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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
Shouldn't be "the ROM" that did that. Devs can do whatever they want, but it has been the custom for ROM devs to avoid packaging up recovery images for flashing during a ROM install. First because (strictly speaking) it's not needed by "the ROM" to function, and second because many devices have more than one choice for custom recoveries, so doing that would be over-riding the owners' decisions about what custom recovery to use.

In this case though, the dual- or triple- purpose Jasmine ROM (DevEd/Retail/Multiboot) has to install a stock boot image for Retail versions. In most stock distributions, the device or carrier vendor uses the identical kernel in the "boot.img" file that is used in the "recovery.img" file. (The ramdisks are different, and that accounts for their wildly different behaviors - the recovery doesn't need to rely on /system or /data to boot up to a primitive UI such as TWRP... and that's exactly why recoveries are used for OTA installations, upgrades and repairs - neither /system nor /data need to be mounted for them to boot up a UI; in a way of speaking, those file systems are "offline" when the recovery is booted. That of course makes manipulating them, erasing them, etc much more convenient).

I haven't followed the Jasmine thread much, but since there have been version releases which are based off of different stock releases, hsbadr needs to insure that the correct stock boot partition (file "boot.img") is installed along with the customized stock ROM (Jasmine) for the Retail version, and that's the purpose of that "partial firmware" flash. I suppose he left the recovery.img in there simply because it is good practice to keep stock recovery images in lockstep with stock boot images. And of course, that development predates the appearance of "Unlocked" bootloaders, so there was no reason on Retail devices to have anything except a stock recovery installed.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaaidR:
Ah, I gotcha. Yea, I just guessed that since I did all those wipes that was cause for it having disappeared rather than me flashing that firmware, which makes more sense. Is there "Dev" or "Retail" version of Jasmine or is it just the install process that changes depending on whether your phone is developer or retail?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
TBH I don't know. I'd say "read the thread" but it's what - 1200+ pages long? :D

Maybe search that thread for keywords.

One way to determine it would be two download the installation bundles for each and pick them apart or perform checksums e.g. on the boot.img file from each. If they have identical checksums (MD5 or SHA1 or whatever), then the kernel+ramdisk (== boot image) are the same. The same can be done for any pair of files to test for "sameness". If the checksums are different, then you have to pick them apart more carefully to find out what the differences are.

The boot image controls many long lived "services" that get started by the parent of all processes in Unix/Linux - the "init" process. So many times even stock-derived boot images have tweaks in their ramdisk (which contain files such as the "init.*.rc" files that control how init behaves), even if a pure stock kernel is used. But I don't know if the DevEd version of Jasmine has mods like that; it well might though.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
Well, I went and looked at the exploit code. I am frankly mystified about why your unlock condition was preserved during the "partial firmware" flash.

Based on the way that code operates, what you experienced can not be trusted to occur in a general case and I am not sure if it can even occur in special situations (e.g. flashing the same version of the aboot.mbn bootloader component that was already installed and then unlocked)

Actually, I'm wondering if Odin refused to flash and you didn't notice an error message. But that wouldn't explain the missing twrp recovery, unless Odin only refused to flash the "aboot" partition. That seems hard to believe too.

Oh well - your phone is working and you are happy with it.

good luck

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaaidR:
Haha, there was absolutely no error messages, that's the weird part now that you are telling me all of this lol.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaaidR:
So if I chose to use CM13 that runs off of Android 6.0 and the bugs are too much for me, I would not be able to go back to Jasmine 6.1 since it runs off of Android 5.0, right? Or does it just stop you from going from 5.0 back to 4.4?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexmohr1990:
In my lust for Marshmellow I went with Temasek's CM13 ( http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-note-3/development/rom-temaseks-unofficial-build-t3364382 ) And it's working near flawlessly. A little more battery drain than I'm use to, but so far so good. :D Thanks for all the help guys.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaaidR:
I went with CM13 yesterday also, but I went with an older Sprint version that was modded to work in Verizon. It didn't have the GPS issues but I didn't have to download an old Skype apk to get Skype to work, other than that it is also working flawlessly.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexmohr1990:
So. I've usually seen not equal as =/=, so you're saying in theory DevEd mods (Which don't have a Architecture / Chipset requirement) could potentially work on our now Dev mode N900V's? Not that I looked much into it, or what that may even entail as a year ago a lot of the hacking seemed to gear towards the DevEd. Just curious.

And as I clearly missed the previous discussion on re-flashing I had some troubles with my device being able to transfer files to the SD using TWRP, so I personally had to re-flash stock, boot it, then transfer files (As I didn't have a reader handy), as I had wiped the ROM in hopes to fully clean flash CM13. But I had forgot to add GApps to my SD.

