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[Android General] tminus3:
Damn, managed to brick my Thl 4000 by using the meteos mtk tool for repartitioning the internal sd. Followed instuctions to the letter, choose a 5GB app partition (6.33GB was the biggest option, but that didn't sound right). The reboot to recovery option inside the meteos app didn't work, so I used mobileuncle to reboot into recovery. Wiped data and reset to factory settings in cmw recovery, then proceeded to restore the backup I made earlier.

The restore gives an 'error while restoring /system!' error and halts.

I've since tried to flash one of the roms posted on Needrom, but I can't get the Thl 4000 recognised on my W7 laptop. Reinstalled the pdanet drivers, tried two 5.xx versions of the flash tools posted on Needrom. I used the same laptop for rooting the Thl with iRoot, and my Acer liquid E2 (mtk6589) gets recognized without problems too.

Running out of options now. What can I do to get my Thl back in action? Can I flash a rom from within CMW recovery?

*edit* spent a few hours looking for solutions, but still the sp flash tool won't find my phone. One of the guides mentioned holding Volume Up while connecting, which briefly shows a mediatek preloader device (or something similar) in my laptops device manager under Ports. But that quickly disappears.

The phone does appear as Google ADB Phone (or somethig simular) in device manager when connected normally. But still no go in SP flash tool.

I did manage to a checksum mismatch on one of my (two) nandroid backups after fiddling with the nandroid.md5 file (renamed the original one, but keep getting checksum mismatch even after restoring it).

So tips or a pointer to a good tutorial is more then welcome.

Tia,

Marc

*edit 2*

My thl 4000 is up and running again! Following a guide From ITX tutor on youtube, and downloading the corresponding toolpack from china-devices.com I was able to remove my current mediatek usb drivers, and reinstall new ones.

Although my phone still would not properly show up on my laptops device manager, SP Flashtool did recognize it when I connected it with the volume-down button pressed. I flashed a rom with 3GB app storage and Carliv touch recovery from needrom. I hung at the boot logo, but restoring my nandroid backup in recovery went fine, so I'm back in action.
[Android General] Techminator:
Custom Recovery

I've rooted this phone and would like to install custom recovery without losing all the apps I've installed.
[Android General] swidmier:
Battery last about a day....

Cell Standby is draining my batter despite having signal strength of 4 all day long. I have tried several solutions (there are a lot of suggestions out there) but nothing has worked. I also tried two of the different roms on need rom and both had the same problem. I got this phone for its long lasting battery. Unfortunately, I am not getting that. I am using an ATT sim card in the US.
[Android General] dead soul:
Have you tried any ROMs from this site ??

http://www.needrom.com/category/thl/thl-4000/

I bought my phone used it abit to download some apps from play store and sync it use on the first day .. at the end of the day .. i ended up with 95% battery usage.. left it on without any major usage after end of day two i have around 88% battery left...

its seems this phone can last long with heavy usage for one day !!! exactly what i needed
[Android General] swidmier:
Cell standby battery drain... Please help!

The battery life and dual sim is why I bought this phone which is why it is disappointing to be at 40% at the end of the day with light usage. I am currently using the 12/21 rom from needrom. I also tried the dark lollipop rom. Same problem with both. I did try getting a new sim so I could test using either slot. I have greenify installed. I have also tried ds battery saver, du battery saver, battery doctor, and several more I can't remember the name of. I have used better battery stats ad wake lock detector. My signal is 100% from 3 to 5 strength. Most of the time at 4. Maybe a bad unit?
[Android General] koylaaa:
Got Bricked,,,Need help

Hi guys

I accidentally bricked my phone while updating via OTA

First I had cwm recovery installed but couldn't install the update I received via OTA

I downloaded THL 4000 ROM at needrom then extracted the recovery.img and flashed it to replace the cwm recovery.

So I tried again to install the OTA update and got error

since then I can't boot my phone successfully

it only shows THL logo then boots into recovery displaying "no command"

I tried flashing ROMs at needrom but displays "error; invalid ota package, missing scatter Installation aborted."

I have no PC so

I tried using my tablet to run fastboot commands

though boot.img installs successful but can't flash recovery.image which displays something like "partition " recovery" not flash".

