yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] CalypsoDroid:
First, I'm not sure if this is the right group to ask this, but here goes.

A couple years ago, I bought a used HTC Resound (I think) for a family member from overseas who had a really crappy blackberry. We installed her SIM and the phone worked fine, here and when she got back to the country she is living in--which is GSM. Anyway, after two years, that phone has been having trouble! So I picked up an eBay Verizon "certified like new" LG G2 replacement for her. This phone has never been activated. Do I need to activate it on verizon before I can give it to her? I had a French SIM that I installed to try setting it up, but the setup wizard said "unknown Sim" and would not let me go any further. So my question is, how can I prepare the phone so she can just swap the SIM from the resound to the G2 and it will work.

I also have a G2 on Verizon. Would installing my sim in this phone to set it up and then removing it work? Or would that tie my sim/verizon account to the new phone?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hurikhan77:
Hello!

I can no longer flash anything to my GT-P5110, even factory reset has no effect. The internal storage seems to be read-only.

I think this is a longer story: About one year ago the stock firmware became incredibly slow, to the point that processes started to force close, then my user data was lost, and after factory reset the tablet went into endless boot loop.

So I decided to give CM10 a try and it worked flawlessly. The tablet was fast again. I even could upgrade to CM11 later. But around 2 month ago, only sometimes processes started to force-close or the tablet randomly rebooted itself - mostly during charging. I left it that way in the charger for some days because I had no time to bother with that issue. Then, I tried to factory reset my device only to find out that this has absolutely no effect. Installing app updates: No effect. Changing system settings: No effect. And apps start to force-close at an insane rate short after boot. The device is unusable. My could only shut down and reboot into recovery. I left the tablet lying around, turned off, out of charger, for 2 months. Now I tried to investigate:

When I "adb shell" into recovery and call dmesg, I see lots of these lines:

mmcblk0: timed out sending SET_BLOCK_COUNT command, card status 0x400d00

I think something is really broken with the internal storage. I tried to flash a newer recovery but it has no effect, even when done from download mode.

Factory reset sometimes fails with an error. Reinstalling CM fails with an error. Wiping cache seemingly succeeds but I'm sure it has no effect. I tried installing SlimRom instead which seemingly succeeds, too - but after reboot I'm greeted with the CM boot logo again.

I tried to flash stock firmware with Odin. It is very very slow, runs for about 15 minutes, then fails at around 50%. Of course: That "half flashed firmware" does in no way affect the device: It still boots CM11 "without problems", then a few seconds after finishing boot (showing home screen), force-closes start to pop-up.

What should I do? I suppose the device is out of warranty for a few weeks or months, now. And even when not: It has been flashed with CM, the triangle counter is not zero. I suppose that combination of problems (read-only/failing storage, non-stock firmware) voids warranty in a way that Samsung will deny any repair. If at least I could return the device to stock firmware things would be different maybe.

Any ideas what I could try? Is it possible that the internal storage is simply fried? fsck'ing the partitions shows no errors, just the data partition is unclean with unwritten journal data but all data is readable. So the internal storage has probably not died. It just sticks to read-only mode for whatever reason.

I've found some posts with similar problems but those seem to be about older Galaxy Tab 1 devices built 2011 or before.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassjunkieuk:
Just reading over this and it sounds very similar to what I'm currently facing, which is doubly annoying as no one else has chipped in a solution :(

I had reboot issues with my Tab2 10.1 (GT-P5110) on stock so after realizing I'd need to factory reset bite the bullet and rooted so I could use CM10.

Had occasional reboots but nothing I couldn't live with however from yesterday evening the tablet is seemingly stuck in a boot loop. It comes on, some apps fire up and an update starts. Sometimes apps force close then BOOM I get the boot splash screen.

I've tried factory reset in recovery (CWM 6.0.2.7) to no avail and wiping just about everything which also had no noticeable effect as all my settings and the rom are still the same when I get back in (albeit briefly!).

I've tried flashing new recovery via ODIN which reported a success however that also didn't appear to take. I'm beginning to think it some serious file system or storage corruption ;(
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigg fella:
Same problem here...

Hopefully someone can come up with a solution or at least a cause. I've tried to Odin every recovery available for my 5113 and nothing has taken. I'm currently on Omni with cwm and tried to update to the latest cwm and twrp and aroma installer yet nothing takes. I too rooted because of the incessant bootloops about 3 months ago.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hurikhan77:
For what I can tell, my device is effectively read-only. Even in download mode (Odin) I cannot even flash a different recovery (tried to flash TWRP, still boots CWM).
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigg fella:
exactly, can't even uninstall an app. It's as if it boots from a permanent back up because even deleting pictures or files isn't permanently successful. You can uninstall and delete to your hearts content, get false hope, and get crushed after it reboots and everything is unchanged
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassjunkieuk:
Not looking very optimistic for this :( I was getting a similar inkling that it's gone into a permanent RO mode as not even the wipes from recovery have an effect. I'd also tried un-installing apps as I noticed one updating and thought it was crashing it however even when it did fire up and I disabled WLAN to stop Play Store auto-updating and removed the app on the next reboot cycle the app was back:crying::crying:

I fear I may have a big white paperweight....
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shakatu:
Sounds like the internal partitions might need to be completely reformatted. This CAN be done through recovery, but is tricky... However without actually having your device in my hand I'm not sure 100 what the best course of action would be. Try searching for the commands to format (or maybe someone else will post them) or maybe PM me for them but no promises. I won't post them publicly on XDA because honestly there are too many users who do stuff like one-click root and don't actually know what they're doing and I don't want to be in some way responsible for someone following the command wrong and bricking their device for good. I don't need that on my conscience. Personal choice.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassjunkieuk:
Would this method be any different to the way it attempts to reformat the internal partitions when you select to format the various mounts from CWM? If so I'm more then willing to give it a go as I really have nothing to lose as the damn thing is useless atm!
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CSP III:
Good call......Smart move?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sunnytimes:
help!!

same issue here , sort of .. i have stock rom and stock recovery and i cannot flash CWM .. no matter how many times i try through ODIN or hemidal nothing changes.. any idea what is going on here?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shakatu:
PMs have been sent. Hopefully it works.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weng_cas:
im also having this issue with my galaxy tab2 7".. help is badly needed
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shakatu:
Well, the proposed fix I had didn't help. Was worth a shot...
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weng_cas:
hope someone finds a solution for this.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madhavnarayanan:
No Access to ADB

Hi Shakatu,thanks for the PM, however, my device in ADB is unauthorised, so wont let me get into shell. Is there a way around this please?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seagman:
Unmark "Auto Reboot" in Odin when CWM is flashed... Stock room overwrites it during start.

After flashed CWM start in Recovery mode and flash new ROM.

this is offtopic in this tread
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farrestbizz:
same problem please help me... :(:crying:
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sunnytimes:
i have tried that 100 times .. its also exactlly what this thread is about , not being able to flash because nothing changes..
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prontera:
same here too, i have same issue.. unable to flash or do anything to my phone....
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weng_cas:
Probably this is the end for our tab. As off now the tab is useless. :mad:
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZentaXena:
I think it would solve by replace chip eMMC inside tab.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madhavnarayanan:
how do we do that please?

Can u explain how that can be done please? Do we need to give it to the repair guys?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Android-Andi:
Maybe flashin 3-part stockrom incl. Repartition... or give it to the repair center

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[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madhavnarayanan:
I tried using the PIT file, ODIN passes, but nothing happens to the tab. Tried doing a NAND erase, but it fails.

---------- Post added at 09:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:18 PM ----------

Can we not make the tab look at the external memory if the internal memory has become RO?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigg fella:
This would be interesting, pretty much along the lines of when I rooted my nook back in the day. Purty much booted and ran from the external sd.

Also, I thought about something else, one problem I ran into when rooting my note 2. Symptoms pretty much the same, no matter what, I couldn't get anything to stick. Someone mentioned trying a different usb cable and that solved my problems. I'm wondering if a new cable would have any effect?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawnf92:
I searched the threads and couldnt find exactly what i was looking for.... My question is, has anyone experienced any little annoying bugs every now and then since the D80120e update? It seems to mainly be with the browser, trying to backspace to correct a typo and it erases the entire word when you type the right letter, the browser stops every 30 minutes or so, have to reopen, and the brightness, after watching a video the brightness wont return to 50% where its set but instead stays at 100% until you go adjust it... Anyone? If i missed a thread similar to this my apologies.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sai777:
If I were you, I would try to backup everything, factory reset it and download the update again. It looks like something didn't go well. Or if you're on stock with no root, you can try to root and see if you would prefer custom roms.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawnf92:
Ive thought about rooting and going with cm or something but contemplating upgrading to a g3
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sai777:
It's your choice, G3 is a good phone but there's nothing wrong with trying to root and getting a new experience.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VCant973:
Has anyone figured out root for the Sprint S5 Sport (SM G860P)???

also, anyone else having data issues?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anderd:
Dont have one myself, but have you tried Towel Root? works on everything ive used on it so far. As for data issues, yeah i do, mainly cause its sprints network lol. Usually find my data issues are related to sprints network not the device, USUALLY that is.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimmyjetson:
Sprint Galaxy s5 sport G860P

Please Mr. Chainfire, find us root for Sprint Galaxy s5 G860P. You sir are our only hope at this time. I have 2 weeks left before i can exchange it. I wasn't very smart in first checking for root info before i purchased it. I love the cell but its been 2 weeks and I don't see anyone working on this issue. I'm gonna exchange it if it isn't found before my exchange expiration date.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reverepats:
Ask in his CF-Root thread. He won't see that here. Requests are taken in his Thread, but no promises he'll take it before your return date

Good luck!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robak1965:
Chainfire has posted Auto Root for the G860P
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VCant973:
WE'VE ACHIEVED ROOT!

http://download.chainfire.eu/460/CF-...ts-smg860p.zip
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nossman:
Does Not work for me for some reason. Odin does not see my phone in Downloading mode. Any suggestions?

Thank you.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ramer:
Try a different USB port and /or a different USB cable.
[Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petercohen:
Hello, I am trying to get familiar with this device and those S-pen enabled apps. How does palm rejection really work? It seems that if the pen touches the screen first and then I rest my palm on the screen, there is no marks made by my palm. If I put my palm on it first, depending on the settings, sometimes my palm leaves some marks.

While using the handwriting feature, I often hit the large space bar by mistake. Any way to avoid this while resting the writing hand on the screen?
[Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muzzy996:
There's subtle nuances in terms of performance of rejection of stray touches depending on the application that you're in. Some apps handle it better than others.

For example, in Action Memo as you lay hour hand down to start writing with the stylus it may leave a stray mark. Experiment with this by having the first touch of your hand be your knuckle of your pinky. Drag your knuckle across a little before bringing the tip of the pen to the screen. That stray mark stays there when you're done with your writing with the stylus.

Now repeat the same test in S-Note with finger input enabled. Again practice the motion of keeping your knuckle on the screen and dragging, then bringing the pen to the screen. Notice anything different? As long as you haven't lifted your knuckle, S-Note deletes the stray line the moment the pen gets close. Any marks you've made prior to the pen getting close to the screen stay there however.

The point being that the answer isn't as straighforward as you might think. Here we have two examples of two applications made by the same developer (at least you would THINK its the same developer) yet they act completely different. When writing with these devices one has to be deliberate in when and how they bring their hand and pen to the screen. With practice this becomes second nature though. It definitely helps when note taking apps have the ability to ignore finger input.

With regards to your problem with the handwriting recognition pad used for text input . . I'm with you there. The location of that space bar and all the other buttons is mindbogglingly stupid. They should be located above your palm. IMO what we have here is a classic example of the porting of a function that was developed for phones held in your hand (whereby you do not need to rest your hand on the phone) to a tablet without realizing that the usage of the function would be different on the new hardware.
[Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SocialEyes:
Hi... using styli on tablets is new for me, and some general guidance would be appreciated.... I'm looking for palm rejection solutions for Samsung Tab devices that (unlike touchscreentune) don't require rooting.

We have some of these Notier styli in-house, and certainly they provide a very nice writing experience, except of course that S Note doesn't have palm rejection so the stylus can't be used for note taking. :p

A Microsoft Surface 3 will arrive later today, and it has a resistive screen, Wacom stylus and palm rejection, so that should work well. But we'd like to use cheaper Tab devices as well.

Our applications are general note taking (instead of legal pads) and also annotating medical images.
[Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muzzy996:
Just my opinion here but the perception that palm rejection is not present is not a black and white thing. Rejection of stray input has more to do with touch sensor type of the device, the application used and the way the device is used within the application in question as opposed to a device itself not having palm rejection support.

Take a capacitive sensor based screen for example, where the user holding a capacitive stylus in hand and he/she brings the hand down to rest on the surface to begin writing. For a brief moment some other part or parts of the hand/wrist are going to contact the screen prior to the tip of the capacitive stylus. Without any other means of knowing how to interpret these inputs the software is going to have to consider registering them somehow. As long as these points of contact don't move significantly before movement of the stylus tip begins the application that is active can then make sense of what is going on and begin to reject the touch inputs from everything but the stylus tip. This is how "palm rejection" works. All touch input has to be evaluated and then the application decides what is input and what isnt.

IMO devices with active stylus support are always going to have an advantage when it comes to "palm rejection" in that software applications can be written in such a way as to completely ignore capacitive touch when the pen is in range of the screen. LectureNotes app for example can be set to completely ignore finger touches for writing operations and I'm sure this is not the only application that can do this. That isn't to say that this is a global feature that ALL apps inherently have, but rather it is a feature available to developers based upon how they implement things. Devices limited to capacitive stylus support only will always be at a disadvantage because the device will not perceive a difference between the tip of a stylus and a finger.
[Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SocialEyes:
Aloha...

Yes, that's right... the application needs to work with the touch screen driver to reject inputs that aren't useful.

With the Samsung Tab Pro 12.2, resting one's palm on the screen completely disables the ability to write with a stylus (using S-Note), so it's pretty much hopeless, at least using S-Note. S-Note is nicely integrated with Evernote...

Will give LectureNotes a try. It mentions being "usable" with Samsung Tab products, so let's see if it can reject palm pressure.
[Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowLea:
Palm Rejection just means you don't smudge your drawing/writing with your palm whilst resting it on the screen.

Remember how you used to get a black palm from the ink as a kid, and your whole paper was covered in smudges? That.

It is not a 'Disable Touch Input' feature. It does not disable touch, it does not disable the buttons, and it does not restrict input to the Pen only.

If you're rooted, this is an option: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmd.spencontrol
[Asus Transformer TF700] gdselzer:
I have an unlocked and rooted tf700 that I have loaded with CM11. I am currently on bootloader 10.6.1.14.8 and using CWM 6.0.4.7.

I would like to install the newly released SlimKat ROM for the device, but it requires the most up to date bootloader, 10.6.1.14.10. I can't figure out how to update my device.

I tried the guide here, but that appears to only work if you are on stock. I also tried the zip package in this post that includes the bootloader and TWRP, but I get an "assert" error from CWM when trying to install the zip.

Can anyone please point me to a guide on how to update the bootloader to 10.6.1.14.10 on this tablet with a custom ROM loaded?
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
BACKUP EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KEEP INCLUDING YOUR PERSONAL STUFFS...:)

1.Go to Asus support website and download the correct SKU for you device

2. Extract it once and it should be another zip file

3. Go to CWM and install the second zip file

4. You should have the latest bootloader that you just downloaded but you need to use fastboot to install your custom recovery again, good luck...:fingers-crossed:
[Asus Transformer TF700] gdselzer:
Sorry, should have mentioned that I tried that as well. I get an assert failed, Status 7 error when I try installing the zip from the Asus website.
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
Try this method and start reading page #2, good luck...:D

http://xdaforums.com/transformer-tf700/help/firmware-manual-flash-t2858019/page2

EDIT: Did you have a correct SKU for your device? The error message is telling you that something is incompatible with your device. You may want to double check the file to be safe...;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] gdselzer:
Been working on this for a few days now and I'm stuck. I've never used fastboot before.

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04, so I installed fastboot via:

sudo aptitude install android-tools-fastboot

I moved the blob to /usr/bin (directory where fastboot lives) and do

fastboot devices

Result is

Looking good, right?

Now I try

fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash system blob

and it just sits there. Same thing if I try

fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot

How do I get fastboot to work?
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Don't worry 14.8 is the same as 14.10 so you don't need to upgrade ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
You may want to go to the Asus setting and select the "developer options". Enable the "USB debugging" and try the fastboot again, good luck..:fingers-crossed:
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
If you're root that should work, but you shouldn't do this. Putting non-programs in /usr/bin the wrong thing to do, and you should normally not work as root either. Instead you should have your udev rules set up so you can access your device with your normal user account. Your files should be somewhere in your home directory. If you don't specify a path for your blob in the fastboot command line, your blob must be in the *current* directory.

But if you do work as root (dangerous as it is), you can avoid setting udev rules. Your blob must still be in your current directory, not in the directory where fastboot is. Or you specify the path to your blob, e.g. "fastboot flash system ~/tf700/blob" (or wherever you put it).
[Asus Transformer TF700] gdselzer:
Good to know. I flashed the ROM and all seemed to work fine. That said, I still think it would be good to get fastboot working...
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Oh YES!!!!

Essential, actually IMO ;)
[C++ or Other Android Development Languages] yuxuantim:
Hello, I downloaded Terminal-IDE because it has a C compiler, but after getting it I realize it doesn't have everything. So I downloaded my copy of GCC and I started trying to install. So does anyone know how to compile without make, or does anyone have a arm compiler that has a few more things?
[C++ or Other Android Development Languages] PhenieBenie:
Great Compiler?

h*tt*p:*//*ds*.arm.*c*om/*ds-*5/build/arm-*compiler-5/

[get rid of the * to work]

how bout this one?
[C++ or Other Android Development Languages] yuxuantim:
any one that runs on an Android?
[C++ or Other Android Development Languages] Akshayhackman:
Download C4Droid and make c programs and compile & run now .....hit thanx
[C++ or Other Android Development Languages] yuxuantim:
OK, I want to run Linux programs on android and program new ones. I need a shell compiler like gcc. Sorry for all these details.