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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Reynolds2002:
I am having some SERIOUS difficulties in lifting these Colornote app files BACK to some readable form after I was forced to do a restore of my phone. It's causing me TOO MUCH STRESS. Someone recommended your blog and that you might be able to help with this.

This problem has been DOGGING me for awhile now. Obviously,

I can only spend so much time troubleshooting this on my own limited time

because I have to work often and dedicate my precious time on other things. I know it's Proprietary software. But I simply REFUSE to believe that someone out there couldn't put this in a readable format; either on PC or back on my phone where they originated. There's someone out there that could look at this and say, "Piece of cake, here's what you do....".

No one has said that so far though.

The makers could though, but they either don't know or refuse to help me. I also contacted them on their Facebook page, only to have them ignore me completely (which is really infuriating). I DO KNOW that others experienced this same problem that im having in the past.

I was forced to do a master reset on my phone and basically the files are not going back to where they originated from (The Colornote App). As you can see per the image I attached here, the files are

STILL ON THE PHONE

, but this stupid Colornote is not locating them or something! It says that it's

"Unable to find application to perform this action"

when I try to access the files. It's really bizarre.:confused: So these files are basically stuck in limbo.

The file types are in 2 forms: IDX and DAT.

I contacted Samsung and they they were absolutely worthless for any type of support and said they couldn't help because it's a 3rd party app. Same thing with Verizon.

If there's anyone that can please help me out with either transferring/resurrecting these files in a readable form, I would so greatly appreciate it!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] sharibarnes:
I am expecting my Note 4 tomorrow or Friday. What's the best way to back up my Note 3 and get everything moved over to my Note 4? Does it back up settings within apps as well?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] TheInvisibleBoy:
[youtube]dO6-kuUQcpM[/youtube]
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juanshop:
hello everybody, i have a friend in chile with a problem, he does not speak nor writes English very well so on his behalf i am asking for some help.

he bough an unlocked international version of the phone, for some reason down in chile carriers carry all the latest but the m8, crazy right? anyhow, he made 100%sure the bands where the appropriate for his carrier, but the problem he has is that he does not get lte or 4g, get's everything else but 4g/lte. We have tried all the obvious steps, we made sure the phone was searching for 4g/lte, changed the apn, even went to the carrier and explained that he bought the phone, it has the correct bands etc, and he got told "well too bad is you didn't buy that through us". weird thing is, that he had a m7 that he also got in the same way, and it worked flawlessly. So here we are out of ideas on what it could be, and what we could do.

here's an image of his bootloader in case it can be useful ( cid is htc_621)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86252213/Pictures/One m8 Gold/IMG_4260.JPG

anyway, we where thinking that maybe rooting, s-off and sub-sequentially installing a custom rom would help?

anyhow, if you guys need any other info, please let me know and ill be happy to provide it, and thank you in advance for any help!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apx900:
Try changing the band with this command: *#*#4636#*#*

I JUST did with my M7. Using Entel!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
You realize you just responded to a thread that has been dead for over a year?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apx900:
Yes. I I have. It didn't have an answer though so I thought I would answer.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellcatrydr:
How?

My understanding is the 805 is 32 bit architecture, and that the 810 will be the first 64 bit chip. (early next year)

How does a 64 bit arm o/s run in a 32 bit environment? And will other 805 powered phones be getting 5.0? (Or will 32 bit Android get continued support for a bit, until obsolete?)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgbotoe:
who said the 805 was 64bit? surely wasnt google lol. only nexus 9 is 64
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellcatrydr:
No, the question is How is the N6 a 64 bit handset yet it only has a 32 bit processor?

I'm starting to get the perception that the 805 is tech obsolete.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
It's not a 64 bit handset. Its 32 bit. Everything about it is 32 bit.

Whether google has 2 versions of L, 32 and 64 or if they have found a clever way to run in either mode, we wont know until we get the sources examined in detail.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tidbits:
the 805 can read 4GB+ files like a 64 bit system. It's a "hybrid" if you will. Fundamentally it's a 32 bit processor. That's what I've been told a few times.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannstarr:
I'd say that there are 2 versions, a 32 bit, and 64 bit varient. Such a non issue it's untrue.... I still don't even have a need to run a 64 bit os over a 32 on my desktop, let alone phone... its not going to be a serious video editing suite or development machine. It's a phone
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tidbits:
There is only one version of the 805

there are 2 versions of the 808 and 810 however :)

Also I checked some resources from Qualcomm and Andantech the 805 is 32 bit.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannstarr:
2 versions of the os.... A 64 and 32 bit varient is what I was getting at, not the cpu, which I know is 32 bit.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idroid2324:
What does Bus width (bit) => 64-bit dual-channel mean?

I see this in snapdragon 810, 808 and 805.
[Android] hansmoon:
source : Note4 Korean Version

apks in /system/app, /system/priv-app, /system/framework folder

All QMG images are converted to PNG

Let's Theme It !!

Have FUN !!

https://www.mediafire.com/?13bircd90fm6xl3

** replace .qmg with same-named .png in apk

- works fine....
[Android] wally3614:
Unreal...u r a madman. Downloading now, assuming u r say on all the image extensions originally were .qmg but in the dump they r .PNG so we can use cs6, as we theme each as indivual file resave as .qmg correct?
[Android] jimmydene84:
AGREED!....mind sharing this secret to conversion?!?!?!?!?
[Android] hansmoon:
converted with my phone

http://xdaforums.com/chef-central/android/hint-convert-qmg-image-to-png-image-t2903896

qmg image is a kind of png

no decoding codec we can use

but Samsung mobile has the decoding codec

so... my phone can read qmg ( in many gallery apps ) just after renaming .qmg to .png

and QuickPic re-save as .png format...

DISADVANTAGE of convertsion to png

- qmg has smaller size (about 1/2 )

- qmg rapid speed (max - 7 times than png )

BUT using png images, We can theme....
[Android] hansmoon:
No We can't make .qmg image.

No encoding codec...

But replaced .png images works fine in apk...

So We can use that apk without .qmg images
[Android] sorg:
I was dealing with qmg images in my S3 4.4.4 official ROM (yeah, S3 4.4.4 uses QMG because of limited size of system partition).

I found one major difference from PNG - it doesn't use .9. in names of nine-patch images, but still use none-patch images.

It means, you have to find all these converted png images and rename them to .9.png. I even don't know how these nine patches are coded in QMG. Same as in .9.png - black 1-pixel wide lines on the edges?
[Android] Albe95:
I appreciate you work but I think that put only PNG instead of Qmg isn't working. For example on my S4 Note 4 stock camera runs, your Png one runs too but you can't see any button so it means that it didn't read the new Png.
[Android] hansmoon:
my S3

- 9.pmg

- png

- no qmg

S4

- 9.png

- qmg

- no png

Your S3 ???

- png

- qmg

image.9.png in my phone

so I don't have any problem

** .png anf 9.png had same magic file head.

9.png has npTc chunk bytes betweem file header and image data

you can check it in hex editor.
[Android] hansmoon:
aapt list -a file.apk results :

resource 0x7f0201b1 com.google.android.apps.plus:drawable/hp_ll_20: t=0x03 d=0x000000d3 (s=0x0008 r=0x00)

drawable image described without any ext.

So I replaced .qmg with .png

I don't know any difference in Note4

BUT some devices have no problem S3, Note2, S4 ...

I think ... (may be)

Decompile - Replace - Recompile

it Will Works FINE.

** needs RECOMPILE
[Android] sorg:
It's very interesting! Can you tell which S3 ROM you've checked?

My ROM is I9305XXUFNI3. There are no *.pmg files in resources (i've checked SecMms, SecSettings, SecContacts, SecPhone). Only *.qmg. And there are no *.9.qmg either. So all images are simply *.qmg. If i want to replace it to .png then i have to discover by myself if it should be simple png or 9.png.

I'm using Apktool v2.0.0-625d04-SNAPSHOT (should be pre-rc2, i've compled by myself). What version of Apktool you're using?

---------- Post added at 09:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:09 AM ----------

Argghhh.. i see where is the problem!

I've just unzipped one of original apk - and i see 9.qmg (not 9.pmg) there.

Thus i need to update Apktool to not let it rename 9.qmg to qmg.

Another interesting thing: android works with 9.qmg as qmg without problem (with correct resizing).
[Android] hansmoon:
E210SKSUKNI3

E210S - Korean Version I9305, BUT fstab is COMPATIBLE I9300

in my phone No .qmg, 9.qmg

only .png and 9.png

SO~ no any apktool problem
[Android] sorg:
You can check my signature - my S3 is also E210, but i've made custom ROM from I9305 ROM to get rid of all Korean customizations.

Anyway, we are talking about QMG file format. Now i know where is the problem.
[Android] sorg:
can you explain how to mass-re-save the images?

Also, it looks like you will loose 9-patches after re-save. Original 9-patch png (and 9.qmg as well) in apk has special header about patches. Apktool convert it to stripes at the edges of image. But, if you save 9.png (9.qmg originally) then you will loose original header and also image won't have stripes. Thus you cannot use neither directly by re-zipping the APK nor in apktool.
[Android] sorg:
Well... I think it's better to write small app for android which will simply load picture and save it back. For 9-patch pics need to check aapt source and simply copy the header (it looks like 9-patch qmg header is the same as in png). Or just produce png with stripes like apktool does.
[Android] hokamp:
Can anybody send me the system/APP/CoverService.apk?
[Android] hansmoon:
without RE-compile

Replacing .qmg file with .png

RENAME converted & modified your own .png to same named .qmg

THROW into apk & Replace ORIGINAL .qmg

:)
[Android] sorg:
I've posted simple converter http://xdaforums.com/note-4/themes-apps/tool-converter-qmg-png-t2916486
[Android] hansmoon:
thanks :)
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] ScoobSTi:
I don't know if these issues I've been having relate to the latest update, but I've noticed 1) a slightly decreased battery life 2) automatic brightness being too bright compared to before the update and 3) I've just gotten 2 random reboots tonight. Also the occasional SystemUI crashes I've mentioned before.

I don't know if any of these are caused by any apps or modifications I have, or the update itself, but I was just wondering if anyone else possibly had any of these issues.
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] MikeyLee:
I haven't experienced any of these. Bad download maybe?
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] Kid_Ding:
You should start all over. Grab the backup made by [MENTION=3266877]xordos[/MENTION] of b126, restore via TWRP. flash stock recovery thereafter. Let it update via ota.
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] ScoobSTi:
I did a factory reset before updating, which is why it really puzzles me. There should've been nothing "left over" to cause these issues.
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] Kid_Ding:
Maybe you had bad software from the beginning. I know you have been mentioning ui crashes since I've been on the mate 2 threads.

Use a base that has reported no errors. Do you have a clean backup of your b126 or b148? Maybe we can test this theory of mine. I could restore yours and see if I get the same ui crashes.
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] ScoobSTi:
Yeah that could be a possibility. That would suck though!

And no, you don't have to test mine. Tomorrow, I'll try to reset again, use another backup, go from there and see what happens.
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] arcadesdude:
^This is an excellent idea that would rule out hardware issues if there are also crashes. If Kid_Ding gets no crashes using your software, then that would suggest hardware issues (bad ram or sdcard?) on your device.
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] oncouch1:
I have only had ui crashes and random reboots after modding. My issue is modding too much at one time. I now load a couple of things at a time then check stability. I also think some one else complained of battery issue after upgrade but I think they narrowed it downto some added program. Sorry don't rember what thread.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] omega_:
anyone know where i can find speakers replacement for my Universal?

I've got the feeling that one of it will spoil one day.

I'm referring to

- the front stereo speakers

- the one beside the lcd

- and the one on top of the lcd (the one that sometime seems ofter than usual)

tried eBay but no results
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] clemsyn:
If they are the same as the HTC wizard speakers, then I have some.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samanbabah:
I just updated to 4.4.4 3.28.1540.6 firmware on my Developer Edition HTC One and now whenever I try to run the recovery from fastboot, my phone freezes! what am I doing wrong? this is what I do:

boot into fastboot and then type "fastboot boot TWRP.img" I also tried with Philz.img but no luck.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jshamlet:
Recoveries are having problems booting from fastboot right now. You will actually have to flash a recovery, then install a superuser zip. Unfortunately, this means overwriting the new stock recovery, but it's the only way to re-root right now.

Either that, or wait until the devs for one of the recoveries figures out why booting from fastboot is failing.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunholyx:
Try "adb reboot fastboot", and understand what you're doing before you mod your phone. I've seen you with issues lately that you wouldn't have if you read all of the instructions for what you are trying to do and followed then exactly. You are going to end up with a brick of you don't.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samanbabah:
yeah I just don't want to write over the stock recovery so I can get OTA updates in the future. I guess I'll wait for devs to update their recoveries.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jshamlet:
Yeah, I failed to realize there was a way to get around that, and blew my stock recovery away.

That said, I think that you could use Sunshine, assuming it's temp-root feature still works, and abort before running the compatibility test. Then, use a local terminal to backup the stock recovery. There is a dd command to pull the recovery block to a file around here somewhere. Unfortunately, I didn't think of that in time to back mine up.

I have posted a request for the new Developer Edition recovery in another thread, though, so hopefully someone can extract it and post it.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunholyx:
This has to be Dev Ed specific, because I have no problems, and I really haven't heard of many others having problems either.

Plus, "recoveries are having problems booting from fastboot *right now*"? It isn't like an online service where the website is down.

Flash a backup and fix your sh*t.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jshamlet:
Dude, seriously, there are many brands of decaf on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

The issue with recoveries not booting correctly is a noted issue, and started with WWE users. I got a hard lock on TWRP 2.8.0.3, and Philz seemed to running, but with no video. It is interesting that not everyone is having that issue, though. Right now, the only "workaround" is to actually flash. When I say "not working right now", I mean that the developers haven't found/fixed the issue yet, but you knew that, so I'll move on.

Also, it's not like I don't know how to get a stock recovery. It's just I'd rather not have to go through the hassle if I don't have to, especially since it's not exactly time-critical. There probably won't be another OTA for a while, and I have no doubt someone will post a copy of the updated recovery before then.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunholyx:
I actually have heard of problems with CWM and Philz (CWM based)on the ViperOne thread. They state in OP and several times in the thread when screw ups happen to only use TWRP. I always thought it was ROM specific, and because of all the USE TWRP! posts, I haven't heard of recovery problems like this.

Maybe a switch to TWRP will fix his problem?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gokun:
I'm not really seeing the issue here....you just can't boot the custom recovery from a command prompt(temporarily most likely). You can still flash twrp, do what you need to do(i.e. root,etc), then flash the stock recovery back in less than 5 minutes. You could probably just extract the recovery from the OTA or the rom you flashed. It literally took you more time to post your replies here than it would have taken you to do that....just saying. ;)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LNJ:
Here's the stock recovery image that was posted in another thread: http://goo.gl/KsKQvk

I went through the same thing yesterday being unable to temporary boot to trwp. Sunshine didn't work giving me temp root and Weaksauce and Towelroot didn't do it either.

Custom recovery and Supersu flash worked as always.

HTC One M8
[NFC Hacking] Ira Effendi:
Hi,

I am about to develop a mobile apps check -in event using NFC tags.

One of the problem we encounter is about the permanent lock.

We had try the factory reset feature by using Tag Writer application, then apply permanent lock feature on the tag.

As far that we know; once permanent lock is applied, the tag cannot be unlock or even become factory reset.

Why is it that particular tag with permanent lock still can be write with new action and even be cloned?

What is the function of permanent lock on this tags? Can it protect the written data?

May I know what is the constraint of using NFC tags?

Please respond to this, since i am NFC rookie..

Best Regard, Thank You
[NFC Hacking] CountParadox:
ummm

if youre asking WHY they have perm write protect on some tags, its because they dont want people rewriting public nfc tags with garbage do they ? ;)

I read somewhere that it actually burns out a track to the writable area, which is why you cant reverse it. but if your app is just for checking in, why are you write locking tags ?
[NFC Hacking] Ira Effendi:
Thank for the heads Up..:good:

Actually why i wanna lock the tag is because we wanna put unique ID in each tags, so other people cannot overwritten it.

In your opinion is it possible to do that? :confused:
[NFC Hacking] CountParadox:
each NFC tag already has a unique UID if im not mistaken

why dont you make your app use that ??

then you can use the tags for other things too
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] ffolkes:
Since this subforum is so dead, I figured I'd make some small talk...

Am I the only one who loves their notification LED? I was very disappointed to see the gray demo units at Best Buy actually have a pinstripe pattern under the glass that noticeably obscures/dulls the LED, and the pattern is even applied over the touchkeys, so they have a weird, wavy look to them. A foolish decision by Samsung, IMO.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] evolone:
Good to see you over here in the Note 4 area! Can't wait to see what you come up with.

I haven't actually seen the note 4 in person yet but i'll have my hands on one in a couple days. Are you talking about the same type of pattern under the glass of the note 2 and its touchkeys?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] jreuschl:
Yes that's the way it is on my Note 4 :/
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] eNkrypt:
Funny you should mention that - I just noticed it with my Note 4 about 30 minutes ago :$
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] thearch1tect:
Just got my note 4 and see the same thing. At least for the soft key buttons i dont mind it because i always keep them off
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] egodriver07:
Same pattern on mine. Didn't notice it on the white one set up at best buy. Not a fan of the obscurity. Stoked to see you picked one up too ffolkes!
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] otamctech:
I dont know if its design or corner cutting. I dont like it, it looks cheap. Even the notification light has it. Luckly its only these items.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] mikey123:
I don't have mine yet so I don't know. But you're saying this dulls the notification light? maybe Samsung did this so people complain less about their notification light colors when their phone is charging/charged in the middle of the night in a dark room
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] egodriver07:
Well if they did it for any reason on purpose it is stupid. I usually don't mind software related mishaps with LED because apps and kernel devs usually give us a ton of options to workaround it. But this is the way they designed the phone from a manufacturing standpoint. Blah.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] mikeone33:
Black one has the stripes but my wife's white one doesnt.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] Itchiee:
I like the pinstripe and keeps it from looking plain. I always turn off the bottom lights, i know the buttons are there, so that's not an issue.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] phinz54:
I like the pinstripe on the notification light. I like the dulling effect. I on the other hand hate the stripes on the lower buttons. It gives it an appearance that the lighted buttons are flawed or pixels are burnt out.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] sparhawk6:
I don't like the dimmed LED. I use Light Flow, maybe my favorite program on Android. I rely on LED notifications almost every minute of every day. I'm missing the LED on the Nexus 5.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] died4u525:
I don't have that problem on my white Sprint Note 4 at all. Not on the buttons or the notification light. I'm really glad because I saw that pinstriped look on the buttons on some YouTube videos and think it looks awful.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] Kortekn:
White spots on aluminum bezel

Anyone else have 4 white squares on their aluminum bezel on the top and bottom? There's 2 near the glass and 2 near the back on the top and bottom, no idea what they are or what they're for.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] egodriver07:
Yes, they're gaps to allow signal to get through the metal frame to the antenna.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] Kortekn:
Cool, thanks for the info.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] samep:
I don't like the pinstripes; period. Last three plus years, the plain black bezel matched to the dark super Amoled native screen gave the black Galaxy a certain distinction that other OEMs with LCD couldn't match with their lighter looking native screen. Not appreciating this look; not so bad under low light but that wasn't the reaction Samsung hoped for. Thumbs down; face Palm. Not liking either of the browsers included either. Why no auto fit? Samsung's response is that natively, auto-fit exists; reset your settings. Nope. Second response: you can manually adjust the screen with pinch to zoom/minimize. Otherwise, I'm very pleased with this phone and look forward to development in this forum.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 General] j00manji:
stared at both black and white side by side at best buy the other day for a bit, the white one definitely has the pin stripe look to it, its just a lot less noticeable. The only would offer to let me pre-order a black device so..guess ill look forward to stripes whenever they come in...