yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] undeadking:
Whatever ROM you are running had an ORIGINAL Build.prop file in system/ just replace current "bad" Build.prop with the ORIGINAL and you'll be back to normal... There are tons of tutorials and videos all over XDA/Youtube/Android Central if my above directions don't help... Good luck bud! :)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osm3y:
Thanks for your reply.. I didn't change ROM, I'm running on stock one. I don't even have root. Do I have to root my phone before i replace build.prop with original version? My phone may be refurb so they could change some software to make it work in EU, where I live (it came form Hong-Kong). I dunno, I just don't want to do something wrong..
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Allodi:
Hey all.

I recently used TWRP recovery for the first time to backup my phone. At the menu where it asks which partitions to backup, there was an option to backup the "Trim Area" partition. Can someone please explain what that partition is? :confused:

How will backing up or not backing up the Trim Area change the restore?

I made two backups, with and without the Trim Area, just to make sure. ;)
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Envious_Data:
TA Partition

Aka trim area partition

TA is where your drm keys are kept and other important encrypted information.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cimihendriks:
it is important to backup your TA partition before unlocking your bootloader in order to go back to fully stock after unlocking
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Allodi:
I understand now. Thanks.
[Moto X Q&A] pandeus:
so it looks like sprint isnt going to push out 5.1 for a while. my situation is as such: sprint phone, sim unlocked (thanks to samwathegreat). I want to know from another member if im going to break/brick my phone or lose my sim unlock by installing a gsm stock rom running 5.1. i really like active display anf want stock, but dont want to f anything up. any info would be great, thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] FinalFury:
A few months ago I rooted my S4 and flashed Cyanogenmod as my custom rom. However, my S5 came in just 3 days ago and so I had to hand down my S4 to my mother. For whatever reason, she prefers touchwiz and hates the idea of a custom os, so she made me put touchwiz back. I did this by flashing a stock rom onto the phone, which I heard would also disable the root access. I followed the tutorial on rootmyandroid.com, using both the Odin and Rogers S4 firmware the tutorial provided, and the S4 was brought back to stock firmware. However, now my mom can't turn on Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi hotspot. Please help.

Thanks!
[G4 General] StarFcker:
A stood out phone design certainly is inspiring and does boost your mood in decorating your desktop to your heart content.This is what happened to me with my brown leather back G4.I just love the classy,vintage feel that i get with this phone.Hence, I came up with a desktop + icons layout customization which is by far the desktop that i love the most! I use my all time favourite 3rd party launcher of course,the Nova prime launcher. Here are my shots :D

My desktop + drawer +lockscreen :cool:

so have you customise your desktop on your gorgeous lg g4 yet? Be it leather or plastic back,you can show off your inspired desktop/drawer/lockscreen here if you wish to! and of course you don't have to show all of them :)Desktop preferably the most!
[G4 General] matt4321:
Thread closed.

There is already a thread here for this:

★ Post your G4 home screens ★

Forum moderator,

matt4321
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] HotRod11686:
Hello and thanks for looking to help

1) I have a HD2 that has a broken power button

2) I have forgotten my password to android

3) I can't get it to restart in CWM for some reason

Have tried the following

1) Reboot using reset button and holding vol up, no good

Additional info:

1) Phone does not display Magldr screen splash - goes straight to a Tmobile Splash followed by HTC and then the bootup animation

Is there any way I can get back into recovery , or push a zip file to get rid of the password to let me access the phone? I'm ultra stuck here and I dont recall if I have backed up the rom either :(

I appreciate all the help I can get and thank you again for your time. :good::good:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Robbie P:
If the phone does not show any magldr screen on startup, surely it is using clk, so holding the home key should enter recovery.

What rom is installed? What install method (nand-only, nativesd, data-on-ext)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] HotRod11686:
Android rom, i forgot which one it is , its been forever. cant even verify since its password locked - install method is nand-only.

Ok I got it to boot to CWM but now i cant select any items . fail! - once its in CWM does this activate ADB? If i can push commands / files to the filesystem i can somehow remove the password protection which can get me back into android . is this possible?

Problem is now - what buttons can I use to select items in CWM?? i cant use the power button to select anything!

Additional Info:

CLK 1.5.0

CWM - 5.0.2.6
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] HotRod11686:
Fixed - used debug mode in android to do a reset of the password granting me access to the phone.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Robbie P:
well done, just checking if you have read gilbert32's excellent thread here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2398464
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matthias1203:
Please if someone can give me stock 4.1.2. samsung keyboard apk.

SamsungIME.apk
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noppy22:
What do you want to do with it? The reason I ask is that the .apk is dependant on other proprietry samsung files to work and will only work on a touchwiz rom. The only reason you would need it is if you somehow deleted it from your system apps on a TW rom.

I would love to use it on other roms though, it's the best keyboard I have used on a samsung phone
[YU Yureka General] Zenns:
like most people I was using CM12.1 Nightly for tomato(Yu Yureka) as there was no initial issue at first other then a random reboot, heat up nothing much that really concern, so I noticed a lag in the phone after surfing the net, and watching some videos and taking some pictures with the camera, so as to ease the lag of, I decided to restart the phone only then the phone went crazy of keep on restarting after boot up so I disable the WiFi and noticed that it was still constantly rebooting, now something is serious wrong, I did tried to get the logs which it fail to the point due to its random restart over and over again, good thing is I had TWRP recovery (life saver) I was able to back up some of my important pictures and conversation, and went back to 4.4 KitKat CyanogenOS, the issue was resolved no more reboot for now. so if you are flashing Nightly be warn it is highly unstable. I wont really recommand to update to till the green light is given in

* random reboot is fixed

* heat up issue is mild

* proximity sensor is fixed

* other lag issues

I used to own a Xperia Z and given that this phone is octa core with DDR3 RAM it should performed better but sadly it isn't.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DalSegno:
Hello!

I've been trying to figure out why I can't make NFC payments with my phone despite meeting all the criteria.

I have noticed in the NFC service menu (*#*#7378423#*#* in dialer, then Service Tests, NFC, NFC Diag) the test for eSE comes back as "failure". Can someone who is successfully using NFC payments see if their eSE thingy is showing failure as well?
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Entropy512:
eSE hasn't mattered since KitKat introduced HCE. Google dropped eSE support in Wallet around a year ago, only supporting HCE from then on.

Z3 has no eSE, but neither does the Nexus 5 or 2013 Nexus 7.

Wallet via HCE works fine here...
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DalSegno:
I'm in Canada, we don't have access to Google Wallet, I'm using two apps, TD (Canada) and UGO Wallet. I have all the requirements (supported phone, NFC SIM, etc) but even though I can add my cards to the applications, the actual payment always fails. The terminal always says "APPLICATION NOT SUPPORTED" or "CARD NOT ACCEPTED".
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Entropy512:
NFC SIM? That sounds like a legacy (dead) app. Google removed all eSE support a while ago AND I think they also removed SIM-based SE support. The only supported method for NFC payments in 4.4 and later is Host Card Emulation (HCE) I'm fairly certain. Support of SIM-based SEs has been inconsistent since the only thing that used it was ISIS which was pretty much stillborn.

Either way, eSE and SIM-based SE are different things, so seeing eSE as not present really doesn't mean anything. This is by design, no recent Android device has an eSE.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhinav.tella:
I used Wallet at Walgreen's 2-3 times and it worked fine.

I believe its for use in the US only at the moment unless I'm mistaken.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DalSegno:
Well, it's legacy in that it's crap, fragmented and completely inconsistent, but all of Canada's providers (Bell, Rogers, Telus etc) all offer NFC SIMs for mobile payment. There is no other option. Google Pay, Apple Pay etc do not work here.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ricky_Skrzepa:
Same here, the TD app and UGO wallet never worked and TD has no idea even thought they allegedly added support for the Z3

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Tried it on the HTC m7 and it also didn't work. Don't believe anyone has got it to work in Canada.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DalSegno:
Thanks for that. Telus dropped the Z3 sometime in the last week completely, and the new "Suretap" application that's supposed to unify all this payment crap doesn't support the Z3. Last time I went to try to use my phone to pay, the clerk let me try a few times with differing positions of the phone, because she said someone else had successfully done it earlier in the day (but with a Galaxy phone).

