yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Clean install of stock to test before anything else.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GJohnny:
Would it be safe to flash the stock rom using CWM6 recovery? as any tool that relies on a USB connection to the phone won't work.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Wanam has a thread in one of the Development sections with CWM flashable stock roms. I'd also be testing it with another PC to rule in/out something PC-side (if you haven't done so already). You need to be methodical with stuff like this - try stuff that rules in/out different causes.

Edit - You could also just take the punt it is the USB board in the phone on the fritz & replace it regardless, which is very cheap & easy to do if you're somewhat handy. KeithRoss39 has a guide in General (search for 'Replacing USB charger board') which has all the info you need if you decide to do this (will cost you a tenner).

In trying the things I've mentioned so far, that's what we're trying to ascertain; whether the board is faulty or not (common S2 fault, almost always shows a few faults but works OK in other ways). Put it this way, if you try those things I've suggested and you're still seeing the same, it's almost certainly the USB board.

In the meantime, use WiFi to get stuff off/on the phone if you need to (plenty of apps on GP enable this if you've never used it).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GJohnny:
Sorry for the incredibly late reply, I've changed phones since, but I wanted to update this thread anyway, it turns out re-flashing cyanogenmod after replacing the pcb fixed the issue completely, installing it when i had the dodgy usb pcb must have made it not properly install the USB drivers or something
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TBolt52:
I have been on CleanROM and switched to the new TrentsROM about a week ago. Now every couple days Location Services will suddenly turn itself off for reasons unknown. When try to turn Location Services on again I get a System UI stopped working message. I have not found a way around this other than restoring a backup after which I am good for another two days!!

I also tried Alliance and had the same thing happen.

Has anyone seen this behavior and have any suggestions of things I might try?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TBolt52:
After the forth restore I decided to try Sophisticated Remix. Haven't had any location service problems in 3 days. Actually, haven't had any issues at all. Think I'll stay a while.
[HTC Tornado] ghl10000:
Hello,

something changed the (terminal) screenfont of the Internet Explorer on my Qtek 8300 smartphone (Tornado) :-(

If I now access ftp sites it looks like that (see attached screenshot).

Could anybody please advise me how to change that back to the device default font.

(You can see that the font width is to big and - I think, but am not absolutely sure - that it had bee a courier-like font before.)

Thanks in advance !
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Synchronium:
I've inherited an S3 with a broken USB port. It used to work intermittently, but has now stopped working altogether. I've added a wireless charging thing, so it's usable.

I had a quick look inside today, to see if there was anything obviously wrong.

I'm not sure if those two soldered connections on the end look a bit dodgy, so I thought I'd ask on here if it looks like I'm going to need to reflow it, or if you think the connection looks fine and just needs a good clean?

Obviously, I don't want to start soldering things if it's unnecessary.

Thanks!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blinqipa:
Hello guys

I'm not a new user in kernels or ROMs .

I have a low-decent battery life ,and I'm sure there's a way to get a better battery life with undervolting .

I want to know

what is "undervolting" ?

What is the biggest damage it can cause?

What is PVS?

How do I know ,how much I can UV?

What are the steps to undervolt?

What I gain from UV (despite battery life)?

For your info ,I'm using AOSPAL ROM +FAUX's latest 16u kernel .

Thanks :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2537000
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi,

Most of your questions have a reply:

About undervolting: http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-undervolting-thread-t2537000.

CPU binning: http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/general/cpu-binning-nexus-5-t2515593.

The "risks" are instability like hard reboot, SOD, etc.... To find a "safe" value you will need to test by yourself to find what undervolting your CPU can handle, not all CPU's are equals.

Undervolt by steps like - 25mV, don't set your new values at boot unless your are sure it's stable (or you could encounter bootloop), test for a few days under different conditions (as your use).

The gain apart battery life (but you will not gain that much as people tend to think) is a little less heat, but again nothing huge..., better is to test by yourself and see what you will gain... or not.

