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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] santiagoqr1:
So, I had an old S4, decided using it, worked for a couple weeks, then it just wouldn't turn on.

I'm far from being an expert, I did some research and I understand that its "soft bricked" (not hard bricked, phew!)

It starts, you see the "Samsung Galaxy S4 i9500" screen, and then just turns off.

If I try the recovery boot menu, it wont work, it'll just have the "Downloading, dont turn off target" screen, without the Odin mode, and if I try the download boot, it'll go into the odin mode, which is fine and it's supposed to happen, right?

The thing is when I go to Odin, and try to install the stock firmware, I've tried with and without a PIT file, I've tried with three different USB cords, on two different computers, with three different versions of Odin and with and without the WinXP compatibility mode ON and OFF. I've checked and unchecked the "auto reboot" and "f reset time" boxes, and I've never touched the other boxes (like nand and flash and led)

Odin will always recognize my phone, which is awesome, I always see the message "Added!"

Once I run Odin, which by the way is a picky a** motherf****, it'll stay stuck always here

""There is no PIT partition""

And also it has gotten stuck here

"Complete(Write) operation failed."

"Get pit for mapping (this was the most frequent one until I just always got the first one)"

"SetupConnection.."

This is getting extremely annoying.

I am almost positive I have the correct stock firmware, I got it from the samsung-updates.com website I downloaded the 5.0.1 version, I am curently downloading the 4.4.2 version, just to see what happens.

I do not know what the hell is a PIT file, I am using an "adonis" whatever that I found on some forum.

I also tried to "install" the recovery menu, with a "Philz Touch" TAR MD5 file I found, but I have no idea what that is (also, it didn't work)

Just to double check with you, its a Samsung Galaxy S4 i9500, I do not know which version of android was running, also, i do not know if USB debugging is on or off.

PLEASE HELP!

Product Name: GT-i9500

Current Binary: Samsung Official

System Status: Official

Knox Warranty Void: 0

AP SWREV: A3
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Have you also tried different USB ports? I recommend using the back USB ports.

A PIT (Partition Info Table) is a file that, like the name says, contains information about the phone's partitions. It is usually used to reformat the partitions (If you want a truly clean install). The PIT file needs to be specific to the internal storage size of your phone.

If you have kies installed, make sure that all kies processes are closed before launching Odin.

As an alternative you could try Heimdall. It has the same purpose as Odin.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] santiagoqr1:
I tried all ports on both computers.

I killed all the Kies processes every time before running Odin.

How do I know if I have the right PIT? Apparently, according to Odin, the issue is on the PIT file. How or where do I get the correct one? I assume my S4 is 16gb but I don't know for sure.

I will have to try Heimdall and get back to you.

Thank you
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
The PIT file can be extracted from the device using adb or terminal emulator.

You could do it too, but it requires the phone to be operational.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] santiagoqr1:
So what should I do then? Phone won't even boot.

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] santiagoqr1:
So I tried Heimdall, and first of all I couldn't find any useful tutorials, it's really complicated and not user friendly, plus I dont know where to get the firmwares to be TAR.GZ, if you change the extension it wouldn't work.

Any other suggestion or just a useful Heimdall tutorial?

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
You don't have to extract the damn thing yourself. I just said that anyone with an I9500 can do it. So find someone with an I9500 with the same internal storage as yours, and ask them if they could do it.

There are plenty of pit files online. They are all the same, just for different models and storage sizes.

Unlike Odin, Heimdall flashes partitions separately. This means you can't simply select the rom package and flash it. You have to extract the rom package, which will give you the boot.img, system.img, modem.bin, no-hls.bin and some other stuff. You have to assign those images (and bin files) to their respective partition to be flashed in Heimdall.

The pit file doesn't need to be extracted.

There are plenty of tutorials. Try this one.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] santiagoqr1:
So, i am sure thanks to you this is about to work, I'm only missing two things, one, zadig wont recognize my phone, Odin did perfectly, but Heimdall wont (because zadig wouldnt) so i need help with that, it'll just recognize my phone as "Gadget serial' and then i'd try to install that driver and it'd say it did, but it really didn't do anything.

The second issue is the "modem.bin", nowhere in Heimdall i see where to add it, i could add all the other img's and the bin's, but not the modem, whats with that?

Please, I know you can help me.

Thank you
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
I never used Heimdall myself. I only know it is an Odin alternative.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] santiagoqr1:
So, an entire forum, couldn't solve this, relatively, simple issue?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
Did you try with the Samsung USB cable that came with the phone?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krasCGQ:
Try this pit file. I extracted this from Kies firmware.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlueKnight83:
Good morning,

i have an LG G2 for about 2 years. I am so enthusiast of my phone, that i suggested to 2 friends to buy the same model.

Now i have the last LG firmware, 30d for D802. My friens are not "geek" people, so they stay whit Kit Kat and does't make any update.

My problem is that when i take a picture whit the camera, te result doesn't look so good like i remembered when i took the phone.

If I look the pictures take by my 2 friends. their results seem to be better than mine.

Now my question it's if that "degeneration" of results is an hardware problem or if the cause is the software.

Thank for your help and sorry for bad english.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jan Philipp:
I don't think it's not the hardware. Maybe the Lollipop driver is more advanced than the Kitkat driver, but I don't really know. If you are free to make changes on your friends phone take a look at this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2548974 . I'm using Xcam every day. Great to have SloMo!

Maybe you should talk to your friends because of Lollipop. Not only their phones will be better protected, Lollipop has some nice features as well.

Nevertheless, Good Luck!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] techsammy:
Recently I have enabled the developer options and tried to enable the USB Debugging option from there but the option is greyed out and isn't allowing me to enable it.

Will this option be available the moment I plugin the device to a computer? Or is there any other tricks involved?

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] techsammy:
Got the answer myself. Its the notorious Samsung Knox disallowing to turn on USB Debugging. Uninstalling it for the time being would be the temporary solution to it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Puckish:
isnt there any other way to enable it? rather than disabling or uninstalling Knox. as i ve lots of stuff in knox.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] techsammy:
No. That's a disadvantage! You can install it again after your work is done!
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @dje:
Hi all,

This is my first post on this forum, after reading it for a while now.

My P8Lite is driving me mad. I keep getting " This device doesn't have enough space" messages whenever I download or update apps.

I have a 16G SDcard installed and selected the SD card as default installation location.

That doesn't seen to have any effect, because I still have to move recently installed apps to the SD by hand.

At this moment, my internal memory is at 89%, and the SD card at 7% and I can not update my apps.

The phone is rooted, and I am using EMUI 3.1.

I haven't tot a clue how to resolve this, maybe someone else that had an idea?

Thanx in advance.

@d.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MGNConflict:
How much system storage do you actually have on the device (Settings > About Phone > Phone Storage)?

It should be ~10GB.

If not and it's 2.5GB, back-up all your data and reset the device to restore the lost 7.5GB of storage.

This occurs when installing a new ROM; ALWAYS reset the system after installing a new ROM (you may have to set-up the device first).

You selected the SD card as the default installation location, but did you move the largest apps to the SD card after you did this?

If not, do so and you'll re-gain some of your space.

With system storage running out, you'll also find that other stuff stops working such as email fetch and push.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @dje:
Hi,

According to the RAM value I have 2G of internal storage.

What do you mean with resetting the phone? I guess it's not juist a reset with the power button?
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MGNConflict:
Please provide the value of the internal storage.

RAM is completely different to internal storage.

You can find it in Settings > About Phone > Phone Storage:
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @dje:
Hi,

These are my settings:

Here is a Dropbox link to te screenshot : *edit* I can not put outside links in my message

But it says Internal Storage 256MB free, 16.00 GB total..

