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[General PAC Discussion] rafaelperazzo:
Is there any way to put a boot animation on my n7100 running pac rom Android 4.4.2 ? How van I do this ? The current boot logo is a blank screen. Any APP to help in this job ?

Thanks

Best regards

Rafael
[Xperia Z2 General] fkofilee:
Good Evening Folks

Sad news from the Camp. Ive also been given a Z2 locked with both BL and SIM.

Just to keep you posted, 360Root, Kingo Root & Vroot dont work.

I think Sony may have just made this thing Impenetrable
[Xperia Z2 General] mushtafa:
I'm not sure why they would lock it down so much. I'm a bit of an HTC fan boy, but the Z2 specs bettered the M8. I took a chance with Sony for a change because of this.

Reading through this forum has made me change my mind though, yes the phone is awesome, but I want an android phone so I can mod it how I wish. I can't own a phone on a 2yr contract without root!

Vodafone can have the Z2 back at the weekend and I'll have another look at the M8 or consider the S5
[Xperia Z2 General] riso123:
Exactly this. My z2 goes back tomorrow and I'm getting the s5 instead.
[Xperia Z2 General] The Gunner:
So Z2 does not have the possibilty of root? Any version?
[Xperia Z2 General] jadaress1:
At the moment only the ones with unlockable bootloaders can b rooted
[Xperia Z2 General] fkofilee:
I have the M8 so im not exactly jumping to change. Im going to keep my phone for now, the Z2 will remain and ill get it unlocked etc, but all i need is root to be honest :)

Wonder if you can flash a rooted stock firmware ^__^
[Xperia Z2 General] sob33316:
Are those the international versions?
[Xperia Z2 General] festa20:
Get it from some were else then you will regret it with the s5 and m8 not bad really

But if your from uk get it from third party companys and would be unlocked u can even upgrade through third party companys and should be unlockable
[Xperia Z2 General] rowlers:
I've just been offered a fantastic upgrade deal on the z2, via Phones4u in the UK. The issue with root and bootloaders has me kinda worried. I too don't want to be stuck with a phone I can't root & flash. If I got a z2 with an unlockable bootloader, does this mean I can root and flash whatever I want? Roms & kernels etc?

As far as I know the z2 cannot yet be returned to stock for warranty issues either.

Z2 or wait for g3. Hmmm I need to decide :)
[Xperia Z2 General] KyleSforza:
Quite sure they aren't.

Locked bootloaders = Phones bought on contract

The full price upfront ones are unlockable, in fact the process has been explained on the Sony developer site itself.
[Xperia Z2 General] feis:
Phones4u will give you simlock free, unlockable bootloader device.
[Xperia Z2 General] rowlers:
Yeh I thought so... Just need the TA backup solution.

Things are very much different from my Samsung gs3!
[Xperia Z2 General] Xajel:
The problem is we can't backup the TA partition without root...

I'll soon have my Z2 and worried about this, I don't want to unlock the bootloader before I backup the TA partition but I need root also...
[Xperia Z2 General] KevinB88:
An exploit will be found when enough developers got this phone

Gesendet von meinem D6503 mit Tapatalk
[Xperia Z2 General] fkofilee:
I went to London yesterday and today and stayed over, and this phone is beautiful, espec... the CAMERA!

I want root, however i can sacrifice on the locked bootloader :)

I have the M8 so i can flash and mod to my hearts content!! :) I also have my unlock code ready to go just need a non Voda SIM.

I wonder if.... Unlocking the SIM suddenly triggers a BL unlock ^__^ (Kidding, This wouldnt happen in a million years)
[Xperia Z2 General] fkofilee:
I would also like to add, id be happy to test any root exploits!! :)
[Xperia Z2 General] nyichiban:
From what I know so far there is no way to root without voiding your warranty. By unlocking boot loader is the only way to use to backup. However unlocking the boot loader makes you lose the drm which you need for warranty service. So if you are not afraid to lose warranty and drm, you can go over to Sony website and it gives you a step by step guide to unlock the boot loader.
[Xperia Z2 General] fkofilee:
Think youve missed the point of the thread... We know that we CANT unlock the bootloader... We WANT to, but we cant root until someone finds an exploit
[Xperia Z2 General] mrBira:
Bumping a bit.

I have a simlock free device, but i guess i will still lose the DRM-keys if i unlock, right?

If so.. heard anything new, if anyone have found an working exploit?

I will return my phone if this can't be fixed asap. =(
[Xperia Z2 General] Legacy3003:
Three UK

Just in case you were wondering, Three UK ship the Z2 with SIM unlock. I also typed in *#*#service#*#* and guess what?

Bootloader Unlock Allowed: YES

This is a two year contract on the one plan from Three UK. The phone arrived today.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] John_wba:
If anybody wants the jelly bean screen saver/daydream. Click about phone (bottom of settings app, 3rd party launcher) and press where it says android version 4.2.2 10 times followed by a long press on the big red jelly bean that appears... you now have the option to set it as a daydream :D
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] David_cole:
Nice find only for null rom?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] John_wba:
Yep
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] John_wba:
N/A
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] MagniPop:
Hi.

Few months ago I bought my first droid, a u20i that had minicm7 already on but after a month I got too curious and SEUS'ed it to stock to see what that was like.

It was quite bad and wanted to return to nAa & minicm7. With the first step (flashtools) I managed to hardbrick it and paid the stupidity tax of 25 euros to get it jtagged. In the dev section some stuff has been updated some has not so the old stuff/new stuff mash gets quite confusing.

Could a lovely person of the community help out a noob and write what tools/files I need and in what steps do I need to do what so I could avoid any other costs?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] SmG67:
Flashtool is ok, you just have to delete the x10blrelock.ftf from the /flashtool/firmwares folder and 'only' use kernels that have u20 in their name :). Beyond that, you can do whatever you want with it.
[HTC Sensation XL] Ahmeds14:
Hi all.

Just recently acquired a sensation xl. I was interested in rooting so I went ahead did it. The volume down key on my sensation is broken, so to combat this I had to perform a temp root and then installed twrp recovery manager. from here , I rebooted to bootloader and unlocked it succesfully following htc dev's instructions.

After all this I flashed the cyanogenmod 9 rom to the device. All was going well.

I started looking at other roms. I decided I wanted to install runny kitkat v17(cyanogen) so I went ahead and downloaded the zip. I also downloaded the lego kernel.zip as I read that you have to flash the kernel too to tun 4.4.

I noticed that twrp recovery had an issue every time I booted to recovery. It would initialise and then display something like "kernel does not support selinux contexts" and then it would remain on the "simulating actions stage". I did not back up before I flashed cm9. I tried to back up several times on twrp but when I try to restore it says "twrp has stopped working"

So at that point I said that I would just flash the runny kitkat c17 rom and kernal from twrp. that didn't work too well. sinc I was unable to recover via twrp, I decided to boot up command prompt, and used command "fastboot recovery "recoveryimagename.img"

After this, the device restarted and now remains on the htc starting screen with the green "HTC" writing.

I think I soft bricked the phone. normally you could enter bootloader mode via phone and try restore stock firmware/ os. However since my volume button is broken and I can't manually load bootloader, I'm left clueless.

Please help me
[General Questions and Answers] PanosPixel:
First of all i am a newbie on your forum and forums in general,i would like to say hi to you all and please dont be hard on me if i am in the wrong section/topic whatever :P

I got a Samsung Galaxy s3 that runs cyanogenmod 10.2 stable (4.3.1 android ver.) and ever since i flashed the rom i cannot connect my phone on my pc (previously i could) and it cannot install any Gt-i9300 drivers whatsoever.Tried many different cables and usb slots and nothing seems to work,what can i do?

Thank you for helping in advance!!
[General Questions and Answers] shimp208:
I would recommend trying to install these Samsung USB Drivers and then seeing if your phone is recognized by the computer. Let me know if you still have questions.
[General Questions and Answers] PanosPixel:
My pc still does not recognise my device,is there anything else i can do?
[General Questions and Answers] shimp208:
I would uninstall any otherr usb drivers your previously installed for your device and try again, if that still doesn't work I would recommend taking a look at these Universal USB Drivers.
[General Questions and Answers] Karthick Chandran:
install Samsung USB drivers latest version
[General Questions and Answers] _dsouza_:
Also try connecting to another PC just to be sure it is not a windows issue.
[G2 General] Croize:
is this good/bad?? thank you
[G2 General] osmosizzz:
Yeah that's fine. But don't go off by benchmarks anymore. They practically mean nothing
[G2 General] zathus:
You crushed the HTC one x! What's there to be worried about ;)

Sent from my VS980 4G
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtsfreak:
I'm downloading c rom but I'm little confused are there too many bugs and how much battery life your getting on screen time because I'm using ultimate ROM and getting 4 hours screen on time reply asap thank you:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antique_sonic:
My experience with note 1, u can get 4h is good enuf mate. :)

Sent from somewhere under the sky, at the corner of this rounded earth.
[Galaxy Grand 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samsung Galaxy Grand 2:
I Have samsung Galaxy Grand 2

I am using 2 Sim cards

one is only for 3G ( Reliance Operator)....& Second is my regular number (Loop MObile Operator)

I hav activated Smart Dual Sim Service

But still When anyone call on my Loop No..its NOt reachable

but reliance works well..

If i turnd of mobile data then both sim works fine..

Why is that..is it bcoz of 3g Network ??

Please suggest me so i can avoid this

Thanks

Priyank Kharote
[Galaxy Grand 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srikanth1992:
works fine

Just check by interchanging sim in slots. first i had faced the same issue with different operators, but the customer care guys advised me to interchange the sims ..finally it worked for me.

i think it is not problem with phone .
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Jed D`Lagged:
I've got a Magician at the moment, and was thinking of upgrading to a Prophet.

Is is worth it? Obviously this question is relative, so if you think so (or why not) then us know why =]
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Itanium2:
I have updated myself from Magician to Prophet and would say it is worth it. Windows mobile 5 with its new soft keys is so much easy to use than WM2003. I would upgrade for that reason alone.

Besides, the slower process (in MHz) is not really a difference. The overall performance of the device is on par with Magician.

Moreover, WiFi and EDGE and additional benifits if you make use of it.

On a side note, I like the looks of Prophet better than Magician. It feels more professional than Magician.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] digger:
I would definitely echo what Itanium2 said. I have also upgraded from the Magician to the Prophet and love it, one handed use is so a lot easier and the softkeys are great.

There are a couple of minor annoyances for me with WM5 over WM2003:

1. Contacts forgets where you are, so if you have scrolled down your contact list, or opened a contact, then say go back to the Today screen, click on the contacts button you are back at the beginning of your contacts list - this is very annoying!

2. Mobile Excel doesn't save your zoom settings. I use Excel quite a bit and WM2003 used to save your zoom settings for each spreadsheet, however now everytime you open a spreadsheet you are at 100% zoom...

Still on the whole, after upgrading to the latest Imate ROM I find the device as stable as the magician was, with a good battery lif. One thing you might like to consider when buying your Prophet is the Imate Jam vs the Orange M600 - the Imate has a much brighter screen (unfortunately I did not find this out until I had brought the M600). Side by side it is really noticeable.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Matterhorn:
I upgraded my Magician to a Prophet.

Things that made me upgrade.

Wifi (tired of carrying around a wifi SD card)

Brighter screen in daylight

WM5-when power is lost, you still have a working PPC

There are lots of other little things that are better, but for me these were the biggies. Edge is nice of course, but that wasn't a deal breaker since in Europe we avoid data over providers because it is so expensive. If you don't use your Wizard in bright daylight and Wifi isn't important to you on a frequent basis then I think it comes down to money...if you can afford the new toy then why not, otherwise save the 500 dollars for a digital SLR etc. :-)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] TheBrit:
Do it! I did.

It felt a bit slower to me so I have overclocked it using the tool in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=55782

It flies along quite nicely now. 8)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Jazza:
I still have my Magician as well the Prophet and I have to say that even with the overclocking utility the Prophet is still very much slower than the Magician. Also the screen on the Prophet although undeniably brighter seems to be less responsive in comparison to the Magician. This last point may be down to my units only and could be affected by the screen scratch protection which are from different makers.

Other than those two points, Prophet beats Magician in every other respect.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] slvrbllt:
Here's my 2 cents.

I have upgraded to the Prophet (JAMin) as well. I have to say that I would never get back to the Magician.

Usability has improved greatly, battery life is amazing, overall speed is definitely acceptable.

Well, I am not able to play any of my videos without overclocking the device (or re-encoding them - no way!), but considering all improvements I have found and loved, I would not really care... Unless a new fast CPU equipped device hits the market, of course ! :-)

Ciao.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] JamesManios:
I have had both a Magician and a Prophet, and there isn't a large enough difference to warrant the upgrade. You should wait! Wait to get a 640x480 display with the same dimensions as the Jam. They already have 2.8 inch 640x480 sceen, it’s just a matter of time for them to stick in it in the form-factor

http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/04/sharps-w-zero3es-ws007sh-winmo-5-pocket-pc-hotness-redef/

Why I use the Jam over the Jamin:

1} The Jamin is WAY slower, people can rationalize all they want with FileCache and OCing, but I run my Magician at 585Mhz and there is no way the Prophet compares to it, they are completely in different leagues… and though people say its really only a problem in watching movies, (which it IS!) you still brutally feel the loss when you are tasking around the device…

2} Though persistent storage is nice, its 1/2 the reason the device is slow. I run a SpriteBackup every night, keeping 8 rollover copies on the card, (4gig card)... worst case I lose a day... If the Prophet becomes unusable, (virus, corrupted registry, from all that writefilecaching)) you lost the device and have to hard reset... everyone should do nightly backups regardless of device, but if you did that, what do you need persistence storage for?

3} Wifi: That is a tough one… if there is one thing I miss its wifi, but you rarely find free-hotspots and if you primarily use it at home, (I do) then get a Bluetooth dongle, they have 300 foot range, which covers the whole house. But if you HAVE to have wifi, consider something like this...

http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=121110

4} Camera: the 1.3 and the 2meg are the same in that they are both complete crap.

5} WM5: I am most concerned about this. If MS or others developers make WM5 only apps, then that will become a HUGE problem. But for now it hasn’t happen. And given how many W2003SE there are, its not going to happen for a while.

Final Thoughs: As soon as a JAM-type with a 640x480 display comes along I will toss the JAM but for now, why bother getting a device that has more shortcomings then enhancements.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Jed D`Lagged:
Thanks for all your replies!

One reason I was worried about upgrading is that I always use my device overclocked - it just seems too slow without. I knew that I couldn't use PHM with the different processor, but it's good to see there's an OMAP overclock util. But it's in beta, and I'm not sure if I could be bothered tinkering with it if somebody already has and says that it's slower anyway.

Flash memory and extended battery life have never been an interest, as I backup weekly (Sprite Backup FTW) and always carry a spare battery.

I have a sandisk 128mb+wifi (hard to find cheaply in Australia), which I'm sure I'll find a use for one day. USB+Card Export = faster regardless.

I never use the camera, mind you, I've seen some shots from the Jamin and they look better.

Also, I'll be moving to Japan in the next year or so, and I didn't really want to spend that much on a device that I'll have to sell later on when I move. Besides, that link James posted looks like it's probably worth waiting and getting a new phone over there.

Ultimately, I was looking for some majorly convincing argument to upgrade. At the moment, it'd only be for the extra two buttons because I've already given AE Button Plus three events for the three buttons I've got. Oh well. Thanks anyway guys.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Jayxz:
Say what? I've heard this a couple of times now and I can't help but wonder what you people are doing to your devices? My Prophet runs on normal speed and I've never had problems playing my videos! I use Pocket DivX Encoder and if you choose the right setting the video will be crisp and clear and the playback will be smooth like... err... something REALLY smooth!

As I said I've never had any problems with videos so please don't use this to bash the Prophet. You should rather look into what you're doing wrong!

Ha! What? The last time I went on vacation I actually left my digital camera at home since I now have a real good camera in my pocket all the time. The pics are great. If you want to enlargen them to billboard size of course you might want to get some other equipment. I'll attach a picture that I took so you can look at the quality yourself. And no! It is not porn, thank you!

[edit] Oh, nevermind the picture. Is there a way I can attach it for everybody to download without the pic being displayed and completely destryoing the look of the thread?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] levenum:
A) I must agree with Jayxz. Played DivX from Sandisk 512 (old, relatively slow one) with no problem, 29fps and all.

Never had to overclock.

I had a chance to play with Mio 701 which has a faster processor and the only difference in performance I noticed was with the iGO nav software. And that was just a slight improvement.

B) Jayxz: Personally I need no proof of picture quality, but if you want to post it any way, just zip it (better for downloads any way) or change the extension.

Also read this:

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=4992
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Jayxz:
Ok thanks!

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Saying the camera's no good is just nonsense. Anybody with doubts click on the link, please.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] JamesManios:
As for the camera: I would say the quality is the same/similar to the JAM, and not terrible/great, (though that is a good shot!) You usually get a lot of blur from both devices using them in real-life. Almost everyone has a better digital camera, so what I was saying is that it’s not really a reason in comparison to the JAM to upgrade, (ie a much better camera).

You technically are re-enocding when you did the Pocket Divx Encoder. If you download and play a divx off the net that was meant for the computer, (like a 800meg size one) you will find the prophet isn't up to par to play it smoothly. I fully agree a re-encode of a DVD for example can be made to play fine.

If I run TCPMP in benchmark on the same video the Prophet overclocked to 230 gets 230Mbit on video, the JAM overclocked to 585 gets 487mbit, the JAM definitely can dish-it-out more.

Remember I have both devices so I do lots of side by side comparisons, and don’t really have a bias, the Prophet is a good pda! But if you already have a Jam it’s not worth upgrading, (well in my option, save the money for the next device that will be much better).

Does anyone know of a 640x480 JAM sized phone that maybe I don’t know about, (no Exec please)?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] thangtv:
James,

Did you forgot to change the focus on the lens ( don't know what it called :p). IMHO, the quality is just fine, much better than 1.3 camera. See attached images, one is taken with close focus, another in normal forcus and in room light.

Thang
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] JamesManios:
Its the macro switch for close up. Actually those pictures kinda demontrate what I was saying which is the blur affect. You can see it by the persons head, and in the bottom right corner of the macro picture.

Anyways, we are a little off the topic. I was just saying, comparing the two devices it was really not a big difference, not a reason to upgrade
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] levenum:
Ok, we established that EDGE, WiFi and better (even if slightly) camera are not worth the upgrade.

What about memory then?

I admit I don't have a JAM but according to specs it has 64MB RAM, which for WM2003 is split for both storage and program.

Now I know you can install most apps on a storage card, but what about contacts, calendar and the rest of outlook? Not to mention any plugins, utilities and apps you want to use with contents from different storage cards, like TCPMP?

Just how much 'program' memory do you have left in the end, and how much does windows try to reserve for storage even if not needed?

As you can see from my sig, I have a iPaq 1710 which runs WM2003, and I came to despise the slider. What is the point of letting the user change memory allocation if the OS changes it right back.

Thankfully, tweakradje posted a fix for that.

Those naughty MS programmers, NeverDorkMemory he, he :lol: