yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] syserr:
Those are interesting answers. ;)

The img unpack needs a bunch of AOSP source to compile, I'm not real hip on just grabbing a pre-compiled one, but maybe I would if it's from the author.

Ideas of mod required to really write to /system?

(FYI, it was bizarre... I would put files on RW /system and verify the were there... even remount RO and make sure they were there. But, after a reboot changes would disappear.)
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] thoughtlesskyle:
Yeah I'm still going to need less words
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] MFOsaka:
*reads and responds with a snerk* Here's a question, thoughtlesskyle...not to hijack, but for the custom version of this, are you considering going SVN mode for it?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] solver404:
We have to keep the svn internal as it is on a private server.

In other news, something is happening.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] thoughtlesskyle:
I'll hijack whatever I want to it's my thread

IT'S HERE AND IT'S READY FOR THE FLASHING
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] syserr:
Your ROM does not allow writing to /system. Is this an oversight or on purpose?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] thoughtlesskyle:
I'm going to go with on purpose, this is just a stock rom and HTC only allows writing /system via recovery stock.

My device is s-off so it didn't matter to me at all
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] syserr:
I'm new to HTC (all over again). Blocking of writes to /system are controlled by S-ON? I was making the assumption it was something in boot.img that caused /system to be mounted "ro". This is wrong?

Thanks!
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] thoughtlesskyle:
short answer is some kernels disable it with a module.

However when you are s-off system write protection gets turned off with the security
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] sauprankul:
Have some faith m8.

Pun not intended.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] MFOsaka:
It would satisfy HTC's 2 year guarantee of updates as our M7's are teetering towards the two year mark.

It's still an amazing phone, hence the reason I purchased it insteaded of opting for a new phone under contract. And as we know, there's amazing devs here. Heck, a port of Sense 4 was attempted on the HTC EVO. Anything is possible.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] sauprankul:
Here I was deluding myself into believing HTC was updating us out of the good of their hearts... :'(

Anyway, I think we're good for at least another year, considering how many M8 ports we've seen, and how stable they are.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] thoughtlesskyle:
You should probably look into HTC update history for sprint flagship devices before the m7 before making that assumption most died off 2 android version in (sometimes 3)

The OG evo was the most recent one i can think of that was supported by OTA's for 3 versions. 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

Shooter got 2, 2.3, 4.0

Evo LTE got 2ish, 4.0, 4.1, then a non OTA (super buggy also) 4.3 update (RUU only and they had to repartition the whole thing)

If it wasn't a flagship that bad boy got dropped like a bad habit.

the m7 will be looking at around 4 or 5 (depends if you want to count 4.2 even though sprint skipped it)

4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 5.0 are all official OTA's for it.

As to your other point regarding m8 ports.

the reason why the ports were so easy from the m8 were because we already had KitKat at the time.

The libs and boot.img we had were already for the proper android version, this meant that we could interchange them and with some slight hacking get it working.

What i'd recommend you'd look into is the success of ports that required a different android version.

most of the ones that ended up getting ported had major things like the camera broken never to work again.

Others never made it because of GPU compatibility problems.

Infact the only sense ports I can think of that ended up "fully working" were

4.2 for the sprint m7 this was only because the Verizon version launched with it, and the hardware was all the same even that had mms broken among other small things

and a project near and dear to my heart Gingerbread sense for the HeroC, that would have had a broken camera if not for some help from a dev in china. (it also was a port of a MT3G rom)

Also the other thing is both of those projects had a decent amount of Devs working on them, judging by how it's looking around here there aren't left to do that kind of porting.

/endrant
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] MFOsaka:
You went into detail. Damn. lol I've been w/HTC since the EVO, but dealt with the Shooter, Glacier, Thunderbolt, Rezound, Jewel and now the M7. Acquired root and played with ROMs on them all. I know my HTC phones.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] thoughtlesskyle:
Vogue was my first htc device, put android on it and went from there (was a heavy Windows Mobile user prior)

Then I had the following

Hero, EVO, EVO 3D, EVO LTE, galaxy s3, nexus 4, EVO shift, note 2, M7, LG G2, M8, One plus One, and a desire eye.

Also I had a blackberry z10, and a bunch of treos
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Jaytronics95:
Tethering

syserr,

Did you get full native tethering (on both the 3G and 4G networks) working with this ROM? If so, please would you explain in great detail exactly what modification you made. A nice step by step would be greatly appreciated!
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] thoughtlesskyle:
You are quoting the guy who couldn't explain what he wanted, I wish you the best
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] syserr:
Yes, I got it working -- at least for 3G. (I flashed my Sprint phone to 3G PagePlus) I was going to build a CWM installer (with proper patching) to get tethering, but first I wanted to know if it was necessary. I guess making the mods from CWM is necessary as the guys here explain the you have to be S-OFF to write to root.

I even made a diff patch. So, an installer run through CWM should be kind of robust as opposed to folks just clobbering config files.

One issue. After enabling Wireless Tether and disabling it, you must reboot for it to work again.

I'll dig around for my diff and notes.

Edit:

I found the patch... it's attached. You want to apply it with ADB while booted into CWM. You need to mount /system with the CWM menu too.

After that, something like this should work:

adb push patch.txt /sdcard/
adb shell
cd /system/customize/ACC
patch -p0 < /sdcard/patch.txt

I think that's all I did. It took quite a bit of experimenting, as some people had posts explaining mods for old ROMs, but things had changed.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] bleichtman:
if i run this and am still s-on, can i accept OTAs when they come out without bricking if i relock the bootloader?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] thoughtlesskyle:
It won't brick just likely won't apply
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] RobAndroid:
Does anyone else have trouble with OTG working? I can't get it to recognize my Transcend RDP9 OTG SD card reader with a 16GB class 10 Kingston card in it. It works in my wife's EVO 4G LTE.

Possibly related: what is the latest firmware version expected? I'm not sure how to tell a version number. On the bootloader screen I have:

M7_WLS PVT SHIP S-OFF RH

CID-SPCS_001

HBOOT-1.57.0000

RADIO-1.01.20.0904_2

OpenDSP-v32.120.274.0909

OS-5.05.651.2

eMMC-boot 2048MB

Sep 24 2014,16:58:42.0

Thanks!
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Aldo101t:
you have the latest.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Lenster45:
Just loaded this ROM and it works great. Has anyone tried a custom kernel for this ROM.

I would love to get the swipe to sleep/wake feature found in other kernels.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Enishi44:
i know im gonna sound like an idiot and a noob, but you say to make sure we're on the latest firmware(before the specific update)

what happens if you aren't?

im s-on and i want the latest ota and days of scouring google and this site, and this is the closest thing to a legit path ive found but i dont want to screw up my phone.

im on 5.03.651.3

the video you posted is specifically for s-off, and im not exactly sure what to first.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Cetus Corr:
I got a new laptop before the first update was released for the ONE, and for the life of me, I can't get fastboot to work with it (Windows 8.1). So I have never updated firmware, just radios and ROMs and have never had a problem. That's just me though. I'm S-off, and used Viper 6.2 for a long time, now I'm using CM12.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] thoughtlesskyle:
You have to disable driver signature verification, and then I installed minimal fastboot and adb worked for me
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Enishi44:
ive been on stock since i rooted my phone, i used the latest cm12 rom and had some complications that im not sure if it was due to the phone or the way i flashed the rom. ive never updated firmware or radio's(i dont want to risk doing anything that would brick my phone unnecessarily). sighh i just want my phone to be on the lollipop wave without any issues. its chilling on the above posted 4.4 kitkat stock rom, and i dont want to s-off my phone because of the increased dangers. i'd prefer to stay stock, i just want an actually explained guide to s-on stock rooted 5.05. whether its here or a link to someone who explains it. everything i find says s-off and dances around the s-on portion..
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Cetus Corr:
That was simple. Worked like a charm, I'm completely updated now. Wish I knew about this a long time ago. Thanks.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Cetus Corr:
I flashed this stock rom once before, and my wife is on it now, and I just now updated my firmware, my wife is still on the old firmware. You can flash it like any other Rom. If you want to update firmware also (search for yourself too in case I forgot something), you do this...

1) Download full firmware and recovery into Android sdk tools folder.

2) For firmware... http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58713679&postcount=30

3) For recovery, back to fastboot... fastboot flash recovery (folder recovery is in, ex. c:\android_sdk\tools\) recovery.img

Make sure you make a nandroid backup and a copy of the rom you want to flash on your phone , I remember going into bootloops and needing to restore and dirty flashing to boot it back up. I believe this rom isn't compatible with the new kernel in the firmware,so you will need to restore your backup afterwards.

There might be easier ways now, but this is how I used to do it. Also cm12 still has lots of issues for me too, even now after I updated firmware earlier today.
[Moto X Q&A] kenosis:
Am I able to upgrade to Lollipop, when it is released, if I freeze apps such as spotlight, hangout, Google+...

I am currently on Stock 4.4.4, rooted, stock kernel and recovery.
[Moto X Q&A] aviwdoowks:
Yes.

Freezing is just a method of renaming a system app. Unfreezing ALL of them too.

Being unlocked or safe strapped I always backed up my virgin system before making any modds so an update would go with just flashing stock recovery. Hiding root is needed sometimes too.
[Moto X Q&A] kenosis:
Thanks for your answer. I will just unfreeze freezed apps once 5.0 is available. :)
[Moto X Q&A] KidJoe:
It depends on how you freeze them.

Every OTA so far has included a pre-flash validation check for the phone. It scans the phone for particular files and parts, for their existence and to make sure their checksum or SHA hash the expected versions BEFORE the OTA will install. Any method that renames, deletes, or otherwise modifies the APK and/or ODEX file for stock apps can cause an OTA install to fail.

If you use the phone's built in App Manager (Settings -> Apps -> open the entry for the app you want, then hit DISABLE, or Uninstall Updates then Disable), you are fine.

If you use something like Titanium Backup to Freeze them, you will likely be ok, but keep in mind that when some past OTA's came out (think 4.2.2 and 4.4), using Titanium to freeze apps did cause the OTA to fail for some people.

Using a root capable file explorer to manually rename, delete, or otherwise modify the APK and/or ODEX file can also cause an OTA install to fail.

This is why you see so many say that "you need to be stock to take an OTA"

If you RENAME a system app that the OTA's Pre-flash validation steps look for, the OTA will fail. So any method of "freezing apps" that involves renaming the APK or ODEX files certainly can cause an OTA install to fail.

But of course, if the APK/ODEX you rename is NOT looked at during pre-flash validation, then the OTA will not fail.
[Moto X Q&A] kenosis:
Hi KidJoe, thanks for your explanation. I use Android Tuner and freeze apps such as spotlight, hangout, Google+, Live Wallpaper... I can unfreeze. Is it OK to do like that?
[Moto X Q&A] DroidHelp101:
+1
[Moto X Q&A] KidJoe:
I haven't used that app. Best thing to say is take an app that you know what the apk name is, use Android Tuner to freeze it, then use a root capable file explorer to look for the apk. If it's still named correctly and located in the original place on the phone, then you should be ok.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xuanphucn:
Hey guy, I recently purchased this phone and I have no idea the model number of the phone since the owner flashed a custom rom on it. I want to flash it back to stock but dont know which model number it is to be able to download the correct stock rom. It doesn't have the carrier logo in the back. The back said model: OP6B130. It works on ATT but doesn't ATT logo on the back. He said the phone was unlocked. How do I figure that out? Thanks
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
What's the boot loader say and what's the result of fastboot getvar all
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xuanphucn:
C:\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20131030\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot getvar all

