Hey guys,
I was wondering what kind of logging the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 does and how can I access it.
I found some logs once; but I can't seem to get back to the the menu. Only the recovery menu button combo {down volume, home, power}
Also I could not figure out how to copy those logs off the device.
Really want to have the ability to get to those logs even if the device is crapping out. Any one have any ideas?
Verizon Samsng S4 on Android 5.0.1 (LRX22C)
some back story:
I have Maas360 and a Kiosk policy applied to about 70 devices. Some have been getting stuck in a loop; phone restarts for no reason, stays up for about a minute than reboot.
So I figured I had pushed out a bad policy. I made a new policy minus the changes that correlated to the reboot loops and things seemed to be ok.
Since the phone wouldn't stay on the network long enough to grab the command to remove the bad policy, I wiped the phones with Samsung Kies firmware updater.
But now some of the phones I wiped are back to the reboot loop. Maas360 wasn't a whole lot of help, but since it doesn't stay on long enough i doubt they have any logs either.
thanks guys
cefalu said:
Hey guys,
I was wondering what kind of logging the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 does and how can I access it.
I found some logs once; but I can't seem to get back to the the menu. Only the recovery menu button combo {down volume, home, power}
Also I could not figure out how to copy those logs off the device.
Really want to have the ability to get to those logs even if the device is crapping out. Any one have any ideas?
Verizon Samsng S4 on Android 5.0.1 (LRX22C)
some back story:
I have Maas360 and a Kiosk policy applied to about 70 devices. Some have been getting stuck in a loop; phone restarts for no reason, stays up for about a minute than reboot.
So I figured I had pushed out a bad policy. I made a new policy minus the changes that correlated to the reboot loops and things seemed to be ok.
Since the phone wouldn't stay on the network long enough to grab the command to remove the bad policy, I wiped the phones with Samsung Kies firmware updater.
But now some of the phones I wiped are back to the reboot loop. Maas360 wasn't a whole lot of help, but since it doesn't stay on long enough i doubt they have any logs either.
thanks guys
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"Adb logcat" is definetely what you are looking for:
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/logcat.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726238
It is basically kernel output.
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Ciuffy said:
"Adb logcat" is definetely what you are looking for:
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/logcat.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726238
It is basically kernel output.
Ciuffy's SM-G900F CM 12.1 spirit hath marked this way.
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TY DUDE!
I was moving in that direction, installed odin, android studio, but I can not seem to get adb to connect.
i get this message
adb server is out of date. killing
* daemon started successfully
error: device not found
Going t do some more reading on the links you posted I am sure the answer is there.
cefalu said:
TY DUDE!
I was moving in that direction, installed odin, android studio, but I can not seem to get adb to connect.
i get this message
adb server is out of date. killing
* daemon started successfully
error: device not found
Going t do some more reading on the links you posted I am sure the answer is there.
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Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567955
If you are on Ubuntu, you can get the latest version with
Apt-get install android-tools-adb.
That works with my S5.
Ciuffy's SM-G900F CM 12.1 spirit hath marked this way.
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Good day all
I bought this device from a seller of eBay (from USA), I am in South Africa
I had to network unlock this device, and it all ran perfect, no issues whatsoever
Recently I have noticed my device doing random reboots, once every day(literally), it will reboot when I take it off from charging or when I press pwer button to wake up. After reboot, it will show the Glowing Samsung Logo, and just stay there continueously.
To fix this, I need to do a factory reset, or just clear the Data partition then it works fine again.
This happens at random, so every day I need to reinstall all the apps, it is such a pain, and obviously something is wrong...
Device: Samsung Galaxy Note LTE (i717)
ROM: Blackstar Blackjelly 4.1.2
Baseband: I717 UCMD3
Recovery: TWRP (latest v.)
Just for the record, ,it all started happening recently, the first time it happened, I was browsing 9gag using the app, then my device rebooted in my hand while scrolling, agter going to recovery, my sdcard and internal sdcard has been formated, and all internal partitions has been formated to....
