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[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] RealityFails:
I paid full retail price for this phone. And I don't want to brick it, so yes I will trade it for a s5 or n3. I don't want root for roms or anything like that, I just want root to remove bloatware and put games on my 128gb card and use my ps3 controller. Not for any other purpose.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] paranoiaboi:
I just got my xperia z ultra from the sony store and it came with 257... does anyone know an easy route to root from this firmware? ^_^ thank you!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
:eek:

Please, please, please read the forum or you will be ignored by me and many others. If you have issues then post specific questions in the relevant sticky or guide.

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You shouldn't brick the device by downgrading and rooting. Also read about knox on samsung
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] madphone:
These are points Samsung is already doing. You can move apps to sd card, deactivate or delete bloat, and still the phones are much easier to root than Sonys. Even Knox doesn't even make a difference in rooting. It only prevents samsung of beeing blamed for broken software or security-issues. Coming from samsung to nexus, rooting was a mess (whats the point about locked bootloaders anyways if you can unlock it?). But moving to Sony was a desaster. To root your phone without losing anything (TA Partition) was extremly time consuming, even to experienced users like me.

I'm still hoping Google will fix the sd card issues. Every big OEM is using SD-Cards nowadays, so i guess there is a little chance google will show us something on IO soon.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] _Dennis_:
I've had lots of Samsung phones, none were as easy to root as the z ultra. They may appear easy to end users, but that hides the fact that someone had to spend many many hours getting a hack to work. Sony gives you all the tools and with 4.4 you don't even need the TA keys for anything but warrantee returns. If you root you should loose your software warrantee as you no longer are using the software package provided.

As for deactivating bloat all manufacturers have that, it's part of Android 4.2 and above.

Don't get me wrong, I FYI want to use Samsung devices I have no say in that, it's your choice. I just think sometimes people forget how much work goes into rooting them from a developer prospective, especially the AT&T and Verizon versions.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] polargirl:
Security isn't most people's top priority and isn't mutually exclusive with rooting. The better security apps actually demand root access. I don't blame him for going to a phone that gives him more recreational access to it if that is all he bought it for. It's mainly what I bought mine for but I just couldn't go from 6.44" down to 5.7" when I bought it.

Easy to root for whom? Again, there is this growing dissonance between devs/hackers and the public. What good is easy for the hacker if it is useless for most of the public? Easy for the dev but hard for the user doesn't make profit in the commercial software world so how would it make progress in the hacker world?

You come across as a cynical shill for OEMs when you state that people should loose their access for having the "audacity" to use their smartphones to their reasonable consumer potential. It is also disingenuous of you to offer deactivation as a "substitute" for uninstalling apps.To think anyone is dumb enough to believe that shows arrogance and condescension. I am not even going to dignify with a rebuttal as to how deactivation vs uninstall are two completely different things.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] _Dennis_:
1) Rooting the z ultra is easy for everyone. It takes about 30 minutes and if you don't mind loosing your TA keys then you can do it in about 4 steps (unlock bootloader, load custom kernel, load supersu)

2) I never said disabling and removing bloat is the same. The person I quoted said Samsung allows you to disable bloat, I said so does everyone else. And by the way it is nearly the same as freezing it in TB as the app won't load but it still takes space on your /system

3) if you mess with something you loose warranty for what you messed with. I messed with my car's electrical system, if what I did could have caused an issue with my car's electrical system I wouldn't expect ford to fix my stupidity.

4) I am far from dumb and would appreciate not being called such, thank you.

Edit: by the way all the display enhancements that required your Ta keys don't need them on kitkat.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] polargirl:
1) Unfortunately, almost everyone would mind loosing their warranty even if they didn't mind loosing the DRM keys that makes a Sony special.

2) He stated both disable and delete along with moving apps to SD without rooting. You only replied to the least significant aspect of that sentence.

3) Messing with your car's electrical system is a far poorer analogy than tinkering with Microsoft Windows. You neither lose your license for that nor void your hardware warranty for that.

4) That was too strong of a reaction for rebutting only the point that has little significance while ignoring the rest of the sentence. I jumped the gun a bit for not carefully reading both his reply and yours. Apologies.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] polargirl:
:laugh:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] _Dennis_:
I am unaware of any significant bloatware you can delete on a Samsung without root.

I don't mind voiding my warranty of the company is reasonable (most are) so say I unlock my bootloader then notice the power button is loose, I should not lose my warranty, but if my cpu is overheating due to the kernel I have I should lose it. That said I did back up my TA partition but that was before I knew kitkat does not need the DRM keys.

I agree that the old style SD card access should be an option, but that is an android/Google thing.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] adfurgerson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkzjBfTDH20

No it isn't!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
Look, do you want me to slap you with a fish?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] _Dennis_:
Yes it is.

