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[General Questions and Answers] Usernametemp:
First thing I'd like to state I don't want mods to lock this thread and redirect me to this thread as it's full of other people's question and it's useless in the future for people who could be asking the same question, thanks. Feel free to move this thread anywhere else where you find it more suiting.

I'm still kinda open to new options but I don't see any other phone rivalling those two for me.

Never liked Samsungs, prefer my choices over all the LGs in price range, don't want Sony for a reason, don't want HTC or Huawei, don't have trust for any other brand.

Recently both MXPlay and 5x went down with price significantly here and actually cost exactly the same now.

I prefer smaller phones (biggest phone I've ever had was iPhone 5), but although MXP has 5,5" instead of 5x's 5,2" they're almost same size so I think in this case MXP wins, quality of both displays should be quite good and comparable.

I prefer 5x's camera despite it's 12Mpx vs MPX's 21Mpx, day shots are comparable but in low light conditions MPX's shots are dark, grainy and lack detail so 5x wins this.

5x has Snapdragon 808 against MXP's 615, 5x clearly wins here. Almost all MXP users report occasional presence of microlag, 5x should be smoother, although with Marshmallow update performance should be better on MXP than it was, would certainly be happy to hear more about this.

Battery...MXP has one of the best battery lifes out there, while 5x is descirbed as average, from what I've seen people get around 3-4 hours of SoT with 5x, with MXp it's 5-6...up to 8... I'm not sure if 5x's battery is acceptable for me, had it had a little bit more of capacity I really wouldn't know which one to choose. 5x has turbochrager in package, but with USBc calbe I'd have to buy additional cable. MXP is turbocharger compatible but they don't ship it with it, I don't really find this as neccesarity as I rarely charge my phone at other time than overnight.

Nexus has fingerprint which I like, MXP is splash resistant which I like too, those 2 things negate each other for me.

Nexus has guaranteed asap OS updates, Motorola used to be on roughly same level with this, but under Lenovo they started to stumble a bit, not really a big deal for me. MPX motion gestures to open flashlight and camera, which I like but not a big deal either.

MXP should have better sound quality, both with speakers and headphones which is welcome.

As for build, I really love MXP's rubber back and shape, don't really care about weight. 5x is ok.

Specs I skipped I either don't care about or are same on both phones.

Basically I wish they took 5x processor, camera, fingerprint and updates and put it into MXP body.

So, I'm looking for advice. Some info I stated might be inaccurate or wrong, feel free to let me know.

Thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] GertBagley:
5x. Personally I like the option of jumping to Google Fi if I don't feel like paying $80/mo for cell service.
[Verizon LG G3] JaXxz:
Okie dokie, I've installed cm13 after a couple hours of fighting with my phone bootlooping because of random garbage happening, (mostly due to GAPPS related issues). Now I'm bootlooping when I install the a new SuperSU binary.

It is to my understanding the cm13 in general is having issues with superSU, with it failing to install normally and then requiring a installation through recovery which causes a bootloop. I know cm13 does not require SuperSU, but I need to install it to force my selinux status to permissive on boot. Anyone have a workaround?

Current ROM file is cm-13.0-20160321-NIGHTLY-vs985.zip
[Verizon LG G3] :
Why don't you just use the makepermissive.zip? Flash it in recovery and it'll set selinux to permissive... https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347784981

...and FWIW I use cm13 based ROMs(RR, AOKP) and flash the older superuser 2.52 zip(and the "makepermissive" zip if selinux is set to enforcing or else it may boot loop) and everything works fine.
[Verizon LG G3] JaXxz:
I'll try that out after I get out of my current bootloop and let you know if it works xd
[Verizon LG G3] JaXxz:
ok it seems to have worked! thanks!
[Verizon LG G3] Blindprophet32:
Did you have the issue where it was telling you it had a secure boot error? I flashed CM13, the 35B stack.. which I believe failed because I didn't have the correct modem... and then supersu and ran into the secure boot problem. Finally got it back into recovery mode.. it refused over and over to go in and just restarted itself. Then I reflashed CM13,then gapps, then tried to 35B stack unsuccessfully again and was about to go update my modem and accidently powered the phone up.. now it's running no problem. I've just been super confused on what actually cause the boot issue.
[Verizon LG G3] JaXxz:
That happened to me once while I was troubleshooting by myself, I flashed an incompatible SU binary
[Verizon LG G3] Blindprophet32:
Which version did you end up using? Because I haven't flashed SU on the phone because of this issue.
[Verizon LG G3] :
Try this one... https://download.chainfire.eu/752/SuperSU/BETA-SuperSU-v2.65-20151226141550.zip

I just tried it on temasek's cm13 3/21 build and it works fine.
[Verizon LG G3] JaXxz:
2.52 beta, an old one but it works if selinux is set to permissive (at least on my phone it worked)
[Verizon LG G3] JaXxz:
The version that caused the "brick" (not sure if its the correct term) was 2.67 stable
[Verizon LG G3] JaXxz:
Is your selinux status set to enforced or permissive? I might update my binary to that one
[Verizon LG G3] Danilo-Sanchez:
Just intall the latest beta (2.68) and it will work.
[Verizon LG G3] :
Temasek was set to enforcing
[Verizon LG G3] JaXxz:
I tried to install 2.65 and got a secure boot error. Installed 2.67 and got a bootloop. I recently successfully updated my binary from 2.52 through the app. I'm not sure what version it updated me to though
[Samsung Gear S2] fantasylovevn:
Help me pls
[T-Mobile HTC One (M9)] zachsshadow:
I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out why my sim card is not being detected in the Cyanogenmod Nightly for March 19, 2016. If anyone can help or anyone suggests moving further back in build dates, please let me know. Apparently no one knows about this bug on the CM side.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M9)] sanave09:
tengo el mismo problema actualize a marshmalow 6.0 luego instale Android_Revolution_HD-One_M9_20.0 y no detecta la sim que puedo hacer
[T-Mobile HTC One (M9)] Aatrothy:
I had the same problem. Not sure if this will work but try flashing Slim Gapps instead of Cyanogenmod's during the installation. I would like to add I am currently on AOSP with CandySiX and Slim Gapps. If you decide to flash CandySiX I would also flash Dragonfi audio(after a successful ROM installation of course) to fine tune the audio, I actually like it much better than Beats. Finally, the reason I would like you to try flashing a different Gapps package, CandySiX had the same problem at first, but when I flashed CandySiX without the recommended Gapps package my SIM card was detected! I tried so many Gapps packages, they all seemed to cause force close errors, sign in errors, or SIM card issues, but Slim Gapps worked.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M9)] zachsshadow:
Alright. Next chance I get I'll try cm13 w/ slim gapps.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M9)] 3's&7's:
Have you completely started from scratch with the 3.35 RUU, TWRP, Root, and then install CM 13?
[T-Mobile HTC One (M9)] bynarie:
I too have this problem, but I did find a work-a-round. Make sure you have the latest tmobile firmware (3.39.531.7 as of 6-28-16). Im pretty sure you need to be s-off. Then, grab the 2.7.531.6 radio only from here and flash it. This method, all though not proper, does work. Credit for the flashable radio zip goes to aestivalisakito and you can find his radio only post at http://xdaforums.com/one-m9/general/recovery-flashable-radio-zip-t3122983.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M9)] :
This got my SIM card working, but now I have no sound. :( I have been struggling to get a decent AOSP rom running since I got this phone. Anyone that has a fully working CM13 with firmware details?
[T-Mobile HTC One (M9)] bynarie:
i havent been able to use cm13 yet but 12.1 works fine
[Honor 6, 6 Plus Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coasterkid:
Hi. I wonder if somebody could help me

I have an H60-L12, I recently updated it from Emui 3.1 to Emui 4.0 (B807)

I had further updates to roll-in after B807 but after the update to EMUI 4.0 I see the local update option has vanished

I rooted my device and copied the hwouc.apk file over the original on my root drive, no when I go to update it takes me to the stock android update screen. Any ideas on how I can roll in these other zip files

OTA-EMUI 4.0_H60-L02-L12_B807_B809

OTA-EMUI 4.0_H60-L02-L12_B809_B811

OTA-EMUI 4.0_H60-L02-L12_B811_B823

Any help would be greatly appreciated
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] titoasty:
Hi there !

On the HTC One M8, the bluetooth LE peripheral mode is disabled, even with android 6.0.

So, I was wondering if any rom could enable the peripheral mode so the phone can act as a beacon ?

(I use "Locate" for the tests)

Thanks for your help !

Titoasty
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ironia.:
no power button problem

without any reason the phone rebbot itself and stuck in boot loop animation....stock MMB29V Marshmallow , no root, only unlocked

tried:

-wipe cache and data

-reinstalling all singles images files

-reinstalling with flash all bat and finally it works...

what's the problem???

and now? there is something to check? have to change the phone???

tnx
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
Manually flash each partition again, including userdata.img partition. After flashing the last partition, boot directly to recovery using the power and volume keys (don't reboot the phone at all after flashing the last partition), perform a factory wipe, and reboot.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ironia.:
Ok but i need ti know if is possible to check the health device status
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
What do you mean by health? You mean each component?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ironia.:
I mean if is possible that something hardware is defective or going to be defective.

can I run some tests?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
I know of no tests that are available to the public.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ironia.:
Ok
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WallaceLau:
I have a similar problem with my N5, it was originally a power-button issue, and after some "whacking" the phone no longer "repeatedly reset" but now it just sits on the "Google" boot screen forever. Probably something got messed up during all the unintended reboots. I already went into recovery and did a factory reset, no luck. Tried flashing to older ROMs, no luck. Started hitting up forums, saw this post, tried your suggestion (flash each partition manually, did a "fastboot reboot-bootloader", enter recovery, wipe, and reboot), and still no luck.

I can get into fastboot/recovery, and even tried loading custom ROMs (CM13 to be exact). No matter what I tried, the phone will power-up, and stuck at the "Google" screen. Note that I've always waited at least an hour after flashing each version before I reboot from the "Google" screen.

I've read somewhere there is a "persist(?)" partition which will throw some error if corrupted, but it will require USB debugging enabled to fix. Unfortunately, I can't boot into any ROM to enable USB debugging...

Am I SOL or is there anything else I can try?

Thanks,

Wallace
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
Are you getting any errors when performing a factory wipe? Does the factory wipe happen very quickly? You flashed the userdata.img partition too?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WallaceLau:
First time I did a wipe it took over an hour, then the phone rebooted to the dead android screen. So I tried to wipe again, and it seems like all subsequent wipe took anywhere between 3-5 minutes. No error on each wipe (can't say on the first one, since by the time I got back to the phone it has already rebooted). And yes, I did flashed everything - boot, cache, recovery, system, userdata, bootloader, radio - not exactly in that sequence, but all of those partitions are flashed with the image that comes with the Google download package. Then factory reset and reboot.

Thanks,

Wallace
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
Maybe try erasing cache and data using fastboot commands? If this doesn't work, it's possible that there is a hardware problem with the phone's internal memory.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WallaceLau:
Did a "fastboot format cache" and "fastboot format userdata", no error. Still won't boot... are those the commands you are referring to?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
Yup, or fastboot erase cache or fastboot erase data.

Sounds like the emmc may be messed up.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WallaceLau:
Tried all those, and yes same result... also, I flashed a different recovery (TWRP) and thereafter I can't even flash new ROMs anymore. ADB Sideload error our (forgot to write down the error message), and if I copy the file to internal storage and flash from there, TWRP will get stuck for hours.

How common are eMMC corruptions?

W.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
The emmc problem is not that common, but it does happen. I'm not sure if it is partition or software corruption or a physical defect.

