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[Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 Q&A, Help & Trouble] AndyYan:
The "XX" is a region code (stands for some regions in Europe). IMO, the only thing matters is the last 3 digits of the build which shows the build date.

Also, as long as you don't care about Knox and warranty, isn't rooting Samsung stuff as simple as flashing a recovery via Odin and flashing SuperSU from there?

Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM12.1

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[Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 Q&A, Help & Trouble] TheHemogoblin:
Region code or the like was my suspicion, thanks for clarifying :)

Regarding the simplicity of rooting a Samsung device, I've never rooted a device of any kind before but from what I can tell - if following a tutorial - it does seem pretty simple. Also, I'm pretty certain my warranty has expired, so that and KNOX is of no concern.

Otherwise, because I'm new to the process of rooting, I want to make sure I'm on the right page, so to speak. If I can gather as much basic information about it as I can, and understand the context of that information, then I hopefully won't make an otherwise avoidable mistake. The build number compatibility was a little fuzzy to me.

Basically, I just need to make certain that whatever I use to root it is compatible with my tablet's build. From what I've gathered, that is one thing I should be certain of before beginning. That said, if yourself or anyone else can point me to something compatible with build KOT49H.T520UEUANI1, that would be be super helpful.

Also, thank you for taking the time to reply!

-T
[Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 Q&A, Help & Trouble] AndyYan:
I don't think you need to care that much about build number. Grab a custom recovery (latest TWRP recommended) for your device, flash it with Odin, and flash latest SuperSU package from it (it has almost universal compatibility).

Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM12.1

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[General Questions and Answers] jmlape:
I am going to be selling my rooted Nexus 6. My question is this. If I flash a new rom and do not set it all up then do a backup of it. If I delete all my previous backups and install the new rom will that be enough to get rid of my personal information? Any advice would greatly be appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] GrobenKonig:
You should be okay with flashing a new ROM. Realistically the chances of selling to someone who's going to go out of their way to find your information with an unlikely outcome of making profit - is very very unlikely.
[General Questions and Answers] Mysterion1:
If do did not left any personal files in system folders you're good to go.
[Sony Xperia L] iyurcic95:
Hi, I changed my old Xperia L for an Moto G, and I want to set a ringtone in Moto G that is in the Xperia L. Where are located the ringtones files on the Xperia L? I want to transfer it to the Moto G. Or if someone have it, I'm looking for the ringtone "Opal"

Thanks!
[Sony Xperia L] DastanShaikh:
Here u Go...

/System/media/audio/ringtones
[Sony Xperia L] sandybis:
Thanks :)

Thanks for this :)
[Sony Xperia L] DastanShaikh:
No need to write just press the Thanks :good: button ;)
[Galaxy S6 Themes and Apps] Roman5:
Hi guys. This might be a long shot and not doable, but thought I'd enquire.

Is there a way to add my own smileys/images/gifs so that they're integrated with all the the default ones and can be added to text, rather than attaching from the gallery?

Thought I'd experiment. I just downloaded the latest apk for whatsapp , 'com.whatsapp-212158.apk' to my laptop, renamed it to com.whatsapp-212158.zip and opened it. Inside the zip folder are thousands of .png files, and all the smileys are 48 x 48. When I then extracted the contents of the zip folder to another folder, the smileys are in a sub folder called drawable-hdpi-v4. Could I simply resize and add my own .png files, rename the folder to com.whatsapp-212158.apk, and install? Would it work?

Even if it did, every time I wanted to add new smileys, I presume I'd always have to work with the apk and reinstall on the phone, or is there a whatsapp file already installed on the phone that could be edited? Only files I see on the phone are three different msgstore.db.crypt8 files in the whatsapp database folder.

Thanks.

PS, I'm not rooted and it just ocurred to me that I'm probably going to be told that I'll need to be rooted to access any editable whatsapp emoticon folder?
[Galaxy S6 Themes and Apps] JusTeN_:
What will it give you? Others will not be able to see it I guess.
[Galaxy S6 Themes and Apps] Roman5:
I don't know, you might be right. Why might they not see it?
[Galaxy S6 Themes and Apps] vicino:
Because they have to do the same thing, for example if you change a (smile) (img15) and replace it with (wink) they will still receive it as a code (img15) and the application will transfer it to the original image .. a smile :D
[Galaxy S6 Themes and Apps] Roman5:
You're right. But I'm not intending to change existing smileys , my intention is to add new ones which will have a new name ending in .png.

eg, xxx.png. Even though recipients won't have it to use themselves, they should be able to see it I imagine?
[Galaxy S6 Themes and Apps] vicino:
How can they see it if they don't have it?

When you send emoji using for example whatsapp you send a code not image and the application translate it.
[Galaxy S6 Themes and Apps] Roman5:
Ah. In that case, I guess it won't work. Thanks for the help. :good:
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmedsaber20005:
hi

i have android 5 in my Galaxy S5. So i want to like this

i found an a Xposed tool do this but as all know Xposed is not working well with android 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzW6kmazC3k

also i see floating app in this rom and i try it with my old s4 working without Xposed

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4/i9500-develop/aurora-note-4-port-beta-2-t2988026
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rourion:
I've compiled a Nexus 6 kernel from the msm source switching to the appropriate commit found in my Kernel Version string (eec2459). However, when I create a boot.img (using Pete Batard's bootimg-tools) with that modified kernel I get the following error:

android@ubuntu:~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$ ./fastboot boot myboot3.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 1.219s]
booting...
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 1.282s

My bootloader is unlocked and I have been able to fastboot boot with the factory boot.img. Is it because my boot.img is unsigned? I thought unlocking the bootloader would allow that.

Device Info: Nexus 6, Android 5.1.1, Build number LMY47Z
[Off-topic] CameoTabby:
I don't get it. Why so many people want to make their WM phones looks like iPhone?

When directly compare WM phones and iPhone (let's leave Linux, Symbian, Palm and Blackberry out of this for now), the majority of serious Smart Phone/ PDA Phone users out there would say WM is better, can do more. So, what is the idea of making WM phones look and act like iPhone. Don't get me wrong, All the developers in this forum making software such as Slide2Unlock and iContact are great, they have proved the superiority of WM phone.

I like my WM phone, it is great. And, I will never make it looks like iPhone. For you people want to make your WM looks like iPhone, why don't you just go get an iPhone and stop make people say WM phone is poor men's alternative to iPhone. I'd say iPhone is the dumb people's alternative to WM phone.
[Off-topic] deviusdragger:
That is very true. the iphone is the dumb people phone, but it is still a very very neat phone. I will eventually end up getting one just because of the wow and neat factor. One thing also is that it is good that apple released a phone like this because now a benchmark is set and i know over time htc will exceed that mark with great products. I love my pocket pc's and will not give it up for an iphone. But we must also admit that it is a neat phone to mess around with.
[Off-topic] urmelchen:
You are absolutly right. I don't understand them too, and i love my Windows Mobile phone and my usefull today screen. Its funny to read that, because yesterday i wrote an blog-entry about that ;-)
[Off-topic] decknologist:
I tend to agree. Apple have got great marketing though - You cannot deny them that. It's shiny, got whistles and bells and i-tunes. Of course people are going to buy it.

I'll stick with my wm device though. Sure I have to overclock the little sucker to get it to operate at a reasonable pace, but I can do with it as I please. I've learnt a lot about my device, software, registry etc . . . How are you gonna get that experience from an i_phone?? (it depends what you want out of a phone i suppose)

I think it may well be like the first time I got my hands on a N95. I was going to get one. . . . then ten minutes later the novelty had worn off (and the battery was pretty worn out too;) and I resigned myself to the fact that I like my wm5.

I think the i_phone craze is here for now, but a few months after launch here (and Europe) and the honeymoon period will be over and it will just be the latest phone, only to be shortly superceded by the 'next big thing'.

Respect to the people making some of the apps that appear on the i_phone OS and sorting them for wm use. That gives our community even more potential for their devices. Without the developers our wm devices would be no better than all the other phones out there.

i_phone, love it or hate it, you can't deny it's going to eclipse all other mobile releases for some time.

(I think I am going to go and dig out my old 5110, that'll show them in the office tomorrow!)

Rant over.
[Off-topic] lynxxx:
I disagree.

