I'm having a serious issue with my Google Apps recently. My stock rom updated over OTA so I had to re-root/reinstall CM11, and when I was installing Google Apps it failed a few times and then worked.
The problem I'm having is that Android Device Manager will be very inaccurate (up to 2,400 meters), and sometimes won't find the device at all. When I am running my stock rom the ADM finds the device very accurately (<10 meters).
I just re-flashed/reinstalled everything and I'm still getting the same issue. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Well, depending on how much time you have on your hands, and everything is backed up. You could use mattlgrof's utility to flash your firmware back to stock, reroot, dont accept OTA, then freeze the OTAupdater with an app like Titanuim backup so you don't get/have to worry about accidently accepting the OTA. And you wouldn't be bothered with the notifications if you use the stock ROM This works even better if CM11 is your daily driver, and you don't really use stock. I assume you are on BMM? If you are on safestrap, you can flash the stock slot with CM11.
If you still have the problem, you will at least know it wasn't the OTA.
So you think the problem would be fixed if I simply flashed CM on my stock slot? I'm pretty sure it was the OTA that screwed everything up. I am on safestrap.
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So you think the problem would be fixed if I simply flashed CM on my stock slot? I'm pretty sure it was the OTA that screwed everything up. I am on safestrap.
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Make a backup and try it. Custom ROM's don't recieve OTA's so... If you flash right now, and the problem persists, THEN use Mattlgrof's utility and blah blah blah, so didn't recieve the OTA, and try then. As long as you used safestrap correctly, the only thing you can lose is time.
If i recovered my stock slot to the point BEFORE i received the OTA, would that undo all the OTA changes that screwed up my phone?
My assumptions would be yes if you had one. At that point, me personally, after verifying OTA wasnt there, I would go back to safestrap and reflash cm11 and gapps. I don't know what difference it would make. I personally am always hinky about dirty flashes and such, so if I think one thing might be affecting something else I wipe and replace both. So I don't upgrade ROMs and kernels much... A lot of time setting everything back up
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Wait you are on a xt912 right?
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beramiah said:
If i recovered my stock slot to the point BEFORE i received the OTA, would that undo all the OTA changes that screwed up my phone?
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I do not think it has anything to do with the stock slot I have only slimkat in my stock slot and my android device is so far away it is worthless I use avast .
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tydiamond11 said:
I do not think it has anything to do with the stock slot I have only slimkat in my stock slot and my android device is so far away it is worthless I use avast .
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@Draxin I am using XT912, yes.
What would you suggest doing, tydiamond?
tydiamond11 said:
I do not think it has anything to do with the stock slot I have only slimkat in my stock slot and my android device is so far away it is worthless I use avast .
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I use Gotya myself, it has been accurate for me if I adjust the settings... 10-20 meters
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@Draxin I am using XT912, yes.
What would you suggest doing, tydiamond?
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I would say just do a full clean class of cm11 and gapps maybe unless you just did when you flashed cm11 the last time. I think if you have cm11 and root and safestrap recovery you are good. The stock does not matter any more.
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Draxin said:
I use Gotya myself, it has been accurate for me if I adjust the settings... 10-20 meters
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Interesting I will look it up.
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The one thing about avast is it uses root. Idk about gotya can you let me know.
Out of curiosity, are you guys using xprivacy? If so, have you checked to make sure it isn't manipulating GPS for those apps?
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tydiamond11 said:
The one thing about avast is it uses root. Idk about gotya can you let me know.
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No, it is strictly a security app, so permissions for camera, messaging, and GPS. *edit* and gmail account
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So I recovered my pre-ota phone and installed CM11 on my slot 1 again. No problem installing gapps, however the android device manager is still having problems communicating with my device. I will try using Avast for now.
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Out of curiosity, are you guys using xprivacy? If so, have you checked to make sure it isn't manipulating GPS for those apps?
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No, it is strictly a security app, so permissions for camera, messaging, and GPS. *edit* and gmail account
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I am not using xprivacy lol I got tired of all the changing settings I thought so about gotya
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beramiah said:
So I recovered my pre-ota phone and installed CM11 on my slot 1 again. No problem installing gapps, however the android device manager is still having problems communicating with my device. I will try using Avast for now.
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yes try avast anti teft it works great but first download the normal avast and click on advanced setup and chose root.
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The one thing about avast is it uses root. Idk about gotya can you let me know.
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Curious, what is the benefit of a root access security apk if you keep debugging off when not using it?
Gotya is imbedded in to the screenlock and standalone so it doesn't require internet access for a server. You can have it take pictures on a failed login, which it will send as well as GPS coordinates of where it took place to your email. You are able to send sms commands to ask it where it is, have it call you, start an alarm if you are in a large room of people, lock the device with a pin even if the SIM has been changed, and also send a message to the thief.
Just wondering if I am using the wrong security
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Curious, what is the benefit of a root access security apk if you keep debugging off when not using it?
Gotya is imbedded in to the screenlock and standalone so it doesn't require internet access for a server. You can have it take pictures on a failed login, which it will send as well as GPS coordinates of where it took place to your email. You are able to send sms commands to ask it where it is, have it call you, start an alarm if you are in a large room of people, lock the device with a pin even if the SIM has been changed, and also send a message to the thief.
Just wondering if I am using the wrong security
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So for me avast works the same except you can control when the gps turns on via sms say if the data is off and gps. everything can be done just with sms. The picture taking It will do but you have to pay for that. I see the use in gotya but I like avast. Also avast antitheft even with a wipe over like say you wipe the phone except the internal sd card it can still work. You will have to look into it.
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Once I heard about the official Rezound OTA update to ICS, I relocked and RUU'ed my phone to bone stock setup, and ran the OTA. Now I'm on 4.0.3, and everything works fine. The only problem:
When I search for Instagram on the Play Store, I get this message at the top of the Instagram page: "! Your device isn't compatible with this version." and I can't install it. It worked fine on GB. Has anyone else had a similar problem?
I just installed the latest base with the weekend patch and it installed fine for me.
My problem with Instagram is that I can't upload pictures...it freezes up my phone until reboot. I've seen people with other phones with this problem too. I think it's an ICS issue.
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My problem with Instagram is that I can't upload pictures...it freezes up my phone until reboot. I've seen people with other phones with this problem too. I think it's an ICS issue.
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I have instagram on my Gnex and no issues at all for me... so not an ICS issue... maybe a sense + ICS issue though
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Cares said:
My problem with Instagram is that I can't upload pictures...it freezes up my phone until reboot. I've seen people with other phones with this problem too. I think it's an ICS issue.
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Is there a fix for this yet? Whenever i want to upload an image, it just freezes the whole phone. I'm running Neo's Adrenaline Rom with ICS OTA.
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Unless your trying to avoid losing money on stock in the bookface, just use Paper Camera.
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Unless your trying to avoid losing money on stock in the bookface, just use Paper Camera.
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Except paper camera isn't a social network photo site like instagram. I hope this gets fixed asap
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Mine flips the freak out when I try to share a picture on instagram.
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Mine flips the freak out when I try to share a picture on instagram.
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What rom are you running
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When i get home I'm gonna log it to see exactly what's going on
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What rom are you running
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When i get home I'm gonna log it to see exactly what's going on
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Honestly? Since the ota, I am still stock, unrooted. I am ready to do so soon though
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I keep getting this warning, but no way to tell what the offending app is... stock, not rooted
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Have you clicked okay. . To have it check for what it is warning you about? Have you downloaded any new apps before getting the warning? I myself would probably take it back to. .. sprint. . BestBuy.. wherever purchased. I've not heard of this on stock unrooted device. I tried googling this but again, everything seems to be directed towards...mods..rooting.
But there are many knowledgeable people on here. . I'm sure someone can help you more than I can.
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I have gotten the same warning and have no clue why. Don't have any apps that should be setting it off and I have not yet rooted this phone in hopes of someone figuring out this Knox b.s. Everything on my phone is from the play store.
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By the way I even clicked Ok and nothing happened. Got the message a few more times them checked the don't notify for 30 days box. Haven't seen it since.
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Is Knox installed? I saw that their is a shortcut to Knox on the phone but it's not installed. U have to physically download it and install it from Samsungs servers.
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I'm having the same issues. Can't figure out the app.
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I am seeing the same warning and not figured it out yet I am stock not rooted
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Stock not rooted here.
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I have only had it since the mj4 update.
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Is Knox installed? I saw that their is a shortcut to Knox on the phone but it's not installed. U have to physically download it and install it from Samsungs servers.
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The Knox referred to here is a hardware/firmware that is on the Note 3, and the 2014 Note tab(Galaxy Tab). It is an efuse, meaning that if you try normal rooting, you permanently blow the fuse, thus rendering your warranty void, and possibly bricking/soft bricking your device. Google!:good:
I have the same annoying pop up stock completely virgin and can't figure out the app either so I factory reset and it keeps popping up, all my apps are from Play Store most Google apps, Facebook And Twitter all trusted apps not a single one sideloaded. So I had to check don't show it for next 30 days to make it go away.
Also anyone having the same but with Samsung Account constantly asking to verify password for security measures? Had to disable all Samsung cloud services and Samsung apps to make it go away. Annoying as hell.
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ELITE TESTER
I noticed mine only shows the warning when I turn on wifi I click ok then it goes away until I toggle wifi again
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Omar04 said:
I have the same annoying pop up stock completely virgin and can't figure out the app either so I factory reset and it keeps popping up, all my apps are from Play Store most Google apps, Facebook And Twitter all trusted apps not a single one sideloaded. So I had to check don't show it for next 30 days to make it go away.
Also anyone having the same but with Samsung Account constantly asking to verify password for security measures? Had to disable all Samsung cloud services and Samsung apps to make it go away. Annoying as hell.
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ELITE TESTER
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I keep getting asked to connect Facebook to Samsung but that may be unrelated.
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Getting this annoying prevention information since the mj4 update. I should have stayed on mi5. This did not happen on mi5. Hopefully they'll release an update to fix this. I checked do not show for 30 days to get rid of it for now. Stock and unrooted btw.
Just a follow up with this. My friend just got a note 3 that came with the MJ4 update and it showed the same thing. No installed apps other than stock and not even connected to the play store. So it is something that came with MJ4
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Per Sprint, on the Sprint forum, a fix is coming. This is an erroneous message. Of course, the party line is don't root, don't this, don't that...
At least there is a fix coming.
toenail_flicker said:
Per Sprint, on the Sprint forum, a fix is coming. This is an erroneous message. Of course, the party line is don't root, don't this, don't that...
At least there is a fix coming.
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Ah, yes but if you do root, two simple lines in a terminal emulator and the problem is gone for good! No Sprint fix needed.
mvansomeren said:
Ah, yes but if you do root, two simple lines in a terminal emulator and the problem is gone for good! No Sprint fix needed.
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Believe me, I get that. I'm waiting to verify a few things and then I'll root, too. Just letting folks know that this isn't going unnoticed and that the fix is coming. I know many are concerned about how to fix it.
toenail_flicker said:
Believe me, I get that. I'm waiting to verify a few things and then I'll root, too. Just letting folks know that this isn't going unnoticed and that the fix is coming. I know many are concerned about how to fix it.
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I'm with you. I haven't rooted my N3 yet either... N2 is rooted with Kingoapp. I wanted to wait 30 days to make sure my phone isn't defective in any way. Got another 2 weeks to go. :good:
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Ah, yes but if you do root, two simple lines in a terminal emulator and the problem is gone for good! No Sprint fix needed.
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Can you post them or link to them?? Thanks
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Can you post them or link to them?? Thanks
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[FONT="]Using Terminal Emulator
Type this command
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pm disable com.sec.knox.seandroid
[/FONT]I don't remember who posted it but I copied and saved it in a document.
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I'm with you. I haven't rooted my N3 yet either... N2 is rooted with Kingoapp. I wanted to wait 30 days to make sure my phone isn't defective in any way. Got another 2 weeks to go. :good:
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I have a little more than that to wait, but not much. Just watching, waiting, tap.tap.tap. It's killing me, too. I miss having control, even though I'm just a gadget geek. Would be great to be a dev - got a taste in school - but I'm way beyond that now.
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You are the best! :victory:
So I just moved from my iphone to a Samsung Galaxy S4 and I want to run Hyperdrive ROM but beforr I dive into my first root snd all I have some questions. If any of you can answer any or all of these that would be greatly appreciated. Ive spent a ton of time in here and other places reading up on all of this but want to clarify some stuff.
So I'm on ME7 so I'll root and then install safestrap. Then ill install Hyperdrive via safestrap. My questions are as follows:
1. Will this have any impact on my stock ROM or settings? Specifically will it impact my exchange email? Main reason I ask is my work has mandated that I have a pin for the lockscreen. So will that be impacted on my stock ROM or Hyperdrive?
2. Will I have any issues reverting back to factory settings if I need to? Would I just delete safestrap and take the OTA? When I do this will my stock ROM remain as is?
3. Lastly will any of this have any impact on any downloaded apps? I haven't gotten many yet, mainly just curious?
Again thank you for any help you have and also for any other adviser or insight I might not have thought about.
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So I just moved from my iphone to a Samsung Galaxy S4 and I want to run Hyperdrive ROM but beforr I dive into my first root snd all I have some questions. If any of you can answer any or all of these that would be greatly appreciated. Ive spent a ton of time in here and other places reading up on all of this but want to clarify some stuff.
So I'm on ME7 so I'll root and then install safestrap. Then ill install Hyperdrive via safestrap. My questions are as follows:
1. Will this have any impact on my stock ROM or settings? Specifically will it impact my exchange email? Main reason I ask is my work has mandated that I have a pin for the lockscreen. So will that be impacted on my stock ROM or Hyperdrive?
2. Will I have any issues reverting back to factory settings if I need to? Would I just delete safestrap and take the OTA? When I do this will my stock ROM remain as is?
3. Lastly will any of this have any impact on any downloaded apps? I haven't gotten many yet, mainly just curious?
Again thank you for any help you have and also for any other adviser or insight I might not have thought about.
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By "pin for your lockscreen" do you mean your device will be encrypted? If so, I don't think you'll be able to use Safestrap.
Yeah I read that somewhere, but when I go to Security, "Encrypt device" is an option so it appears as though it's not encrypted, our IT policy just requires as password/PIN to unlock the device. Correct me if I am misunderstanding this though.
I read in an early version of the ss thread that ss won't work with encryption enabled. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Is "Encryption" the same thing as having a PIN required to unlock the device? Like I said, the main reason I thought that was a different thing with Safestrap is because under "Security" there are options to encrypt device and encrypt SD card, neither of which seem to be done on my phone. But I'm extremely new to all of this and only been reading around here for a week or so.
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Is "Encryption" the same thing as having a PIN required to unlock the device? Like I said, the main reason I thought that was a different thing with Safestrap is because under "Security" there are options to encrypt device and encrypt SD card, neither of which seem to be done on my phone. But I'm extremely new to all of this and only been reading around here for a week or so.
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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but no... Having a basic pin as you're lockscreen isn't the same thing as encrypting the device.
Just a simple lockscreen option.
I had that very setup on my ME7 S4 running SafeStrap. Not a problem
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You will setup your email again on the hyperdrive rom. Then you can setup your pin for your lockscreen.
Fyi my work email requires it but I still haven't had any problems with nut using a pin.
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You will setup your email again on the hyperdrive rom. Then you can setup your pin for your lockscreen.
Fyi my work email requires it but I still haven't had any problems with not using a pin running me7 with safestrap.
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klabit87 said:
You will setup your email again on the hyperdrive rom. Then you can setup your pin for your lockscreen.
Fyi my work email requires it but I still haven't had any problems with nut using a pin.
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Okay, so I'll essentially have my work email setup on both ROMs and if/when I switch from stock to Hyperdrive it will remain setup. Thanks!
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Okay, so I'll essentially have my work email setup on both ROMs and if/when I switch from stock to Hyperdrive it will remain setup. Thanks!
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No problem. That is exactly how I have mine setup also.
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So I have a rather interesting situation. I got my phone through preorder like many others did, and got a 27th stability update right away. I installed it, used the device for a while. Later in the day I went into download mode to see if my phone said anything about being bootloader- locked.
The funny thing is that now, device status shows as custom, and updates fail due to "unauthorized" changes, which were never made
So my question: can that be fixed without wiping device? What do u think triggered that? Booting into DL even if I didn't do anything else?
Thanks for your help in advance!
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Did you root the device yet?
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I have the same problem I just checked for an update. Haven't done anything beyond set up my phone and update
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Did you root the device yet?
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Welp. If you switch to art runtime it's "unauthorized " I just switched back to dalvik and all of a sudden I'm up to date when I check .
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So I have a rather interesting situation. I got my phone through preorder like many others did, and got a 27th stability update right away. I installed it, used the device for a while. Later in the day I went into download mode to see if my phone said anything about being bootloader- locked.
The funny thing is that now, device status shows as custom, and updates fail due to "unauthorized" changes, which were never made
So my question: can that be fixed without wiping device? What do u think triggered that? Booting into DL even if I didn't do anything else?
Thanks for your help in advance!
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I have the same problem I just checked for an update. Haven't done anything beyond set up my phone and update
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Welp. If you switch to art runtime it's "unauthorized " I just switched back to dalvik and all of a sudden I'm up to date when I check .
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Genius!! So glad u thought of that, I completely forgot I did that! And no, I didn't root it yet, that's why I was all confueed, if it was rooted it would've made sense
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So I just rooted my device with towelroot so I don't trip the knox counter.
All went well with the root process.
Let the phone reboot like it needed
Used the APK from chainfires zip to install supersu on the phone.
When I installed that I allowed it to update su and then disabled knox.
rebooted the phone and verified all was able to power up again okay.
Since doing that I notice that the phone is staying pretty warm without any use and screen off and is being held awake by the kernel. (according to gsam battery monitor)
Has anyone else noticed wake-lock or battery drain issues after rooting the phone with this method?
So far, so good for me. It's pretty much the same
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Freeze any tmobile app that you don't really use or system app with titanium backup
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Freeze any tmobile app that you don't really use or system app with titanium backup
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Okay I will give that a try.
Worst case scenario I will try and master reset it.
Just happy to have full sd card access again and native tethering working in stock software. Plus ad blocking.
TheArtiszan said:
Okay I will give that a try.
Worst case scenario I will try and master reset it.
Just happy to have full sd card access again and native tethering working in stock software. Plus ad blocking.
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i have exactly the same problem. i will unroot and factory reset it.
I don't think you will actually need to unroot it. About how long are you getting with your battery now?
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I don't think you will actually need to unroot it. About how long are you getting with your battery now?
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i plug it out when i wake up at 07:00 in the morning and when i get back from work almost at 18:00 o clock its almost done. only %10 battery remaining. it drains very fast! before towelroot my battary lasts almost 1.5 days
I'm not even rooted and time to time my phone would get hot without me using it.. It's weird. Known issue or could this be a hardware issue?
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I'm not even rooted and time to time my phone would get hot without me using it.. It's weird. Known issue or could this be a hardware issue?
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That sounds more like there is a app going rogue or something. While there is a possibility it could be hardware, my bet it is more a software issue. When that happens to me I try to master reset and test without the applications for a little like I might with this if the battery issue don't clear up.
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That sounds more like there is a app going rogue or something. While there is a possibility it could be hardware, my bet it is more a software issue. When that happens to me I try to master reset and test without the applications for a little like I might with this if the battery issue don't clear up.
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I actually did a master reset the second day I got my phone because the first time I messed something up with restoring some stuff from my iPhone using Smart Switch (don't know exact name) and my phone was getting hot even before and after the master reset.
Just want to clarify factory reset is the same as master reset right?
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Yes
Same issue here - applied Towelroot on an HTC One M8 (Verizon), root did not work, but battery drains considerably faster now (would estimate about 30% faster drain than before).
There is definitely something going on with the towelroot apk, I have not installed anything else.
master reset works like charm. battery got back to normal
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master reset works like charm. battery got back to normal
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So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
indianl said:
So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
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Something's running rogue and keeping your CPU running high, which probably accounts for the heat. A hot phone wastes more energy, so you're getting hit twice. Did you try installing wakelock detector to hunt down the issue?
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So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
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lol i guess so. Back up with kies that will help restoring apps and data.
Haven't noticed any lag because of towel root. However installing xposed and xprivacy gave me unbearable lag. I had to Uninstall them and the phone went back to being smooth.
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indianl said:
So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
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Resetting to factory settings after towel root RETAINS root.
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tcourb said:
lol i guess so. Back up with kies that will help restoring apps and data.
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Or, since you are rooted, use an app lie Tibu to backup apps and data, and restore it after reset. Root survives factory reset.
diablo009 said:
Resetting to factory settings after towel root RETAINS root.
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Or, since you are rooted, use an app lie Tibu to backup apps and data, and restore it after reset. Root survives factory reset.
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Thanks for the info friend. I already factory resetted and solved the battery drain issue.
diablo009 said:
Resetting to factory settings after towel root RETAINS root.
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Or, since you are rooted, use an app lie Tibu to backup apps and data, and restore it after reset. Root survives factory reset.
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I am not rooted - towelroot doesn't seem to work on the HTC One M8 (Verizon).
I did a factory reset, but the battery still drains like a jug of beer on a summer day... down to 15% after 6 hours
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Christopher3712 said:
Something's running rogue and keeping your CPU running high, which probably accounts for the heat. A hot phone wastes more energy, so you're getting hit twice. Did you try installing wakelock detector to hunt down the issue?
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Looked at wakelock detector, but that only runs on rooted KitKat phones. As mentioned before, Towelroot did not work on my HTC One M8...