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[Samsung Galaxy Alpha] HDRAGON:
hello my friend

i tried to install twrp 2.8.6 many times with odin or the zip file you sent, but everytime it stocks on samsung logo and goes no where, until i pull out the battery

and then i have to flash 2.8.1 recovery with odin again , to have my recoverymod back

what can i do for that ?
[Samsung Galaxy Alpha] papiollon2561:
Use Flashfy .
[Samsung Galaxy Alpha] HDRAGON:
i tried it befor

it helped me to flash my zip recovery file, but i think there is a problem yet, because i cant flash the rom and recovery menu blinks and restarts repetitievly when i click teh rom file ...
[Samsung Galaxy Alpha] angelofdarknes1:
Hey, I got a problem with my G850F. I flash ther receovery via Odin but when I try to enter the CWM/TWRP I still see the stock recovery. I tried several links but nothing changes. What could be the problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Alpha] Blubberor:
do you flash it via AP in odin?

is the version you want to flash compatible with flashing via odin?
[Samsung Galaxy Alpha] angelofdarknes1:
Yup, I tried the set from this thread (odin 309, AP, uncheck reboot), some youtube set. Nothing works: check/uncheck reebot, odin 3.07, 3.09, 1.95, TWRP few version, CWM.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amd-dude:
Hi guys, quick question, I'm trading my rooted G3. I want to do a factory reset from within the phone settings to get rid of all my apps/files etc, this is safe to do while rooted right? Or would I have to follow the long method mentioned here:

http://www.androidrootz.com/2014/07/how-to-unroot-lg-g3-all-variants.html

Which requires flashing the phone. I just want to wipe all data from the phone and return it to stock.

Thanks.
[General Topics] lnchbx:
I wanted to know if I can take an AT&T sim card (contract account) and use it in a straight talk phone?

Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SEVENSYNZ:
Anyone Know The Best Buffer Settings For Using The Mda G3 With The Motorolla HT820 Bluetooth Headset???
[General Topics] chihwahli:
Hello all,

I use my phone a lot, Wifi, game, and the battery is drained fast! I was looking for a solution.

First I used a powerbank 2600 mAh, but that you loose a lot of energy by charging. And it's not practical unless you buy a big powerbank.

A disadvantage is that powerbank will last a limited amount of charge cycles. I ususally use my phone al ot when I am at home.

When I was surfing on the internet I found a person who connected a other brand phone onto a lab power supply and it worked.

So I looked and bought a cheap Basetech BT-153, a set of 4 mm cable set, which includes a pair testing cables with a grapling hook in it.

First you turn the powerdupply on, and set the voltage to the same battery voltage as it's written on yours.

My S6312 has a battery voltage of 3.7V (EB464358VU). So I turn the voltage on the powersupply onto 3.7V. The current (mAh) turning knob does nothing. The current you cannot set at all.

Your phone will draw any current it requires. That's why in most cases you can use a powersupply with the correct voltage , but higher current. Your phone draws a current as it needs. As far as I know off this is in the most cases. Correct me if I am wrong.

Turn the powersupply off before you try to connect the testing probes with their hooks onto your phone. You don't want to short circuit anything.

That can cause malfunction!

I connected the red to plus (+) and the black one to minus (-). You can see which connector is plus or minus on the battery.

The middle one is used to get battery status as I have read. The middle one I did not use. Be carefull to connect plus and minus right!

After connecting the phone will give a warning that the battery is extremely low and that you soulf connect to a powersuppy. Ignore it.

I tried to power my phone by USB only, but that does not work. You have to connect power throught the battery connectors as far as I know.

I saw on youtube somewhere that a guy or girl made a wooden battery shape and placed the contacts onto it. That way you can easily switch between powersupply and battery.

Smart ! :good:

I bought the following items:

http://www.rapidonline.com/test-measurement/voltcraft-ms-6-test-probe-set-51-51631

http://www.conrad.com/ce/en/product/393647/Basetech-BT-153-1-Output-Variable-DC-Power-Supply-Bench
[General Topics] chihwahli:
The phone shuts itself down after a while.

I tried connecting the usb cable to give the phone power. But it keeps saying that the battery is removed.

and shuts itself off. Is there a way to override the missing battery in the software? Is there a app that uses root permissions to override that?

