yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Defy General] Cobalt765:
That was one of the few that worked. I accessed from the defy wiki page then I think downloaded from the XDA thread.

Yep, there some links in the last post of the MG ROM thread. Post #222.
[Defy General] ezantera:
Good someone still use defy. I give up after digitizer gone mad. Time run over this device... Uuuh, just if it had 1 gb ram and dual core...
[Defy General] CodeVanya:
Good to hear that someone else still have this cute little thing. I have too, as my second device. The ROMs I tried on this device! Man, it's countless. I had dropped it on all the different terrains you can think of, yet it's still fully healthy (save the jack and usb covers - they are loose now) without a single crack. I didn't have any covers or screen guards. It stayed true to its name. I will never regret spending money to buy this, it is one of Moto's legendary devices. I think I'm drunk, but it feels good to say all this. I'll keep this device forever with me - a product from a time when smartphones weren't made in an oven, but carefully and delicately cooked up.
[Defy General] wmiki75:
Digitizer gone mad me too, the upper line is not working, but it is a good phone, for kids.

Which seller you order the battery?

Can you suggest ROMs to watch videos on Kodi, or Youtube?

I liked this phone, this is the best size phone, what i ever had.

Why the companys not make phone like this size, one hand controlled, with 2GB/32GB, and quad cpu??

Now i have Samsung S4 mini, and it is big for me :(
[Defy General] Cobalt765:
Battery was off eBay, can't remember seller but was Australian selling genuine batteries.

Just try all the roms possible, that's part of the fun :)
[Defy General] tronjojo:
I've been wanting to play around w/ my old defy again. This thread may have got the ball rolling. What do you all use as your daily driver? I've got a xperia z3 compact, but want a new phone. unfortunately, I think my best bet is to just get another z3 compact cheap and save it as a backup?
[Defy General] Cobalt765:
Hi tronjojo, I was still using my Defy until recently I found an old 4 year old Samsung Galaxy SII of my wife's. The problem for her was that it was switching off all the time so she got an S5. I've now flashed various roms and fixed the random reboot issue. The only thing I wish it has is the notification LED.
[Defy General] rootdefyxt320:
I bougnt a Defy + battery on my Defy Red Lens, made my own BL7 fixed SBF and nandroid with 720p patch which made it a Defy Plus, then I rooted it and repartitioned to install CM11 and has made it very usable in 2016.
[Defy General] YetAnotherForumUser:
Make that Defy in 2018

I'm still using a Defy, since 2011. The battery still lasts longer than that in my wife's new Sony Experia X Compact, about as long as in my daughter's Xiaomi Redmi 4X. I will probably have to move to another device somewhere in 2018 as one of the more important apps - the Swedish BankID app - will cease support for Android 4.4 but that is more or less the only reason. For the rest the thing still does what it did 7 years ago so were it not for this I'd keep on using it until it gave up from sheer old age or electron migration or whatnot.
[Defy General] ybea:
Make that Defy in 2020

I've recently tried if my Defy+ could learn some new tricks and I thought I'd share my findings.

CM11 build

I tried to build CM11 from Quarx repository, but it seems that many of its dependencies no longer exist and whole project is no longer buildable.

3.0 kernel

This one builds fine, however I was unable to boot it - there's one frame or random pixels followed by a reboot. I checked many branches and put the output into most probable directories. I wish there were any instructions as to what actually do with a built kernel. TWRP zips found here didn't work either. Anyone?

SD card size

Defy supposedly shouldn't work with SD cards larger than 32GB. But did anyone try bigger cards? My Defy mounts 256GB cards without any problems.

Debian on chroot

I set up a Debian environment with debootstrap. Unfortunately outdated kernel puts a limit on a Debian version that could be run. For 2.6.32.9 it is Debian Jessie.

With XServer XSDL it is possible to run a full graphical environment.

[IMG="defy-xserver"]https://i.imgur.com/HEPMtQl.jpg[/IMG]

2.6.32.9 kernel modules

I also succeeded with building kernel modules for the old kernel. These are mostly filesystem modules and cryptographic ciphers. Now I could use whole Debian Jessie repository (49GB) locally from a squashfs filesystem.

Another nice feature is encryption with dm-crypt/LUKS.

I uploaded modules that insmod loads without any error.

CA certificates

These should be updated with system updates, but we won't have new CM/Lineage/stock releases anymore, so I did it by hand. If you want to try it for yourself, remount /system as writable, remove contents of /system/etc/security/cacerts/ (they could be expired) and copy certificates from the archive. Certificates are same as Debian's ca-certificates version 20200601.

Mirror

I also uploaded tools and images - self contained with instructions to go back and forth between stock and CM11, because many links here are spread across many threads or simply dead. Kernel modules and certificates are for CM11. I didn't try them with anything else.

I can't post a link to these files, because this is my first post. Search for ybea in Motorola Defy section at AndroidFileHost.
[Defy General] MLX:
Another 2020 Defy warrior

Hello! Did you check on /bootstrap/bootstrap/binary and other folders? There seem to be a zImage (and the recovery one).

I tried to flash and boot the ROM at http://blechdose-live.de/download/kernel/3.0.x/:

Tried flashing from TWRP 2.8: failed.

Extracted the update-binary, copied it to /tmp and executed it from ADB shell (/tmp/update-binary 3 0 /sdcard/cm11-blah.zip) and flashed with some things, mostly partition related errors. After rebooting, it stays on black screen (turned on), ADB available but unauthorised (just look on Github how to enable ADB from recovery to solve that) and that's all; the ROM doesn't work. I'll try debugging this to check if I can do something.

What a sad thing, this year even quarx2k.ru became offline...
[Defy General] ybea:
Files extracted from 20131213 version did not work for me. I tried swapping /bootstrap/ (and /system/bootstrap/) zImages, binaries, edited cmdline, anything I could think of. Always with the same outcome - black screen.

Flashing in TWRP (v2.6.3.0) initially also failed. Fix_TWRP_and_boot_kernel3.0_v2.zip (on AndroidFileHost) makes it succeed. It is 3.0.8 kernel. It froze during the boot, restarted and finished eventually.
[Defy General] ybea:
How could I? Android isn't running yet. It it Linux that either fails to load or silently panics. That is my understanding anyway.

The right thing to do would be to check how cm11 build compiles the kernel and the 2nd-init (or whatever it is), but I am not knowledgeable enough, nor keen enough to do that.

OTG is buggy, but usable. If it doesn't work, unplug and plug it again. It is quite normal for my defy to recognize a device on a second or third attempt. No problems with mice, keyboards, flash drives, usb hubs. On the picture in the previous post you can see it with a wireless keyboard+touchpad. If I remember correctly, the driver is set to output 200mAh max. Maybe you mouse draws more (rather unlikely for a mouse). It works for me with cm11-20161124. Also, I think the port outputs 5V even after a device is disconnected, so it unnecessary drains power, but I am not so sure about it.

dmesg should definitely log any new device. Even if android stays quiet. If there's silence, perhaps your cable may of wrong type. USB A to USB micro varies with resistancy across two pins. I don't remember the details. If it is OTG cable, then it should work.

Or simply you have dirty socket/plug pins.
[Defy General] MLX:
AFAIK 2ndInit keeps adbd running so you can take a logcat/dmesg from there, also faced the same issue while flashing CM10.2 OTG kernel on CM11 (what was I thinking?) and from there was able to see that something was crashing.

Nah, I think just taking some time to understand the 2ndInit boot process is enough, anyway when I get some free time I'll check about this all.

About OTG things, now will install CM11 3.0 kernel and see how it works (I expect some unstability) but don't really need to use the Defy, it's just there for experiments :P

Anyway, my main goal now is to install Debian natively (on /data partition because of the size) and get X running. As you said, the 2.6.32 kernel puts the limit at Jessie, but that's not a problem as it's still mantained IIRC. I'm using a prebuilt rootfs but it keeps throwing Segmentation Fault whenever I try to chroot there, don't know what happens with this.

I'm doing the same on other 2 phones (Galaxy Y and Pocket Plus, ARMv6 and v7 respectively) but one doesn't boot my compiled kernels (?) and the other complains about the buggy framebuffer driver (thanks Samsung/Broadcom). I went pretty offtopic...

PD: tried to flash some JB Ice Gun Edition v2.02 from CWM and after reboot the phone just is stuck on boot splash, but WIUI runs fine. Maybe the JB IGE BootMenu is broken or something like that.
[Defy General] ybea:
I didn't have any luck with flashing zips with only the kernel. This 20131213 rom is the only way i know of. But frankly, there's more instability then stability in it. For example only home and power buttons work. OTG also non functional.

Jessie is no longer maintained. It stopped being oldstable about a month ago. AFAIK it changes little - apt continues to work; unless your applications have dependencies to newer libc, they should at least compile.

I build Debian root with debootstrap. On host machine:

debootstrap --arch armhf --foreign stable /debian http://http.debian.net/debian

Then mounting on Defy:

# Mount an sd card partition
mount -o remount,rw /
mkdir -p /debian
mount -o remount,ro /
mount -t ext3 -o noatime,suid,exec /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /debian

mkdir -p /dev/shm
mount -t tmpfs -o rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec none /dev/shm

mount -t proc proc /debian/proc
mount -t sysfs sysfs /debian/sys
mount -o bind /dev /debian/dev

mount -o bind /dev/pts /debian/dev/pts
mount -o bind /dev/socket /debian/dev/socket
mount -o bind /dev/shm /debian/dev/shm

Then debootstrap second stage:

LD_PRELOAD= TMPDIR= PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin HOME=/root SHELL=/bin/bash /system/bin/chroot /debian /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage

Done. To login:

chroot /debian /bin/su -

Don't chroot into bash. It will leak Android's shell environment into Debian's.

Android has its own groups and users. To make Debian adapt:

dpkg -i android-permissions_0.2_all.deb

Edit /etc/group, so that it contains:

inet:x:3003:root,_apt
net_raw:x:3004:root

Edit /etc/passwd/:

-_apt:x:104:65534::/nonexistent:/bin/false
+_apt:x:0:65534::/nonexistent:/bin/false

Edit /etc/adduser.conf:

-LAST_SYSTEM_UID=999
+LAST_SYSTEM_UID=99900

-LAST_SYSTEM_GID=999
+LAST_SYSTEM_GID=99900

-FIRST_UID=5000
+FIRST_UID=500000

-LAST_UID=8999
+LAST_UID=899900

-FIRST_GID=5000
+FIRST_GID=500000

-LAST_GID=8999
+LAST_GID=899900

Then:

apt-get update
apt-get install dialog
apt-get install locales
dpkg-reconfigure locales
apt-get install less man

If apt can't resolve hostnames select a nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf.

This how I setup Debian on chroot. Some of these steps may be unnecessary - they got accumuated over the years and I don't fully remember reasoning behind them. Debian inside /data/ should work too. I can imagine there would be problems with permissions on fat32 /sdcard, but /data/ is ext3.
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S.Najjar:
Can anyone provide me with a link to download the firmware for samsung s6 edge+ SM-G928P that is compatible to work in lebanon or in the middle east region. The current firemware misses some features like hotshot and is made to work in the USA.
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rainbow_Dash:
The fastest place y can get it is from updato.com but it sometimes down and if that is the case get it from sammobile.com

Btw you can flash any firmware from any country you want on some there is less bloat
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S.Najjar:
Thank you for the response. My current firmware is customized for sprint provider in usa. I was not not able to find a firmware for model SM-G928P that is not USA provider customized. Is it possible that i install firmware for model SM-G928C which is also samsung s6 edge+?
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lorvix:
is there any download place to get FAST stock firmwares ? i need latest MM with european (NEE) version, but every links are dead or slow for free...
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jarariya1991:
I rooted my phone 2 month back, but even after root i got some of the system updates. But in order to play pokemon go and to use xpose modules i unlocked bootloader and installed a framework.

Now i am not able to get the system updates, which i usually get in a month from asus.

Kindly help me how to get the latest updates and install them safely to my phone.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azthemansays:
You didn't say which of the many versions of the Zenfone 2 you own, so I'll assume ZE551ML and go from there. It sounds like you used the official bootloader unlocker. The disclaimer states:

You now have to manually update. As well, you should unroot and return the system to the way it was before (uninstall busybox, re-enable bloat, remove xposed framework, stock recovery, etc). And depending on whether you've also changed to a custom recovery you will either need to follow these instructions:

a) No custom recovery

b) TWRP custom recovery

PS. You also didn't need to unlock the bootloader to install xposed.

PPS. All this information is readily available through a simple google search. Terms I used were:

1) "flash ota zenfone 2 rooted"

2) "zenfone 2 bootloader unlock"

3) "xposed zenfone 2 instructions"
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jarariya1991:
Yes my phone is ze551ml,

I hv custom rom twrp.

Can u suggest a detailed explanation or any link with same problem.

I am a beginner and afraid of getting my phone bricked.

Plz help

And thanks for the reply sir
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenbo111:
He left all kinds of links in his reply! The step by step instructions are in those links.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Syakir Imran:
Which one is good, compatible with galaxy nexus
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AbinashMohanty:
Hi I am new to rooting. Can any one tell me the best way to root my opo 64 gb version running on official cm13. Want to try Sultan Rom after rooting since i have heard so much about this rom. There are a lot of videos on youtube. But i wonder if that process will work on cm13 or not. So please HELP....HELP
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henrikh1998:
CyanogenMod comes pre-rooted...

You can activate it in Developer Settings.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AbinashMohanty:
How i dont know... which is that option. I am new to all this...dont know much about it. Please Dont get pissed . Just want to use a different ROM thats all... Please
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henrikh1998:
Why do you want to root your phone, if you want to change your rom?

You just need a Custom Recovery (e.g. TWRP) in which you can flash your favorite ROM.

Here is a beginners guide, which i found in this section:

http://xdaforums.com/oneplus-one/general/guides-bacon-timmaaas-how-to-guides-t2839471

Step 2 & 5 are, what you are intrested about.

Just read carefully and follow the instructions and there will be no problems.

Good Luck
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] mouscolo:
Hi all,

I have installed front camera in my Santa-fe 2016 android unit, what I need to know is there any option to make it automatically function below 20km/h speed?

or I need to open it manually everytime I need to see?
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] dsedapr:
The apps come preinstalled on the device. For instance my question is can I solely use write on pdf when selecting it as a default application to open pdf files? There are no app drawer icons for either of these programs.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] dsedapr:
Better yet, is there a way to make these programs visible? Or do they just essentially run when a file type calls for them
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] edwardob:
if there hidden... how do you know if they are there? how do we come to that conclusion?
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] dsedapr:
Well you can see them ONLY when you try to open one of their specific file types. Try opening a pdf and you will see write on pdf as an option. But look on uour app drawer and its nowhere to be found. Im juat curious if there is a way to actually have the icon in your app drawer
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] ADB100:
I have two minor issues with the above applications and wondered if anyone knows if they can be fixed and if so how. I have included both apps in my ROM.

Live Search v.2.5 - The latest version from M$ states that it supports Speech Recognition. When you start the application it briefly flashes '<Speak or type Business>' and then reverts to just '<Business or Catagory>'. If you go to Settings the line '<Enable speech recognition>' is greyed out. I have Voice Command 1.60.4622.0 also integrated into the ROM.

Pocket Streets 2006 - For some reason it doesn't save what POI's are disaplayed once the application is closed. i.e. enable displaying Bus Stations and click OK. Close and re-open Pocket Streets and the Bus Station POI is not checked anymore. There is no 'save settings' option anywhere and I can't find a configuration file anywhere (.ini or .cfg).

Thanks

Andy
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lip9571:
Hi all my gf just bought a brand new note 4 it's came with lollipop and it charged fine however I updated it to marshmallow through the manual update and since that it won't charge past about 78%.. I them have to remove the battery reinsert it and then charge the rest with the phone turned off till 100%..

I've read on another forum that it's seems a problem with the marshmallow update. I've tried clearing the cache by booting into the recovery but made no difference.

Anyone know how to fix this.. would using a custom rom do it been thinking off putting one of the note 7 ports on it for her.

At the moment everything is fully stock no root and still got know

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pr1jker:
Calibrate it. Empty it completely and then charge it again
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lip9571:
Thanks will try it. Does the phone have to be on or off for charging after I've emptied it
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lip9571:
I drained the battery till it wouldn't turn back on left it off while charging and it got stuck at 73% have to keep disconnect and reconnect the charger to get it to charge more
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] absinthe77:
Hello I'm looking for new Galaxy S7 Edge themes but with the Splanner dynamic, I mean with the day like the stock theme.

thanks for yours answers
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] jhunkab:
Try this.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3434232 it keeps stock icons in themes..including dynamic s planner icon.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] absinthe77:
Hello and thanks for your answer, but I'm french and I don't really understand. In fact I'm looking for news themes (so differents than the stock one) but with dynamic Splanner and clock icôns.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] absinthe77:
Hello nobody have a answer for me ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Slem34:
C'est l'été, il y a moins de monde sur xda, redemande d'ici 1 mois
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] popwar:
My v10 downloaded an OTA , which im assuming is 6.0

1. Im rooted on stock 6.0 and unlocked boot loader. Will the OTA work without messing up anything ? Ill have to root again im sure, just want some info before i pull the trigger.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] dannieloco:
I don't think the update will even proceed being that you're on a rooted ROM. I have that notification too, and i just don't know how to turn it off.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warp64:
I to am rooted,unlockboot and stock rom. I don't feel like taking a chance. So I used titanium backup to freeze the software update and in the drop down notification if you press it, it's a notification from Google play services if you block it in apps it will disappear from your drop down. I also deleted the update zip in the cache folder.I used es file explorer ,device/cache/update
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] jun19inf:
Okay, I'm assuming you are on H90120e (system version). There is a root exploit for the H90120j update. You just do the following:

Make a backup of your apps and settings

Flash your phone to the new update (H90120j)?

Take a look at either one of these threads to root your device again:

http://xdaforums.com/tmobile-lg-v10/general/step-step-guide-rooting-lg-v10-using-t3382631

OR

http://xdaforums.com/tmobile-lg-v10/general/root-android-6-0-h901-t3382819
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] bhagiratha:
You can't flash the phone that is already rooted and has TWRP.

I am in this same situation. On stock rom with root and twrp. I want to update to the new update, but do not want to loose all my apps, settings, etc.

Question is, how to do the initial update before having to re-root again?

How do we flash the phone with the new update?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] jun19inf:
Why can't you flash the phone that is already rooted and has TWRP?

All you are doing is opening the LGUP tool and flashing the new H90120j .kdz file using the "refurbish" option then flashing the H90120j .tot file that has TWRP using the "update" option which will flash the phone regardless of what is running on your phone. The guides on the first link explain that. I believe your concern is keeping all of your settings and apps. Look up Titanium backup, it works for me.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] bhagiratha:
Thank you. I only flash the LGH901AT-01-V20j-310-260-JUL-12-2016-ARB02+0ROOTTWRP tot file and all is good.

Well except that I lost Dolby audio.

I will look for a fix.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] njdevils28:
Hi,

Do I have to use LGUP to install the update or can I click install on the dropdown of my phone?

I'm on stock MM 6.0 (H90120e) Rooted and I will not have access to my main PC for another week as I'm traveling.

Thanks,

-NJ
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] njdevils28:
Anyone?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] famewolf:
There's a guide in general that tells how to do all this. In fact jun19inf WROTE it.

In a nutshell, do a twrp backup.

Upgrade to 20j by flashing the stock 20j kbz.

Enable usb debugging and oem unlock

flash tot that has twrp in it.

Now you can go into twrp and 1) root via supersu 2) restore ONLY data from your twrp backup taken previously to get your apps etc back. Alternatively Titanium Backup will also do just fine.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] YrrchSebor:
If all is you have is root, you should be able to unroot in the SuperSU settings, and then let the update install. But if you have TWRP, then I can't see any way to do the update without using a PC to flash your phone back to stock ROM and recovery. Although you may check the dev. section to see if Eliminator has a flashable ROM to bring you up to date.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] njdevils28:
Ah. Thank you very much!

-NJ