yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] jeremyb234:
Thanks for the response. Well, to give clarity as to when the problem began, this is what happened. I was doing normal things on my tablet, and it seemed to lag really bad. As I tried to press the home button once or twice, I saw some strange lines on the screen as it faded (kind of like when a battery dies). Then the device restarted and hung on boot. After rebooting a few times, I then tried to wipe the cache with no success. After this, I did the factory reset. I know that it cannot be the wrong ROM, but I wonder if somehow the files were corrupted or if the storage unit could have failed. Anyways, according to various instructions I have seen online, I thought that doing the factory reset would restore the original factory rom image? Am I incorrect?
[General Questions and Answers] TechMinerUK:
Depends, if it's a custom recovery it could wipe everything
[General Questions and Answers] jeremyb234:
Thanks for the response. I have only used the regular stock recovery that is preloaded on the device (I think it's called Android System Recovery 3e. To my knowledge, I don't believe there are any working custom recoveries for this device. It seems that doing the factory reset is normally the way to go to fix OS issues on this device. However, when the factory reset process is successful (as far as going through the process is concerned), but it does not fix the issue, it makes me wonder if the factory recovery image is corrupt or something. Any ideas? Also, if the device turns on and I can navigate through the recovery options and even use ADB, do you think the hardware is still good? If so, then it would be a software/firmware problem... right?

I would simply like to get the device working. I don't care whether its a stock recovery or custom recovery, stock rom or custom Rom. I just want to use the device again and not have to throw it in the garbage. Do you have any ideas how I can get it going?

One other thing, I just don't understand why it's so difficult to restore a tablet. A PC is ultra easy to fix by using a self-booting recovery disk or a live linux iso. Perhaps someone can explain to me why it seems to be impossible to find a working rom anywhere for this device.
[General Questions and Answers] TechMinerUK:
Unfortunatley because it's not a common brand of tablet not many developers are working on creating ROMs for it
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] leoking3:
Hello guys, I have a very very annoying problem: from time to time my Hermes starts ringing with the standard ringtone , I guess its called Windows Default something..... It is incredibly annoying. I guess you realize that I dont get any call, I dont have alarms scheduled, my pocket pc doesnt do any other strange thing. It just starts ringing (playing) that stupid song, over and over again, untill I turn it to Vibrate.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] hanmin:
Check your notification queue.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] leoking3:
Please be a little more specific.... What is the notification queue? I didnt mention it starts immmediately after a soft reset or a restart.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] hanmin:
Use Check Notification

http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/cn_overview.html

To check if you have notifications that are weirdly scheduled (looks random to you, not attached to any reminder) that may be responsible for your random ringing, which may be trigger by the built in alarm (whch uses the same default ring tone)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] leoking3:
Unbelievable.... I feel like smashing it to a wall... it really gets on my nerves.... Thank you man, I tried te program, but the reminder or whatever it is , its still there.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lt.col.johncross:
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[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kylewo0:
Request for help installing new rom

Was hoping for a brief step by step how I can install one of these newer roms on my sch-i815. And advice would be great.

I currently refreshed/restarted it back to original 4.0.4 ice cream, rooted with the king root app:eek:

Not sure how to go about.. Seems like every tab is different... When I hold down my pwr and -vol I get Odin screen wanting to download ... Something ha--newb here

Where do I get twrp from. As stated above my says odin
[Sony Xperia M] Amirphp:
I am using Xperia m dual 4.3 c2004.

in the status bar I am just getting only five quick setting...

such as:

sound, wifi, bluetooth, data, setting.

but not getting all quick shortcuts.

while in 4.2 there was many shortcuts and customization...

So why is this?

and how to back all quick shortcuts in status bar?
[Sony Xperia M] Amirphp:
Any one?
[Sony Xperia M] prppedro:
Are you using stock ROM? If yes, I have 4.3 and feel the same. May be it's about the theme used by Sony. However, the stock ROM is indeed a bit capped when comes to customization.
[Sony Xperia M] Amirphp:
Yes...using stock Rom.
[Sony Xperia M] mbc07:
Stock ROM always had only five Quick Settings, not customizable. If you had customizable Quick Settings before, you were using a custom SystemUI. Right now, to get customizable Quick Settings in 4.3 firmware you can use either Xperia T2 Ultra dual or Xperia M2 dual SystemUI (ports are available in Themes and Apps subforum)...
[Sony Xperia M] rizla2:
You can also try xperia z2 ui
[Sony Xperia M] Amirphp:
can u pls give me link for m dual 4.3
[Sony Xperia M] Amirphp:
i checked....but there is written is only for xperia M2 user....while i am using M dual.
[Sony Xperia M] Remorcer:
The framework is ported from M2 to M, use that one.
[General Questions and Answers] jasonmerc:
So I saw network unlocked NEC Terrain up on Amazon for about $85 or so, and I was thinking of getting one. However, the fact that root permissions haven't been obtained on this phone is really what is holding me back from purchasing it, and the last time I checked, the devs still have not found a PERMANENT root method for it...

I saw an app called Towelroot by geohot that can (maybe) not only root the Galaxy S5, but ANY recent Android phone, AS LONG AS it does not have 3.4.0 kernel or newer (at least that's what the article said regarding the Note 3 anyway).

Since I do not have the Terrain, I can't test this towelroot app to see if it works. So I was wondering if anyone out there with a Terrain would be willing to test this out to see if it works,and then report back the results. This device came out last year, and has not had software updates since October of 2013 because NEC doesn't want to do Androids anymore, so I am going to assume it does not have the 3.4.0 kernel. So maybe, just maybe, it will work. And who knows, if by some chance it does work, that could even lead to greater things being done with this device...

EDIT: I just read an article from ATT regarding the software on the Terrain on what I think is the latest firmware update. It said the kernel version was 3.0.8. I probably shouldn't, but I'm getting my hopes up. I kinda want this phone :)

http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB421350&cv=820#fbid=ex0inqn4h0e

Sent from my MB855 from the free version of xda app because cheap
[General Questions and Answers] FFDA:
It does not work

Hello,

Towelroot doesn't work on NEC Terrain. I've tried it with different configurations. I've also tried: labda root, poot, framaroot, z4root, vroot, baidu root, saferoot. Moreover I've tried manually root phone using this guide, tried dd modified boot.img, but that didn't stick and after reboot there wasn't any changes.

Problem is that one can't remount /system partition to rw. It just says “invalid argument”. Furthermore there is not any fastboot support (locked out I guess).

I can get temp root using method discribed by justDave, remount / and /data (maybe others partitions too, nether tried) partitions, mount ././tmp/xbin (with busybox and su in it) over /system/xbin, but that doesn't get me anywhere.

I'm thinking about dd custom recovery, but I need to read on it thirst. If you have any suggestions or other rooting methonds, manual rooting guides etc., please post them here and I will try them if my knowledge lets me.

Off topic: NEC closed their mobile devision. Just google “NEC Pulls the Plug on Smartphones” (I can't post links form outside). So there isn't any good news for peaple with NEC Terrain.
[General Questions and Answers] jasonmerc:
Well that sucks, towelroot was pretty much my only suggestion. I'll look into others. But just as a heads up, I don't think I'll be buying one anymore, so I won't be taking a LOT of time to research root methods.

And yes, I am aware that NEC stopped with smartphones. I assume that is why they are so cheap on Amazon?

Edit: bin4ry universal root for 4.0/4.1: http://m.ibtimes.co.uk/root-android-smartphone-tablet-universal-tool-install-385487 Chances are low that this will actually work, but I posted it anyway.
[General Questions and Answers] FFDA:
Yeah... no.

Personally I don't think you should buy it if there isn't permanent root method and I don't think there will be any. NEC Terrain isn't popular so nobody with know-how will join the effort to root it. Also at least my phone has problems with battery (from the moment I got it). It holds charge for 8 hours max. "Wakelock Detector" says it's always awake. Something with suspend_backoff, but because I can't uninstall bloatware I can't find out which app actually causes it. Furthermore without the root one can't turn off "Fast Dormancy", which in my country drains battery. At this point I'm not afraid to hard brick it or nailed it to the wall, because without the root it is good as paperweight for me.

bin4ry universal root for 4.0/4.1 don't worked either. When I ran RunMe.sh (I'm on linux) nothing happens. Script is using commands like "am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.sonyericsson.android.servicemenu/.ServiceMainMenu" and moving folders which phone doesn't have.
[General Questions and Answers] jasonmerc:
Yeah, I don't think I'm going to buy it anymore. I mean, that $80 price tag on Amazon looks good, but if no one can even get it ROOTED, then even for that price it's not worth it. I've been looking at another cheap, rugged phone to get, the Kyocera Hydro Life which is $125 at Wal-Mart for T-Mobile. At least that phone has a root method.

But maybe one day, if I see a Terrain for like $40 or something ridiculously cheap like that on an online store, I'll pick one up. Yes, smartphones can get that cheap. I saw a Motorola Bravo (not a bad phone, I have one myself with a 4.4.4 ROM) for $40 new on eBay.

But anyway, if I find a new root method, I'll be sure to post it here. Chances are really slim for anything actualy working, but hey, it's worth a try.
[General Questions and Answers] jasonmerc:
*BUMP* *BIG NEWS*

Just spoke with the very generous Kemonine96, a developer who I came to know through his work on the Rugby Smart. What started out as a half-sarcastic post made by me regarding Towelroot and the Terrain turned into what looks like a solution to this device's root issues! He thinks he has a solution to finally root this Terrain. And I believe him, because it sounds like he knows what he is talking about. Here are his exact words regarding some of my questions:

He ran into a similar problem with the Galaxy Rugby where the /system would not mount as read/write. He made a root update.zip that fixed this issue. We are welcome to use it/modify it for the Terrain. But BE SURE TO GIVE HIM CREDIT IF YOU RELEASE SOMETHING BASED ON HIS ROOT.ZIP!!!! Please continue reading for more information:

This could be it. Thanks, Kemonine96. Thanks for not only this, but for your Rugby work as well ;)

EDIT: To see the whole conversation, or in case I am leaving out information, please visit the Samsung Galaxy Rugby Pro Super Thread and go to the latest post. It should be somewhere around there.
[General Questions and Answers] kemonine96:
You may also want to look at the root methods for other msm8960 and msm8660 devices. HTC, Sony and Samsung all used the platform prior to JB and there may be other examples floating around.

The Terrain was late to the party compared to some so it'll likely be trickier.
[General Questions and Answers] jasonmerc:
Since NEC gave up on smartphones after they made the Terrain, I doubt we will be getting any official drivers/kernels or anything of the sort from them.
[General Questions and Answers] kemonine96:
As long as you can get the 3.0 kernel (it's GPL after all) you should be able to get newer releases going. It'll be a pita, but it's doable if you've got a starting point.

The real pain will likely be the keyboard / screen drivers since they are non standard compared to other devices.
[General Questions and Answers] jasonmerc:
I'd LOVE to be able to do these things myself, but alas, I am but a script kiddie as of now. I will begin my Android-modding studies as of now. Give me about 100 years and I should be good to go!
[General Questions and Answers] kemonine96:
Guess where we all started, including myself?

The key is to keep smashing your face on your desk till you get through. ;)
[General Questions and Answers] jasonmerc:
And that is why I am glad the phone is rugged.
[General Questions and Answers] FFDA:
Best way to proceed

Gaining temp shell root and setting up busybox isn't a problem, we already have that (again thanks to justDave). I have almost all partitions as *.img files (one was too big for sdcard file system). Tomorrow I plan to buy an OTG cable and get the last one. But it is impossible to mount most of the partitions. I'm thinking that like boot image, one must to "unzip" other partitions with special program to look inside. Anyone has any advice on this?

Partition maps already in [DEV][REF]El Grande Partition Table Reference thread. I think there is enough information there or I had missed something?

This is where my problems begins. I don't know what exactly change in boot to gain a root. I tried the simplest thing, that is changing ro.secure=1 to ro.secure=0 but that didn't stick. Maybe I did something wrong (used two different methods to create boot.img files. One image was made with mkbootimg another with abootimg), but at least other two people (aluminumx & MrMEEE) tried dd their custom boot.img without any luck. Maybe I should try dd custom recovery first? Or boot.img the way to go?

Just as reminder I want to say that there is not any fastboot support.

Can someone tell me what I should focus on? boot.img or recovery mode?
[General Questions and Answers] swordguy8:
You could try it again. Just remember that ro.secure exists in multiple places. default.prop, and some inits as far as I remember. I'll check later on and repost. Had you tried to change all of them? I've also read that the image being written has to be the same size as the image being overwritten. I don't know if that's relevant for this though.
[General Questions and Answers] aluminumx:
I can definitely give kemonie's suggestion a try. However, I am still not confident that we can get permanent root without unlocking/bypassing the nand lock first. I was able to identify the boot and recovery partitions relatively easily, and dd their contents out post no problem as well. Dd a new image back on was the problem... for testing purpose, using the stock boot image as base, I just added a zero length file to the folder, wrap it back up, and dd it back to boot, the file never made it thru even though dd didn't give any error. Which prompted me to think the nand was locked. So the other way of patching the boot partition would be applying an update.zip file in recovery mode, but we need a code as well, see screen shots. And yeah, no fastboot mode neither. It's very frustrating to hit all possible road blocks there can ever be to root this thing. But I do believe that the key lies in my terrain though, because reading from everyone who has posted so far, mine seems to be the only one that is confirmed unlocked. So yeah, if we can get some expert hackers to help in this effort, I wouldn't mind donating my time or even my phone to help.

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[General Questions and Answers] laserdrome:
What do you mean by that? In case you bought your phone from cellforce on eBay, I doubt your phone is special in any way. Some weeks ago in the light of discussions going on here I asked the seller how he unlocks the phone, whether he tampers with the software or if he just enters unlock codes. He claims he just uses unlock-codes. If that is true then your terrain should not be special, right?
[General Questions and Answers] aluminumx:
hmmm, if that is truly the case, i.e, the seller just entered the code to unlock mine before he sold it, then yeah, mine won't be any special. However, from talking to the multiple other dealers, AT&T support and also NEC support, the unlock codes are not available for this phone at all, which would mean my seller got his batch already unlocked. I could be wrong though since I have talked to them almost a year ago and it maybe true that AT&T or NEC has released the code database. Anyway, the fact is that I haven't been able to find another owner on these forums who has their Terrain unlocked. The hope is that if we can successfully get it permanent root, then we can compare files and settings between the locked and unlocked ones. I do wish you good luck getting the code though, that would definitely be good news for a few people here :)
[General Questions and Answers] timekiller_9:
I have both a locked and unlocked NEC Terrain. And, if it were to be helpful, in the box of the unlocked one was a little slip of paper that says "CODE" and has a number on it. The phone was unlocked when I received it, so I can't confirm that the code on the paper is the unlock code for the phone.

I'd be happy to pull whatever files would be helpful from either device and post them. Give me a process and I'll get what you need.
[General Questions and Answers] aluminumx:
Hey timkiller, good that your vendor gave you the code as well. My guess is that it's the sim unlock code, which you probably don't need anymore as once your phone is unlocked, it "shouldn't" get relocked, but just in case, you should save it somewhere. However, if it's not the sim code but the maintenance code, that would be helpful for the rest of us. If you can try the following and let me know if that works. I am not exactly sure how familiar you are with android, so I will be a bit more detailed here, hope you are not insulted. I am by no means any expert, I basically just want to see If the code you got is the maintenance code or not.

1. power down the phone

2. hold the volume down button, and then the power button to turn on the phone, hold on to the keys until you see the android maintenance picture

3. press up volume, then down volume button, and a menu should show up. You are now in recovery mode. In this mode, you have to use the volume down to cycle through the menu items, the volume up to select it. You should see the following choices, if the menu is different from below, please let us know

a. reboot system now

b. wipe data/factory reset

c. wipe cache partition

d. repair software by sdcard

e. maintenance

4. use the volume down key to move to maintenance, then use volume up to select it. You should now be asked to enter the password. Again, use the volume buttons to enter the code you got. Remember to select OK at the end. If you got kicked out back to the original menu, then the code didn`t work, and proceed to step 5 below. I have no idea what it would look like if the code works though, but I imagine you will have a new menu system. Please let us know either way.

5. Las thing to try is the repair software by sdcard option. Use the volume buttons to select that, it will first ask you to confirm, volume down to yes and you will be prompted to enter password once again. Enter your code and let us know if it works.

Well, I won`t hold much hope on it, but it`s worth a try. if either option works, then we can compare your IMEI with the code, and maybe derive a pattern out of it. I know another NEC phone model is like that. :)

thanks for your help, crossing fingers :)
[General Questions and Answers] timekiller_9:
I'm not insulted at all. I'm not an Android expert per say, but I am very tech savvy and can get around the device quite well. I can run a temporary root via adb, extract a partition, whatever it is that would be useful.

The recovery mode menu appears exactly as you describe it.

I tried the code I have to try to get into the maintenance and repair modes. Unfortunately neither worked, both kicked me back out to the previous menu. I suspect it's the unlock code that I have, or possibly even just a code for something else all together that the seller accidentally included in the box. It's a hand written slip of paper with just the word "CODE" and an 8 digit number on it, so we cannot be certain it's even for this device.

I'm happy to try any other ideas, or extract something for you to compare on either the locked or unlocked phone. I will be travelling for the next week so I will only have the unlocked phone with me.
[General Questions and Answers] zolahn:
No one can root nec terrain?
[General Questions and Answers] aluminumx:
There is a temp root method using run_root_shell script. But because the nand is still locked, we are unable to get a permanent root.
[General Questions and Answers] aluminumx:
nope, the bloatwares are in the system partition which is locked from RW, even with the temp-root access.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Supamike88:
Is their anyway to disable the stock notification on the lockscreen so that I can try some from the Play Store?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] serio22:
Go to message app, settings, and deselect show preview
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Supamike88:
It still shows a message thing on the lockscreen, it just doesn't show the contents of the message
[Hardware Hacking General] SwampFox56:
After creating a custom BIOS (technically UEFI firmware, but I'll call it a BIOS) for my MSI Z87-G45 motherboard today - I flashed it and... I bricked my motherboard. Tough luck eh? Well fortunately, after panicking for several minutes, I found a guide online how to unbrick a mobo through a parallel connection.

I got pretty lucky, and that 30 year old parallel/scsi port on the back of my mobo (god knows why it's even there) actually came in handy today. In fact, it was a convenient... err... a convenient, inconvenience to have it there (as getting the motherboard to unbrick by using a PC from 2004 directly through Parallel --> Parallel was a journey in itself) but convenient in the fact that my computer is functioning again.

Anyways. I'm wondering if there's other uses for that port? specifically, using it to connect legacy hardware to my computer for actual use. Could it be used to interface with a 3 1/2" floppy disk drive? How about a 5.25' floppy drive? Also, I have an ancient harddrive that uses some form of SCSI (I believe). It's definitely not IDE, and obviously not SATA - could that be hooked up to it?

If not what are some uses for that old sucker? Being that I'm more of a legacy enthusiast - I'd love to hear some options.

Thanks everyone!

SwampFox
[Hardware Hacking General] nayheyshun:
I've used mine as spare wire, and in rare cases it comes in handy. I hate to say it ,but I keep all my old cables in hopes that I can reuse them ...one day
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] waqar bukhari:
Iwanna install following rom in my unlocked Xperia p.

[ROM] Blur Kat CM11 | V3 Venom +Dev Preview | Smooth and Stable |4.4.4 |CM/FXP | Crew Blur [28/07/2014]

The steps that I need to follow are below..

Fastboot kernel from the rom zip

Press power button when Device vibrates to enter CWM recovery

Format system,data and cache

Flash the Zip

Reboot

I am not understanding the first step. :(

Please help. Sorry if repost.