yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artem1:
So basically, for a Soft Brick that can't be recovered via Odin standard stock fw and if the mysterious 'test firmware' for your model does not exist (not easily googlable), is this JTAG rig box the ONLY way to go? I'm not too convinced to spend 130 quid for a frankenstein box that may or may not work. I wonder what are the chances of any of these 'phone repair shops' having a JTAG and knowing how to reanimate a soft brick ?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithross39:
Yeah.....I wasn't suggesting you go and buy one.....I just put that link in for information......and most good independent repair stores will at least know what a riff (jtag) box is......Some may even have one and know how to use it......try Googling jtag or riff services and add the name of your town/city at the end......you could get some hits.......

If/when you locate one, make sure to ask if they offer a 'no fix, no fee' policy.......

Sent from my rooted Kn0x0 SM-G900F S5
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shanghei:
I sent it to samsung and they sent it back saying knox tripped and wont repair
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toadnode48:
I'm shocked Samsung won't repair at all?? Surely they can make a few bucks out of it?

I wonder if the phone wouldn't turn on at all, whether or not they'd be able to check the Knox is tripped?

Years ago, my dad had issues with a retailer who kept sending back his defective PDA with "no fault found"....until he microwaved it. Then it got replaced under warranty as it wouldn't turn on at all! ;)

Just a thought....
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithross39:
Lol......Thanks to the waterproof design of our phones, we can't even drown them now......:D:D:D

Sent from my rooted kn0x0 S-MG900F S5
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qubbus:
Electric shock from tasser or paralyser is better but must be done in specyfic way :) Very very difficult to find anything ;)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 215lizl97:
IMPOSSIBLE to root my S5

I've tried tried Everything to root my Samsung Galaxy S5, but haven't had any luck.

By coincidence, I learned my identity was stolen VIA my smart phone. It has been used to remotely connect Someone who is a jerk, but also rather genius. It appears the hacker used Nexus rather than Samsung as a starting point, which is what I'm looking at now.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gyrex:
What is a "door step"?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laser2k:
So my nexus 4's glass screen shattered today :( and also the digitiser broke. The lcd still works and the rest of the phone seems to be fine.

Anyway, for some reason the phone is automatically restarting after I hold the power button for 10 secs to force power off. Also the phone boots fine into lollipop and with what little part of the digitiser that works I can access the notification bar and go into settings meaning its operating ok as far as I know.

I have no clue how to diagnose what's causing this, please help!!!

Thanks in advance
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Planterz:
Holding the power button causes a reboot, not power-off.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Hold the power button for 20 to 30 second. The Google logo will pop up once, keep holding the button and it should turn off after that.
[XDA Assist] :
I've had a rather bad experience with the Nexus 5 in the last few days. The 5.0.1 update crashed my phone and now, i'm not even able to get into the bootloader menu. When I took it to an authorized service centre, they said i'd have to replace the motherboard at my expense. I asked who i can contact about it, they said Google.

When i called google, they told me that since i didn't buy the phone on the play store, they can't help. Now that doesn't make sense to me. It is a Google phone. And the operating system, made by Google, is what messed up my phone. Why aren't they taking responsibility for it? How can they choose what phones can be repaired and what can't? Have they suddenly become elitist like Apple?

I asked around and may of my friends and their friends have also faced similar problems. I went to the Nexus forums, and found the same. Have other people reported similar issues here?
[XDA Assist] Negan:
Your best option is to register and ask your question here

One of the experts in that forum may be able to help you.

good luck
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kewlpanda:
ive looked around for a stock rom for my phone ive been searching for ages can anyone upload one please and i got my phone from australia heres all the details about my phone

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.18.0.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.19.21331147A1.09G

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main:

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

(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000

(bootloader) product: m8_ul

(bootloader) platform: hTCBmsm8974

(bootloader) modelid: 0P6B11000

(bootloader) cidnum: TELST001

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 0mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: off

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: 23c984e1

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Hi All !!

I was using this ROM for quite a while, thought i'll share my work with you all.

This is for i9200, But i am not sure if it would work for i9205.

Its based of stock i9200 i9200XXUDNK1 KitKat 4.4.2 from sammobile.com.

Its a mixture of Odexed and deodexed.

==============================================

The S5 features it has are,

Systemui of S5

Note 4 launcher (actually S5 launcher, i just themes the page navigator icons to look like Note 4)

Lockscreen of Note4

Settings of S5

Note 4 weather

Some S5 apps like Magazine, Group play, Group Camcoder, S5 gallery, S5 music, S5 contacts and dialer, SPlanner, SVoice, Voice Recorder, etc etc..

===============================================

Oops! lot of Note 4 mentioned above, but mainly its all got from S5.

Currently i am trying to search forums on how to make an Update.zip Rom so that you can all just flash it.

All i have now is just a backup of my Rom which i made using PhilzTouch 6.48

Please see the screen shots. attached.

Internet connection is slow.. so please gimme time to upload.

Will post the links soon on mediafire.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Features of this ROM - Unlike any other

Things you will notice on this ROM

=======================================================================

1: I made a unique tweak with air view turned on, Thers always a feedback on the screen whereever your finger moves be it lockscreen or any other window.

2: Power Saving in Settings shows Different options and Power Saving in Notification Toggle shows greyscale options.

3: Viper audio to boost the Audio output.

4: 31 toggles. Even S5 doesn't have so many toggles. But 31 looks best for our big screen.

5: funcitonal Quick connect and SFinder.

6: Watch on remote control on notification panel when turned on.

7: Life Companion (smaller font)

8: First available Ported Note 4 look launcher with no stupid pullup app to screw with it.

9: Note 4 weather widget (fully transparent)

10: Group Camcoder works

11: All the Apps are updated to their latest release.

12: Device Status - Official (but do not update)

13: No branding what so ever. I dint do it as i hate it when i have to see others Name or their logos on my phone. Its so annoying!!

14: Double tap the staus bar to sleep

15: 4 way reboot options

16: Haptic feedback enabled by default with sound for air view.(power saving can disable it)

17: Android Version shows 4.4.4 (but its just a tweak)

18: S5 icons on settings and S5 settings.. all working.. no bugs!!

19: First working S5 keyboard for our phones with all working functionality.

20: Some awesome things i did to the ROM that i am forgetting right now to mention.

21: I did no tweaks to the performance of the ROM as I dont wanna play with that part. You can do it yourself.

22: Floating windows and all other tweaks are part of XPOSD

=======================================================================

Why didn't i share this earlier?

I was too busy flashing lollipop ROMs..and just realised this was better than everythin else.

So, spent more time fixin problems on the phone and now i share my work with all of you.

Hope you Enjoy my ROM as i do - but then it really doesn't matter to me if you do not.

If you dislike my work, just remember that no one ever shared a stupid S5 ROM before while all the other phones like S3 s4 and Note 2 Note 3 etc all had developers making S5 and note4 roms for these devices and none for us.

Feel free to rip my ROM apart and do whatever you want with it.

Thanks to Blekota for his Samsung S3 ROM. It made my Mega alive!!

Thanks to unclefab too.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] unclefab:
You don't need to make a zip if you are rooted.

From your phone, open your android terminal and type:

su

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p20 of=/sdcard/system.img

Wait a bit, after a while you'll have your system.img in your sdcard (but make sure you have sufficient storage as it's a pretty big file).

Then, to anyone wanting to push it on one's phone, put the img file on your sd and type:

su

dd if=/sdcard/system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p20

You can do it from adb too, just type adb shell before su.

If the phone doesn't boot after flashing the img you'll have to wipe wipe data and cache.

Did you keep the original boot.img or did you flash the S5's?

In case you used the S5's boot.img and want to add it to your rom, type this:

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 of=/sdcard/boot.img

[MENTION=638657]bevinabraham[/MENTION] :

my connection is pretty slow too so I'd like to ask you 2 questions before I attempt to download:

1-did you replace the whole system/app and the whole system/framework folders?

2-how is the multi windows function? Any difference compared to the stock Mega 4.4.2?

Do you have that note 4 feature that enables to resize full screen windows from the screen edges (swiping down from either top left or top right)?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
The proper way is to use an android kitchen (e.g. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=633246) but it seems that may be out of your wheel house. There are also ways to make a full update zip of your ROM via nandroid and some play store apps.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Hi,

Actually thats not what i am trying to do.

How to people get the starting new set up wizard etc when you just flash a rom? how do i export all the folders such as the whole system folder with the boot.img in it into a update.zip?

any code for that?

To answer your second question..

I did not replace the whole System APP PrivAPP and the framework folders as its a larger resolution that ours..

So, I just ported only a few files from the system app and a few files from the priv app and a lot of lib and etc files and twframework files.

Then i modded the stock frameworkres.apk file from the framework folder with the s5 frameworkres,apk .

So its pretty much the whole that we see outside is all of s5 stuff..but everythin under it which we cant see (are the stock functions)

and its not themed if thats what u meant.. the lockscreen is of note4..

The floating windows i got using Xposed framework. i can resize it..

The multiwindow is stock multi window.. from the DNK1 rom.. its slightly diff that the old ones i guess as u can add and edit items,.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Yes.. i ll try this.. i saw it in the recovery of PhilzTouch.. to clone the ROM.

trying it now.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] unclefab:
The boot.img, if I understood well you kept the one from the mega so you can forget that part.

Then, there's no need for any starting wizzard, people just flash your system.img and get whatever tweaks you put inside, that's it.

You can of course use android kitchen, but the method I gave you is by far the easiest and the fastest.

Nowadays I use this method, I make my rom the way I like it and add this or that, then I make an .img image ready for flashing, and I only use android kitchen if I need to edit my boot.img.

Lat but not least, once you have a system.img you can pass it through 3 commands and make it an odin flashable file for people that aren't rooted.

Reagrding note 4, I'm not interested in lockscreen stuff, I just wanted to know if the multi windows function in your rom is the same than in the stock mega Kk or if it has new features.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
oh okay.. i guess i ll do this then. :)

thanks.

Right now its still creating an update zip...but i can see a line that says system.ext4.tar.a

so..probably thats not what i expected.

i ll use your method..

thanks a lot.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] djraz:
wow pls port to gti9205. me to try port this to gti9205
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
I am onot sure if it would work on i9205, but then there is no reason why it should not work as this rom does not have the baseband/modem file etc.. just the boot and the system.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] djraz:
hy man . used base stock MegaKatI9205Deodex v18 and added s5 apps features so work nex apps : svoice,calculator bug layout, loockscreen partiality, launcher partiality bug icons, and can't change wallaper, file manager, calculator bug layout, music player, video player,group palyer,browser,album,bootscreen, app manager but not work keyboard.. gallery don't work.. so now i need fix next bug. layout. so i need redit dpi
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
s5 rom for mega

Uploading my Rom to mediafire.

Will post the links soon by tomorrow afternoon.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] djraz:
bevinabraham pls share with me ur systemui.apk ,tw or launcher4,loockscreen,dialer+contacts,secsettings,camera. u used for ur porting..and keyboard. because i have somproblem with this files for my porting.. pls send me and reply
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Hi,

I just saw ur S5 sway ROm for i9205.

Congrats dude.

So both i9200 and i9205 will have the S5 rom features. Awesome :D

i got the apps frm here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2690997
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] djraz:
pls share me this files.. because u some files edit and putt in ur rom.. so i need them for mi pack pls.i write u in pm message
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Micha71:
Hey man..(bevinabraham)... This becomes fantastic certainly!! If it can hardly wait for my Mega to the S5. To make Mega :D
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Hi thanks dude.

Wait for 24 hours.. i ll reach office tomorrow and upload the ROM (they have fast internet connection) :p
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Blekota:
Good luck with your ROM ;) :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] djraz:
blekota pls support me djraz and bevinabraham to recompile file system ui, dialer+call e secsettings.calculatyor and tw layout display..
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
Can you stop posting this everywhere. You are the same person that stole other people's work and posted it without permission. You have now posted 5 times in the past day begging for help. It violates xda rules to bump more than once in 24 hours. Stop.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
System IMG to Update.zip

Hey,

I need help trying to make a System.img into a flashable update.zip

Any Ideas? I flashed the ROM which i wanted to share via ODIN and i get an Unsupported: Dev_type error.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] djraz:
system img u need recovert and fix layout.. me too have this problem but now i edit and in some hours flash and see maybe fix the problem
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Sorry i did not understand?

Uploading the backup.. 48%
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] djraz:
sysyemui,keyboard,calculator,secsettings work fine 100%? on ur device?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
ROM Uploading

ROM is uploading now, the link will have the ROM once it finishes the upload.

I tested it and it Restores fine finally..

Hope you all would enjoy the ROM

And yes. everythin works.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] djraz:
time remaing for upload files? man added u on fb and send u pm on fb.. pls reply
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
HI,

Sorry for such long delay..

the thing was i tried making many possible ways for all of you to flash it.. but every time the system.img would turn out to be corrupt and i could not flash it myself.

finally now i used Philz Recovery to take a full backup.. and restoring from it works fine. I just checked now.

5 hours back.. i started uploading and when it reached 50% i realised there were two hidden files that did not copy to the zipped folder i made that was uploading.. so..cancelled it.. and added those two files.. and reuploading.. now its at 13%

When you guys extract the zip.. make sure there are totally 12 files and not 10.. as two of them looks hidden .

The ROM file wil be available in the download link in mediafire after the upload completes.. u can check i gues 3 hours from now.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Danai2014:
The rom can't flash zip via cwm?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Hi,

No.. it cannot.. as i dont use an Android Kitchen to make the Zip.

The only System.img i exported thinkin of making a tar.md5 file (so that you can flash via odin) was corrupted.

Finally..only the Philzrecovery backup worked.

I rechecked whatever im uploading now. Its works..

I know its a headache.. but.. i found no other way.. Sorry
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
ETA on the upload?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
Downloading!

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[Samsung Galaxy Mega] unclefab:
Sorry to reply late, I've been busy today.

To flash system.img in recovery with a zip I think this should work:

ui_print("");

ui_print("Install system");

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

ui_print("");

ui_print("Done");
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Micha71:
Unfortunately, hey Bevinabraham, it does not function(work). Could you maybe try to make a Zip from it? Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
OK, here's what's going on:

I did everything you said to do in the guide, and the only thing extra I had to do to get it to flash was turn off md5 verification in philz settings. BUT here's the thing. If you're running an NJ1 Modem, you won't be able to connect to Wi-Fi or Cellular Network. I don't it works on the SPH-L600, but it might just be the fact that I'm using the wrong modem. I'll try to flash a different modem and see if that works
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Hi,

Try to flash your stock NJ1 modem file again .. it might work, or use any latest modem..for ur device.

I ll make another update zip with only system.img this time.

It might work.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
If it doesnt work still after flashing a modem.. then flash ur original modem and then replace the etc and the hw egl folders with ur ROM.

replace all the files in ur system,. set permissions and reboot

it ll work
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
OK, thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Making another SYSTEM.img zip..

im gonna flash and check if it works.. I fit does work.. i ll upload that..

Easier for people to flash...
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
Does anyone know how to flash a modem through philz? I know the easiest way to do it is through Odin but I would like to do it all from my phone... Please help!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
Yes, in the GT-N7000 forums there is a modem thread. There are flashable zips of modem files there. You should be able to modfiy one of those with 7zip (no compression) to have one for this device. Be careful if you don't know what you are doing.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Ntech02:
Where do you find the i9200 modems?

yeah Hi ive flashed it successfully on my i9200 using the first method, the zip file is too slow on download.

but the wifi doesnt work.... i just wanna know where in the world do you find the other modems for the i9200? preferably the "DNK1" since thats the one you recommended
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Uploading DNK1 modem and the DNK1 boot.img

I guess just flash the boot.img (should work..If does not work, flash nhlos.bin (modem) through ODIN.

How to flash Modem ?

Ans: Use Odin 3.0.4

1: Reboot phone to download mode, uncheck auto reboot

2: Flash Modem

3: follow step 1 again and this time check auto reboot

4: follow step two

Reboot to system and check about phone ->baseband. It should show DNK1
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Minimalcriminal:
Hey ! Great Work . :good: will try this on my device
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Ntech02:
it worked by just flashing the modem twice.

btw you should add to place the file under "PHONE" and not "PDA"

thanks bud! love the rom
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Ntech02:
Also the "WiFi Calling" isnt Wifi Calling, Its the Download Booster if you could do an update with that fixed thatd be great :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
I have no idea what I'm doing, can you help me?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Hey,

If ur the sprint user, i am not sure if flashing this modem will help you.

You could just replace the etc and the egl folders that has the files *ril* from sprint to this rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
I'll try this, thank you!!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
Do I replace them after I've already flashed the ROM? Do I just copy them into another folder and then manually replace them or flash them?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] djraz:
bevinabraham why u don't request me all files for make a complete rom flashable mode.. why used this trick for make s5 look!! similar to fake.. so someone reset phone default mode and!! need reaply all step to have s5 look.much better and simple flash zip and voila.. i have 90%s5 app ported for mega device. now added all for my gti9205 and work niece without any xmodule...
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
Why do you keep trolling this thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
Don't mind him, he's just some dumbass
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
Replacing RIL files???

How do I do this to get it to work on Sprint? Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
You would have to replace the specific files he modified in the system partition with those in your system partition, and set proper permissions. Maybe he will be kind enough to post a list of all files modified.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
That would be sooo helpful! Please do this! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
Replacing RIL files

Which RIL files did you replace, and how did you replace them?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
Hi,

SOrry for the delay,

Since yours is the sprint rom..

Take a 4.4.2 sprint rom.

go to system etc - copy apn conf.xml to my rom same path replace (will giv u the network config from the sprint.)

go to system etc permissions folder and replace this file from sprint to mega android.hardware.telephony.gsm.xml

Go to system lib - copy all the files with the letters *ril* and replace them in my rom.

flash ur baseband of 4.4.2 sprint rom

should work..

If it does not work.

make backup of current setup.

replace all the files (only files in lib not folders) in the system lib folder.

try to boot. if it boots it will work, if it doesn work folow next step, if it doesn boot (then i really cant help much.. but i can tel u hw to port most of the stuffs frm my rom to ur 4.4.2 rom.)

Next step - if it boots and still no network replace all the files frm etc permissions and the files from etc folder (dont replace other others).

reboot.

If it boots good.

try to take a log..to see whats the erros.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
forgot to add..

make sure permissions is 644 or your phone might not boot.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bevinabraham:
and if u need to know how to replace them,

I use es file explorer to replace all the files if i am on a rom ...and use terminal emulator to set recursive permissions.. (especially when u replace many files and it ll be hard to set permissions for files one by one..
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] :
I replaced all of the files, and set permissions, and it boots up and displays Sprint! But for it to actually get signal I need to call someone. Also, the wifi immediately turn off when I try to turn it on. Any suggestions?