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[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charkatak:
Touch screen won't work properly when the device is in water and when you use touch block it will help, so water won't interfere with the camera app. To take pictures, just use shutter button when under water.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LagunaZio:
Woke up with a dead phone. Why is so much battery being used?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmisselh:
Try one night just turning off wifi, it continuously scans every 10 seconds. See what that does, then the next night turn off the mobile and see what that does. Wifi has a consistant drain associated to the scanning. If your radio is tower switching constantly like mine does that drains you battery also. Both my home and work it constantly switches between 25, 26, and 41 and just won't stick on any of them.

If your phone is new make sure you fully charge and drain it consistantly for the first couple weeks. The battery will perform better with each full cycle.

Good Luck
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Itchiee:
Even better put your phone into ultra power saving mode... Only 2% loss in 8 hours.

(When your going to bed for the night of course)

In your screenshot your phone has issues staying asleep, obviously.

( | ||| |||| || under awake)
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dschachm:
If I go into WiFi setting, turn off scanning and change keep WiFi on during sleep to never or when plugged in.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nivicious:
Hi guys,

I have just got an GT-i9506 and I'm loving the size, speed and how smooth everything feels, compared to the S3 I had previously.

BUT I think I am having an issue with the camera.

I can take great photos, but the focus when close up or macro is horrible.

On my S3 if I got a little too close, I would hold the phone further back, focus on my subject, move a bit closer and focus again and so on until I was as close as I wanted to be and I was able to take the shot.

I can't seem to get this technique to work on this phone.

I find, even taking shots from a far (which the camera focuses fine with), when I zoom in after the photo is taken, the quality is horrible.

For once, heavily sharpening my images in post-production in apps like VSCO is actually helping!

Is anyone else seeing a drop in camera quality compared to older devices like the S3?

Any recommended settings in the stock camera, flashable fixes or apps people would recommend over the stock camera for this device?

Thanks
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jellybear456:
Hello,

I have the att D850 that is still stock rooted. I now want to install TWRP on my device and flash since development for the g3 finally seems to be picking up:D I rooted with TowelRoot, and just want to know the best method of successfully installing TWRP on my device.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hwong96:
There is only one. Bump'd link http://xdaforums.com/att-lg-g3/orig-development/bump-unlock-lg-g3-twrp-t2900569
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheNetwork:
Does this phone have a root indicator like the G2 did? In download mode I believe it was. And also in about phone it would say modified or something.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hwong96:
Using the phone dialer pad enter 3845#*850#. (Relace 850 with your variant). This allows you to enter the hidden menu. Look for LG RCT tag and display result. The content of the file will indicate whether G3 is rooted or not.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shayneflashindaily:
Not true ... I installed my twrp with flashify

2SHAYNEZ
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jellybear456:
I have used flashify in the past. Is there a difference to using Flashify vs. Bump??
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeffDC:
I believe you can use flashily to flash an OEM (signed) ROM, or a 'bumped ROM'.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shayneflashindaily:
Don't know I never used bump ... Just sis it with flashify when I got this phone like 2 weeks ago... Did a back up and flashed cloudy ... Wiped again and came back to stock rooted....

2SHAYNEZ
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jellybear456:
Just an update, I used the bump method successfully.

Thanks for your suggestions!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scorpiopantera:
Went from stock recovery to TWRP using Flashify?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p70shooter:
He used to flashify to flash bump is what he means.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scorpiopantera:
Yep. Just did it myself.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4783640:
Only noobs use Flashify, pros use the command line.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jellybear456:
Oh, Cool Bro. I appreciate your unneeded input.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4783640:
"Is there a difference to using Flashify vs. Bump??"

You asked for input, and I gave you one. I told you the one difference between using the original Bump installation proces, and using a noob tool like flashify that does everything for you.

There is no difference between the two, they do the same stuff after all.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jellybear456:
My original question was if there was a difference between using one over the other; If BUMP did something Flashify couldn't or vice versa. Not which one was the easiest to do or is "noob" friendly. Why go out of my way to use ADB on my PC when I can just download the TWRP img to my phone and flash it from the phone itself? Either way, this has been solved and I now have TWRP. Thanks for your input, anyways.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] veletron:
Hi

I am trying to re-install my MDA Vario II, cherry picking only the cabs that give me something useful. Everything works OK apart from MMS. Put simply, the MMS folder will not stick around after a soft reset.

If I let t-mobile install all its cr@p after a hard reset, MMS works fine and stays put after a soft reset. If I cherry pick only what I want, it does not work.

My question is which cabs are required in order to support MMS (both the cabs that are installed from the windows folder and also those in the extended rom). I have actually run through and manually installed each cab in order as per what the preconfig and config files do... MMS still dissapears after a soft reset!!! It really is very very odd (and frustrating).

