yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia L] Nikhil Chandran:
1, the adb drivers aren't installed correctly in your pc

2, don't worry about usb debugging

Just connect the phone to the computer in flash mode by pressing vol down and then plug-in the usb cable to your phone.

Flash tool will recognise it automatically if the drivers are installed correctly

3, then reinstall the stock ROM with flash tool

That's it

You said your device is being disconnected while flashing so

When you start flashing from flash tool start the flashing process

(Without connecting the phone to pc)

After the FTF is extracted flash tool will ask to connect the device

Then just connect your device in flash mode
[Sony Xperia L] Manas1796:
Hello,

Do you know how to install fastboot or flash mode drivers in Windows 10? Also, the flashtool for me is stuck on "please wait until the end of process", how to make it work?

Note: My device gets recognized in ADB when booted up, but does not when in fastboot or flashmode. (Plugging in cable while pressing vol. down)
[Sony Xperia L] Nikhil Chandran:
the drivers will be on the flash tool folder just open the app then tick drivers for Xperia L (thoshan) and general fast boot drivers.

and use the latest flash tool if you can ( Now I am using a Mac so I have a flash tool which was made for apple. but I used to flash my phone using windows and this is the version of the flash tool "flashtool-0.9.18.5" and this worked fine for me ).

if anything else is needed just reply
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Patch7:
Are we going to be be getting any non touchwiz roms soon? I sure miss cm 11 and omni roms.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pantmunu:
Soon .probably. Hopefully. But you should ask these kinda question in the q and a thread or the general section before u get flamed. ☺
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Patch7:
Sorry. I only asked here because this is where they get posted.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxSTARBUCKSxx:
Questions go under questions. Theres yet to be a specific ROM thread up where that would apply.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shabbypenguin:
they have cm booting on the tmobile one, the majority of that code would work fine for the sprint one. chances are they will be unified builds. if this was teh s5 or anything id work towards fleshing out the device tree and bringing it up, but i am truly happy with my note 4 stock with xposed. i dont use all the fancy samsung features but i do use enough of them to not even really want to bother flashing aosp and losing out on it. granted this is my first note device but i cant see or imagine why anyone would want to use something other than stock, battery is amazing, features are top notch and its very fast and fluid.

I came from a nexus 5 but i sold that and for a week i used a kyocera echo until my note 4 preorder was ready to pick up, it truly is amazing in how much progress has been made in such a short time.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hermeticist:
I agree with Shabbypenguin.

I'd rather have a stock ROM with all the cool Samsung functionality of floating windows, one handed moded, functional heart rate sensor, S-Pen apps, and camera app all work great.

Instead we need a rom with stock as base, and AOSP apps like I describe in my thread:

My "Dream ROM" for the Note 4 would be:

*Rooted

*Knox removed

*CyanogenMod style theming

*Samsung and Sprint bloatware removed (accept for Facebook sync)

*TouchWiz apps (calendar, messaging, phone, clock, calculator, lockscreen, notification quick settings) replaced with CyanogenMod versions

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2920117
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shabbypenguin:
i swore i replied to you in there but i guess i didnt :/. the cm theme manager isnt possible on stock, its embedded in so many core files to be able to alter everything on the fly its not possible without recompiling with the code added in, and we cant recompile touchwiz.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkManX4lf:
My main gripe is the typing lag,

in some apps. I notice the typing lag mainly on TouchWiz roms and in Google hangouts and a few other apps. I've tried different keyboards and they all lag on TouchWiz. If I use Aosp, no lag at all anywhere.

Yes the features of the Note 4 are great but I don't use and can live without most of them. I really wanted this device for its spen. I'd take the overall smoothness of cm11 and it's lean build over the features in touch wiz. Hopefully we get a cm build going.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zgroten:
Cm12? Mmmmm
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hermeticist:
I was just reading about CM12.

I'm strongly thinking of moving over.

I can mimic floating windows with xhalo xposed. It has resizable windows that work similar to TouchWiz floating windows.

I'm not sure how I'd mimic one handed mode

Or the stock camera app which has dual facing camera modes.

