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    Help Solved: Time/Date Reset When Booting With No Signals

    Okay, this is really kind of weird and one of my searches have turned up anything on point. I just got a new 128GB Nexus 6p (yes, I bought a 64GB one in October, but gave that to my Wife). Work requests we turn off our phones at our desk (there are no signals in our building). I do sometimes...
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    Root Partitions in TWRP

    Okay, late to the game here. Tried searching Google, here and XDA and not finding much on-point. So when I go to do a Nandroid back-up in TWRP, I suddenly see a whole bunch more choices than I used to. I was relieved to see everything looked the same in advanced wipe, so I suspect it doesn't...
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    Nexus 5 - Still Flagship After All These Years

    Despite really jonesing for a larger screen, I just passed up an Amazon sale of The Nexus 6 (Shamu) 64GB for $299. My Nexus 5, already 2 months into its third year, is still a powerhouse and performs beautifully. There is just no justification for replacing it. Its performance and reliability...
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    Android Wear and Notifications

    I don't have a smart watch and am pretty ignorant at this point about how these things work. I'd kind of like to explore this world, but there's one thing I'd like to understand before I go in. How do notifications work? Does a given smartwatch pull from the notifications on the smartphone so...
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    Root Carbon ROM (Android 4.4.4) for the Player 5

    And Lollipop CM 12 is in Alpha... :vbrolleyes: In the "Just Because We Can" department, thanks to some amazing work by the XDA Dev Meticulus, I now have Carbon ROM (Android version 4.4.4) running on my old Samsung Galaxy Player. I haven't gotten it set up yet, but here are a couple of quick...
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    Root What do you get if you flash ROM but no Gapps?

    This is mostly a "I'm curious" question, not something I would probably do outside of an experiment, but since I don't know the answer I thought I'd check with the experts around here. Suppose you flash a ROM that doesn't include Gapps but no Gapps package. Do you have something that will boot...
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    Root ROMs for the TAB S family

    I thought it might be useful to have a thread of ROMs people are trying and what they find. Traffic in this forum isn't heavy enough to make a separate thread for each ROM useful, but I'm trying to create a few useful threads for folks who come after. I ended up flashing something called...
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    • samsung galaxy tab s 10.5
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    • Forum: Smartphones
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    Root Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Rooting Guide

    I'm not really the one who should be starting this. I don't have my Tab S yet and not sure how soon I'll root, but I wanted to start a place to put the information together. If an Admin or Mod wants to step in, feel free, including modifying this post to be more in keeping with the usual root...
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    • samsung galaxy tab s 10.5
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Smartphones
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    Root TWRP, Lollipop and the Nexus 5

    Once again, I have been occupied heavily elsewhere for about a week and I may have missed something about this in the many Lollipop threads. However, this threw me for a while until I got it researched, so I thought I would post this for fellow noobs. When you create a Nandroid Backup in...
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    Root Internal memory size with Lollipop: Is This An Error (I hope)

    I just flashed Lollipop using Wugs (haven't rooted yet) , but both Settings/storage and Windows Explorer are reporting only a total of 12.55GB storage. Is that a known error, or is Lollipop somehow that big? I'm obviously hoping the former. I don't get many useful results Googling this.
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    Root Ota on DU 8.2

    Okay, it's only a notification, but Google is trying to get me to download it. Is there a way to turn this off. I wanted to wait until after I made a trip to handle a family medical matter (leave on Thursday) just so I could count what I know is a reliable setup, but if this keeps up I'm just...
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    Root My Tilapia Is A Grouper Now

    Yup, I threw away my 3G (I never used it much) and, as advised somewhere in these threads (but I don't remember where)and elsewhere, I flashed a Grouper version of TWRP and then flashed Dirty Unicorns (which I absolutely love on my Nexus 5). It was really that simple. Just change the...
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    Root SlimKat For Tilapia

    I thought it was worth un-burying this SlimKat stuff from another thread where it was buried. Maybe I should have asked a mod to actually create the breakout. Feel free to do so and delete this if that is more appropriate. I am now completely in love with this ROM. Very complete, very smooth...
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    Root Uh Oh. Dead phone?

    I don't know what happened, but I think I may have done something really stupid to compound it. My phone just stopped working. Wouldn't even turn on. No response no matter what I did with holding the power button. I hooked it up to USB cable and I did get green light. Tried to use WUGS to...
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    Root New Version of TWRP Recovery (2.8) (9.10.14)

    Fixes the trivial but annoying Backup name date problem. ;) TeamWin Projects - TWRP 2.7 - Nexus 5 | TeamWin
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