That was priceless lol
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] polargirl:
So we at least agree that significant bloatware cannot deleted without root. The question left in this regard is if we both agree that smartphone owners should have a right to delete it without having to risk losing their warranty.

The rooted functions you are analogizing is CPU, memory, and GPU overclocking. I certainly can agree that people who do that should do so at their own warranty risk. Unfortunately, OEMs are forcing all or nothing for consumers. Either they get all access including risky access that they probably don't need or they have to accept the unfair and absurd restrictions placed on them by OEMs. If hackers can delivery root better to the public, that would force OEMs to a Windows-like software compromise without having to compromise hardware like overclocking is. Hackers unfortunately would have to be a bit irresponsible in order to make OEMs much more responsible. It's a sad reality.

There is also the issue of OEMs being reasonable. Even the power button example might still be used to **** out of a contract. Then there are issues like screen failure that easily could be a defect, accident (which people with extended coverage like myself have), or what OEM's consider abuse (rooting and installing unauthorized hardware managing software. Why should consumers be at the arbitrary and capricious will of some low-level cubicle monster in Bangalore, India?

I don't know much about the tech side of eliminating the need for DRM keys in Kit Kat but they still are needed for warranty. Speaking of, I have not seen any threads on how to unroot this phone and restore it back to warranty condition. This and being distracted with other things is what kept me from attempting to root so far.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] _Dennis_:
I wish blast was installed on /data so it is delete-able also but I don't see it happening.

To restore see here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2569904

Basically get stock kernel installed, restore TA, restore stock firmware.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] warfareonly:
Low level cubicle monsters don't decide company policy, AFAIK.

And please tell me, why would developers/hackers/anybody care to provide better/simpler root to the masses when there at tools which satisfy the requirement of the current (small) society reasonably well? There are only 6 main steps :

1. Downgrade to .532

2. Root.

3. Backup TA.

4. Unlock bootloader.

5. Update to .757

6. Root.

How hard is it? If you can't even understand these, then you shouldn't be playing with your phone in the first place!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] iBuzman:
Geohot proves me wrong... Towelroot to the rescue :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
True, but we did write these things with the existing rooting methods at that time in mind, and Towelroot is a brutal hack that we had no idea was possible, so we were - and still are right that we can't make a one-click root solution without towelroot :p (please don't prove me wrong, lol)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] iBuzman:
Normal people still can't do it - Geohot is a freak, I was an iSheep when he broke ground there, had a homebrewed ps3 and now this.. Not many have contributed so much (especially when seemingly doing it on his own without dev team support, and yes I know he's lifted exploits from others lol including Pinkie Pie for towelroot and some iPhone Dev Team for limera1n I think hehe)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Oh yeah, I remember my iPhone days very well, with all the waiting for jailbreaks and what not :D Do you know how much of the 18K he's actually received? I don't think he's even near that amount, but it would be cool to find out how much he actually got. I'm guessing a couple of thousands, since there are a lot of generous people around here.
[General Questions and Answers] DRH48:
I bought a breathalyzer that requires an app to use. The app requires android 4.3, so I rooted my Photon Q 4G and installed cm-10.2.1-xt897. However, the google play store still thinks my device is incompatible, even after messing around with Market Helper. I even tried playing around with build.prop manually, which was almost a disaster when it broke my keyboard and I had no way of typing back in the settings I had changed. I changed ro.product.model, ro.product.brand, and ro.product.manufacturer to imitate a Galaxy S3 and S4, neither worked. Anyway, I'd like to try side loading the app on my device to see if it works because I'm pretty sure the google play store is just being stubborn (I've seen other installation issues reported by people with non-rooted phones for this app). Could someone with a compatible phone (stock Android 4.3+) please download this app and send me the .apk file? I'm not asking anyone to steal since it's a free app anyway. Alternatively, could someone explain which settings I should be changing in build.prop to fool the google play store (preferably without breaking my phone)?
[General Questions and Answers] M_Maha:
Here you go the apk is attached

Editing build.prop to look like other phones is not a good idea.

And to unlock the play store there is an xposed module available. So install xposed and find the module.:good:

HIT THANX IF I HELPED:laugh:
[General Questions and Answers] Tangodown78:
also there are apk download sites that will allow u to download apps to your pc from your web browser

http://download.freeapk.ru/en.php

http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader
[General Questions and Answers] Naddict:
This^^^ or go here too! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2392504
[General Questions and Answers] Tangodown78:
there is also a Chrome plugin that allows you to download directly from play store but is tricky as you need a fake IME and google account (Fake) lots of ways to get what you need
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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] seanb1979:
So I got the i337 AT&T S4 thinking it wouldn't have any issues on T-mobile, but it has a lot of problems with data. I found a hyperdrive ROM that worked except it had no wifi available. Are there any roms that load with safe strap that also work with t-mobile service?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] seedeh:
Never mind. I'm stupid.
[General Questions and Answers] JacobPaffhausen:
Is it possible to install apps on a usb like a SD card
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prabin.sh:
Anyone knows how to setup static ip in Amazon Fire TV?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanemj:
You need to assign its MAC address a static IP through your router. The instructions will be different depending on the make and model of your router. :)
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prabin.sh:
Thanks it worked.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] dcdivenut:
Please save me from Cingular support hell!!

Although I think I may be doomed...

I have a Cingular 8125. Have Summitter's 2.25 (with CF2), phone info shows as follows

IPL 2.24

GPL 2.24

GSM 2.25.11

OS 2.24.10.1

ROM 2.24.10.1 WWE

Radio 02.25.11

I am located in Washington DC, I usually have full signal and I am on EDGE, not GPRS, but I get crappy data speeds. When I first got the device it was a little better but now it is horrible. I went to DSLreports to do a speed test but after 1 minute of waiting for their page (which is mobile web) to load, gave up so I am not sure just HOW slow it is.

I called Cingular a few weeks ago and they said everything was fine. I know this is not the case because I was in Hawaii on vacation the last two weeks and I was getting better speed there!!! so I think it may be the network.

However, before I call them does anyone have any tips or tricks to try or perhaps an idead of how to get to someone or a Dept at Cust. Service that actually knows what to do.

THanks!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] treblechance:
I have had this a couple of time on T-Mobile in the UK, stupid question but have your tried a soft reset and then opening a page again, if not possibly a hard reset and make sure you try your connection before installing any third party software or tweeks.

In my case it definitely wasn't the network as I had my SIM card in other phones with no problem.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] GldRush98:
When you say crappy speeds, what exactly are you getting?

Ever since the Edge network issues, I've been getting between 80kbit/s (typical) and 120kbit/s (high end, good day).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] dcdivenut:
Last speed test I got was 55kbits. I did see this post shortly after I put mine up (http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=61990) that talks about changing DNS servers.

I tried it and it seems to have greatly decreased the time it takes for pages to come up. HOwever, this seems to be a function of the DNS lookup, not the time it takes pages to actually load which is a function of the actual speed, which is still pretty low, especially compared to you.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guiyoforward:
Hi, I havent checked the forum for a while. I am on carbon rom which is nice but there have been quite a few develoments as far as I can see. This is NOT a "recommend a ROM" post, i know for some reason they are not liked. I just want to be sure I know what's around. So far for kitkat i gather:

-plain cm11

-pacman

Any others? Any issues or clear advantages (say, battery life) for any of those?

Thanks!
[Verizon LG G2] Jessegiroux1:
I have a the verizon variant vs980 and it is stuck in a clockworkmod boot loop and it will not accept adb so i can not adb shell to enter the commands needed to get out of the boot loop, I have tried many diffrent drivers and nothing will work i dont know what to do anymore

This was caused by the OTA update that i accidentally hit install to and now im stuck. Any ideas? All help is appreciated.
[Verizon LG G2] mjones73:
You're gonna have to get ADB working...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2448960
[Verizon LG G2] simon_lefisch:
Can you not get into download mode and restore to KK using the kdz file?
[Verizon LG G2] Jojo85-83:
Not sure if it will help but I had to reinstall the complete Google Android SDK/ADB setup to get ADB to recognize my phone after taking the 24a OTA update. I tried a lot of different drivers including the universal ADB drivers and that was the only thing that worked for me.
[XDA Assist] rbees:
New to the forum. Got my first smart phone yesterday. A motorola droid mini. They put kitkat on it at the verison store. I have looked but have not been able to find a root solution. i do have a PIPO M9 tablet that I use a rileyrom on. Thanks Riley. I am also a long time Debian user but not a programmer. Does a root solution exist?

Not related to the rooting the mini but I don't seam to be able to transfer files to the phone via the usb cable. Debian Jessie (testing) mounts it as a camera device. I can look at the files and copy them off the phone but not to the phone. Any ideas. Bluetooth is borked in testing.

Thanks
[XDA Assist] Darth:
Hi! There's no known root for moto droid mini, x, maxx... Etc ....while on 4.4.2 and bootloader locked. And Verizon won't let them be unlocked. So you're kind of stuck at the moment.

That said, ask the guys in this thread if what's being discussed will work on your model. I believe so, but ask to be sure. It may or may not work for you

...but there's no other options. For now.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2751177

I'll look into your other questions in a moment. ;)

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Yeah, I'm going to need more details on the file transfer issue. What exactly you are trying to do? What error do you get?

