yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] The Cheese Deity:
I have searched the forums for my device, and other people's posts trying to find a way to root my device. Towelroot did not work for me. I read that i could install Philz touch recovery and root with that, but i cannot find the version of that for my phone. If somebody could point me in the direction of a method to root my phone, i would very much appreciate it :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BWolf56:
You could download GooManager (or Flashify) off the Play Store, install custom recovery (TWRP) and root. It will install the one for your phone automatically.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DocHoliday77:
You need root to use GooManager.

Im curious, what happened with Towelroot? I cant see any reason it wouldnt work. Can you tell me the steps you used?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] The Cheese Deity:
I downloaded the towelroot apk, installed it and clicked "make it rain" and the app said i should have root. I downloaded root checker and it says i do not have root access.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DocHoliday77:
After running Towelroot You have to install SuperSU from the Play Store, then open the app and let it update the binary and disable Knox.

If SuperSU hangs, reboot and it'll work on the second try.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] The Cheese Deity:
I had tried CF-Auto-Root before towelroot, and it seems to have either partially installed SuperSU, or SuperSU just doesn't like my phone. It shows up in my app list as "eu.chainfire.supersu.MainActi" and force closes when i try to open it. I cannot uninstall it. (i should have mentioned this in my OP maybe)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DocHoliday77:
Oh ok. That makes more sense to me for why Towelroot didn't work then. Probably the easiest fix would be to reflash the firmware with Odin, then try Towelroot first. Since you dont have root now, its going to make fixing the problem any other way near impossible.......actually, now that I said that, you could flash twrp recovery, then use its file manager to manually delete any traces of the failed root.

Still, I think the firmware flash is an easier and safer option. But its up to you how you want to proceed.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] The Cheese Deity:
I successfully flashed TWRP, exactly what files should i delete?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DocHoliday77:
Check the cf autoroot thread to be sure, but probably the su binary, install-recovery.sh, daemonsu, etc.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] The Cheese Deity:
The recovery file manager does not see a lot of the files on my phone. It does see the SuperSU folder, but even if i delete or rename it, it just fixes itself upon reboot. I'm thinking of flashing the 4.4.2 firmware through odin, is a factory reset absolutely necessary to do that?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] The Cheese Deity:
I flashed the firmware, ran towelroot, installed SuperSU, installed the binary, disabled Knox, and i am now running a rooted device!

Thank you very much DocHoliday77 for all of your help, i greatly appreciate it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 1banana2:
Which firmware did you reflash? Stock 4.4.2??
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cdriver:
I cannot find towelroot on the app store. Are there any suggestions on what to do without towelroot
[General Questions and Answers] jason.jhake23:
hi to all devs please help me to unlock my fujitsu f-02e to use here in philippines

once i insert sim on my phone its need code..can you help me or provide how to unlock it to use the call and text function?

im just noob..your help really appreciated..:crying::crying::crying::crying:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] note crazy:
Im just wondering because I have not seen or heard anything in a while.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jondoe27:
May be there is no point any more to do this. Samsung will issue a new update with a patched bootloader and the custom one won't work again. I read on "General Note 3" forum even "towelroot" doesn't work after official update to 4.4.3.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] note crazy:
Yes true but if you do not take the update you will be fine I would think most people that have got root will not give it up without a fight I feel as if there is a point to unlock the bootloader because its not there phone its are phone and I want to do whatever I want with a phone I bought I froze the ota updater with titanium back up i will no long allow att to tell me what I can do with my phone . They cant patch something I dont allow and thats that
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a1cellsolution:
Hello Guys

Can anyone help me i need CWM rom backup of Indian Desire 816

Presently i have desire 816D China telecom variant it comes with sense 5.5 where as the indian version is shipped

with Sense 6

if anyone can post the CWM backup it will be really nice
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hs671:
Hi,

I have a Desire 816D China telecom model. But it doesnt seem to work with reliance CDMA... Is yours working on Indian carriers? Appreciate any help you can give.
[Java for Android App Development] vladtp:
Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knows how to intercept all the traffic generated by the phone by using the VpnService class

from Android ?

So far I managed to create a virtual tunnel interface by using VpnService. However this interface intercepts only the traffic that

is directed to it( e.g. ping or telnet on the IP address of the tunnel interface ) and afterwards it redirects that traffic towards a server

( in my case, I considered, for simplicity, the server to be the loopback interface ). The rest of the traffic is not intercepted by the tunnel

interface.

If anyone could give me a hint or a code snippet on how to intercept all the traffic, I'd appreciate it very much.

Thank you !

public class VPNService extends VpnService {
private Thread mThread;
private ParcelFileDescriptor mInterface;
private FileInputStream in;
private FileOutputStream out;
private DatagramChannel tunnel;
//private SocketChannel tunnel;

private String TAG = "VPNService";

//a. Configure a builder for the interface.
Builder builder = new Builder();

// Services interface
@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
// Start a new session by creating a new thread.
mThread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
try {
//a. Configure the TUN and get the interface.
mInterface = builder.setSession("VPNService")
.addAddress("192.168.0.1", 24)
.addRoute("0.0.0.0", 0).establish();
//b. Packets to be sent are queued in this input stream.
in = new FileInputStream(
mInterface.getFileDescriptor());
//b. Packets received need to be written to this output stream.
out = new FileOutputStream(
mInterface.getFileDescriptor());
//c. The UDP channel can be used to pass/get ip package to/from server
tunnel = DatagramChannel.open();
//tunnel = SocketChannel.open();

// Connect to the server, localhost is used for demonstration only.
tunnel.configureBlocking(false);
tunnel.connect(new InetSocketAddress("127.0.0.1", 8087));

//d. Protect this socket, so package send by it will not be feedback to the vpn service.
protect(tunnel.socket());

ByteBuffer packet = ByteBuffer.allocate(32767);

//e. Use a loop to pass packets.
while (true) {
int length = in.read(packet.array());
//Log.i(TAG,packet.array().toString());
if (length > 0){
packet.limit(length);
tunnel.write(packet);
packet.clear();
}
Thread.sleep(100);
}

} catch (Exception e) {
// Catch any exception
e.printStackTrace();
try {
in.close();
} catch (IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
try {
out.close();
} catch (IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}

} finally {
try {
if (mInterface != null) {
mInterface.close();
mInterface = null;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
tunnel.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}, "MyVpnRunnable");

//start the service
mThread.start();
return START_STICKY;
}

@Override
public void onDestroy() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if (mThread != null) {
mThread.interrupt();
}
super.onDestroy();
}
}
[Java for Android App Development] surlac:
Did you take a look at ToyVpn example from SDK?

I believe it's possible to tune it up to work with OpenVPN server.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peladoro:
Would this recovery be compatible with official ota? From what I've seen or read it is necessary to return to stock recovery or else...sorry if a dumb question
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bweN diorD:
If you are asking if you can take the ota with a custom recovery installed, the answer is no.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peladoro:
Yes that was the gist...but how come when I return to my backup stock 4.1.2 before cwm 6.0.4.9 when I would check for firmware updates (stock) the message was along the lines of not recognized unable at this time whilst now it says phone is up to date...as if on stock recovery?
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bweN diorD:
I can't explain that. The updater acts screwy some times for no good reason.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peladoro:
Oh OK...as i thought. Brought it up just to be sure thanks
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OnePhone2RuleThemAll:
Hi All

I have recently switched to an HTC M8 - for 3 days I could not get Google Play Store, Google Now, Search and Spotify to work. They timed out on each occasion.

I tried everything - APN's, new sim cards, rooting the phone, new roms nothing worked. I found an article saying automatic date and time settings can affect Google play services. So I switched to manual date and time and the issue has gone.

