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[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] Pelepako:
Nothing helps..?

(I will post this also here, cos no one answered @ zukfans yet)

Hi! I think I need to ask help now.

I've managed to hard brick my Z2 with QFIL trying to update the phone from zui 2.something to 3.5. Well obviously that did not end up good.

My phone went to a stage described in some cases: White light blinking every 15 seconds or something and phone vibrating. Ok, I tried to shut the phone down by keeping and releasing after second blink. Did not work. Then I tried to hold for two or more minutes. It seemed to work first but suddenly also that didnt work (kept power pushed for ten minutes or more). Ok, the I made the cable described here. I did a jumper cable from my usb extension cord. Windows reacted to the phone but did not recognize it. Nothing showed up in device manager or QFIL or MiFlash. The phone keeped on vibrating and a left it like this for the night. I guess battery ran out and phone finally shutdown.

I continued and same results. One time windows recognized a unknown device for some seconds but it did not show up in device manager or MiFlash. After that nothing. Now the phone only blinks the light. It vibrates only when trying to charge it or plugged in PC. I don't now if it's on or not. Anyways, the same results with windows: reaction, but no recognition. I've tried to pull usb out and change to another slot etc.

Also I've installed Zuk 1.05 drivers, MiFlash and tried also with Qualcomm drivers. Uninstalled everything and tried again. Nothing seems to help.

Could this be because of Windows 7? Or bad extension cord? Or what...? Any advice would be appreciated.

edit: It was not Windows problem I guess. I installed fresh Windows 10 with no help. Actually worse. No Windows is not reacting at all. Maybe it's the jumper cable I created. I didn't want to ruin my only USB-C.

edit: Ok. Back to Win7. Now there is no reaction at all also in Win7. The phone vibrates when connected to pc. Otherwise phone seems to be off. No lights flashing. If power is held down white led flashes briefly but no vibration.

edit: Now if I connect the phone to laptop the led blinks every 0.5 seconds... I have no idea how turn the phone off. It seems to be off while not touched because nothing is happening...
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] narshi shukla:
[MENTION=2226610]Pelepako[/MENTION]

Try this,just a copy paste

2.0). Turn off the phone. If the phone boots up (reboots) then immediately to point 2.1

2.1). Put wire on the 2nd contact on the left

. And together with the wire insert into the PC (at the same time the phone is already connected by cable).

2.2). After 5-10 seconds, take out the usb plug with the wire. Remove the wire and insert the plug back.

2.2.1). If you do not have a bootlap, but it hangs on MI, on the boot process, etc. Hold the POWER button and insert the USB plug with the wire into the usb port. The screen goes out and you get what you want.

3.1). Your device in EDL mode.

3.2). Click REFRESH in Miflash and see your device in COM format.

3.3). Flash firmware at your discretion.
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] Pelepako:
Thanks for the instructions.

Still nothing. Windows 10 does not recognize the phone in any way. The phone vibrates almost immediately when plugged in. Then nothing. Sometimes (before) I got Windows to recognize it as "unknown device".

2.0 Turning off the phone. I'm unpluggin the battery. I guess that does the job? At least nothing is flashing or vibrating.

2.1 I inserted a paper clip as in the picture.

Dunno if it's a driver thing. I've installed different Zuk driver version, Qualcomm, MiFlash, QFil, ADB.. you name it. I've turned on the Test Mode in Windows (driver signature). I've tried two different cables. One of them is the original. Tried the paper clip trick and the wire connect trick. Nothing is working. There has to be some flaw that I'm not noticing. Can't be the only one who really got his phone bricked...

About the drivers:

Ive installed zuk 1.05. Is it ok? Tried also 1.06 and 1.08.

How to install ADB. I've used ADB installer and installed system-wide. Should I also install the device driver (Google)?

Qualcomm drivers. Cannot manually install. With Miflash etc. some Qualcomm drivers get installed.

Do I need to install Fastboot and ADB "executables"? Where do I need these in my situation? Nowhere?

What abou QFIL? Is it necessary if I'm using MiFlash?
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] Pelepako:
Ok. Just found out that the only 2.0 port is broken. There is no second pin. At least anymore. I might have broken it in some point.

Other reason for malfunctioning could be the circuit board of the phone. The previous owner in all his wisdom had glued the battery cover with super glue. As I opened it it ripped of some of those circuit materials that conduct electricity. The broken part is near the usb port of the phone. Maybe if I put the cover back it will work cos the ripped parts are still glued to the back cover..
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] Pelepako:
So back to the issue.

The broken part of the phone seems to be speaker so it should not affect the connection I guess. I also fixed with conductive silver paint. Still, no help.

