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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaytronics:
So you belive everything that you see on TV as well? I suppose that the Internet must be God to you. I mean, there is an http link for everything. Must be fact.

How would you like to explain what happen ed d to all three of my devices that were having g battery issues. SGS3, Would charge to 100% drain down rapidly and when it hit 30% it would just shut down.

SGS4, would drain down to nothing at random and shut down at random. Even in the middle of a call. Note 10.1 2014 edition would drain down extremely fast, and I mean fast. It also would shut down. That one I did replace the battery on. And it still did it. All of these problems have persisted for several months now. Only a week ago did I try the calibration method. Which I am aware, using an app is the short way around deleting the file for the battery. At any rate, all devices are back to normal operations. By the way, I put the old battery back into my Note 10.1, and did the recalibration. AL is well with it also. But, the Internet must be telling the truth. Plain and simple, calibration will not fix a broken battery. It will however reset the part on the system that reads the battery correct and tell the OS what to do with those numbers. In the case of the case of these, my devices, there are no more shut downs happening. Or was all that in my head for months? Probably just a placebo effect? Yeah, that's what it was. The Internet says so. Lol! I'm going to put up a link to a YouTube video that shows that horses are pink.

http://youtu.be/bE4JqBAKy2E

Oh snap! It must be true. There is an http.

Oh mighty Internet God we worship you! Lol!

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By the way, I am just having fun with you and bust your chops. Lol! But I still stand by my statements of calibration. It works in some scenarios. Particularly when switching ROMs.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
On my old Gingerbread device, I used Nema's Battery Calibration app. Once I read the information from the Google engineer in the link I provided, I stopped, and haven't touched a battery calibration app since. In my experience, calibrating the battery is a needless step, because you aren't actually doing anything to the battery itself or the circuitry within it. For example, you mention using it after changing ROMs. Why? My battery life has not been affected from all the ROM switches I've made in the last year, and I've made plenty of them.

If a battery calibration app were to actually recondition the battery, then I would say such an app is useful. Instead, you have a placebo effect brought about by an app that does nothing that Android itself doesn't already do. So why waste the time, the energy, and the (minuscule) storage space?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Google make Android. So if they say that batterystats.bin has no effect on actual battery life and such, then it must be true. I mean they are the ones who made the damn file, they should know what it relates to.

The reason why your 3 devices worked again after a battery calibration might be something else. Maybe the app you used did something else other than just delete batterystats.bin file.

I also used to calibrate my battery on my old Gingerbread device. But honestly, I didn't see any improvement in battery life by doing this. Nor did I see any worsening in the battery life or sudded death by not calibrating.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaytronics:
First, Google did not make Android. They purchased it and now modify it. But that is besides the point.

Sorry, but the app that I used did one thing and one thing only. And that was clear the file. It did nothing else. Can you tell me what if not battery stats, would make all three of my devices behave properly? Because I would love to know, as would the rest of the community. I seriously do not particularly care what Google stated. I care what was happening with my devices. And they were not working. I used an app to clear a file that has to do with the batteries. All of my devices work exactly as they should. Google can tell me that all rainbows are silver. But, my devices are not telling me one thing about my batteries while something else is the case. And my devices are not shutting down on their own either. So, 3-4 months of serious charging, readouts , and performance issues all cleared up after the use of an app. I am confident coincidence is not the case. But thank you for your disbelief in something. Absolutely appreciated. Plain and simple people, if you are having batteries issues. Try the simplest method. A calibration app. If it works, then great. If not, move on to the next step. Try different charger and or cable. If that fails, chances are that the battery is on its last leg. Replace it. Nothing more, nothing less. Zero arguments to be had. Nothing to prove. Or disprove. If any one is of the persuasion that a calibration app is a waste of time, don't use one. Also a simple thing to not do.
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pete101:
My screen flickers from time to time whenever i log in to a certain app the black colours seem to try to adjust it's happened a few times now is this a hard ware fault or the auto brightness trying to adjust?

I notice it happens sometimes in youtube too when i exit the app. The screen seems to scramble for a split sec. Is this normal?

I accidentally banged it yesterday tho i have a protective case.. if i have dislodged a cable would the sympyoms be much worse?

I think the flickering happened even before i banged it so maybe it's just the adaptive display tryna adjust.

I had screen flickering in my s3 but that was blamed on the auto brighhtness adjustment. Is this the same thing though different?
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[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] code72:
Hi, i have a Clear View Cover and when i close it i can see a white clock on dark blue background; is it possible to mod some system file to have black background so only numbers are visible?
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
I present to you instructions on how to get Arch Linux working natively on your shield TV dual booted with your Android rom. This is all thanks to the amazing people in this thread for getting Ubuntu on the shield and would not be possible without them.

http://xdaforums.com/shield-tv/general/ubuntu-utopic-nvidia-shield-tv-t3150352

This install will put arch Linux on a micro SD card, and does not modify your shield at all if you so choose. First download these 2 files.

Archlinux Stage 3 install

http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-aarch64-generic-latest.tar.gz

Kernel (Credits to jagger11 from his thread) You only need nvidia_boot.img

https://drive.google.com/folderview...ZSS1VxUVBJZmFqSXNFYUhpN2lHcklhVzZtX0Z5OENxdU0

To intstall

1. Unlock your shield TV

2. Format your SD card to EXT4

3. Mount the SD card

4. As the root user on your linux distro (not sudo) run this command (From the same directory that you downloaded that file to, and replacing mountpoint to where you mounted the SD to)

bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-aarch64-generic-latest.tar.gz -C mountpoint

5. Unmount the drive, then run the command "sync". When that finishes, pull the SD card from the computer.

6. Put the SD in the shield

7. Reboot to bootloader (adb reboot fastboot) with your preferred method

8. Boot Linux

To boot it once run this

a) fastboot boot nvidia_boot.img

To save to recovery run this (Reboot android to recovery to boot arch after)

b) fastboot flash recovery nvidia_boot.img

Default users and passwords are

root:root

alarm:alarm

For more information, check this page.

http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/generic

Tested Working

*Ethernet

*USB

*TTY Terminals

*Framebuffer (Install X11 as usual and xf86-video-fbdev)

Untested

*WIFI (Should work)

*Bluetooth (Probably doesn't work)

Broken

*3D acceleration (Will work on this in the future)

*You tell me

*Sometimes does not boot after a few working boots (I think it's a problem with my SD, or my android install messing with it. Working that out now, but please report if you have this issue only after it boots fine at least once)

My request to you. I am not a kernel dev any more. I once was, but things have unfortunately changed, and I don't have the time or resources to learn it all again. If anyone wants to develop a kernel for this, please do and I'll add it in the OP. Unless something changes, and Ubuntu kernel from the Utopic thread will work fine here)

I'll format this a bit better later, but hopefully this is a good start. I have some good tips and tricks to add if people are interested in this, and was able to watch quite a lot of my videos in vlc even on framebuffer. Please give me some feedback on what you want to see, and ask any questions. I'll be glad to help!
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
Thanks for the new thread. You are correct that the "nvidia_boot.img" from jagger11 can boot to archLinux but the kernel I built can't.

I have always been using Ubuntu with desktop enabled by default. How did you install X11 under archLinux?
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
Following the standard guide on their wiki.

I installed

xorg-server

xorg-server-utils

xorg-init

xf86-video-fb

And then just the standard startx after setting my xinitrc to the usual. In my case I used awesome WM, though you can use any, and exec that in your .xinitrc file
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
I have to admit I was spoiled by Ubuntu which installs everything by default. I have to read archLinux wiki and try them tomorrow morning.
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
Those packages will do you other than desktop manager, but I have to say, I'm pretty minimalist, and arch is by default, so don' feel too bad. I've just been using arch for the last few years, and was using Gentoo before that, which is all even more manual and source built.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg

That page will go through it all. Once you know what desktop manager you want (I recommend XFCE if you don't know what, or LXDE which is even lighter), check the pages out on there for them. It covers haw to do absolutely everything. I honestly use arch linux for the wiki. It's by far the best source of linux information on the net I'd be willing to bet.
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
What display driver should I install?

The wiki starts with

lspci | grep -e VGA -e 3D

But lspci does not work for shield TV.
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
xf86-video-fbdev works for me. Since we don't have access to the GPU directly, we are using the framebuffer at the moment.
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
That confused me since I thought xf86 meant x86 but Shield has Arm CPUs.
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
Yeah, it's actually got nothing to do with architecture. Not quite sure why they are named as such. Also, xf86-video-fbdev isn't listed there as it's a last resort kinda thing, but it works well on the shield for the moment. Once I figure out why my system stops booting linux from time to time, I'll work on GPU drivers. Hard to know what broke it if I don't fix that first.
[Shield Android TV General] Thanks_Meter:
You may want to have a look at this: https://github.com/NVIDIA/tegra-nouveau-rootfs

Arch Linux is the target rootfs and the Jetson TX1 is supported. Now the questions is how to get a mainline kernel running on shield tv. I guess one issue is the device tree which will not be provided by uboot like on normal arm systems. In the kernel configuration you can define that the device tree is appended to the kernel image (e.g. by "cat Image foster.dtb > newImage"). Maybe this is a solution.
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
Thanks for the info. I'm going to have the next 2 days off work, so I'll definately get to work. I'm going to need assistance in getting a working kernel as I don't have an x86 machine around currently. Crazy, I know, but I don't. I'll see if I can get the drivers installed if someone works on a kernel. If not, I'll contact some of my linux friends and see what they come up with.
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
That link mentioned:

"The first prerequisite is that you must use an up-to-date U-Boot as bootloader"

Jetson TK1 and TX1 uses U-boot, Shield TV however uses fastboot not U-boot and the kernel is not Linux but Android.

I'd really like someone can have u-boot ported to Shield TV as 2nd or 3rd stage boot loader.
[Shield Android TV General] Thanks_Meter:
Damn! I just found out that this CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB trick only works with zImage but not with Image as needed for abootimg. Currently I don't have an idea how to get a mainline kernel running on the shield tv. I guess uboot makes no sense since we don't have an uart.
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
u-boot could use netconsole:

http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,14,14

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My kernel can boot to command line archLinux now, I updated the procedure:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=64330336&postcount=147
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
I'll try that kernel when get home with the gui running on framebuffer. Should work.
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
I uploaded my latest kernel tested with command line archLinux:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz5kaPQJx_AgUklNekxGeWFuNW8/view
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
Any chance you can maybe try to patch in the Nouveau kernel driver from here?

With a kernel running that I can get 3D acceleration work started. Till I get that sorted out I can only guess if my changes are working or not.

I'll also be trying to get the closed source binaries running on this. I have decided to pay a decent sum of money for a VPS to get a compile machine. Hopefully we can get this project rolling.
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
I did not expect it'd take me so long just to have gui running for archLinux. As I mentioned before this thread started, I'd like to try Cuda 7.0 on ArchLinux. I main goal is to have Cuda working so I can use Gpgpu of Tegra for image processing and other applications.

A script or procedure for post installation to quickly install gui is what I was interested. To install archlinux rootfs without gui was very simple and I did it the first day when I received my Shield TV to troubleshoot Utopic rootfs. I could read the wiki to have gui working for archLinux, but I have to spend my time on other things, e.g., without hope to have u-boot or multirom working for Shield TV, I have to learn Android kernel (I'm in the process of clone Android kernel source tree).
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
I'll write a script for you once I get home. Thanks for the input. Any requests for a desktop environment or window manager? If not I'll just pick a light one like lxde.
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
Any desktop is fine. I'd like to push Cuda 7.0 from my build PC to archLinux like I did for L4T. Network connection and any desktop are what I need. If it works, we can see performance differences between 32 bits and 64 bits

Thanks.
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
Sorry it took so long to respond. I'll get that script up here in a bit. Just had to sit through 2 accidents on the way home. As for needing things, networking works by default, at least ethernet automatically worked without any work, and the desktop will be included once I get some work done on this in at least 1 version. It's not the "Arch way" to include things like that, but if that's a request, I'll take care of it.

EDIT, here is the script

Run these as the user alarm. Make sure wget is installed (pacman -S wget) and alarm has sudo permission. The command visudo will let you do that. Uncomment the line that starts with %wheel.

wget -O installGui.sh http://pastebin.com/raw/diXeRMrL

sh ./installGui.sh
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
Thanks for instructions.

I did:

su (change to root)
root (enter root password)
pacman -S wget (install wget, OK)
wget -O installGui.sh http://pastebin.com/raw/diXeRMrL (download "installGui.sh", OK)
sh ./installGui.sh (got many 404 errors)

I tried individual command in "installGui.sh":

pacman -S xorg-server (got 7 "404" errors from "mirror.archlinuxarm.org", e.g., libelf, elfutils)

pacman -S xorg-server-utils (OK)

pacman -S xorg-xinit (OK)

pacman -S lxde (got 7 "404" errors from "mirror.archlinuxarm.org")

I'll try later
[Shield Android TV General] urisma:
You might need to update your mirrors. Try running "pacman -Syy' and then run the script again.
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
That worked, I was able to install all packages.

When I typed "startx", I got "(EE) Fatal server error: no screens found ....."
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
Yeah, sorry. I totally forgot the step. I always run a full system upgrade right after install. In case you need that it's this command.

pacman -Syu
[Shield Android TV General] yahoo2016:
Should "sudo" in the first line of scrip be removed? I got "sudo: command not found"
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
yaouort -S sudo

visudo

Uncomment the line that starts with #%wheel

Save and exit, then run as the user alarm. Or just run the echo command as user and do without sudo. Either way.
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
I finally got around to testing it. It works fine for me too. Can you compile it with a version that can boot from a flash drive? I;m having an issue with my SD card right now, and don't have another big enough to work on this. I literally am having to re-format my SD once a day or I don't get a full boot. Not sure what's going on. I can get a ping now, but just won't boot commandline or even let me in with SSH. No coruption according to fsck and no issues that I can see in any other part of the file system, but a full re-install works fine on both kernels.
[Shield Android TV General] scndthe2nd:
So how viable is this as a common desktop solution? How viable is this for any kind of extended use?

I just recently switched over most of my hardware to arch after experimenting with linux deploy. I'm thinking that the shield might be the desktop replacemeny that I wanted, seeing as someone done gone and put Docker on the thing... then i spent hours trying to figure out what docker was.

Point is, is it worth getting a shield just to use it as an arch pc?
[Shield Android TV General] kdb424:
I never did get the big issues sorted unfortunately. I used my shield TV as a main box for a long while, and was very successful. I'd honestly recommend using a "Full ROM" from one of the amazing devs on here and using Linux deploy for any needed Linux applications. It works amazingly, and what I found to work best. I have since moved to using my shield as a media box (Flashing stock MM now actually) and gaming machine as I have moved to an Asus Chromebox that handles all of my Arch Linux needs with a custom kernel with much less headache. I'm sorry if that's not the answer that you were looking for, but that's where I am now. My job has me working 50+ hours a week now, plus travel, I don't have time to do housework let alone work on this. Hopefully some amazing dev can pick up where I left off, or I get some time free. It's some amazing hardware, and I would love to use that if possible, but I don't have the time to fight with it now. Best of luck, and let me know if you get anywhere.
[Shield Android TV General] ScarFez-001:
Keep in mind nVidia has aarch64 drivers, no need to resort to nouveau
[Shield Android TV General] deki_mg:
I apologize for necroposting

Did anyone try any of shield tutorials after experience 8.0?

I can't roll back shield to 7.x or 6.x nor boot mmc in any of options from here (nvidia_boot.img) or from that L4T thread (sda1.img for USB or mmcblk1p1.img for SD)

I have a sneaking suspicion that android Pie changed the way things boot and it is a one way street after upgrade

FWIW, my shield is 2015 ShieldTV (non-Pro)
[BlackBerry Priv] jiggyk:
The only thing I don't like on the PRIV is that the icons and everything else is very large on the screen. Defeats the purpose of having a high res display. I have always rooted my phones and decreased the screen density to give me more real estate.

Since the PRIV cannot be rooted (yet), there seems to be a way to adjust the screen density in the build.prop file. Details here: http://www.androidbeat.com/2015/07/how-to-change-dpi-of-android-device-without-root/

Since it is less than a week since I got the device, am quite afraid to try it out. Has anyone tried this on the PRIV?
[BlackBerry Priv] .K':
I tried to change the density with this method, but I couldn't even get adb to detect the priv even tho I activated usb debugging in the dev. options.

But for now I use Nova Launcher to set the app icons to 80% size and I changed the font size to small in the settings. This makes everything look way better.
[BlackBerry Priv] TechKnowGrappler:
Did you load the BlackBerry usb drivers for your computer?
[BlackBerry Priv] .K':
Yeah, I downloaded and installed these: https://swdownloads.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=4EE0932F46276313B51570F46266A608

The device doesn't get the authentication popup and it's not listed in "adb devices".
[BlackBerry Priv] jiggyk:
Launchers don't serve the purpose for me, because they only make the the home screen look better. But yes you are right, something is better than nothing....
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilzard:
And Chromecast app.

ADR6300. CM7.2 which is 2.3.7 if I remember right. CWM 5.0.3.0.

A long while ago I handed down my old phone to my son. My wife did the same with her phone to our daughter.

Well, my son somehow did something to his phone where it "lost" all of his apps. Try as I might, I could not restore them even though the data was there on the phone, nor could I reinstall them from Play or Amazon. Did not have a nandroid. So I did a factory reset from recovery. Also, probably a worse problem, but the Chromecast app will not install either. Not from Play nor sideloading.

Now, Amazon Appstore doesn't want to install, it says it requires at least 2.3.7 to function. In about, it is running 2.3.7. They own quite a few apps on Amazon and kinda need this to work. Attempting to sideload the Amazon apk gives an error parsing package.

Play will not even show Chromecast via browsing, and when searching and going directly to it says it requires 2.3.7

I'm stumped.

I've tried a few different CM 7.2 ROMS I had saved on my cpu, they all do not want to install Amazon or Chromecast.

So I installed the Infected ROM (4.2.2) and it worked to install Amazon and Chromecast, but my son is annoyed the camera doesn't work properly and he can't force close apps by long pressing back, plus YouTube will not play videos at all, it'll just cycle through the loading circle, light up the hardware keys and repeat.

My last idea is to do a nandroid from my daughters DINC, which has none of these issues, and restore it on my son's DINC. Except my daughter's DINC is running CWM 3.0.0.8 and I'm worried about bricking my son's by restoring a nandroid from another device with a different, older version of CWM.

I just want some recommendations on a 2.3.7 ROM that will install Amazon, works with Chromecast and gives some customization options for the hardware buttons so I can set this up for him the way he likes.

Please, XDA community, help me out here.
[General Questions and Answers] Spearman873:
Hi guys, so today a really small crack appeared on my Galaxy S5. I'm not particularly sure how it happened, but luckily, its pretty small.

I was just wondering if there are any easy ways to hide the crack? I've heard toothpaste could help. So should I use that?

I'm also fine with buying a screen protector to hide it. But what kind?

Thanks

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