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[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeyZues98:
Question

Hello! Someone already has asked this but I can't flash due to my device being identified as HTC_a5 and not just "a5". My phone is the Virgin Mobile variant which is dual sim. My recovery is Clockwork Recovery Mod. The answer that was given was not too clear. Thank you in advance to whoever responds.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FoxyDrew:
The Virgin Mobile variant is not dual sim, it's single sim. But yes, this ROM works on the virgin mobile variant.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeyZues98:
Ok. But whenever I attempt to flash the rom, the installation gets aborted and the error comes out to be that the rom is for several variants including "a5" but stalls because my variant is "HTC_a5". I was asking about what I can do at this point to successfully flash it. Thank you for your reply as well.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FoxyDrew:
Did you make sure you wiped all partitions before attempting to flash?

I am on the same variant as you and had no problem flashing the ROM.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeyZues98:
Alright. I will do that and see if it works. Thank you for your response.

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Can you remind me what partitions I need to wipe? I wiped the cache but I cant seem to figure out what other partitions to wipe as well after a full erase. I just noticed that my variant comes up as "htc_a5dug" instead of "a5" as I said earlier. Thank you yet again for your response.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyrano_ARG:
The same thing happened to my myself, my device is a5_ul and on having installed the rom he was saying to myself that my device is a5_dug (mistake status 7), solve it installing TWRP recovery
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FoxyDrew:
You have the a5chl.

Wipe data/factory reset, /system, and /boot. As well as cache and dalvik cache.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeyZues98:
Yep! After changing the recovery to Team Win the flash was successful. Thank you for your responses.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstoler:
storage not reading right

I started with the cm12 and just changed back to cm11 due to 4g and battery issues on cm12. I noticed my internal storage is saying total space is 4.3 GB. I have 1.76GB available. I know these phones have 8 GB internal storage and just wondering what is going on with that? Could it be the ROM reporting it wrong? My SD card is reading correctly. I have the a5chl in case that matters. Other than that I am loving it and so glad I flashed CM on my phone. It had an unbelievable amount of bloatware before and not it runs so smooth. I can not believe I bought this phone brand new for $175 right after Christmas. I hope more get it and there is a lot of support for it. Thanks for all your dedication everyone!

Edit: I just saw on a spec sheet it says 8 GB total internal storage but then underneath it says 4.3GB user memory. It makes no sense how even after flashing a few hundred MB of cm11 and gapps that it would still need 3.7 GB partition for the OS. Is there a way to free that up?
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LiquidPlacidity:
No posts since November?

Edit: Nevermind, found it.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstoler:
Q&A thread seems to be mostly a Q thread with not a whole lot of A. I know this is a newer mod for a fairly new phone and it is to be expected I guess.

On stock my phone says that I have LTE but on cm12 and cm11 I do not have LTE at all. In system options it allows you to select LTE, 3G, 2G or Global and if you have LTE selected and you do not get LTE service it should default to 3G. Are there any things that I can try to get LTE working? I had my last phone HTC EVO V 4G for 3 years and never got 4g to work with cm10/cm10.1 I sure hope that I can get it working this go around. Also there has got to be a partition app for android like on Windows and Linux to free up 4 GB of internal storage. That is very annoying to not have that. I absolutely can not mount my sd card on my PC so I have to use an app like airdroid and es file manager to move files to and from PC. Anyone know a way to get this working also? HTC sync manager cant even see the phone. The options that appear to mount as usb drive or charge only etc is missing several normal choices.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riggerman0421:
I am having similar issues. I've tried a few different nightly builds and have not gotten data to work on any of them. No 3g, no 4g (this is on a Virgin Mobile USA device). I am however, able to mount MTP on my Windows 7 laptop without issues. I am aware that MMS doesn't work, according to several posts, but is fixable via third party texting apps. If I could find a way to get the data issues fixed, I would be installing this. If anyone has any ideas, a reply would be nice.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstoler:
Have you tried going into mobile networks and manually switching from preferred network type LTE to 3G? I assume you have as you stated 3G is not working. You can try putting it on 3G and toggling different access points. I would leave it on each one for a good 20-30 seconds to see if data appears. As far as that is concerned, that is about all of the help I can give as I am struggling with multiple issues as well. I sure wish I could mount my phones internal and external sdxc so that I may moved apps from the internal to external card. It is mind boggling why half of my internal card is unreachable. Install to SD card was removed for a few reasons and one reason is google apparently didnt think it was necessary because internal storage is much faster and thats where apps should be installed. Sorry for the long post it is just frustrating.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riggerman0421:
I've tired all combintions of the listed APNs with different Preferred Networks, still no love. I've even tried manually entering the stock APN with no better results. Guess I'll just have to stay with rooted stock for now. As for moving apps to the sdcard, check out folder mount in the play store. It will let you move the data and obb files to the external sdcard. Typically, these are the large data files that take up all your storage. You will have to be rooted to use it, though.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LiquidPlacidity:
VIRGIN MOBILE ONLY

