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Managed to find the solution to this today, all by accident.
Using the magical USB jig used on the sgs to put it into download mode.
Video below shows it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poH6TMbuj3E
It resets the counter and says that the binary is default, but it is still the custom kernel.
It also removes the warning symbol at the bottom of the screen on each boot.
How did i find it?
Well, you know the download mode jig you can make to put the sgs into download mode. I make them and sell them on ebay to make a few quid. (not too great, too many others doing it)
I thought "it worked on my sgs, will it work on this?"
powered off the sgs II plugged the jig in and encountered a sceen saying "erasing download information succeeded" and now it says I have no custom binaries and my current binary is "samsung official", when its chainfires.
It also removes the triangle warning on first boot because it thinks its genuine. But I still have my root privelages.
I call this a warranty solution. All thanks to a resistor and u micro usb plug.
Where Can I Get One?
Guide to make the jig
MOD EDIT: No selling
Great find
Have 22 on my counter ...
DocRambone said:
Great find
Have 22 on my counter ...
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Hmm.... U might need one if that breaks
good, great discovery
Sweet. nice find.
I wonder... this resistor value trick came from the samsung anywhere box, which is used for field repairs of phones.
This is the procedure for a SGS1 that lights up but won't boot or go to download.
So tbh it makes sense that this would force it to download, as the box remains the same for a while.
Also this suggests UART loading of a bootloader might be possible, given what is going on in i9000 section in trying to get unbrick working via the usb connector.
That mode looks to be entered with a different resistor value. Perhaps there are other interesting modes we can get to?
Actually on the subject of that, if you run "adb reboot download" you get into download mode without the info at the top, so in theory this phone has 3 download modes.
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Actually on the subject of that, if you run "adb reboot download" you get into download mode without the info at the top, so in theory this phone has 3 download modes.
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An install from there still adds to your download count though
I think there is one download mode, but two ways to enter it, plus jig forcing boot into it with a reset...
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An install from there still adds to your download count though
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yeh, tested that before
Earlier today, i rebooted the phone and almost dropped it. In the process of catching it, i pressed/held and unknown button in, and when the phone started up, it was showing 'safe mode' in the bottom left corner of the screen. When i opened the app drawer, there were no third party apps showing, only the apps that came as standard. Sadly i forgot to take a screen capture due to being in a panic and rebooting the phone once more, whilst lay gently on the couch.
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stoney73 said:
Earlier today, i rebooted the phone and almost dropped it. In the process of catching it, i pressed/held and unknown button in, and when the phone started up, it was showing 'safe mode' in the bottom left corner of the screen. When i opened the app drawer, there were no third party apps showing, only the apps that came as standard. Sadly i forgot to take a screen capture due to being in a panic and rebooting the phone once more, whilst lay gently on the couch.
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That is a standard feature on some phones. The tmob pulse had it iirc too.
So... what buttons does the sgs2 have? I presume you mean physical ones. I am sure we can figure it out.
The mode is handy if something like set cpu freezes your phone, as you can boot it whilst ignoring the trash you can installed.
great works really
pulser_g2 said:
That is a standard feature on some phones. The tmob pulse had it iirc too.
So... what buttons does the sgs2 have? I presume you mean physical ones. I am sure we can figure it out.
The mode is handy if something like set cpu freezes your phone, as you can boot it whilst ignoring the trash you can installed.
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It's boot+menu+home on SGS. Or Boot+Menu.
Thanks a lot
I solved a very very big problem on my sgs2.
I'll try SGS2 in Korea(SHW-M250S).
dont wana sound to dumb but your saying this will rmeove that triangle symbol and reset the counter and show its samsung?
where are they on ebay? item number? also do they come with instructions?
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dont wana sound to dumb but your saying this will rmeove that triangle symbol and reset the counter and show its samsung?
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Yes, I dont know why but it does!
Just incase we have to claim warranty for any reason, samsung should not find any software tamper from us
Triangle can be removed as of now, Counter fix will be there.. soon (I hope)
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dont wana sound to dumb but your saying this will rmeove that triangle symbol and reset the counter and show its samsung?
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Yes, I dont know why but it does!
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I sat and pondered this today. I now have a hypothesis.
The Samsung Anyway field test rig is what repair people, and samsung, use to repair phones. You get bad flashes even on official updates, or something just dies.
This device goes into the USB port, and supplies the device power, then lets the technician fix the phone.
One of the things they may need to do would be refurb a phone. That would require resetting such "flags" as these, if there was something wrong. So it would make sense that their test jig would reset this counter.
Since the test kit doesn't change often AFAIK, it would use a standard method of doing the reset, given the jig will be the same as used on other devices. Hence the good old 301k
I'd be willing to bet if you look at the "fun with resistors" thread over in i9000, you will get most of them working too, albeit with perhaps different things. As such I don't recommend messing about unless you know what each does...
Just my hypothesis as to why this happens.
Where on ebay can i get 1 as i carnt
find any :-(
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Hi all,
So, despite being careful I inevitably dropped my shiny Galaxy S2. I was more than unlucky though, and it fell in the path of a revolving door! End result is a smashed screen but working device. Nope, no insurance and I bought it without contract so I've lost a lot of pennies.
However, I am hoping to save something from this. I'm typing on my old desire so excuse the brief initial post bit I'm hoping I can at least not let the phone go to waste...
I have the MHL to HDMI cable and using this I can see the phone started ok and the pattern screen is displayed, so far so good!
However the screen doesn't respond to touch. Bummer.
So my thought is this: I've seen that you can hook up a Bluetooth mouse to the phone ... I'm wondering if I can pair a Bluetooth mouse before the pattern lock using adb and thus have a phone I can leave connected to the TV, use a mouse with and still get some use out of.
What do you guys think?
Cheers!
Its actually very doable.The problem is how to pair the mouse
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Indeed, that is very much the problem! I would hope that once its paired it will all be plain sailing, but trying to get it paired in its current state is the crux of it
Why not buy a new screen?
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Mostly because they are almost as expensive as the phone itself... That and it's not just the screen, the surrounding frame is also quite badly damaged. I figure if I wait till after xmas I can probably get a new S2 for a similar price as I would be paying for just the screen now. I have my old desire which is keeping me going in the meantime.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971768
See if that works?
can't you just perform a hard reset? It can be done through recovery and only requires hardware buttons.
Should take care of the unlock code part, not?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971768
See if that works?
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Thanks sargorn, however my phone doesn't have debugging enabled to I can't adb into the phone in anything other than recovery mode...
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can't you just perform a hard reset? It can be done through recovery and only requires hardware buttons.
Should take care of the unlock code part, not?
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Hi swiftshifter...
Yes, this is an option to get rid of the unlock part but I'd rather not hard reset if there are alternatives. I'm keeping this as a backup.
I still need to figure out the send event stuff though because I'll probably need this to 'press' the buttons required to pair a mouse.
I think my biggest hurdle at the moment, or the biggest win if I can get it, is to enable debugging mode whilst the phone is on normally as suggested in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17910067 But I haven't had a chance to try this yet...
How about going into your market account from PC and remotely install VNC server? One problem though.. how to automatically start the VNC server...
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How about going into your market account from PC and remotely install VNC server? One problem though.. how to automatically start the VNC server...
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A good idea! But yeah, hindered by the same issue. I think long term I'd prefer the bluetooth mouse but for the sake of setting everything up VNC on there would probably make life a lot easier! Can't believe I hadn't though of it to be honest!
Now just to work out how to get it started ;-)
I have my corporate email account added on my phone which REQUIRES the PIN/PASSWORD lock screen to be activated.
On LG G2 the default lock screen has a button "Emergency call - Press and hold". A call to 911 is dialed immediately when you accidentally press it for 2 seconds.
My 2-year-old boy has accidentally dialed 911 four times and each time 911 called me back and they'll send someone to check out next time.
To use my corporate email account I can't disable the PIN/PASSWORD lock screen. Is there a way to remove that stupid button, or change the "911" to be a invalid number?
You can buy a fake phone for your 2-year-old kid
He got 2 "nice" VTech phones already. I didn't give my phone to him by intention.