If there is , then anyone could use an external powersource without battery.

Anyone?
[General Topics] chihwahli:
Installing DisableCriticalBatteryshutdiwn module of the Exposed framework..

REsults: It still shuts down. Emailed Xposed for assistance , hope they have a solution.
[General Topics] chihwahli:
Closer to the solution!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2113843

Solder a resistor between the battery minus and the middle pin of the battery.

I used a 1K ohm resistor, that translates to a 4-5% battery charge....

Then I tried a 10K ohm. The battery charge starts at 6% and goes up! How odd?!

But everything works.... Maybe I made an mistake with the resistor value.

http://www.minco.com/Sensors-and-Instruments/Support-and-Tools/Thermistor-Resistance-Table

As the following webpage tells, a copper thermistor, I guess Samsung uses copper resistors, the value is between 5.128 ~ 19.116 ohm.

That could be an explanation that my 1K and 10K ohm resistors are causing my dummy battery is not working properly.

Then I got a warning message to connect my charger. Then I connected my usb connector and no warnings anylonger!

Going to find a better value for the resitor.

I don't have a 220 ohm resistor in my stock. But I do have several 330 ohm. If you connect 2 resistors of 330 ohm in parallel, the replacement resistor (Rv) will be lower than 330.

If you calculate it, it will result in a replacement value of 165 ohm. Link to an online calculator: http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-paralresist.htm

The phone still gives the indication that the battery is only 1% charged and starts charging. The phone shuts itself down after about a minute.

So now the issue is: How to fool the phone that "battery " is full?
[General Topics] chihwahli:
I don't own the S6312 any longer. Gave it to a friend who needed. I guess it would work. But alas I cannot verify.

I just started a 2nd try to power my samsung phone without a battery.

But this 2nd try I am going to use a defect battery. Disamantle it and use the electronics of the battery to mimic the original.

Goto: http://xdaforums.com/general/genera...-battery-2-t2941436/post56779273#post56779273

Edit: The critical power module of the Xposed framework was installed, but not enabled! Shame I cannot test.... Even if you enable it, don't forget to reboot to make it functional!
[General Topics] AlbertDude:
I'm using an old Samsung GIO (S5660) without a battery, powered through the USB connector.

It requires:

1) disassembling the phone and soldering a wire between the USB power connector to the battery + connector. There's a nice detailed video on youtube that walks through the phone teardown.

2) "special" boot procedure

The soldering part will probably dissuade most people from attempting this as you will need a decent soldering iron + a bit of electronics/soldering experience and a steady hand to solder the wire to the USB connector.

Here's a picture of the wire soldered to the +5V USB pin:

The wire gets routed through the board where it gets soldered to the +5V battery terminal (unfortunately I don't have a pic of the solder connection to the battery terminal):

Prior to doing this mod, I just connected a 5V source to the battery terminals and the phone powered up fine.

I figured it'd be way cleaner to just tap the 5V power from the USB connector rather than add some other wiring/connector, so I went ahead with this soldering mod.

However, after making the soldering connection the phone wouldn't boot! It would show a battery icon briefly and then shut off.

So I figured there must be some circuitry on the phone that detects that the USB power is connected to the battery terminals but there's no battery there.

Anyways, I stumbled upon the trick "special" boot procedure -- basically boot to recovery (on the GIO, hold HOME key while powering up). From the recovery menu select reboot, and the phone boots up!

I'm using this phone as a tabletop clock and baby monitor receiver:

A nice way to make use of a device that would otherwise be tossed.

Not sure whether this would work for other Samsung phone models...
[General Topics] sudeshkmr:
USB takes 5V and the battery terminal gives 3.3V. Joining these two is going to damage the power IC..

The whole concept does not make sense. Why not plug in the battery and keep the USB charger cable attached, so the battery keeps 100% charge?

Mobile repair technicians use external voltage booster device to power on mobile phones without battery, but its only for a short time.
[General Topics] chihwahli:
It would be nice to able to power the phone without the battery when you play a game for 1-2 hours, my phone a Samsung note 3's battery is about 45% charge. That means recharging every day. Since Li-ion batteries last about 500 charge cycles. It does not take long before you need to buy a new one.

