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[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] dusty.nebulus:
I am new to posting, but I have followed XDA for a long time and used it to install custom ROM's on other phones. However, I now have a problem with my wife's Samsung Galaxy GT-S5360L. I have searched for hours, but can not find a solution.

The phone is stuck in a boot loop. I can enter stock recovery mode. When I try to perform a factory reset, I get the following message:

E:format folume: rfs format failed on /dev/stl11

formatting /cache

Data wipe complete

After wiping the cache partition, the phone continues to be stuck in the same boot loop after reboot (Samsung logo appears on screen, followed by animation, back to Samsung logo).

The phone will not enter into download mode. When I press power+volume down+home, I see a white screen, followed by a black sreen, followed by another white screen. the suggested method of removing the battery, SIM, and SD card, and plugging into the computer while holding both volume buttons does not work. Odin will not recognize that the phone is connected.

I tried to connect the phone to two different computers. One runs Linux mint with Windows XP on a VM. This computer has always worked for flashing ROM's to other phones. Odin would not recognize the phone, and I received messages that the device was not properly installed.

I then tried to connect the phone to another computer with Windows Vista. This PC has Kies installed and Samsung drivers. Kies would not connect to the phone, and I also received messages that the device was not properly installed. Odin would not recognize the phone. I should note that the phone has interfaced with this computer sucessfully before.

This phone has never had a custom recovery or ROMs installed. It only has the original stock ROM. Is the phone's hardware defective, or can it somehow be fixed? Please post any links to threads that I may have missed. Thanks.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] TheFixItMan:
Download mode is only effected by a change in bootloader normally by Flashing incompatible firmware or a hardware fault

For flashing via odin kies is not required - its useless as it's not compaitable with the galaxy y for this purpose

You just need the Samsung USB drivers available from my firmware thread (links in signature)

It maybe possible to still flash the device

Once USB drivers installed

Enter download mode

Connect USB to pc

When the white screen appears push Vol up

Wait a few seconds

Open odin

Put the 3 firmware files in their places & flash

If it doesn't flash you will either need to flash a new bootloader via a jtag (repair shop) Or replace the motherboard - either way unless you can get it done very cheap it's more economical to buy a new phone
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] dusty.nebulus:
Thank you marcussmith2626 for your sound advice. The phone is working again. I will share the problems I solved in order to flash the stock ROM. Hopefully this will help anyone else that may have a similar problem.

The Samsung USB drivers had been previously installed on my PC running windows vista. I installed the drivers so that I did not have to use the bloated Kies software. However, when I tried to connect the corrupted phone to the PC via USB, it was not recognized, even though the correct drivers were installed. Below is the procedure I had to follow in order to connect the phone:

1. I connected the phone to the computer via USB. The phone had the battery installed and was powered off. After connecting to the computer, the phone started charging (battery icon on screen). Connecting in download mode at this point did not work. The phone must be powered off.

2. When the "found new hardware" notification box appeared, I had to make a note of each device that had been discovered.

3. I then had to open Device Manager from the control panel and find each device (the name in Device Manager matched the name in the new hardware notification).

4. I right clicked on each unknown device and selected "update driver software"

5. In the next menu, I selected "Browse my computer for driver software"

6. In the following menu, I selected "Let me pick from a list of drivers on my computer"

7. This brought up a list currently installed drivers. I selected the Samsung phone driver.

8. The driver then installed for the selected device..

9. Steps 2 through 9 were repeated for each new device discovered by Windows (each device listed in the "found new hardware" dialog).

10. I started the phone in boot mode (power+home+volume down, phone still connected to PC). I saw only a white screen. However, when I pressed the volume up button, the phone connected to the PC. Odin recoginized the phone and the stock ROM was flashed.

So, even if you only see a white screen, download mode can still be active. In my case, the drivers on the PC were not working correctly, probably due to the corruption of the original stock ROM. The drivers can only be added on my PC using the above method. The option to choose from a list of currently installed drivers was not available from the found new hardware wizzard.

Also, I will also say for reference that in the USA, the stock ROM from Brazil is the one that should be used so that the phone broadcasts on the proper GSM frequencies.
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Gautam Gundap:
Hey guys, I have got a technique to Backup, format and restore your whole sdext2 / Sd-ext partition through Recovery in case you were unable to find a recovery to backup and restore this partition; and as far as I know there is no single recovery out there till date that can directly Backup and restore this partition on Grand. So if you need this please ask here and I will help you out.
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Eversmile23:
Need help.

Can your method be used to backup sdext2 on other mobiles? I have got Micromax Canvas Power A 96 and Lenovo A 7000. Please provide me the necessary steps and information, so that I will give it a try and see if it is successful.

Thank you
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Eversmile23:
Happy to know that it is possible.

I am happy to know that it is possible. I will give it atry this evening, when I return home from work. I will let u know. Thank for your reply.
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] petermg:
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! I'm on an LG G3 and I was successful at mounting my sdext2 partition for Link2SD using this method. I had to change a few things, for example, I have no init.d folder, but had to search for "link2sd" and found the file "init-link2sd.sh", which contained two commands, and the one that worked was "mount -t ext2 -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /data/sdext2". THANKS AGAIN!!!!!!!!
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Gautam Gundap:
Glad to know that it worked for you. Hope others are able to use this guide too.
[OS Porting] mehmetakifaksu:
Hi guys. I have a Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 device. I want to port Galaxy S5 Stock Rom to my device. I can not port. Please help me ?? ????
[OS Porting] Argurth:
Don't wan't to be pessimistic, but I think it's not possible, they're not the same hardware.
[OS Porting] Dhruwaksh:
#mehmetakifaksu

It didnot work...I have already tried.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cntower:
HI all, and I hope i'm posting in the right area for this.

My first android phone is the LG G3 which I just received several weeks ago. As you can see from the included picture I've started enjoying some of the customizable options. I ran across one problem though and haven't had much luck searching google for a solution or even knowing what to search for.

As you can see from the picture, the white icon square which I've circled has a dark gradient applied to the bottom of it. The LG G3 OS seems to apply this gradient by default to every icon I create. The only way Ive tried to get around it is by creating reverse gradient icons in Photoshop but that limits my color choices.

You can see the image for my phone screen over at nathanstann dot com / screenshotforxda.jpg (Was trying to get up to ten posts but since Im new most of what I got to say is pretty useless and this question doesn't make much sense without a pic so...)

My next logical step was to root the phone and use tweaksbox. However, I thought I'd ask the question here as a last ditch effort before rooting the phone for such a trivial purpose.

Im quite happy with the stock LG G3 launcher as it is right now in terms of how it performs except for this one cosmetic issue which is hindering my flat tile design vision. All the design you see here was just done by changing out the icon's images with my own photoshop designed icons.

My question is, does anyone know how to disable the dark shadowed gradient that the LG G3 overlays onto the icons? It seems to me it has to be at least accessible on the launcher level as third party launchers are free of this effect. So it led me to think that maybe I could somehow edit the launcher itself ? I don't know its new to me and a little over my head so Im just thinking out loud.

Anyone with tips or experience would be amazing!.

Looking forward to learning more from this community.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DudeThatsErin:
I don't see a screenshot.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cntower:
the screenshot addy is kind of spelled out in the post :/ But I PM'd you so you could see. Noticed you got over 10 posts ;) feel free to post it up in here if ya want.

wish I had more to offer in the forums to get my post count up but just trying to get my feet wet with this issue I posted about.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vivasanti:
Without changing launcher and icons its probably not possible unless someone smart spends time on it.

The stock launcher is pretty crap for me anyways.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cntower:
True. I changed all the icons within the stock icons, but ya i didnt actually find a third party launcher i liked as much as stick curiously enough.

BTW I noticed your phone is rooted from your sig. Do you happen know for sure if you can get rid of all those shadow gradients on the bottom of home screen icons with a root access app tweakbox?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vivasanti:
Yes i am rooted on 5.0 Chuppa Chub Rom, i use Nova launcher with custom icons, i have NO shadows whatsoever.

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I have seen your screenshot, i have no idea how you made those tiles using stock rom, maybe desktop visualizer?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cntower:
Thanks for that info!

As far as my icons, I just made .png files in Photoshop to the exact pixel dimensions and then imported them to my phone and set the .png images as the icon image using the function to replace icons within the stock launcher. The only 'fly in the ointment' and the reason I made this thread was the fact that by default the pone seems to overlay a shadow gradient at the bottom as can bee sen on the white 'tile' icon. My guess is this was done to help bring out the text label on a normal sized icon but unfortunately on my custom made 'tile' type icons it make the bottoms of my nice flat squares seem curved and destroys the simplicity.

Funny you should mention desktop visualizer because I was just looking at that app a few minutes ago. Actually it had been one of my ideas from a few days ago, where I noticed the shadow gradient was not on the widgets. I immediately thought, well if I could creat widgets linked to shortcuts then I mught circumvernt this issue. So I was certainly interested to come across desktop visualizer a few moments ago which will enable me to make widget shortcuts easily. SO that might be a viable alternative to explore.

Of course a bug reason I wish to stay with the stock launcher , as an aside, is i use the knock on /knock off feature a lot and I was under the impression third party launchers removed that functionality.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vivasanti:
I am using Knock on AND off with Nova Launcher.

Get this app installed, and set gesture "double tap" to launch it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock

Even better get Greenify and set double tap gesture to "hibinate apps and lock screen"

Hope this helps.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cntower:
right on. thats a cool workaround! Thanks for the heads up on that one.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cntower:
Wanted to post an update on my progress so far.

I have explored using 'desktop visualizer' which is an app that allows you to create custom widgets of any size and overlay them with your choice of photo. transparency is also supported so it opens up possibilities in that design as well.

This alleviates the issue of gradient shadows being applies to home screen icons, as the LG G3 OS deosn't apply shadows or gradients to wiidgets.

The only downside I have found from this method is the inability to save your setup reliably and may result in having to redesign your screen if your battery runs out.

As I am nearing the ten post mark I look forward o sharing my latest design both in this thread and over in the LG G3 home screen exhibit thread.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cntower:
As promised, heres a screenshot of what Ive been able to come up with so far using the stock LG launcher and the help of a couple widget creators
[Xiaomi Mi 4] Ravikantheti:
Whatsapp messages are not auto received. Messages will only come in upon manually opening the app. It goes for the same with the apps viber and hike messenges. I have only these three apps and I don't know about the remaining apps.I have checked all the setting like background restriction of data,checking the notification option in app settings, but the problem is not solved. Please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Xiaomi Mi 4] Nishantjoshi:
Follow these steps and it will work - http://en.miui.com/thread-46253-1-1.html

you just need to auto start the apps and give them required permissions.
[Xiaomi Mi 4] devwaseem:
Goto security app> permissions>auto-start management> add auto-start apps and choose which you want to run on background (ex:WhatsApp, vainer, Skype, ink and many more..,) this will help

Sent from my HM NOTE 1LTEW
[Xiaomi Mi 4] lawrain21:
where is "security app" ? can u give me some clues? thanks
[Xiaomi Mi 4] kabel87:
If you use stock launcher it would be on one of your homepages...v
[Xiaomi Mi 4] P@nos:
Go to Settings and Power Saving. Choose which you want to run on background.

For my Huawei P8: go to Settings-Power Saving and click Power monitoring and click View button in apps still running after screen turns off and protect app you want to run on background.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
CyanogenMod is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 5.0.2 (Lollipop), which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.

#include
/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you. Hard. A lot.
*/

CyanogenMod is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts. CyanogenMod does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.

All the source code for CyanogenMod is available in the CyanogenMod Github repo. And if you would like to contribute to CyanogenMod, please visit out Gerrit Code Review. You can also view the Changelog for a full list of changes & features.

We'll not support users and answer questions from users which:

- are running a custom kernel

- have flashed mods

- modified system files

- didn't follow our instructions word by word

- are unfriendly

First time installing CyanogenMod 12.0 to your Galaxy S3 I9305, or coming from another ROM:

- Read known issues ans FAQs

- Flash one of the recovery images (CWM or TWRP)

- Copy GApps and CM12.0 ZIPs to your SDCard

- Boot into Recovery

- Flash CM12.0 zip from SDCard

- Flash GApps zip from SDCard

- DO A DATA WIPE / FACTORY RESET (otherwise your device will be stuck at boot)

- Reboot

- Don't restore system data using Titanium Backup!

- Restoring Apps + Data might cause problems and is not recommended, avoid it if possible!

Upgrading from earlier version of CyanogenMod 12.0:

- Copy CM12.0 ZIP to your SDCard

- Boot into Recovery

- Flash CM12.0 zip from SDCard

- Reboot

WiFi

Camera

Bluetooth (not 100%)

NFC

Sensors

Home Button Wake

GPS (maybe)

RIL

Carrier APN

Keyboard on first boot

Video skipping

Does not play certain video formats

anything else that does not work please let me know

Current Build

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_owX3tP6p2ceFY2bEQtU3B3TEE/edit?usp=docslist_api

Device Sources:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_samsung_smdk4412
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
~Changelog:

20150208 : Initial release

20150213 : Beta 1 release

Updated CM sources

20150218: Beta 2 release

Update CM sources

fixed keyboard at first boot

New kernel sources ( samsung kernel sources)

20150227: Beta 3 release

Updated CM sources

20150228: Beta 4 release

Updated CM sources

fixed video skipping

20150403: Beta 5 release

updated CM sources

updated mdm modem in kernel

changed kernel to smdk4x22

Added ril fix by sbrissen

20150408: Beta 6 release

updated cm sources

readded 720p front camera recording

fixed a2sd
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
also would people like to have pure 5.0.2 aosp i was thinking of doing a pure aosp rom straight from google
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] limnaln:
I would really appreciate a pure AOSP ^^
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
Ok.. Not sure how its going to go but ill give it a try.. Source is downloading now
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] limnaln:
I mean there are already CM12 roms for our device, how's your build different? I think a pure AOSP is the way to go ( psst, or you may want to try PA) :good:
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] krakowiak84:
Do I update from previous versions of your?
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
Yep.. And its best to wipe system partition too. To stop more bugs for appearing
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] krakowiak84:
Okay I download and test :)
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
Yes but my cm12 is the only one still going. The others have been stopped
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] krakowiak84:
Wysłane z mojego GT-I9305
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] mindphaser2k9:
Really nice work! :good:

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Your download is broken, try to download again. I just flashed, everything is great.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] krakowiak84:
Great, everything works. Lightweight and fast ... THX :)
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] spiderman07:
can someone explain how 3g works? and status of 4G?

i'm on stock but i want to switch to android 5.0
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
if i can ever get this aosp to compile, here is the display id from the build.prop ;)

ro.build.display.id=full_i9305-userdebug 5.0.555 AOSP eng.winxuser.20150301.103603 test-keys
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] :
3g is working putting 3g mode

4g i don't know because my sim hasn't it
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
4g works great. The only problem is if u keep it on 4g prefered it will sometime dissconnect 3g and connect after some time
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] :
i've flashed the rom and 3g isn't working for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when i uploaded to the latest!!!
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] djfnz:
I have problem with music player! When i play music the sound skipping sometimes if screen wake off. (with headphone)
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] :
sorry my 3g won't work!!!

on the older it worked...
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] Bralex81:
I can confirm that data connection is working on this build. ?

Keep up the good work...

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Calls and data conection not working.

WiFi, SMS is working

Keep up the good work...
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] Netux:
I used Nameless source as a base, no elements from it are in these builds otherwise... And yeah, I'm talking with winxuser about that, just wait. [MENTION=4144818]Bralex81[/MENTION]: Please check your APN, I had this "problem" with this build but I fixed it by completing APN fields...
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] Bralex81:
If i complete the APN fields, data connection works.

The calls most of the times doesn't work.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] Netux:
This was a test build, new one will come tonight, you will tell me what you think :)
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
new build up guys
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] :
What arevthe difference with 5.1 build?
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] djstalca:
hdmi support

hdmi support already supported? :)
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
Sorry no not in recent builds
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
if someone could help would be good,,, for the video skipping bug, what video app are you using and what kind of video are you trying to watch, i have a build nearly made but dont know what kind of videos you guys are trying to play and what program you are using
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
here is a test build,, can you test video skipping

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_owX3tP6p2cSHFIMjJqbVJTV1k/view?usp=sharing
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] Obeca:
Thanks man
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
no worries. have you tried nameless rom?? does video skipping and hw mode work on it
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] Obeca:
I havent tried any lollipop rom until your work comes. Im on 5.1 though, 1 thing I noticed is when I played video using HW decode, video skip is not working but when SW decode, video skip is working. Using MX Player app.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] DoobyDroid:
I seem to be missing the app draw button at the bottom ? Like the ROM [emoji2]
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
LOL wtf
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] DoobyDroid:
Odd" thought maybe disabled within setting but can find nothing [emoji17]
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] Bijuu:
Can you give me your wallpaper? :3
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] DoobyDroid:
Sure [emoji16]
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] DoobyDroid:
Its mysteriously appeared now Iol [emoji3]
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
Lol ur phone has a ghost lol
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] Tordenflesk:
Bluetooth audio doesn't output a full audio until after being interrupted by a phone call.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
i will work on this rom again one day,, im jst trying to fix the issues with cm12.1 atm
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] winxuser:
Hey guys. I am uploading a new build hopefully everything is working :)

Edit. Answering calls not working. Upload stopped