Other xda members have encountered emmc problems too that could only be fixed through a motherboard swap.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sarvesh.huddedar:
I am running into a situation emmc. the problem is I tried below action so far

1. Attempted to flash recovery partition which failed immediately after first reboot . it never got flashed correctly

2. Attempted to format all the partitions but I could format boot partition I could format no other partition it clearly says that can't mount

3. Then I tried to boot using fastboot command into recovery partition my command is

Fastboot boot recovery.img

I tried cwm I tried TWRP . only 2.6 dot x x worked in twrp. Cwm was not so helpful because it does not give me many features likewise TWRP

Once I boot in the recovery it asks for password if I click cancel it shows me all the interfaces but nothing works I don't have any local storage available it clearly fails to read it and everything shows is encrypted I don't know not sure what is going on there

When I attempt to format I get a error message as no partition available for this operation. No file system available

About phone but I think I am still searching for options but so far I could see that this is e MMC issue and there is no partitions available on this memory I am not able to format this internal memory I am new to the Linux environment and not sure what to do to format this internal emmc...

Can someone suggest any options to format and Re partition the emmc?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenbrownstone:
The password thing means your encrypted...Unencrypt and you can see all your storage..

---------- Post added at 04:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:56 PM ----------

My friend as a n5 that kerps bootlooping too..No roit but unlocked..Never rooted and has no clue how to root or mod a phone...It keeps bootlooping foe no resean 100% stock..It will only stop when i get it to go into bootloader mode and that takes a while...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
The constant boot looping could be a power button problem?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sarvesh.huddedar:
I dont think anyone has encrypted the phone ever.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenbrownstone:
Maybe im mistaken but evertime i had to put in a password in ttwrp i had gotten encrypted...you get it fixed? My friends started bootlooping for no reason and wouldnt stop til the battery was dead.. Never seen a stock phone do that..

---------- Post added at 10:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:59 PM ----------

Reasearch it.... It totally sounds like what happened to me...
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apocalyptic 28:
So i soft bricked my device while trying to install the latest 4.0.1 image. I tried hard wiping the device and wipe cache partion from Stock Recovery but didn't help, still wouldn't boot. I tried installing the image in Stock Recovery from Apply Update From External SD Card, but i got a few errors first "E:Failed to map file Operation aborted", i took a look at the file and it had about 1.67gb extra in "Userdata" i tried deleting that file and reinstalling from external sd card but then i got "E:footer is wrong" "E:signature verification failed" Operation Aborted.

Now i'm trying to install update from ADB (Surprisingly if i have the tab connected and im in Apply Update from ADB the tab is recognized in ADB

adb devices

serial # sideload and i have updated the drivers) But if i try to flash the recovery file 4.0.1 (provided from the developers site [cant post links]) "i just get waiting for device"

Anyone know how to get around this issue in ADB or properly install from external sd card without getting errors?

(Alternative read to my problem posted in the Nvidia Forums 98% sure i soft bricked my device [cant post links]
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rom fiend:
Did you ever find a fix? I'm having a similar problem.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqukyo:
Try to use fastboot restore everything.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rom fiend:
I can't get it to connect to fastboot. When it loads the boot loader and I try to select fastboot protocol it fails.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rom fiend:
Wow this thing sucks! I'm really appreciating my Samsung with Odin right now! So I finally got it to connect to fastboot (don't ask me how, I don't know) unlocked the bootloader and flashed twrp. Now it won't flash supersu in adb sideload so I put it on an SD card (which now magically mounts and works now) and flashed the zip in recovery but it says at the very end of the process while trying to update the partitions that it can't mount the data and system partitions so I'm not sure if I'm actually getting root or not and if so if it's permanent I have no way to tell. I think this is because they have been accidentally wiped. Do you think it is safe to try to flash a rom in recovery from external sd card? And if so which one? I have no idea which version bootloader, kernel, or os is or was on this device...

Update: I think I may start a new thread in the Q&A/Help section so that I can try to get a vast concensus. Thanks!
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lightn1ng:
Yes flash a ROM in recovery.

