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[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Can anyone tell me a work round to get Google Earth installed on my rooted and rom'd ace .I use Google Tracks and to be able to replay a stored route "Mountain Biking." I need Google Earth .Which is not listed on play service as being compatible

with my phone. I can have installed Earth HD but this does not work.

I have tried other trackers and don't like them!

Ta In advance
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stamatis:
You are in the wrong subforum. This one is for the xperia x8.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
So this is a bit of a comedy of errors on my part...

I took the OTA update to lollipop and (foolishly) followed the same method as on KK to get root, putting myself in a bootloop. I got myself out of it by clearing the userdata and the cache.

I went about sorting everything and achieved root using the chainfire method, that was fine and I then went about reinstalling the xposed modules I had before. Foolishly, I didn't double check the status of xposed on Lollipop and consequently put myself back in a bootloop (idiot). I redid what had worked earlier, clearing the userdata and the cache to no avail.

Obviously, the problem was not the same as before and I needed to disable xposed, but in clearing the userdata I not only removed the xposed_disable.zip file to do this and also turned off adb so I can't push it.

The bootloader is fine and I can use fastboot, but can't push anything across. I hadn't replaced the recovery but can boot into twrp. However, I cannot flash it because I cannot push it over using adb.

I can't work out exactly how far I need to go back/what exactly I need to flash in order to put this all back together again.

I would be very grateful for any help that people can give on this.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] purejoy:
Seems you need a .19 stock system partition image to get rid of the bootloop. Hope somebody can backup his system after OTA and share his image,otherwise you have to wait for official release or take risk to downgrade.

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If you can boot from TWRP, you can try put the Xposed-Disabler-Recovery.zip in an USB SD card(maybe need formatted to particular filesystem like ext4) linked your phone with otg cable,then mount the sdcard and flash the zip file via TWRP.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HAXTREME:
If you're not worried about going back with a full wipe to KK, you can follow this link here Seeing that you can get your phone into fastboot, it'll work fine.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
Thank you! This seems to have solved the problem (whatever exactly it was) and the mobile data is fine which was what I was most unsure about.

I'm curious, my device was a XT1092GB (or at least, I believe it was a GB) and now shows as a 'reteu' where I believe it used to show as 'retgb'. This isn't a problem as it all seems to work, but should I be expecting the Lollipop OTA update to come through? I deliberately didn't follow through on the last part of that thread and install 5.0 that way, I didn't want to tempt fate! However, I would like the update if possible and am unsure which way to go about doing it.

Again, many thanks for all the suggestions everyone. This is why android is awesome :)
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HAXTREME:
Its a stock EU 4.4.4 so the OTA should come through. Even if it doesn't, I'm sure there's a 5.0 retgb firmware doing the rounds on this forum.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
I guess even if the 5.0 OTA doesn't come through (for the reasons as given here, any following OTA updates should be fine, right?

If not, do you reckon then 5.0 rom given in the link you sent would be appropriate or would this be a better route?

Thanks for the help!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mushages:
Hello everyone! getting directly into the problem which is VPN i had this issue on other devices too like HTC One X, HTC Butterfly S and now the One M8 here what its like:

-Setup vpn account (PPTP or IPSEC)

-Connect to VPN

-VPN connects successfully.

- it will take less than one minute for it to stop connectivity and you will end up with an idle connection but it wont drop. nothing is loading and vpn data shows slow transfer.

searching for this issue i see other devices which are running 4.3 and 4.4 having this issue too. some claimed its fixed in android L but when i switched to GPE 5.0.1 to try it its still there.

tried several vpn servers and OPENvpn too all suffer from there same issue. the only VPN app worked was Private Tunnel i guess but its not free and it limits you to their VPN service and you wont be able to use the app to connect to other VPN servers from other providers....

if you dont know anything about the fix please just report if you device can connect and USE VPN without any problem and report along with : - S-ON or S-OFF

- LOCKED-UNLOCKED

- STOCK or CUSTOM ROM

Thanks! :good:
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] saddam4live:
Hi Guys ..