That being said, ODIN'ing back to stock I did lose both root and DevEd, unlike [MENTION=7608246]RaaidR[/MENTION] though perhaps Jasmine loads a customized "stock"? Dunno. Honestly didn't even try Jasmine before going balls deep into CM13, as I loved the look of it on a friends device. So far still no woes to report. Except my poor device's internal GPS I think is dead all together. Won't register on stock or any custom. I don't think service is needed for GPS to be enabled? My phone's currently Wifi only.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ce_lloyd:
Not intentionally hi-jacking this thread...wait, yes I am! :) You seem pretty knowledgeable so I wanted to ask you if you know if it's possible to update the software on a Verizon Note 3 that is rooted but with a locked bootloader. I am unable to unlock or safestrap the bootloader and am fine with stock and disabling apps but the damn phone keeps asking to update software and then failing presumably because it sees root? Thanks in advance for your advice and any help you can offer.

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Not intentionally hi-jacking this thread...wait, yes I am! You seem pretty knowledgeable so I wanted to ask you if you know if it's possible to update the software on a Verizon Note 3 that is rooted but with a locked bootloader. I am unable to unlock or safestrap the bootloader and am fine with stock and disabling apps but the damn phone keeps asking to update software and then failing presumably because it sees root? Thanks in advance for your advice and any help you can offer.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] surur:
Electronic picture frames are slowly catching on, and we all have gigabytes of family pictures on our desktops at home, but dont have much opportunity to see them.

Ive just bought a Tilt, which has the ideal design for either a desktop clock :) or a small picture frame. I tether every day, so its normally sitting next to my laptop, powered, but doing nothing.

My solution is in 2 parts. 1 free and 1 will cost $9.95

First, how to get your pictures on the device. This is simple using the media synchronizing abilities of active sync and desktop Windows Media Player.

First enable the media sync plug-in in activesync, then go to Windows Media Player and go to the sync tab with your device plugged in. There you should see your device as a sync-able storage device. Select it, chose to create a new sync profile, be sure to remove all the ones that are already there by default, choose to sync pictures, and add a further criteria to only sync say 10 MB. Set it to sync automatically.

This will copy about 10 Mb of photos (shrunk down to 320x211 resolution) to your device, to a Pictures folder at the root of your device.

Next you need an app called Dockwave Pro. This is not free (they do offer a free version, but it does not have the configuration options we need). Install it, point it to the pictures folder on your device, set the time out and the job is done.

Now every time your device is powered and idle for a few minutes, you will be surprised by a random selection of photos from your collection.

There is not much detail in this post, as I'm not sure how many people are interested, but it obviously can be fleshed out more with screen shots etc if there is enough interest. For a Tilt/Kaiser user its near perfect of course, as the device almost seemed designed for the role.

BTW, there is a built-in option in the built-in picture viewer, under options/slide show to play a screen saver of the pictures under the My Documents\My Pictures directory if your device is idle for 2 minutes, but Windows Media Player wont synchronize pictures to a directory accessible to that software, and the transitions are poorer.

Surur
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Chainfire:
Interesting idea. Could probably whip up a custom app for that. Now comes the problem. I have no pictures! (I should really get a camera, lol :D)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] surur:
I think you may have a decent 3 megapixel one lying around :)

If you are going to make a custom viewer, you really need to try out Google photo screen saver out for inspiration. It has a brilliant zoom and pan mode which really brings your pictures to life, and it also downloads pics via RSS, which makes for a nice ever-changing performance.

http://pack.google.com/screensaver.html

Surur
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Chainfire:
Right :D Too bad it has no flash and even though it has 3MP the quality is nothing to write home about. I mean a real camera, that takes pictures I want to keep ;)

Overkill I think for on a 320x240 device, but who knows. I don't even know if or when I'm going to do this, just an idea ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] freddiemac1:
Well, Chainfire,

For one, I would LOVE to see what you could come up with for a custom application! To test it out, just download a few pics from someplace....

$9.95 isn't bad...but something that matches the elegance of our Kaiser/Tilts is deserving of something GREAT!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] brooza:
Quality won't have to be stellar on that small screen though
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] borealcool:
This is already a feature of WM Pictures & Videos (w/out fancy transitions):
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] surur:
From my post above.

Surur
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] strikeIII:
he mentions that in the post but also has it's limitations like as far as when you sync to wmp...

EDIT: you beat me to the reply....hehe
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] kcsevo:
Hi, does anyone know how to disable? Thank you.
[T-Mobile LG G5 Questions & Answers] kcsevo:
Does anyone know how to disable it? Thank you in advance
[T-Mobile LG G5 Questions & Answers] veez21:
Type in build.prop, "lockscreen.rot_override=false"

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[T-Mobile LG G5 Questions & Answers] kcsevo:
Thank you!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 460cidpower:
I have an old MetroPCS S5 SM-G900T1 on 4.4.2 stock rooted with TWRP 2.7.0.0. I'd like to put 6.0 rooted marshmallow on it, is it possible? It won't be used for calls, just wifi games. I'd like the most stripped down, fastest I can get.
[Honor 6, 6 Plus Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darrenspence:
Hi All,

I managed to stupidly brick my Honor6+ PE-TL10 but after a couple of weeks of on and off perseverance I've unbricked it!

So it's back up and running but now in Settings > Storage it reports it only has less than 4GB internal storage!?

To unbrick I downloaded Honor 6 Plus Firmware_PE-TL10_Android 5.1_C900B324.zip from HiHonor, unzipped and from the UPDATE.APP file extracted the .img files I needed and flashed via fastboot.

I tried to flash PTABLE.img but fastboot won't allow it, the phone clearly says it has 32GB Phone Storage yet Internal Storage is 3.89GB.

Anyone shed any light on how to fix it?

Thanks,

Darren
[Honor 6, 6 Plus Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paddymcg1:
Hi there. I have a 32GB PE-TL10 also and have spent weeks trying to unbrick it with no success. I've tried several firmware versions via fastboot and Multi-Tool. Everything flashes perfectly but I can't access recovery, use the 3 button method, and the phone wont charge. I would appreciate help. Thank you
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] HaliteAnn:
Hello everyone!

I'm having an extremely frustrating issue. It seems that no matter what I do, I cannot make this phone work with Android Auto. I saw one other thread on here regarding AA, but there were no solutions and I wasn't sure if it was the same problem or not, so I thought I'd ask you all for some help.

My car is the 2016 Chevy Spark. AA worked perfectly fine in this car with my LG G3 on both Lollipop and Marshmallow.

My current phone is the KIW-L24. When I first got it, it was on Lollipop. Android Auto had zero function--the phone didn't even detect it at all, it would only charge. I tried several different cords, pre-installing the AA app, every USB mode and debugger mode, nothing. I updated to Marshmallow. I tried all of that again. After that, I began to wonder if maybe the issue was with the Emui OS. So I installed Resurrection Remix. With Resurrection Remix, I have actually made some progress. Using the cord that came with the phone, I can plug it into the car and get the Google Play Services notification saying that my phone is connected. However, when I first connect it the screen just goes black for a second, then goes back to the home screen. Despite the fact that Google Play Services says it's running AA, there is zero projection happening. Just that notification bar, and the Android Auto app as a black, unresponsive square if I check my currently running apps. If I tap it to open it, I just get the same flicker of a black screen before returning to my home screen. It does, however, say in the AA app that it has been paired with my car. So it's sort of working... but still doesn't appear on the car's touchscreen.

I read on one forum that a newer update of Google Play services apparently messed up AA for some phones, and was wondering if that could be the issue. However, when I try to install the apk for 9.0.83 (which was apparently the last one to work), it just says "Application not installed." Because of my inability to downgrade to that version, I've been unable to test if that is the issue.

I have tried calling the Huawei Support. They basically just said "We don't know--tough luck."

Does anyone have any ideas that might help? One of the reasons I bought this car in the first place was that I really like AA, and I seem to be one of very few people to encounter this issue. All I want is for this phone to do what it's supposed to do :( I'm already sort of feeling hopeless, like I threw my money down the drain with this phone. I would prefer to stay with RR if possible, but will really do anything to my phone if it means getting AA to work.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Car: Chevy Spark 2016

Phone: Huawei Honor 5X

Model: KIW-L24

Current OS: ResurrectionRemix 5.7.0-20160626-kiwi
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] grpace:
I have the same issue running the unofficial CM 13 on my Honor 5x and Android Auto on a Honda Civic EX-T 2016. Phone charges just isn't detected at all, don't even get a USB type option like when on a computer (the options for just charging, mtp, etc).
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] palasx:
I'm in the 2016 Civic Touring, same exact issue, but even charing is iffy. On a nightly of CM13 for my Honor5x from like 2 weeks ago, hadn't seen any mention of improvements and was wondering if it was worth upgrading to a new build?
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] sprof:
My Honor 5X worked fine with Android Auto on Lollipop with my Kia Optima. When I upgraded to Marshmallow the audio stopped working. I went back to Lollipop and it worked fine. I wiped my phone then updated to Marshmallow again and it works fine with AA again.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] lonelywolf220:
I installed android auto and it says "incopatible phone". How did you get pass that?
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] sprof:
I never saw that message.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] palasx:
So i'd updated to the nightly build on the 10th, and it worked fine for a few days. Now im getting the incompatible phone message, and updating to the latest nightly didn't fix it. What happaned? Was there a silent Android Auto app update that i missed?
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] PalakMi:
I am trying to figure out what makes this issue happen, unfortunately I can't find an explanation.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] venom007:
maybe u should do a factory reset
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] PalakMi:
Try a factory reset or a clean install.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] palasx:
I did a clean install of the CM13 nightly 10/22, no change. Wondering if anyone else has android auto working on any of the newer CM13 nightlies? The last one that i had that worked was an unofficial built from like 9/20, before it got official support.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] almico:
I am on stock marshmallow and Android Auto doesn't work either.

