yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] BigInJapan:
I'm getting audio dropouts via bt. Two different phones. Two different car bts. Neither had this problem prior.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
The BT issues I believe are a 5.0 thing that may have been improved in 5.0.1. Other phones have had similar issues. However, that being said, on other phones factory resetting did, in some cases, improve the situation.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] vwlshrtg:
Uh oh. I came from the last 4.4.4 image and used the ODIN method to get the 5.0 image going. It worked! But... my bootloader is now locked. ?!!?

What can I do here? Do I need to go back and do the original bootloader unlocking process (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2363025) and wipe everything on my phone?

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[Update specific to frustrating problem with root method] --

In case anyone else gets stuck at the "waiting for device" step of the root method included in this thread: I had tried installing the universal ADB driver and still wasn't getting anywhere. Finally I went into my Windows hardware/devices list while the device was in fastboot mode and forced it to apply the Samsung-specific driver. That did the trick. I don't know why it hadn't worked the other way, but all's good now.

Thanks Samuri!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
Flashing the ODIN image would not relock the bootloader. So I don't know what happened there for you. Glad you got the driver thing sorted. They can be a real pain in the ass at times.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] vwlshrtg:
Yeah, I am totally confused about how it happened. It's not an immediate concern since I don't really want to run anything but this current setup... but it's going to drive me nuts trying to figure out how it locked itself again.

I assume there is no other way to unlock it aside from the full-wipe method from the sticky thread?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
I'll let you in on a little secret. The bootloader isn't locked even when it's "locked". :) Before I unlocked mine to test something for chainfire, I was flashing custom recovery, root, etc with no issues at all. All while "locked". But the ODIN image for sure will not relock it. You have to do the lock/unlock through fastboot afaik.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] The111:
Also, there is Messaging AOSP (compiled by a 3rd party, but stock Google AFAIK) which is the old Messaging app. IMO, for SMS: Messaging > Messenger > Hangouts.

EDIT: Scratch that... messaging doesn't actually work for me. Damn.

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I much prefer to start unrooted, so thanks for that! Actually, there have been times I've wanted to revert to an older 4.x stock image, unrooted, but I'm not sure of any easy way to do that, are you? There is one method mentioned in this forum that uses Heimdal, but it appears most of the data linked in that post (and needed for the flash) is gone.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2360346
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
You just restore the image install supersu and perform a full unroot.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] The111:
Yeah, my only concern with that process was that it might block OTA's from succeeding, but now that I know how to how to work around that, I'm not worried about it anymore. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] ruidh:
Hmmm. CF-AutoRoot is not working for me I've used it in the past with this I-9505G. It appears to boot into recovery and the pirate android shows up, but when it reboots, Super-SU complains about there not being an su binary.

T method in post 20 works with stock recovery? No CWN here.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
No, it most definitely will not work in stock recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] ruidh:
Thanks. That wasn't entirely clear.

Still not understanding why ChainFire isn't working either. There are reports of it working in this thread.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] ciborio:
I discovered it was BlueStacks Android Emulator that created the conflict. I solved by killing Bluestack.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
Glad you got it sorted. That's why I mentioned the emulated device possibility as it does mess with adb.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] Bruce666:
Hey guys :) Can I flash this on i9505 (S4LTE non-GPE)? my friend really wants clean Lollipop :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
Let's see.....what does the very first post say in BIG RED LETTERS? SMH
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] Mystique:
I am an AT&T user and when I reboot my phone about two minutes after the phone boots I will regain cellular service with the HSDPA icon.

Then a random time after that I will get LTE.

Is this happening to anyone else on AT&T? .. Or any other provider?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] archerymodz:
Nope, my T-Mobile service seems fine to me except sometimes I have to disable WiFi to send/receive MMS.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
Not happening to me either.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] Mystique:
So, if I were to format my efs and everything else.. This would fully restore all partitions?

For a truly out of the box experience..

Correct?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
I most definitely would NOT format your EFS!! This would not repair that at all. This will update your kernel, modems, recovery, and system partitions. Nothing more nothing less.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] thepktrckt:
Sigh, I've not been able to find success in getting this to work for me. What works, adb devices and sideloading, have the two files in the right place and being recognized. I seem to be stuck at fastboot. I have installed the drivers and still no go.

To confirm I'm doing the right steps:

Boot device into recovery

Select sideload update

On computer launch batchfile

Watch it run and done.

It seems to be something with fastboot and I've searched far and wide to figure out why I can't get the device to be recognized. Any other suggestions? I run fastboot devices before I run the batch and it just bounces right back to the cmd prompt so I know it's not seeing the device.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] archerymodz:
Why not Odin?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] thepktrckt:
D'oh... I meant to say I can't achieve root using the packaged install.

