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How to get the "unknown sources" option without rooting

This morning while trying to install calleridfaker.apk onto my phone i accidentally was able to unhide the "unknown sources" option on my HTC Inspire 4G.
Here is exactly what happened:
1.> I downloaded the .apk from 4shared.com and put it onto my sdcard using a USB connection.
2.> Then I opened astro file manager (you can download this from the market for free), went into the "sdcard" folder, found the .apk file and hit install. A message popped up saying installation of 3rd party apps has been disabled for security reasons, please go to settings to change this.
3.> I hit the settings button on the pop up and it took me to 'settings->applications', and there it was right on top, "Unkown sources: Allow installation of non-Market applications". I hit the check mark and everything was good to go . I have rebooted my phone twice since then and the Unknown Sources option is still there.
P.S. This is my first post on xda-developers. Sorry if this was already known but I felt like I needed to share this with the world. Just trying to help .

KingVaroon said:
This morning while trying to install calleridfaker.apk onto my phone i accidentally was able to unhide the "unknown sources" option on my HTC Inspire 4G.
Here is exactly what happened:
1.> I downloaded the .apk from 4shared.com and put it onto my sdcard using a USB connection.
2.> Then I opened astro file manager (you can download this from the market for free), went into the "sdcard" folder, found the .apk file and hit install. A message popped up saying installation of 3rd party apps has been disabled for security reasons, please go to settings to change this.
3.> I hit the settings button on the pop up and it took me to 'settings->applications', and there it was right on top, "Unkown sources: Allow installation of non-Market applications". I hit the check mark and everything was good to go . I have rebooted my phone twice since then and the Unknown Sources option is still there.
P.S. This is my first post on xda-developers. Sorry if this was already known but I felt like I needed to share this with the world. Just trying to help .
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First, welcome to XDA.
What probably happened is your unrooted phone got the "silent" update from ATT that enables sideloading.
In any case, go root your phone anyway...

Yep, ATT has allowed/opened this option and has pushed this update to the inspire approx a month or so ago. So enjoy the new feature and welcome to xda.

I still do not have it (North Florida) - so annoyed as I install from Dropbox...

swatcop1 said:
Yep, ATT has allowed/opened this option and has pushed this update to the inspire approx a month or so ago.
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I didn't get it until last night. Better late than never.

DPLOY said:
I still do not have it (North Florida) - so annoyed as I install from Dropbox...
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You're going to have to take matters into your own hands, probably, if you're tired of waiting... Call up ATT and have them push it on the spot to your phone.
...or root.

Good luck! I have been trying to get this pushed to my phone for a week, Att tech support has been completely useless. Will be rooting phone this weekend.

devind4207 said:
Good luck! I have been trying to get this pushed to my phone for a week, Att tech support has been completely useless. Will be rooting phone this weekend.
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Hmmm. That's interesting. Others have reported it as being no longer than a 10 minute process. I guess it just depends on who you get on the phone or something.

Damn, I thought I had discovered something cool . Thanks guys for telling me before I went around making a fool out of myself, telling everybody I had "discovered" something. Lol .
Also, to everyone who hasn't gotten the 'silent update' yet, I usually tend to get updates whenever I hook up my phone to my PC as a 'Disk drive'. Would explain how I got it trying to sideload. Might wanna try that out.

KingVaroon said:
Damn, I thought I had discovered something cool . Thanks guys for telling me before I went around making a fool out of myself, telling everybody I had "discovered" something. Lol .
Also, to everyone who hasn't gotten the 'silent update' yet, I usually tend to get updates whenever I hook up my phone to my PC as a 'Disk drive'. Would explain how I got it trying to sideload. Might wanna try that out.
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Well, I don't think hooking it up to your pc was anything more than a coincidence, as that silent update was OTA. There's nothing that physically connecting the phone to a pc would do to initiate an OTA update via ATT.

yeah , i haven't gotten he update either...i'll be rooting this weekend

I know ATT used to push the updates out for all phones when you rebooted your phone. So if you never turn your phone off and on, that might be the reason for not getting the update yet.

Thanks i was looking for calleridfaker for long time couldnt remrmber name of it. Thanks
htc desire hd/inspire

Root with cf-autoroot after taking Lollipop update?

