yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] galaxys:
Not sure, but you can try an official English or you can try a cooked French rom. Schaps has cooked these and you can get information (or ask your questions) on his threads & posts.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] N1c0_ds:
Double post, sorry (see below)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] N1c0_ds:
And if I take the official English ROM, would I have to reinstall everything or can I use software to reinstall my stuff on it?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] galaxys:
Like I said 'not sure', but I would think so for the english rom.

Yes, you would have to reinstall any additional programs, etc.

Yes, there are back up programs for your device; you can search Wiki for information on them.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] N1c0_ds:
Alright I'll try that before messing with my device. Maybe not right now, but I will, thanks!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] N1c0_ds:
Alright! Problem solved! I used the official english ROM from HTC. The cause of this problem was problably the fact that only Rogers TyTNs use french ROMs AND a Qwerty keyboard. Snce they got the phone 8 months after the rest of the world, we might not see any french WM6 roms with Qwerty support.

Thanks for your great support!

Posted from my TyTN using Opera, weee!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] galaxys:
Congratulations! Glad it worked out for you and your device...
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hAtE NeVeR dIeS:
Hello,

I think i just bricked my Amazon Fire 5th generation.

I Installed CM12.1 using the flashfire method. Because I cant get amazon prime instant video to work, I decided to go back to stock.

I head over to this thread: http://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/howto-how-to-restore-frimware-device-t3238740

As I can remember, I first wiped everything then installing the newest firmware 5.2.2 via sideload. Before I flashed to CM12.1, I came from fireos 5.2.2.

Now, my device is stuck in an bootloop. The screen is black all the time and I cant get the device back to work. If the device is connected to my pc, it showed up in device manager from time to time with unkown device, after some seconds it disapears and MT65xx Preloader shows up. Again after some seconds this disappears again and after some seconds the same happens over and over.

I cant force the device to stop that because it dosent do anything if i try to shut it down or trying to get into fastboot or recovery.

Is there any way to get the fire back to work?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueberry.sky:
Did you have amazon FireOS version 5.0.1 or 5.1.1?

If you had 5.1.1 then flashing 5.0.1 will brick it. And will cause your preloader to endlessly cycle as you describe. That "5.2.2" file Awesomeslayerg links to in his thread is 5.0.1, he really should have changed that post since anyone on 5.1.1 following his instructions will be hard bricked.

I'm sorry to say, the preloader cycling like that shows that you have a hard brick (unrecoverable).
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hAtE NeVeR dIeS:
Before I flashed to CM12.1, I came from fireos 5.2.2. So I flashed Firmware 5.2.2 back.

Well, looks like I have to send the tab to amazon...
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueberry.sky:
"5.2.2" is just the file name. We normally refer to it as FireOS 5.0.1, that is name amazon uses & system update menu displays. And it causes less confusion. I don't know why Awesomeslayerg uses "5.2.2" instead of 5.0.1.

Did you ever try twrp? FlashFire is in beta & can be buggy. If you have 5.0.1 then you should really use twrp.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hAtE NeVeR dIeS:
I downloaded the file linked in the post. Maybe It happens because I wiped everything before flashing the firmware and not after.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Awesomeslayerg:
Not my fault for your guys mistakes. I'm also dome with the fire development as this community has a lack of common sense.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hAtE NeVeR dIeS:
No problem dude. Things can happen so everything is alright. I am totally aware of that you are not responsible for damages that happen to the devices. Amazon is sending a new one. If i have to pay for this, its my problem not yours. You dont have to apologise.

But it will be great if you edit your thread and write in there, that the firmware you postet isnt fpr the 5.1.1. bootloader to prevent other users from making such a mistake.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 33korzhello:
I

think many people have this problem and I am of those
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stewie2806:
I'm a new member but can't post links, so:

Go to YouTube > search: How to Firmware Restore or Unbrick your Amazon Fire 5th gen Tablet by Rootjunky.

It really helped me out when I bricked my fire 5th Gen.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=63943805

[Videos] Tutorials on how to root, flash roms and more on the Amazon Fire 5th gen.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stewie2806:
thank you sir
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FireBill:
I am looking into using SP Tools to restore the stock rom onto a bricked 5th gen. The stock roms do not have the scatter file needed to use SP Tools however there is a tool to create a scatter file but I don't have a working stock tablet to read. In addition if we can create a scatter file maybe 5.0.1 can be flashed via SP Tools onto a device that was previously 5.1.1. I would be willing to test this out if someone could create a scatter file from a stock Kindle fire 5th gen. Here is the link for the MTK tool that will create a scatter file. http://androidmtk.com/create-scatter-file-for-mtk-devices
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] percussionking:
Won't let me create a scatter file on 5.0.1 stock, see attachment.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] percussionking:
Didn't fare any better with the scatter file using CM rather than stock. Busybox is installed, SD card has 30GB free space, adbd insecure enabled. Sorry, not much else I know to try.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FireBill:
Thanks, I appreciate you trying. It's always worth a shot :)
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost_droid21:
Can someone trying creating scatter file for 5.1.1? Maybe it works...hopefully it works.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kramar111:
[MENTION=7269488]lost_droid21[/MENTION]

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=65262531&postcount=13

same thing on 5.1.1
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FireBill:
It's not reading the MT8127 I also tried with the CM 12.1 however the software should read a firmware.info file and use that to create a scatter file. Problem is I don't see that in any of the update files. What we actually need is the OEM firmware file and not the updates and we probably won't ever see that! If we could try another backup from a rom manager that would provide a scatter or firmware.info file we may be on to something.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost_droid21:
Thanks for trying that. It seems to be worse than I thought. I know it's probably going to be unlikely that we find a way to unlock the boot loader. So I guess we really need a OEM firmware file. Can anyone pitch in on that?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bakedFire:
I also bricked my Fire

Hi All,

I also bricked my fire while trying to downgrade to 5.0.1. Has anyone flashed ROM using any tool on bricked fire?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost_droid21:
How bricked is your device? Will it turn on and enter a bootloop or completely dead? If the latter, then there's no solution. If the former, then we're waiting for the solution. [emoji16]
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FireBill:
Yup, downgrading is an instant brick.

http://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/general/fireos-5-1-1-attempted-downgrade-t3263960

There are no known fix for that. Best thing to do is try and return the device to Amazon
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonathanjr321:
yea process only works for 5.0.1 and below or that change? good thing with 5.0.0 or 5.0.1 is if ur fastboot drivers are working (easy to make it work) boot into TWRP recovery and u r safe lol

I do not look at the fire thread for few months but I guess there are many partners like me working with 5.1.1 boot loop????

---------- Post added at 08:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:15 PM ----------

also I use this one just yesterday to recovery fire with firware 5.0.1 update-kindle-37.5.2.2_user_522054520.bin
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krrishtm:
Guys I am on the same chapter too. Any solutions ? Bricked while installing os5.1.1 on android 5.1.1. Worst bricked ever.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
you can try this, not easy and may not work

http://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/development/unbrick-fire-7-5th-gen-downgrade-t3388747
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrP11:
Rootjunkysdl.com has some firmware files... Does that works?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
no they are just the update zips
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinjyo:
I believe I bricked mine yesterday night when I tried to flash CM 12.1 onto my already rooted w/SlimLP Rom on 5.1.1 which have been working fine but kind of lag. My case is I first tried to upgrade from SlimLP to CM by using flashfire, but once it finished , it keeps saying android.process.acore stopped working. So I managed to use flashfire to flash CM again with a wipe process first, then flash rom and then Gapps Pico. The first time it boot into the CM 12.1. But it said system UI is stopped. And, I can't type or the keyboard simply doesn't show up on the page for my WIFI password access. Then, I decided to reboot the system and then it stucked at the bootloop screen with CM logo. I read many threads and posts and couldn't figure out what to do. Then I followed one instruction to press vol down and power button. It went into the amazon system recovery (If I am correct). I tried to wipe data/factory reset, reboot and then it went into CM optimize apps and boot into CM again. But it has the same problem that the keyboard simply doesn't show, system UI doesn't work and I don't see any apps on the app list. Then I reboot the system again and it stuck in bootloop with CM logo again.

So, I think my case is I wasn't trying to downgrade my 5.x.x version. But the tablet seems bricked at this point. Should I follow the adb sideload instruction to unbrick my device? But I see somewhere that rootjunkies adb sideload unbrick instruction is only for prior to 5.1.1.

Any hint and tip are really appreciated!!!
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinjyo:
Thanks to SD_Shadow! I was able to unbrick the device (5.1.1) following the link. A couple things I found during my whole brick and unbrick process.

1. Mistake I made: I forgot to move the "wipe" function to the top before flashing custom rom when using flashfire. They caused my CM12.1 doesn't work probably and ended up in bootloop.

2. Adb driver installation: It took me a long time to figure out how to install the driver. The solution at the end is to uninstall all previous android drivers. I was using window vista, so the device I need to add is "Android Phone". I did also install the 15 second driver installation prior to selecting the device in device manager.

3. My tablet doesn't say "Fastboot Mode" when using vol- & power button, but it will boot into recovery mode when continue to hold vol- after release power button.

4. My tablet doesn't say install apps or whatsoever, it always says optimizing apps during installation of the factory rom.

5. I flashed CM 12.1 again after unbricked the device. I like it more than my previous SlimLP as it is much faster and smoother. But it could be due to my SlimLP is an order version that I flashed back December last year and never got update.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sixohtwoer:
Yeah I downgraded my daughters amazon fire 5th gen , and it got bricked! Grr now I got to buy her a new one. But can't wait till you experts hook it up with a hack! If not amazon has a one year warranty. Ill send it in. I'll just say idk what happen my daughter said it just turned off.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
Warranty is only like 90 days in USA
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RozWellZ:
Flash Fire Bricked Amazon 2015 5th Fire?

Been flashing 2015 5th gen for a few months after downgraded 5.1.3 to 5.1.2 no problems. Other day went to upgrade ROM with flash fire and it rebooted and got stuck at Amazon logo, fastboot.exe works, and adb.exe devices shows devices but says "unauthorized" next to it so I can't side load, if I go to recovery and click adb side load windows shows device as " knoll" or something like that (cant remember exactly) and looks like didn't correctly install drivers for it. Is this a total brick now?

Thanks
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DB126:
You can tinker with (Windows) drivers from the index thread which may allow device to be "seen" when in sideload mode. Likely something got corrupted during the last FF run. If it impacted the bootloader or kernel you're done. If only the system partition (where ROMs live) then you should be able to sideload 5.1.2 and start over.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RozWellZ:
Did what you said played with drivers had to manually change driver to Composite Interface ADB, side loaded Stock 5.1.12 firmware it started right up, thanks. This time kingroot is being a pain last time I thought it rooted first try now I'm doing it over and over again. Do you know if lineage-ford.zip can be adb side loaded so I don't have to run all these kindle super tools to bypass rootinging with kingroot, installing SU , removing kingroor then installing FF to install ROM? I thought i would ask first before possibly messing something up.

Thanks for ur help
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DB126:
Unfortunately, you will need to use FlashFire to install a custom ROM which requires root (and SuperSU). A custom ROM can not be side loaded on this device - either via stock recovery it the adb "sideload" command.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flappy_the_otter2:
"hard" bricked amazon fire

I am the proud owner of a bricked amazon fire 5 (bricked wile downgrading). This device is dead, but there is a way to revive it. The fire tablet funs on a mediatek processor chip, and thus can be recovered with the SP flash tool (google it) even if hard bricked. The only issue is, there is no scatter file for the amazon fire 5, so I cant fix it. Supposedly, since the fire runs with a MediaTek MT8127 chip, any scatter file from a phone using this chip would work. Could someone please provide this?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
There's a few threads on scatter files, doesn't work, Google it.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DB126:
If it were that simple a solution would have been put forward long ago. Unfortunately, this brast isn't your typical MefiaTek gizmo.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abrituz:
Hello, i dont know if someone are already sitting in this thread, but please, answer me if you know how to help me.

i was using my fire as device for playing youtube or playing old minecraft, so.

I was playing games on PC and watching YouTube on my Fire, but at one point it abruptly shut down. I thought it was out of battery and plugged it in, but even after 20 minutes it still wouldn't turn on. I tried connecting it to my PC and found out one thing: Every 19-20 seconds, a cycle occurs. First it turns on and identifies as an LPT port (com3), after a second it turns off and turns on, identifying the PC as Mt65xx preloader, then it turns off. With the system of Fire itself, I did not commit any manipulations, and I don't know anything about this in principle. It will be a pity if my tablet, which has served me faithfully for 3 years, cannot be restored in any way. Please help me with my problem who can. Thank you in advance if anyone can help me.
[General Questions and Answers] prashantvrm:
Device: Android one

I was on CM13.1 and then flashed CM12.1 after that i flashed samsung dropbox promotion app and when i restart my device it says

"To start android,enter your password"

But i never encrypted my device

But i enter any password it says"to password you entered is correct but unfortunately your data is corrupt"

It says me to do a factory reset.

So i went to TWRP and wiped sys,data,cache and flashed new CM13 & also CM12 but still it shows the same.

I also tried to restore a backup still nothing happens.

I am getting the same.

Please someone tell me what the hell has happened.
[XDA Assist] prashantvrm:
Device: Android one

I was on CM13.1 and then flashed CM12.1 after that i flashed samsung dropbox promotion app and when i restart my device it says

"To start android,enter your password"

But i never encrypted my device

But i enter any password it says"to password you entered is correct but unfortunately your data is corrupt"

It says me to do a factory reset.

So i went to TWRP and wiped sys,data,cache and flashed new CM13 & also CM12 but still it shows the same.

I also tried to restore a backup still nothing happens.

I am getting the same.

Please someone tell me what the hell has happened.
[XDA Assist] v7:
Hello,

Thanks for using XDA Assist.

Can you specify your device and model number?

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[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StockAndroidFTW:
Does anyone know if Titan Kernels work on Thea (XT1072). I've heard that Titan ROMs can work on Thea but can Kernels also, or are Kernels only for specific device only? (I was wondering because I have XT1072 rooted CM13.0 and I really want DT2W) Thank You :)
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StockAndroidFTW:
By Titan I mean XT1068
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StockAndroidFTW:
Update: They do work (I tried RevKernel V5 Titan on my XT1072 and DT2W is working really well, tho you need to have inx_720p_v0 screen in order for it to work) :)
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Halatk7:
They do? Thats nice. And go get attack11's kernel. That has dt2w too. It works on cm13. So did u install revkernel on cm13 or 12
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StockAndroidFTW:
I installed RevKernel on CM12.1 and I tried some CM13 kernel but it didn't boot up :(
[G2 Themes and Apps] Velkyrix:
Hi, I am on Stock Rom 5.0.1 (Yes, a Korean Variant) and because of this kernel fail i unrooted my device and is too lazy to re root it. from a rom i once used, cloudyg2 2.2 there were 3 home screen themes but the default one, the themes I am talking about are blue, white and pink. does someone know a place where I can find APKS for it? or the actual APKS? if not, should I re root my device and try NOT to **** up the kernel? thanks :)
[General Questions and Answers] KristobalJunta:
I have a Prestigio 5044 Duo (PAP5044) with MTK6589. Basically, what I was trying to do was to resize /data partition, beacause it was only about 950Mb, by shrinking Internal SD card (/emmc) partition. For that I used Meteos MTK6589 Apllication.

After going all the steps I found out that Android OS was hanging during boot (like half-way to boot up, and it freezed with no error messages). Though, recovery (I have CWM) boots well.

After doing some research I found out, that partition table of the device was messed up after /cache partition. So, all system and recovery partititons are fine.

Here is fdisk output:

~ # fdisk -lu /dev/block/mmcblk0
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 3853 MB, 3853516800 bytes
1 heads, 16 sectors/track, 470400 cylinders, total 7526400 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 1024 1022 2147483647+ 5 Extended
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 26624 47103 10240 83 Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 47104 67583 10240 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 93184 105471 6144 83 Linux
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 134144 1465343 665600 83 Linux
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 7556096 1022 2143706111+ 83 Linux

And here are /proc/partitions and fstab:

~ # cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

179 0 3763200 mmcblk0
179 1 1 mmcblk0p1
179 2 10240 mmcblk0p2
179 3 10240 mmcblk0p3
179 4 6144 mmcblk0p4
179 5 665600 mmcblk0p5
179 6 129024 mmcblk0p6
179 7 2901504 mmcblk0p7
179 64 2048 mmcblk0boot1
179 32 2048 mmcblk0boot0
179 96 31338496 mmcblk1
179 97 31334400 mmcblk1p1
~ # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 /cache ext4 rw
/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 /data ext4 rw
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /emmc vfat rw
/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system ext4 rw
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /sdcard vfat rw
/dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /sd-ext auto rw

So, on mmcblk0 there must be 10 partitions, and now there are only 6, according to fdisk.

I have two ideas how it is possible to restore partitions: 1) manually with fdisk, though it doesn't seem like a very good idea 2) I've found some info about scatter file for MTK-based devices, seems like it contains all the partitioning info; I have no idea how to get and use that file, though.

What should I do to recover my device?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shogun656:
So as the subject says, somehow my internal storage moved to a different location in my phone. It moved from storage/emulated/0 to data/media/0 somehow. I don't know how but now my apps and file managers are unable to access my internal storage and I am unable to download anything from my browser. My nexus 5 is rooted with Android 6.0 and has experimentalx kernel with xposed. Other than that, my nexus 5 is stock. I tried using root browser and solid browser to move my internal storage back to the correct place but that just gives me an error. I also tried using Android commander to move my storage using my pc but it's giving me permission denied. So I don't know what to do. Any help will be appreciated thank you
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shogun656:
So I looked at my brother's nexus 5 and he has the same thing where data/media/0 has all his storage but storage/emulated/0 still also had his storage. So I think my storage is hidden for some reason
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wakamatsu:
From Settings>>Apps, give the affected apps permission to access Storage.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shogun656:
They all have permission. It's funny cause I was reading everywhere and I found that on storage/emulated/0 is actually a symlink to data/media/0. So I tried making another symlink using root browser and it just gives me an error
[Moto X Q&A] eric95204:
I have the "no command" screen with the android man , however it flashes in and out. when i hold down the power button and go into ap fastboot mode, i cannot go into recovery (it just shutdown the phone) and factory reset does not work. My phone is a non dev version, is there anything i can do?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmcruz007:
Does someone to enter settings/privacy to disable the wakeups of the services of Google Play, a FC error?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djg269:
Hello, i came across this site and it has a nice list of tips&tricks for our beloved P8.

Just placing the link, because copying wouldnt be a nice thing to do.

http://www.huawei-info.de/tipps-tricks-zum-huawei-p8?showall=&start=1