First, download the 12/25 build as it has the correct APN's for Virgin Mobile. - http://download.cyanogenmod.org/get/jenkins/96183/cm-11-20141225-NIGHTLY-a5.zip

The builds after that have broken my data so I'm using 12/25 and it works great for me.

Make sure you have gapps ready to flash on the sd card as well.

--- Steps you need to take ----

You need to RUU your phone and restore it back to stock completely. http://xdaforums.com/desire-816/general/ruu-t2952058 - This is necessary.

After RUU, unlock the bootloader(again), flash this recovery - https://s.basketbuild.com/filedl/devs?dev=Grarak&dl=Grarak/recovery.img - credit to grarak.

After recovery is flashed, just go in and wipe/factory reset,wipe cache and dalvik and all that necessary stuff. Flash the 12/25 build provided above as well as gapps.

Set up your phone as you normally would. Go into the mobile network settings, access point names and select "Virgin Mobile". You have to click the little dot on the right side, not select the name.

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After all this is complete, everything will work for you. I guarantee it.

I've found two bugs so far though. If you have a case that is supposed to turn phone on when you open it, it doesn't work. Also, for some contacts, you may have a few that say +1, then the area code. You need to get rid of the +1 or it will glitch and say "call ended" upon dialing.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstoler:
Do you get 4g LTE to work after you went back to stock and started all over again? I may try this if so. I have 3g working on 2015-01-04 build but really trying to get 4g working. Thanks for the info.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LiquidPlacidity:
Yeah. Like I said, everything works just fine. I've only found two bugs. Other than that, I've had no issues whatsoever.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstoler:
awesome thanks

Downloading everything needed now, will report back tonight if I can find the time. Thanks again.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FoxyDrew:
Im on the 1/04/14 build and data is working just fine.

Also flashing a RUU isn't necessary, unless something seriously screwed up his radios, which I highly doubt.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstoler:
I renamed the rom.zip and put it on my SD card. I did not want to use the exe so i chose the 2nd option to install. It is already been about 15-20 minutes and still on the Update is in progress screen in Hboot. It doesnt appear to be frozen, just very slow. As soon as it finishes I am going to load up stock and do some speedtests on my LTE (never did when I bought phone, flashed CM pretty much straight away but it did indeed say I was on LTE) this will confirm I do ahve LTE coverage where I live. I will report back when I finish.

Just saw your post saying ruu is not necessary but I guess it cant hurt. For some reason flashing roms and tweaking things is fun for me, go figure.

I like how stock allows you to choose LTE/CDMA that way if my LTE coverage drops it defaults to 3G. On CM if I choose LTE and my LTE is not working I do not have data at all. LTE speeds here 16Mbpsdown/10Mbps up, 3G connection here 1.2Mbpsdown/.8Mbps up... Yea I really hope this gets my LTE working.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstoler:
IT WORKED!

Flashing the RUU back to stock everything to include stock recovery and relocked bootloader then going through the whole process again of unlocking, CWM recovery, supersu for root, flashing broadalbin's kernel fix to allow writing to SD found here http://xdaforums.com/desire-816/development/mod-enable-init-d-stock-kernel-vm-t2987126 and then flashing CM 12-25 (damn cm devs work on Christmas, AMAZING) I now have 4g LTE working flawlessly on my HTC a5_chl model!

Thanks Liquid Placidity!

For future purposes, what is the standard flashing method if you are just going from one nightly to an updated one? Do you still need to wipe everything?
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LiquidPlacidity:
No prob! You can just install the CM update as normal after that unless something gets seriously messed up with your ROM.

Btw, you don't need to flash supersu after you install the recovery. If you're going to flash cyanogenmod over, it will already be rooted for you.

You can also use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix&hl=en instead of flashing kernel fix for the sd card. It works pretty well.

I've found that if I install CM11 coming from my stock rom and install GraKernel, things seriously break and mess up. It happens even when I don't install GraKernel.

This has happened and has been tested on two of my friends phones as well as mine. It's like the recoveries(yes each one has been tested) don't wipe the partition properly and leaves certain files behind or something. I used the same process to their phones as mine(RUU) and everything works fine only after the RUU. If we did not do it, things would crash and other issues would arise.

I think the safest way if it's the first time you flash CM is just to flash the RUU and go ahead with flashing CM after. That's had the best results for me and everyone else who I've set up. I've been developing for years so I'm not new or anything. I've been using the forum for so long but I just recently started posting. If anyone has any questions or anything, I'll be glad to help. I will also be developing kernels and porting some roms over in the near future.

Anyway, you say your data is working fine. I had some APN issues after flashing the 12/30 update. The changelog says "apn: fix some data issues when using sprint operator numerics. (android_vendor_cm)" so that would be what caused that issue. I reflashed to 25 and just kept it there. Gonna wait maybe a week before flashing update.

Btw, if anyone wants to see the CM11 changes, here is the link - http://www.cmxlog.com/11/a5/
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paytonpenn:
Does anyone have a download link for the 25th version? I can't seem to download it anymore from Cyanogens site.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstoler:
I uploaded to my Google drive. Here is the link, CM12-25 nightly I hope it is configured so others can download it? Sorry, first time sharing. Please let me know.

What are the rules for things like this? Say I wanted to create a thread or even just a post I reckon' to where I share a folder on my Google drive that has all kinds of files pertaining to this phone/rom. Sort of a one stop shop place where people can download many of the necessary files such as ruu, stock recovery, fastboot, and nightlies that can not be downloaded anymore for some unapparent reason? I plan on doing this if I am allowed, if not please let me know what is allowed and for sure I will give anyone credit where credit is due on each of the guides for download and rom downloads.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paytonpenn:
I did get it all to work well enough but unfortunately my house is not where 4G is in my town. I will update later if I get 4G anywhere.

My speeds on CM11 are 1.6-1.8mbps DOWN | 0.7-1.0mpbs UP. This is unfortunately too slow for if I were at work and would really need to check something online for someone.

On stock my 3G speed at the same location is 2.5-5mbps DOWN | 1.1-1.8mbps UP.

As for this rom it worked well and I had no issues other than occasional loss signals when returning to a locked phone and the reduced carrier signal, normally 1-3 bars with CM, full 3-5 bars without. On Virgin Mobile.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LiquidPlacidity:
ROMS don't effect your data speed that much. That could depend on anything whether it be how many people are connected to the tower, the weather, time of day. You can't base data speeds off of a few tests. You need to stick with it for a week or so and do a real world test.

Also, 1.1 - 1.8 mbps is more than fast enough to browse the internet to "check something online for someone".

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" normally 1-3 bars with CM, full 3-5 bars without."