Just found out that the charger and probably also the cable are not original ones. Maybe this is the reason for this is not working. I cannot come up with any other solutions. Now I would need to know which usb cable would qualify for the procedure. How can tell which is a proper cable before buying it? Also does the micro-usb cable work if I have the convertor dongle (Samsung made)?

edit:

Ok. Sometimes the led blinks every 0.5 sec. Sometimes phone vibrates every fifteen or something seconds. Only way to get the computer to react is with modded usb extension cord -> green to black. This way Windows recognizes an unknown device. That's it. I cannot install Qualcomm drivers for this or do anything else. This way Windows makes this connected sound every 0.5 seconds and the phone led blinks. After a while it stops and the phone is marked as "unknown device". Also if I connect the phone to a charger it blinks all the time (0.5s) and vibrates occasionally. Then after a while the led calms down and blinks every 15 seconds. And then back to 0.5s with vibration. All these symptoms seem unclear and I haven't found anyone suffering from same kind of problems...

Really am I the first that really bricked this one? I didn't even use the phone yet. Just checked it and tried to update the system cos it was old version.

I assume that the phone has to be off after disconnecting battery cable so that should not be the problem here.
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] Pelepako:
[MENTION=7563428]narshi shukla[/MENTION]

I turned the phone off by removing battery. It does not reboot after shut down before I connect it to computer. Few seconds after connecting to pc it vibrates shortly. Nothing else happens after that. Same with and without the wire.

I've tried so many different methods that I'm giving up with this I guess. Am I the only one who got his phone permanently bricked. After all I tried to flash by following instructions. The flash failed and phone went on crazy vibration and screen on for some seconds after that it was vibrating every 15 seconds. Then suddenly it stopped doing that. Now it does only if I plug it to pc or charger.

The "black green wire trick" is strange. If I only connect those two wires nothing new happens BUT if I connect green to black and black to green by tying instead only touching the phone vibrates and led blinks every 0,5 seconds and windows also makes the connection sound even though it is not working.
[Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, A7 (2017) Questions & Answe] jonte999770:
So i've been wanting to root this phone for a while but the last time i actuality rooted a phone was my old S3 and that was as simple as installing a recovery menu and then the SuperSU zip file.

I've googled around and have found various things about disabling the bootloader and disabling encryption etc, and i'm really confused.

If anyone can just tell me what i really need to do and what to not do i would be very thankful.

If it's for any help my phones build number is R16NW.A520FXXU7CRL7.
[Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, A7 (2017) Questions & Answe] SnowFuhrer:
It's not that much different than an s3. You need to enable OEM unlock in dev settings(:p) and flash twrp by following this: https://xdaforums.com/samsung-a-series-2017/development/recovery-galaxy-a5-a7-2017-t3815931. It says optional to flash no-verity no-encrypt.zip, but I would flash it anyway.

Look here if you are missing OEM unlock toggle. https://xdaforums.com/samsung-a-series-2017/how-to/guide-root-install-twrp-samsung-t3747535
[Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, A7 (2017) Questions & Answe] jonte999770:
Easier than i thought, thanks a lot. Better get rooting. :)

And to root i just flash the latest SuperSU zip right?
[Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, A7 (2017) Questions & Answe] jonte999770:
And also does this format anything? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, A7 (2017) Questions & Answe] SnowFuhrer:
You should probably use magisk instead of SuperSU as SuperSU doesn't always work on these higher versions of android.

You need to format data in TWRP to boot, so you will lose all data on internal storage.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ghost26:
This isn't a how to thread since there are already plenty of those. Let's just see what kind of different ideas everyone has for this great app. Screenshots a plenty please.

with tha being said someone start us off
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eumel79:
Here is my
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gofawkurself:
whats that bottom bar doohickey? i really like it. got a link?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eumel79:
it's my Batterystatus SKin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synned:
I can't post the 5th pic because its limited to 4 per post.

I also can't take credit for the theme, its called iStyle. I did tweak it a little, obviously.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spencepu3:
the clock is made by asefsef for batterystatus but I modified it to fit my theme. The botttom is an rltoday skin that I made.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] evilc:
I have been trying to assemble all the bits I want to acheive my ideal interface - certain bits are done, but I am teaching myself C++ to code other bits.

The general idea of the skin is that a small section of the top is always visible (type=5) with no scrollbars - showing the clock/date, message counters and BT / WiFi toggle - it's impractical to have a whole horizontal block devoted to a clock, you may as well have something else there.

Previously, I made an rlToday skin to handle the top part, but I am now in the process of coding an rlToday-like app to replace that and support different images for different button states, for example.

