yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC One Mini 2] Linkalex1:
Thanx so much for answering... I uses the backup you told me to. Although I had to use the "install" option instead of the backup one, it now works perfectly! But how do I know if my phone is "official"? Are the upgrades going to be made straight from the phone?
[HTC One Mini 2] GuestK00204:
Yes OTA updates should work just fine. just look for updates in settings>about >software update.

you may have one for polaris office.
[HTC One Mini 2] arm1e:
Hi, I just want to check this too before I screw up wife's phone..

She has CM12 on her phone now as I replaced recovery as well as unlocking bootloader. Now she wants it back to stock as too many things crash on her. I get that I can install your backup but what worries me is that other posts have said you need the stock recovery to allow for OTA updates to work and the link to this no longer works.

She MUST have OTA updates or my balls will be removed, so can you please confirm this, but also explain why.

Thanks (on behalf of my testicles and unborn children!)

(Oh, and she wants it unrooted ant the bootloader relocked)
[HTC One Mini 2] GuestK00204:
Stock Recovery

To unroot just lock bootloader:

fastboot oem lock
[Sony Xperia L] jakubekw1997:
Is there anyone , who can accept this request ? I loved this ROM on LG L5 , as i had it . I miss it , while having Xperia L !
[Sony Xperia L] CygnusHyoga:
I think you should know the correct place to make a new thread :good:

Mod will close your thread or moved it bro
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
Has anyone found a solution for the X-Button 1.5 issues? As I understand them, it conflicted with the Today items on previous build numbers, and on the new mUn release, it caused another host if isses.

I noticed a post that the taskmgrres.dll.0409.mui may need updating - does anyone have this, and tested working?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] notyourdaddy:
I have the updated file loaded and it still has the same issues. Doesn't bother me since i use the today plugin, but i did test it and it didn't fix it.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] ADB100:
Ahh, I just got what the issue is, however I have the 'Enable Quick Menu on Today screen' enabled so the issue doesn't affect me.

For those that don't know the issue is when X-Button 1.5 is running but the 'Enable Quick Menu on Today screen' ISN'T enabled the today screen doesn't refresh if you make any changes (enabling or disabling items on the Today screen). However if you enable 'Enable Quick Menu on Today screen' the problem is not there.

The updated 'taskmgrres.dll.0409.mui' fixes the issue with the 'Activate/Add Exclusive' menu not appearing on the Running page when you select a running application.

HTH

Andy
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
I found this over in Hermes:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=306176

I'm gonna give it a try. I'd really like to get a later flavor working...

Edit: It's Version 1.5 Build 29196.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
Looks like the Hermes one is the same one floating around over here. Crap...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] cuboosh:
is it just me or does the wizard lag more when 1.5 is installed vs having 1.0 installed
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
I didn't notice, but then I didn't run it very long after I found the themes not updating properly with it installed...
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bublz654:
Hey there :) does anyone know i can use NTFS usb on moto g?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] gdmlaz:
I been having galaxy phone since the s2..... I even remember with the s3,s4 there were pages of development but starting with the 5 is all been going downhill ??? We have a couple devs that work their ass off to bring us top roms and kernels glad to have them aboard or it would be completely dead..... but it doesn't seem like it was as popular as before..... Are people going away from android, Or just no that interested into flashing roms no more..... I really miss the old days that you will sign into your device thread "TMOBILE" for me and would have to decide which rom and kernel to go with for the week lol......
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jaythenut:
get a nexus 6 its crazy there, i was flashing mad and sometimes 3/4 roms a day so no not dead just yet

just a bit slow here for now
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] hussam1988:
Since note 3 this road has been slowly dieing
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] gdmlaz:
That's exactly what I feel I mean go into any galaxy s3, s4 thread and look how many roms are out there u get bored of thinking which to pick from....... Don't know if many devs have grown out of it and are doing other things with their lives now or there is not a demand like before but I got my galaxy 5 and it was dead only like 2 or 3 roms for the full year i owned the phone....... now with the galaxy 6 is looking even worse
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] hussam1988:
Knox counter happened
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] gdmlaz:
Do people really care about knox so much ?? I mean you could still turn in a device that has knox tripped for jump...... and warranty do they even care if you turn in a device that has knox tripped like phone insurance ? I never seemed what the big deal is
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] hussam1988:
Never delivered a device into a dealer to test if warranty existed after a knox counter breached
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] wase4711:
i've turned several rooted phones into t mobile for problems when they were rooted, and they couldnt care less about root or knox..