You can't judge a signal by it's bars. Bars are unreliable. If you really want to know your phones signal, you need to look at dBm in settings > about > network > status. That will tell you your correct signal. I could design some signal bars that only have two bars total. Does having two full signal bars mean that the signal is worse than 3 or 4? No, it does not.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstoler:
I was going to reply basically the same thing liquid. 1.3mbps is fast enough to stream HD video with slight buffer. Someone posted a zip to flash on cm12 to fix 4g issues. Multiple people have confirmed working. I'm gonna try later today after work
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MadeInNewYork87:
My GPS doesn't work. It works on stock rom but not CM.

I have the single sim Virgin Mobile USA Model#OP9C300

Does anyone know how to fix it?
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mart3:
Try the app. Faster GPS
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LiquidPlacidity:
When you flash to CM from Stock ROM, sometimes it corrupts the NV memory in which the GPS uses to get a lock. What you need to do is RUU back to stock. You need to use the GPS and keep the lock for about a minute. Download the latest AGPS data with the app called "GPS Status". Reboot the phone and get another GPS lock. From there, you can flash whatever ROM you want like normal and your GPS will work. I've gone through this so many times in testing. I've found 100% success when I do it this way.

This is not the way to solve this issue.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zallow:
Hello, I'm trying to download CM11 for my a5_ul, but all the download links say 404 not found. Is it not supported anymore? I've heard the CM12 nightlies still have bugs hence why I was trying CM11 first.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FoxyDrew:
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/get/jenkins/98010/cm-11-20150111-NIGHTLY-a5.zip

That's the latest CM11 nightly, and probably the last. Seems to 404, maybe they stopped hosting CM11 for CM12 or something. No clue?
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zallow:
Is there anywhere else to download CM11? Does anybody on here have an archived copy they could share? I would really like to try CM11 first since CM12 seems to be really buggy still. There's not much custom rom options for the Desire 816 yet and I'm familiar with CM, so I'd like to try this first.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FoxyDrew:
CarbonROM is basically just the latest CM nightly with added features. It was ported to our device using CM.

However I have the latest CM11 on my SD card I could upload that.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zallow:
I would appreciate that Foxy.

As for carbon rom, are you talking about this one?

http://xdaforums.com/desire-816/orig-development/rom-carbomrom-release-desire-816-t3004955

Also, just quick question. I've never flashed a rom on a S-ON unit before. It's my understanding that after flashing the rom, I have to push a boot.img in fastboot mode from my computer if my research is correct? Where can I find this boot.img?
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FoxyDrew:
You don't have to flash any special boot.img.

Just flash the ROM normally.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shantanu223:
Hi Foxy...it would be great if you kindly upload the latest Cm11 build somewhere and share the link...
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FoxyDrew:
Sent it in a PM. Not sure what CM's policy is with reuploading official nightlies so just to be safe :P
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paytonpenn:
I figured out the issue was my 4G Sim card slot was broken so the card was never fully in for a while. My phone didn't notify me about it either. It became unactivated and couldn't establish a connection. Ended up rigging the card in and calling ##72786# and it fixed my data issues. Now using PACRom but I had this as daily for quite a while for testing and 3G speeds were good the rom was stable.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryan_ff_t:
It's better to post some screenshots of this ROM.
[Sony Xperia M] rafi_3pic_gamer:
[Q] How i enable FULL transparency on my sony xperia m c1904 on the statusbar&navbar?

How can i enable FULL 100% transparency on my sony xperia m c1904's status bar and nav bar. i am fully rooted on stock rom and kernal. i use xposed framwork and the only module i have is xstana. below is a screenshot of my launcher home screen (nova prime). you can see how there is a faint bar there. how can i get rid of it so i can only see the white logo on the navbar and also on the status bar. and on some phones like the nexus 5 the tinted part is only on the bottom for the. ill put another screen shot next to it of the nexus 5.

the xperia is the one with the clock 12:43 and the other is the nexus 5.

thanks. (im not good at english)
[Sony Xperia M] Farsiris:
use gravitybox and tinted status bar

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enable full transparency in gravity box
[Sony Xperia M] syedafzal.shah:
use Gem xperia xposed module... open it goto system ui settings>app settings > select Home or nova launcher( whatever launcher in which you want full transparent)> select Transparent and go back and reboot... done
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
I am trying to run the OTA.