The rest of the screen is a cube. Gesture left/right to switch faces, and where applicable gesture up down to scroll lists. I want to have a contacts list like this, and a music browser too - like the browser in Pocket Player, but in a UL cube face (Been speaking to conduits and they say its gonna happen or it can be done existingly with the SDK)

Images wise, all of the PNGs are just placeholders for now, I want to use glass icons with an interesting background and prefract (Pre-refract: see here) the area behind the buttons so it looks like they are made of glass and are bending the light passing through them. If I can get my app (or the new XIAMultitheme which I may switch to helping develop) working to allow different PNGs for different states then I want to acheive a nice glass interface look with icons lighting up in a believable manner etc.

Anyway, for now, attached are some layout type mockups:

Spinny cube GIF

Placeholder apps in the faces - I want a main "contacts list" in one face, but another smaller one in another face for my riding buddies along with a weather tab - see if it is worth riding and call the people you ride with if it is, all from one face:)

Top layout in this one is my rlToday "SaFF" skin (see sig)

This is laid out almost exactly how I want it, the transparent images need doing properly though.

Landscape version of the "SaFF" skin - notice how the scrollbars only cover the cube area. This is the dynamic I want to base the whole thing around - the bottom half spins left/right and you an drag scroll it up or down to select items.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] evilc:
I like that clock area transparency , kind of similar to the look I want.

What I would really like for the clock area is to acheive the look of a lump of glass with the LCD font 88:88 etched into it (and sunken down a bit) then the characters overlaid onto that. With a matching prefracted wallpaper I reckon it would look amazing.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synned:
This will be awesome...keep going!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gt500:
here is mine
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pasa:
My UL with PhoneAlarm.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ghost26:
i wish i knew how to do that animated screenshot.

here is mine.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MrDSL:
Mine is very simple..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ghost26:
and my last tab is another multi tab plugin as a launcher
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] N'da:
Hello, I'm really interested by your clock, can you post it in attachement please because my current skin Yo_status doesn't work anymore on my new trinity 6.1 rom. It doesn't show memory usage and sd space left, perhaps someone have the same error on other battery status skin and 6.1. Thanks for you help.

PS: here is mine ;) (before changing for 6.1)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] evilc:
I actually did that one by spamming screen grab repeatedly and self assembling in a GIF editor. not meaning to derail the thread, but if anyone knows of a decent screen capture util that renders out a nice movie and shows clicks/drags too, lemme know.

Wasn't my post, it was by spencepu3. I really like your purple skin though - nice lines but still pretty efficient use of space.

What I would also like to do with mine is make the clock area a ul cube that had a different timezone in each face, but that would require being able to run two UL cubes at once.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluemetalaxe:
here is mine: just wm7 beta: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=386378
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] popdog54:
I just finished this theme today. Three different colors and a matching S2U2 theme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BradB32:
Here's mine :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] HostileJava:
Relatively simply:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dug_bondo:
Nice look

Can we get a download link here?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mikulec:
Did u mean this: settings/animation/slide animation/cube ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marcf:
Yes, that I am familiar with, but have it incorporated with the cube itself, so when you slide your finger across the screen it goes through your fav contacts, music photos video screen, etc and then the Ultimate Launch screen. I'm not sure if you will understand this, but if not let me know.

Thanks..

Marc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] giboks20:
I've managed it to download the files from the french site, but could you translate the installation instructions please.

My french is quite bad:rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] giboks20:
Mirror: http://rapidshare.com/files/123611100/Xscott.zip.html

(I hope there is no permission required; the original site is in french)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] evilc:
OK, here it is!!

I mocked up the "Half Cube" interface I am trying to acheive in adobe premiere.

THIS IS MOCKED UP IN A VIDEO EDITING PROG USING PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGES. DO NOT ASK ME WHAT APPS I USED OR HOW TO GET THIS UI - IT CAN'T BE DONE - YET.

The Calendar tab may happen as the developer of thumbcal is looking to write a today screen version. This is what prompted the mockup ;)

I want tabs for all kinds of stuff though, all using the same vertical scroll dynamic. Weather, tasks, lots of things would work like this I think.

Only got the top clock bit done so far, but it does work in portrait and landscape... see "SaFF" link in my sig.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Svein10:
Hi evilc

This looks great! Hope that you will manage to get it work proper, soon...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bassjam:
1/First you need to install battery status, rlToday and Ultimate Launch

2/ for the program page, you have to install

-weather panel

for the theme:

"Dash Icon" in "Program Files\MarsWare\WeatherPanel\Icons"

and "Shine WP" dans "Program Files\MarsWare\WeatherPanel\Themes",

- Today agenda

- SetVolume

- Pocket WakeUp

4/Then you have to disable all today programs(start / settings / today / Elements tab and uncheck)

5/you install the Skin_Xscott.CAB( in the pocket memory )

6/finally, you have to restart your PPC

Send me a message if you've got any problem

tchuss
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ricky_619:
Simply Black

I love the black theme of HTC Diamond, so i made mine simply similar..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S2W:
Here is my update using UL.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kangi26:
What program are you using to get the tabs across the top? I really like that alot.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NotLutzik:
That looks like UL .
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Beelzebub:
Please post icons!

I´ve searched a lot, but i can't find these icon you are using!

so please can u share them.

THX, Beelzebub
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dewydewy:
OH MY GOSH:eek::eek that's my top beloved iphone theme icons.

Would you mind telling me how you do that? I have those icons though, for collection I mean :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] joshuas_79:
I love them too
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sinoo:
Some great ideas to make my today screen looking better!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meccax5:
ok for those that don't know its the buuf icons and all i did was convert the icons one by one from png to ico using the website http://converticon.com/.

then i just added the icons in ultimate launcher, there is some playing around that you would have to do to get it just right tho. Also the bottom part is rltoday. i have attached the theme i use.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dewydewy:
you are way toooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome!!! gonna send you some chocolates or perhaps diamonds? :D

btw, i knew ul. but how could you get those transparent bars in the bottom? would you mind giving some more hints?

P.S.

BUFF is always my top beloved iphone icons.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
Here is mine, plus some additionnal screen shot of others soft...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] worldwidepmp:
One of the best i've seen. Nice.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meccax5:
yeah the bottom bar is rltoday. i attached the theme i use.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] joshuas_79:
I like it!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Svein10:
This looks very nice lucky3d! What do you use in your “home”screen, and for weather? And how did you get the top bar in UL to look like that?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dave.:
HOW can i get this??? it´s funny.

dave.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lucky3d:
Svein10,

Home: BatteryStatus (for all items)

All icons is buttons. They can change color from a condition

Weather: Weather Panel (i use icons from HTC wether and concept from Diamond)

Aplication: ultimate launch

Internet: big icon - Opera 9,5

work in progress...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] johanromijn:
Take a look over HERE
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zim2dive:
This seems like a basic question.. but hard to search for ("settings" is just too popular of a word")

How can you make a UL shortcut to the WM Settings folder?.. ie on my Appl launcher page, I'd like to have a button that takes me to the WM settings...

I make a shortcut to the Windows\Settings folder and tried to use that as a .lnk, but no dice.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sinoo:
My Device

Heres mine!

Clean and simple!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NotLutzik:
Simple again!

3 tabs

Weather

Home

Programs
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nordika:
Nice. Can you share your clock and battery?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sinoo:
Sure, here you go!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nordika:
Thanks a lot!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Svein10:
lucky3d, thanks, looks really nice!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Still a working in progress

Here is mine.

Just have to align the icons in a straight(er) line, and to center the counts for the Mail/SMS/MMS and Vmail, and among other things.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gerald20000:
can anyone show me some guidelines to where i can learn how to do my own skins using ul? i tried reading frm the main site, but i do not understand.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] al3azim:
Hi there,

Can you share you current weather panel theme? I like the fact that it is not full screen.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] al3azim:
Here is what mine looks like now, simple but works
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gerald20000:
can you share your today screen?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] al3azim:
I am using Phonealarm at the bottom and UL on top (6 tabs).

The main screen (home) has rlcalendar for the date and the icons I am attaching a ZIP file which has the ico for UL and the PA skin. RL calendar can be downloaded.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nir36:
This is my current HomePage:

My other pages look like this (ignore the homepage):

there's a thread for these settings with everything needed to make your UL look exactly like that.

http://xdaforums.com/show...89#post2416289

enjoy
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rummyPPG:
Top time/date battery item

Hi, can you share where the top item is from, the one with the date, time and battery status?

Thanx,

\Peter
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sphinxy:
That i think is exactly what you said. The program is called BatteryStatus.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] booterr:
Mine ...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nunyas:
top half of my screen is rlToday. The bottom half is Ultimate Launch.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ttherapon:
Hey nunyas nice theme, please can you share???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nunyas:
which theme do you want? The Windows Mobile theme, the Weather Panel theme, or the rlToday theme?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Syd159:
I don't know what he wants, but i like to have the RlToday theme. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wdbanks:
all of the above would be great!

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Syd159:
Here is the Weather theme.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2525501&postcount=403
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mcmike_cz:
What are the appz you use to show WEATHER and Contacts?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] imagenius:
WM7 blue theme

Here is mine. UL + Phonealarm + WP + pocketCM :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snachez:
Theres nothing here.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] imagenius:
Sorry. This is my first time to post my UL theme and I made a mistake to try to upload oversize jpeg files. :p I have corrected it now.