service area). A few hours later (still in airplane mode but with NFC turned on) I resumed play with NFC and Tasker to make some more interesting tasks but noticed my phone wasn't responding to my previously used tag or any other (unused) tags. I thought maybe since I didn't cell signal that is why it wasn't working (stupid thought, I know) and decided to wait till I had service to resume the tinkering.

Fast forward to tonight, I still can't get my phone to respond to any NFC tags or any tap to pay terminals (for use with Google Wallet) or Android Beam with my SO's Moto X and I can't think of what else to try before I do a factory reset.

So far I have:

1) frozen/hibernated every NFC using app individually to test each one to see if any of them would work on their own

2) uninstalled every app and Xposed module that uses NFC except Google Wallet

3) rebooted my phone multiple times ensuring NFC is on

4) ran a logcat to make sure NFC is actually turning on/off and from what I can tell it is (I can post the logcat if need be)

Factory resets are such a PIA and I'd like to avoid it at all costs but I am thinking that is the way I need to go unless anyone has any other ideas for me. Googling around it seems like a lot of NFC issues tend to be hardware related...I am definitely hoping that is not the case. :(

Thanks in advance for any advice or input!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fox5.56:
Edit wrong forum, please delete
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Markino:
How can I cleanup all the recent destination, address ecc... in TOmTOm 5.21?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] gianvi:
You need to delete the file "mapname.cfg" into the map directory, for example "italy.cfg" into "italy" directory. Doing this you will also lose your personal settings and the file will be created from scratch (default settings, colours, and so on)... Hope this helps :D
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Markino:
Thanks man! ;-)
[One (M8) General] yas1987:
Greetings everyone,

I came from a note 2, after couple of kernels/roms, i swear note 2 had amazing sound from the speakers, Compared to m8, the note 2 is a tiny bit louder BUT obviously it has distortion, but overall its much crispier on m8 (Duh). I cant wait till there are mods to make the speakrers of this louder, after all these are stock volumes! Cant wait.

Nice to meet you all!
[One (M8) General] Life Engineer:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2708966
[One (M8) General] andrewnelson:
You can use Apps for it.
[One (M8) General] Crazypinoy9:
That works great for all default sounds but I recommend Viper4 Android FX if you want to increase sound output for everything. I'm using the high quality mode and it works amazing. It definitely brings out the best of the speakers on the M8.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
[One (M8) General] yas1987:
I cant wait to try this, installing now.!!!

- Edit: I downloaded the app, installed it, picked high quality, and messing around, i dont seem to notice a difference? Im rooter/s-off and the rest. Any idea?

- 2nd edit: I picked super high quality, i think it does work, Its loud now :) Thank you bro
[One (M8) General] Stephen:
Thread closed,

Remember forum rules. If there is an existing thread please post there before creating a new one eg: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2696620

Ghost
[Sony Xperia L] Holmes.Sherlock:
Contribute secret codes working on Sony Xperia - L handset. Below are the codes tested by me and working fine.

*#06# - IMEI number

*#*#7378423#*#* - Service menu (Service Info, Service Settings, Service Tests, Customization Settings)

*#*#4636#*#* - Testing menu (Phone Information, Battery Information, Usage Statistics, Wi-Fi Information)

*#*#8255#*#* - Gtalk Service Monitor

*#*#8350#*#* - Disable Dialer log

*#*#8351#*#* - Enable Dialer log
[Sony Xperia L] Samarthgupta:
The best of all

I have been looking many sites for the secret codes of sony xperia and i found samteck to be the best
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naeembabakheil:
Hi !

i here long ago i am using Android Phone and always use Android OS ... but my friend has got HD7 used... i know how to flash and Root Android Phone but i am complete Noob to windows Phone ... so i want a rooting tool and Flashing tool to flash Custom Roms and Offical with those Tools b

Thanks :cowboy:
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] aprwx:
I've seen several discussions about this around the web, but none of the solutions I've read have helped me.