I have no idea what is causing this but I am pretty sure it is not the rom, since I have had this rom for a while now...
What kernel do you use, and can you take a logcat?
(To take a logcat, enable ADB, plug in your device to your computer, and run adb logcat from the Android SDK. You can grab that here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html?hl=sk )
BachMinuetInG said:
What kernel do you use, and can you take a logcat?
(To take a logcat, enable ADB, plug in your device to your computer, and run adb logcat from the Android SDK. You can grab that here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html?hl=sk )
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after running the logcat with "
Code:
adb logcat > logcat.txt
" for just more than 2 hours, i stopped it...it is 1250kb, see attached, it is compresssed in a zip file
p.s. Im quite positive it shouldnt take that long
any help would really help!!!
Hope you can help me - I am desperate to halt the OTA update for my galaxy s4 -
based on everything I’ve read, Samsung did a really bad job on this update, 4.4.2, and they are currently rolling out 4.4.3 and 4.4.4, but of course, the s5 is getting it well before we are.
anyway,
I have been “happily” running 4.3 and just dealing with the bluetooth issues, found enough hacks/fixes for the wifi issue that i have been ok with it since getting 4.3 in November.
There are just too many unworkable issues of battery drain, overheating, losing apps, pics, etc etc etc for me to risk the update to 4.4.2.
HERE’S MY PROBLEM - Somehow, altho i'm fairly technical, the update finally got on my phone (after having kept it off for months) and for the past month or more, I've just been
dealing with the notification, putting it off for 24 hrs at a time.
I guess it finally decided not to allow me to do that any longer, and started the installation without permission. i stopped it by pulling the battery, but when i try to start in recovery mode just so i can clear cache and hopefully reboot without actually installing the new os, I cannot - it goes through (some of) the motions but when i let go of the power button as i should when it's running normally, and would get the options of factory reset, clear cache, et al, it just brings up the android bot and shows that it is continuing to install where it left off. I’ve done this numerous times.
Tried different methods of button-holding and other trouble-shooting based on massive searching, but always get the same result. and I can only pull the battery to stop it.
Am I stuck? Do I have to install now at this point?
I do not want to perform factory reset, guess I'd rather install the 4.4.2 s/w. (altho I can't even get to that option at this point)
Sincerely hope someone out there will respond – I've posted to multiple sites, and no one is responding - gonna have to turn my phone back on at some point soon...
Thanks in advance!!
Roxanne
rkohlin said:
Hope you can help me - I am desperate to halt the OTA update for my galaxy s4 -
based on everything I’ve read, Samsung did a really bad job on this update, 4.4.2, and they are currently rolling out 4.4.3 and 4.4.4, but of course, the s5 is getting it well before we are.
anyway,
I have been “happily” running 4.3 and just dealing with the bluetooth issues, found enough hacks/fixes for the wifi issue that i have been ok with it since getting 4.3 in November.
There are just too many unworkable issues of battery drain, overheating, losing apps, pics, etc etc etc for me to risk the update to 4.4.2.
HERE’S MY PROBLEM - Somehow, altho i'm fairly technical, the update finally got on my phone (after having kept it off for months) and for the past month or more, I've just been
dealing with the notification, putting it off for 24 hrs at a time.
I guess it finally decided not to allow me to do that any longer, and started the installation without permission. i stopped it by pulling the battery, but when i try to start in recovery mode just so i can clear cache and hopefully reboot without actually installing the new os, I cannot - it goes through (some of) the motions but when i let go of the power button as i should when it's running normally, and would get the options of factory reset, clear cache, et al, it just brings up the android bot and shows that it is continuing to install where it left off. I’ve done this numerous times.
Tried different methods of button-holding and other trouble-shooting based on massive searching, but always get the same result. and I can only pull the battery to stop it.
Am I stuck? Do I have to install now at this point?
I do not want to perform factory reset, guess I'd rather install the 4.4.2 s/w. (altho I can't even get to that option at this point)
Sincerely hope someone out there will respond – I've posted to multiple sites, and no one is responding - gonna have to turn my phone back on at some point soon...
