yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Palmguy:
I've had my N6 for a week and a half now; when I ordered it, I requested a Nano SIM from Verizon. It took longer than I expected for the new SIM to arrive, so I decided to just cut down my existing Micro SIM. Did that, installed into the N6, up and running no problem.

The Nano SIM finally showed up, and I swapped it in thinking there'd be no issue. Unfortunately when I start it up, I get a notification to "Sign into network", and when I open that, I receive a screen that says "Cannot Activate Your Device". I talked to VZW on their chat and then on the phone; the tech on the phone was asking for the IMEI which I provided, he said their system did not recognize the number and he'd have to submit a request to have it added to the database, which would take 24-48 hours, and that I could swap in my old SIM in the meantime. No problem, until I switched my old SIM back in and it doesn't work anymore either....

Any suggestions?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] colts187:
Sounds like you were better off keeping them in the dark. I read an article somewhere can't remember where saying that Verizon wouldn't activate any n6 that weren't purchased directly from Verizon. I wouldn't be surprised if that were true.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Palmguy:
It does seem that way. Mine came from GPS. Told them that when I requested the new SIM and they didn't give me any problems...it was "sure, confirm your address and we'll send it".

The tech I was dealing with genuinely seemed to want to figure out a way to get it to work.

My thought is to try to get my SIM back in a phone that is unquestionably on Verizon's system, but I'll have to find a nano to micro adapter to do that with my wife's phone, for instance.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Palmguy:
I was able to find a nano-micro adapter, and reactivate my old SIM in an old Galaxy S3 we had laying around, and swap it into my N6.

LTE data is working, but voice isn't for some reason (when I place a call, it'll ring once and then "Welcome to Verizon Wireless, your call can not be completed as dialed. Please check the number..."

ETA: Voice issues were some kind of glitch with Advanced Calling/VoLTE. I disabled it from my line, reactivated it and went through that whole process again and now it's working.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarthSudo:
This post summarizes the VZW issues with the non-VZW N6: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59970721&postcount=121

Read the whole thread if you want details, but it seems clear to me the VZW is breaking FCC regs by only allowing N6's purchased from them on their network.

It does seem you have other issues going on here though. My N6 worked great, it just cost me my $25 "bring your own device" discount when I plugged in my existing SIM.

Please let us know if you succeed in getting your N6 recognized on VZW's network. My request to add mine to their network was denied in about 5 minutes.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prod1212:
Same issue on b2b plan

I'm having the same issue on a B2B plan. I am currently trying to find someone w/ a Verizon android. Seems like there are grounds for a complaint through FCC regulations though, no?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patmw123:
This is no longer an issue. Verizon will activate all Nexus 6's now from what I've read.

See the thread below:

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6/general/fcc-verizon-t3069915
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prod1212:
My mistake! I'm using a N5.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patmw123:
The Nexus 5 doesn't have the hardware/radios to run on Verizon and never has just fyi.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prod1212:
I was under the impression that the N5 radio could connect to Band 13 (700MHz)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patmw123:
Yeah it would need a lot more than just support for LTE band 13 to work on Verizon. The CDMA bands/radios are still 100% necessary - at least for now. In addition to all of the other LTE bands Verizon supports.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prod1212:
Yea, I guess I am missing something here. I found that you can't enable Band 13 without rooting and disabling other bands. Shouldn't an unlocked nexus 5 just need access to Band 13 and be registered on Verizon's network in order to use LTE Band 13?

I appreciate all of the answers. I'm a bit new to this whole process, and never understood US network space before today. so thanks
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cam30era:
You might find more support for your quest on the Nexus 5 Q&A forum, here > http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/help
[Nexus 5 General] doctor_droid:
So its a hardware partition that attaches itself to a google account? :p pardon my knwledge..m a dental surgeon..
[Nexus 5 General] bitdomo:
Interesting. Creating a FRP partition by taking away some space from userdata would not hurt.

The rest is to find the files which responsible to the factory reset protect.
[Nexus 5 General] KopiJahe:
there's also this build.prop entry:

ro.frp.pst=/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/frp

in case of nexus 6:

ro.frp.pst=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/frp

and nexus 9:

ro.frp.pst=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/PST

also, this article.
[Nexus 5 General] bitdomo:
What is the size of the FRP partition?

Can you light me up what is this factory reset protection actually do? Does it prevent to perfrom a factory reset or event after you do factory reset you still have to enter the pin lock or enter the pattern? How do you enable it on a supported device? How do you know it is enabled?
[Nexus 5 General] ConorCX:
I believe it will not let you factory reset the device unless you enter your Google account username and password.
[Nexus 5 General] KopiJahe:
Let say that X's phone is stolen by Y, Y then proceed to factory reset the phone from recovery mode because the lockscreen is protected by a password.

The system will let Y to do that, but, upon starting the system, the setup wizard will not allow him to pass unless you gave him the last google account username and password that was active on that phone.

Bootloader is locked and you must toggle the unlock state in developer options (like nexus 6), so no custom recovery to wipe the frp partition, and re-flashing with factory image also doesn't touching that partition too.

From android police

I don't have a device that support it, but will search about the size around.
[Nexus 5 General] bitdomo:
I played a little.

I made frp partition. As I saw from the previous link it is a 512 kb large unformated partition.

I built a kernel with adding the frp partition to the fstab and context file.

I edited the build.prop to add the ro.frp.pst string.

I could not make it work, but some data appeared on the frp partition. 35 bytes of data

I am lost at the moment what else I could do. I should somehow get logs but have no idea what I have to look for in dmesg or logcat.

Maybe there are some libs and scripts? Or we need some reverse engineering? Or it needs stock rom? Anyone knows if this feature works on the custom roms of nexus 6 or 9?
[Nexus 5 General] opssemnik:
maybe the GServices check for the device?, also take a look at the note edge, the OTA to Lollipop on the sprint variant has an interesting comment

Added Factory Reset Protection. so by this thread, it also got the device protection feature?
[Nexus 5 General] KopiJahe:
In the article I mentioned earlier, it mentioned the new service for this, android.service.persistentdata.IPersistentDataBlockService (frameworks/base/services/core/java/com/android/server/PersistentDataBlockService.java) for it to be active.

Also, for sprout, I had to dig in more:

So, in fstab.sprout, it listed like this:

/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/frp /persistent emmc defaults defaults

and in file_contexts, it listed like this:

/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 u:object_r:frp_block_device:s0

after downloading several stock rom for sprout, I looked at their scatter file (like PIT for samsung devices), and didn't found about FRP partition. So, I searched about this mmcblk0p18 mentioned earlier in file_contexts, turns out it is actually a partition called "gen", and the size is 71.5 MB. This partition is actually available in my sprout_b device, yet the corresponding feature didn't work out.
[Nexus 5 General] bitdomo:
Awesome! I am checking the source code of the persistent datablock service. Now atleast I know what do I have to look for to find errors (hope i will find).

I will give it a try tomorrow. My poor phone was wiped like 10 times today.
[Nexus 5 General] bitdomo:
I could not rest.... my mind was constantly ticking on this.

Well this is something.

I tell the rest tomorrow, but at first look it is working. It didnt let me pass by entering other email addresses it just jumped back to the wifi selection mode without saying anything (is that normal?). Anyway after I loged in with my google account it let me pass.
[Nexus 5 General] bitdomo:
I got it working without making any new partition.

I am using the partition called "grow", 5,5 kiB in size, as it is not being used by or for anyithing. It looks like that amount of space is enough.

What I did to make it work:

I went back to stock LMY47I rom from my AOSP rom.

I added this line to /system/build.prop:

ro.frp.pst=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/grow

I extracted the kernel's ramdisk and added the folowing lines to the following files:

fstab.hammerhead

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/grow	/peristent emmc defaults

file_contexts

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc\.1/by-name/grow u:object_r:frp_block_device:s0

ueventd.hammerhead.rc

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/grow 0600 system system

Then I packed the kernel (get it) and flashed it to the phone.

I added these changes to the hammerhead device tree if someone is intrested.
[Nexus 5 General] frankusb:
So 'fastboot oem unlock' no longer works? With that you could load a custom recovery and wipe any partition.
[Nexus 5 General] KopiJahe:
Fastboot oem unlock will be disallowed by default. You must toggle the option under developer settings to be able to do that.
[Nexus 5 General] frankusb:
It will be disallowed by default? By the Nexus 5 boot loader? In what cases? It either is or it isn't today. I can't try it on my Nexus 5.

I looked for that option under development options on my Nexus 5 and did not find anything.
[Nexus 5 General] bitdomo:
That option comes up only if you have a dedicated frp partition, but for nexus 5 it is useless to enable or disable it because the bootloader will not check the OEM enable bit on the dedicated frp partition unlike nexus 6's bootloader.
[Nexus 5 General] KopiJahe:
that is the case of nexus 6 (and probably 9).

Today, my Indonesian android one device got update to LMY47O, and lazy google is lazy, they didn't rip out the device protection option bit from my device, it didn't work at the first place. They didn't even bother to edit the boot.img ramdisk, leaving Indian setting there.
[Nexus 6  General] thenewak:
So I bought my N6 from Verizon directly and decided I didn't like the logo on the back and wanted to get rid of if. Found a guide on Reddit and since it wasn't engraved in like the nexus logo is I decided to try to get rid of it too.

I used the rounded part of my house key to scratch it off just like a scratch off ticket and it worked great. There was some black adhesive left and I used goo gone to get rid of that. Now it is sexy just like the other Nexus's. Check out the picture below.

Got some insight on how to do it from Reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2ze0xf/the_logo_on_the_verizon_nexus_6_can_be_removed/
[Nexus 6  General] Samg381:
Just removed mine too with a paper clip + 70% rubbing alcohol.

I feel oddly liberated.
[Nexus 6  General] miketucky350:
Good write up! I knew others Right away would do this! In the store while I was getting mine I was trying to remove it. Then the Verizon rep ask what I'm doing lol. I said its a nexus & don't need nasty logos on it. She rolled her eyes and pulled out an iphone -yuck-

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lazz:
I'm using CM12. I set a 5x5 lock pattern and now my phone cannot be unlocked nor can the storage be decrypted in recovery mode because it expects a 3x3 pattern instead. I have no idea what that 3x3 pattern might be and despite my attempts, I cannot get the phone to unlock or decrypt the storage in recovery. I sure know what the 5x5 pattern is, though!

At first TWRP wanted a PIN/password before I updated it. Can the 5x5 patttern be translated into a PIN/password? If so, could I potentially save my data that way? After updating, TWRP now requires a 3x3 pattern as well, but I assume I could go back if needed.

No amount of searching over the last two hours has brought up anything. Someone has already asked this on the CM forums with no reply and the Cyanogenmod IRC channel is mostly dead or I'm not doing something right considering there are hundreds of people in that channel right now.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patriotaki:
My father received his 5.0.1 update on his n910f 1 week ago..hes phone is from UK

My n910f is from Germany and did not received any update yet..

Is anything wrong?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SniperJunkie:
Nothing is wrong, Sometimes the OTA just doesn't come through. I would check... http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-N910F/ and flash the ROM you want via Odin. If not connect to the PC and run KIES to see if the update comes via that. :) Hope this helps.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patriotaki:
If i flash it i will void the warranty am i correct?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radicalisto:
Not an official ROM via Odin/kies, your warranty is safe.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .IC3M4N.:
Below you can find the link for 5.0.1 BOC3 official firmware (no waranty void when flashing official firmwares). It is the latest one uploaded for DBT Germany. I would recommend flashing this as OTA's are usually faster on this CSC version. Best of luck and hope you enjoy the sweetness of lollipop :)

Download:

BOC3 - DBT Germany
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bentez2003:
I just got an OTA notification for 5.1 too. I'm running GPE RUU rooted 5.0.1 with the latest TWRP recovery.

I got the firmware off of the link below

http://graffixnyc.com/m8.php

It has the stock recovery listed as version 3.11.1700.5. Should i flash this version or a more recent one?

Thanks in advanced for the help!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
To flash the OTA you HAVE to bee 100% stock, not even root. OTA updates changed in Lollipop and if anything is different from the original system image it'll fail
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bentez2003:
I don't think that is the case regarding root. I think installing the update will mean I will loose root but as long as I have a stock recovery and system it should install. I'm just not sure about which version recovery to use..
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
Nope, it's ALL changed. In Lollipop if you're rooted, it'll fail. You HAVE to be 100% stock. It wasn't an issue pre-Lollipop, though
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JackHarley:
Does that mean that the only way to upgrade now for people who use root, Xposed, etc. is to do a Titanium Backup and then run a full RUU upgrade to the new image?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
Backup your data, restore your stock backup (which you all made, of course), restore stock recovery and then apply the update and restore your data/re-root
[Huawei MediaPad, T-Mobile SpringBoard] hemainsider:
dear all

my media pad m1 whatsapp and facebook don't get any notification until i open the screen

i think the connection turn off (wifi or data ) when screen off

by the way i protect this programs from close when screen off

any advice
[Huawei MediaPad, T-Mobile SpringBoard] hemainsider:
any answer
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FigBird:
Hello All!

New to Porting Roms but I'm curious to whether this would be possible.

I currently own the THL W11:

Specs:

CPU: MTK6589T Cortex A7 Quad Core 1.5GHz

GPU: PowerVR SGX 544

RAM: 2Gb

ROM: 32Gb

Display: 1920 x 1080, 441 PPI

Android Version is: 4.2.1 JOP40D

MIUI Version: 4.8.29

Kernal: 3.4.5

I have successfully flash the THL W11 MIUI 5 rom found on this Forum onto the phone.

I have installed Cygwin + Android Kitchen in preparation of Porting ROMS.

Here is my question:

I would really like to update my THL W11 to Android 4.4 KitKat as well as flash MIUI 6 onto the phone. Is this at all possible, if so how?

If it is not possible, could someone explain to me why? :)

Obviously don't want to brick my phone!

Any response is appreciated!

Have a nice day.

FigBird
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giaman:
up to 10 post hix,up for everyone:cowboy::cowboy::cowboy:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spqromanni:
Hello XDA community.

I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 after many year of SymbianOS WM iOS.

My wife bought a Galaxy S4 two years ago and both smartphone seem particularly vulnerable to pop up paid service (sorry for my english).

For example, every time I enter this forum especially, a pop up opens and today I couldn't close it with right button so i tried to close with browser's manager and immediately I received a sms confirming the start of paid service ( - € 5,08 in 1 second).

Last year my wife had the same problem in other normal site.

When I used other OS's browsers I didn't have so many pop up.

What can I do to protect my navigation?

Thank's to everybody.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macmobile:
Hi!

Just unintentionally downloaded an OTA Update. Since I don't want to upgrade to Lolliflop: how can I remove it?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Willem1975:
Remove OTA update

I´m afraid the only possibillity is to do a factory reset and not load the updat next time it asks.

Make sure you back up your apps, contact and other crucial info before you do.

If you are rooted Titanium Backup would be best for the job :)

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

If you are not rooted, the are several apps and cloud services available for the job.

Good luck.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macmobile:
Thanks, but too late. I'm already running Lolliflop. At least this version is not as bad as the first one.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Willem1975:
ODIN

Why don't you just flash stock kitkat with ODIN?

All the files are here:

http://galaxynote4root.com/note-4-stock-firmwares/#comment-624

Instructions are here:

http://galaxynote4root.com/galaxy-note-4-root/how-to-unroot-galaxy-note-4-with-stock-firmware/
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macmobile:
Don't want to go back again one more time. The latest iteration of Lolliflop isn't as bad as the first one anyway. So I guess I'll live with it.
[Verizon LG G2] Tsip85:
Don't know what just happened, but here's the best I can explain and hopefully someone smarter than me can figure it out!

My G2 is rooted and running stock 4.4.2 version 24A and I have TWRP 2.7.0.0. I think, besides the hotspot hack, the only thing I had done to it is quarantine LG SetupWizard with App Quarantine. My phone has been trying to push through updates for months, but it never does it successfully becasue of root. Just now, I tried something different to see if I could get the OTA update to install...it was tring to install 26A. I took SetupWizzard out of quarantine and in Superuser I checked OTA survival. After it downloaded the OTA and rebooted it went straight to recovery. From recovery I tried to reboot to system, but it went straight into recovery. So, I restored the backup I made yesterday and tried to reboot back to system again and still it's going to recovery. Any ideas??
[Verizon LG G2] Tsip85:
Fixed!

Found this thread after a search and reading a thread on the G3.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
[Verizon LG G2] Tsip85:
Thank you. I started searching for a solution and found a thread that had those exact instructions. And this little lesson has now led me to searching for something that will let me quickly and easily switch recoveries if I want to take an OTA.
[Verizon LG G2] mach01:
Glad it helped. As for a recovery switcher, you might want to consider using a simple one of the Play Store. They are convenient and easy to use. This thread is really great: http://www.xda-developers.com/simple-recovery-switcher/

Hope this helps. :)
[Verizon LG G2] chazla86:
Would you mind sharing that link I need to find my bosses g2 please help
[Verizon LG G2] Tsip85:
Yes...check the link I posted on the second post.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] karay215:
Dear bros,

Please help! i can't flash my rom to LVSW 20070507

my computer has installed zip and .Net2 already.

and i follow the instruction to upgrade, then it suddently said that i need to do recovery.

Then i also follow the steps and re-start my Hermes, it doesn't return to bootloader and reboot normally. Then i click skip on mu computer and then re-upgrade again, but the prcoess just repeats and repeats to ask me to do recovery.

Can anyone tell me which steps i have omitted????

my IPL - 1.01

SPL - 1.40 Olipro

Rom version - 3.22.200.4

Protocol version - 32.50.7018.00H

pls help me!

thanks in advance!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] db77:
Read this : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=299462
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ach2:
Sounds like you've made a brick - but probably recoverable... First we need more information...

1. Are you SuperCID?

2. Did your computer or phone crash or become disconnected during the original flash?

3. What error number is dosplayed when you try to flash?

4. When you boot the phone does it show NO GSM at the bottom right? (This may only display quickly so watch the boot process carefully), or does it show a radio ROM version such as 1.27.0.0?

5. Are you running Vista?

When you get this sort of info you need to move your question to the 'Dead Hermes....' thread. I'd also suggest reading a lot of it (even though it is long).
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] karay215:
AND i have read the above link so many times and i have followed all the steps, but don't know what happened....

pls help!

thanks!!!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] MrSmith22:
Answer the questions then, don't just skip by them hoping by some miracle someone will know what your PDA is suffering from and give you the answer. What guide did you follow?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Midget_1990:
Fix from LegolastheElf​

1.40.oli has a bug (because the original BL it was based on had a bug)...

You need to upgrade to Hardspl 2.10, then flash LVSW.

hope it works for you :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] MrSmith22:
Even though this beginner submitted a really vague problem, it was resolved without insults. Hooray!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gr8hifi:
man, my thoughts exactly!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] karay215:
thanks bro~!

but i even can't flash to Hard SPL v.7

the problem is the same....

it asks me to recover again and again.....
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Midget_1990:
you need to put the (HardSPL) nbh on your sd card as HERMIMG.nbh and then execute sspl on your device, it should upgrade to HardSPL then :)
[General Questions and Answers] Ashish Sabal:
I have been wiped out internal and external storage from mmx canvas turbo a250.

I have done copied rom.zip with adb fastboot , but in CWM recovery when i trying to install zip from sdcard->choose zip from sdcard then it shows -"E:Can't mount /sdcard/" and for install from internal storage->choose zip from internal storage it shows "No files found."

Directory structure is shown in screenshot attached, where to copy rom.zip for installing through internal storage???
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1mp3r4t0r:
Hello

is it possible downgrade from lollipop to kitkat?

Thanks