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[Verizon HTC One (M8)] unctarheel87:
Hello all,

I was wondering if there was a Eng hboot with extended fastboot commands available for the vrwz m8? I've looked all over the forum and I could not find anything. Thank you!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Yes.. there is one. I have one. I don't put it out there because it makes it far easier to brick your phone. Also, its really only valuable as a one time tool.. unlike the old days you cannot feasibly use it with a production rom because the mount points aren't exactly the same.

What are you looking to do with one?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] unctarheel87:
My wife got a new phone so I have an extra m8 around. I want to change the MID. I know there are other ways but I want to use hboot. Curiousity really. Would you mind passing yours along?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skim7x:
Hey all,

I've tried searching for this answer but can't find anything for my particular situation.

I recently purchased a 32GB SP USB/microUSB drive for backing up my Nexus 6. So far, I have successfully created a Nandroid via TWRP recovery directly to my OTG USB device and I have copied files to it via the ES File Explorer app. The only thing I have left to figure out is how to backup my user applications via Titanium Backup directly to the USB drive!

When I go to "Preferences" in TiBu and then to "*Backup folder location" I cannot find the OTG USB drive anywhere... How do I navigate to the folder?

I have tried actually copying the TiBu folder from the internal SD card to the OTG USB drive in hopes that TiBu would automatically detect the drive when I click on the "Detect!" button within the "*Backup folder location" option, but it does not.

Any help would be much appreciated!! Thanks
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DebianDog:
It will be under /mnt somewhere

Detect only works if the titanium folder already exists there with files in it. you could copy them from your phone to your PC and manually put them on the drive, then in theory it will auto detect them.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skim7x:
Appreciate the help. Unfortunately, the OGT USB does not show up anywhere under /mnt.

/mnt/sdcard is your internal memory, and the rest just say "This folder is not writable" when accessed in TiBu.

As I mentioned in my first post, I already copied the entire TiBu folder from my internal memory to my OGT USB and TiBu does NOT detect the folder on my OGT USB.

Any other suggestions? THanks!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DebianDog:
You mean to say that you can't see the USB drive with any application on your phone? Or only titanium backup is not seeing it. If nothing is seeing it then its not mounted.

What program did you use to mount it? I used stickmount and it showed me the mount when it fired up. My USB Drive mounted to the following

Sent from my Nexus 6

---------- Post added at 02:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:10 PM ----------

It is also under /mnt as I suspected

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skim7x:
TWRP and ES File Explorer can see the USB drive and write to it without issues. It's only TiBu that cannot see the drive.

You're right, I did not have an app to mount the drive. Somehow without mounting the drive, TWRP and ES File Explorer could still see the drive, but not TiBu. Now that I have installed chainfire's stickmount, TiBu can see the OGT USB drive just fine! TiBu is able to backup directly to the OGT USB drive.

Thanks, again! :good:
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DebianDog:
Well I'm glad you got it working and I hope you're happy with yourself you should see what I had to do to test your problem. I had to use the wife's USB.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skim7x:
LOL you really went above and beyond, and the screenshots were very thorough / helpful as well... wife is a vet? :silly: Thanks again!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DebianDog:
She is a veterinarian, pretty impressive you picked that up.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brosenz:
On my Nexus 6 I have a Flash Drive connected via OTG, I am using StickMount to mount it in the file system, I can use it without any problem from TWRP, RootExplorer, Media Players, etc. The Flash drive is formatted using FAT32. When I try to configure Titanium Backup to use it as the destination folder for backup, I can get to the folder where the drive is mounted but the option "Use the current folder" is dimmed and I cannot press it to select the folder, please any help or guidance will be appreciated, thanks
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DFWallace:
link in post...

Your 'stickmount' link in the post not working...
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casper34:
Make sure that you have the flashdrive mounted before you open TiBu.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DebianDog:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount

Sent from my Benzo'd Google N6 on VZ
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ive9th:
Im experiencing this also but I'd note that its not specific to the nexus 6. It seems like the way Marshmallow handles OTG doesnt mount the usb drive to a path based location and thats why Tibu cant get there. I dont have any answers but just wanted to share my experience. I use stick mount to get a path so that tibu can see it.

I have also found that stick mount doesnt work in multiple profiles so I had to copy my tibu folder to internal storage so that tibu can find it.

Note 3 Temasek 13

Nexus 5 Pure Nexus
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ive9th:
I actually just stumbled onto a solution thanks to another thread.

This same logic applies to the otg storage. If you select the otg drive that you want tibu to look at it will work. But dont drill down to the folder containing your backups as I did. Its almost like its mounting it in tibu so you just need to select the top level that contains the folder that contains the backups. [MENTION=2847376]skim7x[/MENTION]
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nachtfrost23:
Though this thread is kind of old a little note from me:

I had the same issue and stickmount solved it.

But on a Moto G (falcon, CM13.0) it was mounted under \sdcard\usbStorage\sda1\

Anyway stickmount displays the path it mounts the otg drive so it should be easy to find it.

(I know this is the Nexus 6 forum, but you get here via Google quickly so this might help someone.)

Greetings and thanks for the help.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Leraeniesh:
Pretty awesome news.

No release date for OTA.

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/03/18/droid-turbo-to-be-updated-straight-to-android-5-1/
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Flowah:
Man, I want this phone bad. I'm planning on buying one as soon as the root is released, but if this update comes before that, I'm scared that it'll fix the exploits and I won't be able to root. Uggggggh.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] manofwind:
I think kitkat is stable enough, and with adquate performance( especially with a monster-like 2.7Ghz CPU), so the updating to android 5.1 won't be necessary.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Martingitdave:
That's great news. Hopefull, they will have a soak test starting for us soon. I am excited to see what they are doing with the UI. Though, like others, I will admit that the phone is working exceedingly well as is.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Flowah:
What I'm worried about is that I'll get the phone and it'll already have been updated, making it impossible to root. I'd be fine staying on Kitkat with root.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Character Zero:
Think they still need to port over the Video calling from the KK release since its unsupported on Nexus 6. I assume that the Video component is not native to Android yet.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] DireWolfAlpha:
Ask the salesman and explain your situation from my experience they love enthusiast users and might be able to make sure you get what you need
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] GreaterLesser:
So called it lol
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] respider:
then motorola delays 5.1 and google releases 5.2 and then motorola will release straight to 5.2 and everyone will be like "yeahhhh motorola thanks"
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Character Zero:
Waiting to go to 5.1 does make sense now that VoLTE is baked in and its more or less Google's problem if there are bugs.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] SirBindy:
Don't forget that 5.1 is a massive performance booster because it keeps all cores active rather than disabling them. This eliminates perceived "lag" when the cores come in and out of "sleep" states.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] W00fah:
Sure hope root it out before this update.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Leraeniesh:
PS. If you purchase a device from Amazon Wireless (my trusted source for over 4 years), the phone with come with factory software ie no updates.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Leraeniesh:
Are you referring to Hangouts video chat? Cause I'm pretty sure that's supported on 4.0+
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] W00fah:
I think he means the video calling option that you use while in an actual phone call. Similar to facetime on the iPhone.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Character Zero:
Yeah when you make a call to another VoLTE phone you can Start a video call from the dialer screen. That is not available on the Nexus 6 with 5.1. Is a Verizon specific HD voice feature
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] windraver:
The only reason I want Lollipop is for Android Auto. Hopefully we get Lollipop and root.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Jaocagomez:
We all saw this coming
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] GreaterLesser:
Indeed.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] D._Manley:
Right, VoLTE is native in 5.1 but the video calling feature of the phone app is exclusive to Verizon's Advanced Calling and AFAIK, only to Android devices as well.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] cstone1991:
I've heard the same from other sources, so I'm pretty sure you're right. The problem with relying on this is that the manufacturer begins shipping phones from the factory with the latest software at some point after it is released, so buying from Amazon still doesn't guarantee that you would get a Turbo running KK after LP drops. You'd probably be safe for at least several weeks, but it would also be possible to get a phone shipped from the factory with LP very soon after the update.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] donsmith1964:
Soak test for Moto X 2014. Proof we are not the priority. http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...-for-the-2014-moto-x-and-heres-the-changelog/
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JasonJoel:
Why would we be? They probably sold 50x more Moto X than Turbos...
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] johnbravado:
Good... root is coming. Would rather root than lollipop. Besides I doubt we will see a vast improvement of functionality. Maybe 3k more from antutu or 5% boost. We can probably get 7% boost with root and 1000 times more functionality
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] donsmith1964:
I was just trying to stir things up. I want lollipop just to have the latest. I won't root. I really don't understand the need. The phone works great.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] rhouse1983:
I agree. Unless there's a boot loader unlock with the root I may not even bother. Xposed don't work on 5.1 anyways.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] meanmug:
5.1 v. Root who will win?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] KevTN:
Depends on the individule... I have LP on my N7 it is ok. Would like it on my DT, but I would rather have root for wifi tether. I have unlimited data and it is Verizon extortion to try and make me pay for more data for tether. ( yes I know some abused this 'feature' but I use it so my daughter can do her home work in the truck and at the ballfields in between games. <her school books, assignments, homework ect are done electronically>)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Jaocagomez:
Obviously we are not the priority but that moto x update is almost ready, and when those engineers finish that update, they will be helping getting us 5.1 on Droid turbo and Moto maxx
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] dwh2o13:
Thoughts on why the DT with it's impressive specs and for all intense purposes a flagship phone for Motorola why it would not be a priority? I'm certainly on the fence between staying on KK with root(assuming it will come) vs. LP 5.1
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] HopelesRomantc91:
Super toss up about 5.1 or root. I may just let fate decide. I've had my Turbo since right after Black Friday, and I've gone this long without root, so idk.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] :
I'm with you on this...Haven't had my Turbo as long as you, though :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Character Zero:
What ever happened to leaks? I remeber back with I was using the Thunderbolt and the Bionic and other older phones devs would get their hands on leaks of the ROMs. I haven't really seen many leaks anymore. Mostly you might get some international ROM ported, but that is still released software.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
I'm probably gonna go with whichever comes first. Most likely root/custom
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Wiggz:
I infinitely want 5.1 before Root. Unless you still want to customise to within an inch of your life, there is little requirement for root currently.

I used to flash new roms weekly, but I've grown tired of it. I want Lollipop!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] rhouse1983:
I think the same. Since xposed doesn't work on 5.1 and flashing gets old and a pain to set up everytime I feel root isn't really worth it anymore. This phone is more than capable and doesn't need custom kernels or overclocking, the battery doesn't need tweaked, again xposed doesn't work on 5.1. I don't want to stay on 4.4.4 just to "tweak" my phone. I used to sit there and mess with my phone all the time and it's like, for what? Enjoy it as it is. I bet 5.1 brings this phone the breath of life it needs for it to perform at it's peak and I'm not sure there's anything with root that really makes that much of a difference.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
I dont understand why anyone would possibly want lollipop over root? What makes this update so appealing to you? I had a Moto X with lollipop, it was slightly faster but my turbo is already turbo'ed that I am not sure how much faster it would get with lollipop. Also lollipop has a very strange looking UI, IMO. Root on the otherhand would probably make this phone just as much "faster", less cluttered, and more feature rich. Just because lollipop is an update doesnt mean everything about it is better
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] rhouse1983:
Because I've had my time with root. Moto X with 5.0 and Turbo with 5.1 are going to be different. When I look at what root would REALLY help me with I feel there's not much I would use it for. Xposed is nice but won't work with 5.1 and may not for a long time. I don't have unlimited data and even if we get root, that doesn't mean we can go flash roms yet, which got old to me. I just don't know that root is really that big of a deal. You can already disable apps too so the benefit of root really isn't there for me. Is there a benefit to Lollipop? I don't know but it's new whereas the benefits of root have gotten stale. Now a bootloader unlock is completely different. Give me that and we'll talk. What makes root so appealing to you? Not picking fights just asking.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
Well xposed needs root and if we are asking root vs 5.1 then it should not matter that xposed doesnt work with 5.1. Id rather root/xposed over 5.1 because it will make my phone function and behave the way I want it to. Are you familiar with apps such as secure settings, greenify, or tasker? If you are familiar with at least tasker, then the capabilities of using that with root should be more than enough to convince anyone that root is more worth it than 5.1. Even apps like Adaway make every day use of the phone more stress-free. Common problems and bugs that you might notice on your device may also get fixed as long as developer support comes along with root for this phone. Lollipop, on the otherhand, will most likely just create more bugs until we see 5.3 etc
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] civiksi:
I'm in the same boat. Been there done that probably waay too much. Maybe were just getting old :) I'd like root for the tethering since I have unlimited. That's about it. The phone is so advanced it doesn't really need tweaking. I get two days of battery and its quite fast.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] rhouse1983:
Yep I've used all those and to me its extra stuff. Adaway gave me problems (yes I installed the right one), I have the tasked tasks I want, greenify is silly on this phone with the battery it has. I don't have problems or bugs and I've actually had more problems with root apps. Xposed is great I love it but I'm not staying on 4.4.4 forever just for that. The phones potential on 5.1 outweighs rooted 4.4.4. I've rooted since droid x and that phone needed it. Several phones after that needed it but to me.....what this phones needs is an OS Update more than root. I'm really stoked for 5.1. Not so much with root.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
Well to each his own... it sounds like you ended up with a better device than me. I cant even break a day and a half on battery using greenify and location off, unfortunately. to go along with that, i use tasker relatively extensively so it would be nice for it to have all of its functions available. a few bugs with things such as google music could also use some fixing on my device
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JasonJoel:
I toss my phone on the wireless charger every night... So any battery longer than one day doesn't really do much for me.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] MasterDrusus:
That is the reason some of us see ROOT more as a "if I really want to play around and tweak the phone" kinda thing. VS Lollipop is more plug play and enjoy. The turbo is already spec heavy with plenty of power and with my BN Turbo 64 gig storage plenty of space to keep pics and things you want. I use an Ipod touch for music listening and stream from my comp to the tv for videos. No need to fill my phone up with useless stuff. The bloatware can be disabled. You aren't going to be able to use the system partition even with root, so that space is gone anyway. So really what is root other than an an novelty?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
Is this serious?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Leraeniesh:
Why you'd want root:

Adaway, Xposed, TB, etc...

Why you'd want lollipop:

All the reasons lollipop is great
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] rhouse1983:
Now that I think about it, I'm interested in root but it seems like a bit of a process that I neither have the time nor the money (new baby guys) to do it. A simple 5.1 OTA would be much simpler for me. The write protection issue bothers me, too. Now I'm not saying I don't appreciate the work done for achieving root, much obliged believe me I would've rooted already if it were a bit easier just don't have time/resources to go through it all. The adaway, xposed stuff is great but I know the moment I get it all set up, 5.1 will come out and I'll want to upgrade. It's not even necessarily that 5.1 would be better than rooted 4.4.4 it's more the fact that xposed may not work on 5.1 or above for a while. I don't want to hold my phone hostage on 4.4.4 until that happens if ever. Such a conundrum if there ever was one. Rooted 4.4.4 for possibly a while or new updates?

Plus, lollipop hasn't been great. Initially. As time goes by more and more apps and updates will make lollipop really awesome. I don't want to miss out on that because I want xposed and adaway on 4.4.4. I just watch a video of 5.1 and saw pics posted by users of xposed on turbo and I think lollipop looks better than me moving my clock to the middle. I don't know I'm fighting myself here don't mind me.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] MasterDrusus:
That's a very valid point about those being useful programs, however I've found out over the last couple of years that I didn't even miss them. I'm more interested in seeing lollipop and getting that on my phone. Then if someone does full root access I"ll be a bit more excited about hacking my phone. Guess we might say different strokes for different folks :)

---------- Post added at 02:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:48 PM ----------

It's as serious as a heart attack. Sorry if I don't share everyone's over amped need to dive into the guts of my phone's OS. ;)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] graymonkey44:
Honestly, lollipop is overrated. Sure, it's nice to look at, and I feel it has more of an IOS theme to it, but to each their own.

I have feeling we'll be able to get a prerooted image of lollipop and be able to flash it so we get the best of both worlds. But if not, I can fulfill my lollipop needs with my nexus 7.

Having WiFi tether via root is MUCH more important to me than having the latest OS. But to each their own.

Lollipop isn't the Godsend OS that we've all been waiting for. It's the anticipation that gets everyone all riled up.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Leraeniesh:
I'll have to disagree.

For me, lollipop is just better. In every way.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] graymonkey44:
Care to elaborate? What makes it "better in every way"?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Leraeniesh:
Sure

Performance improvements

Smoother animations

Smoother progress bars

Visual improvements in every category

Better handling of recent applications (ex share opening new tasks)

Lockscreen notifications

User profiles

Phone lockscreen shortcut

Could probably generate a longer list if my point isn't proven yet, and to justify myself, I've been using 5.0 for over 4 months, so its pretty jarring to return to KitKat.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] crowax:
I have 5.0 on my tablet and just upgraded to 5.1. It kills me too go back to my phone. The three or four complaints I had about 5.0 were fixed in 5.1. I cannot wait until this comes out!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] KevTN:
I understand what yall are saying. I have Lollipop on my N7, but just got my tethering back (I have unlimited) and I am happy with KK until development can be done on LP.

I think LP will come sooner than expected due to the new development that has occurred. No rumors just a feeling..
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] graymonkey44:
No offense, but I've heard just the opposite about lollipop from what you stated. Battery drain, application crashes, issues with alarms and group texts. The lock screen notifications are annoying in my opinion when you have permanent notifications. I don't feel any difference with performance or "smoothness". The recent applications list is terrible and not smooth at all when removing.

The user profiles is a nice addition, I guess, if you share a tablet with multiple people, but not really necessary for a smartphone.

It's strange how you didn't have any of those issues with the new update. I'm assuming you have the nexus 6 or 9? But enjoy lollipop if it works for you. I just don't feel it's " better in every way ".
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Leraeniesh:
Used it on a RAZR M, S3, and HTC M7, and surprisingly, the official builds from Google for the Nexus 7 seem to be the least reliable. Performance on those devices moving from KitKat to lollipop is like night and day. Considering battery life on all those devices have always been garbage, I can't exactly call whether lollipop improved or not.

Permanent notifications also do not appear on the lockscreen, unless you swipe down to expand the notification page.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] graymonkey44:
The constant notifications are always on my nexus 7 lockscreen, without swiping down first.