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[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funkybrunk:
Well, don't know why, but my phone's screen is now dead. I was running JPC's CM11 nightly, watching HBO GO with BT headphones while the phone was on my Qi charger. All of a sudden, the screen went black, rebooted, still black. I'm effed.
[General Questions and Answers] ro@n16:
Lucky patcher seems to get frozen when I try to use it. Help needed.

Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
Lucky patcher is banned on this site.

Thread closed
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bonkiebib:
Hi,

My device is the i9300. Since I moved from stock to Archidroid (cyanogenmod based) I can only connect to my subscribed provider. When scanning for available networks it does find all the available, but the ones I'm not subscribed to mention 'forbidden', see screenshot.

Also I have problems with data connection, which I guess is connected.

What could this 'forbidden' be related to, ril, buil.prop, modem,....?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soccermanager:
I suspect that it's the rom which has a kernel that causes a problem for certain networks, change the rom to something else as a test and see if available networks are available.

:good:
[Huawei MediaPad, T-Mobile SpringBoard] Aidan Bell:
I hope to purchase a Huawei MediaPad M1.

I read everywhere, and all the reviews state, that the tablet can be used as a phone, however, playing with one in store I find there is no phone software on the device. It is critical that I can use the tablet as a regular hold-it-to-your-ear phone. Will it simply be a matter of installing a dialer and away we go, or is it more complicated than that? Thanks.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AV1d:
Okay just as my title says. Calling and stuff work wonders and stuff... But when ever I wanna use my LTE or 3G data on my phone, we'll it does not work. I rooted my phone about 2 days ago, I not new to the concept of root btw, and I flashed this ROM about... 1 or 1 1/2 days ago. So after tweaking the look of my phone I installed an xposed mod called Xposed G-Touchwiz so I can removed those pesky S-finder and quick connect buttons... Well that messed up my system ui and started glitch on boot up, like a really mean glitch. So I flashed a back up before I did the flash of this rom. Data connection and stuff works up to this moment, then I flashed the ROM again for the second time in this story. When doing the start up, I selected the stock kernel. That's when **** started to happen. The calling system apps crash when I start them. Even text apps. To after messing around and trying to work it out I re-flashed this ROM for the 3rd time and this time I choose the custom kernel that came with the rom... Phone and texting apps work fine but now the problem is that I can't use my data plans... Sadly I can't find a way to fix it on my own. Help me XDA, your my only soap... Wait... I meant hope, I read the wrong script.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banccalif:
Try a different ROM. the xposed mod shouldn't have messed with your phone but I'd suggest to install a new ROM and give it a go. MOAR ROM has those buttons removed by default
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrankieMango:
Hi everyone,

I'm having problems after a noobish mistake that i made last night. I installed Chainfire3D though my S4 isn't compatible with it, and now the phone doesn't boot but gets stuck in a bootloop. I've spent a couple of hours trying to figure this out, and i've read a couple of other threads where people have successfully uninstalled Chainfire3D with the shell command in adb. But when i try to execute a command via adb i get "error:closed". Could this be due to me not enabling "usb debugging" in developer options in android? I don't actually remember if i have enabled it or not in the past. I'm on stock recovery, never flashed CWM but booted in to it when installing PhoenixROM a couple of months ago. I'm using "Minimal ADB and Fastboot" that i found here on the forums, but i have also installed the Samsung USB driver.

Has anyone got any ideas of what i should do, or is my phone now an expensive brick? :) I would be so grateful if someone would help me out.

Cheers
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MAX 404:
Hi mate

Can you get into download mode??

If so two options , flash stock rom with odin and start all over or flash custom recovery with odin also and flash custom rom

What S4 model do you have?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] theoutzu:
Hi everybody, and a good day for all. As my title shows i'm new to this forum and I'm glad to join the community. I have red all the documentation about rom upgrading and i think i might be prepared for an upgrade to my device.

I own a WIZA-200 qtek (9100), brought from italy,with WM 5, in french language. There's no sim locked, and i can use it in orange network (Romania).

Tbe problem i have is that i'm not shure wich version of rom i need, where to download, and if i can switch to english safely, without damaging my device.

So , if there's anyone patient enough to give ne some guides, please reply to this thread.

Some info about my rom version and similar stuff:

Rom version:1.1.7.8

Date of rom: 9/16/05

Version of radio:01.04.10

version of protocol: 4.0.13.17

version of rom ext: 1.1.7.110.

I tryied to download the rom version from qtek but they said my IMEI is not valid, altough the inscription brand is qtek...
[General Topics] menottistefano:
I just understand if is possible that an app ( iOS / Android / WP ) installed on device 1, can manage an SSID (with fix name choose by app [ ex : ssid-test-123 ] ) without opening a real HotSpot/WIFI network . So another app installed on the device 2 can identify this SSID without find ssid-test-123 as as available WiFi networks (even if closed ) . In general i want understandg if is possible to pair 2 devices without user accept any notify or without any configuration. Devices distancy are max 50 mt, like a WIFI network . I dont' consider to use Bluetooth, because in my mind WIFI is common function available on any type of smartphone .

Thanks
[General Topics] ccices:
Looking for developers who can help bring this project to life.. and general discussion of how it could be done.

In the computer forensics field, when you want to see what the system was running, you make a forensic image of the hard drive (which is a bit by bit copy of the entire hard drive) and use that image file in a virtual setting to boot the machine..

I can obtain complete physical dumps of cell phones (most anyways) but how can I now virtualize that BIn file to see how the device looked to the user? What was on their home scree? icon placement etc?

The main reason to run with this in a virtual environment is that it is hard to set up a test phone to the exact specs of the users device..

So how can this be done using SDK development tools or would you need to build an program from the ground up?

Ideas?

Thoughts?

has this already been done and I am just not aware of it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] molitar:
I am running [ROM] Sacs_Custom_Rom_V3_NG2_9_24_14 and the wifi will stop connecting. Reboot the phone and wifi works again normally for a while than stops connecting again.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] graymonkey44:
Just a heads up to anyone that plans on purchasing one. I just checked how much free memory I had and it's 52.3GB for a 64GB BN. I'm not complaining, but I feel it's a little deceptive to market a phone with that big of a difference in free memory.

Using simple math, one can infer that 32GB will yield 20.3GB of data. So just a heads up, if you feel that's all you need, get a 32GB one, but I'm glad I went with the 64GB one.

Where is all that memory coming from though? I thought Motorola stripped down their OS a lot. Oh well, hopefully we'll get root and get some of that memory back soon.

Loving the phone so far though.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] duke594:
32 GB Turbo Memory

The 32 GB has 24 GB of user accessible memory. The OS only takes 8.37 GB of memory on the phone. About the same as every 32 GB Android I have owned and on par with iPhone and Windows Phones and Tablets.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mattlach:
Methinks you guys are miataking storage space for memory.

The phone only has 3GB memory in total :p
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] graymonkey44:
The phone uses flash MEMORY as storage. Memory is a correct term.;);) The phone also has 3GB of RAM.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mattlach:
Disagree.

Yes it IS memory, but so is an SSD on a computer (or a spinny hard drive, or even a floppy disk, if you get technical about it.

Computer terminology (and since phones these days are essentially small computers, it applies to them as well) distinguishes between volatile System RAM, for which "Memory" is a common acceptable short hand, and slower long term stable storage (like hard drives, SSD's, or other forms of flash storage) for which a number of short hands exist, like "Drive Space", "Storage Space" etc. etc, but never ever "Memory", as it refers specifically to volatile system RAM.

It makes you sound like a grandmother with 0 technical understanding.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] graymonkey44:
There's no need for rude or belittling comments.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ahaynes42:
It's funny how nobody has actually addressed the issue yet, and just argued over terminology. I, too, thought it was ridiculous how much space was already accounted for out of the box. Even my old crappy S4 used only about 6gb compared to the 11.7 gb of the Turbo. But then again, I was only left 9.5 gb on the S4, whereas here I have 52 gb. Thankful I went with the 64 too.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mattlach:
My apologies, I did not mean to imply that anyone WAS a grandmother without technical understanding, just that these phrases SOUND like something someone like that would say.

You know like "Your grandfather bought me Turbotax at Staples but I can't install it because my computer is out of memory"

You are right. Dropping it and moving back on topic.

---------- Post added at 04:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:26 PM ----------

I agree here. I was a little disappointed in this regard.

Not quite sure what is accounting for all that space. I mean, the amount of preinstalled garbage (Verizon anything, Amazon everything, NFL app??? Really?, Audible, IMDB, HP print, Slacker, Hindi/Korean/Pinyin keyboards & input, etc. etc.) was a real disappointment, especially after the MotoX's reputation as a near Nexus device.

I disabled all that garbage (as well as the Google Play Music/newsstand/pcasa uploader, etc.) I will never use. we really don't need special Verizon voicemail/messenger, etc apps either.

An ideal phone should come with base Android, Gapps (including google play app store, but excluding music/video/news/book stores, etc.) no handset manufacturer, or carrier installed applications, and CERTAINLY no unwanted third party apps, like Amazon, Audible, NFL, etc. etc. and an unmodified Android launcher.

Don't get me wrong, while I have never come across a useful carrier app, some of the manufacturer apps and widgets are actually decent, and I like to use them. They shouldn't be preinstalled and unremovable though. Maybe a popup on first launch after a wipe, asking if you want to install them from the App store would be the best route to deal with this.

All that being said, I still struggle to understand where all the space is going. These apps - while annoying - don't account for all the missing space. I wonder what Verizon/Motorola has put on there anyway that is wasting all that space.

For me, it likely won't be an issue. I'm not a heavy disk space user on my phones (my last LG G2 was a 32GB model, and I never had less than 24GB free up until I replaced it) but it still bugs me, as I should have the option to use much more of it, if I ever need to.

I had hoped for this phone to be one I didn't have to go with custom ROM's on, but unfortunately I am guessing that will have to be the case once again.

A bootloader unlocker and custom recovery installer for this phone can't come soon enough.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] graymonkey44:
Actually the comment was directed right at me. Completely uncalled for even if you didn't " mean to imply ". Anyways, you wanna get into technicalities, I called it memory because it's called a ROM. But anyways back to the topic. How much space does an AOSP require?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mattlach:
Well, technically that is a misnomer as well, unless you have a very loose definition of "Read Only", but i digress.

Been doing some googling on this, and it has been surprisingly difficult to find an answer to what seemingly should be an easy question.

Part of that is because different android images have different approaches to how they report free storage. Some (like the Droid Turbo default image) reports it all with Internal Storage, giving you an itemized category for Android OS (8.37GB in our case) others neglect this all together, and list total storage as total drive size - size used by image

Will keep googling and see what I come across.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] fury683:
Chiming in here to say that I don't think the fact that the phone is advertised as 64GB is misleading. Every phone has less space available than what is advertised, especially when there is no SD card.

That said, what is misleading, in my opinion, is that hard drives are advertised as 1TB or 2TB when they aren't that size. In the case of a hard drive or flash drive, there is no OS on them, so the space advertised should be what you get. Advertising is done in base 10, while computers work in base 2, meaning you are getting less space. This is a lot more blatant than what is happening with phones where it is implied that the OS takes up space.

At any rate, comparing this device's available space to another, especially from another carrier/manufacturer/Android version doesn't do much good. They are all different for different reasons. Samsung and Motorola have their own custom stuff baked into their Android version, and the carriers the phones are on come with their own bloat. Can't really compare the two.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] graymonkey44:
The point I was trying to make is that roughly 20% of the phone's storage is used for the OS. And seeing as there is no sd card that's pretty significant. Not every average Joe knows this. I wasn't expecting it to be that large, but I don't keep up on how much space ROMS require. I'm just trying to give people a heads up if they want to buy this phone.

I completely agree about hard drives though. It's very deceptive.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] CoreyWillWhat:
I'm fairly certain, not 100% sure on this though, that when you install a ROM, or in this case when the factory installs the ROM, It creates partitions for the the System, Data, and Cache.

The system, or OS, probably takes up only about 1GB or less but then depending on how many apps came preloaded on the system partition that can increase drastically.

Then you have the data partition where any of your 3rd party apps are installed and any data used for that app is saved. This could be a lot larger than the system partition, I'd guess around 5GB or maybe more. (In the case of a 64GB they probably increased the size of it to allow you to have more apps installed)

Finally there's the cache partition which is used for running any apps or processes. The larger the data partition the larger this could be. Guessing again, around 3GB.

The rest of the space, the space you see as 54GB remaining, is left to the user.

From my knowledge, those three partitions account for the 11GB used
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] vai1018:
There are several partitions on this phone. The data partition is 52.3GB in size, the rest is devoted to /dev, /system, /cache, etc. Ignoring the obvious duplicate mount points for the user data partition, added up it's over 62 gigs in space in the list. So, the ~52 gigs of free space makes sense given the partition layout on this phone.

Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize

/dev 1.4G 128.0K 1.4G 4096

/sys/fs/cgroup 1.4G 12.0K 1.4G 4096

/mnt/asec 1.4G 0.0K 1.4G 4096

/mnt/obb 1.4G 0.0K 1.4G 4096

/system 3.2G 1.5G 1.7G 4096

/data 52.3G 8.1G 44.2G 4096

/cache 1.4G 2.4M 1.4G 4096

/firmware 122.0M 76.8M 45.1M 4096

/fsg 684.0K 683.0K 1.0K 1024

/persist 928.0K 216.0K 712.0K 4096

/mnt/shell/emulated 52.3G 8.1G 44.2G 4096

/storage/emulated/legacy 52.3G 8.1G 44.2G 4096
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mattlach:
I would agree with this, but unfortunately IEC made this legit in the 90's and redefined kilobyte (and megabyte, and gigabyte and terabyte, etc.) as 10 base, rather than the traditional 1024 binary base used in memory.

Now if you want to talk binary base in storage, you are supposedly supposed to use the kibi, mebi, gibi and tebi prefixes, abbreviated as KiB, MiB, GiB, and TiB, rather than KB, MB, GB, and TB.

It's a farce, but it is what it is.

---------- Post added at 10:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:52 PM ----------

Interesting.

Do you know how aftermarket images handle this? Do they typically repartition the storage, or keep it as is?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] vai1018:
I've never paid close attention to every custom rom I've ever flashed, but this partition layout is definitely different than the 4.4.4 SkimKat rom I had on my Galaxy S3, so I imagine the partitioning is up to the rom maker (within certain bounds dictated by Android's requirements, of course).
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Semseddin:
Hi,

I have a moto maxx with 64gb advertised memory but i only have 49 gb free space available for me. In computers, when you buy a 1 terabyte hard drive and format it, you get about 903 gb of user available free space. So the %10 is already lost in the beginning. That leaves me with 64 - 6.5 = 57.5

57.5 - 49 = 8.5 gb which is the space used by motorola. We only get 49 gb free. In the xiaomi mi note pro, you get 54gb user available space. iphone 6 have 56gb of user available space. Even the samsung s6 offers 50gb of free space for the user with their billions of bloatware. I dont get why we get lower than s6 64gb when we are supposed to have Bloatfree aosp android. To me it looks like motorola engineers didn't even bother to optimize user available space for us. Lazy motorola engineers !
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] adrynalyne:
Motorola phones do not ship with AOSP at all. None. Zilch.

That said, its a 64GB NAND. All of the different partitions are carved out from it. Bloat has nothing to do with it; it is how Motorola decided to partition the device.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Semseddin:
I am well aware of that but all in all when you look at other manufacturers using their own user interface and motorola sticking with stock android, it is safe to say that is aosp or vanilla android we have in motorola phones. Even if technically that is not true, it is fine from a user perspective. Anyway,

This is what i get from a fresh 5.0.2 Brazil build install on XT1225. Not a single byte occupied by me. 50.11GB :mad:
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Flowah:
I've got a slightly different problem. Upgraded from 4.4.4 to 5.1 rooted yesterday.

I think when I did that, I stored my files from my previous install hidden somewhere on my phone. I have over 6GB of my available space taken up and all I've put on my phone so far is a few ringtones. The only thing that makes sense is that the pictures and videos I had on my phone before are placed somewhere else.

I can't find them though. Does anyone have any ideas?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] drtweak:
Yea miss the good old days.

The original DX has 8GB just for the OS and 8GB for you then a SD card. Was advertised as a 8GB phone. Too bad they don't do that anymore :/
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] adrynalyne:
Even then it was an 8GB NAND. Its just that the partitions were much smaller back then.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] dscribe:
Just curious, how many of you folks are running out, or close to running out, of storage space on your 64GB Turbos? I know that I still have a great deal of capacity available on mine. In other words, for how many people is this a real and practical issue?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Norcalz71:
Purchased my S4 at launch, only rooted it and never really got around to tweaking it much. It has slowed down a bit so now is the time.

I'm on MDL, stock 4.2.2, and rooted with TWRP 2.5.0.2 On to the questions/clarifications, hopefully these aren't egregious. I know the info is out there but for actually finding specific information, the xda forums are a bit overwhelming and sometimes conflicting...

1) Recovery - Latest/preferred recovery for the s4 (on MDL) with auto-loki baked in? Are any of the latest versions of TWRP/CWM dangerous/incompatible or can I just install the latest/greatest with ROM Installers and go from there?

2) Modem - Flashing an updated modem, regardless of ROM/OS # should not break anything and/or lock down the bootloader any more so than it already is at MDL, correct? Updating the baseband will have no effect on the build # and thus loki is still and option (versus safestrap)? Preferred modem at this time? (ATT, SF Bay Area)

3) ROMS - Any ROM, followed by loki patch or flashed via an auto-loki capable recovery should be fine, correct? Is a ROM specifically built for safestrap applications and thus would not work with MDL, or are ROMs noted as being safestrap ready just able to be used via safestrap, but loki as well?

4) Hard to keep track of all the ROMs and the builds and branches etc - Can anyone point me in the right direction of either a) the latest stock touch-wiz 4.4.4 ROM that can be flashed over MDL without essentially updating past MDL? b) the best/most recent pure google (Play Store S4 Edition) ROM, same story with not breaking MDL?

Again, I apologize I am sure the info is all buried in here somewhere, it just gets to a point where pointed questions rather than multiple 500+ post threads are hopefully less likely to brick my phone. Ideally I just want to get on the latest software (and enable screen casting, for one). Assuming it comes quick enough, once I get this process down I will probably make the jump to 5.0 when it is ready, anticipate a couple months? Who knows.

Thanks, much appreciated.