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[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] zhb94430:
Couple days ago when I was at work, my Z ultra suddenly lost the signal after I left it on the table for a few minutes.

At first, I thought it's just a random issue with the network and I rebooted the phone immediately.

But that doesn't solve the issue. So on my way back home, I did a full nand backup and restore the phone to the backup I made right after I flashed the rom I was using at the time. No luck. Then I switched between couple of nand backup I had on my sdcard and neither one of them worked. So i figured maybe I should use the flashtool to flash a stock rom back in.

Went back home and fired up flashtool and tried the following ftfs

C6802_14.2.A.0.290_Generic ME.ftf

C6833_14.1.b.2.257_euro-lte.ftf

C6802_14.3.A.0.757_UA_1276-6784.ftf

Still no luck.

However, in the settings app -> About phone -> Status

it actually showed me the Signal strength, and my phone number, which should rule out the possibility that the sim card reader is broken or there's any issue with the SIM card itself.

Tried searching for service providers and it would just keep showing me "searching..........."

Now I'm officially out of option besides taking it to one of sony's authorized repair center.

But I give my last hope to XDA.

Do you guys think this is a hardware issue since after trying three ftfs yet they all failed to solve this issue?

and do you guys have any suggestions on what to do next?

P.S. I have a C6802, and I was on .757 rooted when the problem occurred. And the IMEI is still there.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rye Cribby Tree:
I got my One M8 yesterday from an upgrade and rooted it, after I had rooted it I tried to S-Off with the Firewater exploit. However when I tried I get this error.

********** whelp, this sucks, firewater can not work on your device **********

********** no amount of reflashing, retrying, or ruuing will fix... **********

********** DO NOT COME TO IRC ASKING FOR UPDATES OR ETAS!!!!!! **********

********** if we are able to fix this issue, it will be announced **********

********** bye bye.....sorry it didn't work out. **********

Is there any other option to try or do I have to wait for a new exploit?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerndM14:
The only other alternative for S-OFF is Sunshine.

[Android][HTC S-OFF] SunShine for modern HTC devices

It's created by the same developers as Firewater but it seems to do the job. The catch however is, it's $25 through an in app payment method. Of course the program itself first checks your device for compatibility BEFORE you pay for anything, that way you won't end up paying for something that "might" not work. Might want to give it a shot and see, so far the people tend to view it as $25 well spent.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rye Cribby Tree:
That is unfortunate. I would really like to support these guys but money is tight, ya know. Guess I have to wait.:(
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerndM14:
Well, at least you don't need S-OFF to flash ROMs so you could probably still flash Viper or ARHD or another and have some fun with custom ROMs if you want or just wait out until you're ready to go. At least the phone is still pretty fun in it's stock state should hold for a while :good:
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bhavesh Mistry:
Firewater S-Off doesn't seems to work for Me too...

I am getting error as screenshot attached ... tried many a times but not getting success of getting through, please help!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] an0ther:
Sunshine works with all m8's. Waiting because you are tight on money could make you miss your chance.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ILowry282:
I got this same message. After meticulous research, I found that there is absolutely nothing that could be done. I decided to fork over the $25 for Sunshine and it worked like a charm. There are no codes or cables or anything. It's an app on the phone and it takes about 5 min. Well worth the money as I was able to convert my M8 to a Google Play Edition.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bhavesh Mistry:
Ok. Might give a try someday ... But first would research more further on other ways out coz shelling $25 for an app would be too much for now . Anyways thanks for the suggestion, sooner or later it will of help. :good:
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashyx:
You're not paying $25 for an app, you are paying a relatively small amount to the developers for the huge amount of work involved in achieving this. Development takes lots of painstaking hours, weeks, months to achieve something workable like this.

I know I have developed for Samsung devices and trust me $25 is perfectly acceptable if you want the developers to maintain an interest.

Tbh the choice is yours, either nobody bothers and there is no development and no S-OFF at all , so nothing for you to pay anyway or encourage the developers and say thanks by remunerating the developers for all their hard work.

Either way the choice is there, S-OFF for a small price or no S-OFF at all. ;)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diceman725:
Just curious... What is it about firewater no longer working? I read something about the most recent OTA killing it. Is it firmware/ROM related?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerndM14:
It was an error on the part of the developers, they named it "Firewater" fire and water just don't mix/work which is why Firewater didn't work either.

Sunshine on the other hand is always a good thing, it's healthy and as such it works well and is in a healthy state too. The name is everything... :D
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bhavesh Mistry:
Hey Brother ... sorry if I made you feel Offended, had no such intentions and I respect developers and their work and their life equally as much you do. Without them obvious Android would had been so boring. Dont want to stretch it further so just writing to say a SORRY :highfive: if you felt bad & I've already downloaded the app and purchased the license yesterday night, would be using it as soon as I get my handset back from the service center. Facing certain USB port issues since morning.

:good: PEACE :good:;):o;)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bhavesh Mistry:
Finally the s is off (gained S-Off) on my HTC M8 thanks to Sunshine app. :victory:

All I can say is money was worth spent, tried week long through all the means but could not get through it & finally read abt sunshine while looking for alternative and tried it & without any wires & commands prompts & hassle got s-off on my device. SO now the brilliance on my M8 is totally unleashed & will be now flashing custom ROM soon. Last but not least would like to give the credit to ashyx for diverting my mind towards going on with sunshine & BIG thanks to the team who developed this wonderful & extremely helpful app. :good:

Definitely would recommend to those for whom firewater doesnot work & wants to get S-Off & dont mind spending. !!! Go Ahead !!!
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PatrickMundial:
hey guys i need to install this http://xdaforums.com/moto-g/development/4-4-4-nightlies-paranoid-4-4-motorola-t2792041

i have a MOTOG GPE and i have a question

I already have the MotoG version of google, I need to install the GAAP?

I need to install paranoid, I have to install only the rooms only?

PD : i have motog GPE 4.4.4

HELP ME
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Liberr:
Flash the ROM and flash GAPPS after that. There is enough information on the forum. Read guides, read information about the ROM you want to flash, and give it a try yourself first before asking questions.
[LG Optimus G (International)] landal:
Hi all,

I just manage to decrypt KDZ and DZ from v20A! thanks to this tool https://github.com/guilhem/kdzutils/tree/V500

Here is what we have:

$ python DZFileTools.py -f kdzextracted/E97520a_00.dz -l
[+] DZ Partition List
=========================================
0 : PrimaryGPT_0.bin (4091 bytes)
1 : modem_16384.bin (25454341 bytes)
2 : sbl1_147456.bin (47821 bytes)
3 : sbl2_148480.bin (73170 bytes)
4 : sbl3_149504.bin (252611 bytes)
5 : aboot_153600.bin (189169 bytes)
6 : rpm_154624.bin (78012 bytes)
7 : boot_163840.bin (9706138 bytes)
8 : tz_212992.bin (105942 bytes)
9 : system_376832.bin (76168232 bytes)
10 : system_640008.bin (2313 bytes)
11 : system_644120.bin (98298105 bytes)
12 : system_905232.bin (101178562 bytes)
13 : system_1168408.bin (81606307 bytes)
14 : system_1429520.bin (71751598 bytes)
15 : system_1692696.bin (65818293 bytes)
16 : system_1953808.bin (90639810 bytes)
17 : system_2216984.bin (77950797 bytes)
18 : system_2478096.bin (92035614 bytes)
19 : system_2741272.bin (74674780 bytes)
20 : system_3002384.bin (101457491 bytes)
21 : system_3264528.bin (74465678 bytes)
22 : system_3522560.bin (2314 bytes)
23 : system_3784704.bin (2314 bytes)
24 : system_4046848.bin (2314 bytes)
25 : system_4308992.bin (2314 bytes)
26 : persist_59637760.bin (21072 bytes)
27 : recovery_60178432.bin (10319555 bytes)
28 : BackupGPT_61070336.bin (4086 bytes)

I extract sbl1, sbl2, sbl3, rpm, aboot and tz and put it in a flashable .zip (from http://xdaforums.com/nexus-4/general/nexus-4-bootloader-collection-t2105983 )

I put this here

/!\ I DON'T TEST IT MYSELF

Before trying, someone with official 4.4.2 can tell me if custom recovery with 4.4.2 bootloader?
[General Questions and Answers] iwinmail:
Any roms available for the alcatel one touch fierce and bootloader unlock and a recovery?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smilejack1:
Is there a mod for NFC while screenoff & Lockscreen yet? I can't find it anywhere...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisbass:
Install xposed and the wanam module. I believe it's under lock screen settings
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smilejack1:
I wasn't familiar with Xposed and now I'm going to waste the rest of my Saturday fiddling around with it, and the NFC setting is under System, not Lockscreen.. :eek:

But a gazillion thanks nonetheless!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisbass:
Ahhhh....I knew it was somewhere. No problem, have fun!!
[Moto X Q&A] MrBridgeSix:
After some time with the Moto X I start now to see some bad coloring on the screen I don't know how to explain but a blank page on chrome for example, I can notice little rectangles in what should be plain white like inside that rectangle color changes a little bit to a bit darker or a bit lighter compared to the rectangles around.

just I notice it ? Is it a flaw of the amoled tech or what ? (the effect is less visible with brightness on maximum and almost not visible on vibrant colors, but pretty noticeable on white and gray)
[Moto X Q&A] devilsdouble:
I absolutely see it, while I was browsing on Chrome today noticed it for the first time. On light background it's extremely annoying, and bad. I don't know if they are rectangles or not, but on mine there are horizontal vertical lines all over the panel. Yes it won't be visible on colourful images / background but not every background is like that, nor should be.

This is not a very good Samsung panel Moto chose here. With the kind of obsession I have about displays I don't know, this might become a deal breaker. Sad :(

PS : The easiest way to notice if your phone has same kind of annoyance or not is to just zoom in in a grey or white area of a webpage, keep the brightness at auto or at 50% and then fix your eye at one certain point of the X's screen and then scroll that white area of the page vertically, and keep doing that for about 15-20 seconds, it should be easily noticeable then.
[Moto X Q&A] MrBridgeSix:
After a little research I discovered that this is a flaw of the AMOLED technology more specifically of the Pentile Matrix of Samsung's Note 2 (that is the same as in the Moto X), the effect is pretty noticeable on white/gray/light blue and dark green :/ Is just sad that Motorola chose a so poor screen tech on high end smartphone...
[Moto X Q&A] devilsdouble:
Well yeah. Had the Note 2 but don't really remember if it had the same problem or not. But Pentile was there on the S4 too and I am quite sure I didn't notice this on the S4, maybe because it had way better PPI, don't know.
[Moto X Q&A] MrBridgeSix:
Check here: Page five of anandtech's review of the Moto X (I can't post any links sry)

Note 2 and the Moto X are exactly the same with non symmetrical pixels (both have the issues that we are talking about), the S4 has symmetrical pixels, might explain why it does not have.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andy905:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.z2software.antplus&hl=en

Anyone know if this might work on our M8, apparently it enabled ant+ on the M7. I'm not rooted so can't test it but wouldn't mind buying the app if someone wants to test it.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stephen:
I have changed your link to the play store link as it is a paid app. Letting people download paid apps for free is against our warez policy. Also I have moved your thread to Q&A as it is a better fit for the thread.

Many thanks,

Ghost
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andy905:
Thanks alot, my apologies for the link if it's warez. I just wanted a link to provide the app details so people know what I'm talking about. However I'm willing to buy the app for someone willing to test it.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerndM14:
Well it clearly states it isn't compatible with "my" device. There isn't even an option to buy it...
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh-maz0r:
Necro -

I emailed the dev it's not supported as it only works with specific chips, which the HTC M8 doesn't have.

On a side note, I stumbled across the following commit to AICP -

This could be just for the Sony Rhine, but not sure why they would commit it into the M8 source.

http://mirror3.aicp-rom.com/m8/NIGHTLY/aicp_m8_kitkat-5.0-NIGHTLY-20140908.zip.html

Unfortunately I haven't been able to test yet, and it could simply be the USB driver which is on the stock Google and Sense 6 rom.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superm@π:
Confirmed. Ant+ works on this ROM

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3023868

【ROM】【5.0.1】【SENSE-6.0】(¯`'•ADRENALINE•'´¯)【02/06/15】【LOLLIPOP】
[Samsung Galaxy Star] AMIT KARMAKAR:
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III} Easy to use.

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Android 4.0+

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* I JUST RESIZE THE SCREENSHOTS FOR BETTER VIEW.............................

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[Samsung Galaxy Star] AMIT KARMAKAR:
Ss
[Samsung Galaxy Star] ARGHA_DAS:
Graet Lockscreen...Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denyo1977:
I have following "problem":

Over night my Nexus 5 is in airplane mode. If someone sends me a text message during the night and I turn off airplane mode and receive the message, Handcent only shows the time when I received the message. Even when I click on details it shows the same time for Datetime of recipient sent message and Datetime of received message. Obviously it could have been coincidence and the text message was sent exactly in that moment. But it happens every time. So I wonder if it's a Android 4.x problem (it used to work a year or two ago) or a network one (Three UK)?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] winny:
I have seen lots of posts that explain how to close running programs,

and how to get memory back.

But I would like to know how I can let software run continuously

in the background.

I put the exe. of the program it in my start-up folder, and after a reset the program runs.

But sometimes during the day I close all other running software, to get

back memory. But when I do, I forget to startup the one that needs to

run in the background continuously.

Can someone please explain how to let it run continuously, without

accidentally closing it ?

tnx.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] winny:
Is there really no-one here that knows how to do it ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] dotfred:
It depends which soft you're using to close the whole set of running applications. Some of those applications managers have an option where you can put exceptions, so when you call the close all functionality, all the excluded apps won't be closed.

Cheers,

.Fred
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Trashman:
or if u use vbar make ur program active and use the "close all axcept active" option...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] frazell:
How are you closing these apps?

As by default Windows Mobile keeps every app running in the backround (and is why you see so much talk about how to <i>really</i> close applications).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] dotfred:
Windows mobile just minimize them. In order to close them, you have to post a WM_CLOSE to the main window of an application. This should in most cases be enough to close an app.

Cheers,

.Fred
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] winny:
tnx guys for your help.

I use Wisbar, but I am not sure if there is an option in it to exclude

a program. I will look into it and see if it works.

I was also thinking about making a change in the registry to

keep the software moving.

As I am not a tech-guy, I do not know if this makes sense.

So forgive me, if this sounds stupid.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] :
Having quite the same problem, just another exe - the CardAutoRun.exe, just another device, a Prophet; see my thread here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=278672

I also have a TaskMangager, but there CardAutoRun is not visible at all - and I very seldomly use it to close *all* applications.

Yesterday I did a soft reset, after which the CardAutoRun worked for two tests with two different cards - then I simply switched off my Prophet (sent it to sleep), switched on again - and the next SDcard inserted didn't autostart (as it _did_ just before off/on).

Obviously CheckAutoRun gets kicked out by that automatic task managing of Windows ...?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] winny:
I found out that Wisbar does a good job.

In Wisbar/Settings/Task Management you can clearly define which

programs need to keep running in the background continuously,

even if you close all at the same time.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] winny:
It does not work

Now, I thought that Wisbar (or taskmanagers in general)

would do a good job. There still is a problem.

Yes, wisbar (or some other task manager) will keep software

running in the background at startup.

But as soon as I start Internet Explorer, the software that

should keep on running in de background is closed.

No matter how I configure the Taskmanager, as soon as I

start Explorer ALL programs are closed automatically.

Does someone know what is happening here ?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] san_099:
Hello Everyone,

I came across the issue of NO WIFI and NO INTERNAL SDCARD after rooting and at this point I just want to backup using titanium my files and apps, then i can move on to another custom ROM.

Reading the threads the only solution is to flash stock roms again, the problem is the extreme slow download for the stock roms.

Is there a fix to the wifi and sdcard without flashing stock?

What is i flash megafire, will i get these issues solved?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

YES!!

Flashing Megafire solved the wifi and sdcard issue, i managed to backup and moved on to a custom rom.

Although I am still getting the two red lines on boot, i would love to remove it....any suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] captemo:
Glad you got up and going. Not my variant, but I ha e heard of others with red lines, then a green one showed also in next day or so.

Again....not my variant, so I am sorry I do t know of fix.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GnatGoSplat:
My DInc NAND went bad, it became read-only and could not be written to. This is the 8GB NAND that houses /data, /cache, and /emmc partitions.

Tiny came out with a nice little patch for me, to patch custom ROMs in order to use partitions on the physical SD card as /data and /cache. That worked well for awhile, though with an occasional glitch where I'd get random factory resets. Anyway, I don't use the DInc anymore, thinking to fix it with a new motherboard from a cracked screen phone or something and selling it. Probably won't hardly go for anything, but it's not doing me much good sitting around. With that plan in mind, I decided to pull the bad NAND chip just to see how hard that is. Got a new SMD rework station and figured it's something I could goof off with on a boring Saturday morning. It came out without much fuss.

Anyhow, now the phone won't boot CM11 with the NAND chip missing. The phone does try to boot because /boot and /system are on a different NAND chip, but now it's not seeing /data or /cache on the physical SD card, at least that's my guess. I do plan to replace the motherboard, but mainly just curious why it no longer works. Is because of partition order? Because I lost 3 bad read-only partitions, the partition count is now off?

I knew it was possible I'd end up killing my DInc by pulling the bad NAND and I'm not too broken up about it. Mainly just curious why it no longer works, and kind of wondering if it's possible to fix.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GnatGoSplat:
Figured out some stuff.

With bad NAND chip removed, MicroSD takes its place as /dev/block/mmcblk0.

In a way, this is kind of good. If I make 3 partitions on MicroSD, I no longer need to use Tiny's patch or a custom recovery to map everything to mmcblk1. I can now use the same TWRP recovery everyone else uses and it recognizes mmcblk0p1 as /data, mmcblk0p2 as /cache, and mmcblk0p3 as /emmc.

Even CM11 and Evervolve 4.4.4 work without any patch and recognizes mmcblk0p1 as /data, mmcblk0p2 as /cache.

However, neither ROM maps mmcblk0p3 to anything. /sdcard, /emmc, /storage/sdcard0, /storage/sdcard1, none of those are mapped to mmcblk0p3.

UPDATE: Figured it out. Had to change /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host/mmc2 to /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.2/mmc_host/mmc1 in fstab.inc.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekweezle:
just wondering, how are you determining that you have a bad nand chip? are you running any sort of test that can tell you definitely?

I have 3 dincs, 2 that I bought refurbished and used on eBay that seem to have been repaired(the water damage sticker has been tripped). I always assumed that the HTC Dinc was just a weak, limited and terrible phone due to bad 1st generation design. My phones had been prone to rebooting and errors due to the small system app partition. But they have worked reasonably well for me the last 3-4 years.

I upgraded all 3 to the latest evervolv 4.0 version with TWRP 2.6.3 and 2 of the 3 seem to have taken the upgrade well. have the 3rd one constantly reboots when trying to access anything via the play store. The internal 8 gig EMMC card had disappeared from it and also at times, the wifi controller disappears. I down graded it all the way back to Tiny 5-16(which it had run for the last 2 years) and it stabilized for the most part with the EMMC being seen again. Do you think the missing EMMC partition is a sure indicator that the memory on the phone is bad?