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[HTC One E8] meet_91:
Ambiguity- HTC one E8 vs Moto X vs Nexus 5

Hey Guys,

I want to buy a phone and am confused between HTC E8 and Nexus 5 and Moto X. Price wise Moto X is similar to HTC E8, however nexus 5 i can get at around 5k lower price than the other two.

I am greatly fascinated by HTC one E8 features and want to buy the phone. Most of my friends who use this says that HTC doesn't upgrade the OS and the best you can have with E8 is Android L. However for google supported phones such issue will not arise. Can you guys help me with your experience with HTC phones and how important is the OS upgrade.
[HTC One E8] crystal_ball:
Wow, you're lucky! Moto X is not available where I live, and the Nexus 5 costs as much as the E8...

All of the devices you mention will run any apps just fine, so the difference lies in the UI. Do you prefer Android L to Sense? If you do, get the X or N5. I like Sense a lot and even think it looks better than L in some regards. My experience with this phone has been quite pleasant, apart from the sound...

I think E8 is similar enough to M8, so maybe it'll get the same treatment as M8 regarding OTA updates. That said, I've only received one OTA update, and haven't got the Eye Experience OTA yet. Someone from my country has ported some ROMs from the M8 to E8, but hasn't released them. I hope that we'll get ported ROMs soon. I won't use them anyway, but other users may benefit from them.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] phonic:
Hey everyone.

I'm running into a really annoying issue. I picked up the T-Mobile GS5 a couple weeks ago and rooted it shortly thereafter. That is the only mod I've done, but it obviously blocks OTA updates.

With the new (NE6) update stable, I want to upgrade, so am trying to use Kies. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work. Everytime I try, I get the "new firmware available" alert, but when I attempt to proceed, Kies just freezes. I've tried not using the auto-update and selecting "Firmware Upgrade" manually, but no difference.

I was originally trying on an XP virtual machine (VMWare Workstation under Linux), and thought maybe that was the issue so tried under a Windows 7 VM. Same issue. So I tried the Mac version of Kies on my MBP. This time, I got to the screen where you need to check off that you agree to the update terms, but when it begins to download, Kies loses connection to the phone and it eventually errors out. So I tried a Win7 bootcamp attempt, but same general Windows failure. So I tried a baremetal (on PC hardware) Windows 7 attempt, and I'm sitting here at a slightly grayed out Kies screen that is unresponsive. In each method above, I tried numerous times with reboots of the computer and phone.

I searched, but couldn't find any similar issues. Based on the number of attempts on different computer scenarios, I have to believe it's an issue with my phone, but outside of this it works great. I've tried disabling developer mode, rebooting numerous times (phone and computer), etc. etc.

Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? I consider myself fairly adept at Android and have a lot of custom experience with Nexus devices, but am not super familiar with the intricacies of Samsung products.

I used the Odin root method, and see there are firmware packages to upgrade that way, but believe it would factory reset my device - correct?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] phonic:
I read that sometimes having an external SD card can cause issues. Just tried removing that since I did have one installed. No difference. :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] koolboyztn:
try right click and run it as administrator with Kies see it work or not, also download the NE6 firmware files from sammobile and use odin to flash it, it wont factory reset yr phone, only thing u will lose is root but it can re-root with same step u did before.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] phonic:
Thanks, I did try that too but no difference. For some reason, my phone seems to be incompatible with Kies.

After a lot of frustration, last night I did manually upgrade using Odin and the firmware files in the stock zip thread over in the dev section here. Initially, I only did the 'firmware' upgrade, since it seemed that the 'full' package would wipe the device (based on the comments in that thread), but that actually caused a lot of issues (fingerprint reader stopped working, etc.). So I was forced to use the full one, and it worked without wiping my device, which I'm quite happy about.

I did lose root, but for now I'm good. I mainly wanted it to restore from TiBu, but haven't needed root since, so I'll leave it stock and try the next OTA update.

