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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xojgiiox:
I followed these steps:

"3) boot into download mode.

4) Odin flash TWRP 2.8.7.0 (specifically this version).

5) DO NOT allow phone to boot, (uncheck auto reboot in odin and if necessary remove the battery as soon as the TWRP flash has completed) then.....

6) boot directly into recovery. (Vol +, Power & Home button combination)"

Although, they were not very specific....

To flash with odin, I used the AP button and did not let it auto reboot. Removed battery immediately. tried to reboot in recovery and saw the same issue.

I think I need all files.

BL

AP

CP

CSC

and possibly to re-partition with a PIT file
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
You say in the first post you have already repartitioned?

PIT file is for repartitioning

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2799613&d=1402839135

Extract to .pit, add to PIT section in ODIN, add ROM to AP section, flash both together

You can try older versions of ODIN for TWRP to, some people have success with version starting 3.07 > 3.10.7
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xojgiiox:
I was able to do the PIT and the TWRP at the same time.

Although, my phone said "SECURE CHECK FAIL : pit" on the screen, it seemed to do everything.

But upon reboot to try to get to Recovery (power, home, Vol+), it no longer waits and reboots/recycles. It fails with a message that says "Could not do normal boot." and send me to Download mode.....

If I try to boot normally, I still get the boot loop....
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xojgiiox:
I just used the PIT file I used last time and it's back to where I was when I started this post.

Endless reboot cycle...

Maybe the bootloader needs to be flashed?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xojgiiox:
Ok. My issue with the failing pit (and any other failures from Odin) was a combination of using a bad version of Odin or a bad version of the tar or pit files.

I am able to flash the latest stock rom g900p OK4 just fine.

I can flash twrp just fine as well.

But the boot loop cycle still remains.

I believe I know exactly what I need here and it's the stock OK4 boot loader.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InsanePostman:
Here's an Odin flashable OK4 bootloader for the G900P. https://mega.nz/#!9ItUDZ7C
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xojgiiox:
This link needs a decryption key
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InsanePostman:
**** okay. I'll relink with key once i get to my computer
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InsanePostman:
Here you go. https://mega.nz/#!9ItUDZ7C!MxiO87vn7KBiy4ZLtDFx-AoahYPftyf3985nOXenPig
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xojgiiox:
Bootloader file was exactly what I was asking for. Thanks.

However, it did not solve the problem.

Boot loop cycle going on still after stock BL, Ap, PIT all flashed....

Any other suggestions ???? Please. From anyone?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bayron_olaff:
I'm sorry to write in this old topic, but I want to know if you solved your problem, as I'm having the same trouble. Everytime I turn on the phone it stucks on bootloop, and after 5 to 10 cycles it starts. When trying to enter to Recovery it stucks on bootloop and never enters. I've tried with TWRP or Philz CWM but it just doesn't enter to recovery :'(
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MHeat:
Sprint Note 4, when flashing the official Rom i clicked on Nand Erase All, flash went fine, but the phone stays forever on the Sprint Spark screen, any steps to fix this issue? I can get into recovery and download mode, tried to wipe cache and dalvik in TWRP but i get errors, can not mount.

thanks in advance for the help.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MHeat:
anybody please?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samep:
You flashed TWRP after it failed to boot? If so, I wish you didn't do either the nand erase or flash TWRP.

If TWRP fails to mount to wipe, you need factory recovery or Philz CWM to wipe cache and factory reset.

To be clear, you need to wipe cache, dalvik-cache and data and power down. Boot into download mode and flash stock tar with Odin defaults. I'm not sure if the Note 4 just requires a wipe and Odin stock tar or the PIT with repartition (PIT for Sprint Note 4 seems to be MIA). Hopefully just the wipe works.

Here's Philz CWM recovery for Note 4:

http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyNote4/CWM/philz_touch_6.59.0-trlte.tar

If that doesn't work, you need stock recovery. Last time I flashed stock recovery, it required a tar.md5 to flash. Had to search for a Windows tool to modify it, adding the md5 hash to tar so Odin would see and use it.

And one more thing. If you succeed in wiping, try to boot before Odin of stock tar. Seems Odin is risky these days. I've read recently that there's yet another "fix" Samsung has identified for Odin flashing for upcoming security patch. Best to limit Odin flashes to as needed only.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MHeat:
thanks for you explanation, i will try it. Let me tell you, remember i already flashed the stock tar multiple times, i might be mistaken but i thought the stock tar has the oem recovery included, the problem is i can not get into stock recovery, it just bootloops and the phone restarts again, i will try flashing the stock tar again and then Philz touch recovery and see if i can wipe. Will let you know how it goes in a few minutes.

thanks again.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MHeat:
just to let you know, the phone booted, had to flash the clean stock image, then extract the recovery image from the tar file, after that i used a utility to convert recovery.img to a tar file in order to flash it in odin, after a while it booted, right now updating over the air to cok1, lets hope it works now.

appreciate the time you took to help me out.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samep:
I'm not clear on what you're saying. I gather that flashing the tar didn't allow you to get to stock recovery and it still wouldn't boot?

Then you tried Philz CWM recovery to wipe and it booted? If so, I'd think you were in the clear at this point, not needing to restore stock recovery but flash the tar?

When you say you had to extract stock recovery, was it still not allowing you to get to stock recovery when tar was flashed or did that fail? If so, which tar? I'd think you could have moved on to OK1 tar?

Or were you thinking that I meant you had to use both recoveries to wipe to restore function?

It's good you're making progress on your own, I'm just not following the results and reasoning fully. I'd like to know so I'm asking. TIA.

Edit: Or did you have to flash stock recovery to wipe? Philz CWM recovery didn't flash or wouldn't mount or what? Read your reply again and thought this may be the direction you went.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MHeat:
sorry for the confusion, i flashed the stock tar file COJ6, still the phone would not boot and could not get into stock recovery, do not know why

then i flashed just Philz recovery and was able to wipe cache,dalvik and data

For some reason it did not boot, then after i flashed just the stock recovery ( in order to do that, i extracted the recovery from the COJ6 tar, then used a program to convert the recovery.img to .tar in order to be able to flash it in Odin, after that the phone booted and updated over the air to COK1) Just to make sure i tried to go into stock recovery ( VOL UP+HOME+POWER) and was successful, got access to stock recovery. Before i was not able to go into stock recovery for some reason.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samep:
So you didn't try to flash stock tar after the Philz recovery wipe? I was suggesting try to boot; if it didn't boot, try the stock tar.

Am I wrong to say that maybe you didn't have to flash the stock recovery? Philz recovery maybe gets the credit as the easier fix in this case. Would you agree with that or is that unknown?

Thanks for clarifying. Your response may clarify the suggested fix. TIA.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MHeat:
Well, after i wiped with Philz it still did not boot, then after the stock recovery it booted, it took a while, i thought it did not work but eventually it did boot, the phone definitely had something wrong since i could not even access the stock recovery before, now i can, it says installing system update, then its says something like no command, and then it enters recovery, this was impossible to achieve before.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samep:
Did the OK1 OTA complete and boot yet?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MHeat:
It did complete and booted just fine, everything seems to be in order, crossing fingers LOL
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danulo002:
When using the phone on the SGS2 CM12.1 + DorimanX phone hanging ( so often ) . I am blaming the battery to reboot , but the phone hangs when booting the kernel (the strip is filled until the end and hang) pull out and go to recovery - the same thing . Through bootloaler bootloader I tried to flash recovery - in one strip is loaded until the end and hangs and does not move the phone . Now when the phone is turned on or recovery writes phone model and a yellow triangle . Is it possible to revive ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saber:
You can flash a different kernel via ODIN.

I have premade CM12.1 kernel in my convert kernel zip to tar guide that you can use.

This should hopefully fix your soft brick.

gsstudios
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] NAUSHNIK52:
Hello. I want to format my Nexus 7 2013 32 GB to F2FS. There is slow downs sometimes so I hope formatting will improve speed. I have some questions:

1. Is it compatible with CyanogenMod 13?

2. Is it safe? Can it kill my device?

3. Should I format all partitions or cache and data is enough?

4. Is there visible difference in performance?

Thanks.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] StykerB:
1. As long as the kernel you have is compatible. don't know specifically the CM13 kernel

2. Might be outdated but android's built in storage fixing and maintaining tools may not be compatible. So any storage errors can lead to bigger problems than ext4.

3. f2fs generally shows gains in write performance so cache and data would be fine. system would require rom support.

4. Probably not to the extent that 2012 N7 users see I wouldn't recommend doing this at all really, generally newer the hardware especially 2013+ the less f2fs will actually do. I would doubt you'd get any real increase in read speed which would be the part you would notice.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sharpshooterrr:
Is there a way to get app shortcuts inside the notification panel that will open supported apps in floating windowed mode, just like LG's QSlide apps?

We can have windowed apps with the Note5 but you'll have to open the app first and then swipe from the top-right corner but can we open apps that are automatically windowed?
[General Questions and Answers] Zetadeck:
So, I decided to port a Cyanogenmod rom to my device. Everything works fine except the Sim card. The sim card isn't recognized by my phone and I don't know what to do to fix it. By the way, my phone has an MTK mt6592 hardware.
[General Questions and Answers] SEVEN_AdClear:
If you had Wi-Fi on at any point, you may have to factory reset and start over. It can get in the way of data. Of course, applying Occam's razor says try powering off, reinserting it, and see if that works.
[General Questions and Answers] Zetadeck:
Nope didn't work
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oden08:
I bought a bluetooth game controller in hopes of using with my Fire TV stick and am having a few issues. It pairs nicely with my stick but some of the buttons are off. Is there a way to map the buttons on the fire tv stick? If not are there any ideas on some hacks?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oden08:
Any ideas on this?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Legolas2:
Are you looking to manage/customize Kodi or the native FireTV interface. If it's native, you don't need too many buttons and I presume you have that working.

If it's Kodi, then you can use keyboard.xml to map whatever you want. Check:

http://kodi.wiki/view/Keymap

http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_keymaps

http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Keymap_Editor

Hope that helps.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neonbible:
I am having the same problem. I have an Ouya controller. All was working fine on OS3 but after updating to OS5 D-pad now acts as Home, burger etc., and so does L & R trigger buttons. This means they override any mapping within apps such as emulators and I can no longer use them :(

Is it possible to remap the buttons?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evaporic:
I am also trying to map an Ouya controller

Is root needed to replace the kl files?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3adpool:
from my experience yes, you need root to add/remove/edit any kl files in that directory.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bonson:
Kasier is out, is anyone working on it see the touchflo function can work on hermes?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShaunLB84:
FireTV Stick with Kodi 15.2 . After signing into the wifi network I try to sign into Amazon account and in the middle of typing in my information it keeps bouncing me back to the Amazon FireTV home screen?

Anyone had similar issues? Any fixes? Thanks!!!
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShaunLB84:
It does this when I forget the network, and then unregister the amazon login account and then unplug it from power and tv. When I go to test it turning it back on its difficult trying to enter network settings and amazon account the screen keeps disappearing.

How do you get it to sign into network and amazon account correctly? It's like the device gets confused or something?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K4R33M:
Hi,

I have a Brand New HTC One M8 Unlocked Officially (Europe Edition), After I Installed this Firmware :

http://xdaforums.com/htc-one-m8/development/progress-fuu-m8-t2813792/

It went smoothly and correctly since I've followed the steps sharply. After that; some graphical problems started to occur

(e.g: attached [IMG="HTC Graphical Bizarrerie"]http://i.imgur.com/lW9yMKS.jpg[/IMG] [IMG="HTC Graphical Bizarrerie"]http://i.imgur.com/80yfxVh.jpg[/IMG] [IMG="HTC Graphical Bizarrerie"]http://i.imgur.com/0Y13C8h.jpg[/IMG]),

sometimes as show and sometimes the screen just turn black/grey (but the screen is on) and the mobile is running, ringing and I click on screen and its working, this happened 2 times now in a week, although now the phone is working well.

Any advice is appreciated.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pi3rr0w:
hi,

i just upgraded to marshmallow and surprise the quality of the front facing camera on snapchat is so much worst than with lolipop... no problem with the stock software camera. i dont understand why suddenly after that update this morning, the quality is all pixelated and that make up effect jesus what happened ...

Does anyone have a clue?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wolvenarrow:
I am having the exact same issue after upgrading recently as well, annoying! Only on Snapchat front facing, LG G4 front facing is fine. Probably Snapchat needs to update their app?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] george.bynum:
My WiFi only tablet has gone through several 5.x.x updates, and at 5.1.1 is still almost unusable. I would like to get it back to a version that works well, and prevent it going to a more current version. I assume 4.something, or perhaps one of the non-Google versions.

The last "flashing" experience other than that managed by the device (routers, desktop and laptop PCs) was back in the 1980s with UV erasable and writable 2716 type devices. I'm not stupid, but am ignorant.

Are older images (I assume this deletes all) or other forms of update available? Are guides to doing it available?

Thanks!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hjicons:
The easiest way is using Nexus Root Kit from Wugfresh. It pretty self explanatory. Just make sure that driver test passes before flashing Kit Kat. I flashed latest stock 5.1.1 and it seems to be reasonably smooth although KK is faster.

I also rooted and applied stability mode from Root Booster.
[Sony Xperia L] :
Hi [MENTION=535343]all[/MENTION].

I wanna use Link2SD to increase the device storage.

I tried thousands of tutorials to partition the SD-card with all possibilities (as recommended 1st primary FAT32 and 2nd primary ext2/3/4)

Finally Link2SD works with the 2nd partition and is able to link the apps to this partition, BUT my phone does not find the first partition FAT32 anymore and is not able to mount it. Even in link2sd it only shows partition 2 available, and the first one not.

I have a 32GB card and tried FAT32 - 20GB & EXT2/3/4 - 10GB but also FAT32 - 28GB & EXT2/3/4 - 1GB - nothing worked.

only when there is just one partition with FAT32 and whole 32 GB at all than the phone mounts the sd-card

I tried also with a smaller 8 GB card, still the same.

It is nice that link2sd works now after rooting and also using the rootfix and Init.d Toggler (to not have the bootloop anymore), but the only problem is that I cannot use the bigger part of the sd-card for normal files.

Anyone got solving ideas for this problem? big thanks in advance
[Sony Xperia L] hosamn:
Solution

Thanks to user DJPRMF for this method
[Sony Smartwatch 3] tu3218:
Yep, so glad! Doze should be awesome for our watches. Hopefully some of us get it soon.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/02/04/google-has-started-rolling-out-marshmallow-for-android-wear/
[Sony Smartwatch 3] greenbat:
The official post:

New android wear announced by google!:

http://officialandroid.blogspot.nl/2016/02/android-wear-designed-for-your-wrist.html

What do you think about it?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] senectus:
Disappointedly incremental upgrade.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Apb:
Its version 1.4 for wear, not 6 :). Probably the API does level up tot the same as Android 6 had.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] kicikk:
The update will appear in the Android Wear app on the phone and will be automatically applied or where should i search for it?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] nCoder:
Wear version 1.4 is supposed to be Android 6.0 Marshmallow, on API level 23
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Apb:
On watch setting/about/system updates
[Sony Smartwatch 3] The_Night:
no Update on Sony sw3
[Sony Smartwatch 3] tu3218:
Too bad our watch doesn't have a speaker. Still looking forward to the update.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] senectus:
are we waiting on sony to put their stamp on it or just direct from google?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Apb:
Waiting for Sony, except with wear it does not take that long as google didnt allow much modifications . days or weeks, not months before it gets through Sony :)
[Sony Smartwatch 3] sirrelevant:
You don't have to search for it, you'll get a notification card on the watch. The phone app actually isn't involved in the process (just as the pipe if your watch is connnected via bt), it is downloaded straight to the watch. But google says you do need to have the current phone app (updated Jan 26).
[Sony Smartwatch 3] tu3218:
I thought with Android wear, it was straight from Google.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Apb:
Not according to previous experiences..see eg http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/sony-smartwatch-3-gets-latest-android-wear-update-24-08-2015/
[Sony Smartwatch 3] greenbat:
I want nfc to be finally supported by android wear
[Sony Smartwatch 3] A2CKilla:
same...same, one of the reasons I felt the sw3 was the better buy over all the others
[Sony Smartwatch 3] tu3218:
Yeah it's a shame google hasn't put NFC to use. Especially with Android lay not full in effect.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] pawces:
this news has me checking for system updates every couple hours.

wish it had a speaker as well but not for calls, just audio notifs or alarms...i get enough weird looks from asking my watch for directions...imagine if it talked back.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] senectus:
until we get the first confirmed update on SWR50, there is no point checking for the update.

even then, unless you're factory resetting and unpairing/re-pairing you wont get it any faster than it was intended.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] ivarson_swe:
lets hope for a system dump here. i remember me flashing the August-release manually after waiting several weeks
[Sony Smartwatch 3] CompuTechnoPro™:
Manual flashing of OTA zip
[Sony Smartwatch 3] nigelhealy:
My watch just said there an update, it rebooted but still saying LCA443 5.1.1 so I think its because I have an unlocked custom kernel?

Do i follow the manual install method?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] andrewia:
Yes, flash the repacked zip, or restore to stock with Sony PC Companion and flash the stock update zip.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] nigelhealy:
I found a pre-custom-kernel TWRP backup but restoring it doesn't remove the TWRP signed version message.

Doing the Sony Companion thing now..
[Sony Smartwatch 3] pawces:
OTA update installed! hope this finally fixes the random battery drain issue...they did drop the restart option in settings, so I guess I won't be restarting after every charge now..which was until yesterday my only way of keeping the random drain in check.

smartwatch 3 on 6.0.1

quickie review:

for those who notice it being laggy at first it's probably just rebuilding the cache, also it updated my google play services within 15 minutes of the OTA so that might be causing the lag. Going smooth now 30 minutes in and after 2 power cycles. The new gestures require more deliberate force than I thought they would need, but at least the option is now there to do stuff with just your watch arm. Google Now has an app on the watch that shows the exact same stuff that it shows on its cards. Also noticed a new Reminders app that shows upcoming reminders set via google / keep. New settings options for Permissions and Unpair with phone, a new boot animation and that's about it for us speakerless watch owners. We'll have to wait and see if the battery life improves, which is all that really matters.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] andre.mud:
I'm very interested how the GPS works after the update. I use the smartwatch 3 mostly for running and a good working GPS is vital for me.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] simika:
I also updated it via adb :) is true at begin gets so leggy but is just updating/installing apps :) now works well.. i'll try gps soon.. I hope it's well tuned :)

P.S. battery life seems MUCH MUCH longer... did you also notice that?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] SirBindy:
Today is the first day of normal usage for my watch. Normally, I get 2 days between charges. We'll see if that changes.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] FUSIONdev:
Our device has a great battery life; I destroy the battery with: GPS tracking (drains a lot) , music player + bluetooth heart rate monitor... I've to charge it everyday, but maybe another smartwatch would die on the half of my workout xD
[Sony Smartwatch 3] oogsaggie:
Woo Hoo! Only took one factory reset for it to trigger. DL now.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] dariett:
For me two :)
[Sony Smartwatch 3] mikegadd:
At last weather app works.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] dgattenb:
stock z3 C running 5.1.1 and now watch 6.0.1 .. watch works faster , and battery drain is less ... so far so good .. no hard reset needed UK
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Nonda95:
Sony PC Companion found update and I have Marshmallow without flashing OTA package ;)
[Sony Smartwatch 3] pietras9891:
hi,

I have a problem with the battery drain after flashing OTA package, I try flash again but this time on PC Companion, all settings was restart. It did'n help.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] CompuTechnoPro™:
I'm also experiencing battery drain. Didn't do any factory resets. Just flashed OTA zip.

Do I need to do factory reset in order resolve this issue??
[Sony Smartwatch 3] arash91m:
Thank you so much. I forgot about it! It's the best choice. Now it's installing update, without sideload & adb it's much easier.

I recommend it. A new fresh start makes things goes better.

There is no data lose for Android Wear Watch, just some settings might need to be done, all other data and apps will be synced by phone.