Is it a lot of money? No, but its senseless to play on battery if you can play by using an AC adapter.

That's much more efficient., cost effective, and less trash, thus better for the environment.

How many normal / rechargeable batteries get thrown away to be recycled every year? A lot!

Recycling is good, but itś better if you could prevent it. Recycling itself uses a lot of energy and water as well.

You would be surprised what amounts of energy and water that are required to separate trash and re-use it.

It's better to prevent creating more and more trash....

Samsung?? Apple?? Anyone?? A phone-dock or cable that can run a smartphone without battery please!!!!

Well, that is one product I would really like to have! Sell it to me! I have my cash ready =) Hit me!
[General Topics] chihwahli:
Hmmm, going to try that later.... thanks.
[General Topics] chihwahli:
By keeping the smartphone, with battery attached to the charger. The battery life is going to shortened. Some people say that keeping the battery charge between 40% and 80% is optimal. Charging to 100% shortens battery life. Battery guides from various websites tell that. But if this is true for every kind of li-ion battery I wonder.

Attaching USB 5.0v to the battery contact directly is risky, damage is possible.

I am not sure how much extra voltage is circuit can take without going over it's limit. It might cause the electronics to work less long due to higher voltage. As in the formula: U= I x R

U = voltage

I = current

R = resistance

With higher voltage, the current will increase: I = U / R.

For instance:

i = 5 / 100 = 0.05 A = 50mA

i = 3,3 / 100 = 0,033 = 33 mA

The higher current will cause diverse electrical components to have a higher voltage, some components are made for a specific voltage. Using a higher voltage could result in damage. It's better not to take a chance...
[General Topics] sudeshkmr:
First you have to look for the voltage output your battery is giving. All batteries give different voltage output but its around 3.3V mostly. Then use a simple voltage regulator to drop-down the voltage. For example if your battery is giving 3.3 V output. then you can use LM7833 circuit for converting 5V to 3.3V.
[General Topics] AlbertDude:
IIRC, a fully charged lithium-ion battery has an output voltage of 4.2 V, fully discharged around 3.5? V

So the device most likely regulates the voltage from the battery anyways.

If you have no need for the device to be portable (as I said, I'm using it as a desktop clock and baby monitor) and you no longer have a battery (mine started bulging so it was time to throw it away...) then it's nice to be able use the device without having to buy a new battery.

Been running over a month with no overheating or other related problems.
[General Topics] chihwahli:
That is a nice idea to lower the voltage from 5V to any voltage required.

But the problem I face is, is how to fool any 3 pin Samsung battery that there is a battery attached??

I have not tried the trick by connecting the micro USB 5V, then through a voltage lowering circuit like yours, and attach it to the battery pins of my phone. Then attack micro USB, and see if it works.

I wonder if that is safe to try.
[General Topics] AlbertDude:
I'd expect the device to regulate the voltage from the battery terminals so it's overkill to add another regulator.

If you're worried about the voltage being too high, just insert one or two (depending on your level of worry) forward biased diodes to drop the voltage by ~0.7 V or ~1.4 V.

I'm comfortable with leaving it at 5V....
[General Topics] chihwahli:
Ok, voltage sounds ok. As you have said, if I want to lower it I could.

[MENTION=5575484]AlbertDude[/MENTION]: How many pins does your samsung phone battery have? 3 pin batteries are easy to attach to a power-supply , Samsung's 4 pin li-ion batteries are different.... Samsung ace 3 has 3 pin battery.

Ace 3 works with power-supply and a resistor between ground and the middle pin.

Samsung Note 3 has a 4 pin battery and this a bit different. Tried several resistors, but the phone keeps detecting that it has no battery. So it will not boot past the Samsung screen. It just shuts down...

But I still have to try the boot into recover and reboot from that screen. Maybe it does work, not sure yet.

If someone tried or has a new idea. post =)
[General Topics] AlbertDude:
The Samsung GIO has 3 pin battery.

For the GIO:

- The "boot from recovery" trick was only needed after soldering the wire between the USB and battery pins. When I connected an external 5V source to the battery pins, the device powered up without problems.

- I have never had to use any resistors.

Good luck!
[General Topics] sudeshkmr:
Good and valid points. :)

For the middle point of battery which (in most batteries I assume) senses the temperature of battery through a thermistor, you can do things. Either use a thermistor yourself (again overkill) or just use a resistor. The value of resistor can be chosen so that it gives half of battery's voltage output which is around 1.6 V. This can be done using a voltage divider circuit easily.
[General Topics] Anyaie:
here!

I came down to this post when i want to have my pocket wifi "battery"-less.

See if this helps

m.instructables.com/id/How-to-use-phone-without-battery

This is my first post so try to copy the set of words above on google and look at it on

the instructable website

Cheers!
[General Topics] Kurupt Fungus:
Maybe it's time to get out and do something productive. Like possibly, putting your phone down and make a power supply for what you're looking for? Reading all these comments, you all seem reasonably intelligent and I would be willing to bet that if you focused your time on the problem instead of a game, whomever would most certainly figure out a solution. Yeah?
[General Topics] chihwahli:
To find a way to replace a 4 pin battery with any powersupply. Someone with electronics skill could for example measure the signals from all the 4 pins of the battery with an oscilloscope. I guess. Based on the signals create a electronics schematic that will mimic those signals. I guess that will work.

But I do not have the skills nor the oscilloscope to try it out.
[General Topics] Andrew-J-Larson:
tried something similar with my galaxy s3 and it worked, mine has 4 pins tho and not 3... http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/acce...ii-battery-t3415621/post67685114#post67685114
[General Topics] chihwahli:
Off topic but very interesting. I have a 7 inch tablet, IPS screen that has a battery that has only 2 wires (black and red) soldered to the main-board! The brand-name and type is Surftab Xiron 7.0 HD, model number ST70408-1.

How cool is that! I am 100% sure I can connect this to any 3.7V stabilized power supply and run it without battery!
[General Topics] alerkrerk:
Did you do it?

I have a Samsung A5 2016 and it has a battery woth also 2 pins only.
[Samsung Galaxy S II Plus] Mohamed Elhadad:
how to make the stock modified rom of the p-version work on the the non p-version
[Samsung Galaxy S II Plus] DenisRonaldo798:
just flash P-recovery on Non P phone and voila,that's it ;dd
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] rhcreed:
Can you remove the Verizon bloatware??
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] fury683:
Don't have one so I can't confirm but a few people have said there is not much bloat on there. Most apps can be disabled in the Application Info, which is what I did on my Moto X 2013.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] geoff5093:
Sort of. 98% if the bloatware from Motorola, Verizon, etc. can be disabled under app settings.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Jaocagomez:
you can freeze em and lock em, and they will not appear in the launcher but you can't delete em.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] disc.ordian:
I disabled about 7 apps
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] pbmpharmacist:
same here, started with the amazon apps
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] y0himba:
Once Lollipop is out, the bloatware will no longer be installed as a system application, you will be able to remove it just like any other application.

https://www.google.com/search?q=lollipop+bloatware
[HTC One Mini 2] niac93:
Hey guys,

So I recently got the HTC One Remix (the Verizon version of the HTC One Mini 2) and I would like to root it and install a custom ROM for it (preferably Cyanogenmod). The problem is verizon makes it hard to do any of these things and sadly switching carriers isn't really an option any time soon so I am trying to make do.

HTC-Dev reportedly won't work with verizon phones and many of the solutions for the HTC One Mini 2 don't work for the Remix even though they are essentially the same phone. Cyanogenmod has the HTC One Mini 2 listed as a supported device but I am not sure if that will work with the Remix because a carrier is not specified.

I have yet to see anyone who has had any luck, so is there anyone out there at all who is running a custom ROM on a rooted HTC One Remix? If so, what did you use to obtain root (sunshine maybe?) and what custom ROM are you running?

I'm majorly new to this sort of thing so hopefully the solutions are relatively easy so I don't end up bricking my phone.

Any help at all would be much appreciated!
[HTC One Mini 2] Carlovn:
As far as I can see there aren't many hardware differencec between the two phones. The only problem is that at this point there is no other way of unlocking these phones then trough HTC dev. I don't think there is a lot of development going on with unlocking with other methods. How do you know HTC dev isn't supporting your device? Did you check if "All other supported models" in the list?
[HTC One Mini 2] niac93:
It a verizon exclusive and HTC Dev doesn't work on verizon phones. The carrier blocked it. There's also a disclaimer somewhere deep on the htc site.

Thanks though. I'm just frustrated because I like the phone but I also really want to root it. I've tried a couple of the easier methods like sunshine and towelroot and those don't work I'm only on 4.4.2 but with my low skill level in this area I'm not sure if there's much I can do. I know s-off and root aren't the same thing but that's supposed to make it easier to find a way to achieve root right?
[HTC One Mini 2] Carlovn:
Aha then i'm afraid there isn't much you can do. Only wait for s-off because but I don't think it is goanna happen. My previous device is a One X and they had a huge user/developer base but never achieved s-off. It seems HTC really did a good job at closing this down.
[HTC One Mini 2] 0ddentity:
stock rom?

Hi all, I accidentally nuked my memwl stock rom via twrp.. am desperately seeking anything that will make it usable again..

Anyone know where I might find the original ROM? I have only found the stock recovery so far.

Cheers,

-M
[HTC One Mini 2] Xaad1219:
Need Stock Recovery !

I need Stock recovery Please Send me the link :crying:
[HTC One Mini 2] 0ddentity:
HTC One mini 2/remix stock recovery

Hi. I might be able help you here.

Here is a link to what I'm pretty sure is the stock recovery. Note this dumb forum won't let me post links, so reassemble this yourself..

h t t p s

w w w . androidfilehost . c o m

/?fid=95784891001615233

Can't remember the exact cmd line.. something like adb flash recovery <file>

Now for the rom, I'll have to see if the link I got it from is still valid when I get home. There's a guy 'jcase' I think on the IRC that uploaded his personal backup that worked for me.

To be clear, the rom is for the HTC One 'remix' - Verizon's branded HTC one mini 2. There is NO working cyanogenmod that I know of.

btw you will need the TWRP recovery to restore from the rom backup when you get it, so the stock recovery might only be useful if the flash still has the recovery image on it.

Certainly worth trying first.

Good luck,

-M
[HTC One Mini 2] crownztech:
Xda Devs, please we HTC one remix users need a custom Rom and s-off for our device.... We would really appreciate it if you help us
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GigabitEthernet:
What does sunshine do that HTCDev doesn't do? I'm really very confused.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jshamlet:
Sunshine S-off's your phone, as well as unlocking the bootloader. HTCdev unlocks your bootloader but leaves security/signing on (S-on) Also, the method Sunshine uses to unlock your bootloader doesn't trip a factory reset.

You don't typically need to turn security/signing off unless you want to change your CID/MID (to convert your handset to a different region) or go back to an older version of firmware/software.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsmyth:
HTC dev only unlocks the boot loader, sunshine or firewater provides full s off which lifts restrictions to partitions that are normally locked down.

Check the below thread for explanations.

Thread updated

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2744194
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GigabitEthernet:
Thank link is invalid.

Also, I have got s-off previously without using this?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
So in bootloader (or alternately, adb getvar all) it indicates s-off?

If so, and you didn't do firewater or sunshine, then its factory s-off. Its rare, but I've seen it here from time to time.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] belalahmad28:
So earlier this year I decided to root my HTC one so I could get stock android. I changed it back to sense around a month after but my phone is still rooted and I'd like to unroot it. I've tried around 3/4 times to unroot my phone but I literally got nowhere and gave up each time, but now I thought I'd stick at it and try this time to finally unroot my phone, and I'd really appreciate any help I can get.

This was my first time rooting a phone and I still don't fully understand many of the terms, so if you could please explain each step as simply as you can that would be awesome. Anyway the information I've gathered about my phone so far is that it's version is 2.24.401.8 its S-On, HBOOT 1.54 and Radio 4A.17.3250.14. I think that's all the useful information but if there's anything else you need let me know. Ideally, I would like my phone to return to like it was when I first opened it (enough to be able to use under warranty) however if that's not possible, or if it's hard to do, I'd be happy with it just having the latest version of sense and android and for it to be able to receive OTA updates.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danny201281:
Do a factory reset then flash this Rom with your custom recovery. http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/guru_reset_m7_2-24-401-8-zip/

In the Aroma installer options choose

Stock recovery = Yes

Stock radio = Yes

Root = No

Once it's installed reboot and take ota updates ;) :good:

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