Where you MIGHT have an issue is if you send a phone into Samsung itself..

And, as far as dev for this phone, I think it will pick up some as more time passes; its really only been 30 days since the official release, but yeah, the note 4 had a few roms within the first few weeks it was released.

Frankly, I think that there are so many annoying N00bs buying Samsung phones, that alot of the top Dev's have stopped buying them and if they do, they just make roms for themselves and their close "friends"..

XDA has become a haven for the leeches, the "I expect answers and help immediately" crowd, and most of the top Dev's got sick of that nonsense and either went private or went to Nexus phones..

I think I might go nexus when its time to "jump" soon...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] nofam:
That's it in a nutshell I think - I've been using custom roms and kernels since the original Galaxy S1 came out, and people on here and other forums have got progressively ruder and more demanding with each passing year, to the point where many devs have given up.

The sense of entitlement to features and support for what is usually a hobby for devs is sickening sometimes.

Also, to be fair, I think devices are getting that powerful and good than custom roms aren't needed to the same extent. Even root isn't as essential as it once was.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] wase4711:
Boy, that statement should be in the OP of EVERY ROM on XDA..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] efthemothership:
Your last point is what I think the real reason is. Android has gotten good enough that only the power users are going to root and constantly room a device. The average to techy user just doesn't see enough reasons to root a device. If you ask me, it is a pretty good problem to have.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] baoli:
The only phones I've rooted and flashed were my Milestone and Captivate. Android hardware and software weren't exactly optimized at the time and performance wasn't great.

I've had my S3 for a good 3 years now and I never even rooted it. The performance was good enough that I never bothered. It only got slow with the most recent update but by now, the phone is 3 years old so I upgraded the hardware.

The other thing I didn't like about flashing is that once I did it, I often would have to flash again every other week because there was another update with fixes. It was hard to find something that I could flash and leave for 6 months or longer.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bibiner:
I will wish to jump to nexus if I can. My place or country rarely sell nexus. I didn't even see a real device my self. Only Samsung appear the most. My previous device was note 3, I do see the development slowing down. I hope the edge will have more developer since is a bit pricy and therfore, less newbie compare to s6
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] gdmlaz:
glad to see people are agreeing with me....... hopefully we could get a couple top devs back interested in developing some time soon
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] sir_earl:
Another important factor is that Samsung is very closed source regarding their hardware, which makes it almost impossible for AOSP builds to run stably, especially on newer version of Android. Other vendors have made much more effort to support the developer community, so that's where the developers tend to head.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] wase4711:
I dont know if I agree with that; my note 4 had/has several very nice and stable AOSP /cm12 based roms running 5.02 on it, but they were Snapdragon based, which may or may not be the difference when it comes to doing things with the Exnos processor..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] LNJ:
I think you guys are forgetting that there are way more flagships from other manufacturers these days that are splitting the devs. Samsung used to be the king of the hill till HTC, Sony, LG and Motorola stepped up!

The Nexus is filled with lots of redundant roms which barely differentiate one from another.

When I owned the N5, I just left it at stock cause it was the most stable!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] c5satellite2:
Samsung was never king of the hill. HTC has made killer flagships since before Android. They also made the first Android phone. HTC has had the majority of devs since Windows Mobile. HTC was the main reason for xda to even exist. You want more devs, buy a HTC phone.

