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[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] droidinterest:
anybody help?

i try several tips from this site and google search, but still unlucky
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Hi guys,

Only recently did I recover my phone from a soft brick and since then; learning and living everything XDA and Android I decided to flash CyanogenMod on my phone. Loving it! Aside from the terrible Trebuchet launcher. I since downloaded all my apps and the like, flashed Philz recovery. Anyway, the following is everything I have backed up on my computer and all the files I have. Have I forgotten anything?

I am asking if you can actually read this and make sense of what I'm asking, do I have everything in case I end up screwing my phone I have everything needed? The user Darke5tShad0w was extremely helpful and he drilled it in my to backup the efs file for my S3 but I am unsure if I actually have backed that up, however there is an actual efs backup on my phone's internal memory in a folder named clockwork mod, I'm unsure though if I do in fact have a backup of the efs.

Phone - Samsung Galaxy S3 (GT-i9300)

CyanogenMod 11

Philz Touch 6.48.4

On computer / Backups

cminstaller

# S3

clockworkmod

backup

.efs_backup

(bunch of folders and disc image files – all the same really)

.recovery_version

Odin

Odin3

Stock Backup

Backup

clockworkmod

backup

2014-09-20.01.15.48_JSS15J.I9300XXUGMK6

philz-touch_6.sav

Stock Recovery

International-GT-i9300-StockRecovery.tar

Stock ROM

I9300XXUGMK6_I9300OXAGMK6_I9300XXUGMK6_HOME.tar.md 5

SS_DL.dll

philz_touch_6.48.4-i9300 (zip)

TitainumBackup

update.zip
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJKirby:
Sorry, I know it's difficult to read but I've tried to get all the information across and attempted to make it readible. Italics are folders while bold is like the root folder containing what I need.

Reason for all the stock files is in ever the case I need to restore to my last rendition of TouchWhiz, install Touchwhizz and reinstall the stock recovery.

Would it be worth doing a nandroid backup of my current CyanogenMod settings and what have you? Would the process be the same? In case I ever softbrick, wouldn't just using the Installer be enough.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Hello again.

If you did it all through philz like was said in the other thread and it didn't fail when you did it you should be sorted.

If you want to make doubly sure another app like ktool to create another efs backup.

Remember to keep a copy on your computer or somewhere else. :)

And yes it would be a good idea to do a nandroid backup now you have cm up and running.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] phathead785:
Hello everybody, I have been watching these forums and decided to flash my 8125 G4 CID locked device. I knew I had a very limited option to flash my phone so I tried the Wizard Love 2.26. The flash completed but the extended rom did not start.

So I am deciding to put back on the Cingular OEM rom, but it will not complete. I keep getting an error. My current information is as follows

ROM 2.26.10.2

IPL 2.25.0001

SPL 2.25.0001

Please help. Thanks!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] demontefixo:
Try this thread. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=271043

--M
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Domiziz:
so everytime i try to create a vpn using my own pc as the host and i try to connect to my galaxy s4, it never connects, anyone could tell me how to make it work please?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onix17_5:
Dear all,

Here is the story what happened exactly to my phone.

2 weeks ago my phone restarted by it self and stuck on the Samsung logo, I download the stock rom and flash it with odin. (My power button wasn't working very well but it did the job), after a while my power button completely went out of service. so whenever I needed to restart the phone I always do the battery trick and I have no problem with that.

4 days ago my phone restarted again and stuck on the Samsung logo and sense the power button wasn't working, I couldn't get access to the download mode, so Yesterday I bought a new power button and its working perfectly. but now I cant access the download mode.

Here is what happened to the phone when I pressed the vol down and menu button + power button the Samsung galaxy note II GT-N7100 logo flashed for a couple of times then it loads to the Samsung logo where it is stuck.

I tried the vol up + down with the pc cable nothing, i tried to get into the recovery mode nothing, and still note able to get in the download mode.

So please help me to get into the download mode so i can be able to flash the stock rom through odin again.
[T-Mobile LG G3] zxandrewxz:
So, I was reading up on ART vs DALVIK and decided to switch to Art to test it out. Well, after switching I noticed that my battery went from 80 percent with an estimate of 7 hours and 41 minutes to 80 percent with an estimate of 2 hours. I decided to do a factory reset and am still seeing that it has a low hour count anywhere between 1 to 3 hours. Its been about 30 minutes and the phone is now at 68 percent. At one point it went back to 7 hours, but went back to being 1 hour and 4 minutes.

Any advice would be greateful!
[T-Mobile LG G3] bkeaver:
First off stop looking at the estimated time left cause it's never correct and means nothing. If you truly have battery drain then download wake lock detector or better battery stats and see what's eating your battery. But you really need to let your battery set in a few days before you start getting worried about if you truly have battery drain.
[T-Mobile LG G3] BACARDILIMON:
Well said

BAD ASS G3
[T-Mobile LG G3] zxandrewxz:
It's been correct on my previous LG (Had it for a few days before exchaning it for a new one due to heating problems) This one was also displaing it right until I switched from DALVIK to ART. After I switched back, I was getting a major battery decrease. Was also doing it with the other G3 (In the process of sending it back) so I left them both alone and eventua;y the estimate went back to normal, back to about 17 hours.

ANyways, thanks for the advice
[T-Mobile LG G3] raw2000j:
I downloaded wake lock from playstore and greenified apps i saw waking device up i have better battery life now I also undervolted -72 globably and put cpu to 12,000 something on faux clock as well as dancedance governor
[Fire TV General] Phat Phreddy:
I have posted before how I purchased 3 FireTVs. I set up IP blocking and 2 of the 3 booted fine. 1 of the 3 said there was an update and couldnt pick it up and hence wouldnt boot.

After many frustrations, I thought I would let it update and hope to not get the most recent update.. Various reports have said these dont increment to the most recent one every time. But it still wouldnt update.

I had to shelve the messing around due to travel but tried again last night.. Same situation.

I just had an hour long chat with a tech support at amazon who wasnt dumb.. It seems there was an early firware version which had a forced update and would not skip it. It would seem one of my 3 boxes are on this early firmware. Then to make matters worse, amazon blocks non USA ISPs from downloading the update. Essentially amazon sell a box that wont boot without the update and wont give the update to non USA IPs. Thats a bit sucky !!

Is it well known that the back button and right direction, held for 15 - 30 seconds enables a factory reset ??

The tech guy is now trying with higher level tech to see if he can get me a version of the FW that I can ADP to the box through the recovery console. Has anyone done any testing with this, has anyone flashed a FW via recovery console and ADP ??

Right now one of my 3 boxes is a brick, and I have done nothing to this box, thats entirely amazon, which I do feel pissed off about, selling a box that will only boot in one geographical market is a bit extreme.
[Fire TV General] nhumber:
use a VPN, problem solved.
[Fire TV General] Phat Phreddy:
How can I put in a VPNs details on a box that wont boot and with only a (dumb) router ??

Sure I could do it on a PC on my net, but not seeing how to set up a VPN without a device in the middle.
[Fire TV General] tselling:
If you can get them to give you the update to work through recovery console that would be great. Seems like that would be the way for everyone to be able to downgrade unrootable firmware.
[Fire TV General] Phat Phreddy:
Sure.. And the tech guy was really trying for me.. Wasnt stupid.. and assured me he would push as much and follow up..

But will the upper level tech allow that ?? Who knows..
[Fire TV General] rbox:
If they do manage to tell you how to update through recovery, make sure you write down everything.
[Fire TV General] AFTVnews.com:
What rbox said! Be sure to write down the entire procedure.

Also, I believe the factory reset via remote is holding Home and right direction buttons, not back and right direction. Either I'm mistaken or both work. I'll give back and right direction a try later on.
[Fire TV General] Phat Phreddy:
I believe it was back and right.. he said for 30 seconds but it only took 10 or 15 until a dialogue poped up asking to reset... Maybe if you hold it for 30 it goes past the dialogue.
[HTC One Mini] m23439:
Hi Guys

I have searched throughout the forums but cannot find a definitive tutorial on how to unroot my Mini.

I have rooted, with S-On and and TWRP Custom recovery. I have done nothing else, i.e. n custom ROMS or anything else.

All I want to do is revert back to how I was before rooting.

My firmware info is as follows:

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 2.22.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.28.40e.00.24

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main: 4.09.401.3

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

(bootloader) meid:

(bootloader) product: m4_ul

(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8930

(bootloader) modelid: PO5820000

(bootloader) cidnum: HTC__001

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 3978mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: on

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-0e1af350

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0

I am in the UK, and the phone is no linked/locked to any carrier, and I am running stock 4.4.2 ROM. I did a full Nandroid back up straight after I rooted.

Can anyone help or point me to a link that will get me to where I want to be?

Thanks
[HTC One Mini] m23439:
Is nobody able to help with this?

If there is no way to unroot and revert to complete stock, then it would help if somebody could confirm, as it will save me more time searching

Thanks
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doza102:
Hey,

i went for a swim with my C6603, well it's dead now.

When i put it on charger, i can see the red light, i tried thad 30 hours and more of charging, left the battery die out for like half a month, I ca get those 3 red lights when i press power, if i pres power and volume up i get 2 blinks of red.

So i was thinking about taking out battery, its out now. I tried to connect it to the PC without battery, voila i am in flashmode (blue light on) or i can get to fastboot mode (red/green blinks) so i was like, maybe i can override something (dunno) i flashed STOCK ftf via flashtool, everything went well but same red light (with battery).

I was thinking is the battery dead? Should i buy new one and try it? Or is it beyond repairable point, what do you think guys?

And i also tried to cut the USB wire, plugged positive and negative to the connection of battery, and put it on charger if you now, i can somehow make the phone think, there is a new battery, nothing happened at all. After that i connected the battery, same red light...

Now i am out of ideas and the only one is, should i buy a new battery? Or throw it out of the window...

I am open to any suggestions :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidfreak70:
It's water damaged as you are saying. So maybe the screen not working or CPU or motherboard.

TapaTalked from my Xperia™ Z (C660²) running Dirty Unicorns ROM!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doza102:
Yeah, i was thinking the same, but then wouldn't it at least vibrate?

I am out of ideas, i ordered a new battery and will see, looks like that i have to use my Z1 now :(
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidfreak70:
Battery won't help. If you didn't ordered one would be better....

TapaTalked from my Xperia™ Z (C660²) running Dirty Unicorns ROM!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jack_ssl:
One Way .. First You Wait For Next Update . On That OTA Update .zip File ..

Eg Location : I337_NC1 to NI1_OTA_Update\patch\system\app\TetheringProvision.odex

Replace With http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2535141 In This Link You Can Download The TetheringProvision.apk

Or Below Attached Check

TetheringProvision.apk and TetheringProvision.odex . Rename them to any name that you want, or just change apk and odex to bak .

Then Again .zip It. Then Update Via abd Sideloader

We Can Use This Method To Update Our Phone :

1) Install Samsung USB Drivers

2) Start Samsung Recovery [ Volume Up + Home + Power ]

3) Select " Apply Update From The ADB "

4) On PC : Install Minimal ADB and Fastboot Software ... Then Put The Update File (ZIP) On The Same Folder

5) Open Minimal ADB and Fastboot : After Type : - adb sideload FILE NAME.zip

5) Updated Successfully.

Afterwards Just Turn On Wifi Tethering / Hotspot .. It Will Works :laugh:

My Friend Tried This Method . Till Now I Didn't Try ..:confused:

Take U'r Own Risk
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phat Phreddy:
I dont want to bury this in my other post.

Has anyone managed to update the box firmware via the recovery console (USB keyboard alt prnt scn i method)..

My box is stuck in a loop of old firmware that insists on an update before it will boot and outside the USA where they wont give an update to. Catch 22.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbox:
To my knowledge, ADB is disabled in stock recovery. And furthermore, USB peripheral mode is disabled in the kernel. Therefore I know of know way to do anything useful with stock recovery.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] byrdcfmma:
Have you tried to set up a VPN and see if that can help?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phat Phreddy:
I could VPN with my PC..

How can I set up a VPN with only a box that wont boot and a dumb router ??
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AFTVnews.com:
If your PC has two network connections (e.g., wifi and ethernet), you can connect to the internet via VPN with one connection interface, and set the other to share your PC's connection and connect the Fire TV. For example, setup a VPN connection via Wifi on your PC, then connect the Fire TV to your PC via ethernet, and set your PC to share your wifi connection over its ethernet port.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phat Phreddy:
OK my PC doesnt have 2 nics.. I guess I have to go buy a wifi card..
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAutonomousGeek:
In the last few days my S5 has started just locking up briefly and then rebooting. It doesn't do it from a particular app, only when using the camera, or any other specific symptom I can find. It will even lock up and reboot during a reboot sometimes. It's happened running various unrelated apps that don't have anything (apparent) in common, when running no apps, when closing apps, and when sitting all by its lonesome next to me while I'm doing something else entirely.

When it started I was running Safestrap with AllianceROM 1.1 installed on the boot partition. I wiped and installed AllianceROM 2.0 and it still does it. The only change I can think of that happened anywhere around the time the problem developed is I replaced a broken charging port cover (can't imagine how that would have messed anything up.)

One common symptom that may or may not be helpful: during the short unresponsive time during the crash before it reboots, one or two lines of "static" a few pixels tall running horizontally across the display will often (but not always) appear. It's happened when using the phone, when not using the phone, and during reboot from a previous crash. It's crashed while rebooting prior to the Safestrap screen displaying. It crashes and reboots with and without the SD card installed.

At this point I'm thinking the phone is just plain broken (still under warranty) and a replacement is in order. So my questions are:

1. Anyone seen this before and know a fix?

2. Is there anything I'm overlooking and should test before pursing warranty replacement?

3. Is there any reason to avoid a replacement unit (ie. would a new phone resist root/safestrap/etc)?

Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c4manceph:
Sounds like you've covered everything but one.

Try returning the phone to stock and see if the problem persist. If it does then phone is ready to be exchanged.

If not, you'll know it is something other than a hardware issue.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAutonomousGeek:
Yeah, I suppose I ought to do that just to be sure. But to be absolutely certain that would require Odin'ing back to stock to get rid of the root, Safestrap, and all the trimmings, right?

So I need a nandroid backup of my current image so I can resurrect that if it doesn't work so I have a phone that only annoys me intermittently while I wait for the replacement. While if that does solve the problem I need my Titanium Backup files so I can gradually restore my apps/settings after redoing all the root, Safestrap, and custom ROM work.

Am I missing anything?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c4manceph:
This is the method I would use to return to stock:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2784880

Sounds like you've got it covered.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAutonomousGeek:
Thanks. That link mentions repartitioning as being optional... under what conditions would it be advantageous? Is it just one of those "if you wanna be absolutely sure" things or are there cases where the partitioning has been changed and needs to be reset?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAutonomousGeek:
New symptom: twice now the phone has rebooted into Odin mode with the message "Could not do normal boot, mmc_read failed".

Doesn't look good... at least I've been able to reboot the phone to the OS each time. Once it even did it itself.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RyanThaDude:
Sounds like internal memory failure. Do your best to ODIN back to 100% stock & do a warranty return.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAutonomousGeek:
I've been back to stock for a day without any spontaneous reboots.

I figure the next step is to root, install Safestrap, and then flash the AllianceROM and not restore my Titanium backups except those that are absolutely necessary (and taking a nandroid backup before doing any of those). Let it run for a day or two like that, see if the reboots stay gone and then slowly restore the backups a few at a time to see if one of them causes the problem to return.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c4manceph:
Thanks for the update, I wondered if you were having any luck.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAutonomousGeek:
I'll keep this updated just in case anyone else has the same problem, so they can have a better idea how to resolve it.

Currently I've been running AllianceROM 2 for about 10 straight hours with no misbehavior. From stock I installed towelroot, Safestrap, then flashed the ROM according to instructions. Once that was loaded and the Play store done downloading everything I shut down, backed up via nandroid, and then used Titanium Backup to restore some key apps and data. Actually I restored more than a few, but not close to all. With the backup if the problem returns I have a clean restore point to use for a more conservative approach.

My plan going forward is that if nothing else goes wrong, I'll restore a few more backups as I need the related app, and after a week or so if things don't fall apart I'll go through and delete the entire contents of the Titanium Backup folder and re-backup the apps as they are in a stable state. Whatever was causing the problem seems to have died in the repartition/odin-to-stock/root-and-return-to-custom, or it's lurking in one of the unrestored backups.

Fingers crossed.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAutonomousGeek:
Aaaaand just had a spontaneous reboot. Second time it's done it while scrolling the newsfeed in Facebook. (First time was pre-wipe to stock.) It's possible I just didn't have the restored stock version running long enough since this took over a day to happen.

So I'm restoring the backup and not restoring any of the Titanium Backup stuff. If it still reboots on its own after this, I'm considering it hardware and pursuing a replacement.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAutonomousGeek:
There's been another spontaneous reboot. At this point I'm pretty comfortable calling it a hardware failure. I believe the absence of reboots while the phone was Odin'd back to stock was a fluke and, had I given it enough time, I'd have seen a spontaneous reboot there as well. I'm going to forego testing this theory to expedite a resolution to the problem.

So my next step is to call Verizon and start the ball rolling on a warranty replacement. I'll Odin the phone back to stock just before turning it in, until then I'll let it run (as much as it does) the way it is.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAutonomousGeek:
The warranty replacement was easy. Went over the steps I'd taken (leaving out all the bits about root, custom Roms, and so on since it's none of their business) after spending about a half hour on hold between the initial customer support person and the actual phone tech guy. He kept saying, as I was telling him what I'd done, "yeah, that's what I was going to recommend next". Set me up for a replacement, next day air, and that's what I'm running now.

Wiped the old phone back to stock via Odin, set up the new one and restored every backup I wanted from Titanium backup. So far, no problems.

It's kinda neat how they send the replacement phones. No back cover, no battery, nada. You take all the stuff out/off of your old phone, use it to finish up the new one, and you're done. Put the old one back in the package, slap the return label over the previous label, and send it on its way. (Be sure to go to a FedEx store or something where you can get a receipt and so on to PROVE you sent it in case it gets lost, or you're paying for a new phone.)

It's clearly not a new new phone, it's a refurb, but aside from some minor scratches on the screen that a screen protector would make invisible, it's essentially new.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAutonomousGeek:
Still no sign of a spontaneous reboot, looks like this is fixed.
[General Questions and Answers] kemege:
Hi, I'm trying to root a LG G3 Beat (D728), the phone carrier is CMCC and SW version is v10a.

I've tried towelroot, Stump Root and PurpleDrake, but unfortunately none of them worked for me.

towelroot does not respond after clicking "make it ra1n" no longer how long I wait, and even when I connected to a VPN.

Stump Root says unsupported device and there was no option for bruteforce.

PurpleDrake simply fails when it tries to temproot.

I also tried the method in this post, but my phone keeps telling me that the whole-file verification failed and i can't apply update.zip from my sdcard, although some poeple did root successfully on D722.

So could someone who rooted G3 beat tell me what I can do? Thank you ;)
[General Questions and Answers] aamszia:
I also have this phone ,,,,

Do you find any solution to root this device
[General Questions and Answers] paulh1978:
I was thinking of getting this device has anyone managed to root it yet.
[General Questions and Answers] aamszia:
No solution to root this phone ... sorry
[General Questions and Answers] paulh1978:
OK thanks for the reply