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[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] chetus:
I tried yesterday and bricked my device. Odin fails when flashing hidden.img.

I have the SM-T800 (Canadian model). I tried to get the official version from Kies, but it kept saying the version cannot be updated.

I went to sammobile.com to get the Canada version (T800XXU1ANFB_T800XAC1ANF5_XAC) and the zip file was corrupted... After a couple of hours I find a link on rapidgator.net and thank god It worked.

I thought this version would work on any SM-T800 model since it's just a wifi tablet?
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] johnnytraveler:
Theres a guy in China with the same problem. So when it gets to 'hidden.img' it seems the firmware is doing a country check. If not matching, it won't load.

WORD OF WARNING TO EVERYONE.

Sent from my rooted Galaxy S5.
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] ewells38:
Anyone have a FULL WIPE version of the FACTORY Image ?
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] NixxonExxo:
Fyi this is country specific to US and it does work. If you bought your device in a different country you have to go to the Sammobile.com website to find your country firmware or else your device will forever be bricked. Also chetus is right, the Canadian version on Sammobile.com is corrupted. There is other alternative download out there though.
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] bonerp:
Does this put a rooted device back to factory standard, and also enables OTA updates to be received?

thanks
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] maxe30is:
hm....... went to download mode, loaded the file in odin. when i try to start it just gives a message All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0). doesnt flash anything. Any ideas?
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] maxrdlf95:
So if I bought my tablet in Germany I can't flash this it is Region-dependant
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] RascalDoc:
This worked for me, as did following the instructions above. I did have to use cf-autoroot again when done.

I do have the us version tablet.
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] Lordjish:
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[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] J_Kirk:
I have a Hong Kong model.. so I guess I'll have to wait for the updated HK Rom. This is strange behaviour, because I have a Note 3 and I am able to flash any country ROM on it without any problem.
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] vectro73:
Actually there are always problems with China devices. Their firmware was always a bit different. But I don't understand why there can be any problems with all the others. I did not flash my device yet, but I had Galaxy Note 8 and flashed it with bunch of different countries software without any problems. Maybe there are really something diffent with USA devices this time? cause there are no USA firmwares listed on Sammobile.
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] benjy4537:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] B3NJY:
Hi I just boughta new t800 off ebay ex display in retail mode can I flash this without root or is it to old or root it and flash..or is this thread cobwebbed now..
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] dwarfer66:
The latest for our tab (10.5 model) ends with BOK1, no rooted, but stock from sammobile, I think from about Nov 2015.
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] B3NJY:
Thank you mate will check that lead out...
[Galaxy Tab S Android Development] Veskandar:
Any work around for the country check at hidden?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] lucastronic:
Hello

How ROM do you recommend for YP-GS1?

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] archit1291:
Everytime I try to open viral application whether free or paid version it crashes on my nexus 5

Anyone else also facing this issue.View attachment 2825712
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PsychDrummer:
You don't have to post multiple threads because you didn't get a response. It might just not be yet compatible with 4.4.4.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
This one?

View attachment 2825743
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theguru1:
might be a newbie question,...I must admit I don't like the flat looking icons on the screen is there anyway to change them? dare I say it I like the galaxy s5 icons...

Obviously it is some sort of theme change..

I haven't got my g3 yet so please be gentle lol...
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pilz:
Download Nova or Apex launcher, and the S5 Icon pack and there you go.

Nova: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher

Apex: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anddoes.launcher

S5 icons: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gauravmantri.theme.galaxys5
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theguru1:
wow thank you!!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pilz:
No problem, there are in a sense infinite icon packs, you can make any icon anything you want.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheKrow:
What about Unicon? Don't need a custom launcher it seems...
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astralogic:
Hi, I tried to root my mums SP but now it just bootloops, how can I fix this?

Please tell me there's a way to fix it!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pranavthombare:
Be more specific about what you did

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There's only one way to fix it

Flash a stock rom via flashtool

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Links, please try to search yourself, if need help PM me[emoji6]

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And yeah, hit the thanks button and don't make a thread for this, just search
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astralogic:
I used flash tool and this guide :(v
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astralogic:
I got boot loop on step 3.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oblox:
Thats for the android S no wonder youre bootlooping. Hope its not hard bricked. Do as they said download a full FTF and flash that.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pranavthombare:
No problem dude

Just flash the proper ftf file and volla

New as you buyed it

Want to root it, use towelroot, install supersu but not from playstore and then install busybox installer from playstore and you're rooted
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astralogic:
I've been looking around for a full FTF but I don't know what I'm supposed to get... and even worse how am I supposed to use flashtool to flash the FTF if I can't boot up the phone? Omg, the phones dead aint it?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astralogic:
I'm trying to find the stock rom for the Xperia SP but it's not easy.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oblox:
Open the back and turn off the phone using the little reset button inside (hold until is vibrates 3 times).

Then find a 205 version of the firmware (any will do really) from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2311964 and then flash using flashtool. Hopefully it will work then and flash the ROM.

Then find a proper guide for xperia SP and try rooting again with towelroot.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pranavthombare:
I'm from india hence I am using. 205 ftf generic IN

And it's rooted

Find the appropriate ftf, download it

Download the flashtool, place the ftf in sub folder named "firmware" present in flashtool folder(where you've installed it)

Connect your phone in flashmode I.e press power down while you connect your phone to the computer (make sure phone is switched off before you do that)

Hit the thunder button, flashmode must be selected, press OK

Select the ftf and volla!

If it disconnects, keep trying coz it happens sometimes

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And you better not post this question in development section, moderator will take severe actions [emoji6]
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astralogic:
Thanks for the help, I'm downloading this "Sony C5303_12.0.A.1​.257_РСТ", none of them seem to have 205 in their names so... I hope this works.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astralogic:
OMG guys!! Thank you so much for helping me, the phone is now booting fine! But please don't leave me to do this alone, I'm dangerous when left alone :D

But I don't think I need hand holding, all I want to do is 1) root 2) unlock bootloader so that 3) I can install cyanogenmod (it seems to be the most respected custom rom).

OK so you guys mentioned towelroot I will now go look into what this is and how to use it. Thanks again!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pranavthombare:
You don't need to unlock bootloader

But if you do be careful

You'll lose DRM keys and is not reversible
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Levered:
btw this is wrong section threads

Dont be panic and cool down

we will help you if you've get problems...:D
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astralogic:
I really don't know if installing CWM is a good idea or not, I see this guide but it's not clear which files I should download.

I found a Cyanogenmod thread earlier for locked bootloaders on these forums, I'm gonna try to find that now and install it.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antkalaitzakis96:
good you solved your problem but please tell me...why the h*ll are you trying to root a phone when you don't even know how to flash a ftf?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astralogic:
Gotta learn somehow :D
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clark Joseph Kent:
After all that....Moved here out of the Development Section...............Thanks.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antkalaitzakis96:
search first and try later :p
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravendra275:
It's write first you learn how to flash a ftf file than try to root
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astralogic:
Guys, some of these steps are confusing. for example step 0 is isn't an instruction it's a question: "0: If android 4.1 system is loaded from the CWM, before you install this rom".

I don't know what that means :/

Edit: Do you recommend that I follow this guide to install CWM before installing cyanogen?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sidgabriel:
Hi Guys,

I'm from Brazil and I just bought a Nexus 5 to migrate from an old iPhone 3GS and I'm trying to sync all my iTunes Playlists to the new device, I saw that the Google Music Manager is the simplest way to do this but I can't access the Google Music page from my country. I tried to use a VPN service to enable it but needs a credit card to do the finish the process. Can any good soul download the executable and upload for me? Yes, I google it a lot and couldn't find... :mad:

Thanks a lot!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptir:
Google Music Manager is great for getting all of your music uploaded to Google Music, but if that's not available in your country it won't be much help to you. EDIT: By this I mean that even if you get the Music Manager to install and let you upload your music, you won't be able to get it back down to your phone.

I would use DoubleTwist

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doubleTwist.androidPlayer

DoubleTwist is a music player that has support for syncing with iTunes.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sidgabriel:
So, are you saying that even if I downloaded the executable program to my PC, I was unable to sync my iTunes songs?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zepius:
you could sync them to google music, but you wouldnt be able to use google music.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sidgabriel:
That's that I want, only sync the songs to the phone, I'm not intended to use Google Music, I use another app to listen my musics.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptir:
Right, that's not what the Google Music Manager is for. The Google Music Manager uploads songs to the Play Music service. You can then use the Play Music app on your phone to play back the songs. You can download the songs through the app as well, but they are saved in such a way that only the Play Music applications can play them (technically other players can play them, but the metadata is not saved so you can't actually view the song names or any artist/album info).

Just forget about the Music Manager, it's not what you want. Download DoubleTwist on your phone and computer and it will let you sync your iTunes library directly.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sidgabriel:
Thanks for the answer, I'm already using it.
[Samsung Gear Live] Hardcore73:
Please post your battery discussion here:
[Samsung Gear Live] eschlenz:
The first day I had it, I woke up around 8:00 AM and got to about 6:00 PM when it ran out of juice. This was with heavy use, screen always on and brightness set to about 60%.

I changed the settings so that the screen is not always on and brightness is now set to 40%. This made a huge difference. Today, for example, I've already had it off the charger for 8 hours and it's still at 79% battery. I'm at work, and it's getting used as it normally would be.

The screen being set to always on will obviously burn through battery at a fairly quick rate, especially if the brightness is set high. It's worth noting that letting the screen turn off automatically does not impede its usefulness. The screen comes on automatically when your turn your writes to look at the device, and when you touch the screen.
[Samsung Gear Live] woedee:
100% @ 7:30 a.m. & @ 31% battery as of this post, 9:20 p.m. with heavy use throughout the day. I had the screen @ always on through the majority of the day; however switched to off @ around 7 p.m.
[Samsung Gear Live] vypurr:
So which mode will you run daily? Screen-off?
[Samsung Gear Live] eschlenz:
Screen off for sure. It comes on automatically when I go to look at it, and I want to conserve battery.
[Samsung Gear Live] pthakkar9:
Undocked at 8 AM with 100% charged, used till mid night with heavy usage with 32% left when got to bed. Very impressed with battery performance. I am using default settings (brightness - 4, Always-on screen, showing cards on dimmed screen, alert on watch and phone when connected).
[Samsung Gear Live] jeux_1:
Unplug at 7:30am @11pm still 49% battery but my note 3 battery goes down, i have to plug it in the afternoon.

My battery usage on my phone shows android wear being the main culprit.

Before that, I could last all day in one charge.
[Samsung Gear Live] thaibruin:
unplugged at 8a.m. plugged back in around 1:30a.m. about 18% left.

Screen set to "always on", brightness set to "4".

I'm not sure what constitutes heavy usage, but I do look at my screen and do a couple of swipes about every 15 minutes or so, unless I'm expecting an email or something.
[Samsung Gear Live] minty1978:
Why do you need the screen always on?

The screen on when you look at it functions really well, and saves a lot of battery.

I unplug at 6.45 am. Still got 60% by 10.30 pm
[Samsung Gear Live] greatcapp:
Wow, guys, what am I doing wrong?

I take mine off charge when I get up at 5.30 AM.

It's down to 85% by the time I leave the house at 7am (it's maybe had the screen on for a total of a minute maximum).

I lose roughly 10% an hour (with maximum "screen on" time of a minute or 2 an hour.

It's below 20% by 3 or 4pm.

So I thought it might be that I had brightness on 4/5, so I've changed to 1/5, but still, it's little better. I might get an extra hour maybe.

I like the idea of it, and when it's alive, it's great. But for me, I'm struggling to get 10-12 hours, with low use.:(

i'm gonna try it tomorrow with Screen-off mode enabled.

I'd happily accept charging it every night, but I'm struggling to get half a day here.
[Samsung Gear Live] gadgetgaz:
There's definitely something wrong there. I would try unpairing and resetting the watch (the only thing you'll lose is fitness data).

Then I'd uninstall Android wear from the phone, reset the phone and start all over again.
[Samsung Gear Live] greatcapp:
Thanks.

Gonna try that now..........
[Samsung Gear Live] adiliyo:
i agree, there's something not right in your situation.

i took mine off at 11am and it's almost 3am now and i'm at 43% screen always on and moderate use
[Samsung Gear Live] Steve.99:
Got mine on Thursday. Since then it's off the charger for 16h/day. Setting is always on. Indoor I usually keep the brightness at 1 since I really don't need more. Outdoor it's always at 5.

I always end my day with 20-30% left.

One thing I noticed is colourful watch face kill the battery. Specifically while driving since the brightness it at 5 at the screen come on often while driving or doing other activities.
[Samsung Gear Live] greatcapp:
Having reset the watch as suggested, It does seem greatly improved for me.

It came off charge this morning at 7am, so by now I'd normally be down to maybe 30-40%, but I'm currently still on 82%.

Thanks for the suggestion - it looks like it may have solved it.
[Samsung Gear Live] eug:
I'd normally end the day with about 50% left. Two days ago I installed Pinterest and Fancy to see what the interface is like. The next day I ended the day at 7%. Today by around 4pm I was down to 30%.

i uninstalled both apps, charged it up, and the battery usage seems to have gone back to normal.
[Samsung Gear Live] Ichigo-Roku:
On my watch the battery is not that great comparing to some of you. Have you activated some battery saving options ?
[Samsung Gear Live] steslatt:
Mine comes off charge at around 7am. By 10pm I'm usually around 25-35% battery. Usage is light to medium, with screen set to always on at default brightness.
[Samsung Gear Live] adiliyo:
i think it generally comes down to how much you interact with the watch. while i have somewhat moderate usage, the interaction time with the screen fully lit is fairly short, a majority of the day my watch is in the low power screen state (b&w mode) and i think that prolongs the battery quite a bit since it is a samoled screen and i'm sure the processor drops down to a low power state.

a lot of my use is swiping away notifications and navigation (but while in navigation the watch is mostly in the low power state since it shows my next step on that screen)
[Samsung Gear Live] Ichigo-Roku:
I'm not interacting that much with it, but each time I turn my wrist, the screen turns on, and I think that's the problem. The B&W mode is nice, when I just want to use it like a real watch the B&W mode is sufficient, is there a way to stay in B&W mode when I turn my wrist, but still have the vibrations on?

Thanks.
[Samsung Gear Live] Brendo:
Mine's on default settings. Always lots of notifications. Easily get two days. been sick and bedridden; left it sitting on table and connected and it lasted three and a half days
[Samsung Gear Live] enko420:
it's first day use:

Unplugged at 6:00 AM. it is no 6:32PM and the battery is at 56% so 1 day as in 24 hours seems to be correct.

My only worry is when the battery starts to degrade.....
[Samsung Gear Live] thaibruin:
Not sure if you've seen the iFixit teardown, but it looks like the battery would actually be pretty easy to replace. Only a few torx screws and adhesive-free components.

http://ifixit.org/blog/6594/wearables-teardown/
[Samsung Gear Live] Mihnea1996:
And IP67 is gone, I think.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Samsung Gear Live] thaibruin:
Why? You just screw it back together tightly. There is no adhesive seal used either to hold it together or internally.
[Samsung Gear Live] enko420:
the problem with that is the problem im having with my gear 2 neo. where do you purchase these batteries?
[Samsung Gear Live] Herb.Grinda:
Got mine yesterday, today was my first full day of use. Off charger at 7am, it is now 10:41pm and at 37%. Brightness was at 3, but switched to 5 around noon and left there.
[Samsung Gear Live] AstroDigital:
Screen is at 4.

Turned on day one 6am and 10pm had 45%, I will need to charge the watch every day.... sigh

May turn the brightness to 3.
[Samsung Gear Live] JoeFCaputo113:
Really complaining about that man? It's not some super device here people what are you expecting??

Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away
[Samsung Gear Live] AstroDigital:
I get two days from my cell phone, two days on the Gear 2 (basically the same hardware)

Like the charge the cell phone and watch both the same day, 24 hours is too short.

Also fine you may say you sleep say 6 to 8 hours, plug the watch in, 95% of the time sure but every now and then when I am travelling it maybe more than 24 hours before I get some sleep and chance to plug the watch in.

You know that it should be possible to get 48 hours, they can even update the OS.

Why have the watch turn on with notifications or when you raise you hand?

Have it so when you get a notification, you get the vibrate but leave the display off, with the always on display (maybe the reason Gear Live sucks more juice than the Gear 2?) you can tell if you want to read the message.

Press the power button to the display on full.

I did read the reviews the Gear Live has poor battery life and I did know this so yes I can live with it
[Samsung Gear Live] colts187:
I leave it with screen on mode. I use it all day from about 7am to 6pm. I get just barely two days with brightness set to 4. I get easily over 100 notifications throughout the day. I love how easy it is to use that mini launcher to adjust the brightness. I don't really check my heart rate much but I do keep count of all my steps. About 12k average per day.
[Samsung Gear Live] compchick813:
I just got my Gear Live on Wednesday and so far my battery life is as I expected with my usage. I wish there were battery stats for the watch itself that we could access to make it easier to tell if a particular app is eating more battery than it should.

This is my usage from today:

Always on: off, brightness: 1, steps: on

Sleep tracking from watch (Sleep as Android beta) from ~12:20 - 6:30 am (watch muted)

Probably ~40 notifications, reset watch (apparently if you're using MultiRom and boot into another rom you can't pair it without resetting), installed some apps, checked heart rate 3 times, checked time/weather/steps/traffic/notifications probably 30 times. I noticed it was showing nav cards during my 1 hour drive this morning. I muted Maps after that.

12 am 100%

6:30 am 68%

3 pm 20%

4 pm 17%

5:30 pm 7%

6:30 pm 2%
[Samsung Gear Live] miike1106:
Is it possible that there are apps that can cause battery drain? I downloaded a few apps recently and installed minuum keyboard as well. I did notice a dramatic battery loss. I wake at normally around 7 am and by 5:30pm the battery was pretty much gone. So I'm wondering if it's one of the apps or if it's something else. As of right now, I unplugged it at 8am, it is now 11 am at about 72%, about 10% loss per hour, set at 4 brightness, light-medium usage.
[Samsung Gear Live] AstroDigital:
I would say say, some app can drain the battery, but the battery life is really bad on mine too.

I am really thinking about installing the custom ROM
[Samsung Gear Live] Mihnea1996:
I tried to keep the Gear Live without connection with the phone. Mine lasts around 2.5-3 days, used it only for measuring heart rate and counting steps. With around 13k steps/day(hiking) , I can say that 2.5 days of battery life is OK. Now I want to use it paired with the phone, would be nice to see 2 days.
[Samsung Gear Live] AstroDigital:
If pairing is the issue I wonder if an macro will work.
[Samsung Gear Live] steslatt:
It seems my battery has degraded. I've had the watch since launch and for the first few weeks I used to get from 7am till 10pm with 30-35% left.

Now with the same apps and settings I can barely make it to 10pm at all. I've tried resetting and only using the pre installed apps. I just ended up with similar results. I think I'm going to RMA it.
[Samsung Gear Live] frankthetoad:
I take the watch off the charger at 7:30 AM. Screen set to always on, brightness at zero. I get near constant Goggle Huddle notifications, Boom Beach, CoC, package shipment, weather, traffic, etc. Use it to make phone calls, switch tracks on Play Music, take notes, set timers. I take it off my wrist between midnight and 1AM. Usually have about 17% left.
[Samsung Gear Live] AstroDigital:
Except when it is dark I do not think I can live with minimum brightness