yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Moto X General] glarepate:
Well, I couldn't wait for reports of success, requests for clarification, etc. So I just kind of bulled my way through and now I am up and running165.44.12.ghost_row.RepublicWireless.en.US and my phone is downloading stuff wildly as it syncs with Google's servers and restores all my old apps and settings and such-like.

Haven't switched to ART yet. But it's early days yet. Certainly too early to start whining when I have this lovely new OS to play with.

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Well, I couldn't wait for reports of success, requests for clarification, etc. So I just kind of bulled my way through and now I am up and running165.44.12.ghost_row.RepublicWireless.en.US and my phone is downloading stuff wildly as it syncs with Google's servers and restores all my old apps and settings and such-like.

Haven't switched to ART yet. But it's early days yet. Certainly too early to start whining when I have this lovely new OS to play with.
[Moto X General] ScipioWarrior:
OK, so I used the update.zip to update to 4.4.2. If I use RSD Lite to go back to 4.2.2, why wouldn't this guide work?
[Moto X General] Darth:
Cause once you're on the 4.4.2 boot loader....trying or successfully downgrading it can lead to a bricked device. Just something about that 4.4.2 boot loader.
[Moto X General] ScipioWarrior:
OK, so what step can't you do on the 4.4.2 bootloader?
[Moto X General] malcolmputer:
Yep. If you use any other method to update than mine, you lose the ability to downgrade back to 4.2.2, which means no more disable WP, and in RW's case, without 4.4, no more root.
[Moto X General] Darth:
You can't downgrade it, period. And if your on a locked boot loader, you can't root it.

All you can do is sell it, and put the money towards one that can be unlocked and works on your provider.

Sorry.
[Moto X General] jbrukardt:
that something specifically is the recovery. the 4.4.2 recovery patches the bug that allows us to exploit and run MotoWpNoMo
[Moto X General] teh_lorax:
So let's say that I somehow screwed up Step 1. I downloaded 4.2.2, verified md5, extracted, and ran the included .bat to flash everything. I've now booted up into a sick android logo with an exclamation point. How exactly have I screwed up and can it be fixed?

edit: Weird. After that happened, it rebooted on its own and now its fine.
[Moto X General] jbrukardt:
this wording looks awfully similiar.
[Moto X General] glarepate:
A little bit more feedback on the process.

NOTE: I was 97% in Debian Wheezy but WPNoMo requires 32 bit Linux so for that I had to boot into Slackware. Also watch your phone's screen and grant permission when Su asks for it. I spaced that part out and had to -- shudder -- run the 'wpbegone' script a second time for it to succeed.

I was able to use the Android version of fastboot to set oem mode but for most everything else only the motofastboot program worked. My advice is just use the Motorola version for everything since there doesn't seem to be anything that it _can't_ do, it just has some things that it __can__ do that are needed. If you see the "variable not supported" diagnostic message then go back and re-do that step over again with motofastboot. When the step to configure the carrier for Sprint failed my heart dropped into the apartment down on the first floor. But re-doing the erasing and flashing steps, with no reboot, no re-running the 'fastboot oem set_fb_mode' command line or anything else, and it succeeded ; bullet dodged. Whew!

It would be nice if there were excruciating detail on things like every little step of wiping/factory setting the Stock slot in SafeStrap. Maybe it's just because I am out of practice that it seemed a little bit lacking in specificity and left me wondering a bit about what I was going to do next in light of what the instructions conveyed to me. Or maybe it's just my anxiety, after all I did get through it successfully.
[Moto X General] jbrukardt:
Flesh it out into a "noob guide" then that includes every detail :)
[Moto X General] Victor Czar:
Fastboot Flash Errors

First of all, thanks so much!

So, when I try to flash the .img files through fastboot, boot.img always goes through successfully, but if i try to flash in motoboot.img, recovery.img, or system.img, I get this:

"Variable not supported!

target reported max download size of (whatever size it was) bytes

sending 'boot' <whatever size the file was kb>...

<bootloader> Preflash validation failed

FAILED <remote failure>

finished. total time: however long it took s"

I have no idea what's going wrong, could you please help? I am able to restore my phone by selecting recovery in fastboot so there's no permanent damage done, but I want to get out of 4.2.2.
[Moto X General] glarepate:
Will try to work on some noob-friendly verbiage this weekend. (-:)

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For every step where you see "Variable not supported!" you will need to use the Motorola version of fastboot because the Android SDK version isn't capable of performing the task.

The Moto version is contained in this Zip archive:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2427667&d=1385958280
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jonnibravo:
Hi All,

I have an international HTC ONE M8 which I managed to root and s-off without a problem. However since I s-off-ed the phone will not reboot into bootloader.

When I try to power off and reboot with vol-down and power it either reboots or flashes between the battery screen and TWRP, which say swipe to unlock but it flashes too quick for mee to do this. This a strange error I never come across before in the years Ive been flashing and modding devices.

Also ADB no longer sees this phone in fastboot, I can issue fastboot commands but not ADB

Can anyone help
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exad:
Press and hold power and volume up until phone shuts off. Let go of power and volume up then hold volume down until bootloader comes up -_-
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jonnibravo:
Genius, thanks. I'm too used to my other devices where you simply did the power button down. :o
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lampel:
You might also try making sure Fastboot in the power menu is off. And ADB won't work in Fastboot mode - you either have to boot into recovery or android for ADB.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpogr:
Something happened to my M8 so I can't access bootloader anymore. Pressing Power and Vol Up just boots the phone and then the screen goes blank. Pressing Vol Down to get into fastboot doesn't work anymore (it used to up until now). Any clue?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hanginwithdaddo:
Press and hold the volume down, then at the same time press and hold the power button (both should be held now).

Wait for the screen to go blank.

When the screen goes blank, release the power button, but continue to hold the volume down button.

You should then eventually see the fastboot/hboot menu.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpogr:
OK, found what the issue was. The problem was that my phone's screen was going blank after the normal boot screen, so I couldn't see when it gets turned off. I was simply pressing the Vol Up + Power for too long, so it would go into full reboot. I just measured the amount of time it was taking to do this (was ~12 seconds). So I pressed Vol Up + Power for ~10 secs, then released those and pressed Vol Down. That finally brought me into Fastboot.

I could have probably gotten the same result by pressing Vol Down + Power, however, the phone screen was blank all the time, so it was difficult to understand when I should have released the Power button to let it go into Fastboot.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sigmaxaa:
Thanks for this post! I've spent a total of 5+ hours trying to get into the bootloader so I could restore a backup after a bad flash soft bricked me.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chcago59:
"Press and hold power and volume up until phone shuts off. Let go of power and volume up then hold volume down until bootloader comes up -_-"

Holy mackerel! You saved me! The Blackhawks are playing and I need to be able to text my mom and cousin. I was having a mini-panic attack. Your fix worked like a charm. I am back in texting business!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Go Hawks!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antonio14843:
i have a htc one m8 and its stuck on the logo with triangles around the four corners around the screen..what do i do?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
The red triangle screen is stock recovery. Power + vol up when on the stock recovery, will bring up the recovery menu.

Not sure what you are trying to do. Based on the subject of this thread you decided to post in, are you trying to get into bootloader? Or just trying to get the phone to boot to OS?

If you are trying to get into OS. You can try to wipe cache, and reboot to see if you can reboot back into OS (or factory reset and reboot, if you don't mind losing your personal data). But depending on what is wrong with the phone, you may need to do more to get into OS.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbreed53:
Can't access bootloader

Everytime I do this, hold POWER, then VOL UP till screen goes black, release BOTH, then press POWER and VOL DOWN, then release POWER first time screen flashes, while still holding VOL DOWN, it returns to the OS every time!

Everytime I do this, hold POWER, then VOL UP till screen goes black, release BOTH, then press POWER and VOL DOWN, then release POWER first time screen flashes, while still holding VOL DOWN and then press POWER again, the screen CYCLES between BLACK and the RASTER glow on the LCD. About 3-4 secs of BLACK, then RASTER glow, then repeat. If I let go of POWER, it goes right to the OS again, every time.

Everytime I do this, hold POWER, then VOL UP till screen goes black, release BOTH, then press POWER and VOL DOWN, wait for RASTER glow and continue to press BOTH until first time goes BLACK, then release POWER while still holding VOL DOWN, it goes right to the OS again, every time.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I followed the HTC directions at the DEV site, to change the boot speed, but it wasn't in the BATTERY menu, it was in ACCESSIBILITY and called QUICK BOOT. For units with Android 4.2.x and up, HTC site said to turn on OEM unlocking in Developers menu, but this is 4.4.2 and there is no option in there to do that.

This is a DUAL SIM phone, so I assume that is an international version, also.

Further, when I do try the HTC site method of entering the bootloader menu, (press Volume Down and while pressing Volume Down, press Power holding both buttons to start the device into Bootloader mode (now Download mode for One M9 and newer devices) I get a menu [IMG="HTC One M8 foreign language menu"]http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c363/dbreed53/20170126_114647.jpg[/IMG], but I don't read Chinese/Korean, or whatever language these characters are from, but it works like a TEST or SERVICE menu, as it puts the phone thru all the self-tests of its' various hardware functions. Not much help to me.

This phone has a crashed Android update that never completes every time it starts, but I can't tell what version or from whom. It does not APPEAR to be locked to any carrier as there are no logos on the phone or in the bootup screens. If I can every get it where I can flash it, then I hope to learn WHAT there is to flash it with.

Right now, I just want to get to the bootloader, so I can see if it will talk with the laptop using the apps I downloaded from HTC; Android studio, Java and the Sync Manager. Once all those hurdles have been jumped, if it succeeds and functions properly, and flashing rids it of the nasty malware, xrated crap its' infested with, I'll order a glass to repair it make it my own for a while.

Any help figuring out why I can't make the VERY CLEAR instructions I found in this thread work for me, will be very, very, VERY much appreciated.

Thanks to you all.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
There is no "then press POWER and VOL DOWN" in the instruction, after release both power & volume up, press only volume down button.

What device is that ? Definitely not M8 & not M8 dual SIM.

If you still can boot, enable usb debugging in Developer options then run adb devices to see the serial no.

If it come out as weird as 123456789abcdef then it's fake htc.

Your screenshot looks familiar and I manage to find the same that written in English

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50678371&postcount=3
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
It's a clone HTC that we know existed since 2014 and nothing much that we can offer to help.

See this for some screenshots - https://xdaforums.com/htc-one-m8/help/token-initializer-chinese-htc-one-m8-t2813316

There's a screenshot about phone that more or less same as yours

View attachment 4018974

And this for some video - https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2761985
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renniefb:
I have the same issue. I have pressed power and vol dowm couple times, my battery is full but nothing happened. What to do????
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
Same issue as

who

? The OP has an issue with the button combo making the phone reboot or flash between battery charge screen and TWRP. Plus, that post is from 2014, so their firmware most likely does not match what you have, even remotely. Another person who posted to this thread. has a dual SIM Chinese version. I doubt either accurately describes your situation.

Do yourself a favor, and don't post "I have the same issue" while giving zero details on your M8 version (CID, MID) whether it is modded (unlocked bootloader, custom recovery, root, s-off, etc.) as well as the current condition: is the phone powered off when you try the button combo, or stuck on a boot screen, etc.

Giving as many details about your device and situation makes it easier for us to help you.

The button combo power+ vol down will only boot to bootloader if the phone is powered down. And you may have to hold the buttons for a minute or more, depending on the current condition of the phone. If this doesn't work, of the phone is in another state (such as stock on boot screen with HTC logo) tell us of this, and we will advise you further.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turksailorman:
volume down button doesnt work

hi,

Volume down button doesnt work so i cant access bootloader. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZomJvkphGms) also i tried to short two pins like this video. but no success.

Is there any alternative way to access to bootloader.

thanks in advance
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
Does your phone boot into Android OS, or not? If so, I believe there are some market apps you can install to boot to bootloader, that you can try. Or you can do adb reboot bootloader.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turksailorman:
No stuck on HTC logo.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] TheAndroid1:
How do I make my stock partition smaller, or remove it completely to give to my Cyanogen Mod slot?

What values would I edit in the build.prop file for a Razr Maxx with Verizon?

Thanks a lot!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Draxin:
1. You can just wipe stock slot and install CM on it. You have to do it fresh and not restore a backup from another slot.

2. Why do you need to edit your build.prop?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] TheAndroid1:
1. Is there another way to take space from the default slot and give it to the CM slot without having to reset it?

2. Because I need to download some carrier-specific/manufacturer apps that have all of my contacts.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Draxin:
1. No, stock slot, is stock slot... all of that is predetermined space of the partition... If you have titanium backup Pro and a custom launcher... all you will really lose is time. Make sure you are saving to ext. sd just to be safe, backup your user apps, backup again for modified data, and you are fine. For the custom launcher, save your setup. After you flash over, restore. Depending on what/how much you have it could take a couple hours... some games that require extra data, you will still have to download it but, your progress should still be there. Double check if it is a game, as some of them only save via a cloud.

2. I may be ignorant to your particular situation/apps, but, if your previous device was a an android device, and you saved your contacts to your google I.D. they should be waiting for you, when you reactivate from the wipe/flash. When I got my first droid years ago, I was coming from a crappy flip phone from att, they were able to flash my conacts from the att sim over to my new droid. All my contacts are now saved via google.. so it doesn't matter what phone I boot up.. my contacts are waiting for me.

If I helped you, hit the thanks! :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] TheAndroid1:
Ok, I know what I'll be doing this weekend. Thanks!

EDIT:

Will everything will work out if I install CM on the stock, and then delete ROM-Slot1?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Draxin:
Keep slot 1 and it's backup til you have the stock slot the way you want it. That way, if you forgot something, you still have what you need til you figure out what you missed and it isn't gone for good.

When you do your wipes DO NOT TOUCH internal storage and micro SDcard... that is all your personal data.. there is where your backups are... you wipe them your screwed.. pictures.. music, all of it is gone, and no one can help you!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] TheAndroid1:
I've done what you've said, booted on to the stock ROM, and it's been on the CM boot screen for an hour, I still have the CM installed on stock ROM 1, what would've caused this problem?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Draxin:
Lol.. now you know why you wanted to keep slot 1. Either the stock ROM didn't get fully wiped, the CM11 didn't install properly, or it was a bad download.

So. Just a recap, you are using safestrap 3.65 or higher. When you did your wipe, did you just factory reset, or did you go into advanced wipe and wiped Dalvik cache, android secure, data, cache, and system? The CM thread recommends advanced wipe, and doing it three times!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] TheAndroid1:
OK, I am gonna just start from the absolute beginning again:

I am flashing the Razr back to factory default with RSD Lite... Complete

Booting into the stock Android installation... Complete

Rooting device with RazrBlade... Complete

Installing Safestrap V3.65... Complete

Rebooting into Safestrap recovery... Complete

Wiping ROM Slot 1 3 times, wiping the same as 2 steps below... Complete

ADB Push CM onto /sdcard/

Install and configure CM on ROM Slot 1 as a fallback...Complete

Advanced wipe Stock slot 3 times, wiping the Dalvik cache, Android secure, data, cache, and system, this is where I messed up... Complete

Install and configure CM on Stock slot...Complete

Delete ROM Slot 1... I'll delete it once I have the Stock ROM fully finished.

It works, thanks for dealing with my stupidity :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Draxin:
Not stupidity. Ignorance (for lack of a better word... look up the true meaning if you are taking offense:).)

And just so you know, you probably went through a few extra more steps than you needed too. Stock wasn't damaged, just needed to be thoroughly wiped then reinstalled. Also if you had a backup of Slot one, after you did the firmware reflash with RSD then root and recovery, you could have just restored your slot 1 backup.. same thing, less time. Just a couple of tips.

It is certainly good that you aren't afraid to just reflash a fresh firmware though, that can solve a lot more problems than you think. Hone your searching skills, and you are golden :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] bongzilla:
I am fresh on the note 3, coming from the s4 and having some gps lock issues

I've flashed slimkat, pac and cm11 with no luck getting a lock.

All clean flashes. Wipe wipe wipe reboot in to recovery then flash rom and gapps.

I get a lock on TW roms but not on any aosp.

I remember back on my e4gt, it was said to get a lock on a TW rom then immediately boot into recovery and restore/flash the aosp rom. That used to work on said device. I tried it anyways and didn't work.

I should also mention that I've used the gps status and toolbox app to clear gps data.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Epix4G:
Yep I have a idea .... its a bug in aosp for note 3 just like data dropping ....if u need gps stay on stock it will get fixed but when ..... who knows

Sent from my SM-G900P using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decniety:
Hi!

Sorry for my english. I have problem with my g2 from claro. I did root and flashed custom recovery but when I flashed custom ROM (clodeflex ? 4.4.2) I made mistake and choose version for d801 tmobile because I didn't know that Claro version is different. Now, I can open download mode I recovery mode. I download lg flash tool and stock claro firmware but everytime flashing stop on 49%. I tried a few options but always stop on 49%. I use win 7 x64 and I have all drivers and changed port for 41. Do we have any idea has I can fix It?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheetahcat79:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2582142

Maybe try this?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] igeliga:
como?

De donde tu sacastes el firmware original y como lograstes ponerle en recovery
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flow_King:
Hello.

First of all, 49% and 1% error occurs so many time and randomly flashing kdz in LG Flash Tools.

It ocurred to me too and I spent so many time to figure out what was causing it.

The best way, i think, is Update Recovery from LGMobile SupportTool. (you have to wait 2gb of download...)

Or if you can get into recovery mode, try to wipe system and then kdz.

Or USB OTG (you need a pen drive and OTG cable) and mount it in recovery and then flash it.

I recommend Update Recovery from LGMobile SupportTool.

If you are stuck in bootloop, make factory reset and reboot. (make backup of your files first)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decniety:
Ok thank you. I didnt restore stock software because i didnt make factory reset. after that everythings work great:)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToledoG28:
Que extraño! I used a lot of tmo d801 roms with no problems. Including restore back to stock using tmo stock kdz.
[General Questions and Answers] lmacmil:
Apparently the 4/29 update screwed up the favorites function. When I select a favorite, I get a blank screen instead of the list of sub-forums. Reacts the same on two different devices, one on CM 10.1.3 and one on Kit Kat. Anyone else seeing this?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Luxferro:
As title says. I see this very often. Seems some just blindly move threads (you're not doing work if you don't read the threads). For example this one here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=52329979#post52329979

which pertains only to FireTV, and a new versions of the OS that was pushed to his box that isn't being talking about elsewhere...

First it was moved from FTV general, then to Q&A, then to another generic forum that has nothing to do with FTV.
[General Topics] tweakradje:
Just for fun

you do need pimg.exe in c:\windows (included in most roms)

This registry key uses the idle timer for launching

programs.

Copy some images to \my documents\my pictures (jpg)

Enter these in the registry

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\shell\Events\Idle\Screensaver

"command"="pimg -screensaver"

Can be any command. Also play mp3´s (with proper command)

and this triggers the idle event above

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power

"ScreenPowerOff"=dword:0000003C (timeout in seconds)

Slideshow controls are in

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Pictures

"SlideshowDelay"=dword:00000005 (display time in secs)

Soft reset

The screensaver does not loop. So with 1 picture and 5 secs display time it returns to the regular screen. Not much of a real screensaver ,O)

Cheers
[General Topics] tweakradje:
This screensaver is nice: Dockware (see attachement)

I have included only the files needed for Dockware.exe

Copy all the files (not the reg file) to \windows and change the registry settings:

Dockware only shows jpg and bmp.

Have fun