Odin worked fine for the Lollipop install. Had to restore to factory settings to fix Bluetooth and NFC. Now I'm greedy and want root too. :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] archerymodz:
I used cf auto root
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
There are many ways to root. CF Auto Root is one. My little package I put together is another. Flashing TWRP, booting into it, and rebooting to system will prompt you to install root from TWRP. Flashing the supersu zip in TWRP. Etc, etc. If one way doesn't work, use a different way. Don't spend a lot of time on any one method.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] Mystique:
You can also Odin twrp latest.. It will root when exiting..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] vwlshrtg:
Sounds similar to what I ran into. See if this info helps: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=57617174&postcount=53
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] The111:
I have noticed that often adb recognizes the device fine but then fastboot doesn't. I just reinstall the driver while the phone is connected at bootloader, and then fastboot will work. I think maybe adb and fastboot need different drivers, and only one can be installed at a time.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] thepktrckt:
Thanks everyone for the replies!

Found the easiest route to be go to twrp and download the .tar package.

http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/192

Launched Odin 3.09 (nothing earlier works I noticed in my tinkering)

Launched phone into download mode (Held down volume and power)

Put the .tar into the AP field and installed it

Rebooted into the recovery (Held up volume and power)

Rebooted device, asked if I want SU, I said yes

Happiness.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] disasterpierce:
Hi, my phone is on CM 11 v I9505GUEUCML4, can i use 5.0 image from this post to update directly to lollipop?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] dratsablive:
I used this file to upgrade to 5.0, but my baseband still says I9505GUEUCMKG. Android version is 5.0, kernel version is 3.4.0-2809293 android@gpe #1.

Is this normal?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] dratsablive:
Anyone? Bueller?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
No, not normal. Flash the baseband from my modem thread.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] dratsablive:
I found this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2452034

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Well I flashed the NL3 file and now have the proper baseband version!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
Good to hear!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] mloc33:
Mine keeps failing, not sure what to do...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] Mystique:
[MENTION=3168010]mloc33[/MENTION]

Do you have a actual i9505G device?

Where does it fail?

What does it show when it fails?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
They posted in another of my odin threads thst they have a live demo unit s4 with no modem. Since I was very clear that these images are for s4 gpe devices only, I'm not sure why there was an expectation that it'd work. They could attempt to rebuild the image without the modem, but, that's a lot of work and not something I intend to do. It requires extracting the tar md5 image and then rebuilding the tar md5 without NON-HLOS and fsg.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] mloc33:
Fails when it at the modem part, not long into the flash.

I have this ROM finally on it, but it keeps freezing when i go to use it, i had a slim rom on it before and it was perfect.

no matter what i try to flash in odin theyve all failed, the only thing i managed to achieve was up date the recovery from an old cwm to the latest twrp.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] Mystique:
If you were running tw, I don't think you have a Google Edition device.

Special i9505G is not a normal i9505.

I would find a modem for your particular device.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] mloc33:
It doesnt have one its a live demo unit (ldu)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
I would think you'd have more luck with a rom based off this image. Those can be flashed in twrp vs trying to force a full factory image onto a device that it isn't made for. The roms won't have modems in them for the most part.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] mloc33:
What image would that be?

Any ideas as to why it keeps freezing then reboots when I start to use it?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
You're going to have to go look. I don't keep track of the roms people create using this image. But they're out there.

No idea.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] mloc33:
cheers man, im just reading that these phone are a pain in the hole to flash, i should have just let it as it was.....i was wrong about the last letter of this model its ai9505x not g....anyways ill get looking

Edit: Just tried another firmware via Odin and ot nearly finished the flash process, again failed when it got to the modem part.

How hard would it be just to remove that part of the ZIP firmware? Would it work if that was taken out?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] mloc33:
Well I think I`ve killed the phone, got the ole android on his back with the red triangle over him, I can`t think of anything else to try other than re-flashing the firmwares in Odin...if it could only get passed the modem part during the flash...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
Removing the modem can be done but it's not a simple matter of opening up the archive and removing them. You have to extract everything and rebuild it. Best done in Linux, but, I do it in cygwin. You'll have to find a tutorial on how to create odin tar images. There are several out there. But here's the thing... Odin flashing random things to the wrong device is a wonderful way to end up bricked. For example, the reason I give the huge warning about this particular firmware only being used on the i9505g is not because I'm a elitist jerk, but rather because the device has a different partition size than any other s4 variant and flashing this has a real chance of bricking the device.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] mloc33:
I understand what your saying, I was given this phone cause the person worked in a phone shop and did`nt want it, so since I did`nt pay anything for it, I was up for trying almost anything from what I read.

I just flash the latest TWRP, which was on it before, but I could`nt access it, now the phone has booted up with stock firmware, but the wifi is dead, but at least it`s a hell of a lot better than it was before, now I have a semi working phablet....
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] ErikMunoz:
hello guys, one question.

with this firmware could i have OTA updates?

i saw ther is only 5 files and usually in other samsung models are like a 12 files ( sbl1,sbl2,tz, etc.)

in case of not does somebody has the full stock firmware for lollipop? :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
You can take OTA updates after flashing this. Assuming, of course, we ever see another one. And if we do, I'll be making another ODIN image anyway.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] ErikMunoz:
good to know about ota's thanks,

i already flashed my phone using heimdall ( im on linux ) but seems like my phone didn't got it very well :P

now it is rebooting by itself in a loop, sometimes turns on, is alive for a few seconds and reboots again, and well also my phone has been doing this since a month ago but usually takes it few hours to get slow and reboot.

that's why i was asking for a full firmware(and flash this one). i dont know if you have a full one.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
No one does and you'll not find one for it. Samsung threatened anyone who published a leaked one when the device came out. If we had a full version, I'd not need to waste my time building and posting these images.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] ErikMunoz:
did not know about that, but tanks for told me and also for share the rom :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
No problem. Good luck! I hope you're able to solve the issue you're having.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] taney:
Hi SamuriHL! You think we will still get any new OTAs or is our device done for?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
We're getting 5.1 at least. It might even be 5.1.1 but I won't hold my breath on that. Should be "any day now" from what sammobile said.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] taney:
Awesome! Thanks for the update and thanks again for being such a huge contributor to this forum. Much appreciated!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
As soon as I get my hands on it I'll push out a new set of odin images for it. I was thinking it'd be out by now but here we are still waiting.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] pclov3r:
Hopefully soon...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] izmaelzx:
if you try and you have success tell us please, but i think gpe has a different pit
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] dontpannic:
No, you can't. This is specifically for the I9505G

I will attempt to port an untouched version taking over from dandroid13, however there are various ports available in the I9505 forum and have been for some time...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] MattBooth:
Is it me or is this image prerooted?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
It is not.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] kaz219:
Worked fine with odin, except that the "phone info" app I see the bootloader is still I9505GUEUCMKG. I tried to flash the boot.img only with heimdall, same result: no errors, but the bootloader is still I9505GUEUCMKG instead of I9505GUEUDNL3.

The phone works fine though. Anybody else with this issue?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] leap_ahead:
Any news for odin 5.1? [MENTION=2812087]SamuriHL[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] SamuriHL:
I didn't know it was out. I'll work on it tonight after work. Neat.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sprhr0:
Have rooted and installed TWRP recovery. What's next step to get this verizon version to run on sprint?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikola016:
How did you flashed twrp recovery ? I have problems flashing any custom recovery...
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sprhr0:
That was fairly easy, I just googled " twrp LGG2" I found an app that would install it but really ROM manager will do it for ya too. I just tried flashing a stock deoxed sprint ROM on the phone it wouldn't complete. Now I got splash screen loop
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sprhr0:
Hell i just went and got a LGG3 with the easy pay option sprint has. Going to return that g2 to stock and return it
[Palm Treo 750] pschmidt63:
Does anyone know how to get the Voicemail | 1 icon off the today screen?

I want to keep the plugin on the today screen as I use the photo part of it for speed dial, but I want to get the voicemail one off. There was another one that I was able to delete, but it seems that palm wants us to keep the voicemail one on there if we use the speed dial feature. I go to setup and try to delete it, but it says it can not be deleted.

Thanks for the help/hack.
[Palm Treo 750] CraigP17:
Start>Settings>Today>Items TAB (at bottom)> select speed dial>OPTIONS>select VM icon>MENU>DELETE
[Palm Treo 750] pschmidt63:
That's not what I asked. I know how to delete it completetly, but all i want to do is delete the voice mail icon not the whole speed dial option.
[Palm Treo 750] marsonist:
For someone who doesn't want to go out and find his/her own answers you could certainly be more friendly towards the people that are trying to help.
[Palm Treo 750] ctho24:
cannot delete but u can try to assign it to another contact
[Palm Treo 750] pschmidt63:
Obviously - you did not know the answer either. I was not trying to be antogonistic by any means. But I thought that the questions was fairly clear in stating that I did not want to delte the entire feature. Just the voicemail icon. And yes, I have researched this quite a bit and I can not find the answer to my question.

Don't wear your feelings on your sleeve man!
[Palm Treo 750] acesgoplaces:
Yes you are right. Just change the label & shortcut key on the voicemail button. You can also link a contact with a photo so the ugly button does not show.
[Palm Treo 750] kiingarthur:
thanks for the tip!

Assign the Voicemail button to a contact with a picture. It moves it up to the picture row and gets around the "can't delete voicemail" problem.

awesome!
[NFC Hacking] dimex:
I was using NFC LockScreenOff Enabler on my Nexus 5 until the screen hardware died on me. Google is currently sending me a new one. I was MultiROM'ing Lollipop and tried the smart NFC unlock feature, but I didn't like it because you had to turn the screen on, hold the NFC tag, and swipe a swipe-to-unlock screen.

I have an NFC implant so i want the functionality just like NFC LockScreenOff Enabler. NFC polling with screen off, hold phone up to my hand, phone unlocks straight to home screen.

Is there a working solution for lollipop?
[NFC Hacking] MathewBrack:
not currently, however there are several non stock lock screens that have this feature such as:

Tap Unlock or Uber Device lock
[NFC Hacking] dimex:
They're both ugly and not reliable, IMO. I couldn't even get Uber to work and sent the dev an email. He was a ****ing jerk and basically said I'm dumb and didn't enable the app. Come on.

I wonder if there's a way to use Tasker to bypass the swipe screen after touching the phone to NFC. I don't mind placing the phone on my implant and pressing the power button. Having to then swipe another screen requires weird hand acrobatics when using an implant, which is why I'm still on 4.4.4.
[NFC Hacking] MathewBrack:
using the secure settings and locale plugins it is possible to make a profile that disables lock screen on a specific nfc tag read and then reanables lockscreen when the screen goes off :)
[NFC Hacking] Neurom707:
Any guide on this?
[NFC Hacking] MathewBrack:
-EDIT-

guide link removed due to error
[NFC Hacking] dimex:
Not going to work. NFC polling in stock Lollipop is Screen On, Unlocked. We need to enable alternate polling modes to even be able to read the NFC tag. Go ahead and try it, your phone won't even read your NFC tag, let alone disengage the keyguard. Even if you got rid of the keyguard, you still have the Pattern Unlock, or PIN, or password. You need Secure Settings plugin within Tasker to remove those.

The only ROM for the Nexus 5 at the moment with different NFC polling options is Cataclysm. I tried extracting the NfcNci.apk after I changed the settings, but the settings didn't stick around when I brought it to stock ROM. I'm guessing you have to go in and manually add the settings or change the polling code within the apk, but I don't know how to decompile and edit code.

If you know how to do that, that's all we need; a modified NfcNci.apk with Screen Off, Locked polling mode. It's located in system/app.

Your guide is useless as it stands, just being honest.
[NFC Hacking] MathewBrack:
Damned hubris! good call, tested and it worked fine on 4.4.4 :/ . hmmm will edit the guide to mention it wont work on Android 5

Thanks for the heads up and my apologies

The tasker profile above worked fine with a pattern set, scan the tag the lockscreen disapears till you turn off your screen, I tested it with secure settings and could see no benefit to also having it disable you password etc as the lack of keyguard meant you were never prompted for it

but aye a different polling method is needed

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Aye, have requested the thread be removed as it'll only work with nfc lockscreenoff... and that in itself removes the need for this

thanks for the heads up, rookie error on my part there
[NFC Hacking] dimex:
All good. We just need someone who knows what's up to modify NfcNci.apk for us. I just started the semester and can't devote time to it right now.
[NFC Hacking] TheNothingMan:
Even if it has been a while, this might be useful:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59780557&postcount=469

There is also a step-by-step guide on how to mod it yourself, a few pages later, and a guide for NFC with screen on but locked. I tried it on 5.1 (Xperia S, nAOSP), worked like a charm.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] XenoZirrka:
Hello all,

I disovered an very annoying behaivour of droidwear,

Whenever I start to play any music with poweramp my watch automatically opens an persistent notification card wich cant be disabled aslong the music is running....

As there is an way more usefull tool for wear use with poweramp player I desperatly need to kill this ****ty googleplaymusic card!

And I know this question belongs not into the wear.forzms but its essentially the same problem on my Z2 lockscreen, I have my beautifull poweramp lockscreenwidget set up, but as soon as some music is played the damn ****ing ugly stock widged appears on the first place on lockscreen..... I could vomit from this ****!

Playmusic and walkmanapp are completely deleted with titaniumbackup, how does this crap manage to still go on my balls? (wakmen only one of 3 apps is deleted the othet walkmen pieces are frozen why do those *****es still annoy me?)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wezzo.018:
Hi I tried the root for the jb 4.1.1 on my note n8000 running 4.1.2 , it doesn't work :(

so who could give me a method to root it ?

thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erica_renee:
cf root search will find you the answer.