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[General Topics] hmorgan405:
Though it’s true that we lock our Android phone to prevent from others access but sometimes this security becomes irritating. Especially when your phone gets broken and the device is locked. It means that you cannot access the data stored on it.

But there are some ways to unlock Android phone with broken screen.

Here are few of them:

•	The first way is to use a professional unlock software like Android Unlock that can help you to unlock Android phone with broken screen easily.

•	Second, you can use ADB to unlock broken Android phone

•	Third, you can unlock broken screen Android phone using USB mouse and On the Go Adapter
[G2 General] eeeeeeeeek:
Just wanted to let people know that if you have a Sprint G2 and your touchscreen is failing due to a warranty defect sprint will replace it free of cost as long as there is not liquid or physical damage. If you have tep it will not count towards your 2 repair/exchange budget. If no warranty and no TEP sprint should replace it under the KI. Hope this helps those who may be having touchscreen issues
[Paranoid Android Q&A] diders1977:
Before I create a JIRA ticket for what I believe could be a bug I wanted to see if anyone else had experienced similar issues using PA on a Nexus 4. Ever since I flashed this custom ROM (and a subsequent OTA) the battery meter is inaccurate or not updating regularly. It will sit on a given percentage for a few hours and not move until I reboot the phone and you'll notice the new reading is substantially lower 5-10% depending on how long since reboot. I have since charged the phone to full and tried deleting the battery stats file using TWRP and also using the battery calibration app (which basically does the same thing) and it helped accuracy for the full discharge but noticed it died half and hour from when I last observed 14% so I think the voltage in the battery was less then what the battery indicator thought and it died. If I don't recalibrate after every full charge the meter is inaccurate again. This never happened on stock Android.

The closest logged bug I can see is AOSPA-536 over at paranoidandroid dot atlassian dot net
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Hi,

Rogers sent me a refurb M8 but the problem is it's unlocked and it shows these at the startup (at the end of the post).

How can I restore this to default locked or unrooted version where I don't see this kind of stuff? I just want the default setup. The phone asked me to install the newest android and I accepted but it still shows the same startup which prevents installing the update automatically as it would otherwise.

I went to restore and I chose this update (I think) myself and now after the install, my phone is stuck in this looped animation which starts with "google" and then you see these 4 circle like shapes moving into the center and away forever. What should I do?

Thanks.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cr1960:
why not just send it back and make it their problem?

obviously not much refurb done on it if it has unlocked bootloader and custom recovery....
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks I could do that but they sent this to me accidentally so I want to keep it. My old phone is M7. But the problem is I don't know what I need to do.

I followed the method 2 here but I don't know how to initiate the custom rom installation, it doesn't start:

http://www.droidviews.com/restore-sprint-htc-one-m8-to-stock-rom-with-ruu/

Choosing HBOOT, shows a different menu, doesn't do anything.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
That is not a custom ROM installation, its the RUU for the Sprint variant.

Its a good thing it didn't start, as the Sprint and Verizon versions are CDMA, and installing anything for those versions might

brick your phone

. I strongly recommend you not follow anything from that webpage.

Also, on the hboot screen, does it say S-on or S-off? What hboot number?

You should go to the following thread, get the nandroid for Rogers, flash in TWRP. Then get the corresponding stock recovery and flash in fastboot: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2701376

You will also need to install fastboot, and I think this is probably the easiest and least painful method:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2588979

I can understand why you want to keep this phone. But to do what you are asking, you will have to be patient and do some learning . . .
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks alot, I don't mind some learning but I have a week to do this and then try out the phone so I can tell if it works. So then I can return my original phone. Otherwise they would charge me the full price of the phone.

Ok so on the hboot screen, it says s-off.

Hboot version is 3.16.0.0000.

So nandroid is someone's backup right? How do you flash in TWRP? I think using Hasoon2000s app, I installed ClockWorkMod because that's what I see now.

You mean installing fastboot on my PC? Because I think I did that as I can use that command and my phone boots.

Is "1.12.631.17 - TWRP" nandroid a good one from the first link you posted?

Lastly when I do this, it will basically have this OS, right? But will the TWRP, etc stay? Because I thought it will be like formatting my PC where everything is gone and all I have left is factory stock sense.

Thansk again.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
Correct, its a nandroid somebody else made. Its meant to be "stock" and for anyone to install (assume it contains no user data). You install by placing the backup in the appropriate folder (if TWRP, find the folder TWRP on the internal storage, and you will see subfolder called "Backups" and inside a folder with some random looking letter and numbers (mine says HT. . . .). Its inside that folder, you want to save the downloaded nandroid file.

Once the file is saved to the right place, TWRP will just think its a backup you made. So select "Restore" in TWRP and select the appropriate file.

If your recovery is CWM, select the CWM nandroid. If your recovery is TWRP, you need to select the TWRP nandroid. The 2 recoveries work differently, so you can't restore a CWM nandroid with TWRP, or vice versa.

If you have fastboot installed on your PC, then you are all set. I just assumed you did not.

Fastboot is only needed to install stock recovery (after restoring a nandroid), if you want a truly "stock" install.

Its the nandroid that has the stock Rogers software, yes. As mentioned before, you need to have TWRP recovery if you want to restore the TWRP nandroid file.

You will still be on custom recovery. The nandroid doesn't include recovery.

It not like formatting a PC as you describe; because on the phone, recovery and a lot of other things (radio, bootloader, and more) are on separate partitions. A nandroid restores the system (OS), data (user data) boot (kernel) partitions. The other partitions are left untouched.

If you want to restore stock recovery, you can do that as well as shown in the link I provided (same thread as the nandroid backups).
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Wow thanks alot man, I understand it alot better now.

After I do this though, and the phone installs a new update for me, will I be able to install it?

Because right now when that happens and I say "install now", it restarts and shows TWRP but from there I don't know how to install this update. I am used to selecting "install now" and the phone would automatically install it at startup. I want to have this behaviour if possible.

Also how can I restore the stock sense after restoring the nandroid?

PS: I just restored the nandroid but when the phone restarted, I see my old OS, i.e. same wallpaper, same apps I have, instead of seeing the startup wizard. I assume I won't see the startup wizard but shouldn't it be a brand new OS like you said? So it didn't work?

TWRP said it restored successfully in 126 seconds.

Thanks again.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Any ideas?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Which nandroid backup did you download? You must have also the same recovery. But let's take it one step at a time. Let us know which nandroid you downloaded and we will take it from there.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks I used 1.12.631.17 - TWRP.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Can you open the zip file and tell me a bit the folder structure? You will need xopy this folder to your external sdcard and from TWRP you go to Restore and select the folder from the sdcard to restore the nandroid.

It's not a flashable zip
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks I am not home right now but it had a few files. I extracted the folder to my pc and then copied the folder. I saw it in twrp and then it restored it correctly. I mean I saw the nandroid there in the restore list. So I did that correctly right?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Correct. Did it boot properly? If yes, then you are good to go.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
That's the thing, on reboot I still see my old OS. Is it not supposed to format the old one?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
It should. Check Settings-About-software information.

What does ROM version say?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Sorry for the late reply, I just got my phone. So it says:

android ver:

4.4.2

HTC Sense ver:

6.0

software number:

1.12.631.17

Is this correct?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Yes this is correct. Now if you flash stock recovery 1.12.631.17 you are stock and ready to receive OTA from HTC
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks, how do I do that? Do you mean selecting factory reset from the boot menu?

Also if nandroid restore worked, why do I see my apps and wallpaper, etc? Is this normal? Sorry for being a noob, I just never dealt with this.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
First of all factory reset...It will reset your rom and you will be completely stock ready to setup like new.

Then to get rid of the custom recovery, download the recovery from here:

http://d-h.st/sQF

Paste it in your fastboot folder and reboot to bootloader.

then run this command.

fastboot flash recovery stock recovery 1.12.631.17 recovery.img

Reboot and you are set
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks alot man, I will try this tomorrow and report back asap. But by fastboot folder do you mean the one in the Android folder or somewhere else?

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Yeap, that's the one
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks alot, now everything is clear.

I just chose "factory reset" but instead of the process starting, the same TWRP showed up. This is the same thing that shows up when I try to install an Anrdoid update after the phone restarts/reboots.

How can I bypass this? Or do I have to use factory reset from TWRP? I actually don't like this app, and I would really like to go to regular plain sense where factory reset and updates are initiated right away, without any middle men blocking the process.

Any ideas?

Thanks again.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Ok do it like this. Enter twrp - wipe - advanced wipe - select dalvik cache, cache, system and data.

After it will wipe everything restore your backup. Boot to the Rom to see that it brand new stock Rom and then follow the procedure above to flash stock recovery
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Ok I just did that and when I said boot to system, TWRP said no OS installed, and now all I see it the white HTC splash screen. Do I have to restore it now?

