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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AO7:
I use EFS Backup Pro to backup my modem and EFS partitions but that requires root. TWRP also has the ability to backup the modem partition, but flashing a custom recovery will trigger knox 0x1.

I've tripped my knox over a year ago so I don't keep up with how to root the phone while keeping knox 0x0. A quick google gave me this post but I have not tried it myself.

If you manage to root your phone and keep it 0x0 than technically I imagine you can backup your EFS. The question is it's still worthwhile to go to all this trouble. The N9005 is approaching its' second birthday. In my personal case, since I don't care for extended warranties on electronics, my legal basic warranty already expired some time ago anyway.

there might be some obscure proprietary Samsung features that depend on Knox. But other than those, I see no real point in trying to keep your phone 0x0.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hannah Stern:
EFS backup always shows up an error while starting up. Then it closes itself.

EFS and EFuse...:crying:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pottylotty:
does anyone here still have that jelly bean file?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
What JB file ???
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nanostray:
Hello guys,

since a couple of months my Xperia SP freezes at random. Usually when unlocking the screen to 9gag or whatsapp. It will just freeze and I have to force restart my phone. It gets really annoying since I have do it 4-5 a day in worst case.

Anyone an idea what's causing this? my ROM etc can be found in my signature.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flash-:
since this is old ....please do a full wipe form your recovery and do a clean install (re-flash the ROM) to make it faster like the first time you flashed it :)

don't wanna lose data and stuff? try to only wipe cache and dalvickcahce from recovery and see what happen ;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] davebo:
I installed Skype 2.1 Beta on my Trion, but I decided to get rid and unistalled it. However my device keeps resetting itself (minor reset, not a full soft or hard reset). Any idea if a daemon process is still kicking around and if so what it is called so I can blat it ?

Thanks in advance, DBo.
[XDA Assist] XDA Visitor:
Please provide correct and positive info. !!!
[XDA Assist] StrangerWeather:
Hello, and welcome to XDA! The answer seems to be that you can't do that. Please look at this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2467581. Here is the quote: "Can I install Android on a WP8 device?

no.... These devices are extremely tight security wise and it is very improbable that someone would code an emulator.

Note: Work is being done on the HTC OneM8 w/Windows because the hardware is exactly the same as the Android version."

Best wishes
[E 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kykemejia:
Update 5.1 without Flashing Modem??

Is posible update my device moto e 2015 (XT1527) flashing all files of firmware XT1527_SURNIA_RETUS_5.1_LPI23.29-15_cid9_subsidy-DEFAULT_CFC.xml but without flashing file of the modem NON-HLOS.bin ????

My device have originally firmware LXI22.50-24.1 version 22.36.2.surnia.retla.retla.en.01 retla with CID12 but the firmware 5.1 is CID9.
[E 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kykemejia:
Those interested in updating 5.1, can doing the update without flashing the file of the modem or flashing the file original of the version 5.0.2 of you device.

On mi case flashing this firmware XT1527_SURNIA_RETUS_5.1_LPI23.29-15_cid9_subsidy-DEFAULT_CFC.xml but with the file NON-HLOS.bin of the version original XT1527_SURNIA_RETLA_5.0.2_LXI22.50-24.1_cid12_subsidy-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.

To the moment not have problem, lose signal or other bug for the moment.
[E 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coco_cabj:
Can someone else confirm this? i´m from Argentina and my XT1527 is cid12(0x0c) too...

BTW here is a MEGA folder with lots of original firmwares

https://mega.co.nz/#F!rMIhDLgR!oq5Cz_XbgZLEEysmqoYtcA
[E 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danmoran:
It works. I recommend this.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Dr.AndroidTech:
I got my answer by searching.
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] kolyan:
I have this case which i can mail for free. Sometimes regular envelope is not enough and it gets returned to sender so I will make return and destination address the same and hopefully you will get it anyway.

If you need this case, give me your address and I will mail it today or tomorrow

http://www.amazon.com/Spigen®-STRON...pebp=1433869343025&perid=05Z22XEBBMXJW52B68ZF
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] LeonTLR:
Sent you a pm, thanks.
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] falcons2:
Just missed it. Oh well lol.
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] kolyan:
Ok, will see if you get it :) I put one stamp on it and used clear tape
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] LeonTLR:
I can always paypal some shipping $$$$
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] Jammol:
I have that case. If you use the heart rate monitor you will have some issues.
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] kolyan:
Sent
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] GinFab:
thanx for your offer
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] edwardjiang7:
Would be awesome if I could get one too! Haha
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] kolyan:
Did you get it ?
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] LeonTLR:
Nothing yet
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] kolyan:
It probably didn't go through, it should've taken 2-3 days. Might still get it though, when I mailed keys it took like 2 weeks for keys to return back to me because I used wrong packaging. If you don't get it, sorry, I tried :)
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] LeonTLR:
Got it today, mailman walked up to the door and asked for 22 cents. Thanks, I really like the case.
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] Mon_J:
I would like case if available

John Mayo

729 Sheridan Ave.

Roselle, NJ 07203
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] BigMosley:
FYI, never a good idea to throw your personal info to the public like this. Shoot him a PM instead.
[Galaxy Note 4 Accessories] kolyan:
That's great. No problem
[ZenFone 2 General] canurollwiththis:
I've noticed this phone has hit or miss battery life depending on what you have installed, greenified and frozen. I thought it would be a good idea to create a thread where everyone could share their battery life tips and tricks on this phone.

Below I posted what I have done to maximize battery life. I have not rooted my phone yet, so none of the below tips require root.

I disabled all bloatware apps that came with the phone. I did not disable any of the Asus applications.

I utilize the Asus autostart manger and denied auto start to all my applications except music applications, messenger applications, and google photo sync.
[ZenFone 2 General] Shafwan7:
battery sucks. drain to much.
[ZenFone 2 General] gontie:
Just use until you have 5% free battery, this should make at least your day ;)

With Android OS taking so much thanks to lollipop, there is not a lot to hope.
[ZenFone 2 General] cmendonc2:
We wont see a good battery improvement until we get 5.1

Luckily, that is in the future for this device acc. to Asus.
[ZenFone 2 General] dan8541:
Since the issue seems to primarily be Android os draining the battery I don't think most battery saving measures will make a difference. We will just have to wait for an update
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
When I was looking at the phone reviews people were claiming 8 hours screen on time, I can barely get 2 hours screen on time.

The problem I'm having is that the phone never goes to sleep and is constantly awake. Has anyone else seen this issue?
[ZenFone 2 General] marcof93:
I had the same problem after the latest update, no deepsleep in BetterBatteryStats (I'm rooted), I wiped everything and now it goes to deepsleep.
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
Which firmware version are you on. I've wiped the phone once already, did you clear any caches? It's driving me mad
[ZenFone 2 General] marcof93:
I'm on 2.18.40.12 (ZE551ML of course), I restored the phone from backup & restore in settings (It may take 30 minutes or more). Before restoring I had 45+% of Android OS during the night, now 20% more or less, but, as said, also in BBS I can see deepsleep in frequencies.
[ZenFone 2 General] toebus:
Someone posted on Zentalk to turn off remote lock and scan for security threats in google settings. Not sure if it helps or not.
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
I wiped my phone yesterday and restored back up like you suggested and it seams to have sorted out my wake lock issue. I wonder why that is?
[ZenFone 2 General] marcof93:
Glad you solved, but don't know why, maybe they are working hard on the firmware and there are lot of changes that can cause problem, maybe we have to wipe after every update, Intel processor and Lollipop are so unstable right now!
[ZenFone 2 General] pato2015:
It helps..i turned andriod device manager too
[ZenFone 2 General] zerg_protoss:
Ok so this is my battery with a normal day of use... Tomorrow ill show the results with your sugestions. My normal days have gsm calls(normal phone calls) whasapp (chat) youtube, twich, game like plant vs zombies 2, look at gmail, surfing internet, taking pics like 25 today.

I notice that battery drains a lot more while photo app open.

I use doble sim as you can see
[ZenFone 2 General] Sammaul:
If you want to test app battery drain, try GSAM Battery Monitor, or for some extra functionality the Pro version. Also very useful to determine what is causing wakelocks when you run into them.
[ZenFone 2 General] zerg_protoss:
Really interesting app ill download tomorrow im tring to lock some functionalities from google like sending data for app security and after that will download this and tell you what i got :)

Thank u sir thats a good one
[ZenFone 2 General] chuckdez:
Everyone is always wondering about Android using the most battery. Without doing some in depth debugging and tracing I would guess Houdini falls under Android. Because the ZenFone 2 uses the Intel processor a binary conversion for ARM instructions takes place with Houdini. More than likely you have a lot of apps native for ARM.
[ZenFone 2 General] sth_safal:
Force closing asus support app and zenui services app from apps setting gives me good amount of battery boost. Apart I have also disabled google books, movies, plus etc. I don't know if its placebo effect but someone can try and confirm. These app tend to restart at times so if you feel the battery decreasing at high rates again, make sure you force close them again.

Roughly speaking, I tend to get 3-5 min per percentage of screen on time with this which totals to 5 to 6 hrs on SOT on continous usage. Without the apps being force closed, I barely get 2min/%. The usage scenarios are normal web browsing, chats etc. This is using mobile data. It gets even better with wifi.

Try and let me know if this helps. :)
[ZenFone 2 General] apala2015:
Maybe I don't use my phone as much as other people. I posted this last night on another forum. My phone was unplugged at 07:00, It's now 21:00. I have 80% battery left and the battery monitor shows 3 days left

I have received email, 3 phone calls and text messages. I checked Twitter a couple of times with the browser. I have read Google News a couple of times and played GSN Casino for about 20 minutes.

In Auto Start Manager I turned off Docs, Sheets, Skype, Slides, Translate, Amazon Kindle, Data Transfer and Web Storage. Everything else is Allow, but I have no social networking applications installed.
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
Its looks like battery life is a right mixed bag. At the start of the week I was suffering wake lock issue, my phone wouldn't go into deep sleep and was constantly awake. I wiped and restored from backup which seams to fix the issue.

Got up this morning and it looks like the wake lock issue is back. I don't know what to do to fix it.

Feel like giving up on the phone and sending it back if I can
[ZenFone 2 General] TeeeJaay:
disabling the "double tap to sleep" and "double tap to wake" touch gestures helps improve battery life a lot
[ZenFone 2 General] apala2015:
Did you install many applications? or is the phone stock? If you installed any applications, maybe an application is causing the constant wake issue.
[ZenFone 2 General] ligu:
May I know which backup are you referring to? How do you create that backup? TIA
[ZenFone 2 General] MATTHEWLONG:
I just do what I used to do with my G2. Battery life is no different. Root. Greenify Google now. 2% battery loss over night. The battery loss is exactly the same as the G2 by doing this. Straight to sleep the rest of the time.
[ZenFone 2 General] marcof93:
You are not understanding..I'm referring to wipe your phone, reset it to factory in settings.
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
I don't really install that many apps. Manly twitter rss and Strava plus a few others that I had installed on my nexus 4.

Is only working on porting CM to this phone
[ZenFone 2 General] jose makalolot:
What causes power manager wakelock?

Posted using my phone.
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
The biggest issue with this phone is wake lock. I would love to know what causes it. I hope someone brings CM to it soon
[ZenFone 2 General] corrsea:
Don't worry. Power manager is just a sum of all the partial wakelocks on your device. If it's at the top all is good.

Wakelocks are absolutely necessary for your device to work. They are only a problem if an app is poorly designed and doesn't let go of the wake lock when it should.
[ZenFone 2 General] cmendonc2:
I just had a terrible wakelock on my phone, but a simple reboot fixed it. Asus gotta get on this already.

Sent from my ASUS_Z00AD
[ZenFone 2 General] troy5890:
I'm just going to drop this here.

Sent from my ZE550ML
[ZenFone 2 General] Twotems:
I've had my phone for two months and yesterday decided to see how far I could push it. As you can see I don't have a wakelock problem but that's after tweaking and removing battery suckers like Facebook, Viber etc. Dual Sims, wifi/data, two email accounts, whatsapp, bbm always on. Greenify enabled manually as I'm not rooted.
[ZenFone 2 General] MATTHEWLONG:
I agree. If we get 5.1 then it will just get better but it's by no means bad.
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
My wake lock is depressing. Look how bad it was today
[ZenFone 2 General] Twotems:
The functions are there in the UI to tell you what's causing it. First thing to do is go to settings/battery/app battery use and, one by one, enable "prevent app from wake up" and "prevent app from keep awake". If you're running Facebook and Viber type crap or bluetooth there's nothing you can do.
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
In setting/battery it says Android OS and android system at the top of the list. The only apps that pull data in the background is twitter and a rss app.

Will try enabling "prevent app from wake up" and "prevent app from keep awake" on some of my apps see if it helps
[ZenFone 2 General] Twotems:
Top right hand corner of the battery page click the three vertical dots and you'll see the dropdown. Besides that you're running twitter which is another useless battery sucker. You're better off accessing twitter and facebook etc via your browser.

To restrict background data go to settings/data usage and scroll down. Restrict all the non essential apps one by one for both wifi and mobile data.
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
Yeah Ive only got the same apps I had installed on my nexus 4 and that didn't surfer from wakelock issues
[ZenFone 2 General] Twotems:
No two phones are the same. That's a given.
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
yeah and one being arm and the other being x86. Is there a website to see if what android apps don't play well with x86
[ZenFone 2 General] Twotems:
I don't know but all apps seem to work on this phone. Some people say Here Maps doesn't work but that's not true since mine is fine. I don't think that's your problem. You're running a lot of junk it seems.
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
The weird think is that the phone has had wakelock issues all last week apart from friday. Wish I could pin point the problem, its driving me mad lol
[ZenFone 2 General] MATTHEWLONG:
Do you use wakelock detector and greenify?. Are you rooted?. I have always found that the issue you are suffering is caused by Google now.
[ZenFone 2 General] Twotems:
That's true. I've removed Google Now also. Never used it anyway.
[ZenFone 2 General] ligu:
Your screen shot showed the CPU is always awake. Maybe some apps are keeping it up. Try to find and remove them. If you're rooted, then bbs would be helpful here.
[ZenFone 2 General] tabemasu88:
will xposed amplify work to extend the battery life?
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
I've been trying to see what apps are running and removed a few that are but makes no difference. My firmware version is 2.13.40.13 is that newer or older then 2.18.40.12 because when I go to check for system update it didn't say there is a newer version available
[ZenFone 2 General] troy5890:
I would recommend you to run the 2.18.40.12 which is the Latest firmware version right now that fixes a lot of bugs and improves battery

Sent from my ZE550ML
[ZenFone 2 General] Minim3:
Not sure about the rest, I've not no issues with battery drain and I have a ton of apps installed. Maybe it's just a bad batch out there. I'm coming from the S5 and my daily usage is about the same with the S5 on my ZF2, the ZF2 actually last a bit longer then my S5 at the end of the day. Mind you, the S5 after first Lollipop upgrade had huge problems with battery drain, after 5.01 update, it was greatly improved. I'm hoping the next firmware update will also fix a lot of these problems for the ZF2, so far it's been good for me.

Canadian ZF2/4g/64gb device.
[ZenFone 2 General] omnikai:
Looking deeper into BBS, I see that the Android OS has a lot of 'alarms'. Most of these are: com.asus.framework.ALIGN_WAKEUP_SIX_MIN. Anyone have any idea what this is? It's clearly asus-related, so I'm thinking this might explain the Android OS wakelocks/drain and why it doesn't occur on other devices.

A google search comes up with nothing on this wakelock.

I'm going to try a Wakelock blocker (like this) to see if it helps. Gotta get Xposed installed to do so.
[ZenFone 2 General] retry88:
Does ASUS power saver app help at all? Would balanced mode or turning it completely off (use greenify instead) work better?
[ZenFone 2 General] facelessloser:
I think i might have solved my battery life problems. I found out that the website I had bought the phone from (merimobile.com) had flashed a WW (world wide) firmware to a CN (china) zenfone to turn it into a WW phone. But they hadn't flashed a boot.img or recovery.img so I couldn't get any OTA or update the a newer WW firmware. When I tried to adb sideload the WW firmware it would complain that the phone was a CN model.

I followed this guild to change the phone to become a real WW phone and it accepted the WW firmware over adb sideload.

Will keep you posted to see if the phone does go to sleep as it should. I was originally on WW 2.13.40.13 firmware which was stopping my phone from sleeping but now Ive flashed it to WW 2.18.40.12
[ZenFone 2 General] Hritik154:
Okay so after constant use of my 551 4gb/2.3 version i got almost 6 hours of SOT which is well okay including constant whatsapp and approx. 20 min of nova 3 ..

Only problem im having is the deep sleep issue..it never goes in deep sleep..any solutions?
[ZenFone 2 General] ahmadfaizzz:
battery problem

I dont know what happen to my battery

When i charge my phone for 15 minute it'll give my phone 30% battery charge or more.

But, then in a minute my phone is fully charged. I dont know why this happen. Is this one from another reason why my battery is so quick to drain? Pls tell me if anyone know this problem
[ZenFone 2 General] omkar17:
cant we add something like stamina mode as it was for xperia devised which realy worked great..... with ultra stamina mode my xperia z ultra could run for more than 2-3 days... but zenfone battery keeps on draining without any use.....daaaanm
[ZenFone 2 General] Twotems:
There's a stamina mode in power settings. I have no clue what you're talking about because standby is very good.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jackie78:
Hi,

I find the behaviour of the S4 stock camera app very annoying since Lolipop came out.

Normally, when you click on the camera icon, you expect that the camera actually opens, right? Well, if you have once started the camera, and then entered the review-mode by clicking on a picture you have just taken, and then press the menu button to return to the home screen, the next time you press the camera button, you will be taken back to exactly that preview, not to the camera view.

This may seem logicl from an app-point of view (app already running), but not from what a user expects: when I push the camera button on the home screen, I want to be taken to the camera instantly, no matter which mode the app was previously.

The next illogical thing is: When you are in picture view mode of the camera app, and press the "back" button on the S4 device hoping to be taken back to camera mode, the app closes, instead of taking you to the camera. The only thing that gets you back is pressing the little camera-symol in the upper right corner of the app.

To sum it up: this is totally annoying, why does Samsung such a bad job there? Anything to change the behaviour?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Won't swiping work?

CM camera and Google camera offer the ability to swipe into gallery and back to the camera.

I guess the thing with you pressing the camera app and it takes you to it's previous state (gallery) is because the camera app and the gallery are tied together.

That picture preview gallery is basically another feature of the camera. Most camera apps come with their own. Even if you don't have any gallery app at all, you can still preview a picture.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pianopynk6789:
Hey guys, my ZE551ML is rooted and I've granted super su for gamekiller 3.11 but when I searched it found 0 item. Is there any solution for this 'cause only game killer work on android 5.0 lollipop :(
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pianopynk6789:
Sb help plz
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gavin19:
I bought GK a while back and it worked fine on Lollipop on my Moto G 1st gen but I've tried it on a couple of games on the ZF2 and I get the same as you. 0 results. I just assumed it didn't work with the games I tested but it seems like it doesn't work at all (yet anyway).
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pianopynk6789:
Oh :( So what should I do now :(
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Athi Venu:
Lucky Patcher Only Working :)..
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kakadiya:
I think problem with intel x86 devices,

Xmod also not supported.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultramag69:
Guys, this conversation is in breach of XDA policy - NO WAREZ...

You need to take this conversation elsewhere or actually support the developers and BUY the apps you want to use.

I can guarantee once this thread is noticed by an Admin it will be ended and possible bans could be enforced, just a heads up......
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] troy5890:
Yeah a moderator should notice this pretty soon
[XDA Assist] Alcor10:
How, please like I feel so dumb right now, how do I edit my list of devices? I have honestly tried everything and I can't figure out how to edit that list. I don't have either of them anymore and want to add other past devices. Just not sure where to go to edit that. Thanks, sorry I'm having a dumb moment, haha.
[XDA Assist] Razvan:
Hi there,

I guess you want to edit your details from your profile, right?

Please acces this link and edit what you want from there: http://xdaforums.com/usercp.php

Good luck