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OK, searched around.... Debian questions are rare here. I found 2 threads that may help, or as fellow Linux users....maybe they can help if you ask there. Not specifically linked to your device....but i'm sure the issue really isn't device specific....more a Linux issue.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2580623

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1814660

Good luck!! Hopefully you can get it figured out. :)

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As far as getting an unlock code for bootloader......

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53022850

Read the thread. Might work for you and happy days will follow! ;)
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flex3269:
I love how minimalistic cm 11 is but I can't stand the simple boring interfaces like the phone app. Didn't know if anyone knew if any other Rome could possibly be ported to here that weren't cm 11 based.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dansou901:
Just wait for some time until developers are able to get the phone (invites will roll out next week on friday), so give it another month and there will be more ROMs here for sure. Just be patient!
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arctic Prodigy:
I am positive we are going to at least see a ColorOS version pop up, it by far is already a ROM we can flash only needs converted to English if it hasn't already.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stefanorickeets:
We should see custom ROM support when more people and developers finally get the device in hand.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxrobxx:
What is the best kernel for aokp thanks
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] Syed Affiex:
Just want to ask, everytime I press volume button on startup, it went dark and not responding.. I have to take out the battery to restart..

My device running:

:: unlocked bootloader

:: rooted

:: seraphic ROM season 2

:: intuisy kernel

Or can anyone redirect me to correct post??
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ErezHaluf:
Hello there, I'm new here..and new to Android.

My note 3 will not connect to the network, I spook with Tmobile for help and they told me to upgrade to the new KK and that should help me.

Well the thing is...It never helped. I rooted the note 3 in the past and I know that I lost my warranty on it.

Please help me, I don't have serves.

Thank you.:good::good:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misterjunky:
re: network

#1: Make sure your phone is NOT in "Airplane Mode"

#2: Make sure Wifi Calling is DISABLED

#3: Remove and re-install the Tmobile Sim card

#4: Goto Settings>More>Mobile Networks>Network Operators Search Now and

click "Select Automatically", it may take a minute or so for it to find the network.

Good luck!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MystaMagoo:
is it a tmobile phone?

could be simlock or regionlock?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antique_sonic:
What have you done before u lost the network ?

did you flash N9005 rom into your tmobile device ?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ErezHaluf:
So the phone is T mobile, I triad all of the above. Sorry about the lake of INFO, the rooted in the past the phone, and I did not like the ROM that I had on it so I unrooted the phone the original start( so it works ) and then the phone jut died on my. So i update the software, did factory resat, and root the phone from the beginning, but still the phone is not working.

The sim is new, I triad that on another phone, I still have my IMEI.

Can I put an old version on in it with Odin, after I put the new KK. the problem is the I did not backup the phone, so I don't have any thing on my PC..

Thank you so mach!
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] walkwitmeinhel:
Any mod or port of sysui with invisible power menu

Xperia Z1 ihacker V4.1
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fiso:
First of all what do you mean by invisible power button?

If you what to use the power button without pressing the power button use an xposed module called GravityBox

Under "Navigation keys actions" you can set actions like long pressing the back button brings up power menu etc.

yup owns Xperia Z1

Current Rom : CM11 with cwm as kernel

Bootloader: Unlocked

Also if I've helped you don't forget to hit THANKS - actions speak louder that words.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
what he means is the usage of part of the screen (more than likely the nav bar) to have a lock screen button on it, so you don't always have to use the power button to turn the phone off.

It can be done afaik, i'm looking to do it myself and you've just reminded me. :)
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] jonestechbyte:
I was just wondering if it is possible to port 4.4.2 from the galaxy pro 8.4 to our note 8
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] AMoosa:
Why?
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] Spidey01:
He probably wants the mutlitasking features or the launcher.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] Megamind08:
Yup. The Magazine UX is more beautiful than touchwiz

Sent from Death Note
[Motorola Atrix HD] Nevadadave:
I have been trying for hours to install a custom recovery in my AT&T Atrix HD (mb886) phone. Every time I go through the flashing process, no matter what recovery I try, and whether I use the stock SDK fastboot or one of alternatives, when I try to boot into recovery, I get an ominous error message about how my bootloader is unlocked, and Motorola and ATT will not honor the warranty, and so on. However - it then always boots into the normal startup. I did try holding down both volume buttons when I cycled the power button, and I briefly (about 5 seconds, maybe?) got what looked like a text-based recovery menu, but then the error message popped up again, and I'm back to ????? is going on.

Any help? I have read a number of article/forums online, but all assume that your recovery is working so you can install a custom ROM. I have done this on a couple of Android tablets in the past, so I know I'm not totally stupid, but I can't seem to get past the AT&T nanny.

How can I fix this?

Android 4.1.1

System 98.4.20.MB886.ATT.en.US