It's not for many people a matter of good or bad design, it's a competition.

How perfect can we simulate iPhone-Apps, how perfect can we design the UI.

That are the interesting things for many of us.

The same story as Windows Vista arrived. How many of us had before "green gras" as TodayScreen, because it's so beautiful? ;)

No, it's a battle of ideas, a competition. For many users...
[Off-topic] Saaduk:
which is more towards status symbol

iphone or Jasjam?
[Off-topic] NxJay:
Because we all know that WM phones are FAR superior in terms of tech specs and features to the iphone, but are inferior in terms of an interface/eye candy.

So we want the best of both worlds. An iPhone interface on a powerful WM phone.

Is that really such a bad thing?
[Off-topic] Rudegar:
"iphone or Jasjam?"

dont think status symbols are that general

i mean if you ask really rich people

something like this

http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2007/06/gold_and_diamon.html

would be a status symbol

if you ask a evil genius a vulcano island with henchmen in stick spandex uniforms maybe more soo

if pda nut Jasjam

if your a fasion statement phone user maybe iphone..

:P
[Off-topic] _Pumba_:
There's only one reason iPhone is so popular: marketing. iPhone even has been an item on the the 8o clock news on television (netherlands). Was HTC's P3300 on the news? NO, but it can do 10x more things than the iphone can! It has GPS, word, push email etc. etc.

Publicity makes publicity: the iphone is so populair because it is so populair. In short: this is a hype. Just like the iPod is a hype. Before there was the iPod, there were dozens of MP3 players who could all the things the iPod could do years later. Many people THINK the iPod is something special and can do things no other device can do: for example, the term 'Podcasting'. The 'Pod' suggests it can only can be done on a iPod, so n00bs buy a iPod to play podcasts.

It's just marketing that does the trick, the more people talk about it, the more people want it.

Nonetheless, the iPhone looks very good. The build quality is very good and the device is easy to understand. And important: its stable. WM5 isn't very stable and difficult to operate. My sister who's 23 isn't able to use my phone, too complicated she says :) wm5 is for (semi)nerds ;)
[Off-topic] Saaduk:
thanks Rudegar

nice website
[Off-topic] CameoTabby:
iPhone interface is not superior at all. There are tons launcher apps, today plug-ins for WM out there that can do much better, and many of them are freewares. What I don't get is that most people putting iPhone look alike interface on their WM phones for a simple reason: making other think they have iPhones. I really feel sorry for those people.

I always think WM phones users are intelligent people, but many among us are doing dumb thing to degrade oneself.

Yesterday was a very good day for me. A couple co-workers were showing off their brand new iPhones. After making comparisons to my 8-month-old WM phone. They became the joke of the office and one actually returned the iPhone back and placed an order for a WM phone.
[Off-topic] starkruzr:
The fun thing is that the only way your average WM device has better specs than the iPhone is that many of them support 3G now.

The iPhone has a 614MHz processor and some serious video horsepower as well. The limitations of the iPhone lie almost wholly in the virtual keyboard and the 3rd-party dev lockout -- both of which are artifacts of software.
[Off-topic] starkruzr:
It's not necessarily that people want to make their WM phone look like an iPhone, but more that there is a real desire for a fingertip interface for WM devices.
[Off-topic] bowlopho:
iphone is glossy. It catches the eye. It has a fun UI to play with. WM is more customizable. Alot more programs to use and have fun with. But seriously, which UI seems more fun to play with? I want to just play with an IPhone for a few days. I know after day 2 or 3, than I would care less what phone I have. Just like my MDA. Why else do I keep reflashing and resetting it up? so I don't get bored of it. LOL!
[Off-topic] PPCNUT:
I think the iPhone has got a fancy interface but it hasn't got the features of WM and it has got a real cool factor but in useability it is WM every time.
[Off-topic] Rudegar:
imho then

wm vs. iphone

is much like

pc vs. console

1 is very spc'd to do what it was made to do

and not possible to customize much

it's fancy and makes people look and works out of the box

the other is very customizeable and got piles of software

one can make ones own software jack of all trades master of non

support addon hardware and is allways revolving

got a steeper learning curve and can scare n00bs away

imho it's a pretty fair comparison :P
[Off-topic] prasys:
Reminds me of those pity skinners that love to skin their Winblows machine as a mac (which looks f*gly anyway).

I have to agree with the thread starter. There is no point making your phone look an iPhone. Trust me , it sucks and its a waste of resources and time (It hogs up the System RAM). So for me , I'll stick with the current WM UI (Although I f***ing hate WM ..don't get me wrong guys...But I have no choice but to go with WM Devices as Palm is still left behind in the 20th Century world and Symbian isn't a OS at all [Its a joke])

When you come and think about it , sure WM devices beats hands off. But then will you get the cool X-factor (that is the superb UI and design + the OS of the iPhone - no)

Summary :-

If you want a True Smartphone/PDA Phone - WM Device

If you want a fashion gadget + MP3 Player - iPhone

If you want a phone - Nokia 3310
[Off-topic] Marcos200:
wm5 ..the one...& iPhone..

eii

i´m a wm lover, and you now why?? just because y can look to iphone and say,,,,ei man, this application is soo good, the work in iphone is in another direction..more user friendly play groud intertainement...and you ask!! soo..why do you like wm...just simple..because if i like some application on wm...i just install them on my wm5 device...and unisntall if i need...that´s simple..soo simple...wm5 is the one...iphone is very good job...soo if i ant ...just install..he..he...is a small part os wm5:)
[Off-topic] tomazez:
i totally agree with you, another comparison:

i have a creative zen vision m, all my friends ask me why not buy a ipod and sometimes they make comparision jokes about my mp4 player. But this creative vision has far more specs, it has customized menus and a far more beautiful screen, the only thing it hasnt is the scroll wheel, but who cares.

As Pumba here just said its what people know, they will buy, i bet that after the launch of the iphone there will be many people who never heard about WM but of the iphone yes!

I like the iphone only for its design, im only 16 so im still into all that fashion stuff, so i try to get my WM as sexy as the iphone, enough said?

thank you
[Off-topic] devis:
Ok I've had it with the iCrap... really...

http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Apples_iPhone_Tops_All_Other_Smart_Phones_in_the_US_08310.html

"Apple’s iPhone Tops All Other Smart Phones in the US" seems to be the title of this article. Granted, a filler article, but how much longer are we going to endure the stupidity of these reports? And can someone tell me what exactly makes the iCrap a smartphone?
[Off-topic] dream2006:
no u can put it in garbish
[Off-topic] g35driver:
LOL @ the people who bought the iphone and the price drop that is coming!!!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rom1nux:
Hello,

For a personal project a write a simple tools to unpack/repack boot.img, recovery.img and logo.bin of Mediatek cpu based devices named MTKIMG. MTK add specific header on each blocs in image so common tools could not unpack/repack properly. Also every tools i found do not correspond to my need.

Here is the the MTKIMG characteristics :

Write in C, open-source.

Portable : Linux, Cygwin, Windows (MAC is currently under port).

Only one executable for unpack/repack.

Support unpack/repack boot.img and recovery.img.

Support unpack/repack logo.bin

Keep the original image size at repack time.

Handle kernel and ramdisk with or without MTK header.

Automatic ramdisk decompression.

Option to keep or remove MTK headers.

Check for valid "ARM Linux zImage" kernel.

Check for valid "GZIP" ramdisk.

Check for overflow if kernel or ramdisk is too big at repack time.

Option to set compression rate for ramdisk.

Easy to use, all parameters are defaulted.

Easy to build on every platform.

Got simple test-suite.

Documentation available.

Version :

Status : Bêta

Version : 0.44

Update : 2015/07/20

Source code :

https://github.com/rom1nux/mtkimg

Releases (Linux, Cygwin, Windows) :

https://github.com/rom1nux/mtkimg/tree/master/releases

OSX version are currently under port (Please, thanks sambwel)

Hope this help (Sorry for my bad english)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
Hi

Did you used anything from [MENTION=5186178]carliv[/MENTION] or [MENTION=455439]bgcngm[/MENTION] projects ( source / binarys ) ?

Or is this a full new project?

Since you didn't added any source link,,, (github / bitbucket ?)

cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rom1nux:
Hello superdragonpt,

MTKIMG is write in C from scratch. I do not use anything other than "find", "gzip" and "cpio" utilities.

I know bgcngm's pearl scripts (mtk-tools) but it does not fit my needs.

I dont know carliv's bash scripts , i dont know if it support MTK header bloc.

Yes it's a full new project, It's write MTKIMG for my need first, but i told myself that it could help other.

If MTKIMG got interests i probably create git repo.

Thanks for your remarks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
Thanks for answering ;)

I have some MTK devices here, i'll test this tool Compatibility across the Mtk SoC's i own.

Keep it up

Cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rom1nux:
Good news :) !

For information i put source code under GPL3 license and i create a dedicated GiHub repository as you suggest : https://github.com/rom1nux/mtkimg

Feel free to come to help ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] m@nish123:
Good Work Mate :)....looking forward to it

edit : any 32 bit system tool ??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rom1nux:
Hello m@nish123,

Thank for your interest.

I got only 64bits OS but i can install Cygwin32 and VirtualBox 32 bits OS if needed but it's very easy to build.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rom1nux:
Hello,

I test MTKIMG and it work well, but now i search information about MTK logo partition format, i see the MTK header on it but dont know how to parse images.

More preciselly i want to know information about header of the logo partition (like size of image, etc...) the header after the MTK header.

Did you have this kind of information ?

Thank in advance
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rom1nux:
Hello,

I find some information about logo.bin image :

- The first 512 bytes are the MTK header Magic (0x88168858) + Size + "LOGO"

- After, i found logo partition header is formated like :

Offset (B) | Size (B) | Description
--------------------------------------------------------
0 | 4 | Logos count
4 | 4 | Size of bloc (=MTK header image size)
8 | 4 | Logo_0 offset
12 | 4 | Logo_1 offset
8+(n*4) | 4 | Logo_n offset
... | ... | ?
--------------------------------------------------------
Logo_0 offset | Logo_1-Logo_0 offset | Logo_0 gzip content
Logo_1 offset | Logo_2-Logo_3 offset | Logo_1 gzip content
... | ... | Logo_n gzip content
--------------------------------------------------------

I dont know how to find the size of each logo, did you have this information ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sambwel:
This looks great. I would love to be able to run this on my Mac. I don't think it should be hard to get it working but I'm not familiar with C so I don't know what to change to make it build. Let me know what I can do to help!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rom1nux:
Hello sambwel,

Happy to read this

You only need "gcc" and "make" for instance (i found this on the web) :

Be sure gcc and make are in your PATH environment variable, and after, open a terminal on your MAC in the source folder and hit command :

make

If you get "Unsupported platform" message it's a good news, i'm going to do minor correction to the source code for this error after lunch. (Put your building log here if you want)

Thanks for your help
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sambwel:
No worries mate, familiar with linux and building things from source, just not familiar with C code :) Here's the output when I try make:

sambwel:mtkimg sambwel$ make
MTKIMG LINUX MAKE by rom1nux
Create directory build ...
Building C file build/info.o ...
gcc -c -Wall src/info.c -o build/info.o
In file included from src/info.h:34,
from src/info.c:24:
src/main.h:51:3: warning: #warning "Unsupported platform !"
Building C file build/main.o ...
gcc -c -Wall src/main.c -o build/main.o
In file included from src/main.c:24:
src/main.h:51:3: warning: #warning "Unsupported platform !"
src/main.c: In function ‘main’:
src/main.c:54: error: ‘APP_PLATFORM’ undeclared (first use in this function)
src/main.c:54: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
src/main.c:54: error: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [build/main.o] Error 1
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rom1nux:
Hello sambwel

Cool, good new, I know nothing about MAC :)

OK, i'm going to add MAC platform specifics to main.h this afternoon (I have not been able to do yesterday, sorry).

I tell you when i the modification is done.

Thanks a lot for your help
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
Good

But for those SoC, we use the inbuilt tool.

(not for general public)

So yours and this one, is always good alternative

cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rom1nux:
Hello

Yes good alternative, i take look when i can, but HypoTurtle you should probably create a dedicated thread for your tools.