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[Galaxy S 5 General] luigi311:
Not sure if anyone has tried this but on PC you can use a symbolic link to take advantage of a ramdisk. Has anyone tried doing the same with the SDCard for games here? Android supports symbolic links as far as I know
[Galaxy S 5 General] j518:
SD Card Uses - Brain Dead @ GOOGLE (Not Samsung)

Here's an online chat session w/Samsung Tech Support tonight (06/25/2014):

Chat Information Please wait for a Samsung Agent to respond.

Chat Information You are now chatting with 'Kristina'. There will be a brief survey at the end of our chat to share feedback on my performance today -

Chat Information Your Issue ID for this chat is LTK1125601094223X

Kristina: Hi, thank you for contacting Samsung Technical Support. How may I help you today?

Visitor: Hi - just wish to confirm that with the latest version of samsung software, I am unable to write to the SD card on my phone. I can move data in, but can't edit the data once it's there.

Kristina: I understand that you are unable to edit the SD card data after the update. Is that correct?

Visitor: yes - I also utilize a backup program that has worked very well up until the S5 - Also, my music editing software cannot make changes to data existing on the SD card.

Kristina: Thank you for the confirmation.

Kristina: May I know the exact model number of your phone?

Visitor: sm-g900p

Kristina: Thank you for the model number.

Kristina: After upgrading to Android KitKat 4.4 OS, you may not be able to modify the files on the external Secure Digital (SD) Card using 3rd Party Applications. Google prohibits the modification (write/delete/rename) of files in external SD Cards using 3rd party applications from Android KitKat OS.

Kristina: You can move the data from SD card to phone memory and then modify them using apps.

Visitor: When I mentioned this to the salesperson, they appeared very surprised - The problem is, of course, one of convenience - or lack thereof in this instance. What I would like to know is if the Note 3 has the same shortcoming?

Kristina: Any device which is running on Android version 4.4 will have the same restrictions.

Visitor: Thanks for your time - I'm certain that I am not the only one who will be disappointed with this news...
[Galaxy S 5 General] drakester09:
Google did the change, not Samsung. Blame them instead.
[Galaxy S 5 General] mefistos:
Link2SD (which moves every installed app to external SD instantly + SDFix .. everything works just fine :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] MOPKOBKA:
It is very interesting post and opinion. First I was wondering why I can't install app and now I know why and do not want. SD card is only for storing data, so you should be able to swap cards easily keeping all your application in main memory. Here is my simple example. I am audiophile, so I am listening to only hi res music. Usually one album in DSD or SACD format takes from 2Gb to 4+Gb. So even 128Gb card can fit just 42 albums average. Obviously people keep form 200-1000 albums, so I need at least 10 128Gb cards. Now do math, if I swap card frequently, then I need to keep installed all my apps on every of them. Every app keeps also own data, settings and other such stuff. So why do I need to waste 10-20Gb of every card for applications plus I will lose all setting at swapping? So I guess designers of the phone thought like me.
[Galaxy S 5 General] thatsupnow:
Use this app it fixes what Google did to 4.4.x https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix you need to be rooted but it gets the job done that's for sure
[Galaxy S 5 General] pr1vate piles:
Pointless? Hardly. With external SD card, i can have as much music, films and roms as i want. Started playing a lot more ps1 games and need the space for the games.

I'd never buy a phone that didn't have external card support.
[Galaxy S 5 General] twito1992:
how FolderMount work to you... to me hie dosent work...he was working on S2 but now no...
[Galaxy S 5 General] Ave666:
+1[emoji6] [emoji6]
[Galaxy S 5 General] royhanks3:
It's not pointless, you're just having a hard time doing what you want to with it. I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually
[Galaxy S 5 General] osvanberg:
Well come on guys, of course it's not pointless - it's just as good as before IF you root and MOD your device. Yes of course that's the way to go........ I could not live without ROOT, CWM and Xposed FW. But........ Maybe not everybody want.... or..... can root! And for them Kitkat and external sdcard SUCKS big time!
[Galaxy S 5 General] johan81:
Still, when running completely stock, the external SD card comes in very handy! When using offline GPS like TomTom or Sygic you can still use the maps on your external SD and all photo's you make and filming you do can go directly on the external SD. Not to forget all the other media you can put on it.

It is virtually impossible to fill up your internal SD with just apps, so I do not see the real problem to be honest. I guess everyone is also not using any secure lock screen? You might as well if you use your external SD for apps since it is easy to read out all the data of those apps anyway.
[Galaxy S 5 General] blackenesian:
I'm rooted, I used NextApp SD Fix... I use Photo Grid and it won't let me save to SD due to KitKat permissions. What am I doing wrong?
[Galaxy S 5 General] SnuggP:
Try SDfix in the playstore it works
[Galaxy S 5 General] blackenesian:
Who makes it? Don't mean to be annoying, but they're all called SDFix.

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[Galaxy S 5 General] SnuggP:
Nextapp inc. I do apologize ill be sure to the makers of the app when i post a app suggestion[emoji119]
[Galaxy S 5 General] blackenesian:
I said that I used Nextapp SDFix. It says it "worked", then when I used the app PhotoGrid to save straight to me extSD, it told me I couldn't. I really just need to know if its just a problem with the app or if the exploit didn't work correctly. I ran another "SD fix" app after Nextapp and it told me I had already setup the fix.

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Maybe you could try the PhotoGrid app and tell me if the app itself is messin' with me?
[Galaxy S 5 General] abovenbeyond:
Sort of a SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guess), but you might try n see if uninstalling the app, and reinstalling it incase a link was broken or something similar. :silly:
[Galaxy S 5 General] blackenesian:
I already said that I've used that SDFix. If you could do me the favour and download PhotoGrid, try and see if it lets you save to ExtSD, that would be appreciated. The SDFix runs fine, reboot, everything looks ok, just the specific app PhotoGrid.

UPDATE: I just used Pixlr Express, that seemed to work fine. It seems like PhotoGrid needs an update to support this.
[Galaxy S 5 General] koragg97:
Install this and you're good to go. Only thing is that you need root for the app to work :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] SnuggP:
Thank you [emoji75]
[Galaxy S 5 General] visionfounder:
SD Card

I have Android 5.0 on my S5.

Anything from the camera goes to SD.

I have moved many apps to SD, some cannot be moved. I don't know why. Groove cannot be moved to SD.

My standard music is on the SD.

So, the SD is not wasted completely.
[Galaxy S 5 General] oia12344321:
Just root, repartion your sdcard to ext4,buy link2sd from google play, mount partition. You can choose that sd to be the default install path. I have 30 gb of games on my 64 sdcard. Is an easy thing to do...it takes around 10 min...there are many tutorials on web
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wg25:
Hello,

will there be a 4.4.2 ROM in the near future for GT 3 10.1?

Thank you

wg25
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glotzkowski:
maybe

nobody knows :(
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mon5trum:
We might get an official kitkat update. Samsung released a list with all the devices that are getting the kitkat update, and all tab 3 are getting it. The thing is it has been a few months since said list was released.
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsrac3r:
It will be released when it is released. Ask Samsung as they are the ones who have the answer.

Please read the sticky before posting again:

"NOTICE: If You did not create the ROM, KERNEL, FIX, MOD, APP, HACK, GUIDE, or if it's not a SOURCE CODE then it should go to Galaxy Tab General as it doesn't belong in Development.

If your thread can be phrased as a question, it DEFINITELY doesn't belong in Development either"
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NJ_RAMS_FAN:
This has been asked and answered so many times. Nobody knows. Samsung said yes but I'm not getting my hopes up.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EP2008:
Since getting my Note 2, I've only stuck with Touchwiz-based ROMS, but I really like the stock Android experience and I'm wondering what I'd be losing by moving to an AOSP-based rom.

Obviously, most of the pen features would be gone, but with apps like GMD SPen Control, third-party note taking apps, third-party multi-window and way better launchers (I use Nova now anyways)... what extra stuff do I loose that I might regret? I use the camera a lot on this phone, and even with about 6 third-party camera apps that I've purchased, I still like the Samsung stock camera app.

So before I jump, have any of you moved to a stock rom and regretted it? Why?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GreenMug:
Camera isn't as good - slower to focus, burst mode isn't as good.

I rarely use S-pen, so can't really comment on that.

Most keyboards out there don't have a separate number row - there is a hacked version of the Google keyboard on here though.

Can't really think of much else - about the only thing I actually miss is call recording. :) If you take the plunge, I think SOKP is a very good place to start. Great customisations, good support.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spookhc:
In my experience AOSP roms have a little worse battery life than touchwiz.Elsewise there isn't really much to lose.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gub:
If you have a bit of trouble making up your mind you use Devil kernel dual boot.

This way you can have both AOSP 4.4 and Touchwiz 4.3 (no official 4.4 yet).
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmptyArea:
Delete
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EP2008:
Damn. I guess ill be sticking with a touchwiz rom. Looks like I'll loose more than I'll gain. Thanks for the replies.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DuratecPaul:
yeah I alwasys seem to come back to the TW roms ... I like the pen features alot...

and with custom 4.4 TW rom coming very soon for t0lte (n7105) I will be very happy.

vanilla kitkat roms are very nice otherwise.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liquidguru:
I think you also lose HDMI out and you have to format your sdcard to FAT32.

sent from somewhere
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] Ken_xda:
Dear all,

My Universal has been stuck in the bootloader screen after upgrade with DOPOD Rom. I have searched thru the threads but have had no luck so far. Has anyone out there experienced this? Please help me out

Thank you

Ken
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] HENNING RAS:
STUCK RELEASE!?!?!

Well.very easy for start.

ROM Upgrade Failure

It is possible, in a very small number of ROM upgrades, that the upgrade could fail. The following are workarounds to get the device working and upgraded.

Device stuck in 'Bootloader' mode

When this happens the device screen will be blank except for the words:

Serial v 1.00a

The word [Serial] should change to [USB] when the cradle is plugged into the PC, and the version number below this will vary. When you get this screen, a soft or hard reset will not make any difference.

It is still possible to run the ROM upgrade file again, without using Activesync (Activesync will not restart anyway).

• Firstly unplug the USB cradle and reboot the PC

• Plug the cradle back into the USB port (this must plug directly into the USB port and not into a USB Hub / adaptor).

• Now run the ROM upgrade file again from the PC. This should just run as per normal and correctly reflash the device.

If it is still not working,try this

• Press & hold the power button

• Press & hold the Backlight button

• Push the stylus into the soft reset hole - until you see the word [Serial] on the screen.

• You should now be able to follow the upgrade process above for a device stuck in Bootloader mode.

It work for me,goodluck

henning
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] HENNING RAS:
find an attachment how to fix this
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] Ken_xda:
Many thanks, HENNING RAS

My device is up & running again. Thanks

Ken
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucajuventino:
hi, sorry for my particular english but i live in italy and no speak very good english :(

It's possible create a guide for flashing firmware with flashtool for this device? Thank you.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liorbal:
I have cm11 rom I9500 NIGHTLY. I used the app zazaremote for ELECTRA company ac.

when I do search all remotes, the phone reboots itself when I get to 197 code (I'm not sure).

what should I do?

thanks :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyz1988:
I think your only solution is to try an other app or install a different rom, one that is not cm11 based.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thekondo:
dont install the cm 11 now because this rom not stable for this device..

try to install other rom
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liorbal:
I tried other apps but the same happened.it started my ac and rebooted my phone.

I like this rom and I don't want to install a different one.

Do you think istalling TB backup of the data from my ac company would help?

thanks :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyz1988:
If you use roms like cm11 there are bugs. It's a work in progress. So or you use something like a dualboot solution or you take a tw based rom.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] JusRelax:
Hi,

I was an idiot and accidentally flashed the LS970_ZERO_EFS.zip without knowing what I was doing. I eventually used DFS to be able to set my IMEI and MEID, which helped get my phone to a state where hands-free activation, prl upgrades, etc. work fine now. All non-cell activity also works fine, but anything that uses cell towers fails. PRL Upgrades and Hands-Free activation work fine. When someone calls me, my phone doesn't ring but I eventually do get a 'missed call' indicator.

I read the 'Backup/Restore/Repair Your EFS Partition' thread, which is how I figured out to how to use DFS to set my IMEI and MEID, but I'm unable to do the 'For 1X/3G working - use DFS' portion of it because I don't have my AAA Shared Secret password and my HA Shared Secret password.

Finally, to make matters even worse, I'm not on Sprint; I'm on an MVNO of Sprint called RingPlus.

What should I do to be able to get cell access working again? Any help at all would be appreciated. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help out! :good:
[Sprint LG Optimus G] dopy25:
This might help you. It is for htc, but it mentions ringplus and pretty much fits your issue.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2438711
[Sprint LG Optimus G] JusRelax:
Thanks! I will try moving my account to a dummy phone, and moving it back afterward. Hopefully that will force the 'initial handshake' that they mention in that article. I'll post my results after I try it out (probably sometime this weekend).
[Sprint LG Optimus G] Molson01:
THIS!

OMG this is almost exactly where I am at. I too am on RingPlus, but my journey to a screwed EFS was different, I used Framaroot to root my phone so I could have Titanium backup and other root functions. It was great for a couple of weeks, then one morning I my network connectivity just turned off, that was a little over a week ago. I tried tech support, but eventually figured out that it wasn't my service provider, especially when I looked into my "phone identity" settings and saw everything except my ICCID and PRL were zeroed out.

I was thinking about flashing the clean EFS, but I can't really find out how to do that, I see instructions for it in the EFS restore thread, but all it says is "flash it" and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do that.

Also, I can't get my phone to root anymore, I tried Framaroot again, and this thread "Universal Root" http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=38886073#post38886073 It says it worked, but Titanium Backup says it still doesn't have root.

And to top it off, my play store says no connection (tried wiping cache and different versions, date settings, can't get it).

Right now, I'm working with an almost useless phone.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] engine95:
If you unlocked your phone with FreeGee, it made a backup of your EFS. Put those files in the flash efs zip and you should be set
[Sprint LG Optimus G] Molson01:
Thanks, but nope, I wasn't that smart.

Thanks, but I used the Framaroot APK and that was it. I kinda jumped in before I really read/understood what I was doing. I had no idea that information could be wiped.

I have been trying to understand how the whole system is setup and at which points modifications can/should be made.

I don't think I've ever unlocked the bootloader, which is what I thought FreeGee was for, I just used Framaroot to root it and thought I was good. Then 0000000000.

I have been trying to figure out if I really need to flash the ZERO EFS, or if I can just jump to using DFS to modify the ESN etc. It seems like my EFS is already zeroed. (I'd ask in the proper thread, but I'm working my way up to 10 posts...).

Thanks for the reply, there are really so many resources here it is incredible, I just need to remember to not do stupid crap (too late!).
[Sprint LG Optimus G] engine95:
Framaroot was set up as a temporary root. It says that in our root guide. Some use it all the time with no issues. I played it safe with the Universal Root.

The EFS was discovered by autoprime I think, and steps were taken to fix that. Follow his guide's to hopefully fix it.

I wouldn't Zero out anything that is left. They may help you or Sprint fix it.

You're not stupid. LG just has different things to worry about compared to HTC, Samsung etc.

Good luck with everything. :)
[Sprint LG Optimus G] Molson01:
Temp use of a Sprint ESN/MEID for service swap?

Does anyone out there have a Sprint ESN/MEID they wouldn't mind "loaning" me for a couple of hours so I can attempt to "swap" service out and back to my device.

The CSR I'm dealing with says that doing a swap is better than cancel/reactivate because apparently with a cancel/reactivate they actually close the account and any (prepaid) funds in there get eaten (kind of bull**** that they can't do it from some admin position that would stop that from happening, but whatever).

Thanks.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] Molson01:
NM

Decided to abandon this line, bought an LG Tribute for $40 and swapped to that. Super small internal memory, but other than that, not a bad phone really.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rasik700:
Yesterday, I got a text saying t mobile users get free mlb at bat and sure enough I downloaded from the play store and it works.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] :
Do we need to do anything to get the full MLB At Bat services?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rasik700:
Just download the app from the play store using T-Mobile network.

1. Disconnect your wifi and connect to Mobile network.

2. Go to play store

3. Download/Install MLB At Bat

4. After installing, Go to the app and select "redeem" or something like that

5. Now you have a free mlb at bat for season.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
They did the same last year when they partnered with MLB. I imagine itll be every year till their partnership ends.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] markdapimp:
NBA would be nice too... Oh well
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] georgemathew325:
Hello.

I just tried to root my phone so that I could speed it up and improve the battery life. But things didn't go so well.

Phone Version:

PDA:I9100XWLST

Phone:I9100DDLS9

CSC: I9100ODDLSE

Build info: Mon Apr 22 16:44:57 KST 2013

I downloaded Odin3_v1.85 and flashed Siyah-s2-v6.0b4.tar. Odin showed the green PASS message, and then phone went to the reboot screen with an extra yellow triangle with an exclamation mark and it doesnt go to the home screen like its supposed to. It doesn't go into the recovery mode either!

So I went to the odin mode again and flashed another version, Siyah-s2-v6.0b5.tar. Again, the same thing happens and its stuck at the boot screen with the yellow triangle and exclamation mark. So I tried one last time with first Siyah- s2-v6.0b4.tar kernel and flashed it once more. Same thing happened again.

Can someone tell me how to fix this?

Should I flash another kernel? The ones which I have used till now are specific to my firmware. Jelly bean. 4.1.2.

Somebody, please help!
[Sony Xperia M] rharshit:
Isn't there any Omni ROM yet?
[Sony Xperia M] paper13579:
Why hasn't anyone thanked the OP for this thread? I'll be the first then. Well done bro, this is great. And for the above post, no there is no omnirom available for the xperia m
[Sony Xperia M] ManzzaShahi:
great work should be a sticky :good::good::good::good:

keep it updated and try adding list for themes and mods and guides :):)
[Sony Xperia M] 8hodgsonkh:
[MENTION=5482320]paper13579[/MENTION] [MENTION=4966480]ManzzaShahi[/MENTION]., thanks bros, I'll update it with guides and mods etc when I have better Internet, I have to put up with 2g connection at the moment and it hardly ever loads xda it's a big site hehe

but thanks for feedback and suggestions :) :)
[Sony Xperia M] Se7enTime:
[ROM][KVT49L][4.4.2] AOSP/CodeAurora kitkat-4.4.2

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2772155
[LG Optimus 3D] itsmemario:
Somehow I managed to start the device using 3D+VolDown+Power. While it should have went into recovery it started as usual, giving me the choice between HomeScreen and Trebuchet. After choosing Homescreen I got the message "Homescreen got stopped" in an endless loop. Had to delete homescreen so I would get the option to choose Trebuchet after a restart again. Seems like this was the wrong way to get LGLauncher+Weather Widget to run on PACMAN ROM v21.0. :/

Ola,

I have PACMAN ROM v22.0 (JB 4.2.2). Usually after a bootloop happend, I went into CWM, did factory reset+delete cache+delete dalvik and restored my backup.

This time I tried to install the G2 weather widget from here :

http://www.gogadgetx.com/download-a...dget-and-live-wallpaper-to-any-android-phone/

Installed launcher apk and weather apk and copied the WeatherMultiCPbin.apk to system/apps. So far so good.

After I wanted to set permissions of rw-r-r- of WeatherMultiCPbin.apk, idt didnt quiete do so.

It asked for SU and I said ok, but it did not turn into rw-r-r-.

So wanted to leave the file explorer, just to see a short "Error blabla happened". I wasnt fast enough to read it.

I restarted my device, just to see a bootloop. So back to CWM doing a factory reset+delete cache+delete dalvik and restore my backup.

After it finsihed, I choose restart device...and the screen stayed black. :(

Kept out battery for some minutes...no chance to turn it on or get into recovery. Connecting it via USB to PC wont do anythign either.

What could probably have gone wrong here ? :S

p.s.

Battery was at 79% when flash finsihed. I have cwm 6, which I know turns phone on automatically after inserting battery (which i dont like but ok)
[LG Optimus 3D] DiveNNN:
this is wrong section and try LG Mobile support tool
[LG Optimus 3D] itsmemario:
Sorry for posting in the wrong section.

I could get back into recovery and re-flashed PACMAN v21.0.

Seems like I have to live without the LG Weather Widget on this ROM.
[LG Optimus 3D] DiveNNN:
im glad you solved it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] calibachrome:
After I rooted my device it stopped auto correcting and the option is now gone under settings. Anyone know how to restore?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] calibachrome:
No one else's keyboard removed Auto replacement on the stock keyboard after root?