I'm just more concerned about why Kies failed on 5 different machines (virtual or physical).
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[Samsung Galaxy Gear] tooandrew:
despite having a galaxy s3 running touchwiz, i cant install apps through gear manager. it seems like no one knows any solution... so i'm more or less resigned to that, but can anyone upload the quickdice and radiON for galaxy gear apk's for me?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
Pretty sure I have them in my downloads. Check the link in my sig. If not, I'll upload them
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] tooandrew:
they were there. thanks
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] cargobr151:
I have created here a cool mod for our N5,

with this you can set the processor clock (with Stock Rom KTU84P or KTU84M).​

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Odex and deodex version online.

A huge thanks goes to Pandemic (HowTo) and ZN6 (because of the required apk's).

With both consent, I have created a version for our Nexus 5 with 4.4.3 and 4.4.4 Stock Rom.

Odex and deodexed versions.

With this mod, it is possible to adjust the CPU clock and view the CPU statistics.

Without custom kernel!

Don't forget, credits goes to Pandemic and ZN6, for their work.​
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] rich2007:
Can I flash this on Latest Purity ROM?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] raviraaj:
How can I uninstnall this?

How can I uninstnall this?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Elclubber:
Just tried this out, works perfectly! however for some reason it appears to have broke the reboot menu mod you created, any ideas?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] cargobr151:
You can make a backup and test it...

download here back to stock, deodex

This mod cannot delete or break the Reboot Mod. :)
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Elclubber:
Oh Hahaha, must be something I've done, cheers mate and keep up the great work!
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] FindingSolace:
Confirmed working on latest Purity. This is sweet I like having options in the settings menu as opposed to a whole seperate app to do this.

Shot from my Purified Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] rich2007:
Its work, but you will loose the custom setting for the rom
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jujusito:
Amazing battery life, awesome :good:
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Bumchakalaka:
Return to stock odexed?

Add the links on the first post bro.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] cargobr151:
New version for KTU84P added.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] raksan:
Thank OP, it even works on my Galaxy S4's GPE Deodexed KTU84P build. I really don't like the CPU setting app on my launcher, but I like it here a lot.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jetbruceli:
This works great!
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] TSDE73:
Hello Marco,

I really like this mod but I would like to change the text and background color. It should fit to the normal "black" background of android, can you tell me where to change which values in which file? I would give it a try :cyclops:

Best regards and thank you very much in advance

Thorsten
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Jijonhyuni:
1. Download file(use chromium-browser)

http://www.4shared.com/zip/2imH7eEgce/SM-V700_tizen_to_android.html?

2. uncompression SM-V700_tizen_to_android.zip

3. excute Odin

4. flash 1_dn_android.tar

View attachment 2786168

5. reboot to recovery(Power button press 10sec > press power button 10times > recovery)

6. wait

7. The following message is displayed,

View attachment 2786178

8. flash 2_recovery.img.tar

View attachment 2786169

9. reboot to recovery(Power button press 10sec > press power button 10times > recovery)

10. boot done
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] GuestK00338:
Nice

Nice, is the touchscreen working?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Jijonhyuni:
yes :laugh:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] GuestK00338:
Sweet! nice to know it is possible to go back,

Thank you for your effort! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Samuel Sung:
Hero of the week! Great work.

Gesendet von meinem SM-N9005 mit Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Jaybenosa:
We should get this stickied! Thanks for doing all the hard work!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] TH3-JUL10:
AWESOME!!! Thnks, hero of the year!!! :D
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] trk9:
I must have done something wrong because my touchscreen is not working. I'll try again tomorrow and post the results.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Bladder61:
Thanks for the hard work. I've been holding off on trying Tizen as I wanted a way to come back to Android if not happy.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] NakedFaerie:
Been patiently waiting for a downgrader as the last one didn't work. Glad to see someone got it working. :)

Hopefully touch works with this one.

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I did exact as it says and touch didn't work.

