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[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karols146:
Hi Guys

I am writing here because I fighting with little problem (or maybe not so little if I write here) but back to case.

I got this phone GT-i8160. With stocked rom, and path for 648 ram, but i can't find a way to root it. I know for now that just look like veryyy dump question, but my main problem is that Power button don't work, so a lot of menus to boot is just unusable for me because they need boot option. I am looking for now a way to make this phone root by Odin or somethink like that. I try this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1881964, but still unluck. If anyone have any ideas how to root without power button please give me a sign, and btw What rom is the fastest for that phone ? Stocked one ?
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhaveshparajapat:
You can't use the power button at all? or is it temperamental?

The stock ROM is actually decent for most people but the only drawback is the partition style as you'll need a custom ROM to run a different partition layout as the Stock ROM needs the layout that it has.

I've never seen any way to root i8160 via Odin in the past 2 years, as we've already got a flashable zip method that doesn't trip the flash counter, and a custom recovery flashable zip that even works in the stock recovery!

I can maybe help if you can sideload zip files to recovery.
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karols146:
Power button is broken, not signal, not sign, not anything, Dead.

I would like to try your ideas, but I don't know anything about this "sideload". Could you describe this method little more ?
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhaveshparajapat:
Download mode

Can you get into download or recovery mode by doing this:

1) Power off and remove phone and the back cover

2) Remove the battery

3) Hold down volume down (for download mode) or volume up (for recovery) and the home button

4) Re-insert the battery

5) Plug in a charger cable

This should work as plugging in the charger mimics the power button for key combinations while off.

If any of these work, select the 'reboot' or 'restart option'

If they don't then you may need to buy a new phone!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] nidlaX:
Would anyone be willing and able to create a dump of a clean Windows 10 for Phones system image and share it with me? I searched around in the installation for non-supported devices threads, but did not see a reference to anything.

An FFU image extracted from the updater would also work, thanks in advance!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] moriel5:
Why is that?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] moriel5:
I see.

But at least it's possible, even if not very probable.

Although, we should check if we can use WinRAR, since it's possible to edit the images without breaking the signiture.

Assuming we have a signed image.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] snickler:
Not possible. There are many threads trying to achieve what you're hoping to do with cabs and such, and it's not possible when the bootloaders are signed and damn near everything in the system requires a signed cert.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] moriel5:
But how does that prevent us from opening and modifying them with WinRAR?

Even if we can't boot the new files, it's still a step.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] moriel5:
So open it with WinRAR, if possible.

At least to get an idea of the structure of the OTA, that peice of information may help us form an idea as to at least part of the structure of the system.

It's better to have (theoretical) partial read access, than no access at all.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] moriel5:
Alright, but can you open it inside WinRAR?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] moriel5:
Now we're talking, what we need now is someone to examine the partitions and their layouts.

Unfortunately , I'm not at that level but at least I can understand these things, so I would like to hear the results.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] moriel5:
Is anyone exporting the partitions yet?

Unfortunately, I don't know the partition layout in Windows 10 Mobile, but perhaps they should all be exported and examined?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] moriel5:
Not for myself, however I had thought that it may help others attempting to port Windows 10 Mobile in the future.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] FearL0rd:
you can try to download MI4 rom

http://en.miui.com/thread-189556-1-1.html
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hitthebutton:
Apps like Soundcamp (by Samsung itself) and Heat Synthesizer plays sound though the speakers, even though the headphones are connected. Other apps, like Spotify behaves correctly, so this is be a software case.

I have tried to install a 3rd party audio control app to fix this, but it did not help. The app was Sound About, and yes I rebooted the phone after installation.

Any one else experienced this? And more importantly, how can I fix this?

