yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] sk0t:
I'll be getting my 8525 tomorrow...errrr...today now. I'll definitely be looking into it some more once I get it and get some spare time. Next week is going to be a thankfully slow week at work, so I should be able to get to it then if I don't beforehand..

Been a while since I've actually had a PDA phone to play with.. Lets see if I remember how to use them.. ;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Skeet:
No camera flash either

Downloaded cab file for bigger MMS works great thanks,but I did lose my flash and some templates on my camera- tytn.If theirs a fix for that please let me know.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] sk0t:
At the moment, not yet. I just got my 8525 today. Once I get a little more acquainted with the device, I'll be diving into it. Thanks!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Skeet:
TYTN mms

OK,thanks,i bet u can figure it out.I love my TYTN let know how u like it.If I hard reset my phone will it erase that cab and go back to original camera settings?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] SkyyBoy:
that should work. you will need to go into the MMS settings and copy what the cab file installed. after the hard reset, just manually put in the settings you copied.

I would just like to be able to get the camera functions back without having to do a hard reset...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Skeet:
Ok I'll try it,Flash not that important on the camera,I think I would rather have bigger MMS pic's just wanted the option to go back with hard reset.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] alanszabojr:
Has there been any updates on a fix for the camera issue?

Thanks,

Alan Szabo Jr.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] alanszabojr:
bump...... Anyone come up with a fix for this without loosing the camera features?

Alan Szabo Jr.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] CraigP17:
im also looking forward to a fix for the camera flash...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] SkyyBoy:
has anybody confirmed that a hard reset will restore the flash?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] sk0t:
I'll start taking a look.. Unfortunately I don't have MMS because I don't have text messaging on my phone any more.. But I'll begin to take a look..

Can you guys who are having the problems detail what exactly is happening? I know the flash doesn't work, but are there any other issues?

Also, it might not hurt to know if you're running TyTN's, 8525's, whatever other variants are out there.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] CraigP17:
I installed the CAB on my TyTN. there is just no flash at all when taking a pic. that is the only side effect ive noticed. the flash is still functional using VJCandela. just wont flash or turn on in the camera.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] SkyyBoy:
to answer my own question, a hard reset WILL bring back the flash. However, even by manually copying ALL the settings from my old setup, the pics still would shrink. Only by re-running the .cab file (and losing my flash AGAIN) could I get the MMS pix to download in normal size.

can anyone (with more technical knowledge than me) look at the cab file and see EXACTLY what it does.

thanks!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] kinky-chinky:
Has anyone tried setting the photo resolution in the MMS Configuration to SXGA 1280x1024? That was my solution to shrinking pic sizes sent via MMS.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] SkyyBoy:
the problem is not the size of pics being sent from the TyTN, it is pics received are shrunk (unless using the cab file)

i would like to know exactly what changes/settings are done by the cab file...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] kinky-chinky:
That's wot happened to mine when I tested the MMS setting after flashing new rom. But since changing that setting I no longer have the issue of shrinking pics.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] SkyyBoy:
examine cab file?

changing that setting has no effect on the size of MMS pictures received by me.

this problem is only for Cingular in the USA.

is there any way to examine the .cab file posted in this thread to see exactly what changes are being made?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] sk0t:
Yeah, go get a program and open up the cab! It's nothing more than registry entries..

The problem is, there are different entries between the two. And quite a few from the looks of it. Those were keys that I had exported from my Wizard (when I still had it).

Unfortunately, I don't have MMS on my account, and therefore have no desire to further play with it. The other part of the problem now is that I'm no longer running any sort of official ROM.

Sorry I'm not going to be of any more help on this..
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] SkyyBoy:
can you recommend a program to do this? I am familiar with reg editing, but have never opened up a cab file to examine the contents?

EDIT: just figured out that I can do this in explorer... doh!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] sk0t:
win ce cab manager is the program I use.. but there's another one that does a good job if all you want to do is extract it made by the same company.. I think OCP Software is the name of the company.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] SkyyBoy:
SUCCESS!!!!

I took the old cab file created by sk0t, and looked at it in explorer. I noticed that it made a bunch of changes to the camera settings in the registry. I simply deleted ALL the camera registry changes from the old cab file, and compiled a new cab file with the "slimmed down" version.

I installed it on my TyTN (fresh from a hard reset). I am NOW able to receive FULL size MMS pix, and my camera flash is still there. However, after installing you will need to go to the MMS servers tab and select the "Cingular MMS" settings that were created as the default.

attached is the NEW mms configuration file I created. note that running it will NOT bring back your flash.

ALL credit for this should go to sk0t, as I merely copied his file and deleted some stuff. I take no responsibility if running this cab file bricks your device, causes nuclear war, or causes Osama bin Laden to surrender.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] sk0t:
Very cool man.. Glad to hear it worked out!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] CraigP17:
i installed this CAB on my TyTN and it created a "Default" MMS setting under the Servers tab, and in it is Verizon MMS settings...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] upm868365:
I need help with down loading the AT&T MMS .cab file

I clicked on the setup file & I got a program. How do I download the .cab file into my I-mate JAMin PDA ?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bluexx:
help me plz

I am in lebanon nd I have the problem of mms shrinking when downloaded anybody help me what 2 do I can give u my settings if u want plz help me
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] jbstanford:
Hi-

I have an HTC Excalibur (T-Mob dash with S621 rom) on ATT and had the same picture resizing issue (with all audio and video stripped). Installing the first CAB file linked here fixed the issue (the second one would not download for me, could someone upload it somewhere else so I could try it?)

It did create verizon mms settings that i had to delete and tell it to set my cingular mms ones as default, but upon rebooting they did come through correctly.

One question:

Previously, when an MMS was received, the counter on my main screen would go up and the right button would change to 'message', however nothing else would occur. Now, when I receive an MMS, the screen goes white, and says 'new message recieved' and lists from who, with the same 'start' and 'message' buttons. Pressing home makes it go away, and message does view it, so it's not the most obnoxious, but it is annoying. If the phone is locked the counter does go up one, but as soon as I unlock the phone, it shows the above screen.

Can anyone tell me the registry changes to make and see if they work without this annoyance?

Thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] cpreasha:
How do you run the cab file or what do i do with it once I download it?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] dilfatx:
I am having the same issue but I don't have a Hermes phone ( i did a search for my issue and this post is the only one addressed the problem closest to mine ) I have a Tmobile Shadow or HTC Juno with a custom rom (see my signature)

What program are you guys using to view the cabs to see the registry? Or if somebody could post what the settings are I would try to adapt them how I can to T mobile.

Any Help would be appreciated :-)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Kevin_seymer:
I have the same problem on my Xperia and I'm on three network in sweden, would the cab posted here work for me??

Thanks in advance
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] + Que PPC:
Asking for.... no! its better to ask how!?

Hey Skyyboy!

I think everybody's have this issue about the resizing issue of pics... and when you receive a video mp4 or H264, 3gp(i dont remember how is it calls) it is reformated to a GIF animation without sound then... the sound for apart... Im on Mexico Telcel3G carrier, and I want to know what app you used to examinate the cab and delete the entries for the flash... maybe all we can make our own mmsconfig.cab with our carrier details, and found the video issue too.

Thanks for all your effort.. i will wait for your answer...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Kevin_seymer:
Three in Sweden called me yesterday and said that they have fixed the mms problem!

And yes indeed it is fixed, I can now have mms in FULL size on my X1 =)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djamild974:
Hello, i'm new on forum, i just bought a samsung gt-i9502 DUOS phone, i'm looking for a FRENCH ROM with gapps , in android 4.4, can anyone help me please ?

thank you very much
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RubbaBand:
www.cyanogenmod.org

Then search for your phone "i9502"
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArnomaF:
A 4.4 ROM isnt available. Only 4.3 (SVA). Think it will come sometimes.

P.S. CM would be great. But I have no hope :-/
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klairvoiancy:
Hi Everyone,

I've been having some trouble getting custom ROMs to fully boot on my girlfriend's Galaxy Tab 2 (p3113). I was able to gain root access (I used this method: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2510669) and managed to install the latest CM rom, SlimRom, or OmniRom (with their respective Gapps).

However, I always run into the same problem: whenever I reboot from recovery (regardless of which rom was installed), android begins "optimizing" apps (presumably because I've cleared caches, including dalvik) and at the end, reports 2-3 process that have unexpectedly stopped, and reboots. I've done clean wipes with each install, and even tried re-downloading the roms, but nothing seems to work. Also, it doesn't seem like the stopped processes are consistent between roms. For example, the CM rom would report calendar and keyboard processes that have stopped, whereas Omnirom would report mediastorage and google search processes that have stopped.

Anyone have any ideas of what I can do to fix this?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rail205:
It sounds like you are not doing a full wipe, I dont think it should be optimizing on a fresh clean install. Try factory reset, wipe cache/dalvik. And possibly system.(usually recomended)
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klairvoiancy:
Thanks - that what I suspected as well, although I thought I was doing a full wipe (including /system) in TWRP, but maybe not?

Anyway, I somehow got it working last night after formatting /data and then flashing the last CM stable release (CM-10.1.3, p3110). Got the tablet to boot and setup and everything. Maybe there was something conflicting in the data folder, or that there was no more space on the internal SD. Guess I won't know now..

But I decided to flash the latest Omnirom instead, to get a 4.4 rom. Seems to be working fine now. Thanks for the reply!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xxul:
Hi guys i got my phone from TMOBILE and its full with retarded apps

Most annoyingly they replaced stock samsung browser with their own

How do i delete Tmobile browser and install the stock samsung one?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xxul:
guys?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dynospectrum:
Install a custom rom.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry_fine:
Or, just root the phone, easy to do. I'd also recommend that you put on custom recovery to be safe, as it can get you out of all sorts of trouble rather than having Samsung's lame recovery.

Once you've done that, install titanium backup from the store. Freeze any and all applications you want. Download your preferred applications and you are done.

Sure, you can go the extra step of putting on a third party ROM, but for most people, that's overkill.

Once you have root, a custom recovery and Titanium Backup installed, you might want to do three things:

1. Do a ROM backup from the recovery, after it's saved move to your PC. Keep it there for safekeeping.

2. Set up a backup schedule in Titanium Backup. Back up applications and data to an SD card

3. Install Xposed Framework, and then pick a good multi-porpose module like Wanam, and you can highly customize your phone without putting on a third party ROM.

All of these three things are available and easy to find in XDA. They make your experience more powerful, customizable and safer.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xxul:
Thx !
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tp2215:
Just an fyi, it actually has the stock browser included called Internet. They just changed the home page to their own, you can change it back to whatever you like.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xxul:
dayuuuum i did not know that :D

that made me so happy to know <3

btw where is the option in the stock browser to swipe with ur thumb on the edge of the screen to open a quick launch menu in the browser? (like in note 2)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tp2215:
I dont believe it was included on the S5. I was more or less replaced with one handed mode (which can be activated in the settings) and several other actions.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrendonButton:
First, and foremost, hello. I am new here, and I'm glad to be a part of the forum. Secondly, I'd like to apologize if I am posting this in the wrong section.

The topic I'd like to ask you a few questions about today is ROM Flashing, and the steps I should be taking to stay safe. I originally started playing around with Android devices around a year ago, but I recently started to delve deeper. I am the proud owner of an AT&T ZTE Z998 Mustang, and I have rooted it successfully. While in the process of rooting, I saw all of the warnings of how I should do a NANDROID backup, so that was my first instinct. I tried installing Clockworkmod, but to my dismay, they did not have an official version for my phone. I did happen to get lucky and find a version someone ported on their own. I attempted for a whole night before falling prey to error after error, and decided to give up. I went on without any backups, fiddling with my device. Luckily, I did not mess anything up, except for "accidentally" deleting the AT&T startup animation. (Haha.) Tonight, though, I happened to get the urge again, so I made some more attempts. After receiving the same error, I decided to look that error up word for word, and found that I did not have enough room on my Micro SD. I managed to clear enough room, and jumped in joy when I saw that I could delete an app, then restore and have it be back again. It was quite a big accomplishment for me. I've decided that I want to try flashing a custom ROM. The ROM I have chosen is the MIUI ROM. It seems quite popular, and I enjoy the iOS-esq feel of it, as well as its seamless theme changing. The only problem is, there is not an official release for my device. In fact, I have yet to find any ROM with an official release for my device. That is why I am coming to you guys.

My Questions:

Can I use a ROM that has not been specifically made for my device?

Will I still be connected to the AT&T Network?

If so, can I expect errors?

Am I truly safe with this newly acquired backup?

Anything you think I should know?

I'd like to thank you for any help in advance.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrendonButton:
Bump.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
Hi there. Welcome to the forums!

Unfortunately, the bad thing about phones that aren't very popular in the grand scheme of things means less people have them = less people making stuff for it. Developers often end up picking phones that are going to have more support from the manufacturer and more people will be able to enjoy the fruits of their labors. This of course, is a general rule, and of course there are exceptions, but your phone doesn't seem to be one of them. Companies like ZTE aren't concerned about putting out the source code for phones like this means that it is hard, to almost impossible, to make a really custom rom work correctly due to driver issues among other things.

So to answer the questions:

1) Sometimes, but very dependent on the models, carriers, and which software updates. General rule of thumb is that if it isn't based off the same chipset, it won't have a chance of working. But there are lots of other things to consider to, like radio versions, bootloader status, partition layout, etc. Long story short, there's no easy answer and there are lots of caveats.

2) + 3) See above.

4) You SHOULD be safe if CWM told you that the nandroid was completed successfully, but just like any other software based things, things happen.

Best way to be safe is to be able to reflash the original firmware for the phone back to it, but not even sure if that's an option for you - which goes back to ZTE not giving a $^!* about these cheap little phones for small prepaid companies. They save money by not doing any extra work like providing firmware, updates, source code, etc.

The only forums I know that mess with these kinds of things are:

http://unleashedprepaids.com/forum-1491.html

Not for your phone specifically, but similar ones:

http://androidarea51.com/zte-phones/

So yea, slim pickings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrendonButton:
First, thank you! I was waiting all day. I was a little disappointed with the answer, though. v.v Do you know if there are any ROMS that will work with ANY device? Like even bare minerals versions of AOSP ROMS that have yet to be touched?

Also, I am slowly saving for a 64GB Black Nexus 5, so I shouldn't be stuck but more than a month or more so.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
No, sorry. It's just not possible. Your best hope would be to use the debloated rom in the unleashed prepaids forum and use the Xposed Framework.

http://unleashedprepaids.com/thread-8769.html

http://unleashedprepaids.com/thread-8771.html

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/framework-xposed-rom-modding-modifying-t1574401

http://repo.xposed.info/module-overview

I have the Nexus 5 (don't think they come in 64 - only 16/32) but it's awesome and there are so many roms that it'll make your head spin. lol
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrendonButton:
Oops, sorry, yeah, that's what I meant. xD

But, I can not wait for it!

Just some final thoughts and questions:

I do have Xposed installed already, but have yet to look around in it due to the hundreds of modules. Do you have any suggestions about which I should look at for cosmetic needs? I have tried to use Gravitybox, but it force closed upon entry every time I used it, so I deleted it.

I understand that the limitation is very high because of the fact that it is a closed sourced company, but many ZTE Devices are listed to have compatible ROMS, such as MIUI ROM. If I try to use a ROM specified for a different phone, do you know what could happen? I feel that it may not even open, or if it does, it'll have tons of errors and not work upon entry, or even work but have certain things like the camera that will not connect. I'm only worried about high margins of fatal breakage. If it is some silly error that I won't have to "worry" about, I'm okay with fooling around.

If I do try to install a new ROM, but want to go back, will it affect anything on my previous backup? I know backups copy EVERYTHING, but I'd just like to make sure I won't do serious damage.

Lastly, thank you for all the help. It means a ton.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
Gravity Box wouldn't work because it is for more AOSP based things. As far as theming goes, you can try HK Theme Manager or Ex Themer. For the idea of trying to install a rom for another ZTE phone, well, best case scenario is that it doesn't flash at all. Worst case is that it does flash, and you lose something like your IMEI, baseband, or one or more of your other partitions and all of those are potentially unrecoverable, no matter what kind of backups you have. This wouldn't be one of those, "Oh, shoot, that didn't work, I'll just factory reset or restore my backup and be good to go..." kind of situations.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrendonButton:
Oh, wow! Thanks! I'm glad you pointed that out before I tried. So, I should be okay as long as I flash that ROM from the Unleashed Prepaid page? Now I am afraid, but curious.

Also, thank you for the theme modules names, I will kindly note them.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
Should be fine. It's 95% stock and I'm sure they only had one version of android for the phone so should be pretty close to what you have now. Benefits would be the unsecured boot.img which is easier for root and other things to stick, init.d which allows you to run scripts (everything from being able to mount a partition of an SD card to use for extra space for apps to memory management stuff like V6 Supercharger), and a bit easier to theme and debloat.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrendonButton:
Thank you.

I'll look into it tonight. I will try and tell about what happens tomorrow-ish.
[Moto X Q&A] Neogx:
I had my phone about a month now and i notice there is three bumps on the back small but hard and there is starting to become a gap where u can push and it makes noises and its getting annoying and kinda sucks since i only had it for a month.

Im wondering if motorala will give me the exact phone as i bought it after the 15 day return ? they were offering me advance exchange but im not sure if it will be the same with the lettering .
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] tilton319:
I'm running viperonem8 1.5.0 and the built in WiFi hotspot doesn't seem to work it shows up but doesn't allow access to the internet any suggestions are appreciated and I'm also on Sprints m8_uhl and can't get s-off yet with Firewater still waiting patiently for some more incredible work
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] jdmohn12:
Mine is working great with the same set up. Did you look at the security or try changing the name of it.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] tilton319:
Ya I tried that with no luck
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] wranglerray:
I had issues with native tether also, it would work but only for a few minutes then it would stop broadcasting.

Wifi tether Router by Fabio Grasso from the app store works flawless for me. Its 2.50$ but well worth it if you use tether alot
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] tilton319:
Ya I'm not trying to buy any extras I jump around roms to try them all out just curious why mines not working and I just tried to wipe and flash again with no luck fixing it
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] tilton319:
well broke down and bought wifi tether router and will use it as a temporary fix thank you for the suggestion
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] tilton319:
mms not working

i cannot recieve mms messages it errors out everytime i recieve a mms picture i have a logcat enclosed also i have tried using the ##72786# menu reset and it didnt do anything
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Konfuzion:
Did you run activation after the reset? Are you using stock messaging app? I know on my phone I had to do the menu reset and activate, on my wives I had to uninstall and reinstall handcent.