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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkdbr:
Hello

i have the Gold Galaxy S5 & a 64GB SDCard from Samsung.

The phone and SDCard are encrypted and have worked fine for a long while.

One day I tried accessing the files stored in the SDCard by connecting my S5 via USB 2 to my laptop (Ubuntu 15.10); and It failed to mount since.

I have created an image of the SDCard using 'dd' in Linux.

Therefore, I would rule out a hardware failure.

Furthermore, only once this card was mounted on this phone and I had a glimpse of my pictures, again it failed to copy anything out via USB.

Currently, when I put the SDCard into the phone it shows notifications saying:

... Preparing SD Card

... SD Card safe to remove

As I still have the phone encrypted - and I presume the encryption key are present.

Is there some way that I can copy the encryption key out of the phone? Use those to read the image of the SDCard?

The partition table of this SDCard does not appear to be correct - is it encrypted as well? Is this expected?

It is really annoying to have this happening when I was copying the data out of the phone as a backup ...

It would be really great to have my data back.

Your suggestion on how to solve this problem will be most welcome.

:D
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkdbr:
bumping ....

Thx
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kiriakos-GR:
Since the moment that you damaged the encryption key protecting the card, the data over this card does not belong to you any more.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkdbr:
sorry

how did I 'damage' the encryption key?

I tried reading the SDCard in the same phone.

I have older backups of the phone that included the SDCard - would that help?

Thanks,
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kiriakos-GR:
You better ask further questions in a forum specialized to Ubuntu 15.10
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rakuu:
Doesn't sound like a problem on ubuntu's side unless it wrote some header or something when it tried to read.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkdbr:
The card was mounted in the Phone - Ubuntu accessing it through the USB3

And it just stopped working - just like that!

But, could actually understand that it was something like that.

Would it be possible to reuse an old image (done with dd) of this USB to try and resurrect these files?

for info:

- where are the keys kept?

- surely the phone has some.

Cheers
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kiriakos-GR:
If I was aware of that? I would require 1000$ payment so to share it.

Message to all:

1) As long Samsung provides software tools only compatible with Microsoft Windows and Android, this translates that other OS platforms them are not supported.

2) Any attempt hacking phone encryption this is illegal.

3) One desperate owner who lost access to SD-card, he should physically visit Samsung service center, demonstrate proof of ownership for phone and card, and ask their help.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rakuu:
Android=Linux in a very basic sense. Even then, it's not 'not supported', furthermore as I said earlier, itse extremely unlikely plugging the phone in would break it regardless of the OS.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kiriakos-GR:
I do agree and I did my homework about Android in old tablet about a year ago.

When you use any OS this working with command line, this translates that if you are a terrible commander? you army this to be also drowned in the river because of you.

This is what it did happened here too.
[XDA Assist] XDA Visitor:
I installed zapdos Kernel in my moto e first gen cm 13, marshmallow and just after that its restarting automatically and going to twrp recovery mode.

Please guide me that how can I uninstall it.

Thank you.

my email id is neerajsharma6@rocketmail.com
[XDA Assist] Trafalgar Square:
Hello and thank you for using XDA Assist,

just install the newest nightly using TWRP and you will have the stock kernel.

If you have any further question, please create an account and ask here:

Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Kind regards

Trafalgar Square

XDA Assist
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] Coldyh:
While we expect the rom cyanogen be carried, because we do not share the performance of our devices? Let the print result of the bench, and if possible also information such as firmware number, model, CPU and GPU governor, I/O scheduler, tweak and others..(the only requirement is that the bench is calculated in AnTuTu).

(Opinions about the best way to achieve performance are welcome:crying:)

My Results::cowboy:

Tweaks: None

Governor: CPU and GPU set to performance

Scheduler: Deadline

(the rest is in prints)
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] dani020110:
Cyanogenmod 12.1 no tweaks

Just l speed app
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] k1ks:
My E203 score 29746 with Skynet Rising Beta ( Average performance enabled )

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[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] velles2003:
"QUOTE=k1ks;66354422]My E203 score 29746 with Skynet Rising Beta ( Average performance enabled ) "

hello,

what is Skynet Rising Beta?
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] k1ks:
Evolution to Skynet Genesys TX7 :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3030796

Only on G+
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] depressed_:
Stock .112
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] roxandn:
this is atuntu benchmark app ? or what?

more info plz
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] wojtczakowy7:
It's antutu
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] velles2003:
how is this possible? any tweaks? full performance mode, or what?

thanks!
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] cpozoalbirena:
This Xperia is sincerely very poorly optimized, and although the benchmarks give these results, in reality the operation of equipment not shown.
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] velles2003:
So i absolutely hate the performance of this phone. My last phone was an HTC ONE M7 that simply fled past this M4 E2303. I know the Snapdragon 615 can do better but it's firmware is awful. I understand the heat issues but i've tried the Temperature mod and saw no real improvement.

I am trying to flash the firmwares to see which one, if any, has the better performance. BUt i've hit a bump:

on the Xperiaforum i've found the M4 fw BUT the earlier ones (.112, .99) are from some M2 phone. I've flashed nevertheless but it doesn't boot properly, obviously!

so, can anyone give me an advice, some other place with better firmware source (i tried on Xperifirm and i don't see other fw than .167 and the latest .111 which, both are ****) ?

27000 in antutu is not bad but i think the realworld performance does not reflect it.

so i will flash and flash 'till i find the 35000 Antutu pts Firmware!
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] donalberto17:
Putting the processor's governor on Ondemand will give you a boost in performance without any battery problem.
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] vyrussu:
My Phone on Last Version of software .111
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] Hitman951:
Is it rooted?
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] vyrussu:
No, is original rom, with no modifications and boot loader locked... i had root before, but nou i flash original rom with sony companion and no root any more.
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] depressed_:
No tweaks, no programms just stock .112.
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] dani020110:
Well, it seems that I have the highest score

This is my build of cm13, not based on tonystark

Kernel compiled with uber 4.9

CPU and GPU set in performance

No overheating issues in the benchmarking process
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] tomcis147:
Awesome! Do you have geekbench score ? also when do you plan to release (if you want to) ? I am bit ouf of the loop for M4 development
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] dani020110:
The ROM is wip and yes, I'm going to release once it is fully working

Here is the geekbench score
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] Siea Group:
i had 40,332
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] rafik23:
here is my result

hi ,

here is my results

rooted firmware version 26.1.B.3.109
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] Siea Group:
very low like the m4 aqua

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[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] rafik23:
Do you use stock firmware?
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] Siea Group:
yes
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwimDrewid:
Phone seemed to stop working yesterday. Last time I used it was via Bluetooth paired with my wife's car.

I get signal and can text, just not send/receive calls.

I was on dirty unicorns official and had not messed with anything in several weeks.

I just updated radio and vendor and installed latest weekly of dirty unicorns.

Anybody go through this before? Any advice?

Thanks.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maarten08:
I had something like this before on my Nexus 5. Clearing the cache from the 'phone' app did it for me. Worth trying ;)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwimDrewid:
Already tried that. Then clean flash. Then updated ROM with latest vendor and radio images. No luck
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hachiroku:
i have a similar issue when connect to my Huawei Watch. once i turn off bluetooth i can call correctly.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gytole:
do you still have an IMEI under settings
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwimDrewid:
Yeah. Att thinks it's hardware. Time to test my Google warranty
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] murphyjasonc:
What does your prl version say under your IMEI settings? I had this exact problem when I flashed the latest PN build. I tried everything to fix it. Flashing my EFS backup worked for a while but sometimes on a reboot I had the same issue again. Flashing EFS would fix it again but it was temporary. The permanent fix for me was a clean flash of Chroma ROM. Just curious but what carrier are you on? It seems like this issue has been affecting CDMA carriers like Verizon more than others.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwimDrewid:
On att

Emei sv: 61

Says not roaming but I have that set
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] murphyjasonc:
When I had this problem the prl version in my screenshot said unknown as well as the MIN number. If you problem started after flashing an update I'll guarantee its software and not hardware. If you have an EFS backup I would try and flash that first if not I would do a backup in TWRP and then clean flash Chroma. If it doesn't work you can always just flash your backup and be back to where you are now.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwimDrewid:
Ah. I don't have that info. Didn't do update till after this problem. May not have efs backed up. But did full clean install of latest du weekly including radio and vendor this morning.

Will check if I have efs backed up
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] murphyjasonc:
I'm sure you have already checked the APN settings but it would be a good idea to make sure they were not changed when you updated. Are you in a good LTE area? A lot of people with this issue could make and receive calls over LTE but when they didn't have it they couldn't even though they had service. That's why I think it affected CDMA carriers more. LTE goes over GSM and 3g goes over CDMA. Does your phone number show up under SIm info?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwimDrewid:
Checked APN. I have efs from November MDBO8M from when I first got phone :(
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] murphyjasonc:
The EFS doesn't change. The original backup you have is all you need as long as you have a backup of just the EFS partition and nothing else with it. It might not fix your issue but it won't hurt anything. I tried Chroma after reading it fixed a lot of others problems with the same issue and that worked for me also. I'm still running it but others have said they were able to go back to their preferred ROM after flashing it and all was good.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckarrow2:
Could it be a sim card issue? Have you tried remove and re-inserting the sim?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwimDrewid:
Yep. Removed / reinserted before coming here
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwimDrewid:
I'll transfer to my phone and try in a bit. Any known problems going from DU to chroma? I'll try that too
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] murphyjasonc:
As long as you clean flash their shouldn't be any issues. Just go to advance wipe and select system, data, cache and dalvic. Just make sure you don't check internal storage. Then flash chroma and the recommended gapps and you should be good to go. Make a backup first and you can always just flash back to the point where you are now if it doesn't work.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwimDrewid:
I don't have an EFS backup on my google drive (like I thought I did). I think I have the backup in the office, but not available now.

No joy on the Chroma -- still no PRL data, no phone sound on dialing, no receiving calls

At this point, I figure it's hardware related :(

Thanks for your help
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] murphyjasonc:
Have you changed any settings in the test menu? Another option would be to swap sim cards out with another phone to see if yours works in theirs and vice versa. As a last resort before you RMA you should wipe everything and flash the stock images and start fresh. Even if that doesn't fix it I think you would have an easier time with the RMA process being completely stock and relocking your bootloader.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwimDrewid:
So, uh, I forgot to mention a critical piece of data: I live in Georgia, but this occurred at one of the South Carolina beaches, over 300 miles away.

I had full LTE, but noticed the phone said Not Roaming (or roaming: false).

As soon as we got home today, boom -- could make and receive calls again.

So, I think I can close this thread and open a new thread on how to get roaming to stick.

Thanks for all your help! :good:
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slap_shot_12:
I set many of my apps so notifications are blocked. Quite often that preference is changed and I start to get notifications again, and then when I go look the notifications for that app are no longer blocked. I'm wondering if it happens when I update the app (I have them set to autoupdate) but I'm not sure.

Is there a way to change this so that setting is permanent, even after updating an app?
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] sidecube:
My mom has a Kindle 2nd Generation running 10.5.1 stock.

The other day, it started rebooting, but not in the traditional bootloop sense. The OS would load to the lock screen, you could swipe and use it (albeit sluggishly) for approximately 30 seconds before it rebooted again. So, it made it impossible to access the device via ADB.

I made a factory cable, accessed fastboot, and did the following:

This worked fine. I was able to get into recovery mode with TWRP and access ADB. I pulled all the data off the /sdcard partition. This was a big concern since my mom has been using this thing for a couple years now and she's collected quite a bit. Originally, my directive was to factory reset and reflash the stock firmware from Amazon: update-kindle-10.5.1_user_5174820.bin. It would be nice if they supplied a checksum, but they don't apparently.

Anyway, the more I thought about it, I thought I could clear some caches, uninstall some apks and that would resolve the issue without a new system image. Then I started to notice the problem:

Both /data and /sdcard are read-only. They also use the same block device. Maybe that's normal? I've already tried remounting the partitions read-write to no avail.

Both commands execute as if they were accepted successfully (ala no output). However, rechecking mount's output, shows no change. It's still read-only.

I've tried sideloading in TWRP, but that resulted in a protocol fault. Also through TWRP, the factory reset succeeds, but actually does nothing. All of the data is still there. My other idea is to push the image onto the /cache partition (there's just enough room), and try to install that way, but I have a feeling that 1) won't work and 2) may exacerbate problems.

I'm stuck. Anyone have any ideas?
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] sidecube:
Solved

I was able to free the partitions.

It must have been some sort of corruption in userspace. I had previously tried a wipe through TWRP which was claimed to be successful. I still can't determine if TWRP doesn't check all their syscalls and handle the return codes or the Linux subsystem in Android is the root of the bugs. Either way, upon reboot, the device returned to factory "out of box" state.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mocsab:
I am curious if any one knows the answer to this question -

The Bulgaria variant of G935F has had a total of two new updates for new firmware on Sammobile since the S7 Edge launched - the most recent one came down just the other day - most other variants have had two.

Being somewhat new to using the G935F (or any F variant for that matter) on ATT in the US, I wonder if this latest Bulgarian update has anything new or different - (improvements) that has not yet been released elsewhere?

My understanding is that any G935F firmware release is safe to flash via odin if I am using a G935F phone - but I don't want to flash just to flash - on the other hand, if there is some improvement, well, I certainly want to take advantage of that...

I guess what I am asking is - how do you find out what is new or different in any of the new releases - considering there are so many different countries that have their own version of G935F?

Suggestions?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] stmasi:
Good morning, guyz and galz.

I just installed, via CAB, the latest version of SPB weather. After the installation, it was not showing up on my Today screen so I decided to restart. Unfortunately, now my Wizard hangs on the third splash screen.

Any ideas on how to correct the problem aside from reflashing?

