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[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] PayableOnDeath:
try having a look in the Upgrading forum http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=306

am sure there are a few unbrick topics there, think i remember seening some in there once

try here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=325018&highlight=No+gsm*
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] nmonger:
Thanks for the reply - have tried pretty much everything. My main issue is not having KITL
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] qq888:
Are you on Hard-SPL ? Could you use PC to access the Hermes ? If so, try the method to flash the ROM with a memory card method.

Good luck
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] nmonger:
Memory card flash

Thanks QQ88 - I will give it ago when I get the phone back!

If that doesnt work is there anyone with serious phone skills (thinking of pof-a-likes here) wants to earn 100 euro to help get this phone back to life then PM me.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Diggitydru:
I''ll give this a shot.

This is a tricky one but I believe that you can use the same flash file that you were using and just try this:

You should know your SPL version before going too far with this. Hopefully you can get that info by trying to boot it and if it can get to the very first splash screen with the red text, it should show it there.

Turn on the phone and let it try to boot ... Hold down the Power and OK buttons at the same time and while holding those buttons down, hit the reset button at the bottom of the phone and you should then be given the multi-color weird screen that's given right before the flash. Then, connect it via USB. Load up the flash software and it should ask you which version you're running of the SPL, select it and then click next. Auto-detect won't work if I remember correctly. Then just push forward and it should go through.

If all else fails, look up Mr. Vanx's information ... he's quoted all over this site and has his own site that has a LOT of information about bricked hermes phones.

GOOD LUCK! I hope it works.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] gunner12:
Had a similar problem last week. Download the ROM at the top of the link below and it should unbrick your phone. It worked for me

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

Good Luck
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] nmonger:
Thank you to all that gave their input. Can confirm that I have tried all methods incl. SD flashing but due to corrupt CID and SPL 1.09 it is time to wave the white flag and give up.

Will keep up with the threads to see if anyone manages to find a way to resurrect TyTns with corrupt CID and SPL 1.09
[Security Discussion] flamery:
By far the dodgiest app I have on my phone.

Doing a wireshark you will see it generating a lot of traffic, I found out this is analytical data they are collecting from you.

In order to enjoy keeping your phone rooted without being tracked by QQ China, try these steps:

1) go to settings (other system systems) accessibility, services - turn KingRoot off (click on it once to read the description of what it does if you want a laugh)

2) Edit your hosts file and add these:

monitor.uu.qq.com

uu.qq.com

qq.com

pmir.3g.qq.com
[Security Discussion] jamesbrack:
Thanks OP
[Security Discussion] evildog1:
i'm planning to make a modded version of Kingroot that does not have useless permissions and spy peoples phone, but i let it to connect to the internet and collect device info since it is required to find an exploit for the right device.
[Security Discussion] flamery:
Thats interesting as I was contemplating the same thing, basically open the apk up, remove the exploit and bundle it with SuperSu to make a clean root method.

Anyway unfortunately my post above is not entirely valid, the service will restart itself after a few minutes and continue to send your private informaiton to China. What I did instead was remove kingroot (kinguser) and replace with SuperSU, so my phone is still rooted (with kingroot method) I just don't have the kingroot malware on the phone anymore. Not sure if its allowed to post links here, but here is the article, its very easy and i would strongly recommend anyone with kingroot installed to do this as kingroot is dangerous software

https://www.droidmen.com/remove-kingroot-kinguser-with-supersu/
[Security Discussion] Arathergreendroid:
There is an app called SuperSUme. It is a paid app, but as long as you follow all the steps provided in the playstore description, you should be fine.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ume&pcampaignid=APPU_1_VJegV96IAsiqjwPvyZHwAg
[Security Discussion] evildog1:
I found out that all permissions was required to execute root exploits so i didn't remove permissions, but i had forced Kingroot to stay in landscape mode becuase forcing my device to portait mode cause my device to froze. I asked them to add landscape support and they promised me but they didn't fix it. Kingroot have annoying bug that pauses the video or game every 20 minutes and i already turned all 'bloat' features off. I contacted them again, but they don't respond to me so i switched from Kingroot to Kingoroot, since all methods of switching to SuperSU did not work on all devices i have

It doesn't work for me
[Security Discussion] Arathergreendroid:
Kingroot is extremely risky.. its a shame supersume didnt work for you.

Is your knox still 0x0?
[Security Discussion] evildog1:
No, i was trying to switch to SuperSU on my crappy tablet running Android 4.4.4.

The ROM was made by china with a date written in chinese. There are no securities in it.
[Security Discussion] avariado:
Hi, Flamery, I agree with you. But may I ask you how did you collect those addresses? I understand they are related to QQ China, but what about KingRoot app itself? Because, as far as I can tell, KingRoot connects to IP addresses, not to hostnames.

My firewall reports that KingRoot tries to connect all the time to 14.17.34.230:80 , 14.17.37.157:80 , 14.17.43.118:80 , 101.226.38.59:80 , 103.7.30.61:80 , 103.7.31.38:80 , 113.108.90.53:8080 , 119.147.16.150:80 , 183.61.38.246:80 and 183.61.51.168:80. I was never able to find a hostname through reverse IP lookup, that's why editing hosts file is not an option to prevent these connections.

So why add monitor.uu.qq.com , uu.qq.com , qq.com , pmir.3g.qq.com to hosts file? And why not, for example, trace.qq.com , report.qq.com , e.qq.com , 3g.qq.com , info.3g.qq.com and so many other similar addresses?

Cheers.
[Security Discussion] flamery:
I used my PC as a proxy and used a traffic sniffer and they are all the URLs the phone was connecting to. It would be unlikely they would set IP addresses in any apps because IPS can change regularly!
[Security Discussion] avariado:
Thanks for your reply, Flamery. I was really curious about the method you used to identify those addresses.

My firewall only detects IP addresses and never resolves their hostnames, though.

Through this website - http://www.sitelinks.info/ - I've learned that one of those IP (103.7.31.38) is somehow associated to a lot of websites, like kingroot.net , kingrootteam.com , pmir.3g.qq.com (this one identified by you too), wesecure.qq.com , sv.map.qq.com , slab.qq.com , and so on.

So I'm not absolutely convinced that adding the four addresses you mentioned before to hosts file would be enough, the firewall method seems to me more reliable.

Meanwhile I asked directly to the developers of KingRoot about these suspicious connections on their own XDA thread, still waiting for an answer... :)
[Security Discussion] optimumpro:
In my view, it is better to have no root at all, than use malware named Kingroot. Just don't buy devices with unlockable bootloaders...
[Security Discussion] Fa0zli:
How to solve"SUBSCRİBE" problem
[Security Discussion] kushfighter2:
omg i had made this post some time back !

but i didnt think about the hosts file block :P

kingroot is to not be used for rooting .

to replace kingroot , best way is to

1) download a recovery for your device

2) download rashr for your device ( as kingroot blocks ALL other apps that may be used to replace it)'

3) flash the recovery img file to the recovery partition

IMPORTANT

make sure your recovery is working '

4)reboot back , go to settings in kinguser and choose FULL UNROOT

5) go to recovery and flash the supersu zip file http://www.supersu.com/download

ta daa !
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] randy-247:
i love stock android but i just want to know is this gonna be posible
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] EdrickMG:
Not unless they unlock bootloader...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] thereallugo:
yeah he is correct cause cm roms use a custom kernal, we can only flash roms using our touchwiz kernal
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] randy-247:
there not pure android rom without unlock the bootloader then ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] aaroon200:
Randy did you finally root your note 3 ?

Download JasmineROM_v6.1_N900VVRUEOF1 and believe me, your are going to be very happy afterwards. :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] randy-247:
Yes i finally did it and intall the rom jasmine but i was doing a research a deoxed rom can fully custom the rom ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] EdrickMG:
All custom roms write some partition of the bootloader safestrap, flashfire born to allow to install some features without touch that part... That's the reason you are able to flash some mods.. And xposed framework they don't touch that part... But customs rom like cyanogenmod and others they do it that's the reason of unlock bootloader it's something completely apart of root... But hey... They are lots of themes... Ports roms you can change layers... To say the truth kernel it's the only difference between unlock bootloader and root.... I'm begging for my note 4 at least get root
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] randy-247:
so with this rom i can be able to modify my divice but no to change kernel is that righ ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] EdrickMG:
You can change kernel.. But only based on TouchWiz, that has same logic that's also the reason you can do ports of s6 and note 5 they use "similar kernel" but if you want pure android like a Motorola.... It's a completely different kernel... So no... You won't be able...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] randy-247:
oh i got it but i was thinking about im just gonna customize my phone like a pure android im gonna be ok with that since i dont habe all that blotware
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] EdrickMG:
Yes you can almost take it... With themes of samsung... Like change the color of the toggles, with a nova launcher or others you can almost get pure android.. Experience... That's the reason I said almost like a pure android without custom rom.... But if you want cyanogenmod structure... The same toggles in the status bar and fast.. Response unfortunately until they unlock bootloader you can't experience that .. Hey not everything is bad... On note 4 for example we don't have in customs roms finger print reader... Or camera some people says cyanogenmod it ain't the same of the stock rom... Errors... In cyanogenmod also.... It's a matter of point of view
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] randy-247:
so i cant change my status bar icons ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] EdrickMG:
You can change color status bar... My bad I meant the buttons of toggles like wifi bluetooth that come with TouchWiz... If you see pure android and LG etc has different types of toggle buttons but you can change color of the status bar that's one of the most search feature with xposed
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] randy-247:
that sound cool what about my icon in the status bar and sorry that im making to many question im kinda new having a rom like this
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MayoRamirez:
Its normal get custom mesage at star up once we install jasmine 6.1 using flashfire método?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MohamedRaafat:
Is there a way to enable or port ambient display like the Note 4 ?
[Honor 6, 6 Plus Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roythen:
Hi, any 1 can upload a spc oeminfo ~ need to flash phone for H60-l04
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Willyman:
Given the reports of lag and stutter persisting in this new line of Galaxy devices, it would be great to see some evidence of it.

I made a similar thread last year for the Note 5 http://xdaforums.com/note5/general/note-5-scrolling-behaviour-t3195672

Please upload screenshots of your S7E with Profile GPU rendering in the Developer options enabled to see the performance and smoothness of this device!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Xileforce:
What exactly are these bars show me? Higher is better or worse?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Willyman:
There is a horizontal line which is the 60 fps limit (i.e. the limit for a stutter free UI experience). If the bars stay under this line, all is good. If they shoot over it, it can be perceived as stutter. An occasional spike is not too bad, but when you have a lot of spikes it definitely correlates with stuttering in the UI.

You can see in my graphs that my trusty OnePlus One offers a much smoother UI experience than my Note 5. Was wondering if the new line-up is better in any way. Based on the XDA article I don't have high hopes...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] cepheid46e2:
If you're having problems with UI turn on GPU acceleration and see if that helps.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Xileforce:
Just a few screens, both were taken after scrolling around several times. It's kind of odd because it seemed like every time I stopped scrolling it would spike once it stopped. Probably fine. I also should note that those bars actually seemed to reduce performance in a few areas, such as when using keyboard. It would probably be more accurate to use the adb method so the GPU isn't drawing all of the graphs ontop of the ui. Ty for telling me about this though. Will probably come in handy for testing kernel changes in real-time.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Willyman:
[MENTION=4517211]Xileforce[/MENTION] Can you try in some apps? Main culprits before were YouTube and app store.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Xileforce:
Here ya go. Tho I must say idk what it is, but the homepage of the playstore hasn't scrolled super smooth for me on a single device.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] skivnit:
The playstore doesnt cache thatz why it will lag on every device

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Willyman:
That looks encouraging! So in your experience, are large spikes (that reach up to the top of the phone almost) rare?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Xileforce:
The only time I saw huge spikes was usually right when launching an app or when scrolling for the first time on play store while the stuff was still loading.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] retsen:
Dude why isn't this function more talked about????

This should be part of every reviewers set of tools when reviewing new phones!

Why in the world isn't it?? This is the very first time I've seen this little utility and I've been on android since the beginning LOL...wow. This also offers freaking objective evidence on something that has always been a subjective measurement that a lot of Samsung die-hards simply don't want to admit exists. I just ran this on my verizon S6 still on 5.1.1 and I'm sure you can imagine the horror...from what the above poster put up it would appear things are possibly improving with the S7 but one could take a screen cap at a good moment and miss some of the spikes.

I'm not sure if using this measurement tool has me more excited or more mad about what samsung offers as flagship material but it at least gives me a baseline for comparison now, thanks man! I'll be running this like crazy when my S7E comes in and will definitely update with my results.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jeffonion:
Here are real live footage. Watch in 60 frames . https://youtu.be/603aSxZQxN4

https://youtu.be/EySs3pWnuoI

https://youtu.be/hq4exPxLSrY
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Willyman:
It can drive you mad though :D In the beginning with my Note 5 the frame dropping was really bugging me, cause my previous device had been super smooth (OnePlus One). This function just rubs it in :D

Dat Facebook scroll :silly::victory: Looking good!
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baconman4321:
hello

i have a galaxy s6 root and run xsterolite rom. when i plug my phone to my windows 10 pc or macbook nether one of them recognize my galaxy. it say charging but nothing else. i update the driver and so on but nothing helps. even putting it in download mode and starting odin nothing? also google it and there was nothing. any ideas what to do?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neemac:
What kernel are you using? It seems like the phone is in a charge only "state"?. You don't say what S6 you have? 920F? If so, try to flash Hacker kernel from here . See if that will help.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuifzandNL:
I have the same problem.. no recognition on pc only charging.. slow charging...

When i connect a usb otg hub then no recognition for the hub.. only thing pops up in the notification bar is: usb controller connected and then nothing.. tried everything.. secret codes for usb.. all seems right.. but no recognition only verry slow changing.. and damn i realy want to connect with odin for fixing but.. you can fill the rest for your self in..
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brenner650:
Try download Shortcut master lite from playstore, run secret code explorer in it, then code 0808, and set AP and MTP+ADB to see phone as disk in windows, this helped me, hope it will help you.

Offcourse you can also try dial *#0808# and see if that works (rom dependant)
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuifzandNL:
Thank you for answering!

To bad that i already tried it.. and still nothing happens
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jawsm:
Send it back to Samsung for a warranty repair. Seems like your usb-board and/or mainboard has a problem. I had exactly the same problem, only slow charging. Got it back with a swapped mainboard and new USB-board.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuifzandNL:
Thank you! Now i know it for sure! I go to samsung with the device! Thx
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Philipp_94:
I have the same problem. I send it in for repair under warranty but Samsung told me that "every change of the original software (it doesn't matter if the problem occurred because of the software change) leads to loss of the warranty." They wanted to charge me 490$ to fix the problem. I denied and changed my daughterboard by myself but the error is still there.

I think somehow we f*cked our Mainboards up.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] backinblack05:
I have some Galaxy Note 4's that are in Retail Mode and I can not get them out of it. I have seen the many post that give the two passwords but neither password works. They have IMEI stickers with IMEI numbers and they are SM-N910V models not the X models. Can anyone tell me for sure if I can get them out of Retail Mode will they work as normal phones? I ran the Samsung Phone Info app and they have Snapdragon 805's and MDM9625M modems so I am guessing they will be able to make calls. Does anyone know the password to get out of Retail Mode or know if I flash them through Odin with Verizon firmware if they will work? Any help is really appreciated!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] kerfex:
Nope

If you bought a retail Verizon note 4, it's retail and that's it and the SM-N910V is the retail version. The most locked down phone ever. Your stuck with retail. The things you are talking about with the two passwords apply to the developer version. You can not switch a retail Note 4 out of retail mode.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] blindmanpb:
This is not what he is talking about.

Retail Mode is an interactive demo application that's loaded on most Samsung devices that are displayed in retail stores.

How did you manage to get your hands on devices running retail mode? Did you acquire these new or used?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Wongtong:
Five finger discount?:eek:
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[Android Apps and Games] emyjames:
it is interesting . Thank you for sharing it
[Android Apps and Games] itayg:
we fix bug on android version 6.0
[Android Apps and Games] itayg:
Thanks,

Did you try it?
[Android Apps and Games] itayg:
test on nexus 5

someone test it on nexus 5??

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] B. East:
Force closes on the HTC M9. Stock Marshmallows no root
[Android Apps and Games] itayg:
I will check it.

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] KiberKrab:
Good idea, very interesting)
[Android Apps and Games] itayg:
new version 1.2:

add option to edit the safety message
[Android Apps and Games] itayg:
Thanks,

Did you test it?
[Android Apps and Games] Aharonoren:
Great

Nice app!

Can I edit the safety message?
[Android Apps and Games] itayg:
Yes from settings screen

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[XDA Assist] crashov3rid3:
I know Verizon just came out with the update to marshmallow for their Galaxy Note 5. I am wondering if anybody else is having intermittent Wi-Fi issues or having significant battery drains on their verizon galaxy note 5 after doing the update to marshmallow. The problem that I am having is that I will have the phone connected to a Wi-Fi network and it will sometimes work and other times it will show up on a web page unable to view page due to no network connectivity. It will happen on any wireless network not just my home wireless network. I have also noticed a significant battery drain after the doing marshmallow update from Verizon. If anybody has any suggestions or fixes for these issues please let me know.
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