yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MajorTux:
I use them to download Linux distros. You would be surprised how many artist and movies actually release there work on bit torrent sites for free.

https://bundles.bittorrent.com/#!/

https://www.jamendo.com/en/welcome

http://linuxtracker.org/

https://archive.org/details/bittorrent

http://www.mininova.org/featured/cat/

..

I could go on.

A lot of movie studios, record company, and independent artist will do this to hype there movie or even get people to donate to them and lets the consumer pay what they want for the movie. A good example of this would be a small mom and pop store may practically give things away to get people in the door and away from the big business. So in Turn if people can down load the torrents the company will not make money.....But the fact is the portion of people that are doing this is pretty small, but some people still do it. Again just like the amount of people that will shop at a mom and pop store opposed to Walmart,Target,Whole Foods,Ex...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] XiphoneUzer:
I just ditched att after 6 years because they were throttling my data at 5gs. I unlocked the sim, bought a tmo sim for $10.75 and now I pay 80per month for unlimited data, phone, tx, with zero throttling and no contract. I get extremely fast 20-30 mbps download speeds and have ditched the $45 per month att wifi. I am at almost 100gs this month by running my n3, laptop, and kids ipads. I do not go to torrent download sites at all, am I in jeopardy of being throttled by tmo ???
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] wase4711:
yep; if you continue to use 100 gigs per month, eventually you will be throttled..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] jazzmachine:
XiPhoneUzer, I did the exact same. I paid more than necessary for YEARS to hold on to my "Grandfathered Unlimited Plan" despite generally using wifi and using (sometimes well) under 2 gigs of mobile data every month for the prior year (not to mention crippled, locked-down bootloader phones). It was the "just in case" mentality, ya know? Well, about a year ago now, "just in case happened"... I lost power in my apartment for like a week (obviously no modem / router / computers...) Man, I sure was glad I held on to that Unlimited plan! Immediately started watching some Netflix and... taking care of business (such as downloading a couple new Linux ISOs). Well, I hit 5 gigs mobile data that night. Got a warning message at like 4990 MB, then 5 mins later, my connection was immediately throtled down to completely "can't load a webpage" unusable. ATT reps were super helpful, like, "Man, that's too bad." and "At least you only have to wait until next Wednesday." Wouldn't even "let" me pay for more data with a usable connection! ... I no longer make use of their services.

On topic... my concern is: Is this going affect people who use clearly legitimate apps / services like BT Sync? That is, am I going to need to keep my KeePass database synced across devices via USB otg every time I update it on my computer, or some multi-step LAN upload? No, I'm not cool with keeping that kind of thing on GDrive or whatever.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ttabbal:
You guys need to research and chill. They are only interested in the very top downloaders. These are people moving Terrabytes/month. Your 100GB is probably not even on the radar. They are also only applying the throttle to those users when the network is crowded and those people are causing problems for other users on the network. This is not the time to freak out about it. Watch, and call them on their BS, should it be called for, but for now, it's really not. This isn't a comcast style "kill all connections that look like bittorrent" deal.

To give some idea of scale, they claimed that they were contacting 20 users for this first time. Seems quite reasonable, right now. If they start to get bad, they have to know they will be called out on it. Save the rage, we might need it later.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] hellejoep:
All,

Currently I am upgrading to a rom which just gave me a wong vendor ID....

When you start up the upgrade whilst you are connected via activesync it goes into a bootloader state.....then it gave me the wrong vendor id....

I kept my TYTN in this state and started the RUU_HERMES_HTC_WWE_1[1].35.255.2_1.35.255.102_1.08.00.10_SHIP.EXE file again, after accepting the terms again the upgrade started....and is currently running. It seems to be running very slowly (ie it seems to be connected via serial.....)

But lets hope this works, otherwise I have a bricked TYTN by the end of this day.......

I'll keep you all posted,

Cheers!

Hellejoep
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] hellejoep:
It worked like a charm, the beginning was very slow but then it went very easily from 16% to 66% and then it finished...

So we got a workaround, I hope it also works with the rest ;-)

Good luck everyone!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] rsolomon:
Did you have bootloader 1.04 when you started? This sounds exactly like the 1.04 "bug" which allowed different CID ROMs using just this technique.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] hellejoep:
Yes, I had bootloader 1.04.... So nothing new then?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] rsolomon:
No, and in fact now you are probably hosed as you can't go back unless you have a proper-CID flash with 1.04 *OR* you can find the pirated/hacked bootloader to sneak back to 1.04 :(

Richard
[Droid Ultra General] jenkies:
I'm starting this bounty at $50 because this phone is awesome, with so much potential and we currently have no root access, etc.

BTW, edit your post in the 4.4 thread if you posted a bounty there for 4.4.4, that threads purpose has been accomplished. I just edited mine out as a mistake. If I miss you in the op please pm me and I'll update asap. Thanks.

jenkies

@ rds217 $20

@ s_u_n $20

@ Kittimasak $30

@ arsenal553 $20

@ parsnip2 $15

@ phukt 1288 $20

@ pottlepaul $20

@ camblue $30

Total $175
[Droid Ultra General] mblanton66:
Good luck!
[Droid Ultra General] rds217:
Could you change the title of the thread to "Bounty for unlocked bootloader"?

It seems that we are much closer to getting that via Dan Rosenberg's method than having someone find an exploit for the 4.4.4 firmware to obtain root. Note that an unlocked bootloader will allow for both root and write protection off for the lifetime of the device, over all* OTA patches to come.

*unless the OTA relocks the bootloader and patches the vulnerability discovered by Dan, then we're SOL.

Once the title is changed, count me in for $20.
[Droid Ultra General] jenkies:
Title changed

jenkies
[Droid Ultra General] asuhoops8628:
I guess you missed the 50+ page thread for this EXACT same topic....
[Droid Ultra General] jenkies:
I guess I may have missed that other thread. I didn't intend to make one on top of another if I did but upon my first post in another thread this was recommended, so I edited my post as a mistake. Then I got the title wrong and humbly corrected it. I actually prefer to leave this stuff to the grown ups but I been a little desperate as I'm sure others may be too. Does this thread need to be deleted? Is there another thread for the same thing? If so, how do I close the thread. I'm all ears for advice, although I may not have time to make any changes. Any one who wants to take over thread is certainly invited and welcome. I just want progress and an willing to pay. ;):thumbup:

jenkies
[Droid Ultra General] CrazyRussianXDA:
No need to read all 50+ pages, just the last few posts of the aforementioned thread, especially these two:

These pretty much summarize the creation of this thread.
[Droid Ultra General] jenkies:
Thanks for helping explain. This ain't my forte.

Hey guys... If I could do it, I would for free :D but... I can't and time is money, so my $50 still stands for whatever gentleman takes the time.

Just a little misunderstanding from the starting point, I take blame. Hey the finish line is still the finish line in spite of the start.

So, let's all pitch in and enjoy these great phones moto finally made!

I personally can't understand why these phones aren't more popular. Touchless control is amazing.
[Droid Ultra General] s_u_n:
I can pay $20 via PayPal. [MENTION=218503]Dan[/MENTION]: Please release the exploit.
[Droid Ultra General] Kittimasak:
Count me in, I'll contribute with 30$.
[Droid Ultra General] jenkies:
OP updated.
[Droid Ultra General] BDAZZG1:
I paid the Chinaman 45 and got my OEM unlock code. Its easier and it works:)

Sent from my XT1080 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Droid Ultra General] samwathegreat:
Easier than what? Its currently the ONLY option.

It does not work for everybody. He can only unlock devices between a certain date range. Almost no 2013 devices, and very few devices with assembly dates in the past 2 months.

It is a good option, but we already have an existing thread on that topic. I believe most or all of those pledging bounties for an exploit have tried the middleman already, unsuccessfully.
[Droid Ultra General] arsenal553:
I'll contribute $20.
[Droid Ultra General] vimal_jakmola:
The cost is very high
[Droid Ultra General] jenkies:
??? Please explain ??? You mean you don't know how to do it yourself and it will take to much money for a dev to get involved and for you to get involved? Or you know how to do it and you have a price that our pledges don't total? If you do know how and have a price, name the price, and show some love to the android open source community for crying out loud... Don't play with our emotions.... Just saying:D
[Droid Ultra General] jenkies:
OP updated
[Droid Ultra General] rds217:
That's pretty soon, especially given that I haven't seen the exploit of Dan's vulnerability on any other phone. I imagine that once it's been done on one phone the others will follow quickly and snatch up bounties. Keep it alive, let it build up and eventually someone will deliver.
[Droid Ultra General] jenkies:
OK.. I just didn't want someone to feel obligated if they had a better way.
[Droid Ultra General] samwathegreat:
Everyone has the opportunity to withdraw their pledges at any point. Setting them to expire on the 22nd seems extremely excessive in my opinion...
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halftonehero:
Turned my Fire TV on to an update notification. Updated hoping for more features, i.e.Prime Music use but to no avail. It also had the added (dis)benefit of disabling root and preventing towelroot from reenabling. Any thoughts?

One interesting thing I found out is that it is possible to enable installation from unknown sources with out editing the original settings.apk.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbox:
So you're the second person to claim to have gotten an update. I still haven't gotten it. I'd be curious to see if they've patched the bootloader. I'll have to wait until [MENTION=5957312]AFTVnews.com[/MENTION] or I get the update and get the URL to examine it. It's possible you'll be able to downgrade, but without knowing what was in the update I'm not going to encourage such an action. But if you want to try it out on your own, go right ahead. There are instructions and URLs in a few posts here. Just know if they updated the bootloader and turn on anti-downgrade flags, it might brick.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AFTVnews.com:
One of my Fire TV's tends to get updates early so hopefully it'll get updated tomorrow. I'll be sure to set it up to sniff out the update URL.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halftonehero:
Thanks for the insight. I'll wait on downgrading at the moment with no know brick recovery method. I wonder if the other numerous one clicks used the same method as geohots?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcsephoenix:
Do you have a new version number you can provide us?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmerrilljr2:
51.1.2.0_user_512073320 according AFTV.com
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjbxx:
Downgrade To Previous Firmware

Would downgrading to previous firmware update allow for the ability to root the Fire TV?

EDIT: Will be receiving a new Fire TV from Amazon tomorrow and if it comes with the new firmware update, I'll downgrade and report on whether it works or not. Nothing to lose on my part if it bricks as I will be able to return it to Amazon.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elmerohueso:
Downgrading requires the FTV to be rooted in the first place to be able to push the update.zip to the proper location.

Edit: I noticed recovery mode (following steps here) has an option to "Update from ADB" (I assume this would use ADB sideload). However, since the FTV doesn't have an accessible USB client port, I'm not sure how or if this would work (unless they build network drivers into the recovery partition).

If this was figured out, that could be a possible method of downgrading.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tselling:
If network support was available in recovery... how would we know the ip address? I am wondering if there might USB support in recovery for ADB with male/male cable.... I don't happen to have one to test... anyone else?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halftonehero:
I imagine the IP address would be the same but it would utilize a different port
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elmerohueso:
Check the DHCP tables in your router to see which IPs have been leased to which device.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AFTVnews.com:
I have tested this with no luck. Plugging in a male/male USB cable while on that recovery screen does nothing. The Fire TV is not seen by the PC.

I may be wrong about this, but the problem is that in order to get to that recovery screen, the Fire TV has to be in USB Host Mode. This is what allows it to recognize commands from a USB keyboard. In order to use ADB via USB and transfer the update package, the Fire TV needs to be in USB Accessory Mode. When "Update via USB" is selected, the Fire TV does not switch to USB Accessory Mode. It stays in USB Host Mode.

The only way I know of for the Fire TV to be in USB Accessory mode, is to connect the Fire TV to a PC via a male/male cable while it is powered off, and then power the Fire TV on. In this setup, it sees that it's connected to a PC and enables fastboot via USB with the USB set to Accessory Mode. In this state, plugging in a keyboard does nothing which means there is no way to get to recovery.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tselling:
I do not believe that work if it uses a default IP address like many devices do for setup rather than dhcp.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbox:
There is no networking code in the stock recovery. DHCP or explicit ip addresses.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tselling:
I wonder if there is a way to send our own update via network by somehow spoofing the update server that amazon uses.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbox:
MITM'ing an update to the firetv is easy. But making the Fire TV download it is the hard part. When it checks for updates its a complicated encrypted exchange between the firetv and the amazon servers. I tried spoofing that and it was rejected because of the hashes. So if the firetv wants to already download an update, it would be possible for it to download something else. But that something else would still need to be a valid signed update. Can't make it download and update random code.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] no_spam_for_me:
Hi,

because I'm new at the AFTV and it's just ordered (I prefer to have it at my hands when I post ideas :) ) BUT what will happen, if you use your described way to get it to connect to PC, but not using power off/on , but using 'adb reboot recovery' via network?

BTW: OT does 'Image Verification' will stop after a count of posts or do I have to do it always?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hitchi:
got this update today by auto update (got the box and tried blocking domains but doesn't work)

51.1.3.0_user_513011820

any chance to root or downgrade the box now or just replace it by amazon?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richard Alpert:
I feel sorry for you Bro, same here. Hope that towelroot or an other solution will come soon.

RA
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AFTVnews.com:
Do you have a German Fire TV? I'm trying to determine if this new update is only being pushed to German Fire TVs.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richard Alpert:
I can tell that my Fire TV is German, ordered at and delivered by amazon.de. I already wrote this on your helpful site, I have the same Software version. There was no chance to skip the first setup, I have set the Blockings, but still wants an update. Very frustrating, can't use xbmc if I can't connect a hard drive.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbox:
When you first turned it on. It said "press play to continue". Was that in German and English or just English?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richard Alpert:
Sorry, i am not sure about that. Could be English. What I also tried was a factory reset and choose the English language at the initial setup, hoping that this might deliver a supported software. But no luck.

Richard.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbox:
If it gave you a language selection then it already had 51.1.3.0 to begin with.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hitchi:
Yes there was a language selection on first setup. So we have to wait whether some good devs can provide root for it...
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richard Alpert:
51.1.3.0_user_513011820 is the Version now.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acecombat:
So I've just picked up myself a HTC One M8 on Optus in Australia, first thing I did was install TWRP and root the phone, only to discover that there was then OTA updates to install, so I installed a stock recovery that I downloaded from here, ran the process to get the OTA update and it started but displayed no progress on the screen, just a HTC logo that remained there for at least 20 mins, so I rebooted the phone, this time the logo only stayed up for about 4 mins, the device rebooted and it was updated. The only problem was that it looks like the firmware hadn't installed/crashed/shouldn't have been rebooted and I had no wifi (Whenever I tried turning it on it remained off and no networks were shown) so I'm assuming the firmware update failed when it either crashed or I got too impatient (20 mins isn't impatient is it?).

I tried putting the firmware.zip from the OTA install onto an SD as 0P6BIMG.zip which gave an error:

Loading [0P6BIMG.zip]

Checking

Wrong zipped image!

When trying to flash with fastboot I get:

fastboot flash zip firmware.zip

target reported max download size of 1778626560 bytes

sending 'zip' (50763 KB)...

OKAY [ 2.194s]

writing 'zip'...

(bootloader) adopting the signature contained in this image...

(bootloader) zip header checking...

(bootloader) zip info parsing...

FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)

finished. total time: 2.454s

Any idea how I can flash this stock firmware to the device?

Edit: Firmware I'm trying to upload is here in case it assists: http://www.fast-files.com/getfile.aspx?file=77675
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
First of all, I assume you are trying to flash the firmware in rebootRUU mode right? or else it will fail

Second can you post the outcome of "fastboot getvar all" hiding first all the sensitive info like imei.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acecombat:
Yes I am doing that in rebootRUU mode (Didn't think of mentioning it, I didn't realise it was possible to send firmware without it).

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.18.0.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.19.21331147A1.16G

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main: 2.07.980.2

(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON

(bootloader) serialno:

(bootloader) imei:

(bootloader) imei2: Not Support

(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000

(bootloader) product: m8_ul

(bootloader) platform: hTCBmsm8974

(bootloader) modelid: 0P6B65000

(bootloader) cidnum: OPTUS001

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 0mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: on

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: cdb72c6d

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0

I connected the device to my PC with internet passthrough and there was another OTA update which I installed and looked correct this time and didn't take as long, I have my wifi back but I noticed in the earlier firmware there's a adsp.img that is missing from the latter. I'm guessing it's to do with the 'Enhanced sound' etc. features that came with that update so I'd like to check if it is on there.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
This looks like the latest firmware for Optus so you must be ok.

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.18.0.0000 - This is the latest hboot version

(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.19.21331147A1.16G - This is the latest radio version

(bootloader) version-main: 2.07.980.2 - This must be the latest firmware but check your ROM settings about Software info to see if it's a 4.4.3 android version.

But it all looks good to me.

Edit: reboot to bootloader and check the dsp version. If it's v45.2 (if my memory serves me right) then you are on the latest adsp.img as well
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acecombat:
Android version is correct but DSP is not up to date so it looks like the firmware didn't install that first time. Bootloader tells me DSP is @ V26.2 (Obviously someone doesn't like subversions much!)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Well maybe that's the latest DSP version that Optus released, i'm not really sure to tell you the truth. But still you have no other choice now as with s-on i don't think you can flash older firmwares.

Nothing to bother yourself though as you are on 4.4.3 with the latest hboot and radio from your carrier.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acecombat:
If I restore a stock NANDroid backup, will the OTA file update the firmware again or is the firmware version check saved elsewhere?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
No, nandroid backup doesn't include firmware (hboot,radio,adsp,etc)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acecombat:
I mean, if I install a nandroid backup, can I apply the OTA updates (As it will be a base version) and will the OTA firmware files still install? Or does it skip the firmware install if it detects a newer version already installed?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
i'm not really sure about this and you can try it after taking a nandroid of your current setup, but i believe the OTA will skip the rom installation since it will find a newer firmware.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
Correct, OTAs need to be installed sequentially (no "downgrading"), so it will fail when it sees a higher hboot number.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HarisA1:
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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dogenut:
Is their a cyanogenmod version that works for non developers editions of the verizon note. I just got my note 3 and without cyanogenmod it would stink.. has the bootloader been unlocked ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjh68:
No, still can't flash custom kernels
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brex91:
there are may subjects and threads on this matter. I realized that not everyone understands everything, but if you know enough to register on this site, you must know how to use the search function.

to sum up:

search before posting

for the time being s4 and above on verizon wont be able to run aosp roms*

*besides developers edition. (if you have to ask, you don't have one)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjewell:
i did the same thing back in January and i'm kicking myself in the ass for not doing a lot more research first. samsung software has got to be the worst, thats why this phone has 3 gb ram. use towel root and at least get root access to shut half the ****ty software off. the custom roms for this phone are just rework versions of bloatwiz.