The problem is that sometimes I placed my phone on the table - maybe just 2 minutes, and he sometimes got the chance to grab the phone and the first thing he did is to "press and hold" that stupid button.
If the phone is not locked, it is harder for him to dial 911 - but I can't disable the lock screen due to corporate's policy.
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You can buy a fake phone for your 2-year-old kid
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Same thing happens when I leave guns around the house.
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qiushengxy said:
He got 2 "nice" VTech phones already. I didn't give my phone to him by intention.
The problem is that sometimes I placed my phone on the table - maybe just 2 minutes, and he sometimes got the chance to grab the phone and the first thing he did is to "press and hold" that stupid button.
If the phone is not locked, it is harder for him to dial 911 - but I can't disable the lock screen due to corporate's policy.
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Alright, to other outsiders looking in and still wondering which phone to choose, here is a perfect example of how beautiful this G2 is, it's up to the point that even a 2 years old kid would know/realize the beauty of this phone is and choose it.
Anyway, to OP, keep out of reach of children. You can do better than that, m8.
votinh said:
Alright, to other outsiders looking in and still wondering which phone to choose, here is a perfect example of how beautiful this G2 is, it's up to the point that even a 2 years old kid would know/realize the beauty of this phone is and choose it.
Anyway, to OP, keep out of reach of children. You can do better than that, m8.
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Hey, I am looking for a technical solution here.
I know I have to keep my LG G2 out of reach of children, I've got the lesson, but unlike a gun in the previous post, we are using the phone very frequently and there are chances that you inadvertently leave the phone somewhere that is reachable by a baby.
a. We know you are looking for a technical solution but it has to be reasonable. That feature built for emergency purpose as when you are in the panic mode, you can't remember that pwd for that moment, you need to access the phone and call for help. It's there for a reason.
b. Instead of looking for a "technical solution" that virtually nowhere to be found, why don't you invest into other solutions
+ In 365 days in a year, how many times you let your kid gets to the phone? Seriously, nobody mock you but we do expect parent can do more than that. If you can't do with 2 years old kid, how would you deal with 6 years old one and later? Change your style, seriously.
+ If you really really don't care changing your style and still want it, I think you can root your phone and install the modded version of Email which does bypass the restriction. I did it when still own the SGS2-i777, I don't know there is such a modded. like that for G2.
Anyway, solutions are surely out there but the quickest solution is your control.
It's from the bottom of my heart, no mocking here.
Install maildroid app. **** the police.
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votinh said:
a. We know you are looking for a technical solution but it has to be reasonable. That feature built for emergency purpose as when you are in the panic mode, you can't remember that pwd for that moment, you need to access the phone and call for help. It's there for a reason.
b. Instead of looking for a "technical solution" that virtually nowhere to be found, why don't you invest into other solutions
+ In 365 days in a year, how many times you let your kid gets to the phone? Seriously, nobody mock you but we do expect parent can do more than that. If you can't do with 2 years old kid, how would you deal with 6 years old one and later? Change your style, seriously.
+ If you really really don't care changing your style and still want it, I think you can root your phone and install the modded version of Email which does bypass the restriction. I did it when still own the SGS2-i777, I don't know there is such a modded. like that for G2.
Anyway, solutions are surely out there but the quickest solution is your control.
It's from the bottom of my heart, no mocking here.
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There is no other phone like G2 that make the dialing of 911 so easy - you may call out to 911 easily when the phone is in your pocket, or even in your own hand - many G2 users without kids are already complaining about it - the solution is to disable the PIN/PASSWORD lock screen, which for me is enforced by the security policy.
I understand a button on the lock screen for real emergency, but it's really too easy compared to iPhones or any other Android phones - they just open a dial pad for you.
qiushengxy said:
I have my corporate email account added on my phone which REQUIRES the PIN/PASSWORD lock screen to be activated.
On LG G2 the default lock screen has a button "Emergency call - Press and hold". A call to 911 is dialed immediately when you accidentally press it for 2 seconds.
My 2-year-old boy has accidentally dialed 911 four times and each time 911 called me back and they'll send someone to check out next time.
To use my corporate email account I can't disable the PIN/PASSWORD lock screen. Is there a way to remove that stupid button, or change the "911" to be a invalid number?