Can anyone tell me why automatic date and time could affect these apps?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] pakiyabhai:
I am currently an owner of o2 atom , those who've used it will know whY i am so skeptic , the camera of o2 atom is the WORST i've seen in my entire life , hell my o2 IIs was million times better with it's 1.3 mega pixel camera

Users of dopod838/HTC TyTN can you pls temll me , how's the picture quality , and how's the VIDEO quality , can we take a normal video with normal frame rate ? or will it lag like I am using a pathetic webcam :(
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] nickcerda:
For a phone/pda/taoster device it has a decent camera. Here are a few pics I took in chicago while moving...in a truck, and I think they came out pretty good.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] pakiyabhai:
thanx nick , very decent picture, could you also tell me how's the video quality , is the video good , or does it skips ?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] darky:
photo and video quality are good in outdoor / good lighting conditions (photos are not as good as but close to k750 quality, video is better) but at night and in dark places they are terrible.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] rassah:
Because the TyTN has onboard MPEG-4 hardware compression, the video comes out very smooth without any skipped frames. However, the compresion makes the video look kind of weird sometimes. Basically it looks as if you are looking up at the video from the bottom of a pool or something, with the image swimming around and looking very liquid. It's worse if you rotate the camera a bit while panning left-right.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] pakiyabhai:
@darky , at night I ain't expecting anything both in the photo mode and the video mode .

@rassah , will it be asking you too much to upload a small video if feasible , cause I cannot visualize the 'liquid' effect of yours ,though I am happy of to know atleast i doesn't skip

and o yes thanx u again
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] darky:
set contrast and sharpness to 1

as for video the coolcamera software ver 1.15b (third party) can record in avi which greatly improves the quality.

http://www.ateksoft.com/features.html
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] pakiyabhai:
I've heard a lot about this cool camera software , affects that much ?
[XDA Assist] mag3nta:
Hello,

My Xperia Mini started to reboot continuously and the only way to stop it is to remove battery. I think this have something common with battery, because after this happened battery charges very slow (about 5% per hour) but when I plug the charge cable it works fine.

I tryed to flash another rom and kernel but this doesn't helped.

Before that happened it was another issue, when I was turning on the phone battery sometimes was showing 100% (after restart it was fine).

I have unlocked bootloader and root.

When this reboots started I was staying under the sun, can it be caused by overheat? Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

Thanks.
[XDA Assist] matt4321:
Hi there,

If you ask in the Xperia Mini Q&A section here: http://xdaforums.com/xperia-mini/help

you may find users who have had the problem and have solved it, or you may find people who are more familiar with the device and can suggest solutions:
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dec1153:
So got an update and we now have the KNOCK KNOCK CODE!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NafeesKhabir:
TouchWiz ROm

Android Version : 4.3

Rom Features: Note 3

Copyrights: DevSkilled

Bug Fixed By : Marian Trinca

First developed For Lenovo A820

Compatible Devices : Walton Primo N1/ Gionee Gpad G2/ Allview P5 Qmax/ GN810

My Review

Trust me this Version is Better than older ones

Requirements

1.Rooted Compatible Device

2.Custom Recovery (T.W.R.P)

3.Download Files

Root Your device by Using Framaroot

Flash TWRP

Installation

*Please Keep A backup of your present Rom

1.Download Touchwiz Essentials.zip From Download Section and extract it

a) Place Viper4Android Folder in root od SD

b) Open Readme.txt for the Touchwiz Rom Download Link.

c) Download

2.Place the zip To root of Your SD Card

3.Reboot Into TWRP Recovery.

4.Go to Wipe >Advance Wipe> mark Davik Cache, Cache, Android Secure, System>Swipe to wipe.

5.Again Reboot Into Recovery.

6.Go To Wipe > Swipe To Factory Reset

7.Reboot Into Recovery.

9.Install>TouchwizRoM.zip

10.Follow Screen

11.When Finished Do WIPE CACHE,DALVIK CACHE

12.Reboot System

13. Now it take around 3min to boot Complete All steps.

14. Then You will See Welcome Screen, Keep Going On Finally You Will See Congratulations Screen

15.Now open Viper4Android Fx App , Select Top Left Key(Menu key)> Then Select Load Profile>Xperia Bass>Headset.