After flashing a 2nd time and NOT going to recovery menu and letting it reboot both times i did get touch working.

THANKS :)

So yes this IS a working downgrader. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] rm001:
It works. I flashed 3 times, until touch worked. Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] trk9:
I reflashed but every time I tried to get to recovery it would go in to an infinite reboot sequence. Finally flashed TWRP and it booted in to recovery, now it works. So the key is to flash again if touch doesn't work the first time.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] alex19990:
For flash the .tar file I must be in download mode, right?

Thanks for your big job

I'm sorry for my bad english, I'm Italian ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Razor29:
I wonder how hard it would be of at all possible to alter the original android gc1 rom to support the gc2 hardware and using the downgrade to clone such a proccess to install android instead of tizen... in term of hardware they are more then close.. and both run on linux kernel at base level, but my knowledge of the intricate details of such a task are limited so I am not even sure how possible my technically lacking thought are in practice... or if it is, a near impossibility/very hard/or close to easy..?!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] willcor:
hi ,

i wanted to see for myself if i could flashback .( Tizen to Android).??

Followed OP post, Jijonhyuni (exactly as set out in his instructions .in post #1)

No problem .!

touch working etc ..

Thank you Jijonhyuni ( for alternatives o/s choices !)

Post note

... about Tizen experience..?

Samsung wants you to upgrade/bully you to Tizen ?

but overall no alternative apps ( very, very limited ) ,o/s is smooth ,battery ..ok.

So to me untill they start providing worthwile apps etc ,

i will in the meantime enjoy the Android experience and sideload all my favourite apps !!

Only when i start reading in these forums positves (!! )

i will flash back to Tizen

Good luck to all.

further post note..

Landed back on MK7( ?).. and flashed back to latest Android... NC1

Good to hear my "Caynax hourly time "

(voice time app )announcing time for me without me looking at watch..

Played around and set Watchstyler watchface. etc

One diffs i notice again..is that the Android quality of watchfaces overall ,

seems to be so much clear /better than Tizens ?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] crutzulee:
While I don't currently have any intention of using this (I'm loving tizen), it's is great to know this exists as a safety net for those holding off on trying the other OS...

Thanks for your hard work and congratulations on cracking this nut!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] socheat:
Thanks, I will try :D
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] gadjet:
Many thanks for all your hard work, got my gear the way I like it, and with the ability to use watch styler my favourite app, with all the great themes posted on xda.

When tizen is a little more established I might swap again.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] BarryH_GEG:
Feel free to stay on Android forever. When Samsung moved to Tizen for the Gear 2's they could have left the GG1 on Android with no future updates. And if abandoned, existing third party apps would eventually die from neglect and no new one's would ever be written. There's hope for the latter with the move to Tizen. I thought for sure GG1 owners would be screwed when it was confirmed the Gear 2's were Tizen. In all my time following Samsung this is the first where they actually gave a crap about owners of earlier devices when they (Samsung) shifted strategy. They deserve applause for what they did with the GG1, not *****ing. If people are pissed about the strategic decision to move to Tizen that's very different from Samsung ensuring that their wearables early adopters (us) weren't thrown under the bus.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] socheat:
Finally I can get back to android now, thanksss.

I have one problem, my windows explorer not show my gear drive, anyone have same issue?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] BLK♤Ninja:
Now Odin android cmw recovery
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] kantapon.tee:
how to use CMW mode.?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mlips821:
was going to attempt the downgrade process some point later today. Does this work?? I know the whole flash at your own risk, etc. etc.

but, this method is tried and true??

BTW, think it is possible to flash straight kit kat NC5 modules to the gear?

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[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mlips821:
well I think I am going to go for it. keep all posted.................

Forgot to ask, once I downgrade, I can install Null Rom 23 ( for example ) and be able to pair with Rooted

s4 sch-i545 running Hyperdrive rls 21 on Build NC5 ?????

shouldn't have problem cause it is the Gear manager that is doing the pairing correct???

even with the downgrade????

Thanks in advance,
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] jfk259:
merci beaucoup exellent :good::good::good::good::good::good:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mlips821:
everyone who is in this thread and without a doubt the creator of this thread i WANT TO THANK FOR ALL OF THEIR HELP because as of 7pm eastern time I HAVE SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mlips821:
just downgraded from Tizen back to android, but been having a huge problem with wondershare being able to recognize gear on windows 10, anyone have any ideas???? so I can get any rom onto my device??
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] BLK♤Ninja:
You dont need wondershare

Adb the file over via terminal
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] missfitlove:
DEAd solution awsm....

u guys work fabulous:D:cyclops:.......
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mlips821:
when I connect gear to computer through adb, it says "recovery" when it should say "device".

Gear already has null twrp recovery installed, but device is being recognized as recovery. Is this making sense

what I'm saying? using windows 10. any help is appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] abhijith anandh:
where did i find these all things?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] raj.y750:
After downgrade from tizen to android my samsung gear is stuck on samsung logo after booting and not doing any thing, and even not going to recovery mode, Please help
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] missfitlove:
Guys.. Help me... 1 week ago.. I try to start my gear v700.. But it won't be start.. I think its discharge and then i pluged to charging its start and show 100% charge.. I was shocked on that time then i unpluged its turn off... Then i try to start it million time but ut won't be start... Again plug-in charging start not showing any bettry log its just start and show 100% and i plug to my pc. Its can't be recognized and i try to flash in download mod and connect to my pc its shown unrecognized device... It is very tuff to take gear in download mod when plug your charger

... Help me developer
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] hamizal:
same with me. now my gear stuck at samsung logo..izzit bootlopp or what?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Junkie696:
Anyone who has a working download Link for the SM-V700_tizen_to_android.zip File ???

Thx !
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] eSUBA94:
SM-V700_tizen_to_android.zip File

https mega . nz/#!l5oCjazB!DDDh79pFaDEf2vFL_dI2qEMOD2jUKSP-UhnHATPVVFs
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Junkie696:
Briliant, thanx !!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] cybershawngates:
i can't seem to enter download mode despite following all the steps on my original gear 1 running tizen. I get the menu showing recovery reboot download and select download and hold power but the watch just reboots and never enters download mode

EDIT: main thing I want to be able to do is transfer photos off of the phone while no longer having an android phone (I have an android tablet) - does anyone have a modified gear manager app?

Any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] desdelaayuda:
Thanks

Enviado desde mi SM-G925F mediante Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] pw1nce:
my touch screen stopped working after this , please help ? it boots but touch wont work even in recovery

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did you find any fix? same issue here
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] eSUBA94:
I had the same problem. I gave galaxygear to the service of reason - not function display and service exchanged motherboard. Motherboard have android factory ROM :) afterthat I root my galaxy gear.

Wysłane z mojego SM-N915FY przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Rated RR:
It's been awhile since this post, though. But - once more thanks for this clarification. This definitely works. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Protocron:
I am also having this issue. Adb recognizes the Gear as Recovery instead of Device. I have not tested if I am still able to sideload apps. I do not have any custom recovery/Rom installed.

Edit 1: I am still able to sideload apps. I am not sure if this altered recognition will cause any issues in the future, but for now, everything seems to be working correctly.

Edit2: Wondershare MobileGo cannot detect the Gear. It starts trying to connect for a moment (again saying something about recovery) and immediately fails. Kies3 and Odin detect the Gear with no problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] linkkoriri:
I am trying to do this backdate from Tizen to Android, and every time I try it freezes at NAND Write. And then the watch goes into Firmware Upgrade Encountered an issue. (Another download mode really). The only thing I can seem to get this watch to ever do is flash back to Tizen. I try other android firmwares, it either freezes or crashes Odin (Depending on Odin version) as soon as it gets to recovery.img. I'm at a loss, and dont know where to go at this point. I'm about to give up on this poor watch.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] SUDroid:
Have you tried using Kies to restore the firmware back to tizen?

