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[General Topics] adrockr:
Don't buy this phone.

Well, I dropped my Duraforce no harder than I have dropped it in the past yesterday. It slipped out of my hand as I pulled it out of my pocket to check the time. The screen slowly faded to black as the back light lost its life. Not a scratch on the phone nor the screen!

If this were a normal phone that did not tout itself as something so rugged, I would not say a peep. However, but I bought this phone for a reason - I wanted something without all of the fancy new features that would instead last a long time and stand up to some basic wear and tear. Here are a few things that Kyocera and AT&T say about this phone:

“can withstand extreme environments and accidents"

"built to handle life’s challenges"

"DuraForce can go more places and withstand tough environments and accidents because of its built-in durability"

“DuraForce has a high tolerance for pain with its Military Standard 810G rating. Whether you're at boot camp or camping with your crew, DuraForce is built to withstand rugged environments. Dust, shock, extreme temperatures, and blowing rain won't faze it – so accidents won't ruin your day.”

So you can imagine my disappointment when the phone breaks while walking my kid from our car to kindergarten.

Given this, I would not recommend this phone to anyone who is interested buying the phone to be used for anything where it must be relied upon for anything even remotely important, certainly not “extreme” or “rugged” or “tough” environments. Kyocera wanted $65$ to repair it. I bought it for not much more than that. I could just get another. I won’t. This will be my first and last Kyocera phone.
[General Topics] Super_Moto:
hi

adrockr

did you try putting in an at&t sim to see if you'll get the 5.1 update ?

I'm in the same boat I have a stock at&t kyocera duraforce, processing message comes up but never updates.
[General Topics] adrockr:
I only tried an inactive at&t sim. no go. Borrow an active sim from someone?

AT&T store would not let me borrow one for 10 seconds to check, which is why I don't like at&t. "We don't have any active SIMS in the store, you would have to buy service with us."
[General Topics] Super_Moto:
I'm not from the U.S so getting an active At&t sim will be difficult, if I buy on Ebay an AT&T Pre-Paid Prepaid Go Phone sim card and activating it,

will that allow the update to go through?

I read on the At&t forms in order to get ota update you must be in the U.S on there network

.....I will never buy an At&t phone again :mad:
[General Topics] richie138:
Hello fellow obscure phone users :)

I recently got the new Kyocera Duraforce PRO and I like it, except I can't figure out how to root it.

Unfortunately there's no mention of it on the forums here that I can find, but I'm hoping there will be, since it does seem the predecessor (Kyocera Duraforce) was able to be rooted.

I'm willing to pay a bounty if someone can figure out how to root this phone!
[General Topics] dougunder:
Didn't see anyone else mention this.

Xposed works great on the last firmware.

Install with flashfire.

No sense in all these buttons without PBMC :)

Regarding the fellow who had it just die., I think there are lemons in this model.

I bought an openbox one on ebay that died in a week.

Returned it for a new one that I've been using (and abusing) for months.

Damn good phone for $100. Honestly better where it counts then the droid turbo It replaced. Much better call quality and can handle life.

---------- Post added at 02:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:16 AM ----------

Have you tried kingroot?

That was how I rooted my E6560. Worth a shot.

I paid for supersume to clean up afterword
[General Topics] gjh1978:
King root doesn't work, the software version of the DuraForce Pro is 6.0.1
[General Topics] Super_Moto:
Can someone please post on YouTube a vid tutorial on how to force the ota update

it would be greatly appreciated, there's no info/help only unboxing videos :(
[Nexus 6  General] danarama:
And HDR+ is much faster.

Great update
[Nexus 6  General] teinwhite:
Totally agree! Love it!
[Nexus 6  General] Ryjabo:
Yeah it seems like they fixed the HDR crashing

EDIT: Nope. It still crashes.

Sent from my Chroma-powered Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] danarama:
I've never had it crash. I use it exclusively. Have you sent a crash log to google?
[Nexus 6  General] blaze0303:
I feel like it only crashes on chroma, never had an issue on other roms.
[Nexus 6  General] anrkee:
It crashed a lot on chroma for me, too. No problems on stock.
[Nexus 6  General] v8dreaming:
Manual exposure setting was removed.
[Nexus 6  General] Face_Plant:
Works just fine for me on Chroma.
[Nexus 6  General] ncdub:
Works fine I'm Chroma for me every time too.
[Nexus 6  General] bp328i:
It works fine for me as well on Chroma....

If you read the update it says faster capture but not in HRD+ mode.
[Nexus 6  General] bradputt:
They have it in android m, don't know why they removed it now.

Working great in asoip
[Nexus 6  General] danarama:
If you read the update fully, it says:

and...

As I said in post 1, HDR+ is much faster
[Nexus 6  General] Torparn:
Have never crashed on my phone either.
[Nexus 6  General] klutch:
i dont know how you guys having crash issues and i am using chroma never had a problem with that google camara i cought some rolling pictures ( like cars in the highway) and when i check them lookz like it stoped but still working like a charm tho
[Nexus 6  General] anrkee:
It usually crashed for me when I'd take a bunch of pictures in a row. I'm glad it works for the rest of you. Chroma is a great ROM.
[Nexus 6  General] androiduser2011:
It definitely crash when you take pics in HDR mode in quick succession.
[Nexus 6  General] danarama:
Yes but not for everyone.
[Nexus 6  General] androiduser2011:
May be some of us got some faulty hardware.
[Nexus 6  General] deathshead:
Google Camera crashed in HDR+ mode on 3 different clean Builds of Chroma, and benzo

moved to AOSIP rc8 and it no longer crashes.
[Nexus 6  General] henrybravo:
Yes it does seem to be ROM dependent. No HDR+ FC's on LightROM or pure stock either. So the camera app can't really be blamed. Kind of reminds me of the Google Play Services FC problem that plagued some ROMs for a couple of weeks but never happened on stock.
[Nexus 6  General] androiduser2011:
Good to know that we do not have hardware issue, will try to install this rom.

Thanks, Light rom will be in my list too.
[Nexus 6  General] deathshead:
Aosip I was reluctant to try for some reason but its an absolute delight! So much faster than Chroma and more stable.
[Nexus 6  General] androiduser2011:
Which gapps did you use ?
[Nexus 6  General] deathshead:
Always the latest banks full gapps, then pickup lean kernel and wake gestures for a rock solid lg native solid double tap to wake and left/right swipe for torch when sleeping. Such a great combo.
[Nexus 6  General] kartoon33:
Anyone getting these on screen buttons on top after update of Google Camera? I'm on latest Chroma ROM.
[Nexus 6  General] danarama:
Nope. Never seen those before
[Nexus 6  General] tatoniss:
Now that's interesting. Never seen that.
[Nexus 6  General] kartoon33:
I know and nobody seems to know how to get rid of it. Weird thing that when I was on stock Tmobile ROM, it was fine. But on Chroma, the on screen buttons come again. I can go in to App info and delete the update on the camera and its fine. But once it updates, the in screen buttons show up.
[Nexus 6  General] Shamrock13:
I got those while at Disney last week. After a couple of days, the buttons went away. I really didn't do anything special in order to get rid of them either. I'm on stock 5.1 + root.
[Nexus 6  General] kartoon33:
Really? Hmmmm. Weird cause I noticed them when I was in Disney 2 weeks ago for Star Wars Weekend and the app updated while there. Conspiracy? Lol
[Nexus 6  General] deathshead:
Try AOSIP?
[Nexus 6  General] kartoon33:
Actually I did and the camera buttons weren't there. But I like Chroma better. I know it's purely cosmetic but it sucks that the onscreen buttons can't be toggled on/off
[Nexus 6  General] jermaine151:
Was 4K video already there or added in with this update? HDR is definitely much faster!
[Nexus 6  General] danarama:
It's always been there.

Had a couple of cannot connect to camera and stuck "processing" messages last couple of days. But it maybe because I flashed an updated rom.
[Nexus 6  General] androiduser2011:
Just update,

Running AOSip rc 8 since last 2 weeks, tried hard to crash camera but camera working solid on this Rom.

Even i installed Franco kernel on top of it, still going well.

Touch wood [emoji12] [emoji5] [emoji5]
[Nexus 6  General] androiduser2011:
It's confirmed it never crashes on AOSip ROM but it always crashes on Chroma.
[Nexus 6  General] djpharoah:
what version of google camera is this?
[Nexus 6  General] androiduser2011:
Version 2.5.052
[Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thediesel32:
Hi there,

I recently bought my Asus Nexus player and set it up yesterday. Now when listening to all other programs the audio that comes out is perfect. No issue at all but with Netflix all I hear is a static sound. I have searched around for this issue and could not find it. I have uninstalled the app and reinstalled it, restarted the Nexus Player, Factory reset the device and also changed HDMI ports just to tru something and nothing has changed. Again all audio on other apps is great (Youtube, Plex, MNA Gametime etc) but with Netflix I can not hear anything but static sound.

