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[Windows 8 General] ikitsune:
I've been banging my head on this for almost a week now, and finally decided to ask for help. I recently bought a Dell Venue 8 Pro, and afterward decided what I really wanted was a Surface RT. I'm looking for a way to force Windows 8.1 Core to enforce the same minimum code signing level as Windows RT so that I can at least feel like I got close to what I wanted.

I've found the SeILSigningPolicy variable that Windows RT uses to enforce the "Microsoft" code signing level (SeILSigningPolicy=8), but I can't figure out how to set it to be anything other than 0 on Windows 8.1.

Is this configuration possible, or should I just sell the DV8P and pony up for a Surface RT?

(PS: I am not a crackpot.)
[Windows 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
Disclaimer or not, I'm having a hard time imagining any credible reason to intentionally cripple your own device... The actual improvement to security is less than you might think, and the impact on usefulness possibly more. Still, if that's what you want... you could probably do it most easily with a driver that loads at boot time and modifies the policy (no idea if that would actually achieve what you want, since RT and non-RT are only *mostly* identical, but it has a good chance) or you could disable Secure Boot and then modify the kernel binary directly (probably harder to make work, and will require the bootloader permitting a kernel without a valid signature).

Just buying an RT device would be a lot *EASIER* than either of these options, for sure. The gen1 RTs are cheap, if you can find one.
[Windows 8 General] ikitsune:
A Gen 1 RT goes for about US$290 locally, and I'm past the return period on the DV8P, and they only resell for about US$70 locally. I want to only run Windows Store apps. It's less about security and more having a device I'm personally happy with. If you know someplace I can swap a low-miles DV8P for something running RT lemme know, otherwise this is the route I'm going to keep trying for.
[Windows 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
Have you considered just... not installing any third-party desktop apps? Aside from a few first-party programs (Windows Media Player and Picture Viewer, possibly some others), there's not much difference between RT and Core unless you *try* to run 3rd-party desktop apps.
[Windows 8 General] ikitsune:
I'm a very stubborn person. Re the driver you mentioned: Do you think I'd spend more paying someone to create that or on a new Surface RT? I'm just evaluating my options at this point.
[Windows 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
In theory, the driver is pretty trivial to write; once you have kernel-mode code execution, you can change the SeILSigningPolicy flag easily. You'd need to know where it is, of course, and that can change between patch versions, but there are ways to find it (especially if you can read kernel memory, though also even if you can't). In practice, writing even a trivial NT driver is usually mildly frustrating, though in this case you have the advantage that the driver can basically just do its thing immediately on load (in the DriverEntry function, basically [Dll]Main for a driver) and then go away; it doesn't need to process any user input or interface with any hardware or anything.

With that said, I don't know how much you value your time, but I find it hard t imagine you couldn't find an RT device for less than the time would be worth to you.
[Windows 8 General] ikitsune:
In theory, could I write the memory location needed with Administrator rights, or would I have to be at the SYSTEM level to do it? I'm thinking of a small C# program to do similar, since I've never written a driver before.
[Windows 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
Neither (directly). The flag is in kernel memory; no level of user-mode privilege will let you write there. You also can't write kernel drivers in C#, or any other similarly high-level language; it's pretty much C or nothing.

Either a member of Administrators or SYSTEM can install and load drivers. However, the driver needs to be well-written; a crash in a driver will bring down the whole OS (BSOD).

Admin does also let you enable kernel debugging (at least, if Secure Boot permits you to do so; RT doesn't allow it but x86 should), in which case you could use a kernel debugger to modify the flag directly. However, I don't know if that policy is even enforced at all if the device is booted in debug mode.
[Windows 8 General] ikitsune:
It doesn't, I've already tried with a kernel debugger. Right now, I've gotten a PM from someone who offered to write the driver for me for $200, I'm looking down that avenue right now.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fredfernacapan:
Hi. I have acquired an iphone 5 clone, model number MF353ZP/A, although I have no idea who manufactured it. It has an iphone theme to it which i want to remove and just have stock android running on it. I have looked but there seems to be no apps or skins running on it giving it this theme so I'm thinking I will need to reload Android to get rid of the current OS completely. I am also pretty sure it isn't as easy as that so have come on here to basically ask how! Any help appreciated, I just want to see/run a normal android environment on it but don't know how to. Thans, Steve.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
Unfortunately Android doesn't work like that. You can't just reinstall the OS and it come out with no skin. Without knowing who made it or what firmware is being used then even trying to make changes like this could end up in a brick. Your best bet for the time being would be to just install a 3rd party home launcher like Nova, Apex, Go, etc.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cpuid.cpu_z&hl=en

Something like that app will help narrow down what you have by giving you some details on the chipset, RAM, resolution, etc. With that info, it might be possible to see if there are other options for your phone.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaydeeph:
Dear XDA members,

I really need all your help. I've searched a lot, but there isn't an answer I'm looking for. And some things are bit too technical for me as I'm new to android. So I'm trying to set up recording my calls on my S3 Mini. First of all, I've tried every single free app that is on Google Play Store. And with those apps, I've also tried all the settings, trust me. All I could hear was my voice. My opponents voice was very very low. Lower than whispering so I could hardly hear a thing.

So recently I researched and Rooted my phone via VRoot. Went flawlessly. However, now it's not recording at all! For example, I made a call. After the call ends I go to the recording app and I see that it shows me its recorded. However, its actually not recorded. Its just a file created which is 32 bytes. No more. Sometimes 66+- Bytes. So it doesn't record at all anymore after I rooted it. I've tried with so many recording apps and still doesn't work at all.

Is the call recording feature blocked? If yes, is there any way to unblock it? I do not want to install a custom ROM, so please that answer is out the book. I'd like to keep the stock and enable automatic call recording. All answers are welcome please!

Thanks in Advance.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gw|n:
Call recording is disabled due to some law restrictions, so you need to modify yourself secphone.apk or download modified one or install xposed framework and call recording module. Guides are here, search.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaydeeph:
Thank's a lot for the quick reply. I'll check out those options and give them a shot, starting with xposed framework. Then report back. Thanks again.

EDIT UPDATE: Thanks a heap bro! I didn't know I could use xposed framework to enable call recording. I thought the exposed framework only worked on ROM's. Because I flashed a call recording enabler tar file on my Note 3. Thanks again. Works 100%. Love Ya! (no homo).
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaydeeph:
[MENTION=2421143]Gw|n[/MENTION] I need a little quick help please. Apart from having secPhone.APK edited or having the recording module. Is there another way to automatically record calls? This is due to the fact that I keep forgetting to click the record button when having important calls. Is there something I can flash into my phone, so I can have 2-way clear recording sound. Then I can install any app available on PlayStore to allow automatic recording.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gw|n:
I don't know, I've never tried other apps. But these third party apps might have problem with direct recording.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] Evans_Prophet:
Hello!

I have an Imate Jamin - it is quite an early model - it has black send/receive keys (bought it on February 2006).

The fact is that the camera and the Wifi do not work. When I start the camera application I see the clock icon for a second and then nothing happens (I remain at the exact screen). The wifi on the othe rhand seems to try to detect networks but never finds anything.

So.. the big question is whether this is software related (I have currently hard resetted and use S200's latest firmware) or hardware related. In other words two could happen:.

a. Either my model uses some older camera / wifi and thus the new firmware does not have proper drivers (has anyone else upgraded his eaelry jamin?)

or

b. Due to the many falls something has broken in my jamin (is this expected).

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me with this - I cannot find any solution.. I tried downgrading to see if its firmware related but I got an error message.. (Invalid Command at 95%)

Thanks in advance

Evans
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] rdboyce:
Which ROM did you install?

AKU 2.2, 2.3, or 3.2?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] johnnyduk:
You have to download using an official ruu rom upgrade (downgrade), there are better people to tell you which one rather than me, I am quite new to this group. One of the upgrades does break wifi/camera so it is not just your phone, a download will cure it, you have not broken it.

HTH

JD
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sachin97:
Can anyone port an xperia c or l like rom for our galaxy tab 3 sm t210.
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] safariking:
First this is a development forum and this is a question so it should go into the general or q&a's second porting is not that simple so no not possible
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sachin97:
Ok bro
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wait4me2burn:
Roms from different manufacture ports are extremely complicated ( and ones that are ported rarely work 100%)and very few have ever been ported due to closed source software for hardware in devices

secondly that is a phone with a way smaller screen then the tab3 5 inch i think? If you could get the rom to work on it you would then spend a wicked amount of time resizing every thing in the rom so it didnt look retarded on the tab and it would still look werid since it was made for a much much smaller screen.

its not impossible if you had the software( sony isnt big on releasing there closed source software samsung another too) just take a lot of weeks, months, maybe years to make a working rom and would never be bug free/ 100%complete so you probably would never end up using it if someone did manage to get it working.......

I m a htc sense fan myself so i know the feeling of wishing for a port. Its just too time consuming and the tab is lacking devs as is we are lucky we got the rom selection we have now..... :-\
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CheapDad:
Hi guys! After purchasing a Droid X that I thought was a Droid X2, I've now purchased a Droid Incredible from Ebay. For context, it's for my 12 yr old daughter who is on PagePlus. I've got her on one of the talk and text plans wiht no data.

I've read the wiki and a number of threads but couldn't find a clear answer to my question: What should I do with this before I give it to her?

