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[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanr1977:
Please read everything!

1. Yes you can root the latest Fire TV stick with an app called Kingroot, no recovery system or rom is available "yet", but it is highly possible in the very near future this is gonna happen with thanks from our local Dev in the fire tv forums "rbox", unlocking a bootloader is probably never gonna happen, if you are thinking of doing this I rooted mine with Kingroot 4.1 or I've been told you can also do this with the latest version too (but don't quote me to that), if you do decide to root please think carefully first & if all goes well which it should (fingers crossed), please don't think about using the app Super Sume to swap/replace the Kingroot Su for Chainfires Super Su, a lot of people have bricked there device doing this removal/swap method & failed (you have been warned!)

2. You can modify/custom your system settings (if that floats your boat?), debloat/delete system apps If you wish? Put a working Adblocker on your Fire Stick? You could even put Xposed framework on it too (but I would advice You to only do this once & if the stick gets a working recovery then You can play around adding custom settings & other stuff by adding Modules to Xposed? Add Busybox & add other Rooted apps too? Have more control in general with your Fire Tv Stick.

3. Yes or No or possibly Maybe or Never depending on what question 3 was ment to be? Haha

Just check in the forums here for Kingroot & or look over at AftvNews web site for a guide on installing root via Kingroot on your stick. & if you do root don't forget to block updates to Amazon afterwards, that's also in a guide at AftvNews Web site.

Good luck

Hope this helps & if so press that thanks button
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bashme:
Hi folks.

My spec:

HP Elitebook 6930p

Windows 10

Sony Xperia Z3 (rooted)

KitKat 4.4.4

I have searched everywhere and cannot find a definite answer to my query.

How do I activate the HS USB Android Diag & Serial ports on my PC, for Sony Xperia Z3?

After doing a hell of a lot of reading, I decided to do the following:

I went into recovery on my pc and selected "Disable signed driver.........", However, still when I connect my Xperia Z3, there is no automatic driver prompt or installation??

Downloaded and flashed firmware version 23.0.A.2.93 for D6603.

Ticked the following - USB debugging, Allow mock locations and Unknown sources.

Unticked Verify apps.

Downloaded giefroot tool v3.1.

Rooted Xperia Z3 successfully.

Downloaded ES file explorer and mount /system rw successfully.

Downloaded z3 Dualrecovery and installed ndr utils successfully, Xperia Z3 rebooted to twrp.

(Should I upgrade now to D6603_23.4.A.1.200_Generic-UK_dualrecovery2.8.21_SuperSU-v2.46.zip and install with twrp?)

Using USB cable, I connected Xperia Z3 to my pc and still no driver prompt or automatic installation??

All I want to do is activate the HS-USB Android Diag/Serial ports.

Is there another way to do this??

Am I missing something?

I downloaded the drivers from the Sony and Google sites. However, the drivers are of no use if the PC does not prompt for them!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bashme:
Hi guys.

Does anyone have any instructions on how to enable HS USB Android Diag/Serial/Modem ports please? Surely someone has come across this situation before??

I need get these ports activated, so that I can use QXDM.

I have downgraded my Xperia Z3 to KitKat and rooted it.

In command prompt I have sent the adb devices command and it listed my device.

In Device Manager, I see the following:

Xperia Z3

listed under Portable Devices

Sony sa0111

USB Composite Device

&

USB Mass Storage Device

listed under Universal Serial Bus controllers

I have downloaded the Xperia Z3 drivers from the Sony developers site.

Are there some ADB commands that will need to be typed in order to enable HS USB Android Diag/Serial/Modem ports?

I am in need of help with this please. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] KingKurly:
Hi everyone,

I own a samsung galaxy s5 G900f that I bought from Vodafone while living in Ireland. I also bought HTC one m8s which became my primary phone. So I decided to root my Galaxy s5 and play with it using different custom Roms. I successfully rooted my S5 and settled with cyanogemod 12.1 nightly. Cyanogemod felt lacking in feature to touch wiz. Last September the day of my flight back to home, I.e, Nepal, I decided to restore touch wiz for which I made the back up while rooting the device. I used TWRP for that. However the silliest thing I did was before loading the rom in the device or sd card, I wiped the entire phone via TWRP. After that TWRP wouldn't locate recovery file of either touch wiz or cyanogemod. Initial stages the phone would boot to TWRP mode and stay there. Now the phone still boots to TWRP mode, however the screen keeps flashing instead of screep staying still. I took it to the Samsung smartphone cafe here in Nepal but they were reluctant to help and asked me to try local repair centre who can't be trusted with the device. Is it a soft brick? Should I restore factory firmware using odin or is there any less extreme solution? Please help me out with this guys. You help will be kindly obliged. Thank you.

Regards

Ramesh
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RiasGremory:
Device Info:

Coby CMP 400

It was stuck on the logo screen. I surf the net to check for solutions. First, go to recovery and Reset Factory. Yes, I already did that. After resetting the phone and re-starting it, still stuck on the logo screen. Next, I saw something like soft brick or whatever it is. Again I checked online, you have to use a flash tool and a rom to install to the phone. I search again, but I didn't find any rom for the phone model. Is there anybody here who has another idea or solution maybe on how to fix my problem. I will certainly appreciate any help. Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMeddlingMonk:
Can you tell us a bit more about the problem? Did you install a custom recovery or make any changes to the system before it started freezing at the logo screen? Also, by logo screen, do you mean the phone's manufacturer startup screen, or the Android animation?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mahsidi:
hi gurus

i have a big problem

i live in the uk, and have had my Kaiser for approx a month.

absolutely fantastic.

Only issue is that i need to regularly check my email. so i have set my settings to automatically retrieve email.

It does that superbly. but the problem lies there. i have an unlimited data plan (so called limits me to 2gb), When automatically retrieving my email every 2 hours. the connection remains and does not turn off. thus eating into my allowance and racking up a higggggggggggh bill as going over the 2gb is £1 p/mb

Any chance anyone can help me either with a reg edit or just simple settings to disconnect after checking mail. even after 10mins. or 5 mins.

please help gurus
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] tripitaka:
How is the connection eating in to your allowance by just being on?

Surely it will only eat in to your allowance if it's actually downloading something...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mahsidi:
thats what i thought but, im just doouble checking. i thought an active connection regardless of dowloading or surfing is still consuming data... maybe?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] tripitaka:
I'd assume it isn't.

There is probably some software you can use to monitor the data usage to make sure.

I'm sure somebody can recommend something that does the job.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] joebongo:
Theres a bandwidth monitor that comes on the CD with the Kaiser.

And as far as I know it does eat some data just being on (networky type keep alive / config signals).

I have noticed this more when moving between locations (and presumably switching cells needed re-establishing the connections).

Can't say how much per day this uses though.

HIH

Joe
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] stooby:
I don't think you are using any data (well maybe the odd byte to keep the connection alive).

Try http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/gprsmonitor/?en - I use this to track my data usage. It works well for me.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike Smaan:
Hello guys ,

i hope some one can help me in that case . i just a m8 one mobile from an online site

it's good but when i have tried to update it this message appeared :

'Variant system version - We have determined that your phone may be running a modified version of its system software. For your protection, we cannot update your phone. Please revert your phone to the official HTC system software to update your phone. If you did not modify your system software or would like help reverting your system please contact us via the support section at HTC - Mobile Phones, Smartphones, Cell Phones, Tablets'

And that some of information what i can got .

***Software status: Modified***

***UNLOCKED***

M8_UL PVT SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-3.19.0.0000

RADIO-1.24.21331147A1.09G

OpenDSP-v48.2.2-00564-M8974_FO.1211

OS-4.18.708.12

eMMC-boot 2048MB

Jan 15 2015, 23:49:38.0

Software number : 3.28.709.5

Baseband Version : 1.24.21331147A1.09G_20.68.4196.01_F

Build number : 3.28.709.5 CL389838 release-keys

So If you want more information tell me how i can get it to you :(

So please help me guys :(:(
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shirreer:
Hello,

Please provide your phone's CID & MLDELID. To solve this problem, you need to either restore a stock firmware & stock twrp backup, or flash a stock RUU. Either way, the firmware & software must have matching cid & modelid.

As of right now, the data you posted indicate that your phone has mismatching firmware & software (x.xx.708 and x.xx.709).

Cheers
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike Smaan:
I'm really sorry i don't know how to get the information so, Could you please tell me how i can provide you phone's CID & MLDELID ? i mean the steps for it !
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rv_30:
Install Terminal Emulator for Android from Google Play Store. Run commands:

getprop ro.cid

getprop ro.mid
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike Smaan:
rv_30 ! Thank you man

i got them my cid : HTC_622

And my Mid : OP6B63000
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike Smaan:
i got them my cid : HTC_622

And my Mid : OP6B63000
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shirreer:
Your device is Asia-HK-CHT variant.

Please visit the link below to find answers and links that resolve your exact issue:

http://xdaforums.com/htc-one-m8/help/help-returning-to-stock-hon-kong-htc-t3005829

There are links to stock RUU directly from HTC as well as twrp backup+firmware for you.

Good luck
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike Smaan:
Thank you for trying help me , but unfortunately the link from jan,2015 it's not working or missed . and i'm really want back to to stop or do any thing to update the phone :(

I'm sorry for bothering you sir
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shirreer:
It's no bother, but, you missed the post that says:

Originally Posted by xunholyx *

Okay. So I did a little research and came up with an official HTC RUU for your phone. As far as I know, it is the latest for the Hong Kong version (4.4.3). I say as far as I know because I don't deal with HK versions very often here.

Hook up to your PC and get into ADB/fastboot.

Download the official RUU from HTC's website by clicking here.

http://dl4.htc.com/RomCode/Source_and_Binaries/m8uhl-3.4.0-gf17cce1.zip

Reply

Thanks to your help, I have successfully returned to stock! Thank you for the kind and quick reply!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike Smaan:
that link isn't exist and when i downloaded the offical rom for M8 called :

RUU_M8_UL_L50_SENSE60_ATT_MR_Cingular_US_4.28.502.2_Radio_4.0.U605611@50319A_40.45.C33065.00_F_release_446225_signed_2

while updating error came called " Model ID ERROR " ..

So what i should do now ?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jerrel7:
Here's a thread with a link for the firmware you need. Follow the instructions on how to properly install your firmware. http://xdaforums.com/htc-one-m8/help/tutorial-how-to-stock-stock-twrp-t3086860

---------- Post added at 01:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:54 PM ----------

The firmware you tried to install is not the correct one for your phone. Scroll down to the firmware for your CID: HTC__622 and MID: 0P6B63000 and you should be fine.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shirreer:
You can't just flash any file you please. RUU & firmware you want to flash MUST be specific for your device's region and variant model - in your case, you must flash ASIA-HK-CHT firmware & software. ATT & CINGULAR are US specific, and will not flash on your phone without modifications.

Instead, download the 1.60.x.x from the link provided by [MENTION=3274535]Jerrel7[/MENTION], and the TWRP stock backup from 1.60.708.x provided below:

https://mega.co.nz/#!e8AFCCQZ!2-2Lx1vxkg1xBq_Yhg_Sk9AOzdZsPrX2oOlxy-PLTF0

Flashing the 1.60.x.x firmware and restoring the 1.60.x.x twrp backup will put your device in a stock condition that will allow you to receive official updates from HTC.

Cheers

P.S. let us know if you need help restoring the backup or flashing the firmware.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike Smaan:
Sir i'm going to try it .. but unfortunately i don't know the way to flashing firmware and install twrp or recovery ! i'm always got unknown error like in Fastboot i don't Device offline ... daemon not running - something like that .. ! so please i need step by step what i have to do first because it's my first time to do software :(

Thank you for your time
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jared89:
Hello. I had the same problem. Just solved it yesterday. The whole problem was in my MID. You have to change it for the RUU you want to install.

I was with MID for Singapore and i wanned to install European version. So i can't install the updates. After i changed the MID now i'm able to install every update.

Just follow this thread and you're done. Good luck, mate!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2708581
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
[MENTION=6373033]Mike Smaan[/MENTION] problem is a bit different from yours and he has a S-On device.

His problem is his device is running a Taiwan ROM on a Hong Kong variant device.

He needs to run a Hong Kong ROM to solve his problem and the right ROM version (4.18.708.12)

then he can OTA to the latest Marshmallow 6.16.708.1

Should he followed the link provided by [MENTION=3274535]Jerrel7[/MENTION] on post #11, he should be able to fix his problem as simple as ABC.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shirreer:
Very well. Assuming you downloaded the twrp backup and stock firmware from my previous post, proceed as follows:

1. Download HTC Sync from the link below:

http://www.htc.com/uk/support/software/htc-sync-manager.aspx

If you already have HTC Sync installed, then upgrade it to the latest version. Otherwise, install the one from the link provided.

Reboot your PC.

2. Download the FASTBOOT PACKAGE from the link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8L4pkbzdlR3eTlJSjdKVEdHX1U/view

Extract the file to "c:\fastboot" folder.

3. Download twrp 2.7.0.2 from:

https://dl.twrp.me/m8/

Extract the file to "c:\fastboot" folder.

4. Put the 1.60.708.x firmware zip you downloaded from my previous post into the "c:\fastboot" folder but don't extract it.

Summary:

You should now have:

A. the latest HTC SYNC installed.

B. A folder called fastboot in the root directory of your C:\ drive.

C. Your fastboot folder has the following files:

I. twrp 2.7.0.2.img

II. The zip file for 1.60.x.x firmware

III. htc _fastboot.exe

Let me know when you're done.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike Smaan:
I did all that but what do you mean about the zip file for 1.60.xx firmware .. do you mean M8_1.60.708.2.zip ?

And tell me the next step
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shirreer:
Yes, I did mean M8_1.60.708.2.zip

Now, buckle up...

There are 4 easy steps to accomplish the task:

1. Flash twrp custom recovery. 2. Restore the twrp backup. 3. Flash the stock firmware. 4. Profit.

Let's get down to business:

1. Flash twrp custom recovery:

A. Boot your phone into fastboot. You do this by turning your phone off, then hold Vol- and power button. You're presented with a menu, choose fastboot (navigate the menu using vol+ and vol-) and press power to select.

B. connect your phone to your PC. Open a cmd window:

Type:

cd c:\fastboot

fastboot flash recovery twrp-2.7.0.2-m8.img

Flashing will take a few seconds, when its done, type:

fastboot erase cache

Now, on your phone, select "hboot", then "recovery", to boot into twrp.

2. Restore the twrp backup:

Unfortunately, twrp doesn't immediately create the directory structure for where you'll put the backup file you downloaded. So, we're going to start by creating a backup of your current ROM:

A. Select Backup button in twrp. Select "external sdcard" from the menu at the top, and proceed to create the backup.

B. On your computer, extract the twrp backup file you downloaded, and copy the extracted directory to your phone's sd card. Put it in:

/sdcard/twrp/backups/"serial number"/

C. On your phone, tap restore, and choose the backup directory you just copied to your sdcard. Proceed to restore.

D. Choose to restart your phone and select Bootloader.

E. Select fastboot.

3. Flash the stock firmware:

A. On your PC's cmd window, type:

fastboot oem rebootRUU

B. WAIT UNTIL your phone displays black screen with HTC in white, then type:

fastboot flash firmware M8_1.60.708.2.zip

C. Once more, type:

fastboot flash firmware M8_1.60.708.2.zip

D. Reboot by Typing:

fastboot reboot

4Profit.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike Smaan:
I did all steps and i got backup ! but unfortunately when i wrote fastboot flash firmware M8_1.60.708.2.zip i got error called " error : cannot open ' M8_1.60.708.2.zip '

Should i try it with that way :-

B. On your computer, extract the twrp backup file you downloaded, and copy the extracted directory to your phone's sd card. Put it in:

/sdcard/twrp/backups/"serial number"/

C. On your phone, tap restore, and choose the backup directory you just copied to your sdcard. Proceed to restore.

D. Choose to restart your phone and select Bootloader.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
I know that you ignored my previous posts and other people post who tried to help you with proper method .. but I still pity you and I don't want to see you'll end up in a brick or soft brick due to wrong commands/instructions.

You get error when flashing firmware - reasons :

1. That command given to you to flash firmware - fastboot flash firmware M8_1.60.708.2.zip - is wrong.

The right command is fastboot flash zip M8_1.60.708.2.zip

Running a wrong command may brick your device but you are lucky because your device is S-On, so no harm just error.

2. Being a S-On device, you won't be able to install a very low version firmware 1.60.708.2 when your current one is 4.18.708.12

Only S-Off device can do that. To have S-Off you need to spend USD25 for the app .. and are you willing to spend USD25 to S-Off when you can fix your problem with proper method free of charge and needs only 2 main steps : ?

1. Restore 4.18.708.12 TWRP backup

2. Install 4.18.708.12 stock recovery.img

then you can update to the latest - 6.16.708.1

You can try these B., C., and D.

But, again using a very low version 1.60.708.2 backup on a Lollipop firmware 4.18.708.12, you may have one of these :

1. It will be successful updates but you need to do many OTAs

1.60.708.2 --> 2.11.708.2 --> 3.32.708.4 --> 4.18.708.12 --> 6.16.708.1

If it is successful then it's good but if it is not, you'll get below.

2. You may have a blank screen either between OTA 1.60.708.2 --> 2.11.708.2 or OTA 2.11.708.2 --> 3.32.708.4

3. You may lost your wifi connectivity either between OTA 1.60.708.2 --> 2.11.708.2 or OTA 2.11.708.2 --> 3.32.708.4 but you can proceed further with your mobile data or use a Internet Pass through on your PC

One last note ... never use a 2.7.0.2 TWRP recovery as that is the most buggiest TWRP which will remove your OS version on your bootloader.

Good luck.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shirreer:
Well, it is as ckp5 stated, if you are S-ON then downgrading your firmware won't work. You are running Kit Kat (android 4.4) system software on Lollipop firmware (android 5). My original solution was to take both your system and firmware both back to version 1.60 so you can upgrade properly via official OTA. I honestly don't know how you ended up with mismatching OS and FIRMWARE, especially with mismatched SKU numbers (708 firmware and 709 software) without S-OFF!

Nevertheless, as you are currently S-ON, your phone's firmware version can only be upgraded, not downgraded. So, our solution is:

1. Leave your current firmware intact.

2. Restore a twrp backup that matches your current firmware version and SKU ---> 4.18.708.12

3. Re-Flash your current firmware.

Cheers
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Hofs:
When he did step 1 and 2 and then flash back the matching stock HTC recovery and update via official ota he doesn't have to re flash a firmware. The firmware (bootloader/OS) will be updated automatically. Makes step 3 very obsolete.

From the OP all info was clear, OS number and the part with "S-ON" .... OS number in the bootloader couldn't been altered, only with S-OFF. So downgrading to 1.60 was never possible to begin with and certainly never needed. Just a link to [MENTION=830797]ckpv5[/MENTION] backup thread would suffice and this all wouldn't be so complicated and would not take 3 pages

Please take this as good advice and read carefully, then put 1+1 together in what's possible and what not, what's needed and what not.

Cheers.

;)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike Smaan:
Finally i got the software 1.60.708.2 and i have made factory reset with TWRP and then check for updates i found update to 2.11.708.1 but when i clicked install now .. TWRP Opened ... i don't know what to do next ? should i uninstall twrp and how ?

and when i be at TWRP i found File called OTA_M8_UHL_K443_SENSE60_MR_hTC_Asia_HK_2.11.708.1-1.60.708.2_release_388478

it's the update that i downloaded it .

i clicked on install and then select the update i found Failed ..

Thanks my friend for all your help ^^
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Hofs:
All you have to do is download and restore the 4.18.708.12 backup then flash the STOCK 4.18.708.12 HTC recovery. Then do ota's. You can't update via a custom recovery ! Stop doing the 1.60. Doing all the ota's from there will take much more time !

All the needed files are here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3086860

You flash the 4.18.708.12 recovery with fastboot

Fastboot flash recovery 4.18.708.12.img (or whatever it's named before the .img)

Cheers.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shirreer:
Thanks buddy, your great advice is always welcome :) too much work and hardly any sleep is bricking my brains :D

One note, however, would he be able to OTA without re-flashing the firmware - and the stock recovery in the process?

Cheers to you.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Hofs:
If he restored the 1.60 build and flash back the 1.60 stock recovery he should be able to ota up. With this method a firmware flash is not needed at all. It will be done in official ota process. But it will take much longer in downloading and installing all the ota's to MM

Cheers