yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soulfly3:
I may be wrong, but that photo you posted looks like the screen got smashed by something blunt dead center with quite a bit of force. not the froce of a 2.5ft fall on carpet, then to a hard object.

You have no reason to lie, it's an anonymous forum, but the photo doesnt look to me to match the story. Ive seen multiple drop tests from 6+ feet and not much more than some cracking. That looks like a thin hammer was taken to it.

Really sucks, and repairs don't look as easy as other devices... Good luck, and whatever you end up doing, report back so others know where to go if in the same boat
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 400ixl:
That was my thought. That is quite a forceful blow shatter pattern. Not hugely surprising it has affected some of the electronics like the digitiser.

Hopefully the damage is limited to the replacement screen part.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaisanNYC:
I just saw the photo also. you can see the center of the blunt force that hit the screen and it circles outward. That wasn't a fall to the ground and a spiderwebbed screen.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tech_User01:
You could have had it not even a day and that or any phone that takes a fall could break. Even the iPhone you mention later. As for the screen not turning on I guess it just depends on the fall just as it does about breaking. I was upset myself when my 128GB iPhone 6s Plus that I didn't even have one week fell off the table and boom, cracked screen. First fall, indoors, and cracked screen. It sucks, but it happens. I spent the money and moved on. I don't blame Apple (although I did say so much for that stronger glass it's supposed to have). Hit the right angle and most of these devices can break.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bartws95:
If something similar happens to others in the future I recommend to check all bank accounts and home insurance as many of these policies come with included mobile phone insurance. Mine didn't, but there were many things I had that offered it, so it is worth checking just in case. In the end I went phoneless for a week and bought a new 6P with a case and a load of TGSP's, as well as insurance for the new phone (never making the mistake again) and kept the paperweight. Having contacted Huawei this morning, they referred me to an authorised repair shop which quoted me a repair at £130-140 which I think is very reasonable, and they're sending me a bag in the post to send it in.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gorgtech:
Phones these days are no longer durable. Old Nokia phones used to be great and survive some hits without using some sort of protection. Modern phones are way too thin and sensitive, even if you use a case. That´s the problem with hipsters asking for thin phones for their girly jeans..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hacker804:
Hi.

So basically I think my Galaxy S3 i9300 is bricked :( .When I turn it on it goes into download mode.I want to flash a ROM on it but have trouble finding the proper one.Can someone give me links to a ROM which has .pit,csc and modem files?

please point me in the right direction.Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpdroky:
Depends on yre choice , stock or custom
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hacker804:
I want links to a stock ROM please.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conanDO98:
Sammobile is your best bet. It has almost all stock firmwares for all Samsung phones.

However , the download speed is limited to around 50kb/s for free users
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hacker804:
SAMMobile only gives the .md5 file. I need a ROM with all the files I listed.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpdroky:
Try here : http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9300

The region codes are listed here : http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/csc-codes-t2090739

Note: you don't allways need to use all the files, in most of the cases csc and pda is enough
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kush2.0:
When I had same issue on gti9300 I flashed my recovery tar file with Odin again and enabled me to boot into recovery with power vol- up home keys.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hacker804:
Yes I can boot into recovery it says that cannot mount system .

Can you tell me what to do after that?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hacker804:
I need the .pit file
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] KRZTF:
hello everyone!

i am running wm06 for a while now and have to admit, its fckng great! :D

i upgraded from wm2003 directly to wm06, so its like two different worlds...

but when i was upgrading, i did not manage to merge the extrom with the rest of the storage, the unhide and unlock thing just didn't work!

but as i am now sure, that i wont need to roll back to 2003 again, merging the extrom with the rest of the storage would only make it better, no disadvantages, am i right?

or am i needing the extrom in wm06?

how is it used in wm06?

or is it just wasted space....?

as u can easily see, i am still a little confused about all that.... :confused:

here are some specs from my device:

ROM Version: 5.60.00 WWE

ROM Date: 03/02/05

Radio Version: 1.15.00

Protocol Version: 1337.45

ExtROM Version: - (nothing here...??? is that bad??)

STORAGE:

total: 42,92MB

in use: 28,26MB

free: 14,66MB

PROGRAM:

total: 109,12MB

in use: 40,23MB

free: 68,90MB

thx for any help,

regards,

krz
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] kerio:
ExtROM: Extended ROM - is the section of the ROM which the distributor of the phone (eg O2, T-Mobile, iMate, etc) store their customization (eg Today theme, ring tones, extra software) data.

In WM2003 you may found your phone having hardreset quite often - thats because WM2003 use RAM as program-storage (RAM lose everything when battery is drained)

In WM5/6 you are not using RAM as a storage anymore thus not performing hardreset often (typically once during flash)

By performing ExtROM merge, you're going to have extra MB in storage. There is NO DISADVANTAGE.

Those who prefer to have an ExtROM for whatever reason (they may HardReset their phone quite often because of testing/developing/whatever) place the "ExtROM" folder in Storage Card (Memory card/SD/MMC) and after HR it gets installed as usual.

Or you can install fixes and addons "one by one".

Read more information here : http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_ERK_Understand

----

To sum it up :

You dont need to merge your ExtROM (it cost you some MB)

* How to merge / is here : http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Blueangel_WM6_WizzardMain
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] KRZTF:
thx a lot for your answer, kerio...!! :)

if i understood you right, the EXTROM is of NO USE at all in WM06.

so if not merged before upgrading, it will be just invisible and unused space.... am i right? :confused:

if so, i would of course prefer to merge the EXTROM with the rest of the storage to gain more free megabytes....

will the total storage size be 60,3MB after merging, like i have seen in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=326515 ?!?

is it possible to merge the EXTROM after having WM06 installed?

can i merge EXTROM without reinstalling WM06 and all programs?

btw: unhiding and unlocking is NOT working on my device....

when clicking UNHIDE, nothing happens,

when clicking UNLOCK i get the following error:

ERROR: FL_IOCTL_BDTL_HW_PROTECTION - The parameter is incorrect.

what am i doing wrong?? :eek:

i know, that are a lot of questions, but i would be very thankful if someone could help me with that...

thx in advance!

regards,

krz
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] KRZTF:
bump bump :D
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] tomiki:
I would also be interested if somebody suuggests new solutions for "big storage" as my device does accept unlock and unhide, but when using "repart_DOC.exe" it gives me errors and eosn't repartition the ROM...

:(
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] Xeon:
Downgrade to WM2003 , play da game and flash to wm6
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] Nicolfa:
Xeon's got the idea. You will need to to downgrade to WM2003, unlock, unhide and repartition the extrom. Once complete then flash up to the WM6.

I had to do the same thing, as I had not correctly repartitioned the extrom when I moved up too WM5. Good luck.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] KRZTF:
hello and thx a lot for all your ansers!

how many MBs will I gain from merging EXTROM?

and is there a way to use that space without merging?

anyone knows?? :confused:
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] donelbaron:
i have wm2003 and i can't unhide , unlock, or format doc, cos everytime i'm trying i can see , FL_IOCTL_BDTL_HW_PROTECTION the parameter is incorrect, can anyone help me?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] tangwd898:
We got the point now.

Advise the wiki should be revised as so many people are confusing about the ExtROM.

Thanks
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] kerio:
Dear tangwd898,

lol:)

Have you ever read the wiki? Could you give me the parts where "you must revert back to WM2003" is missing?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] tangwd898:
Dear kerio,

I did read the Wiki regarding the ExtROM for more than 3 three times, I can't get any informations that we can't modify the ExtROM in OS wm5.0 or wm6.0 from the thread - Understanding the Blue Angle Extended ROM:-

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_ERK_Understand

"you must revert back to WM2003" - may be found at other threads but i think this thread "Understanding the Blue Angle Extended ROM" should include this message.

Thank you.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] kerio:
I dont think so:)

When performing upgrade you should follow the instruction (WM5 and WM6 pages) when you dont - then you may find yourself in trouble.

1. The main page is only for WM2003

2. Error message -> google -> sollution (30sec)

3. You can add it to the wiki (anyone can)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] tangwd898:
I still have some questions:-

- Why my *.cab files in the extROM folder all missing after i done a hard Reset?

- How to keep all *.cab files in the ExtROM folder after the hard reset?

Thank you.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] HDuser:
Guys and Gals

The BA Wiki was started over 2 years or more ago by a new guy on the forum who trying to work out how to get his German MDAIII flashed with an English rom.

He wrote it in order that the information was found in one place as he found it hard to find it in all the threads, this finding problem is still true today.

Well as you see times have changed and the porblems of WM5 and WM6 were not know at that time and as you also see not many people have bothered to invest time back into documneting in wiki. Its become more of a get and ***** about wiki not being updated than a give back some of the time in searching the threads and update wiki for the next person.

Some were in the begining it says if you don't like what you read then fix it.

This is best done by those people that are going through the learning curve as they read Wiki and they should beable to correct / add / embelish on what is written and what needs to be said.

Its a thought.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] HDuser:
Misson impossible is that type of Cab file that is no longer there after a hard reset (or when they are executed) as they delete themselves.

Change the properties to read only will solve that.

Check out the kitchen

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_ERK_Things2know
[Micromax Canvas Nitro A310/A311] Swagat4187:
Galaxy NOTE 5 ROM.

