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[T-Mobile LG G2] DeucesAx:
The d802 is missing the 1700 mhz frequency, so I would stick to he d801. You need 1700 and 2100.

T-Mobile just bought the 700 mhz frequency range from Verizon, which I think they will use to cover rural regions. I heard contradicting statements about the 700 mhz capabilities of the lg2, so maybe someone more knowledgeable can shime in.

I need Wi-Fi calling, so I can't use nexus devices. If that doesn't matter for you, maybe wait for the nexus 6. Comes out in October I think.

If battery is a huge issue for you, maybe you should consider an s4/s5. Being able to just carry multiple batteries is nice, i sort of miss it from my S3. But then I have a 10000 Mah external one, so whatever.

Overall the lg2 seemed to have the best bang for the buck, that's why I bought it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] merikgvr4:
Good afternoon guys, there have been a lot of SS roms lately and I want to try them out. The 8gb card I used is filled up with my backups. WHen upgrading to a 32gb card, is it as simply as copying over the stuff in my 8gb to the new card including the other stuff needed to flash the new roms?

Any tips on making this as painless as possible is much appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
It's as simple as copying your old stuff over and inserting the card
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] merikgvr4:
thanks chief. much appreciated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] mikew99:
Whenever I upgrade to a new/larger card, I prefer to make an image backup of my old card and restore the image to the new card (resizing if necessary). I use Acronis for this, but any image backup tool should work. Unlike Windows copy, this ensures that the file formats, hidden files, permissions, and everything else (except for the volume size) is exactly the same on the new card as it was on the old one. Whichever method of backup you use, don't forget to run h2testw to check your new card for errors before restoring your backed up files to it.

Once you've verified that all your important programs and data work with the new card, you'll be in a great position to make a nandroid backup (that you can always go back to) before trying out some new roms.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dri94:
Is the efs swappable between devices? Say my friend back ups his efs. can i then restore his backup if we both have the vs980?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bps119:
No, efs is unique to each device.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] THE_KINGDOM:
My question is:

Can you use a Nexus tablet or any android device for that matter, to perform fastboot or adb terminal commands to another device like a Nexus 5 for example, via USB? (terminal emulator?)

Essentially what I'm try to do is unlock the bootloader on my Nexus 5 (replacement that's coming in the mail) and any future Nexus devices, using a Nexus tablet instead of a PC.

The reason I'm asking this:

I'm fed up of laptop computers with mechanical parts, unreliable HDD etc etc..and I'm making the switch to a tablet.

I was dead set on the new Nexus tablet coming out... but then I came to realize without a PC of some sort, how the hell can I unlock the bootloader of my future Nexus devices???

My only alternative is the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 because it still has fully functional windows and can run terminal commands linked to .exe files. via USB attached to an Android.

But for functionality I think the new Nexus tablet coming out will better suit my needs, since windows is certainly not up to par in the mobile world.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxys:
I had the same question... I'm getting rid of my slow Microsoft PC! Luv my tab and hope someone figures out a way to do this....
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Adb yes but its much harder than windows / Linux / Mac. Fastboot no.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Maybe if you got Ubuntu to run? (Not sure about Ubuntu Touch though)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] THE_KINGDOM:
Well this is a REAL SHAME, because it means anybody here with an Android, still needs a PC currently..

Unless you throw on dual boot Ubuntu on another Android device to run commands.. and that's just a maybe
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IINexusII:
Get a laptop/PC with an SSD then, and join the master race:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] THE_KINGDOM:
Would this work with a dual boot Ubuntu installed?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
na, dont need a computer. you can use towelroot to toot your device. then use flashify to flash a custom recovery once you have root. and you can unlock/lock your bootloader with an app as well.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
It is a good idea to have a computer because if you run into problems and the phone can't boot, all options are exhausted without a computer... If you needed fastboot to repair.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
not saying that its not. im just saying that all is possible without a computer, thats all.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
True fastboot is not. Substitute methods, yes.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanallaire:
I have a Winnpad7 and I had to manually install play store, but it came with gmail (weird). Anyway it won't let me sign in with my google account on anything (gmail, play store, etc.) anyone know what might be wrong? I put a screenshot of the model and version(jellybean?) and everything else to maybe help..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanallaire:
I've heard Google is banned in china, so that makes sense why there's no Google on it. But why wouldn't it let me be able to sign into Google? Is there a way to get Google services on it?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanallaire:
GOT IT!!! I just installed google play services apk and everything looks ok now!
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SergioKravtsov:
How can I buy new Moto X from Motomaker in Canada? It seems like it will not work in here. Also I don't have any friends in USA to buy it and send to me. Maybe there is some site that do that thing? I am asking because we will have it only locked for Telus and I want unlocked one(pure moto x?) to use in Wind. Moreover, we have only 2 variants of the phone. Black + black plastic and white + bamboo, when I would prefer black + some black wood.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cee-ach:
I think the only way would be to have it shipped to a shipping stations in the states and go drive down there to get it. Sucks because I'm in the same situation and really want this phone but Moto just left us Canadians hanging.
[HTC One SV] Sceged:
I can provide any information you need as long as it doesn't require me to actually boot up the android interface (I can only use fastboot and that's it) but I'll list my issue so far.

So I rooted my phone a good while back using The Ultimate Guide: S-Off, Recovery, Root, & Jelly Bean on Android Forums dot com I have the boost mobile american variant of the phone, not the k2_ul it's the k2_cl I do believe.

I recently tried to revert it back to stock since I don't really need it rooted anymore.

It ultimately resulted in me just contacting HTC directly because I couldn't find an actual stock rom to flash onto my phone anywhere.

(maybe I just wasn't looking in the right places, but I looked very thoroughly)

After a few messages back and forth with their technical group I ended up flashing an updated hboot they gave me for it, and then the stock rom they gave me always resulted in "INFOshift signature_size for header checking... FAILED (remote: 32 header error) finished. total time: 50.946s"

So at this point the phone was still booting up like normal, but I figured maybe I should just try to update it with the software update.

First update applied, phone still worked, another update prompt.

Second update applied, phone is bricked, and now I think since I flashed that hboot file it's removed cwmrecovery from my phone and I feel like I've played god with my poor phone.

I'm really sorry if this seems really vague, and I'm really sorry if this is the wrong place to put this.

And I'm sorry for not posting links and images but I can't since I'm new apparently.

I just really want to get this fixed, and if possible go back to a stock phone.
[HTC One SV] banderz777:
I used this to get me back to stock JB 4.1.2 on Boostmobile, I was on JB 4.2.2 the latest update , go to One SV General and look for this post by a guy named Russell it's called [almostRUU][K2_CL]&[How To Update After Moonshine S-Off] , I was unlocked and S-OFF to get it to work, sorry on link for you, read it carefully and download the files and put on PC, and if it don't help then try messaging him.
[HTC One SV] Sceged:
I'll check it out, appreciate the info. :)
[HTC One SV] Sceged:
Okay so I originally had a legit rom from htc themselves, but flashboot kept giving me the error I posted in my original post, after following that guide recommended, I couldn't get twrp to flash over, but I did read ahead and just put the rom the htc people gave me on my sd card, then I boot into bootloader and viola, it updated itself to the latest version, it's now stock as far as I know.

I know it isn't rooted, I relocked bootloader before even updating it, so I'm thinking my problems are over.

Even if it isn't at least the phone is usable again.
[HTC One SV] banderz777:
Glad your problem is solved....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] CurbThePain:
this may sound stupid but has anyone thought of making a recovery like twrp or cwm for pc? like for users running it directly off their pc (not in a virtual machine). couldnt we boot a recovery directly from grub and make it possible to flash zips to android x86. just for ease of access..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] povoking:
bump, i like it too
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Franzferdinan51:
Good idea I like it
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rootsuperuser:
nice! :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] madpausa:
Wouldn't be bad, but I guess not needed. You could get the same result by installing a light weight distro and use it as a recovery.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaredmorgs:
I'm affected by the Cracked Edges fault with the tablet, and have successfully opened an RMA with NVidia.

I want to be ready to transfer all data over to the new device, but I have a few specific questions that may be better contained in one thread that folks can reference (without having to hunt around XDA)

Question 1 - Apps on SD Card

Like many 16GB tab users, most of the larger apps are on the external memory. I've not owned a device with a "Move to SDCARD" solution baked in before, so my question is:

Can I pop the sdcard out of one tablet and when inserted into the new device, the apps on external storage will sort themselves out and be loaded when the new device boots?

Question 2 - Apps on Local Storage

I'll need to back these up (naturally), but is there a way in TiBu to specify apps on a particular storage target (for example, internal memory or external memory)?

The way I understand it, I'd need to create a backup profile for Games (on external SD) and Apps (on internal SSD) and manage the backups this way.

My thinking is that I'd need to restore the large data apps in a separate restore so I could specify the storage target.

Is that even possible in TiBu?

Otherwise I would run out of room if I tried to flash an update.zip with all the apps back onto the shield's SSD.

Question 3 - TiBu-created update.zip and Stock Recovery

I've stuck with the factory recovery, however I have Towelrooted and use Flashify to do any OTA updates.

If I created an update.zip in TiBu, would I need to also load a custom recovery (CWM) to flash this back to the device? Or would the custom recovery allow me to flash a zip created by TiBu (I've got a feeling I'm outta luck here).

Summary

If the steps I've proposed here sound really cludgy or onerous to any of you, I'd love to get your thoughts about how to restore data with minimal fuss back to the new tablet. Any power tips are welcome, and may help others in the same situation.

Thanks for your help with my question.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aenews:
I'd assume that if you're fully stock, a simple factory reset would do the trick after running SuperSU's unroot option. Titanium will backup just fine. I'm assuming your backups are on the microSD. When you restore them, you could make the external storage the default installation location when restoring those apps. But it may not be necessary if those apps were programmed to prefer external memory. Won't be too hard to even manually move them over if you don't happen to have many apps like that.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tigerstown:
Does this HTC phone come with the HTC flashlight ? I'm asking cause if not I can post one for you. Thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] namiran:
Hi!

Is there anyway to turn off quickkeys, i want to disable the ctrl+q command in PIE, right now this command quits PIE when all i really want to do is send a ctrl+q command to the application behind PIE. simply put, i want to disable the action taken from that key combination, but i dont want to disable the keys.

any ideas?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] namiran:
comon guys, no one did this before??
[Verizon LG G2] Vexorg:
I never rooted/rom'd my LG G2.

That being, said I have experience doing this (with a nexus 4 phone).

Ever since the 4.4.2 I have had non-stop random crashes/reboots. I've pretty much just suffered through it without any luck. I have factory reset multiple times and with the most recently released update I receive the error (0x1111004) during the install. I emailed LG and of course they want me to send my phone in (I HATE LG's customer service).

Can I just flash 4.4 files to my phone without rooting and then just (hopefully) successfully update to the newest version?
[Verizon LG G2] mjones73:
Follow the return to stock guide in the General section then let the phone take the OTA's to get to the latest version.

You will lose root doing this, if you need root, re-run ioroot before taking the 25B update then it should stick fine.
[Verizon LG G2] Vexorg:
Thanks!
[Verizon LG G2] player911:
You don't have to be rooted.

You just put your phone into download mode, download the software, connect up, and flash.
[Verizon LG G2] caliking:
You don't have to be rooted as previously stated. Just follow the guide it's very easy to do and you can upgrade to latest stock version.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
Okay, this may be a bit of a noobish thread, but rooting is a thing I don't have much experience or knowledge in. I've been using an M8 for a few months and I'm just trying to figure out how to make it a more personal experience. I have downloaded Tasker but I still need to look at guides and FAQ's on it before I start playing with it. Back to the thread title, why should I root? I know I can play with ROM's, kernels, and what not when I root. But I'm still unfamiliar with what I'm actually doing when I do that. I'm not 100% sold on changing the ROM on my M8 because I was watching a video for Cyanogen on an M8 and you lose the double tap to unlock functionality and the video stated that most ROM's will lose that functionality. I happen to use it quite often so I'm a bit leery of letting it go. So more specifically my question is, what can do I with rooting? What do different kernels do? What can I do with rooting if I don't change the ROM or kernel? I'm hoping I can find out if rooting is something I want to do or not with my phone. Any help is greatly appreciated.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darth:
If you root, you can use tasker... For starters. ?

No one can answer this. Except you. If there are things you want to do that require root, then root. If not, don't. Not much else to say on it really.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
Well that's pretty much exactly why I want to know what all I can do with rooting and what those things actually do. So I can decide if rooting is something I want to do.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HRodMusic:
adaway is the major reason why i root, and xposed.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerndM14:
Well there is only so much you can do on a device without making changes to its system. Kinda like a computer, Windows & Linux. How many things can you install and/or change without Administrator Privileges / Super User?

Heck these days you need Administrator privileges for updates on some games. Almost anything cool will HAVE to make some changes to the system in order to work properly.

Xposed Framework

Titanium Backup

Root explorer - <Name already says it all.

Six axis controller - You need root in order to connect your PS3 remote to your phone in order to play games with a controller.

Tasker - Like mentioned before.

Ad block Plus - Who really wants to look at ads the whole day?

Greenify - To hibernate all those excessive apps and save up some battery juice.

Better Batter Stats / GSAM with Root Companion - Get some detailed info on your what drains your battery(Wake locks etc)

WiFi Tethering - Pay for it through Carrier or Free with root?

Has the writing to external issue been fixed with latest android phones? If not you'll probably need Root to make changes to the permissions in order to write to external SD card.

The questions really isn't right... It's not "Why should I root? " it's "Why shouldn't I root? " Like I mentioned above you can't really do anything to the device if you don't have the permission/authority to do so and some of the best stuff out there needs to make changes to the system. When last did you install an awesome program on your computer without having to grant it administrative privileges :rolleyes:

That list I gave is small one in a huge list of cool things you can install and/or do if you're rooted.

Then of course next it'll be... Why should I go with S-OFF :confused:

Completely stock - Human - you only do what they want you to do.

Rooted - Demi-God - you make your own choices on what you want and what you don't.

S-OFF - God Mode. Enough said.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jshamlet:
Being able to disable data at the firewall for everything except those apps that actually need Internet access is a godsend if you don't have a large data plan. I use DroidWall, but Android Firewall is coming along as well.

Then, add in Adaway, being able to completely remove CarrierIQ, and disable unnecessary services, it's more a question of why wouldn't you root? However, I'm a bit of a control freak when it comes to my phones.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
Thanks for the replies guys, I've got some things to look into now. Is there an easy to understand guide anyone can link to help me better understand what I can do with rooting? Knowing certain apps/tasks and what not is great for looking into, but I would like to gain a better understanding of what all rooting is capable of so I can come up with ideas of my own to try. I still really have no idea what different kernels do, and reading descriptions doesn't help me much right now with my limited understanding. Thanks again guys.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Teio:
I think most of the benefits of rooting have already been stated, but what about the trade-offs?

Well, there are simply no trade offs unless you use an app that won't work with root, like Barclays Bank UK. Unless you use any app that won't work with root...

About double tap to unlock, you will only lose it if you use any aosp Rom, you will still have it if you use a stock based rom like ARHD or Venom
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsmyth:
A pretty comprehensive guide and explanations of everything for the M8 that you want to know before rooting/modding/flashing/etc. :good:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=52484527
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] passion4tech:
Here are some helpful videos on how to root, unlock bootloader, gain s-off, and receive ota updates while rooted. All these videos helped me and will help you too :).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkGyPgONJaI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N88nHyCktW0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPPT5J8xG6w
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HtcOneJon:
Personally I wouldn't bother rooting unless you have a specific must have or must not have problem with the M8.

Every phone i've had now i've rooted, unlocked etc, and I always go back to the same thought, why did I bother.

Personally I think it just has you wiping and reinstalling all the time and not getting on with things. Flashaholic I think is the term lol.

I also think my M8 functioned better stock. Smoother and with better battery life.

Personal opinion though. When I get my Z3, i'll be leaving it stock, ready for the M9 lol.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jshamlet:
I'm actually still running stock right now, and taking OTA updates. I just refuse to give up my control of iptables and the HOSTS file. If there was a non-root way to setup these things, I would probably not bother either. On my last phone, a Galaxy S2 Skyrocket, I rarely messed with the OS once I get everything setup the way I wanted it. It was running stock firmware the whole time, just with DroidWall and Adaway running on it.

The only thing I did that deviated from that was backing up applications and restoring on new devices. For example, I wanted to preserve my progress in Alchemy, so I backed it up with Titanium Backup, moved the Tibkp file to my new phone, and restored the data. No having to manually redo everything :)

IOW, root doesn't have to mean "total makeover".
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odienez11:
This is my first post as most problems I have had I have been able to figure out in the forums or with Google but I can't find a fix for this. I have a SM-G900V retail with safestrap. I have alliance rom 2.0 on stock rom slot with new flashed via Odin. Did fresh reinstall to figure out if it was something I did but the problem persisted. When I open the phone app it works in portrait and landscape in every tap but the dialer. When in dialer and landscape it says contacts has stopped responding. Any help appreciated.

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prenedo:
I get it to.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odienez11:
Can anyone else confirm?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odienez11:
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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odienez11:
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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odienez11:
Any solutions?
[Moto 360] xtrandrix:
I've searched and searched but I've yet to find an Android Wear "Calculator App" that works well with the Moto 360. Everything I've found that does work ends up cutting off a bunch of material due to the round design. This is something I was looking forward to having at my fingertips with the mot0 360.. Has anyone found something to work yet? Thanks.
[Moto 360] davedigerati:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rocketstartups.wearcalculator

Working great for me
[Moto 360] Myzur:
For me it is the best one available, but I don't find it usable enough to keep me from whipping out a real calculator on my phone. You have to be very precise when selecting the "7" and "1".

It's a step in the right direction, though.
[Moto 360] xtrandrix:
thanks! as mentioned the 7 & 1 are a little tricky but this is better than nothing.. which I had before.