So please I need your help to unbrick my THL 4000

Thank you.
[Android General] dead soul:
Are you still stuck with your phone??

I have read a couple of places i think these chineese phones / phones running on Mediatek Processors are virtually unbrickable !! so I want to ask you have you used SP Flashtool ?

1. Get the right ROMs

2. Scatter files etc ec and whatever needed to flash the MTK/Chineese phone

REMEMBER: I and alot of people have complained of flashing Meditek Based phones using SP Flash Tool if you are running on windows 7 / 8 plus especially if they are 64 bit OS. I suggest you perform your flashing of SP Flash tool (including driver installs) on a windows XP machine. You could either look for one, or dual boot with your current OS (Be careful you should know what ur doing as will overide ur windows 7/8 bootloader) BUT DO NOT even think of doing this on a virtual machine (VMWare / Virtual Box etc.. u just made it worse and wont work..waste of effort)
[Android General] koylaaa:
Thank you a lot for your reply, I borrowed a windows 8 machine from a friend to do the flashing, every tool installed and running smooth but drivers couldn't install.

Am still searching for an XP machine.

Thanks again Sir.
[Android General] dead soul:
You are welcome ! Let us know if you were successful... but i can guarantee you to increase your probability of success in flashing ur phone successfuly ..... use windwos xp ... i wasted weeks !! but just solved my problem just doing the same thing I did on my windows 7 machine to a windows xp machine with no effort at all !

You see china heavily uses windows XP for their manufacturing, scientifc, industrial etc etc plants/engineering even consumer fields ..also from my experieince with their telecom equipments all software ran perfectly on windows xp not windows 7/8 Infact even when microsoft declared its no longer supporting XP it made a special exception under some conditions i believe to still support it in China

see for proof...

1. http://tinyurl.com/pu954hk

2. http://tinyurl.com/n8d29w5

3. http://tinyurl.com/nwcqpss
[Android General] koylaaa:
Dead Soul,thank you very much for your support, finally ,my dead phone has been resurrected, back and alive again.

But to my surprise, majority of my friends use Windows 8,non worked till I tried on Windows 7,lucky me,it unbricked my device within 4minutes using the sp flash tool.

Thanks a lot dead soul,I really appreciate.
[Android General] dead soul:
GREAT !!! :good: That was some good luck on your side... or maybe they just updated their drivers / sp flash tool to be more compatible with windows 7.. coz I tried with Widnows 7 32 & 64 bit didnt work
[Android General] koylaaa:
Managed to upgrade to the 2015/03/19 update

and I see battery improvement in standby too
[Android General] XMoDuLeSx:
miui v6 5.5.22 port , anyone know if it will be soon?
[Android General] Techminator:
How did you update? I see the update under About Phone... Wireless Update.

If I click on update now, it downloads the file but then nothing happens.

I've rooted the phone and installed custom recovery. Could you please guide me how to update?
[Android General] koylaaa:
Hi Techminator,

I once had my phone rooted with custom recovery installed.

I had the update and couldn't update ,it maybe because of the custom recovery or root ,I reverted back to stock recovery to try the update, I got bricked(I guess because of the root) so I had to flash the stock ROM again before I could update it.
[Android General] androidmodder2487:
Yes

And also you can only use 1,97 GB of the 8 GB for your apps, the other space is for media files.
[Android General] Harry Georgiou:
go to a website called devicespecifications ending with dot com and select the phones you want to compare

Basically this website helps one to compare different phones and is fairly good.

Harry
[Android General] dsjoyce:
Has anyone experienced an issue with the wifi dropping out? Even if i factory reset the phone wifi will work well for a few days and then gradually drop out each time i turn it on, the connection being lost quicker and quicker
[Android General] koylaaa:
Sorry dsjoyce, No WiFi issues when I was on stock ROM
[Android General] dsjoyce:
Ok next question, i managed to brick my phone, and now im following a youtube video (cant post link as im new) and trying to get my phone into META mode as it cant be seen in device manager in a stable way (appears/disappears quickly). Can it be done with the volume/power button on this phone? If not im happy to try it the hardware way and bridge two contacts, however the phone in the example has lots of unlabelled points...my phone has all contacts labelled? Do i know which one im looking for?
[Android General] Techminator:
THL 4000 compass

This phone does not have magnetometer but has GPS. Which GPS compass app is best to use?
[Android General] v3loxfantasy:
Hello everyone, I am writing because they are holder from July of this device and I was finding it really well, except for the matter of partitioning the internal memory.

I decided the other day to change the Roma but in the first (stock mod) I noticed a problem with the connection data, the same happened in the transition from white lollipop wireless data connections, are then returned to the stock but with recovery and TWRP cambiiando the two files ebr to bring the internal memory to 3GB. Seemed to go all right but after a while I realized even here a lentisimo transition from wifi data connection and innoltre often the device locks with consequently a forced switch-raising battery and lighting it ... Can you help me out?

Ps: obviously these problems in the Rom stock I had not encountered before ... (for the record rom stock was rootata from TWRP with supersu)

Excuseme for my bad english...
[General Questions and Answers] sumeet007:
Sir / Madam,

Need to execute .aspx pages & vb code from Apache online server. I have goggled and found on many places about mod_mono, which supports for .aspx page and it's code on Apache server.

Therefore i have downloaded MONO for windows version from below link:

mono-project.com/download/#download-win

And installed as per the guidelines provided on website:

mono-project.com/docs/getting-started/install/windows/

Now, how should i use it on Apache Server .....?????

please do the needful ASAP....
[Micromax Canvas Doodle A111, Doodle 2 A240] rajshahbazkhan:
hey guyz u r working great .. but can anyone please give me any update rom for my canvas A111 its 4.1.2 .. any custom rom 4.4 or 4.2.2 rom /... if anyone have plz send me the linkk plz plz plz

thnxx in advance
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nowfound:
I havr a non-rooted Note4 that looses the app folder structure. It seems to happen on reboot. The folders I created to organize the apps are still there, but are empty and the apps I put in them are scattered all over 4 or 5 app psges. Any ideas?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] delcopa:
Yeah seems to happen when you add a program to an existing folder. One work around till fixed is delete folder then create a new one and add all the programs the first time and they stay even after reboot.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loyonyart:
Hi, so i have the wierdest issue with my Xperia z3.

When i have it on vibrate and get a call, it will vibrate for about a second, then turn on silent mode (you can even observe the icon changing in the status bar), therefore stop vibrating. If i answer the call, block it, or the caller hangs up, it goes back to vibrate mode (again, observable in status bar). Has anyone had a similar experience and maybe found a solution for it?
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geeks Empire:
Info

don't u install any app that control these functionality?

apps with Vibrate, Call permission ...

IF not >> so this is firmware bug

connect ur phone to PC Companion and Repair firmware

:good:
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loyonyart:
I actually had, an app called vybe. Just uninstalled it, tested it and everything works as it should! It's weird though, because i never had any issues with it on my old s3...

Anyways, thank you!
[Moto X Q&A] marcelorepavan:
Hello!

I have a question, I tried too much ROMs, and now I decide to keep my Stock ROM with a Custom Kernel, like:

Stock ROM: http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/development/rom-firmware-stock-brasil-4-4-4-zip-t2873516

Kernel: http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/development/kernel-zwliew-kernel-r1-t2926315

And for security things, I have bought a Kaspersky Licence to track, block and wipe data, with SMS or WEB commands. But if I got stoled, and the thief knows how to get in the Recovery Mode, he will wipe the ROM and get access to my data in the same way, without the Kaspersky tool.

So I have a question, is there any way to block the bootloader and block the recovery?
[Moto X Q&A] cntryby429:
I don't have the answers but I can probably give you some good questions to ask.

I don't imagine there's any way to "block the bootloader" if that's what you really meant to type.

First thing you might want to do is flash the stock recovery. You won't be able to flash custom things with it but you can't do much else in stock recovery like you can in a custom one.

If you did want to make changes which required a custom recovery you could already just flash one. Granted, a tech savvy thief could always do the same if they realized that you're unlocked but that would probably weed out the average opportunistic pretty thief.

### There may be risks to this that I don't know but if you wanted to take it a step further I WOULD THINK you could even relock the bootloader. I unlocked via the China middleman so I have my unlock code to use/reuse whenever I want. I think I recall hearing that sunshine will also relock and reunlock the same phone once purchased for that phone? What I don't know is if there's any risk to locking a bootloader with a non stock system.

###
[Moto X Q&A] aviwdoowks:
No.

There is no security with an unlocked boot!

One reason THEM don't want it.

See the Philz dev thread (search) for a discussion on this issue.
[Moto X Q&A] imnuts:
If you are concerned about security, then flashing a custom ROM/Kernel is the wrong thing to do. You should leave the phone stock, enable device encryption, and also have stock recovery and a locked bootloader.
[Moto X Q&A] marcelorepavan:
But is there any way to lock again my phone? Before a custom ROM/Kernel installed?

Thanks!
[Moto X Q&A] aviwdoowks:
No. Because recovery is always accessible.
[Moto X Q&A] imnuts:
You can lock your phone at any point, but that isn't going to make it any more secure if you are rooted and/or have a custom recovery installed.

Sent from my Moto X
[Moto X Q&A] marcelorepavan:
Hello! Another question!

If a thieft with experience in ROMs/Root and this things get a Normal Moto X Unrooted and Original and Stock. Its is possible he wipe the data, of course...but Its possible to him, get the phone rooted and wipe the data too.

I'm trying to say, a phone with root and unrooted is the same thing about security, because if the Thief have experience, he will do the same thing...a unrooted phone wipe will lost all the datas, a rooted wipe will keep photos and files, right?
[Moto X Q&A] imnuts:
Factory reset doesn't care if you're rooted or not. If the phone is locked, unlocking will wipe data. Rooted or not, a factory reset deletes everything. Stock recovery will wipe the emulated SD card as well, where custom recovery doesn't by default, though it still can if you want.

Being rooted makes it easier to pull the data off the phone, but just because one isn't rooted doesn't mean your data is safe.

Sent from my Moto X
[Ouya General] Djabolic:
I own Ouya controller and nVidia Shield Tablet but Ouya controller seems to have wrong keymaps, when I launch Portal or Half Life 2 character tends to spin around due to wrong keymaps, is there a correct keymap definitions for Ouya controller to make it work with stock android? I have root access on Shield Tablet.

I've searched forums for it but couldn't find anything relevant to my case.

Thanks.

I've found my answer in that thread;

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=54106696&postcount=3

I'm leaving the thread as it is for future reference.

(PS: Don't forget to change extension to ".kl" before copying it to system/usr/keylayout)
[Ouya General] mcord11758:
What do you think of the shield? Thinking of getting one
[Ouya General] Djabolic:
One of the best tablets I've ever used. It is fast, fluid, powerful and definitely feels like a premium device. I would personally recommend this device to anyone looking for a good tablet worth it's price.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pranay08:
I was unlocking my bootloader using fastboot and I think the connection was lost temporarily.. It said that the process failed in the cmd window but in the fastboot menu on the phone it showed that the bootloader was unlocked (status code : 3). I tried relocking it but that wasn't working.. I went ahead with installing a custom recovery(Philz recovery) and SuperSU and that happened fine.. but now I tried backing up the device and it doesn't happen.. please help
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] calinorg:
I couldn't use philz nor cwm to backup... Only recovery I could use to actually do any backup was twrp recovery but i cant find that link now and I'm back to (almost) stock......
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pranay08:
I have the TWRP image.. how do i uninstall CWM?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] calinorg:
You don't. Just reflash twrp over it. And by the way, link for twrp is http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/xt1032
[Android Apps and Games] Narenme001:
Hi guys, i am back with another Thread in XDA

XDA Forum Shortcut in App Drawer

Created using

AIDE

for Android.

Package: com.ng.web.xdaforum

Install like normal APK.

It will not replace any App :)

Hope you like hit Thanks!
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] codeknight11:
Update- Upon further investigation I found a newer version on XDA. I am attaching a flashable zip in the post. Thanks to this guy - http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=52153586&postcount=306

IMP - By default the app takes pictures in 5MP resolution. If you want to take pictures in 8MP resolution, just disable 16:9 mode in settings.

Just like all other Xperia SP users, I was completely dissappointed with the phone's horrible camera. Upon further investigation I realised that the issue was due to the unpolished and half-baked stock camera app and therefore some users posted Xperia M's camera app which performed better.

After some little searching on the internet, I found Moto X's camera apk.

The app does wonders on our device and performs better than Stock camera or google camera app, especially in terms of auto-focus department.

So, I suggest everyone to try it out. I am attaching the apk to the post.

Works on stock as well as custom ROMS.

NOTE - Produces great results while taking pictures of 'texts and documents' where stock app fails terribly.

Bugs - Not all features are working (eg HDR mode). But the app does a pretty decent job.
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] Androidica1:
Work's also with Stock Roms.
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] codeknight11:
Thanks. I'll update the OP :)
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] liquor:
Thanks OP! Can I just install the Moto camera APK and keep the stock gallery?
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] Androidica1:
You can use also stock gallery...
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] codeknight11:
Yes. The zip doesn't remove your stock gallery. You can delete motorola gallery using root explorer.
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] Hamidreza2010:
[MENTION=4368011]tj_droid[/MENTION] i tested on 4.3 build 205 and work great ( version 1 )

its great results in 'texts and documents' pictures

thanks advance
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] krokanic:
Is there any way to change resolution to 8 MP...and jes, this camera is batter than stock and aosp...:)
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] giovani_Camacho:
moto x gallery

couldn't install the moto gallery
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] codeknight11:
Disable 16:9 mode in settings
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] Gorlomi:
Hi [MENTION=4368011]tj_droid[/MENTION] !

Is there any way to access the advanced settings of the camera? Thanks a lot!
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] Bruno_Puzoni:
Scroll to the right (opening the camera mode changer) and click the little gear on the top right corner.
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] Gorlomi:
Thanks, unfortunately there's no gear for me, just a question mark that opens a quick tutorial....
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] codeknight11:
Press the ladybug icon at the bottom after sliding out the menu by swiping towards right. It is only available in the zipped version I guess. I am trying to get the new material camera app to work, I'll update if I am successfull.
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] Gorlomi:
Thanks, I did read about the ladybug but I get no ladybug when I swipe towards right, nothing on the bottom right corner and just the question mark on the top right one.

I downloaded the file directly using tapatalk, could that be the problem?
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] codeknight11:
I guess you used the apk. The apk and zip versions are different. Its been a while since I changed any roms so I don't remember whether I flashed some other app to enable extra settings. I have 2-3 different versions lying on my laptop. Try the flashable zip version and see if the ladybug icon appears.

Edit - If the ladybug icon doesn't appear in the zip version, try this one - http://xdaforums.com/moto-g/general/how-to-unlock-advanced-camera-settings-t2884035

I had used this version too.
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] Gorlomi:
Will do that and report back, thanks. [emoji2]
[Xperia SP Themes and Apps] halloarno:
Tried it. Installed the zip file, edit build.prop. But no ladybug.

(the suggested additionol apk won't install, neither the xposed module)

Edit: i got it! I forgot to uninstall the frist motxcamera.apk. And I wiped cache and dalvik cache, just to be sure.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] tagemw:
Hi everyone,

We are a coupe of students from Hyper Island looking for people that owns a smart watch for a study that we're making.

We are developing a wearables concept for one of the biggest newspapers in Sweden and would really like to ask those who owns a smart watch on how they are using it and why.

If you would be interested in helping us out, please post your email address or other contact information so that we can send you the questions that we have.

It would really be appreciated.

Thank you!

Tage
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aakashasaj:
I need help on understanding update binary, update script.

I am porting a rom from Paranoid S4 Mini(permission is due to obtain) to my S4-zoom c105 unlock in kitchen but i am having problem in binary script.

1) It is always showing status 0 error, how can i obtain proper update-binary?

2) there is camera.bin, preload.img in

stock rom is it required to placed them in custom rom too?

3) what would be proper mount path? I have recovery.fstab

If anyone have a knowledge in this please help.