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[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Sucio42:
Hi Alx31TLse,

I ended up flashing back to stock firmware since I couldn't find any other way into the tab other than Flashtool. The good thing was I found a 4.4.4 firmware and it's a huge improvement over the 4.1.2 this tab was running. I would imagine I lost the boot.img I loaded previously for your rom once I did this. I will give it another try though in the next few days. I just wanted to thank you again for all your help. Flashing,Rooting and all around working on a Sony Tab was pretty new to me, but with your help I was able to learn alot about the different steps, resources and solutions. It's people like you in this community that have made it my only site for modding my phones for the last 10 years or so. Regards, and if we don't communicate again for a bit I want to wish you and everyone in the community a Wonderful Thanksgiving, Happy Chanukah and a Merry Christmas.

Cheers,

Ricky
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Essentrix:
Hi All

I have a Z tablet 16GB WiFi with 4.4.4

Have rooted, unlocked bootloader and installed TWRP.

Prob is I cant seem to flash any custom ROM successfully.

As soon as I flash the boot.img the tablet reboots to Sony logo and that's it. I cant get back into recovery or system.

If I don't flash boot.img and try to install a _Windy ROM from recovery it tells me I have a Pollux tablet. If I flash the _pollux it flashes successfully but of course tablet will not reboot.

Any thoughts?
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Lupin The Third:
First of all you can't flash .IMG files on recovery. .IMG files are to be flashed via fastboot through a Linux/windows computer.

You have a Pollux_windy tablet so you'll need a flashable ROM for that that you can flash in recovery.

What do you mean that tablet won't start after flashing windy?
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Alx31:
Steps are ALWAYS the same for ALL cm/aosp roms...

UNLOCK BOOTLOADER

FASTBOOT FLASH BOOT.IMG

BOOT INTO ITS RECOVERY

FULL WIPES

FLASH ROM+ GAPPS

u not into that procedure? don't ask why it doesn't work....
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Essentrix:
Thx for getting back to me. To clarify; each time I flashed the img via fastboot then I reboot to system. The Sony logo comes up and that's as far as it goes...
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Alx31:
from there u boot into recovery by pressing vol+ ; but on my latest builds maybe recovery is not working, then take cm boot.img and flash my roms, then after flash, u fastboot flash again dat cm boot.img in order to get a working recovery on the rom
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Essentrix:
Thanks for the feedback. I'm experienced in rooting a number of Asus Nexus and Samsung devices but can't seem to work it on the Xperia.

Unlocked bootloader with code from Sony

Fastboot flash boot.img using flashtools

Here's where nothing happens. I hit reboot to system. The tablet reboots to Sony logo and that's it. Goes no further.

Would appreciate any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong.

Cheers
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Alx31:
your bootloader is not unlocked...dat the only explanations i see, also u have to install flashtool at the root of your system; means at C:/ not C:/doc/bla/bla/bla and then in C:/FlashTool/drivers/ u will find an .exe , u run it as admin, and 4 boxes has to be ticked in hte driver list

flashmode

fastboot

adb drivers (for fusion3 devices)

drivers for tab z

dats it dats all...if u have "writing boot: OKAY" in flashtool log, then kernel is properly flashed

then u boot in recovery (soon as u fire up device, u hit vol+ rocker while led is purple), but as i said, my last builds have broken recoveries...
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Essentrix:
Again thanks for getting back to me so quickly. :)

Flashtool is in root directory and working for all other procedures such as flashing stock ROM.

Drivers seem to be installed and working for flashmode and fastboot as Flashtool picks up the device in both modes

Used service menu to confirm the bootloader is unlocked

This might be my error - I've been flashing img as system and not getting "writing boot: OKAY"

17/003/2014 07:03:58 - INFO - Device connected in fastboot mode

17/004/2014 07:04:06 - INFO - Selected system (system.img or system.sin): C:\TemXperia\boot.img

17/004/2014 07:04:06 - INFO - Flashing selected system

17/004/2014 07:04:06 - INFO - Please check the log before rebooting into system

How to write as boot in flashtool menu?

Just realised I should flash as custom kernel... getting my head around flashtool. This should solve the problem?

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17/033/2014 07:33:10 - INFO - Flashing selected kernel

17/033/2014 07:33:10 - INFO - sending 'boot' (8136 KB)...

17/033/2014 07:33:10 - INFO - OKAY [ 0.275s]

17/033/2014 07:33:10 - INFO - writing 'boot'...

17/033/2014 07:33:10 - INFO - OKAY [ 0.391s]

17/033/2014 07:33:10 - INFO - finished. total time: 0.665s

17/033/2014 07:33:10 - INFO - FASTBOOT Output:

sending 'boot' (8136 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.275s]

writing 'boot'...

OKAY [ 0.391s]

finished. total time: 0.665s

Yes problem is still getting back into recovery after flashing the boot.img. Should I try an earlier ROM to make it easier?

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Seems to work but still cant get to recovery...obviously my bad somewhere.
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Alx31:
no; your kernel is flashing ok according to your logs

get an older version of carbon; like 3 or 4 behind, extract boot.img and flash it, from there u have a working recovery and rom's zip onto ya sd card or partition. then u make required wipes, flash rom and gapps, and fastboot flash dat same boot.img u flashed before...again on top of carbon... cuz once u flash rom's zip; indeed u have kernel wich is inside with a non working recovery. u got me?
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Essentrix:
Thanks for feedback.

Used version 5 boot.img and working a treat. Appreciate the help during my learning curve. Good to have a familiar interface again... :) Cheers
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Alx31:
no prob...but keep in mind dat what i have said...have been told thousand times ;) so from now u gonna read a bit more :p
[Xperia Tablet Z Android Development] Essentrix:
No prob mate. Getting your head around new device is always a learning curve. Running your candy ROM; loving it! Cheers
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ken2802:
Are there any good free alternatives for lastpass.

I tried Keepas2Android but i miss the autofill function with that one.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lookenx:
Sup guys, what's up? Alright, no rounds. I have just downloaded the Magic 2015 and get a Force Close (stop working) in the end of the stage 2 of the tutorial. I have played so much Magic 2014 that i already can't get anything more from the game. So... I've searched the web and encountered alot of other people with the same error as mine. Knowing that this is a high level forum, i hope some of you little NerdAngels with no wings can help me out!

Thanks already!
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lookenx:
UP.

No one can help me?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ganzuas:
Hi, bro, I get force close too with Magic 2015 but I think that Android L in Nexus 5 is the problem but...
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FelixMG:
I got this problem too. But Magic 2014 works fine and is way better than the 2015 edition.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ganzuas:
Hi again, try to disable the battle animations in settings. No FC for me at the moment.

Edit: Try to download the 3071 version instead of 3511.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xXCoolGuYXx:
Hello I loved playing Magic 2015 the apk on Android and I was wondering if any of you guys play it, because my apk just stop working and I don't know why all it does is FC when I open it and I wanted to know if any of you know why it's not working and is it working for you and I was also wondering if there is any other Magic apk out there that I could play that was like Magic 2015?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] octopus82:
Hello,

I have an i545 with imei NULL/NULL

so I need efs backup for this phone, to see if it's an software or hardware issue

Thank's
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] octopus82:
do not pay attention to the model on the label, because it's a refurbished phone in China;in download mode is a sch-i545 and I flashed with a stock rom i545

I'm waiting you; thank's
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] rilderbeast:
Hellp me too xc

Hey I bought a phone off ebay and the dude scammed me, it has a null imei and I feel like I'm out of opions so pleeease help :( its an i545 btw and my imei on the back is 990004373721459 THANKS!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] darklime:
This probably won't work but I was wondering if you could get the Galaxy S5 camera on the Galaxy S4 on the official CyanogenMod 11 KitKat.

The reason why I ask is because I love almost everything about Cyanogenmod but my camera on the S4 cannot focus close shots and always end up being blurry. I don't even care for the S5 features but that the camera has a very good focus. Even if not the app, is there another app I can try that works or even to just get the focusing like the S5?

My phone was bought new and I never dropped it yet it cannot focus close shots. Is this a defect? Should I replace my camera with a new piece? Thanks.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dontbeweakvato:
I recently received another scammish text which led me to suspect an app or apk I installed was to blame (possibly). Is there a way to chronologically see things I've installed on my phone. Stock Downloads app won't work because if I deleted the apk or installed it in a different way it won't show. There should be a way to see all of the things you've installed non market, apks, modules, or whatever. To be able to trace back and find a culprit. Kinda like a criminal rap sheet.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Perfectdevil:
Your best bet is TITANIUM BACKUP !!! Sort all apps by date installed it will give you time installed !!!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dontbeweakvato:
No. I want something that can chronologically list on my phone all of those things that I've installed or modified or installed then deleted. Like a total history of installs.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Past package installations, probably not. Future installations, maybe.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dontbeweakvato:
you're getting on the right track sir. Like having a time machine where I can go back in look a the things that have happened so I can pin point possible problems.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Last time machine I had was in '68. Wasn't worth a damn. Thing always broke at the worst times. I'm still trying to get back. I'd suggest not putting things on your device that might cause problems.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dontbeweakvato:
That's good advice to give about my device, from someone that can't take care of a 46 yo time machine. I need a way to log all installed/uninstalled apps, apks, modules, and /system changes. Where's it at?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dontbeweakvato:
Please elaborate....
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darth:
Haven't heard of such a thing. Sorry.

Titanium can tell you app installs, even play store kinda keeps track. Initial install order anyway.

But to track apps, mods, alterations...anything? Nope. And flashing in recovery would not be trackable inside the O/S anyway.

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Basically, if there isn't some kind of a thing on the play store....then it doesn't exist. :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Scam texts are pretty common in some countries. I don't think it has anything to do with an app you installed unless you gave Snapchat your phone number as they got hacked a while back.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dontbeweakvato:
No snap chat for me. I thought of this idea for logs of this stuff before. There's got to be a way!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darth:
You may need to learn app development and make a way. ;)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
If you made an app to log package installs it would be a waste of time + have to be running on your device all the time. It'll also hardly be of any use, since most people aren't installing like 20 apps a day, every day. Just write it down if you really need to LOL.

For packages you currently have installed via Play or .apk installation you could go into /data/app and look at the dates on the .apk files. If you flashed something in recovery it'll show up as August 1 1970 or August 1 2008 or whatever generic date. As said previously, Titanium Backup uses this if you sort by date lol.

Edit, example (most mine are 25 July since I restored them through Titanium Backup):
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] www.SCHNEISING.de:
Hello Molski!

I just found your new beta ROM in the upload section. Would you please be so kind and pass me the password to extract the files?

I really love your ROMs and was impatiently waiting for any news of you. So please let me be one of your BETA-Testers...

Thanks for your great work,

Balu
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] cptkirc:
Hi, does this ROM have German UI?

PW would be great to try...

rgds,

Christian
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] www.SCHNEISING.de:
How shall I know? I can't even unpack it. But usually Molski develops ROMs in dutch an WWEnglish, as far as I know...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Dr Puttingham:
Wait a little while ...

Molski's uploading 2.3 final as we speak....

btw.... it's tha bomb!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] www.SCHNEISING.de:
Well, fine, but I don't care for AKU2.x

I am trying to install the AKU3.x version from the Upload Area. And that's what I am trying to find the password for...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Dr Puttingham:
Well I'm sorry to hear that! I doubt that Molski's gonna give it out, he's got his reasons....
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] www.SCHNEISING.de:
Bad news, because I already tried Molski's 2.x ROM and it was perfect. Then I found an AKU3 ROM by Faria, which is also great, but with that I have the problem of unexplainable power ups. So I was hoping to get a 3.x ROM from Molski, which doesn't produce this error. And I would be glad to become a beta tester for him!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Colton127:
Hi XDA folks! Sorry if this has been posted before, I looked and can't find any information.

----

I installed CPU memory monitor on my Note 3 and closed all background applications in "active applications". I also greenify literally everything that doesn't cause a problem. However, the CPU usage on my android device, with absolutely nothing open except the CPU monitor, is about 10%.

On my PC, when idle, the CPU usage never goes above 3% (i7 @ 4.5ghz), however shouldn't my phone do the same? The most resource intensive process is cpumonitor itself - using 2% CPU. System stays about .5-3%.

My theory is that, because the phone is underclocked to a very low frequency when idle, any little task will use a bit of CPU percentage. Is my theory correct?

I also noticed a lot of RAM is used idle, but this is no problem to me. I know unused RAM is better, it is good that Android caches everything it can.

Thanks a lot
[Moto X Q&A] laurorual:
When someone calls me I can't answer an incoming call. If I'm lookin at stuff on my phone it just rings and freezes what ever its on. If I try to touch the screen it doesn't respond to any touch. Really frustrated as this is my first motorola smartphone. Isn't the call screen supposed to pop up? I have rooted my phone and I'm using xposed, but I've tried to disable every module on it and still same problem! And there is others with the same problem as mine (probably without root) out there :/

Please any help would be very appreciated! Thanks
[Moto X Q&A] Restola:
There is a gravity box setting called 'non-intrusive calls' or something like that, might be part of the problem.

My guess is its exposed. Uninstall all modules, uninstall the framework, flash the disabler zip in recovery and try it again.
[Moto X Q&A] samwathegreat:
I helped another user with an issue that matches what you have described exactly. After much troubleshooting, the only thing that fixed it was to flash the entire stock SBF as per the "Return to Stock" thread.

Keep in mind this erases EVERYTHING, including anything you have downloaded to the internal memory. So save anything important to your PC first, and put it back afterwards.

You can try other methods, but I fear they won't work - based on [much] experience.

Good Luck!
[Moto X Q&A] laurorual:
I feared this. I just can't imagine why this happened out of nothing. But thanks for the advice, I'll try to do this :(
[Moto X Q&A] rocketsaucev2:
Aha! At least you got some responses! I posted here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2826011 with the same issue and got none but yes I'm experiencing the same issue. Very dumb the phone just doesn't let you answer and takes the nav bar away

Sent from my XT1060
[Moto X Q&A] samwathegreat:
Sorry [MENTION=4992498]rocketsaucev2[/MENTION] . I must have missed your thread, otherwise I would have suggested this. I try to help, whenever possible. At least now you have some suggestions to go on.... Good Luck.
[Moto X Q&A] rocketsaucev2:
No sweat I didn't mean anything by it. Fwiw I did an fdr and re-fastbooted 4.4.4 (vzw) and everything is working now [emoji4]

Sent from my XT1060
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sebbe76:
Hello everybody

Will get my S5 mini within 3 days..

Is there any root,that works?!

BR

Sebbe
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sebbe76:
No one?!
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toterkeks:
there is no root for the S5 mini and S3 mini VE yet
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polyconvex:
Success, but KNOX tripped

Chainfire has an autoroot for all version of S5 mini now see http://autoroot.chainfire.eu
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sebbe76:
++++++++

Danke Schön!!

It worked!!!You´re the MAN

BR

Sebastian
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pen²:
Thanks a lot! What did you do to get your flashable .tar.md5 from the auto root g900h? Is there a howto which reveals how to do this?
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polyconvex:
Hi,

No there is no howto beyond the standard how to make a custom rom and kernel using android kitchen. I simply analysed the recovery image in CF-Auto-Root and took the hardware relevant files and replaced them with those from the stock recovery of SM-G800F, and set the filesystems and sizes appropriately. Most of the magic happens in executable binaries made by Chainfire that are run automatically when recovery mode is started. I do not have their source code.

Cheers.
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pen²:
Thanks for your answer! I was asking because I was hoping to adapt the new G800FXXU1ANGE image from samfirmware but without a howto I won't try this with my s5 mini for the first time (too much worries to brick it :/)
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polyconvex:
Hi,

The rooting file above should work even on G800FXXU1ANGE. First flash the new firmware normally via Odin. Then after reboot flash the CF-auto-root from above. Only in the last step to get the original recovery back you need to get that file out of the new firmware package.

I can tell you how to make a odin flashable file with just the original recovery under linux. Copy the original tar.md5 file to /tmp and do the following commands

tar -xf your_original_firmware.tar.md5
tar -c -H ustar recovery.img > G800ForiginalrecoveryXXU1ANGE.tar
md5sum -t G800ForiginalrecoveryXXU1ANGE.tar >> G800ForiginalrecoveryXXU1ANGE.tar
mv G800ForiginalrecoveryXXU1ANGE.tar G800ForiginalrecoveryXXU1ANGE.tar.md5

I hope this helps.

Cheers.
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pen²:
Thanks a lot! Unfortunately, the XXU1ANGE-File could not be flashed (Odin yielded a "FAIL" multiple times and odin versions), so ANG7 is the most recent working option.
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccarpo:
Thank you very much! Worked great for me.
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moamh1:
Hey guys, can you please help out with the SM-G800H version, its the S5 Mini Dual Sim version, I have tried to update the firmware using all the versions on Sammobile but they all fail at system.img.ext4?
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neumann:
Thanks, it worked great. Is the last step only required if I want to remove root or is it recommended anyways if I want to stay with root.
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polyconvex:
Hi,

The last step does not remove root. It reinstates the original recovery partition, so in download mode it goes back to everything official instead of custom. One might need the recovery if something goes wrong and one wants to do a data wipe or cache wipe.
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renan00:
There is some rooting way working on g800h (dual chip version) ? MIne is brazilian, and i got FAIL "nand write error"...

Thanks anyway!
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renan00:
Anyone? Please... root for G800H the S5 Mini Duos.
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renan00:
Thanks friend! I Tried and work great! And have the portuguese brazilian language ;D !!!
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lembeee:
Did u flash the Russian file via Odin? Steps pls
[Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renan00:
Yes friend... the normal steps to flash:

put in download mode;

flash via odin with "auto reboot" and "f. reset time" ticked...

I recomend to wipe data after flash.

works great!
[Nokia X] F3AR:
This phones audio is not loud enough. Its too much hazy... On the other hand ViPER is not working for strange reasons.... Is there any other way i can increase my audio output.....
[Nokia X] plankton69:
Which ROM are you using? :)
[Nokia X] F3AR:
Lewa and Baidu both.... Haven't really tested the other ones..... But any sound MOD i can use to improve the volume.... Its super low.....
[Nokia X] plankton69:
With MiniROM, I had very loud and good sound on the phone's speaker. It had ViPER by default, though... My current ROM uses DSP Manager, with also good speaker sound. Your ROM has a different sound manager?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zzk2009:
I'm coming from an iPhone to the D802 so I hope you can understand my unfamiliarity and obliviousness. The root equivalent (jailbreak) is child's play compared to this.

I want to install the Optimus g3 rom on my lg g2 as it seems clean and seems to rid of a lot of bloat.

My g2 is pretty new. After I have rooted it using some of the tutorials on here and install TWRP recovery (those two things seems simple enough, hard to make a mistake thereI do I just download and flash the rom through TWRP? It says something about the kit Kat baseband do I have to install that? If so, why and what is it? I am on 4.4.2 kit Kat already.

The dreaded questions:

I know all this will void warranty, if I need to take it for repair, what steps can I take?

Is there a true way of completely going back to 100% out of the box stock?

As I have mentioned I am coming from an iPhone and restoring to stock is really simple over there.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nigglenuts:
If you were on the latest ota, no need for the kk baseband... Ya just download a Rom of your choosing (you seem smart enough to choose correct device model :P) then enter twrp and wipe everything except internal storage. Flash the Rom that you want and reboot. Wait 5 minutes for it to settle in. LG flash tools is the way to return to stock... Either that or sideloading the STOCK tot file...
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinninbsod:
Oh and always make a backup the one time you don't you will regret it