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Droidriven · Dec 13, 2016

anshabhi said:
Please please please find me a custom recovery for Micromax Canvas Spark 3 (Q385). Philz recovery is my best choice. I am a complete noob in android development and I can't port it by myself. Thanks for your help!

Do a google search for:

"Custom recovery (your model number)"

If that doesn't get any results then there isn't a recovery for your device and you're stuck with porting one if you want one.

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S3tablet10.1gt5210 said:
Got the sudden death black screen no lights no charge icon, black screen, nothing. The battery is new and digital volt Meter shows voltage and I have ordered a usb jig and a usb stick with a sd card. I heard that the usb jig would work to get into download mode then I read that it would not. Need help with latest working downloads and help to this old problem. It's usa, wifi, never been rooted and had the last system Ota update, kit kat I think, 442 . What is needed to attempt to get this old dog up and running ? My pc has recently been formatted and is xp pro with service pack 3 and netframe work 2 . No recovery program recognized when plugged in but before format it did see something in device manager but never got anywhere so that why I thought I'd format pc and start fresh. Also read about using sd card to debrick, hard bricked not soft, and if I can get help and if lucky get up and running, what could be done to prevent this from happening again. Will try to see if I get a pm here but maybe easier to just email me at pizzaman320@netzero.com . My username here is s3tablet10.1gt5210 . I had tried posting here and there but is difficult to navigate to this android tablet area with this device to people that would read and help me. Please get back to me. Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays. Peace

Can you boot to download mode with the button method? If so then you don't need the USBjig, a jig will boot you to download mode if the button method doesn't work but it isn't guaranteed, it depends on what caused this issue.

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S3tablet10.1gt5210 · Dec 13, 2016

No. The button trick is a no go. I had tried unplugging battery from motherboard, had tried the tape the power button down to drain battery...?

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Droidriven said:
Do a google search for:

"Custom recovery (your model number)"

If that doesn't get any results then there isn't a recovery for your device and you're stuck with porting one if you want one.

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Can you boot to download mode with the button method? If so then you don't need the USBjig, a jig will boot you to download mode if the button method doesn't work but it isn't guaranteed, it depends on what caused this issue.

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Sorry, still trying to get used to this site but other info the Samsung Galaxy s3 tablet 10.1 gt p5210 is a usa, never rooted, had working Ota update, kit kat 442 I believe. Was playing a game while plugged into the charger and just guit. The usb jig I read here that it would not work and at another post I read that they hit the power button and it went into download mode. The jig should be showing up soon I hope. I also read on a Phone they used the sd card to download the image but couldn't find any info for that one this device so that's why I ordered both. And tried recovery tool, odin and not recognizedo. Don't know what you mean by porting, sorry. Have some knowledge but sometimes need more step by step info and some abbreviation I'm a newbie, sorry.

Droidriven · Dec 13, 2016

S3tablet10.1gt5210 said:
No. The button trick is a no go. I had tried unplugging battery from motherboard, had tried the tape the power button down to drain battery...?

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Sorry, still trying to get used to this site but other info the Samsung Galaxy s3 tablet 10.1 gt p5210 is a usa, never rooted, had working Ota update, kit kat 442 I believe. Was playing a game while plugged into the charger and just guit. The usb jig I read here that it would not work and at another post I read that they hit the power button and it went into download mode. The jig should be showing up soon I hope. I also read on a Phone they used the sd card to download the image but couldn't find any info for that one this device so that's why I ordered both. And tried recovery tool, odin and not recognizedo. Don't know what you mean by porting, sorry. Have some knowledge but sometimes need more step by step info and some abbreviation I'm a newbie, sorry.

The comment about porting is for someone else, I answered you both in one post.

The SD card trick to recover your device requires a debrick.img pulled from the same model number device with the same stock firmware that you had.

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S3tablet10.1gt5210 · Dec 13, 2016

Droidriven said:
The comment about porting is for someone else, I answered you both in one post.

The SD card trick to recover your device requires a debrick.img pulled from the same model number device with the same stock firmware that you had.

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Right on. I don't think that there is such image out there that I can find, so it sounds like if and when the jig shows up and if it works and goes into download mode I'll have to come back and report. The sd card trick may never come into play, sounds like if I get back to stock I would need to get image of of my own ? Or just relie on jig. But when I report back and lucky to recover what would it take to stop the black screen of death from ever happening again ? I do have another working samsung galaxy s3 tablet 10.1 gt p5210 repaired. That is had to replace motherboard and when to play store and got app to check for sane or insane chip and it came back sane ! So this one that's dead I'll have to save this page or pm you after I get jig if that's okay ?

Droidriven · Dec 13, 2016

S3tablet10.1gt5210 said:
Right on. I don't think that there is such image out there that I can find, so it sounds like if and when the jig shows up and if it works and goes into download mode I'll have to come back and report. The sd card trick may never come into play, sounds like if I get back to stock I would need to get image of of my own ? Or just relie on jig. But when I report back and lucky to recover what would it take to stop the black screen of death from ever happening again ? I do have another working samsung galaxy s3 tablet 10.1 gt p5210 repaired. That is had to replace motherboard and when to play store and got app to check for sane or insane chip and it came back sane ! So this one that's dead I'll have to save this page or pm you after I get jig if that's okay ?

I'm thinking your tablet may be dead, it seems to me as if the battery wasn't the correct one and may have caused the CPU to overheat and damaged it. If that is what happened then it would do what yours did, shut down and no longer respond.

If it were a software issue and all you did was play a game when this happened then it would still boot to download mode or recovery mode. That means that flashing stock again might not fix it.

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S3tablet10.1gt5210 · Dec 13, 2016

Droidriven said:
I'm thinking your tablet may be dead, it seems to me as if the battery wasn't the correct one and may have caused the CPU to overheat and damaged it. If that is what happened then it would do what yours did, shut down and no longer respond.

If it were a software issue and all you did was play a game when this happened then it would still boot to download mode or recovery mode. That means that flashing stock again might not fix it.

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November. I ordered a new battery and put it in and same, black with no charge icon so the old batter shows voltage and so does the new one with DVOM. Just so you know the other working device has the new battery and the replacement motherboard. I am putting together a second unit that has the hard bricked motherboard with the original old battery. This Frankenstein unit will be the test tablet to learn and share from, so that I may improve the working one and try and stop this sudden death issue. So far the working other tablet has been worry free but these s 3 tablets seem prone to this death issue so I'm working on old Franky here. Hope this give you a picture of my madness. Peace

dato94 · Dec 13, 2016

HELP USB VCOM Port - Port Appears and Dissapears everytime

USB VCOM Port - Port Appears and Dissapears everytime i can't flash my bricked phone. see everything here youtube.com/watch?v=bAw36I0wGKY

Droidriven · Dec 13, 2016

dato94 said:
USB VCOM Port - Port Appears and Dissapears everytime i can't flash my bricked phone. see everything here youtube.com/watch?v=bAw36I0wGKY

Try a different cable, it may be getting poor/intermittent connection.

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baseddean · Dec 13, 2016

ZTE Custom roms

Man guys I've been searching and looking everywhere for ZTE Max Duo custom rom, and can't find one.
Does anyone know of any?
Or is it possible that I could use another ZTE phone custom rom on it(but I doubt because of drivers)
Please help cause man I can't deal with using 5.1.1 in 2016

Droidriven · Dec 13, 2016

baseddean said:
Man guys I've been searching and looking everywhere for ZTE Max Duo custom rom, and can't find one.
Does anyone know of any?
Or is it possible that I could use another ZTE phone custom rom on it(but I doubt because of drivers)
Please help cause man I can't deal with using 5.1.1 in 2016

Do a google search for:

"Custom ROM for (your model number)"

If that gets you no results then it doesn't exist. In that case you can port a ROM from a device with the same CPU architecture and same hardware components to work on yours but it requires having the stock firmware or the stock source for your device. Or you can take a chance and use something for a device with similar hardware without porting it but the odds are that it will brick your device.

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baseddean · Dec 13, 2016

Droidriven said:
Do a google search for:

"Custom ROM for (your model number)"

If that gets you no results then it doesn't exist. In that case you can port a ROM from a device with the same CPU architecture and same hardware components to work on yours but it requires having the stock firmware or the stock source for your device. Or you can take a chance and use something for a device with similar hardware without porting it but the odds are that it will brick your device.

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Did model search also, yup guess it doesn't exit, thanks anyways

TimSchumi · Dec 14, 2016

gorccc said:
Hello people,

I have been searching a long time to fix my probem but with no succes.

I have an android navigation in my car (erisin 3062b) with android 5.1.1

I can connect to a hotspot from an android device, but i cant connect to my iphone hotspot. It just saves the hotspot but cant connect to it.

Do you have any solutions?

Android always had problems with connecting to iPhone and vice versa. It's also the same with Bluetooth.

baseddean · Dec 14, 2016

Droidriven said:
In that case you can port a ROM from a device with the same CPU architecture and same hardware components to work on yours but it requires having the stock firmware or the stock source for your device.

I think I've found phone with same hardware, but do you mean I must have 5.1.1 source files?

Droidriven · Dec 14, 2016

baseddean said:
I think I've found phone with same hardware, but do you mean I must have 5.1.1 source files?

To be more specific, if you want to port a ROM from another device, you need YOUR specific model number's stock source and/or stock firmware, not just a 5.1.1 source. You need the stuff that was specifically made to work on your model number.

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Sudarshankakoty · Dec 14, 2016

So any CM users here ?
Well. I compiled a CM12.1 for my device, I need a dark/black theme which excludes theming Contacts app. (Otherwise contact names turns black and background also turns black, rendering these contact names unreadable). Any suggestion please ... ?

Droidriven · Dec 15, 2016

Sudarshankakoty said:
So any CM users here ?
Well. I compiled a CM12.1 for my device, I need a dark/black theme which excludes theming Contacts app. (Otherwise contact names turns black and background also turns black, rendering these contact names unreadable). Any suggestion please ... ?

You can try using the Dark Material theme from the Playstore then decompile your contacts app and theme the app how you want then recompile and re-sign the app and install the modified app.

Or, you can decompile all of your apps except for contacts then theme all of them except contacts then recompile all of them and reinstall all of the modified apps.

I'm not a themer so I'm not sure if there are other options.

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mr M7MD · Dec 15, 2016

hi guys

i have big problem with my phone
NEXUS 5 LTE 6.0.1

wi fi: not working = off
wi fi ip: not available
wi fi mac address: not available

from factory no rom or root or any thing
every thing in my phone is work and good exsapte wifi >>> please help :crying:

Sudarshankakoty · Dec 15, 2016

Droidriven said:
You can try using the Dark Material theme from the Playstore then decompile your contacts app and theme the app how you want then decompile and re-sign the app and install the modified app.

Or, you can theme decompile all of your apps except for contacts then theme all of them except contacts then recompile all of them and reinstall all of the modified apps.

I'm not a themer so I'm not sure if there are other options.

Thanks. It's a great idea.

shadowreroll · Dec 15, 2016

Hi can anyone tell me how to change the country of google playstore on a rooted android emulator (Using noxapp player btw)? Tried searching around but couldn't find any information on this. Thanks...

phat0074 · Dec 15, 2016

I have Sprint N5 on Android 6.0.1, is there a way to add toggles? The settings.db is not in the same place as on N5 lollipop

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