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[Wing, P4350 General] jmpak:
I am thinking about upgrading to a Herald (T-Mobile Wing). I have read that people do not like the wing because it has the same processor as the MDA. My other option is to goto Cingular and get the Hermes (8525).

If i get the Herald i am going to overclock it.

So how does the overclocked Herald compare to the Hermes.

I understand that the Hermes is bigger, and it will be running a 400 mhz proc. Where as the Herald overclock will be somewhere around 270 mhz. In everyday, day to day usage will the extra power really be noticed.

Is the overclocked Herald really that slow when changing from portrait to landscape? How is the Hermes when changing from portrait to landscape?

What are some other pros and cons when comparing the two?
[Wing, P4350 General] The Dutchman:
The Herald (wing) is nicely small, and it toggles from landscape to portrait and vice versa in a second. When you overclock the device, it will use extra battery, and yes this is noticable. overclocking to 263 mhz i believe works perfectly, no lacking of speed etc..
[Wing, P4350 General] xsign:
273 works fine. don't get a wing - seems to have some kind of strange hardware failures as well as memory failures. try to get an unbranded htc4350 instead.
[Wing, P4350 General] Applestar:
Vodafone +

Or get a Vodafone VPA comapct 4 - I got it and it works flawless ;)
[Wing, P4350 General] doggydog2:
I also have original HTC P4350 and it's the most stable phone I ever had and it's still a PDA! I have 5.4.405 firmware preinstalled and I can run nonstop with no single freeze. This is something impossible for Symbian P910 I had before. That crappy phone made me hard-reset it 10 times a day!
[Wing, P4350 General] xsign:
5.4.405 ??
[Wing, P4350 General] The Dutchman:
So di I;) But mine is Dutch.
[XDA Assist] mark331:
i am searching for a root for sm-g388f and android lollipop
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pete..:
I accientally deleted my preloaded video. I want to get it back.

Factory reset isn't my option. If it has another way, tell me please.

Thank you.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sfkn2:
Even factory reset doesn't bring the video back. You'd need to reflash the stock ROM.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shawn_007:
I did something on my display setting tab. My phone's brightness is totally dark. I can't see a thing, tried rebooting same issues.

Running CM12.1 now.

Please help
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unqualified:
Not sure if there is a better way (maybe someone else will chime in), but when that happened to me on an old phone, I just swiped blind to turn brightness back up... ie boot up, wait for a while, hit the power button to wake up, swipe away your lockscreen as you normally would if you could see it, swipe down twice to pull down quick settings, and slide or tap about 1/3 of the way down from the top of the screen to pull the brightness slider. It's all still there, just at 0% brightness.

Or, you could try either a really bright light or a pitch black room and see if adaptive brightness kicks in enough.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shawn_007:
Thanks for the reply. I tried everything nothing seems too work out.

Anyway I'm lucky that I had a nandroid backup saved in my PC. Just restored it. It working fine now.

Thanks :laugh:
[XDA Assist] rajpopat:
please can somebody give the websites to download custom roms for lava iris 356

and also please can someone develop cwm recovery for lava iris 356
[XDA Assist] Razvan:
Hi there,

I'm sorry but I can't find anything related to your question/device except this thread where you can ask directly: Guide # LAVA IRIS 402 / 356 # Increase RAM and Internal Memory

Or you must start asking that in the forum bellow for more answers from the experts:

> Android Development and Hacking > Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Good luck
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] adam_ky:
Here is the link your wanting to post.

https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/

I really hope you are on to something.

I used terminal emulator and it looks like this (attached)

Looks like I'm vulnerable.

You seem to know your stuff and I hope some people can work with you to make some things happen

I just read the full article your source.. in theory root should be possible. I'm not sure how but maybe using the exploit to install cf as a system app. Then it could run with higher privileges I suppose. Or maybe just a custom zip to obtain the root.

Damn this makes me happy! I only wish I was smart enough to make it work lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
Thank you!

I'd really love to collaborate with some devs or something. I would be able to test most of those steps out myself, but would need help with the scripting of the actual payload. Then if it actually works, I ultimately would want to automate it and turn it into a redistributable application that anyone could use by just clicking a few buttons (seeing as how literally every non-rooted S5 should be vulnerable, I would want anyone to be able to use it). But I would need some help on that as well.

Also, until I (or anyone else) can confirm that this method either succeeds or fails, I'd hold off on taking any security updates that may patch this, just in case this method does end up working.

That's exactly what I was thinking. If this exploit works the way I think it will, there should be no real constraints on the code you can execute and privilege escalation should be a breeze whether it's with something like cf, or a custom zip.

Haha I was pretty ecstatic when I happened upon this and I couldn't really believe that no one else had put these two ideas together before I did. I tend to be more of a lurker on forums, so I was kind of iffy about posting this, but I'm really glad it's being well-received so far! :)

I'm really excited for this exploit's potential and can't wait to see where this leads!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] adam_ky:
https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/

I'm not sure it would be possible for an automated means of execution via an app or something. The one step in the process mentions that what has to be entered is device unique. But with the exploit it is kind enough to give you that bit of info needed.

The best we might be able to hope for here is connecting to your own personal wifi network with capabilities of injecting code exploit. Which shouldn't be to hard really.

We just need someone to create a payload for us and have a good step by step howto.

I'd be willing to volunteer both my time and device for testing this. I like you, just need a but of help.

However if no help comes I may try it myself lol

I'm pretty sure I can work out the steps . And set up a connection that's capable of injecting the code threw the keyboard exploit. I just need help with the scripts.

This exploit could do so much really... besides root. You could use it to delete preload bloat system apps. You could use it to edit the build.prop. you could use it to manually edit the host file. Should be able to run the script that allows read/write permissions over whole device for user.

I'm glad I have had my security updates set to off since the beginning as this has supposedly been fixed and pushed by samsung threw the policy updates
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
Yeah, by automating it, I was thinking more along the lines of building an executable to be run on a computer that contains the necessary MITMproxy program, script for feeding the phone a zip, the actual payload, etc.

And the unique identifiers should only change based on the current version of android and which variant of the phone it is. So if I'm reading it right, the identifiers should all be the same for every G900A running 5.0. Either way, this exploit should be easy enough for most everyone to use, but it'd still be nice to make a program with a nice interface to it.

Yeah, I think with this exploit you could basically have control over just about anything you want, the only hard part would be making a payload for each thing you want to do.

As far as the exploit being fixed by Samsung, I think they have acknowledged the exploit and have "fixed" it, but the patches either haven't been pushed from Samsung to the carriers for distribution or the carriers haven't pushed out the update to fix it yet. According to NowSecure's website,

"As of June 16 2015, this is the known (but not all-inclusive) list of impacted devices by carrier with patch status:

Device |	Carrier* |	Patch Status

Galaxy S6 |	Verizon |	Unpatched

Galaxy S6 |	AT&T |	Unknown

Galaxy S6 |	Sprint |	Unpatched

Galaxy S6 |	T-Mobile |	Unknown

Galaxy S5 |	Verizon |	Unknown

Galaxy S5 |	AT&T |	Unknown

Galaxy S5 |	Sprint |	Unknown

Galaxy S5 |	T-Mobile |	Unpatched

Galaxy S4 |	Verizon |	Unknown

Galaxy S4 |	AT&T |	Unknown

Galaxy S4 |	Sprint |	Unknown

Galaxy S4 |	T-Mobile |	Unknown

Galaxy S4 Mini |	Verizon |	Unknown

Galaxy S4 Mini |	AT&T |	Unpatched

Galaxy S4 Mini |	Sprint |	Unknown

Galaxy S4 Mini |	T-Mobile |	Unknown

"

So I'm fairly certain that there won't be many phones that have the exploit patched (yet), which is definitely a good thing for all of us right now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] adam_ky:
I wish some other people would chime in... surely this intrests more ppl than just you and I.

I'm sure this community can make something workable out of this exploit.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
I really do too. I thought people would be all over this, and this is really the best place to post it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Sapphire999:
Today I had a talk with Samsung IT crew. General reason was wifi leakage on boc3 firmware on Sm-n910c. Also had a talk about keyboard vulnerability. Samsung's IT leading engineer told they know about it and it's on final stage of fixing. So in very short time it's gonna be fixed and no more hacking over keyboard will be available. So this door is finally to close soon(bad part is that also rooting over it will be impossible, but it's nice that Samsung very soon rolls out a fix for it so no more remote injections and rahcking will be possible). So hurry up, doors are closing soon finally. You should contact chainfire, maybe he will help you in rooting that phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
Oh interesting. Did they happen to mention any kind of time frame or just that they were in the final stages?

And I'll try to contact chainfire, but it seems like he hasn't been active on his G+ for a few months.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Sapphire999:
They told it's on final tasting stage. But that about Galaxy Note 4 talk, that we had. Not sure about other models. I simply asked of it since it bad when over wifi my phone can be hacked by some man in a middle. So if you plan still use that keyboard hack, you probably should ban updates to avoid that door closed.

And as they told roll out can happen from day to day. Meant very soon.

I also searched the web, your device should be rootable. If last ota update hack fails, use sammobile and downgrade os to root it and then search rooted custom roms
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
Ah, ok. Thank you for sharing and I'll definitely keep any updates disabled.

And I think there's a problem with downgrading due to the bootloader being locked by AT&T.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Sapphire999:
You're welcome. My device is unlocked likely. Any way guess you can search sammobile. Maybe you will sucess somehow to downgrade.

Loool. I have an idea. If you success hacking keyboard etc, probably you could somehow face ota to downgrade firmware. Hmmm... you know what. There is an option. Not sure if it will work, but still. Try getting custom rom. And boot your phone even with original firmware into recovery mode. Usually volume up + home + power. If it works, you can make restore from zip deploying custom rom.

Maybe it will not work, but you can try. If a bit lucky, you wouldn't need root on current rom. No warranties and it just in theory. Try at your own risk.

---------- Post added at 04:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:22 AM ----------

http://hexamob.com/how-to-root/android-rooting-method-samsung-galaxy-s5/

Doesn't this one work for you?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
No, that way doesn't work and is for a previous version of android, not 5.0. When the G900A is updated to 5.0, the bootloader firmware is updated to patch the exploit that that method uses.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Sapphire999:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dYoDX07Cks

Told any S5 lolipopp running. Unfortunally or likely, I don't know what locked bootloader mean. Never had such. Does it mean that recovery mode and odin mode are unavailable(not launchable)?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] adam_ky:
As of this moment, if a att s5 sm g900a took the ota update to lolipop, there is no means to gain root access.

If you achieve root on kitkat, you can update to lolipop and keep root.. but that's it.

This keyboard exploit is our only possible ray of hope at this moment.

Root may not even be possible with it as it runs with system privilages.. which is actually not the same as root privilages.. however system privilages can do a lot and I got hope for it.

Even if root can't be obtained.. this exploit could be used to do things to the device that we currently cant. Could possibly remove system and preinstalled bloat. It can defiantly install an app as a system app... that should be able to a compliance quite a bit.

The possibilities are endless really.

I am thankful the exploit is there and hope we can acompliwb something with it before everyone gets patched.

I have my security policy updates disabled and I suggest you do the same for the time being if anyone out there is in the same boat as us.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
Couldn't have said it better myself.

Also, I have attempted to contact Chainfire on both of his G+ accounts, so hopefully something can come of that too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Sapphire999:
Hmm if so, just keep it mind not only to disable updates, but to keep away from wifis with internet access. On some conditions auto update setting are ignored, if connected to wifi. Surely depends on exact system and model. But keep it in mind. Well. If you gain system app privilegies, then possibly you get partitions access. That a hope to deploy something like twrp recovery and flash custom rom. Info about soon coming keyboard breach fix I got for GN4 model SEB (Baltic) region. Cann't say anything exact about other models and regions. But generally if Samsung is one step away from rolling it out in Baltic, quite possible other regions coming also soon.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] superp32:
I just got an update and it's a bootloader upgrade from oc4 to I forgot and I suspended the update till I can get some more info . Check and see if you have it .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
From all the information I've gathered, this update does appear to patch the keyboard.

EDIT: I do have an available update too and attached a screenshot.

EDIT 2: I've seen the "Date modified" of the SamsungIME.apk change to one of two dated after taking the small OTA, either 2014-03-25 or 2015-03-16. If the date is the one from 2014, the vulnerability should still be active, but if it's the newer one, it appears to have been patched.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] ssn713:
FYI... I posted the screen shot showing the 2015 update but my phone was already loaded with 5.0/OC4 when I received it from at&t last week and I have not updated to the new bl. Hope some can still benefit from the keyboard vulnerability even if I can't.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] adam_ky:
I have not received a notification about it yet. I have security updates turned off and I have my apn set to use one without fota. That's about all I know to do to try and stop them since you can't stop the att update that runs in the background

I find it funny they are this quick to get a patch out. There had to be something to this if they are already rolling out updates.

Update:

This update seems to address some security flaws like the keyboard. I don't think this update is going to help much of anything except further preventing root.

I'm going to try and hold it at bay and suggest you guys do the same.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] adam_ky:
Come on guys. Let's tear this keyboard vuln thing wide open while we got the chance. I have seen many skilled ppl on here. I'm sure someone can figure it out.

I think I can figure out the mitm part set that up.. I need help with the actual injection and zip to try and push. From that site that detailed the exploit step by step it looks like it would be pretty simple for someone that does this thing regularly.

Come on guys. Someone help us. We need a dev bad!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] paga22:
Help

it's for root the S5 sm-g900a with android 5.0? can you put step by step in another way? because it's too difficult to understand if you are not a programmer.. hope you can do that, i'm wait for this like two months, thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
It's not a fully working root method yet; I'm still trying to develop it. But you are correct, it will be for the s5 g900a on 5.0 as long as everything works.

If I have any success with this exploit, I'll definitely post easier steps to follow.

But at this point, it's not a fully developed root yet, just kind of like a concept for it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] paga22:
Keep going

Great work anyway man..i will wait for it anxiously.. we hope have new good notices from you soon, regards from Argentina.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
Thank you! If I can't find anyone to help me develop this further, I'll start working on it on my own by the end of next week, so keep an eye out for that!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] adam_ky:
I spoke with chainfire about this and he thinks root would not be possible.

Still tho there could be some things we may be able to achieve with the system privilages that would be helpfull
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
Well, that's unfortunate. Either way, I'm going to try to explore what can be done with this exploit.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Sapphire999:
Guess you'd try to hack KIES thing. Cauze it has the right to flash device and try to make some fake update. But thats not easy
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Joehen873:
Guys i have been following this thread since it first opened. I am rooted but would love to help if you guys need it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] adam_ky:
Shoot yea
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] bennyboy78:
What about KingRoot in android software and development? It claims to root s5
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] adam_ky:
I recently gave up. Bought a g900t. Tmobile is the best option in my opinion.. works great and has more bands than the att. Also is only American model with unlocked bootloader. It's essentially the international version with a few tmobile apps.

I will be selling my att s5 but I hope u guys manage to achieve this one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Sapphire999:
Also try secret codes. One of them is service code. Possibly can ublock boot loader and then flash. Not tested, just a suggestion. These codes are call like dialable over call mode.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] BoiBundy:
Sorry if this sounds noobish but I've been reading a whole awful lot about this root situation and why can't we use a pre-rooted Stock.tar if people have G900a and Root? Once again sorry if It sounds noobie
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] adam_ky:
Its just not possible. For us only way would be to downgrade. And that's not possible with the locked bootloader unfortunately. Unless some new method comes about... Its just not possible. That's why I sold my ATT phone and bought a tmobile
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheeDesecrator:
Has there been any update on this? AT&T actually started pushing the update to me while I was out shopping last night. This is an invasive update. It didn't even wait for WiFi. I rarely use WiFi, mostly because I haven't got around to updating my Tasker profile to recognize enough cell towers near my home (that's the only trigger I use to turn WiFi on, and the tower currently on there doesn't seem to register much anymore).

Thanks to everyone who has put a lot of effort looking into this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] enigmarokker:
At&t is fubar

I too would love to know if there's any updates, advice, or any other good info on this issue... I have a stock AT&T Galaxy S5 running G900AUCU4BOF2 and I really need it rooted.

I've factory reset my phone several times and I keep on rapidly losing storage to error logs or I dont know what...I look at my devices storage and under "inaccessible storage" I find 7GB's of crap chewing up my free app space on my local storage! Not cool. Obviously...it must be an app I'm using thats doing this, however I don't have any backup apps on my phone and since I'm not rooted, I can't get into this section of 'invisible'/"inaccessible storage" to see what kind of crap is piling up in there so I can clean it out and figure out the source of my misery.

Praying someone helps to root the AT&T OF2 build now. Thanks in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
No update from me yet. I'm still looking into things. It's been an extremely busy month for me.

I'll be sure to give an update if I find anything useful to work with.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] gigahurts:
kingroot works perfect for me. on oc4 and of2 didn't preroot with towelroot on nce either. can replace kingroot with supersu also. I got all the info from s4 verizon xda general forums. (worked on my s4 verizon 5.0.1 oc1 with locked bootloader too). Muniz is familiar with kingroot too, right bro? Finally lollipop is rooted on my s4(s) and s5. One weird thing is that busybox gets installed too 1.24, and that version isnt available on stericson's busy box 1.23. bootloaders are still locked on my att s5 and verz s4, but at least I have root and can install custom roms via flashfire on both, and ss on the att. got the oc1 bootloader on the verizon s4 and cant use safestrap, oh well. hope this helps somebody.

Follow this:

http://zidroid.com/how-to-get-ride-a...h-supersu-app/

to replace the KingUser app with SuperSU if you want.

This is where I got kingroot:

http://androidxda.com/download-kingroot-application

I used 4.5
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] sakdroid:
I tried with 4.5 Kingroot version from the provided link and on launch of the Kingroot app, I got "Root strategy unavailable"

473 request received...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] lowspeed:
Same :-\
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] akatheworst:
I also go the same error. I submit for research though! has anyone tried any previous versions? And I tried the app version but did anyone try the desktop version? It seems to have worked for him so there has to be a way to get it to work for us. I wonder what he did differently or if his device is different.

EDIT:

Also, has anyone tried flashing an older version first? Maybe 4.x.x then rooting from there and then using flash fire to flash a new rom thats 5.0 based? I just found a site that will let you flash a "pre rooted" 5.0 but you have to be rooted in order to do so.

Here is the link http://www.droidviews.com/install-rooted-lollipop-on-att-galaxy-s5-sm-g900a/
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] TheBadgers:
I don't believe flashing the ROM will work due to the bootloader being locked.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Cave Canem:
I can confirm it does not.

Once Lollipop is on the device, you cannot even flash ATTs stock 4.4.2 back on the S5...

Samsung has a way to do it but they admit they won't...

ATT service center lead tech and managers say they don't even have a way to flash the stock 4.4.2 on the S5 once 5.0 is on.

Finally had to buy a new S5 with 4.4.2 so I can root just to remove the damn update service... and since I'll have root, now kill every ATT piece of bloatware.

XDA Devs, I'm still holding out hope you'll deliver us from ATT's S5 lockdown with lollipop.

[MENTION=3280118]geohot[/MENTION] - if you ever decide selling your soul to Google's terms of service wasn't worth abandoning the XDA cause (freedom!), please use your mad skillz to advise the remaining devs on how to overcome WP for those devices so close to root... (yes, I know you signed papers promising you wouldn't, but still... just an anonymous tip?)