yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangek3nny:
You're right of course, didn't think about that. I don't know any ROMs with pre-enabled debugging but in theory it should be possible to boot into TWRP and activate it by editing some file via ADB since it works there. Afterwards you should be able to run logcat.

This seems to be a good guide but I can't confirm if it really works: https://gist.github.com/varhub/7b9555cdd1e5ad785ffde2300fcfd0bd
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasmanul:
Thanks a lot, this does actually work!

Seems the phone is stuck in a loop of

W/AudioSystem( 552): AudioPolicyService not published, waiting...
I/ServiceManager( 552): Waiting for service media.audio_policy...
I/ServiceManager( 552): Waiting for service media.audio_policy...
I/ServiceManager( 552): Waiting for service media.audio_policy...
I/ServiceManager( 552): Waiting for service media.audio_policy...
I/ServiceManager( 552): Waiting for service media.audio_policy...
W/AudioSystem( 552): AudioPolicyService not published, waiting...
I/ServiceManager( 552): Waiting for service media.audio_policy...
I/ServiceManager( 552): Waiting for service media.audio_policy...
I/ServiceManager( 552): Waiting for service media.audio_policy...

I googled for this but so far didn't find anything helpful. Any advice?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangek3nny:
You should upload the full log just in case. Those are info and warning messages but no errors.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasmanul:
Fair enough. Full log is attached and can also be found at https://pastebin.com/apL0SWa5.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangek3nny:
At line 294 Zygote crashes but seems to start up fine afterwards. Does it crash again after a while or is the log endlessly spammed with the audio policy messages?

According to [1] the system might wait for the mediaserver to start. Try to force stop it if it's running and watch the log, see [2]. Maybe you get some more info this way.

Sorry to ask but are you sure you made a full wipe? The official image contains scripts for Windows and Linux that erase everything if I remember correctly.

This is all I can do, I hope this helps.

EDIT:

You can also try [3] and [4].

1: https://books.google.de/books?id=KE...iting for service media.audio_policy"&f=false

2: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8132273

3: http://araceliaraceli1.blogspot.de/2012/09/waiting-for-service-mediaaudiopolicy-on.html

4: http://android.wekeepcoding.com/art...or+service+media.audio_policy+on+android+boot
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nitin.chobhe:
If you have only this issue: "Android is starting – starting apps", then you could have just flashed the launcher zip as mentioned in this thread.

How are you wiping everything on the phone while flashing the stock images?

Nitin
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasmanul:
First of all, thank you again for your continued support! I really feel like I'm banging my head against a wall here, it's good to have some help.

As long as I watched up to now, the log is just endlessly spammed with the same messages.

Did that. Couple of messages about (if I interpret correctly) restarting the mediaserver and then back to the loop. Log is at https://gist.github.com/c67342f304b6a7399084d603e186e834. The messages at the end are probably from rebooting into the bootloader via adb.

Well, I *do* suspect that something from the old install somehow survived despite all my attempts to nuke the phone. However, I wouldn't know how to do a fuller wipe than I've already done. I've done a factory reset via the Nexus root toolkit, I've run the flash-base.sh and flash-all.sh scripts included in the official image, and I've manually, via fastboot, erased/formated and subsequently flashed the bootloader, radio, boot, system, recovery, cache, and userdata partitions. Most of these steps have been performed multiple times.

If there's anything I've missed, I'd be grateful for suggestions. /proc/partitions suggests there's a total of 25 partitions on /dev/mmcblk0, but I don't know whether any of these are not included in the image files mentioned and, if that is the case, how to wipe them back to factory state.

I don't seem to have a libsecnativefeature.so anywhere on my system:

130|root@mako:/ # ls -lR / 2>/dev/null |grep secnative
1|root@mako:/ #

Permissions for /system/lib/libaudioflinger.so already seem to be 755 on my system:

1|root@mako:/ # ls -l /system/lib/libaudioflinger.so
-rwxr-xr-x root root 267544 2015-09-08 20:51 libaudioflinger.so
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasmanul:
Thanks for the suggestion! Are you the developer of this? I'm a bit sceptical that installing a different launcher could indeed solve my problems. Could you explain a bit more what the launcher does and how that is supposed to help me?

See my previous post which overlapped with yours. As stated there, I'd be very grateful if somebody could provide me with a "wipier" way of wiping the phone.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangek3nny:
[MENTION=5107035]dasmanul[/MENTION]:

Sounds like it can't get any wipier than that. At this point I would say this is a hardware issue.

If nothing else helps, you can try to disassemble the device and clean all contacts. It's not very hard and I did it myself recently to fix bad reception and unresponsive buttons.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nitin.chobhe:
No, that is not my zip; but I've used it. Again, it is useful in case you are stuck with "Android is starting..." Generally it is shown while it prepares the app drawer to be shown, after restarting the phone/ clearing the cache. But if the launcher is missing, it is not able to show the app drawer and this message is shown continuously.

If you have used flash-all.bat then it would have cleaned up everything on your phone (assuming that you have not modified that batch file).

Nitin
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasmanul:
[MENTION=5537493]orangek3nny[/MENTION]: Thanks! Not exactly what I hoped to hear, but I'll give disassembling the device a try. I installed a new battery about half a year ago, so I guess I'll get it open again. I'll also try disconnecting the battery for some time. Not much hope anymore, though. Real pity, since otherwise the phone seems to work fine. I mean, Android is apparently able to boot, just not to a point where there's a usable UI.

[MENTION=5044214]nitin.chobhe[/MENTION]: Thank you! I gave the zip a try, but as I feared, it didn't change the behaviour.

Looks like I might be in the market for a new phone...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nitin.chobhe:
I doubt that it is a hardware issue... May be try downloading the stock images from Google once again and flash using fastboot instead of any toolkit. I always refer this nice video from youtube to flash factory images :)

Nitin
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasmanul:
As stated earlier, I did flash with fastboot several times with no different result. Thanks anyway for the suggestion!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasmanul:
Update: I just tried flashing the oldest available factory image (4.2.2) and the phone booted successfully with that. I'll try an update now.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasmanul:
'Nother update: While booting in 4.2.2 the phone doesn't recognise its IMEI. My research suggests that might be due to a corrupted EFS partition. mmcblk0p10 is indeed full of zeros. I doubt that's correct.

I'm now restoring a Nandroid backup and hoping I did actually backup the EFS partition with that. I guess I'm screwed otherwise, right?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangek3nny:
Any updates yet?

mmcblk0p10 (m9kefs3) is empty here too after dumping it with dd. This should be fine.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasmanul:
Unfortunately, still no success. EFS was apparently not in the Nandroid backup. I cloned the whole mmcblk0 from my wife's Nexus 4 which is still on 4.2, hoping that would restore the phone to life. However, situation is still the same: Phone boots but reports its IMEI as unknown and doesn't connect to cellular. I'm close to giving up at this point.
[General Questions and Answers] J.Erik.C:
Hello,

I have to travel in November to china, i am from Italy.

I am reading a lot of articles on different sites about che great wall, vpn, etc.

Is there someone who can tell me what is the real situation. Do i need a VPN on my mobile?

Can i use whatsap to call my GF home when i am in china?

Second, i would like to know if it's reasonable to buy a chinese SIM and phone to have enough GB since italian vodafone gives me 20mb a day paying 6euro!

Total nonsense! If yes, can i apply a VPN on chinese phone, sim.

Sorry for all those questions I am not an expert about this.

Cheers!
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
Yes it will be smart for you to get a VPN. As many things are blocked in China like everything Google.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.xda-developers.com/walking-the-great-firewall-of-china/amp/
[General Questions and Answers] J.Erik.C:
If someone could suggest me a phone to buy in china, that i can bring back home and have little problem?
[General Questions and Answers] James_Watson:
As far as I know, if you use a Chinese SIM, a lot of apps such as Google, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter will be blocked. If then, you will have to get a VPN in order to use these apps.

But if you use a non-Chinese sim, it seems that you will not be blocked by the GFW. This point needs someone who had taveled in China to verify.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] okle76:
Hello

As above, installed v4 kingrom for s8 and installed dual speaker but the bottom speaker crackles. can i restore my stock phone speaker setting.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TheDude1120:
Hi, I have a touch. I installed the home customizer on my device. My weather was working fine, then it stopped. And I already read about how this has happened before. So I downloaded SDK certs and installed the patch for the touch, but my weather still isnt working. Do I need to edit the registry keys , did the .dll file go somewhere else? HELP ME PLEASE I NEED WEATHER :confused:
[Honor 9  Questions & Answers] Tapdog:
With apps that support/require fingerprint unlock, will pressing the fingerprint scanner go to the home screen or use the fingerprint to unlock the app? If the the former, does that mean it cannot be used with banking apps and the like?
[Honor 9  Questions & Answers] pijes:
My local bank has an app that support login by fingerprint. Pressing the fingerprint scanner logs me into the app, not home screen.
[Honor 9  Questions & Answers] iceepyon:
Most mobile banking apps will have fingerprint scanning support. That will allow you to use your fingerprint to login to the app or perform a transaction.
[Honor 9  Questions & Answers] adriansticoid:
PayPal too.
[Honor 9  Questions & Answers] evolutionisbad:
I've got 2 backing apps on it. First press unlocks the app with your finger print, second takes you to the home screen.
[Honor 9  Questions & Answers] iceepyon:
And so do many other online banking Apps.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ian.ex:
Since a couple of days my Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920F keeps to restart randomly or even just power off.

It started rarely and now it does it even every few minutes.

Sometimes it just restart suddenly other times it freezes for some seconds and then restart.

It seems an hardware issue because the problem persists even after a factory reset.

Do you think about anything I could try before I give up?

I could try to flash a previous firmware (current is G920FXXU5EQH1) but the problem started some days after the last OTA update.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK0076:
You can try reflash latest stock (HERE you found all), but looks like hardware issue... Were there any heavier falls or contact with water?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ian.ex:
No, no fall or contact with water.

I'm downloading the previous stock and I'll try it just to eliminate the doubt that could be the latest firmware instead.

But I agree that it looks like an hardware issue but, which part? Could it be the motherboard?

The randomness of the restart make me think of a NAND or ram issue. What's your opinion please?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK0076:
Don't try flash previous stock just like latest because there can be problems with bootloader etc and won't start. Just try latest stock downloaded via SamFire flashed via latest Odin3 with latest drivers.

Most often the eMMC is damaged for unknown reasons, it's on mobo.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ian.ex:
I flashed last firmware G920FXXU5EQH1 with odin that said "PASS!". Then S6 rebooted in recovery saying "Installing update", after some second saying "Erasing" then rebooted and now is in "No command" state.

I don't know what to do at this point. Since the flash went ok maybe it's not a NAND problem.

Any other idea?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ian.ex:
nvm, after installing TWRP the S6 freezes even using TWRP and this is a confirmation that it's an hardware issue.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK0076:
When you see 'no command' when you try get in to stock recovery, use both Volume button's or Home to get the menu options. You should see that after few clicks :)
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ian.ex:
I did bring the S6 to a technician and he said that it's the internal memory and I have to replace the motherboard.

I found some at 45€/60€ for the G920F but is there something that I should pay attention like IMEI or other things?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK0076:
Yes, exactly what I told ;) NAND/memory in S6 case is eMMC, and mainly that is broken from unknown reasons. Some S6 are more sensitive and one fall down can makes broken eMMC :P But ~50-60€ isn't bad price for mobo. You will be have just new IMEI etc ofcourse. Just be sure you buying from good source, and all will be 100% working and not from stolen phone :P
[Xiaomi Redmi 3s Questions & Answers] rupanshji:
I get the following when i do lunch and select my device. (I have included land thru a script in /device/xiaomi/land) am I missing something

I used this device tree- https://github.com/AQSD/android_device_xiaomi_land

is there a problem in the device tree?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kenpaci:
How to enable oem, try find it in developer option but not found, any guide guy's?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] TroubleShootMe:
https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-8/help/info-note-8-exynos-n950f-fd-oem-unlock-t3673140

N930F is Note 7? you are in Note 8 forum.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
If you made a mistake in the model number then you should be aware that some models are not showing the oem unlock despite being international "unlocked" phones. Mine is an FD from Singapore and doesn't have it. Not sure what that means but it's looking grim right now.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] N_L:
Today i went on business trip and while on plane i put airplane mode on. Upon landing i couldn't connect to network anymore, it gives me 2 errors depending if i manually select network or try automatically, those 2 are Unable to connect. Try later and Error while searching for network.

I reset network settings, restarted phone, reset it, tried different sim in my phone and it didnt work either, mine did in other phone. I dont known what to do besides wait to go home and give it to service since its under wattany... any ideas please?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] Droid_Dealer:
is your phone rooted or did you install a custom rom/kernel on it?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] N_L:
All stock

I get bars but cant get on network. Carrier back home said i seem connected and reset it but it's not card issue as i tested for that...
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] N_L:
Maybe this can help
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] N_L:
I can also open and browse carrier sim app but cant receive resulting messages from stuff there or make a call...weird stuff
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] ggrant3876:
You didn't say but have you tried a reboot?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] N_L:
At least20 times, wiped cache too
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] N_L:
Came home and network works... I'm still taking it to service but don't know how they'll or I can test it. Other sim produced same error abroad so it's not that...

Edit:

Bit of an update:

I called my warranty place they said phone is from Italy which now made sense but that it should work. I ran imei check and it says blacklisted. I bought it new unsealed with warranty from official place so now I'm gonna need a new phone, right?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] prfraczek:
It is the bug of Samsung. I am having the same problem all the time on both S8+ and S7Edge. Iphone 6 is fine. Typical answer form Samsung is 'network or sim' related. O2 is saying problem with your phone. When I choose network manually everything is working. As a fix you can turn 4g off when roaming
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] imthenachoman:
Does this forum/site have a place where folks can vote on which ROM they are using to gauge popularity and what not?

If not,
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] dagger1:
I'd love to see a benchmark among the roms to find which is better in terms of performance and (more importantly for me) battery life.

Linege OS, for instance, was shown in a comparison to actually be "slower" than stock.
[Fossil Q Founder] VS88:
What is the truth here, well, or how is it possible, that all tech articles I found about Q Founder state that it has 1GB RAM, but the fossil page says 512MB..? Plus, I have this watch and it has (acc to quick system info app) 512MB RAM (438 to be precise :D)

Were there 2 versions of gen 1 Founder??
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] soparky57:
I'm saying good bye to this device. Such a waste of a very good device. Has a lot of potential but is very limited. The lack of developing really killed this phone. I'm thinking about just replacing the LCD on my Shamu and go back to using it until I decide on which new device to buy. Definitely won't be a V30. LG has let me all the way down.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] jayochs:
tbh, I bought the US996 thinking the unlocked version would get a ton of development.......yet, the best roms are on the carrier variants. wtf is up with that lol. i'm just running a stock 10h rom that's rooted because there's nothing good or special for the 996. either way I agree, i'm not getting a V30...but after seeing that crazy root checker logging thing going on, I disabled it on my v20 and i'm going back to using it again from my little pixel. the pixel blows it out of the water in terms of speed, but the screen is god awful compared to the V20. was gonna get the new pixel, but starting at 850? heeeeeeeeelll no.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] KennyG123:
Thread has run its course

Reminder to ALL

If you cannot follow the rules and post with respect DO NOT POST!

Thread closed
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] kofman13:
guys i played with my new snapdragon s8 last night for like 2-3 hours and set everything up and i love it!

the only worry is so far the battery drain is a little more than i would like compared to my exynose S7 Edge. I have all the same apps and accounts setup now on my s8, and just in the few hours i played with it last night the battery drain was more than the s7e was in the past with that same medium/high brightness and watching a lot of videos and installing apps.

then last night, my new s8 on AIRPLANE mode overnight lost about 10-11% battery life which seems too much on airplane mode, my s7e exynos would loose only a few % overnight on airplane mode.

maybe the phone battery needs to calibrate for a few days? maybe the OS needs to optimize itself more? idk. but right now its morning here and im going to charge it too 100% and see how it fares throughout my work day
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] gman88667733:
When you first get a phone, it'll use a lot more battery until it is fully set up and settled in. I give my new phones at least a week to properly settle before I make any judgement on the battery life.

Remember, you've downloaded, lots of apps, synced accounts and various bits. Give it a few days before you worry about it
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] thenessus:
Turn off Samsung backup.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] kofman13:
cool ill figure out how to do that and try it
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] brokich:
Give it a couple days and update us again - you can also use AccuBattery for a more detailed statistic.

~10% overnight with airplane mode is truly a lot. You should be getting about 1% overnight drain after the phone settles.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Gilley:
I get about 3 hours of SOT if i'm lucky on mine. I play a lot of BT Spotify in my truck as i'm in and out of my vehicle all day long. I was hoping for better, I even followed the guide to disable a bunch of the packages etc thinking i'd get more and didnt raise it any.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Maltonator:
Samsung Backup only starts when your phone is charged.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Jostian:
set your phone according to the debloat recommendations here https://www.xda-developers.com/the-...r-community-radically-improved-my-experience/ and you'll be over 5 hours SoT, my battery life was poor to but this link really helped.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Gilley:
I tried that, it didnt add any to mine.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Jostian:
Sorry to hear that! Not sure what else to try.

---------- Post added at 11:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:15 PM ----------

Do you have Greenify installed? It caused issues for me in terms of impacting negatively on battery life, i uninstalled it and saw big improvement.
[General Questions and Answers] rodrengo:
Which is the best? which do you recomend?
[General Questions and Answers] Ibuprophen:
Your best bet is to post this within the following thread for such a question.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1846277

Good Luck!

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PLEASE KEEP IT IN THE THREADS WHERE EVERYONE CAN SHARE
[HTC Excalibur] hollywoodstylin:
I just flashed to the new Brightpoint ROM. I tried to setup an Exchange email. Before, I think it just use to say Text Messages, MMS, New E-Mail Account. Now, under Messaging, it shows Text Messages, Outlook Email, MMS, and New E-Mail Account. I was wondering how do I deleted the Outlook Email? When I try to go to Outlook Email and then select Menu, Delete is grayed out and I'm not allowed to select it. Anyone knows how to remove it?
[HTC Excalibur] hollywoodstylin:
Nevermind. I figured it out. I had to go to Activesync > Menu > Options. Select MS Exchange > Menu > Delete.
[Xiaomi Mi MIX  Questions & Answers] ks34xda:
Hi guys,

someone knows why the official global developer rom version for Mi Mix is still on the 25 may release 7.5.25??

I have seen the other recent device, like mi6, mi5 and olso older, and they are all

up to date on this rom, why the mi mix not?? thanks a lot
[Xiaomi Mi MIX  Guides, News, & Discussion] albertoduqe:
I've got this feeling, after the sad goodbye of dear [MENTION=7935541]papps[/MENTION]chumpfl, that development support for this beloved and wonderful device is weaning and slowly but surely disappearing. Checking the development section for other xiaomi devices like redmi note 4 or mi6 you can see a lot more movement, discussion and activity.

Anyway, just makes me sad this feeling and I believe it is not only a feeling... With the coming of Mix 2 it will probably get worse. Or maybe with the Mix getting cheaper it will change for the better in the future? What are your thoughts on this people?

There is of course AICP and those guys work is fantastic! But they are mostly alone right now...