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Just downl. zoodles and u good
http://www.zoodles.com/en/home/marketing
btw i NEVER dialled emerg. by mistake on my F320S
GalaxySIIII said:
Just downl. zoodles and u good
btw i NEVER dialled emerg. by mistake on my F320S
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I do not plan to give my phone to my kid.
Zoodles doesn't help because what I want to avoid is that when my baby accidentally reaches my phone while it is in locked mode, he can't place a 911 call easily. Even 2-step dialing is complex enough for him.
LG G2 is the only phone that "support" the 1-touch-to-911 feature.
qiushengxy said:
I do not plan to give my phone to my kid.
Zoodles doesn't help because what I want to avoid is that when my baby accidentally reaches my phone while it is in locked mode, he can't place a 911 call easily. Even 2-step dialing is complex enough for him.
LG G2 is the only phone that "support" the 1-touch-to-911 feature.
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where is that one touch feature ?!?!?! i dont have it on mine
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I got a real chuckle out of this thread. Thanks guys.
As a parent of four, all of which have graduated High School and two from college so far, I gotta say that your solution is in parenting. Teach the crumb snatcher to keep his hands off of things that don't belong to him and be smart enough to place objects higher than two feet up. It's really not as hard as you seem to think it is.
Or maybe just quit your job, get rid of the corporate email, and watch your kid 24\7.
qiushengxy said:
I do not plan to give my phone to my kid.
Zoodles doesn't help because what I want to avoid is that when my baby accidentally reaches my phone while it is in locked mode, he can't place a 911 call easily. Even 2-step dialing is complex enough for him.
LG G2 is the only phone that "support" the 1-touch-to-911 feature.
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My D800 actually has one long touch (press and hold) then another short touch to 911 (other is 112)
So it's like 2-touch feature.
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where is that one touch feature ?!?!?! i dont have it on mine
uninstall it with app master
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It's a button on the PIN/PASSWORD lock screen, under the password pad.
You touch it for 1-2 second and you are already connected with 911.
I would try this and if it asks to confirm for 911/Emergency Dial then you can get Pro to also add a password to dial. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vladlee.callconfirm.free
You could just make that one number password protected/confirmed if you want. Or whitelist certain numbers.
--VS980
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Same thing happens when I leave guns around the house.
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ROFL
This may be nothing, but I've noticed when I activate Google Now when my screen is off and ask it to save a reminder, it is no longer prompting me after "Do you want to save this?" I don't have a chance to say yes or no. When the screen is on and/or the phone is totally unlocked, it does prompt me. Any thoughts?
No idea why it does though, but I can confirm mine does this too. It kind of defeats the whole point of I have to touch the phone at the end.
How to set the phone to switch on when it is pluged to the charger?
I'm on cm 13 based rom, thanks for advance.
please any suggestions i searched alot but it didn't work ,in some devices there is a file located in system/bin named lpm but it doesn't exist in cm13 rom system files and i don't know what is its alternative in cm 13 by editing its lines you can do that,any idea ?
@MikeChannon any ideas ?
Don't know CM13 well enough I'm afraid.
Almost certain there'll be a system file edit to do it but without research I don't know.
Maybe another avenue to research would be this sort of thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp9G6A6EFlA
Not exactly what you're looking for although I suspect that would also turn the screen on if it was already on stand by.
Clues might also be gained from the numerous USB settings in com.android.
An easy way to identify them is by using something like:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.shortcutmaster.lite&hl=en_GB
and use its 3 dot menu to search for USB. It shows at least 30 entries (most will be irrelevant of course)
Mike
MikeChannon said:
Don't know CM13 well enough I'm afraid.
Almost certain there'll be a system file edit to do it but without research I don't know.
Maybe another avenue to research would be this sort of thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp9G6A6EFlA
Not exactly what you're looking for although I suspect that would also turn the screen on if it was already on stand by.
Clues might also be gained from the numerous USB settings in com.android.
