yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vxlomegavy:
Hi Greatness,

Thanks for the response.... :)

I would be up to trying to flash the device with guidance, If someone would point me in the direction of all the software i need to download and a quick step by step guide i will give it a shot, At this point i've nothing to lose.

Thanks
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vxlomegavy:
By the way i don't mind going back onto KitKat if it makes things simpler.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greatness_GH:
flashing via odin is the same procedure, no matter which android version.... please check ou this tutorial from AndroidXDA
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vxlomegavy:
[IMG="Odin error"]http://s11.postimg.org/6dyw6jnur/odin.png[/IMG]

Cant seem to open odin... Any ideas?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vxlomegavy:
Just cant open odin for some reason
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vxlomegavy:
Managed to get Odin to work and downloaded lolipop etc.. But i've had an error..

[IMG="odin error"]http://s1.postimg.org/p9orzy0tr/odin_fail.png[/IMG]

[IMG="android odin error"]http://s22.postimg.org/z9im87nw0/IMG_2991.jpg[/IMG]
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vxlomegavy:
Managed to get it to do it eventualy but it hasn't fixed the phone its just the same.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vxlomegavy:
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> G900FXXU1BOA3_G900FOXA1BOA4_G900FXXU1BOA3_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/003> Initialzation..

<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/003> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/003> aboot.mbn

<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/003> sbl1.mbn

<ID:0/003> rpm.mbn

<ID:0/003> tz.mbn

<ID:0/003> sdi.mbn

<ID:0/003> NON-HLOS.bin

<ID:0/003> boot.img

<ID:0/003> recovery.img

<ID:0/003> system.img.ext4

<ID:0/003> modem.bin

<ID:0/003> cache.img.ext4

<ID:0/003> hidden.img.ext4

<ID:0/003> RQT_CLOSE !!

<ID:0/003> RES OK !!

<ID:0/003> Removed!!

<ID:0/003> Remain Port .... 0

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tony_76:
Rooting shouldn't void your warranty any more than putting Linux on a pc that came with windows. I'd push trading standards on this one. I had a rooted htc one x that developed a fault and they repaired it. St the end of the day unless they can prove the actual fault was caused by you they have a legal obligation to fix it. Sssuming your in the uk? Gaining admin rights (which is all rooting is) to an operating sysyem will not cause hardware problems. Tbh though Vodafone supplied the phone so your contract is with them not samsung. Get on the phone to Vodafone on the freephone number and don't put the phone down till you get a new phone. Trust me after 3 to 4 hours they will give it to you. A tip make sure you get the contacts name and number and always go back to the same person after they try shipping you round their office. Persistence pays! Good luck.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talibksm:
Hi all,

I have a Galaxy S 10.5 (16GB) that I picked up in September of 2014. I love the thing but it's showing a weird issue. Any time I hit 500MB storage remaining, Google Play Store will no longer update apps. It gives me an insufficient storage notification. I can go in and clear the cache and everything is great - until I get to 500MB remaining again. Then I have to find more space again.

I've had a 64GB SD card installed in the device since I purchased it. I store music there and move apps that support it to the memory card. I was hoping that having the SD card would make the (insufficient) 16GB of storage liveable. It hasn't and the 500MB has only made it more challenging.

Has anyone seen this before and/or have any ideas what might be going on here.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LakersDroid:
I think that might be the limit of free space that must be available for the System to use. Think of it like a fail-safe approach to keep the tablet running smooth while it is constantly caching, deleting/creating temporary files, and allocating memory space in the background. Without sufficient free space available, it can't do those functions.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talibksm:
Thanks. That seems reasonable. It's particularly annoying because the OS occupies almost 5GB of the 16GB I'm supposed to have. I'd rather Google/Samsung throw that 500MB into the 5GB they already have rather than tease me by telling me it's available but essentially unusable.

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acdbrn2000:
<rant> First and foremost I completely agree that Google's handling of external memory, or their lack of wanting to handle, or let users use microSD cards is wrong. The way it handles moving program data to external cards in kitkat is horrible and lollipop honestly is not much better, but at least users were determined to be sufficiently old and intelligent enough to be "allowed" to grant programs permission to manage our external data instead of only letting oem programs that ability. </rant>

With all that said the answer to your issue is even more simple then that. All Programs take up at minium 2x the space while you are updating them. You have the apk (the update) and the actual program existing at the same time. Not to mention that the programs tend to take up more space then apk's due to compression of resources and other things. Given those 2 things instead of trusting that the user won't download a 200MB update and seeing it is only 200MB put annother 200MB of music on the device while it is downloading causing issues google puts a free space cap.

I always thought that the system memory is included in that block of space the 4-5GB that the OS and bloat live in.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashyx:
There HAS to be some spaced reserved for the OS or the tablet would crash. data is constantly written to the data partition which is part of the internal storage and this space is needed to run the device.

I have run into this issue myself, but its easily resolved by moving all unecessary stuff to the sd card - downloads, music, media, apps e.t.c.

All it takes is a bit of housekeeping every now and then. Download an app called All-in-One toolkit from play, it will find loads of junk files which you can safely delete to free a fair amount of space.

However I agree it was rather stingy of Samsung not to include 32gGb of internal storage which should be the minium for a so called flagship device.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fred_be9300:
Yeah, this issue of less than usable sdcard is also worrying me.

I had a Galaxy tab 8.9 (which came to the market in 2011) before this. It had 16gb and no SDcard. Storage was a pain.

AFAIR, also there is no Gmail syncing when below the limit. Imagine the frustration not getting your emails and trying to find something to delete.

I was hoping the SD card in the tab S would be more usable, but alas. At least Lollipop is slightly better, but only if the apps wanna use it. I get frustrated when dictionary app Merriam Webster for example stores its 100 megabytes data file in internal memory. Same with TED app videos.

And of course, current Rom and OS used almost double the storage for system as the tablet from 2011. Android 4.0.4. Apps have become bigger too.

Sent from my HTC One X+ (64g of internal memory, yeah!)
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talibksm:
Precisely! The Samsung text-to-speech engine takes up at least 300MB of storage. Facebook consumes about 200MB. The Kindle app (sort of understandable since I have a lot of books) uses almost 200MB. Very little of any of that can be saved to my 60% empty SD card. Add in Newsstand and other similar apps and space is eaten up very quickly. Super annoying...
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mightywhites29111971:
I'm now discovering this problem and it is really annoying. Is rooting the only way of getting round this? I don't want to do this but I don't think I have an option. I only have 500MB left on internal but 40GB on my 64GB micro sd.:(
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fred_be9300:
I'm not even sure that rooting would change much about this. With rooting you can remove some of the limitations in KK and Lp about writing to the external sd card...

But this will not get applications to spontaneously use the external sd card instead of the internal SD card, for their data.

I know there used to be tricks like a2sd, link2sd, and other variations... which were widespread 3-5 years ago. To make the device believe, through symlinks and crafted mounts, that an ext3 partition on the sdcard was a part of internal data. It was often cause for instability if executed less than perfectly.

I had this on my HTC Desire, a "flagship" phone from 5 years ago, with top of the line hardware: cpu , mem, screen, but with only 250mb for internal data.

I have not searched for it specifically but so far I've not seen anybody talking about those tricks for this device.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acdbrn2000:
Disk Usage

This is a free app that shows you exactly where your storage space has gone. None of this nebulous "miscellaneous" nonsense. I was able to recover about my existing free space in extra space from stuff I didn't realize was still in my storage. While this is not a solution to not being able to store all your apps on an external card it might just help a few ppl get that extra space they need.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mightywhites29111971:
Thanks for that. Have downloaded that and had a look and I have nearly 5GB of OBB files! I think this is where my issue is, and I think the only way I can resolve this for myself is to root and use an app that transfers OBB files to SD.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acdbrn2000:
I hope that works out for you. I gave up on the idea of moving obb files that didn't want to move (way too much hassle for something that does not always work right) and instead decided to have less massive obb apps (games) installed at one time. I can only do one thing at a time anyways.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] FLUFFYMANGOES:
it seems like the curved part of my edge isnt responding to touch. i think the touch screen ends right before it curves. is this supposed to happen? i noticed this when i tried to scroll to the beginning of a song in the google music app. but it doesnt go all the way to 0:00 because it extends into the curve. i hope my screen isnt defective. please help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QA Bot:
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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fubugang:
Who knows
[Ubuntu Touch General] Jorgga:
So we all know alot of people use whatsapp, and that many ubuntu touch users would like to see whatsapp on there. But be careful when you ask about it from whatsapp devs. This might happen to you too.

[Would have been pic here but was not able to add it, look at the attachment]

Personally i like Ubuntu Touch on my Aquaris and i find Telegram great software. Just wanted to bring this incident to everybodys attention and hopefully people choose the better one.
[Ubuntu Touch General] nem0nxt:
WoW their response says it all.

I stopped using it some time ago.

You gave me a good reason to never go back.

Thank you.
[Ubuntu Touch General] nikwen:
Please share this in our Google Plus community! :good:

https://plus.google.com/communities/111350780270925540549
[Ubuntu Touch General] Jorgga:
Followup. Question if this is way to treat customers has been sent to whatsapp support including the picture on 19.5.2015. Still today there haven't been any answer.

Only response from them was the automatic system apologizing nobody taking contact.
[Ubuntu Touch General] nikwen:
Impressive, really! :eek:
[Ubuntu Touch General] jelinekkamil:
Used whatsup once, never liked it, but my colleagues are using it, so i thinked about installing it again. After what I read this? NEVER EVER!

Odesláno z mého Kingzone K1 Turbo pomocí Tapatalk
[Ubuntu Touch General] MaxAndroided:
Ups
[Ubuntu Touch General] alienflorina:
That's sad, but are there any popular alternatives to what's app?

Απεστάλη από GT-I9100 using XDA Forums
[Ubuntu Touch General] Jorgga:
Follow-up

Late follow-up to the situation.

Whatsapp support is unable (or unwilling) to do anything.

On the situation, where only email address is banned from their support they are asking for number to be associated to the ticket.

Hard to see any reason why they would need number for anything. So the situation remains unresolved.

Also. Feel free to share the word.
[Ubuntu Touch General] verdomde:
Whatsapp

I asked a similar question, the reply was that they will not comment on development status/issues...
[Ubuntu Touch General] ohnonot:
i am not surprised.

yes, it's about how many people use it.

i like what i see on telegram.org, but i'm always wary when it looks so professional & claims to be 100% non-profit at the same time...

also, their user base probably doesn't include my and your (non-nerdy) friends.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] insomni:
Does anyone know of a working tether mod for the ATT S6 Edge?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] insomni:
FoxFi / PDAnet working.... kinda

FoxFi works via usb or bluetooth connection. Wifi is currently not working as Att has done something to block it. Hopefully someone will come up with a mod that fixes this but at least we've got something.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] arf8:
For those with unlimited grandfathered plans will FoxFi trigger their TTL and other methods to get you for tethering?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] Atomic Virus:
Try this only requirement you need to be on OE2

http://xdaforums.com/att-galaxy-s6/help/qa-tether-hack-oe2-build-t3118926
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] arf8:
Thanks saw that, but i don't want to flash a custom rom even with flashfire, due to possibility of tripping knox. Too soon too early.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] Atomic Virus:
Ok. Fyi I flashed the cleanrom1.0 for edge att. Didn't trip knox. Also I tried flashing a Rom for the 925F and it didn't work. Gave me a At&t unauthorized software message and it didn't trip knox either.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] arf8:
thanks for that, i have read almost all the ping pong pages, hard to keep up daily but from a flashfire search there results are a mixed bag, some say it trips it and others say they don't. I assume you rooted once you got oe2, than flashfire the cleanrom or did you do it in some other order?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] netnerd:
you dont need a custom rom. it works on stock rom too but you need to be rooted tho.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] arf8:
Can it be installed without using flashfire? Not sure on this but I don't believe it will trip Knox bit using flashfire. I don't suppose there is anyway to just install the apk direct?

Also does it work on the Edge model. the developer states it is not made for the Edge but some have had success while others have not
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] Osir1s:
Hey,

Just wondering if any other Athena users have customised their Windows Mobile Device Center to show an Athena instead of the generic pic?

If so can you share the icon you used?

For anyone interested, just a simple mod for adding a little personalisation to your syncing experience:

http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/sams...s-mobile-device-center-picture-icon-hack.html

Cheers.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] apphoen:
Mine shows the Ameo by default without any fiddling.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] Osir1s:
oh :(

I guess HTC hasnt blessed our ROMS with an OEM icon, unlike TMobile...
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] cayotte:
I have made some icons (total 7 icons) for using with my Dopod U1000 and Vista WMDC 6. Hope you like them.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] cayotte:
Screenshots for icon 1 to 5:
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] cayotte:
Screenshots for icon 6 to 7:
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] sharkey:
This is the icon i'm using of the HTC X7500.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] Osir1s:
Thanks Sharkey and Cayotte, very appreciated and thanks for sharing.
[Verizon LG G3] skylerfin:
Will a developer please explain in order the process to install custom ROM on VS985 10b

I have already flashed to 10B, root w/ one click root, installed flashify, flashed Philz CWM, in recovery i wiped everything, installed Bliss Pop 3.3, installed Banks GAPPS, then I tried flashing Bliss kernal and bam soft brick. Sorry I guess I'm still a Noob. Will someone please explain what i did wrong and the correct way to go about this. I am currently VS985 10B w/o root. I will try to be patient and wait to try again when someone corrects me. lol Thank you to all developers and especially the Bliss Pop team! I love the ROM, still trying to get used to LP though.:confused::o
[Verizon LG G3] bweN diorD:
The order of flashing you explained is fine. Make sure the kernel is made for the same build as your ROM, ie. 4.4 kk, 5.0 LP, or 5.1 LP etc.

Since everything is fine until you flash the kernel, I'm betting the kernel is not matching the rom.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xAndrewK:
I've searched around Google but couldn't find any solution that can fix my issue. My phone was fine before the night and the next morning I woke up the screen just stuck at the Samsung Note II N7105 for forever and plugging it into the charger would show up the empty battery meter.

I've tried flashing the stock ROM with Odin but it always fails after the NAND Write Start.

I've also tried flashing the recovery but it didn't work either.

I can still enter download / recovery mode on my phone.

Entering recovery mode would show a bunch of E:/Cant mount .... etc

I've already tried Wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache partition and that E:/Cant mount.. always appear.

Any knows how to fix this? If else I'll just visit the repair shop.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yaro666:
probably SDS

if you can't flash, then for 99% you have faulty emmc
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xAndrewK:
and the only way to fix this is by replacing the emmc chip?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yaro666:
yes, if you cant flash then you have bad luck. How long do you have note2?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xAndrewK:
Around 2 years+

Do you know how much it would usually cost to replace the chip then?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yaro666:
when I was buying my note 2 2 years ago I read about sane and insane emmc, so it's almost 100% that you have faulty emmc.

The chip can be bought for around 15$ + work it shouldn't be so expensive outside Samsung authorised service.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xAndrewK:
seems like it's not really expensive to fix that . Was thinking whether I should get a new phone or just repair this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jld2k6:
I read in the GPE thread that it uses stock kernel, but I'm not confident enough because I can't find any way to directly compare that statement with what's currently being used. I'm using flashfire rather than a recovery so I am trying to avoid soft bricking. Any help would be appreciated.

At&t 5.0.1 Stock Lollipop rooted
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] DankHeals:
I'm pretty sure I saw that it was not safestrap-compatible, which would mean no.

Edits: Grammar/typo
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] ClarkOwen:
I have an HTC One M7 lvw, is it different from vzm? Will the Custom Roms and Stock rom of vzm work on my lvw?

Help please
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] santod040:
m7lvw = official verizon m7 device name

m7vzw = unofficial/slang verizon m7 device name given to it by Cyangen Mod Team

In other words, there is no m7vzw, that is just a generic name users use to refer to the Verizon model, as many users have been calling Verizon VZW for years...

The only Verizon m7 model is the m7lvw, which is what all of us have.

There is no vzm
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] ClarkOwen:
Thank you!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kijl:
Hi. On my gm-g900i (australian) s5 i have the latest XtreStoLite installed with the correct bootloader & modem.

For some reason at all times it shows 4g in the status bar, even when i am not in an app that requires internet. It will only drop to 3g when i am in a poor signal area.

Why does this not dynamically change based on apps used, as it did in kit kat? Have i done something wrong? I am after the power saving of 3g for background data, then 4g when using an app like facebook, chrome etc. This was automatic before?

thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
If you're in a 4G enabled area, it'll connect to 4G

If you don't want it to, disable mobile data
[Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bcnr33v:
I bought a simple micro USB to fast Ethernet adapter but I can't get it to work.

The connect light on my switch illuminates and the first time I powered up the nexus player after plugging in, it disconnected the wifi connection but won't connect via Ethernet.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Michael
[Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xaudiblex:
What model did you get? I know the Nexus Player is finnicky about which ethernet adapters will work. I had to return the first one I ordered.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donjan3:
Is it really possible to connect ps4 controller to amazon fire tv..I've seen video on YouTube someone did that by pressing share and home bottoms same time then its worked..i tried that along with everything and it always failed to connect..it's keep saying my controller is not in range while I'm only 4 to 5 feet away..can someone help on how to please

would be appropriate
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeXDeMoN:
Theres supposedly differnt revisions of the DS4 that behave slightly differnt then others ... its been said launch controllers wont connect .. what revision that is

The controller I have is practically useless the input lag increases the more i use it *distance doesnt matter* and it will get unusable very quick with over a minute lag.

I suggest getting a differnt controller.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donjan3:
.

Thanks for reply
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jakesh khan:
I use my PS4 controller with my Amazon Fire TV all the time,it's the best controller for Amazon Fire TV IMO.never had any issues.

Pairing it very easy,but can be a little confusing as it's a 2 step task.

First you need to go to controller pairing setting on AFT and search for new controller,meanwhile you must turn of the PS4 controller and hold share and power button at the same time,you will notice the PS4 controller will start flashing.

here is the tricky part,on your TV you will see a unknown controller (or something similar) becomes available,now you must click on that and press Share+power again on the PS4.

After that it will be paired and you will get a message confirming that.

Alsomake sure you unplug the PS4 console itself if you have one,because otherwise the controller will turn the PS4 on and conflics with pairing process with AFT.

I use a seperate PS4 controller with AFT.