16.Reboot Phone

17.Done Now Enjoy

N.B Back up your Current ROM please before Flashing And Camera Flash Is not Available In This Rom

XDA:DevDB Information

TouchWiz Rom-Gionee Gpad G2, ROM for all devices (see above for details)

Contributors

DevSkilled

ROM OS Version: 4.3.x Jellybean

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x

ROM Firmware Required: Gionee Gpad G2 Device/Similar Rebrand

Based On: AOSP

Version Information

Status: Stable

Current Stable Version: 4.3

Stable Release Date: 2014-07-04

Current Beta Version: 4.2.x

Beta Release Date: 2014-07-01

Created 2014-07-04

Last Updated 2014-07-05
[Miscellaneous Android Development] haykay2005:
1.5mb custom rom?

?I already have a viper4androidfx on my fone, do I download another?

You also promised a kitkat for this device

Camera Flash not available? You mean camera is not working?

What bugs did you notice on the rom
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NafeesKhabir:
That is not Rom Zip

Please Read : 1. a/b

Extract zip and open readme , you will find download link there.

And Kitkat Doge mod will be upoad tomorroe

Kitkat Pure Xperia IS ready And will be published Today
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Jerrykist:
This rom is very beautiful and smooth. But front camera not working. Please make a fix patch...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] abhilaab:
Same problem is front camera not work with flash problem fix this

And

map

local

Not work

Unfortunately stopped app solve please

But thanks provide DevSkilledBug Fixed By : Marian Trinca new rom service 4 gionee
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Jerrykist:
Fix please... Thank you very much !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18PTh14Layc
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkex6x:
Does anyone know how to do this. I put the phone into fastboot but i have to do some button pressing to get it to boot. I saw that you could flash fastboot to permanently fix the problem but cant find a tutorial. Any one have any experience with this?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xKroniK13x:
Is there a flashboot reason at the bottom?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prohyper:
I didn't understand what you are trying to say. You can get out by pressing the power button or you can use "fastboot reboot" by connecting your phone with a pc to reboot your phone but I don't know what your are saying, are you saying you are stuck on boot screen or in a boot loop?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkex6x:
reason

yeah, is says sticky bit factory_fastboot
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thewraith420:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40940227
[HTC One X] radulianis:
HI ALL,

I was tring to install a custom rom on my htc one x(CM11) i've done a "wipe data/factory reset" , after i choose install zip from sd card i choose the rom.Rom failed to install and than i pressed on reboot system now.After few seconds the phone strated the reboot procedure and than returned into clockworkmod. I DON T KNOW WHAT TO DO. please HELP ME!!!
[HTC One X] The Game:
Possible ROM it's bad. Redownload, copy zip and gapps to sdcard and flash.

---------- Post added at 07:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:28 PM ----------

What recovery are you using? Trying to TWRP .
[HTC One X] classic20:
Download the ROM zip again, delete the old one from the Sdcard and put the new one you just downloaded. While in Clockworkmod recovery, choose every "wipe" option except for the Sdcard one. Try installing the ROM again, if it doesn't work you're gonna have to choose another ROM I'm afraid.
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Or just simply change to a kitkat recovery ! Check the recovery in the OP of the CM11 thread or use this one :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ls4vu15ilpryf36/twrp#2.img
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ooshevaoo:
Hi forum,

First of all EFS backup is really REALLY important, do it.

Here is my problem, i wanted to update mahdi rom and wiped cache and data to flash a clean rom. While doing it also formatted system, firmware etc. carelessly.

I have no IMEI right now. I have a backup(not EFS) I did it but it didn't bring my IMEI with it. How can I restore it? or can I restore it? I have been reading topics for hours but I haven't found any solutions yet.