Try Resurrection Remix. It'll resurrect your device
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rom fiend:
Just tried flashing bliss 6.2 and it won't get past the nvidia screen. It says it flashes successfully but I still get a bunch of "can't mount such and such partition" errors during the flash sequence. Not sure what to do, I can post pics if you guys want.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] castrwilliam:
If you got/can get TWRP on there now, the advanced wipe menu will allow you to check /data for errors. As for /system, wipe it. If you get errors that e2fsck can't fix in your TWRP log, you'll have to put on your data recovery hat on. If it's that important to you, my advice is to adb pull the right file under /dev/block. You won't get a block device, you'll get an exact image of your data partition. Once it's fully pulled (it'll be 10 GB or more on a 16GB device), make a copy of it first thing, and use data recovery tools (testdisk, or if you really know what you're doing, debugfs). If you don't have anything valuable on /data (remember that any backups you took from recovery go in /data/media by default), just format that and be done with it.

Pray that there are no errors after you format everything, because that usually means your NAND is toast.

If your errors are hardware ones, you're royally screwed. Same thing happened to my Nexus 7 2013 model a year ago. Only way to use it is to flash a modified kernel that will use an attached USB drive exclusively as storage. If the NAND is toast inside the boot partiti,try replacing recovery, otherwise, you have to tether boot it (fastboot boot) every time you want to run it, unless you have the guts to try repartitioning the NAND (unlike on PCs, messing up there is an instabrick).

Since the Shield Tablet can use SD cards, you're better off. No USB drive needed.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] edward-riko:
Windows Mobile 6 devices offer Internet Sharing feature for Bluetooth and USB. It works in this way that you start Internet Sharing application inside of your Windows Mobile phone and then other devices can share the Internet connection. What if you could fool Windows Mobile phone and instead of Bluetooth use WiFi? Would it be possible? Yes, it is:

how to use Internet Sharing over WiFi, which essentially makes the Hermes an Access Point.

Do the following:

1) Open Settings->Internet Sharing. Enable IS for Bluetooth PAN.

2) Change HKLM\Comm\ConnectionSharing\PrivateInterface to "TIACXWLN1" (it should currently be "BTPAN1").

3) Open Settings-> Connections -> Wi-Fi. Select Network Adapters tab. Click IEEE 802.11b/g Compatible Wi-Fi.

4) Enter IP address 192.168.1.1 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0. Click OK.

5) Select Wireless tab. Add New.. to add the Network name for your ad-hoc network (I prefer "adhoc"

6) Set the client computer to use the same ad-hoc network. Client will receive an IP address from the device (don't need to manually set the IP).

I got this from a different website.

detailed information on this topic you can fined at

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=332360

edward
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ChaoticDruid:
Edward!! you rock! this has got to be the sweetest thing, since wm6..for me atleast, Im actually posting from my old hacked OSX x86, I really cant believe this worked, but it did.

Thanks a ton for sharing the info.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] aeroke:
Edward, Can you plse explain why you set the wifi adaptor to a fixed IP?

The 192.168.1.1 is as far as I know only valid if the router has the 192.168.1 range. For me it should be 192.168.123. ...

Thx for an explanation.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hellejoep:
a cab would be perfect!

Yes! A very nice feature; could this be put in as a cab?

Or better, in the comm manager.....

Anyone?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] pmow:
Your phone is now the router.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] cp1md2b:
edward-riko

:confused: I tried the steps to the letter however, I am unable to connect. I tried on one device running Schaps 3.54c & the other vp3G. I get confused after I complete the step "select wireless tab then add new." The new wireless network shows unavailable on my device" I think I'm unsure how to configure the connection on the PC side. I'm unable to get the wireless configurator to allow me to input a specific IP address. I'm using Windows XP Pro. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] todd_jg:
OK, I have been resisting, but why would you do this.

If you are using wifi to access the Internet, and the phone and PC both have wifi (in order to use wifi sharing), why not just access the wifi directly from the PC? Sorry to be thick, but I don't see why you would want this?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] edward-riko:
and if you don't have WiFi access to the Internet but only cellular access?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] edward-riko:
play with this some more it will work in the end

do it systematically

edward
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] todd_jg:
Hah! I knew I must have been missing something. Thanks.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Nautme:
WiFi & WM5?

Does this work on WM5? The instructions don't seem to match for me. Can someone tell me how to do this on WM5?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] edward-riko:
no it will not