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[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuggerBug:
So I'm stuck on the HTC logo (with the This build is for development message..) and it looks like I can't do anything about it. I can't get into fastboot with the whole Press volume down + Power button. Buttons are unresponsive.

adb doesn't recognize any device when I attempt to reboot the phone into bootloader with the command 'adb reboot bootloader'

Any solutions?

What I did before this happened: Ran CM 12.1 for a good month then decided to go back to stock rom. I unrooted, flashed stock recovery, and locked the bootloader (did not flash stock rom yet). I decided to try another custom rom so I went to unlock the bootloader again. All seems dandy when it starts to reboot when I unlocked the bootloader, but now it's just stuck on that screen.

Edit: I just got around to reading some guide that tells me I should just wait until the battery dies since it's likely frozen. What a bummer.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monsieur_beau19:
Hold the volume up button and power simultaneously (for 15 seconds) to restart the device while on the HTC logo. If you can get into fastboot mode (Volume down and power button while phone is powered down), make sure you're running the stock recovery and have locked bootloader to run the RUU.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] atomicshockwave:
Is there a way (i know there must be ) to remap the start menu icon to open something else in wm5 / wm6 pro? if so, how?

shouldnt it just be a reg hack?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nothin:
bump......but i think its rather function in coredll, or wherever that function is...

it would be NICe to have wm5newmenu on that damn button imo...

i am thinking about changing image of m$ for something else...and i have almost same problem as yours...it may be possible with ROM kitchen...but..mabye not.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] atomicshockwave:
there are apps i have seen, just apps, that seem to replace the start menus with there version of a start menu, but idk how they do it
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
Hmm, if it is not possible to change the start menu icon functionality, it may be possible to make a workaround (something on the lines of wisbar)..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pokey:
I've been looking for ages! Only solution I've found is SK Menu. What it seems to do is overlay its own window on top of the Start button, & you can assign pretty much whatever you like to it (Tap & Tap n Hold)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sid malhotra:
hi guys!

i am having samsung s5 g900h, i updated it to lollipop few months back n now i want to downgrade it to kitkat(too much battery drain issue), so i want to know is it safe to downgrade? any problems after downgrading? and what about knox it is 0x0 now will it get affected?

please give me procedure for downgrading and method to root it on kitkat (towelroot will work on kk?)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LancerEvoDrifter:
you should be fine, I updated to lollipop then downgraded back to kitkat easily, you just need to find the file you need for your model and odin that and it should work, for the knox, im not sure about it, but there might be a chance it will be reverted back to 0x0, but you will need to wipe your data in the recovery, or it might not boot at all, and for downgrade/root i use skipsoft android toolbox, it has all the items you would need to downgrade or install root if you want.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] 23gianni23:
Guys who want to update lollipop for our device can sign this petition

https://www.change.org/p/samsung-up...nternational-versions-to-android-5-0-lollipop

Thank you very much Anton Malamov
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] malybru:
Mod Edit

Not development

Thread closed

malybru

Forum Moderator
[XDA Assist] Hanzva:
Hello!

I've had the stable CM11 for some months now and my WhatsApp history keeps on deleting itself! I have a Galaxy S4 i9505. I would have to reinstall WhatsApp to get my previous backup, but that only backs up at 4am, so everything from the current day is gone. Now with the new update from WhatsApp, this is getting more frequent and more annoying. Is anyone else experiencing this and is there a fix? I could live it with before as it only happened every couple of months but now its every couple of weeks. I use WhatsApp as my main source of communication between my friends and I so this is really cumbersome.

If you know a fix, please do tell me.

Thank you!
[Galaxy S 4 General] qwerfaseeh:
can any one port Color os Lollipop biuld to i9505 ? here is the link to ROM

http://www.oppoforums.com/threads/find-7-7a-coloros-v2-1-0i-beta-lollipop-based.26580/
[Galaxy S 4 General] vbajs:
I think I can,but I am going to be a noobdev?
[Galaxy S 4 General] vbajs:
It's going to take 1-2 months to to be build I would recommend you to pm a famous developer to port it (exp:@MZO [MENTION=584062]Antres[/MENTION]One,etc..)
[Galaxy S6 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Requires a deodexed ROM and knowledge on how to decompile/compile .jar.

Here's the tutorial.
[Galaxy S6 General] koko115:
And dont work on us phone ;-(
[Galaxy S6 General] gotwillk:
as much as i love xposed and dying to have it work on my verizon s6, i'll wait until there's a more simplified version of this. really don't want to be decompiling/recompiling jars.
[Galaxy S6 General] tann3rdk:
It looks like it's not needed anymore. I haven't tried it yet but it look fixed.

From the thread in #0:
[Galaxy S6 General] sekkyboy:
This method is not working on 64 bit device
[Galaxy S6 General] Brava27:
Another waiting game. We're so close!
[Galaxy S6 General] Giancarlo:
Not working, arm64 detected, expected arm.

So yeah, still waiting...
[Galaxy S6 General] TheEndHK:
Works on other Samsung lollipop but no S6 I think.....
[Galaxy S6 General] Tron666:
Doesn't work.
[Galaxy S6 General] MaZaGnGy:
I tried to do it by myself and when i replaced the services.jar and corelib.jar in the rom zip and flashed it it does not booted just boot loop

im really hope it come to our device ASAP
[Galaxy S6 General] youngmack2k4:
ANy updates on this guys? Still no straightforward install to get Xposed for S6/S6 edge?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I'm sure we will get some info when it's working. There also is a thread under development with a few developers working on the issue.
[Galaxy S6 General] redeyes717:
there's some light at end of the tunnel...

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/unofficial-xposed-samsung-lollipop-t3180960

just hit 'thanks' if I was of help....
[Galaxy S6 General] gotwillk:
awesome news!

but i wish it would work for the VZW version. arghhhh
[Galaxy S6 General] Maurylucha:
Worked fine on my s6 edge and I installed everything and backed everything up while in class ?

Sent from my SM-G925T
[Galaxy S6 General] khan3989:
How did you do it?
[Galaxy S6 General] Maurylucha:
Do what the flashing, the rooting?

Sent from my SM-G925T
[Galaxy S6 General] HanZie82:
Working very nicely here.

There's even a Wanam for 5.1.x availible...

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[General Questions and Answers] jdgreat4:
*deleted*
[General Questions and Answers] Klown80:
"Ice Cream Sandwich " also known as ICS is android versions 4.0 - 4.0.4
[General Questions and Answers] jdgreat4:
Wow how could I forget ._.

Sorry.

Thread closed.
[Honor 6, 6 Plus Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RunRa:
honor 6+ PE-UL00 can flash rom international H60-L04
[Honor 6, 6 Plus Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrBlc:
No, H60-L04 is Honor 6, not Honor 6+

There is rom for PE-TL10 which is Honor 6+, but i cannot find any information is rom for all subversions or just for TL10 subversion.
[Honor 6, 6 Plus Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HerrBulles:
I own the same model PE-UL00 , Honor 6+ , which is the chinese version . I would like to convert it to international variant , if possible , does any one know the procedure , if there is any ?
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leadkro14:
As it says in the title, I can't install the new software update.

Oddly, I'm still on the latest KitKat because I didn't got the earlier lollipop updates.

If I try to install the new update, it simply reboots and says that the Installation failed, nothing more like an error code or something else.

I don't think that a previous Custom ROM, which I erased with Sony Emma, bothers that, but if it would, there you go.

Here are all the specs:

Model info: D5503

Software version: 14.4.A.0.157

Previous installed ROM: CyanogenMod 12 (not 12.1), erased and stock restored with Sony Emma

Internal Storage free space: 8.3 GB

SD-Card free space: 24.16 GB

Greetings

leadkro14
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mosespl:
Hmm I haven't seen 270 fw for z1c only 252 is latest 270 is certificated but haven't been realesed yet or am I wrong?
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tonio78r:
.270 version has started rolling from yesterday :)
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mosespl:
Hmm I downloaded from Xperia firmware Baltic generic and I can't flash it I don't know why but I m downloading again and we will see

EDIT:

nothing happend very sad im trying now to download RU customization becaues i had RU earlier version
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mandashi:
i'm having the exact same problem. already tried flashing nordic and baltic but none of them work. hope someone comes up with a solution.
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mosespl:
Xperiafirm fault. Solution:

After download and extract rom don't bundle it. Firstly remove from folder one file fwsomething.xml I don't remember exactly name of file but is one file with that name. Delete it and after that create bundle with flashtool and after that flash and everything will works superb!

Wysłane z mojego D5503 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mandashi:
fwinfo.xml was causing the issue, fwinfo.xml will be used by the next version of flashtool to create a FTF. just need to remove it from the FTF. anyway, thanks man!
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sony12345:
I'm having the same problem, I previously tried rooting my Xperia Z1 (C6903) but it is now restored. However when I tried updating to 14.5.a.0.242, it said "The device contains modified software that cannot be updated". Is it because the phone was not restored properly? (I restored by flashing Android 4.4)

Regards
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 160lightning:
Did you unlock your bootloader...? Is it still unlocked....? If so you need to relock for OTA updates
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sony12345:
wouldn't relocking bootloader cause problems (besides preventing flashing and root)?
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 160lightning:
No... locked just means restricted access same as a locked door.... but your device needs locked B/L to take an OTA Sony official Stock firmware update.... personally I would never wait for the official release if I have unlocked B/L I would always search and you can find firmware updates a lot quicker than everyone else waiting for the OTA on their device or thru PC Companion,

I use this very handy tool to get available stock firmware for Xperia devices

Relock bootloader only

If you want to relock your bootloader (e.g. for downloading official sony updates in Sony Update Service) you can do so with flashtool. This only works if you already unlocked the bootloader with the official method.

Note: This does not restore the DRM keys. If you have a warranty issue you should restore your TA parition (which will relock your bootloader and restore DRM keys) with Backup TA.

1. Open flashtool

2. Click on the BLU icon

3. Connect your phone in flashmode (hold volume down and plug in your USB cable)

4. Flashtool will ask you about the device model, choose Sony XPERIA Z1 (if Z1 compact is not in the list)

5. Flashtool will read your IMEI and your unlock code. Check if those are correct (compare unlock code with the one you received by email from Sony when you unlocked the bootloader)

6. Flashtool will save the unlock code in its program folder under custom/mydevices.

7. Click "Lock bootloader" (-> If you want to unlock it again, repeat the steps (it will automatically detect that your bootloader is locked))

Source: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2642081 ....thanks [MENTION=3975929]zxz0O0[/MENTION]
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sony12345:
Thanks 160lightning. I was just wondering, since I'm a quite new to Android and I just saw the Android 5.0.2 update but was unable to update
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyc:
When I'm in a bad LTE area and using apps liked Relay for Reddit, I constantly get a gray popup dialogue when watching YouTube videos inline that say something to the effect of: "Download Booster is unable to function due to lack of 4G LTE connectivity." This flashes with every video I play and blocks the content.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way to get rid of it?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] drthomasho:
Visiting in Singapore, I am using SingTel Mobile prepaid service with my MDA which has the latest T-Mobile ROM. Since T-M UNlocked the phone for me, it works fine with the new SIM, BUT there is a strange "side effect" of the SingTel SIM:

The phone (soft) keypad NO longer appears on the screen, BUT it does work (as long as you know "where" the soft keys are ) because the phone responds when you press the screen in the correct position.

Any idea what's going on here...does it have anything to do with the CID lock, for example?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Junner2003:
There is nothing real going on there!

First: your Singapore SIM card supports a non-latin language, your device is an English one I guess?

Second: there might be some 'active' application installed on your SIM card from the service provider which cause the problem. I know from countries in Europe that they put some mini programs on there which usually appear in your phone's menu (if they are programmed correctly).

But I really think it is the LANGUAGE of your SIM card which is not really supported by the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] iateshaggy:
many of us have shimmed the connector 1000 different ways and still get the error. oddly enough, for me the only thing that has reduced errors was removing my sd card.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Sean89us:
That's interesting, and a shame. There's not enough room on my phone for all my stuff, I need that extra 32gb!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Benovite:
"Does a new SIM Tray fix it?

Extremely unlikely. Purchasing a new SIM tray or even a new motherboard will be wasted money."

It did in my case. I got a sim/sd card tray from a Verizon S4, put it in my AT&T S4 and it worked great!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] m00nman:
This problem is extremely annoying. Purchased a new tray too, and for a couple of days thought the problem is fixed. Nope. 5 days later same stupid message. I had already tried putting more support on the connector which did not fix the problem. They could at least make a cancel button on it instead of just "reboot". Will try without sd card. Apparently this happens on ALL high-end samsung phones. I am adding crapsung to the "never again" list (in addition to LG now).

If removing sd card doesn't fix it then it will either be new mainboard (they go for around $100 CAD shipped) or a new phone if I have the money. Nexus 6 looks good now. Don't buy crappy Korean brands. Even Chinese brands seem more reliable.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Benovite:
Question: Since you say that you've already replaced the sd/sim tray and the problem returned, did you try putting another sim card in there to make sure that it's not the sim card that's the issue?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] m00nman:
Yes, new sim did not solve it. Now i am actually trying earplug thing. So far so good (2 days), but as with any other method the message is expected to pop up again. I am thinking i did try to add support before, but only for the connector part. Earplug will press on all the components around the connector and the connector itself. Will see. I did cut out a thicker piece than in the OP, and made a cut on the camera side instead of oppoate (like in OP).

Buyimg new mainboard seems like a waste of money now too. Since so many devices have this problem chances are another mainboard will be the same.

Edit: with or without sd card - same thing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] slim26:
It's known that the IMEI numbers with the last 6 digits in this range: 000000 - 560000 have been known to have this issue. Mine was in that range and had the issue. I think the mainboards outside this range are fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] m00nman:
Mine is not in that range.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Sektamx:
Thanks a lot
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Sean89us:
It took me quite a few tries with the earplug foam to get it right. Finding the correct thickness and shape was the biggest thing. Eventually I got it right and I haven't had the issue return even once since. I'm glad some of you were able to get your phones to work by just swapping the SIM tray, that's pretty easy to do. I don't think I would even consider swapping the motherboard on a 2 year old phone, might as well just get a new phone at that point.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] t4duzan:
Good to hear that this is working for some users. I just went with the M9 about a week ago and am going to give my mother my S4. She wouldn't have any idea how to handle any sim errors so when I get some time, I'll be buying an earplug or two.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] m00nman:
It has been 9 days and the error hasn't returned. Today i put in a thiner peice to get rid of the bulge on the back. Will see how that holds up, but so far so good. Thanks to the O.P.

As for the mainboard - I never loxk myself into a contract with a discounted phone, not that Wind Mobile Canada has an option for it. So i paid almost 600 CAD for this puppy and expected it to last. For me $100 is not bad for a fix compared to at least $600 for a new phone. Only if it was for sure, but is seems like a gamble to buy a new board. BTW my phone was locked to rogers so I had to unlock it and enable AWS band.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fargonaz:
I would get(have tried other phones) but for all its bad the S4 is hands down the most durable and usable phone I have ever owned. I like my nexus 5, but it is a very fragile unit, and on its second screen replacement due to minor drops that the S4 takes with aplomb. I like the phone so much I have bought a used one off ebay just in case this one ever fails. MHO
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Sean89us:
I'm right there with you. I still love my S4, despite the SIM error and somewhat slow updates from Samsung / ATT. It's getting older but my phone is still very fast, has a beautiful 1080P AMOLED screen, takes awesome pictures, and now it's even running Lollipop! The only thing that might convince me to switch phones anytime soon is if the 2015 Nexus 5 refresh has a 5" - 5.2" screen (5.5"+ is just too big!), USB Type-C and the specs blow me away. Since that probably won't happen, it looks like I'll be using my S4 for a few more years.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Mathricar:
I don't have these earplugs foams at home.. Which other material can I use for that?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] m00nman:
I can't say anything else will be the same material. Just buy earplugs at a dollar store or something. They are cheap.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] VoodooJeff:
Mine had gotten really bad, to where it was giving the "sim error" message a good six or eight times a day. Did the earplug thing...didn`t fix squat. I took a narrow strip of a business card and "shimmed" the sim card in it`s slot (like many others have), but I made my shim extra long and folded it over a few times on top of the sim card receptacle as well. Been two days and so far so good. We`ll see how it holds up.

I had actually contacted Samsung about the problem and they claimed they had no knowledge of it`s occurrence. I emailed back and they said "we really have no idea what`s causing it. Sorry." I would call it a design flaw as every single person I know personally with an S4 has the problem, and there are hundreds upon hundreds of tales on the ol` internet about it, and even Samsung can`t fix it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] peertje:
I've used this solution after my s4 gave the "sim card removed" error 5 times this morning. I used a piece of power sponge i.s.o. an earplug. Since then no error. If error occurs i'll respond again.

Thanx Sean.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] junglizste:
I was having this problem. I did this fix but just used some folded up plastic wrap. Hasn't happened again yet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtmaster303:
just going to chime in here and say be careful trying to pry off the bezel from the phone. it was so tight on my phone, i pryed too hard and ended up cracking the LCD. the phone is so damn thin it gave way very easily. *&^%&*(*&^! thats never happened to me before. wtf.... i feel terrible, destroyed my sister's phone trying to fix it

happy holidays to all :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] HorusEyE:
Hi...

I just tried this fix. I could not cut the foam piece so nicely as the OP but I think it worked... Now I'm going to wait to check if the message is gone for good...

I have tried first with one kind of foam but it was to soft that I couldn't even cut it small enough. Then I tried a slightly more compact foam and I could cut the foam small enough to fit the space in the phone's board. But at the first try I think I cut it too thick so I kinda made two thinner pieces of foam out of a thicker one...

I attached a couple of pics here...

Foam was too thick

http://imgur.com/tkdxNcR

Foam cut in half

http://imgur.com/FoepFlM

Top View

http://imgur.com/hqBTOVs
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] HorusEyE:
Well, unfortunately it didn't solve the problem... I'm still getting the error message. Maybe I cut it too thin!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cidxtc:
Have you tried a different sim card? They do go bad sometimes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] HorusEyE:
Yes I have. I have bought a new SIM card to replace the old one. Tomorrow I'll try to cut a thicker piece of foam and then I'll see the outcome...

Enviado do meu GT-I9505 através de Tapatalk
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cidxtc:
Good luck. Before I replaced sim card I used a beer coaster.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] HorusEyE:
You mean that you folded the beer coaster and placed it there instead of foam?

I have just disassembled my phone again and I noticed that the foam was completely squished. The foam just shrink to the thickness of almost a sheet of paper...

So I have cut another piece of foam and glued to the both side of the foam a little piece of paper (thick paper) to make the foam a bit harder and so that it wouldn't get squished with the the pressure of the covers!

It is about 2 hours now and still without error messages... Unfortunately I didn't took any pictures!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cidxtc:
Yes but my coaster was thick enough to not need folding.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] HorusEyE:
Well, I must say that probably your contact problem was not so serious has mine! I have probably 3 to 4 mm of thickness in my fix! The inner plastic cover got a small bump because of the thickness of the fix! But it's working so far! Hope it keeps working!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] :
As an aside, I did use this thread a couple of times. We had three S4s and all went bad. I tossed the first one, and fixed the other two for using as Chromecast devices. It was our one and only Samsung experience. I now have Nexus 6 by Motorola and my wife and son have iPhone 7s Plus phones.

I don't know why Samsung is still in the smartphone business after this S4 flustercluck and the exploding Note 7s. I was back here to fix a massively screwed up S4 we use for Chromecasting only and happened across this old thread. Good luck to all, if you follow the directions they work. Unlike Samsung's junk! ;)