Then compare the steps in this post with the pictures in OP in order to convert tizen to android.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59745000&postcount=163
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] ryanhoetger:
When I did this, I never got the firmware error, instead just a bootloop, but after flashing the recovery, everything worked great.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] PreVayl:
I know this may be an old post but i am struggling

This the first time i did the steps and the only mistake i made was not putting it into recovery one last time before i rebooted it. so i then put backinto recovery to do the initial setup thing.

but when it started up the touch screen wasnt working like many have said before.

I would reflash but now when i go into download mode Odin wont go past "setup connection"

i tried using the same PIT again, but nothing seems to get Odin to communicate. it shows that its connected, but download mode is not doing anything,

is there a way to force odin to reflash or something.

i tried recovery mode 5 times and the touchscreen still isnt working.

I also was going to try twrp but i cant get anything to work on odin

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Also is there a PIT file for TWRP. I am trying to put twrp on my GG1 instead of the regular recovery thats on the OP. cuz that recovery only has 3 options; continue, download, recovery.

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NEVERMIND I HAD THE BEST RANDOM MOMENT OF DUMB LUCK I TELL YOU.

So I am still somewhat of a noob when it comes to flashing mobile devices, but I am a nerd.

I after my last post i decided to checkbox the "NAND ERASE ALL"

made sure the PIT file was loaded and the TAR

also Check-boxed the Auto reboot and re-partition

ODin worked its magic and left me with an infinite boot loop (which is ok because i erased all)

then i went back into download mode

and reinstalled the recovery flash.

Im assuming there would have been a chance that my screen would not work again,

but i was glad that the "NAND Erase all" allowed me to constantly redo this entire process if i needed to.

luckly for me tho i only needed to use the "NAND erase all" once.

also note. with this method once you install the last step recovery it may not reboot your Gear but as long as Odin says "pass" go ahead and disconnect it and reboot into recovery to finalize the installation.

if anyone has questions, message me on instagram [MENTION=2811967]PreVayl[/MENTION]

THanks for this post.

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I was wondering why there is no debugging option on this?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] evy_bcn:
Hello!

4shared link is only for people with subscription?

you have some free link?

Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] anirrudh:
Is this compatible with tizen z3

Hello, I want to install android on samsung tizen z3, will this work efficiently on sm-z300h
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] adatte:
I spend the same. tizen to upgrade to the microphone no longer works. return to android but still does not work. any solution?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] eresen:
Tizen Downgrade

I could not download the SM-V700_tizen_to_android.zip

Could someone attach it here.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] benniche farid:
thank uuu this work perfevtly :D
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] p605sve:
Any solutions about non working touchescreen?

Hi, i know this is old thread but i need to solve that screen problem! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Samwise1985:
Apologies for Necroing this thread, but you just saved me nearly 3 years later

I found my old galaxy gear that had been left at my parents house when i moved out a couple of years back, and managed to brick it while trying to upgrade it to Tizen, after following the instructions its all back in working order!

Although it all seems fine after the initial steps i didnt get the screen from section 7 and didn't need to run the flash 2_recovery.img.tar , it came back on and everything is working after trying to reboot into recovery mode to begin the flash recovery, only thing thats nackered is the pedometer but thinking of it that was broken out the box if i remember right

Thanks dude:good::good::good::good::good::good::good:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] ABotelho23:
The 4shared link is really awful. Can anybody upload the zip to a Google Drive or something? Thanks :)
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] ABotelho23:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7oPC5i99NAZMEVmT0I5S0NzQ2M

Link for anybody who doesn't want to go through 4shared!

Anybody figure out the touchscreen issue?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] nabil01717:
My device is in bootloop. Can't go to either download mode, nor recovery mode. Any solution?