yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NOxplode:
LG G3 over HTC One (M8) :

-->Larger, sharper screen - 5.5" QHD over 5" 1080p

-->Practically the same size, lighter

-->13MP camera with OIS over 4MP camera; Laser autofocus

-->2160p video capture over 1080p video

-->More powerful chipset, 3GB of RAM over 2GB (32GB model only)

-->Bigger battery - 3,000mAh vs. 2,600mAh; user-accessible to boot

-->The back cover has wireless charging support

HTC One (M8) over LG G3 :

-->Aluminum unibody

-->Front-facing stereo speakers vs. a single 1.5W speaker on the back

-->Dual camera with Zoe

-->5MP front-facing camera over 2.1MP

-->Google PLAY Edition version

And i dont agree with the lag part that G3 has beacuse after the upgrade to lollipop everythings smooth.
[G4] londere:
i{m try to put any rom in my wizard but only 3 give me results the faria rom the mb rom and the core rom so tellme what is the best rom for wizard

in advance thx
[G4] peter petrelli:
How on earth are we meant to tell you what rom is the best?

Faria's and xplore rate highly, molski is also up there, at the moment im investigating mfrazzz's rom. It is a matter of personal preference, there is no definitive best rom because all wizard owners are recycling the same poo.

Im not flaming you but it would be nice if you pulled your socks up before you thought about posting a question such as this again.
[G4] mattk_r:
1. Decide what programs you really want to use.

2. Decide what programs you really don't want to have.

3. Decide which base OS you want to run - stable or bleeding edge.

4. Pick the ROM's that are a close match to your choices in #1 & #2.

5. Read the entire posts for those ROMs, and decide from user feedback on which to use.

6. Try a few, get a feel for what works best for you. No rom is right for any one person. It just depends on what kind of base you want, and how much customization you want to do.

Best bet is to stick to the high profile roms, such as Faria's, Xplore, Crossbow Reloaded, etc... while you're checking things out. Test, test, test...

Then when you're ready, build your own :D
[G4] Domush:
Is there a (mostly) complete list of released ROMs anywhere?

I'm having trouble learning what is the latest WM6 version is, seeing as some ROMs have a v10.2.xxx and some a 15.x.xxx and others a 6.2.xx. What on Earth do these version numbers mean?

Is there a thread I simply haven't found which explains this?
[G4] Zzan:
What features do you like?

What do you use your phone for?

What do YOU like?

No one can answer this question for you. You need to research each ROM and see if it has the features that you like. If you want to know what others are using then look at their signatures and you will see what they like. But that of course is no indication whatsoever that you will like it too.

All of the dedicated cookers on this site do outstanding work and each has their own style. There is no "best" ROM, they are all top notch in their own respects. Try them out, use them for a few days, see if they meet your needs.
[G4] Zzan:
I haven't looked at the Wizard WIKI lately because most of my focus has been on my Hermes of late. But at least for the Hermes there is a page that lists all available roms with links to the release threads and to the download sites and mirrors. If there isn't something like this for the Wizard you could always start this yourself with the information that you research and hopefully others will contribute and keep it going.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] momojuro:
Governor scaling

by FloHimself​

Script details

:

This script basically tells the phone what CPU Governor use while the screen is on either ON state or OFF state. So, you can now choose two different governors to rule your phone when you're using it and when you're not.

The script also provides some tweaks to each governor to make it more battery saving when the screen is OFF, and more responsive when the screen is ON. I've simply made some changes to make it compatible with our Galaxy Young. :)

Requirements

:

A rooted phone

A kernel with init.d support

Busybox installed

Installation

:

Do a backup of your phone, in case of a bootloop or something else - optional

Download the attached zip and put it in your SDcard

Install the zip through your recovery

Reboot your phone

How to change default governors

:

Using Root Explorer (or a text editor from your computer), go to system/etc/init.d and open S98governor_scaling. Then, navigate to the line where it says : "Selection of Awake Governors:" and delete the # symbol of the desired "governor". If the governor you use isn't on the list, please add the exact name in between of " " and remove the # at the beginning of it.

The same procedure should apply for the Sleep Governor (see the screenshot below).

Notes

:

Only keep ONE governor uncommented at a time

Default chosen governors are : SmartassV2 (when the screen is ON) and Conservative (when the screen is OFF)

I'm not responsible by any damage (which is almost impossible to happen) occured to your phone
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anshumangoyal:
I am currently running euphoria 5.0.2. Few days back i have seen an issue that whatsapp is hanging a lot. A popup message comes it says that do i want to wait for whatsapp to respond or i should kill it. I faced similar issue with my hammerhead and now facing the same issue with opo. If i clear the cache clear all the messages and install new whatsapp version it will be good to go but i lose all my previous messages. So is there anything i can do as of now or maybe somebody has seen this issue before.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] DarthFederer:
Hey guys. I was trying to install Cm10 on my sister's xperia T. I rooted it, installed recovery, wiped everything but after I flashed CM and clicked reboot, the phone is dead. I can't turn it on, I can't enter recovery mode, the PC isn't recognising it. If I push the on/off button it vibrates once but then nothing and if I push at the same time power on and volume up, it vibrates three times but then again nothing.

I know I forgot to do something while installing the ROM but please any piece of help might be extremely useful as I ended up with a dead phone and nothing I can do.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] |>/\nte:
Did you unlock the phone's bootloader? Because custom roms like cyanogenmod require an unlocked bootloader for xperia phones. Also, try using the flashtool to revive your phone. This sounds pretty much like a soft brick. If I'm right, it's 100% guarandeed you can bring the phone back to life.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] DarthFederer:
You mean Emma? It doesn't recognise it...
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Antiga Prime:
Who would use Emma when you've got Flashtool?

Also, you should really figure out if your bootloader is unlocked or not.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] DarthFederer:
While waiting for an answer I downloaded flashtool, found a suitable ROM to flash (from flashtool website), installed the device's drivers, entered flash mode but then Flashtool showed me this
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Antiga Prime:
Are there other errors above the ones seen there?

What ROM did you Flash? Maybe you could try with ones found here on XDA.

Also, when you start up the FlashMode process in Flashtools, is your phone already connected?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] DarthFederer:
Yes it was a problem caused by the ROM I was trying to install. I found one with stock 4.0.4 and flashed it and finally it came back to life.

And in fact it is faster than when it was running 4.3.3 :p
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] |>/\nte:
Guess what: if you don't like the 4.04, you can find official 4.3 firmware files in this site. There's a collection of these things. Just search for them.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] DarthFederer:
Thanks for the tip. In fact I'll make another effort to install CM and this time I'll make sure to follow every step properly. But comparing the two editions, I think 4.0 is smoother than 4.3.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Malakesher:
A colleague of mine has asked for my help he has the S4 i9505 on EE in the UK. His phone has just had an OTA update to lollipop and his MHL adapter has stopped working. It was fine before the update but has stopped. Is it fixable? Has lollipop done this or has Samsung done this or something else? Any help would be very welcome.

Thank you

-Mala
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Malakesher:
Anyone with an S4 using mhl had this problem?
[Samsung Gear S] jusho:
Hallo all.. i got a gear s and i love it. But i change ROM on my note 4 to CM 12 recently. But i cant connect my gear s. When gear manager try to connect it always FC the host manager. Please anyone can help me here.
[Samsung Gear S] droidiac13:
You have a completely different ROM loaded. It doesn't surprise me that it doesn't work. I'm surprised it even installed.
[Honor 6, 6 Plus Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Minnoxi:
Hi I want to Root my Honor 6 but I have no Idea what to do! I have tryed iRoot and some other programs, but no one of them seems to work. -.- What do do!?!?!?:eek:
[Honor 6, 6 Plus Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shubham1120:
First of all, u need to unlock ur bootloader. You can simply Google it or there is a thread here.

Then u have to flash cwm. Procedure is in development thread. Then flash supersu.zip .again, there is a thread for it.

This is what I did since I wanted to try cm11

Edit- or more noob friendly

http://xdaforums.com/honor-6/general/honor6-multi-tool-t2963060
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phertha:
Hi there,

since i broke my display and replaced it with a new one, i cant use my N4 for calls.

Everytime i call someone, or i get a call, my respondant can hear me, but i cant hear a single word.

When i use my earphones with a microphone it works.

I have to add, that first, the proximity sensor didnt work as well. Everytime i get a call, or call someone, the display was getting dark.

I Fixed it with this workaround.

Does somebody know a fix for that misbehavior?

Or do i have to buy a new phone, when i want to use my phone for calls?

thanks
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Utini:
I deleted my phones conctacts and contacts storage data and then re-synced my contacts. Now all my contacts are listed in the dialer and contacts APP but when I click on one of my contacts then I geht the MSG "contacts doesnt exist".

Any idea whats going on? I already did a reboot.

Thanks
[GiONEE Elife E7] markusssss:
I try the apk file of "telephone" and "heading" of Android kitkat stock. I have to install it on kitkat with amigo.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BACARDILIMON:
Root explorer and move the file. I would recommend you change ur back up location and make new ones on sd card tho. Sometimes you might get hicupp and end up in some deep crap.

BAD ASS NOTE 4
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xda23:
Hi! Hey would you please explain how to move my backed up nanodroids using root explorer and putting them on my sd card. Thanks In advance!!!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] shayuegg:
Everytime when I run a program,such as click "Start" using stylus,the menu will open,BUT,it will close very soon even I couldn't select a program to run.This will also happen when I use the soft keyboard.

And sometimes when I click screen,It didn't act,just like I did nothing at all!

thanks!

best regards!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Zzan:
No way we can help you when you don't provide any information whatsoever on your setup and installed programs.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] MikeChannon:
More info would be good but unfortunately it sounds like this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=295095

Mike
[Android Apps and Games] markusssss:
I try the apk file of "telephone" and "heading" of Android kitkat stock. I have to install it on kitkat with amigo.
[Android Apps and Games] markusssss:
Up
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohit_tripathi60:
Ok I tried to be smart and did a hard reset on my Note 4 because i thought this would help me get lolipop update for my phone (stupid i know) , my phone is stuck on samsung account window after rebooting and I am unable to use my note 4 since yesterday. it says

"This device is locked because of an abnormal factory reset...bla bla bla." and it wont let me pass this window, every time when i enter my samsung account details it says "processing failed.

what can i do ? please help
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bobguy21:
What carrier?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willcor:
hi ,

was your Reactivation lock tick ( if so you have to log into Samsung account)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunandroid:
reserved
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d00lz:
Great post. A thread like this should be the first thread you read as soon as you enter the LGG2 sub forum.

Expect a private message soon.

Also, reserved for possible future additions ;).
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunandroid:
And you could modify your signature now^^
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Art Vanderlay:
;)

Nice write up Sunny. You can credit Dan Rosenburg for creating loki. I can also confirm that wifi still works without modemst1 and modemst2 aka efs. My phone suffers for this thread.;)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diogofd8:
[MENTION=5744495]Sunandroid[/MENTION]

Perfect! This was all I was looking for. Now I finnaly understand how my G2 works and I'll most likely not need to ask more "noob questions" in this matter.

But I would like to ask some questions because I've left with doubts after reading the OP.

As long as I have /recovery/ and /aboot/ working, I can recover my device exclusively with software. Is this right?

I've concluded that you need /aboot/ to be able to enter in /recovery/ and with recovery you can mess up with any other partition.´

How can I tell if /modem/ found here is compatible with my device? Are all /modem/ partitions the same in the same models? For example, I'm from Portugal so I have a Portuguese D802 LG G2 (if I type its IMEI in a site, it recognizes it as portuguese). If I flash a German D802 modem or English or even American, considering that they are all from D802 would they work flawlessly with my device?

Why does /modem/ cause auto-rotation to work? What exactly is /modem/?

I have a backup of all the partitions in my laptop (made via TWRP). But what happens if I accidentaly lose my /efs/ partition? Can I flash another phone's /efs/?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunandroid:
Glad I could help you this way...

about /aboot and /recovery: yes you are right. It is even better, if you have an intact laf too. That's the download mode. But as long the other two work, you can fix the laf partition easily. But if you get into the situation, that only those two are working, better don't flash a bootloader (=/aboot). If it's the wrong one your device is bricked.

Aboot is the key to your device. Everything else is fixable. At least with a little bit of knowledge and time. But better don't try it out. ;)

No, the modems are not all the same. There are (sometimes depending on the branding) extremely small differences between the basebands/modems. I personally never had the problem, that I couldn't get any connection at all. But that's not fatal. Just flash another one and try again if it works. Btw: I once made a test in some german forums with different KK basebands. I'm not sure anymore, but the differences were minimal and I think killed my connection totally.

If you loose your efs stuff, your device is a brick with extended functionalities. The IMEI and some other data stored in the efs partition is worldwide unique. So you can't just pick the one of another phone (except the other G2 is bricked or whatever). You need the IMEI for general network connection. So it will still boot up, but you won't be able to text or call anyone with this phone.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diogofd8:
Okay ^^

So this is a full backup of all the needed partitions right? http://prntscr.com/76edu4

Should I convert these files to something like .img to be able to flash in the phone just in case I get something that disables my TWRP access?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunandroid:
Yeah, I guess so. As long as you ticked everything when you backed up (with blastagators TWRP!; the official one doesn't allow to backup the efs stuff), this should be fine.

Well you could. But tbh I have no idea how to convert those files into .img files. But it isn't necessary anyways: It's unlikely that you loose the efs data on your phone unless you brick it somehow. If the phone stays recoverable, The first thing you are going to do is: flashing bootloader, laf and boot.img. Then you will go back to stock through the download mode. Once you've done this it's an easy one to install twrp again and restore the efs backup. No one is gonna flash ~32 partitions by hand. There are "easier" and more usefull ways to recover the device.

Oh and btw: no backup contains the bootloader, laf and boot (recovery developer don't implement this for some reasons). But this doesn't matter. The only thing you really need is the efs backup (which partitions exactly you can see here). Everything else isn't unique and can be extracted out of kdz files and restored this way.

Edit: the two partitions mentioned here are
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoPogoOreo!:
My PC doesn't install any driver when my phone is on download mode,

On recovery mode (twrp) i have MTP access but on download mode i'm not having any access,

does that mean my download mode is dead?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunandroid:
This has nothing to do with this thread here. The issue is different. But I have no clue what it might be... If I can elaborate a maybe working answer I'm gonna answer you in the noob thread. ;)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoPogoOreo!:
Oh btw i tried your (noob friendly) no download mode, no recovery mode ..... using slax,

when i typed ls /dev/sd* it's only showed my PC (only one sda) and there is no sdb, not even one

Weirdly i can access TWRP, but i can't make any custom rom boot,

Man this is frustating :eek:
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pisisler:
I have a phone, G2 D802 Int., which probably has a corrupt EFS partition. I guess the owner broke it flashing incompatible things into it. As a result of the corruption, ESN/IMEI is lost. It shows null. But very interestingly, the EFS partition mustn't have been wiped because by chance of a boot among a hundred, it shows up the ESN. If by chance you come across to ESN, everything operates normally. And if you reboot the phone, ESN is gone again..

I managed to make recovery work again, by upgrading the phone to lollipop. (It was another time I came across ESN.) But no download mode, USB is never identified (unkonwn usb device), USB modes cannot be changed, unless by chance you come across, USB debugging is no more either.

I was thinking to backup some necessary partitions from a working phone of the same variant, but since it's "unknown device", I cannot query it as a disk. Neither it works in Ubuntu. ls /dev/sd* doesn't show the phone. It even doesn't show the working phone.

