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[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stedmakr:
I attempted to re-root my tab S and currently have it on the initial samsung screen. The tab will not turn off nor will it go into recovery mode. It will however go into download mode while operating. I have used odin and reflashed the stock rom while in the download mode. Odin shows success but after the transfer of files to the tab the android man appears and as the stock rom is loading the white loading bar starts to decrease and the word erasing appears. I assume this is happening because I can not turn the tablet off before starting the downloading process.

When I attempt to turn off the tab or get into recovery I get haptic feedback but the word samsung just keeps blinking. I have tried the recovery key sequence at least 50 times.

Any suggestions? Thanks
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashyx:
It boots into recovery after flashing the firmware to complete the update. After 'Erasing' it will automatically reboot.

You must then wait at least 10 minutes for the upgrade to complete. DO NOT attempt to reboot until at least this much time has passed while the Samsung logo blinks.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stedmakr:
Thought I responded earlier - THANKS
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Deleted member 6200352:
This is a WIP, but I wanted to post all the installed stock apps and their locations to help others with de-bloating their devices. Right now, this JUST has the "visable" apps as shown on the app drawer, and currently does not include any of the "share" or "provider" UI apps (like twitter, facebook, etc..I'll get to it).

Disabling/removing these apps might make the system unstable, un-bootable, and might otherwise require you to restore from backup/re-flash. I assume no responsibility for your bricked device.

Stock Applications Fire HD 6th Generation and their locations [Fire OS 5.3.1.1]:

Appstore </system/priv-app/com.amazon.venezia/com.amazon.venezia.apk>

Audiobooks </system/priv-app/com.audible.application.kindle/com.audible.application.kindle.apk>

Books </system/priv-app/com.amazon.kindle/com.amazon.kindle.apk>

Calculator </system/priv-app/com.amazon.calculator/com.amazon.calculator.apk>

Calendar </system/priv-app/com.android.calendar/com.android.calendar.apk>

Camera </system/priv-app/camera/camera.apk>

Clock </system/priv-app/com.android.deskclock/com.android.deskclock.apk>

Contacts </system/priv-app/com.amazon.contacts/com.amazon.contacts.apk>

Docs </system/priv-app/com.amazon.zico/com.amazon.zico.apk>

Downloads </system/priv-app/downloadproviderui/downloadproviderui.apk>

Email </system/priv-app/com.android.email/com.android.email.apk>

Freetime </system/priv-app/com.amazon.tahoe/com.amazon.tahoe.apk>

Games </system/priv-app/com.amazon.ags.app/com.amazon.ags.app.apk>

Goodreads </system/priv-app/com.goodreads.kindle/com.goodreads.kindle.apk>

Help </system/priv-app/com.amazon.csapp/com.amazon.csapp.apk>

Kindle Store </system/priv-app/com.amazon.webapp/com.amazon.webapp.apk>

Maps </system/priv-app/com.amazon.geo.client.maps/com.amazon.geo.client.maps.apk>

Music </system/priv-app/com.amazon.mp3/com.amazon.mp3.apk> *amazon

Music </system/app/music/music.apk>

My Videos </system/priv-app/com.amazon.kindle.personal_video/com.amazon.kindle.personal_video.apk>

Newsstand </system/priv-app/com.amazon.kindle/com.amazon.kindle.apk>

Photo Importer </system/priv-app/com.amazon.photos.importer/com.amazon.photos.importer.apk>

Photos </system/priv-app/com.amazon.photos/com.amazon.photos.apk>

Settings </system/priv-app/firetabletsettings/firetabletsettings.apk>

Shop Amazon </system/priv-app/com.amazon.windowshop/com.amazon.windowshop.apk>

Silk Browser </system/priv-app/com.amazon.cloud9/com.amazon.cloud9.apk>

Video </system/priv-app/com.amazon.avod/com.amazon.avod.apk>

Weather </system/priv-app/com.amazon.weather/com.amazon.weather.apk>

* There are probably errors/typos. Please advise.

[newly added..will organize/make pretty later..this is just a temp dump area]

com.amazon.kindle.unifiedSearch google search bar [ thanks [MENTION=8008178]dubz31[/MENTION] ]
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] phpbb88:
I always pm disable the service first before deleting the apk.

According to this thread [Tips, Tricks, and the Root!], there are some pm disable command for reference.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Deleted member 6200352:
cool beans...that just saved me a couple hours. Thanks!:cool:

* I plan on replacing each amazon app (with some exceptions) with an equivalent (er..better) app..doesn't require amazon sign in, etc, etc...that's the plan anyway. I might keep a a couple amazon apps...we'll see.

I got this thing, believe it or not to read books. I haven't read a good book in about 12-13 years--but I just don't want to be tied to amazon and didn't want to spend the $$ on a "proper" tablet. But after all this, one is pretty much turning a $50-80 tablet into a $150-200 tablet. w00h00!

In case anyone was wondering, the last good set of books I read were Steven King's Dark Tower Series (1-7). Yeah, it's been that long.

Going from all that crap to:

ereader app = fbreader

music player = foobar and poweramp

web browser = chrome, opera

camera = htc gallery & htc camera app *if it will work

video player mxplayer

google play

titanium backup

nova launcher

stock calandar

stock clock

weather app nws/noaa unoffical

gallery: probably stock htc

google maps

keeping stock android contacts:

calculator:realcalc
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] citrusfizz:
so now that its been a couple days, did disabling those listed programs have any ill effect? i'd rather just skip the disable step and blast those things off my tablet
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ¿GotJazz?:
Has anybody tried just disabling the HD8-5G list mentioned by [MENTION=7995022]phpbb88[/MENTION] ?

If "yes", how is the stability?

Disabling Amazon Services

Start up Command Prompt.

Type in "adb shell". Then "su".

Then type into command prompt.

pm disable (app name(IE. com.amazon.ags.app))

*To Re-enable, replace disable with enable.

List of Amazon apps that are okay to remove.

com.amazon.ags.app
com.amazon.cloud9
com.amazon.cloud9.kids
com.amazon.dp.contacts
com.amazon.dp.fbcontacts
com.amazon.firelauncher
com.amazon.geo.client.maps
com.amazon.geo.mapsv2
com.amazon.geo.mapsv2.services
com.amazon.kcp.tutorial
com.amazon.kindle
com.amazon.kindle.kso
com.amazon.kor.demo
com.amazon.parentalcontrols
com.amazon.photos
com.amazon.photos.importer
com.amazon.tahoe
com.amazon.unifiedshare.actionchooser
com.amazon.unifiedsharefacebook
com.amazon.unifiedsharegoodreads
com.amazon.unifiedsharesinaweibo
com.amazon.unifiedsharetwitter
com.amazon.webapp
com.amazon.webview
com.amazon.windowshop
com.amazon.pm
com.amazon.recess
com.amazon.socialplatform
com.amazon.zico
com.audible.application.kindle
com.audible.application.store
com.goodreads.kindle

Optional

Don't have prime? Please continue + more.

com.amazon.mp3 -amazon music player
com.amazon.mw -removes the firefly cam app
com.amazon.mw.sdk -part of the firefly app?
com.amazon.avod -amazon video app, i don't have prime, useless to me..
com.amazon.kindle.personal_video -the amazon/system video app, I replaced this with mx player.
com.amazon.csapp -amazon help app
com.amazon.application.compatibility.enforcer -not sure what this does
com.amazon.android.marketplace -amazon marketplace
com.amazon.camera -stock camera app, install a new one from play store
com.amazon.dynamicupdationservice -not sure what this is or if this is part of amazon updates
com.amazon.platform.fdrw -part of amazon app & services?
com.android.contacts -remove, no reason for contacts, up to you
com.android.calendar -android calender
com.android.deskclock -remove if you don't need alarms/clocks/timers/etc
com.kingsoft.office.amz -not sure what this is yet but im sure its useless
com.nuance.swype.input -yup, unless you like swype
jp.co.omronsoft.iwnnime.mlaz -not sure what this does?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Deleted member 6200352:
yes, if you compare the lists, I pretty much have them all disabled, except the stock android contacts app. There are also DRM services that amazon runs in the background and lots of other nice things that tell them exactly what you are doing.

For example, did you know that the kindle app, in addition to keeping tabs on what your reading, suggestions, etc..it also keeps track of when you read, how long, and get this..HOW MUCH TIME UNTIL YOU TURN THE PAGE (i.e. how fast you read), what words you look up, all combined and stored in some sql relational database linked up with their ad networks, and god knows what else..no thanks. Nuke it all. (restore what "bricks" it).

* The list [MENTION=7995022]phpbb88[/MENTION] posted would be way to go to start out. That's what I did. I also double checked with other threads/cross-reference those apps and verified they were indeed safe to remove/disable. But there ARE other apps, which seem to be safe to remove. But that's when you start to get into I need that/ No I don't need that, which is different for everyone, and system stability territory.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] phpbb88:
this is a great thread [MENTION=6200352]smokejumper76[/MENTION]
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ¿GotJazz?:
Yes, I knew about that - and from what I understand, it's there for a good reason. There is a somewhat new service offered by Amazon called Kindle Unlimited that helps out lesser-known authors. The authors "publish" their novels into the service, and they get paid based on the number of pages that get read by the subscribers.

Of course, if you are disabling the Kindle app entirely, you won't be penalizing those authors, since you won't be able to read their books.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] dubz31:
Another one you can add to the list is

com.amazon.kindle.unifiedSearch

This guy affects the Google search bar at the top of Nova Launcher. I couldn't figure out what services was overlaying it so I went to developer options and enabled "show CPU usage" which also lists the background processes. As soon as I tapped on the search bar this guy ran, disable it and everything is great. This can be helpful if you want to figure out what pesky services might be causing problems.

Also, someone mentioned Nova widgets not working. I used a system/app mover available from F-droid to make Nova a system app and widgets work just fine now.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Deleted member 6200352:
Yeah, to each their own. I dunno man. I really just don't trust that stuff. With how social media and other technologies being ingrained the way it is. I just refuse to have any kind of social media presence (yes, I have friends, lol) for that very reason. But I am getting old, and the world is a changin'. I mean, employers now expect for you to have a S.M. presence?--give me a break--I value my privacy, lol--they don't need to know I read 50 Shades of Grey (which I wouldn't even if you paid me). But not just S.M.. Even just some regular websites (esp news and commerce), they can literally track your mouse cursor/browsing habits, page scrolling, etc, I won't even talk about the advertising..lol.I just can't accept that for me--so yes I will go to great/not so great lengths to try to stay away from all that crap--but I have issues--so please pardon my paranoia/insanity, hahah. I'm actually not a paranoid person, but when it comes to online/S.M. stuff, different story = 1984.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Deleted member 6200352:
That search bar is evil. So even after disabling the silk browser. If you keep that search bar and try typing something in to search, wham, some type of evil mini amazon browser loads up..wtf?!?..lol. evil. evil. I thought it was just a widget type thing that works with whatever browser..no..it is its own browser, mwhahaha. very evil indeed.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ¿GotJazz?:
Well. This sucks. Literally.

I have been monitoring my battery drain on the HD8 after I rooted and debloated it. My current draw is almost 10x higher now. :(

My old current draw while sleeping was -25 mA to -35 mA. After root / debloat, my current draw is about -208 mA!

I thought debloating would make my battery life better, not worse. I am trying to figure out what may be causing the higher drainage, but most battery apps aren't successful when reading the Amazon devices.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Deleted member 6200352:
wow. I would check your processes and see what might be drawing cpu cycles. You might need to check the disabled apps, one by one to determine what it is that's causing the drain. I admit, I haven't tested it very much and kept it plugged in most of the time. But, that's why forums like this are so great so we can learn and adjust accordingly. Thanks for the heads up. I might unplug mine and watch the drain. I don't like using automatic brightness and tend to have the brightness closer to 1/3 - 1/4 of the slider bar--not sure if that would do anything.

* Also, if not already set, I would match the disabled apps that [MENTION=7995022]phpbb88[/MENTION] posted and no more for now, that would be safer for testing. I just took a plunge a little further and I'm waiting for the repercussions/consequences , lol.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ¿GotJazz?:
Yes, I only disabled the apps that [MENTION=7995022]phpbb88[/MENTION] listed. I figured that was the safest route until I was sure that the tablet was still running fine.

I think I will re-enable all of them again, and see if my current draw improves.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] chemie99:
well....after 1 week. seems the OTA has remained dead so I turned off opendns. I feel like a kid running around the house naked. Hopefully, no updates tonight.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Deleted member 6200352:
are you xposing (Xposed framework) yourself?heheheh. Right on man!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Deleted member 6200352:
Cool. Please keep us posted. I am very curious.

* With battery @ 100% I set display to stay on for 30 min and unplugged the USB

It's been about 45 min, and I'm still @ 100%. Granted, the tablet is just sitting there with the screen on not doing anything. Maybe I'll play a movie and let it go and see how much drain then. I'll keep it sitting, re-turning on the screen now and then to see how much it does down. I have some battary app. monitor running too, so we'll see what it says. I'll just put little updates on this exact post here with little *'s of the updated times and my battery percentage if I'm still awake/remember to do it.

*70 min 99-100%

* been about 2 hours @ 98% battery. battery app says 96%.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] phpbb88:
disabling the kindle.unifiedSeach makes my search bar don't work?

when I tap on it, nothing happened.

[MENTION=7164512]chemie99[/MENTION] you might want to check it for the widget part. I used Link2SD to convert nova as a system app and now the widgets work!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ¿GotJazz?:
Crud.

I re-enabled all the "safe" apps again, except for firelauncher. While my current drain has improved a little bit, it is still WAY too much. My drain now ranges from -100 mA to -168 mA (WiFi disabled). Where my tablet used to need charging once every two to three weeks, now I will need to charge it every two to three days. This will result in much faster battery wear.

A little nervous that this is a v5.3.1.1 vs. v5.3.1.0 thing. I don't know if I can go back to v5.3.1.0.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] chemie99:
Yup. That fixed it. Thanks

---------- Post added at 02:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:22 PM ----------

I doubt it is a 5.3.1.1 thing. When you say -100mA, what it is time units? I assume you have run battery app to track the offending apps?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] dubz31:
What launcher are you using? I am using Nova but when I tried Google Now it didn't have any problems before disabling that service. Nova was the one with the problem. Also after disabling the service, if you have Nova, go to settings, restart the launcher and see if that fixes your problem
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] :
Yeah after disabling the search bar, you might as well remove it from the home screen (drag to trash). That controls that process and the evil mini browser that's built into it. If you want a search bar (I might put one on mine), look for another one to replace it, like a generic google search bar.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ¿GotJazz?:
I am using Battery Monitor Widget Pro for my current measurements. I expect that the -100 mA reading is an instantaneous current draw reading (which is configured for one reading every 10 minutes), not an averaged value over time.

I am also using GSam Battery Monitor Pro (Amazon version), and Wakelock Detector for analysis. Wakelock Detector showed an excessive amount of time allocated to a System ConnectivityService, which I force-closed using GSam. I think it is helping, but I just pulled my HD8 off the charger, and won't be able to analyze the results for a few hours.

Unfortunately, the ForceDoze app is incompatible with the HD8-6G. I have seen nice results from ForceDoze on my other devices. I tried to side-load ForceDoze, and the package wasn't readable on my HD8.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] :
Probably unrelated but under power settings I noticed by default automatic smart suspend is enabled. But, I kept it enabled.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] tung238:
I must root my fire tablet before I can disable those apk right? I'm asking because when enter su, error su not found returned.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ¿GotJazz?:
Correct: Root is required.

Update on my excessive current drain: No news. Drain is still too high, no idea why.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] chemie99:
I installed gsam (free version) to compare.

Sitting idle with screen on, it reported "used 2% delta=10.7%/h" over 10 minute period.

with additional 10 min and with screen off, it reported "used 2% with 5.6% delta" (over 21 minutes). Basically, it did not change from 80% battery when off.

Top usage was:

System

GSAM

Kernal (Android OS)

System UI

"System ConnectivityService" did not even show up on the list of about 30 things
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ¿GotJazz?:
I think I may have found the source of the problem with the System ConnectivityService wakelocks. These wakelocks were long (about 1 minute), and frequent enough to cause noticeable battery drain. My Googling research pointed me to an issue where SwiftKey keyboard would apparently request the wakelocks. This is odd, since I never saw this problem when I was on v5.3.1.0 and before I was rooted. I also don't see these wakelocks with my rooted v5.1.1 HD8-5G or any other Android devices we use (which all use SwiftKey). However, removing SwiftKey on my rooted HD8-6G did eliminate these ConnectivityService wakelocks and also improved my battery current drain.

So, [MENTION=7164512]chemie99[/MENTION], if you don't use SwiftKey, you probably wouldn't see the System ConnectivityService wakelocks.

I also have compared my current drain between removing the "base list" of Amazon bloatware and without removing the bloatware. Regardless of whether SwiftKey was installed or not, removing the "base" Amazon bloatware increased the battery current drain. By removing SwiftKey, keeping all the Amazon apps installed and available (though, using Nova Launcher instead of Firelauncher), and keeping the tablet in Airplane Mode, my current drain dropped down to around -30 mA to -80 mA range.

I'm checking if keeping SwiftKey installed, but with "better predictions" disabled (no syncing device keyboard usage with my other SwiftKey devices), if this will eliminate the ConnectivityService wakelocks.

So ... Still researching. I will attempt to identify the Amazon apps that should be left installed to keep the battery drain reasonable. If it is just one app, I may be able to identify it quickly. But, if multiple apps are required, it may be trickier.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ¿GotJazz?:
Here's an update:

My main goal is to keep my HD8's battery drain as low as possible here with a target of charging the tablet once every couple of weeks.

Again, I have the tablet in Airplane Mode 95%+ of the time to maximize battery. I only turn on WiFi when I need it, and then turn it back off. The tablet is mostly used as a reader, and occasional web use.

I have disabled the following without hurting my battery drain:

[B]pm disable com.amazon.ags.app
pm disable com.amazon.cloud9
pm disable com.amazon.cloud9.kids
pm disable com.amazon.dp.contacts
pm disable com.amazon.dp.fbcontacts
pm disable com.amazon.firelauncher
pm disable com.amazon.webapp
pm disable com.amazon.webview
pm disable com.amazon.geo.client.maps
pm disable com.amazon.geo.mapsv2
pm disable com.amazon.geo.mapsv2.services[/B]

I also have SwiftKey installed, but I have turned off the Personalization synchronization. With Personalization synchronization turned on, there were excessively long ConnectivityService wakelocks that really drained the battery.

Now ... I did see a big battery drain by disabling the com.amazon.kindle.unifiedSearch service and installing the Google Search app. This battery drain occurred even if the tablet was in Airplane Mode. The current drain went from around 50 mA up to about 150 mA on average. So, I have re-enabled com.amazon.kindle.unifiedSearch for now, and removed the Google Search app.

I'll keep futzing around, and let you guys know if I find out anything else interesting.

Cheers,

¿GJ?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] phpbb88:
disabling com.amazon.kindle.unifiedSearch doesnt drain the battery for me, I didn't test further using any battery monitor app but it seems the battery drain is okay for me. Didn't use it for a week, still 94％
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ¿GotJazz?:
Hi, [MENTION=7995022]phpbb88[/MENTION] - With my settings (i.e., Airplane Mode) before I disabled com.amazon.kindle.unifiedSearch and if I didn't use it for a week, I would still be close to 100%. I was definitely losing less than 1% every few days. Try using the 3C Battery Monitor Widget - it's the best tool out there for monitoring battery drain on Android devices. If you have converted Nova Launcher to be a system app using Link2SD, you can get a working widget on your desktop to see your drain (I take most of the default calibration settings during BMW first start, but I set Battery Capacity = 4750 mAh, and with the UI settings I enable History=On and Show mA in History=On ) and modify one of the default widgets to show current instead of temperature on the bottom. You can download and load my pre-configured BMW desktop widget from: Here.

For reference (with Airplane Mode), you should see your mA battery drain on the BMW history page to be under -100 mA almost all of the time. I regularly saw drains under -50 mA, and sometimes as low as -7 mA.

Note: You will see a slightly different status bar Battery % from BMW vs. whatever it is that the HD8 shows on the status bar. All other battery monitors that I have tried operate the same as BMW, which reads data from the Android APIs. I think the Amazon Battery % value is a little rigged - it shows 100% for much longer than any apps, and then consistently 2% higher than all the Android apps.

And, I have an (unfortunate) update: Disabling com.amazon.kindle.unifiedSearch / installing the Google App permanently screws up the tablet battery drain. After I disabled com.amazon.kindle.unifiedSearch and installed the Google App, my idle current drain jumped up to an average of around 150 mA. Re-enabling com.amazon.kindle.unifiedSearch and uninstalling Google

did not fix this

, and my current drain has not dropped below -141 mA after I messed with com.amazon.kindle.unifiedSearch.

I will have to reimage and re-root my HD8. :(
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] streetsurfer:
I have a EVA-L19C185 model phone and I have bugged it out by installing an incorrect version of Nougat or the Beta and getting TESTKEYS in the firmware version now.

I have as such decided to reformat and reintall everything completely.

Can someone advise on the best method? Since I have upgraded to Nougat the TWRP version cant wipe everything i think?

Having persused some of the threads, it seems like I need a method that will reflash my entire boot and system partitions.

Any suggestions of guide would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance!