yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mikejapan692012:
Hey guys I have an interesting question and it appears that no one has had this questions after 3 days of searching.

As stated I have a Galaxy S4 which only updated up to 4.4.4.

I rooted my phone with SuperSU flashed TWRP made a TWRP backup (Which is a Nandroid backup as I understand it)

Downloaded and installed Resurrection Remix which I totally love by the way.

Took the time to get all the apps I want installed and configured "just right". Even using next launcher.

Did another TWRP backup. Saved it to my laptop external hard drive with step by steps instructions to restore in the future.

Then completely wiped my phone and did a TWRP restore and everything came back perfectly.

On first boot it did not go through the setup process, it booted using next launcher. It did not have to download any apps from google backup, all my screen widgets were there. Opened my chase app and my credentials were already there, opened waze and my home and work addresses were there. Shazam was there and I was already logged into it. You get the picture. This was a successful restore of the actual image.

That was then and this is now.

Had an issue with apps2sd and it totally f'd up my phone and I couldn't even reinstall waze even after all troubleshooting. Last night decided to do a restore. Followed the notes i made to the letter but on 1st boot after restore here is what happened:

Had to go through initial phone setup

all apps were downloaded from google backup (which took forever)

not all apps were downloaded.

next launcher didn't launch, just the default launcher.

widgets were gone

had to re-login into my chase app and it said it didn't recognize my phone (so the cookie it originally put on my phone (and was part of backup) was gone.

You get the idea.

So my question is, why would my 1st restore work perfectly but not the 2nd restore? It doesn't make sense to me and me being an IT guy. Is it an issue with TWRP or the process I went through? Maybe there is one minor (but crucial) step I missed.

Can anyone duplicate my issue?

Totally anxious to hear the results.

Thanks

Mike :cool:
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul66000:
Hi guy.

I’m Paul and new on this website... ok…. I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace gt s5830i that is Recognized on my computer…. But is recognised on everybody else's computer.. I have installed the appropriate USB Samsung drivers and still nothing...It Would be kind if one of you geniuses could help me out …

I am running on Windows 8.1.

thank you all in advance.

Best regards.

Paul..
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] goast:
Using stock rs988 21c on straight talk I can't send or receive any pics unless I use stock messaging app. I've tried several others, does anyone know if a way to fix this?
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] koragg97:
I've got a ROM on my Galaxy S5 with Always-On Display tech but it remains stuck at the lowest frequency (300MHZ) while the AOD is active thus phone never enters deep sleep state and it drains more battery. Is there some shell command or some way to make the phone enter deep sleep even when the AOD is active and technically the screen is not off (although the ROM thinks it is). I never understood how the newer phones enter deep sleep while keeping AOD nonstop running. Would be nice to let my phone sleep while AOD is turned on.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] Benjamin2557:
Hi again mate ;)

I don't think it's possible unfortunately...

Just disable AOD if you don't want to loose battery.

By the way are you using nemesis reborn v4 ROM like me ?

I'm using sparkplug kernel but I still got less than 4 hours SOT and I can't find solutions at all !

Envoyé de mon SM-G955F en utilisant Tapatalk
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] koragg97:
I used Tasker to make AOD turn on only when the phone is being charged, works ok.

And yes, I'm on Nemesis v4, very soon will be on v5 when it comes out :)

I get ~2h SOT and ~24h total life out of my phone. I'll buy a brand new battery after I flash v5 and set it up as I like it. My battery is really bad, I know it.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] lauralbaby:
It's possible to put it in Battery saver mode if you want.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] alienyd:
How do you control AOD from Tasker?
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] koragg97:
I used this method: https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS8/c..._enabledisable_always_on_display_with_tasker/
[General Topics] antim:
I am having some problems with SoftKEy app. I am trying to get it to launch the windows calendar, but for some reason it lists calendar, but attempts to load HTCcalendar.exe which I am not running. Can someone please tell me how to fix this?
[General Topics] duprade:
I just made you a cab that should fix the problem.

Copy this over to your phone, run it then soft reset.
[General Topics] supersobbie:
you could also take a look at the WiKi site. There is a registry entry that you can change as well. for some reason 112 and 113 stick in my head...

:)

SoBBie
[General Topics] antim:
Fixed

That did the trick duprade! Thanks it worked like magic!
[General Topics] duprade:
Not a problem.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
I'm out of ideas why this happening. And I have no idea what you have done before brick, you might write some more details. Did you done something to partitions? To trim area? I can see your device is locked and unrootable which mean you can use sony pc companion software to repair your phone. If that not help I realy have no idea what you might try next sorry. Your recovery is working? Android is working? Fastboot boot recovery.img booting recovery? Or your device is completely bricked?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] swissly:
Companion says, cannot fix device because bootloader is unlocked...

Unfortunately I do not remember everything I tried with the phone, because I last had it in my hands about a year ago...

Recovery is not working. The screen remains black in all modes. Only vibra and the LED is working...

I tried:

fastboot boot twrp-3.1.1-0-lotus.img
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 8765440 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
(bootloader) USB download speed was 16987kB/s
OKAY [ 0.626s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: Wrong range:0x10008000-0x1086303a. Ok:0x00000000-0x05efffff)
finished. total time: 0.628s
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
But this line from your log tells me that your bootloader is not unlocked:

25/036/2018 19:36:07 - INFO - Loader : S1_Root_3065 - Version : R5E006 / Boot version : R10E013 / Bootloader status : UNROOTABLE

How you unlocked your bootloader when it was with otp lock: locked? This unrootable status is also strange. Did you tried to flash recovery to the boot partition (fastboot flash boot recovery.img)? If you can't boot recovery after that, in that case I'm beliving that your trim area is broken, did you touched your trim area? Restored wrong trim area backup? Restored backup not from your phone? Thats just some questions to maybe remind about what maybe you done before brick.

---------- Post added at 10:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:30 PM ----------

You didn't used xflasher right! By your log I see you have skeep loader.sin file, loader sin file must be first! See readme file!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] swissly:
Today a miracle happened!! Suddenly I was able to flash recovery with "fastboot flash boot twrp-3.1.1-0-lotus.img"!! I don't know why, but suddenly it worked. And then I was able to flash this ROM via the zip file.

So I am having a working phone again now!! :D But... I cannot boot into recovery anymore now... I guess the reason is that I do not have a recovery partition but only boot partition and I had to flash recovery to boot partition. "fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.1.1-0-lotus.img" does not work, "(bootloader) Flash of partition 'recovery' requested" "FAILED (remote: partition not found)"...

Is there a solution to this?

And why do I not have root access in this ROM? I thought root access is automatic in every custom ROM?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Don't know realy, I had xGo 3 years ago and forgot almost everything about that phone. About root on Lineage you need to install SuperSu
[General Topics] g0u1ham:
Please port google portrait mod camera for arm 32 bit devices. I use moto xt1225 on resurrection remix 7.1.2.
[General Questions and Answers] AshCat12:
I've just fund out that my Galaxy S6's screen is divided by different white tonalities. The bottom is kind more of yellow, almost imperceptible, but the top of the screen has a brighter white. It's annoying while watching movies or videos with much white. The weird thing heres is, that it's divided in a perfect horizontal line, it doesn't look like a burn or something. Is it a software or a hardware issue?
[General Questions and Answers] gy_robi:
Hello. I encountered such errors on Lcd TVs. There is usually a problem with the video chip or its power supply, or once a LCD error.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soulburnerms:
First things first... bear with me because the story is long

A friend of mine was trying to update his Xoom 2 MZ608 to some custom rom from here (I really don't remember which one was).... but it seems he is a very anxious person and tried to flash a MZ602 into this MZ608 tablet... well, unnecessary to say he bricked the tablet...

Few days later, after he struggled at all efforts he could find, he totally gave up and sold this device to me.... I really thought it would be an easy job, as long I'm used to do these things.... but, turns out, it wasn't =D

what is happening?

the tablet got stuck on Motorola logo with Dual-Core written below of it...

- i cannot access RSD, for some weird reason

- when I try to go to Android Bootloader, i got a "battery low, cannot program" message ((even if the tablet spent 2 days plugged))

- for some reason, SOMETIMES i can access using fastboot, but, as long something is completely messed up inside, the tablet can't read the battery values property and turn off way before i can send any command to it....

what you guys advice me to do?? I took this tablet into a Motorola certified shop here and they said me they don't do this kind of job anymore.... all 3 shops said the same thing....

any help?? =)

Cheers =)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Manuellama:
Are you selling it? I would be interested in buying at a fair price.

I am the one compiling the Xoom roms again for Wingray. (using Schischu's sources)
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
Here the version of the recovery TWRP 3.2.1 for Maze Alpha X 6/64

Please test it and tell me if it works.

How to flash:

I Fastboot method (must unlock device) :

1- Reboot your phone in bootloader mode : adb reboot bootloader or phone off, press and hold at the same time POWER and Vol+ buttons

2- Connect your phone to your computer with adb/fastboot already installed

3- Unlock your bootloader : fastboot oem unlock (it will erase you data, only data)

4- Flash the recovery : fastboot flash recovery recovery_maze_alpha_X_twrp_321.img

II SPFlashTool method (no need to unlock device, but can not works for you) :

1- Download latest version of SPFlashTools.

2- Execute it and load the provided scatter (the recovery image must be in the same folder as the scatter and must be renamed to recovery.img) then press "Dowbload" button

3a- windows SPFlashTools users : phone off, press VOL+ and connect it to your PC (running SPFlashTool and waiting for phone connetion)

3b- linux SPFlashTools users : phone off and connected to PC , press VOL+ and POWER while your PC is running SPFlashTool (with sudo) and waiting for phone connetion.

If needed here my TWRP backup of Maze Alpha X

It contains all partitions except nvram and data.

Unzip it in your SDCARD in the folder /TWRP/BACKUPS and run TWRP to restore the partitions you need.

How to root:

1. Boot into TWRP and choose first "change language" and choose your language then press the "cancel" button while asking you for decryption password for data

2. In your PC download the Magisk-v15.4.zip and put it in your SDCARD (not internal storage!)

3. Install the Magisk-v15.4.zip from the SDCARD

4. reboot and install the MagiskManager apk

I have test it myself (with fastboot method) in a friend phone (MAZE ALPHA X 6/64) and it works great.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] super_sonic:
Bad thread
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
I do not find any thread special for Maze Alpha X :(

I will move it if administrators add one.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] super_sonic:
That's not a problem. I made a mistake with the thread.

I just wanted to answer the thread on TWRP for the maze alpha 4G.

Thanks.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] degreatone:
Has anyone tried this pls?
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ahorntaler:
Soft bricked Alpha X with fastboot method

I tried method with fastboot. But I think I've soft bricked my Alpha X (6/128).:crying: Now I need stock rom for getting back my phone. Is there a source to get stock rom?:confused:
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
I have tested it on an Alpha Maze X 6/64, it works great.

Simply flash a recovery cannot brick any thing!

Even if the flashed recovery is bad (it is not the case of this TWRP), you can always boot Android.

You have to do correctly things and no worry.

Some infos :

1- Unlocking the bootloader will wipe the phone data (only user data, not the system)

2- Before flashing recovery you can first test it without flashing it : fastboot boot recovery.img

3- while testing it and if it works great, do immediately a full backup using the running TWRP, or at least boot, recovery and system, in an external SDCARD

4- If the test is OK you can now flash the recovery : fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

5- if for some reason something were wrong, you can always boot the recovery again (as in step 2) and restore your stock recovery (you have backup is step 3) or the whole rom
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Tommkill:
Version II don`t work, SPF tool needs a preloader, think from the original ROM
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ahorntaler:
Thanks for Your answer.

But certainly no. I did all you wrote before but doing a backup. When I started recovery via fastboot it worked very well. So I thouhgt that there's no need to do a full backup. Then I flashed recovery and after restart it booted immediately into recovery. Now I'm not able to start android. So I think I need a stock rom for flashing my Alpha X with a complete stock rom . Afterwards I do Your way and do a full backup before flashing TWRP.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
I am almost sure that you have flashed the recovery image in the boot partition !

You have do that fastboot flash boot recovery.img instead of fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

To have your phone working, just flash the attached boot.img : fastboot flash boot boot.alpha.x.img
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Tommkill:
@ dreambo

Do you have the preloader.....img from the Alpha X?
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ahorntaler:
Thanks a lot. I'll try later in the evening.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
I am uploading the complete TWRP backup of Maze Alpha X (except nvram and data) just unzip it in your SDCARD under TWRP/BACKUPS folder, do a restore from TWRP and choose the partitions you want to restore.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Tommkill:
@ dreambo

Thank you very much, but i need the preloader file for SP_flash Tool to flash TWRP, because SP_flash don`t flash recovery without this *.img file :)

Hope I can find it into the TWRP Image
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
Here my TWRP backup

It cantains all partitions except nvram and data
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ahorntaler:
Hi dreambo,

I've done what You wrote in Your advice, nothing changed. Maze Alpa X still reboots to TWRP. I'm not able start Android. Do You know a source with stock rom?
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
Have you try to restore with the backup I upload ?

You can also flash the boot.img from withing TWRP instead of using fastboot, have you try this ?
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] degreatone:
Has anyone found a way to root maze alpha x 6/64gb pls?
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ahorntaler:
Hi dreambo.

What kind of Maze Alpha do You have? Mine is 6GB/128GB. So can I use Your backup?
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
It is not mine, it is the property of a friend : all I know it is a 6/64 one. Before restoring do a full backup of yours.

Try to restore only boot and system partitions and see if it works.

Have you try to flash the boot.img using TWRP ?

Try also this : fastboot boot boot.img
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ahorntaler:
Hi Dreambo.

Thanks for Your rom backup. :fingers-crossed:I restored it in two steps.

1. I restored all without backup partition, because I hoped that TWRP would work as my dayly recovery. But it didn't. Android still does not boot.

2. I restored stock recovery from Your backup. Now my Maze Alpha X works again perfectly.

In future I'll use TWRP only from fastboot. There it works withaut problem. Perhaps we'll get a version that runs from recovery partition. But there's no need for stress.:good:
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
Happy that you have saved your phone :)
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
Happy for you :)

I am sure that I have test it correctly with the phone of my friend directly flashed in the recovery partition, and I use it to do the backup I provided.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Tommkill:
@ dreambo

I don`t find the preloader in your image.

I need 3 files, when I make it with SP-Flash. The Scatter File, the twrp image and the preloader. Look into the Scatter.txt

- partition_index: SYS0

partition_name: preloader

file_name: preloader_hct6757_66_n.bin

is_download: true

type: SV5_BL_BIN

linear_start_addr: 0x0

physical_start_addr: 0x0

partition_size: 0x40000

region: EMMC_BOOT1_BOOT2

storage: HW_STORAGE_EMMC

boundary_check: true

is_reserved: false

operation_type: BOOTLOADERS

is_upgradable: true

empty_boot_needed: false

reserve: 0x00
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
I have only the backup I have provided, the Maze Alpha X is not mine, it's a friend's property.

If I see again my friend, I will extract the preloader for you (I do not know how until now), and I will do more test in the TWRP.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
Try this one.

I have extract it from my friend Maze Alpha X 6/64, using SPFlashTool.

In a first time, check only the recovery, but load the given preloader in the preloader line without checking it.

The scatter itself it is from my Maze Alpha 4/64 (not X!) but it must works.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Tommkill:
@ dreambo

It doesn`t work, SPFlash say "PMT has changed for the ROM, try Format all + Download"

I have to wait for the original Rom for my 6/128

Thank you very much :o
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
Yes, we have to harass MAZE to give us original roms for their products, that's the lesser of it !!
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] bestunameever:
Perfect

Worked perfectly for me with method 1.

Orange state - this shows up, when the smartphone reboots saying that the device cannot be trusted because of the unlock - could be reversed by changing the bootloader lock back?

TIA

PS: I have root with Magisk, but not everything is working right now. Seems to be that F2FS on the data partition is to blame. So another question: Is it safe to change the data partition to ext4?
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
BEWARE DO NOT DO THAT!

If you lock you phone after unlocking it, it will erase the entire phone and you cannot use it until you have the original flashable ROM for SPFlashTool!

And bad news : MAZE did not provide us any ROM for this phone, a big shame!
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] bestunameever:
Thanks for your advice! What about my second question? Is it safe to format data partition as ext4?

TIA
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
Yes you can format you data partition as ext4.

I have do that the first time I install TWRP in my MAZE ALPHA 4/64 (not X!) because of encryption of original data partition, and now I have an unencrypted data partition in ext4 format so I can backup/restore it as I want using TWRP.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] bestunameever:
Cool! Thanks for your assistance and work.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] bestunameever:
A bit off topic now: Formatting data as ext4 does not help. Root = Yes, Installing modules with Magisk = No.

So I am stuck here. :(
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] degreatone:
Pls I need your help to root my alpha x 6/64 variant
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
Follow the mehod 2 of this Maze Alpha 4/64 tutorial it must works also for Maze Alpha X, using its TWRP.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] degreatone:
You mean the maze alpha recovery will also work for the alpha x? Thanks for ur help
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
This thread is exclusively for Maze Alpha X so the provided TWRP is only for Maze Alpha X
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] degreatone:
Am looking for a way to root maze alpha x 6/64 variant, and u point me to a maze alpha 4/64 thread. I was merely asking for confirmation. Thanks
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
The procedure works also for maze alpha X, except that you have to use this TWRP instead of the one mentioned in the tutorial.

I have not test it on Maze Alpha X (I do not have this phone), but I am sure at 99% that it will works, because we have the essential ingredients : the TWRP and Magisk
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] degreatone:
Thanks, I will try and report back
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
You are welcome :)

I think I will add the rooting tutorial specific to Maze Alpha X to this thread to avoid any confusion with the Maze Alpha

Done :)
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] degreatone:
I tried to flash the recovery using so flashtool it fails. It shows me error
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] forx2018:
do not try 。the phone can not get into android
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Drocxix:
device isn't recognised after it goes to fastboot. Please help
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ahorntaler:
Hi.

I'm still looking for stock rom for Maze Alpha X 6GB/128GB. I need a variant that I can flash via spflash tool. Would be nice to get a download source.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Drocxix:
Don't think maze has released it yet. I'm still looking for the same
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] letschky:
Works perfect with Maze Alpha X 64/6 with Fastboot Method!

Thank you very much!
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Black Hawk90:
I tried to long :(

I renamed your boot.img to recovery and flashed it as recovery instead of boot :( I haven't think about what i'm doing :crying: Now i have an bootloop and can't acces the booloader anymore to flashe the right recovery back :crying:

Has anyone an idea?
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
Push the Vol+ button and the Power button at the same time and continue pushing until you have a menu : choose the bootloader using Vol+ button and then confirm with the Vol- button. You will in the bootloader mode and you can restore you partitions.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Black Hawk90:
I know the way .. but doesn't work anymore :(