Any idea about how I can fix the corrupted EFS partition?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunandroid:
I luckily never had to try it, but scroll down a bit over here: http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-backup-and-restore-lost-imei-on-lg-g2/

I wish you luck!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pisisler:
Yes I know that, but since I cannot take the device to USB debugging mode, it's not the first step I could take. "USB device descriptor is failed", this is what I get when I plug the phone.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunandroid:
So what is the current state of your phone? You have twrp installed. Can you push stuff through adb when you are in the recovery (this is pretty important, since we maybe can fix the download mode this way)? Does it boot into android?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pisisler:
[MENTION=5744495]Sunandroid[/MENTION], device operates normally except the voice call & data, since these depend on IMEI. The phone boots normally, and everything is working, only the IMEI shows as "null". Additionaly, cannot enter to download mode, no recovery installed, original recovery is working, which is used to do a factory reset only. No USB debugging, it says "USB device descriptor failed". Thus no adb.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunandroid:
From what I've read about this issue (device descriptor...) just now, it is not software but hardware related.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pisisler:
I've heard of people solving that issue but I couldn't manage to do. Gave the phone to my customer back after 4 days. Importer service put the phone out of warranty and offered him a motherboard replacement for 75 $ and it's pretty fair I think. After all it comes funny when he says he's gonna file a case about returning the phone and take his money back. Well, it's up to him to end up with nothing in hands after months of waiting for a case.

Shortly, this file has been closed without a reasonable solution.

Thanks for your effort [MENTION=5744495]Sunandroid[/MENTION].
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunandroid:
Glad to hear that. Hitting the thanks button doesn't hurt. ;)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KillerMOth:
Hi can't get to stock

Hi I i'm quite a noob, or at least feel like one now

Something went wrong when installing root and twrp, I'm now stuck in a boot loop that only goes to twrp and the gui is very unresponsive

Flashing back to stock using a tot file, the lg flash tool does the procedure but in the the box it skips most of the partitions it says " skip system partition" and repeats it multiple times for the other partitions. The phone restart and goes back to the broken twrp

The tot and dll files i'm using is correct as i have used them before this to restore my phone.

Any help would be appreciated

---------- Post added 9th June 2015 at 12:22 AM ---------- Previous post was 8th June 2015 at 11:38 PM ----------

I'm having trouble finding a way to fix this:

I have the same problem as this guy

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2704519

I applied a one click root+twrp. Something went wrong and soft bricked my phone.

It boot loops into twrp but twrp's gui is unresponsive. Have got it to factory reset in twrp get but i get "can't mount /data" in red text. I can get into download mode. TOT flash to stock method kind of works. It runs through the process very fast and flash tool returns:

skip system partition

Skip aboot Partition

Skip rpm Partition

Skip boot Partition

Skip tz Partition

Skip misc Partition

Skip persist Partition

skip cache partition

est... for rest of partitions

Finishes the proses and phone reboots back into boot loop to broken twrp

the tot and dll files are fine cuz i used them to flash it earlier when i got stuck

I can't get the KDZ method to work. Does anyone know what's wrong

Is there a another way to replace the partitions manually? maybe a linux way? I'm still very noob, hitting a very hard learning curve
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunandroid:
--> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2692223

Maybe I can elaborate an answer until you post over there. ;)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hdas:
Great Post ! can u help me about what is a bootstack ?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunandroid:
According to this

There are 8 files flashed:

dbi -> couldn't find any information. I guess it could have to do something with network connections.

aboot -> bootloader

rpm -> resource power management, controls the power for e.g. your modem & radio

sbl1 -> Quallcomms bootloader, kinda the bootloader of the bootloader, see it as part of the bootloader

tz -> "trusted zone" whatever it is. Seems to be a part of the bootloader as well.

laf -> download mode

persist -> files like MAC adress and sensor files are stored there.

modem -> modem/baseband what ever you want to call it

So you see. Basically it's everything, ROM and Kernel need, to boot properly. AFAIK bootstack is not that well defined. Means some bring e.g. one partition more or something like that. Btw: I had to google what the partitions are for. So don't worry too much about them. ;-P
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MilanStojkovic:
Bump. Seems like a lot of people could benefit from reading a bit more about this.