Hey everyone, I've had my eye since release and just haven't rooted it and now I took the update to 5.0.1 and my Edge is all messed up. I click on a notification such as a file I downloaded and it takes about 5 minutes before it opens. Our text messages and any other messages, i.e. Facebook, don't come through for about 30min. Amongst many other issues.
My question is, can I root with cf-autoroot even with the fact that I did the update? I've got a Sprint edge. I'd like to try and use titanium to backup and then do a clean wipe and start fresh. I think it was a bad upgrade.
Hopefully someone knows the answer.
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squick said:
Hey everyone, I've had my eye since release and just haven't rooted it and now I took the update to 5.0.1 and my Edge is all messed up. I click on a notification such as a file I downloaded and it takes about 5 minutes before it opens. Our text messages and any other messages, i.e. Facebook, don't come through for about 30min. Amongst many other issues.
My question is, can I root with cf-autoroot even with the fact that I did the update? I've got a Sprint edge. I'd like to try and use titanium to backup and then do a clean wipe and start fresh. I think it was a bad upgrade.
Hopefully someone knows the answer.
Sent from my SM-N915P using XDA Free mobile app
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Do you not use Google/Samsung backup? I'm just saying that you could do a clean wipe and the Google/Samsung backup would restore you back to whatever you have set up now?
I'm not opposed to you rooting, I do it as well but haven't yet rooted the replacement phone I just got because of a broken screen.
It was interesting that when I activated this phone that ALL of EVERYTHING I had on the previous phone (which I had Nandroid BU, TI backup, and directory BU to my PC) was automatically reinstalled on the replacement phone.
A bit of setup of NOVA Launcher and a few other minor things and I was back up and running (just without root). It DID take quite a while for the many many many apps I have to reinstall through the backup, but it was automatic.
Just wanted to give you an alternative. In fact, I'd probably want to get a good install BEFORE I rooted. I don't know (think) that rooting and resetting will necessarily fix a bad install.

beejmeister said:
Do you not use Google/Samsung backup? I'm just saying that you could do a clean wipe and the Google/Samsung backup would restore you back to whatever you have set up now?
I'm not opposed to you rooting, I do it as well but haven't yet rooted the replacement phone I just got because of a broken screen.
It was interesting that when I activated this phone that ALL of EVERYTHING I had on the previous phone (which I had Nandroid BU, TI backup, and directory BU to my PC) was automatically reinstalled on the replacement phone.
A bit of setup of NOVA Launcher and a few other minor things and I was back up and running (just without root). It DID take quite a while for the many many many apps I have to reinstall through the backup, but it was automatic.
Just wanted to give you an alternative. In fact, I'd probably want to get a good install BEFORE I rooted. I don't know (think) that rooting and resetting will necessarily fix a bad install.
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Thanks for the idea. Honestly, I've never noticed the google backup actually work. Any time I've gotten a new phone, I've usually gone off a TB backup so it's hard to trust that it's going to work. I had also wondered if I could root, then do the full wipe on cache and all and then flash a rom of choice.
I've just been away from xda for a while and not totally up on what's going on lately, what's able to be done, if there's any particulars to keep an eye out for, etc...
All I know is I'm going though a few batteries a day, notifications come at least 30 minutes late on all apps, and the phone is about to take a swim in the pool.
I've been transferring all files off the device and sd to my laptop just to be safe but I'm having some issues with that as well, lol. errors pop up about file names too long and crap or it disconnects in the middle of transferring. I'm having to use a usb drive adapter to put them on a drive first and then onto the pc. Slow going.
Thanks again

Dont know about sprint, but what you are getting is very unusual at least for unlocked. Might have no option but a fresh stock flash.

Yea, I actually 5 seconds from clicking the button. Just finished getting everything backed up that I think I could. I'd like to root after the restore. Does anyone out there know if you can root the Sprint Edge on 5.0.1 using cf?
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[Q] How do I suppress firmware updates?

I got a notification on my phone that there is a software update available for my phone. After reading up on it a bit, I decided it's not worth the hassle to update. I thought I had gone through steps to suppress firmware updates a while back but I guess not. What's the easiest way to suppress this warning? Let me know when you get the chance. Thanks, guys!

Well, a bit of an update, I found the original information on how to suppress OTA updates here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56693607&postcount=370
As I thought before, I had already gone through this step and disabled it (it was disabled in the hidden menu already). However, the update still seems to have popped up. t tried to auto update this morning but reported back that it suspects my system is rooted so it wasn't able to install. That's good news to a point (at least it didn't screw anything up) but I don't like that it even attempted it without me giving it permission.
Any idea what might have changed? Or is there a difference between an OTA update and a "software update"?

