yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] knives of ice:
don't understand why i can't switch to art. i have developer options enabled and i can select to switch from davlik to art runtime, i choose to reboot for the settings to take effect.

well, i reboot and i'm always still in davlik. any idea what the problem could be i'm running android 4.4.4 gpe

****solved, well i guess the problem is xposed. ****, no way i'm getting rid of xposed to try art
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darth:
Hey guys!

I'm working on a Battery help thread for the M8. Similar to this one in the N5 section.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2785128

I know we have a battery thread... But this would be for Troubleshooting only, unlike the existing thread. Especially useful for newer, more inexperienced members.

Trouble is, I have little experience with app ops and don't know if it's even available for Stock Sense or Sense roms.

See post 3 in the thread I linked.

Looking for a post like that one, but specific to the M8.

Any help would be appreciated. Preferably a post of your own to go in the thread in post 3 again, and preferably from someone who will frequent the thread to assist people, especially with Post 3 related help.

I don't have the time to learn all that, as I have enough going on with the site and real life.

Worst case, I will just not include app ops on the thread. Though it would be nice to include it. ?

Thanks guys!
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] arminhalen:
i have a Qteks200 , i forgot entrance password of Qteks200 . now , how can i delet that password ? or : if i want to do reset Qteks200 how can i do it without loss of informations ?
[General Questions and Answers] damaged panda:
I just got my ADT-1 dev kit just wondering if anyone has a kit with a tegra k1 the one I have has a tegra 4.
[G 2014 General] eksasol:
Here are some samples with the Moto G 2014 of my back yard.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/e9ll39c6etm34/Moto_G_2014_camera_samples
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Hello everyone, firstly I want to apologise for having my first post here be a forgettable and generic cry for help but I'm at my wits end and I hope that the community is nice enough; I would be very grateful. I rooted my phone as the idea really excited me as the phone had been really behaving erratically, since rooting it the phone performed brilliantly, I was thinking of installing CyanogenMod but it was lost on me, the entire process and caveats frightened me away... And I put my hands in the air admitting I probably didn't respect the process enough, thinking if the worse happened - c'est la vie! Well now it has and I'm feeling sick.

I rooted a few months ago, the Android version was 4.3. Basically I know what I've done and to quote Chromium himself in his thread for the app - I love the app, I'd done nothing at all exotic since rooting the phone - no custom ROM, no custom OS, just did it for the improved performance it affords, and I've been using Fontster all this time. Only recently, thinking I'm really clever I put a ttf font file on the phone via USB, a font that was unavailable in the app itself and thought nothing of it, promptly forgetting I ever did it to be honest.

I did not know this prior to I've done; last night I had grown tired of the font I had been using and started installing other fonts and had actually rebooted the phone a few times, and then I did it, didn't I? I must have chosen the font that I had put on the phone manually, the phone reboots and it hanged.

Since then, I've tried Odin and Kies. I needed to flash the stock recovery again and I have access to both Download and Recovery mode, Odin is detecting it all good and most of the internet is in agreement that as I have access to Download mode I am able to save the phone.

I have downloaded the stock ROM from multiple services, I currently have one downloading from http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9300 however but there is no mtd tar file no matter how many times I unzip the folder, using Windows' own file manager and 7zip, and there is no discussion about this anywhere on the Internet, though I am on Windows 8.1!?

Please help, I'm thinking I just need that mtd/tar file to be put in the PDA box?!

Additionally when in recovery mode there is red text -

E: failed to mount /system (Invalid argument)

can't mount '/system' (Invalid argument)

E: failed to mount /system (Invalid argument)

Am I boned?

Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated; this has really opened my eyes to the pitfalls of dealing in something I have no idea about, I'm through and through a Windows techie.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
When you extract the downloaded files what do you see in the folder?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Thank you DarkestShadow for your reply; it's still downloading (but going from memory; but I'll edit when it's finished) there was a boot image, a META-INF folder, a Modem file, a system file and others - I know this isn't thorough enough. From what I've seen on YouTube and from guides online once the zip is extracted it all becomes a single mtr5 / tar file. And that just isn't happening, it's perplexing as much as it is infuriating.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Just did some quick research and if you don't get the tar file the stock rom zip can be flashed with recovery
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Thank you very much. So if I am reading you correctly, if I can get the stock rom as a zip folder on the phone and flash via the stock recovery it should be good to go?

