Is possible to port worse TW lollipop to S4 Mini ?

Samsung says memory limitations. hmm, why a3 2015 has lollipop ? A3 HAS 1GB RAM. 2 cores not has problems to run lollipop.

Why I'm say worse ? Samsung's all devices, only S4 mini and s3 neo has Snapgragon 400. but s3 neo has 720p display, s4 mini has 540p display.

Yea, great developer edit s3 neo lollipop port rom to had compatible qHD display. but s3 neo has cortex a7, s4 mini has krait 300

But I don't know who is succesfully ported 5.1 to s3 neo. note 3 neo has 720p but has exynos ???

Next device is A3 2015 but it has 64-bit cpu. blablabla...

Possible ?

Download mode?! Flashing possible via fastboot?

Hi everyone,

Having read loads of threads it looks like the only way to root the S7 is via the Download mode.

I have tried all I could but I cannot boot into Download mode. :eek: Power + Vol Down + Home flash the screen a bit and that is it, device does not even boot. I have to let go of the buttons and then boot it with just "Power" button. Also if I try to boot into recovery I only see Droid with open torso in red. Should I try flashing stock recovery? Can someone share it or point me where to get it please?

The best custom boot I get is Fastboot (via adb) or the chinese-menu that allows to wipe the device clean or test sensors etc. When trying to flash TWRP via fastboot I get "FAILED (remote: invalid kernel & ramdisk address: images overlap)"

I have an SM-G930F Snapdragon device (confirmed by CPU Z)

Is there a way to flash TWRP or root the device via fastboot at all? :confused:

Never had a device that I couldn't boot into Download or recovery mode.....

Possible Root?

Was thinking of going and swapping my S7 Edge out for the Force after work today. So got me to look into a root method came across this not sure if it will work seeing as I cant try it.

http://www.sadroid.com/root-lenovo-m...rce-5-minutes/

F2fs on s7 edge? Is possible?

Hi
i use this device with promethus kernel 1.3 that says it support f2fs but i'm unable to use it
it bootloop when i change file system from ext4 to f2fs.
thanks

Bluetooth sharing problem - possible solution on LP

I just stumbled upon this thread on CM forum where they mention an app called Bluetooth phonebook by android-rsap.com.

https://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/...comment=563623

According to one user the app installed on LP solved the sharing problems. And most reviewers on play store praise it.

I'm gonna try that (they have a trial version for that purpose) and report.

Anyone else?

S7 edge possible defect question

I just got my second silver s7 edge since my first one had a horrible battery life.

After getting this one and looking in bright light where the phone shines, I notice at the top of the phone under the glass on the edge of the silver foil stuff, it has a wrinkled look across the whole top.

I don't notice it on the bottom which seems to be the same exact dimensions, and also don't notice it on the back.

I tried to take a picture but the picture is very hard to pick up on camera and looks a lot worse in person.

I want to make sure this is normal or not because I didn't remember seeing it on my other s7 edge

Thanks

[TECH DISCUSSION] Is it possible to have a Dash Charge power bank?

So I'm in my junior year of electrical engineering and seeing the incredible things done with smartphones is something I really would like to be a part of one day. I wanted to discuss, considering the limits of current technology, if it would be possible to create a safe Dash Charging power bank for this device? For those who don't know how dash charging works I'll post a few links and my understanding of how it works and if I'm wrong at any point feel free to correct me.

Dash Charging - The Technology
The way dash charging works, as I understand it, is that the USB-C cable wires are made wider in diameter to accommodate a larger amount of current being passed through to the battery. The charger plugged into the wall takes on the burden of the extra voltage pushing the current through the wire and keeping it away from the phone's internal battery (which is brilliant). That means that the charger takes on the extra heat which isn't a problem because passive components are often more tolerant of heat than batteries are.
Links:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/How-i...Plus-3_id82646
http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinio...arge-oneplus-3

The Issues
A dash power bank could be charged up exactly like the phone; with the dash charger it could fill extremely fast. However, using the battery pack to charge the phone means that the internal Li-Ion batteries of that charger will be taking on the extra heat from within the case which could:
a) shorten the power bank's life span
b) Possibly lead to unsafe power banks if it got too hot

I also see there being limitations with the power bank's ability to maintain a full speed charge similar to wall charging along with what types of batteries would be needed to provide the power output similar to the dash charger.

The Solutions
So in my limited knowledge I think that the biggest enemy here is heat generated in the power bank. I feel like the rest could be overcome with a fairly large bank of 18650 batteries. It is possible to have a passive cooling system built into the power bank for heat dissipation but that might make the battery bank difficult for users to hold on their Pokemon Go outings. Also, reducing Dash Charging specifications just a little, decreasing the speed at which it could charge the device, would alleviate some of the concern. So while you might not get 60% in 30 minutes from the wall, perhaps aiming for 45-50% charge in that amount of time would increase the power bank lifespan and total amount of charges.

What do you all think? I'll readily admit I don't understand completely how current battery bank internals work to limit over-current and over-voltage scenarios as I've never taken one apart. If anyone wants to educate me and say whether they think Dash Charging is possible I'd love to hear about it. This is the kind of stuff I imagine the OnePlus engineers are sitting around working on every week.

Possible new lg g2 owner ,need advice.

Thinking about picking up a 2nd hand lg g2 T-Mobile phone and was wondering what you guys with this phone think of it.

1.How is the battery life? I use my current phone a lot for web use and I'm looking for something that will give me good battery life .

2.How is the custom ROM choices for this phone?

Possible to rescue the phone?

Hey guys,

my girlfriend has an M9. Saturday it lied idle on the table and rebooted itself. When it booted it just showed the white screen with the HTC logo and the read disclaimer warning.

I rebooted with power off and volume up and the phone just bootlooped all the time. Shows black screen with HTC Logo.

I tried to press the Vol down button on a restart but that didnt work it just bootlooped as before. Then I pressed Vol up +down and could enter the bootloader. From there I entered twrp and tried to wipe the system and then it just shows:

"Could not mount /data and unable to find crypto footer." and it failed to mount /cache , /system, /data, /devlog, /carrier , /cota , /preload and "Unable to mount storage" followed by failes in /data and cache.
Every fail have an (Invalid argument).

I also tried following fastboot commands:

format system

Couldn't parse partition size '0x0X118000000'.
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.241s]
finished. total time: 0.241s

format data

Formatting is not supported for file system with type ''.

format cache

Couldn't parse partition size '0x0X14000000'.
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.270s]
finished. total time: 0.270s

flash zip 0PJAIMG.zip

target reported max download size of 800000000 bytes
Invalid sparse file format at header magi
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 2368399706 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
sending sparse 'zip' 1/1 (0 KB)...
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 2368399706 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 2368399706 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
OKAY [ 1.015s]
writing 'zip' 1/1...
(bootloader) HOSD CL#671447
FAILED (remote: 9 RU_SECURITY_FAIL zip from usb command in download mode)
finished. total time: 2.209s

The output of getvar all

(bootloader) kernel: lk
(bootloader) product: htc_himauhl
(bootloader) version: 1.0
(bootloader) imei: 357226069687564
(bootloader) version-main: 3.35.161.12
(bootloader) boot-mode: download
(bootloader) version-baseband: 01.01_U11440792_96.00.51201G_F
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.0.0.0000
(bootloader) mid: 0PJA10000
(bootloader) cid: VODAP102
all:
finished. total time: 0.006s


Could someone please tell me if it even possible to rescue the phone? Is there something I forget to try or do somebody know something?

I appreciate every help i could get.

And forgive my bad english.

Android Universal ROM - possible?

Sorry, if this is the wrong thread or if this question itself is stupid.

One thing I have been thinking about in the last few days (especially with Android Nougat this close to release) is: "Why is there no Universal Android ROM (Cyanogen or other) that can be installed on any (or at least a number of common) devices like Windows or Ubuntu for PCs?"
I did a bit of research on the internet today, but the only answer I found over and over again is, that it's because of drivers and the sheer number of different phones and tables out there.
But now my more exact question: Why isn't it possible to bundle the drivers for SoCs, antennas, ... who are most popular (like Snapdragon 820, 810 ...) with a kind of standard AOSP ROM as this works with Windows (as far as I understand it)?

Thanks for your help!

Possible Quality Control issues with ZTE Axon 7

Pros:
beautiful screen and overall a nice phone, got headphones with pre order. and am excited about the prospects of a new flagship phone.

Cons:

Camera stopped functioning today, it was delivered at 4:10pm July 27th, it is now 5:05am July 28th as i write this. Customer service is closed and i've already gone through wiping the cache, formatting and factory resetting the phone. removing my sim card and SD card.

formatting again, clearing the cache on the camera app
then resetting the phone and clearing the cache and reinstalling.

i even went so far as to stop google from recovering my downloads from the playstore to be on the safe side and insure that the phone was completely stock out of the box.

and i got "Unable to connect to camera,Camera has been disabled because of security policies or is being used by other apps" the phone and the flashlight are not functioning. and installing 3rd party camera apps doesn't fix the issue.

Will follow up if ZTE is able to give repair steps that don't result in mailing my phone back to newegg.

Other Thoughts:

Would not recommend to anyone at this current time, as this same issue plagued another phone of ZTE's called the ZTE max and seems to have followed to their newest flagship
if anyone has a fix for this sort of issue please let me know otherwise ill do a write up based on what ZTE provides to me later on today

Possible to set SELinux to permissive on boot?

Hey all. I know we can use terminal editor to change the SELinux permissions but if we reboot it will have to be done again. Is there anyway to permanently set it to permissive on boot?

[Q] Is it possible to enable Wi-Fi Calling with root?

I purchased a Vodafone branded S7 Edge through Carphone Warehouse and after much torturous twoing a throwing with their customer service have now been told that I can't get wifi calling as my phone wasn't purchased directly from them.
They have enabled Wifi Calling for me on my tariff but I can't even see the option to switch it on when I go to settings/ application/ phone. The only option I can see open to me (as I can't get a signal at my house) is to root the phone to try and enable the feature but wasn't sure if this is possible?

Any help or advise appreciated.

Enable 3G AWS band, possible?

Hi guys,

Sorry if this was answered in another place, but I was unsure.

I was looking info about unlocking 3G bands and I ended up with this:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/gala...ds-to-t2886059

OP says that it may work with other phones so why not?

I did most steps, the only "issue" that I had was that I didn't have a diag mode item in Device Manager on Windows., only "LGE Phone Serial bla bla bla"

So, I added a new port in QPST Configuration using the COM3 (the one that was using the Serial LGE item) and I could read info from the phone but this is the weird part: Everything in UMTS system is checked, but if that were the case I wouldn't have the need to enable AWS on 3G.

Anyone did have success enablign 3G bands on VS980? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Is it possible to port a MIUI rom ?

Hi,
I'm no Android developper but I was wondering if we can have MIUI V7 or V8 on our LG G4 (H815), I think this is a very cool and different rom that would perfectly fit with the device.
Thanks :)

Possible best protective case for curved screen? And screen protector?

First time I am facing having to protect a curved screen so a good protective case will be a must fro me. From the Galaxy s7 edge forums I managed to see Speck Candyshell case had the higestest "edge" on the case and it kind of feels most secure to me because it appears to put the most distance from entire phone screen to anything it might hit. Or do othe people think differently? Which company do you think will make the best portective case?

Also, which company do you reckon wil make the best screen protector?

Is it possible to fix soft brick with adb?

Hello,

I have a new S7 Edge and disabled Touchwiz Launcher System Apps with EZ Package disabler.
Today I tried for the first time ultra power saving mode, which did not work at all (I think there was no launcher available)
After a reboot, I am stuck at the flashing Samsung logo.

My question: Is it possible to reenable the Touchwiz Launcher with adb so that my phone can boot successfully again?
Which mode could be helpful? Download Mode, Safe Mode, Recovery?
I don't want to factory reset just yet because of pictures which are not backed up on the internal storage...

Please help :)

it's possible to port rom from mi4 to mi4c?

it's possible to port rom from mi4 to mi4c?

Mi 4i VoLTE possible with some hack?

Hello,

I've Mi 4i global version which, I suppose, can support VoLTE.

The MIUI officially doesn't support VoLTE. Is there any hack or custom firmware like CM which can enable VoLTE?

Any help, please?

Thanks!

Is it possible to root G900AUCU3BOC4 5.0?

I have a samsung G900AUCU3BOC4 5.0, can it be rooted? And how?

Also, if it can't be rooted, is it possible to change my firmware to tmobile? I changed my carrier to tmobile a while back, but my firmware is at&t.