Samsung Galaxy s6 sm-g920f

Android 5.0.2 (Samsung stock rom with latest update)

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Tor Arne
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Morthawt:
Scratch that. I went to do the restore and it specifically asked me if I wanted just data or app or app data what ever. Appears to be working.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] libnijunior:
Hello everybody, yesterday I was flashing a 5.0 rom and I flashed the gpt.bin, making a hard brick. When I made the same with my moto x 2013, i flashed a blank bootloader, in this thread http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/general/how-to-resurrecting-bricked-moto-x-t2629057. Exist any solution for New Moto X, if no, I can replace my motherboard with a new and my cell will work again?

Sorry for the bad English, I`m from Brazil and my Keyboard is a rubbish!!
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JulesJam:
What model Moto X 2014 do you have and is the bootloader unlocked?

Can you get into bootloader mode? Have you tried pressing and holding volume down + volume up + power and holding for about 4 seconds and then releasing?

AFAIK that only works for the Moto X 2013 b/c of the hardware differences.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] libnijunior:
My Moto is the XT1097 Retail BR 32Gb, my bootlaoder is unlocked, but i can`t get into my bootlaoder mode, and pressing the volume down + volume up + power not power up too. I think the only way to get him back to life is replacing the motherboard.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JulesJam:
Have you downloaded Motorola Device Manager to your computer? Does it detect your device when you connect it to your computer?

If MDM does not detect your device and you can't get into bootloader mode, I don't have any suggestions for you.

Are you still in warranty? Can you see about getting a warranty replacement?

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Also - if the problem is all software, I believe the device can be relashed by Motorola. It may be cheaper than getting a new motherboard.

I believe they have these devices JTAG that allow them to reflash the bootloader and partition table to the device. A repair shop may be able to do it for you, too. They need to open up the device to do it.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] libnijunior:
I will try to activate my warranty, but if i can`t i will see with motorola Brazil the cost of the repair, because I don`t know what is the price of the repair.

Thanks for the attention!
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JulesJam:
Definitely get a repair quote from Motorola if they aren't going to cover it under warranty - a local repair shop may be cheaper.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iorbee:
Hey, did you actually succeeded in unbricking Moto x 2013? I followed the same link. Hostage released but no boot up. Any idea or is there anything I am missing? Email is mailmrted@gmail.com
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] libnijunior:
I Missed What I have done

I have done it a long time ago and I don't remember what exactly I have done, but search in comments of the topic, because some answers you can find into comments.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quetzalcoalt_Lp:
Files needed for the blankflash on Moto X 2014 are not leaked/released yet...
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogunja:
help-me

not I access fastboot mode on my bike x can help or give a light, I'm open bootloader, root, installed the soak test 5.1 but then went back to when he had 4.4 update OTA he went out and not turn over.

I'm looking at this thread anything happens to the device - http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/general/how-to-resurrecting-bricked-moto-x-t2629057

[MENTION=5178679]libnijunior[/MENTION]
[MENTION=5983610]JulesJam[/MENTION]
[MENTION=5983610]JulesJam[/MENTION]
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JulesJam:
Unfortunately, we do not have the blankflash files for the Moto X 2014. They have them for the Moto X 2013 so that is why they can fix their devices.

Can you get a warranty replacement from Motorola? That is the best option if you can get one.

Also, ask motorola to release the files for the 8974 processor. These are the files that we need:

MPRG8974.hex

8974_msimage.bin

(may be named MSM8974.bin or MSM8974_bootloader_singleimage.bin)
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quetzalcoalt_Lp:
You can also ask for the files in this thread: https://forums.motorola.com/posts/b6cb5537f5
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] langelog:
Are these the files that are needed?

Hi guys, I'm having the same problem with the xt1097.... searching (a lot) this last 3 days I found this website:

bbs.nubia.cn/thread-416486-1-1.html

In this website is a tutorial to get Z7 max back to life, and curiously (I might be wrong) but works with pretty similar specs as motorola, and actually usess the MSM8974. Hence I' uploading this files that you say. I've alrady tried on my phone but it get stucked with the following in the eMMC Software Downloader app:

Device mode = Sahara on port 10000

server event monitor enabled

path for selected COM port = "_HCD7!dev:0"

server event 1 10000 0 0

Timeout waiting for device

device wait found 0 0

files: mega.nz/#F!wddCjQDb!raPwHpa7bTJHh4mRuJ9nMA

So, Hope this can be helpfull and someone say how to use those files.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AGISCI:
Those files won't help. We need the ones for this phone. Files from any other phone will not work.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] langelog:
:/ that's sad. For a minute I had a hope. No choice but to wait a miracle.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] Docmjldds:
Just saw this posted. So for now, seems like too many panicking people who should NOT be....

http://www.xda-developers.com/t-mo-ota-to-lock-bootloaders-no-dont-panic-yet/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] Aou:
Yeeeeaaaah, the panic started when [MENTION=4287865]Sunderwear[/MENTION] wasn't able to flash custom binaries due to FRP. No fault of his own, it did legitimately look like the bootloader was locked (because, well, FRP kinda does that). And then every-android-news-outlet-ever is reporting, "OMG LOCKED BOOTLOADER, LOOK OUT T-MOBILE USERS!!! ZOMG...." ... when realistically, they just needed to read a few pages in to find that this is definitely not the case.

Journalism at its best, folks.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elrey311:
I can't send or receive pictures since the update on my oneplus one. Just looking for a little help.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shankar9822:
You mean to say that you cannot share the photos thur whatsapp, email,..... etc?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elrey311:
On the stock SMS app.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shankar9822:
When you attach anything to an SMS to turns to MMS. Do you have enabled the option to send MMS?

---------- Post added at 10:19 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:14 AM ----------

Alternatively, you can use the Google Messaging or Hangouts.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elrey311:
I have enabled, it just says sending and never sends or when someone sends me a message it just won't download. I just read where someone else was having the same problem and they grabbed the Google Messenger app and it worked. So I downloaded it and can now send and receive pictures over data. The stock app would work over wifi just not with data. I don't know what is up with that.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shankar9822:
Good that it worked.... some bug within the ROM....
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elrey311:
Thanks for your help..
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedinat:
Youtube won't play 720p video (tries to load for a while before connection error), and Netflix never get's past the loading animation.

I posted about it here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60476281&postcount=1127

But since then I've done a completely clean install of Jcsullins 4.4.4 and have the same issue.

Is it some kind of hardware issue? Seems strange. The other touchpad in the house works fine.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedinat:
Nobody has any ideas? I'm on a CM12 nightly now and the problem persists.

(started having a digitizer issue, random presses and and a blank line near the bottom of the screen so I tried a new ROM yet again.... it went away)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] ronyalam:
will there be a GetTogether Party for WM6 MDA user????
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] anichillus:
Cool, let's meet in Romania LOL
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] ultraprimeomega:
how about meeting points? everyone that wants to see other people with devices or people from xda-developers, it can be the xda-developers club meetings
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Madcap180:
Yeah, I havent left my mom's basement in years. :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] badbert:
RIGHT, Like your mom lets you out of the basement!!!:D
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Madcap180:
Im 28 and I still get grounded.. hey.. Badbert.. go on AIM .. I got a present for you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] STM2121:
Just got the S6 edge a few days ago. Since yesterday the split screen mode keeps opening and the recent app list. I am not touching the screen when this happens. Almost like a ghost is touching the screen.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] KiaraTheDragon:
oooo scaaaary
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] h3ck:
Long pressing the multi task button (capacitive button on the left) does that. Not sure if that's your issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] andypanoreo:
its happening to the Galaxy S7 too. Hardware issue.
[Android Software Development] provolinoo:
I suggest to [MENTION=4344925]hellowasif[/MENTION] and [MENTION=680750]sir*mez[/MENTION] to take a look at this :)
[Android Software Development] Rapper_skull:
Hi, [MENTION=3205519]provolinoo[/MENTION] suggested me to take a look at this topic.

