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[General Topics] alma23:
Hi guys, I'm going to buy a new smartphone because my old Galaxy Mini 2 has become really slow and laggy even for simplest things.

I need your suggestions about smartphones between 180-220€ (205-250$).

The only surely good smartphone I know with that price is Motorola Moto G LTE.

Now I would like to hear the suggestions of xda users because an important aspect for me is modding.

Thank you all :good:
[General Topics] awyeahh1:
if I had 250$ to buy a phone.. it would be a gently used nexus 5. no question about it.
[General Topics] alma23:
It's a good idea but i I'd rather avoid used smartphones, what about 2GB ram Asus ZenFone 5?
[General Topics] awyeahh1:
ZenFone is a decent choice if you don't mind the ZenUI..
[General Topics] eegii9999:
How about G3 everyone?
[General Topics] sublimaze:
If your budget is < $300 and used phones are out of the question, then your choices are limited. Moto G LTE is probably your best bet, especially if you are into modding. However, I would suggest saving a little more for a OnePlus One.
[General Topics] alma23:
You're the man!

OnePlus One is the best choice, I'll save up some more money, no doubt.

Thank you all guys :good:

Just bought an OPO, hooray!
[HTC Desire 500] edmcraver:
I'm a newbie to this. Can anyone help me to S-Off my HTC Desire 501. I did unlock the bootloader and Rooted it. Can someone give me a proper guide. Thanks
[HTC Desire 500] Razvan:
Sir,

Please wait until mods will move this thread to the device specific forum for more relevant answers.

Stand by

Good luck
[HTC Desire 500] faizebrown:
Htc desir 501 S-OFF Solution needed

Htc desir 501 S-OFF Solution needed
[HTC Desire 500] faizebrown:
hi

Can some one reply here so we can sort our problem out ??

;);););););););););):p
[HTC Desire 500] mukesh07:
HI

Hello please any one reply i also root my phone need recovery cwm or twrp

please help
[HTC Desire 500] veersachan:
please help me same issue is there..

please help me same issue is there..
[HTC Desire 500] luckypatel344:
HTC Desire 501- Stock Recovery File

Hi,

If you need custom rom of htc desire 501. I am thinking to start development of it but before it i need stock recovery file of htc desire 501. if any one of you can pull out stock recovery of your phone then please provide me so i can make custom recovery and start development of custom rom of htc desire 501.
[HTC Desire 500] mahangoswami:
need stock rom backup for desire 501.. can any1 help me?
[HTC Desire 500] razvangrig:
Roms HERE

To get S-OFF use

Rumrunner s-off
[HTC Desire 500] mahangoswami:
My phone is soft bricked.. stucked on boot logo.. though ,Somehow I got to instal cwm recovery 6.0.3.2 and I can see the fastboot menu .. so, can anyone help me out..? as I don't have much knowledge on flashing ROMs.. yet, I tried to flash a Rom by cwm.. but it showed error that this rom is for bravo devices but this is a CSDNUG device...
[HTC Desire 500] razvangrig:
You must have ADB-Fastboot installed. Connect phone to PC in fastboot mode, enter the command "fastboot oem readcid". Make a note of your original CID.

If your CID is 038 or 044 download this, is for HTC Desire 501 dual sim Asia

PO09IMG_CSN_DUG_JB_45_hTC_Asia_WWE_1.40.707.6_Radi o_553.283.21.00

I don't own a htc 501, only desire 500

Just follow this tutorial it works for many htc devices
[HTC Desire 500] mahangoswami:
thanks ..I'll try ...
[HTC Desire 500] Sadeghkamaiy:
Hi please do if the file s-off for HTC Desire 501 to send a lot for me and I need them
[HTC Desire 500] Sadeghkamaiy:
S off HTC desir 501

Please if you have files to HTC Desire s off for me on the email send a sadegh.kamaiy2030@gmail.com:سردرگم::سردرگم:
[HTC Desire 500] AJAYIRSS:
HTC Desire 501 dual SIM 603

i have the same screen but its ***LOCKED***.......how u have done it...plz tell
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DataUnit:
Hi,

I started porting of a compatible Huawei EMUI 3 to Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos (I9082), But I am getting bootloop. :(

I used CM11 Kernel with edited Bootclasspath.