I think the real reason that Samsung doesn't get more devs here is because of the following:

1 Touchwiz

2 Touchwiz

3 KNOX

4 Switch to Samsung SoC

5 Devs know which devices are truly better, and the majority don't go Samsung.

It's a shame that Samsung is going down a path that is not dev friendly, after all competition is a good thing. They do have some nice hardware. If it weren't for Touchwiz(bloated bunch of crap) lagging the UI and KNOX, they would get a lot of attention here. But then again, all they really care about is totally volume of devices sold(like crapple), not if they are well received here. KNOX gets them enterprise sales, bye bye sd card!

BMW used to be a great company when they made only a few hundred thousand cars each year. Now they are like everyone else, they pump out high numbers of crap. Samsung is going down the same path.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] LNJ:
Windows Mobile is not what is in question here! HTC was pretty much the only manufacturer that mattered in those days for that platform.

Ever since the first Galaxy S, Samsung has been king of the hill.

HTC is ridiculous with the S-Off nonsense in the same way that Samsung is with KNOX. But at least the bootloader is still unlocked for most of the Samsung variants!

Sony contributes to AOSP and encourages development it seems. Motorola is back in the game for now at least with the Moto X line. LG has been doing great since the Optimus G. OPO stole away a bunch of developers as well.

Lot more options now in comparison...not to mention the other great Chinese phones like Huwei, Xiaomi, ZTE, Oppo, Lenovo and the Taiwan based Asus!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] the Doctor:
^^^ This, and this ​vvv

Samsung device + Exynos SoC = closed source, thus no fully functional AOSP or CM-based ROMs.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] c5satellite2:
Samsung has never been king of the hill(Touchwiz). You are delusional.

Great Chinese phones? Haha, that is a good one. Mediatek....LMFAO! Maybe one day, but that day isn't anytime soon.

You can try them all, HTC was and still is the best device when EVERYTHING is taken into account.

You can drink whatever coolaid you want, but it will never change reality.

I am an IT professional for over 20 years, I have to deal with all devices, and the one that gives me the least amount of headaches is always HTC. Samsung is neck and neck with crapple, problem after problem. Samsung even has to resort to paying people to bash and lie about other products, and pay people to stand on line on launch day. You keep buying garbage because of good advertising and deception. When will you learn.

Obviously the devs get it, what's your excuse?

I will say that Sony and Asus are starting to impress. I hope Oppo will get better also. All three have potential.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] the Doctor:
He is 110% right about one thing: the OnePlus One has stolen lots of devs and has as many kernels, recoveries and ROMs as any Nexus device. I'd really like to have a Galaxy S6, but Knox and Exynos are going to make it very hard to tear my 1+1 out of my hands first. HTC's hardware just isn't there besides the pretty shell.

BTW, even if you disagree with him, there is no need to be so hostile. Get some sleep ;)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] c5satellite2:
Not being hostile, just correcting the record. I have been here since the beginning and hate when people just make stuff up. The "Samsung is king of the hill" comment made me laugh and throw up at the same time! King of the garbage hill maybe. Samsung has very high failure rates on all the crap they sell. From TV's(blue line, defective panels, improperly designed power supplies), to refrigerators(bad design that they refuse to change resulting in frozen evaporation coils, and they still advertise frost free!), to evo ssd drives with degrading performance, to smartphones(they fail way too often compared to other brands, crapple is a close second), they definitely hold the title for something I guess.

HTC's hardware isn't there? Until the 810 they always led the pack. Their phone with Qualcomm SoC has consistently been the killer combo performance wise.

The 810's shortcomings are due to the fact that it was built on ARM reference design and not customized by qcomm for mobile. That being said, HTC, LG, Sony, etc. did a great job with it considering the SoC design is far from optimal, and it easily holds its own against all and still beats many. Kernel development alone will improve this situation even more in the very near future. LP 5.0x could even be part of the problem and 5.1 could yield even more gains. If it qcomm had the time to customize it for mobile with their custom cores, it would have crushed everyone. Look for the 820 to be a world beater once again.

Pretty shell? Didn't Samsung just make the back of their phones glass? Another piece of glass to break. Great. Aluminum unibody would be the opposite of pretty shell. Durable and functional. Sounds like good design. In fact the m9 had the highest rating ever for overall durability.

Good to hear you are happy with the 1+1. I hope they continue their efforts and improve it further. I am rooting(pun intended) for them. Again, good competition is a great thing for everyone.

And by the way, the only true King Of the Hill is the early 90's ZR1 Corvette.

Posted using xda app in 2-D
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] sir_earl:
Agreed. Those Samsung devices that are using a different vendors SoC stand a much better chance. My old international Galaxy S3 still doesn't have a stable Lollipop based ROM, purely because developers have to retrofit and hack existing device drivers to work with the frameworks from newer Android versions, whereas I'm fairly sure the USA variant of the Galaxy S3, which has a snapdragon processor is doing much better with custom ROM support.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tiboric:
I come from the prospective of always having HTC's . with their very fast development cycles and lots of ROMs and kernel's to choose from But I started to find it boring when it was all just handed to me on a plate, no anticipation of new features etc, No challenge for the dev's (they might tell you otherwise) a lot of the ROMs never seeming to bring anything new or different. Users that never seemed to really appreciate the work going into each project.

I'm hoping that the S6 will be different. Less diluted development. Users that really appreciate what they have because they've had to wait for it.

The S6 makes me feel like I'm on the cutting edge again, which I Havant felt for quite a while

I'm just hoping the community can take up the challenge and that Samsung can cut us some slack a be reasonable with updates and sources.

Of cause this is all my opinion and I'm sure everybody will have their own point of view.

Lets hear them out and try not flame each other.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tiguy99:
I was thinking the EXACT same thing when I first got my LG G2 back in 2013.

At first I was what the hell I don't need root or have the urge to switch ROMs.

For me...that's a rare thing! (used to root/jailbreak phones right when I got them)

Didn't root the thing at least until 5-6 months of owning it even with all the ROM options that were available at that time.

The devs here are amazing.

I respect all of their work.

Even with that, I can't imagine what buying a brand new 2015 phone is like and then considering putting ROMs on it.

I feel that's how good Android has become.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] LNJ:
Regardless of what YOU think, Samsung is king of the hill when it comes to ANDROID!

HTC hardly sells the volume that Samsung does.

Personally based on my Optimus G and N5, I like LG and have only returned to the S6 from the M8 because the M9 looks the same, the Z4 was not announced yet and the G4 was still a rumour!

I hated my M8....it was a piece of garbage!

But I did love my HTC S710 Vox, Touch and TyTn II back in the day!

My OPO is okay but it just doesn't feel like a premium device.

And your comparison with Apple and Samsung is based on the volume of those devices out there....if HTC and Sony sold as many, you'd hear more about their failure rates too.

Every Galaxy series has had a significant amount of development and that's a fact!

Learn how to take things in context and not blow it out of proportions with your personal biases and anecdotal evidence!

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I hear you. When I owned the GNEX, every other rom was the same and the community was very hostile and some of the devs were arrogant!

Switching from the S2 and the Captivate before that, I was surprised at the fact that each kernel dev had a proprietary app for their kernels and charging money for it and weren't very helpful.

The Nexus guys monetized everything for barely any new development considering how much harder it would be to clean up TW and the Samsung devs did it all for free!

I thought I'd never get another Nexus after the Optimus G but the N5 was hard to refuse at such a cheap price!

It was stock the whole time I owned it except for root cause it was just that fluid.

Paying for Sunshine was the nail in the coffin for me as far as HTC goes!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] c5satellite2:
Everything I stated is fact. You are the one going on bias and opinion. M8 is a beast for EVERYONE but you I guess. You even use "king of the hill" incorrectly. Volume of sales has nothing to do with the phrase.

