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[Note Edge General] NekoShinigami:
When you made the backup and when you did the restore did you bsckup/restore system or just data boot efs and modem? System should contain your os. If not I have a backup I've made from a band new device right out of the box but when I "restored" it on a different phone the phone became super laggy. Granted it works if you are like I was and had no alternative but not the most desirable effect. I have no idea how to use the windows program to restore your phone, I didn't use it. The only things I've used on windows was rsd lite for my Motorola devices and Odin for Samsung devices, oh and occasionally the windows root apps when needed. If you cannot recover let me know and I'll try to upload my full stock no su file to something, probably Dropbox because screw waiting for a dl from those other file hosts, and then send you a link.
[Note Edge General] DrPhant0m:
I'm sorry if I'm out of bounds on this... but... I don't know a better place to post.

I'd like to pick up either a Note 4 or a Note Edge Developer Edition, but the retail cost is prohibitive (for me).

Anyone here looking to sell their device? I've got a bunch of Amazon gift cards (gifts and rewards programs stack up), so I'd prefer to buy it via Amazon... or I could always have like 30 "three wolf moon" shirts shipped to your door as a trade. :laugh:

Again, I know I'm just stepping in here and sort of disrupting the thread with this request, but if it pans out, I'll become an active participant.

PM me if interested. I'll subscribe to the thread, as well, to keep up to date. Thanks!
[Note Edge General] NekoShinigami:
I believe there is a buy/sell/trade forum on here somewhere, however you probably stand a better chance geting seen here since i wouldnt have gone there myself even though i had considered selling my second note edge. but i believe i will be holding onto it for now as it has proven an invaluable asset when needing to recover my primary device. Perhaps when i am able to get a working custom rom running that i can use to start over with whenever i'll consider selling again.
[Note Edge General] DrPhant0m:
Thanks for the info! I think I've seen buy/sell/trade forums, but I thought they sort of discouraged that when they put the swappa link at the top of the xda site console. I don't blame them... xda isn't a marketplace, and there are no guarantees. This is one of several reasons why I'd like to set something up to be sold on Amazon, but arranged here.

Anyway... good luck with your custom ROM! New developers and development are always welcome. Hopefully I'll have a chance to try it out soon. Keep me in mind if/when you decide to sell. PM me when the day comes.

Thanks again
[Note Edge General] NekoShinigami:
will do. currently trying to find a way to extract boot.img from my device since there is no ROMs or stock tar files running around for the n915v dev edition im having trouble getting the files. I have mostly everything else though...

I am wondering if I make a backup of boot in TWRP then install a rom that doesn't have boot.img but do a restore of boot from TWRP afterwards would I get a brick or a functioning device.... don't know if I should try it though. and I've been searching for a few hours now and no tutorials on how to extract boot.img so far. all I can find is "download a rom or tar file, extract with 7zip, grab bot.img file" nothing as of yet that says I can use terminal emulator or a Linux terminal with a few commands to get a copy of it...
[Note Edge General] DrPhant0m:
As far as getting stock tar files... have you tried here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-N915V/ ?

As for extracting boot.img...

I looked around, and found the following options. Did you try anything like these...?

http://howtorootcherrymobilesnap.weebly.com/adb/how-to-extract-img-files-via-adb-ex-bootimg

http://androidforums.com/threads/without-pc-unpack-edit-repack-boot-img.811999/

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1929222

The first one seems to be a clean way of extracting *.img files from an Android device via ADB. The first comment gives another link to cooking a ROM using dsixda kitchen tool, as well.

The second one is done exclusively on the device via terminal emulator. (You do need busybox installed for some of the commands, tho)

The last one is how to extract boot.img from a stock Samsung device.

None of them are especially "fresh" threads, so hopefully the methods are still valid. The second option was penned in January of 2015, so that's not bad.

I hope this helps! This is what the "Developer Edition" is really for! I just want one to get permanent root and be able to modify system files (adaway, xposed mods, etc) lol
[Note Edge General] NekoShinigami:
The two files on sammobile are not the developer edition.

smn915vvru1anl1 is the stock firmware that comes with the retail version of the device, that's what was on mine before I returned it to get the dev edition.

smn915vruaoc1 is something else, maybe an OTA update?

the firmware I would need a .tar of to get the boot.img from in that way would need to be smn915voyu1anl1 I was able to get a boot.img file using the terminal emulator and the commands on that second link, however when I open it in a hex editor it is all

00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

00000008 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

and it keeps going from there... does that mean it is empty or did I grab the wrong file, boot could be different on this device from the device used by the writer of that guide... or I could be wrong there.

i'll take a screenshot then upload it

as for android kitchen I have that already, I have everything my system folder, my updater script everything but boot.img. I can try to attach the boot.img I extracted as well if anyone knows what it should look like let me know. i'm going to try to go forward editing the rom with what I have, and see what happens, if it fails at flashing boot i'll know why.

quick question though, if I was to make a rom without the boot file but had a TWRP backup of boot could I flash the rom then restore boot in TWRP and it still work?
[Note Edge General] DrPhant0m:
I thought the only difference from the retail version was the addition of an aboot partition on the DE. Delete that or flash a fw without it... and you have yourself a retail version.
[Note Edge General] NekoShinigami:
I thought the difference was in the qfuse that would trip on the retail version when you tried to flash a custom rom. I assumed that was removed for the developer edition. Not sure though cause I seem to remember reading in the gs4 thread that someone flashed a retail rom on their developer note 4 and it became a retail version and they wasn't able to go back for some reason. I'm guessing since it is a virtual fuse it was likely in that rom so i wouldn't want to push my luck using any part of a retail rom to finish off a developer edition rom.
[Note Edge General] DrPhant0m:
My understanding is that they take the retail hardware right off the line at Samsung and unlock the BL using a private key that's device specific. In other words, you can't use it to unlock another device... unless you were somehow to "decode" it to be universal. (Discussion for another thread) I believe the key/info is stored in the aboot partition, which is exclusive to the Dev Edition. Lose the aboot partition, and you lose the unlock key, and you have a Retail Edition.

You're not wrong about the presence of "software fuses" present on Samsung hardware... but it's related more to "tripping knox" if I understand correctly. Attempting to flash unofficial firmware in Odin will "trip knox" if it doesn't smell right to the phone. I don't know how/if you can trip knox on a Dev Edition. Maybe you can't... maybe knox doesn't exist. Knox is really just a "tamper evident seal" on the phone software that is used to guarantee security for enterprise-level apps. The vast majority of people only care about it because tripping it will void the warranty.

Many, many, many Samsung users would glady "trip the knox flag" if it meant we could unlock the bootloader... but it's still not possible without the presence of the private key stored in the aboot partition.

So... you're not wrong, but I think you've essentially got the "cause" and "effect" switched as to what makes a Dev Edition.

---------- Post added at 09:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:44 AM ----------

Getting back to your finding the correct software to start your own ROM...

I'd suggest you skim through the ROMs available for the Note 4 DE (or Note Edge, if any are available), and ask the dev of the ROM where and how to get / extract the base for their ROM.
[MENTION=5868929]hsbadr[/MENTION] just released JasmineROM for the Note 4 DE not long ago... and he's really well-informed and usually very responsive. I run JasmineROM on my Note 3. Contacting him or other devs could give you a lot of answers to your specific questions.

Good luck! :good:
[Note Edge General] NekoShinigami:
That sounds like a good idea. I had thought of asking some of the other note edge rom builders for a different carrier, but never thought about going to the note 4 thread.

Also on your other thing about the device specific key, would a backup of aboot help a more informed dev in finding the algorithm used to make the keys? If so I would be glad to upload mine for them to compare to if there is a thread for that. Not sure who is looking into these things.

Anywho thanks for the advice I'm gonna try that for sure.

