yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herculese911:
Hey Guys,

My Samsung Galaxy S3 is killing me, the problem is the following:

It was working fine one day and the next day, it started giving the error message "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped." along with network and wifi going off and on every 5 to 10 seconds, overheating from the sim card and sd card side, and rapid draining of the battery, i have tried all the solutions i found but nothing worked for my case, so i had to go to the ultimate fix which is to recover factory settings, so i have restarted the phone, done the factory settings, and that solved the problem, the phone started fine, i started installing my apps again, and everything seemed ok, after the battery went dead, i replaced it with a charged one (i have a major problem with my charging port, its damaged beyond repair, so i have 2 batteries, using an external charger) then i started the phone, and the new problem happened, the phone is stuck on samsung logo, naturally i went for the factory reset again, but this time (to my great luck) that did not solve it, and i can see the error " E: failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument)" two times.

i have tried copying the md5 file to the sd card and done "apply update from external storage" but it did'nt help.

could anyone help me solve this problem by using the sd card? because i can not us usb cable to use Odin, or all that stuff

by the way, my phone is stock not rooted, jelly beans 4.3

In a twist of events, i actually managed to repair the charging port at a repair shop, the phone is charging normally and detected by windows, now, i have noticed that both samsung kies and smart switch give the message that my device is unsupported, no idea how, so i started using Odin, i have managed to flash twrp recovery to the phone successfully, tried to root the phone while in this state but no luck, got a stock rom from sammobile and i was successful at flashing it to the phone using Odin, but that did not solve the problem, i still think that the problem is the efs partition, its corrupted somehow, i don't know why, my phone was not rooted and never flashed it with a custom rom to expect such corruption, anyways, now my S3 is not stuck on samsung logo, its now caught in a bootloop, ulternating between samsung logo and the android green gut opened logo, i flashed recovery again with CWM, and now the bootloop is not happening, instead when i power the phone it goes to CWM recovery after samsung logo and stays in recovery, i believe the problem got weirder and weirder, any suggestions? how to fix the efs mounting issue without changing or deleting my IMEI, since my phone is not rooted, i did not have any backup of efs.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mihir571:
HI, I have had a variety of problems with my i9000 and so has pretty much everyone:D

Instead of going down the Odin root and getting mixed up in PIT files, there's a solution which with enough effort can fix almost everything. Use Samsung Kies. The program will restore your phone, no matter what state its in to its factory settings. Mine was so bad it didn't actually have an OS at one point. Once all the drivers are installed and u have connected ur phone, go to tools>emergency firmware recovery and type in the model and serial number. So GT-i9000 and ur serial number. Then put the phone into download mode and then click next and it will fix in about ten minutes. Be patient getting into D/L mode, because it is quite troublesome.

Hope I helped.

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Sorry,after reading, u said u cant use a usb cable. But then how did you copy the file to your sd card. If u cant use a cable at all, like not even at a friends house or something then im sorry. But if you can try what i posted above.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herculese911:
Removing the sd card and using a card reader connected to your pc to put the files over the card is not an issue, but the phone's charging port which doubles as data connection is damaged and can't by changed because its motherboard point of connection is damaged by a stupid technician, so any solution to my problem (other than changing the whole board) would have to include the sd card to get thedata to the phone
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mihir571:
If the phone is in such condition I would try and get it professionally repaired or get a new one. Butttt, because that's not how we do thing at XDA :D, i would suggest seeing if you could find a flashable file that consists of either stock firmware or a ROM u know is stable. For the S3 GT-i9300 i would suggest any of the ones in development on XDA, most worked for me, or a touchwiz based one thats stable. I think that might help. Also, try rooting it, if possible, and check the efs folder (i think it requires root to access) Check if files look corrupted or are missing compared to what they should be (google this)

Also, just checked, this might be what ur looking for:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/how-to-fix-efailed-to-mount-efs-invalid-t2858056
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herculese911:
Thank you for your reply, but you keep forgetting the dark and gloomy fact that the phone won't start cannot be connected to pc, so rooting the phone is not possible, and correct me if I'm wrong, flashing the rom needs pc as well, I'm guessing if i can restore the efs folder with a stock one that should solve it, but is it possible to navigate to that folder in recovery mode?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharvinzlife:
Could any developer please make a custom Rom for Samsung Galaxy J7 will be deeply appreciated ! Please find our device specs below !