I want the easy way to unlock my LG MS 769 bootloader to install new recovery and install a custom rom ?
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] BlueKnightedDragon:
Sorry there is no "easy way" you can try the instructions at

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2925972

Which require you to buy a cable
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LiamAtkins90:
Oh man.... This post made me giggle.

Right first of all what device do you have?

Anyway to connect a flash drive to the USB or a Micro SD and flash a new ROM in recovery?

Sent From N5
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prasad.adam:
All you need is ability to enter fastboot. Using Multitool or manual fastboot flash commands, you should be able to go back to stock KK. From there on you can flash stock L. Root it.

Do not have access to Multitool runme.cmd file at the moment to confirm that all you need is ability to issue fastboot command. adb is not needed. But am almost certain that this is the case.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
It's a 2014 Moto X, the XT1092 (bought straight from Motorola - I think that makes it the pure edition).

I have tried the Multitool (as in here) but it would always throw me errors and never showed up anything on the fastboot console. I expect I probably need to get the stock image from Motorola (I've requested access to this which is the top option from here) and issue the fastboot commands by hand which seems to work. I'm mostly just unsure about what exact commands I need to give to make sure I don't forget to flash a particular part. I haven't gone this far on other phones and have normally worked from CWM but I can't even flash that/TWRP at the moment.

Thanks for your help guys!
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] purejoy:
1.Download the latest TWRP recovery. 2.Prepare a SD card with a card reader and format it to ext4,then put Xposed-Disabler-Recovery.zip in it.

3.Boot your phone to ap fastboot mode,then open a cmd prompt and issue: fastboot boot TWRPimgfilename

3.link your phone to the card reader with otg cable and mount the SD card via TWRP advanced menu.

4.Flash the Xposed-Disabler-Recovery.zip via TWRP.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
Would it need to be an SD card or just a usb stick formatted correctly?

This sounds the best idea yet, now just to track down a USB OTG cable...
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] purejoy:
SD card is OK. As USB disk,haven't give a try.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
Ok, cheers. I'll get a usb otg cable and give it a go.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] purejoy:
Normally Xposed installer would put a copy of Xposed-Disabler-recovery.zip under directory /sdcard after being installed. You should check the directory first, moreover, that file was released for those KK users. I have no idea whether it would take effect on lollipop or destroy your system. Take your own risk.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
So I found, but because my first reaction to the second bootloop was to erase userdata (as had fixed the earlier one) I lost that.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
Hi,

Tracked down a usbotg cable and have booted into TWRP. When I plug in the sd card using the cable, I don't find anything to mount the sd card in the advanced menu of TWRP, but I do find a 'mount' option on the main menu

(as you can see here). Under there is a tick box for 'USB-OTG' which I have ticked, but I can't find where it actually is in the filemanager/when I select 'install'...

Any suggestions?
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
Realised what I had done, managed to flash the xposed_disabler zip, but it didn't work.

However, I was pointed in the direction of this where I downgraded to KK 4.4.4. That seems to have done the trick at getting me back to a working device. Out of curiosity, does anyone know a reason why I shouldn't get have the Lollipop OTA come through again in due course? When I check for updates it says I am up to date - is the only way I will get L by way of sideloading?

Finally, thanks for all your help, you've been very patient with my dangerous level of knowledge - enough to do plenty of damage but not enough to fix it!
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] purejoy:
You were expected to use the latest TWRP which is 2.8+,at least 2.7. Anyway,that's not important.

Did you get an error after issuing "fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.IMG"?

Cuz you succeeded in updating, the OTA has upgraded your bootloader. Although you have downgraded your system, the BL can't be,hence when you try to accept another OTA, there will be a verification error.

Now You need flash a custom OTA pack via a 3rd party recovery. Some verifications must be removed from the official OTA zip.

You can also wait for someone to backup and share the images of the new system.

---------- Post added at 01:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:07 AM ----------

I think you can have a try to download the .19 OTA zip and put it under /sdcard, then reboot into stock recovery to apply update from SD card or adb sideload. If there's no errors while verifying, you would get lollipop again.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluePixel:
Sorry for not reading all the reply's in this thread before posting (i'm in a bit of a rush)

I got a bootloop while applying the OTA on a brand new XT 1092 right after taking out of the box. After some digging around the forums (you can tell i'm new by the post count) i managed to get an OTA zip for my DE version and pushed it via ADB using stock recovery, with a few hickups:

- had to manually install the driver in windows

- first time the install via ADB push failed with some assert failure on something related to moto.odex

- the second try went ok and got the bootloop sorted.

So definitely give ADB a shot :)

Good luck!
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hannah Stern:
First,

try to recover as much as of your data stored on the device

.

Then reflash the old ROM. You'll need a specific program for that - and a PC Surely! ☺

After that to get easier Back-Ups - i recommend unblocking the bootloader.

All the best☻. :svetius:
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
I used TWRP 2.8.1.0, I downloaded it that day. Not sure what else it could have been...

Not sure when I was supposed to do that, couldn't see that in your directions...? Not a really a problem either way as its now sorted.

Ok, thanks for the info. Any idea how to remove those verifications? Would this do the required thing?

Also, what exactly do you mean by the .19 OTA zip? You mean the OTA zip with the new bootloader in with it? If it has an error while trying this, would it give problems or just stop and return as before?

Thanks
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] purejoy:
Sorry, i have stayed up too late last night. You know there is time difference.

i dunno the differences between GB version and EU version, since you have a system of EU, maybe you should refer to this thread http://xdaforums.com/moto-x-2014/general/ota-zip-moto-x-2014-xt1092-5-0-t2970818

Hmm,there is a better choice. Seems that moto has released the stock 5.0 firmware for GB xt1092. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=57591807&postcount=36

Download it and make a full recovery.

BTW: Please backup your data first.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
I'm not sure of the differences either...

So I'm wanting to make sure I do this correctly this time. I know a couple of ways of backing up but after all the faff recently I want to have an ironclad backup before I piss around with anything else (foolish me for not doing so before). Can you clarify the best way to back up my device and how I would do that? I have a feeling I haven't been doing it correctly/the most ideal way before and it would be good to know.

Also, how would I go about putting that backup you've pointed too (thank you for finding that, I don't think I'd been searching for quite the right thing) on to my device? Would I go through a similar series of steps to how I recovered my phone before (ie here)?

I'm going away for xmas/NY and will probably do this when I get back so I don't risk borking my phone when I need it most. Nonetheless, it would be good to have things ready to roll when I get back.

Thanks for your help, you've been great.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] purejoy:
It depends on what you plan to backup and i don't konw what app your are using. If you use Google service, Contacts and some app data are normally synced to Google Cloud Servers. You can get them back in lollipop 5.0 via your Google account. As your pictures and videos,you can also directly copy them on your PC. What you need to backup are private app data and private messages. You can use some 3rd party backup apps like TitaniumBakcup to solve this. If there are not so much user data, you can backup like this.

You can also backup and restore your userdata via TWRP. If you get so many data, you can try this.

As the full stock recovery,you can restore your phone via fastboot utility or RSD lite.

1.Download and Unzip the image.

2.Put your phone in AP Fastboot Mode.

3. $ fastboot flash partition gpt.bin

$ fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img

$ fastboot reboot-bootloader

$ fastboot flash logo logo.bin

$ fastboot flash boot boot.img

$ fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

$ fastboot flash system system.img

$ fastboot erase modemst1

$ fastboot erase modemst2

$ fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn

$ fastboot -w (Erase userdata. Optional,maybe unnecessary)

$ fastboot reboot

I would advise you to put off erasing data. If you get any issues while rebooting into new system, then you can erase your data.

Hope these help. Good Luck!
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
Great, thanks for the tip.

I tend to have minimal important data on my phone that isn't covered by either google or evolvesms/whatsapp. Nonetheless, thanks for the tips. I've been using titanium for a long while and have that backed up to dropbox too.

I tried flashing TWRP after I fixed the clusterbadger that was the last few days, but had no luck. I still don't seem to be able to push the image over using adb nor use adb to issue commands while booted into TWRP through fastboot. Have you experienced that? I guess worst case is that I copy the zip to an sdcard and flash it from usbotg by issuing commands in the TWRP shell they give you...?

Thanks for the tip on the userdata too.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] purejoy:
No,don't need to push the image to your device. That's a stock firmware not an OTA zip. You should download it to your PC and unzip it to the directory which has fastboot utilities, then open a cmd prompt to issue those commands.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HamRack:
Nono, I don't mean for flashing the stock image etc, I mean for if I install TWRP over it afterwards. The instructions on the TWRP website say to boot into TWRP, push the zip and dd it, but I can't use add while booted into TWRP...

I'm happy with the instructions you have, there's no worries there.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] purejoy:
You should first install related drivers on your pc and enable USB debugging option on your phone to use that method.

Your can also directly flash it into your phone by issuing " fastboot flash recovery twrp_image_name" on your pc. Maybe give you an error but it works! Have a try.
[XDA Assist] bouchaib2.3.6:
guys i really need your help

well when try to connect my phone to my laptop it says "unknown device"

please help me

the phone is GT-I9100G running on android 2.3.6
[XDA Assist] bouchaib2.3.6:
hey man i have the last version of samsung kies on my pc and when i plug my usb cable the phone starts to charge but the pc shows "unknown device"
[XDA Assist] Darth:
Hi,

Here is a dedicated help thread in your device section that you can ask for help in,

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/help/qa-friendly-qa-thread-t1648351

Good luck!
[Samsung Galaxy Star] emmantot:
I've been looking for ways on how to customize our carrier label but found none. Fortunately, I've found this great thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1570956 which gave me the idea so I started modifying my device and I was able to customize it, so I decided to share it with you guys since this site has been a great help for a beginner like me. So here's how:

Requirements

1. Apktool

2. Notepad++ or any xml editor

**Since modifying this is so complicated, I attached the edited xml which will replace your current xmls.**

Download the attached zip and extract it.

Open strings.xml and find this line (its in the endline :D)

<string name="iamLinker">InsertYourTextHere</string>

change the text in red font to your desired text and save

Extract your SystemUI

move the following xmls to /res/layout -- look for layout-ldpi as well

status_bar_expanded.xml

tw_status_bar_expanded.xml

tw_status_bar_expanded_dual.xml

move the following xmls to /res/values

strings.xml

styles.xml

recompile and push the modified SystemUI.apk

then reboot.

And that's it! Don't forget to hit thanks if this helps!
[Samsung Galaxy Star] It_ler:
Really nice ... but this is the wrong place to post.

Please move this to the Galaxy Star General forum.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] hyunmin:
HI im using verizon audiovox6600 and i was wondering if theres any way to upgrade this device in to windowmobile5. I heard most of the upgrade came out so far only support the gsm version of the blueangel not cmda harrier.

I was wondering if theres any way if any ones having same problem as me please share some information thanks !!!
[Android Apps and Games] yavji:
Educational learning Game for babies and children's.

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Teach you kid in a fun way! With great colorful pictures of animals, vehicles, colors and more!

► Learn Cards Learning: Look through the pictures while hearing how to pronounce the words and the sound it makes.

► Learn Cards Recognition: Test your kid, and see how good he learns!

► Learn Cards Puzzle: Let your kid relax a little from all this learning by playing in the puzzle mode.

Let your child explore the world of animals, learn their names and memorize the sounds they make.

Includes 5 galleries:

Supports 7 different languages:

You can search google play for it: Learn Cards
[Android Apps and Games] weisass:
Nice app, My kid loves to play it and listen to the animal sounds. its a great puzzle and quiz game that's very simple to use.
[Android Apps and Games] anandnitin25:
game

its really great game for kids.Please tell some more kids game with fun.
[XDA Assist] Mayssen:
so i recently rooted my phone with cwm recovery but i rooted it while having white screen ( using a guide ) and know my phone is stuck in recovery booting (i tried removing battery , and booting in download mode then booting back normally) i want to flash stock recovery , i downloaded official firmware for my phone (gt-s7262) from sammobile but i don't know how to only flash the recovery not the whole firmware :rolleyes:
[XDA Assist] It_ler:
Please check this thread: [ How ] To Flash [CWM] Recovery On Samsung Galaxy Star Pro Dous GT-S7262.

Maybe that can help already.

If you have further questions, please ask in the [Q&A] [CWM] [Root] Samsung Galaxy Star Pro Duos GT-S7262 thread.

Good luck !
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lecoqif:
Hey,

I tried rooting my S4 Mini by first flashing clockworkmod and then installing the rootkit. But on boot after the Samsung tone it shuts off. I have tried wiping cache partition, data, cache, dalvick cache, etc. I also tried flashing the stock rom with no success. The phone is soft bricked-i can go on download and clockworkmod recovery. Wondering if the pit file would help but I dont know where to find it and I am a bit of a newbie. Any help would be greatly appreciated. What should I do?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arlaor:
What rom you go will install?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lecoqif:
I am trying to go back to stock rom. Not working. Tried the PIT file and everything else. Just wondering-I am in clockworkmod recovery. I just want to boot up my phone. Is there any possible way to do that? Or perhaps go back to Stock ROM
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mortitheon:
If you flash a stock ROM SUCCESSFULLY, your phone will boot.

Give us the log of your Odin.
[Sony Xperia M] josedavidhcu:
Hi! i have some questions.

I want to install the cm12 5.0.1 beta 2 rom, my phone is 1 month old and its sad it wont get updates, sooo, i know how to unlock bootloader from sony website. (I want to do the less pc process possible bc im kinda stupid for doing them).

Just wondering if i need root to make the processes on this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22UVfMh51H4

I don't want to make root since i said im stupid w/ this things, i see installing this recovery and the rom very easy on that video...

Someone tell me the exact things i need for doing it w/o bricking :fingers-crossed:

Someone reply ASAP:p:fingers-crossed:
[Sony Xperia M] josedavidhcu:
*Ps: in the ZIP i have this files: system.transfer.list , system.patch.dat , file_contexts , boot.img and the system, META-INF folders.

Do i have to delete any file before flashing the zip?
[Sony Xperia M] Nicklas Van Dam:
nope you just need to wipe data and cache after that install this zip and if you want it include gapps too, after all installed successfully turn on your phone wait it. for first boot it take a while and if this very longer / stuck in black screen turn off your phone and flash the boot.img from this zip with fastboot mode from your phone and turn on again and it will be worked;)
[Sony Xperia M] josedavidhcu:
And how do i acess recovery to install the rom? Do i need to flash a custom one? And so when before flashing do i have to delete any of those files that are in the root of the zip? And the boot.imh what is, the rom? The recovery?
[Sony Xperia M] josedavidhcu:
And how do i access recovery to install the rom? Do i need to flash a custom one? And so when before flashing do i have to delete any of those files that are in the root of the zip? And the boot.imh what is, the rom? The recovery?
[Sony Xperia M] Nicklas Van Dam:
Yes boot.img is for recovery mode , you need to flash that from fast boot mode after you flash cm12.zip and gapps.zip too and don't forget to wipe data and cache after install both of them
[Sony Xperia M] josedavidhcu:
But do i need root to flash the recovery? Isnt impossible to flash the recovery after flashing the new OS? Lolll
[Sony Xperia M] Nicklas Van Dam:
if you still in unlock bootloader condition you can flash recovery and anything with fasboot mode bro, just try it and have fun with this:D
[Sony Xperia M] josedavidhcu:
Okk I will do that :) tell me if I have to delete one of the files from the zip? Like the system.xda
[Sony Xperia M] Nicklas Van Dam:
you don't need to deleted any files from this zip bro, only flashing and look it what happen next;)