yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Unfortunately that isn't how it actually happens.. we wish it did, but it doesn't. As I said previously, 99% that are using it are already taking it as a "consumer release", most don't even know how to flash the .img files in fastboot and are just using a flashable zip.. not even doing it properly as it should be.
[Nexus 5 General] onesolo:
One question, can I dirty flash over 4.4.4 ??
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
You can, but it breaks things such as the lockscreen. I don't know what exactly breaks, but reading from the thread in General a bunch of things do. I recommend a proper clean flash.
[Nexus 5 General] simms22:
you can. but i would not until i would make a backup in recovery. and the same for you. if you dirty flash, and have issues, you can always restore the backup and flash again with a wipe :)

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:silly:
[Nexus 5 General] onesolo:
sure, I never flash a thing without first make a full backup...

I also forgot to ask, after I flash, does this wipe my sdcard??
[Nexus 5 General] simms22:
no, not if you dont wipe it. but i have read today of some people having issues of the phone seeing the storage. then they flashed back, and the storage was visable again.
[Nexus 5 General] Sonic Offline:
I'm assuming this method wipes the phone? Because I pulled a silly and forgot to copy the nandroid backup over (I realized this as the phone is booting up into Android L). :v

Still waiting for it to boot.

-[edit]-

That's exactly what it did. Eh, not the end of the world. I just would have preferred it didn't.
[Nexus 5 General] Holer Togni:
Yes, it does. So backup your whole internal sdcard to your computer (not just the nandroid) if you don't want to lose anything.

This is what I did and what preserves the sdcard's contents (at your own risk):

1. Boot into TWRP

2. Do a complete backup

3. Do a regular wipe (factory reset), the one that preserves the sdcard (/data/media) and that you do when switching ROMs

4. Boot into bootloader

5. Edit flash-all.sh/.bat of the L preview on your PC and remove the "-w" switch from the fastboot update command (this is what would overwrite your internal sdcard), then run it to flash the image.

6. Let it boot (takes 5 minutes) and play with it

7. Boot back into bootloader and flash TWRP

8. Boot into TWRP

9. Make a full backup to play with the L preview some other time

10. Restore previous backup and boot back into where you started from
[Nexus 5 General] Sonic Offline:
And of course it wouldn't be as simple as just flash the bootloader. It's refusing to keep it. I can flash TWRP but when I reboot it's rebooting into stock android recovery.
[Nexus 5 General] Simer03:
My only question cuz I'm planning on doing it the adb way, is do I really need to flash the boot loader? I heard it was the exact same but I was just skimming at work and may have read wrong

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Sonic Offline:
It wipes your custom bootloader and replaces it with stock.
[Nexus 5 General] 26.2man:
Did everything as you instructed except the radio part.Why do I need to reinstall a radio. All I get is the android with a red triangle on its chest. Any suggestions/
[Nexus 5 General] Sonic Offline:
Try following every step instead of what you consider needed.
[Nexus 5 General] 26.2man:
I did everything word for word a second time and no luck
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Make a nandroid backup

Move your entire internal storage off your phone

flash-all.bat
[Nexus 5 General] simms22:
nobody here uses a custom bootloader. we run a nexus. we use fastboot oem unlock to freely unlock our stock bootloaders. 1 respect point lost :p
[Nexus 5 General] Dark_Eyes_:
How about I wipe all but sdcard in recovery and go straight to fastboot update image-hammerhead-lpv79.zip (without the -w)

I can live with the 4.4.4 radio for now and the bootloader is the same, right? So no point in flashing it?
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Well we've changed the boot logo image.. Bootloader flash restores it.. Custom bootloader? :p

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Keeping anything at all may result in things being broken. Its a whole new version jump, not something small like 4.4.3 to 4.4.4.
[Nexus 5 General] Dark_Eyes_:
Thanks man, I better do the full backup to PC then. I was just being lazy. I still don't see the point to flash the bootloader has it's already HHZ11K. I don't like messing with the bootloader as it's how you end up bricking your phone...

P.S. The boot.img has nothing to do with the bootloader !
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
boot.img is the kernel. I said boot image as in this, not boot.img :p
[Nexus 5 General] Dark_Eyes_:
Yes, I know that.

My question is this : is there anything I'm missing in the fastboot bootloader command as, the way I see it, it's gonna write the exact same bootloader over the one that I already have? Plus there's an off chance of something going wrong and bricking my phone in the process ?
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Edited my previous post.

Just don't unplug your phone halfway lol.. it'll be fine if you don't do that. Just use flash-all.bat after you backup your stuff off your phone.
[Nexus 5 General] Dark_Eyes_:
Haha, I read your post again (after you had edited it without me knowing) and I thought, **** I really didn't get what he said about the boot image vs boot.img when I read it the first time. I'm happy to see I'm not ''that'' crazy ;)

I know there's no big chances of anything going wrong except power outage or unplugging the phone during the second that it's flashing, but I've had the phone for just 2 weeks so I'd hate bricking it. Hell I'd hate bricking it anytime, but it's seems even worse bricking it now after suck a short ''playing'' period.

Thanks anyway for your help. Much appreciated!
[Nexus 5 General] ps000000:
Oh Success!!

( If you have some experience with ADB it would be easy. )

Thank you :silly:
[Nexus 5 General] simms22:
nope. its the same old bootloader. its the files in it we learned to change, to change the google image and padlock image. but, still same 'ole bootloader. thats the same as changing the boot animation on a stock rom, then saying its a custom rom because its using a new boot animation :silly:
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Well people change one thing in a stock ROM then add Xposed on top and call it a custom ROM.. lol :silly:
[Nexus 5 General] lllsondowlll:
Personally I used Multirom but this works too. Thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] Simer03:
dude you should put this in a separate thread cuz its the easiest way out there lol
[Nexus 5 General] jetbruceli:
All I did was use the toolkit and place the image in the folder for images. Everything went well and while installing I was watching the USA vs Germany game
[Nexus 5 General] Sonic Offline:
The whole time I kept reading recovery, despite typing bootloader.

Apologies.
[Nexus 5 General] onesolo:
I'm also this issue... tried to flash philz recovery but after I flash it it goes back to stock recovery!!! Anyone?!?
[Nexus 5 General] Sonic Offline:
Doing it manually made it stick.
[Nexus 5 General] onesolo:
I flashed twrp via rootkit then flashed philz. Now it stays
[Nexus 5 General] krash69:
failed

I tried and got

failed to allocate 699970328 bytes

error : update package missing system.img
[Nexus 5 General] DARTHVAPOR:
I have multirom, and in that thread is a flashable zip for Android L. I flashed L as a secondary rom along with SuperSU and all is well.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 5 General] iLilDark:
i know this is nexus 5 threads but is there any way to install it on Sony Z Ultra?
[Nexus 5 General] desechten:
Has anyone of tried switching between a twrp backup of L and 4.4.4? Because it didn't work for me at all. Once you restore a backup of L Android loses the ability to access data on the sdcard, even though it's accessible through twrp. I've spent countless hours trying to get this to work.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blackvibes:
Hey guys,

This is once again one out of thousand of the same questions, however, since this is regarding an official installation of Android, that requires the boot loader to be unlocked, this might be a different case.. :)

So let's keep it short: Does unlocking the boot loader and installing Android L voids warranty or not? And if not: How is it reversible so the unlock will be hidden?

Thanks guys. :)

p.s. Does this belong in the Q&A section or here, since it's both a question and a developer thingy..?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hitorijanae:
It doesn't void the warranty. Just reboot into the boot loader and type fastboot oem_lock from your computer to reverse it. By the way, yes it does belong in q and a
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ankush menat:
It does void warranty as you need to unlock your bootloader (Also wipes all data). However as mentioned above you can claim warranty after locking bootloader again.

UPDATE: As you live in EU, you can claim warranty even with unlocked BL, root tada tada. ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blackvibes:
Hey guys,

This is once again one out of thousand of the same questions, however, since this is regarding an official installation of Android, that requires the boot loader to be unlocked, this might be a different case.. :)

So let's keep it short: Does unlocking the boot loader and installing Android L voids warranty or not? And if not: How is it reversible so the unlock will be hidden?

Thanks guys. :)

p.s. Does this belong in the Dev section or here, since it's both a question and a developer thingy..?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russell5:
You can always flash KK again and relock the boot loader. Done it a million times. If your trying to install L release on a non 2013 nexus or nexus 5 then that might be a different story.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bendyone:
I now have the Vodafone 1605 up and working. Loaded Tomtom OK but cant get it to talk to the GPS. The GPs will try to pair but as a design dose not have a pass code the 1605 asks for a code and will not go any further. Is there a way around this.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] frustin:
put in 0000, if it comes back with an error hit next anyway.

what is the GPS device? get it off ebay? give us a link.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Moskus:
Or try "1234" instead of "0000".
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bendyone:
gps

Its a cpit 27, tried 0000 and 000000 but wont work.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] nks:
hi

have you set up the port to allow the gps device access to your tytn/tomtom i had this issue 2 days ago with mine but as soon as ports were set up all was ok

also set port for use with gps in connections/gps on tytn

regards

nic
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bendyone:
tomtom

Ihave now set the gps to com9, the gps viewer finds it ok and desplays but with tomtom it will only give me coms6, 7 to choose from. How do i set tommtom to look for the gps on com9?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Haris Salam:
I have converted my moto g to gpe will i get the ota future update like 4.4.4? Please help me
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KingUsman:
Yes you will
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paget96:
I have a problem on my Ace plus.

I'm running Inspitation rom V17.3 based on gingerbread 2.3.6.

when I try to sing in or log in(connect with facebook) on games and other apps.

it gives me an error "could not login with facebook, try again"

what to do?

some aplication in system is missing? I don't know,please help.

Thanks a lot.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jljaries42@gmail.com:
Stuck at boot animation.

I was trying to get the settings.apk working again.

Rebooted a few times. No problems.

I think restoring the wrong app and data with Titanium may have done it.

Anything new on debricking? - I'm passed the point of normal returns at Amzn.

Thanks
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rp201:
can you still connect via adb?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retroben:
If it does still connect with ADB,then we need a new topic for when de-bricking hopefully becomes a possibility.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jljaries42@gmail.com:
No ADB. No ping.

My USB flash drive does blink a few times tho.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rp201:
When installing xposed module for xbmc launcher, I did not load xbmc.apk Therefore system was stuck.(tried launching an app that did not exist) I thought bricked. after unplugging and plugging in a few times I was able to connect via adb which I achieved bye

adb kill-server

adb start-server

adb connect IP

on every unplug/plug in reboot.

I eventually got in and uninstalled the launcher. sometimes it would hang on the amazon screen and reboot. sometimes it showed the launcher and how it could not find and png file. was behaving differently which I thought strange. hope this helps.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jljaries42@gmail.com:
I'm trying this now.

I wonder if a soft boot will work the same.

I plugged in a USB keyboard and found that Ctrl-Alt-Del does a soft boot.

Thanks
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jljaries42@gmail.com:
If only there was a button or key-combo to reset or go into recovery.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] millsy1973:
i am having this very issue, tried to uninstall the xbmclauncher.apk but i keep getting 'Failed' . i have also tried installing the xbmc.apk again but thats not working either. i fear i may have a brick :(. all i am getting onscreen is the 'Activity org.xbmc.xbmc/blah,blah.splash not found. i am able to connect with adb and get adb shell and su, im baffled and worried, any help would be greatly received, thanks
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roustabout:
Since you can get in and have root once you're in, you have lots of options.

Try an adb install of xbmc and the launcher you'd tried to install, for starters.

You can also push the update into /cache and then force an update - take a look at fire general for the how to force an install thread. That will cure Xposed issues by refreshing the framework files that Xposed changes.

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A quick note on the suggestion I made a while back: Once the firmware update became available, I tried putting it (as update.zip and as bueller-ota-51.1.1.0_user_511069920-signed.bin) both at the root of the scard directory and as the only file on a fat32 foratted thumb drive, and doing

adb reboot recovery (yes, each of the four possible permutations.)

All to no avail. Conclusion: It's pretty easy to brick this device. And not easy to fix it yet.

I'm rooting for my dvd player to get Prime, at which point I'm much less dependent on the fire, as it supports smb and netflix already, not to mention a service I'm really enjoying the digital concert hall from the Berlin Philharmonic.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] realtuxen:
..sorry I missread you. :)
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mejdam:
I did the exact same thing, i did a titanium backup of setting from my madcatz mojo that i was going to apply on the FTV. Mojo now supports Ouya Everywhere and i was going on restore that on the FTV and see if i can play ouya games on my fire tv. Now i have to wait for my new unit to arrive on tuesday :)

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Okay so i connected a Male to Male Usb 2.0 cable to the FTV with it was unplugged. Plugged the power cord and now i get fastboot to work. anything i can do to fix my FTV?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jljaries42@gmail.com:
Recovery MODE might help

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2799779
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diceman725:
I'm sure its out there somewhere but ive not found it yet. I'm looking for a stock AT&T software executable to try and load on an locked bootloader device. Doesnt have to be the latest version - i just need to reblast a phone. Anyone point me to it?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] technologiq:
Here you go:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2757462
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diceman725:
Brilliant. Thank you!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] havey:
Hi I am looking for an app that will put the tablet to sleep at the same time every day - just cant find one... anyone know of such an app?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marioDOTmpeg:
I use Sony's Smart Connect app and an app called Turn Off Screen Plus.

(if you decide to download and use these)

open Smart Connect:

- tap the + in top right corner for a new event

Step 1

- select the time - when to repeat

Step 2

- add start action

- choose "Start Application"

- select Turn Off

Step 3

- name the event and finish
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StaticBlaze:
You can even try Tasker (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm)

You can go with Smart Connect as suggested by [MENTION=5761137]marioDOTmpeg[/MENTION] if you'd like to save a few bucks. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marioDOTmpeg:
Also, in the description of Tasker in the Play Store is a trial thru their website.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StaticBlaze:
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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killer2900:
Hey xda guys!

So basically my cousin just bought a SM-N9005 yesterday and today i rooted it. But after the phone was rooted it just suddenly hangs up after a minute or so! tried to unroot it using supersu and doing a soft reset but that didn't seem to work :/

You guys got any suggestions?

¨

Btw its running Kitkat 4.4.2 XXEUND5 and we're located in denmark :)
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ali_fattahi:
hello dear friends

I'v a tab 2 p3100 , these days their battry drains suddenly and recharge again to 100% and again drain to 1% and show battery alert and again increase to 100% !!

here is the graph of battry

View attachment 2819285

there are any solution to solve it ?

Best regards

Ali
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
Android 5.0 Lollipop Developer Preview Help, Troubleshooting, Q&A

**Questions, Help, and Troubleshooting regarding the 5.0 Lollipop Developer Preview**

If you find a bug report it to Google: https://code.google.com/p/android-developer-preview/issues/list​

Rules of this thread:

To keep confusion to a minimum, we are asking members to limit their questions regarding 5.0 Lollipop to this thread only. All other threads will be locked.

Any and all off-topic discussion will not be tolerated.

Please follow the XDA Forum Rules. Search the thread before posting, be kind to one another, etc.

If you see a post that is violating Forum Rules, please use the report post tool and move along. There is no need to get involved.

For general comments or discussion about the L Developer Preview, use this thread: Android 5.0 Lollipop Developer Preview Discussion

Please view [MENTION=3052425]Hannibal226[/MENTION] post below for many answers you may have.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LovecraftCE:
The preview was working fine, but after that I restarted the device, it crashes after 10 seconds back into the boot animation. It does so infinitely, just keeps playing the boot animation, starting, and then crashing again. Any ideas on how to fix?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Come on, it's a preview version. Re-flash it or better yet flash 4.4.4 and wait until it's a real release. It's for developers not the general population.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LovecraftCE:
Hey, thanks for the advice. You or anyone else viewing this thread may be interested to know that the issue did not occur in safe mode, and I've been able to nail down that the problem is caused by Lightflow. After uninstalling that app, the loop has ceased.

If anyone else has my above issue, try picking off apps that may not be compatible with L yet.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Going to put this out there - this is a developer preview, NOT a consumer release. If you don't know how to flash it with fastboot, then honestly it isn't for someone like you.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pyrogoggles:
So... is SuperSU working? Or any root method?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4512jth:
Has anyone had the issue where the SD Card is unreadable by any app, including Google ones?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RootTheMachine:
It's being talked about in some of the threads in the Development section. It works, but also requires a boot.img flash. I don't think it's available yet though.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vHidden:
:^ )

Does anyone's android look like this?

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edit: Looks like the English (CA) is distorted for now.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lllsondowlll:
VOIP Settings

Internet call settings apparently are not working for me. I attempted to add in Callcentric information in the internet call settings and I am not getting a ring from the server. Is this working for anyone else?

T-Mobile
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wotandsdwys:
I'm not able to flash back to 4.4 now it seems. It worked fine to flash L of course, but now all of a sudden fastboot commands seem to not work for me. Adb is fine but won't recognize fastboot
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jblazea50:
I can't seem to send or receive MMS for T-Mobile.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Flash the entire 4.4.4 factory image in fastboot
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wotandsdwys:
That is what I have, but even using the flash-all.bat still has same results. Fastboot not recognised.

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Rebooted computer to try again
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] totalnub911:
I can't read into folders on my SD card when using the preview as a secondary rom on multi ROM. The folders are there but nothing appears to be inside. This was first noticed in the photos app, then in camera, finally in es file explorer.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jawz101:
What kernel version is on L?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
L
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Infamous_:
Can send MMS on data but only when WiFi is off T-Mobile
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinninbsod:
is there a root method and if not is it okay to downgrade to 4.4.4
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeypaws:
No.....probably not unless a Dev works on it or google updates it or maybe updates something server side.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1ManWolfePack:
People are reporting Chomp SMS and Hello SMS are working as an MMS workaround.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeypaws:
Maybe it's a specific seeing. Tried chomp and and worked. MMS failed.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcnob:
I flashed every file of "L" Factory Image via Fastboot (even Userdata) and ended up with about half the storage I should have had on a 32Gb N5. I've since flashed 4.4.4 back using the thorough Fastboot method again and I've still only got half the storage I should have...

Bemused.............:eek:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Wipe cache and factory reset in the stock recovery
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcnob:
Star.........thanks. :good:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ljunkan:
Swish

Does any one get swish to work?

I does not work for me.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SkuzeeII:
Anybody know if we should expect OTA updates from Google on L or if this image is as-is and won't change?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
What's you guess? It's as good as anyone's here
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wakamatsu:
UsIng the NuPlayer option in Developer Options results in the camera freezing when a picture is taken. I think it's worthwhile to mention as something to look out for when troubleshooting. This may have been mentioned in this thread but I didn't see it in the roll-up on page 1.

Edit - Copied/pasted above to the google doc linked in post #2.