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[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] TEKHD:
No... It would be disastrous... Probably wouldn't even install in fact...

Yes
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] bibiner:
You were right. I used latest twrp. Tried civz kernel from 3.5 to 3.8. Even arter kernel. The rom won't boot on my phone somehow. Using n9005. Latest bootloader and modem.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] ndruqltn:
Freezes on welcome screen... Then reboots... Did full wipe... N9005
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] ppelao3k:
GPS problems

i have GPS position problem... no signal... any solution?... thnks.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Jammol:
Yeah it would suck. On the G2 we had a lot of G3 users coming in and using the CloudyG3 ROM thinking it was a G3 ROM.

Do you have any plans to upgrading to a Note 4? Just wondering as I really like your Roms.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] TEKHD:
I already have a Note 4 and a Note Edge, (see my signature) I am waiting for Lollipop to come out officially for my Note 4/Edge (It would be pointless to release a KitKat rom at this point) But... yes... It's coming my friend!

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Does the Topic of this thread says Note 4 Lollipop or Note 4 / Note Edge Lollipop? lol... some surprises coming soon... Go ahead and click thanks [MENTION=3282624]ludeawakening[/MENTION] since now... lol DomPop Series of ROMS getting better and better by the minute... lol
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] siakgayyem:
I have no problems with reboot or youtube videos.

I was previously on a different lollipop rom full wipe made. I wiped system cache and dalvik 3x them installed urv1 without wiping my exsting data. Bootloop. Installed stock kernel still bootloop. Installed omega kernel v1 boot ok. Data intact no probs with video. Wiped system cache and dalvik 3x left data intact. Installed urv2 did not install any other kernel boot fine no probs youtube plays ok. Errors in OP were still there like video slow mo and no nfc.

I have N9005 here.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] bibiner:
Hmm looks like this rom play differently in each device. Unfortunately, mine won't boot even wiped 5 times.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] ndruqltn:
Same here... freezes on welcome screen then reboots...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] macedoesousa:
thanks

Hi TEKHD, thank you for this rom.

I was hopping for a lillipop with Viper.

I have a N9005 and didn't have any problem to flash it. For me works very well, and didn't notice anything not working.

Best regards.

I'm thinking to give a try to your new version, but the one I use is, as I sad, very good

The antutu gives for the performance 37653, a litle under the 44189 I had with the g00h v.5 lollipop, I suppose this is do the kernell, but I do not feel any difference.

Best rergards
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] daredevil07:
Tested the ROM just now. Phone rebooted after displaying the setup wizard, endless times. I've flashed [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] kernel and it does solved the reboot issue. To those who had similar problem like mine, try to flash the kernel. Here's the thread --> http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-3/development/arter97-kernel-galaxy-note-3-t3028148
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Kronkels:
Would love to flash this rom. Reading this topic keeps me from doing so right now. To much different issues. Some times it seems to work and even so many times it simply doesn't.

Thank you dev for all your work. For now there are simply to mutch questons and no real answers that will keep me from flashing this rom. I think it would be one of the best roms arround if it would work flawlesly on N9005 LTE, its seems that flashing on note 3 gives a diferent result every time. I will wait for al these problems to be resolved before I atemt to flash
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] ndruqltn:
Did you flash the kernel (arter97) after reboot or after flashing the rom?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] TEKHD:
You can flash kernel right after flashing rom... (if you already know that the kernel included in the rom is not working with you...)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nuwan Sampath:
Guys any stable fixd Rom for Samsung Galaxy S3 SHV-E210S...?

POST You do have any roms links...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nuwan Sampath:
BUMP
[Android Apps and Games] LazyAndroids:
Download Link:

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

2D platform game where you use your bow and arrow to battle various demons, gargoyles, dragons, etc..

[YOUTUBE]R5uR0OR2KWg[/YOUTUBE]

Gameplay is simple: Each level you have free a certain number of angels and battle a boss to clear it. Collect orbs to activate various spells which include a shield spell, auto aimer spell, slow down time spell, spell to fly and one to triple the damage by releasing 3 arrows at once.

So please download and rate it.. Enjoy this great magical adventure...

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.HunterArena
[Android Apps and Games] LazyAndroids:
opera app store downloads reliable??

hi,,

i uploaded my game apk "hunter vs demons" in opera app store which showed a good download rate initially (said about 1000 + in one day).. however given i run admob , didnt see any activity in ad impressions due do these downloads.. later uploaded an apk with APPBRAIN sdk.. still nothing..

are these opera downloads fake?? anyone else have the same issue??
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvi0:
Hello, new to grid gaming. I have a question have searched but no luck. Is it possible to play the game on grid, without a controller but just using the touchscreen?. Thanks in advance.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrHollow:
Just using the touchscreen no! However i believe that you can use a bluetooth keyboard+mouse to play :)
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albertorodast2007:
Or a spare PS3/4 controller + Sixaxis app, works fantastic. I've read Xbox 360/One controllers also work but i don't own one to test it.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Silverfox476:
If you have an OTG USB hub you can also use USB mouse and keyboard (and even USB Ethernet adaptor) to play on GRID.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Majestyk:
I think the whole point of the post is to be able to play games on the Shield tablet without using a cumbersome gamepad, keyboard or mouse. A virtual gamepad overlay would be a great addition to the Shield tablet. Even if it doesn't work as well as a real gamepad, at least it's an option. If I'm going somewhere, I don't want to have to drag a MOGA controller with me in addition to the tablet. Would rather just hold the tablet and be done with it.

-maj
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] cstone1991:
First off, thanks for putting this tutorial together. I am running Windows 7 and I have downloaded all of the files that are needed to set up my virtual machine as well as the /system image that you linked to. I have, as far as I can tell, successfully added the Ubuntu image but I am stuck at adding the /system image as a HDD. I click the "Add Hard Disk" button followed by "Choose existing disk" then browse to the path that my image is in. With the default settings I can't see the .7z archive that I downloaded or the .img file that I extracted from it using WinRar. Next I tried changing the file type drop down to "All files" which allowed me to see both file types. I tried selecting both of them (at different times) and both files produce the following error when I click "Open":

I get the same error message whether I attempt to add it as an IDE or SATA drive. Am I doing something wrong or missing a step here?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] cstone1991:
Ok, I think I may have figured it out. I used the VBoxManage.exe convertdd command to convert the .img file to a .vdi file that VirtualBox can handle. I now have the drive mounted in my VM and using the command "sudo nautilus" (gksudo said it was not installed, I'm guessing this varies between different copies of Linux?) I was able to achieve root access to the drive so that I can modify it. When I'm done, can I simply use the VBoxManage.exe convertdd command from windows to convert the file back from .vdi to .img?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] thecaptain0220:
If you are changing things and flash an unbootable system image can you just flash a good image to recover? I would assume so since your reflashing the entire system partition.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] brennam7:
Yep, basically flash the image that is in the mofo guide and you're back in action.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] BEDickey:
Good Idea!

Thanks for this primer on the subject! Would it be possible to please throw us some links on how to install Xposed framework, updated SuperSU Pro, wifi tethering, or remove bloatware? With any luck we can start altering the stock Moto images we have in the Dev section.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] brennam7:
You wouldn't want to alter those imaged, as they are not pre-rooted (unless you feel like doing that part yourself). It would be best to modify the image that comes with mofo as a starting point.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] BEDickey:
I'm not saying we can't. I'm completely new to this,just trying to wrap my brain around it and participate.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] thecaptain0220:
I mounted the image in Linux and removed a few files to test it out. Then I unmounted the image. It seems like the modified image is the same size. Does the image retain its size? Is there a way to compact the image? I am going to try flashing it now and see if my changes are there.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
Yes, the image will retain its size.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
I'll look into this later today

Yes this should work, I'll update the OP to include this information, sorry

Edit: this doesn't work, I'll be working on a solution today, hang tight everyone
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ntxct:
So virtualbox doesnt let you mount an img as a harddrive. I used

VBoxManage.exe convertdd system.img system.vdi

I was able to then add the system.vdi as a harddrive, booted up ubuntu and finished following guide/making changes. (putting in my own hosts file.. 5mb addition)

After shutting down guest, I did the reverse of the above command to get back to an img...

Its 600megs short of the original img, so obviously something isnt right. Mofo says its not a valid ext4 so I did something wrong.

I really just want the modified hosts file working, adaway and adfree modify the hosts at first, and after a while it gets corrupt/reverts, I imagine because it was modified after the phone boots.

Ugh.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
Odd. Virtualbox may have compressed the image. See if you can turn that off. I'll work on it myself later today, see if I can get it working
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] 123421342:
http://xdaforums.com/nexus-4/general/diy-manually-installing-xposed-t2369618

Found this guide to install xposed manually will try it out soon
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
Try the following:

VBoxManage.exe clonehd path/to/turbo.vdi turbo.img --format raw
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ntxct:
Hey! Same size as original now. Thanks, Ill keep moving forward :D

UPDATE:

Flashed completed, booted normally. Verified the edited hosts file was there, it was. Everything seems to be working how I was hoping! Oddly the system did create (or I did along the way) a second hosts file in the etc folder, "hosts~" which is a default hosts file. However the system doesnt seem to use it, just the edited one so its no big deal but maybe its a permission issue?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
Not sure about the hosts deal, but hey, if it works right?

OP updated to include the new information. :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] brennam7:
So i got this going finally. Removed a bunch of bloat, shot the lollipop boot animation in there, as well as some xposed parts. Compiling it back to system.img now, but its sitting at 0% for quite some time. Not sure if thats normal?

EDIT: oh dear christ it just went to 10%. This is going to take some time

EDIT 2: And now it sits at the boot animation but never boots. Not sure why, as i didn't really make any major changes. time to pick this think apart.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] manofwind:
hi, have you installed xposed successfully and does it function correctly?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] RyanTillery:
Haven't seen this mentioned, but might have missed it: can we symlink /system/etc/hosts to /data/data/hosts (before flashing) to maintain write access to the hosts file?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] 123421342:
Not yet, will require tinkering and stuff I dont have time for right now but it seems possible. Might just be easier to install it with the app and have it "temp" installed.

Maybe, not sure how WP works. I would guess yes. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2327934

perhaps we can symlink the entire system partition?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] RyanTillery:
Now, THAT would solve this whole debacle... :) In a round about sort of way, that's basically what Safestrap slots did, right? I mean, it basically just set up another system partition in a separate virtual image of sorts...
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] aven1357:
Hopefully this will be an easy question. I am a bit new to the Android world, I've only had experience jailbreaking iOS devices.

I'm currently running 21.21.15.quark_verizon.verizon.en.US , stock with only the first OTA update. Will it be safe to use mofo to flash xt1254.system.Blur.21.44.12.quark_verizon.rooted as the OP linked on my Turbo?

Thank you in advance.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
You should update to 21.44.12 first.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] MoPhoMike:
^^^^You MUST update to 21.44.12 or you risk bricking, losing radios, etc.. Thermo-nuclear war...

The rule is only flash an identical version, but modified system img.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] brennam7:
Finally got my debloated img to flash. Thanks for the tutorial!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] savagebunny:
Just a quick note, not sure what version of Ubuntu you were using, but I tried the latest w/ Vbox Guest Additions installed and Drag n Drop wouldn't work between Windows host > Linux guest. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS instead and it works great now. Something with Unity made new versions of Ubuntu crap imo
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
How would I go about packaging the system files I pulled from my Moto X 2013 using adb into a system.img file that could be flashed using fastboot?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
This, this is what I was just thinking. Not sure if you have tried this at all. It would however take up a good chunk of the internal storage though. Definitely worth looking into though.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] acm25:
Great guide! I was able to use it to replace /system/etc/hosts with a symlink to /data/data/hosts and now I've got AdAway working!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] almondman1:
How would one do this using Ubuntu running on a virtual machine using hyper-v in Windows 8? Maybe the tutorial could be updated.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] RyanTillery:
Did you just create the symlink (ln -s /system/etc/hosts /data/data/hosts) and set /data/data/hosts permissions to 644?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
The same instructions will apply, except for getting your VM set up to recognize your turbo system image. Unfortunately I don't know anything about hyper-v so I can't help you there.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] acm25:
Basically. I copied existing /system/etc/hosts over to /data/data/hosts on the phone itself (need root to do this) with the same permissions (which I believe is 644). Then I modified the system image file to replace /system/etc/hosts with a symlink to /data/data/hosts (ln -s /data/data/hosts /system/etc/hosts) and reflashed the new image with mofo. After that I installed AdAway on the phone and changed the settings to use /data/data/hosts.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ScottIsMyName:
Would it be possible to make a system image by doing the following?

Install pre-rooted system image

Flash with mofo

Once booted up, mount system as rw

Make any changes you need to make, such as installing adaway, xposed, etc

Before shutting down, copy /system to some sort of iso/tar/img file that can be converted to a proper .IMG file for flashing?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
Technically, yes. However, you're running a risk of instability as the changes you make remain in RAM only and you have no idea when part of it may be written out of ram.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ntxct:
I actually started my attempt at system image modding using Hyper-V. I know everything that can be done using VirutalBox can be done using Hyper-V.. except for converting the img to something hyper-v can read., It probably can.. but at that point I gave up, turned off hyper-V and intalled Virtualbox (it is free)

Keep in mind, you HAVE to uninstall hyper-v in the add/remove windows features, before you install Virtualbox, or the install will fail.

If you do manage to get your Hyper-V setup working, and have the time, please write up a guide, who knows who it may help.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] almondman1:
I played around by installing virt box without networking on my win 8 machine thinking I could convert the .img to .vdi as per the OP post. I got it converted and it succeeded but the file size was only about 2.5gb which was about 1gb smaller than the .img file. Then I opened ubuntu in hyper-v (without starting it) then tried to add a 2nd hard drive with the .vdi file but that didn't work. So I started Ubuntu and copied the .vdi file to a folder but it wouldn't mount it. Then I gave up :) Oh Well back to the drawing board.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] trottellumme:
How to add/replace apps?

I have no experience with modding system.img. After I have successfully mounted the vdi how would I add or replace apps? Let's say I have an apk how do I add it? If i want to e.g. replace the dialer would I just remove the dialer folder under private-app, and put the new dialer apk there?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
Correct, however you should make sure the new dialer apk has the EXACT SAME group, owner, and permissions as the old one. (Permissions are likely to be 755). Any new apps you add should also have permissions of 755. Honestly, for a dialer, it'd probably be best to just install it the normal way.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] decimeter:
Would it be possible to do this with build.prop in order to be able to edit it on the fly? I tried a couple times but my phone wouldn't boot past the Motorola logo after flashing.

Additionally, is there a way to modify a system image to enable on-screen buttons instead of the capacitive buttons?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] rhpot1991:
I tried the same with an image for my Moto X, symlink shows in Ubuntu but for whatever reason it doesn't want to work on my phone. When I check with root explorer I don't see anything in /system/etc/hosts. I'll double check permissions tonight, but I believe that permissions apply to the linked file and not the symlink itself.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] arohrmann:
I changed something in an Droid Turbo pre-rooted image. It's great and so easy.

But after flashing, my Droid shows up this:

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System UIDs Inconsistent

UIDs on the system are inconstitent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable.

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And the Droid is unstable now :(

I don't want to clean up my data partition. Is there an other way out?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
I've never heard of that error. if you googled it and came up with nothing your best bet is probably to just do as it says. if you can boot get anything mission critical off the phone first.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] arohrmann:
Ha. I found the problem :)

First I use the phone with original ROM. After modding / flashing my Custom-Image, this error-message comes up. It's a problem coming out of my /data/ folder!

So, I deleted some old folders of that Apps I removed in the Image. Now the Droid is stable :)

[MENTION=5033954]Ekkoria[/MENTION] thanx 4 your reply.

But now I've something "new":

I configurated the Droid with security. I want to enter a PIN to use the Droid. With the original ROM it worked fine. But now there now PIN Code anymore. The phone is unsecure :(

Hm, did I removed somesthing, that's important for the PIN? Who knows the APK, that handle the Lockscreen-secure-codes?

---------- Post added at 09:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:15 AM ----------

Yes, it's working well on my Droid. I symlinked hosts, build.prob and platform.xml out of the system-image into /data/_root_image/

Important is to set the correct rights and owner (root:root). To do that, I made on my linux notebook the same folders /data/_root_image/.

I wanted to symlink out complete folders (eg. /system/app/) but that don't work and the Droid wanted to boot the system.

Here, it would be an idea to make a own ext4 partition (could we do that with blocked bootloader), to get a mulitboot.

Other idea: I know the Sony Z-phones go that way, to start CWM / TWRP Recovery with a locked bootloader. Maybe, this is a concept for our Droids?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] crackd:
Related guide for creating system images?

I see that there's a rooted system image available for download in this thread, but if one wanted to go about creating their own system image, how does one do that (on Droid Turbo)?

Anyone know of a thread or guide that covers this topic? Thanks
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] slogar25:
The one you are on dude. Check the op.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] crackd:
What I meant to say is, how do I go about getting an unrooted image off my own Droid Turbo (i.e. instead of download the pre-rooted image from the OPs URL)?

(Whether there's any good reason I'd want to do this is a different topic; I'm more just curious about the first step that went into creating the image file linked to by OP -- 2nd step being to root it of course.)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] jhoutz:
I think you need root to pull the image from the phone using adb...I could be wrong on that. If you want a completely untouched image you can extract the system from the stock firmware.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] larsdennert:
I've got a question. I have a rooted Maxx (same way as the Turbo) but an OTA took out xposed. I can temp in xposed and it works until I do a cold boot. If I temp it in and then do a DD of the system block, will it also copy the overlaid temp stuff?

If so then I can just split the captured mbn and flash it back permanent. Does that work? Of course I'd have to flash the whole 132 segments or do a dd and compare to no temp stuff.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
There's a reason they call dd the data destroyer. Doing what you're proposing is rather dangerous. It'd be easier and safer to just use a different image than the one you took the OTA on. Also you have no way of knowing if the changes written to RAM by installing Xposed will be written out of cache. So what you're saying is technically possible, but could be dangerous and possibly unstable.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] larsdennert:
Yea already bricked once. Back to the drawing board
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
would this concept have more of a chance of working if a system.img were (or could be) modified to keep more RAM open? e.g.- strip it down to barebones and hope changes to r/w would stick long enough to pull the .img with said change intact? also, worst case scenario, utilizing the Data Destroyer (lol), what is worst case scenario? full reflash or just data loss? thanks guys