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[Q] vodafone smart mini

is there any recovery like cmw for vodafone smart mini(alcatel 875) ?i rooted my phone and i would like to flash a custom recovery to put an new custom rom...please if you know anything let me know..thank you very much.

Google play store is gone forever!!!!
First off, my Pantech Flex phone is rooted. Secondly, I was messing around and deleting manufacturers bloatware, when I hit the delete button on Google Playstore. Now when I download the application from android police or any other sources, it always crashes saying "unfortunately, Google play has stopped." I tried any sources as mentioned above, and tried stock resetting the phone to factory settings many times. Nothing seems to work. I tried to install a custom rom, but I wasn't smart enough the steps to do it, by the author of that instruction. I'm sorry, but I'm a noob, just like you all were at one time, so please, Please help.

gokusayin said:
First off, my Pantech Flex phone is rooted. Secondly, I was messing around and deleting manufacturers bloatware, when I hit the delete button on Google Playstore. Now when I download the application from android police or any other sources, it always crashes saying "unfortunately, Google play has stopped." I tried any sources as mentioned above, and tried stock resetting the phone to factory settings many times. Nothing seems to work. I tried to install a custom rom, but I wasn't smart enough the steps to do it, by the author of that instruction. I'm sorry, but I'm a noob, just like you all were at one time, so please, Please help.
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have you tried to delete your account from settings?try this and make a new google account,maybe that solve your problem

giannis90 said:
have you tried to delete your account from settings?try this and make a new google account,maybe that solve your problem
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Yes I have tried that, but to no avail. What I did was un installed that account and created a new one. I just don't understand what is going on...

I have TWRP
giannis90 said:
is there any recovery like cmw for vodafone smart mini(alcatel 875) ?i rooted my phone and i would like to flash a custom recovery to put an new custom rom...please if you know anything let me know..thank you very much.
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I have TWRP but i cant post link's

Stuck on lockscreen - androidui has stopped

Moto G 16GB, bought off Amazon.co.uk. Rooted and flashed 4.4.2 before it was pushed to the device (I think it was an image off US version, found it in these forums back when I got the phone). I've been getting a prompt to install some Motorola US update for a few weeks, it pops up every now and then, has gone away when I tapped "No, thanks" option. All was fine until this morning...this is a really weird problem.
I don't know if the phone updated itself overnight, but when I dismissed the alarm this morning I couldn't get past the lockscreen. I put in my lock code and the phone had the stock wallpaper, then cycled to black background, then back to stock wallpaper and then I got a pop up saying "Unfortunately, the process com.android.systemui has stopped." and I was bumped back to the PIN lockscreen. Tried again, same thing. Now it doesn't even say anything about androidui, just cycles between black background and stock wallpaper and kicks me out.
Tried hooking it up to a PC and Mac, but neither recognized it and the phone appeared to be just charging. Power cycled it a dozen times by holding down the power button for about 6 seconds and I always end up with the same problem of not getting past the lockscreen. Every time I boot the phone now it says "Android is upgrading... Optimizing app 1 of 1". This is why I thought maybe I was pushed some incompatible US update?
Underneath it all the phone works fine, got the alarm this morning, received an SMS, answered a phone call. I can even get to the camera from the lockscreen. Is there any other options besides complete wipe and starting from the beginning again?
Probably OT, but I've always had trouble with the launcher quitting, no matter what launcher I'm using, on Moto G and the previous GNex.
Any help is appreciated, I'm bummed.

Hi,
i've today the same, exactly the same problem. It's strange, because i can't reset my phone to factory default, i went to the recovery menu, then "factory", but it only rebooted...
My "solution":
I reinstalled the original firmware:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219
Then all works fine.. No matter why this error occurs.. an automatic firmware update? ..i don't know...

the exact same thing happened to me today out of nowhere and i'm about to leave on a trip, i'm so angry!

Jeez...well, looks like I'm not the only one. WTF happened? I left on a weekend trip too and I'm P.O.'d. I haven't been too religious with my backups either, that's why I was trying to find a way to back things up before wiping it all, but it looks like I'm out of luck. Guess a full wipe is in order.

hmmm i'm a complete dufus when it requires ADB, i've followed the procedures at the link but everytime i try to enter an input cmd says "mfastboot is not a recognized command"
electrictimes said:
Jeez...well, looks like I'm not the only one. WTF happened? I left on a weekend trip too and I'm P.O.'d. I haven't been too religious with my backups either, that's why I was trying to find a way to back things up before wiping it all, but it looks like I'm out of luck. Guess a full wipe is in order.
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my phone wasn't even rooted, pure stock kitkat, i'm taking my heavy ass old notebook with me and will spend my days off trying to fix this **** it seems

a.monteiro said:
hmmm i'm a complete dufus when it requires ADB, i've followed the procedures at the link but everytime i try to enter an input cmd says "mfastboot is not a recognized command"
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Take a look:
c) If the firmware file you downloaded is a .xml.zip file then download Motorola Fastboot mfastboot-v2.zip (attached to this post) and extract the .exe into the same folder as the stock firmware files (the same folder as the .bin and .img files). If your firmware is a .tar.gz file then skip this step.

