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[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zemblance:
I need to restore my Tab S. I installed Windows on Parallels in order to root it and have been using CM12.

Now no matter what I do Odin fails to see my Tab when in download mode so I can't use it (I've spent all day doing everything forums reccomend - swapping cables, ports, un/installing KIES, blah, blah - 'Windows sees the Tab, but Odin just does not. Heimdall on the Mac just does nothing as it needs a PIT file I don't have and can't find.

Isn't there a way to restore stock firmware with TWRP? Or a rooted near stock ROM that I can unroot?

Any help would be much appreciated.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mahasamatman:
I feel your pain, but I think a full windows installation is the only way to get round this. I've tried windows in a Virtualbox and had the same results as you. Googling shows TWRP can restore a backup but I can't see any option to load stock and there's nowhere I can see to download a PIT file :(

But would this be worth a try? http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/usefulsoftware/KIES/
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashyx:
I take it then you didn't make a full backup in recovery, which is sort of the whole point in flashing it in the first place?

Your issue could be a missing driver.

Reinstall the Samsung driver on the host and make sure it is the guest operating system that is connecting to the usb port not the host.

Also do you know Windows can be installed to a usb drive?

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-run-a-portable-version-of-windows-from-a-usb-dri-1565509124
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zemblance:
Yup I think you're right, installing Boot Camp for the 1st time. One upside is that when I've finished with Windows I'm gonna put on Ubuntu (for the first time in 10 years!), getting bored of OS X and use hardly any of the Apple apps on it anyway...

Tried KIES for Mac but it doesn't seem to recognise custom ROM'd Tabs. Cheers.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zemblance:
Actually buddy methinks you're onto something. Just downloaded Samsung PC Studio and that installed a 'gadget serial' driver that ODIN seems to recognise! :laugh:
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zemblance:
Success!

OK - posting this in case another 'me' is searching for the same. Both commenters were helpful. Thanks.

It was a weird trial and error of installing both KIES and Samsung PC studio, that installed all the necessary drivers, the restore took minutes using Odin 3.09. I also had to try a few different USB cables as it seemed choosy, so Parallels can work though it all seems a bit pot lucky!

I now have a 'fresh' install of KK. Not sure if it will show up as a Knox tripper.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashyx:
The Samsung usb drivers can be downloaded here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/a4hd8y0c1iakysk/Samsung-Usb-Driver-v1.5.49.0.exe
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] leepriestenator:
Guys, I'd like to know how you all go about getting your Hermes and how much you pay for it.

Since I live in a country where is costs like $1000 for the Hermes, I was wondering what would be the best way to go about getting it for cheap like it is in the US and UK.

I tried asking a few of my friends in the states to pick up one of the cingular connections which offers an 8525 along with a 2 year contract for about $400, but that would mean they have to get an extra connection.

I've noticed that there are a lot of people who sell these kind of phones on ebay which have been unlocked for around the same price.

Is there anybody you guys would recommend? or is there any other way I can go about getting the 8525 or equivalent for around $400 Brand new.

Hope yu guys can help out ASAP. My friend in the US leaves in another 2 weeks. It has to reach him by then.

Thanks and Regards

Lee
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] TaurusBullba R.I.P.:
Check you PMs ;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] anitanium:
if you're using fido, i'm guessing you're in canada

some local cell phone places can get the hermes relatively for about 700CAD or so, usually the softbank japanese version

you could check craigslist for your area

e.g. vancouver.craigslist.org

see if you can search HTC or Cingular 8525

i'm lucky i got mine from ebay locally though

under 450CAD brand new
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] leepriestenator:
@Taurus... Check ur PMS ;)

Anybody else?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] sectorlord:
Here in HK....a new Softbank unlock with latest Dopod ROM is only USD 380....

Go to Sintat, Mongkok
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] leepriestenator:
Anything that I can get online???

Something that is Brand New and doesn't cross $400 to 500?

Any help would be appreciated.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] mcg:
ah fuk, i got mine for $525 CAD LNIB
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] sentinal:
Cheapest X01HT so far??!