Battery life depends mainly of your use, apps, signal quality and settings like, screen brightness, synchro, CPU governor, etc... In my opinion check first what could be the cause of your low battery life (and what is low battery life for you???) before play with undervolting.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
As said above, undervolting will get you very minor battery life increases.

More than likely you have an issue, or its just your setup and usage giving you the battery life you are seeing.

Undervolting will not change any of this.... You'll gain only minutes of battery time.

Try some troubleshooting in the below thread to see if you have an issue, or how to setup for better battery life. Read through it a bit, from the last page and work back a bit. You can post meaningful screenshots there too. From gsam or BBS.... not the stock battery screen, it has no real useful info for finding issues. Good luck!! :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2509132

Nexus 5 Battery Results
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nigelhealy:
I've been undervolting many systems for many years, primarily Linux desktops and some servers, and the primary benefit is that you get less heat output which means when running cpu-intensive tasks the temperature climbs slower so the throttling of the clockspeed kicks in later, so your phone will be faster in certain situations. If you take a phone which has been idle for a while and run a benchmark, and then immediately run that benchmark again, the 2nd time gets a lower result as the phone is still hot from the 1st. This makes drawing conclusions about settings really dificult but it illustrate that throttling from heat is affecting speed.

For most users their perception will be the phone runs cooler.

You do undervolt at each step in the processor's frequency, and each step is a trial+error activity, the throttling I mention means finding a stable under-volt at the higher frequency which is labour-intensive,i.e take the max clock, and undervolt it a little, run a benchmark which forces it to run at high clockspeed, and if it passes that test then run it again at the next step down in frequency. Once you've got the most stable top clockspeed, then do it progressively for all the other voltages on the way down.

In some platforms in Linux and Windoze, we wrote scripts which save the stable voltages and then undervolts a little and runs a stress-testing benchmark and if the system hung it wouldn't save the current voltages so the previous higher voltages were safer, stick that script in a startup script area and leave the compute to do many self resets, and you've calculated your device's voltage range. I wonder if someone has that done for Android??? For a laptop the FAN would run slower saving battery time and for laptops that would lead to say 20% better battery life but on a phone it won't make much saving as no fan.

Your phone will run most of its time (like 95%) at its lowest frequency, so for effort/benefit just focusing on dropping its voltage will gain the most in the phone running cooler.

Battery life improvement is marginal, if you look at your battery stats its down to your application settings and screen brightness, i.e. how you use and what you do with your phone. So if your battery life is bad, use your phone less!

I carry a slim USB battery, it is the $/effort/benefit the best thing you can do, $20 doubles your battery life, if you get one with a 1.5A-2A output in just a few minutes when the phone doesn't mind a battery attached, will dwarth every possible tweak and hack anyone can form in benefit.
[General Questions and Answers] Karlo666:
I share my account whit my family and we have bunch of Android devices.

So today i bought movie and tryed to download it on my tablet and then error message came.

"Your account has been used to download videos on too many devices"

I can still stream but not download.

Is there workaround for this?

EDIT

Seems there is some solution but the problem is that it doesnt work.

"You can save a movie or TV show that you purchased on up to five devices at once.

If you have reached the five device limit for a movie or show, you can remove the saved movie or TV from a device by touching the Google Play Movies offline red pin icon > Remove on the Google Play Movies & TV app. Once you’ve removed the video from a device, you’ll be able to save it to another device."
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] pepmat:
Good evening, I accidentally deleted the apk S Voice.Uou can give the original S Voice of Core?

Inviato dal mio GT-I8260 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] pepmat:
I risolved XD
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Mach5:
xD :beer::thumbup::D:p;):cool:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] R##T:
hello

Since I've updated my Xperia Ray using PC Companion I wasn't able to register on the 2G Network

tried flashing many firmwares and ROMs but still facing the problem :(

but the 3G works fine and the IMEI isn't blacklisted at all

thanks in advance :)
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
I'm trying to do a little theming with the phone dialer & contacts so I thought I'd start out with some easier ones like the dialer & contacts Silhouettes (see screenshots).