Here is a video with the problem.

https://youtu.be/PV2cfhKwCRQ
[Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] king_dani:
Upgraded from bootloader unlocked 5.0 to 5.1.1 and encountered the same problem. Anyone has a fix?
[Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bentripin:
While the video is playing, go into the video settings and change the audio from Dolby Digital 5.1+ to 2.0 Stereo, bug in new netflix has broken surround sound.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bitpie:
My wife's phone is stolen. Somebody stolen from her bag while shopping. I tried to call and is still ringing.

How can i have access or location of this phone?

Please brilliant app finder/owner help.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k500zm:
So I decided to take a look at lollipop 5.1 & I took a nandroid backup [copied my data] and flashed the mako factory image - Had a look then wanted to go back.- so flashed kitkat 4.4 back &

copied the nandroid backup over to the phone - flashed TWRP back - wiped all partitions but user data - restored the nandroid - wiped the user data partition. Everything boots up ok.

However - when I connect my PC via MTP to look at the folders all my old folders are there on the PC but empy - BUT they are NOT on the phone.

How is my PC finding folders that do not exist anymore and how can I make the PC show what is actually on the phone ?

edit - Also on the phone in ES explorer there are hundreds of old files that dont exist anymore that are zero bytes big !!!!

Tried fixing permissions - it's just got me baffled !?

Anyone have some wisdom to share about a solution to these ghost folders ?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k500zm:
Turned out I had some data missing so I just rebuilt it !
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] aembleton:
Rooting a Xiaomi Mi 4i on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca

- This guide might also be relevant for users of Debian and Ubuntu

Disclaimer: I accept no responsibility for any damage you do to your phone, body, life or anything else in the past present or future.

This has been written as I had so much difficulty in getting my Mi 4i rooted. I kept trying to do it in Windows through Virtual Box but kept failing.

1. Enable Developer Options

- On your phone, go to Settings

- About phone

- Keep tapping on the Android version until the message at the bottom says that you are a developer

2. Enable USB debugging

- On your phone, go to Settings

- Additional settings

- Developer options

- USB debugging

3. Install the tools

sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
sudo apt-get install android-tools-fastboot

4. Try and see the devices

- Connect the phone to your computer

- Run the following command at the terminal

adb devices

- It will now say List of devices attached.

- If you see another line with an 8 character identifier such as bf1b6529 then you can skip step 5

5. Add phone to known devices

- Run the following command on the terminal

echo 0x2717 >> ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

6. Add your computer to trusted devices on your phone

- Enter the following command on the terminal:

adb devices

- Look on your phone, it should now be asking you if it can add the machine to the trusted devices, or something like that. I'm writing this from memory.

7. Check that adb devices is working

- Enter the following command on the terminal:

adb devices

- Check that the device ID is there (8 characters such as bf1b6529)

- Check that it says device after it

8. Kill adb

- Enter the following command on the terminal

adb kill-server

9. Now for the fun. You will need sudo access for this stage.

- Download boot.img to your computer.

- At the terminal, navigate to the directory where you downloaded boot.img, this will probably be ~/Downloads

- At the terminal:

adb reboot bootloader

- You will now see a screen like the following:

- At the terminal:

sudo su
fastboot devices

- You will now see your device ID followed by fastboot

fastboot boot boot.img

- You will now see something like the following:

downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 1.022s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.259s]
finished. total time: 1.281s

10. Restart

- At the terminal enter:

fastboot reboot

- You should now see a textual boot screen wher you can see it actually carrying out the rooting with boot.img

- Then it should boot as normal into Android

- Check your apps. You should now have SuperSU
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] kblade29m:
Thanks for step no 5. After trying all kind of 51-android.rules guide from stackoverflow and your solution work. Now I can detect my device in Linux Mint.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] didiet72:
thanks....

finally i can connect my mi4i to my linux desktop
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] rmsinaga:
Thank you for your guide. I assume this will work on Ubuntu 14.04 as well.

Question to step no.9: "Download boot.img to your current dir" => Which directory do you mean? The root of the phone or on my laptop? Sorry for being newbie. Many thanks.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] aembleton:
You need to download boot.img to your laptop. I've updated Step 9 with the following:
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] Thad E Ginathom:
Step one on the path to rooting my m4i was getting adb to work.

After much googling, much time, and trial and error, I had reached this point. Then I come here and here it is! All made simple.

The next hurdle is that adb devices shows the phone with the word "offline," and that is where...

...I find I wasn't even seeing the message because the flip cover was closed. Doh.

This is my second Android phone, and I rooted and installed CM on the previous one, a Defy+. Still feel very much a novice, and approaching the rooting is quite scary. Among my worries...

Does this method change the recovery?

Does this method, with boot.img, install a new rom, or does it root the exisiting one?

Will everything else be reset/wiped? (well, backups anyway. Of course).

Will Xiaomi updates still work and be installable?

I am considering using method 1 from "Root/Unroot V6.5.x W/out Losing Stock Recovery [Simplified]" (new member: cannot make that a link) . Any comments?

It is so nice to see the Linux, and especially mint-specific, advice here. Thank you!

(My first post here: usual forum-novice disclaimers apply ;) )
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] rmsinaga:
I have used this method to root my mi4i.

Quick answer:

1. No

2. It only roots the existing ROM

3. No

4. You need to full unroot 1st from SuperSU before updating, otherwise it will be bootloop

5. Never tried before
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] Thad E Ginathom:
Great answer! :good:

Thank you very much for attention to every detail. The only thing putting me off going for this straight away is that I am travelling in just over a week, which doesn't give me any margin for making mistakes (if they can be made, I will make them!).

You mentioned having failed to make stuff work in a virtual machine. Did you try Wine? I failed to make the Mi PC manager software run in Wine.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] Thad E Ginathom:
Simple, painless and absolutely effective :D

(response typed from memory)

# fastboot reboot
<Waiting for Device>

...amd it goes on waiting. Does anybody get any other response on the terminal screen after this?

Anyway, Be Patient! Probably better to make tea or something away from the screen. After several minutes of Fastboot screen on the phone, the process continues as premised...

...and all is well.

After the phone had rebooted, I just ctrl-c-ed the fastboot process and exited from the terminal.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] zenolijo:
Works wonders, thanks!

Could only find ****ty .exe rooting tools that seemed sketchy and don't have windows installed anymore, so this saved me hours.

My computer could find the phone through adb and got authorized, the phone couldn't find my computer through adb though which was strange but it still worked fine. Thanks alot!
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] zenolijo:
Just tried this, it does not work.

Disabled root from SuperSU and updated to the newest weekly developer rom, and my device is now in a boot loop.

I'm currently trying to download the stable fastboot rom from the MIUI forums, but their servers are both incredibly slow and unstable. Doesn't go past 100kb/s and the download loses connection after a while and fails to continue the download. If someone could provide a alternative download link that would be great.

EDIT: Found a hidden link on the rom page for the fastboot rom from the miui page. Go to this page and Ctrl-F Mi4i
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] aembleton:
Did this work for you?

I also got into a boot loop after installing the latest update. I installed the latest stable version. This worked, but the Play Store won't start.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] zenolijo:
Well, the stable fastboot rom isn't the global version, so i only used it to get my phone running again and then flashed the stable global version. Everything works as expected now.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] rmsinaga:
How to update ROM using fastboot in Linux?

Do you know how to update ROM using fastboot in Linux?

Sorry to bother you as I'm new in this Linux world.

Thank you.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] holmess:
Thank you man, you have guided us to the land of light, you are our moses, krishna, muhammad and so on and so forth. We can flash left and right without second thoughts. Please keep up your efforts. Thank you one more time.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] Thad E Ginathom:
My phone is, as per previous posts, rooted, using this method.

Can I now flash TWRP recovery from Linux?
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] menou:
Hey, this is a method only for Xiaomi Mi4i? I have an Estar Crystal-clearview and wondering if I can root it by this method? I run the terminal with the adb install and then for the list of devices attached, and I started thinking about!

P.s. Just searched ''root with mint'' and your post was first!
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] Thad E Ginathom:
Eventually I got around to doing this using Flashify. I followed the instructions here on the MIUI forum. It was simple and straightforward and I now have TWRP recovery.

However, when I tried to use it to do a backup, it said there was not enough space. But it was long past bedtime, and that is another story that I have yet to investigate. There is probably a simple answer, err... make more space! The absence of SD card slot and the limited internal memory is the big frustration about this phone.

But I want to upgrade MIUI --- and I don't want to do it without an easy backtrack to the previous ROM.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] prabhanshu_1:
[Solved] Step 9 not working

Goto developer options

Check if 'fastboot mode' is enabled
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] logan37:
Thanks

Hi aembleton,

Thanks a lot. it worked just fine.

does this replace recovery too ?
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] cihilt:
# fastboot boot boot.img

downloading 'boot.img'...

OKAY 1.403s

booting...

FAILED (remote: oem unlock is false)

finished. total time: 1.405s
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] Vishu4allall:
Fails at Step 9

Hi Mate...This is really good manual

However, I am stuck at step 9:

......................fastboot boot boot.img................................

downloading 'boot.img'...

OKAY [ 0.745s]

booting...

FAILED (remote: unlock device to use this command)

finished. total time: 0.762s

The problem is that the device is not unlocked and its been more than a month I kept on trying and nothing works. So I thought to use Ubuntu for the same and got to your page...Any solution & suggestions are welcomed.

Thanks,

Vish
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] pranavmicro7:
at the execution of code fastboot boot boot.img it states "FAILED (remote: unlock device to use this command)

finished. total time: 0.879s"
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] Qwerty user:
Is this procedure for Unlock bootloader or can be use for locked bootlaoder ?
[G4 General] Slash8915:
So I learned this trick back when I had the LG G3. I wasn't a huge fan of that screen, due to the washed out colors. While the display on the G4 is a HUGE upgrade, I still feel it could do with a tiny bit more contrast. Maybe it's because I'm coming from a Note 4, but I wanted a little more. For those of you that also want a little more contrast, follow these instructions:

Go to... Settings>Accessibility>Vision>Screen Color Adjustment (on)> Then click on the adjustment and adjust to your liking.

I played with it for a couple of minutes and found a nice setting that simulates a Super Amoled screen a bit more. You may be able to find an even better setting than me. I'll post up a screen shot of how I set mine up for those of you that want to give it a shot.
[G4 General] TDSJR:
Id like to know. Thanks.
[G4 General] player911:
Good spot.
[G4 General] dontbeweakvato:
yeah I was messing with it a couple days ago it's pretty difficult to get it right. If you move out here too far it gets out of whack real fast.
[G4 General] Slash8915:
Oh yeah, you definitely don't want to move it too far from the original spot. Just a tiny but makes a huge difference.
[G4 General] Pfeffernuss:
Black won't be any blacker (hardware related).

White's won't be any whiter (hardware related).

Ergo: contrast ratio can't be improved. Amoled-style display will never be achieved.

I leave it stock. Great blacks. White is white enough. Colors pop like crazy. Only thing this does is alter the saturation (which, imho, is bad).

But... YMMV :good:
[G4 General] gottria:
Colors pop?
[G4 General] xlxcrossing:
Yeah the stock colors tend to be milky and this deepens their saturation.
[G4 General] gottria:
Yea, sorry. Colors on the G4 on pop by any means. They look fine and everything is nice and clear, but if you want pop grab a Samsung. I have both the N4 and G4 and just don't look at them side by side.
[G4 General] pac1404¨:
I agree as I mentionned here :

http://xdaforums.com/g4/help/screen-color-adjustment-t3123247

In my opinion, digital brightness adjustment is missing. As gottria, I own a Note 4 and for me, the red is pink on the G4.
[General Topics] pinkllama:
hi all,

in the library, does anyone know how to view by track number?. by that i mean when i click on 'artist', 'album' the track order is always alphabetical and not in the original order.

i'm running audio manager 1.02 build 409.721
[G3 Accessories] pikachukaki:
I buy from eBay this stock looking travel charger... From the back they seem the same but the one I bought don't charge my phone like the one that came with the phone? Also the one I buy came for UK plug and im using a converter from UK plug to EU or GR Im not sure if the rest of the Europe uses the same plugs..

Is the 2nd charger fake or it has something to do with the converter?

1st pic stock

2nd pic ebay charger
[G3 Accessories] herbert.m:
to me it looks like a fake...

but just talk to the seller on ebay - maybe you can get your money back :)