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I've never participated in a forum where experienced members refused to assist others. Even other xda forums seem more helpful than this Athena forum.
I bought an x7501 off ebay a few days ago, and I've been playing with it. It's performance is not consistent, and I'm wondering if it is defective.
It was sold as NIB (new in box) and it appeared to be unopened when I received it, but I can't be 100% certain that is the case.
Some simple operations are grossly slow. The problems are intermittent, the worse kind to trouble shoot. Recently, I tapped on the CommManager icon on the Today screen at it took 15 seconds to open CommManager.
When I first received the unit, I installed Google Maps and tried out the GPS. I was able to connect to GPS inside my house. This morning I couldn't connect in my car, and when I stopped the car, I tried to connect standing outside in the open. After about five minutes, it wouldn't connect, so I went inside my house, and after a few more minutes, it did connect. While I was waiting for it to connect, I got my Kaiser and opened Google Maps and connected to GPS withing a few seconds outside in the open.
I had installed Opera 9.5 beta and NetFront 3.5 as well as RealVGA and MvRTrueVGA, and after running into strange display artifacts and bugs in the beta browsers, I decided to clear everything out, and ran the Clear Storage utility in System Settings. I had done this once before when trouble shooting failed attempts to connect the Athena to my Belkin Pre-N WiFi router.
So, now, all that's installed other than the what came on the phone is Google Maps and NetFront 3.5.
The battery performance is also a bit strange to me. It seems to be discharging even when I have it connected to my computer using the USB cable. Nothing is open in the background, and I wasn't using it, but it showed 70% when I connected it, and thirty minutes later it showed 60%. Is that normal?
Is the ROM that shipped with the phone questionable?
Might I get better, more reliable, more consistent performance with one of the ROMs available here?
I'm not ready to give up, but I'm not encouraged at the moment, and I'm not sure what to do next.
May I suggest Dual PK 3.0. Try backing up all that you have now and flash it with Dual PK and let us know the update.
Regarding the battery drain issue, most computer USB ports and non-factory chargers don't give enough power to even maintain (let alone charge) if you have all the radios on. Especially the GPS radio which seems to need a lot of power - I can go all day with the cell and bluetooth radios on and still have 90% charge after 16 hours, with little cell or internet use. But if I turn on the GPS it will be discharged within a few hours.
Computer USB ports are usually limited to 500 milliamps, and some chargers are less, so the only good solution is to only use the factory charger if you have everything on. Turn down your screen brightness, too. I leave mine at 50% both on the battery and when plugged in, except in full sunlight.
As for the GPS reception, its very bad. I have a sirf/star mouse-style GPS unit which locks on within seconds in the middle of the 1st floor of my 2-story house, attached to my Palm or a computer. My X7501 usually won't lock on even when I'm near a window. I rarely have a problem outside or in my car, though. I'm one of many that have reported similar issues.
I usually don't see slowdown issues, but I sometimes do if the wifi or GPS radios are on. Try only running cell and bluetooth for a while and see if that helps. I also found that Opera would slow down more, and then more, and even more as the cache filled up, but that was after I changed it from the default "1000". I cleared my cache and changed it back to the default cache size and I've been fine since.
Hey TnT,
Thanks for the detailed feedback. I'm going to play with it some more. I'm planning on flashing a different ROM, as TT2 suggested.
Which ROM are you running?
Try PK dual black... but don't for get to Hard SPL...
Please don't install anythink on your Harddisk, just install on storage card... My athena run fastrer if i put seftware on SDcard... If install ti HD it will slower.. i've tried it
thanks cornelius, i'm in the process of gathering the info and parts to install a new ROM. I've downloaded the "AP Dual 3.0 ROM" - I think that's the same thing as the PK Dual Black. I've also downloaded the AthenaUnlocker.exe - I think that's the hard spl you mention.
I bought my phone unlocked - I gather that's SIM unlocked, and the AthenaUnlocker will CID unlock it, which is necessary before installing the new ROM.
I'm trying to confirm everything, so I don't brick the phone, but I'm the information is scattered all over the forum and wiki. I found two versions of AthenaUnlocker.exe, both version 1.0.0.0 with different time stamps. I tried to watch a video of unlocking, but there was no audio.
I would appreciate any additional pointers in the process.
Thanks
Im running the factory ROM.
xdafile said:
thanks cornelius, i'm in the process of gathering the info and parts to install a new ROM. I've downloaded the "AP Dual 3.0 ROM" - I think that's the same thing as the PK Dual Black. I've also downloaded the AthenaUnlocker.exe - I think that's the hard spl you mention.
I bought my phone unlocked - I gather that's SIM unlocked, and the AthenaUnlocker will CID unlock it, which is necessary before installing the new ROM.
I'm trying to confirm everything, so I don't brick the phone, but I'm the information is scattered all over the forum and wiki. I found two versions of AthenaUnlocker.exe, both version 1.0.0.0 with different time stamps. I tried to watch a video of unlocking, but there was no audio.
I would appreciate any additional pointers in the process.
Thanks
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Just make sure you've got a fully charged battery before attempting to unlock or flash the ROM. If you have any particular question feel free to jump back in and post it. Oh and btw The PK Dual is what I was talking about in my last post...Sorry if it seemed a bit confusing.
I'm getting a error when I attempt to unlock my phone.
I ran version 3.12.3.3 of AthenaUnlocker.exe. The error is 202 connection.
the update utility cannot connect to your pda phone. please check that your usb cradle/cable is connected properly between the pc and your pda phone.
check the following:
1. the pda phone is connected to the usb cradle/cable.
2. the usb cradle/cable is connected to the pc.
I know the phone is connected. It is synchronized with ActiveSync 4.5, and it shows that it is connected.
Maybe I don't have the correct version of AthenaUpdater?
I've made progress with the AthenaUpdater.exe program.
I noticed that I had to take an action on the phone after I started the update process. I didn't notice that before, and there is nothing in the program that tells the user to check the phone.
Anyway, step one completed, and I completed step two.
Now, the phone won't turn on. I remember reading about a special key combination, and I'm wondering if I need to do that to get it to turn on and complete step three.
If I get through this successfull, I am going to update the wiki with a how-to for the next guy new to the Athena.
I found the key combination to get into the bootloader,
camera - power - reset
I continued with setp three of the AthenaUpdater, but I think because of the errors, the update did not work properly.
The phone will still not turn on.
I can get it to go into the bootloader, but I don't know what to do next.
I would really apreciate if someone who know what to do would post some helpful comments now.
Thanks
when I go into bootloader it displays
ATHE100
IPL-V2.02
ATHE100
SPL-v1.20.Olipro
At this point, can I install the AP Dual 3.0 ROM?
I installed AP Dual 3.0 with no problem.
However, GPS seems to be not working.
Do I need to run the AthenaUnlocker.exe again?
Does that mean I'll have to reinstall the AP Dual 3.0 ROM again?
Wish I could help you, but I've never updated my ROM. Maybe the version coming on the X7510 will entice me to try.
What error are you getting when you try to run Google Maps? If you get an immediate error, your ports aren't set right. If it spins its wheels for a while the ports are right but the fickle GPS is taking its time.
Tonight I'm going to try and straighten things out on my Athena.
I hope I don't have to spend hours at it again. It would be great if someone who know has experience with the unlocker and the AP Dual 3.0 ROM could spend a few minutes answer my questions so I won't have to spend a few hours sweating through the upgrade process. Last night I literally was as sweaty as if I had gone for a jog; I was surprised at how stressful the upgrade process was for me (I mean, it's only a few hundred dollars if I brick it, right?)
The state of my Athena now is: I probably botched the unlock process in step two, because my GPS is no longer working.
Can I just run the AthenaUnlocker again, or do I need to first flash back to the original x7510 HTC ROM?
After I run the unlocker again, do I need to flash the AP Dual 3.0 ROM again?
I'm also wondering why I ran into problems with the unlocker, and concerned that I'll just encounter the same problems again. I'm hoping that because I have the AP Dual 3.0 ROM installed, the unlocker will perform differently and without errors.
If anyone is reading this who knows the anwser to my questions, I'd really appreciate hearing from you.
Thanks
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What error are you getting when you try to run Google Maps? If you get an immediate error, your ports aren't set right. If it spins its wheels for a while the ports are right but the fickle GPS is taking its time.
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Error message???
TechNTrek,
Thanks again for pitching in to offer me help.
Good new for me; The GPS started working. Earlier this morning, I decided to try it again outside, giveing it more time, and it connected. It had been bringing up a message screen telling me about connection problems.
I just tried to bring up the can't connect message screen by attempting to connect while inside my house, but the darn thing connected with 7 active satellites, and I can't reproduce the problem now to give you a detailed error description.
So, even thought I got a bunch of error messages during my unlocking process, the unlocking seems to have worked, and it left my Athena in working condition.
Some final notes relating to how I started this thread: now that I have AP Dual 3.0 ROM installed, the device seems to be performing better in all the problem areas I first mentioned.
I tested charging the battery by connecting to my computer's USB port, and, although it is charging slowly, at least it's not discharging while connected.
I think that experience discharging while connected might have been because Opera 9.33 beta was open to a page the was running something - just speculation.
I think it's also possible that I misinterpreted what I saw; it might not have been discharging while connected; instead, it might have been a delay in updating the display of the state of the battery; when I looked at the battery when I first connected to the USB, it showed 70%, but in reality it might have only been 60% charged, and the display had just not updated; then, when I disconnected it, the display had updated to the correct 60%.
Also, I haven't noticed any of the extremely slow performance when open apps or running apps. I did notice that my old Kaiser is a lot snappier than the Athena before I updated the ROM. I'm going to keep an eye on it, and do some more Kaiser/Athena performance comparisons.
I think the Athena may be slower than the Kaiser because of the video driver issue. The Athena has four times as many pixels to render, and the CPU has to do the rendering since the driver that would take advantage of the ATI video processor is absent. Hopefully, that will be fixed soon, as mentioned at HTCClassAction.org. http://www.htcclassaction.org/
I am going to start a new thread on a couple of questions I have. In the original HTC ROM, there was a network program from HTC, and I used it to connect to shares on my LAN over WiFi, and I want to find a replacement for it. There may even be a network program in the Dual 3.0 ROM, but I haven't found it yet.
Also, I love MS Voice Command 1.6 (a version made available in the Kaiser forum - not a more recent 1.6 version for sale by MS.) It works for me on my Wizard and on my Kaiser, but on my Athena, I can't start Voice Command using my Bluetooth headset.
I've searched both of these issues in the forums, but haven't found answers yet. Again, if anyone knows, please help.
Now, I'm going to explore the 3.0 ROM!
xdafile said:
TechNTrek,
Thanks again for pitching in to offer me help.
Good new for me; The GPS started working. Earlier this morning, I decided to try it again outside, giveing it more time, and it connected. It had been bringing up a message screen telling me about connection problems.
I just tried to bring up the can't connect message screen by attempting to connect while inside my house, but the darn thing connected with 7 active satellites, and I can't reproduce the problem now to give you a detailed error description.
So, even thought I got a bunch of error messages during my unlocking process, the unlocking seems to have worked, and it left my Athena in working condition.
Some final notes relating to how I started this thread: now that I have AP Dual 3.0 ROM installed, the device seems to be performing better in all the problem areas I first mentioned.
I tested charging the battery by connecting to my computer's USB port, and, although it is charging slowly, at least it's not discharging while connected.
I think that experience discharging while connected might have been because Opera 9.33 beta was open to a page the was running something - just speculation.
I think it's also possible that I misinterpreted what I saw; it might not have been discharging while connected; instead, it might have been a delay in updating the display of the state of the battery; when I looked at the battery when I first connected to the USB, it showed 70%, but in reality it might have only been 60% charged, and the display had just not updated; then, when I disconnected it, the display had updated to the correct 60%.
Also, I haven't noticed any of the extremely slow performance when open apps or running apps. I did notice that my old Kaiser is a lot snappier than the Athena before I updated the ROM. I'm going to keep an eye on it, and do some more Kaiser/Athena performance comparisons.
I think the Athena may be slower than the Kaiser because of the video driver issue. The Athena has four times as many pixels to render, and the CPU has to do the rendering since the driver that would take advantage of the ATI video processor is absent. Hopefully, that will be fixed soon, as mentioned at HTCClassAction.org. http://www.htcclassaction.org/
I am going to start a new thread on a couple of questions I have. In the original HTC ROM, there was a network program from HTC, and I used it to connect to shares on my LAN over WiFi, and I want to find a replacement for it. There may even be a network program in the Dual 3.0 ROM, but I haven't found it yet.
Also, I love MS Voice Command 1.6 (a version made available in the Kaiser forum - not a more recent 1.6 version for sale by MS.) It works for me on my Wizard and on my Kaiser, but on my Athena, I can't start Voice Command using my Bluetooth headset.
I've searched both of these issues in the forums, but haven't found answers yet. Again, if anyone knows, please help.
Now, I'm going to explore the 3.0 ROM!
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To get MS 1.6 to work try this:
Delete the paird BT headset, then do a reset on the phone then re-pair with the BT headset. Make sure the headset is not set to (stereo) mode and that should work. I had the same issue with the Jabra BT8010. After doing the above steps the push button activation innitiated voice command.
Thanks TootTalk2000,
That worked. I have the Jabro BT8010 too.
Have you figured out how to get the BT to work hands free and stereo too?
xdafile said:
Thanks TootTalk2000,
That worked. I have the Jabro BT8010 too.
Have you figured out how to get the BT to work hands free and stereo too?
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Yeah, when you set it to stereo however, all the audio gets routed to the BT headset (I personally don't like that, especially when using my GPS) and in order for you to use voice command then you have to take stereo/mono button which is the button closest to the mic on the bottom of the BT, then hit the answer button and you will hear VC prompting for your command. The draw back to this also is that everytime you want to use VC you will have to repeat these steps because the BT defaults back to stereo after you're don't with a voice call.
Hey everyone second post here, I have been reading the forums non-stop for a while now but still have a couple questions I can not find an answer to so any help would be appreciated.
And just for reference its a MY4G 2.3.3 CM 7.0.3 Kernal 2.6.32.28 Full clean wipe, dalvik, cache etc before flashing.
1: Am/ FM radio requires Bluetooth to be active although i'm listening to it though the wired ear piece which is required anyway as its the antenna. Why is that needed as I find it an extra battery drain? It says it's for " Enabling Bluetooth for FM radio support" and I don't remember the stock sense radio requiring it? Also if you shut it off the radio shuts off?
2: Am/FM while the radio is active if I receive a phone call, then hang up and go back to radio it does not work. Even with a force close the radio will come on but there will be no sound via speak or ear piece unless I do a reset. Is it possible to find and use the stock radio? If I search for radio on these forums to find the apk all I find is the other types of radios that I don't want.
3: GPS, I finally was able to make the GPS work but WIFI must be active. If WIFI is inactive It still locks a location but It is always off by about .5 miles. I tried all the fixes " delete the last 2 lines in gps. folder, gps status fix,etc but to me as a ship captain WIFI should not be need to make a GPS work correctly and it seems like a half ass fix. Solution?
4: GPS, since these phone's are able to receive gps are they able to output the GPS signal via usb cord to my navigation software on my laptop. I Know my handheld GPS is capable but I have not found a way to use the MT4G yet?
5: Call recorder, The stock call recorder will still record when I hit the sleep button. The one that came with CM7 does not and I have not found one on the market that will either. I cannot remember what the stock recorder was to do a search for it to install. Maybe someone can help?
6: Video Camera, Like the call recorder I need to keep the video recorder running if I hit the sleep button. The reason for this is it will keep recording and prevent anyone from accessing my phone through the password to delete the video saving evidence. I know I can use QIK so my question also applies to Qik, is there anyway to keep that app running too when the sleep button is pressed?
7: Police download devices, As a frequent traveler I often see customs, TSA and police plugging in scanners to download all your contacts, texts, pics,videos and data. If my phone is password protected can they still access my personal information. And if so is there software or a way to not allow them or "truly" encrypt the data? I assume their software works kind of like adb so maybe this is impossible?
8:Running services, Even If I try and force close Maps and WIFI calling they stay active. Why is this and is there a way to keep them from starting? Why do they keep running in the background as I find this another battery killer.
9: Security, What are your thoughts about the app Theft Aware. From what I have read it's seems pretty unbeatable if its installed on the rom and they claim it can withstand a factory reset. Unless your pretty technical I would think the average or even slightly advanced person could have a tough time removing this. Thought? And is there a better way to protect or encrypt whats in the memory or on the SD card on my phone?
10: Sim card lock. Although T-Mobile gave me an unlock code for my ATT sim card when I put the T-Mob one back in that code did not work and ended up locking the sim with a "the letter lock I forget what it was called" and had to call T-Mob to unlock it for me. When I travel I will need to often switch sims depending on the country I am in, will that 1st unlock code work on multiple sims or will I need a separate code for each one? It looks like the G-free method-true unlock will bypass this but I keep reading people getting PU errors and bricking their phones when switching ROMS after using this.
Sorry it's long and thanks if you can help answer and educate me on any of these questions.
1, 2, 3, 5, 6. Use stock, Royal Glacier, Royal Panache, Iced Glacier. CM7 is great, but it was made for a large collection of devices and is in a lot of ways hacked together. Considering this it's an amazing ROM, but for the kind of fine-tooth comb you are running through it you're better off with a ROM specifically designed for the glacier and more importantly the features you already find valuable in the stock ROM.
4. It has GPS, but I'm pretty sure your software is designed to work with GPS units. In other words, the software would need to write in support for phones, specifically the glacier.
7. Stop selling national secrets. j/k.
8. They are only a battery drain if they are active. They can sit in memory and never once draw power from your battery. In fact you are draining your battery and causing possible instability issues by force closing them and causing them to reload.
9. You're asking for complete access to your phone (root, s off) while having complete protection against intrusion. Tough order.
10. Gfree along with ENG SPL seems to work fine, it's those people who ran 90% of the race, hacked the hell out of their phone, then decided flashing a bootloader was too risky, that have had problems.
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1, 2, 3, 5, 6. Use stock, Royal Glacier, Royal Panache, Iced Glacier.
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darinmc, Thank you for your quick detailed response.
If I can pick your brain one more time, I see you mentioned Royal Glacier and Panache but not Ginger. Is there a reason why?
Also From what I have been reading a ROM is just the base and then you build up from there. Between the 4 ROM's what would be the major difference? Is it what is packaged with them? Or more or less speed vs battery life?
Since I am going to be installing one of these I assume and they suggest a factory reset - full wipe. Does a factory reset wipe the SD card?
I have seen posts recommending formating your SD card. My question is, I remember reading that you have to make sure the "install" file goes back on or else you mess yourself up. I searched my SD card and did not see this file. I assume when people buy or replace their SD card they are completely blank. If I formatted my SD card and did not care about any data, apps or anything and put it in blank could I mess something up?
Thank you for taking the time to educate me about this questions.
I'll spare everyone the long background details. Suffice it to say, I'm somewhat technical and decided to switch from iOS to Android to be able to tinker with my device.
Got the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition from the Google Play store two weeks ago (4.3, everything updated). All worked well. My only qualms were: USB Audio connection in car did not work anymore with the new phone (no worries; most cars try to aim for the Apple folks anyway), and the SD Card was a huge disappointment because I couldn't freaking do anything with it. Other than that, no issues whatsoever. But it still felt somewhat limited (since my aim to go Android was to do fun stuff with the device).
Yesterday, I decided to root my phone. Used SuperSU v1.65. The process went smoothly via Odin. Rebooted, all was well. So I went ahead and installed apps that would now allow me to really take advantage of being rooted (FolderMount, Titanium Backup Root, Root Explorer).
Used the root explorer to edit the registry appropriately to get around the SD write-protect issue introduced by Android 4.3. Found steps on how to do this online; apparently it's a well-known work-around. Anyhow, that seemed to do it; SD card was now writable.
Used FolderMount to create links/shortcuts in phone memory to media folders on the SD (to free up space on device). Did this only for media; WhatsApp pics, Spotify songs, Titanium backups. Not for any actual apps/utilities.
Anyhow, while I was doing all of this, in my "rooted excitement", I started realizing that my phone wasn't behaving as expected:
1) When connected via USB to a computer the Phone was no longer recognized and opened as a USB device. I tried on a PC w/ Win 7 x64 with and without Samsung Keis software. I also tried on an iMac OSX w/ Samsung Keis for Mac. In either case, the S4 itself did say "Connected as a Media Device" and the Debug mode bean notification appeared as well. I uninstalled and reinstalled drivers and tried a dozen different "solutions" I found online. Nothing worked.
2) Bluetooth stopped working. Essentially, my Bluetooth toggle button is now permanently in the OFF position. When I try to turn it on, it slides over to ON for a few moments (without becoming lit-up), and the phone sits there trying to turn it on, and then promptly returns the slider back to the off position and I am still without Bluetooth.
I googled these two issues extensively and have realized that a lot of people are having them and they keep screaming that the 4.3 update is "broken".
Well, I can attest to the fact that these only started happening once I rooted the phone. I am determined to get to the bottom of it.
I have been going through the phone logs to see any/all error messages in there. Basically these lines are pretty repetitive in there and seem suspect for the Bluetooth issue, at least from what I can tell:
Code:
09-26 20:46:33.280 32033 32033 W Settings: Setting bluetooth_on has moved from
android.provider.Settings.Secure to android.provider.Settings.Global.
09-26 20:46:33.361 1163 1178 D skia : --- SkImageDecoder::Factory returned null
09-26 20:46:33.361 746 1268 W ContextImpl: Calling a method in the system process without a qualified user:
android.app.ContextImpl.sendBroadcast:1297
com.android.server.StatusBarManagerService.sendNotification:175
com.android.server.StatusBarManagerService.updateNotification:782
com.android.server.NotificationManagerService.enqueueNotificationInternal:1738
com.android.server.NotificationManagerService.enqueueNotificationWithTag:1599
My question now is this: since the weekend is approaching, I will have some time to sit in front of my home PC and take care of a few things (work is brutal these days so I don't get much free time during the week). Anyhow, since I will have the time now, should I just go ahead and revert back to factory state and start from scratch again?
For that matter, is there a way for me to even do this? Would just unrooting via SuperSU and then resetting to Factory settings do it?
Any and all help would be much much appreciated. I would rather fix the issues than have to start from scratch, of course.
Wrong section this belongs in Q&A this is for development only. Please review the rules here on XDA. I am going to have your thread moved so you can get help.
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Sorry! Should've paid more attention to the different categories.
Appreciate the move to the right forum section.
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Issues update:
1) USB Connection issue: I have narrowed it down to the "MTP USB Driver" that isn't cooperating.
I have downloaded several different drivers ranging from USB drivers from Samsung (including Keis) to Micrsoft's MTP kit, nothing has worked. What's more is that this issue seems pretty prevalent amongst Galaxy owners but as of yet, I don't see a definite solution posted for it anywhere. I am running Windows 7 x64.
2) Bluetooth issue: I haven't been able to find much material on this. Does anyone here know how I can go about troubleshooting this or even gathering info from my phone to troubleshoot it?
After searching high and low for an answer to this, I ended up doing a factory reset (Menu-->Settings-->Backup & Reset-->Factory Data Reset) and that resolved the issue (while wiping my phone).
Thanks to the Android OS, I let my phone charge overnight while on WiFi and by the morning all the apps were reinstalled and updated, including the OS itself. My Kernal/Baseband/Build versions are all back to the ones I had when I got the phone from the Google Store, so that's comforting.
I had backed-up all my pertinent data to my SD card, so nothing as such was lost in that arena, which is good.
Thanks to all those who attempted to help!
Hey andriod experts,
I've spent the good part of an entire day now researching data recovery and the galaxy note 3 and posting in some droid forums, but my issue is a little more complex than many seem to be able to comprehend. I also learned that there are websites setup just for the sole purpose of directing you to download and then pay for data recovery programs, none of which solve my problem --- all of which take over nearly all goolge search results when researching this issue.
FYI: Note 3 SM-N900V - Verizon
Android 4.4.2
not rooted
my phone began acting up and I did a factory reset on it, not realizing many of my photos were being stored on the internal storage as opposed to the removable SD card.
Im familiar with being able to run recovery programs on SD cards, removable storage, and even hard drives, so I figured it would not be a problem to run a program on the phone. However, when attached to a USB, my computer only recognizes the phone as a portable media device and will not assign it a drive letter.
After doing some research, I tried to enter developer mode and enabled USB debugging mode -- which some websites hinted that would solve the problem and my computer would recognize the phone as a drive, but still, no luck.
I even tried to root my phone using Kingo -- but that proved to fail after what appears to be because my OS updated to 4.2.2. on its own before I rooted and that apparently causes some issue with Kingo.- -- so it looks like I'm stuck on that path.
I then contacted Samsung, thinking I'd get help from someone who knew what they were doing, but my questions flew far above my customer service rep's head.
searching the net proves useless because it is so over saturated with spammy websites designed to get you to download and purchase recovery programs.... none of which work for the Note 3 given the fact that they need to be able to see a drive.
Does anyone have any idea of a work-around, and if there is any way I can try to recover the photos?
Thanks so much!
-James
Your media files should have remained intact which is weird.
I assume you are positive that you didn't have any of the picture backup options setup that you may have not realized? For example all mine go to Dropbox and G+ every time I hit wifi.
Being very familiar with recovery on computers but never trying this on a phone I would try and search for things like the app wifi explorer and maybe if your lucky it can see ./trash or something. I would be shocked if you could mount the phone and do a true recovery program.
I will search and try to help as well as I feel your pain .
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Your media files should have remained intact which is weird.
I assume you are positive that you didn't have any of the picture backup options setup that you may have not realized? For example all mine go to Dropbox and G+ every time I hit wifi.
Being very familiar with recovery on computers but never trying this on a phone I would try and search for things like the app wifi explorer and maybe if your lucky it can see ./trash or something. I would be shocked if you could mount the phone and do a true recovery program.
I will search and try to help as well as I feel your pain .
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Yes, the pictures in question were actually all taken and saved to internal storage because they were taken with the snapchat app as opposed to the camera app -- my camera app does indeed auto-backup to g+.
Hell, I'd even be willing to take the phone apart and rig up some fancy wiring with a card reader if I knew it would get access to the storage as a drive. -- just assumed snapchat was saving things to the SD card. -- Will try to search the phone, but from my understanding doing a factory reset essentially formats that partition of the internal storage.... no?
-J
Yeah factory reset wipes app data and keeps media data.
Poor choice on snapchat to store stuff like that. Honestly though I only know snapchat by name and have never seen it.
i may have found something for you right HERE on XDA.
hope it works
I have what I needed, thanks!
Hi, I'm wondering if someone with a Le Pro3, either the CN or US model (or both) could please provide me with the output for dmesg and logcat.
Pre-requisites:
have adb installed and working for your device
Make sure adb debugging is on for your device, and your computer recognizes your device, and is authenticated for your device. (I don't know EUI, I've only ever dealt with western AOSP/CAF style roms, you'll have to understand and manage this all yourself).
PLEASE don't type the commands from memory, they have case sensitive options. Please copy and paste them. Thank you.
The following commands need to be executed shortly after reboots. Please don't run them if the device has been on longer than a minute. In fact, please don't stray far from the procedure, please.
Reboot device
Once booted run "adb shell dmesg > dmesg.txt"
Run "adb shell cat /proc/partitions > partitions.txt"
Run "adb shell df > df.txt"
Run "adb shell df -P > df-P.txt"
Run "adb shell mount > mount.txt"
Reboot the device and perform the next adb step once it's started to boot
run "adb logcat > logcat.txt"
Press "CTRL-C" to stop logging about 30 seconds after the device has settled and connected itself to the cellular network
Reboot the device and run the following once it's started booting back up
run "adb logcat -b radio > logcat-radio.txt"
Press "CTRL-C" to stop logging about 30 seconds after the device has settled and connected itself to the cellular network
Now, for some root-required tidbits (these commands could actually be dangerous!!! they will be running as root, please be very careful, you've been warned): You have two ways you can do this:
Run "adb root" to put adb in an automatic root mode (this requires that you have root and allow adb commands to be run as root)
Run "adb shell ls -la /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name > by-name.txt"
Run "adb shell ls -la /dev/block/bootdevice/by-num > by-num.txt"
Please check the files to verify that the contents are not an error. The other method, if switching adb to root mode doesn't work, would be to:
Run "adb shell"
Run "su" to put your shell into root mode, NOTE: BE VERY CAREFUL HERE (this requires that you have root and allow adb commands to be run as root)
Run "adb shell ls -la /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name" and then copy/paste the output into a file named "by-name.txt"
Run "adb shell ls -la /dev/block/bootdevice/by-num" and then copy/paste the output into a file named "by-num.txt"
Finally, if you are simply not able to achieve root on your device (either in general, or just for ADB), both of these tasks SHOULD be possible when you're booted into the TWRP recovery. If you don't have TWRP installed, then don't worry about it. I'm just assuming you do.
Note: None of these commands will produce empty files. If you get empty files, something went wrong. If only a few are empty and you can't seem to get them working properly, just send me what you do get.
Once you've done these things, zip up the files and send them to me in a private message. You don't want these posted here unless you want people knowing your phone number. The text files, especially for the logcat and radio output will be large, but they should compress down to something quite reasonable. Also, please make sure to include your model number so I know which I'm working with. Thanks much.
Thanks.
I can do that when I'm out from work in around 6 hours. For what exactly u need it? Just curious.
secXces_debaki said:
I can do that when I'm out from work in around 6 hours. For what exactly u need it? Just curious.
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My own curiosity... Maybe put some of the info in Christmas cards, you know how it goes.
dr4stic said:
My own curiosity... Maybe put some of the info in Christmas cards, you know how it goes.
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If my girl let me work on my phone I will send u a pm.
Was yesterday on the phone trying to build a rom, but always loose my baseband.. Lol. So she's a bit angry that I am to much on the phone ^^
I do my best sir.
secXces_debaki said:
If my girl let me work on my phone I will send u a pm.
Was yesterday on the phone trying to build a rom, but always loose my baseband.. Lol. So she's a bit angry that I am to much on the phone ^^
I do my best sir.
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Well, don't get yourself into any trouble. I'm not in the business of ending relationships None of the commands modify anything, they just read information and dump it into a file. Other than rebooting, your device won't need to go offline. Also, if you HAVE modified your device in terms of ROM or whatever, please include a list of your mods or whatever in the message you send me with the text files zip.
PS> I've visited your area, or at least the one listed with your profile on XDA. It's a beautiful place. If I could get a visa worked out, it's on my list of places in europe I'd love to move to, possibly in retirement
U are planing to get one x720/7?
There are some way beautiful places around in Germany.
Can u maybe help me with my meta-inf?
secXces_debaki said:
U are planing to get one x720/7?
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I'm giving it some very serious thought. I'm in the US and the x727 will be on sale on wednesday at US$300, which is very compelling for a device with an msm8996pro, even if the camera is average at best, the screen is less than impressive, and it's missing a headphone jack. My G2 is starting to act up and I need something cheap for the short term.
In any case, I'm doing my research now. I've downloaded the ROMs for 17s (both the stock CN version and the modified IT version). The kernel sources are released for x727, and I imagine the x720 kernel can likely be built from the same sources, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if everything about the kernel was the same. So I wanna see if I can get a kernel and rom building. I may attempt a TWRP build first, since I'd want that anyway, and it's simple enough to boot from fastboot and see if things work. But, I need help understanding the system. And that's where the information gathering in this post comes in.
secXces_debaki said:
Can u maybe help me with my meta-inf?
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I have no idea what you're referring to with the meta-inf.
I guess my meta-inf breaked the baseband, is it even possible?, anywhere else then this my rom based on 17s booted and worked. That's why I asked, I don't have any knowledge for the meta-inf. That's to complicated for me.
When u own a x727 are u maybe able to help me? ^^
My personal thoughts about that device.. Are atm really good. The screen is for a fullhd device really good, better then my op3 or Xiaomi mi5/MI max. Also the glass feel much better in typing then any device i had since my Note 3 (nearly owned every Android device who was In any way popular)
The camera is good enough for fast pictures, but that's all, there are way better cameras outside.
The sot is for me atm way to low, if I would use it the whole day I would get around 10h sot or even more, but this device have with the .17 software a big battery drain. With 6h sot on 1 day I loose in deepsleep between 15-25%. The device isn't awake, also there is no wakelock or anything. Strange behavior.
The sound is awesome, u will love it. If u don't need much bass through the loudspeaker.
Finished my short OT ^^
U got a pm. Hope its good, logcat and logcat-radio was used after i write my pin. Or i need to make it earlier?
secXces_debaki said:
U got a pm. Hope its good, logcat and logcat-radio was used after i write my pin. Or i need to make it earlier?
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I would really like the logcat and logcat-radio to be running from the moment just after the hardware logos on the screen start showing up, once EUI starts to boot. The logcat is circular and has a limited buffer. Once it reaches the end of it's buffer, it starts overwriting itself, therefore it only keeps a certain amount of the logs in memory before they're gone. Your logcats were therefore incomplete. In more basic terms, I don't see where the system started booting up, that part of the log had already been overwritten when you took the log.
I also sent you a response requesting additional information, and for you to re-run one of the other commands that also errored out.
I do appreciate the help, I really do, thank you
Kk I try to be as fast as possible to do the logcats at the moment my pc recognize my phone.
secXces_debaki said:
I guess my meta-inf breaked the baseband, is it even possible?, anywhere else then this my rom based on 17s booted and worked. That's why I asked, I don't have any knowledge for the meta-inf. That's to complicated for me.
When u own a x727 are u maybe able to help me? ^^
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Yeah, that doesn't help at all. Meta-inf to me is a file included in a flashable zip. It isn't even a main file, and it isn't even particularly important. It certainly wouldn't damage the baseband. The baseband, otherwise known as the modem or radio, controls your phone. It's like the brain stem, it controls the most basic automatic responses. Generally if your radio was broken, your phone would be hard bricked, there would almost certainly be no recovering from that.
Did you flash a modified radio/firmware to your device?
secXces_debaki said:
My personal thoughts about that device.. Are atm really good. The screen is for a fullhd device really good, better then my op3 or Xiaomi mi5/MI max. Also the glass feel much better in typing then any device i had since my Note 3 (nearly owned every Android device who was In any way popular)
The camera is good enough for fast pictures, but that's all, there are way better cameras outside.
The sot is for me atm way to low, if I would use it the whole day I would get around 10h sot or even more, but this device have with the .17 software a big battery drain. With 6h sot on 1 day I loose in deepsleep between 15-25%. The device isn't awake, also there is no wakelock or anything. Strange behavior.
The sound is awesome, u will love it. If u don't need much bass through the loudspeaker.
Finished my short OT ^^
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Heh, thanks
That actually lines up similarly to other things I've head about the device. Your assessment of the screen seems more positive than some, but then that sorta thing is a bit of personal preference. Frankly I don't game (much) to the point where I want a QHD or 4K display, and I don't intend to do VR. The reason I wanted a msm8996 is for the other advanced capabilities. The thing I'm looking forward to most is getting WiFi Calling working for T-Mobile, my reception isn't always great and that would be fantastic for me
As for the sound, I learned a long time ago to accept disappointment there. And I'm OK with that. I really wanted a headphone jack. Adapters tend to be bulky and/or break, and I don't like to be restricted to a single pair of headphones just because they have the right connector. You also can't easily share headphones with a CDLA connection. I have heard that the speaker output is nice, and I'm looking forward to that.
Mostly I'm excited that the kernel is not much modified from the CAF sources. Once I've verified that whatever it is I'm working on will actually boot, I will be able to upgrade to a newer revision of the kernel (with security fixes) and possibly even jump to the UM branch for the kernel, which is unifying for the Nougat release. I'm using the op3 as a template for my cm device and at the moment just gathering information. I don't even know if I'll buy the device yet or even make a rom. But it's what I'm looking into. This is a side project for me, and I desperately need to find a job, that takes priority.
secXces_debaki said:
Kk I try to be as fast as possible to do the logcats at the moment my pc recognize my phone.
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I don't know how fast the phone boots, but usually I have the command already typed into the window, then I reboot and as soon as the first logo appears on the screen I hit enter. The command may not see the device immediately, and it'll say "awaiting device" and that's fine, it'll start logging as soon as the device appears. Then do CTRL+C 30 seconds after all the final connections to the cellular network are done
Managed to fix my standby drain..
U got a pm with the last logs. Hope it's good