I'm debating if I should go ahead and restore the firmware OR wait for Motorola to right their wrongs!

a.monteiro said:
the exact same thing happened to me today out of nowhere and i'm about to leave on a trip, i'm so angry!
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Same situation....

ifishy said:
Take a look:
c) If the firmware file you downloaded is a .xml.zip file then download Motorola Fastboot mfastboot-v2.zip (attached to this post) and extract the .exe into the same folder as the stock firmware files (the same folder as the .bin and .img files). If your firmware is a .tar.gz file then skip this step.
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I... did that, but obviously not the correct way, i'm downloading the files on my note and will try again. Maybe I should unpack the firmware files at some specific place? The instructions said nothing about this so I did nothing.
zofari said:
I'm debating if I should go ahead and restore the firmware OR wait for Motorola to right their wrongs!
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Just reminded me that my phone is still within warranty, doing this restore may void it?

a.monteiro said:
I... did that, but obviously not the correct way, i'm downloading the files on my note and will try again. Maybe I should unpack the firmware files at some specific place? The instructions said nothing about this so I did nothing.
Just reminded me that my phone is still within warranty, doing this restore may void it?
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My phone is back working..at the cost of wiping out all my data.

zofari said:
My phone is back working..at the cost of wiping out all my data.
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Guess this is the only way out of this, then. What a mystery... I wonder if this is the "Welcome to Lenovo" update 1.0 lol.

i'm getting a "missing AdbWinApi.dll" although i've installed all the applications required, any help?
edit: guess i also need the android sdk, right?
edit2: got it, just copy the dlls from the minimal adb directory into the firmware directory and it's good to go, just configuring my newly restored device, thanks all

I wonder why this happened? I was using google play store at the moment, updating the flipboard app...

a.monteiro said:
I wonder why this happened? I was using google play store at the moment, updating the flipboard app...
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I guess It's the problem of flipboard app!

My father's phone is also experiencing this issue, I can't even reset the phone to factory settings.
This occurred when I was also updating the flipboard app... seriously I'll have to RMA this...
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So I also have an issue where when you unlock the screen, it just locks back up (no android dialogue saying that com.android.systemui has crashed, but the same result).
I'm also unable to go into bootloader -> Recovery to factory reset the phone.
I stupidly tried to uninstall the flipboard app and reinstall it and it killed the phone... it's now stuck and quite annoying.
I'm 99% sure it's Flipboard.

Looks like others are having issues with Flipboard too
http://forums.androidcentral.com/moto-g/391289-something-seriously-wrong-my-moto-g.html
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I solved the issue by following the instructions here:
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/prod_answer_detail/a_id/97329/p/30,6720,9050

how could a flipboard update screw android so badly? what a strange day
edit: they seemed to have pulled the update back or fixed it though, during my restore flipboard installed without issues

Holy S*** I'm in the same situation. It's definitely the Flipboard update that caused everything. Support just acknowledged me but never gave me any solution. I'm running ART and I think that was contributing the problem. It's terrifying knowing how a single app can completely ruin your phone!!
Anyway guys, is there anyway I can save my pics and stuff before I wipe my data?

Good detective work, I now remember updating the Flipboard app w/ bunch of others as well when things were still all good. Could this be remedied if Flipboard would manage to push a working update? I really don't wanna wipe everything, and I'm not sure I can.

Word from Flipboard (via Twitter):
"Flipboard does not support the experimental OS ART at this time."

[Q] Phone rebooting while installing (or updating) apps

Hello,
I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 (GT-S7270).
It's been working fine for a while, but recently, it developed a strange and very annoying habit of rebooting when I'm installing or updating apps. The problem doesn't happen all the time, but the frequency is alarming.
Some apps never succeed in installing, no matter how many times I try (facebook, Clean Master...).
Other apps needed a few retries after each reboot to finally install them (messenger, viber...).
Some apps install or update without problems at times.
If the phone reboots when updating a new app, the app disappears afterwards, and re-installing it might not work on the first try.
I do all my app business via the official "Play Store" app. The app always finishes downloading, then begins installation, after which the screen turns black and the Samsung logo appears, declaring a reboot.
I tried resetting my mobile to factory settings; twice. But the problem persisted.
I just can't figure out the reason. I tried removing the battery, removing the SD card, switching between wifi and data internet, but the phone kept rebooting.
Anybody got a clue why this is happening, and if there's anything I can do about it???
Thanks a lot.

phone rebooting when trying to install or update facebook app
I've got the same problem, any help out there ?

ymoudallal said:
I've got the same problem, any help out there ?
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I posted on many forums and tried so many things, to no avail.
There's one last thing I plan on doing, and it's flashing my mobile back to Original Stock firmware.
I thing it got corrupted somehow, and kies is not working on my mobile, saying it was modified.
But the problem is, my internet is retarded and I can't finish downloading the firmware, not matter how many times I try, especially that the site is really annoying!
rapidgator.net/file/6c96e8ba6e813a9aeb47cfd9e3b66fda
That's the link to the file I want to download, if you have better internet, can you please download it, and then upload it to a more suitable cloud service (dropbox, google drive, onedrive...) and then sharing the link with me so I can download it and try this method for the both of us?????
Thanks a lot!