Update: Sent him a pm now just see if he replies and has some insight for me. I'm kinda curious if I could use recovery.fstab or boot.img from the note 4... the twrp from note 4 works on the edge. Just a thought.
[Note Edge General] DrPhant0m:
Ummm... There may be a few devs that are interested, and you're more than welcome to throw your needle into the haystack. haha. I'm sure it's wrapped up with some high-level encryption, but you never know. I'd think that if they were making a serious push for it, that one or more devs trying to crack the code would have posted here asking for copies of the aboot partition. Feel free to do some searches and reach out in other threads. You miss every shot you don't take, as they say.

If you're referring to [MENTION=5868929]hsbadr[/MENTION], my guess is that he'll respond pretty quickly. He'll have all the answers you need.

I don't know where the lines of compatibility are drawn. phonearena.com seems to indicate that the Edge has an Exynos, but I don't think that's true for the US/Verizon model. If the hardware is nearly identical, save for the additional pixels on the note edge, it wouldn't surprise me if most of the deep-system stuff is interchangeable, too. Obviously you'll want to make sure you get the resolution right to include the "Edge" screen for any cool gingerbread features you want to add to a custom ROM.
[Note Edge General] NekoShinigami:
A few of them do have the Exynos, I believe someone posted a custom kernel that would work on like 3 versions of the phone with the Exynos chipset. I'm guessing all the rest are the Qualcomm snapdragon chips. I'm sure he had a lot on his plate though so he will answer when he is free to do so. Meanwhile I'm gonna try to push forward with what I do have and at least get the mount points for android kitchen and see what happens.

I am assuming that if i use the dev edition boot.img from the note 4 worst case scenario would be the edge becomes just a normal part of the screen. Although I'm thinking the edge panels are something in the system files though. So maybe a softbrick at most. Flash one of my backups would recover me I think.

I like where this thread is going you you are giving me lots of ideas. I want to try this tonight when I get home.
[Note Edge General] DrPhant0m:
... Let me know when you're comfortable enough with the devices to sell one of them to me. ;)

Best of luck!
[Note Edge General] NekoShinigami:
Just tried again on the other device to get the boot.img from stock and I got the same file. All 0s so I'm def doing it wrong. Gonna look into that idea involving the note 4 dev ed tonight. Gonna make a backup as soon as I get the file downloaded and see if it works with ak.

Quick question though, if it works I want to make sure I can share it here, I've noticed other roms come with things like busy box and the terminal emulator pretty installed. Is this because they have a partnership with those developers as well or is is it because it is the free versions so no one cares?

Just thinking about it because I plan to replace the default tw launcher with a third party launcher I like better. Of course I do plan to email the developer before going through with it but just want to make sure XDA doesn't frown on that since this is the first time I've done this in not familiar with the procedures here.

EDIT: ok i found this string in the note 4 updater script:

package_extract_file("boot.img", "/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot");

im going to try this to get my boot.img, i believe now i was getting the wrong file, the file in the tutorial was probably right for their device, but on the note 4 and note edges im assuming it has been changed. wish me luck!! ^_^

EDIT 2: GOT IT! got the boot.img and it has the !android header 1 step closer now. i was definitely extracting the wrong file.

EDIT 3: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3127896

finished it. In case anyome is still lopking here for updates.
[Note Edge General] valsivief:
Hi dear,

I'm so confused about the developer edition coz i have one from Verizon SM-N915V unlock and i want to root it .

Is it possible to use this method ?

Thanks in advance :)
[Note Edge General] Vorridor:
Is it the Developer's Edition?

[MENTION=6430768]NekoShinigami[/MENTION], did you ever get boot.img extracted? If not, I may have found a way to do this from the phone itself.
[Note Edge General] ginnz:
Hi guys, I have a quick question, and maybe you guys can help me! I recently picked up a used Verizon Note Edge SM-N915V and would like to know how I could tell if its the Developer's Edition? I'm in Canada, and am running it on MTS Mobility network, as its carrier unlocked. I tried a couple other sim cards in it, and it works. I'd like to be able to root this thing, but cannot find anything on rooting the SM-N915V.

Is there any way to tell if the the Dev. Edition?

TIA,

Ginnz.
[Note Edge General] max366:
Turn off phone then hold volume down, home button, and power button to get into download mode. It will ask you to push volume up to continue , do so. The next screen will display information at the top. If your phone is a dev edition it will say mode:developer on one of those lines. If it is not a dev edition and you want it to be convert it here

Permanent root is only attainable through a dev edition so if you have a dev edition or decide to convert to one the root process is here
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Raeldor:
I guess this means this problem isn't fixed? Is this a ROM problem or is there something else at work here?

Thanks
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Inquisitom:
Which NEW rom ??
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Raeldor:
Wwe_1.23.405.2_103_6275_1.38.00.11_108_gps
[P3600 Software Upgrading] sammis:
Did you restore from a backup after running the new rom?
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Raeldor:
No, re-formatted my 2gb stick to fat32 and put my files from my 1gb on.
[P3600 Software Upgrading] sAnTeE:
I've got a 2gb transcend and I have the same problem:confused:
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Matterhorn:
Why not try this Hermes reg tweak fix?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=299140&page=2
[P3600 Software Upgrading] belyj:
On my Corsair 2GB minSD got folder names scrambled and/or disappearing with AND without the registry fix... No particular pattern or reason noticed so far, will keep looking :-(
[P3600 Software Upgrading] sAnTeE:
I've just modified it with the previous ROM, it disappears rarely, BUT IT DISAPPEARS:confused:

Now with AKU 3.3.1 it has still not happened:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mazoooo:
So...

I have tried to root my tablet what I bought from dealextreme. Geniusroot,iroot,MTK tools etc..

Now I installed MTK tool and Is it seems that I dont have quad-core..

Is there enythink that I can do to root my device?

Is there a change to install CWM to tablet?

Spec: dx.com/p/d101-hd-10-1-android-4-4-quad-core-dual-3g-tablet-pc-w-2gb-ram-16gb-rom-white-348926

Photobucket I have pictures from MTK 2.5.3 tool: ( Can't post image becouse newbie)

i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah251/masoookk/mtk_zps847ba78b.jpg

i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah251/masoookk/mtk2_zpse9dd1911.jpg
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] serGioxXx:
And I want root this tablet, you did?

I trying a many software but not work
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcrompton:
Chase Mobile banking app has been an on and off issue for a long while - various issues with my S2, S3, S4, Note2, and now my M8.

Up until they did an upgrade the app would only work on Sense based ROMs (some other theories out in the search realm where that the app checks for root or unlocked bootloader -- that is NOT the issue). All AOSP based ROMs or GPE ROMs would , when trying to do a mobile Deposit taking a image of the check within the app, return a solid green image. Currently with the latest update of the app the image is taken but the image in CM12, BlissPop, and / or GPE Roms is blurry ---- but using a Sense based ROM returns a useful image.

Is there any setting within the code for how an AOSP / GPE ROM uses the device camera that would cause the image to not focus properly? Contacting Chase app development is SLOW at best --- it took them over a year to solve the green image issue.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jollywhitefoot:
I'm having the same issue with blurry check deposit images using my bank's mobile app as well (Regions). I don't think it's necessarily due to not being on a sense-based rom, though, because I'm on InsertCoin 5.0.7 (sense).

When I'm on this stock ROM (pretty old, but the latest official offering from AT&T - http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8-att/news/), I can use the mobile deposit feature, but when I'm on any of the newest Roms, like InsertCoin or this one(http://xdaforums.com/att-htc-one-m8/development/att-4-4-3-2-22-1540-3-debloated-sense-6-t2837365), mobile deposit images are blurry.

I thought this might have to do with the updates that HTC made to the camera (where you can blur the background when taking pictures), but I haven't tested that theory. So, I think the banking app isn't using the updated camera app properly.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drenkin:
Any update or new discoveries? Or must one keep a nand backup of a sense ROM just to get the Chase app to function properly?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drenkin:
Still wondering. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maan Solanki:
Hi guys,

I tried some application like framaroot ,poot,king root and more other application but I didn't satisfied. Please help me to solve this ..

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b.j:
Root selfie 50

Just download towelroot apk from towelroot.com and install it

1. Click on v3 for 3 times

2. Change the code to 133700000

3. Click make1train

Thats all your selfie 50 is rooted

Just 1 min need and no need pc:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CracX0r:
from stweaks i put the lowest voltage to 100mhz and 900mv

everything works perfectly but it takes three hours to charge ( 20% to 95% )

when i was on stock it would take 1hr 45min

i have resurection remix rom 4.4.2

dorimanx kernel 10

is it the undervolt / underclock thats causing the problem? :confused:
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] bpark19:
Just wanted to share this awesome leather case for the Note 4 with you guys

It described that it is 100% made to order case and takes more than a week to complete an order but it's worth the wait and the money :)

What do you think of it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhNgdAOMtik

Personally, I prefer this hand-dyed leather case

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkfQS-vN9jU
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] sah0724:
I think ITS A GO!!!!

Love the case, I was considering it but at 100 shipped, that's a bit steep.
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] Amd4life:
That is very nice, but $100?, that is a bit much
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myeyeget:
Hey guys,

I have bought my xperia Z3 about 3 weeks ago and I've had a few problems with it recently

A week ago, the system on my Z3 crashed and was stuck in a bootloop eventhough it was on stock firmware with a locked bootloader.

I have fixed this problem by factory resetting my Z3 with Sony PC Companion.

However, ever since that reset, it seems that my Z3 reboots itself randomly. It reboots sometimes while I'm using the phone, it almost always reboots itself while I'm asleep.

I was wondering about how I could fix this problem without resetting my phone again. Would this have anything to do with the bootloop problem my phone had recently? If so, would be a hardware problem?

Thanks guys :D
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] neverhopp:
Hi all.

I have a Nexus 7 with CM11 installed by the CM installer in windows and it works fine but, when the tablet is on around 15 minutes, the immersive mode is blocked, I mean, when you play Clash of Clans and you try to swipe down at the top of the screen, the nav bar doesn't appear, and I don't know how to deal this.

Any solution?

Thank you
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] neverhopp:
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[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Defier525:
Hi guys,

I accidentally wrote a fat signature directly to mmc-flash and now my MBR is corrupted and I don't see partitions anymore in TWRP. Therefore I would be highly pleased if someone could send me his backup of the standard layout. You can obtain it via adb:

adb dd if=/dev/block/mmc0 of=/storage/sdcard0/partitionheader.img bs=1k count=128

This will copy the partition header to the mounted internal sdcard (requires root)

Many thanks in advance!
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] ElArchibald:
Here It Is.

View attachment 3108243
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Defier525:
Very cool, thanks a lot! Looks very much the same to mine, except its MBR seems to be intact (unlike mine). Will report here about progress with restoring it.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Defier525:
For the record: I just flashed the MBR (512 bytes) of ElArchibald's GPT and my Xperia V is back to life. Once again, many thanks!
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Aria.A97:
I think you should ask moderator to move this thread to General Forums ;)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Defier525:
You mean Xperia T/V general? Well, I think when not playing around with development you normally don't brick your GPT header, do you?

Oh, but it could fit nice in "help and troubleshooting" I guess.
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[LG G Watch R] Thomasvt:
What are the new features of the 10 Jan update?

And what's the difference between dual and single?

Thanks!

edit: I guess it has something to do with dual core and single core.
[LG G Watch R] intersectRaven:
It's an experimental kernel with new features. I didn't really expect anyone to be monitoring the FTP site for new unannounced releases which I usually do. :p Also, this is the beginning of my kernel for the GWR being released with either one or two cores enabled since from some people and my own testing, the single core actually works nicely now on par with the dual core version with even less power consumption so it's up to the people to decide which to use. :)