I have the Sprint HTC One M8 with custom ROM (ViperOneM8). The phone is activated and works fully, yet on reboot I always get the 'Hands Free Activation' wizard. If I hit Activate and then Done it goes away and I can use my phone normally, but every reboot brings it back up again.

Ideas?
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] aprwx:
I'll add that I have custom recovery (TWRP), rooted, custom ROM, and S-Off.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] webbabuser:
Htc m8 and sprint

Sorry I have the same issue with mine and finally ive called htc for a swap out phone to see if its a software defect. htc said that if it still occures it may bee an issue with sprint...
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] aprwx:
Are you running stock, or did you install a custom rom?

Sent from my Sprint HTC One M8
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] aprwx:
... I ask because when I first bought the phone it activated fine (with delay because it was the same day that the Galaxy S5 was released and Sprint had a delay activating phones that day)....but then I installed a custom ROM and am having this problem now with the custom ROM.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] aprwx:
Thought I'd post here to help others who stumble on this thread....

This removed Hands Free Activation for me on Sprint's HTC One M8:

This worked for me, but a couple notes:

- I wasn't able to do the command line or Root Explorer. Both methods gave me errors, seemingly that I didn't have permissions to rename or delete the file. Why would that be? I went into TWRP and 'Fixed Permissions' but that didn't help. -- found it interesting that boot up is a LOT slower now that I fixed permissions.

- I ended up going into TWRP, mounting system and then going into TWRP's file manager to rename the file. Now Hands Free Activation no longer comes up (Thank you!), but I also note that neither PRL Update or Update Profile do anything now. Not a huge deal because before they just errored out anyway, but I would think it would be important to be able to do PRL/Profile updates.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mhmobile:
Thanks for the heads up about this. I just changed the .apk to .bak with root explorer, noted the path and file name so I can change it back to update the pir and prl. Mine didn't usually error out.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mswlogo:
I'd find another ROM.

I think you are always safest to stay with Sprint "Native" ROMs on a Sprint Phone. Mainly because the developer usually doesn't have a Sprint Phone to fully flesh it out on a regular day to day basis. There are subtle differences between all the carriers. You also end up with a Build of Android that exactly matches the corresponding build of Firmware.

Once you do get back on a native ROM you *MIGHT* have to do a ##72786# (full wipe) to get things back in order.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] aprwx:
What I think are related issues lead me to a fix that was common to several problems I was having:

http://xdaforums.com/sprint-htc-one-m8/general/fix-data-issues-t2819915
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] isimsizkullan:
simply freeze vDM
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] EzreaL.:
i have a p6200 and i am on jellybean firmware

i full wipe in the cwm recovery ( wipe everything ) then suddenly i am stucked on the samsung logo

i tried flashing a firmware in odin but first it is stucked on initializing then it fails

any solutions here? thanks
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elmerohueso:
Has anyone figured out how to get an app to appear on the Fire TV home screen? Is it something programmed into the app, or is the Home screen somehow linked to the Appstore, thus only allowing apps in the Appstore to be listed on the Home screen?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhayman11:
I think it has something to do with a link to the Amazon app store. I've sideloaded a bunch of apps and the only one that showed up on the home screen was Spotify (kindle fire version). When I installed the play version of Spotify it didn't show up on the home screen.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrMichaelJames:
I would place bets that it has to be signed somehow by amazon in order for it to show up on the main screen. Or like the kindle fire they put an option in to allow unauthorized apps.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garvani:
Koying found this:
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarvoke:
this was my thought too.

so I pulled a copy of spotify from google, and a copy from amazon store. the amazon version does not show up in my apps list like it did for dhayman11. but the only version I could get from amazon was "kindle tablet" whereas dhayman11 said his version was kindle fire.

so the next thing I did was go on the firetv and install pandora.

luckily, the firetv has the same package install method as any generic device with amazon app store: it downloads the apk into

/sdcard/android/data/com.amazon.venezia/files/apks

and then installs it.

and then deletes it lol.

even more luckily, I was able to gank a copy of the apk safely to /sdcard/ on the first try, before it was deleted.

the KF apk of spotify, and the AFTV/KFTV apk of pandora, both have 3 extra files that the google apks do not have. signatures indeed:

KF spotify

com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-2UIMENB7RPX86 2b9caef13142184773d485b1aca955b5

com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f

kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd

KFTV pandora

com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-1UVY84RC4VBZ6 60e678411e0e696dee205591a51609b6

com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f

kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd

so obviously 2 of the files can simply be copied and injected into target apk. but just as obviously, 1 file may have to be generated somehow.

but that 1 apk-specific file contains nothing special, just text (which happens to match the filename)

com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-2UIMENB7RPX86 --

MC-S-2UIMENB7RPX86

com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-1UVY84RC4VBZ6 --

MC-S-1UVY84RC4VBZ6

who knows, maybe it doesn't need to be generated, just referenced in the manifest xml somewhere (haven't gotten around to digging into those just yet...)

---------- Post added at 05:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:31 PM ----------

of course, the other thing that only occurred to me this morning (which is dumb, because amazon has been talking lots of public talk about it for a while now)

is that repackaging apps with a new signature should be possible with their development tools. and they just happen to have the SDK and eclipse mumbo-gumbo for free download:

https://developer.amazon.com/public/resources/development-tools

(I'm guessing they make their money when you want your app in the amazon store, rather than charging for the sdk which was historically more usual)
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhayman11:
Yeah I just tried to replicate it and its not showing up in my "apps library" list now either. Must have been a glitch or something. It was likely the "Kindle tablet" version, rather than "Kindle fire" version, I just remember it said something about being the kindle version.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarvoke:
oh ok

I figured it was just me doing something wrong.as usual ;)
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Luxferro:
It probably has to do with the exact app name (com.amazon.bah.blah.blah). I sideloaded updated Plex app (paid app), since amazon store is behind, and it shows on the home screen.

So if it's on the amazon store, and available for Fire TV, and has the same name, then it will probably show regardless of where it came from, version, or if it was sideloaded.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sadboyzz:
No, it just needs to be signed by Amazon.

Remember, this is the Apple-era, where only losers sell hardware for a profit. The winners make a profit off everything you do with "your" hardware. Amazon didn't make Fire TV so you can have a cheap HTPC box to do as you please, they made it for you to consume content provided by Amazon. This is why you can't have you apps show up on the home screen, this is also why the Home button on the remote can not be rebound or overridden, and this is also why the voice search feature will only give you results from Amazon.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Esso1001:
Check this out.. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=191109&pid=1682194#pid1682194
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Luxferro:
Explain how a sideloaded app taken from Google play shows on home page then? A version not available on amazon.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarvoke:
the plex thing, who knows. it's a paid app so that's one major difference with everything else we've been playing with.

it's not the classname - amazon is using the same exact namespace as google and anyone else.

com.amazon.kindle

com.pandora.gtv

com.estrongs.android.taskmanager

etc...

because you don't go messing around with namespaces. no one does. for one thing, changing the classname is a licensing problem - quite likely breaking the law. and in practical terms, you could easily end up having 2 versions of the same app fighting over the same resource media/settings/etc. deadlock and threading issues, dirty reads abound.

if I sideload com.pandora.gtv taken from google, it stays in the kiddie menu.

if I sideload the pandora apk that I ganked from the amazon app store, it goes to the app menu.

but in both cases, running "adb shell pm list packages -f" reports that the firetv sees the app as: com.pandora.gtv

how does the firetv decide what happens when you sideload an app? I don't know. I have a moderately good guess.

there are:

- some extra indicator/tag files

- different RSA signatures/certs (check out META-INF)

- possibly non-trivial differences in the manifest xml

below is some info about some indicator files that are in the amazon apks. but not in non-amazon apks.

you can see that 2 of the files are identical between the 2 apks, but still generically saying hey this is some amazon apk not a regular one.

and then there is 1 file that is different. some sort of specific signature or hash.

(each com.amazon.content.id.$FOO file simply contains "$FOO" - it's some sort of unique generated string but no idea what it relates to)

com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-2UIMENB7RPX86 2b9caef13142184773d485b1aca955b5

com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f

kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd

com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-1UVY84RC4VBZ6 60e678411e0e696dee205591a51609b6

com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f

kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd

between this stuff and the RSA certs, that's probably how the firetv is set up to decide how to sort out where to put things.

I imagine similar with OUYA or any platform where this kind of split-userspace thing is going on...
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Luxferro:
Yeah, that stuff is kinda over my head (I guess I was wrong on that classname stuff). I was mostly pointing out that the latest version of paid Plex app, taken from google play store and sideloaded on Fire TV shows the app on the homescreen, even though the version from amazon is older and different.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarvoke:
yeah that really makes little to no sense ;) I mean, I'm glad it works, and I'm sure plex-using-peoples of the world are very happy. but I have zero clue ;)

right now I am still feeling way too lazy to download the free sdk and learn how to use it. but it does all the correct signing stuff i.e. any app you make with it should go into the grownup app menu on the home screen. and it might even be possible to use it to re-sign apk files from non-amazon sources.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrMichaelJames:
On submission to the Amazon Appstore, Amazon signs all of your apps with a secure key for your account. The resulting hash code is unique to your app and different from any hash codes you may have for that app in different app stores. I wonder if someone can sign up for a dev account, get the hash keys and apply it locally to a sideloaded app and then load it into the fire tv.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Esso1001:
Interesting..
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmicalzoma:
Use Llama to lunch XBMC or other Apps from FTV Home

I'm using Llama app to access XBMC from the FTV home page. I downloaded an app from Amazon app store that I was never going to use "Classic TV" and created an event in Llama to launch XBMC instead of the other app.

You can go to the XBMC wiki page for the whole instructions about sideloading to FTV. To get the Llama app go to the developer page and download app for sideloading: http://kebabapps.blogspot.com/.

From XBMC.org Wiki for FTV:

Launch XBMC from an Existing App on the FTV Home Screen

There is a alternative way to invoke XBMC from the FTV Home Screen using Llama. This method uses a “sacrificial” app that you have installed from Amazon that you will use to access XBMC. The app can be anything you have installed but don’t need to use; however, some apps behave better than others (some apps will enter a loop when exiting XBMC). One app that has been tested and works well for this purpose is “Classic TV”.

The advantage of this method is that using the sacrificial app you have Home Screen Access to XBMC and you can exit XBMC to the FTV Home Screen just as you would any other FTV app.

4.1 Prerequisites

Llama side loaded on your FTV.

The app called “Classic TV” from the Amazon app store.

One Llama Event (described below).

4.2 Procedure

Install / side-load Llama.

Install “Classic TV” app from Amazon app store.

Launch Llama (From FireTV - Settings > Applications > Llama > Launch Application).

Go to EVENTS on top menu and click '+' to add a NEW EVENT.

In your NEW EVENT select ADD CONDITION then, from the Menu select 'Active Application' and select 'Choose App’. Scroll through the list of apps until you find “Classic TV” and select this app. Doing this should return you to the Events Menu.

Next, select ADD ACTION and select 'Run Application' from the Menu list. From here, select whatever the name of your XBMC build is. That should create your event. At this point you can also name your event to distinguish it from others.

Now when you start the “Classic TV” app from the Home Screen, it should automatically open XBMC. Feel free to experiment with other apps from the FTV app store. Just be aware that some will loop back and re-start XBMC when you try and exit XBMC to get back to the FTV Home Screen.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Panic84:
Is this possible with any other app rather than kodi?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rackspace:
Is there any way I can control and schedule Extreme Power Saving Mode from the automation app TASKER?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewnelson:
Try DU Battery Saver.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rackspace:
WOW

Where was I ... 1.5 million Stars and I never heard of this app :) ... Thanks mate.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urra:
Does DU Battery Saver give you access to Extreme Power saver through Tasker?

I would love to use Tasker to schedule the mode on and off.

Was thinking of using it as a "efficiency control", certain hours in the day the phone stays "phone", without all distractions =)

Thank you.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MindfulSheep:
I don't believe there's any way to "easily" do that, but I believe there is a way. Possibly, you could launch the settings app in Tasker, and then use a script to automatically click the menu selections in order to enable it. I haven't used these methods myself, but I did watch this Youtube tutorial on it a little while back. Maybe it will be of some help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NiOoSZz3oA

Edit: I should mention that it starts out with a lesson on voice activation, but it doesn't take long before he starts discussing the script process.

Edit 2: Just realized this is a month old thread. >:|
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lewonsky:
i have managed to do it on the M7 using llama . Also works with tasker

should be the same for m8 i beleive.

follow my guide here. U can a use llama tasker or other similar apps. If it supports linking to secure settings

http://xdaforums.com/htc-one/help/sense-6-scheduling-extreme-power-saving-t2808839
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joni2012:
found llama is m8?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lewonsky:
Didn't get yr question.

Llama is an automation app in the play store
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joni2012:
Llama map or location?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lewonsky:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llama
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joni2012:
Thank go tester
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lewonsky:
Report back if it worked for u
[Fire TV General] danielcbit:
Hi everybody.

Just got my Fire TV this weekend and started to play around with it. I bought just the fire TV as the Bluetooth Gamepad was not available yet.

As I'd like to use Fire TV for videos as well as for games I started to look for options regarding the second part.

I had a Xbox 360 Receiver + Controller laying around here and decided to give a try.

I'm glad to say that it worked almost flawlessly (the only problem if the controller's led that don't stop to blink. But the controller is functional and I can control the interface and games with it.

I'd like to ask if there is a way to make this led blinking stop and possibly do some remaps for the keys.

It would also be great if you could post information about other controllers that worked as well.

Here is some log information: http://pastebin.com/Z9ubtrHj
[Fire TV General] Luxferro:
Edit: I found this thread, and thought it might be a fix if we had root, but we already have a config file for it: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1792531

edit2: You can see all the IO devices Fire TV can work with by looking at the files at /system/usr/keylayout/

# XBox 360 USB Controller
#
#
# XBox 360 USB Wireless Controller
# Reports itself as "Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver" and
# "Microsoft Corp. Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter"
# Similar in behavior to XBox 360 USB Controller except for the d-pad,
# which is digital (scan codes instead of axes) on the wireless version.
#
#
# Logitech Dual Action Controller
#
#
# Logitech Gamepad F310 (USB).
# Very similar to XBox 360 controller (with switch in X position).
# This is due to XInput support available in this controller.
#
#
# Logitech Rumble Gamepad F510 (USB).
# Very similar to XBox 360 controller (with switch in X position).
# This is due to XInput support available in this controller.
#
#
# Logitech Wireless Gamepad F710.
# Very similar to XBox 360 controller (with switch in X position).
# This is due to XInput support available in this controller.
#
#
# Logitech G25 Racing Wheel (in Compatibility Mode)
#
#
# Logitech G25 Racing Wheel (in Native Mode)
#
#
# Logitech Revue Wireless keyboard
#
#
# Sony Playstation(R)3 Controller
#
#
# Wii Remote (WiiMote), Nunchuk and Classic Controller.
# WiiMote and Nunchuck buttons mostly map to codes based on their labels.
# Classic controller buttons map to mimic Xbox 360 controller layout.
#
#
# Apple Wireless Keyboard
#
#
# Amazon/Lab126 Remote Control
#
#
# Amazon/Lab126 Thunder Game Controller
#
#
# Motorola Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard.
#
#
# OnLive Wireless Controller.
# Effectively identical (in scan codes) to XBox-style gamepads
# with the addition of five multimedia keys.
#
#
# OUYA Game Controller
#