According to the counters in de files app, I have the following installed in my internal memory:

Images: 17MB

Audio 108KB

Other: 2.1GB

Available: 255MB
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @dje:
Hi,

Please tel me what you ment by resetting the phone. I rebooted it a couple of times, without result.

Did you mean a reinstall?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] zabaknilesh:
All must be aware that S7 is capable of using 2 sims as well as Micro sd card at same time as demonstrated by user at

http://bgr.com/2016/03/24/galaxy-s7-tricks-dual-sim-microsd/

Any one successfully did this hack ??

Or going to attempt??
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] techsammy:
Little risky but gonna try sometime.

One pro-tip: To save your battery usage its recommended to use one sim as battery drain will be significantly much faster with 2 active sim cards. But that's just me.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] LAKEPOWELL:
I just did it on my SM-G935FD (S7 Edge dual sim). Works well so far.

see my post http://xdaforums.com/s7-edge/help/insert-2-nano-sim-micro-sd-card-t3342709
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] bernd.k:
Hmm is the S7 used different from the 'normal' G935F? I thought there are different types with dual sim and without... i also do not have a tray with dual sim. But i wonder if i could buy a tray and have dual sim. Stupid question maybe, but the link does not refer to a basic dual sim s7 edition. They just write s7.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] JazonX:
Tried and Successful

Killed the 128GB in the process, Be careful with it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] zabaknilesh:
Can you please explain how you killed 128 gb card... wud help us not to do it..i am gonna surely try on 64 gb tonite .. !!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] vivelafrance:
Do the 2 trays have the exact same size and be inserted in any S7 edge phones? Cause I'm in Europe so my tray can't accept 2 simcards at all, it's 1 simcard and 1 sdcard.

Cause if they are of the exact same size, I'd like to try and buy one and try this
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] michelerossi:
The user dbux stated that the problem is not the tray, but the phone. According to his point of view, only FD models have pins for the second sim. I'm very confused!!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] peachpuff:
Obviously you need the dual sim fd model to try this, they're only sold in asia. Dont try anything.

Not sure what the confusion is, this can only be done on dual sim fd phones.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] michelerossi:
[MENTION=2903597]peachpuff[/MENTION]

We know that this can only be done on dual sim fd phones. Vivelafrance and I would like to do a different thing. What? We would like to insert the tray of FD model in F model to see if F model read two sim cards.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] zabaknilesh:
No chance. It wont have the required hardware also. Dual sim have two imei ..one for each sim .
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] peachpuff:
Then modify the sim tray with a knife so a nano sim fits in the sd slot, still don't think it'll work though.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bearded_1:
Hi guys, I have 2 Galaxy S's. It was my first Android and I love it still - however..

One of them is on stock everything 2.3.6 and is lovely and shiny new looking.

The other has dead pixels, is tattered all to hell, but is running the latest A-Rom 6.0.1 build awesomely (I suggest you try it) and has TWRP 3.0.0-0 recovery. It was a recovery flash from a lacklustre 5.1 OMNI (I think) based rom, but no idea when!

I cannot for the life of me remember where I got that recovery file from.. I've googled the heck out of it and got nowhere! I'd really love to get the shiny one running Marshmallow, but it's been years since I last poked around with all the files etc and frankly - i'm a bit lost.

a) Could anyone point me to that recovery file? I just can't find it :(

b) I've tried using adb to back it up but get permission denied and can't find the option in superSU or the developers section to allow adb access. Where is it??

c) Is there an app I can install which will do it for me? which is supported by this phone?

Help! What's the best thing to do at this point? I'd really like that OS and recovery on both.. though now I'm starting to contemplate taking them both to bits and swapping the internals around which I don't really want to do..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bearded_1:
Does anyone maybe still have that recovery floating around in their SD root folder? I unfortunately factory reset and wiped mine after installing it..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bearded_1:
found it myself - finally!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ristokoo:
Any chance you'd share your TWRP? I just realised my old i9000 is still alive, would be interesting to test some MM ROMs:)

Actually I also found it so I'm all set;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bearded_1:
Where?? I had to go to stock, flash chainfire for jelly bean, then flash CM 10 stable, then a newer chainfire, then a lollipop rom, THEN on a failed flash of the latest A-Rom marshmallow build it rebooted to recovery 3.0.0-0 so I guess it's part of that build. Not found it anywhere else!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] allan1:
I found these on one of the Freeware sites. Very nice little applications to play with.

The first is a Today Plugin that shows the Stats of your device (Batt, Memory etc)

The second will let you customize the look of your device. Change colors and so on. This one is very nice!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Palmjob:
Hey Man, thanks a lot. Ill try them out.
[Samsung Gear S2] sefar:
I missed out on the casemate band, and am tired of waiting for an adapter, so I had a band made. I like my stuff to look MY way. A vendor had made a wallet/phone holder for me out of ostrich and gator, and it held my note 5 and now s7 so i can remove the phone without taking it out of my suit pocket, with room for credit cards, cash and the like. Every place I looked online had either vegan leather or PU leather, which ain't leather. I wanted something unique. Short story long, these guys think outside the box and the attention to detail is fantastic.

They had some ostrich left over from my wallet project. I sent them my short bands which I wasn't using anyway. They were concerned about sewing the ostrich too close to the attachment point for the watch, and I plan to wrap the remainder of the TPU band with a carbon fiber vinyl wrap if I don't like the end, although it will match better the way it is. Since they added the ostrich, they were able to lengthen my shorty band to something I can actually use on my big wrists. They tell me they have some carbon fiber with a kevlar back and that will be my next project, to see how it looks. Vvego.com is the vendor (no affiliation with me), I suspect cost will depend on what you want.
[Samsung Gear S2] zathus:
That's pretty cool.
[Samsung Gear S2] arsmithsr:
-Veg tanned leather is Leather. It is the type of tanned Leather you can tool and do the fancy engraving on. It is just a different tanning technique. I use it all the time for making stuff. It would generally be to thick for Watch bands though. I am going to make a Band for my Watch eventually.
[Samsung Gear S2] sefar:
you are correct about veg tanned leather, but vegan leather/PU leather is the new slick term for plastic that looks like leather.
[One (M9+) General] GoodyCruz:
C:\Users\Hakan>fastboot getvar all

(bootloader) kernel: lk

(bootloader) product: htc_hiau_ml_tuhl

(bootloader) version: 1.0

(bootloader) imei: XXXXXXXXXX

(bootloader) version-main: 1.86.401.7

(bootloader) boot-mode: download

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.01.0000

(bootloader) mid: 0PK711000

(bootloader) cid: HTC__J15

all:

finished. total time: 0.003s

Telephone status S-OF & Unlocked

hello friends, I wrote phone information. phone system came update. The new update file appears as 1.90.401.3, but not tamamyal system update for the Twrp Recovery is installed. I was in the Recovery menu. According to information I'm looking for my phone for OTA update files. Thank you in advance for your friends to help you.
[One (M9+) General] yvtc75:
Hello friend, you must firstly flash stock recovery to OTA. On the top of that, you should have an unmodified system partition.
[One (M9+) General] GoodyCruz:
thank you. I'm a bit novice in these matters. can you help me on stock recovery ? I share my phone 's information . You can write me just ask you this information in accordance with the appropriate link to the original recovery . My download and load . I will be very happy if you help .

Thank you I am waiting for the help
[One (M9+) General] yvtc75:
I noted your device was s-offed.

Use this RUU

http://xdaforums.com/one-m9/one-m9-general/ruu-htc-one-m9-1-85-401-6-t3218717

And the flash procedure was included in the bellow post .

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61801034&postcount=8

Backup your data first and good luck!!

If you only want stock recovery for simple OTA, ask jirkab for help.

http://xdaforums.com/one-m9/one-m9-general/ota-1-90-401-3-europe-wwe-m9-t3299433
[One (M9+) General] GoodyCruz:
Thank you for helping .

ota_hıau_ml_tuhl_l50_sense70_mr_htc_europe_1.90.401.3-1.86.401.7_release_464403.zip file I uploaded on my sd card. Then I upload the files from the recovery menu. However, E : I get the error Zip signatures verified . How do I resolve this error.

To resolve the errors I made my phone super- serious. but it did not happen.

Do you have any idea how to fix this error? I am still waiting for version 1.86.401.7
[One (M9+) General] tbalden:
these as detailed by the howtos linked by the previous post, are not flashable from custom recovery. You need stock recovery not a custom like TWRP.

Or rather be using Fastboot tool from a PC, that's the most convenient in your situation i think
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TrueTenacity:
Hi there,

Does anyone know if it's possible to flash the 6.0.1. marshmallow update onto my phone from another country, since the local Samsung people say the Marshmallow update will only be available here in 3 months?
[General Questions and Answers] samveer:
Hello there,

Today I bought a HTC desire 326g. i was very much eager to intall CM13 or CM12 on my new HTC device. i searched a lot for the ROM and installation process but couldn't find any.

can anyone plz tell me is it possible to install CM ROM on HTC Desire 326g....??? :( :( :(
[General Questions and Answers] Hardeep Kang:
I don't know the procedure of making ROM for spreadtrum but it is easy on mtk
[XDA Assist] Vivekch:
Hey guys,

I just bought Bose QC25 headphones and started using it with my nexus 4. Everything is going fine except for the volume +,-. They just dont work. The mic and the Pause/Play are working fine. Is anyone facing the same problem? Is there any solution for this?

Thankyou,
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[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TomChiverton:
I rooted the stock 4.4.4 my Z3C came with (without unlocking the bootloader), and then applied the OTAs as they appeared.

The device is still rooted according to Root Check and on 23.1.A.0.690

Now there is another OTA being offered (only 11.7meg). When it reboots to apply, the progress bar under the graphic only briefly moves to ~10% and the the phone boots fully. But it says "Software update: could not install new software version. please try again" after I enter my pass pattern.

Trying again doesn’t change anything.

Is there a log file or something I can check to debug ?

Edit: used FlashTool http://xdaforums.com/z3-compact/general/list-stock-firmwares-d5803-d5833-t2906706 to upgrade to the next verson (D5803_23.1.A.0.726_Generic UK) *without* clearing USERDATA. After that reboot (and slightly panicky longer than expected time to flash), a new OTA update appears that was much larger (~10meg). That one downloaded and installed exactly as expected, and I'm now on a couple of versions after that with all my previous data intact.

I did not retain root. giefroot will come to the rescue I'm sure once all the updates are installed. Another 200meg of OTA update just showed up!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OMGrant:
Does anyone know if theres a kernel out there that allows you to modify/disable the hardware keys on the Nexus 6? I just bought a SnailVR headset, but unfortunately the harness presses down on all the buttons, causing it to reboot to the bootloader.

I've tried Xposed Framework and Xposed Additions but this key combination is hard coded into the kernel.

Any light on the matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Grant
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
thats not a kernel that you are looking for, thats a hardware mod or an app that you need.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OMGrant:
Thanks for the reply, but I'm fairly certain the key combination for rebooting into the bootloader is something I'd need to access in a modified kernel.

If this is something I can accomplish without doing so though, I'd be much happier with that solution. Like I said, I've used Xposed Additions which gives you the ability to rebind hardware key actions for press and long-presses. Unfortunately this does not disable the long-press action for rebooting the phone or booting into the bootloader.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
This is not something you will be able to change. It is a safety feature that built deep into the system. Even if you disable them in the keyconfig files it will still do it. There are somethings that just cant be changed. You have to remember that not all the code for the whole device is available.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OMGrant:
Thanks for the information. I appreciate it :)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] II_DiE_4:
That is correct. Pressing the keys for 10+ secs its hardware into the mobiles. Its like getting the battery out. Its there as a precaution if your mobile needs a hard reset. Nothing will be able to override it i think