An easy way to identify them is by using something like:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.shortcutmaster.lite&hl=en_GB
and use its 3 dot menu to search for USB. It shows at least 30 entries (most will be irrelevant of course)
Mike
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thanks so much for reply, i had already seen this video and i wanna do this for the same purpose i wanna use my phone as integrated music player and navigator for my car,but unfortunately i installed sdk tools and adb drivers but fast boot command (fastboot oem off-mode-charge 0) didnt work with my lenovo a6000 in other hands the file called (lpm or playlpm or chargemon) doesn't exist in cm13 to edit it and i don't know what its alternative here
so the only thing i'm seeking to is to turn the phone on when plugged into the charger so as to work with the car
no matter which rom ,if there is a rom having a certain file i can edit to do this it will be perfect
miz0ooo0 said:
thanks so much for reply, i had already seen this video and i wanna do this for the same purpose i wanna use my phone as integrated music player and navigator for my car,but unfortunately i installed sdk tools and adb drivers but fast boot command (fastboot oem off-mode-charge 0) didnt work with my lenovo a6000 in other hands the file called (lpm or playlpm or chargemon) doesn't exist in cm13 to edit it and i don't know what its alternative here
so the only thing i'm seeking to is to turn the phone on when plugged into the charger so as to work with the car
no matter which rom ,if there is a rom having a certain file i can edit to do this it will be perfect
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What about the Wakey App?
It can be set to wake the device on charge and can also be set to stop the device sleeping and turning the screen off. I use it with Netflix casting otherwise the casting can get shut off when sleep starts.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey&hl=en
Also, if you could look into what the app does (its code) you could potentially find your own tailored solution.
Mike
MikeChannon said:
What about the Wakey App?
It can be set to wake the device on charge and can also be set to stop the device sleeping and turning the screen off. I use it with Netflix casting otherwise the casting can get shut off when sleep starts.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey&hl=en
Also, if you could look into what the app does (its code) you could potentially find your own tailored solution.
Mike
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if i can got you the point ,i need my phone not to wake from a sleep ,i need it to be switched on when it is turned off when the charger is connected,can i do this with this app ?
miz0ooo0 said:
if i can got you the point ,i need my phone not to wake from a sleep ,i need it to be switched on when it is turned off when the charger is connected,can i do this with this app ?
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Haha well it depends what you mean by "switched on when it is turned off".
If you mean the screen is off and you want it to come on when plugged in then it can do that, it has the option "Charge Wake"
... but if you mean it is completely off then no it can't do that.
Mike
MikeChannon said:
Haha well it depends what you mean by "switched on when it is turned off".
If you mean the screen is off and you want it to come on when plugged in then it can do that, it has the option "Charge Wake"
... but if you mean it is completely off then no it can't do that.
Mike
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Exactly thats what i mean to wake the phone when its totally switched off by plugging it to the charger :laugh:
So we will return back to the first option sdk tools or editing system file to replace battery charge animation (when phone is off) by turning the phone on, you told me that through cm 13 rom we have no idea which system file would help,so if i changed the rom with another one may it help?
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Exactly thats what i mean to wake the phone when its totally switched off by plugging it to the charger :laugh:
So we will return back to the first option sdk tools or editing system file to replace battery charge animation (when phone is off) by turning the phone on, you told me that through cm 13 rom we have no idea which system file would help,so if i changed the rom with another one may it help?
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No and googling around suggests the cyanogen file name is not known. Maybe it's still the same in Lineage OS... might be worth asking there.
Don't suppose you have the kpoc file mentioned here:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26294258/auto-boot-when-wall-charger-is-plugged
If all else fails and this is a permanent in car fixture, I guess you could look at a hard wired dash switch or relay start button replacement.
Mike
MikeChannon said:
No and googling around suggests the cyanogen file name is not known. Maybe it's still the same in Lineage OS... might be worth asking there.
Don't suppose you have the kpoc file mentioned here:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26294258/auto-boot-when-wall-charger-is-plugged
If all else fails and this is a permanent in car fixture, I guess you could look at a hard wired dash switch or relay start button replacement.
Mike
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Yes it will be a permanent car fixture but i see that doing it by editing system files is much easier than the other ways (wired switch or relay start button replacement) so ill try again but with different rom and searching for the mentioned system files and i hope to work with me, thanks alot for your time and support mike :good: