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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] darthmalus:
how would i go about changing the data icon to 3G, H,H+,LTE on the S5 on my S4 i changed some settings in the buildprop and it worked, tried the same in my S5 and nadda.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Goldie:
I know a lot of people were disappointed that Samsung removed lockscreen widgets on the S5. They are not gone...just hidden...so I brought em back for Alliance and thought i would share here as I know this bothered lots of people! :D

Basically I found a field called ispreviouslook. Changing this to 0x1 enabled them but there was an annoying flicker on unlock. So I went through and replaced the calls to it one or two at a time until I got it working without the flicker.

Thanks to [MENTION=4395895]BeansTown106[/MENTION] and [MENTION=3512588]txr33[/MENTION] who then gave me the heads up on where to enable all widgets and the max number.

Finally I enabled them on secure lockscreen too for good measure.

The guide would be very laborious because there are quite a few replacements. Effectively it is just forcing ispreviouslook to true in places its needed and issecure to false. I have included the unmodded and modded files so devs can compare them and make the necessary changes in Keyguard.apk

If you use this mod please credit Team Alliance. Thanks

Have fun :)
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Goldie:
Screenshot.....
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] txr33:
Nice goldie

Galaxy S5 AllianceROM
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] liamstears:
Any chance of getting the modded apk so I can just swap it? Running your latest v4 rom and loving it!
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] bajasur:
Great work Goldie! Another awesome mod :thumbup:
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Borfas:
The change wget to be transparent, place it in the center, date time and weather add now. :p:good:
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Borfas:
an idea of ​​mine, is the problem?

I do not understand what the word, huh? or a moderator uses coded words?
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] scumpicule:
hello

tks Goldie

This is a flashable zip?
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] txr33:
we can not understand what you are saying in your post. It makes no sense

no it is not a flashable zip. it is the files showing what changes need to be made to enable them

Galaxy S5 AllianceROM
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Borfas:
because they do not want you to understand, my idea was: wget's be transparent, your wget on lockscreen in beautiful, I wanted to be and clock...

is hard to understand? I apologize if you do not understand, that was my idea, sorry for my bad english.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Goldie:
With this you can put any widget on your lockscreen. So clock or anything else
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Borfas:
with that zip can change any lock screen wget in the s5? if we talk about the same thing. if so it would be great.

I put to test, see what happens :)
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Goldie:
Yes but not with this zip. This is just to show what changes to make to enable them
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] liamstears:
I added the modded smali to my keyguard.apk but I cant add widgets, have I done something wrong or just missed how to add widgets?
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Goldie:
Touch the clock. Pull it down...swipe left and press the plus.

Edit....

Ahhh....you need a db entry for kg_multiple_lockscreen setting to 1. This is included in the update I will put in ota tonight
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] liamstears:
I cant swipe left, must of done something wrong...
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Goldie:
Edited my reply. I will edit the source files to make the db entry not needed
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] liamstears:
Could you explain a bit more? I like to learn lol
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Goldie:
The settings storage database needs an entry for kg_multiple_lockscreen. This is usually toggled by settings. You can manually add it using sqlite editor app....

...then changing that 0 to 1 will enable it
[Xperia Z2 General] khemist92:
Hey xda!

After days of trying to get a decent solution out of the Sony support guys, I gave up and turned to the only place I know I'll probably find my anwser!

So here's the scenario: I've recently purchased a Z2 (yesterday) and immediately started syncing my music up with the provided application which is Media Go. The unfortunate thing is, that my music refuses to show up in the WALKMAN app. I've looked up some probable solutions on the web such as clearing the data and cache of the WALKMAN app, restarting the phone several times, doing a factory reset, but I ran into a dead end every time. I've also heard that the WALKMAN app cannot recognize music which are in the external storage, but that's not the case here since I dont have an SD card inserted at the moment. I've also read that the app cannot recognize music without proper ID3 tags, but I don't think thats the case here since every music player, even Media Go, can recognize every single mp3 I have on my PC.

Anyone else Xperienced (pun intended) this problem and found a solution?

Thanks in advance!

-Khemist
[Xperia Z2 General] Felimenta97:
First thing: The Z2 does recognizes Music in the external storage. From Kitkat and beyond, that's almost the exclusive use for it, without root.

Second: does other players recognizes songs? Download one of the most used, are your choice, and see if they find it.

Third: Seems obvious, but everyone forgers, sometimes, the most obvious stuff. Use a file manager, on the phone (there should be one called File Commander built in), and check the Music folder to see if your media files are there.

Forth: Use the file manager in Windows, and transfer a few music files to the Music folder. Reboot the phone, wait a few minutes (just to make sure), and check if the music is now on Walkman...
[Xperia Z2 General] jeremy.shi:
The good thing about android is that you can just copy and paste the files onto your phone storage without using a syncing app.

Have you tried copying one of the music files onto your storage straight away into a new folder you create? (the name of the folder doesn't matter at all)

In addition, check the folder with your music files. (The one music go created) Chances are...there is a file in it called '.nomedia'. It's usually a hidden file, so make sure you select 'show hidden files' when you use a file management app. (I recommend Es file Explorer. You can find it on google play store, but others are fine too as long as you get to see hidden files) The file is there to stop media files in the folder from being recognised.

P.S the phone does recognise media files on external storage. That's the whole point of having one really.
[Xperia Z2 General] khemist92:
Hey! Thanks for the extremely fast response!

First, the music is located in the internal storage. It's in the root/Music folder. The structure looks like /Music/ARTIST/ALBUM/SONGS

Tried what you suggested and strangely , none of the downloaded music players recognize any kind of music on my phone!

Also tried manually copying files (by following the "/Music/ARTIST/ALBUM/SONGS" and by simply copying individual files into the /Music/ folder) but still refuses to recognize my music.
[Xperia Z2 General] jeremy.shi:
Have you tried creating a NEW folder and put some music files into it?
[Xperia Z2 General] Felimenta97:
The other guy pointed some important information. Kudos to him :)

Try using a more powerful file explorer (the recommended ES File Explorer is a good one. You can try Solid Explorer too, if you like it better) and do a search on the whole storage (remember to activate the Show Hidden files/folders) for .nomedia files.

PS: That isn't the root of the storage, in theory. From a user standpoint, it is, but technically there are a few other folders before you reach the actual root.

Again, don't forget to thank the other guy. I kinda just repeated what he said, but in another way. From the time O am writing this, I haven't saw a reply from you to him...
[Xperia Z2 General] khemist92:
Tried creating a folder of my own and putting some music files into it, but nothing sadly, I've checked for a .nomedia file in the /Music/ folder but i dont see anything in there. However, there is a .nomedia file in the root of the internal memory. Maybe that's the root of my problem?
[Xperia Z2 General] Felimenta97:
Most likely yes. Delete it and it should work. I wonder why that file was there in the first place...
[Xperia Z2 General] khemist92:
Hey everyone!

Thanks for the fast responses. The solution was indeed to delete that dreaded .nomedia file there... I too wonder why did Sony put there in the first place! Thanks again for your help!

-Khemist
[Xperia Z2 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Wooah wait there...Z2 has always been reading the music from SD card how can you say that it doesnot...?

I dont think the native music player has any problem reading it from the SD card...even though KK 4.4 has restrictions

Also throw the music file anywhere in the phone either internal or external inside any folder it recognises automatically unless the database is corrupt...
[Xperia Z2 General] Felimenta97:
But I said it reads music from SD Card...

"The Z2 does recognizes Music in the external storage."
[Xperia Z2 General] unmaskedfalesh:
My bad...
[Xperia Z2 General] lovemyram4x4:
What version is Walkman? The version that came with my phone wouldn't load up my music either but once I updated it worked as expected.

Sent from my D6503 using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2
[Xperia Z2 General] doministry:
My Z2 sees all the music, I have the MUSIC folder created on my SD Card.

The only explorer which can do it is File Commander.
[Xperia Z2 General] 3mps:
Jumping in on this thread....

I use to play my music unlimited through the Walkman, but all of a sudden it seems to have stopped doing so when I try to log back in it doesn't allow me to do so, I click on music unlimited within the Walkman it loads up the screen to login but neither the "login" button or "create account" button will do anything if I click on them they make the tap sound which is registering that they are being clicked but nothing else, the other two links on the page will open ( Learn more and Terms and conditions )

I've tried removing both apps, clearing all the data and reloading everything back on but it's still the same, anyone got any ideas.
[Xperia Z2 General] farfromovin:
Walkman plays my 70gb library on my sdcard1 just fine...
[Xperia Z2 General] Kmac_thp:
I use Google play music and Walkman does not see my music.
[Xperia Z2 General] farfromovin:
Oh yeah, that's cause Google play music downloads your music to the device and stores it in some cryptic way. I forgot about that.

But, if you put your music on your phone yourself via pc, EVERY music player will be able to see it.
[Xperia Z2 General] ipmanwck:
Google music sucks. It will only let you download the music and it's stored in some secret way. I use amazon mp3 at least you can actually put the files on your added card. Shame on Google.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maliciousintent:
Im not on a VPN of any type. As far as I know.

As you can see its a system hog.

On NC4 stock n towell rooted.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bd177:
Are you using Exchange for your mail? I don't, so I uninstalled all Enterprise apps and all vpn looking apps along with Exchange mail.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maliciousintent:
Not using any exchange services.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] chillsen:
As we all know by now, all camera reviews say our S5 has sub par night shooting. The thing is if we have our default settings on, this is absolutely true. I believe default has ISO on Auto and image stabilization ON. If you notice night shots are blurry as hell and we lose lots of detail even if we hold the phone absolutely still. This is because Auto ISO, I believe, is digitally ramped super high past ISO 800 in order to have a quick shutter speed. This causes less details to be taken in, in trade for brighter night shots.

This is the easiest way to get much better night shots and I wish reviewers tried this in their camera reviews for smartphones. See examples below of:

1. auto image stabilization with auto ISO

2. ISO 800

MUCH BETTER. notice that with auto settings on, it artificially brightens the entire shot, the night sky is forced to be brighter and you notice lots of noise near the horizon. the carnival lights are over exposed and details are not present.

notice the manual ISO shot, the night sky is correctly a pure black, and the lights are not over exposed so it leaves a crisp detail.

TL;DR: deactivate image stabilization so you can manually adjust ISO. Instead of Auto ISO, choose 800 for crisper, more detailed night shots.

next tip in the near future: shooting people in dark lighting
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Br4nd3n:
What park is that? Looks like the one near me, is that roller coaster the crazy mouse? Lmao.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] skatin707:
Impressive, that's a nice shot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] galaxy s4 nutjob:
not bad

thanks for the tip the delay sucks anyway to get rid of that?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] surf1:
What about during the day, I have it on auto but imagine stabilization off. would 800 iso be fine for the day? Or is there a better setting for the day, I just leave it on auto b/c I don't want deal with remembering to change it back and forth lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] chillsen:
for the day, auto is fine because there is so much bright light it will automatically be able to keep the iso low like 100-400 and still have a quick shutter. if you want super clear crisp pictures, try ISO 100 but depending on how bright it is, you might get blurry photos because the shutter will have to compensate by being open longer.

if you know the basic relationships between shutter speed and aperture, you'll know that our aperture is only 1 setting. so the only thing we can do to brighten pictures is to have a long shutter time (which is bad bc if you move it will get blurry) or change the ISO speed (higher iso, enables quicker shutter speed but sacrifice details).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] chillsen:
the delay isn't actually a delay but its how long the shutter of the camera is open for (taking in enough light to form the picture). Since it's dark and the ISO is at 800 there will be a longer shutter speed. if you listen carefully you will hear 2 noises, one at the beginning, then the delay, then another sound. those two sounds are when the shutter is opening and when it closes back after it has enough light to create a picture.

another way for you to understand this is try iso 100, it will be a longer delay and the picture will come out way too underexposed (darker) because it can't capture enough light while the shutter is open.

however if you have a nice digital camera you can take great night shots with a tripod at low ISO speeds, since you can manually set how long you want the shutter to be open for.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] chillsen:
this was at the annual fair in virginia
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigrammy:
This thread is for helping to recover a bricked Tronsmart :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Domcek:
Urgent - Bricked!!!

Urgent issue!!!

Yesterday during the day my Tronsmart TS7 (MTK6589) did not want to turn on from sleep (ColorOS), until the everything was ok.

I tried to enter TWRP recovery but it was just showing the teamwin logo, tried to restart and enter OS but also showed only bootlogo.

I used SP Flash tools with my Stock rom to try get it back to life but option Firmware upgrade messed it up, format was done and now GP1 to GP4 partitions show 0 Mb and NAND memory missing while emmc shows 3628 Mb but cannot format and download from SP Flash the /data, /system and /cache, tried to format through new recovery and flashing zip but without success.

I tried also using Download from KVD K7 and Cubot one (bot without flashing preloader), I managed to flash everything except the main three partitions, strangely emmc (internal SD card is OK and writable from Windows).

It seems it is bricked.

Can someone please provide a MTK Droid backup so that I can try to restore the whole phone?

Thanks to everyone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigrammy:
This is usually caused by the boot.img of a device not matched to your uboot. Use your own Stock boot.img and make the necessary edits in the init.rc for the Color OS ;)

Not sure why TWRP would not work unless this too was for a different phone/kernel to yours. :confused:

Rarely will SP Flashtool "mess it up" It seems to me that the firmware upgrade was interrupted or you just selected format only :confused:

Once you have formatted the phone you usually have to select all parts including the pre loader to flash your stock rom back to the phone. YOU HAVE TO DO THIS IN DOWNLOAD MODE first not Firmware Upgrade after it flashes the firmware you can then use the Firmware Upgrade option (Recommended) which will sort any messed up partitions ;)

The NAND memory missing is normal and nothing to worry about ;)

:confused: :confused:

Use this ROM below to get your phone back to a working condition then start again rooting custom recovery etc. :rolleyes:

Stock ROM Here with instructions

Good Luck :D

Hit Thanks If I Helped :cool:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Domcek:
First... Thank you for your response. :victory:

Well, the TWRP 2603 was on compiled for this phone, previously worked with no problem, after trying to restorea working ROM with SP Flash tools problems with Download of /android, /cache and /userdata appeared and the problem with format of /system, /cache and /data.

I tried with stock and Cubot one (as they are twins) and worked without problems. but the phone was working without problems for 7 days and the screen went off but could not start it anymore from sleep, then the rest of the problems appeared.

Well, first my mistake was to select Firmware upgrade and seems that the format messed the partition list.

After that I tried to flash (Download) stock rom (from geekbuying TS7 4 GB) and then Cubot one ROM and KVD K7 (without preloader, twin phones), but I can flash everything exccept the noted 3 partitions (seems like the layout has been lost).

I reinstalled the boot, recovery, etc. from the SP Flash but remained the problematic 3.

It came to my mind that peviously I enlarged /data partition (Meteos 2.5 Gb) and maybe that added to the problem (SP Flash tool shows that the device has 28 GB?! :)

Upper info 1 GB RAM+8192 Mb DRAM memory. I will attach screenshots.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigrammy:
It seem's to me that you have changed the PMT file in the ROM restore that you did and this is what broke your TWRP eg: System data cache may now be located in different partitions and twrp can no longer find them or tries to restore it to where it will no longer fit. :eek:

Some ports of TWRP are specific as to the dev block they write to eg: Example taken from a typical MTK Recovery: recovery/ rmdisk/ etc/recovery.fstab

# mount point	fstype	device	[device2]

/boot	emmc	boot
/cache	ext4	/dev/block/mmcblk0p4
/data	ext4	/dev/block/mmcblk0p5
/misc	emmc	misc
/recovery	emmc	recovery
/sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /dev/block/mmcblk1
/system	ext4	/dev/block/mmcblk0p3

As you can see if you mess the PMT then you break the recovery too. If your recovery was built for a Tronsmart which is Not exactly the same phone as the cubot one BTW they are just similar and have Totally different ROM's and it would seem different PMT's too so you must be careful when flashing with SP Flashtool.