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.19.0.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.21.21331147A1.19_2G

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main: 1.58.502.1

(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-OFF

(bootloader) serialno:

(bootloader) imei:

(bootloader) imei2: Not Support

(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000

(bootloader) product: m8_ul

(bootloader) platform: hTCBmsm8974

(bootloader) modelid: 0P6B13000

(bootloader) cidnum: 11111111

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 0mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: off

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: 038866fd

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0

all: Done!

finished. total time: 0.129s
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
.502 is AT&T your original CID is CWS__001
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xuanphucn:
oh thank you:)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
Stay s-off, the AT&T RUU will work if you change the cid back
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xuanphucn:
if i run the ruu, would it change it to s-on?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
Nope
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xuanphucn:
its so weird. the phone doesn't have att logo in the back? did i miss something?:confused:
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
Doesn't matter much, your s-off and super cid you can use any software you want
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xuanphucn:
what would be the worst scenario if I flash a wrong ruu?:confused:
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
It would just fail

Why are you resetting the phone is it broken ?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xuanphucn:
i just prefer stock rom over custom rom:(
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
Yeah me too, stock rooted Developers Edition with Alex v kernel
[Sony Xperia M] Slasher_44:
Hi ,

I am using an Xperia M (Single Sim ) running on 15.4.A.1.9 (OTA - untouched, non rooted android 4.3 from Sony ) . After the 15.4.A.1.9 update I'm seeing strange behaviors from the alarm clock . Some times the phone gets switched off with still enough juice left on the battery . Some times the alarm starts but when I swipe the button to turn it off , the phone gets stuck . Only a battery removal can fix this !! :( I'm using pattern lock screen provided by the OS (no third party apps) and Go launcher .

Can some one give any suggestions about how to solve this issue ??

Thanks in advance.. :) :)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ron31:
i installed the wrong kernnel by mistake i tried power button volume up screen starts then i push volume down hold button nothing happens i did it 60 time now.any ideas
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
Don't push volume up

Just hold volume down and power
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ron31:
ok thanks it worked
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sotorious:
Do you guys think they will finally smooth out and actually put a little better production into their main functioning apps?

I am so ready to switch to a stock rom for this thing due to touch-wiz being so horrible in some areas.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkb218:
In what areas do you find TouchWiz horrible on the Note 4? I have zero problems with it.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CheesyNutz:
Explain yourself
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luisdile02:
The recent apps taking over a second to load.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CheesyNutz:
Not here and oh no over a second what will you do
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btort1:
Just like my S5, but what's wierd was I added soft keys on my s5 by qemu.mainkeys=0 on the build prop for on screen button and for some reason the on screen buttons were instant/fast but the hard keys took 1 second to load....

For some reason I can't add oncreen buttons on the stock or custom roms like I can with EVERY android phone I ever owned
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sotorious:
The dialer is gross, the stick I'm ap o for Samsung is buggy and choppy, thankfully I found textra, this app is weird with scrolling, it takes sometimes 10 seconds for a phone call to connect, the multi window does take a long time to load at times can get annoying when I'm trying to do someth u ng in a hurry. The notification bar when you are using a 3rd party keyboard it stays there also indo b t like how the quick settings constantly show at the top of the notification bar takes up space and I'm always activating or deactivating by mistake.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkb218:
I guess this is the world we live it. I WANT IT NOW!!! NOT IN A SECOND!!! NOW!!! I MUST HAVE IT NOW!!!!

What?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdidtht:
Lololol oh no!! A whole second.. lol i found if a person freezes or deletes svoice recents seem to open faster, that being said Some people just dont get touchwiz, i dont find it super stunning to look at but its the features, the camera, noone else can touch it on features. I never understood why people who hate twiz buy a samsung. I enjoy knowing i have the option of aosp(since lollipop has been booting for a few days already), but dont.buy samsun g if you hate their skin you know? People always like to find things to ***** about is the bottomline.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgbotoe:
^^^^^^ THAT!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hardcore69er:
I bought this over the N6 because of hardware. N6 is also a little bigger. This phone is perfect for me, however Samsung upped the Ram to 3gb yet I feel like I have less ram to work with. TW is incredibly slugish after using 5.0 on my N5. I honestly feel like the N5 out performs this Note 4 thru daily activities.

I wanted note 4 hardware with pure aosp. TW is bloated with a ton of useless garbage.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheetohz:
If anyone remembers the fiasco behind tap to pay and Verizon on the galaxy nexus, i'm sure you have some strong opinions here.

What are your thoughts on support of using the wallet app for tap to pay purchases?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akellar:
Non issue as they no longer require secure element access
[General Questions and Answers] Cytherie:
Hi there guys! im new here.

I have bricked my android tablet phone which is Mercury running on android 4.2.2 , model number T70611, MTK---8312 . When I turn it on, It will just stuck on logo screen, I've already tried resetting (using power on + volume up) but it will just stuck on the fastboot screen too.

I rooted it using Ministro ll, superSU and poot rooting tools, it was successfully rooted but I wasnt satisfied so I want to start all over again and root so I decided to restore factory reset. I have manually restored other apps using titanium back up. During the restore, it hung so I rebooted it and continue restoring the files, on the second time it hung again so I rebooted it again but this time, It was stuck on booting until now. If i plug the charger it works fine. Can anybody tell me if there is any chance to unbrick my tablet phone ?

Any reply would be great.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pieces of cake:
Can anyone please tell me how to return my T-Mobile Note 4 to stock? Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide!
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] senaferdy79:
full unroot from Superuser / Supersu
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uniquebarbee:
to be safe I would flash stock firmware from SamMobile through odin to make sure everything is fresh
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pieces of cake:
Is there a link to the firmware somewhere? Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sshafranko:
If you dont know how to unroot you obviously have no business in a development forum or rooting in the first place for that matter. You should consider reading a bit more before you wind up with an $800 brick. Be careful.

?Note Edge Powered by Android?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheCuriousOne:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=56816048

You need to go to the sammobile site (google) and download the latest firmware for the T-Mobile variant for your country. You will have to register to be able to download. The download itself takes a couple of hours. You will need to flash this room using Odin (Google). The program is free and erkaufen easy to use.

---------- Post added at 09:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:57 PM ----------

You need to go to the sammobile website,register and download the latest T-mobile firmware for your country. This download takes a couple of hours which you might use to download/find/learn how to use the Odin program to install the Rom on your device. It's actually quite simple.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bowknows:
Use kies.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] minmin3772:
I am using a Nexus 4 and trying to update it from Android 4.4 to Android 5 via the factory image. And apparently there is a huge bug in the image. I just can not write the bootloader-grouper-4.23.img to it using "fastboot flash bootloader" command because it just keep showing that FAILED (remote: invalid bootloader image). That is almost driving me crazy as my phone is now dead. So please help out of this. Thanks a lot.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warbuff:
You have the wrong image. grouper is not the nexus 4.you need the factory image for mako/occam which is the nexus 4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] tigerx88:
Hey guys,

So I am a beginner here, had no idea what I was doing and somehow I ended up messing up/bricking my S4. Long story short, after several days of messing around with it, I was finally able to take firmware through ODIN back to stock.

The issue is: The phone still does not recognize my sim card, when I check baseband it says Unknown, and IMEI is Null/Null. After further research, it seems that this has something to do with EFS. Unfortunately, I did not back up any such files since I have no real idea what I am doing.

Can anyone help me out with this? Galaxy S4- SGH-I337, NB1.

I just need the most simple fix to get phone working again.

Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] moiramd:
Get a s4 from a friend and make a back up of the EFS. That's how I have heard people make it work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] churapa:
Maybe this can help you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] tigerx88:
The only issue with that is they want me to back up and restore the EFS. I did not back up my EFS initially so I feel it is too late for that.