yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
This has been brought up so many times for every locked phone. It's pointless its not moto of lenovo its Verizon that wants the phone locked. So yes its pointless.

sent from "my kungfu is stronger then yours" XT1080
[Droid Ultra General] fix-this!:
its not moto its verizon, thank them.
[Droid Ultra General] doogald:
Motorola is just a contract manufacturer of the phones. The brand is owned by Verizon. It's their choice, not Lenovo's. It was remarkable that Verizon allowed a dev version at all.

(But, I agree that it would be great if the phone was allowed to be unlocked as soon as it was two years past active sales, just as a policy. Of course they're still selling this phone now so that helps nobody at the moment.)

Now we all know - if you want a phone that can be unlocked, don't ever, ever buy a Droid from now on.
[Droid Ultra General] bankai_droid:
I figured it was Verizon when we're still waiting for Lollipop. After enough complaining to Motorola the best I got was included into soak tests. But it was just to late for Lollipop.
[XDA Assist] BIG_BADASS:
Hi all:

My phone, which runs Android 4.0.4 got infected with a Remote Access Trojan ( I suspect either AndroRAT or Adwind), and I've tried resetting the device to factory settings, and it still seems to linger. Currently, there is no Software update as it is quite an old phone (Samsung Galaxy Discover). Any insight as to how this can be done?

Thanks.
[XDA Assist] sd_shadow:
see Full Restore [GUIDE][ROOT][CWR/TWRP][DEODEX][OVERCLOCKING] SGH-S730M - Samsung Galaxy Discover by shifattk

Further questions about this device should be made in that thread

or general/help

also see [Completed] Android Malware by BIG_BADASS

This thread will be closed.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewVerizon:
Hi,

My phone suddenly locked up on me and stuck with following message:

AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S)

10.9B(*) (sha-61146a2, 2014-07-29 03:17:13)

eMMC Info: Size 32GB

Device is Locked, Status Code: 0

Battery OK

Connect USB

Data Cable

Load Kernel (boot) failed

Fastboot Reason: Boot Failure

I never rooted or flashed the phone or changed anything beyond stock version or OTA provided by Verizon. Tried the different options to reboot, or do factory reset, but keeps coming back to same screen. When trying Recovery option, I get the android picture with the triangle, but then pressing Volume Up and Down buttons at the same time does not do anything.

I am mainly interested in knowing if there is any way/hope to recover any of the pictures/videos that I have stored on the phone. As a secondary item, I am looking for any way to recover/restore the phone to operational condition. While searching for this online, I came across this forum. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guapo613:
Did you happen to set the storage location for your camera to "SD Card"?, because if you did, then just remove the SD Card and use a SD card reader to copy your pics to your PC.

As far as the phone goes, all I can suggest is to use RSDLite to flash the stock firmware while in AP Fastboot mode. Here is a link to RSDLite: http://rsdlite.com/rsd-lite-download/.

Here is a link to the XT926 (Droid RAZR HD) 183.46.15 firmware :http://www.mediafire.com/download/qwgk70yqf38ss86/VZW_XT926_4.4.2-KDA20.62-15.1_1FF.xml.zip. This will not wipe your phone, (At least it has not wiped my data as I have used it multiple times).

Before you use RSDLite, make sure you have all the drivers for your phone on your PC and while your phone is in AP Fastboot mode, plug it into your PC and let it load the driver. Let us know if you need any further help
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewVerizon:
Guapo613,

Thank you very much for the quick reply. As far as memory card, unfortunately it was already full a long time ago, so practically all the pictures and videos I am talking about are on the internal storage of the phone (not the external card).

As far as restoring using RSDLite, are you indicating that this would maintain my data (pictures and videos) and only affect the boot partition? It seems all other methods I came across by searching were indicating that those methods would wipe out my data. It's great if this will help me restore the phone and not affect the data.

Note, the data on the phone is automatically encrypted, so hopefully this method will still maintain the information and allow me to use the same password for access afterwards?