Any ideas?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pbedard:
Read on land of droid the cm12 roadmap
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkManX4lf:
Hopefully someone picks up the Sprint Note 4 as the cm12 maintainer.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtr145r:
Looking forward to cm on the note 4. It's pretty much the only thing keeping me from buying one.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdidtht:
Who has it booting on tmobile?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pbedard:
More then likely welll be skipped cause of poor sales
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdidtht:
Yea probably not man. Anyone with enough skill can build the device tree. Its just nice when we get official maintainers. Give it time, it will happen. Samsung devices ALWYS get cm.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdidtht:
Slayher has cm12 apparently booting on the note 4
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkManX4lf:
Sprint or t-mobile?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdidtht:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=56811531

International looks like, but sd variants very similar so just having a tree available is huge

---------- Post added at 08:54 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:39 AM ----------

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/s...6sparm%253Dsc%25253Dpo%252526sq%25253Dslayher
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hammerchucker:
Have we reached a point where all of the stuff you mentioned is no longer going to be able to be incorporated into AOSP? I came to the note 4 from the note 2, and I agree touchwiz is pretty nicely refined, but I would like to see AOSP. From some post's I've read hear and there, it appears that touchwiz just gets more complex. What about the Nexus 6 OS?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdidtht:
https://plus.google.com/109781780227026386444/posts/5GSCgXnH5vS

Tmobile boots with data
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtr145r:
Awesome
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soundwavblike04:
Slayher released a build of cm12 for tmobile note 4. He said he'd start a base for a sprint build but he needs someone with experience to finish it
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PatrickC:
I might take him up on that. Good friend of mine has a Sprint Note 4 and wants aosp. I might build and use his to flash.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxSTARBUCKSxx:
Do it!
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtr145r:
That would be awesome!
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _humi_:
there is something like that for the Note 2 (and other phones) :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2134099

i´m hoping someday something similar hits the note 4
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ameans4:
Need some help I am having a lot of bugs with my m8. It is on bluegrass cellular. Does anyone know what ruu I can use to restore to stock. I am s off and unlocked cid LRA__001 model I'd m8 wlv
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshmsiekman@gmail.com:
Same here.

I too am in need of it so i can return back to stock.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] durgis:
If you have a stock backup, I have a stock recovery that should work for the LRA models, PM me. Since you're S-off you might take it to Bluegrass and ask them to flash it back to stock and start over again. S-off should stay after they've flashed.

I WOULD NOT use a Verizon or other LRA carrier RUU, since the radios and radio configurations are similar, but different enough that they will likely screw up your service.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
hi,

can you help me with this i've messed up with my phone, didnt know its verizon, was assuming its GSM, but was unable to flash any custom rom except SkyDragon, so i thought its a firmware issue, got s-off and updated the firmware which caused radio to stop working, then figured out its verizon, flashed firmware from verizon as well but no luck, now i am not even able to flash any ROM, only AOSP or Verizon or SkyDragon intl boots the phone but then start rebooting every few minutes, radio not working so no calls no data, i am really stuck, there is not much help about this model, if there is a way to go back to stock i would like to go with that, any help would be appreciated.

attached is the screenshot of versions i had before when running fine.

following are the versions now

version: 0.5

version-bootloader: 3.19.0.0000

version-baseband: 1.12.20.1211

version-cpld: None

version-microp: None

version-main: 4.17.605.5

version-misc: PVT SHIP S-OFF

serialno: xxxxxxxxxxxx

imei: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

imei2: Not Support

meid: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

product: m8_wlv

platform: hTCBmsm8974

modelid: 0P6B17000

cidnum: GOOGL001

battery-status: good

battery-voltage: 0mV

partition-layout: Generic

security: off

build-mode: SHIP

boot-mode: FASTBOOT

commitno-bootloader: f2489bd1

hbootpreupdate: 11

gencheckpt: 0

Thanks
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
I believe you installed wrong firmware which is a modded GPE firmware. That's why you can't install most of the ROM now.

You need to put correct CID/MID or at least change the CID to SuperCID 11111111 and MID 0P6B20000

It's not easy to fix your device now as you already installed some other region rcdata.img that come with the wrong firmware.

Anyway .. try again the correct Verizon firmware after change of CID/MID

You'll be able to install any Verizon based ROM but your data connection may still have problem.

Or better to install Verizon 4.4.4 firmware then restore LRA US 3.31.512.2 nandroid backup then do OTA if there is one. Restore the backup I believe you'll get wifi working .. after OTA .. your data connection should be restored.

ro.build.description=3.31.512.2 CL395691 release-keys
ro.build.changelist=395691
ro.build.fingerprint=htc/lra_us/htc_m8wl:4.4.4/KTU84P/395691.2:user/release-keys
ro.build.characteristics=default
ro.build.project=M8_WL_K444_SENSE60_VZW_MR:395301
ro.build.sku=LRA US
ro.product.version=3.31.512.2
ro.build.languageremove=0
ro.build.sense.version=6.0
ro.build.version.htcsdk=HTCExt:HTCExtension_Sense60_443_4;SDK:6.25;hdkbase:19.2
ro.build.description=3.31.512.2 CL395691 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=htc/lra_us/htc_m8wl:4.4.4/KTU84P/395691.2:user/release-keys
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
sorry about that MID and CID actually was planning to go GPE so changed them but then read the forum and couldn't find a single success story of wlv going GPE so changed my mind.

CID is now super and MID is my original as you mentioned 0P6B20000

the problem is that i am unable to find the correct firmware for my phone. i spent 48 hours searching for it but no luck.

and dont have nandroid as well.

btw couldn't understand the code you have sent.

can you please help me with finding the correct firmware and nandroid or whatever is needed to get this phone working regardless of the version. have no problem going to the older version as well.

Thanks
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunholyx:
This should work for you.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=63236967&postcount=2361
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
Already tried this, didn't help

I am on GSM this is CDMA I guess
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunholyx:
Didn't realize you were GSM since you are trying to flash verizon firmware with a phone that has the same MID and product version.

If your phone is GSM, you could try flashing WWE/International firmware (4.16.401.10). That's what I am using on a Telus phone. MID for WWE is 0P6B10000, Telus is 0P6B16000. It works great.

I didn't change the MID, just switched to superCID and flashed the firmware. Your product version may not let it install, but it might and it won't brick you. You'll just get errors if it won't work. My product version was M8_UL_CAN and it changed to M8_UL after flashing the WWE firmware, so it might be worth giving a shot.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
1. Install the 4.4.4 firmware that you can find here : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=52017763&postcount=2

2. Restore the LRA_001 nandroid backup that you can find here : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58438595&postcount=14

Note : this nandroid is made with CWM and CMW recovery is included in the zip.

3. After restore, boot and check for OTA. You may not have data connection but you should have wifi connection.

4. After the OTA installation, you should get your data connection back.

Good Luck
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
Thanks bro, trying this now
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
Thanks mate, managed to restore the nandroid, still there are no signals, connected wifi and downloading OTA, phone restarted itself once during the download but resumed again, will update you about it.

Edit:

rebooted 2 more time :( dont know if it will let the OTA download.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
Ok so here is the update,

After about a 100 reboots the OTA was successfully downloaded. But it won't let it flash, whenever I tried to flash it just rebooted, since the firmware didn't contain boot and recovery and I was on CWM I thought its recovery issue so flashed stok firmware and boot. It still didn't work, then flashed TWRP and tried to install OTA again, got some fingerprint error, please see the attached image.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
When you restored the nandroid, do you restore the stock recovery included in the zip ?

OTA will install on stock recovery not CWM & not TWRP and not even on vzn stock recovery.

Do you still have the OTA.zip in internal storage/download folder ?

Copy that to PC, open it with 7-zip and extract out firmware.zip. Open firmware.zip and extract out the recovery.img

Flash this recovery.img. As your device is S-Off you can manually install OTA with stock recovery installed. Do you know how ? If not sure, ask .. will tell you how-to when I get to my PC. Not easy to write all these on mobile.

Or you can flash this extracted firmware.zip in ruu mode, you'll solve your data connection problem.

Then you can redo OTA installation process.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
when i restored the nandroid it didn't restore the stock recovery, i flashed the stock recovery from the firmware.zip, the OTA is still in download folder, whenever i check for update it finds the existing file verifies it and prompt to install it, i did select to install it, its still just rebooting, after a couple of attempts it once booted into recovery but then without any progress it kept rebooting into recovery, after several reboots it booted again normally.

so now i have the stock recovery installed, should i rename the firmware.zip to 0P6B2000.zip and install it via hboot?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
You flashed the stock recovery from which firmware.zip ? The one from VZN won't work. The one from the OTA zip will.

No .. that's wrong to rename firmware.zip to 0P6B2000.zip

Try this first :

firmware.zip is the one from OTA zip, not VZN

Put your device on bootloader/fastboot mode and connect to PC (you should see fastboot usb highlighted in red).

Put the firmware.zip in your fastboot folder. Open a command prompt from that folder.

type below command :

fastboot reboot-bootloader (to make sure you're on fastboot mode)

fastboot oem rebootRUU (to put the device in RUU mode)

fastboot flash zip firmware.zip (flashing the firmware.zip)

You'll see : FAILED (remote: 90 hboot pre-update! please flush image again immediately)

repeat fastboot flash zip firmware.zip (to complete firmware installation)

fastboot reboot-bootloader

Check your bootloader now written OS - 4.21.512.4

Now reboot (your data connection should work now) and redo OTA process

EDIT : can you upload that OTA zip to your GDrive or Dropbox and PM me the link. That will help many people.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
ok i did flash the firmware in RUU mode, i can see the latest version in bootloader mode, then rebooted the phone but now its stuck in bootloop,.

managed to get to bootloader again by holding volum and power button while it was rebooting.

cant get to home screen.

yes i will upload the OTA and share the link.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
Install CWM and restore the backup again ..

After you already boot and run setup ... copy the OTA zip to root of your internal storage, not in any folder.

boot to bootloader and install the stock recovery from that LRA firmware.zip

select hboot then recovery .. you'll get black screen or red triangle .. press & hold volume up button and press power once .. this will get you to stock recovery menu

select install from phone storage

select the OTA zip

install

reboot
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
ok installed CWM, restored the nandroid, still rebooting and not signals.

flashed the stock recovery (the one from OTA) tried to install the OTA again, same problem rebooting again n again, managed to get into recovery once, but then stuck in boot loop on recovery, managed to get into bootloader by the volume and power button.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
There's nothing much that I can offer to help. Your rebooting problem I believe due to motherboard cannot take the heat. I want to say this earlier but let you try all the possibilities first, you may have damaged motherboard that is why previously you have restarting problem when using your device.

Let your phone to cool down ... then try again. If still the same, need to send it to repair centre.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
is it really possible to damage motherboard by flashing the wrong firmware ?

btw the firmware i flashed initially that caused the radio to stop working was 4.16.401.10
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
Yes .. it's possible. That's why you need to be more careful when flashing firmware on a S-Off device. Wrong image to wrong partition --> kaput

4.16.401.10 is a GSM only but yours a CDMA device. Your device even have different emmc partition blocks compare to normal GSM.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
but its restarting problem on recovery doesn't seem to be due to heat, its always on a particular stage, its behavior is still giving me some hope, but not sure what to do :) and btw i am GSM not CDMA i am using 3G sim card with it

how can i flash the OTA manually
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
I know that's GSM but still a vzn variant. I mentioned cdma to differentiate with the normal GSM

as stated in the backup build.prop - M8_WL_K444_SENSE60_VZW_MR:395301

VZW is verizon variant.

Just let it cool down then try again ..

If it is not hardware problem .. there's always a way to fix it.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
isn't there a way to rebuild and flash all the partitions :p like we do in PC
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
When we flash full firmware (LRA not VZW) is the same like what you asked for
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
OK I tried again after about 3 hours, still same behavior, while installing OTA in recovery mode, it reboots in the very beginning, appears that its trying access some particular partition or location which is causing it to restart, because it never reboots while flashing any ROM or restoring nandroid or backing up nanadroid in TWRP mode
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
One more thing I've noticed is that i am not able to boot into stock recovery, whenever i select recovery from bootloader it gets stuck into bootloop. and after a couple of attempts it boots normally, same is the behavior while installing OTA, when it starts to reboot while flashing, after n number of attempts it boots normally.

also i have open the zip files of both, the stock firmware and the first firmware that caused this problem to start, and i see there are couple of more images in the first firmware. i believe if we somehow manage to include / flash those images from stock we might be able to fix the issue.

please see the attached image

Edit:

I've downloaded m8wl-3.4.0-g3e2305b from htcdev this is for LRA M8 but appears to be kernel source code, not sure if it will be on any help.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
Exactly, I am looking for this partition list from LRA if we find that we might be able to fix it, currently my partitions are same vzw coz the last thing I flashed was dottat's RUU
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
do you know somebody with having LRA phone with the stock firmware and partitions and can help us dump them?

i am planning to create an RUU for this, we might be able to help others as well, since we now have a phone to test all this stuff :)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
Here is one important observation, as soon as I let the device go to sleep it reboots, I've flashed CM and changed the settings to not to go to sleep while charging and connected the charger, its not rebooting at all, is there anything that gets called when device goes to sleep ? Any specific trigger ?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoang555:
Can you share the OTA.zip package, I need it to extract the firmware.zip inside, or you can share the firmware.zip separately ? Thank in advance !
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
here is the link to OTA https://www.dropbox.com/s/2oozc291kwe5l9r/OTA_M8_WL_L50_SENSE60_MR_LRA_US_4.21.512.4-3.31.512.2_release_426215.zip?dl=0
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
Hi,

i have an important update, i contacted HTC for help, they provided me a complete zip file to be flashed via bootloader.

after flashing that my reboot issue was resolved, but radio is still not working, later i installed twrp and flashed another ROM and figured out that its the kernel which was causing my phone to reboot. since HTC package contains stock kernel its working smoothly.

but still not able to get my radio working, also can't boot into stock recovery, booting into recovery is causing phone to stuck in bootloop.

is it because of wrong hboot ? that the package they have provided is being flashed on wrong partition addresses ?

also got the OTA after their update but that's not installing because of the recovery issue.

do you know somebody with working LRA variant and can help us with the dump of all partitions?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigmack101:
lra

i also have LRA. can you please share that htc's zip?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genious_t:
Here you go https://www.dropbox.com/s/v1gtl2ipu...release_429732_combined_signed_2_4_7.zip?dl=0

Rename it to 0P6BIMG.zip and place it on the root of your SD card and boot your phone in fastboot mode.

Make sure you have enough battery charged or your phone is connected to power and do not interrupt until the process is completed.