Things I'd like to do:

1. Get rid of/freeze bloatware

2. Address the short battery life issue (if possible)

3. Give her the ability to change the theme, preferably without installing a program

4. Limit data to wifi since I don't want her using PP minutes for data inadvertantly

So, what would you do with a new phone?

TIA,

CheapDad
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musical_chairs:
Hi from another Page Plus user!

#4 is easy: just turn Mobile Data off in the phone's settings.

For only #1: Root the phone and install Titanium Backup. Follow the first part of this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1600904

You do not need to follow the full guide and get s-off unless you want to, for what you want to do just having root will be enough. Follow steps 1, 2, and 3. Once Superuser and Titanuim Backup are installed, you will be able to remove any apps you want. Plus, you'll have a custom recovery installed, which will allow you to continue:

For #2 and #3: Follow the guide as stated above, and flash a ROM with Theme Engine support, such as Cyanogenmod:

http://download.cyanogenmod.com/get/jenkins/21410/cm-7-20130301-NIGHTLY-inc.zip

...that is a link for the last official Cyanogenmod nightly, which is Gingerbread. It will have much better battery life than stock, and there are still lots of free themes around for CM7.

(There are some pretty good Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean unofficial builds, but the video camera is broken on most anything newer than Gingerbread. You can even put KitKat on your Droid Incredible if you want to, but that breaks picture messaging as well as the video camera.)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CheapDad:
Thanks very much, musical-chairs! Your post summarized everything very nicely. Unfortunately, my phone didn't come with an SD card, so I've got one on order from Newegg. Once it gets here I'll get started.

One question - if I use Titanium Backup, can I back up the AOSP ROM so that I can restore the phone to stock? Or is there a better way of doing that?

Second question - does CM already address the 149 MB storage issue, or do I still need to apply a fix to that?

CheapDad
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pons:
When you say "back up the AOSP ROM," I think back up the entire ROM. Titanium doesn't do that, that's a nandroid, done in recovery.

What Titanium does, is back up individual apps (and their app data). That's ok, as long as you're backing up user apps (apps that live in /data/apps). It's not ok, and known to cause problems, to back up system apps (apps that live in /system/apps).
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CheapDad:
Pons:

Forgive the inaccurate language. What I 'm thinking is that I'd like the option of restoring the phone to its original state, ideally with the most up to date firmware issued by the HTC or Verizon (it's a Verizon phone). I assume I should do that before I change anything. How do I do that?

CheapDad
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musical_chairs:
As Pons said, you can back up your stock rom before flashing a new one, in recovery (aka make a nandroid backup) and restore it at any time. Also, you can wipe the phone and install a stock image, you can find those here: http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/

I mentioned Titanium not so much for making backups as for uninstalling bloatware. Of course, if you decide to flash a custom ROM like CyanogenMod, that is a non-issue.

The 150Mb data issue requires a separate fix, flash that after flashing a ROM. The thread for that is here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1623038 You're looking for the 'no data limit' variant of the mod.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CheapDad:
I received a 32GB SD card yesterday in the mail from Newegg and I plan to follow all of the steps you suggest tomorrow. I went to the link for the stock images to save one locally and I can't figure which one to use. My phone has the following:

Build Number

4.08.605.19 CL539174 release keys

Software number

4.08.605.19 710RD

This doesn't seem to make any of the file names at the stock image site. Can you help me identify the correct one?

CheapDad
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musical_chairs:
The newest full stock image there is 4.08.605.15: http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/

Then there is the 4.08.605.19 OTA update patch: http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Image...WE_4.08.605.19-4.08.605.15_release_305224.zip

...the stock images are flashed through HBOOT rather than recovery, so they wipe everything, including your custom recovery and the bootloader unlock. I think you would rename the OTA update to PB31IMG.zip (just like the full stock image) and flash it through HBOOT as well, so that after flashing them both you would have a completely stock, locked, unrooted phone. These can be useful if you want to sell the phone or if something gets crashed or messes up in a really bad way. 4.08.605.15 has that annoying bug where it likes to keep rebooting at 2:00 am, but it would be fine for recovering your device.

Alternately, there are odexed and deodexed stock images in the main directory of http://dinc.does-it.net/ that you would flash through recovery. They would return the ROM to stock but would leave the recovery in place and the bootloader unlocked. Also, the guide recommends that you make a nandroid backup of your stock ROM as soon as you're in clockworkmod recovery, so you could always restore your backup and get the ROM back to stock (but leave the bootloader unlocked.)

On the bright side, if your phones are on 4.08.605.19, you will already have the latest HBOOT, so unlocking via htcdev will be nice and simple - no need to download and run the RUU update as the guide says in part 1 section 2, just run the fastboot commands and click along in htcdev.

Sorry, this post got kind of messy...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CheapDad:
To close the loop, I spent the better part of yesterday going through the process described by musical_chairs. First, I unlocked and rooted using HTCDev. I installed CWM and made a stock rom backup. I flashed/installed CM7.2. Once I did that, I realized that I didn't have Google Apps, so I followed the same process and installed that. (adb push) Lastly, I fixed the 150 mb storage limit.

As few thoughts on the process from the perspective of a noob with some computer/technical knowledge, but zero linux/android knowledge:

1. The instructions were great. The more detailed the better and pictures are even better yet. A few times I had to google when I got an unexpected outcome to find a youtube video or something to show me a picture so I could determine what I had done wrong.

2. I used the "downgrade to froyo" instructions but just changed the file name to match CM7.2. While I got this done, a set of instructions that are generalized (to flash a new rom, enter this command "adb push (name of file) /location/) would have been better because I would not have had to extrapolate. I appreciate that his comment reduces the simplicity to the absurd, but for someone doing this for the first time, absurdly simple is important.

3. The support here is phenomenal. I couldn't have done this without the guidance provided. Thank you!

CheapDad
[HTC Sensation] amirmasoud77:
Hi

As far as i know team venom ported the Sense 6 prism/rosie and i was wondering if anyone could port other apps too

I mean HTC Music, Message ...

Or at least just show me a GUIDE or sth to figure out how to do it myself :rolleyes:

Thanks in advance
[HTC Sensation] frkhtc:
Search the thread with sense 6 apps ported, started by Ashutos1997. There is a zip with WorldClock, weather app, Htc servicepack and blinkfeed. I'm using Blinkfeed from HOX formus, the one ported for 4.2, because it of the resize/dpi. It looks better on our screen, and you can change the colours. Those apps are working on android 4.4.4 I did not manage to get Htc Music app working, but there are alternatives, Apollo player which can be themed like sense 6 player, or NexMusic player. The only apps that i'm missing from sense are dialer/contacts/phone and the htc weatherclock widget.
[HTC Sensation] amirmasoud77:
NO!!

nope!

those apps are for 4.4+ Android but i wanted to put them in a ViperS 5.2.1 i dont want ZOE or GALLERY

i just want Music and Message, just these two

is there any GUIDE ??? PLease:(
[HTC Sensation] frkhtc:
Sorry but i can't help you. from what i know there are no ports of this apps for JB.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] svavrek:
I am using CM11 and really love the ROM thus far, but since I installed it, I am noticing a HUGE decrease in battery life... I unplugged my phone at 6:45am today, for example, and it is now 9:12am and I've only used it to send 3 text messages and it received one phone call that was under 2 mins. I am down to 71%... this has never drained so fast until on CM11. Question is... can I use a different kernel and would that make any difference? Not sure why this is happening, but on SlimKat it seemed much better battery life, but the ROM was unstable for me with a few random lock ups and camera fails and such. Would even be willing to go back to a 4.2 ROM if needed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Coug76:
My starting point would be to wipe cache and dalvik and boot leaving the device untouched to allow the caches to build for about 10 min then reboot. I'd give it another try if that was your initial process. All else being equal it's a valid place to start.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chill145:
I saw a thread a couple weeks ago about making custom splash screens instead of the Google logo.

Can anybody point me to that thread as I've searched xda themes section, the nexus 5 theme section, Google, etc and I cannot locate the thread.

This time I'll be sure to subscribe
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/themes-apps/tool-change-boot-logo-images-t2763698
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
I know this has been possible in the past on a couple of phones. I know the the HTC desire, if you S-Off, you get a custom bootloader and can change the splash, however I haven't seen this on modern, non-HTC devices.

---------- Post added at 02:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:26 PM ----------

Ah OK., cool.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
You're really, really late :p
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Meh, first day back at work after a week off, everythings running slowly today :p
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chill145:
Thanks a bunch everyone. Should have posted here first instead of weeks of searching
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
[MENTION=5666997]Lethargy[/MENTION] knows where literally everything is!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
In the N5 section, at least. :P
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
I've put a request in :p
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Doing it right now. :angel: Give me a bit, little distracted by a bunch of people quoting me at the same time xD
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Citizen_Snips:
Better get it done quick!

Oops I distracted you. Sorry rootSU [emoji30][emoji51]
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
That worked.. For like 2 seconds because I tapped on the notification then didn't read until now (and done) :p
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
ive been using this for my splashscreen for months now.. :)
[Networking] kov37:
Hello all

I have Samsung Galaxy Young running stock Android 2.3. If I leave wifi on, the battery ends really quickly.

I want to disable WiFi and Internet on screen off in order to save the battery - similar to Sony STAMINA mode available on Xperia. Anybody can help plz?
[Networking] p4mx:
You might want to try BX Power - search for "BX Power" on Google Play... It does exactly what you want + the periodic updates
[Networking] BRANDENDEUCE:
Are you rooted? Try using xposed, greenify, JuiceDefender