CM 12 on an S3 Mini works fine.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] adriansticoid:
You can extend your concerns with the CM13 developers.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] sprof:
Mine was working fine until the latest AA update. ?
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] palasx:
Anyone ever figure a solution for this?
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] almico:
In a couple hours I will try my 5X stock on my brand new car. Will let you know.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] ddorfeld:
I have a feeling you will be disappointed. It seems both the stock ROM and custom ROMs don't work with AA.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] almico:
Ok. I didn't know how to use, therefore I could have done things not in an optimal way, but it worked. I could see Maps and notifications from, for example, WhatsApp. I did nothing extensive, but it seems to work.

My feeling is that it is slow, but my 5X is slow doing almost everything :(
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] palasx:
That was with a USB physically attached to the car, right? Recently AndroidAuto made an update to connect to cards with BlueTooth, but that does not do screen mirroring FROM phone TO car. (aka, everythign still shows on the phone and not in in-dash infotainment unit).
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] almico:
Yes. Connected via USB cable.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] almico:
Some more tests seem to reveal that on my Seat Ateca Android Auto sort of works, but it is way too slow and causes huge delays and disconnections. May be a brand factory reset 5X with no other app installed would work smoothly, but I'm afraid this is my last test before moving to a faster phone.

Sad, but true.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] almico:
Installed LineageOS 14.1 and everything worked like a charm. Maps, WhatsApp messages using TTS, calls, ...

Absolutely perfect!
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] ddorfeld:
Android Auto works for you on LineageOS 14.1? What build did you install? I'm on the 1/31 nightly and AA doesn't work for me. I am using the KIW-L24 though, so maybe that makes a difference.

David
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] almico:
February, 7th
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] ddorfeld:
Do you know what stock build you were on before you went to LineageOS?

David
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] almico:
I have a KIW-L21. I think it was on B350.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] ManuAA:
Hi! I need help with same thing. As suggested I installed the LineageOS February, 7th to my Honor 5X in order to get Android Auto working.

It was great the first time because it worked perfectly, but then every time the bluetooth is connected to the Opel Intellilink the Android Auto icon dissapear and everithing is missing again.

It's a step. But I can't use Android Auto because it always force bluetooth connection and ti crashes then.

Hope you help me with this. I've just updated to February 13th with same problem :(
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] gopinaidu77:
It was fixed in los14.1
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] JT-on:
I can't get android auto to run. Get the attached message. Running LOS 14.1 (latest, April 20th 2018).

Any solutions?
[Galaxy S6 Active] roveer:
I've got a S6 Active that when I received it was on Lollipop. I was able to flash MM (using thread here on XDA) to it before it was officially released from the carrier. Then I was able to flash back to stock Lollipop and then received the MM 6.0.1 update from the carrier. I wanted to flash back to Lollipop for testing purposes but was unable. I think it's because the bootloader is locked?

I've read a bunch of threads saying that the S6 active has nott been rooted? Has a locked bootloader? Can't run custom roms?

Can someone please give me the scoop on this. I'd like to go back to lollipop for testing but I don't think its possible. Is that the case? Thanks.

Roveer
[Galaxy S6 Active] messi2050:
hi

yes it's not possible to downgrade your rom or your bootloader because of the locked bootloader that prevents any try to modify the device...
[Galaxy S6 Active] roveer:
is this typical of most phones? I've read of others frutrations about the S6 active still having a locked bootloader. Did I just pick a bad platform? Is S6 the same way? How about S7 series? Thanks.
[Galaxy S6 Active] FevenKitsune:
Locked bootloaders are often the case for phones provided by carriers. While a phone purchased directly from the manufacturer is usually able to have its bootloader unlocked, carrier phones are locked by the carrier themselves, preventing any tampering by the end user. A custom ROM is any modified version of Android not developed by the company that made your phone. Think of it like a third party system. To get these custom ROMs onto your phone you must "flash" (simply, install) the ROM from your computer to your phone. However, a locked bootloader prevents this. While in some cases there are ways to get around carrier locked bootloaders, it is generally futile. If you purchased the S6 Active in hopes of tinkering around with custom ROMs, I'm afraid you have picked the wrong phone. The S6 Active, as of currently, is permanently locked to Samsung's and AT&T's "stock ROM"

EDIT: as for going back to Lollipop, the reason this is generally not possible is due to the fact that the Marshmallow update also updated critical parts related to the bootloader. It is impossible to roll back these changes once they have been made as they are strictly one way.