Got my X01HT for 5$ X 24 installments from Biccamera/Tokyo

Flashed with English LSVW WM6. Happy!!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] EQUiLiiBRiUM:
I'd also Like to know where I can get one for No more than $400.00

I'm in NYC.... Looking to Upgrade my Slow A$$ Tmobile MDA but not Break the bank you know ?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] richardlai:
Ah, the gansta stronghold, as we call it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] leepriestenator:
Thanks guys...

@ $5 x 24 = $120.00... Really? The only other place I saw that kind of a price was on Amazon where an 8528 was going for about $125.00 with a 2 year Voice and Data Plan from Cingular which at it's cheapest would cost you around $80.00 a month.

Hope somebody else can point me out to a good deal. I'd prefer the M3100. Like our Mr. Activ Moderator pof pointed out... it's looks neat ;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] neocsr:
Yes it's true, around $120... but it's a two year contract. In total the monthly fee is $25 including only 12250 packets and free calls from 1am to 9pm inside the softbank network...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Trailblayzer:
SoftNank in China

I got my SoftBank Hermes 200 phone in China for US$450 unlocked with English ROM.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] leepriestenator:
Managed to find what looks like a decent seller on eBay.

Let's see how it goes. Brand New 8525 for around 450.00
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] henry_y_leung:
Check this out.

http://www.ima-shop.com/index.php?cPath=71

You can shop online thru here. Based in HK.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] leepriestenator:
Hi Henry,

Thanks for the link. I'm trying to avoid the X01's. Looks like this one works up to about USD 550.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] cpz21:
I got my Cingy 8525 from Craigslist (SF Bay area) for $400 about 4 month ago
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] killerb777:
is it possible to install gapps on the fire tv thats not rooted? If so, what apk's are needed? I'm trying to run a few apps that ask for a google account (nba jam). I thought I read somewhere that a few apks are needed to run those type of apps but I can't find the topic now.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Viperise152:
http://xdaforums.com/fire-phone/general/fire-phone-how-to-install-google-play-t2977237

Is the method you are referring to? I have not tried it myself on my Fire TV but it worked perfectly on my Fire Phone.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] killerb777:
I dont think so. i think there were like 4 or 5 apk's to install and some of the google apps worked except play store.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Viperise152:
The second link of that thread has those 4 APKs you are talking about. I sideloaded the four APks in the order they said and I had Play store and all Google apps on my Fire Phone. Im going to give it try on my Fire TV this weekend after I do some research. I'll post my results.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] killerb777:
Thanks. I actually found the post.

http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/themes-apps/how-to-install-gapps-root-t2960705

unfortunately it didnt work for me. even after setting the permissions from adb, i get the retry connection in playstore and play movies closes when I try and click a video. youtube works fine though. might have to give the other topic a try and see if the apk's are different. I was hoping to get nba jam and madden mobile working but they just force close.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] kabaldan:
Official cm-12.1 nightlies for Photon Q have been enabled.

Download link: http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=xt897

Gapps for 5.1 (by dhacker29): https://t.co/bvegrEBSdY

TWRP 2.8.6.2 recovery for xt897: https://dl.orangedox.com/Ajalit2rGIUYAO8Snc/TWRP-2.8.6.2-xt897.img

Device specific source repos:

motorola/xt897: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_motorola_xt897/tree/cm-12.1

motorola/msm8960_jbbl-common: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_motorola_msm8960_jbbl-common/tree/cm-12.1

motorola/qcom-common: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_motorola_qcom-common/tree/cm-12.1

kernel: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_motorola_msm8960-common/tree/cm-12.1

Please note:

Since CM12, the Motorola 2012 msm8960 device line has been de-unified again, so moto_msm8960/moto_msm8960_jbbl builds are dead. Use xt897 specific builds when you go beyond CM11.

GSM users (SIM card mod):

Please switch the Settings>Mobile networks>Preferred network type to 'GSM/WCDMA auto' or 'GSM/WCDMA preferred' from 'Global' for correct modem functionality on GSM networks.

What's new in cm-12.1 for xt897:

Lollipop turned out to be very RAM demanding. 1GB RAM devices seem to be below the limit of what lollipop actually needs.

To overcome this issue, 256MB of RAM has been dedicated to zram (compressed swap living in RAM). Zram can give us a bit more of effectively usable RAM space.

To speed-up the zram operations, kernel has been updated to the latest zram code with support for the fast lz4 compression.

Another new kernel addition is cpu-boost driver that can boost cpu frequency e.g. when input events are happening (touch screen interaction) regardless of cpu governor in use.

Known issues:

- USB audio output (analogue) via USB>audio Y-cable (Motorola Car Dock/EMU audio) is not working correctly yet

- USB audio DACs/sound cards connected as USB OTG peripheral do not work correctly yet
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] palmwangja:
Thanks, it seems very smooth, compared to what I experienced with CM12. Not sure it's a placebo or not, but it's really promising. I hope it hits a nightly soon.

Just one caveat : do not dirty-flash over a CM12, you will get a series of acore FCs.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] palmwangja:
A couple of report after a day's usage:

1. Carrier name is missing, it just says 'no service', but it still gives you HSPA without any problems. Yes, I'm using a modded one.

2. Google+ still can't got logged-in. "couldn't connect to the server"
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] comstyle:
+1
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tobby88:
I didn't test CM12.1 yet, but this change also has been included in the normal CM12 nightlies - and it was a HUGE improvement! Well done! :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] ---UFO---:
Thanks for the build.

Here are mirrors on Mega.co.nz:

cm-12.1-20150405-UNOFFICIAL-xt897.zip

gapps-lpmr1-20150503-signed.zip

TWRP-2.8.6.0-xt897.img
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] comstyle:
Mh strange.... after a couple of days without reboot the system froze and I had to restart.

Now the no service bug disappeared and it displays the correct carrier and bandwidth.

Edit: Only thing I recognized till now is a missing widget in window mode :D

[IMG="Missing widget"]http://xdaforums.com/picture.php?albumid=12081&pictureid=48821[/IMG]
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] .PHil:
This happened to me as well.

However another couple days later and now I've completely lost network signal. The phone shows an exclamation mark in the status bar over the network icon about every ten seconds and cant connect. It appears airplane mode keeps engaging and disengaging around the same time or something. Weird.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] palmwangja:
Are you guys don't have any problems with Google Search??

After the app upgrade that comes out at 9th of April, it doesn't allow me to connect to their servers... Google Now also stops working.

It starts with Google+, and now at Google Search app. :(

---------- Post added at 11:01 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:41 AM ----------

I suspect this is Google's fault, but as a fyi:

Google Search

Google+
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
My roommate had issues with the April 9 update of Google on CM11... clear data on the app, works fine now. He was unable to use the search bar to actually 'search' for anything.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] palmwangja:
Thanks, clearing app data makes that app work temporarily, but the symptoms came back again very soon... :(
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Elanzer:
Other than the other reported issues with signal meters showing errors (both wifi and cell antennas) and other odd bits of instability, I've been having issues with the portrait mode keyboard coming up when the phone is in landscape mode with the keyboard out.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] ---UFO---:
[MENTION=2218140]kabaldan[/MENTION]

After each restart, when I'm entering SIM PIN there is error when unlocking SIM and it is succesful after several tries. Then it takes more then 15 minutes to acquire signal.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Yea, same on CM11 for my roomie's... darn.

So far my solution has been to fall back to Trebuchet and uninstall updates on the Google app. No Google Now launcher.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] comstyle:
That solved this issue for me.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] ---UFO---:
I have this option set too.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] turbozapekanka:
how long should the first boot take normally?

mine is stuck with flickering CM logo for about 10-15 min now.

Shut it down and now it is charging, will try to reflash again later.

Any ideas why it stuck on booting?

Should I do some special reformatting before installing?

I'm OK with loosing all the data
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] palmwangja:
I believe you better wait for more than 15 mins.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] turbozapekanka:
How much longer?

20 min?