I made my own GApps, derived from PA GApps by TKruzze and without knowing I solved some problems that the people that were trying to continue the PA GApps are having.

I completely removed the sizes.prop file and now I measure the sizes of the apps on the fly using unzip. I took a look at your scripts and they're really useful, and reminded me that the APKs need to be zipaligned, which I forgot.

Maybe we can join your scripts, my changes, and a fast internet connection to bring PA GApps back to life.

If you're interested here's the link to my topic, please take a look at it: http://xdaforums.com/android/general/alpha-gapps-stock-t3093389
[Android Software Development] hellowasif:
Well i wanted to say thankyou so much for such wonderful work you did, Before this i was maintaining the PA-Gapps Packages PA Gapps 4.4.4 and PA-Gapps 5.X everything was going great and i must say i learned a lot by maintaining these Gapps packages and that was very wonderful experience but i was only updating Gapps and Libs, But than i realized that they weren't as perfect as the original gapps packages because the original Gapps package uses two important files which were size and libs list which the packages uses and they were the most important part of PA-Gapps. I tried to update these two files manually but they were two time consuming so i decided to drop this project due to lack of resources but by these scripts it will very easy to create Gapps Packages so i wanted to say thankyou again
[Android Software Development] MastahF:
Hey, I looked at your work. Some things are indeed good improvements and I will try to incorporate them into my work if you don't mind.

I also looked at your sizes.prop solution, but honestly I don't like it that much, because although the calculation will be very exact, I don't think it is a good idea to unzip large files and pipe all this data through on our small little phones ;). I prefer to keep the sizes.prop estimations on the generating-side rather than on the execution-side.

I really would like you to be involved in the project, somebody else also already PMed on the forum, wanting to be involved. I described which tasks and roles are very welcome to be fulfilled within a joint team effort.
[Android Software Development] Rapper_skull:
Thank you for your appreciation. The files however are not extracted but I used "unzip -l" that lists the content of the archive with the file sizes. Keep me informed about this project.
[Android Software Development] MastahF:
Hi hellowasif,

would you be interested in collaborating then together with other people in a team to bring back PA Gapps using these scripts?
[Android Software Development] hellowasif:
Yes that will be wonderful to work as a team and you count me in. :highfive:
[Android Software Development] MastahF:
Ah, then i misread your code, I will take a look at it then again. Anyhow, since the files in the package are static, I think at moment of generation is a good moment to get the file sizes ;)

I have btw a question for you, a problem I was not able to resolve myself yet, even though trying a lot.

When creating the .zip-package to be signed and afterwards flashed, I am at the moment not using any compression (but use the -Z store flag).

If I use *any* kind of compression, the package refuses to flash at my phone (GT-i9300) with the message error executing update binary error.

I tried a lot of combinations, like using a different zip-application, compressing only the files outside META-INF etcetera, but nothing seems to work.

So my question is: how do you generate and sign your zip file? On which platform? With which application? With which parameters?
[Android Software Development] Rapper_skull:
You will maybe laugh at my reply, but I simply use WinRAR, on Windows, with maximum compression. I do not yet sign the ZIPs because I wanted to generate my own private key instead of using the generic test-key. What you can try to do is update your recovery (if it's not updated) to see if the problem is solved.
[Android Software Development] DJAlik:
dowloaded your GitHub project and ran through the scripts to create the signed zip file. So far everything is running smoothly. Did a full wipe. Great Job!

Question I have. Do you know why the com.android.vending is still installed in the user space (/data/app) vs system space?
[Android Software Development] DJAlik:
Chrome doesn't seem to be working. It crashes every time I try to run it.
[Android Software Development] MastahF:
Thank you for your feedback, at the moment I was extracting the Play Store from a Nexus Image under the cryptic name of Phonesky.

I only found out just now that this Phonesky is the same as android.vending (the Play store) and updated this.

Also thank you for your feedback. Using your feedback I discovered some nasty typos in my script which were breaking Chrome and Talkback.

I fixed those and will be uploading a new package later today. The fixes are already on github.
[Android Software Development] MastahF:
Nice :)

Very happy to hear that! Tomorrow I will be heading for an island for a week, for holidays, so lucky for me, but unlucky for those interested in updates :).

After that holiday I will set-up the basic infrastructure for the team.

I also thought about how to make packages for older android versions and I came up with the following solution that I will be then implementing next week:

*Within the SourceAPKs folder we will put some meta-data or an overlay that specifies the minimal SDK/API version that the package requires

*I will update the scripts in such a way that you can target various android versions, including such a sdk/api version.

*When building for a target, the highest version of the APK that still support that sdk/api version will be selected

*A seperate output directory will be created for each target

*All scripts will be executed from a single Makefile

E.g., the directory structure will look like:

SourceAPKs/18/com.google.android.apps.maps-9.8.1-908101124-minAPI18.apk

SourceAPKs/14/com.google.android.apps.books-3.3.41-30341-minAPI14.apk

Scripts/extract_sources.sh

Output/4.4/pa_unsigned.zip

Output/5.0/pa_unsigned.zip

Output/pa_gapps-4.4-20150504.zip

Output/pa_gapps-5.0-20150504.zip

Makefile

If anybody has any feedback on these ideas, you are welcome! :)
[Android Software Development] Rapper_skull:
The idea of automating all the process is certainly good, but we have to keep in mind that things changes really fast. For example in an update Google can add a library to an application that previously didn't have one. We have to check if there's a lib folder inside the APK instead of assuming that all the APKs that now don't have libs will never have them. Also the idea of various app versions is very good, but also error prone. Maybe we can just put all the APKs in one folder and use the filename to determinate the app name and the minAPI (if we don't want to make a step further and read directly from the AndroidManifest.xml, using aapt).
[Android Software Development] DJAlik:
latest commit:

$ sh make_package.sh

rm: missing operand
[Android Software Development] MastahF:
You can ignore that error-message. I just delete all the temporary files of my text editor (ending with a ~) before packaging using this 'rm' command.
[Android Software Development] MastahF:
Very good comments. I have been looking into the possibility of using aapt. With 'aapt d badging file.apk' I will be able to retrieve the API information and app/packagename from any apk.

Using this information I could make an add-script or an 'add-directory' that would scan any new apks and archives them automatically in a storage. This could help to maintain overview, and to automatically discard older versions of the app if the api-level is not changed. It could also allow for adminstation of x86 and arm64 packages in the tree.

So a 'storage' filetree could become in that case like:

/arm/packagename/api14/maps2.apk

/x86/packagename/api11/maps1.apk

/x86/packagename/api14/maps2.apk

My goal is also to indeed in the future to (more) automatically process the existence of a 'lib' and automatically incorporate into the output process. For this I will have (as within my goals set out for next week) to upgrade the process of generating the output folder. Because at this very moment the scripts still assume availability of (most of the) outputfolders to be there already.
[Android Software Development] Rapper_skull:
Exactly, in this way it would be possible to easily maintain arm64 and x86 packages too. The scripting is not complicated, it just requires some time. If you want I can contribute too (I had some experience with shell scripting). If the final scripts are not too long or complicated we can plan a Windows port too, if some future team member is not used to Linux.

We can also try to contact AP to request an RSS feed for new APKs on APKMirror.

EDIT: It seems that adding /feed to any URL will give you the corresponding RSS feed. Good to know.
[Android Software Development] DJAlik:
I've been using Cygwin on Windows and the scripts work great.
[Android Software Development] MastahF:
Today I finished the work on the various variations of the package. You can now find them in the OP, please try them and report back.
[Android Software Development] sir*mez:
Google play services is fixed, thank you! Proper Google play services install now.
[Android Software Development] oRAirwolf:
Thanks a ton for this.

Any chance of this for the ARM64 GApps?