Thanks.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
fastboot flash the stock cache.img or restore a Nandroid of the cache.img

Bad format of cache is most common cause of this, not efs on this device
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder_bolt96:
Flash stock

Try to flash the stock rom and see if can solve the problem, however the EFS backup is very important and often you can't restore it without a full nandroid backup..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ooshevaoo:
rootSU was right. It worked which means thunder_bolt96's suggestion also works. Thanks a lot.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tmorterlaing:
Sorry to ask all these questions, but I can't seem to have become very confused by getting an HTC One M8, being so used to the Nexus purity and ease of unlocking- I have done various searches but people always seem quite convoluted in answers :s Sorry!

Q1: Is it possible to get back to HTC Factory settings to the original, OEM locked state, with Sense 6 and with no evidence it was ever unlocked and rooted? I was a touch freaked out by the 'Tampered with" writing on the HBoot screen.

Q2: Is the red writing dealt with here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53899551 Standard for EVERYONE who unlocks their HTC? It's not anything to worry about?

Q3: Does Xposed work on Stock sense?

Q4: The only thing I think I might be missing from Sense is the battery saving modes, which seem to be very well calibrated for the phone. is there anything similar and downloadable out there? (Both normal battery saving and extreme)- sometheing that intelligently dials down theprocessor and brightness but doesn't just disable mobile data, for example. I also love the camera app, and Sense Gallery app- but I care less because they don't affect my phone getting me through the day.

Q5: (Subjective perhaps): would you say Sense 6 is worse on battery life substantially? Ie, If I'm on CM11 it should be better battery life than sense anyway right? So those battery saver modes are less important for me?

Q6: Where can I find information about 'default' settings for stock, locked HTC (on sense and/or playstore edition):

-Governors

-Mpdescision on or off?

-Clock speeds

Q7:Another reason I got confused. I thought things like swipe to wake were built in to the ROM or Kernel, so when I put Carbon rom on my phone I was expecting it to not be on by default, because that was the case with my N4. But they are on so does that mean that the Carbon Rom devs have purposefully built it in to keep similar to HTCs stock functionality or is there somehow a 'deeper' HTC level that none can touch?

Q8: The play store apps from HTC that don't work on my M8 (like Gallery)- is it because HTC puts a root checker in their app code? If so is that one of the sacrifices of rooting my M8?

Q9: Sorry to be 'one of those people' but I'm so familiar with Nexus Roms, all of the M8 ones are utterly new territory, not least because there's a Play store M8's and Sense M8s- is there somewhere I can go and compare M8 Roms? Is there a reason the big ones (CM, Carbon, PA) don't seem to get much of a mention when googling 'best m8 rom' or is it purely because people prefer Sense based roms over standard?

Sorry, and thanks SO much in advance if you have time to even answer a few of these! I'll buy you a coffee if you answer all of them :D
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
1. Yes, but you'll need S-OFF to do so (which is easy thanks to Sunshine and TowelRoot!!)

2. Nothing to worry about

3. Yes, but not everything as some are for stock Android only

4. Not that I'm aware of

5. No, but that's my take on it

6. Don't know, I don't root my phones any more

7. HTC bake it into their ROM as standard but I couldn't tell you if it's reliant on kernel, ROM or both

8. So long as you're on Sense it should work fine
[MX Player] sylar66:
Each time I power my Android TV stick (Jelly Bean) on, having set MX Player to be the default player, I am asked by every app to select a player as default, it will then remember my choice, until I turn the Android off, them when I turn it on, the default setting is not remembered and I have to set it again. This happens only with MX Player.

I have tried clearing defaults, clearing data and uninstalling and re-installing.

It started after either of the last two updates.

Can you help?

Many thanks,

Sylar
[MX Player] Thirumalai.K:
If I am not wrong, MX player is nothing to do with default app selection.

Android controls the default app to be used. If you select always when the app list appears it will be remembered till you manually clear the default or till a new application istalled which can be associated with the same extension.

If it's not remembered even after selecting always, or being reset after restart then there may be chances of bugs in your android rom.