Thanx.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] hanmin:
From what it seems, you are having a classic not supported Today plugins. I'm not sure, where did you obtained your SPB Weather? The official site? And is it stated WM6 compatible? Did you install that on a Storage card? What other Today plugin do you have?

If it were to be the 'classic' Today plugin incompatible issue, there isn't much you can do except hardreset.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] stmasi:
I downloaded the SPB Weather directly from their site. Of course, I didn't check to see if it was WM6 compatible before I installed it. :D It was installed to the device. As for other Today plugins, I have PhoneAlarmPro, TodayAgenda, and BatteryStatus.

Thanx.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] calouro:
Did you try to reset (via reset button on side) a few times. This sometimes happens with spb software. After I install spb, i hang on the 3rd screen a few times, after you reset it a few times it normally clears up.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] stmasi:
Yep, that's what it was...I had to reset it about five times, but it finally came back up.

Thanx.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] aco036:
Is there any way to add some cities to this app? Nearest supported city to me is 60 miles away, so weather can't really be that accurate.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] janneman22:
not i know:(
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] tigrisimo:
via gps device perhaps?

i think is possible to add a "custom" city using a gps device, (i did it once long time ago) but not sure if can do it in the new versions.

hope these info can help u a bit.

Good luck!:cool:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] iamroddo:
My tf201 seems to have gone into a bricked state. It crashed while my son was playing a game on it. Instead of restarting it never came back up. Thinking that the battery may have run out I plugged it into the AC charger overnight. While connected I could see an orange LED by the power button glow.

Now I can't get it to start. When I hold doen the power button, it vibrates for a several seconds but the screen remains completely blank.

Unfortunately I no longer have a USB cable for it. Is it worth buying one on the off chance it can be recovered?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vicolodo:
Hello,

i use teamviewer to connect to my (home) remote android smartphone, open its camera and see what happens in my home (i use the smartphone like a remote surveillance camera)

The streaming works very well, but i have the problem that i have a limited data plan, but teamviewer consumes a lot of data when it is streaming the camera.

I would like to reduce the bandwidth used by teamviewer: i do not need a super clear image and super fast frame rate.

So i would like to reduce the resolution and the frame rate.

Is there a way to reduce the streaming bandwidth used by teamviewer?

Perhaps setting some parameters on my smartphone camera in build.prop file?

My remote smartphone is rooted, i can do on it all modifications i want.

Do you have any suggestion?

Let me know!

Lodovico
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrklintscher:
no ... you can't change anything i think.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vicolodo:
thanks,

i think so too, i searched also if there is some app that reduces the speed of the connection

Teamviewer adapts the streaming quality basing on the speed of the connection, so perhaps if i can reduce the speed, it should reduce also the bandwidth...

but i have not found such app...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrklintscher:
i think bandwith is optimized to minimum
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vicolodo:
Yes,

i think the streaming quality is optimized basing on the available bandwidth.

But perhaps i found a solution:

Netlimiter for windows.

I connect to my remote smartphone with my laptop or windows tablet.

Here i can install Netlimiter, and set Teamviewer to use no more than a specific bandwidth (that i have to decide)

So if the upload bandwidth of teamviewer host on the smartphone depends on the download bandwidth of teamviewer client of my laptop/tablet, in that way i should limit the upload bandwidth of teamviewer of the smartphone...

What do you think?

Could it work?

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrklintscher:
i think it will make it really slow maybe
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vicolodo:
yes, maybe

i 'll try and let you know :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vicolodo:
Netlimiter does not fit for my case.

I found that , despite the netlimiter does work on windows, reducing the download speed,

this does not impact directly with the upload speed of the smartphone, that keeps quite high.

Perhaps the teamviewer server that works in the middle, manages the two connections

- one for the upload (from the smartphone)

- one for the download (to the windows tablet)

almost independently...

so for now, i have still not found a solution for my problem :(
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] konoplya:
so with my sd card (Kingston 64gb) i've been having problems. its class 10 uhs so should work fine and i even had a sandisk in there as well and i get the same problems repeatedly. when i take pictures and have them set to write to the card, sometimes the camera will stop working in pic or video mode saying that can't write to the card. then the card would become completely invisible to the phone. have to restart and then things seem to work. its really annoying.

anyone else have some problems similar to this and if so how did you resolve it?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] jljunk:
I was having sd card problems. I solved it by exchanging my phone for a new s7. This new one hadn't had any issues.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] cameraman1dm3:
I'm having issue now haven't found out how to fix yet.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] konoplya:
where did you go to exchange it? I bought mine at Costco, can I just bring it there or do I contact Samsung? I've had it for a month now.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] jljunk:
I exchanged mine at t-mobile within the 14 day window. I've heard Costco has a very good return policy so if tell them you have a defective unit that you'd like to exchange and see what they do.