yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micmars:
Well, perhaps for you it is.

Where, pray tell, does it say that your device needs to be rooted? Did you think that buying a Nexus 6P would simply imbue your phone with whatever feature you decided Google should have, that Samsung did...and the dev community has provided for you, free of charge?

Why stop there? Why not ask for Blink feed? I mean, HTC has it, why didn't Google provide that?

You're on a site devoted to custom roms, rooting, and making more from the stock experience.

So what are the advantages of a pure Android experience? Let's see...

1. Almost all roms built from stock or AOSP will function flawlessly, sans crapware installed by Samsung, LG, HTC, whatever

2. Swiftly unlock, root, etc

3. Go back to stock and still get a better experience than bloated devices from other manufacturers with carrier branding.

You want the toggle, flash a rom. Try a rom like Cataclysm if you want a close-to-stock experience...but it's going to need root if you want those features.

Sent from my Nexus 6P, #WhiteUIsMustDie, #EndDarkAppOppression
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E46M3:
Obviously I don't want the unnecessary bloatware from Samsung but I get your point. I should flash a custom ROM to make it more customizable. TBH, I have never rooted my phones and maybe I'm a bit nervous about doing it. Maybe afraid of bricking it. What are some of the advantages of using a custom ROM? I guess I'm a noob in this regard. Thanks!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micmars:
Excellent...yeah, you'd be surprised by the number of folks who have asked this question in their head and didn't have the temerity to simply ask...so good for you. Seriously...I lurked for a bit, and then hit a few of the noob friendly threads and just asked all kinds of crazy stuff. I'm one of those measure 10x, cut once types.

As to the benefits, if you chose to simply root your device and flash zero custom roms, it gives you these benefits...

1. Kill advertising in apps, on your browser, etc

2. The ability to use your device as a portable hotspot without getting into a hard limit from your cellphone provider (don't overdo it, but it's awesome)

3. The ability to put themes on your phone that don't have Google's horrible White UI...I mean, this phone has an amoled display that makes black look as deep black as you'll find, yet Google made all of these ugly white backgrounds. You may find yourself wanting to try all kinds of themes

4. The ability to backup your entire device exactly as it is now, without having to restore so of your apps, etc.

5. The ability to do things like clear all recents using an app like Chainfire offers in the play store, instead of swiping every dang one of them

6. The ability to own your device instead of being stuck with plain vanilla Google

I'm sure there's more, but that's a quick punch list, taking a minimalist perspective.

Sent from my Nexus 6P, #WhiteUIsMustDie, #EndDarkAppOppression
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NPOA556:
In the interest of full disclosure, you should also be aware of the downsides to this stuff. The primary one being that it is very easy to make changes to the system partition that will prevent you from being able to successfully apply OTA updates. Once /system has been modified, you will have to either flash back to stock to accept the OTA or just flash the new build after downloading it from Google. There is also the risk that you will brick your phone, although that risk is VERY low if you can follow instructions. I personally find the benefits to vastly outweigh the drawbacks, but you should at least know that there are some drawbacks, namely the OTA thing. Once you flash a few times and get over the uneasiness of not knowing what you are doing, it is really quite easy and quick.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micmars:
Agreed, but to split hairs, that's in the interest of thoroughness, since that which you've written is included in the OP of every thread on these forums. Indeed, Google publishes instructions for exactly how to unlock and update your device on their own site.

I think that it's wise to aver that one should learn before doing, and that includes knowing the risks of rooting.

Sent from my Nexus 6P, #WhiteUIsMustDie, #EndDarkAppOppression
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tnerb123:
If you turn on developer options you can customize them a little but not a lot. Meaning adding 1 or 2 more options and disabling a few. Can also turn on battery level on the notification bar.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E46M3:
I'm kinda confused, what's zero custom ROMS? meaning no ROMS? Or is that a name of a ROM? I thought rooting a phone means flashing a ROM.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E46M3:
Thanks for the heads up!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E46M3:
I did that, and I tried to turn on and off features but it doesn't reflect in actual pulldown. :confused: No matter what I turn on or off, everything stays the same in the pulldown menu.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micmars:
Well, if you look in the Android Development section of these forums, you'll find stock, pre-rooted roms with almost zero features...just root added.

Or, you could just flash the SuperSU zip, and have a completely stock rom and still do all of those things I referenced.

So no, rooting doesn't necessitate you flashing a custom rom.

Some think that stock with root is the very best user experience.

Sent from my Nexus 6P, #WhiteUIsMustDie, #EndDarkAppOppression
[OnePlus X General] psychem:
antutu is biased because it is favouring 64bit processors. a 32bit processor with 3 gb ram will always work better than 64bit processor with 3gb ram. this is an old debate on the desktop world when intel introduced 64bit processors. 64bit processors require double the ram just to give the same performance as as similar 32bit processors with half the ram. here are the Quadrant benchmark scores which does not bias/cheat results in favour of 64bit just to drive market sales.

23751 oneplus x

24187 oneplus one

26459 oneplus two
[OnePlus X General] saurabh40629:
New perspective, interesting.
[OnePlus X General] ChavitoArg:
Quadrant? The 2012 app?

Enviado desde mi ONE E1005 mediante Tapatalk
[OnePlus X General] Mr.3bood:
any names for 32 bit benchmark apps ?
[OnePlus X General] psychem:
yes back when benchmarks were not biased in favour of 64bit.

Quadrant
[OnePlus X General] rockuppl:
My CPU score is saying something different... CPU score More than One plus Two ... Ooops :P
[OnePlus X General] psychem:
23751 is the total score
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mastermarkofroms:
So I love everything about the zenfone 2 4GB version now my question is there a fix for the boot animation or? don't get me wrong I like the default one but if I use a custom one you still see the Asus start up animation is this a 5.0 memory leak issue? or?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grid4:
I see , you are not getting custom boot animation applied...right?

Are you flashing it right? It should go to /system/media with proper updater script.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mastermarkofroms:
No I am flashing it right and it does work the question I am wondering is this a bug? because it plays default asus logo before the custom Animation Because I know most phones I have owned has never had 2 different animations at startup
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grid4:
Yes.. never seen like this. I have had tried myself a lot of bootanimations... after the splash...it goes straight to custom boot animation.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mastermarkofroms:
do you know if there is a way to remove or edit the splash? I am just wondering.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grid4:
I didn't unpack the splash.img yet.... just fastboot flashed a original one after unlocking boot loader.

I know there is a way to edit it cause I did flash custom splash to my tab earlier. I will get back to you on that.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mastermarkofroms:
Okay thanks sorry just makes me wonder as to why they have masked the splash or have hidden it.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mastermarkofroms:
Bump I know this thread is 2 months old but did you find a solution to it or?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exSD:
Despair left on a comment. Did something happen that I missed?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giant22000:
Read a little further back in the thread. You'll see... Such a shame...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m3dd0g:
Search at G+ for updates ...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradputt:
a little to drastic isn't he?

where to get updates now?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajgftw:
Xda isn't the only place for updates....it's just the most popular.

You can continue to get updates and support on the google+ page
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jodvova:
What's happened to him? Why he suddenly quit XDA?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fury683:
Was expecting a Star Wars spoiler :X
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wtherrell:
G+, ugh! Hate it.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackpollard:
Dang, thats an excellent kernel and an excellent dev, such a shame. This is the 3rd time in the past few years this has happened to either a great rom/kernel. How hard is it to understand that the dev's do this 100% for free? 100%!!! I'm not sure I would get through a week dealing with; same questions over and over, can I have ....., please add ...., your wrong please fix ... They will nickel dime the dev to death and we all pay for it.

It seems like its part of this "entitled" mindset. My wife is an RN and I get daily stories where the patient or the family treats the hospital like it's a hotel and the nurses like their personal maid. Funny thing is it's usually people who are not going to pay their bills anyway.

I always suggest just don't even respond to morons, let the thread members deal with them. Or maybe have a dedicated moderator that deals with them, like this the dev can interact when they want and not be hassled. Eventually no one will develop publicly and again we all lose.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micmars:
In general, I agree, users can be a pain, as can doing this stuff for free and the resultant give-me-more mentality...but I would suggest not casting all blame on users driving good devs from this incredible place.

Xda is here and is the best development site for Android. Period. Not every dev leaves because users or xda drove them away.

In very general terms, and NOT necessarily applicable to the particular dev referenced here, some devs like to leave because they don't want to follow the rules to which all devs are bound...they will then blame xda, its users, etc, and martyr themselves, as if they are somehow the victims of...the man, the xda communists (yes, I've seen that), etc.

In other words, I would at least try and keep an open mind about this stuff...it's easy to get caught up in the drama as to why, but sometimes there is no blame, just time to move on...these forums are filled with the best tools available on the planet for customizing your smartphone or tablet, all free of charge.

Sent from my Nexus 6P, #WhiteUIsMustDie, #EndDarkAppOppression
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackpollard:
Well said as always and good point. I always tend to criticize that typical "me me me" attitude with no true regard to the value and time the devs put into the work. But, you are 100% correct, I've seen some very nasty interactions where it was just an innocent question from a naive person. Amen to the site and the free resources available!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxys:
XDA Development ftw! Happy 2016 xda'rs!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
This. Yep, 100% this. Well said.

:good:
[General Topics] W4ZOO:
Prob not the best place to ask, but...

I have many apps from a software developer, no names. Most are for windows but four of them are for WM5 . The developer claims that thay will not upgrade to WM6 untill his vender upgrades his compiler to do WM6. He has no idea when that will be.This all sounds great, but he is over his head in backdated upgrades and a lot of bugs.

I was just thinking this is a way of putting thease way to the back burner. If it was me I would have answers, compiler release dates and whats involved when it is realesed.

I don't hear much about coding apps here but this is the largest brain pool on phones that I know of.

Thanks

Ken
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AestheticFC:
When I try to move or copy a picture (for example) into a folder located in my Micro SD card I get a "Permission denied." dialogue message. Also, camera apps don't allow me to select SD card as a storage location because of this. Just flashed my ZE551ML to CyanogenMod 13 yesterday and now this is happening. Any help is appreciated.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
I have a ze500cl but this might help. Did on my Galaxy S2 and have been using this fix since I found out.

In the platform.xml file in /system/etc/permissions folder, I have the external storage set to these lines.

<permission name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >

<group gid="sdcard_r" />

<group gid="media_rw" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >

<group gid="sdcard_r" />

<group gid="sdcard_rw" />

<group gid="media_rw" />

</permission>

Just add the line <group gid="media_rw" /> to each one like I have here and all apps sure read and write like normal.

Should work on any android version.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AestheticFC:
This is what I have on my platform.xml folder:

Don't see "EXTERNAL_STORAGE" anywhere. I am supposed to copy and paste those two blocks you provided in there and if so where exactly do I put it? (Does the order matter?)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
I guess you can but make a backup of yours and insert the two lines I gave hefe.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AestheticFC:
Still didn't work. Thanks for the help anyway. Got any more ideas on how to fix?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Maybe try some sd card fixing apps in the play store, they didn't work for me but might for you. But can you post the platform file with my fix so I can look at it?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AestheticFC:
Sure. This is what I edited it into:
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Here is my platform.xml from my ze500cl, you can compare or use it to replace yours, if you replace yours with mine, make sure they somewhat match about 90% so I don't screw up your phone.

https://mega.nz/#!4sonVChQ!IiwGZ3ysJZ531tTxUwwvhRimo2JITqiHvdbdGgaxZiA
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AestheticFC:
So I took the three blocks from your file:

READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

ACCESS_ALL_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

and pasted them between my READ_LOGS and WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE blocks and it still didn't work unfortunately =/
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
can you post your platform.xml file and ill do some fixes for one last try?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AestheticFC:
My original file or the edited one?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
The original one
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AestheticFC:
https://mega.nz/#!I5oC3AYA!RsvrvX_qEfOJ9fxQJ0OcJWnCmTKteh97BdLZv-QVBjE

Thanks for all the help btw.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
No problem my friend and here's the platform file with my fixes. I hope this time it works, plus check the permissions on the file itself after you move it to the permissions folder.

https://mega.nz/#!csByXQpC!UDnnoZ1G_CQ3mH4272qLLPKizlyYtWQBJFoivs51DS4
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AestheticFC:
Sorry if noob question but how do I go on about replacing it? Do I delete my original platform and move this one to the permissions folder? Or do I copy and paste all the contents of this new file into the original file?

Also noticed a random apostrophe in the middle of the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE block. Is that supposed to be there?

Edit: btw, just tried to move the same couple pictures I've been trying to move from my internal storage to my sd card through ES File Manager and it let me. So the problem is that it doesn't grant me permission to write to the sd card through gallery apps (tried two different ones).
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
One: lol, no the apostrophe is my mistake, it can be removed

Two: I looked at the platform I sent you and the media_rw lines are not right below the sd card_r or rw lines so put spaces until they do

Finally: (since I was playing a pc game for two hours :rolleyes: ) you can replace the file but only as long as you have a backup.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AestheticFC:
Didn't work. Permission still denied in gallery. This is what I tried btw: https://mega.nz/#!89oVkJiT!L5FQWwpjvHn7vTod9LUolhPA5j0eimX044REa0l5aVE
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patrickdrd:
same problems for me too, has anyone found a solution?
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su86bd:
Hello friends, i got my xperia z5 dual e6633 before 1 day. When i start or view anything on the screen like white color i found something in the middle of screen. All screen is little darken but in the middle here is a small area showing more white. Is this a perfect display??????
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thetitanium:
I think you should get it replaced.
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su86bd:
thanks bro....
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] langeveld024:
Yeah get it replaced, my first one had it too, second one is good now!
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AA138:
Definitely is a flaw. My first one also having same problem. Before buy, test first by key in *#*#7378423#*#*, actually 7378423 stand for "service". then go to "service tests". After all tests pass, only you get out from the shop. ;)
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su86bd:
Thanks you friends for yours replays..

I already send it for replace and i hope will get good one.
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramiki:
yes, repair it, Hppy new year
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su86bd:
happy new year to u & all in xda
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su86bd:
hello friends, today i got a my replaced phone from sony.

looking good and i hope it will work fine and i wait for a rooting solution for unlock bootloader like xperia z1
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Shawn Nk:
I need tutorial on flash CWM recovery to Infinix Hot2
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_echelon26:
I have an unlocked US Cellular Galaxy S6 and I use my Straight Talk sim card (running off AT&T towers) and calls and texts work but there's no option anywhere in settings to enter apn settings. I bypassed this using an app but I would like to know a fix and not just a work around. I'm VERY familiar with Androids and I've never encountered this issue and searching hasn't led me to any answers.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_echelon26:
Anyone? I also keep getting a + symbol with incoming calls and its annoying
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_echelon26:
Anything? Lol
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_N:
There's a thread over at teamuscellular.com. it involves getting into the service menu. I used a USC S6 on TMO for a while. Also maybe a csc edit to show the default apns, and you'll just edit it and it'll stick. It's been a while...I'm just trying to point you in the right direction.
[Verizon HTC One (M9)] Dino10or:
So I've spent the last couple of hours trying to find a way I could abuse android to allow me to Enable OEM Unlock, first by messing with .apks and things before realizing that is it is completely unrelated to whichever settings apk is used after looking at the source code here, then I started seeing if I could find a way to use the adb settings put command (to no avail, as it is not controlled by something as simple as that):

github /android/platform_packages_apps_settings

A lot of this is probably already known to a lot of exploiters, but I discovered:

I'd like to say that a MODIFIED Settings.apk is able to be installed over adb with adb install (possibly modify the app further with java and fix the enable oem option?).

If PERSISTENT_DATA_BLOCK_PROP does not equal "" then ShowOEMUnlock will be true, and you could select the option in settings.

private static final String PERSISTENT_DATA_BLOCK_PROP = "ro.frp.pst";

ro.frp.pst is a restricted file somewhere in in dev/block

However, let's look at the enabling button itself:

The name of the button doesn't really matter, and the strings for them are oem_unlock_enable and oem_unlock_enable_summary, but I thought I'd post it anyways.

When actually clicking the button: " Utils.setOemUnlockEnabled(getActivity(), true);" is called, which uses the same function on the Persistent Data Block Service. I assume this writes the boolean to the device.

My understanding is a bit fuzzy on this one, but I see a function regarding ActivityResult in which if the requestCode for the activity is REQUEST_CODE_ENABLE_OEM_UNLOCK then mEnableOemUnlock is checked if it is, well, checked, then confirmEnableOemUnlock(); is called (which leads to the utils and updateAllOptions call) -- if it is NOT checked, Utils.setOemUnlockEnabled(getActivity(), false); then I assume it sets the OemUnlock to false.

Under updateAllOptions(), If mEnableOemUnlock is nonexistant/null then it will automatically "updateSwitchPreference(mEnableOemUnlock, Utils.isOemUnlockEnabled(getActivity()));", which I assume just sets it to false by default if the option simply doesn't exist. This could possibly be abused?

I see a couple of options here, one of those primely being modifying the settings apk (it can be patched/updated via ADB), making it work for the One M9, and then enabling OEM somehow, or making a standalone APK which does the job itself with java (the only problem is I'm not familiar with how permissions would work in java, so I'm not sure about the plausibility of that). I'd assume it'd be somehow use a function akin to the Utils.setOemUnlockEnabled to write the data block that allows for the unlock code to be called in the first place.

There is no real point to this thread, but I thought I might share some of my finding and possibly find someone to help me pursue these findings.

Sorry if I'm all over the place, I've been looking through code for a couple hours and there's a lot to process.

If anyone wants to chat, contact me on skype:

live:dragonfabledonny
[Verizon HTC One (M9)] Dino10or:
Alright, so I have modified the DevelopmentSettings.java to make it so that if you enable any setting/disable (anything that will make it update), it should enable OEM unlocking. However, I'm having an issue compiling the .APK-- is anyone willing to help me do this? Please contact me on skype if you can; "live:dragonfabledonny"
[Verizon HTC One (M9)] Dino10or:
Also, apparently the HTC Settings.apk is completely different from the normal android one, as I've decompiled it's java code and took a peek around to simply find this:

if (SystemProperties.get("ro.frp.pst").equals(""))

Which sets if the option is visible or not. I'll do some tinkering and see if I can manage a recompile. :v
[Verizon HTC One (M9)] bschram:
Enabling this setting will not allow the Verizon m9 to be oem unlocked. The issue is that HTC does not allow devices with a Verizon CID to be unlocked.

You would need a way to switch to superCID (or any other nonVerizon CID) in order to oem unlock.
[Verizon HTC One (M9)] dottat:
I also don't believe an app loaded via adb install will go anywhere other than /data. Meaning it won't have the same privileges as /system installed apps that would enable this on say a nexus device.
[Verizon HTC One (M9)] Dino10or:
Yeah, I continued my pursuits of it in the developers section if you're curious:

http://xdaforums.com/android/help/help-modifying-recompiling-settings-apk-t3282645

It's completely possible to patch the settings.apk and install it-- if it wasn't for certificates.