yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact General] veletron:
The Z3TC is obviously expensive esp the LTE version, but that does not ring true for all Sony devices. My Z3 Compact phone was almost a bargain for the £350 I paid for it given the performance on offer vs the competitions 'compact' or 'mini' phones. Also, you are not just paying for a processor, it's the whole package, Samsung's devices are built cheap and feel cheap Sony's do not feel cheap and this gets reflected in the price. There is a £30 rebate offer on in the UK currently. That makes the Z3TC WiFi 16GB version cost £300 an ipad mini cost £319 as usual with Apple, the mini is not expandable so most folks will be paying significantly more for an ipad with decent storage. The storage issue can mostly be fixed on the Z3TC with a £35 64GB micro SD card or a ~£70 128GB micro SD. The 379 they are asking for the 32GB version is a bit cheeky given the few quid extra the memory costs. Sony needs to start shipping with 64GB as the base model that would give them another USP in the android tablet and phone arena. As far as the processor goes, I am happy, I would much rather have decent built in storage than a faster processor.
[Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact General] johnboatcat:
This is why I was wondering if it really gives the Z3 an edge on sunlight readability.

"Combined with Sony’s intuitive contrast enhancement technology, viewing is sharp even in bright sunlight." (From Sony ad page)

And this:

"Sony has loaded the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact with a host of top-end components including an 8in Full HD display with Triluminos, Live Colour LED and X-Reality screen technology. These add-ons aim to improve colour vibrancy and brightness levels, and ensure the device remains usable even when faced with adverse lighting conditions, such as direct sunlight."

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...t-compact-trumps-the-galaxy-tab-at-64mm-thick

But then this:

"Putting the brightness slider at its top position confirms Sony's claims that this is its brightest LCD yet. ........Outside with the sun reflecting off the screen there's definitely more use for the highest settings of the brightness slider. The glass is on the reflective side though, which hurts sunlight legibility."

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_z3_tablet_compact-review-1152p3.php

Most of the reviewers just seem to parrot the "is readable in bright sunlight" line.

I just returned a Samsung Galaxy Tab S because it was not acceptable in bright sunlight. Yes you can see it and read from it but it is a chore and not really a "usable" experience. I was wondering if the "intuitive contrast enhancement technology" on the Sony really gives it the edge in the sunlight.

(note: I am referring to using the tab to search the net, watch video and read normal web pages, not to use as an e-reader which does work well with the enhanced white background mode.)
[Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact General] frostmore:
tab s to Z3tc

i own a tab s and quite frankly, i feel cheated with a exynos cpu in my t705.

i expected a snapdragon but got a lousy exynos with no CM for lte and issues with crapwizz and knox.

quite frankly,i wouldnt mind tripping knox to get cm on samdung's hardware....after all,the only thing samdung did right is with it device hardware.

i am looking to own a z3tc once it hits my country...its safe to say, after the knox bull crap and lousy exynos experience, the tab s will be the last of my samdung devices.
[Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact General] veletron:
Samsung has lost the plot. Their market share will continue to drop unless they take drastic action. Blackberry were once massive, their fall from grace was down to their not listening to users and responding to the market in a timely manner. Samsung should take note.
[Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact General] surf1:
My feelings as well, love my Samsung devices, but feel like I'm done with them after this tablet and S5 as the future of root/flash for Sammy looks.... bleak, and though I don't mind TW I hate having all the extra sh!t I don't need, and I don't give a **** about knox.

Think the Z3 Tab will be my next, I love the 8" size of my Tab 3. Though I haven't researched it much, how does root/flash look for the Z3, high chance or will I be screwed like Sammy lol?!?
[Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact General] kandelai:
I was a big Samsung fanboy back in the day. Had their Note phones and tablets, but the Touchwiz bloat finally got to me. Nothing but laggy garbage. You don't really realize how extreme it is until you try a Nexus device, or now a Sony (own the Z3C & Z3CT,) which is probably the smoothest phone and tablet I have used so far.
[Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact General] sas4161:
176

Now kindle 2014 or nvida shiled are good
[Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact General] mac231us:
how are the pictures taken with this tablet? Want to get this but like the Ultra Z, too bad they did not include the flash for the camera. I recall wanting it several times on the Ultra z and am afraid this will be no different. Crazy Sony decisions...regardless what they claim about the camera's low-light performance. I looked at the Lenovo Tab S8-50CL but unfortunately frequencies hardly supported in USA (let alone LTE..am taking 3G else that would have fit the bill..no one seems to get it all right..even the basics-well at least for this user in the USA)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasdreHmomenT:
Hello everyone,

I couldn't find a thread dedicated to this specific question with a quick search, feel free to point one out to me if I just overlooked it.

I have been using my Nexus 4 with different ROMs for the past year, but I think I'd like to try vanilla again when Lollipop hits net week (it is next week, right? I can't wait...)

I thought I would just download the image from Google's servers. Is this a sensible way to do it or would you recommend going back to the stock 4.4 Firmware before and doing the update OTA? Any up- or downsides either way?

Also, if I am going back to stock in one of the two ways, is there anything else I should keep in mind (besides backup of course)?

Should I also flash the stock recovery or is it OK to keep TWRP and just flash bootloader/radio/system/boot?

Thank you!

ht
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Just flash the lollipop factory image when it comes out
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasdreHmomenT:
Thank you!

Now on with the waiting....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] QA Bot:
[Q&A] [RoM]&[KERNEL]&[RECOVERY][LOKI-&-SafeStrap][I337-XXUGNG2-4.4.2-KK][SHOstock-i

Q&A for [RoM]&[KERNEL]&[RECOVERY][LOKI-&-SafeStrap][I337-XXUGNG2-4.4.2-KK][SHOstock-i v8.1] [07/28/14]

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Thanks for understanding and for helping to keep XDA neat and tidy! :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] thambikutty:
link down?

Is the link down? I'm trying the SafeStrap link, but it doesn't seem to load.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] shoman94:
I'm fixing them now. Safestrap should be uploaded in about 30 minutes. I will update the OP.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] avencast:
Im stuck and I'm on MF2, can't find it no where only saw MF3, MDB MDL
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] studystand:
I was on Danvdh's GPE ROM (4.4.4), and decided to try out SHOstock-i v8.1. I wiped, and successfully installed, but on boot I get a "Could not do normal boot", with "ODIN mode" written below it. I'm assuming I cannot simply go from 4.4.4, to 4.4.2, or maybe cannot go from GPE to Touchwiz. Whatever it is, I have no other ROM on my device, and mounting USB storage is not working. I'll have to flash back to stock with ODIN, unless there's some other solution. Let me know, I'd love to try out this ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] thambikutty:
isis/softcard

Loving this rom...thanks shoman! Question - is there a way to install the Isis/softcard app from the playstore? I tried searching this thread but not really seeing any mention of that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] bananaboy2:
I just redownloaded this for my 4.4.2 NB1 ATT galaxy s4 after switching to T-mobile. I rooted with towelroot and installed safestrap 3.75 and then the shostock 8.1 ss version. I also installed the NC1 modules like it says in this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2616221 guide for NB1 versions. However, I still can't get the Wi-fi to function. I turn it on and the switch goes back to off. Also, when I try to shut off the phone, it continuously shows the spinning circle while showing the powering down message, but doesn't actually power down. I have to hold the power button down to restart the phone or remove the battery to keep it off. Does anybody know how to fix this?

EDIT:eek:k I managed to get Wi-fi working using the NB1 modules instead of NC1, but when I try to power off the phone, it still hangs on the "Power off" and "Shutting Down..." window with the spinning circle. It vibrates initially and then again maybe after another minute. Help is very appreciated with this issue!

EDIT2: Okay, just rebooted and I can't connect to wi-fi again. :s
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] rebirth01:
Mk2

Can I flash this to my mk2? Please help
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] deltax153:
Will we see lollipop?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] harlenm:
My S5 had a way to turn that off, but I can't figure it out with the Note. Any picture in the dark comes out blurry because it takes forever to snap the picture.
[General Topics] landwomble:
hi all,

seeing as my wizard supports some of the 4GB miniSD cards that are now very cheap, and I've come across synctunes that'll allow me to synch it to itunes, i want to upgrade my card.

however, i've installed a load of apps to my card which i don't want to break.

now, if i copy everything off my old card to the new, will WM5 notice it's changed? do the apps installed to the card care about what the card itself is named as, or is it just called a generic storage card as far as WM5 is concerned?

cheers

ric
[General Topics] hanmin:
just copy over, it should work.
[Oppo Find 5] QA Bot:
Q&A for [HACK] Grow your data partition

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[Oppo Find 5] abuthabet87:
Any update ?
[Oppo Find 5] Lloir:
I'm working on it, got a base for the find5 on the omni gerrit already. Though far from usable

Sent from my One X+
[Oppo Find 5] Fickx:
2 questions

Is this Hack [suficient] safe, or should I wait for LVM?

If i do a full backup of my current system (colorOS 1.0.9i Stable) and after the hack, restore the ROM, will my phone be exactly the same than before but with 4GB for apps?

Thanks for the great work
[Oppo Find 5] Lloir:
LVM needs ALOT of work right now :/
[Oppo Find 5] Fickx:
I'm trying to do this, but after enter in parted [parted /dev/block/mmcblk0] when i try to do "rm 29", i get "can't remove 29: no such file or directory

I'm doing the "on your phone" commands in TWRP command line., is that correct?

I'm running stable colorOS 1.0.9i
[Oppo Find 5] abuthabet87:
Guys, After I exit parted shell, I can't execute mke2fs/tune2fs commands! I get:

/sbin/sh: mke2fs: not found

though I can find them (mke2fs and tune2fs) inside /sbin/ after I cd into it!

How can I solve this ?

Edit:

Solved :D ... I just rebooted into recovery again.
[Oppo Find 5] abuthabet87:
I did it :) It works hehehe

Thank you very much for this amazing instructions.

I had some difficulties while executing some of the instructions, but I did some search and tried unplugging then plugging the cable or rebooting into recovery again when the shell was giving me a hard time, and everything is back as it was except now I have 4GB internal storage !!
[Oppo Find 5] kallsop:
Does this have to be done while the phone is running ColorOS? I started the procedure on my 16GB phone, running CM11, but didn't get too far.

There is no /sbin. Found tune2fs and mke2fs in /system/bin. No parted there.

From PC over USB, copied parted to Download directory.

On phone, opened a Terminal, then 'su root'.

Remounted /system/bin rw: 'mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system'

Copied parted from Download to system/bin.

chmod 755 /system/bin/parted

Most of the umount commands fail.

Started 'parted /dev/block/mmcblk0'

Fails on first 'rm 29' because it is not unmounted.

I gave up there.
[Oppo Find 5] kallsop:
Interesting, automated repartioning:

www <dot> youtube <dot> com / watch?v=2CoTIojZGlI

Shame it doesn't have a 4GB option.
[Oppo Find 5] Vashiru:
[MENTION=1971700]Redfoox[/MENTION] (in dev thread), did you push mke2fs and tune2fs at the beginning of the procedure or did you use the ones already included in TWRP?
[Oppo Find 5] Redfoox:
I got this error?

/sbin # mke2fs -t ext4 -m 0 -L userdata /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
/sbin/sh: mke2fs: not found

The command also does not work in TWRP!

Anyone any idea what I should do now?

---------- Post added at 02:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:36 PM ----------

I did push the mke2fs and tune2fs at the beginning. Probably shouldn't have done that?

I have to wait each post for 4 minutes to post a new one
[Oppo Find 5] Vashiru:
I've tried doing that during my second attempt, but got stuck at exactly the same point.

The fact that it shows mke2fs: not found tells me that you have both pushed it and CHModded it.

Push the files again, this time don't CHMod them and try it from the TWRP Terminal Emulator (from ADB shell just gives you permission denied but I didn't try it from TWRP that time).

If that doesn't work try CHModding them from TWRP. If that also doesn't work I'm out of a clue. All you could do at that point is use the last resort method (saved my device 2 times) and try the procedure again without pushing the files first.
[Oppo Find 5] Redfoox:
Tried it and it gives the same errors. Cannot even chmod it through the terminal emulator.

I will go for the last resort method than
[Oppo Find 5] Vashiru:
Too bad. Alright, feel free to ask questions if you run into trouble when you try again.
[Oppo Find 5] Redfoox:
It worked i have 4GB now!

The only thing now is that my wifi does not work and I did do the following:

# Restore /persist partition
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p29 /sdcard
# On computer
adb push mmcblk0p21_persist_ext4.img /sdcard/
# On phone
dd if=mmcblk0p21_persist_ext4.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21

output of terminal:

/sdcard # dd if=mmcblk0p21_persist_ext4.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
8388608 bytes (8.0MB) copied, 3.260498 seconds, 2.5MB/s

Any idea how to restore this? I even redid this step without succes.

---------- Post added at 07:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:27 PM ----------

Got it working now. I had tot install modem 4.2.
[Oppo Find 5] Vashiru:
Nice, enjoy the 4 GB!
[Oppo Find 5] LucifeLMartelL:
Please help guys this is turning out to be a really frustrating experience...T___T

How are you guys even pulling this off... T___T

My adb works when the phone is booted but after "adb reboot recovery" and once in TWRP it cant see the device... and hence i cant proceed with the commands in Adb shell when the phone is connected and in twrp. i am running Liquidsmooth rom but i went back to the original rom to try this.

I'm able to execute

" chmod 755 /sbin/parted /sbin/mke2fs /sbin/tune2fs

umount /cache

umount /sdcard"

But not these ...

"umount /emmc

umount /data"

It says file or Directory not found.

then when i enter parted with the next command "parted /dev/block/mmcblk0"

I enter into parted, but cant see any of the following

"# rm sdcard

rm 29

# 28 thru 23 are reserved

rm 28

rm 27

rm 26

rm 25

# rm recovery

rm 24

# rm misc

rm 23

# rm cache

rm 22

# rm persist

rm 21

# rm data/emmc

rm 20

# now, re-create partitions but data is bigger

mkpart primary 1325 5421

name 20 userdata

mkpart primary 5421 5430

name 21 persist

mkpart primary 5430 5967

name 22 cache

mkpart primary 5967 5968

name 23 misc

mkpart primary 5968 5979

name 24 recovery

mkpart primary 5979 6012

name 25 reserve1

mkpart primary 6012 6019

name 26 reserve2

mkpart primary 6019 6028

name 27 reserve3

mkpart primary 6028 6062

name 28 reserve4

mkpart primary 6062MB 100%

name 29 sdcard

# exit parted shell

q"

Now i'm totally clueless on how to proceed further... Would appreciate if you guys can shed a bit more clarity... This is really turning out to be a frustrating experience. Please guys...

Going back to Liquidsmooth to use my phone ... will again reinstall original os tomorrow and try again. :crying:
[Oppo Find 5] kallsop:
OK, so I got TWRP running sweet and now following the improved descriptions in main thread post #34.

Got stuck here, all before has been ok:

mke2fs -t ext4 -m 0 -L persist /dev/block/mmcblk0p21

Message back is:

Could not stat /dev/block/mmcblk0p21 --- no such file or directory

The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?

Now what?

EDIT - think I have it sorted. I didn't scroll down enough in the post #34 windows and missed some 'parted' commands!

EDIT - 'adb shell' had quit, and it wouldn't connect again. Tried to reboot TWRP to recovery, but it didn't recover, now stuck at Oppo text logo, can't connect by adb, doesn't respond to power button. Bricked.

EDIT - was able to access the phone by fastboot only, not adb. Flashed TWRP recovery again, it rebooted and took quite a while, now it is stuck at the cyanogenmod 12 boot up spinning arrow for 10+ minutes, maybe it will recover eventually. If not, I'll try to reflash CM12 too.
[Oppo Find 5] Avelarius:
Hello

Today was the third try to get this thing working ^^

But somehow i cant get past the first command.

Every time i try to unmount things like /cache or /dev umount only returns "invalid argument.

I never pushed the files from the zip. TWRP 2.8.3.0 is used.

I tried to attach a screenshot to help, but im too new to do that -.-

Thanks in advance :)
[Oppo Find 5] kallsop:
Success! Used the de-brick procedure from the first post, then methodically went through the steps in post #34 and now have an Oppo 5 16GB with 4GB /userdata running CM12.

Big thanks to all concerned.
[Oppo Find 5] Vashiru:
Sorry for a small delay in response as opposed to the other topics, turns out I'm not getting any notifications for this one (yet).

Read the description above it again. Invalid argument simply means that that partition isn't mounted right now. Most people get that error on cache/data. Since it isn't mounted, and thus there's nothing to unmount, you can ignore this error and continue with the rest of the procedure.

[MENTION=5909703]kallsop[/MENTION], glad you got things sorted out.
[Oppo Find 5] Dino_:
Absolutly great! Thank you Vashiru & cyansmoker!

I've increased the partition on a 16GB FIND5.

At first I got some trouble removing partitions 23 to 28. It gave off errormessages instead of deleting the partitions.

I continued to creating the first partition, but (as expected) the available size was inadequate. I tried to remove those partitions again and now it worked without errors.

Weird, but it worked! :)
[Oppo Find 5] Markiboj97:
last resort not working...

Nvm. Did this great tutorial again and it worked!!1

THANK YOU!
[Oppo Find 5] hunyadia:
Hi guys, need your help please. Adb tools installed, works, drivers installed for find5. Devices listed w adb normally, but turning f5 to recovery w adb command I have no driver for find5. Any tip help? I am on win7 and cos2.0

Edit: just a stupid restart was missing on PC... Grrrr let's start resize. [emoji6]
[Oppo Find 5] rombdeta:
6GB of userdata

i leave the code for 6GB .... 100% working and i recomend to use adb in every moment, adb shell works fine for me, i haven't touch the phone in that process. I think, i can make a script,but now I'm on vacation..... sorry for my english.

mkpart primary 1325 7469

name 20 userdata

mkpart primary 7469 7478

name 21 persist

mkpart primary 7478 8015

name 22 cache

mkpart primary 8015 8016

name 23 misc

mkpart primary 8016 8027

name 24 recovery

mkpart primary 8027 8060

name 25 reserve1

mkpart primary 8060 8067

name 26 reserve2

mkpart primary 8067 8076

name 27 reserve3

mkpart primary 8076 8110

name 28 reserve4

mkpart primary 8110MB 100%

name 29 sdcard

# exit parted shell

q

#close adb shell

exit
[Oppo Find 5] Yakstar:
Oppo Find 5 32GB Resize - resized partition 2 instead of 20

Hey guys,

I. Need. Help. I resized partition 2 of my Oppo Find 5 handset while resizing the phone like in Vashiru's guide. You can see the partition table in the attached screenshot. My problem is that I don't know how the partition was named and how big it was, so I can't remove the mistake right now. Can you help me?

Greets from Germany,

Yakstar
[Oppo Find 5] hunyadia:
Just check 20-29, looks ok.
[Oppo Find 5] Vashiru:
Hi Yakster, below is a print of my partition table. The partition is called sblk1 (it wraps to the next line due to screen size). I'll try later today to make a back-up from it so you can flash your partition with it. You do have the international 32 GB right? Because I have no idea what that block is actually for and it might not be a good idea to flash it from a different Find 5 model. Hope this helps you further!
[Oppo Find 5] olezhek1975:
How recalculate?

how to recalculate the values in mkpart? which method to use?

Begining arguments take from "parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 print" ?
[Oppo Find 5] Vashiru:
You only have to recalculate values if you want a data partition bigger than 4 GB. The sizes given are for 4 GB data partition. But let's say you want 6 GB, the last value of the mkpart 20 command is the end boundary of the data partition. So if you want 2 GB extra (on top of the 4 GB) you'd add 2048 to that value and all the other values that define the partition boundaries.

But if you are looking for 4GB just use the values displayed, for 6 GB the values are in post #54.
[Oppo Find 5] Coren0327:
I couldnt get gdisk to stay or work on /sbin.

Was using adb from TWRP 2.8.3.0, pushed once suscessfully but after a reboot the file went missing.

Before that I have tried the command "gdisk /sdcard/gpt.bin /dev/block/mmcblk0" but only had first "permission denied", i went to fix the file permission with chmod 755 from TWRP, then retried the gdisk command and got a "help" message "gdisk usage [-l] /file"... I wont got further without getting this to work and the computer ASB is not working properly already not detecting the phone in Twrp ADB even when I reconnect.

Can you please exaplin me how you did it?
[Oppo Find 5] Vashiru:
Don't use the guide at the beginning of the topic, instead use post #34. Pushing the files like you did actually breaks the procedure.
[Oppo Find 5] Coren0327:
Thanks for your reply :) read your post hope it will go well, but i don't see anything about backing up previous partition table in yours, dont you recommend it ?
[Oppo Find 5] Vashiru:
I stated in a post somewhere that I didn't understand that part of the guide. Nobody needed it actually, the last resort method rescues that kind of stuff ;)