30, 60?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] palmwangja:
I usually left it while I go out for a lunch. If it's a fresh build, the first boot takes a really long time.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] bmccrary:
I sent logs yesterday to kabaldan. Hopefully it will help! Now that I finally have nandroid working I can flip between the images pretty quick.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tzuba12:
So hows it going? Haven't heard anything since the release.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Dreamliners:
Can someone reupload this? The link is dead.

Thanks.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] mrvek:
My fault, deleted by accident. But I intend to make a newer build so you might wan't to wait a day or so.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] maisdoiscorregos:
the problem with wifi still continues? I realized that when I connect to a network with WPA she deconecta constantly, and wep networks does not occur either.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tobby88:
I have this problem on every CM build on the PQ. Not only CM13... :-/
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] rabinhood:
Interesting. I used CM11, I'm using latest build of CM12.1 now, but I never encountered any problems with unstable wi-fi connection. I even find PQ to catch poor wi-fi signal better then Droid 3 and Milestone 2, which I've used before.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] TacticalPower88:
any eta on a new snapshot release?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] eigerzoom:
anyone know how to disable car mode?

one of the things that bothers me when i dock the q in the official cardock....uhg

as of now, i have Car Dashdroid installed, and when cardocked both applications open, however it then gives me the option to exit carmode.

I am just hoping to avoid this whole process, and never have anything open.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Y_Yan_C:
battery

what is the average screen on time for you guys on the latest 12.1 build? my battery gets bloated at times and the battery life is balls
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] kabaldan:
Not sure what you mean by "both applications open" - I have only Car Dashdroid opening upon docking as I marked it to be the default app for car dock.

Nevertheless, the easiest way to disable the dock detection is to remove (or rename) /system/bin/whisperd .
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] eigerzoom:
i dont have whisperd in /system/bin/

nm i found it, thanks
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Shaker1978:
Can it be Android-/ Cyanogen related to have an extremely poor WLAN signal? Or must it be a hardware / antenna issue? I have 1 MBit/s when 2m away from access point... :( Have tried CM 12.1 (20151007) and CM 12.1 (20160323)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] bmccrary:
I haven't seen CM have any affect on WLAN signal. On both CM 12.1/CM13 the performance was same as stock 4.1.2. With that being said the Photon Q has never been the best device as I have a tablet and laptop beside me that have a little better signal. But I'm seeing 36MBps about 50ft away through 4 sheetrock walls and 65MBps closer to the access point. So I'd say it's the antenna or the mainboard itself. If you have a spare back piece (the one with the flash and the speaker built-in to it) I would give that a try. If you need one PM me, I'm sure I have a few laying around! :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] 4218kris:
I downloaded today's update and I'm on cm13 now weird...?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] mrvek:
xt897 is officially supported by CM 13.0: http://get.cm/?device=xt897&type=

It probably just downloaded the latest available update, despite release version change. Perhaps a bug/inconsistency in cm updater?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] palmwangja:
dirty flashing CM13 over CM12.1 was causing lots of errors after reboot in my case, and I had to factory-reset.

No biggie though. a couple of hours of efforts will get you a clean looking phone!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] palmwangja:
Wish I'd known this : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66055434&postcount=79

Same symptoms here, but now you got a solution!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Shaker1978:
Thanks, pal. I'm going to return the broken thing to the seller, since he said, it's technically 100% ok.

The problem is - I am in Germany and I need a Photon Q with SIM mod. The only problem left for me is getting the SIM chip removed. This is something I cannot do myself. I am able to do the rest of the work, but not removing the chip. I've just bought another XT897 mainboard from ebay and will try to find a solution. But this is getting off-topic ;)

Thanks for your offer.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] enigma9o7:
Where can I get the last CM 12.1 build? The only thing left on cyanogen downloads page is 7 October last year. I'm running a monthly from February and am not quite ready to try marshmellow (feels like I just started with lollipop) but may as well be as up to date as possible for 12.1 but missed it when it was available as I didn't know it was going to stop being available...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Old nightlies get removed in favor of newer ones... they don't save nightlies for very long in other words.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Al936:
Just download it from my Google Drive. This is 23 March 2016 nightly. Looks like it is the latest CM 12.1 build.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] enigma9o7:
Many Thanks.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] mozzwald:
Is anyone using cm-12.1-20151007-SNAPSHOT with Ting? I just upgraded and everything seems great except no MMS (SMS / data / voice work fine). I've tried several Ting APN's floating around for other devices with no luck.

Also, any solutions for visual voice mail? I get the Sprint text messages for new voicemail, and the Sprint VVM app doesn't provision / show messages.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] thk_ms:
Hello everybody,

it was very surprising for me, that the 12.1 development stopped with an nightly version in march. Why there is no snapshot or final version at its end? Btw: Is the last nightly performing very well?

Thanks a lot, thk_ms
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
Question to ZRAM.

Is it possible to lower zram?

It is stuck on 256MB, I want to go down to 128MB.

What I mean by "stuck", any attempt to change the size didn't work, as if it is hardcoded. ( echo 128M > /sys/block/zram0/disksize )

I did swapoff /dev/block/zram0 before but that didn't help. After swapon it was still 256MB big.

I am also not able to deactivate zram completely, modprobe -r zram and rmmod zram both do not work.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tobby88:
May I ask: Why do you want to lower it?

But I think it's hardcoded. You can download the sourcecode and have a look at /etc/fstab.qcom. ZRAM-size is set to 256MB over there. Change it, compile the ROM and have a try :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
I want to use a swap partition instead. I know it is slower but overall more fast ram and less cpu usage.

I have never compiled a ROM, maybe I should give it a try.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tobby88:
More fast RAM, yes. But less free RAM (and more swapping) because of the missing compression. I think you will get a worse overall performance because of more (and slower) swapping.

As far as I remember were the first builds of CM12.1 for PQ without ZRAM and they were slow as hell, especially when chaning the (foreground) app. Somethimes the phone just hang for a few minutes. Then ZRAM was enabled and was a massive improvement.

But sure, give it a try :)

You can find a how-to-build here: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_xt897

Recommended is to use Ubuntu. And prepare to have at least 50-60GB of free space on your HDD/SSD. Better have 100GB or more of free space.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
Well, I can run now (with 1GB swap partition) Pokemon Go without a crash (and fast switch to Messaging Apps like Telegram).

Before that I had fc of Pokemon Go (or Poke Mongo) and other apps including crash of SuperSu (didn't work correctly until hardreboot); random softreboot (with GPS still active but no app was using it).

Maybe I just swapoff and look how it's working. If it is still smooth, I would try to build the ROM.

Thank you for the link.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tobby88:
It may be better to have some more. I gave my compiling-vm 8 or 12 GB, but I think it should run with 4GB as well.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
Yeah, I've read the page of your link a bit more and there is 8GB or more advised so it is faster.

I will install some distribution on a usb-stick and use a SSD over USB3.0 for building with my 16GB machine.

May I ask how long it takes (or took) for you to build CM13 (or CM12.1)?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
I am trying to build cm13 just out of curiosity.

Sadly I'm stuck at "Extract proprietary blobs":

Extracting /system/lib/libaudcal.so ...
[100%] /system/lib/libaudcal.so
...
Extracting /system/lib/liboemcamera.so ...
[100%] /system/lib/liboemcamera.so
Extracting /system/bin/qseecomd ...
adb: error: remote object '/system/bin/qseecomd' does not exist

The Photon Q is on the latest cm13 nightly (9. july).

Since this is my second (spare) Photon Q, I can flash whatever I want.

Just give me a hint.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] GDorn:
Coincidentally, I am doing the exact same thing today. I got help on the #cyanogenmod-dev IRC channel, and this is the result:

- extract_files.sh is often outdated for less popular devices. that is the case with the xt897. It simply won't work unless somebody fixes it.

- instead, edit .repo/local_manifests/roomservice.xml to add the semi-legal repository of proprietary vendor blobs by adding this to the end:

<project name="TheMuppets/proprietary_vendor_motorola" path="vendor/motorola" remote="github" />

Then re-run repo sync to download the vendor blobs, and skip the extract_files.sh step.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
Thank you very much!

I read that somewhere (another motorola device) when I googled for the problem but I wanted to wait a few days before I have to do the whole thing again.