iStarlet said:
I posted on many forums and tried so many things, to no avail.
There's one last thing I plan on doing, and it's flashing my mobile back to Original Stock firmware.
I thing it got corrupted somehow, and kies is not working on my mobile, saying it was modified.
But the problem is, my internet is retarded and I can't finish downloading the firmware, not matter how many times I try, especially that the site is really annoying!
rapidgator.net/file/6c96e8ba6e813a9aeb47cfd9e3b66fda
That's the link to the file I want to download, if you have better internet, can you please download it, and then upload it to a more suitable cloud service (dropbox, google drive, onedrive...) and then sharing the link with me so I can download it and try this method for the both of us?????
Thanks a lot!
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Try this
sammobile.com/firmwares/download/38145/S7270XXUANI1_S7270OLBANI2_XSP.zip/

[Completed] Stuck in a bootloop after enabling the Knox security

So, here is the situation before I got stuck in this bootloop my device (Samsung SM-J500FN) was rooted by Kingroot which never gave any problems.
Everyone was happy until Samsung decided to keep pushing these SE Security notifications by this so called Knox security.
Anyway, after many unsuccessful attempts of trying to sabotage this Knox security, I had to give up. It wasn't long after that until I decided to just follow the notification.
Meaning I enabled the Knox Security and accepted some sort of terms and conditions, the device rebooted and it never came back on.
I've searched all over the internet desprite looking for solutions, I tried wiping the cache, I tried a factory reset even tried reinstalling the firmware using Odin but no results.
Please let me know if you have any idea of what is going on here.
Thanks in Advance!

woutflorian said:
So, here is the situation before I got stuck in this bootloop my device (Samsung SM-J500FN) was rooted by Kingroot which never gave any problems.
Everyone was happy until Samsung decided to keep pushing these SE Security notifications by this so called Knox security.
Anyway, after many unsuccessful attempts of trying to sabotage this Knox security, I had to give up. It wasn't long after that until I decided to just follow the notification.
Meaning I enabled the Knox Security and accepted some sort of terms and conditions, the device rebooted and it never came back on.
I've searched all over the internet desprite looking for solutions, I tried wiping the cache, I tried a factory reset even tried reinstalling the firmware using Odin but no results.
Please let me know if you have any idea of what is going on here.
Thanks in Advance!
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Greetings and welcome to xda, if you ask in this forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j5/help
hopefully the experts there will be able to help you. I'm guessing you've tried to odin and older firmware than the one you took the updates for
Good Luck
Sawdoctor

I screwed up, need help with HiSuite Proxy and Recovery mode

Hi,
I have a P40 and was running Google apps for a long time. Then I installed the latest EMUI update and a couple of days later the google apps stopped working and complained about the missing Play Protect. Im not sure if that is happening to everyone and somehow the google hack it not working anymore in general.
The I did a successful downgrade with HiSuite Proxy using the roms from firmfinder.ml to 10.1.0.132 and could re-apply the google hack. But after some days the google apps complained again and also my contacts wouldnt sync. I had installed an OTA update, so I had to do the downgrade again.
But this time instead of the "ANA-N29" files, I added "ELS-N29" files by accident. The installation went thru, but after that the phone was stuck in a boot loop. At that time I didnt know that I took the wrong files to update. I think I selected the correct "OS Type" for roll-back, but cant be sure. I still have the systemupdate logs, if these are helpful. I also have screens from the veneer info before the phone got bricked.
Then I setup everything to do a recovery with HiSuite and again tried to install the wrong files again. The installation went thru and didnt fix the boot-loop (of course). I realised my mistake and did the same with the correct files, but now the process in HiSuite is failing before the last step. The phone shows shortly this "Updating 5%" message, but the prompt from HiSuite Proxy "Are you sure? You can brick your phone" doesnt show up and it goes right to "Installation failed" on phone and HiSuite.
As the last step I tried different files and options in Proxy, but the installation always fails before the last steps of the recovery.
Any idea what else I could check? The recovery process was completing at least one time, but not anymore, why is that? Could a OTA update from USB-Stick work? And what version/files should I select for recovery? Can it be any version, or should I prefer the version that was installed before I started the first downgrade, which bricked the phone?
From what I read it could be a corrupted partition, any way to fix these separately?
Thanks for any help!

Hi, just follow this video, you also have links there where to download needed files. The guy speaks english really funny but tutorial works for sure, give it a try.

The video contains some useful info, but my phone is soft-bricked and wont start up, so cant use it right now.
I made some progress and the phone is booting up again, although not stable. Got help in this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...oft-brick-fixer.4082561/page-34#post-86318099

Ah, sorry, i was in a hurry and didn't read everything you wrote, when i saw famous play protect message i simply linked the video that will solve that problem and a few more.