I would search for this as it sounds like an issue that someone else may have had. Unfortunately, the search function does not work correctly (told me 15 times that I entered the image verification text incorrectly, when it was actually entered correctly 15 times).

The lack of a quick search function that does not seek to wind up the user makes this site less useful than it used to be!

Nigel
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djixon:
someone could make a flashable zip of the 4.4.4 version for 1068? for more I do not stop giving me errors. thank you
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smitharro:
Start reading the threads first! It's there already. Just do a search!
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djixon:
I have read and stilted and find nothing. I'm not new to forums (If here because my spoken is Spanish and I have no idea English and translators are lousy) and to look and dig and here I searched and searched carefully and find nothing.

Otherwise, there would not be asked this question.
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smitharro:
Read this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/moto-g-2014/general/restore-to-stock-t2873657

And this one:

http://xdaforums.com/moto-g-2014/general/ota-update-t2880432

And one more:

http://xdaforums.com/moto-g-2014/development/moto-g-2014-factory-firmware-images-t2869485

I know, these aren't stock roms you can just flash with a custom recovery. But they're all instructions how to get back to stock. Just read them carefully. And while typing this if found this outside of XDA:

http://www.firmware-team.com/showthread.php?t=3103

Pick what you like! And again: Read all the instructions carefully (and perhaps learn some English, while reading, on the go with it!)!
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djixon:
Now I'm learning English, but I'm a Portuguese living in a community of Spain having another language Ugh ............... language and is the fourth largest me hehe.

As for the links you gave me thanks, but reading me I realize that I expressed badly, wanted the stockstock zip but custom recovery, which is not the factory image, but nonetheless I appreciate that you've sought me those links .
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smitharro:
I think I don't really get what you want because of this language barrier... Sorry for that!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] waywardfrantz:
What's the status, any ideas when it could be coming our way?
[Verizon LG G3] j0hnnyn:
For those of you that have a g3 AND a moto360, is anyone else having the issue where the new watch faces are not showing up on your watch? Ive read that the issue may be due to the phone the watch is connected to as pairing the watch with a different model phone will fix the issue.

Ive tried the following things to fix the issue but no luck:

Uninstalled and reinstalled moto connect

Restart the moto 360

Resync android wear apps

Reset the moto 360 /re-pair bluetooth with g3

Reboot the lg g3

Does anyone know a solution?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jpcalhoun:
***Updated: 04/09/2015

First, thank you BeansTown106 and ryanbg for previously sharing the information and technical expertise that has led to successful development of the "tool" that ultimately provides the means to recover a locked bootloader on the Note 4 Developer Device. Without your help and expertise this "tool" may never have been developed.

UDATE: 04/09/2015---There is now a step by step guide that will take you through a process that produces a flashable aboot recovery file for the Developer Edition bootloader if it becomes locked (by flashing retail firmware for instance).

This backup MUST be done BEFORE your bootloader becomes corrupted and locked.

It is strongly recommended that if you own a Developer Edition Note 4 that you take the time to make a backup of your aboot. This link will take you to a step by step process with links to the couple of files you will need.: http://xdaforums.com/note-4-verizon/general/guide-vzw-note-4-backup-developer-t2962911. Thank you radionerd for the guide and again to BeansTown106 and ryanbg.

Most of us have heard or read about Developer Edition owners of the S4 or S5 that inadvertedly flashed a retail firmware or ROM that was not intended (safe) for the Developer Edition consequently turning their Developer Edition phone into a retail edition phone...locked bootloader. I want to emphasize that this method of recovering a Developer Edition bootloader

has been tested

and has recovered several Note 4 DE devices whose bootloaders were locked (purposely or inadvertently).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] tfly212:
I always found it amazing that people flash ROMs for the wrong device. saw it a lot in Note 2 forums.

Can't believe people can be that careless...especially someone that goes so far as to buy a developer edition. Measure twice...cut once.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jpcalhoun:
Yep, I don't understand either, but it happens.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] keynith:
Yeah my Dev edition note 3 got ruined with running "nvbackup" so as a last resort i purposely flashed a retail rom hoping that would just make it work even though it would be locked...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gatesjunior:
This makes one start to wonder if we could then take a retail version and make it dev as well. If all the hardware is identical and the main difference is the unlocked bootloader..

Fastboot option is not available, but again, hardware being identical, this theoretically should be possible.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mrlaigle:
Ive tried to push a DE aboot to the retail Note 4. I can not get it to even write. Ive tried ODIN and ABD to push it. Any suggestions?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gatesjunior:
Well, that's kind of my whole point :) I was being a little sarcastic. With a locked bootloader, lets just say Read-Only, you cannot really overwrite something RO that has already been loaded per say... You would have to be able to fastboot, from my experience, in order to be able to do that. Now if they are signing it, if we could somehow impersonate the key and resign with a newer version number that might work, because they probably have allowances for signed updates.

To me, that might be the only way of resolving this whole locked bootloader issue in general. They obviously have the ability to update them, so we need to figure out how to sign it somehow and or understand their conditions. Meaning, what if they are already planning the next planned bootloader version coming within the existing one. So in this case, if it doesn't match what is expected on the check it will fail along with the fact the signature is not correct.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] scallawag:
Have you tried it from the phone useing Terminal Emulator and the su command?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] GreenGoblin227:
I could only copy aboot.bak via terminal emulator. I couldn't get through with CMD in windows 7. (I have only copied the file.)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] droidstyle:
It will not work... The tell tale sign is all of the capable devs of possibly accomplishing this moved on to Tmo or quit developing all together. Loosing Hashcode was a major blow to the dev community.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gatesjunior:
Not all have given up yet ... I am still hard at it.. Ye of little faith..
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ryanbg:
If anyone wants to send me an image of their aboot for research purposes, it'd make my day :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] wy1d:
PM sent :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] PaulPizz:
anyway i can one too/??
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] wy1d:
I'm not certain that p6 is the aboot. I'm thinking it may be p7. I've asked for verification in the other thread.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] PaulPizz:
is there an odin file for the developer edition device? if so will someone direct me there??
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] wy1d:
No there isn't. That is what we are all looking for. Samsung hasn't released one and I'm not sure how to make one from the retail version by replacing the aboot.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gatesjunior:
Well, we could do a dd if, blah blah blah and back up the partition once rooted, but this is not really what we want, because we want a factory clean, fresh partition. Not a modified boot, root, recovery etc... Can you guys connect to Kies on the developer addition and do a firmware upgrade and reinitialization option on the tools menu. Because this, would in fact, call out and download the whole image for the phone where you could snag it before it started trying to commit it to the phone. That is essentially what I did to get the factory image for the retail phone.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] wy1d:
I've tried that. It says there is no image available for the phone. I've also gone to the Mosaic kiosks (Samsung inside Best Buy) and they use a different tool called Samsung Smart tool to reflash phones. They also do not have an image for the DE Note 4. I've also talked to Support and Advanced Tech at Samsung - both do not have the image. Finally I've talked to the Samsung repair depot and they also do not have the image. On a whim, I also got pretty high up in Verizon tech support asking them if they had an image. They do not support the DE device (as we know) and also didn't have an image.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gatesjunior:
Well....... I would say you covered all the bases... lol
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] wy1d:
Lol I'm trying. The basic response is the images come from a particular team at corporate and they just upload it to a server (that Kies pulls from) at some arbitrary time. There's no easy way to contact them.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] PaulPizz:
Does anyone have a backup img of there developer edition aboot partition theyre willing to share?? If so please send my way..

Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] sprintuser1977:
Sorry to hear. The corporate big wigs see us as ants.

Hope you get it worked out bud
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] wy1d:
Still sitting here with a DOA DE Edition. Have spoken to many within Samsung and have tried everything suggested. It was previously suggested by Samsung Advanced Tech that I should take it to the Samsung mini-store inside of Best Buy (Mosaic) but they didn't have any Note 4 recovery software on Smart Tool yet. Yesterday I decided to go back to Best Buy and check again. This time they did have the software. It looks like the DE recognizes as SM-910V with no designation of retail versus DE. I knew when he flashed it that it could have the potential to lock my DE but it's defective and I need to return it anyway and Samsung suggested this in-store recovery anyway so I figured I'd give it a shot.

He had two methods to try. One was the "automatic wipe" - this did not seem to lock the boot loader. It didn't fix the issue so he tried the second method of "forced initialization" which DID lock the boot loader. Also DID NOT fix the fingerprinter reader and lag/lock ups.

So I still need to return my phone since I knew from the beginning that I had a hardware failure. But now I have a DE locked into retail and I do have a backup of my aboot so I'm going to tinker to see if there's a way to unlock it to maybe share that info here.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] wy1d:
Update: I don't think there's an easy way to recover this yet. If root becomes available for retail, it should be possible to dd the image back with the original aboot back.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gatesjunior:
I would think that if you have the backup you could just flash it with Heimdall or ODIN.

Here is the other thing. If the bootloader is locked, meaning Retail, without actual signing keys that tells the bootloader to accept the new one, I cannot see how a backup would work. Otherwise just flashing the bootloader you have backed up with dd would just work. Root or not.. That is all at the OS level and not at the download mode level or at the bootloader level. So to me, if you cannot flash a bootloader while in download mode and have it accept it, I cannot see how restoring a backup would work at the command level within the OS...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] wy1d:
I have a disk image but it seems like the aboot must be delivered as a mbn format when done via Odin. From research it seems like mbn is a binary format that is used to deliver firmware but may or may not be Qualcomm proprietary. If you know a way to convert dd image to mbn I could try that. Flashing as a img failed of course even when I tar'd it according to the specified process.

I thought it was previously mentioned by the S5 guys that the aboot contains specific keys that match up with the hardware to unlock the loader. I suppose you are right - if it's the retail download mode that is preventing any file to be written to the aboot than it may be unrecoverable. If it's doing some kind of checking based on hardware keys encoded into the aboot file then it's worth trying. But currently I'm not sure I am able to build a format that can be flashed with tools available (either via Odin or otherwise).

It's half moot as I have obtained a fresh DE that isn't defective and am sitting very happy now waiting for the RMA label to return my defective unit.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gatesjunior:
Well, at this point, you are running at least. But yes, your phones bootloader is specifically assigned to your phone.

Developer editions are associated to your phones specifically, no sharing or throwing bootloader around between phones.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ryanbg:
EDIT
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gatesjunior:
Exactly.. Without the private key, your kind of lost.. You cannot sign something of your own without that other side, meaning the private key.. :) Oh well, there is always Daseul.. Good luck getting the common file for your phone though..
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ryanbg:
Here you go. Please flash this in Odin. This will re-unlock your bootloader. Everyone else, please do not flash this. It will brick your device.

Please let me know ASAP if it works.

Unlock bootloader
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gatesjunior:
How could you possibly give him a bootloader that was not signed and associated with his phone and have it work ?? Do you have some kind of access to Daseul or know someone who does ?? Did he give you his CID ? Fill me in on how this could possibly work. You have me intrigued now..
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ryanbg:
That's a tar generated from his original aboot. I did not unlock it myself, it was already unlocked. I just made it flashable.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gatesjunior:
Ahh yes..

tar -H ustar -c aboot.mbn > unlock.tar

md5sum -t unlock.tar >> unlock.tar

mv unlock.tar unlock.tar.md5

Sound about right ? :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ryanbg:
Spot on boss, the aboot shipped with Developer devices is unique, so as long as you back it up, strip the 00s padding after the signature, rename to aboot.mbn and tar it, you should be good to go. DD is also an option, but IMO considerably more dangerous, although most cases it works fine.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gatesjunior:
Well, in my experience, dangerous if you specify the wrong "of" partition. :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bdorr1105:
How exactly do we back our aboot? Or make a backup just in case of disaster happens
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] azumandias:
This post from radionerd really laid it out well. You can also run any of the commands after "adb shell" from a terminal emulator on your phone.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] azumandias:
Ok, I can follow almost everything here, but for the sake of emergencies could you clarify one thing for me. If you could give me a step-by-step guide to "strip the 00s padding after the signature" I would be appreciative. Well more appreciative :) I am already very thankful for the tips and advice and work you guys have been doing for our DE.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] oneandroidnut:
should have extracted/dumped the bootloader before trying anything. i still need to do this before i do anything crazy
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] wy1d:
THIS WORKED! I now have MODE: developer back in my download mode and am able to flash TWRP again! Awesome work ryanbg!

This particular DE is still defective and I will be returning it to Samsung today. I already have a replacement. But good to know this process is proven.

Now, everyone - go dd your aboot - it's partition 7!

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=/sdcard/aboot.bak

---------- Post added at 10:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:08 AM ----------

This is the same command I ran with my aboot backup that didn't worked - failed to write. There must be another step.

---------- Post added at 10:10 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:09 AM ----------

Hey ryanbg - I think the "strip the 00s padding after the signature" is the piece I am missing. Can you provide the details on that part?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ryanbg:
If you open your backup with a hex editor (like HxD on Windows, or Bless in Linux) scroll down until you start seeing all 00s. Remove all the zeros at the end of the file up until the last piece of data (which happens to be your two signatures.)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] azumandias:
Thanks ryanbg! I hope to never need this but opened the file and removed zeros from the end to test it. I don't plan to flash unless I really need to but would like to be prepared. Out of curiosity could you check your pre/post aboot.mbn file sizes? Mine started as 2,048KB and ended up as 1,329KB after the zeros were stripped.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Poloasis:
Got the same but HxD made a backup of the 2mb file also. Now I have 1.3xmb and 2.0mb size files after I removed all 00s. Keeping it in the NSA secure server.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Kyuta Syuko:
So if it worked on your phone and was from a different phone and both the DE and non-DE phones are practically the same why wouldn't this work on a non-DE phone?