yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] stevey500:
Helping a friend, I have a T-Mobile s5 here that was working flawlessly on all stock software. Then installed the latest 2.8.3 TWRP using odin and proceeded to make a full backup including EFS to SD Card.

I installed the later CyanogenMod and gapps and then wanted to return to my stock backup to maintain full support for a Samsung gear watch. Rebooted to TWRP, attempted full-restore and restore said it was completed, but was not. It'd get part-way through recovering files and then jump to completed. Odd.

I then downgraded the recovery to 2.8.1 (my device is running that version and backup/restore seems to work great) and then attempted restore again. Says complete but fails and will not boot. Trying to do an advanced-wipe would give me errors and would not complete a simple wipe of System. I tried to restore again but with using md5 verification. With that enabled, the md5's fail- even on EFS.

I then just stock odin-installed stock firmware. The phone booted just fine, upon setting, network was working perfectly., ESN is good, etc. I then turned on WiFi and things were fine. Connected to a WiFi network and shortly after it would soft reboot itself. It'd do this every time I connected to a WiFi connection. I noticed sometimes when I went into the WiFi panel, there would be a message for a moment saying it was in Factory Mode.

So, it will NOT connect to a WiFi network now but everything else seems to be okay. Because we attempted restore of what seems to be a corrupt backup, I believe this could have caused EFS issues and I do not know what to do to fix this.

I have read so many different things and one being that backing up and then deleting the /EFS folder and rebooting may fix the WiFi issues but I didn't dare mess with that.

Any suggestions?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sambhavmathur:
Hey guys I'm Using SM-N9005 International version and I'd Like to use safestrap for

1. X-Note http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-3/development/rom-x-note-s5-v6-0-nh6-base-n9005-t2926052

2. MiUi v5 http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-3/development/rom-miui-v5-wonitor-4-7-20-t2824436

Will someone kindly tell me how to do this safely!

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sambhavmathur:
Can anyone help me?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sambhavmathur:
I need It!

Help guys! And does note 3 support OpenGL 4.0??
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] af2k:
[ Read the How To at the second post ]

Heya guys,

I just got yesterday my new Galaxy S5. I'm actually someone who is switching from the iPhone world to Galaxy.

I had a Note 2 in the past for some time and I'm sys admin so I'm a bit familiar with flashing and technical stuff.

Phone Information:

Model: SM-G900FD (or SM-G900MD?) (DuoS)

Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates

The phone came with stock rom 4.4.2. On the About Phone screen it shown SM-G900FD as model, directly from unboxing.

But when entering the Odin Mode it shows as product name SM-G900MD (which would fit the origin of course).

The first I did was downloading G900FDXXU1BNL9 (Android 5.0 SER (Russia)) and flash it with Odin. It works like a charm.

Then I tried dozen of different rooting methods, and failed every time, I spent I believe 10 hours on it already and flashed the phone about 30 times.

When flashing the stock rom, either the new G900FDXXU1BNL9 (5.0) or old G900FDXXU1ANF6 (4.4.2) it works like a charm.

The phone comes to life, Android is working fine.

As soon as I try to flash *any* other image, CWM, CF-Auto-Root or anything, it starts with "NAND Write Start!" and then in some seconds stops with "Complete(Write) operation failed." and the system ends up in a soft brick (Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.). I tried from every piece of software I could find many different versions. Different Odin versions. I tried Heimdall (Mac) and fastboot (Windows & Mac) without success. These two don't work at all with the phone. Heimdall can't correctly connect to the phone and download the PIT, I was reading its a bug with the newest bootloader of Samsung. And fastboot/adb can't see the phone, at all. While heimdall or odin can see the phone, so its not a driver issue that the OS can't recognize the phone.

I tried also different versions of CWM, CF-Auto-Root, either for SM-G900FD or SM-G900MD. No luck.

What I tried then was using towelroot, but it doesn't work with the newest Android. So I found a thread that stated to flash a old Kernel, which will give errors during booting but you can then root the phone with towelroot, and then flash the newest kernel back to the phone. I tried that, taking out the boot.img files from old and new firmware out and use a script to package them into .tar.md5 files and try to flash them with Odin. Even there, Odin reports FAIL! With the boot.img files from the stock images, which work fine flashing if I flash the entire stock image.

I tried also installing a old stock rom and try rooting it there with CWM/CF-Auto-Root. Same stuff, FAIL! flashing.

I'm a bit out of ideas right now. Does anyone ever encountered this? Or does have a hint on what could cause this problems?

Some threads I was reading (its a way more, but the list would be too long, I just add the most recent ones) and following:

Thank you very much for any assistance. I hope there is a possibility to root this phone :)

Cheers,

Sven

PS: My KNOX Warranty Void is already increased, so the warranty is killed already.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] af2k:
[HowTo]

Heya everyone again,

I just wanted to say that the last hope I had to try did work finally.

As every flashing of single partitions (eg. recovery.img, cache.img.ext4 or boot.img) failed, I did the following:

1. Take the image you want to have, in my case it is Android 5.0 SER (G900FDXXU1BNL9) stock image, and unpack it

2. Take the CWM, I used philz_touch_6.26.2-klte.tar.md5, and unpack it

3. Move the recovery.img file from the CWM to the image you want to flash and replace the original recovery.img

4. Package all together into one image.tar.md5 file, in my case it would be the stock image with the replaced CWM recovery.img

5. Flash it with Odin, it worked at me!

6. Proceed with the default rooting procedure of CWM (copy SuperSU, boot recovery, install ZIP)

You are done!

Steps to package the image.tar.md5 file (I used Mac OS X Yosmite):

The OS X tools (tar and md5) are NOT suitable! You should use brew install coreutils and use the gnu tar and md5sum commands. The OS X tar will produce a unusable tar file and Odin will crash, the OS X md5 produces a different output than md5sum (even when using md5 -r) and the verification will fail. When using Linux/Windows tar/md5sum tools all should be fine. If odin crashes when trying to flash it doesn't like how tar packaged up your file. Try a different tar version (better: operating different system).

I hope this helps people that encountered the same issue as me and they can now enjoy Android 5.0 with root on their SM-G900FD. :)

Cheers,

Sven
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] free007:
Well done!!

Well done !!

i was looking for this root for my phone M-G900FD

until i read your thread ,so please upload the ready made file to root my phone as i am not experienced in this matter

waiting for your feed back

thanks
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlwaysAndroid:
I had the same problem. I couldn't flash any other image whatever I did. And what I did was disabling reactivation lock within the settings. Worked since then.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] af2k:
I will look into this tomorrow and provide a ready image for this.

It didn't work out of the box at me. I checked right now within the settings and the reactivation lock is disabled already.

So we seem to face different problems. I still don't understand why flashing anything but an entire firmware is failing.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dobuy:
Well done indeed, would love to get my hands on your modded ROM, as in Dubai with new Duos just purchased today.

Any problems with Wifi passwords not being stored on re-boot?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danielfeng:
Looks like gtar needs to be installed separately. :)

$ brew install gnu-tar
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mhbraun:
This is what I was looking for...

I am not on OSX. Is there a possibility to get access to the modified image?
[General Topics] GunSper:
Click on the link and go to the register then go on to earn points to win Smartphones and other electronic devices

Link: http://goo.gl/4ciH19

Success!!
[Thinkpad Tablet General] bodivas:
Temp CWM-recovery​

1. Download and put the UPDATE-SuperSU-vX.Xx.zip on internal/external SdCard

2. Download, extract the folder IntelAndroid-FBRL and put on the C drive

3. Follow this guide (Use the option T3)

This is new version fixed by social-design-concepts (Please support its work with donations)

Now backup kernel with recovery too:

View attachment 3119966

Root, backup & restore on the external card works well:

View attachment 3119975
[Thinkpad Tablet General] social-design-concepts:
Maybe I could get you to send dumps of this device it be nice to get to the bottom of why the the updated version doesn't work on this device.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] bodivas:
Perhaps because the new version lacks the table mount points in recovery.zip/etc:

View attachment 3107582

Thanks for the great work!! 2P810+++++79361W
[Thinkpad Tablet General] social-design-concepts:
Give me moment I like to get the dump of fastboot.img recovery.fstab should be generated from the fstab droidboot / fastboot uses to handle partitions I'm making changes to the recovery.fstab generation so like to include fixes for this if their using other name or something.

If you could this should dump boot recovery fastboot and system

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95887005526788692
[Thinkpad Tablet General] bodivas:
I saw that when starting new version generates mount point right (mmcblk1p1) but fails to mount internal sd card the same. I added recovery.fstab in recovery.zip/etc and your new version 12-29-2014 works without problems! :confused:

All versions of yoga 2 (8,10,13) there year numbers and partitions sizes equal ..

For the kernel, recovery and fastboot, I had to use:

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard/boot.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 of=/sdcard/recovery.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/sdcard/droidboot.img

View attachment 3107675

Download dump_yoga2_830L

This is full stock firmware
[Thinkpad Tablet General] redhern:
Can we use this to dual boot with Yoga 2 tablet with Windows?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] social-design-concepts:
Thanks I'll download and see if i can resolve the issue
[Thinkpad Tablet General] bodivas:
First you have to have the dump of bios..
[Thinkpad Tablet General] redhern:
Is the bios available? I havent seen it mentioned in any of the posts.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] bodivas:
BIOS is present here but you have to know where to put. And then the windows do not care so much - I want CMmod

Here the guide for ONDA V975i

I do not want to risk (I've already lost imei on my 830L) with these experiments:rolleyes:
[Thinkpad Tablet General] blackdir:
successfully rooted but... no adb root nor adb remount

Hello,

I successfully rooted my 1050F device following this guide :D

Now I'd like to run adb as root and to be able to remount rw /system to put and remove staff there but the usual method don't work.

I tried adb root and adb remount but lenovo adb cannot run as root in production build.

I tried installing adb-insecure 2.0 which usually do the trick but when I patch the kernel from the app and use adb insecure demon the device is not seen by the PC with adb .

I also tried to remount with "sudo mount -o remount rw /system" but I cannot write in the /system partition

any suggestion?

thanks,

Dario
[Thinkpad Tablet General] vampirefo:
adb shell

su

mount -o rw,remount /system
[Thinkpad Tablet General] blackdir:
sure, that will work, but if you need to push several files it is very tim consuming as you need to copy to a temporary location on the device and then move them to /system

if you are able to get adb insecure you can create a batch file that you can run from the PC

Any idea about the reason why dab insecure is not working on this device?

Is it because the device is intel based and not Arm?

(if this is a stupid question, please forgive me as it is my first experience on Android Intel development)
[Thinkpad Tablet General] vampirefo:
Correct you need a adbd binary for intel fully rooted meaning its always root, or you need to have an unlocked bootloader, that allows flashing of modified boot.img.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] xterminater07:
I updated the system via OTA and root again but it said Failed: too many links or something like that but it continued and cwm is installed. Is this ok?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] djf2k6:
Have you tried flashing the bios yet or did you find any other ways to run windows on this tablet?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] xterminater07:
bodivas, could you post a guide on how to install windows on external sd card? The guide you posted when translated to english it is very hard to understand, and the onda is built on a different chipset, slower ones, so we would need to find intel baytrail drivers for it to work right. Also would the bios for the 1050 work on the 1350?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] JansenJohansen:
Rooted my Yoga 2 10" with the Jan. 10 OTA update installed, worked like a charm and the next best thing to a one-click root for noobs like me! :D

Thanks!
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Paran[dr]oid:
Here the same. 1380F with last OTA and root is rock solid [emoji106]
[Thinkpad Tablet General] jesusCris:
I have a problem

After I root my YT2-1050f, I can't enter recovery mode.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] jesusCris:
help me please

My yt2(10" android) official recovery is broken

I think it is because of the tip which is in this topic board concerning rooting

so I want a back up file.

could you help me!? Please
[Thinkpad Tablet General] bodivas:
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=613102&view=findpost&p=37165721
[Thinkpad Tablet General] redhern:
Thank you for the reply. I tried looking for the answer myself because you are so active on here helping others that I didn't want to waste your time. The link you gave is for the Windows BIOS update, not Android. On the Lenovo site I don't see any Android BIOS downloads, just the source code.

Is it possible to switch my BIOS to the Android BIOS to support dual booting Android and Windows? My tablet is the 1051 that originally came with Windows and I want to dual-boot both Windows and Android.

Many thanks!

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No, I cannot find the Android BIOS. My tablet is the 1051 that originally came with Windows. I'm trying to do the opposite of many of you I think. I did get Linux working on the tablet, but there are many drivers that I cannot find so it's not very useable, that's one reason why I want to get Android working on it.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
need reboot yoga 2-830F

I've got a Yoga Tablet 2 830F on android, I am blocked with it because i'm in recovery menu. When I try to reboot, the tablet doesn't want. I think I have deleted system app which is needed. Does someone can help me ? I search everywhere a ZIP file to flash to get access again to thé tablet un utilisation (launcher...)

PS : Sorry for my bad English
[Thinkpad Tablet General] bodivas:
LyMougli

This is your stock firmware (if you try to flash system.img only - your information will not disappear)

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/f314f54f78d4/YT2-830F_USR_S067_141105_WW21_ROW.rar
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
Thanks but

Thanks, how do I flash it ? I'm not really experimented. I can access to droidboot and recoveryboot only
[Thinkpad Tablet General] bodivas:
Look here (under spoiler) http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=638030&view=findpost&p=35452702

And here:

http://xdaforums.com/thinkpad-tablet/general/guide-root-yoga-tablet-2-pro-8-10-13-3-t2930428
[Thinkpad Tablet General] kajing:
Works w/ current firmware

Hi!

I just used this to root a 1050L with the latest firmware currently available - worked like a charm.

I'd like to add that the required USB driver for a Yoga Tablet can be had here http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/tablets/yoga-series?c=1 - simply download the Lenovo Smart Asistant and let it install the drivers, and only then do the whole rooting process.

Thank you!
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
impossible

The problem is that I can't flash system.img with flashtool or zip from a custom recovery... I can't access to internal storage because I can't open "android OS" and my computer doesn't recognize it, even with drivers... i'm really embarrassed
[Thinkpad Tablet General] 4VGU53R:
Could you be more specific ? what do you mean by you can't access your internal SD and can't open Android OS ?

You don't need to actually boot into the OS, but only the Recovery menu.

And as long as you install the right drivers, your PC should be able to recognize your device! what drivers have you installed and where did you get them ?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
ReFlash the tablet

I can access to recovery menu from lenovo and install a custom recovery. The drivers are the good ones, but I thnik this is because I'm on windows XP... so I recognize my tablet with "SnapPea" on computer. When I try a normal boot, I'm blocked at Lenovo bootimage about 10seconds and it reboots again and again. I just would like to flash the tablet with or without root, just to be able to use it back.

PS : Thank you for the attention and the time you take to answer to my problem
[Thinkpad Tablet General] 4VGU53R:
What version of XP are you using ? 32 bit or 64 bit ?

In the documentation, it says that Intel Phone Flash Tool supports Windows XP 32 bit.

Also Lenovo Smart Assistant Driver supports Windows XP both 32 & 64 bit.

I am not using XP at the moment, but i fail to see why you would need an app such as SnapPea here!

Are you sure you've installed the right drivers ? what does it say when you connect the tablet to your PC ? and how does it recognize it in your Windows Device Manager ?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
it's 32bits. PhoneFlashTool works, it recognize my tablet when it's on droidboot, but snappea and windows don't recognize it as a mass storage or multimedia. I tryed to flash the zip files someone gave me up in this thread, but it doesn't work with system.img and fastboot.img (look at the picture).
[Thinkpad Tablet General] 4VGU53R:
So i assume that you have installed all Intel drivers which come with Phone Flash Tool.

As i wrote earlier, i don't use XP, however when comparing to my setting, I noticed something different in the picture you posted; where it says Browse flash file, your path looks like this :

D:/documents/Tele..../YT2-830F_USR_S067_141105_WW21_ROW/target_bin.zip !

I checked it on two different laptops, and it doesn't show any ".zip" suffix. - it look like this:

C:/(your folder name which doesn't matter that much)/YT2-830F_USR_S067_141105_WW21_ROW/target_bin/flash.xml

Just to be sure, move the firmware files (all of them) in a different folder, such as your desktop.

Also, did you try to change "Force sparsing" from the default 100MB, to 500Mb in Phone Flash Tool options ? if you didn't, do it now and then try to flash the firmware, one more time.

BTW, Windows does not recognize this tablet as a "Mass Storage Device, no matter which version you use (XP , Vista, 7). it shows it as a "Portable Media player" device, without any drive letters.

However, you should be able to access your files on the internal/external SD without any problems.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
I did all of these things but always the problem with system.img flash...
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
Moreover, if flashing android back doesn't work, is it possible to flash on windows ? Because I know there are some version of the yoga tab 2 with windows
[Thinkpad Tablet General] social-design-concepts:
i can't really make out your error but if system.img is failing because the size is to large , if it's a raw ext4 system image ( not a android sparse ext4 ) use 7zip to compress it into a system.img.gz , unless specifically removed by the oem droidboots native flash utility supports flashing .gz compressed images . . .
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
it doesn't work to. Same problem at the same moment of flash... If someone knows how I could see my tablet operating again, I would be very happy, even with a custom rom or other
[Thinkpad Tablet General] social-design-concepts:
what happens when you flash it manually from the command line?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] vampirefo:
If fastboot won't flash the system.img dump it into a rom and flash via my recovery.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
let's try

Why not if it works well, could you show me what to downlad and how to do to flash your rom please ?

---------- Post added at 06:10 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:06 AM ----------

What is the command line ? I tryed to flash many times with zip,img,gzip... On flashtools. And I tryed to install zip from sdcard in a custom recovery I found on the net. With flashtools it says allways the fastboot or system problem, with custom recovery the installation of zip is always aborted
[Thinkpad Tablet General] social-design-concepts:
fastboot flash system <path to system.img>
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
what do I do with that ?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
always doesn't work

look at this try today, allways problem with system.img :crying:
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
where to found a rom ?

T'at's what I would like to do but I didn't found roms on the internet... Do you know and can show me one to install ?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] vampirefo:
You have to unpack the system.img you are trying to flash and build a flashable rom from it.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
LOL but I am a beginner and I don't know how to build one, and if you look at my previous posts, the problem is always with system.img file...
[Thinkpad Tablet General] vampirefo:
That picture means nothing to me, I don't use windows, I don't use that type of tool, I only use fastboot or my recovery. SDC and others brag on that type of tool, as for me I see users like yourself unable to use it, so to me the tool is useless.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] usafle:
Sorry to hijack this thread but there really isn't a place to ask questions about the specifics of this tablet. Was thinking about picking one up to replace my aging Nexus10. Is it a worthy upgrade? I've also read that there is some confusion about the device being able to read NTFS on the MICROSD. True or false?

If you could quote me in your reply so I get the notification that would be great. Thanks all.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
discovered the problem ?

I saw this in droidboot on the tablet, is it normal or is it the problem I have ?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] LyMougli:
Moreover

Here is what there is one the tablet screen when trying and failing flashing system.img

This CMD (download : 1ece8ba8)... stays on screen and I can only shut down the tablet by pushing power button 10seconds