Did you ever get "NFC services over capacity" notifications when trying to use those apps? I have a strong feeling that error is the culprit. There's some stuff on reddit about how the Scotiabank application was causing that error to appear, but I never had Scotiabank installed.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ricky_Skrzepa:
Well the only time I had the over capacity error was when I had two more apps that used nfc payment. A friend with a z3 had that issue with Scotiabank. I saw sure tap installed on Bell z3 but not telus and it said currently unavailable when I tried to open it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] nstefanelli:
Hey everyone,

I currently have a Wizard and am very happy with it. I am extremely tempted to buy a at&t 8525 just cause I have a huge amount of money to play with right now, and I would like to know what everyone thinks of their phones. Do you like it? What are your favorite ROMs? How is the battery life? Camera? Speed? etc etc. Please post something of a mini review. Much appreciated.

-Nstefanelli-
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] intrglctcrevfnk:
well, i love mine, the 3G and large keyboard buttons were a seller for me and my huge thumbs.

not a very detailed reply but thats my 2 quick cents
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Blowfish64:
I've had little but problems with the Cingular and AT&T ROMs. I thought for a while that I had a defective phone, but it turns out they just don't know how to program well. If you do get it, just make sure you unlock the thing and get a better ROM.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Doom Tints:
I have used PocketPC phones for a very long time.

I had some really old one that I don't even remember what brand it was. :o

I also had a Hitachi G1000 and a Blue Angel.

I also have an 8125 (wizard) that is still in use.

The 8525 is the best, hands down. The main drawback would be that case seems the least rugged out of them all, but this might just be a perception issue -- it's smaller than the others and the battery door seems far too flimsy for its own good. However, there are hard plastic snap-on skins available for just a few dollars on ebay which eliminate this problem -- though these of course make the 8525 a little bigger.

The other drawback would be the MicroSD card slot. MicroSD is a BAD IDEA. These cards are far too small. My biggest fear is having the card pop out when I'm out and about and never being able to find the card again. If you make a device that uses a memory chip that is the size of a fingernail, you really need a door over it. Or, better yet, don't design devices that use them and let MicroSD die quiety....

Otherwise, the 8525 is nicer than the others in every measurable way. It's not much smaller than the 8125/Wizard, but it is more rounded so it feels smaller. I use the 8525 far more than I ever used the other devices, and as you can tell I've been sold on the technology for a good while.

Amazon had 8525s for $99 and $149 for a few weeks with a new plan or a renewed plan if you're eligible to renew. Totally unbeatable price.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] dkaye:
Hi. I've been lurking here for a couple of weeks. I had checked the boards here for "real life" use of the 8525 before actually getting my own. Then I started watching for devices on eBay. Then one Saturday morning, I lucked out and was able to get a *really* !! great deal on a refurb from AT&T with a 2-year plan. The phone I got did not have the new ROM and - from what I've read - not so sure I'm going to upgrade until the WM6 comes out.

Having had the opportunity to play with it for 2 weeks, I really love the device. This is my first PDA phone, and use of the PPC platform - having come from the world of Palm OS devices. I'm a gadget freak, and this one has kept me up nights downloading new apps, playing, deleting apps, performing backups, and ultimate resets. I've hard reset the phone at least 3 times so far.

Not having played with other PDA phones, my biggest complaint is the internal memory - or lack thereof. I've encountered a couple of low memory issues, even though the few extra apps I was running were installed on the MicroSD. Wi-fi has been testy - it seems to find networks when I don't need them, but fails to find and/or connect when they are available (i.e., my office).

All in all, I love the 8525. And, am looking forward to more good things to come.

dKaye
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] randomtask16:
I have come close to throwing this thing out the windows so many times :mad:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] ThaiM:
So many problems with mine. Freezes about once an hour. If not more. Randomly freezes. Sometimes it'll freeze when it's in standby mode in the case so I end up missing calls and emails and everything. WTF.

I have installed (most on my 2 gig card - ex. for SPB Shell, PP, PS, Diary and GPRS Monitor):

SPB Mobile Shell

SPB Pocket Plus

SPB Phone Suite

SPB Diary

SPB GPRS Monitor

SPB Pocket PC Tips and Tricks

SPB Air Islands

SPB Backup

Google Maps

Windows Live

Microsoft Live Search

PHM Registry Editor

Blue Point Studios Pocket Earth

DIVX Inc DivXPlayer

PhatWare PhatPad

NoviMedia NR Deluxe

Resco Picture Viewr Sync Module

Resco Photo Viewer

Resco Today Plugin

Resco FTP Add-in

Resco Explorer

Microsoft .NET 2.0

Aspecto Software WiFiFoFum

TomTom Navigator 6

Microsoft Voice Command

e-mobile Pocket Streamer

e-mobile HandiTV

Pocket Mechanic

Blackberry Service Connect

Webcamera Plus

Landware Shanghai

Landware Shanghai Tilesets

Landware Shanghai Music

Come to think of it... I think it's just really bloated with too much stuff?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] chainbolt:
After initially being enthusiastic about it, am getting more and more negative about my Hermes.

- the functionality is excellent, but that comes from WM 5/6 not from Hermes.

- the design (shape and color) looks somehow cheap - but that's of course a a matter of taste, other ppl might love it

- the manufacturing quality is miserable, absolutely cheapest plastic parts of any PDA/phone in this price category you can buy these days,

- the sliding mechanism is worn out (if not loosing its hold entirely) after a very short while.

- I suffer from the screen alignment issue + weird colors and fading white screen, The screen is fading, and if you touch certain points on the frame, you get weired artefacts, and such stuff.

- the camera is bad, it's not only that auto-focus is missing or that it has only 2 Mega, other build in cameras with the same specs deliver far better quality.

I see the Hermes based on an excellent idea, but cheaply designed and at least partially of shoddy quality .

yep, considering the "official" price for an unlocked one without a carrier contract, Hermes is not a good buy.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Bram87:
I have the Hermes..but if I was you, I would go for the HTC Kaiser! That will be my next device!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] jasonchiu:
i really like it specially coz there are so many roms to put on it and ways to upgrade it.

furthermore, the people making them are ace and are so easy to use, unlike the other HTC machines which are less popular and their upgrades can be still confusing at times.

i really like this phone!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] JangoSolo:
Moving from the Wizard to the Hermes was the best decision I have made in ages.

The Processor is faster and browsing is 10x faster
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] chainbolt:
yep, Hermes is almost history. Softbank, for example, will stop selling it soon. There are better devices, from HTC but also other manufacturers now in the market.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Dinty:
I have to say it's the best phone I have ever had. Featurewise it is brilliant and I have never had any problems that I didn't cause myself :rolleyes: .

In terms of it's build, well i dropped it onto a hard concrete surface from about 2 meters last week (it was one of those moments where the world seems to suddenly drop into slow-motion) and all that happened was a couple of scratches and the battery cover flying off. I just clicked it back on and all was fine.

All that said, I would probably be looking at the HTC Kaiser now which has the built in GPS and thinner size. Anyway, just throwing in my 2 cents. Hope it helps :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] BNickO:
I agree with Dinty. The best device I ever owned so far. The flexibility of the the device is amazing.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] dmxl:
The device is just terrible. I keep having problems with the screen alignment.

I even replaced the device with a completely new screen, but to no avail.

With the new screen, the aligntment issue is a little bit less worse. Alot of times I can't close applications with the close button. It just seems unresponsive. The funny thing is, when I either re-align the screen, or click the start button once, I can close the application.

My girlfriend has the same device, and is also having the same problems.

We both have the 3.0 Black WM6 ROM.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] wacky.banana:
I originally bought this as a business tool. However if I had my time again I would think twice before buying one.

Apart from the software lockups which have taken me the best part of 6 months to resolve, I now find that the quality of the product is questionable.

The stylus head fell off the other day (my second) and now stylii simply slide in and out without the ability to extend as you could do when new. So you get the situ where you slide the stylus out, then have to struggle to physically extend it before you use it. I now carry a non collapsible item in my pocket rather than go through this palaver.

As an innovative idea the Tytn is a great one; however its execution in a number of areas is rather poor.

WB
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6] igothacked1:
I noticed this gray gradient on the homescreen and recents with a black wallpaper and it's just really awkward to look at once you notice it. It becomes REALLY apparent if I increased to brightness. Is this just something tied with the System UI? Changing the launcher doesn't do anything and opening up a black wallpaper doesn't show these gradients. Maybe I'm just nitpicking.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6] iamjohn:
Happened to me as well and figured it is because I have Cf. Lumen installed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6] 1Chain:
I have the same issue. This is my third S6 Edge with same problem. Tried multiple fixes with no luck. Can't use any dark wallpapers, anyone know how to fix?
[Dell Venue] ctcollins9:
Aa
[Xiaomi Mi Note Pro] tr4657:
Okay, I rooted my mi note pro. Installed two fonts apps. Tried to change the fonts, installed some fonts via the two apps and rebooted... after reboot fonts still not changing... where did I miss the step? Or xiaomi doesnt allow third party apps to change the fonts?
[Xiaomi Mi Note Pro] skw5115:
Those apps aren't designed to work with MIUI. You're better off just using the fonts in the theme store
[Xiaomi Mi Note Pro] Kahun:
Go to Settings > Additional Settings > Font > Choose system font. You have to use the MIUI ones
[Xiaomi Mi Note Pro] underlines:
Nope. You don't have to use the MIUI Theme Store to find Themes with custom fonts.

Just use iFont but without the integrated MIUI Mode, but with the root mode!

It works and I use the slim variant of Neue Haas Grotesk, also known as Helvetica.
[Xiaomi Mi Note Pro] efato:
Oh Lord...

You are a magician... Thanks mate.
[Xiaomi Mi Note Pro] EMJI79:
Very strange: different fonts seems to cause different overall performance for the phones UI...

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Must be something else...
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capaxdoli:
My phone is on the latest firmware with 5.0.2. I successfully rooted my phone after a couple of sleepless nights and tons of stress when the phone suffered a boot loop. I do not want to undergo that process anytime shortly, though fun it was. (Damn! I keep speaking like Yoda) Sony keeps pushing updates every ten days and it creates trouble all over again. I searched before I posted this and in kitkat there was an option under personalisation to disable OTA. However that no longer is present. Can the OTA be disabled? Can anyone tell me how to do it?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] basti2909:
There is a app called update center as i remember correct. In the app there u can turn off ota notification. Or flash a debloated rom, most of them has no ota app
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capaxdoli:
Hey basti thanks for the reply but I am not able to find any such app. Tried whatsnew app and disabled updates but I guess that is only for apps that comes like xperia lounge. Further clarity would be nice.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PuffDaddy_d:
When the update notification appears at the top of your phone, pull down to reveal the notification menu. Long press and hold on the update message and an option to view "app info" will pop up. Click on that option and it will take you to the update notification screen where you will see a check box that you will have to clear to prevent notifications from appearing for OTA updates.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capaxdoli:
Great idea puffdaddy :) but the only problem is that I am looking for a way to prevent it from downloading itself. In my phone, on the last occasion, the update was already downloaded and then it informed me that it was ready to be installed. I am ideally looking for a way to prevent the download itself
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PuffDaddy_d:
That's strange. I never had that problem. Check your settings within the update app to make sure it's not set to auto download updates

Sent from my Xperia Z3 Compact
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cschmitt:
Freeze Software Update app with Titanium Backup.