From what I've found out from logcat, the cause of bootloop could be that the dexopt can't optimize the DEX files. :confused:

I couldn't attach my logcat to the post because of the file size limitation.

I uploaded my logcat here: http://uploadboy.com/wfs73m8nqlp0.html

To download the logcat, when you entered the download page choose "Slow Download" and then generate your link. :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DataUnit:
Nobody? :confused:
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] acbka:
New ROM for Huawei Ascend Mate​

This is the first stable beta version . All errors tell me or write to this topic.​

INSTALLATION

* make sure that you have TWRP 2.8.0.1 installed on your device ;

* download the Mokee Rom and GApps ;

* reboot to TWRP recovery ;

* wipe : data, system, custom storage, internal storage, cache & dalvik cache ;

* flash the ROM and then GAapps ;

* wipe cache & dalvik ;

* reboot your phone ;

* Enjoy !

DOWNLOAD​

​

[URL="https://yadi.sk/d/xwYHUZxvempRU"]build 18 February 2015[/URL] Fix incoming call delay / Fix superuser

SCREENSHOTS​

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[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] henk_j:
done it, had some issues with root. all rooting programs say its rooted.

but every root permission won't come up caus the su is negative.

looks and feels great. but i want root when i use a rooted device.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] yinjingzhi:
i have got the same root problem.

root checker (from google play store) said "sorry! root access is not properly installed on this device."

however, i can access the system folders (such as /system, /system/app) with "root explorer".

hope new root tools will come up.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Azharla08:
Good ROM. However, reverted back to stock since no option to move apps to SD-Card.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] domino256:
Hey everyone,

I have a question, but first let me explain what it is that it happening.

I like to listen to music in the car. Phone auto connects to the BT stereo. I use Spotify to listen to music which is my preferred app. But android also opens google play music app as well and if the google app has things in queue, it will play over my spotify. How can i make it so that it doesn't auto start Google Play Music, but starts ONLY spotify.

Note* if i have the Google Play Music listening queue, it will play spotify first but it will still open the app but with nothing playing. I want to stop the app from opening all together but still have the spotify app opening by itself.

I guess Tasker can do this but I would like to avoid using it if don't have to.

Thanks!
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] domino256:
Can someone move this to the Q&A section instead of General?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
In future, you need to use the "report post" feature to report the thread to be moved for you, the mods don't search threads looking for comments asking them to do stuff. I'll report this one for you.

Transmitted via Bacon
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cymbaline24:
This app lets you choose which player to start when connected to BT: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cp2.start.and.play.music.player&hl=en

Of course then that's just another app you have lying around, and if you already have Tasker...
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] domino256:
cymbaline24, the app works great, Thanks! it does what i want and that's not opening googleplay.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] tekno4ever:
I think LolliPop for the Tmobile GS5 is finally coming tomorrow?

Update: Full Link Below

http://tmo.rocks/2015/02/t-mobile-galaxy-s5-get-android-5-0-lollipop-feb-18th/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] sergiuemanuel:
Post full link man.

L.E.: http://tmo.rocks/2015/02/t-mobile-galaxy-s5-get-android-5-0-lollipop-feb-18th/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] tekno4ever:
done but here it is again just in case: http://tmo.rocks/2015/02/t-mobile-galaxy-s5-get-android-5-0-lollipop-feb-18th/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] Mr. Clown:
This was already posted here and discussion is already taken place in this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58894654&postcount=107

On that note, thread closed.
[HTC Amaze 4G] SiAmaze:
hey guys i dropped my phone and the glass screen is broke. the touch and the picture are working fine. where should i fix this? sooooo sad
[HTC Amaze 4G] SiAmaze:
hellooooo?
[HTC Amaze 4G] pbergonzi:
too simple.

Boy this is a simple one--look for a shop near you or ask HTC where one is. Google?
[Samsung Gear S] burtonfamily101:
I thinking about getting one of these but I rather not have to pay extra 10.00$ a month as I would usually have my phone around me. I found some unlocked ones on ebay. Now my question is if bought one and wanted to leave my phone at home could I just swap the sim cards? I have a sim card adapter to make it all work. Or ifnot could I use a pre paid sim?

Thank you
[Samsung Gear S] Unknown Zone:
If you buy unlock gs from ebay.....just make dammm sure it will work on your gsm network. If it will, yes you can swap the sim from the phone to the gs....but the risk of breaking something is much greater...if you know what I mean. You can always go pre-paid.