How would I go about getting the zip on the device? I have an SD card, although it has a lot of personal files which I don't want to lose. Could I use a tablet and computer connection to backup and get the stock rom zip on the SD card, put the SD card in my phone and then....??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Does not matter what method you choose as long as you get your personnel files off and get the zip in.

I did not realize you had stock recovery, so there is a chance it may not work. If not we will have to get you the proper odin type file.

Where are you from? what region/carrier stock are you trying flash on it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arrowblue:
Just take out your sd card and copy all your stuff to pc.then put the zip file on your sd card and flash it, but you do need custom recovry.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
It is my understanding (And I could be wrong) you can flash stock zips with stock recovery? but of course you need custom recovery for anything else.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
I am in the UK. I am downloading I9300XXUGMK6_I9300OXAGMK6_BTU.zip , but even so, it's the whole issue with the fact I can't see the tar / md5 file.

The phone is the Samsung GT-i9300 Galaxy SIII, it's carrier unlocked.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Although I am perfectly happy and confident in flashing a different recovery, I just want to make the phone usable again. I managed to flash the stock recovery no problem. I don't care about flash count and the warranty, I'm upgrading my contract soon anyway, I just need the phone obviously!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Then I suggest this one

https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/i9300/philz_touch_6.48.4-i9300.zip.md5
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Thank you DarkestShadow you have really surprised me, thank you so much for your assistance. I mean it from the bottom of my heart. Okay so with this file, this will go in the PDA box of Odin yes? And then flash it to the phone, with that done I can then put the stock rom zip on the card, put the card in the phone, boot up to CWM and then presumably follow the on screen prompts?

In the mean time though, I will wait for the download of the zip to finish to see if there is a tar file, if not I will flash CWM and be straight back on here for further assistance which I hope you'll be happy to provide? ;) Do I need to name the zip file of the stock rom anything?

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Of course I will continue to help.

Yes in pda, then if it does not auto restart into recovery shut phone off and hold Home, Volume up and Power buttons together. When you see the samsung logo, let go and you'll see it go into custom recovery.

Then choose install zip, storage/sdcard1 and the file should be there, does not need to be named anything special or changed at all just aslong as you recognize it then confirm.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Thank you Darkest, probably another silly question; I can just chuck the zip anywhere on the SD card, regardless of all the crap Android has formatted on/for it? - like DCIM, Android etc. as long as it's in the root of the card and I know what it's named.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Nope it doesn't matter as you can navigate around to find it but in the root of the sdcard is the easiest
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Okay then Darkest, finished downloading SGS3INT-XXUGMK6-BTU-20131216, extracted the zip and lo and behold I have the md5 file! As well as a dll file named SS_DL

Now what? I've completely forgotten, put that md5 file into the PDA box in Odin and commence the flashing, however if I wanted could I flash the custom recovery at a later date? If I intend on using custom OS's / rooting again / just for the ease of mind knowing it's a lot more thorough if I ever soft brick again.

I'm going to sleep now, it's 05:25AM for me, I hope that this help and advice and continue as I really appreciate talking with someone so versed in these matters, my friends and colleagues are all ****ing clueless!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Yes that is right here are some instructions ill copy from another post

4.4 Go to DOWNLOAD mode by

4.5 Press the Home, Volume Down and Power buttons together.

4.6 Press Volume Up to continue when prompted.

4.7 Run ODIN on your computer and connect your phone.

4.8 When it recognizes it, check "Auto Reboot" and "F.Reset Time".

4.9 Everything else should be left unchecked.

4.11 Press "PDA" on ODIN and select this file.

4.12 Everything should be as shown here: http://gyazo.com/fea7a1c8b7a7b5bb287fb0a0c70056dc

4.13 Click Start and wait for it to do it's thing. It'll take quite a few minutes.

4.14 When it's finished, you're DONE!!!!

IMPORTANT: If when rebooting, it hangs at the samsung logo for a while then perform STEP 3 (Wipe Device) and then reboot it. Should work. If not then post here and someone may help you OR you can attempt reflashing your stock ROM again.

Yes after all this you can reflash that custom recovery that I posted earlier.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Thank you for being here for me Darkest, I will try it tomorrow and report back, in the meantime is it possible to flash a custom recovery at any point? I don't want to ever have to go through something this stressful again, and this experience has only made me all the more cautiously confident ie: rom manager/custom roms/rooting etc.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Yes with the i9300 we have the luxury of not having to worry about locked boot loaders etc so it should be able to be flashed with odin when ever you choose.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Thank you for all your help DarkestShadow, it worked like a charm, my S3 is now functioning, basically from the factory condition.

