yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wakers:
Yeah after about 10sec the screen goes really dim and stays like that...

Tried your above suggestion yesterday (thought it might work too) doesn't make any difference, i have ambient setting enabled in the phone settings i'll try disabling that on the way home see if that makes a difference and do some googling later on, cheers though...
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ben36:
Crazy thought, your case or car holder isn't simply just covering up the light sensor is it?
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wakers:
Well I'm confused but the issue is sorted turned adaptive brightness setting off screen was perfect, so 5min later turned adaptive brightness back on expecting screen to dim it didn't so no idea but seems sorted #bangheadonwall

Sent from my Sony Z5 ooossshhhh
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ben36:
Lol. Well hope it stays that way!
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricodredd:
Ah, the ol' turn EVERYTHING off and on again fix. Classic.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gustlik11:
Hi.

I have problem with my Xperia Z C6603. After an update from PC Companion, phone doesn't start, because of bootloop. It show xperia logo and after turns into a black screen.

In past I was using stock 4.4 android with unlocked bootloader, but I restored TA Partition and I think that messed up the update.

I tried to repair software in PC Companion, but that didn't help. Effects - the same as before. When I try to flash new firmware in Flashtool it show "Processing of loader.sin finished with errors" and abort. I tried on different PC and tft but it's the same. Drivers are installed.

Do you have any ideas how to solve my problem? I will be very grateful.

PS Sorry for my English - I'm not native speaker :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sebi673:
For now unlock the bootloader again. It'll wipe the TA. I had the same issue but sony repair service (PC) helped. Try unlocking then reflash.

Note: TA partition - DRM keys are unique for each device, flashing TA from another xperia z will result in bricking the device.

If it works with unlocked BL and you still want to restore TA look for a tutorial (maybe your TA got messed up).

Note2: if it works you could use DRM function Restore MOD - it restores the functionality of the DRM content and it really works (eg. Advanced camera functions, bravia engine, etc etc.).
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gustlik11:
Thanks mate for advice. I unlocked bootloader and flashed custom kernel with recovery. I managed to flash a CM 12 and now phone works.

But the problem is still that I cant flash stock rom. I tried a few different versions of lollipop, and no matter which I flash, I get black screen and bootloop. Do I have to relock bootloader to get it work?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dzepar:
I'm running on stock 5.1.1 on UB with Zombie kernel, try to repair it with PC Companion, it have integrated SUS so you can flash even if you phone isn't booting and should fix it.

Good Luck.

Sent from my D2303
[Nexus S Android Development] dmitrygr:
Get it while it's hot

http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=06. Thoughts&proj=05. Android M on Nexus S
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
Awesome!!.. I wish I could flash it..
[Nexus S Android Development] Codename13:
Nice! What did you do with Chromium webview? Did you keep it in the build or did you remove it/replace it with prebuilt/replace it with Classic Webview?
[Nexus S Android Development] dmitrygr:
It works fine as far as i can tell
[Nexus S Android Development] Zahih:
Great.. Thanks [MENTION=3326402]dmitrygr[/MENTION]

I have tried your image (flash with TWRP one) but got an error. Haven't try yet the fastboot image one, since my laptop is in my home, gonna try later when I get home.
[Nexus S Android Development] sigibian:
thanks, Nexus S it's still my actual phone, if all works with this new ROM maybe im really tempted to try.

Actually i have Jellyshot with Marmite kernel and except the battery drain with 3g data and the limited storage i haven't any lag problems.
[Nexus S Android Development] Shades89:
i have the same problem :(
[Nexus S Android Development] dmitrygr:
Click erase. This is ok for first boot
[Nexus S Android Development] dmitrygr:
I forgot to mention this. You need to flash my recovery, at least for first boot. TWRP will not format /media as ext4 if it sees it already formatted as fat32.
[Nexus S Android Development] schrickz:
great ..

hope to try it soon
[Nexus S Android Development] supercurio:
Marshmallow alone seem to work well, however the Nexus S becomes so slow it's entirely unusable after adding flashed some minimal google apps package.

After taking a very long time to add an account, I have been unable to successfully install an application from the Play Store.

Do you know which minimalistic gapps package would function well here?

After all, although it's not crazy fast, the play store works plenty on stock 4.1.2.
[Nexus S Android Development] dmitrygr:
Due to my employment situation, i am not going to point you to any Gapps package, but i am happy to point out, that after you install gapps, wait a while (few hours) to let device finish background tasks) it will act a lot better

i was able to install chrome and gps test and a few other apps from store no issues
[Nexus S Android Development] ekerazha:
Me too.

Impressive job... kudos.
[Nexus S Android Development] supercurio:
Yes of course.

I tried a few more gapps variants:

- with the open gapps pico you can download today it fails to boot

- with older gapps pico it fails to go through the initial setup after entering the Wi-fi credentials (ANRs in logcat, mentions of GCM setup failure)

The most sort of working solution I had - still unusable in result, initially was with a package made for M on the Nexus 4, editing the install script to force the install (despite a failed disk free test)

If anyone (well, anyone else) has a working solution please share :)
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
I run an OnePlus, so take this with a grain of salt, but Slim gapps works well for me.. Worth a try.. :)
[Nexus S Android Development] supercurio:
Unfortunately those are too big (even the zero option), there's only 152.2M free on the /system partition.
[Nexus S Android Development] Si_NZ:
I was also troubled by the space issue. I even started thinking about resizing the partition, but I was puzzled why fdisk returns only one partition from mmcblk0 but the OS still manages to see and mount all 3 partitons. I think the easiest way out would be adjusting the partitons.
[Nexus S Android Development] Axel85:
Same problem here... I can t find a gapps package that run on this great ROM
[Nexus S Android Development] homerograco:
IMPRESSIVE, I have to test this!
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
A zero gapps is smaller than 152mb?.. If you unzip it, remove all but play services and install the rest like normal apps you should be down to like 30mb or less...

Once booted and rooted, remove apps like tts and wallpapers ect and then try gapps.. As another thought..
[Moto X Q&A] lmacmil:
Been missing calls lately, never heard them. Went to settings/sounds&notifications and under phone ringtone is says "unknown ringtone". When I select it, instead of showing me the stock ringtones, it asks if I want to use ES Explorer or Amazon something or other. I selected ES Explorer and it sent me to the directory. I looked in media//audio/notifications and the only thing there is facebook_ringtone_pop.m4a. I am not rooted and running stock Lollipop 5.1.

So where are my ringtones? If they are gone, how did that happen?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackgator:
I installed Saber CM12.1 on my I9505.

Installed Gapps then did a factory reset in settings menu.

Phone is now stuck rebooting on the TEAMWIN splash screen.

Phone is not showing up in Odin or Kies and adb devices from command prompt isnt showing my phone.

Any ideas on how to solve this?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orcam:
Pull the battery. Try booting again.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackgator:
Tried that Orcam. No luck.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orcam:
Can you boot into recovery at all? If you can. Wipe everything and flash the rom again.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackgator:
Can't boot into recovery. When phone starts it just shows the TEAMWIN screen and then restarts and does the same.

Ive tried different USB cables and ports but makes no difference.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] side:
Try reflash a new recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackgator:
How? Phone not booting and not showing up in Odin.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] side:
Try download the USB adb drivers :)

Its here->

http://developer.samsung.com/technical-doc/view.do?v=T000000117#none

then,power off your device

when is turned off,press again to power on.

immidiatelly remove ur finger from power button and "press and hold " HOME + VOL DOWN.

You will be in a new menu.press vol up to continue.

Now you are in download mode.connect your device to USB and use odin :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackgator:
Same. Still not recognised in Odin. Tried in v3.10 and v1.85
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackgator:
Gave up, then restarted phone before going to bed and it booted up perfectly.

No idea why

Rebooted a few times and everything working fine.

Still not showing up in Oddin or Kies so could be driver or PC problem but phone is now working.

Thanks for your help guys
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] side:
its ok :) !
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pecata:
Please delete-duplicate post
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Strikah9999:
I know there are a lot of posts about this, though this one is a bit different. I was wondering, now that I've seen things like touchflo, buttonflo etc., if it would be possible for the final version of some FlowFX. Not necessary TouchFlo, but I mean that flip, fall and slide effect from Aspecto Software for instance.

Example:

When you enter File Explorer from say the start menu, you see the Flip effect. If you enter a directory inside the File Explorer you see a Slide effect. And when you exit the File Explorer (to perhaps the Today screen) you see the Fall effect.

Perhaps this has been questioned before (and perhaps it's already possible, if so could you post the link to it?) but I'm new and I've searched the keyword "FlowFX" and found nothing useful.

By the way, if it was possible, would it be in a .CAB file or would you have to flash your device?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Strikah9999:
Bump

Give it one more day before it disappears in the oblivion of posts.

If I'm requesting something that has already been done, could someone please be so kind to tell me which thread it was
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] whistler4ever:
Im guessing it would be more of a cab. But from what I've seen, most of this touchflo stuff is mostly for WM6.

everyone has been working on touchflo and buttonflo. I havent read anything abt Flowfx. But if you're good at developing or wanting to develop it, go right ahead.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pecata:
Sorry if this has been answered already-I couldn't find it...

What is the difference between MDB08L and MDB08M build?

I just got my Nexus 6P yesterday and it was on the initial build MDA89D. Today I got an OTA to MDB08L...

Does anyone know what the difference between L and M build is? I am on T-mobile-should I upgrade to the M build or I would get a second OTA for the M?

Thank you.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Land Master:
Don't know what the difference is but I flashed the M factory image and I'm on TMO. No problems. Works great.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bohemus:
I haven't been able to find a definitive answer on this either. I'm also on T-Mobile and got an OTA to MDB08L. I wish google made notes next to each image to settle this once and for all.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cammykool:
8L is the Nov 1st security update.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bohemus:
So what is MDB08M?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pecata:
It is somewhat frustrating that there are no notes and we don't know which build does what exactly-I believe both builds include the Nov security patch, but why are there two builds and what is the difference? Apparently no one knows...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spartan117H3:
Here are the change logs for Google's security updates...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/android-security-updates
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pecata:
Thank you. Looks like bot L and M builds have Nov security updates I was wondering what is the difference between the both. I am on tmobile and got an ota for L...why not M I have no idea
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spartan117H3:
You mean this?

L:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/build/+/5f51f7d

M:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/broadcom/wlan/+/25e0325

L is the security patch, M is two bugfixes for wireless.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pecata:
Yes, thanks so much, I don't know why I did not see this....awesome!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bohemus:
So there will be another OTA to the M build from the L build?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klvnhng:
No. L build is the latest
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bohemus:
So L is more current than M? Does L incorporate the Wifi fixes from M as mentioned by the previous post?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klvnhng:
I'd imagine so. Otherwise it would not make sense for Google to update from the older build straight to L.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ageesm:
Obviously M is the most current build as M comes after L in the alphabet. I would assume the L build does not contain those two changes as they are dated about 4 hours or so after the L security patch.

They dropped both system images (L & M) to developers.google at almost the same time last week which was confusing.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marcuss4:
I know this is an old thread but i assume that L build stands for Lollipop build and M build stands for Marshmallow build..
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toknitup420:
This phone never ran lollipop. It launched with MM.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marcuss4:
Well now there is a new N build while nougat is out so i think it does stand for the Android version..
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] therock3181:
MM : Marshmallow

N : Nougat
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marcuss4:
Thanks.

So it does stand for Android version :)
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harryspar:
I'm trying to install a rooted stock ROM on my XT1031 (CDMA Moto G 2013). When I try to flash the zip in TWRP, I get an error message:

"This ROM is for XT1031.

This is a XT1032.

Installation aborted."
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost101:
Try the Optimized ROM here: http://xdaforums.com/moto-g/development/rom-stock-motorola-lollipop-rom-t3017510
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harryspar:
Does the ROM not include a device check? Is that why it would work better?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Olivera:
what version of TWRP are you using ?

and what rom before flashing this one ?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harryspar:
Worked, thanks!

I'm not sure what the version of TWRP is.

The ROM was stock 4.4 with root and xposed, for some reason when I did a factory reset to sell the device on Ebay it became corrupted and kept erroring and force closing (despite wiping and the usual fixes). So I needed to install a ROM from scratch.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] sarmadpak10:
i have my friends phone and he's galaxy s3 is stuck on download mode and its looping there everytime

it happened out of nowhere, he wasn't playing around with it it just happened

now its stuck on downloading and wont go to recovery for me to initialize the device through kies or smartswitch

NO ACCESS TO RECOVERY MODE AT ALLL

i tried numerous ways to retrieve the phone into working condition but no success at all

thru odin i get the pit error and when i place a pit to repartititon with the stock tar file or the cwm recovery tar i failed

it says complete write operation failed and it takes a long time to set up connection with the device before showing me the fail

its a tmobile sgh-t999 prob 16 gb

any genius here got any ideas?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
What firmware build was on the device and what build did you try to flash using Odin?

Did you try different versions of odin?

Different driver versions?

Different USB cable?

Different USB port?

If kies is installed on the computer, get rid of it. It interferes with Odin.

If none of that helps it may be a hardware failure.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jlk69:
The same thing has happened to my wife's phone and I have done almost the same steps to fix it with similar results.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
If you tried everything I mentioned and are sure you weren't flashing an older firmware build (only after 4.3), then theres a good chance it's a hardware failure, probably with the memory.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jlk69:
OK, uninstalled Kies and tried to flash T999UVUEOH1_T999TMBEOH1_TMB rom with odin again and got there is no pit partition error. Would post some pictures of the boot screen and a screenshot of the odin program but need 10 posts.:( Well not sure what version was on phone before all this happened.) Also the ODIN bootloader screen says SYSTEM STATUS: NONE Warrenty Bit: 0 BOOTLOADER AP S?AEV: 1 among other things...forgot to mention I used ODIN v3.10.6 because v3.10.7 gave me a win32 error when I tried to run it on my Windows XP PC.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] audit13:
Here's my suggestion to at least get the phone running a ROM:

download Odin 3.07 from here: https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=...5QWImOPDJboTA_V3D5S9eA&bvm=bv.107763241,d.dmo

download the tar version of TWRP 2.8.6.0 from here: https://dl.twrp.me/d2tmo/

download the latest cm12.1 for the phone from here and save it to a micro SD card: https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=d2tmo&type=nightly

place the micro SD card into the phone;

boot the phone into download mode;

open Odin 3.07 and uncheck everything except f. reset time;

click on PDA and browse to the tar TWRP file and select it;

connect the phone and it should show up as a com port in Odin;

flash TWRP;

when you see the word RESET in the status window, remove the USB cable, remove the battery, replace the battery, use the button combination to get into recovery which should now be TWRP;

perform a full wipe of system, data, and cache;

flash CM12.1 from the micro SD card;

reboot the phone.

Hopefully, the above steps will get the phone booted so you can confirm the installed bootloader and modem.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jlk69:
Followed your guide step by step but flash failed in odin Get Pit for mapping..

There is no PIT partition.

All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1):crying: BTW thank for all your help.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] audit13:
You got the pit error flashing twrp in Odin? Any other errors? What model number is shown at the top of the screen when the phone is in download mode?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
The only times I've encountered this type of behavior it turned out to be a hardware failure (memory). If that is indeed the case here, I'm afraid there won't be much you can do for it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should just give up, but you should probably at least start looking at other options.

The main reasons I believe this to be the case are

1. It just died while nothing was being done (not being used)

2. Pit errors indicate either the partition table has been corrupted, or the partitions themselves have. Because it cannot detect any system (SYSTEM STATUS: NONE), it's more likely to be the partitions them selves, not the partition information table (pit).

Something else that doesn't look good, (but that I've never seen before) is the S?AEV. It should be SWREV. (Software Revision). It may mean nothing, but I've never seen it before so I thought I'd point it out.

As I said, I'm not saying you should give up yet. I've been wrong before and I'd hope to be again in this case. But I wouldn't put too much more time and effort into it as I've never seen one of these types of failures restored. They are pretty rare, but they do happen.

My best suggestion at this point is to start looking into replacing either the motherboard or the device. Motherboards can be found for reasonable prices, but you do have to be careful when buying one. (Let us know if you want to do this and we'll give you some tips on what to look for).

I'm sorry that this happened and that there doesn't seem to be much I can do to help. If you had any important data (pics or whatever), there's a small chance it can still be recovered. Don't get your hopes up too much for it, but using ADB while in download mode MIGHT allow you to copy your stuff to the computer. I can't remember if this can be done from download mode though, and if the data partition is also hosed you'd be out of luck there anyway.

If i think of anything else you can try, I'll certainly let you know. Audit13 might have a few ideas you can try too. As I said though, you should also start looking into other options. Let us know what you want to do and we'll continue to help as best as we can!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jlk69:
Wow, thanks Doc for replying. I was hopeful for a better result. BTW it does say SWREV I just couldn't quite make out the W at the time so I put ? to indicate that. I do have a little experience working on these phones (replaced the entire LCD/screen and USB port on my Note2) The model of the phone is listed as SGH-T999 in ODIN mode and it is a T-mobile phone. How much is motherboard and what should I look for as far as part number?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Found this with a quick ebay search: http://m.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Galax...Board-Motherboard-s3-/221940485670?nav=SEARCH

I searched for "galaxy s3 T999 motherboard". That one is 68.50 obo.

It's been a while since I've looked, and it looks like there's a lot fewer of them available now. (Used to get tons of results).

You can also look for an I747 (AT&T) board. The I747 and T999 are fully compatible. No other models will fit into the case. (The T999V and I747M would probably also work. I'm not sure about the T999L or T999N models though. I'm guessing they would, but really have no idea for sure.)

Some terms to search for would be: Galaxy S3 T999 motherboard, I747 motherboard, mainboard, etc.

Also search for the same models with broken screens. Many times people sell these cheap and everything inside works perfectly. Might be cheaper too.

Watch out for certain words and phrases in the listing though. Some sellers will try a little wordplay to make it sound better than it is. If i find an example, I'll post it. Stuff like cracked screen won't power on can be changed to sound like it's only the screen won't come on, when it's really the whole device. Either ask for clarification, or move on.

I like the ones that are very specific, like cracked screen, but does appear to boot up and gives boot sounds.

Ask the seller for the imei number and check it yourself on swappa. I'd also call t-mobile and verify with them.

I hope that helps. Feel free to ask if you're wondering about a specific listing or anything else.

Oh and if buying from an eBay store, make sure they've got very good ratings. Individual people often won't have many ratings, but can sometimes be more trustworthy and more willing to give specifics. Sometimes....

You can also check places like Swappa and Craigslist.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] audit13:
The simplest way to get a replacement motherboard would be to look in the used market for a t999 that has smashed or defective screen with working internals.

If it is not too expensive, a jtag repair centre may be able to force flash a rom.