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[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cb474:
Noise cancellation is not a feature of Android, it's part of the electronics of the phone itself.

The 6P probalby uses Qualcomm's Fluence noise cancellation, which is built into Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipsets. Other phones have a separate chip for noise cancellation, like in the Nexus One, which used the Audience chip (now called Earsmart)--Audience is much superior to Fluence, but people are using it less and less (probably to avoid licensing feeds). The Nexus 6 uses Motorola's Crystal Talk (also better than Fluence). In any case, active noise cancellation is a hardware feature and has nothing to do with Android per se. Even Apple once used the Audience chip (in the iPhone 4)--now Apple uses it's own in-house and very much inferior solution (being cheap is universal).

In any case, the 6P has three microphones, two of which are used for noise cancellation. One of them is clearly right below the camera hump, on the back. You can easily see the hole. If you block that hole, you probably can cause problems with how the microphones are supposed to work in conjunction with each other. Given that holding the phone between your shoulder and your ear is going to press your shoulder against and cover up the top of the back of the phone, it seems probable that the microphone below the camera hump is being blocked.

The main mic that you speak into on the 6P is probably in the bottom speaker grill. I can't really figure out where the third mic is. In theory, three microphones, instead of two, should improve noise cancellation, but I haven't see anyone do a good review of this yet on the 6P (reviews pretty much ignore this feature these days, even AnandTech that used to do a nice test on it with new phones and post recordings for people to hear the differences).

The Nexus 6 has four microphones, so it would be even easier, I suppose to block a microphone on that phone and mess things up.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 640k:
interesting thought. i wonder if there's a difference between "disabling" a mic and "blocking" a mic. if you think about it, your shoulder on the rear mic is probably louder than the one you're talking in to as you are rubbing against it.

Could someone test covering that mic with your finger and reporting the results?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daewond3r:
Thanks for the info! I also had a feeling that, at least on the 6P, the mic hole on the back could cause issues if covered.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motox502:
Hmmmwell sounds like there isn't a fix for this issue. VERY annoying.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MNDZA:
Yes I'm having the same issue. I'm sure it's the noise cancelling feature because if I adjust the phone upwards then the problem is gone. However, it's not easy to shoulder the phone like that.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNS201:
You should stop doing that. You will mess up your neck/spine. Get a bluetooth.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxys:
Never use bent neck/shoulder. Prefer Speaker phone.
[Moto G 2014 LTE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricvail:
I have a Moto G XT1072. I had unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP and rooted it a while ago. I did not install any custom rom.

I was completely unaware of TWRP's lack of support for OTA upgrades, so when my phone notified me that there was an update available, I was like "oh, cool, okay" and downloaded it.

a) The download finished, the phone rebooted and TWRP recovery popped up.

b)"Mh, I guess I have to find the update file and flash it, probably"

c) Of course I didn't find it, so I googled and found out that if I want to install an OTA update I have to flash back the stock recovery and I might lose root. "Not worth it, thanks, maybe when 6.0 comes out"

d) So I rebooted the phone. Boot screen with motorola logo shows up, phone boots normally, I insert my sim card pin, set the alarm for tomorrow morning (6:00 am, fml) and *poof*, phone shuts down and reboots in TWRP.

e) back to point d.

Recap: I downloaded the update but I didn't install it, phone boots normally (I can even go in settings), but after 30 seconds it shuts down and reboots in TWRP. I do not care about the update, I just hope I can avoid re-rooting or even wiping.
[Moto G 2014 LTE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghobz:
I've got the exact same problem as you. Stupid to not have thought this could've happened with TWRP installed. Additional problem is, I have removed everything ''root-related'' (adb, fastboot), because I thought I wouldn't need it anymore. TWRP is obviously still on my mobile, but that's about it. I have already made a backup in TWRP (don't think it will help, because I'm afraid it will backup as boot trap), but who knows if it may help.

Back to the point, I'm a noob with rooting, I don't even know how I've managed to root it in the first place, but I'm stuck with the same problem as you are but without the required tools (at least, that's what I think)...

UPDATE: So my phone finished the backup, I turned it off to charge my battery, I fired it back up after an hour (normal way, not TWRP way), and it all of the sudden works again. It doesn't boot trap anymore and it seems like I'm able to use every function properly again. After those 30 seconds (where it usually rebooted), I now got the message that the installation had failed and that I should try again later. I don't know if there's any logical explanation for this or if this is pure luck, but I'm glad it's working again! I don't know if this will help for you as well

ricvail

, but I think it's at least worth a shot!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Nnergia:
Hola,

I am trying to root my sg3 t-mobile, I used Odin to install clockwork and everything went ok (It said Pass). Then i tried install CWM-SuperSU-v0.87 to gain superuser access but I keep receiving the message when I install from recovery:

and the phone reboots. I used these files for rooting from this tutorial.

Can you help me?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Wow! That is very very old! You should read the sticky threads and search the General and FaQ sections for more recent info.

Also search xda for SuperSU and you'll find the version you should be flashing is 2.46. (Probably all you need)

Or, depending on your firmware build, you can just use Towelroot. (Page 1 in general section)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Nnergia:
manual root

The thing is that I want to install manually root access because I want to install clockworkmod and a costum ROM. Although I installed towelroot as you mentioned and I granted root access, now if install a costum ROM the towelroot app will be deleted so I loose root access right?

I also tried flashing SuperSu 2.46 before towelroot but still, no root access.

Thnx.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Any rom you flash will be rooted so you don't have to worry about that. Just flash your recovery and then flash your rom. That's it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Nnergia:
rooting SG3-T MOBILE without using pc.

Installed Towelroot

Installed Rom Manager -> Clockworkmod

WIPE DALVIK/ CACHE/ FACTORY RESET

Installed CM12 -> GAPPS5.1

BINGO. thnx
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] audit13:
Rooting is not required to flash a custom recovery and custom ROM.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Nnergia:
Then,what's the root for? So we can just copy the roms/recovery zips into our sd and flash them?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Root allows you to read\write the \system partition, and parts if /data that are also protected. It only affects things when booted into the android OS. There are lots of things you can do with it. Debloat, modify, tweak, etc.

Pretty much all custom roms are already rooted, and all you need to flash them is a custom recovery.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osnic:
Hello everyone can somebody share some ideas before I will be doing something on my device, I noticed there are only few support for samsung GT-I9515, and for that I am planning to flash it using GT-I9505 firmware, is it possible?

Thanks your answers are highly appreciated..;)
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] me_:
Hi, im looking for software which logs where i have been. I have read that tomtom will do it for me, but i don't know how to set it up...

i would be willing to run another program in the background, whilst tomtom is running.

btw, i don't want a program which will upload the logs to a server, just to save the logs locally so that i can transfer to my computer and see where i've been on google earth.

to give you an idea of waht i am looking for, the equivalent on the Nokia N95 is Sports Tracker - http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/SportsTracker/

Any/All help will be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] MaskedMarauder:
TomTom does not do it and yes, you can run more than one GPS application at the same time.
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] Realflo:
Take NoniGPSPlot.

It's donationware. That means you get it for free and may spend money, if you want.
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] me_:
Thank You :) :D
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] thormdac:
gee, never thought about needing it, now i dont want to miss it! thanx
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] mikealder:
Another application to consider is the very versatile Fransons GPS Gate, it is not free but can easily log positions and allows you to run multiple apps feeding from a single GPS device, you can even stream your GPS data to another PDA or PC using this software http://franson.com/ - Mike
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] Maxxq:
I am using Reperion Basic. It is free.

http://www.reperion.com/products/basic.htm
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] Justinke:
Also an option :

http://visualgps.net/

http://visualgps.net/BeeLineGPS/screen_shots.htm
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] me_:
Thanks for the replies everyone.
[Windows RT General] zerglrisk:
i very regret bought surface. cuz it cant running exe file. some thread uploaded jailbreak for 8.1 i dont know how to use it.

i just want to play startcraft on surface
[Windows RT General] domboy:
Unfortunately even if you get the 8.1 jailbreak running I don't know if you'll be able to play Starcraft as I'm not sure if the x86 translator program (win86emu) would be powerful enough, or if it would even work. I could be wrong though as it was originally developed with the goal to run Heroes of Might and Magic (not sure which version though) on the Surface RT. Startcraft 2 is right out. I kind of doubt that would run even if a native ARM version existed.

There are however plenty of useful open source applications and games that become available with the jailbreak.
[Windows RT General] TheExileFox:
The x86 emulator is unfortunately very ineffective, it gets laggy in Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 with a half filled medium size park. And that game is really low on requirements :-/

Also it's pretty buggy, so it may not work at all.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] l3gionaires:
I tried to flash stock rom for my sgh i747. in the process i flashed the recovery also in hopes that it would make my phone boot. now my phone still doesnt boot, stock recovery doesnt work, and i tried installing philz but that didnt work either. i really need some help here! my phone is on UCUFNJ1.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DocHoliday77:
We will need more detailed info if you don't mind.

What were you on before?

What "stock rom" and what recovery exactly did you flash.

How did you flash?

You said it "still doesn't boot" but we're able to flash it, do you mean it just won't boot android?

Can you boot download mode?

What was wrong that made you need to flash the rom and recovery to make it boot, and how did it get to that point to begin with?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magestic1995:
Hello,

I am wanting to start my developing carrier along with my new Nexus 6P. I have started programming in college and feel partially confident enough to start developing on my own for fun. I am not sure where to start. Should I attempt with ROMs? Or should I stick with simple apps for now. Or if there are any devs who want a helping hand and are okay with coaching me Id be glad to join and willing to try my best.

Would love any advice. Thanks everyone!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingmikel:
Has anyone run into this warning? I'm on the latest build that came out today. Not sure if it's something I did, or if this is normal for when you are rooted, bootloader unlocked, etc.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
Never seen this. I would contact either Huawei or Google.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trinikartel:
I've seen it when running ROMs on my G4. It's a check that fails, it doesn't affect any operation whatsoever.....that I've seen at least.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tung_meister:
Did you flash the vendor image? I believe it's due to a build.prop mismatch between the vendor & system partitions but it won't cause any issues.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingmikel:
vendor image? I don't believe there was a vendor image. Let me double check.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tung_meister:
I haven't looked at the update yet myself but that's normally the cause.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingmikel:
So I checked the build.prop in the vendor folder, and you were right. The build numbers don't match. Weird though! Never flashed vendor.img before. Did shamu have those?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tung_meister:
No it didn't but the Nexus 9 does which is where I first encountered it.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingmikel:
Thanks a million, I flashed the vendor.img and it took care of it!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tung_meister:
No problem! I don't know why the error is worded the way it is anyway, when I first read it I presumed it meant a hardware problem and not a minor software issue.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingmikel:
Exactly what I was thinking. Freaked me out! At least it's an easy fix!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gravediggaz:
Hey guys

I've recently have some virus/malware in chrome, it always redirects me to some site called cellphone-tips.com and I can't get rid off it. I have added a screen shot, can anyone tell me a best way to get rid of this? Thanks

[IMG="screenshot virus"]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/XVS3RAv-UpQFwaSQ7dzDV_X987dR-DaUGBZMDCr32P0aGbrCYpzOokwQCa2q9grE5BmM-uUO=w288-h512-nc[/IMG]
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gekko2:
did you try scanning phone with Lookout App?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohit25:
reboot the phone into SAFE mode and delete the most recent apps you installed... or factory reset from there.... to goto safe mode long press on the power-off....
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamrico00:
Not exactly sure where to place this since it's basically about Project Fi not just Nexus 5, but I would like to know what other phones can be used on the Project Fi.

Does Nexus 5 on official marshmallow (or custom rom) not the Preview Build work on Fi both tmobile and sprint? Since marshmallow has Wifi calling support, does it work on wifi support as well? VoLTE would also be nice to know.

People have posted success on:

Sony Xperia Z5 Compact (but no details)

If you have a phone that supports Tmobile and Sprint and can test its capabilities per above on Project Fi, please post it here! I would love to know if any of these known phones can work on a pre-activated Project Fi sim. These are just a few candidates,

Moto G 2015 (3rd gen) - has full Tmobile/Sprint and Band 12 for VoLTE potential - XT1548

Moto X Style - Full tmobile / partial sprint and band 12 potential

Moto E 2nd gen (Sprint version) - ?full tmobile / full sprint (obviously) and band 12 potential

HTC One A9 (sprint version) - released Nov 6th. Full tmobile and sprint and band 12 potential - also on marshmallow.

LG G Flex 2 -LS996 full Tmobile and sprint and band 12.

LG tribute 2 LS665 - Full tmobile and ?sprint and band 12

Huawei P8 L09 - full tmobile and sprint and band 12 - ?marshmallow soon

.... any of the Iphones ... but who cares?

And any you can think of I can not.

If you have a project fi sim and any of these phones please list out your experience,

Coverage - Tmobile and/or sprint

Wifi calling - useable (?native with marshmallow)

VoLTE service?

Any quirks you've come across!

Thanks in advance,

Rico
[One (M9) General] gnuton:
Hey there,

This evening I have started to look into a way to root my M9 without unlocking the bootloader.

As first attempt I tried run_root_shell (available on github) but it looks like without good results.

Was ping pong supposed to work on the M9 running Lollipop 5.1?

Is there any other vuln which I could use to gain the root on this dev?

shell@htc_himauhl:/data/local/tmp $ ./run_root_shell

Device detected: HTC One M9 (LMY47O release-keys)

no such table: supported_devices(1)
no such table: supported_devices(1)
no such table: supported_devices(1)
Try to find address in memory...
Attempt msm_cameraconfig exploit...
no such table: supported_devices(1)

Attempt fb_mem exploit...
no such table: supported_devices(1)
Failed to open /dev/graphics/fb0 due to Permission denied
no such table: supported_devices(1)
You need to manage to get remap_pfn_range address.

Try copying kernel memory... It will take a long time.
Attempt pingpong exploit...

Attempt futex exploit...
failed to exploit...
Attempt get_user exploit...
error in setsockopt().
Failed to get prepare_kernel_cred address.
Failed to get commit_creds address.
Failed to get ptmx_fops address.
connect(): failed
Attempt get_user exploit...
error in setsockopt().
Failed to get prepare_kernel_cred address.
Failed to get commit_creds address.
Failed to get ptmx_fops address.
no such table: supported_devices(1)
HTC One M9 (LMY47O release-keys) is not supported.
Failed to setup variables.
no such table: supported_devices(1)
HTC One M9 (LMY47O release-keys) is not supported.
Failed to setup variables.
[One (M9) General] Jonny:
The exploits used in that project are all very old and have been patched. Additionally, you are frankly wasting your time with exploits for root on HTC devices as you don't need them to get root.
[One (M9) General] bynarie:
This makes no sense. The M9 is extremely easy to root. All you need to do is unlock bootloader, flash TWRP and install supersu.zip. Besides, you need twrp to make backups. Goto htcdev.com and follow the instructions for bootloader unlocking and after that is complete, goto https://dl.twrp.me/hima/ and download the latest version and flash it via HTCs fastboot (htcfastboot flash recovery twrp.img). Make sure phone is in "download" mode. After TWRP is flashed, reboot into recovery and flash supersu. Supersu is available @ http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3523851&d=1446166283
[One (M9) General] efrant:
Whether or not it's a waste of time depends on your point of view, and what you are after. Even on Nexus devices, where unlocking the bootloader and getting root is a simple as can be, it was always interesting to try out an exploit, and even more interesting to understand the mechanism behind it. And even on Nexus devices, having an exploit handy helped those who didn't unlock the bootloader initially and had no way of backing everything up when they decided it was time to unlock. An exploit saved them tons of time because they could just root, unlock the bootloader by reseting the lock-state flag rather than "fastboot oem unlock", and no loss of data.

Sure, unlock the bootloader, flash TWRP, flash SuperSU is fine, but sometimes, it's not the end goal that the interesting part - sometimes it's how you get there. Heck, I have root and S-OFF on my M9, but I still would like to see an exploit (preferably open source) just to see how it works.
[One (M9) General] bynarie:
I agree totally, I am just trying to help the user get rooted the fastest/easiest way possible, if thats the desired outcome. If not, I would also like to see some type of FOSS exploit just for the experience and learning. Seems interesting.
[One (M9) General] gnuton:
Thanks foe your replies. I know that rooting The m9 is an easy task, but i would like to manage to do that using an exploit. If i manage that i would release The code in my github. ;)

Just For The record i have tested stagefright exploit too just For fun on The m9 (not that it could be useful For this purpose) and i didn t get The reverse shell working.

Still looking For a good locale exploit although.. :)

Cheers
[One (M9) General] Jonny:
HTC patched the stagefright exploit quite a while ago now - you might have better luck trying an exploit of the second stagefright exploit (the one that found a flaw in Google's original patch).
[One (M9) General] gnuton:
The Zimperium app says my M9 is still vulnerable to half of the stagefright vulns despite I runs the latest HTC update
[Galaxy Note5 General] AB__CD:
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Seems to be a security related update mostly (has the Android security patch level of November, which is by the way supposed to be a marshmallow feature) , but has also improved my battery life. FYI, my note 5 is from Singapore.

In other news, I asked Samsung if they had any news of marshmallow. Sadly none so far, but that they'd keep us posted.
[Galaxy Note5 General] oldblue910:
It's available as an OTA for me too. Mine is from Singtel (Singapore). I'm on the out-of-the-box Singapore OJ6 firmware, CSC code SIN.
[Galaxy Note5 General] AB__CD:
If you're coming from out of box firmware, expect some fairly noticeable battery improvements. Samsung has been doing well releasing updates for the Note 5, bought mine a week after launch and have gotten 6 or 7 updates perhaps.

Any other regions gotten it yet?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Toneman07:
I got COJ5 today on TMOBILE - stated security and battery improvements and a Smart Manager fix.
[Galaxy Note5 General] the Doctor:
AOJ is already being discussed here and here.
[Galaxy Note5 General] AB__CD:
To be fair I did start the thread first. Those both are an hour old.
[Galaxy Note5 General] the Doctor:
My bad on the first one. I meant to link here, which has been open since 22/10.

The second one was started in August, and they've been discussing AOJ in there for a while.

We don't need a new thread every time an update is pushed to every region for every variant of a device, especially if it's an international variant of the device.
[Galaxy Note5 General] :
Thread closed.

Please continue your discussion in the existing thread here:

http://xdaforums.com/note5/general/sm-n920i-firmware-ota-n920idvu2aoj4-t3230361

Regards,

The_Merovingian

Forum Moderator
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gowger:
I got this "smart" projector , a T16P , recently and it's a pretty great device running KitKat I think. I'm not too in love with the ROM however and would love to root it and put some better firmware on if it's available. Kodi runs beautifully on it.

What would I need to do to achieve this? I've no idea how to get it into download mode, or how to backup the existing ROM, extract some hardware drivers ?

It would be such a fun device to run alternative OS images on, or maybe even an ARM linux. It's such capable hardware, it pains me to not have more control over it's software.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] king-totti85:
I do not recommend to do this.

I had the same feeling so I tried to update to lollipop... and since then I can't boot the projector anymore
[Miscellaneous Android Development] firestud:
T16p

I have similar problem can't seem to restore my device to factory settings, also I removed android system app to another location and it not installing any apps. It's downloading not installing, gets the error unfortunately package installer has stopped working. Help appreciated.