As far as the firmware you pointed me to, is it the same for my phone? i.e., no difference between the Droid Razr HD and the Droid Razr Maxx HD?

Regarding your guidance to ensure all the drivers for my phone are on my PC, can you clarify how I can make sure of that? When I plug in my phone in the current state, it does not seems to be recognized by the PC and nothing is getting downloaded in the form of drivers.

Thanks!
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billycar11:
rsd by default will wipe your data but for you that no longer matters because you said you factory reset and that erases data i recommend following this guide from [MENTION=2812087]SamuriHL[/MENTION] http://xdaforums.com/droid-razr-hd/general/fxz-4-4-2-183-46-15-t2873083

for your questions the razr maxx hd and razr hd are the same just different batterys and storage sizes

get Motorola drivers from here https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/88481
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guapo613:
The XML in the download I provided supposedly has been modified NOT to wipe data and in the times I have used it, it has not. I cant guarantee it will save your data but it has worked for me on both my RAZR HD and my RAZR HD MAXX.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewVerizon:
Sorry if I wasn't very clear enough on the factory reset. I mentioned that I tried that option after the Recovery option didn't work, and I know that would typically wipe off the data. However, when I chose it, it very quickly came back to the same boot fail screen, so I don't believe it actually did anything (including deleting any data). Given this information, and if assumption is that data was not wiped off and factory reset did not actually take place, is RSD still the best option, and will it still wipe off all my data? Is there any option I can try that may keep my data while just restoring the boot partition or clearing other areas such as cache (but not touching non-volatile data storage)?
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billycar11:
still does not matter anymore op says he factory reset phone already that wiped data he seems new so i linked to [MENTION=2812087]SamuriHL[/MENTION] 's guide so he knows how to do it he can still use your images if he wants

---------- Post added at 02:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:24 AM ----------

so then yes try rsd with keeping data use whatever method of keeping data you wish use [MENTION=2812087]SamuriHL[/MENTION] method or the predone way from [MENTION=6436012]Guapo613[/MENTION]
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewVerizon:
Great, thanks! You are right, I am new and not familiar with any of this so details are very helpful. I appreciate the help and patience that Guapo613 and you are providing. Hopefully I'll be able to get this restored, especially the data (mostly pictures/videos of first baby).
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guapo613:
Verizon is your carrier?, did you use Verizon Cloud or Google Drive to back up your phone??, because if you did, then your pics are stored in either or both clouds.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewVerizon:
Verizon is my carrier, but unfortunately I do not have most of the pictures/videos on Verizon Cloud or Google Drive. I copied a handful of them to Google Drive when I wanted to share them, but majority of them (95%) are unfortunately not backed up...

BTW, I have one more question. When I looked at the other link that was posted by SamuriHL, it had a warning "IF YOU HAVE NOT UNLOCKED, THIS BUILD WILL PERMANENTLY PREVENT YOU FROM DOING SO. STOP NOW and GO UNLOCK!". Does the same thing hold for the XML you suggested? Should I be doing something else to unlock first, or should I just proceed with rsdlite and your XML?
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billycar11:
i believe you were already on the latest ota/update so you cant unlock that is only for custom roms and rooting and it seems like thats not something you want to do anyway,

just be sure to check the xml file and make sure "erase userdata" is gone from the xml that way you have the best chance of recovering your data
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guapo613:
I'm going to assume that your XT926 was updated to the latest firmware available for your phone (183.46.15). If that was the case, then dont worry about un-locking the bootloader as this option is not currently supported by your updated phone.

Once you get this thing working again, you can root your phone, read this: http://xdaforums.com/droid-razr-hd/general/root-droid-razr-hd-xt926-183-46-15-t3062040
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewVerizon:
Sounds good. I downloaded and unzipped the RSD Lite (from SamuriHL link, since the original link seems to fail to download 6.1.6 and only works for older versions such as 6.1.5). Currently, I am in the process of downloading the XML (1/3 done, it's pretty big at 753MB). When it's done, am I supposed to unzip it, and then look inside for the modification? How can I tell if "erase userdata" is gone from the xml? I assume RSD Lite is going to expect the XML as an input, or can it take the zip file?