Smaller volume vendors usually produce better quality because they have to. Large volume vendors don't care about quality as much because they don't have to. You can enjoy your touchwiz lag all you want, but don't pretend that touchwiz comes close to touching HTC sense. Overall UI experience is definitely better with HTC. Plenty of videos and reviews of them tested head to head. Multitasking on m9 beats s6 and iClone 6.

And s6 edge? Really? Another garbage gimmick.

I actually administer all of these devices on the corporate and home user level. I have experience in dealing with all of them. I don't assume or say anything that isn't actually true in REALITY. I fix all these garbage Samsung devices. Tons of monitors and tv's. Don't see failure rates like them with any other manufacturer. I have many customers who have had their Samsung phones replaced due to poor quality. Again I don't see anywhere near these failure rates from any other manufacturer. If you actually did the research you would see that I am 100% correct.

You can think whatever you want. It is your life. I am very objective and base my conclusions and recommendations on actual experience.

Posted using xda app in 2-D
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] the Doctor:
All human interpretation of events ("experience") is by nature guided by presuppositions ("bias"), incomplete (limited by what one hasn't experienced) and fallible. Nobody has a corner on "truth" or "reality," even if in some small way one's own experiences are better than those of others. So it would be great if we could all show some respect for our fellow forum members whose opinions and experiences don't coincide with our own.

Correct, we all can and we all do, but that doesn't make it "truth" or "reality."
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] sseuorosal:
its really only been 30 days since the official release
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mrnovanova:
This is from Dictionnary.com

king of the hill

noun

1.

a game in which each player attempts to climb to the top of some point, as a mound of earth, and to prevent all others from pushing or pulling him or her off the top.

2.

an undisputed leader or champion.

You have to be the most virulent Samsung hater I have ever seen with an undeniable hate on. The king of the hill term definitely would apply to the worlds #1 android manufacturer how you don't think it applies to sales is beyond me. Whether you love them or hate them they are at the top. I've owned the s2,s3,s4,s5,note 4 and s6 never had a problem I also have 3 Samsung TV's and a washer and dryer, no problem there either. No one here is disputing your knowledge, you seem very knowledgeable, technology wise. But you need to bring you passive aggression down a couple of notches. No matter how big a hate on you have for Sammy you shouldn't get you're emotions get the best of you. Most of what [MENTION=637262]Elisha[/MENTION] said was right. I'm sorry Sammy hurt your feelings but we are in a Samsung thread after all. :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] LNJ:
Your position is coming from a place of Samsung hatred, so it's hard to take you seriously!

Again we are just talking about Android and S6 development and nothing else here but you seem to keep derailing the topic to make your point of which seems to be just to defend HTC and Sense and bash Samsung in generalities!

I have no love for Samsung and neither am I a fanboy of any one brand. I would have preferred a Sony if the Z4 was actually out and had impressive specs but the S6 beat everyone to it and so here I am.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] VICosPhi:
I agree that the development for S6 is slowest of all the Galaxy phones. But one thing to note here is that S6 works really well out of the box. Very little lag if any at all and new updates made it even better.

You can install skins and launchers to customize the look for the most part. So a need for custom ROM us not as drastic as it was for previous generations of this phone.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] strikerdj2011:
its only been a month plenty time yet device shortage also has probs for some people and faults with some edges as well roms are coming vn rom is here echoe rom has just been released and another rom am beta testing now is coming from another great set of developers
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] LNJ:
To be honest, I only want a lightweight rom with all the important Samsung apps and a fix for multitasking/ram management!

But all the debloated roms available seem to go too far in terms of stripping out the Samsung apps.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] done12many2:
Wow! Someone didn't get his rebate check once! :D

The 1990 - 1995 ZR1 was a beast and nicknamed accordingly.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] beda_boy:
Why did I feel sad after reading this?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] done12many2:
I did to. As soon as I read all of the posts, I gathered up all of my Samsung devices and performed functions checks.

Thankfully they all work.

I'm going to remain vigilant and keep an I out though. :thumbup: