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[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyaiphone:
Hello All,

I just purchased a G2 and it's running Android 4.2.2, Build # JDQ39B, Software Version D80010q.

I'd like to root and I just read This Newbie Guide

From reading that I got that I need to go back to Software version 80100d to root is that correct?

Is this the easiest way to do so? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2663369

Anything else I should be aware of?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyaiphone:
Just hoping someone can help me. I'm going to wait for a response before I jump in and start doing things.

This is LG G2 signing off from XDA app. Until next time!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxZombiePikachu:
Yes that is the easiest method to do so since it is automated
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheHaso:
Check out IORoot first

LG G2 D802 sent from XDA 4 app
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyaiphone:
Can someone give me more info on this? Will IORoot give me root without having to go back to 80100d? I do want to flash ROMS and use a recovery like TWRP.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheHaso:
Did you even go to the IORoot thread and read?

LG G2 D802 sent from XDA 4 app
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] int10h:
I've managed to set up a chrooted Arch Linux on my Nexus5.

Everything works perfectly ; except that the chroot mount point looks "empty" from outside world (Media player,Root Explorer, and even the Terminal Emulator sessions without root permission).

I thought that might be nothing to worry until I tried to wath a HD movie on my server.

SSHFS inside the chroot world could succesfully mount the target directory ; yet none of my App could go there.

And ln command is not working as I typed :

ln -s /sdcards/archlinux/sshfs_mountpoint /sdcard/whatever_outside

Scenario:

mknod /dev/block/loop255 b 7 255)

losetup /dev/block/loop255 /sdcard/archlinux.img

(archlinux.img is ext4 formated with functional binaries and libraries from arch linux arm image)

mount /dev/block255 /sdcard/archlinux

And then mount dev,devpts,proc,sysfs ; set PATH,USER,TERM,SHELL...etc

It is also really strange that if I make a directory into the chroot directory from Terminal Emulator before getting chrooted ; it could be seen from both outside and inside .

So ai guessed this could be permission problem ; yet the files and directories are all readible for "others" ......

Any help or advices are apreciated.

Thanks in advance and I'm sorry for my bad English .
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
I don't know the answer to your problem but FYI, you cannot symlink (ln -s) on /sdcard. It's a FUSE fs. You can only symlink on ext fs. Even on devices with removable sdcards, it's not possible, without formatting to ext
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] int10h:
Thanks for correcting me , I haven't noticed that before.

As you mentioned , I double checked the situation; any operation after chroot seemed to be "immutable."

Is it possible to mount mmcblk[1-9] to be ext[y] as boot up for stock rom ? Or should I flash 3rd party rom such as CM or Omni ...etc ?

I'm used to use fstab on desktop Linux ;yet Android is a land pretty

mystery for me. (Sigh)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
What are you trying to do? Make /sdcard available as a location within your mounted arch.img?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] int10h:
Yes , I used to have a TF101 before , and I thought I've done such a symlink before.

After all , if a chroot is not exposable to its host , it could be less useful for me . (I know mount -o bind is a solution ,yet it won't work for me this time since it will break sshfs...)

BTW,captcha is soooooo annoying.......:eek:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bitdomo:
Hi! I have experienced same problem when I made a kernel with exfat support. The only solution for me was to decompile stickmoint and figure out how it mounts the partition to every app.

Here is an example based on stickmount to mount drives to all http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36547336&postcount=16

Tapatalk-kal küldve az én Nexus 5-el
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] int10h:
Thanks for the information ;pretty glad that I'm not the only one who tried to do so.

I was trying to watch a video on my bed before I sleep ; and now is 7:35 a.m. in the morning....
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kentjohnson4:
i'm trying to flash my htc one (m7) to page plus that's running viper one 6.1.0. i need to get the phone in diagnostic mode but can't get the ##3424 or ##3424# to work. is there something that i'm missing in order to get this to diag mode?

would appreciate any help or guidance!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
try *#*#3424#*#*
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kentjohnson4:
That got me into the HTC test mode.. I'm just not sure of that is the diag mode that is needed to change prls and other files
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kentjohnson4:
Is there another Keystone that I can try?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
HTC Info Menu *#*#4636#*#*
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kentjohnson4:
Thanks for your help. This doesn't work either. As soon as I hit the last * it erases everything that I had typed and just sits there.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kentjohnson4:
I'm also open to any guidance or help in how to return the phone to the stock rom. I'm running a Mac so I know that it can be more difficult to do everything.

Anyone care to help someone that has no idea what they are doing? :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t-mobile_mda:
is there any code or custom rom for activating thr diag..?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucyr03:
I'm also using Mac and it's very easy to get back to stock.

All you need is adb and fastboot then use RUU zip for your CID and MID.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Third God:
Hi guys,

I bought my phone about 2 weeks ago. In the first week I noticed a problem in my phone; there's a missing area at the bottom of my LCD (below soft keys). The area shows some noises (something like the reflections of the pages I open with my phone, e.g. Settings menu, Walkman app, anywhere in my phone). Actually this problem is so annoying and I'm gonna send the phone back to the Sony (The phone has warranty). Here's my question; does Sony replace the phone? Or it just repairs it?!

Thanks in advance
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
If you don't post a Picture of what it is, we cannot give you a correct advice. Can you?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] livelyyoungman:
Try one of the following:

1. Do a factory reset from the phone (Setting - Backup & reset)

2. Use the Sony flash tool and try a manual flash of your ROM

If the above does not work then you will have to take it the Service Guys. They will check the piece and then replace it if required. I had my phone replaced as I had camera issues in less than 2 weeks of my ownership post which I have not had any issues.

+1 to this. [MENTION=4655831]The Third God[/MENTION]

Please post some photos
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Third God:
Thank you for your reply.

I tried reinstalling firmware via PC Companion and it didn't help... I was afraid flashing the phone might void the warranty... Does it?

Here is a picture: (not nice quality, sry)

(the area below soft keys is missing...)

A few more things to mention:

* When I take a screenshot, everything is fine and the area below the soft keys isn't missing!

* At the first days, the missing area was appeared when phone was heaten a bit... But now (for about a week) the area is permanently missing!

It's much like hardware problem, I guess.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
It's look like a line of dead pixels or LCD but in this case, if that is a Hardware problem you should see in that part of the screen problems in any conditions. Can you do a test, reboot your phone and look at the bottom of the screen where the line is, do you see something wrong?

If the LCD is dead but you take a screenshot logically the line is missing because is not recognize as the LCD is the problem.

I think you should send it to repair via Warranty, just to be sure.

BTW, you can also flash a Stock FTF from different region but for your model only, to check if it a system failure, using flashtool v.0.9.16 (it will not void your warranty).
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] livelyyoungman:
My Z1 is broken after a major fall. It is outside the accident damage protection of six months but inside overall warranty. I get to understand that I will have to pay to get it replaced. Any idea on the price that I have to pay? If it makes sense I will get it replaced or else will buy a new one considering the price drop.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sandvich123127:
Hi there, I was disassembling my watch to be curious. I found the battery area and I noticed online there are micro batteries around the web. Do you guys think there is a way to get one of those batteries and fit it into the watch and use the ribbons (the wires) that were on the old battery and make them work with the new battery? I'm still trying to look for a good battery only if it is confirmed that one can do this. Thanks if you can help me out!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] h00rj:
I'm thinking you've gone deeper into your gear than a lot of us...

Find a battery that fits, has similar voltage output, and let us know how it goes! :fingers-crossed:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] forshaw:
for the size of 20mm x 30 mm you will be very lucky to find anything over 315mA

i had a quick search and i found 310mA etc

unless you can modify the case some how i dont think you will find anything
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sandvich123127:
Found it, not that much higher, but I am still searching. I will post to see if I can find more batteries
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] forshaw:
ok cool
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] tharindunw:
Have you done it mate ?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sandvich123127:
Still waiting on battery, it's coming in on May 7th at the least. Silly China :banghead:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sandvich123127:
I finished it! All I did was that I got a 350 mAh battery with 3.7 volts. I stripped the wire a little and placed it in the original area where the ribbon used to go, if you want, I can show the battery if you want to switch
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] ruze:
Yes, please post pics. That would be awesome. Thanks, man!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sandvich123127:
This is an older photo, I used the regulator from the old battery on this one, but as you see, it isn't being used with it in this photo
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] lukasz:
It would be really interesting to hear if this replacement gave You more life for the watch ? let us know after few days of use...
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sandvich123127:
The battery life isn't substantially higher, it lasts longer as I can see, but only by a few hours .
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] forshaw:
was the battery much bigger, in mA ,and physical size
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sandvich123127:
The thickness was a little bigger, but the dimensions are the same
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] bschrib:
You rock! Thanks for putting this together. Any chance you can link the battery you used just in case anyone (myself included) wants to order it and make the update themselves? Not much difference, but as this device gets older it might be worthwhile to swap batteries.

Thanks again for the nice mod!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] therealduckie:
How has no one noticed the fact that the word "350mah" was written in marker and not printed?

I'm calling your bluff.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] forshaw:
haha I noticed that to

but ive been looking for batterys to see if there is physicaly same sizes

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Battery-3...711?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cd9ca39d7

http://www.helipal.com/v100d03bl-z-12-3-7v-3500mah-20c-lipo-battery-pack.html

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/703022-3-7v-350mah-3-7v_1861048361.html?s=p

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Rechargeable-Lipo-battery-3-7V-350mah_961704580.html?s=p

this is perfect size 20x30mm
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] reggiexp:
so its easy to replace battery? a original is 20/30euros.

im not decided yet galaxy gear or lg g watch..

for my oneplus one. but im not sure if galaxy gear is that usefull with oneplus one. but i like it for having full android a speaker and camera..

2nd hand a gear is 60-100euro. and lg g watch 2nd hand 100euro or new from 7-11 december 99€

im not decided... lg watch is cool but no speaker. no camera. and no full android.

but gear no full suport with other phones. but with some apps it works. perfectly. still dont know
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sandvich123127:
I have successfully replaced the battery before, but be cautious if you do get a gear, only tested on original gear. You have to switch the capacitors, or the battery will just drain, and it needs the same voltage. The LG G Watch I heard was a great device, and with the oneplus, the G watch has full compatibility. I used the gear once with a Droid ultra, I had problems with a few things, and no galaxy store. Good thing I'm back to my Note 3 (for now ☺).
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] -seam-:
when replacing the battery with the 350mah one, you have to switch a capacitor? you can just connect the two wires to the pads? and what is the battery regulator? I want to try this one

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Rechargeable-Lipo-battery-3-7V-350mah_961704580.html?s=p

are there bigger ones that fit?

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when replacing the battery with the 350mah one, you have to switch a capacitor? you can just connect the two wires to the pads? and what is the battery regulator? I want to try this one

https://www.alibaba.com/product-deta...04580.html?s=p

are there bigger ones that fit?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyaiphone:
Hello,

The wife and I just picked up a LG G2 and she is very unhappy with the quality/speed of the camera. I read great reviews about it and sold her on it, but the performance of both cameras have been disappointing. It's very very slow to take pictures. When the capture button is pressed it takes about 2-4 seconds to actually take the picture. Anyone else have this issue or no a solution to it?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trickster2369:
You could try this :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47982104

Thanks Devs, from my LG G2
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyaiphone:
Thank you I will try this as soon as I get root on my phone. Hopefully by tomorrow
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fettfan:
I messed up and removed the Mobile Update Client apk and Mobile Hotspot apk. How to get them back?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fettfan:
I found the MobileHotspot.apk, but when I try to go into mobile hotspot settings I get "unfortunately, settings has stopped". Any ideas?

I REALLY need the Mobile Update apk.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fettfan:
Ok, I'm a little slow today....I have a Titanium backup. Restored and all is well.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siemens15:
My phone is stuck at the htc logo. I tried everyting but with no success I think the main problem is that the phone is not rooted. Here is the things I tried:

Uploaded the original PC10IMG.zip on the SD card then pressed Down volume + Power . I got CID incorrect update failed!

Tried to upload a boot from sd rom like this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1821663 and access it through recovery but again getting an error.

The worst thing is that when the phone is in Fast boot usb mode files can not be transferred in order to root the phone(I have tried also with HTC ONE X) when the phone is turned on the device is recognized by Android SDK when it is in hard reset mode (pressed down volume + power buttons) it can't this is the main problem.

Any ideas how I can bring back my desire z ? This is the last HTC phone having QWERTY keyboard and I really love it.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siemens15:
Any help ?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndandy:
i have htc desire z that stucks on a htc logo; no fastboot, no adb, no recovery - is it dead? or still something can be done? thank you.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohnish.killer:
Fastboot to RUU ? I dont mean the pc10IMG..... The actual RUU utility on the PC !
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5idz:
RUU_Vision_hTC_Asia_TW_1.34.709.3_Radio_12.28b.60. 140e_26.03.02.18_M2_release_154597_signed.exe

http:attachments(dot)goapk(dot)com/download/%D3%FD%BA%EC/G2/12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.18_M2_release_154597.exe

RUU_Vision_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.42.405.2_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_199043_signed.exe

http:u(dot)115(dot)com/file/bh5gejsq#
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndandy:
it does not work as well :( i tried. it does not see telephone.

fastboot devices - no answer; ruu uitility - waiting for device
[HTC Droid DNA] jayba420:
So. I have had my DNA for like a year and a half. I have Viper DNA 2.5.0 installed and customized to my liking. I've been noticing a few little glitchy things here and there but for the most part the phone is functioning okay. Here's my problem. A few weeks ago I went to plug in the usb to charge and there must have been a little speck of dirt, gravel, or some of pocket debris and when i pushed in the connector it bent the pins inside the charge/data port. I have managed, using a pin, to straighten all of the pins except one which was beyond repair. I can plug in the cable and I can get it to charge but it will no longer be recognized by the computer. The damaged pin is one of the data signal pins so connection to the PC via usb is pretty much out.

Here's my question... Should I try to update my rom by wifi file transferring the latest viper DNA update file to the phone and then installing the zip in recovery? If anything goes wrong... i will not be able to connect the phone via USB to run any recovery options if things get boned up.

Is there a situation i could get myself into that not having a usb connection will totally leave me screwed?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

JaYBa420
[HTC Droid DNA] Jaggar345:
If you accidentally wipe your storage and system there is no way to pick a rom without connecting to the computer. That's one potential problem I see. I also see that if your recovery gets messed up you can't use fastboot commands to flash a new one or wipe it's cache. So if it were me, I wouldn't risk it. You also can't ruu of something goes terribly wrong.
[HTC Droid DNA] jayba420:
Thanks... I definitely see your point. I'll hold on as long as i can but current stability conditions may force me to pull the trigger.

I appreciate your advice.
[HTC Droid DNA] jayba420:
now its more meesed up

Everything kept crashing on me so despite Jagggar's advice <sorry>, I downloaded the latest viper to the phone, rebooted into recovery and attempted to install it. I figured it would be minimal risk because I'm just updating an existing viper dna installation, not really installing something new or different.... well the aroma installer failed mid way. and when i rebooted, it just hung at white htc screen. Luckily I had a CW backup from before i installed viper on the phone in the first place. It was from Jan and attached is the SW version info. So now im stuck on this. I have root and CW Recovery installed. My major issue here is I have no USB connectivity and I want to make my phone current. I dont care what rom, stock, or whatever, i just want my DNA to not be several software revisions behind. Is there any method that should work? I can wifi file transfer anything to my phone, reboot into recovery and flash but that's about it. Thoughts?

Forgive my newb-ness, but i see posts about firmwares, basebands, radios etc... are updates to those things only done via a usb connection or are those things copyable/flashable? if yes, then shouldnt, in theory, i be able to do them?

thanks for your patients with me.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] newbie2:
Thanks!! They look GREAT!!

More WMP skins for my growing collection!!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Wokerz:
you when i install the wmp skin and go into the ops/skins it dose't find any i done about 3 skins and it dose't find any of them?????????
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] newbie2:
You have to copy the skins folder into \Program Files\Windows Media Player for them to show up to choose from.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] meschle:
For those who want to do manual installation - zips attached

They work fine where ever i place them - main memory or storage card.

If you have trouble installing - normal installation directory = \appliction data\microsoft\media player
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Wokerz:
i sorted it now thats, i thinking of makeing a skin how do u make the installer the .cab file. as i tryed to edit a skin ive had before and zip it renamed it .cab but it did't work and i did edit the .skn file. any ideas
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] meschle:
You need to make it with cabiwiz or an archiver by an inf file or xml file.

Most of the cab makers cost and are not cheap but are much easier than doing it manually as I do.

Wince cab manager

http://www.ocpsoftware.com/products.php?nm=cecabmgr

Cabomatic

http://www.phelios.net/cabomatic.html

I am a cheapscate! No honestly i like doing it manually because i can understand the process better.

Sorry no tutorials - i taught myself - unzip one of the cabs and there will be a xml file there. Look at that will give you an idea of what is involved.

Any how zip files will be fine for these skins.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mohit_kripalu:
thanxs bro
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hotdog53:
Here's a few that I have. Extract the zip files to "program files"/windows media player.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] FangCool:
Thank you hotdog53 for these theme my favorite is legalpad
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Martin25:
heres my darkling skin i made ages ago for my vga hp 5550 it works from wm3 and up.

you may recognize it.. its mce's party mode skin ;)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] uctomide18:
tanx a million it worked on my htc 8125
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] uctomide18:
:)tanx it worked bt didnt support album art.tanx all the same
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raggi01:
Hey guys!

Just wondering, how is sony on upgrading there devices to the newest versions of android? Prolonging the life of my phone is important for me and the longevity of the phone in terms of software updates/ROMS is going to be my deciding factor between the one m8 and the z2 (even though yes, I know, the Z2 has a superior camera but I would like to have the newest versions of android). Im lead to believe that the Z1 has not received a 4.4.2 update from Sony but that there are a small amount of 4.4.2 roms? I also saw that the Z1 has a very very small amount of roms which got me worried about he Z2's development community? Please comment!
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] augie7107:
Z1 has 4.4.2 now. Z2 comes with it also. However, Sony historically is late with updates.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olokos:
That actually changed recently. Sony was pretty quick with the updates and some older/low tier devices are also getting updated.

Just take a look at Z1 update history.

Wysłane z mojego C6903 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raggi01:
How's the development sector though? Is it atleast guaranteed to have roms for the next 3+ android updates?
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KevinB88:
Maybe late but than you don't have problems. Samsung ist fast but always with problems.

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[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seifer1975:
Sorry I beg to differ that Samsung is fast. Both note 2 and note 3 are still waiting for the KitKat updates. In fact, note 2 only received the 4.3 update end of last year.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KevinB88:
So Samsung is fast with its flagship[emoji6]

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[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pauley:
Don't let HTC fool you either. They're fast to release their updates lately, but with lots of problems that take several updates to correct (if at all).