BTW, what used to be SecPhone.apk is now system/priv-app/SecTeleservice.apk. The silhouette images are there and I can change them out but there is no change in the dialer and contacts (contacts.apk changed too btw).

Any of you brainy themers out there can help with this one?

Tnx - TD

How to remove Banner from incall screen:

(Examples in attached screenshots 3 & 4)

Change only the values in InCallUI.apk/res/values/colors.xml to match:

<color name="incall_call_banner_active_bg">#00000000</color>
<color name="incall_call_banner_disconnect_bg">#00000000</color>
<color name="incall_call_banner_incoming_bg">#00000000</color>
<color name="incall_call_banner_onhold_bg">#00000000</color>
<color name="incall_call_banner_default_bg">#00000000</color>
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] JoeFCaputo113:
Looks good so far! Definitely diggin' the black n blue themed contacts. Would be awesome if you could black out the dialer!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
Ahh yes, I'm importing a theme from a Note 3. The image sizes are very similarly sized and I've used this guys work before. It's pretty awesome if I can figure out the file differences. Our 4.4.2 is totally different than the other builds out there.

I think the file we need to deal with is called InCallUI.apk. I side-tracked a little though because I'm trying to repair the InCallUI file so it will fully recompile so I can try removing the call banner because that method is not working an longer either.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] JoeFCaputo113:
Yes I believe you are correct, InCallUI and SecTeleservice are the main APKs for phone/contacts now.

What do you mean by "removing the call banner"?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
An example of the call banner is that large green banner at the top of the screenshots I posted for the in-call screen. It changes color depending on the call status but I hate it, want it gone and prefer the full screen display without it. If I get it working, I'll post a screenshot so you can see the difference.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] JoeFCaputo113:
Ok sounds good!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] reverepats:
looking right now brotha....On the S4 the Call Banner was in res-Values-Colors.xml and was incall_call_banner_in_call_background...which i always made Transparent

Sammy moved a TON of stuff around and has throw myself oiff a bit too lol.

Im just a little over halfway with my stuff, but still working on the COntacts and Dialer

GImme one sec, lemme see if i can track it down real quick

EDIT....YWait....are talking about the GReen in the SS? or the In cAll banner when your in an actual call? THere is a Banner for "In Call" and "End Call" which is in the Colors XML in the TeleService apk. THat will get rid of the Banner there, which i reall Dislike. If your trying to get rid of that Ugly green, thats an image
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
I already tried the colors.xml edit in SecTeleService and it did not work so I'm going to give it a shot with InCallUI here in a bit.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
That SS is the incall screen. Is there another one?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] reverepats:
NO, your right..SOrry i might have confused ya lol. Some Edits need to be chnage, like icons and such, which have a label of "End Call" rather than "In Call"...
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
Interesting, some icons changed when I morphed incallui but still the silhouettes are the same. I'll have to go through the drawables and make sure the filenames are the same but I think they are.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] reverepats:
i hate using morphs...Honestly....It sounds Real Stupid (Especially today) but i stopped Morphing images a long time ago. Some apks dont seem to like em, but VRTheme seemed to work pretty good on the Note 3 i heard....

You using VRTheme?

---------- Post added at 10:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:06 AM ----------

i know how to REPAIR the InCallUI apk

Have you done that yet? You'll get the usuall "appt" errors, but it will recompile

HERE

Go To InCallUI>res>values-es>strings.xml

Then go to Line 544 and you'll see this: <string name="throttle_time_frame_subtext">"%1$d% del ciclo transcurrido.

Remove the last Percent sign from this "%1$d%" and make it this "%1$d"

InCallUI will now Recompile..You'll get the usual "appt" errors but it will be fine.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
I only use the term 'Morph' as an acronym. I really do use VRTheme. The real Morph template does not play well with TWRP but seems to be ok in Philz but I stopped using it because of that.

Alright, looks like I found all the images for the silhouettes are new filenames in the callui file. I think I better resize all of them to make sure they are happy as well. That's going to take me a little while... I'll report back in later.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
Yes, repaired it already. Tnx.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] reverepats:
ohh sorry lol, ok nevermind, i was just reading one of your previous posts...My bad!!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
Ok, I'm getting there.

I still don't have proper images for contact silhouette images though for some reason.

Got rid of the banners as well. ;)
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] reverepats:
I gotcha. I'm gonna be home in an hour or so. If you want, you csn DL one of themes from the sprint S4 for a reference if you'd like. I gotta do this all myself today, so I'm gonna take it in a bit. There is a Contacts apk, just can't remember the correct file name off hand, but the contact photo will definately be there.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
Great the avatar icons are killing me (the ones for the contacts/call logs/favorites). The only ones I can find are in SecSettings believe it or not but replacing them does not help. :rolleyes:

Plus, I need a fresh set of eyes.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
I posted a little guide on the OP to remove the banner from the call screens.

It is different than previous versions btw.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] JoeFCaputo113:
I actually like the banner. Would be cool if it was blue when connected and then red when ended though haha.

Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
If you find anything let me know. I've looked through a ton of files and can't find the images for the contacts pics.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
I think I found the rest of the images. But they're compressed in a really funky format. Check out

priv-app/SecContacts_Phone_FLAGSHIP_USA.apk/res/drawable-sw360dp-xxhdpi

Update:

A thread has been started regarding this file compression:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2700860
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] vinman12:
Seems like these new image files are gonna put a hurt on us themers untill we can get a batch converter, but even then having to covert back to pkm this is gonna take some time. Unless we make some type of smali edits perhaps to point to our own created pngs for apps we want to theme with these types of images, in gonna play around with this myself this week.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
It's hard to say.

I went through and replaced and bunch of .pkm files with their .png counterparts and didn't have any issues with the contacts file so I think if we could just get all the pkm files to decompile, we'd be golden.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] vinman12:
I hope thats the case, seems like it would be eaiser to work with.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] cerj:
tdunham, i see your doing great things here, as you did for our E4GT.. Awesome
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] billyho7993:
You got an s5 cerj?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
Just one of my many stalkers. :confused:
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] billyho7993:
Lol he did some awesome work on the s4 so I was just curious
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] netengineer:
Yes, [MENTION=5646668]BillyHo[/MENTION] [MENTION=4930664]cerj[/MENTION] did amazing work. I am missing his chrome theme on the S5. Wonder if his stuff an be ported to the S5.... (I would have no idea) but he might. :D
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] billyho7993:
Man that would be sweet I'm rocking chrome right now thanks to [MENTION=4406894]vinman12[/MENTION] I love the chrome look!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] vinman12:
And you will be rocking more when I get time. Lol ty sir
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] vinman12:
I will tell ya what It takes a long time to theme is dialer, gzz.

testing one now
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] prof123:
Well done. Good work.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] NQMinhQuan:
[MENTION=1042140]tdunham[/MENTION] hi bro , please help me transparent it , i can't found the hex color in color.xml
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] tdunham:
No idea. But I bet the color codes are in one of the res/layout files or maybe even in res/drawables. I've seen both areas themed for the dialer.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] the_original_teknikl:
Not positive about the "and here" sections.... But the tabs are actual images pulled from framework-res.apk. they are not in the phone apps. Those tabs are shown thru settings, phone, calculator and other apps. Compare the images in your framework-res.apk drawable-xhdpi or drawable-xxhdpi folders.

If you look at the theme linked in my Sig, you'll see I have the icons replaced with PCB images..... You can compare my framework from the theme to see where your images are... And what they are named.

Edit: I should add I'm on the s3 running kitkat 4.4.2

Sent from a Wicked Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy S3 running KT747 Kernel on KITKAT Touchwiz.

Click the banner below to view my phonechievements. Use the link in the next page "Download app via this user" to help me earn an achievement.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] NQMinhQuan:
Hi bro , s5's contact color.xml uses code, not using png images in drawable-xxhdpi like S3 , sorry my bad english
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] stangdriver44:
Pkm fix

I'm not sure if this has been answered yet, but if you change the png to pkm it will flash correctly using vrtheme. Check out the changes I made to the SecContact_Flagship file in the chrome the of Missing Link
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] stangdriver44:
These were all made from regular png's changed to pkm's
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] jackrabbit72380:
i want to port the verzion international mms app with dark colors to sprint

i cant get version mms to work on sprint and realy hate the white backgraound

there is a sprint darked out black version with inverted text but haveing the white text stops me from making the port correctly i wish i knew where to edit these colors if anyone can help?

please pm me!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Themes and Apps] metalfan78:
The text colors are in res/values/colors.xml and res/color.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] wolfen1086:
Ok yall I have a brick :) It was a Tmobile SGH-M919 and the rirmware was M919UVUFNB4. Question, since it only boots into download mode, not even recovery, can I change between M919UVUFN4B and M919UVUEMK2 and M919UVUAMDL?

Just wondering cause I'm trying to learn how to change an operateing system on phones :)

I've gotten pretty good at rooting and roms now its time to learn something new
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] MrSteelX:
M919UVUFN4B and M919UVUEMK2 are both knox enable firmwares. You can change between then but never go back to M919UVUAMDL. Putting on a different rom is changing the os on the phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] wolfen1086:
Thanks. Can I simply root and remove Knox? I hate that app as much as my ex wife's cat.

Right now I have 12 hours left downloading the 4.4.2 one so after installation it will be rooted and recovery will be changed to cwm

Oh and why not go back to MDL? Is there a problem with that is or is it just incompatable?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mguzman0971:
MDL is incompatible with the boatloader, if you have installed MK2 o NB4. You can brick your phone if you downgrade to MDL.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] rlichtefeld:
The Knox apps and the Knox flag are 2 different things. They are both security related, but the Knox flag is what gets tripped/set if you every flash a non-stock recovery to the phone.

The Knox apps are what can be used to Shut down/wipe a phone if stolen, etc

If you have ever had the MK2 or NB4 bootloader on the phone, you now have the Knox flag. You can not go back to a bootloader that doesn't have the Knox flag. MDL bootloader doesn't have the flag, so you can't flash it once you've had MK2 or NB4.

Rob

---------- Post added at 04:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:23 PM ----------

Just FYI, the phone has multiple bits of software. The bootloader and the recovery are in their own partitions. The firmware is like device drivers under Windows, and there is the radio(s). And then there is the OS. It's made up of the kernel and the interface/apps.

When you download the stock ROM from Sammobile, you are getting a partition table, a radio, a recovery (stock), the firmware and the OS. Which is why everyone on several threads has suggested you to download and install that with ODIN. It should get you back to a working phone.

Rob
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] wolfen1086:
Mine trips the counter that says I have changed to a custom rom, so that means I have the knox flag right? Cause when I rooted I uninstalled and deleted the knox app, tried that once before I was rooted and wound up doing a hard reset because of that app
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] rlichtefeld:
No, the Custom ROM flag is different than the Knox flag.

If you boot into the Bootloader, if you have a Knox bootloader, it will say the words Knox and then have a 0x0, or 0x1, next to the word Knox.

No Knox shown, you have a bootloader that doesn't have Knox.

If 0x0 shown, the the Knox counter is NOT tripped. If 0x1 is shown, then you have a Knox bootloader and the Knox flag has been tripped.

Rob