BTW, when I plugged the phone to the data cable, it looks like the battery was run down. It took a little while, but then it came back up to the boot fail screen but indicates Battery Low. Do I need to charge the phone and wait till Battery OK before starting the process?
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewVerizon:
Sounds good, thanks for the additional clarifications!
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billycar11:
yes you will unzip the file then find and open the xml file and delete the whole line that contains "erase userdata" also erase any lines that contain TZ and yes the xml is the input for rsd,

im not 100% sure if the battery will charge with no boot.img i don't think it will and in order to flash you need that low battery warning to be gone so check if it will charge and if not you will need to make or buy a Motorola factory cable.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guapo613:
Charge the battery to at least 70% before starting the process.

What I like to do is create a folder on your desktop and name it "RAZR HD" (or RAZR MAXX HD) and place the .zip file I provided in that folder, now just un-zip it inside that folder and when you open RSDLite, just navigate to the folder you created on your desktop and click on the XML document and click on "Start" and RSDlite will take care of the rest
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewVerizon:
Hi Guapo613,

Sorry for the delayed response. I was away at a conference out of town, and just got back home where I have access to a Motorola charger. It is the travel one, so unclear if it is charging or not. The phone seems to be in a state in which it indicates Battery Low, and then after plugging back with power and back directly to the computer, it indicates Battery OK (switches back and forth during subsequent reconnect).

I got it to Battery OK indication, then extracted the files from the zip as you suggested and started RSDLite with the XML. However, it failed almost immediately. It shows the following output on the first two lines (all subsequent lines are blank other than Port No):

Model Port No. Port Type IMEI/ESN/MEID Status Result

1 USB The phone failed to switch to fastboot mode. FAIL

Fastboot VANQUISH S 2 USB N/A Failed flashing process. 1/17 flash partition "gpt.bin" -> Phone returned FAIL. FAIL

Any ideas?

Thanks!
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewVerizon:
Hi billycar11,

As I mentioned in the post I just wrote to Guapo613, I tried using the xml he provided with RSDLite, but it did not work. Also, when looking at the XML, I did not see any line containing "erase userdata", so I guess that's a good thing (i.e. it was already done in that XML). I did not see any lines containing TZ, but I don't believe I saw any lines indicating that the XML is the input for rsd or where I would change anything to yes. My assumption was that the file is already good as-is since Guapo613 indicated he used it multple times before, so hopefully the changes you noted are not needed.

However, that process did not work, so I am not sure if it means the phone is in a worse state than thought, or maybe it has something to do with the battery and needing the stock (non-travel) charger. Maybe the phone will just not charge without boot.img, but as I noted in the other post, I did manage to get the Battery indication to OK rather than Low (regardless whether there is actually any charge in it or not).

One other note, before it allowed me to at least get to the menu in which I could navigate between options such as Recovery or Factory Reset (even though none of them actually accomplished anything), but now it seems even that is not possible (it doesn't get there when I press Volume Up, Down, and Power).

----> I take this last statement back. After disconnecting and then trying again, it looks like it is still possible to reach that first menu. However, end result is still the same, with Recovery no being able to get past the icon of Android on its back with triangle, and subsequent reboot (requiring down volume and power) getting back to the screen indicating boot fail.

Do you have any ideas on what I should try next?

Thanks!
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guapo613:
Are you able to boot into AP Fastboot??
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewVerizon:
Can you clarify what you mean by this?

The screen I keep getting back to indicates at the top "AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S)".

Is there anything specific you would like me to try to get into AP Fastboot?
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guapo613:
Did you run RSDLite while in "AP Fastboot"??
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] quangdx:
my t-mobile Vario II crashed the other day as I was replying to a text message, nothing unusual there, wm5 has been known to crash once in a while.

so I soft reset it, and it reboots.

But now, after it's all finished loading, it would run for a few seconds, only to crash again.

I reset again, but the freezing up follows shortly.

Nothing I do stops this happening.

So in desperation I go for the Hard Reset.

Everything gets wiped and it reinstalls all the T-Mobile stuff.

But now I have no signal,

I take the SIM card out and put it in an old nokia, and that works fine, i receive two text messages which I think were due around the time of the first crash.

The texts are normal texts from friends, saying hello and stuff.

So it's not the SIM card, it must be something to do with the phone.

I've just tried the SIM card in the phone again, and i notice on the T-Mobile boot screen it says the usual stuff.

M 05 S 04 B 06 D1.21, but just before it blinks it says No GSM.

I searched the forums and, this seems to be a problem people can get when tryting to unlock or upgrade their phones rom.

Problem is, I've not tried to do either.

Any help would be greatfully appreciated.

Am I going to have to mess around with ROM upgrades, all of which scares me greatly.

Or should I just send the phone back to T-Mobile for repair.

quang.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] quangdx:
I've just checked to see if i can read the contacts of the SIM card.

Tapping on SIM Manager doesn't work,

nothing happens.

Which leads me to believe that maybe the SIM reader on the phone is damaged in some way.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arifjokam:
Excuse me want to ask. my smartphone smartfren andromax U2 {Hisense EG98} bootloop can not enter into the home screen or system. :(

There may be the best solution for my smartphone?

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] Critical Detox:
With this being my first samsung smartphone i have purchased AND plan to hold onto, The build quality is amazing! I am thoroughly impressed, my previous device was the LG G3 and after 3yrs of having LG devices (Optimus G, G2, G3) i believe this was a great change of pace. Can't wait to see what the dev community can come up with for the screen edges.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] Stryke_the_Orc:
Welcome to Samsung.

Let's try to keep the general threads combined for topics like this, thanks!

Closing this one down.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] skyedream:
Please developers, please i bag you to let us have kitket version of phone/contact apps. Lolipop sucks like crap....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] dc/dc:
Really? I think it looks lovely compared to every other version. It finally looks like an adult phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] skyedream:
I like the look of it but not having number only contact list is just stupid
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ShermCraig:
I'm guessing there are dozens, if not hundreds of choices in the app store. Take a look. Search Kit Kat, not Kit Ket - otherwise you won't find any. :silly:
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmedmohsin:
hello all...

i have a note 4 N910c connected to a jabra easygo bluetooth headset...

i noticed that whenever i have this headset connected...all my videos shot with the phone

end up completely silent...the moment i disconnect the headset it records video

witj audio normally.

any idea whats going on ? :D
[Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] AirBruce:
As the title says, anyone know how to identify what region or location my Xperia Z3 TC is from? E.g. A number in the serial number giving it away? A setting in the tablet? Anything?
[Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] weboll:
Should be written on the boxe 'intented for France' or something like that.
[Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] NewVirtue:
yeah mine says it on the box, is the region important? mine just came in the mail and it says Farci on the box :confused:
[Galaxy S6 Edge Accessories] tiny70thomas:
Excellent case for this phone. Keeps it thin, great lip in corners to raise screen of the table, just absolutEly a great case.
[Galaxy S6 Edge Accessories] mmmajor:
Can u add a pic please..
[Galaxy S6 Edge Accessories] beda_boy:
yes please. love to see actual pics
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netfortius:
Interesting behavior lately, on my sg5. There are times (more and more often, recently) when neither Google's camera app, nor camera zoom fx show anything on the screen, as if there was no visibility through the actual camera hardware. Rebooting the phone brings back functionality, but only for a while (a few hours), after which the strange no image comes back.

I have also experienced strange "disappearances" of pictures I just took, which show up in a gallery app (the default, or quick pick), but which are nowhere to be found after closing the camera app.

