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[Verizon LG G3] hokiealumnus:
No, there are no user modes.

Nobody knows 100% whether you can KDZ/tot back from this version as it just came out. I'd wager you can though, at least that's the net I took since I'm on 23B right now. If we can't I'll be upset! Definitely not bothering to try at the moment though...I just got this one set up.
[Verizon LG G3] maddog241:
Thanks for your reply. I realized after I posted the question that no one probably tested the return path yet. I guess Verizon must be responsible for the removal of the user modes. That doesn't make sense to me.
[Verizon LG G3] Ariac Konrel:
Verizon.

Being sensible.

Pick one.

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We were able to downgrade on 23A, I see no reason it wouldn't be possible on 23B.

Anyone on 23B, turn off the device and hold volume up and connect it to PC.

If it goes into download mode, you should be able to downgrade just fine.

Do a battery pull after to get out of the mode, and thank you. <3
[Verizon LG G3] hokiealumnus:
Done. Goes into download mode just fine, ready for its firmware push.
[Verizon LG G3] ohlin5:
Point #1 is one of the many reasons it's all AOSP for this guy :) Lol....nah but seriously nice to see VZW finally pull something out. Little late to the party as usual haha ;)
[Verizon LG G3] DocWalt:
I just went through the update process from completely stock 12B (with my apps and data and such) to 23B seamlessly. I'm not a huge fan of the different UI, but I'll get used to it. I don't have the WiFi notifications issue, which was holding me back from trying 23A.

During the install I went from 100% battery to 92% battery, 232 apps to optimize for ART. It took ~20-30 minutes for the whole process start to finish, so not too bad.

Now the wait to see how battery life and memory usage works out :)
[Verizon LG G3] AgentJohnson:
Has anyone tested if it's possible to tot back to 10B from 23B? I know the phone will go into download mode but does the actual process of downgrading still work?
[Verizon LG G3] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I've flashed both the 10B and 12B KDZs while on 23B numerous times. I'm sure TOT works too.
[Verizon LG G3] AgentJohnson:
After running the 23B update for a while, I've noticed it's consistently laggy. Even when I switch launchers the lag persists. I've tried both the 23A and 23B updates and they both have the same lag.
[Verizon LG G3] roirraW "edor" ehT:
There's a known memory leak with Lollipop v5.0, 5.01 and 5.02. Google will have it fixed in 5.1. In the meantime, search XDA for memory leak fix. Or I think a workaround now that we have root on 23B is to delete the bootanimation.
[Verizon LG G3] cobravnm13:
Would changing the bootani solve it instead of just deleting it?
[Verizon LG G3] roirraW "edor" ehT:
No, the boot animation itself isn't the problem, but the caching of frames from the animation and Android never releasing them from memory.
[Verizon LG G3] cobravnm13:
Gotcha. Thank you.
[Verizon LG G3] theistus:
Then disabling boot animation entirely should work?
[Verizon LG G3] bweN diorD:
noticed this question asked a few times about guest mode and people saying no.

23b has guest mode, not sure if its the same as multi user, i have no use for it either way.
[Verizon LG G3] hokiealumnus:
It was an assumption on my part. Guest mode was present on 12B. User accounts is a different animal, with a little icon in the upper right on AOSP that allows you to select and switch users at will (I think...never tried it myself, but the icon was there). They may accomplish the same thing, I have no idea; but it's not user accounts in the true sense as present on AOSP Lollipop.
[Verizon LG G3] bweN diorD:
ahh, ok, thanks.

just throwing it out there as i saw it in passing.
[Verizon LG G3] roirraW "edor" ehT:
That's what I've read, that if you delete the boot animation zip/whatever format it's in in your root file system, then it doesn't have any frames to cache, therefore, no memory leak.
[Verizon LG G3] Slie:
Just got here to 23b enjoy it no problems.

So you are saying delete my boot animation so it doesn't have a memory leak? Did you do it?
[Verizon LG G3] roirraW "edor" ehT:
That's what I've read. Yes, and yes I did, but I did already before when I was rooted on 12B too, and on my LG tablet too. :) Boots up faster without it anyway.
[Verizon LG G3] hokiealumnus:
I just wanted to report that I killed the Verizon boot animation (renamed it bootanimationBAK.BAK, to preserve it just in case) and very interestingly the stock android boot animation magically appeared (white android, with a shadow that passes over it occasionally). Is that what you experienced?

Wonder if that kills the caching/memory benefit?
[Verizon LG G3] roirraW "edor" ehT:
That happens on any Android phone when you delete the bootanimation.zip. I would've deleted mine anyway because I hate the gratuitous Verizon advertising - it's like, "...yeah, I know I'm on Verizon already...sheesh" and just adds to the boot time. :)
[Verizon LG G3] hokiealumnus:
Splendid. I actually prefer that, strongly, over the Verizon boot animation. :good:
[Verizon LG G3] roirraW "edor" ehT:
HA! Great minds think alike. Look at my edit I wrote above before I saw your quick reply.
[Verizon LG G3] DocWalt:
Oddly, Gmail hasn't been syncing on Wifi for me, though it worked perfectly earlier this week. Any ideas for fixes?
[Verizon LG G3] gregcapps:
Technically speaking we are still waiting for the LG G3 to get updated to lollipop as well. Sometime just found leaked builds.
[Verizon LG G3] DocWalt:
and now it's working perfectly... :confused:
[Verizon LG G3] DroDough:
Where can I find the 10b kdz file? I downloaded the 10b tot file and flash wont show that file for me.
[Verizon LG G3] 08BajaBoy:
check the "Flash back to stock - KDZ method" post in this sub forum, VZW G3 General
[Verizon LG G3] hokiealumnus:
http://downloads.codefi.re/autoprime/LG/LG_G3/VS985
[Verizon LG G3] DroDough:
If I flash back to 10b being full stock and non rooted will I get an OTA for 12b? or can I just flash the 12b kdz?
[Verizon LG G3] theistus:
Yes to both
[Verizon LG G3] DroDough:
The K you everyone for your help and quick replies.
[Verizon LG G3] zakkyzombie:
You can't take ota from the 10b KDZ, only the TOT. The KDZ is a pre release version with ota disabled. Now, you can do the 12B KDZ, and take future OTAs. With the 10B KDZ, you can root, and bump, but that's it.

Sent from my LG G3.
[Verizon LG G3] bweN diorD:
the answer to your previous question is, no and yes, not yes and yes.

the 10b kdz is not a official file, and you will not get any ota's if you use it. its a pre-release build.
[Verizon LG G3] DroDough:
Ok, so if I flash back to 10b then I will not get any OTA's. If I flash back to 12b I will get OTA's as they are pushed. Is that safe to say? I really do appreciate everybody's help.
[Verizon LG G3] bweN diorD:
yes

the only way to get 10 official is the tot file, and the 12 kdz is official.
[Verizon LG G3] DroDough:
When I try to flash back to 12b.kdz using LG flash tool. I get to the screen that ask me the language, I just hit ok. The next pop up is the status bar, it gets to about 30% and then tells me that the phone is not connected to the computer. I keep hitting retry and then the status bar will get to 60% and not move. Any ideas?
[Verizon LG G3] bweN diorD:
sorry, i have never flashed a kdz, i only use the tot.
[Verizon LG G3] hokiealumnus:
Possible driver problem. Use adb command "adb devices" with your phone plugged in. If your driver is ok, it will say vs985 and then your serial #. If it just says attached devices without that, you have a driver problem and need to install the driver from LG.
[Verizon LG G3] DroDough:
Ok, I will try again tomorrow. Thank you.
[Verizon LG G3] gatorstew:
Don't click anything at that point. Just let it run, don't click retry.
[Verizon LG G3] DroDough:
I finally got it. Part of the issue was I downloaded an old version of the drivers. Once I got the updated ones I was good to go. Going back fixed my 3 biggest issues with Lollipop. I really like the layout but need my functionality. Again thank you for all of the help guys.
[Verizon LG G3] annoyingduck:
Edit, missed the other response...
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
Why did I never think of it I have honestly no idea... and it works!

From comments it appears to work on 14.1 , 15 alpha. Might work even with 14.0. Might not work with XBMC because there seems that it's not in the AppSTORE.

Here is what you should do:

1. SIdeload Kodi 14.2

Q: Why? Here is why the Amazon link has Kodi 14.2 so it might not work with earlier versions.

2. (if you are a new user) do the initial setup just give it like 15 sec for it to load up.. (returning user) you should see similar thing but it would upgrade it.

3. on YOUR PC/Mac -- NOT MOBILE devices

go to this link:

http://www.amazon.com/XBMC-Foundati...6?ie=UTF8&qid=1425670241&sr=8-6&keywords=Kodi

4. Buy it with ONE CLICK <<< important! it will show your FIRE TV is not compaptible with it.

5. Go to settings on your Fire TV and go to my account (sync content)

BAM! you have now Kodi on your recents/home screen! Make sure you first sideloaded KODI

I just tested this on Rooted FTV but will work without on both Fire TV & Stick!
[Fire TV General] jpeg42:
Nice tip. I had this working with SPMC on the fire stick for a while. Good to hear it works for Kodi now that it is available as well.
[Fire TV General] mdpauley:
Thanks! I have 14.1 installed and it works great! Much better than messing with cms.db like I've been working on.
[Fire TV General] lowbee:
Besides having Kodi on the "Recent" tab, does it also show up in the "Your App" tab ?

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[Fire TV General] skanker:
This is really cool. You an infact do this with any app that you have side loaded that is available from the Amazon App Store.
[Fire TV General] MSUTigger:
This would be cool if it worked but it doesn't on my Fire Stick.
[Fire TV General] thrashman69:
Worked for me on ftv. Did the same thing with advanced task killer. Thinking about doing clean master also
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
it should without any issues. Did you get an email from Amazon for purchasing free Kodi ?

did you also SYNC ? sometimes you have to sync few times reboot your FTV/Stick etc...

It should since you actaully own the free app via Amazon Appstore. I am rooted so I barely look at this.
[Fire TV General] {ParanoiA}:
Did this a few hours ago and just got an email saying I received a $1 mp3 credit for my "purchase"
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
So you got 1$ credit for downloading Kodi? or you prob got 1$ credit for something else. Last few days there were bunch of apps that were giving 1$/credit for just downloading a free app.
[Fire TV General] {ParanoiA}:
No I matched up the order numbers. It was this one
[Fire TV General] porkenhimer:
I have found an easier way that puts any app on any screen, Dock4Droid.I have been using it for a couple months. I have it set up where the dock graphic is removed and it looks like the apps are floating in colored mist on the screen. The mist color can be changed to any color. I have made the icons small so that they are still big on the screen but are not distorted. Be sure to set the number of apps to appear on the dock, I think I have it set to 30 apps so that all apps opened will appear. I have hid the activation area and made the activation area 100% on the bottom right of the screen and made the activation area 0 width so that it does not interfere with apps. I have flipped it so that the last opened app is on the right side. You can also put a shortcut for any app so it is always on the dock. I have SPMC set to always appear on the dock so I can always open it from anywhere. The only downside is that any app that requires an activation area on the fire tv makes a square artifact on the top and left side edge of the screen when the cursor goes to the edge of the top and left side of the screen, but it isn't really a problem for me. The artifact happens with every app I have tried, Fancy Switcher, Sidebar etc. The dock also has App Info so that you can close apps directly from the dock. If you have an app opened, activate the dock, go to app info, the popup will appear and just force close it. To me its the fastest way I have found to multitask and force close apps on the Fire TV, cause it lets you launch any app from anywhere.
[Fire TV General] dbdoshi:
LOL, now that would be something if one gets $1 for getting Kodi. But this works fine, I did not even have to sync content. Took a few minutes and the app showed up on the home screen. I guess I can bid farewell to Llama and ClassicTV for now.
[Fire TV General] toanau:
Thanks awsome trick
[Fire TV General] papars:
It worked great for v15 alpha 2. But only in the recent list. It's something.
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
Good to know I don't see a reason yet to use the v15 unless it's stable. Sooner or later it will happen. You can mix it now with aftvlauncher helper and home button will launch kodi without root,just set it to kodi to launch on home key press :)
[Fire TV General] papars:
Offtopic - v15 goes great, no problems on firetv. But you are right there is no point going in v15 since 14.x is perfect already.

Thanks for the tip for the home button.
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
NP enjoy!
[Fire TV General] dk1keith:
weird...didn't work for me. Installed Kodi went to amazon link and logged in. clicked on get with 1 click. said app was purchased. went back to Fire TV and did the sync. but still not showing on home screen. I am on a rooted Fire TV.
[Fire TV General] texterted:
Yep, for me too. At least on one of my fire-tv boxes anyway.

I've got three, all unrooted and all running the same version of Kodi (14.1). It worked on two of my boxes but not the third, I can't work out why not. I've unregistered it and reregistered even done a factory reset but it won't work on that box, weird?
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
Try 14.2 the one in theappstore is 14.2

You have 14.2 sideloaded ? as you can see it worked for some people on 14.1 , 15v2 but the appstore version is 14.2
[Fire TV General] texterted:
Yes, sorry I should have mentioned that, doh!

I did sideload the 14.2 beta on that box and it still didn't work. Thanks for the suggestion tho.

---------- Post added at 11:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:53 PM ----------

Well, what the hell?

I just did the de and re register thing again then a refresh of my content and the damn thing showed up! :D

So I was able to uninstall llama and that daft tv app thingy, what a result, still weird tho! :D

Cheers guys.
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
:silly:
[Fire TV General] rabbixymus:
I changed the link to co dot uk and it worked wow uninstalled lama and I get a new icon haha this is the tits thanks op
[Fire TV General] Mosquito79:
Unluckily I deleted the link from recents. Is there a way to get Kodi back there?
[Fire TV General] texterted:
Have you tried to de register and then re register your fire tv?
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
try re-sync
[Fire TV General] Nf13:
Thanks. Worked like a charm without registering/de-registering. I have un-rooted Fire TV , Kodi 14.1 was already installed (sideloaded).
[Fire TV General] barrmulio:
worked perfect on 3 unrooted ftv with 14.1!

I even got the $1 promoncredit too. Thanks OP
[Fire TV General] x.Orville.x:
sorry but what it's sideload ?
[Fire TV General] barrmulio:
uploaded via adb (since it's not fully available in the amazon store)
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
Easier way to explain is installing apps on Fire TV =P
[Fire TV General] x.Orville.x:
Can someone explain please
[Fire TV General] dbdoshi:
This should get you started; http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-sideload-apps-to-your-amazon-fire-tv-using-a-windows-pc/

If you have a MAC, http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-sideload-apps-to-your-amazon-fire-tv-using-a-mac-with-os-x/

AFTVNews has some really good, easy to understand guides. Going through them should improve your handling of your device. Guides are available at http://www.aftvnews.com/tag/guide/

A generic write up on ADB is available at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=879701

Happy Reading!
[Fire TV General] x.Orville.x:
Excellent thanks bro
[Fire TV General] RuKuS4Life:
Worked like a charm here with KODI 14.1. Thanks for the tip
[Fire TV General] krawhitham:
Did this stop working with the 51.1.5.0_user_515020820 (3/24/2015) update?
[Fire TV General] Montisaquadeis:
Sideloading works perfectly fine on the newest update AKA Bluetooth and USB storage update.
[Fire TV General] krawhitham:
I know you can still sideload stuff, I'm asking about getting the KODI icon in the recent section by "buying" the non compatible KODI version on Amazon.com

I had it working before the update
[Fire TV General] x.Orville.x:
me too i not have in recent on the latest update
[Fire TV General] texterted:
You'll probably need to de then re register your firetv to your account, then refresh your content.
[Fire TV General] Grant TV:
Verified Re-Register

That worked for me.

I deleted Kodi from my FTV and side loaded it again. The icon disappeared and would not show up again after syncing. I deregistered the FTV and registered again. Then synced the content again and the icon showed up on the main screen. Per this method it only shows on the recent bar but if you click it once in a while, it goes back to the front. Also, if you de/reregister, you don't lose any of the side loaded apps. I'm guessing if you let the Kodi icon "fall off" the recent bar, you could just de/reregister and sync again.
[Fire TV General] Magnesus:
Ha, it works. Even if you have more than one device registered (in my case I have a tablet that showed as compatible and Kodi was installed to it, so I got no information that Fire TV is not compatible).
[Fire TV General] manekineko:
Weird, this worked for me great the first time. Then I had to factory reset my Fire TV Stick to get Miracast working again, and now it doesn't work anymore. Even did the de-register, re-register, and then sync account and still no icon in recents.
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
Yea I wish I could know the answer to this :D
[Fire TV General] qw3rty3:
Worked on first FireTV stick, tried second stick on same account, doesn't work.
[Fire TV General] fach1708:
How do u update the app in the future? Sideload the newer version and the icon will stay? Or will it update automatically as it was downloaded thru the store?
[Fire TV General] property33:
I updated to Kodi 14.2 from 14.1, the icon was then no longer available. I de-registered, then re-registered the Fire TV and it was back.
[Fire TV General] jpage101:
Thanks for the tip! I was booting up directly into SPMC but with the recent rom update I lost that ability and not sure how to get it back. This is a neat trick.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mankidavu:
I've taken some backups using online nandroid backup (default settings,which makes a CWM type backup). But now, when I try to restore it using recovery, it is not getting detected.

I did ensure I copied it to correct folder. I'm also able to see it and restore content using nandorid manager. But ,when I'm inside recovery the restore from sdcard1 is not detecting that.

Any ideas, solutions,pointers?

Oneplus with stock rom+unlocked bootloader.

philz_touch_6.59.0-bacon
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anjo_Smash:
So let me start by saying I am 100% a noob, and I have read many threads trying to get to the bottom of my problem to no avail. I am sorry if there is a solution for my problem somewhere, I've been working on this issue for 24 hours and have yet to find it.

My girlfriend was apparently using google maps on here relatively new phone (running 5.0.1) and it crashed. Upon restarting it was stuck on the coloured dots screen for several hours. She has not installed any third party apps, only those from the playstore and not too many of them at that.

I tried factory reset and received a bunch of errors about failing to load the E:// or something like that. The phone still would not boot up.

I downloaded minimal fastboot thinger on my windows 8.1 laptop and tried to flash a new image of 5.0.1 on it, IIRC I received errors about E:// again

Got Wugfresh NRT and tried TWRP wiped all (still saw some stuff about E:// failing to mount and such) then tried to unroot flash stock with soft brick/bootloop checked.

Still bootlooped for over an hour when I started it up.

Tried flashing 4.4.4 instead. It worked. Phone booted up. Gallery/Camera do not work however at this point. Tried updating to 5.0.1.... phone restarted bootloop for 8 hours and counting.

Flashed 4.4.4 again, Followed Full Driver Installation Guide in NRT exactly. Tried Flash Stock + Unroot with Device is on/Normal checked this time instead. Now it has been colored dots screen for about 20 minutes.

So I can load 4.4.4 but no matter how I've tried to install lollipop 5.0.1, it stays on booting screen forever.

What do?

Thank you so much in advance and apologies for being a noob.

EDIT: More googling today. Looks like my E:/Persist partition is corrupted or something, trying to figure out how to repair it right now.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bitdomo:
If I can bet it must be a corrupted persist partition. Lollipop will not boot if its gets corrupted but kitkat will do. If you could tell what is the actual error you see in twrp or cwm recovery then we could identfy the actual problem. But I am 90% sure the mount error is about persist partition.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anjo_Smash:
You are correct sir I literally just identified that as the problem 5 minutes ago. Now the question is how do I fix it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bitdomo:
I made a thread about it. Here it is http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/general/guide-to-fix-persist-partition-t2821576
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anjo_Smash:
I'm actually looking at that right now! Downloading Java and Android SDK atm. Of course still a little shaky on a couple terms in your guide hopefully I can sort it out. Really confused as to how Google Maps on a vanilla nexus 5 could corrupt a partition like that, its all google endorsed and official. They should be fixing my phone not me lol.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bitdomo:
If you want to make it quick then allow me to join to your pc through teamviewer. Send your ID and Passowrd to my e-mail: toth.dominik92@gmail.com

If you try to do it alone and you face a problem then I might not be here, because it is already past 11:30pm here.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anjo_Smash:
Thanks for the offer. I'll try on my own and get back to you maybe tomorrow if I can't get it down.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anjo_Smash:
Alright so I am definitely having problems running adb shell. even if I change the directory in cmd to my adb.exe location (android\android-sdk\platform-tools) I keep getting the error adb shell is not a recognized blah blah blah....

NVM got it working. Whenever I get frustrated enough to make a post I end up finally finding a solution.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anjo_Smash:
ALRIGHT I have Lollipop up and running thanks to your guide on fixing persist partition. Thank you so much! Question: I have a nexus 5 and it does not have an sd card. I'm not sure how to proceed in doing the steps you described involving mac addresses. I did use a hex editor and make those files, but not sure where to put them in my phones internal storage, and how to direct adb to said location. Any help with that?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bitdomo:
Just copy them to the root of your internal storage, then follow the guide.

I mean you just open the phone's internal storage from your PC and you dont open any folder. You just copy it there.

The guide is for nexus 5, but some people refer to the internal storage as sdcard too. I know it is a bit confusing. Thanks to point it out. I will make clear in my guide now.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anjo_Smash:
AH I see ok I will do that tonight. Ran in to another problem though it may be related to the mac address thing I haven't done yet, not sure how that all works. The phone randomly restarts every few minutes and it won't connect to the carrier either. Also if it matters I left the boot loader unlocked for now until the phone is working properly, if that affects anything.