Thanks in advance !
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prudra:
multiple custom ROMs

Hi,

There are more than one custom ROMs in the developer forums here. You could use forum search or Google. I'm using OptiROM myself for now.

Hopper this helps.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] AlexPi:
Just want to give everyone a heads up, when attempting to apply OTA updates to my Nexus 7 2013, I was getting the error: "Not enough free space on /system to apply patches". The error was showing up in the recovery log and I was really confused. I tried reflashing various versions, but still all OTA updates would fail with the same error.

TL;DR: Turns out it was the cache, read on for the fix.

I found the following in the OTA update script:

"apply_patch_space(56661556) || abort("Not enough free space on /system to apply patches.");"

So I assumed that I should have at least 56 MB free in "/system"

Doing df would show this:

f:\AndroidADT\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 903.4M 56.0K 903.3M 4096
/sys/fs/cgroup 903.4M 12.0K 903.4M 4096
/mnt 903.4M 0.0K 903.4M 4096
/system 827.8M 819.5M [B]8.3M[/B] 4096
/cache 31.5M 4.2M 27.3M 4096
/data 26.4G 7.9G 18.5G 4096
/persist 14.5M 4.2M 10.2M 4096
/storage 903.4M 0.0K 903.4M 4096
/mnt/runtime/default/emulated: Permission denied
/storage/emulated 26.4G 7.9G 18.5G 4096
/mnt/runtime/read/emulated: Permission denied
/mnt/runtime/write/emulated: Permission denied

I didn't, and I couldn't figure out why.

The answer was, after much searching, is that the error message is wrong.

I found this here (ok, so I can't post links, just Google for "edify_generator.py")

def CacheFreeSpaceCheck(self, amount):
"""Check that there's at least 'amount' space that can be made
available on [B]/cache[/B]."""
self.script.append(('apply_patch_space(%d) || abort("Not enough free space '
'on [B]/system[/B] to apply patches.");') % (amount,))

Notice that the comment talks about /cache, while the error is showing /system.

Turns out my /cache was formatted incorrectly. All I had to do was reboot into the bootloader and then format the cache.

adb reboot bootloader
...wait for bootloader to start...
fastboot format cache

I just wanted to post this somewhere because I've been Googling for a while now and I've seen others get this error with no solution.

Oh, and the reason why it got into this messed up state is because I did:

fastboot flash cache cache.img

This was using the official images from Google. So don't ever do that ;)
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] khaytsus:
When you say cache was formatted "incorrectly", had you converted it to f2fs or something?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] tiazek:
Thank you very much AlexPi, I can finally receive OTAs and avoid the hassle of flashing a new image, specially now that they are releasing more images with minor bug fixes for the same Android version (there are now 3 images for 6.0.0). I had one OTA of only 2 MB in size and I didn't want to flash a new image just because of this minor change.

I just enter (stock) recovery mode and selected "wipe cache" and it worked just fine after that, so it wasn't even necessary any USB data cable to execute adb and fastboot commands.

By the way, the error message was indeed wrong and it was already fixed.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] msgfromside3:
Thanks. I also flashed the cache partition because I remember that it was effectively the same as wiping the cache. I guess that is not correct.
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axel4401:
Hello XDA,

I'm trying to research flashing 5.1.1 and a custom ROM on my Edge G925A. There are seriously a ton of threads out there and I am not sure which threads to look at.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Currently on a safestrap (I think) rooted

Model: G925A version 5.0.2

Baseband: AOE2

Build: 1AOE2

Which ROMs will be compatible and which wont? What should I watch out for?

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Thank you
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gibmonkeys:
Loving my Zuk, or was. I set up the screen lock for fingerprint sensor and it was working great. Recognises my thumb first time every time. Now though I can unlock with just a normal swipe. It doesn't even demand the backup pin number. I went back into settings and it still had the fingerprint setup as the screen lock so I removed it and set it up again and hey presto i was back in action but only for about 10 minutes and it went back to no security at all.

There were 4 small OTA updates today so I am guessing one of these has messed it up. Each update didn't say what it was for

Has anybody else had this issue?
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 267841:
Is working well for me.

Have you added other smartlock event (wifi, location, ecc) that can interfere with the lockscreen and disable it?
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gibmonkeys:
My MOTO 360 is in smartlock as a trusted device, don't fully understand what smartlock is to be honest. If I remove it would it affect anything?
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 267841:
Of course!

I have also a smartwatch (LG Urbane) and the watch as a trusted device. When the smartwatch is connected to the phone the lockscreen is always DEACTIVE, even if you have configured a lock screen (PIN, pattern and or fingerprint)

Power off your watch (or set if in airplane mode) to check if lockscreen turns on in the phone ;)
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gibmonkeys:
I have just removed my 360 as a trusted device and the screen lock now works perfectly and so I now understand how this works. Many thanks for the advice. I can now stop worrying that I have a faulty device!
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kisgyb:
I am facing as well to a lockscreen and fingerprint issue.

I used fingerprint to open lockscreen and pattern as secondary. After showing the ZUK to somebody I needed to modify the pattern. From that time I am unable to switch back to fingerprint. Only three opportunities what I have, and no swipe or fingerprint, due to "Disabled by administrator, encryption policy or credential storage". What accessibility service messes up the fingerprint usage? Do you guys have an idea? All of them are swiched off.

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My problem is solved. I needed to delete credentials in security settings.
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cmdragan:
Hi. I'm having some problems with the fingerprint sensor. Is working intermitent or not. I've asked zuk support already but no answer yet. I don't know if it's a software issue or hardware. It's any way to calibrate the sensor? Maybe it's decalibrated? Any help will be usefull. Thank you.

LE I already made a factory reset. No improvement.
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 267841:
I'm using the Zuk since a month, and no problems with the fingerprint at all.

In any occasions, the fingerprint sensor don't detects the finger the first time but at second try.

Since a few days, I'm on CyanogenMod (instead of Cyanogen OS) and I think the sensor is less responsive (sometimes I need to try three times or use the lock pattern).

But if you are with issues using CyanogenOS I think is due to a hardware issue.
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sadrettin:
I can not use the fingerprints touch button as back button anymore. this happened after last update cynogenmod. any knowledge.

thanks.
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 267841:
Fingerprint actions has been removed by CM a few OTA updates ago.

I hope a kernel developer will add soon, but ZUK has not too much developers :(
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrColdbird:
Modded kernel for COS can be found in the other topic about this issue.

The OnePlus 2 sources happen to have a compatible finger print driver with capacitive button support which is currently being checked out for porting to the Chroma kernel.

So don't fret.. The feature can be restored. :)
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhi_tupe:
iam not able to use my fingerprint lock, it was working well before but now suddenly it is not showing the option in CHOSE LOCK SCREEN- the SWIPE an d FINGER PRINT OPTION IS DISABLED.

how to enable it
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajaysharma:
Thanks ... I had the same issue & delete credentials in security settings.
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shabberbhai:
I bought zuk z1 3days ago

Why We cannot use fingerprint sensor to lock and unlock the device for both purposes
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Japheth:
Having an issue with the fingerprint sensor.....

Works fine but when push notifications(any notifications**) show up on the lock screen ..the sensor gets non responsive...mind u almost impossible to unlock

Have no choice other than security pin

And I Definitely think this is result of All IN ONE Issue

Say like.....1)fingerprint sensor integrated into hone Button, 2)Faulty software patching, 3) Me, adding two or more fingerprints

Any Suggestions from u guys Feels helpful

BTW....Bought the product via Amazon.in
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @infistuff:
Is there a provision in the ZUK Z1 which let's you interact with the device by simply tapping on the fingerprint sensor except on the lock screen?

If the device is locked and the screen is off too, simply placing my hand on the fingerprint sensor doesn't work. I always have to press on the button to wake the screen first.

Any help?
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XShocker22:
May sb tell me the modell of the finger print reader of the ZUK Z1? Pls. use AIDA64.

Gesendet von meinem Aquaris X5 Plus mit Tapatalk
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strongst:
That's part the of custom roms. Fingerprint as home button can be activated by flashing something, you need root. But in the play store you can try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ztc1997.fingerprint2sleep

But it's not that what you need. Without root and a kernel where its implemented its not possible.
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Briji:
Hey my fingerprint was working fine till one day it just started vibrating when I tried to scan it. I tried deleting the saved fingerprints and registered new. I'm not even Able to register new fingerprints. What do I do?
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strongst:
See here

http://xdaforums.com/zuk-z1/help/fingerprint-stopped-t3290228

there's little

http://xdaforums.com/zuk-z1/help/fingerprint-stopped-t3290228/post68115918

to nothing you can do
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avi.lodha:
I haven't added any smart lock BT still the problem persist from last 2days it foes not even recognise it it dirctly opens when I press the lock button or home button
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jeanguillemont:
Hi,

I had the same issue, and nothing helped, si i thought it was an hardware issue. Before sending back your zuk to guarantee, try to install the tesla ROM, I just installed it and my fingerprint sensor came back to life.

I might not be the right solution for every case, but it's worth to try. Hope it wiil help

Sorry for the english if there is some mistakes.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] rgib:
Official cm-13.0 for Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 GT-N51xx

# odin

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2711451

# recovery

https://twrp.me/devices/samsunggalaxynote80.html

# rom

https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=n5100

https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=n5110

https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=n5120

# gapps

http://opengapps.org/

XDA:DevDB Information

[ROM] Official cm-13.0 for GT-N51xx, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0

Contributors

rgib

Source Code: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_samsung_smdk4412/tree/cm-13.0

ROM OS Version: 6.0.x Marshmallow

Version Information

Status: Stable

Created 2015-10-27

Last Updated 2016-12-28
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] @BB:
OMG! May go back to using my Note 8 instead of this Tab A I bought. Total lack of developers for that one!
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] Stillness:
Marshmallow (Dragon Fruit)

:good: Wonderful news! Thank you @rgib (good work on CM 12.1 too).

I love this tablet (GT-N5100), and now a Marshmallow (or a Dragon Fruit :p) for it. We also need that great Boeffla-Kernel from @ZaneZam for this one too. Otherwise, it would be like a body without a head!

Developer support for this tablet has been very good.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] pintek:
Willing to test for ya

N5110

Got working multiboot go between cm12.1 an TW 4.4
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] kzintz:
Great news .. you are our hero!

N5100 here ....
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] redukt:
Hey rgib, great news mate! :)
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] fraydz:
great ! one more 5110 tester for you rgib.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] [zozi]:
Thanks rgib, i hope test soon!

Enviado do meu GT-I9300 através de Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] rgib:
Update 29-10-2015
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] [zozi]:
Broken:

Any GApps package

So we dont have playstore yet?
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] pintek:
awesome work looking forward to when n5110 version comes out so I can test.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] Martins2759:
I need to try the ROM first, but given how much I want Marshmallow, I if he ROM is daily driver material I'll definitely donate to you! :)
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] rgib:
Added fixed GAPPS package (NO FCs)
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] [zozi]:
[MENTION=6171753]rgib[/MENTION] the last update is only for n5100? Or will work on 5110?

Enviado do meu GT-N5110 através de Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] Martins2759:
Nice :) I'll give the ROM a try in a few days :)

What does it take for nightlies to become official? Could you do a quick ELI5 on this?
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] rgib:
Uploaded CM-13.0 N5110-WIFI version
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] pintek:
N5110 not sure if its boot looping or not but not able to get adb logcat while its trying to boot form clean install just keeps showing the boot screen after a little over 30 minutes nothing
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] lcoff:
Having the same issue on a clean install.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] rgib:
Uploaded new version for N5110 WIFI 30-10-2015
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] Lord David III.:
Thanks, this rom is bootable for me
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] rmein:
Not all apps can access the external SD card.

Using CM file manager, SD card files appear at /mnt/media_rw/7205-1BE0/

Using ES file explorer or Titanium Backup, /mnt/media_rw appears to be a 0B file with -rw permissions not a directory.

If you enable root explorer in ES file explorer, then you can then access the directory, but there seems to be no way to get TiBu to do that.

There is also a directory at /storage/7205-1BE0 that appears to be empty, I don't know if this is anything to do with the problem.

I am running 140116 build on N5110
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] rgib:
Install latest recovery

TWRP 3.0.0

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=31895
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] xdaCyborg:
screenshots please
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] fraydz:
what for ? it's CM. Screenshots for this specific rom are useless.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] lyrelai:
Just curious if anybody has the same thing about TWRP screen orientation on both both older and this version. When I put my note 8 in landscape and have the home button on the right, TWRP screen always displays screen upside down. Since I put my note 8 in a Zagg clamshell keyboard, each time booting to TWRP, I will have to reverse my whole note 8+ keyyboard setup upside down in order to operate TWRP. Not a big deal. Just curious if there is anyway to fix it.

Thanks,

Lyre
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] TibReg:
Great job - my experience with encrypted device

rgib, thank you very much for keeping my trustworthy Note 8 alive even now with Marshmallow!!!

So far I am not running into unusual problems. Bluetooth and screen flickering are the most annoying ones.

To get my Note 8 encrypted I needed to do some manual tweaking of the data partition to allow space for the encryption key and a successful encryption.

Based on the following discussion "cyanogen-121-encryption-setup-does-not-finish" (I am not yet allowed to post links, so DuckDuckGo is your friend) I did the following steps before encrypting the device:

Use USB Debugging in e.g. Linux:

Enter into the shell: "adb shell"

Find your data partition and the size of your partition "cat /proc/partitions". The result was "179 12 10518528 mmcblk0p12". A you see I own a 16GB Note.

Unmout your data and sdcard partition: "umount /data" and "umount /sdcard"

Get block count "tune2fs -l /dev/block/mmcblk0p12"

Check file system "e2fsck -f -p /dev/block/mmcblk0p12" and correct where necessary

Resize your partition "resize2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 10518520" (you should minimum subtract 8 blocks, if it does not work, try with more)

Recheck file system "e2fsck -f -p /dev/block/mmcblk0p12" and correct where necessary

Exit and reboot

I now installed TRWP 3.0, but at the time of the encryption I was still using the 2.8.7 version.

Looking forward for an update and a fix of the Bluetooth problems :)
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] rgib:
Using the original cover I had to rotate the recovery
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] BBBlessed:
Yes this happens for me as well no biggie but it happens
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] princedevilin:
Great work rgib
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Android Development] TibReg:
CM13 Not Reporting Correct Wifi MAC Address

This may not be your fault. I did not have the problem with CM 12.1 but also with CM13. If you search for that topic you will find this reported also for other devices. CM 13 seems to mess around with your /efs/wifi/.mac.info file. You could edit the file with an editor, but be careful with the efs folder. Messing around here can also make your 3G stop working, etc.!

rgib, could it be, that the changes at the efs folder may be one reason for the Bluetooth problems?

By the way, 3G on my 5100 is working fine and I am able to also download files.

Still a “Junior Member” and not able to upload any files ;)