It's awesome for A310. No bugs et al.

Link: http://www.needrom.com/download/note5-maximum-v2-by-abhinav-rayakwarawesowm-ui/
[Micromax Canvas Nitro A310/A311] S.i.d_:
Lol its not a new rom, its there from quite a long time.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djsynth:
Let's be honest to ourselves here guys, out beloved Moto X Style was officially released in September which means this phone has now been out for at least 3 months and while all the effort that has since been put in this devices by key developers and people from day 1 up till now is very much appreciated and will continue to be appreciated, the development of this device compared to most flagships has been slow motion.

I am just trying to understand what the hell went wrong with this phone that made it end up with such super slow motion development, as when I originally bought the device I was thinking this phone would be at least in the top 20 most active phones on XDA development wise.

It had so much going for it, easy root, easy unlockable bootloader, a pretty much almost complete stock version of android, kernel sources released and motorolas good track record of updating their flagship phones in a timely manner and good hardware to accompany the great bloatware free stock software and a cheap price compared to some other flagships from other companies such as Samsung and Sony

With all this in mind I thought developers would flock to this device and we would have a massive development forum with loads of options between custom roms, mods, themes and other tweaks etc

But this is far from the case and I know the Nexus 6P being released probably had something to do with it, Still this should have been at least in top 20

At first I thought when Android 6.0 MM will be released development will increase then we needed the kernel sources as that was apparently not enough, then we had kernel sources but apart from 1 or 2 roms showing up being in alpha stages nothings changed too much.

This is such a disappointment to say the least.

If only I could understand why this is happening maybe something could be done to fix this or increase the development of this phone, I dont know maybe get some developers from the nexus 6p forums on here some how ...

Any ideas why this has happened and if anything can be done to increase development?

IS THERE ANY WAY WE AS A COMMUNITY CAN GET MORE DEVELOPERS TO WORK ON THIS DEVICE?
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GretaLewd:
I think it's due to a combination of factors, such as :

1) The popularity of the phone/ manufacturer. These figures show Lenovo/Motorloa in 5th place for sales, having a 3.7% market share in Q3 2015

2) The OS (Android) has improved a lot over recent years, to the extent where a lot of people (like me) are happy to stay with stock

3) With phones getting more expensive, more people are put off from unlocking their bootloader due to warranty issues

4) I'm no longer convinced about the benefits of custom ROMs - seems a lot of the time they break more things than they fix. Maybe a lot of other people now think the same.

5) Some apps, for example ones for mobile banking or subscrition TV & Video, will not work with a rooted phone.

In the past I've had various phones from various manufacturers, and I'd say if you get your kicks from installing custom ROMs, then buy a Nexus.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guraki:
When i had the one plus one there were so many roms that was a brain storm... I prefer some and reliable roms than a plethora where you get confused!!!
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsa 329:
IMO you hit the nail on the head. I love this phone. I had the MXPE 2014 as well, was not a fan. Also owned the original, Loved it.

This MXPE has been great in imo, the lack of development has not been disappointing to me. The stock rom is really pretty good, there are minor tweaks that can be done but most can do these on their own.

I used to be a flash-aholic, but like [MENTION=3616704]GretaLewd[/MENTION] has stated...custom roms tend to break things. I'm more in favor of kernel development. But how many different kernels can you have? One way or another they'll be the same.

I also own a Nexus 6P, but my MXPE is my go to device.

I see users complaining about this phone constantly, I really don't think it matters what phone you put in the hands of those users...they would still find fault and complain.

Motorola and Lenovo did good by this device, I just hope they keep up with incrementals for a while.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patt2k:
Isn't the 64bit cpu reason because it takes more work to get cm/aosp roms?
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SR3TLAW:
Good thread. Would love to hear more thoughts
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vishal007:
Ordered the device today. Hope slow development doesn't disappoint me on this device, as others have stated...
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gulshanstrider:
I have been using this device for 2 months now. I am happy with it an didn't face a single issue. I can do a little bit tweaking myself using Xposed.

So far the slow development doesn't bother me.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisund123:
Only buy a device for what it can do out of the box, not what you hope it will be able to do with additional modding and development... Nothing else is guaranteed!

As it stands I'm very happy with my rooted stock Style, not need for custom roms.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djsynth:
That's a good way to approach Android phones I suppose but I believe

it's still nice to buy a phone that's great out of the box and good development wise, usually flagships tend to have good development and then the mid range and low end phones tend to get smaller developments but I guess there's an exception to everything.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djsynth:
I doubt that's the reason since 64 Bit has been the standard since Lollipop and pretty much all the flagships have a 64bit cpu since the beggining of 2015 but that doesn't stop other development forums from flourishing.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djsynth:
Thank you for your break down on your thoughts of the subject and I must admit you've mention some very valid points here especially Point 1,2 and 5 but I think out of all of these its Point 1 and 2 that are the most significant, I suppose Motorola have a really small market share explains the lack of adoption between developers when comparing to some of the more prominent manufacturers such as samsung.

and The Android Stock OS has improved significantly within the past couple of years adding some new features that previously people had to root their phones to acomplish such as full app permission controls and backing up app data which google does for you now.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faris:
You need to follow development before buying a device these days. i.e. always wait at least 1-2 months. If you follow the development forums you would get an idea if developers are interested in said device or not. I for one, bought it right after I found out that AICP (CM12) rom was being developed. I was interested in running CM13 instead of other AOSP variations. And before I got the device the first (almost daily driver) builds were already uploaded.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lafester:
Once cm is solid quite a few roms will pop up. Won't be long now.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pizzlewizzle:
Official MM has only been out for our phone for a little over a month. give it some time it may pick up. either way it's still an awesome phone out the box... and as stated above, once CM13 is stable im sure we'll see some of the other custom ROMs that are based off it.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PythonNut:
This is a great point, but I'd like to add that this is especially applicable to our MXPE. We're really close to stock as it is, so there's little motivation to go ROM to debloat like there is on Samsung, LG, and similar phones. On the flip side, we have a lot of really neat features (active display, approach, accelerator gestures, voice controls) that we would lose if we went ROM.

For me, these two points combine, leaving me with little motivation to ROM my phone, especially since I can could get most of the advantages of CyanogenMod with something like GravityBox, which will allow me to keep the Motorola features (I'm currently unrooted because of the warranty, but I'll be rooted in the future for sure) . Of course, these are my own personal opinions, but I suspect that they reflect at least some of the mindset of this community.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdCarden:
I agree with others, that custom roms are often more trouble than they're worth. The only reason to use them these days is if your device isn't going to be updated to the latest version of Android.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asuhoops8628:
Ever since moto introduced 99% stock android + moto display, roms have been entirely unnecessary for me. I used to rom my phones to gain greater flexibility + customizability. Now that I have stock android + Xposed, I doubt I will ever flash another custom rom again.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chindynasty:
I'm still waiting for custom super roms that will make this device best in the market. Why can we have a rom with 1080p display, tweak kernel with better control for heating issue for overall battery life and speed?
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
The biggest issue is that developers don't support devices they don't own. With the launch of the nexus 6 (not the 6p) most developers got it and had no need to update to a y newer devices.

Also to the comment that all flag ships are 64 bit this is not the case. If you look the most popular devices as far as developers are concerned are non 64 bit.

Also as android matures you will see less and less roms. As it will be come harder. There are very few real development teams. Most are just kitchen sink roms. A base with tons of cherry picks and a new name. Nothing even worth looking at twice. But more developers are closing up the source of their projects because of these types of roms.

To be honest most users have no point in flashing roms. Only those that like the development side of it will continue to mod roms and flash things.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] george241312:
This phone got rekt by the nexus. Even I want to switch to a 5x or a 6p but 5x has the same processor -1gb ram but its smaller and easier to use on one hand not justifiable. 6p is bending and 810 CPU is just not worth it I guess I'm holding on to this phone till the next Nexus. Maybe next year huawei will start mass producing their processors because Qualcomm is falling back really hard.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joe1blue:
Is it the processor that is making my phone a little hot? Because my phone becomes noticeably warmer when I'm doing simple tasks like browsing the web or watching YouTube....
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] mtsimmer:
I have gt-p7300 ( the one with 3G )

every time im trying to flash gapps it says every thing was successful and no problems but when i boot it up there are no gapps (play store nothing )

my recovery is cwm

im trying to flash "[Platform : ARM ][ Android : 4.4.4 ][ Variant : Micro ]" (its open gapps project )

currently i'm running cm 11

the device is now empty ( nothing installed accept for google keyboard* )

*because there was a problem with the AOSP one it's crushed

when im installing the stock rom ( the one from vodafone {android 4.0.4 } its comes with pre built gapps in it )

Thanks for answers :)

and if you want recommend me some custom kernel that supports some nice O.C because the CM overclock is just from 1000->1400 MHz you can say its 140% but its not even 50 C' so it's possible to get some more

juice from this 5 years old dual core :)
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] L3R0N:
Update your recovery to TWRP. You can find it here Then try flashing again. If that fails then try flashing with Flashfire...you need root for that so make sure you are rooted. And 1400MHz is the highest this tab can go before becoming unstable. There are no kk kernels that go over 1400.