I'm rooted, s-off, etc. so, in order to do this, I had to flash stock recovery and also enable all the apps that I had disabled.

When I try to run the OTA, it fails. The log says "unexpected content in system/build.prop".

I then realized that some "root" apps modify the build.prop, so I uninstalled all of them and rebooted the phone. However that didn't work —OTA still fails for the same reason.

Could someone could tell me what RUU (or stock nandroid or other file) I should download which would allow me to extract a default build.prop??

Thanks!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunholyx:
Are you SuperCID? If so, there is no need to return to stock.

If not, here are the instructions:

S-OFF ONLY! How to get supercid

1. Have adb and fastboot set up. There are guides all over xda and google

2. Connect phone to PC and open terminal

3. Type "adb devices" to make sure phone is connected to PC

4. Type "adb reboot bootloader"

5. Once in fastboot type "fastboot devices" to make sure fastboot sees your device

6. Type "fastboot oem rebootRUU"

7. Once in black screen that says HTC you are in ruu mode

8. Type "fastboot oem writecid 11111111"

9. After a successful cid overwrite type "fastboot reboot-bootloader"

10. Profit! You are now supercid!!

(via [MENTION=4542027]skulldreamz[/MENTION] from this thread)

Once you do that, you will never need to get an OTA. You will always have the latest and greatest before your carrier does.

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But yes, your problem probably lies with your /system partition being modified.

If you have Xposed installed, that would also lead to these problems, since it modifies /system
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
Ok.. then it's xposed. Thanks!

If I do superCID (something I never thought was necessary since I am probably going to stay with t-mobile), then how do I install the OTA? I have a copy of the OTA which already automatically downloaded (saved a copy on Google Drive). How does having superCID bypass the updater-script which does all those pre-update checks?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunholyx:
If you are SuperCID, you won't need OTAs. As soon as the newest version comes out, you'll be able to install it way before your carrier updates (unless your carrier gets the first HTC update, good luck with that).

As soon as the new stuff comes out, being SuperCID means you can use firmware from any carrier (gsm or cdma dependant) and update to the newest version.

5.0 is coming soon ~ might be up to a three month wait if not SuperCID. Just sayin.............
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
Even if I am using the stock? What you are describing sounds like AOSP or genuine nexus-type android updates. I wouldn't even know how to install them. I have never actually dealt with "updates" before. In the past on other phones on which I ran custom ROMs, "updates" typically came when whoever was creating the Rom, generated a new Rom which included the android update.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunholyx:
Of course not stock. Updates from the ROM developer.

If you wanted to stay "stock", there are custom ROMs that are like that. The devs make it into a zip that is available and flashable for the rooted user.

EDIT: If you want help you can PM me.

That's not an invitation to others.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
I will pm you to ask some more questions, however I am leaving tomorrow for work for 3 days, and I wanted to run this update (and then flash TWRP) before I left.

So, right now, can you tell me what 2.22 stock file (nandroid or a .img or a .zip) that could be downloaded, and then from which I could unzip/unpack to get a default build.prop?

I don't want to reset everything or do a factory reset... just hoping I can use the default build.prop and run this OTA.

Or, if anyone is reading who has successfully ran the OTA--can you just copy the build.prop file for me (you can just paste the contents if that's easier)?

I am very interested in going through it line by line to figure out what the "unexpected contents" actually are.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasaroc:
hello im form brazil and im trying to upgrade the android to 5.0 version but it not working

i have a lg g3 rooted whit 4.4.2 android

any one cam help me please?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTMoraes:
Você não consegue porque não existe Android 5.0 - Lollipop ainda. Espero ter ajudado.

You can't because there is no Android 5.0 - Lollipop yet. Hope I have helped.