I can't go into boot mode or turn off the phone now though :(

EDIT: OK I figured it out. I am in a new boot right now, which is the nandroid I installed I think.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
yeap, now it's the time to restore backup.

Hold power button + volume up for 10-15 seconds.

As soon as it goes to black screen for restart release power button and keep volume down pressed.

You will arrive to bootloader. Enter recovery and restore your rom
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks I did everything and now I have the clean OS and my settings but I still have the same problem when I am trying to install an Android update. It asks to restart and when I do, it shows "going into recovery" and then shows TWRP again, which means my update process is blocked.

Any ideas on how to fix this?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
You still need to flash the stock recovery. With twrp you cannot get an Ota

So restore your backup but before to install the update flash the stock recovery.

Then to get rid of the custom recovery, download the recovery from here:<br />

http://d-h.st/sQF<br />

<br />

Paste it in your fastboot folder and reboot to bootloader.<br />

<br />

then run this command.<br />

<br />

fastboot flash recovery stock recovery 1.12.631.17 recovery.img<br />

<br />

Reboot and you are set<br/>
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks, but what do you mean by flashing the stock recovery? Right now I have stock sense, right? So now I have to flash the recovery partition? How do I do that?

Also is deleting TWRP another action I need to perform to get OTA?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Twrp is a custom recovery. Flashing stock recovery will get rid of twrp. Follow the steps above
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n1234d:
They sent you a m8 instead of a m7?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks man, I forgot to read back. I will do it tomorrow and hopefully everything will work out :)

Yes but refurb :)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n1234d:
Wow, what carrier is that! Lucky you :D that too you got one with s-off :D enjoy!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Rogers, but they screwed me over before.

Btw which stock recovery do I need? Should I get the latest one i.e. STOCK RECOVERY 2.22.1540.3?

Nevermind I saw your reply there.

Thanks again.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
No, you need the one matching your cid. 1.12.631.17
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks, I just did that but I get this:

error cannot load 'stock': No error. Is it done?

I used this command:

fastboot flash recovery stock recovery 1.12.631.17 recovery.img

Maybe spaces are not good for the file name? I am on windows 7.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
It's the naming...better rename the recovery file to recovery.img and use fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

---------- Post added at 06:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:15 PM ----------

First of all please tell me. You do have a working Rom now right?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks I just assumed the filename had to be like that. When I renamed, it worked :) So no more TWRP? It seems to install the OTA update like I used to know before.

Also in the apps, I saw SuperSU app. Does it mean there are still steps I need to take to go back to stock? I don't want super user stuff. I just want a regular stock OS.

Thanks so much for helping me, now I managed to achieve what I wanted :)

EDIT: By working ROM, do you mean my bootable OS? If so yes.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
You are completely stock and can receive OTA from HTC...you can just uninstall supersu
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks I thought it was something like developer options where I had to do some tinkering with the OS outside the OS. I will just uninstall it then. Thanks alot again :)

Should I be concered about S-Off and stuff? I didn't do these myself. Not sure if they would cause any issues down the road.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
No worries. S-off is just like a god mode which allows you to do whatever you like with the phone. Since it came like this from your carrier you shouldn't bother yourself too much
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks alot, will keep it then. Btw I tried to uninstall superSU but it didn't allow me. It has no uninstall option. So I should just hide it (using Nova)?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Yes you can do that. Root is not a bad thing to have just in case ?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
So my phone is rooted, right? I just don't want to mess anything because I am not trying to super tweak my phone. Just a casual user :)

If I wanted to unroot it, would I have to erase the current OS, etc? Or is this an easy change that can be done without affecting the current OS?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Well flashing a stock Rom is supposed to remove root so I don't know of an easy way to do it now. Let me check and get back to you on that
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks alot man, if it can't be done without erasing the OS, I might not be able to do it, because I need my settings, messages, etc. I thought the TWRP nandroid I downloaded was not rooted, but I don't know if it's the phone and not the OS.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
It can be done without erasing the os but you need to flash twrp again for the procedure...are you up for it?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Sure why not. I think I know how to flash TWRP now. But after that I don't know what else to do :)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Download this file and transfer it to your phone:

http://d-h.st/r6d

Flash twrp

Boot to recovery and install the file

Now you must be unrooted - check on your phone.

Here I would suggest to take a nandroid backup for future use

Reflash stock recovery like before

Done
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks alot. I just tried to install that zip, which I copied to the phone root, not a specific folder, it said:

"Failed" in TWRP. Do you know why this might be? I should unzip it first?

It says it failed in zip signature check.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
No, you shouldn't unzip it. If you tried to install it through TWRP let's see if it removed the files we need to remove. Boot to your OS and check if SuperUser is there.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks alot. Ok I check unchecked zip signature verification and it installed successfully but when I reboot to OS, I still see the SuperSU app. So it's not working?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
Strange...the zip file is supposed to delete SuperSU.* from /system/app/

Does it show anything on screen when you install the zip? Can you retry?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
TWRP just says successful. I will try it again np. I have to rush out now but will try and report back. Thanks again so much, without you I wouldn't be able to do this :)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Fer-Shiz-Nizzle:
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that you can go into the SuperSU app, and in the settings is an option to permanently unroot and uninstall the SU app.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
i was just reading about it online. Yes you are right SuperSu-Settings-Full Unroot
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks guys, I clicked unroot from superSU. So my phone is unrooted?

Also I did a backup from TWRP. Is this what you meant? How will I use this in the future?

Thanks again.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stathis95194:
I'm not sure if this deletes SuperSU as well, but yes you must be unrooted now.

The backup from TWRP is now like a "stock" backup but also unrooted. So if in the future anything happens to your OS, you can just restore this backup and be on a "like new" condition.

Don't forget now to flash again the stock recovery so that you get rid of TWRP and you will be ready to receive OTA
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lachdanan:
Thanks again, now everything seems in top condition just the way I wanted it.

Cheers :)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polish_pat:
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Don't know for you guys, but the Note 4 is probably the phone i've been waiting for for years. If these picture turn out to be true, i'm pulling the trigger on that one. Metal frame, 2K display, 4K recording, IOS, 3GB RAM, 32GB of storage minimum...yup, that most likely is my dream phone. I know this phone looks like a giant S2, but the S2 is the galaxy phone i liked the design the most.

Because of my carriers flexible upgrade policies, i've been upgrading phone every 6 months for the S and note line respectively, but after seeing this Note, I'm almost certain I will keep it until the next Note comes out, unless the S6 will be ever more beastly of course!!:fingers-crossed:

There are a few features I hope this phone will have, most of all, stereo speakers. I can see one speaker grill on the bottom, i hope there is another one on top. Besides that, i would not spit on integrated wireless charging. I mean waiting a few months and paying an additional 70$ for a wireless charging back and pad is a bit ridiculous. I also hope they make a few features better, such as fingerprint sensor, which i dont use because i think it's such a drag to swipe your finger on the button, i honestly hope they go for the same idea apple did with their 5S
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
The Note line have always been the real Samsug flasgships since release. Don`t know if i`ll get it though, i`ll wait for the Nexus 6 probably ;)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trev420:
ill be getting a note 4. i had a note 3 before i got the s5 and gave the n3 to my brother.

very often do i almost feel like trading him phones but the better camera and added water and dust resistance keep me from doing it. the note 4 is supposed to offer water and dust resistance, a better screen, and a better camera. (among other great things like more ram than the s5 and a better processor)

i miss stable asop roms, the s-pen, and the size of the screen of the note3. but i hope dev support for the note 4 will be just as strong as the note 3 and s5 has been.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pokosik:
I think I will buy. But will wait some time to see if there be any bugs. I'll let people to test it for me :))). And then i'll decide what to do. But I agree that Note line is true flagship phone.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marleyb:
Yep, just got the S5 as a temporary phone, sold my Note 2 and will go for the Note 4 as soon it's released, actually, the Battery of my 2 year old Note 2 lasted longer then the S5 (8+ hours actual screen on time) and I really miss the bigger display. So yes I will go for the Note4 for sure
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matheus_sc:
S5 is Really bad for aosp, i think never buy Samsung anymore.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahfu25:
Most def getting the note 4!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CakeManiac:
hey guys ! i really need help asap ! so i installed a app called Chainfire3d and i think you know what happened next.

so i installed it and i ended up waiting for nothing, my device wont boot up, i think you guys can help me better than anyone. :crying:

Phone : Alcatel Pop c3 - Magic 4033E -

( Rooted ) i had a chance to root it before it broke.

now i am currently finding a custom rom or anything to replace my stock.

or is there anyway that i could fix this without downloading anything ? please HELP ASAP !
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlealb:
Try using alcatel upgrade tool..

google it