Has anybody seen anything similar? I would really hate to go back to resetting to defaults - had rooted and xposed customized this phone to my liking. And - no - this behavior is not associated with any recent xposed activity / configs...
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netfortius:
Did that two ways: like you suggested, and - prior to that - via titanium...
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lake292:
I have similar on stock, without root.

When I open up default camera application, there is no picture, just blank screen and phone becomes very laggy. Screen looks like this:

But it happens just sometimes.

E.g. once per 3 days and soft reboot is the solution.

Don't know the root cause :( Mine is SM-G900FD with BOC1 firmware.

Tried a factory reset already, but didn't help. Didn't try safe mode yet, as it might be related to some application e.g. facebook, viber, etc. which has access to camera.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] florio1960:
Happens to my also since Lollipop on SM-G900F, tried the new stock BOC7 and now is better but it still there, the error and the blank screen. I noticed it happens more often in the evening/night. I've tried everything, wipe cache, reset camera. Hope Samsung will release a fix, no problems whatsoever on KitKat,
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netfortius:
Mine (OP) is kk
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lake292:
I see, so that will be probably different issue. Mine started also with lollipop, there were no problems on kitkat.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danpau07:
After watching tutorial videoshttp://xdaforums.com/htc-one/#root same result no root access. What i need to do?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
the steps to get it rooted are

unlock bootloader at htcdev.com

download TWRP 2.6.3.3 http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/m7

fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.3-m7.img

fastboot erase cache

fastboot reboot-bootloader

enter recovery and exit and choose install SuperSU on exit

bootup phone, go to app drawer and choose SuperSU, it will ask to update, let it update and choose TWRP for install. this will reboot the phone.

You now have a new phone with custom recovery and Root.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danpau07:
I already do that, i use cwm after i check in root checker. Result no root access.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
what is your android version?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danpau07:
5.02 htc m7 asia. Please help i need to root my phone badly.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
either do what clsA said above BUT using twrp 2.8.6.0 or flash latest surpersu.zip from recovery
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danpau07:
I already flash cmw i cant swith to twrp. Btw whats clsa?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
I gave you 2 options, You are saing that option one is not possible so use option 2... :rolleyes:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danpau07:
Sir, how can i switch to twrp? I already use cwm recovery?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
omg, read carefully please. I won't post it a 3rd time: clsA told you to do this procedure below to root but it won't work with twrp 2.6.3.3 since the included su binaries in 2.6.3.3 are to old and won't work on android 5.0.2 so you need to use twrp 2.8.6.0 instead:

This was solution #1 if you want to root

You said that you can't flash TWRP (for an unknown reason, you did not specified why...) so the above solution doesn't apply since you need twrp.

Option #2:

so go ahead download latest superu.zip and flash it from recovery. simple. Download the zip on your phone, boot in recovery and flash it. Can't be more precise its all you need to do ;)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danpau07:
My phone is already rooted thanks sir alray. Whats the best rom for nba2k15?
[General Questions and Answers] GuestK00283:
In the past I've used an app that allowed me to set up a local VPN server on my Android phone and route all traffic through there. This app also allowed plugging in a blocklist (for ads). Because it was a VPN it worked without root and even allowed for blocking of app ads. However: I seem to have forgotten the name of this app! Is there a chance of one of the fine XDA members knowing the name of this app? I first read about it here, then downloaded it on the Play Store.

Here's to hoping you can help me,

Cheers,

Menu
[General Questions and Answers] sd_shadow:
I would not even want to guess how many VPN apps are posted on XDA.

Shouldn't need root for any VPN apps.

Try searching Android Apps and Games

or in chrome use: vpn site:xdaforums.com

This thread will be moved to general/help
[General Questions and Answers] IsolatedKM:
may be it removes for any violens of rule.
[General Questions and Answers] lihonglin:
go to xda forum

you will try to find to xda