Thanks in advance!!
Roxanne
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Are you rooted?
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stvn2569 said:
Are you rooted?
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Thanks for responding stvn2569!
Nope, not rooted.
But based on all my searching I sure wish I was and likely will the next phone.
Stock Verizon Galaxy s4 - 32gb - model # SCH-I545
(Sorry, should have put this in orig message)
THis summarizes some of the reason I don't want to update the OS - -
ack - can't post links - will have to type it out if you are interested in all the bugs Samsung saddled us with -
(most egregious is the battery drain, but others are quite serious and hard to live with too)
www(dot)androidpit(dot)com(slash)samsung-galaxy-s4-update-to-android-4-4-2-littered-with-bugs
rkohlin said:
Thanks for responding stvn2569!
Nope, not rooted.
But based on all my searching I sure wish I was and likely will the next phone.
Stock Verizon Galaxy s4 - 32gb - model # SCH-I545
(Sorry, should have put this in orig message)
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You'll need to root the phone to stop the OTA notifications, it's all very easy.
Go to settings > security > allow installations from unknown sources, check the box
Go to www.towelroot.com
Click on the lambda, download and install the towelroot.apk
Click on "make it ra1n", reboot
Download "SuperSU" from the play store
Upon opening the app, it will prompt you to "update binaries". Do this using the "normal" option
Then download "Root Explorer" from the play store
Navigate to the system and system-priv app folders
In one of those folders you'll find "FWupgrade,apk" and "SDM.apk"
Delete those apk's and no more OTA updates:good:
joshm.1219 said:
You'll need to root the phone to stop the OTA notifications, it's all very easy.
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Thanks, Josh, I appreciate your trying to help, but if you read the original post -
I CANNOT TURN ON THE PHONE, hence couldn't get to settings if I wanted to, BUT - -
It is not the notification that is the issue -
the phone has finally downloaded the OTA update and IS INSTALLING IT. (every time I turn it on)
I DO NOT WANT THIS UPDATE INSTALLED. (see prior post for the reason - it's terribly buggy update - worse than what I have)
I have to figure out how to halt it - when I try to start in "recovery mode", it doesn't give me the options
it normally would - I won't start in a normal recovery mode.
It continues the OS update.
I noted all this in the original post - I completely understand how to get rid of the update notifications.
One doesn't even have to root the phone to do this, you can just rename the SDM apk (like add .bak or something)
Do you have ideas how to stop the installation? How I can turn phone on in recovery mode?
(note the steps I've taken to do that are also in the original post)
I know there are many people out there smarter than me about this - hoping you guys can help...,
rkohlin said:
Thanks, Josh, I appreciate your trying to help, but if you read the original post -
I CANNOT TURN ON THE PHONE, hence couldn't get to settings if I wanted to, BUT - -
It is not the notification that is the issue -
the phone has finally downloaded the OTA update and IS INSTALLING IT. (every time I turn it on)
I DO NOT WANT THIS UPDATE INSTALLED. (see prior post for the reason - it's terribly buggy update - worse than what I have)
I have to figure out how to halt it - when I try to start in "recovery mode", it doesn't give me the options
it normally would - I won't start in a normal recovery mode.
It continues the OS update.
I noted all this in the original post - I completely understand how to get rid of the update notifications.
One doesn't even have to root the phone to do this, you can just rename the SDM apk (like add .bak or something)
Do you have ideas how to stop the installation? How I can turn phone on in recovery mode?
(note the steps I've taken to do that are also in the original post)
I know there are many people out there smarter than me about this - hoping you guys can help...,
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My bad, I would suggest booting into download mode and flashing the mk2 tar file with odin (3.09 recommended).
I didn't suggest renaming the file because it doesn't always work. Told my brother to do that on his Note 3 (no root method at the time) and it start downloading an OTA upon reboot one day.
joshm.1219 said:
My bad, I would suggest booting into download mode and flashing the mk2 tar file with odin (3.09 recommended).
I didn't suggest renaming the file because it doesn't always work. Told my brother to do that on his Note 3 (no root method at the time) and it start downloading an OTA upon reboot one day.
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Thanks, Josh!
When you say "boot into download mode" - you mean safe/recovery/download mode right?
(like when one holds (for this model) VolumeUpButton+PowerButton right?)
If that's the case, it doesn't allow me to boot that way. When I do that, it just skips right to
"Installing system update" (with the droid bot)
That's my problem.
Cannot access anything (without allowing the install). :crying:
Have also tried VolumeUpButton+PowerButton+HomeButton. Same.
Drat.
Looks like I may have to accept this OS.
Others I know that have deal with terrible battery drain issues (from 10 hrs heavy use on charge down to 2 hrs)
rkohlin said:
Thanks, Josh!
When you say "boot into download mode" - you mean safe/recovery/download mode right?
(like when one holds (for this model) VolumeUpButton+PowerButton right?)
If that's the case, it doesn't allow me to boot that way. When I do that, it just skips right to
"Installing system update" (with the droid bot)
That's my problem.
Cannot access anything (without allowing the install). :crying:
Have also tried VolumeUpButton+PowerButton+HomeButton. Same.
Drat.
Looks like I may have to accept this OS.
Others I know that have deal with terrible battery drain issues (from 10 hrs heavy use on charge down to 2 hrs)
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It is Power button click and hold volume down....
rkohlin said:
Thanks, Josh!
When you say "boot into download mode" - you mean safe/recovery/download mode right?
(like when one holds (for this model) VolumeUpButton+PowerButton right?)
If that's the case, it doesn't allow me to boot that way. When I do that, it just skips right to
"Installing system update" (with the droid bot)
That's my problem.
Cannot access anything (without allowing the install). :crying:
Have also tried VolumeUpButton+PowerButton+HomeButton. Same.
Drat.
Looks like I may have to accept this OS.
Others I know that have deal with terrible battery drain issues (from 10 hrs heavy use on charge down to 2 hrs)
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Like he said, download mode is Power+VolumeDown, press and hold.
UPDATE:
Well, never could get into download mode, so had to accept the OS update to KK 4.4.2
Guess I'm one of the lucky ones, (I do have a fairly new model S4) and I didn't lose apps or contacts.
however,
The Battery Life is TERRIBLE after the 4.4.2 update! Some WiFi issues too.
Seem to have fixed WiFi (for now anyway)
Been searching around and recalibrated my battery, am trying a battery life extender app,
turned off a huge bunch of Samsung and Google apps that evid constantly "ping" and use battery.
It's been a little better, but not a lot.
Hope for 4.4.4 to be available soon (heard 4.4.3 is not a good variant either)
Hello,
Friday I received the Android 7.0 OTA update for my phone. Was very hyped about it as an evening before, my brother received his on his S7.
But after it has installed, I noticed a couple of issue on my phone and I didn't seem to find a "collection" of all the issue that are being reported as of today. Of course, they are widely chaotically spread throughout the net.
So here are my issues (trying to describe them as simple and on-point as I can) and feel free to add your own issues/comments:
i. Samsung Cloud backing-up process ending up in errors: "Couldn't back up data. An error has occurred (329)" / "Couldn't sync data. An error has occurred (309)". Every time I want to back-up my phone via Samsung Cloud, very soon after I launch the process, "Samsung Keyboard" returns an error "Samsung keyboard has stopped." For the record, I'm not even using Samsung keyboard at all but Gboard so I don't know why I get that error from Samsung and not from Google, for instance. After closing the prompt, the back-up process will carry on until the end, finishing with the errors mentioned above.
ii. Private mode cannot be accessed anymore. Every time I try to enable it, I get "Failed to turn on Private Mode. Try again". I do have content saved to Private Mode and I'd like to retrieve it before factory restoring the device. Do you have any hints on this? Nothing worked that I trying recovering the files.
iii. Overall experience is a little sluggish and not as snappy as 6.0.1. Every reaction of the OS is almost half a second later than the touch action. WTF understand they rushed it to release it but I don't feel that all the best optimizations were made before release.
Do you experience any of it? Especially the slow reactions of the update, overall?
Hard reset your phone
I think it will manage it all
lordmada said:
Hard reset your phone
I think it will manage it all
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That's the 1st next step but I thought I'd ask around maybe someone has had the same issues and found a workaround instead of hard reset it..
Thanks
Solved the "Private Mode" issue: head to (stock) recovery -> wipe cache partition -> reboot -> all good. Now the mode and files within are accessible.
Aaand I didn't have to format the phone.
Very well done, mate! (note to myself)
Visit apkmirror and download updated samsung apps. I presume that helps.
ireMaN said:
Visit apkmirror and download updated samsung apps. I presume that helps.
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I will try that, thanks!
[email protected],
just bought myself an Ulefone T1 from aliexpress and I am wondering if there is any lineageos development out there for this phone? Is anybody planning to develop for this?
cheers
JohnnyT
Stay tunned. The phone is new and development will yet. Dont worry is a great phone and Ulefone is better than yesterday.
https://www.needrom.com/category/ulefone/t1-ulefone/
It will hardly receive official updates, let alone custom ROMs (same fate as the 96% of MediaTek devices out there).
any update . i just bought this phone from banggood. my asus zenfone 3 wifi is failing. so needed something to fill the gap
Finally received my t1 after 11 weeks of waiting!!
Everything works fine apart from the battery usage which is a round 10% per hour on standby with no usage!!
FOLLOW-UP
Following lots of research found that Whatsapp was still trying to verify the phone thru SMS and was draining the battery. Uninstalled and re-installed Whatsapp and verified by manually entering SMS pin.
Now appears to running okay at just over 2% per hour battery drain with bluetooth and GPS set on.
i think i got a thud. reboots when connected to 5g wifi and sometimes when doing stuff on the phone. what a POS phone. never again ulefone!
I am very happy with my T1. High performance, loads of RAM and storage in a decent looking dual SIM package for a very reasonable price tag. First official OTA update yesterday. Also there are rumors about 8.0 upgrade till end of the year.
JohnnyT
Alicklee said:
i think i got a thud. reboots when connected to 5g wifi and sometimes when doing stuff on the phone. what a POS phone. never again ulefone!
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Mine does occasional reboot. I think its when my mail app is in 'recent apps'. When I clear recent apps. The phone seems more stable, but it's early days.
If anyone finds a fix, please post to the group.
I had my first ota update so that was a plus although it didn't solve the rebooting or activate the 'so called' second camera.
Pickles871 said:
Mine does occasional reboot. I think its when my mail app is in 'recent apps'. When I clear recent apps. The phone seems more stable, but it's early days.
If anyone finds a fix, please post to the group.
I had my first ota update so that was a plus although it didn't solve the rebooting or activate the 'so called' second camera.
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Do you have yours rooted and your bootloader unlocked? I am getting the update prompt but being unlocked and rooted I'm not sure it will take the update. Some phones tend to brick. Also all of a sudden I am having an issue with "android process.media has stopped" Can't figure out what's causing it but since it started the device has become quite laggy
Mine is not rooted. Its still as out of the box. I have rooted previous phones but find that some of the apps I want to use won't run on rooted phones, like certain banking apps. I don't know if the restarts are an Android 7.0 symptom or hardware/software based. There are so many different views on this it's almost impossible to figure out the causes. For me I keep trying different app and phone settings in the hope that something eventually solves the issue. Maybe a future firmware update will sort it. I live in hope (but don't hold your breath). More likely a new phone will be acquired at some point!
by any chance any of you have gps problems in waze or maps????
Pickles871 said:
Mine is not rooted. Its still as out of the box. I have rooted previous phones but find that some of the apps I want to use won't run on rooted phones, like certain banking apps. I don't know if the restarts are an Android 7.0 symptom or hardware/software based. There are so many different views on this it's almost impossible to figure out the causes. For me I keep trying different app and phone settings in the hope that something eventually solves the issue. Maybe a future firmware update will sort it. I live in hope (but don't hold your breath). More likely a new phone will be acquired at some point!
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you need to proper root with magisk. and only use magisk, not other super user apps.
with magisk hide you can cheat banking apps or any app thinking the phone is not rooted.
nieXas said:
you need to proper root with magisk. and only use magisk, not other super user apps.
with magisk hide you can cheat banking apps or any app thinking the phone is not rooted.
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Thats useful to know. Many thanks
Made Lineage 14.1 work on my Ulefone T1 (adb shell hacked)
Hi everyone,
i've been digging around for the last few weeks on my T1 and now i've finally made it boot. I dont know exactly what is working and what not but i can tell WLAN is NOT working for now! The kernel repo at my github was not working so i used the stock one. You may download it as well as the TWRP recovery i made alongside the ROM. But you need to wipe /data partition so all user data is lost in the process. Also while TWRP needs a reboot after wiping /data step 2 & 3 may need to be repeated once. For now i was not able to flash and boot the recovery (working on it) but it can be booted into as follows (when booted into the stock system):
UPDATE: Made it work - it's booting without hacking via ADB-Shell. The parts marked --- obsolete --- are not needed any more.
1.) Disable OEM-Lock in Developer-Options (google if necessary how to do that)
2.) Reboot and keep the upper volume button button pressed until it booted into recovery. If the "no command" screen is displayed, press the power and upper volume button together once again and you shuld reside in the stock recovery. Use it to reboot into fastboot (bootloader).
3.) In fastboot mode, while beeing in the same folder as the downloaded files, type the following:
Code:
fastboot boot recovery.img
4.) Wait for TWRP to boot up and enter the following (within the same folder):
Code:
adb push lineage-14.1-*-UNOFFICIAL-t1.zip /sdcard/
5.) Finally you may flash the Lineage zip file in TWRP (if you have wiped your /data partition at least i needed to)
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6.) Let it reboot into system and while displaying the Linage bootanimation (for now) i had to execute a few commands on adb shell. So, with adb installed, you need to enter the following commands in a common linux/windows shell:
adb shell /vendor/bin/nvram_daemon &
adb shell /system/bin/nvram_proximity &
adb shell /vendor/bin/nvram_agent_binder &
adb shell /system/bin/agoldnvram &
adb shell /system/bin/audioserver &
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I'm not sure if they are all needed but afterwards my T1 bootet up correcty (more or less). Unfortunately a few drivers are missing as it seems while WLAN is not working for now.
http://d0ndroid.janeiskla.de/lineage-14.1-20180928-UNOFFICIAL-t1.zip
and the recovery
http://d0ndroid.janeiskla.de/recovery.img.
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After fixing another few things the only remaining things i found not working are fingerprint & RIL but I'm looking into that right now. The current builds will always be uploaded to:
http://d0ndroid.janeiskla.de/
The sources i used besides the default Lineage ones are on github:
https://github.com/d0n?tab=repositories
Have fun! And let me know if you make progress on your own
Greez,
d0n
Hi d0n22, are you still working with this rom?
Hello there.
I got a BP-2 from a friend, which runs on Lollipop 5.1 with a baseband .2.0.2.ci-00017-M8935FAAANUZM-1.
The Model Name is unknown and so it the build number. Certain built-in apps in the phone simply does not work and some android features such as accessibility option or date and time option, when clicked just closes down the settings tab. Moreover, the phone also has issues connecting to PC and Wifi.
Before posting my request, i did all available options to upgrade the rom to latest available on forums. I was able to flash original recoveries and TWRP. I could use ADB and Fastflash tools to experiment sideload options. Nothing seemed to have worked for me. In almost all attempts, the progress just stops at "Patching system image unconditionally......" indefinitely.
I have also tried for days to get past the issue but my bad.
I will really really appreciate, if someone can give me an idea here on what possibly could be the problem and how to address it. Once again, I am thankful to the immense help i am getting from respected gurus here.
Thanks