Example: Pri att/unlock to use on tmobile.......it might work....people are saying they are having trouble with unlock gs and vice versa with Pri tmobile/unlock to att. But I think it is a hit and miss, cause I have a unlock att and I can go tmobile network any time with no issues.....as of now I am on pre paid h2o (att network) for when I want to go remote and leave the phone at the house while jogging.
[Samsung Gear S] burtonfamily101:
Thank you for the reply and sorry for my late one. So ive found a few on ebay that say unlocked. So what I would need to do is get a sim from h2O as prepaid use that when I set up the watch from my AT&T s4?
[Samsung Gear S] Unknown Zone:
With h2o you dont really need a unlock gs if you get an att gs......since it runs off the att network. You should not have an issue since your s4 is also running on the att network.
[Samsung Gear S] edouble312:
Yep. I posted on a similar thread- $10 gets you 90 days, 100 megs with H2O's cheapest pay-as-you-go. I take the watch to the gym on remote connection every few days since january-- I've used about $1.70 of the $10 credit from getting notifications and few calls routed to the watch.

Since you'll be buying the watch off contract- go ahead and submit that request for the unlock from AT&T anyway, even though h2o works on locked att devices. It'll make it worth a little more for resale down the road, plus it's free and easy to do so- you just need a non-att/h2o sim card. ;) :D

btw, if there's no huge hurry for cell coverage on the watch, you can get H2o and simple mobile SIMs on amazon for one penny & free shipping. Get a simple mobile one so you can unlock the watch with it.

make sure you get a nano-sim
[Samsung Gear S] Unknown Zone:
I keep forgetting the unlock code can be asked when bought out right after the new ruling went into affect. I don't have att nor tmobile as my phone carrier and bought the att gs since it was the cheapest of them all and needed coverage as a second carrier when out of phone range (I have sprint on the note2).....also since it has a sim....it could be unlock...etc. I was telling cyper the other day.....I too was afraid of the data usage, but after 2 to 3 months the gs eats data like a bird.......I bought the $100/1yr and I am sitting at 97.00 (since Dec) cause I was not sure how the gs with going to eat data..etc. I am going to have to down grade when it is time to reboost next yr..lol. I might go with the $10/90 days next time around.
[Samsung Gear S] rogerandgina:
You can use a family shared plan and you don't have that $10 access charge.
[Samsung Gear S] burtonfamily101:
They do not charge extra just for a new line? Thanks though I will contact AT&T and find out now to be 100% before I shop on ebay.
[Samsung Gear S] eternal22x:
2 different networks

I am looking to do the EXACT same thing you did. I have sprint, sprint version is about 399 in the store but I can get the international unlocked for 253.00 I can send you the link if anybody needs it off amazon. The challenge of course is sprints restrictive network so I have 2 questions, 1st when your phone is paired can you receive calls when tethered and talk through the watch and 2nd when you popped the sim card into the watch did you have issues using it as a stand alone device?
[Samsung Gear S] KDKobes:
Yes, when tethered you can receive calls and talk through watch. Only at&t & T-Mobile Gear S watches have sim card slot (GSM). So if your looking to use the watch as standalone on Sprint network (not sure if your talking wifi or 3G network) , assuming your talking 3G network via Sprint there would be no SIM card required. Are you talking standalone via wifi/no 3G plan or standalone as connected to the Sprint 3G network with the $9.99 plan?

**The previous persons comments are very misleading and I think confuses anyone who reads it. In order to even use the device via Sprint 3G they will need your IMEI number NO SIM CARD.**

I paid the cost for Sprints Gear S which didn't bother me, although I'm using it connected to the $9.99 plan as well as tethered to my phone. Its also much easier to get a warranty replacement device. This thread seems so off topic I'm confused if previous poster is talking with 3G plan or not considering the OT was no plan.
[Samsung Gear S] eternal22x:
well my plan is to bypass sprint all together and use a prepaid AT&T h20 nano sim card on the watch. This way I use sprint when tethered and AT&T when using as a stand alone watch phone if that makes any sense. Again this is a gamble as I ordered the international South Korean unlocked version, Ive seen one or 2 posts on this being a possibility but I will update if it does work, if so this option may save many people money and frustration of being tied to one network.

---------- Post added at 06:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:36 PM ----------

I am attempting to do this with a T-mobile note 4 and a South korean unlocked GS from amazon I will update if it does work. On a side note the seller had their prices listed as low as $235.00 New and the day after I purchased it they bumped their prices back up to $319.00!! (I was at the right place at the right time i guess)
[Samsung Gear S] KDKobes:
That makes perfect sense, thanks for clarifying that. Actually would like to know how that turns out for you. I just have a personal grudge against at&t/Verizon and left at&t for Sprint not long ago, so that just wasn't an option for me. How much is the line going to cost through at&t? I was thinking it was a little bit more per month unless you already have a phone line..
[GiONEE Elife E7] tarastalian:
i've found this web:

http://www.androidtip.info/gionee-elife-e7-android-kitkat-4-4-2-update.html

Maybe this the kitkat update? I don't have the phone yet, can someone test the rom?

Thanks
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jduncan312:
When can we expect it and what can we expect from it? Thoughts?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
You're asking us to guess or are you wanting facts?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akellar:
Facts are overrated here, go read through one of the Verizon threads for proof :P
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jduncan312:
Just curious when it will hit the nexus 6 and what it may fix or included in the update?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akellar:
It's not released for anything yet, only Google knows
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
I understand that but I still don't know if you want guesses of facts. You'll not be getting facts because we're not Google. Guesses aren't useful
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.s.deviate:
Aren't the android one devices in the Philippines shipped running 5.1? Or are all the articles and pictures wrong.. We should see it by the end of Q1 no?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Shipped with? Probably. Available to the public is another thing. It will push to AOSP first then updates to nexus devices will be next, but we have no time scales.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.s.deviate:
That's a fair answer. Guess we will find out soon enough.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Yeah its a waiting game. From my experience, whenever we hear dates, they're almost always not met anyway. I never believe anything until I see tags updates on AOSP or someone actually receiving an OTA.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akellar:
They will be once available, they aren't out yet AFAIK
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ervel flick:
I was running a Mahdi 4.4.4 ROM and saw that there was an updated stock ROM for the VS980 with new radios, so from TWRP 2.8.1.1 I flashed the ROM, radio, and bootstack from this. I can boot into Android and I have root, but I can't boot into TWRP; I get a boot certification error. I've tried reflashing TWRP 2.6.3.2, 2.8.5.0, and 2.8.5.1 via Flashify as well as 2.6.3.2 via TWRP Manager and no joy. How do I get custom recovery back?

EDIT: Fixed! I pulled the TWRP 2.8.1.1 recovery.img out of the 27A bootstack zip from above and used dd to put it where it's supposed to go (/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 is where recovery is located). All is well!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] cybergurken:
Hi all

I had this Galaxy Note for about 1.5 years now, really love it except for the following

Restored device back to 4.2.1 Stock

and

still

have the following issues:

Random reboots, battery can be full half, low,device reboots randomly

Charging port is buggered, (might be wrong), some cables charge the phone, other dont charge at all, but to transfer data I kinda need to get the cable in the right position to "detect" it

Batter can be full, device would restart and show critically/low battery, and batteery life is really bad, start off from home to varsity with +/- 75% battery, open clash of clans for 10 min, restart automatically -> critically low battery

When powering off device, and plugging in to charge it, it would automatically start up, doesnt matter what I do, device would always start up like normal, and charging the phone when its on takes about 8-12 hours for full charge depending on how low it was

Phone also takes forever to charge, what is a normal charge time, what should it be?

if anyone has ANY help or suggestions, expect buying a new device which I really want to but cant due to finances, please post a message, it might just help!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] dparrothead1:
Have you considered getting a new battery????
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] cybergurken:
Yes, I have done some research but a new battery will cost me +/- $45 and that is w/o importing fees,etc so i might end up paying $60 for a battery for a device that cost me $180... not worth

I would just like to know if anyone has had the same issue(s) and if they havev solved it, and how
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] captemo:
I got new Ravpower battery for $9 on amazon. Have it in 2 Days.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] TeamAndroid14:
Try Anker, I've been using an Anker battery for 2 years, seems to be great, it also has 1 year warranty, so if it becomes deffective, they will send it to you in a couple of days, with free shipping.
[Huawei Ascend P7] antoniovazquezblanco:
After installing B126 in my rooted P7 I'm unable to use fastboot although the phone shows unlocked bootloader in the screen.

$ sudo adb reboot bootloader
$ sudo fastboot devices
????????????	fastboot

The device seems unrecognised and when I try to flash or boot anything I get the following error:

FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)

On the other hand I'm able to reboot via fastboot command.

I'm using linux and running fastboot and adb as root in order to ensure I have permissions to access to de device although this shouldn't be necesary.

Why could this be happening?

Thanks in advance.
[Huawei Ascend P7] antoniovazquezblanco:
I've been trying other things with no success.

I've installed windows on a VM and rebooted the phone into fastboot mode. When I try to list devices in fastboot I get the '?' answer as if the phone wasn't recognised.

Device drivers seem to be installed as no missing drivers appear in the device manager.

How can I fix this?

Thanks in advance!

UPDATE: Added some more info

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot.exe oem get-bootinfo
...
(bootloader) unlocked
OKAY [ 0.016s]
finished. total time: 0.016s

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot.exe getvar all
getvar:all FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.017s
[Huawei Ascend P7] g4b3rm4n:
Did you make the

/etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

file? It is necessary to create it with the correct information to make ADB work on Linux.

If you don't have the file, read this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/213874/how-to-configure-adb-access-for-android-devices

The first answer explains how to create the file. You don't need to be root to use ADB by the way.
[Huawei Ascend P7] antoniovazquezblanco:
Thank you very much for your time and patience!

AFAIK changing udev rules only lets you use the USB devices with your regular user avoiding the need of elevated permissions. Anyway, because I had nothing to loose I've tryed the solution you adviced. Here are the results...

After creting the udev rules for my user I no longer need to use the sudo command for getting results with adb or fastboot, which was expected, but I keep getting the "Command not allowed" with fastboot.

$ fastboot oem ?
...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.000s
$ fastboot oem get-bootinfo
...
(bootloader) unlocked
OKAY [ 0.000s]
finished. total time: 0.000s
$ fastboot getvar ?
getvar:? FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.000s
$ fastboot getvar all
getvar:all FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.000s

On the other hand, fastboot devices now returns something interesting...

$ fastboot devices
0123456789ABCDEF	fastboot

Any other hint?

Thanks in advance!
[Huawei Ascend P7] g4b3rm4n:
Well, the bootloader seems to be fine and the fastboot ID "0123456789ABCDEF" seems to be also OK (according to this thread it means "the device is in fastboot mode"). My guess is a permission problem - is the device rooted? Also, this thread's resolution for this error message was turning debugging mode on - so you might want to check that too ;)
[Huawei Ascend P7] antoniovazquezblanco:
My device is in B609 not rooted because the method used still not very convincing to me... Could it be this?

Debugging is enabled...

Thank you very much!
[Huawei Ascend P7] g4b3rm4n:
If think yes, it might be. It surely looks like a permission problem, and since you are not rooted, it could be that those commands can't be used.

Rooting B609 was pretty hard for me - I flashed the bootloader of B608, then used CWM to flash SU, and then I was 100 percent rooted. If you don't want to root your phone, I'll try tomorrow (or later today - it's 0:50 here :) and see if fastboot commands work properly when rooted. What commands should I try?
[Huawei Ascend P7] antoniovazquezblanco:
Is this also happening to you?

I would like to be able to use fastboot boot for some kernel testing... It seems there's source code for kernel building both from Huawei and the comunity and it would be nice to have a free kernel as a base for cm devel...

It is also 00:50 here (Spain)... Tomorrow will be another day, no hurry :)
[Huawei Ascend P7] Kostyan_nsk:
1. After editing udev rules, fastboot recognizes your device correctly ('fastboot devices' returns your device's SN).

2. Presence of su doesn't affect on work of fastboot anyhow.

3. You can't use 'fastboot boot' command because it's not supported. Huawei's bootloader supports very limited set of commands.
[Huawei Ascend P7] antoniovazquezblanco:
Thank you Kostyan_nsk! I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge :).

About 2 I thought the same but I was not sure... so why not trying...

About 3 do you know what are the supported commands or where to find that information? It would be nice to have a post in the developers section with some documentation for those who want to perform tests with the device :).