If you have a backup of your Tronsmart with MTK Droidtools or you could even unpack a TWRP backup you just need to find the tronsmart PMT file and restore it via SP Flashtool along with your stock rom and your twrp recovery.

To add the PMT file to the flash just edit the scatter file with notepad ++ from

__NODL_PMT 0x?00000

to

PMT 0x?00000

do not change the 0x000000 just leave it at whatever it is in your scatter. Save change and flash as firmware upgrade you should the be good to go :cool:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Domcek:
Thanks, but... I have a TWRP backup, list attached.

From which file in TWRP I could extract the PMT and insert according to your info, of course on PC (as the log states tar_append_tree(): done with tar_append_file()... I tried rename to tar.gr and tar but without success)?

I am also assured that the partition layout is a problem and these 3 cannot be flashed (but as I am somewhat new to MTK phones and still getting to know them) but I thought that the partition and latter format would be more simple.:(

Strange is that I can flash every recovery for it (CWM, TWRP,...) and it is fully functional in terms of load, mount (even emmc can be mounted and resized if EBR1/EBR2 is changed).

I tried installing TS7 8G ANDROID/CACHE/USERDATA version and the same from Cubot one, error is:S_FT_ENABLE_DRAM_FAIL (4032) / [EMI] Enable DRAM Failed!

When I try to Download from stock rom the Progress bar stays at 0 % and always stops with message: S_FT_DOWNLOAD_FAIL (4008), while I can flash all other parts (except the 3 noted).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigrammy:
Hi,

My mistake I just searched a TWRP backup I have and it seems the PMT file is not backed up :( the PMT file lives in the same region as the boot.img and uboot so it would need a separate call the same way the boot.img is backed up.

So it's back to the drawing board :eek:

Options:

1, Get a Tronsmart PMT file from someone and flash the stock rom with the PMT included.

2, Get the ROM from the link I gave you.

Load it to SP Flashtool and hit firmware upgrade.

You may get a warning or error message something like "PMT has changed use download"

If so just use the download mode and after it's complete then do the same again but this time use the firmware upgrade and fingers crossed it should run without the error. I am kind of working from memory here so I am not 100% sure but I think maybe SP Flashtool rewrites the PMT File during this process.

If all goes well you should now be back to stock and have the correct partitions.

So now flash your twrp recovery and root with MTK DroidTools :fingers-crossed:

Then report back :good:

Edit just noticed your edit LOL

Select all parts I cant make out the image as too small for any detail.

Link for New Flashtool V5.14 Nice UI and a FAQ section which explains any faults/errors and how to solve ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Domcek:
Great, thank you.

I think that acquiring PMT file for Tronsmart TS7 will be a little hard. :crying:

I've tried to experiment with EBR1/EBR2 as the previous partition layout had 2.65 Gb of data and 179 Mb on emmc and it seems that could be related, the message of layout change appeared but still couldn't flash these 3 partitions.

Any good souls with PMT to TS7 maybe?

Thank you in advance

As Cubot One, KVD K7 Blackview JK808 and TS7 are almost identical twins, could I use the one from Cubot one for example?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigrammy:
I will upload the stock cubot one EBR files. Please flash these along with the rest of the stock ROM via SP FlashTool. Edit the scatter file for the EBR files as described earlier for PMT file.

Fash all in Format + Download mode.

This should then resize your partitions back to stock and re-write the PMT then hopefully everything will be working. :fingers-crossed:

The EBR Files are named EBR1.txt & EBR2.txt for upload purpose just rename to EBR1 & EBR2 removing the .txt ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Domcek:
Great, thank you.

I am going to try in the next 5 mins. :laugh:

---------- Post added at 03:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:37 PM ----------

Well, not successull.

Error: S_FT_ENABLE_DRAM_FAIL