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[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slackbladder:
Hi all,

I've followed with meticulous care the video and web page over at aftvnews for rooting my aftv2...

Everything went perfectly, up to one point,... Instead of just flashing the sloane-5.0.5-rooted_r4.zip (I also placed a check in the checksum box).... strangely it failed the checksum,.... and I decided to choose to reboot.

After checking the sloane-5.0.5-rooted_r4.zip md5 it was okay.... strangely i don't know why it failed.

But now all my firetf2 does is boot directly to the amazon home page. (I still have adb and usb debugging enabled).

All I had connected to the firetv2 was a usb mouse to enable me to click the relevant items within recovery.

Is there any way I can get back into the first TeamWin boot window so that I can actually flash the sloane-5.0.5-rooted_r4.zip file.

I did have a usb hub connected as well, with a usb keyboard just in case I needed it, but thought that it might be the problem so i just left the mouse connected.

Every single part went through perfectly installing adb and fastboot,... installing the mt6577 usb drivers.

connecting the firetv2 via a to a cable, and also running the install_firetv2_recovery.bat file.

Not one single problem until this last bit.

Could do with a couple of pointers please chaps as i can almost see the finish line.

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hhmmmm I rather stupidly left the ramdisk-recovery.cpio.lzma file off the SD card when I wanted to get back into the boot menu.

This time the checksum passed, and rooted firmware went on without any problems.

about to click "reboot system" in preparation of crapping myself....

Hoping that someone can see the final screen attached and tell me if this is okay..
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bula1ca:
Are you installing sloane-5.0.5-rooted_r4.zip from recovery?

It looks like it installed OK but even so if you already have recovery installed you still have a way back in.....so no worry.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanr1977:
That's what I was gonna say, seems ok to me?

If it won't boot Into recovery or won't boot follow this guide here -

http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/development/firetv-2-unbrick-image-t3313349

But if you can access recovery with a keyboard press or via adb just follow the guide on aftvnews but since you have already tried to root don't use the installer just flash the prerooted rom (if needed redownload the zip check the md5 checksums & flash In recovery)
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slackbladder:
Thanks for the details chaps....

I persevered and following the detailed info from aftvnews I used the cmd and typed su..... after pressing enter i had about 3 seconds before the little box that you have to press on "enable" disappeared... managed it on my third attempt. I don't remember reading that one has to use the firetv remote to click on "Enable". but it worked.

command prompt says root@sloane so it looks to be successful.

also blocked updates as well. now if only i could root my firetv v1's i could get rid of opendns.

but using the calculator over at aftvnews (when I could get on there} states that both my firetv1's are not rootable versions due to the serial numbers.

just one other thing chaps.... to be able to load rbox's twrp,.... is that only possible via an sd card plugged in and using ramdisk-recovery.cpio.lzma and then switching on firetv?

just wondering chaps.... are there any uk people here who can still access aftvnews. I only ask as the site went down last night about 3.30 am gmt.

I've had a mate whose on BT and he has full access another mate on sky tested it for me and its okay.

I can access it if I use Tor Browser but other than that it keeps timing out on me and I'm on vermin..

Another piece I almost got lost at, was where you have to click on the three arrows "Swipe to confirm" well I thought it had gone wrong on the page before that, due to another blue page with arrows on..... no mention of that in the video.

Now after all that,.. I assume I still have to sideload kodi?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bula1ca:
You lost me here but glad you managed to finish the installation.

BTW if your FireTv1 is on OS5 you can rooted with kingroot. You need to provide more info to be able to help you furthermore.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanr1977:
Now youve rooted dont forget to block updates via adb! You need a keyboard to access twrp like I said before, no sd card In the aftv2 doesn't matter, you can still access twrp. Yes you can root the aftv gen 1 using Kingroot (please do not use super sume afterwards people have bricked after using super sume!) Block updates & wait for the recovery & prerooted rom by rbox to be released. Yes of course you need to sideload Kodi if you want to, Kodi is not suppled with any root/recovery or rom. Sideload via your phone/adb/adbfire/ftp or es file explorer.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slackbladder:
Thanks bula1ca,

I Updated one firetv1 the other day to 5.0.5 and then pulled the plug..... I'm hoping that rbox will come up with a working rom that i can use.

for the time being my other firetv1 is using 51.1.6.3. (it seems a lot smoother than 5.0.5). or maybe that's just me.

the firetv2 had two ota updates to get to 5.0.5. I had a little panic, I was expecting another update to block the rooting process.

also I was rather surprised how easy it was to root,... I think if i had to do it again,... instead of the 8 hours it took me, it would be more like 45 minutes now... lol

I must admit that I was constantly checking every little thing I was doing.... writing down notes for reference and trying to look at half a dozen open web pages to see how others had done it.

Going to be a problem for me though if I cannot access aftvnews any more....

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Thanks for the info deanr1977,...

I did try to use a keyboard but the firetv2 just kept on booting all the way to the home screen no matter what i did.

This was before I had actually installed the rom though, so this may well explain why I could get to the twrp recovery menu.

Is there a time limit as to how quickly you have to press a particular set of keys on a keyboard to get the recovery menu to show up?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanr1977:
Sure it will be back up soon, I'm in the UK & can access it fine so just sure it will only be a matter of time & it will be back up & running at your end?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slackbladder:
deanr1977 may I ask are you a vermin media customer? I'm trying to find out why it's only me.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanr1977:
you mean Virgin Media? yes

You have around 10 or 6 seconds to select boot normal to the left or boot to twrp to the right.

I use a Logitech K400 plus keyboard, works perfectly & also has a touch keypad which comes in very handy to those apps which need a mouse to access.

This one here -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Wireless-Keyboard-QWERTY-Layout/dp/B00XJ3LVPI
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slackbladder:
No honestly mate.... i really do mean vermin... ever since they took over I've had no end of problems. I'd laugh if I could but it just isn't funny.

I had a look at one of those k400's in a local pcworld.... but they were asking well over the odds. I think I might go down the amazon route. cheers also for the info on the boot timing.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanr1977:
I'm not happy with there set top box's or interface, but the Internet been fine for me, very fast almost all the time
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slackbladder:
I gave up in the and had to call them....

basically done all i could at my end... flushdns,... checked hosts, checked opendns, turned off everything except router and new VM| router (modem only mode) and tried an ipad... nope still no good. all this after a full shut down of everything and two reboots.

tried my phone,.... yep you got it right, full access to aftvnews.

whats even more stupid is that I'm using part of my wifi to access the net due to the poor 3g signal and i can access aftvnews.

Well VM staff said there's nothing wrong with network, nothing wrong at my end, and if i want access to keep using tor browser.

that's not really what i wanted to hear.

but he did mention that my IP address may have been blocked at the other end. although I'm not to sure why.

I also read some info from Elias, owner of aftvnews here... http://www.esaba.com/blog/limitations-of-siteground-vps-cloud-hosting/

seems he's not very happy either.

I've asked a bt customer to check for me,.. all okay. a sky customer... all okay,... and also yourself....

This only ever happened to me once before and that was on a forum many years ago. The owner had to unblock me so I could access the website again.

within two weeks I had been blocked again.
[HTC Desire Eye] lastnoob:
What would be the optimal way?

I 'd prefer a free way, if I wont brick it.

Sorry for the dumb question, I googled, but found no info on it except sellers trying to sell unlock codes.

This is my first phone I need to tinker with so I'm confused.

Thank you in advance!
[HTC Desire Eye] lastnoob:
If anyone has the same issue, its pretty easy to do so.

att . com/deviceunlock/#/

Just complete the form and it you get the unlock code immediately. Be sure to confirm from the email, and then dont wait for the next email but go immediatly to the "check device unlock request status" or something like that(its a link they will give you once you confirmed the request).
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CheatingOutlaw:
Hey everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone else has had the same issue I've had with lower performance than Lollipop. I was excited to upgrade to MM. I upgraded to MM, cleared cache, did a factory reset, wiped all data. To start fresh. But it seems the phone is noticeably slower than Lollipop. Especially with TouchWiz, between screen transitions and exiting, swiping pages on the desktop, etc...there is always a micro-stutter. I've previously used Arter97's kernel for lollipop and perhaps that's why Lollipop had better performance than MM for me. Perhaps we should wait for Arter kernel for MM? Has anyone else had similar issues?
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kalinskym:
This should be in Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting.

---------- Post added at 03:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:58 PM ----------

I think you should wait for a marshmallow kernel to be released officially.
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CheatingOutlaw:
I'm not asking for help and I don't want to troubleshoot. I am asking if anyone else has had the same experiences in these regards, that's it. lol :P
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Café King:
And questions should be posted under Q&A, "LOL"

http://xdaforums.com/s6-edge-plus/general/questions-qa-section-t3180244

/CK
[XDA Assist] rangushiva:
Please help me any one to hack wifi easily with android mobile.
[XDA Assist] Clark Joseph Kent:
You two, please read the Stickies in this section: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2783031
[XDA Assist] Clark Joseph Kent:
That is not what we are here for, if you wish to conduct such activities, try google. As the intentions of this act, is unknown.

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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.h.bardak:
As the topic says, the battery graph and icon freezes if I plug my phone for charging or for file transfer. This problem occurs only when I use TW based roms but not CM based ones. I tried 4.4.2 and 4.4.4 TW roms. The last time I remember that this was OK is when I was on Dr. Ketan v14 which is 4.4.2 TW and it was a long time ago.

For example, say that battery is at 50%, if I plug the cable in, the percentage and the battery graph in settings screen freezes and does not change. Battery icon does not show the charging animation and battery percentage stays at 50% until I reboot. Also if I reboot while charging, the charging animation appears and percentage rises up as the battery gets charged.

This problem does not occur on CM roms.

What I did do far:

* I was on MJ5 BL and I upgraded to NL1

* I tried flashing stock firmware with Odin

* Tried flashing PIT file

- After flashing pit file and stock rom, I saw that the internal SD card was intact, nothing was deleted, all of the apps I installed before were there. Shouldn't it be all gone, like as if I've just bought it?

No change.

I really need help. I don't want to reboot all the time I connect my phone to my computer or charge it.

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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Aequitas:
Any help will be appreciated.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Aequitas:
I still need help here.

Could it be a permission related issue? I don't know maybe there happens something when I plug the phone and prevents kernel to read data from the chip inside the battery.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Aequitas:
Bump..

Same problem persists..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
After flashing stock rom in Odin, did you perform a factory wipe?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Aequitas:
Factory wipe wipes only "data" partition. And yes, I did it so many times but didn't help. As I said, even I flashed PIT file.

What confuses me is that this problem occurs only on touchwiz based roms. It's just fine if I use cyanogenmod based roms. And I want to use TW roms.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaron13:
Have you tried another battery? I just bought a new one myself as I had also freezes.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-N910C met Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.h.bardak:
No I haven't. I don't think it would be the problem but I'll give it a try.

I also replaced the charging adapter but nothing has changed.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jorgen_gustavsson:
There are alot of guides around for converting movie files so they can be played back on S7/Gear VR some of them might actualy work but ive noticed that alot of the guides forgets to mention the audio output when they convert they only tell you about the video so to remedy this ill write down my experience..

1. Most guides tell you correcly about the video formats

2. Most guides don´t tell you that AC-3 won´t work. Only AAC and MP3 works.

3. First i thought avidemux would be perfect but apparently it cant read the complete audiostream on the files iv´e tested with no matter what audio settings i used in avidemux the output file ended up without speech.

4. So. Download ffmpeg

5. Put your video file in the ffmpeg\bin folder or add a path to the environment variable.

6. Open a cmd in your ffmpeg\bin folder and paste this line

ffmpeg -i YOURFILENAME.mkv -c:v copy -c:a aac OUTPUTFILENAME.ACC.mkv

7. After the conversion is done the output file should play correctly on your S7/Gear VR

8. Last note i have only tested this with movies that have an AC3 stream but it should work for other audio streams.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jorgen_gustavsson:
A liitle followup..

I thought it was a hazzle to install Emby or any other dnla client and milkvrlauncher just to watch local media in milkvr(And im not even supposed to have access to milkvr for that matter..) so i went the easy way and simply installed Abyss webserver added the mkv file extension and added my media files to the htdoc folder and now i simply open the local web adress in the samsung internet browser and it lists all the files and folders i have in the htdoc folder and i can can watch what ever file i put in the htdoc folder.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Mu5ic92:
Are you guys disabling this using Package Disabler? Just curious if it can improve battery in any way?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] bfreeva757:
I disabled it and got almost 7 hours of sot my first day.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] NotATreoFan:
You can disable it, but certain core functions may not work. Samsung Pay for example.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] AKW:
I can confirm that Samsung pay works with it disabled. From what I understand, this has something to do with push notifications for Samsung apps. I'm not sure exactly which apps, or what functions break if this is disabled (I don't use many Samsung apps), but pay does work. Push Services was a known battery killer on the s6, so I disabled it on my s7 as well. No ill effects yet.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] NotATreoFan:
Would you mind sharing what you disabled in total? I've shut down a nice long list of apps, but only got a marginal bump in battery. Of course it doesn't help that the radio shipping with the S7 Edge is worse than the recent Note 5 updates. Back to relying on WiFi Calling at the office again. Plus WiFi doesn't automatically reconnect if I walk out of range and back in, it waits for me to turn the screen on.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] omf05:
I left mine on and still get 7-7hr 30 mins of SOT
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] AKW:
This is my list, which did not give me the bump in battery life I was hoping for either. I'm also seeing the same wifi and radio issues as well
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] waiting89:
Is this a separate app to disable them all?

NVM I bought and took out some annoying apps its a nice sweet app!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] NotATreoFan:
Thanks for the list.

I'm hoping the other issues get ironed out with the March or April updates that should be coming within 4-6 weeks. On the up side however, WiFi Calling connects instantly on this phone and I've yet to get double/triple/quadruple messages arriving.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] AKW:
Well that's good. Silver linings and all that.

I found out that disabling the Wifi Scanning and Bluetooth Scanning options did help a bit with battery, but the issue I have with turning them off is finding another trigger for some of my Tasker profiles. Using GPS-Based location is more battery hungry than the Wifi near state, and Net-Based location and Cell Near State aren't reliable enough due to poor signal at work, so I'm stuck using the Wifi near, which requires Wifi scanning to be on.

At this point I'm waiting for an update or root to be able to squash this issue. Still happy with the phone though. I know that early software is often buggy, and this phone still has the best hardware in the game, so once the OS is updated/rooted, all will be well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] NotATreoFan:
Absolutely! Samsung caught a lot of crap over the years (their own fault with early TouchWiz), but a complete 180 has occurred and I'm more than content to use their phones for a long time coming.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Mu5ic92:
How did you disable bluetooth and wifi scanning? Dont see any option for that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] AKW:
Agreed. I find that Samsung phones generally have the best hardware available, even if the software is slightly lacking, which I find is the case much less nowadays. But since the hardware is boss, the phone is worth a buy since most software issues can be addressed and fixed with custom ROMs. Best of both worlds IMO.

They're in the settings under Privacy and Safety>Location>Improve Accuracy
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johns5893:
Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone could provide a known working link to a stock ROM for the GT-I9506 (preferably Australian, although I'm not sure if that matters on an unlocked phone).

I've tried the well-known sammobile.com and samsung-updates.com links that can be found all over Google and these forums, many times each. The sammobile.com ones always drop in and out regularly throughout the download when using a segmented download accelerator (iGetter on OS X to be precise). This doesn't seem to be a problem at first, since 20+ retries will eventually get me to 100%, but the resulting file always unzips to a *.cpgz file that unzips to another *.zip (a well-known corrupted zip file issue).

Trying to download the same files through Chrome will always eventually time-out (I've never gotten past 20% this way; usually much-less).

The samsung-updates.com files are even worse, being hosted by two separate mirrors that are equally useless unless you pay for a "premium account".

I realise I'm a bit late to the party, since the S7 is now on shelves in Australia, and that's probably why the popular download links on Google are now dead or very unreliable. But if anyone could please provide me with the latest available stock ROM for this phone I'd be forever grateful!

MTIA :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Have you tried the SamFirm tool?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johns5893:
Hi there, thanks for responding! I'd never heard of SamFirm until you mentioned it, but after reading about it on here it seems like exactly what I need! Will give it a whirl when I get home from work this evening (it's currently 8:10 am here and I'm running late LOL). Thanks again!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johns5893:
Just wanted to update this thread in case anyone might fight it useful in the future.

It turns out that the sammobile.com links are still valid as of this post's date. The problem I was having was simply due to Mac OS X not recognising the specific zip format that the files have been compressed under. I'm still unsure exactly which format that is, but nonetheless the solution is to either use The Unarchiver to unzip the file on a Mac, or better yet, use a Windows machine since Odin requires that anyway!

My sincerest apologies go out to the sammobile.com admins who have actually done a wonderful job of stocking all the possible ROMs for practically every Samsung device ever made. It was just my sheer n00biness, and the fact that I was using WiFi, that led to me having connection issues and unzipping problems (solid download over Ethernet; completed in ~2 - 3 hours through Chrome, no DM).

As for GDReaper's suggestion to use SamFirm, I had problems running it on a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM on Mac OS X El Capitan, so gave up and tried the sammobile.com links from a friend's PC. As stated above, everything went smoothly with those links once OS X and WiFi were taken out of the equation. Of course YMMV since my area seems to be particularly overcrowded with WiFi devices and I've had troubles with it since I can remember.

So to sum up, SamFirm may or may not work well from a proper Windows PC, but the sammobile.com download links for the GT-I9506 definitely work as well as your connection will allow (at least the Australian Telstra and Vodafone ones; haven't tried any others).

Many thanks again to GDReaper, and also to everyone else who puts so much effort into helping Android n00bs like me ;)
[AirDroid] t0lits:
hello guys...i'm using airdroid for my s4 but it will expire soon...do you have any cracked version there or activation code so that i may still use airdroid for a long time?..i really like this app...hoping someone may help...thanks in advance guys...
[AirDroid] GuestK0087:
Greetings,

6. Do not post or request warez.

If a piece of software requires you to pay to use it, then pay for it. We do not accept warez nor do we permit members to request, post, promote or describe ways in which warez, cracks, serial codes or other means of avoiding payment, can be obtained or used. This is a site of developers, i.e. the sort of people who create such software. When you cheat a software developer, you cheat us as a community.

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