I have since rooted my S3 using CF Auto Root, what would you suggest my course of action to be?

Definitely install a custom recovery and from custom recovery? Can I then install say, a custom ROM but as long as I backup the current state of the phone I could then go back to back; if I wanted to?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arrowblue:
sorry i ment stock recovery
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Yes a custom recovery is next, then yes you can do a nandroid backup of the whole os. I suggest philz as you can also backup the efs partition which os a definite must for us s3 users then after that you can flash custom roms.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Thank you again for all your help, I will thank the rest of your replies once I can, as I have ran out of them.

Does this mean that it would backup EVERYTHING on the phone? The ROM apps, icons, system options, user choices etc.? Or would that be via Titanium Backup, and speaking of TiBa would that be a good choice? To my understanding that's more for when one chooses to retain their set-up and apps and bring them into their new ROM or whatever? Such as the way I have my phone looking now (Nova, Icons and my desktop) and have that like for like on say, CyanogenMod?

Thank you again Darkest, you legend.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Yes yes and yes lol.

Think of a nandroid as an image of how your phone is at that exact moment, apps,settings etc. If something important was deleted and you couldn't boot or the system gets damaged etc etc you restore the nandroid and it will be exactly as the time you took it.

TiBa backs up all your apps and apps settings. so you take a backup, wipe the system and install a new rom.you can use tiba to restore your apps and apps settings. Your nova launcher, icons layout will all be restored. Note that this does not backup the rom settings like ringtone choice, lockscreen choice, etc All that you set in the "settings" option.

Also note its best to only backup user apps and data and leave the system apps alone. if updating or moving roms restoring system apps will cause issues (I no from experience :p). There are a few exceptions that don't get backed up eg some big game data.

Also as I said earlier before you go playing to much with roms backup your efs partition first. Read this link to understand. either use apps from this thread or you can do it in philz recovery if you choose that one.

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/ref-imei-efs-stuff-i9300-including-t2393289

Also these maybe interesting for you

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/help/frequently-questions-t2148708

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/samsung-galaxy-s3-sticky-roll-thread-t2344125
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Thank you again for all your help, finally though once I have made backups would it perfectly acceptable/possible to move them on to my PC and even in the cloud?

And could you provide me with the version of Philz you believe to be the most comprehensive, there is a touch version I've noticed.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Sorry long day at work.

Yes I fully suggest you copy them and keep backed up somewhere.

Here is philz thread, this is what I use but there is CWM and TWRP

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/orig-development/i93xx-philz-touch-t2002953
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mudassirrashid:
I agree too. I have recovered a soft brick of my LG OG only because I had a backup copy.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
That's okay Dark, you've been very helpful throughout my thread I can understand and appreciate a small delay.

I have installed the Philz Touch recovery!

Now, as for how to backup everything important, after having a play around with it it seems the best thing is to make a custom recovery if I want to include the efs? How do I backup to my external SD card? Is it /storage/sdcard1? What should be included in the custom backup? If I ever softbrick again I want to be able to restore my phone to a state almost like for like, as if the softbrick never happened.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Yes it goes in the pda option.

Once you get in there choose the backup option then choose custom back up to sdcard1. This is your external sdcard. In the custom only tick efs partition. After that is done choose custom again and tick everything but efs. This will be a complete backup with modem etc. The reason you have to do it twice is the efs can only be done byitself. Dont ever delete these 2 backup cause they contain everything you may need for the future. After that just choose the regular backup to sdcard1.

Philz will always no where to locate it but when you want to find it manually go into your sdcard, clockwordmod, backups and each folder in there is a backup. They are dated and timed.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
So, let's see if I'm reading you right:

Always Custom Backup to storage/sdcard1

1. Custom Backup, only tick efs.

2. Custom Backup, tick everything but efs.

3. 'Regular' Backup (?)

Also, if a ROM I find says that it needs Clockwork Mod Recovery am I okay, I am thinking it should be okay?

And how do I restore from the backup, I've backed up the back up, pop it on the SD card, boot into Philz recover and restore?

Finally now that I have backed up the efs is there anything stopping me from flashing another/different recovery or does Philz do everything I need already? Silly questions, I know.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Only do the 2 custom backups once just to make sure you have everything in the need something ever goes sour. After that just do normal backups eg go into backup then choose backup to sdcard1.

Asfar as im aware no rom does that. You should never need to flash a new recovery for a specific rom that i am aware of.

To restore leave/move folders into the folder location i posted above and philz should always find it.

When you go into the backup screen you will see all tye available options.

You should not need to change recovery at all. It should do everything you need, flash stuff and backups. Also it has a wipe and install allinone option for flashing new roms. The reason i suggested it was because i believe it to be one of the best also because it has better backup control. Ofcourse you are free to flash any recovery you would like. Just flash it in your current recovery just like any rom. With the install zip option
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Okay. Thank you Darkest, you've been very helpful throughout this and I wish you the best.

One last thing - Do you have a Custom ROM? If so which?

I am thinking of installing CyanogenMod.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Yes i do. I used to run cyanogenmod official but now i run temaseks unofficial cyanogenmod - its from the same sources but he adds extra features and sometimes fixes features before the cm team.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
One last addendum, if I use the CyanogenMod installer - the android app and windows program, can I then flash Philz recovery again? I read somewhere that CyanogenMod installs a different custom recovery but I like Philz too much.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Yes you can afterwards. The cm installer is an all in one package that removes bootloader locks etc.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yotekiller:
Hey my HTC won't enter into recovery how do I fix it I have tried resetting the ruu but it keeps saying failed I need help bad ?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
you have an AT&T Phone what file are you trying to flash? and how long has your OS been like that in the bootloader ?

Also your s-off so relocking the bootloader was not needed
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yotekiller:
It's been like this for 60 days I have been in jail lol it crashed right before I went in yes it's att the file is a ruu zip m7 ul jb43 sense50 Mr cinguler us 3.17.502.3 decrypted sorry I didn't have the link handy for the file
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkk71:
can you post a "fastboot getvar all" excluding IMEI and s/n

it looks like you messed up some things, including your misc partition, fix that first: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2739126

then use an RUU

PS: you'll need to have bootloader unlocked, if you can't manage to unlock it in this state, let me know (but i'll need the output of your getvar all, excluding IMEI and s/n)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yotekiller82:
getvar all

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.55.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: 4T.20.3218.13

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main: 8

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

(bootloader) serialno: 000000000000

(bootloader) imei: 000000000000

(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000

(bootloader) product: m7_ul

(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064

(bootloader) modelid: PN0712000

(bootloader) cidnum: CWS__001

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4042mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: off

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-2da61e5e88

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yotekiller:
Screen shot

This is all I get when eentering recovery
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkk71:
First off, make sure you're not on Windows 8.1, use Win7 or ubuntu or mac.

flash the attached file (that will downgrade hboot to 1.44, and install the noBCB recovery):

fastboot oem rebootRUU

fastboot flash zip fw_hb144_twrp-nobcb.zip

fastboot flash zip fw_hb144_twrp-nobcb.zip <- yes TWICE

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot erase cache

-> enter RECOVERY

then follow the steps http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2739126 to fix your corrupted misc partition.

once done, use https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358544977 to reset everything back to stock (in case something else is corrupt)

rename the above file to ruu.zip:

fastboot oem rebootRUU

fastboot flash zip ruu.zip

fastboot flash zip ruu.zip <- yes TWICE

fastboot reboot-bootloader
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yotekiller82:
i tried that didnt work

ok the first step worked but everytime i try to step 2 it locks up my pc and wont push the ruu onto the phone any help on that one im using a laptop with win 7
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkk71:
can you be more specific, which "step 2" doesn't work, also best to copy/paste your command prompt output (please copy/paste, screenshots are very hard to read).
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yotekiller:
Step 2

OK the first part of the post went good downgraded the hboot to 1.44 the second ruu won't go to the phone when you try to push it on it looks like it works it starts flashing a single bar on the next line a couple times then locks up the pic while the phone is setting in the black logo I have let it set for 20 min what is going on Idk how much more I can tell yall

I have got a copy of skydragon to flash in recovery but in the initial setupit keep rebooting so iI'm getting closer if that helps
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danny201281:
Do you have htcsync installed on your pc it's known to cause problems with RUU mode. If so uninstall htcsync but keep the drivers.

Then try flash the RUU again
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yotekiller:
Htc sync

No I don't have htc sync installed ? I really need my phone back up and running
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
just reboot the phone and start the RUU process again till it finishes.

Did you md5 check your RUU download to be sure it's not corrupt ?