I don't know the answer but I am having the same problem. My phone keeps restarting and giving the error that it wasn't able to install. This actually happened before when I was on 4.X and eventually it bricked my phone and the AT&T store couldn't fix it so they gave me a refurb. It sucked because I didn't have all my photos backed up(I have since fixed that problem.) Now I am having the same issue and I don't want it to brick my phone. I also hate that it restarts automatically...I might need to use my phone for something at the moment. I also have tried the info in the link to disable OTA both phones and neither time has it worked. If anyone can help, please do. Thanks.

The only thing I have ever done and has worked every time is to root and then freeze a file called. "software update" or "update manager". Hope this helps.

I would actually like someone to put together an update.zip that will update us to the latest version without having to go through the hassle of flashing back to stock and what not.
I like the idea of LTE voice calls but not so much that I am willing to go through the work of starting over.
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In Titanium Backup (or similar app) find the app call "Software Update 2.3.3.1" and freeze it
That is what solved me receiving software updates and I no longer see the option in the About phone area.

[Completed] S5 neo, disable software updates??

i want to disable the software updates on the s5 i recently purchased. although its a phone i plan on using it as a tablet/camera. i would like to disable the software updates as i really do enjoy the blue interface in the pull down menu. i went into settings and chose dont automatically update software... but it sitll tries to when it senses my wifi being connected.
other than rooting so its not able to, is there anything i can do to stop the updates?
i know to many, the blue interface probably sounds like such a dumb thing to be worried about, but i just really like the way it looks and would like to keep it.
i have no sim so theres no data connection possible, only wifi. but when i pull up wifi to play a game, it starts wanting to update.
i went in to the app settings and disabled something called software updates (that it would let me, but there are 2 identically named things in the app manager, and only one let me disable it), it didnt work though, it still wants to update. i also went into the factory recovery and wiped the cache. that didnt help either....
is there anything i can do? Also been looking to get rid of the annoying battery cover message that happens on reboot

Pawprints1986 said:
i want to disable the software updates on the s5 i recently purchased. although its a phone i plan on using it as a tablet/camera. i would like to disable the software updates as i really do enjoy the blue interface in the pull down menu. i went into settings and chose dont automatically update software... but it sitll tries to when it senses my wifi being connected.
other than rooting so its not able to, is there anything i can do to stop the updates?
i know to many, the blue interface probably sounds like such a dumb thing to be worried about, but i just really like the way it looks and would like to keep it.
i have no sim so theres no data connection possible, only wifi. but when i pull up wifi to play a game, it starts wanting to update.
i went in to the app settings and disabled something called software updates (that it would let me, but there are 2 identically named things in the app manager, and only one let me disable it), it didnt work though, it still wants to update. i also went into the factory recovery and wiped the cache. that didnt help either....
is there anything i can do? Also been looking to get rid of the annoying battery cover message that happens on reboot
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Samsung backup keeps failing

though in the first couple of days of owning my S7 everything was backing up perfectly, I noticed a couple of days ago that my backup to the samsung cloud wasn't working, I've tried to do it manually but it fails every time and doesn't progress at all - it only attemps to start but all parts of it fail after loading at 0% for a few seconds.
I've looked around but the only info I could find was re-enabling all the native apps which didn't do the trick for me. any other ideas for my 2 week old S7?

I think it needs some temporary space on the internal storage. Do you have enough space on it for that?

thunder141 said:
I think it needs some temporary space on the internal storage. Do you have enough space on it for that?
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I do, yeah. Just got the device so I havent added much.
Ive also cleared the cache and signed out and back in but still having the same issue

OK than I have no idea. I use Samsung Smart Switch from my desktop pc to make backups from my galaxy connected via usb.
And sometimes make an app data backup with helium backup which I than copy to my pc to have it save.

I will backup to my computer as well but Id like to know that I can use the cloud as well

Have you checked that you have not deactivated any app? That is the only reason that is posted in several threads
And i found this: "In Galaxy S7, renabling Samsung Push Service fix the problem."

thunder141 said:
Have you checked that you have not deactivated any app? That is the only reason that is posted in several threads
And i found this: "In Galaxy S7, renabling Samsung Push Service fix the problem."
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I have tried re-enabling the two apps I had disabled but I still got the same thing, and I haven't disabled teh push service

I know this is for note 7 but eventually you finde something in this thread

thunder141 said:
I know this is for note 7 but eventually you finde something in this thread
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thats where I was looking but could figure nothing out