Note: Why not try the Froyo NAND Release by Stratulus
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831178
Its safer then trying this one..as there are a few bricked pads from this release.. so.. beaware before you play with it..
Thought I would prune this out of the Rom development thread as this way we can leave stragulus & friends to keep working on his developments..
Post all your comments to here on this new update so that we can work out the improvements and not so improvements to the update
As of 7th Feb there is still not any links to a stable SDcard upgrade.. as soon as I find one will post the links..
This Manual upgrade link is in part to the information out of this site..
http://www.slatedroid.com/index.php?topic=15457.0
the links posted below
Burntool
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?3572bd7zfjo0r0y
Firmware version 2.1-update1 v1.9:#2852 for the Flytouch II
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?3bkklw36b1414nd
Please use them at your own risk. cheers
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Just did it.. but. using the USB cable method..
As have been said.. change the sequence from the MSword file
1: Load the drivers for Uburn .. IUW driver in the directory otg file=secbulk.inf (xp go to dir.. right click on file then “install”)
I rebooted my xp machine at this point… ) plug in the pad.. XP should find it as a hard drive.. Might even make you install the secbulk.sys file..
2: Burn Uboot .. (no 4 in the MSfile..) I burnt the 0.6.1.5_1.4.587_GT2005 version (as yet not sure if thats the right one.. will find out as I play with the thing)
Then my pad kinda freaked out on the reboot with some screen tests.. it should tell you that this will take 2 minutes.. Mine even had a split screen thing going..
Note: I didn’t close the IUW program at anytime.. and kept plugging and unplugging things in during the process..
2: do the easy burn process as per No 1 ..MSword file.. let it burn everything in…
3: Do the reboot.. once again.. weird screen tests .. lots of blinking going on..
(DDRII study ok.. Press back.. a 615 number to the right bottom of screen.. )
Little android with a curser blinking for a while.. Then a new look Metallic Android boot screen..
Took a while to go through this process.. Some sounds then into the new look screen…
K.. hope this saves someone time.. I have just figured that with all these updates I most as well use the USB cable method now.. as the sdcard method means you have to deal with burning to a dedicated SD card..
I used this method on one of the other updates then found that the card was screwed.. i.e it had a was a bootable card.. so couldnt stay in the top slot.. and I kept on putting it in there by mistake.. if you have problems with your card and you need to bring it back to a clean slate.. use this..
HDD Low Level Format Tool
http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
Don't try using the right click format in Windows.. it will just give you pain..
K.. its looking good.. noticed that its got VPN services now.. thats great news.. as I use it on my phone.. and was going nuts trying programs over the last few days to try to get a VPN going.. and if you are doing a stint in China like me at the moment.. you gotta have a VPN to do normal things..
Plenty of other new things in there.. and looking forward to playing with it..
I would almost say by the feel and look that we now have something worth playing with..
of course.. most of us on this thread (regulars) will be flicking these off and getting a new one within 6 months..
but its been fun playing with it as it is..
My wish now is.. can someone work out how we can get some Ram on board.. can it be done?
a little soldering?
Can it be done? I don't know enough about chips apart from popping them in and out.. but.. hey.. I would give it a go..
as this is why I brought this in the first place..
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This was taking from the Sladedroid thread.. Creds got to Duno..
Ok, I downloaded the 2 files:
MID-2.1-update1 v1.9-2852-20110110.rar
iuw1.1-english.rar
Extracted them to a new folder.
Tried to use the new burntool to burn WWE10B_Android_393477-v9full.ius direct.
It burned, but with no changings!
Then I used the 2nd way, to make a bootable sd-card (2GB) with the new burntool.
Booted with the sd-card, Pad wrote something with updating and reboot, but no changings!
Then I decided to update the u-boot ... hmmm ... (be carefull with that!)
I used the doc in the iuw1.1-english.rar - UIWxyz-2003.doc and decided to use the u-boot-nand.bin from the
0.6.1.2_1.4.587_OV2655 folder.
(didn't know if that is/was the right file, it was a risc!)
Burned the U0 = /0.6.1.2_1.4.587_OV2655/u-boot-nand.bin
rebooted the Pad (incl. sd-card) and then it was possible for me to make the update.
During the updates are some tests from the system, I think graphic and ram ...
After reboot it was hanging on "ANDROID" (screen), was waiting about 10 min. ... then I made a reset
Pad was booting again ... "ANDROID" (screen)... then screen calibration ...
To make the sd-card full usable again delete all partitions from the sd-card on windows with the own
system tools from windows, you don't need to download a software to create/delete or format a partition on windows!
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New in this Rom..
1: No more registration hack needed.. they seem to have moved away from this.. but
2: infomarket - they have you to sign up to their new market for apps.
3: Webtv - Good idea and I can see where they are going with it. I used PPTV here in China when my Cable goes down.. so it would be nice to have some TV on the pad when I have a good connection going..
4: VPN service - Same as on the Droidphones.. this is great as now allows me to use my VPN service
5: Mypad - New file management software - getting there.. nice menu's for editing and shifting files -- Seems to be the "Helen browser.apk" (someone else can confirm this please??) as I have had a few force closes on it when going into Titaniumbackup folders and it sees the zipped files..
6: New Videoplayer - seems to not to be calling CCplayer -- does a scan of your drives and or any usb drives you plug in.. I tested a flv's, wmv, avi, mp4 all worked fine..
7:"APKManager" Also I noticed that the apk's I loaded up with "appmonster pro" as not showing in any of the screens.. but they show installed in appmonster and also in my "folder organiser" setups.. Strange.. its like the "APKManager" wants to have charge of the system.. I wouid guess that this is tied in with the "infotm market" as none of the apps show in that either..
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l33tlinuxh4x0r said:
I am attempting to flash. I think that it might not be working thought because it said board undetected however it appeared to flash correctly. I am now up and it appears that I was right that it did NOT flash. The version number is the same... I'm about to flash a sdcard and see if i can flash that way.
Still no luck... Anyone have any luck flashing this new firmware??
EDIT: flashing instructions... Flash the u0 first then reboot your device will run a 2 minute test. After that it will still be wowpad. Next flash like the instructions instruct. you should now get a very stock android boot screen. That is where I am currently... I will let you know when it boots. First boot takes a while as always.
This is also the most responsive rom that I have used so far. You may have to reflash the U0 to get the camera to work. I flashed 0V2655
One more thing... I was considering getting rid of my tablet due to lag and uselessness but now after flashing this rom I am gonna keep it and use it more. Just my 2 cents letting you know how much batter this rom is.
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l33tlinuxh4x0r said:
Once you flash U0 you can flash from sdcard but you need U0 first Also you need to make the sdcard with burn tool but the good news is that it is a new version of burn tool.
EDIT: anyone have any ideas on how to extract the ius file so that we can grab the img files from it?
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L33.. I did a bit of a check on ius files and not sure if I headed in to the right area.. but it seems they are part of the PHP family..
I got to this thread and dug a bit deeper but then it all started to go down hill.. lol.. I think we need a dedicated Programmer that is used to dealing with these files..
http://iuscommunity.org/faq/
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wahliow said:
With universal root v1.6.1, it shows your device is rooted. Than I use Root Explorer.
Not sure, what is USB debugging is all about.
Have you tried the WEB TV, quite cool.
Market is working but I prefer AppBrain.
wow at least someone tried it and is happy with it.
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l33tlinuxh4x0r said:
Once you flash U0 you can flash from sdcard but you need U0 first Also you need to make the sdcard with burn tool but the good news is that it is a new version of burn tool.
EDIT: anyone have any ideas on how to extract the ius file so that we can grab the img files from it?
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dgcruzing said:
if you want to change from the stock "home" launcher, go into system-apps in root and change the "launcher.apk"
I got my flying now with ADW.. the stock one is nice but stills seems to have a bit of bloat to it..
lol you can see I had to much time on my hands.. so have been able to burn this thing like 3 times today from my screwups..
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Edit : I have gone back to stock.. Had problems loading ADW after a few boots..
started getting a system error I think it was coming out of Settingsprovider or setupwizard apk's.. I didnt document it as was getting a bit tired with the rebotting of it..
Anyone else can have a crack at it and once it is confirmed that there is a stable switch of a stable swop.. let me know and I will give it a go
Wifi noise still there.. but not as bad... it used to be that the hiss was going all the time.. but its not now.. and then the wifi.. tick tick tick. comes on once you turn it on.. and I mean.. once you turn it on in software not switch.. as I have been testing it with the switch on..
Edits: Got ADW going and setup again, but its from the first boot screen I have to launch it.. I just setup up a widget and so once system boots I tap it and it now goes in to my normal setup that I like to use..
haven't figured out which system apk's to change to allow it to take command of the Home button.. but it is working and seems stable..
I have it set with 8x8 rows, columns, with the 5 zoom screens working..
Confirmed that I can "touch" screen and add Widgets to the screen.. which is something that System home wont let you do..
I use "folder organizer" on it.. with settings of "widget size" 4x2 then in the widget settings I am using 5 rows.. and a setting of 4x2..
The nice thing about this is that I can tap it to "edit" and do a manual resizing of the box.
Note: This next Procedure is still unstable.. do not try it unless you have a Task manager that is loaded to the top bar, as you will need to use it if your tablet starts to loop out on you..
I am using Battery saver by easyfilter as it is letting me grab it from the top and kill processes..
Edit: just loaded "Multitasking Pro" on to it.. and got it to take over the home key when pushed..and the little home icon to the right hand side so now I can jump between the screens I want and not getting pushed by "home" to go to their so called wowhome.. (or the new Launcher.apk).. so once I hit home it pops up in the middle of the screen and gives me a srollable inlay list of programs that are open.. so now it feels a bit like my HTC EVO with Sense..nice..
I don't notice any problems so far and or decrease in speeds..
Edit: On booting I get to the Pause screen, it sits here fine and loads up everything in the background.. then when I flick to go to home screen I am getting forced closes of "multitasker".. (I would say it is fighting for resources with the Wowhome.... thus got to use the task manager to close things.. funny thing here is that it is not actually closing "ADW" or "multitasker" as once I clear the programs that pop up it then boots into my home ADW screen with "Multi-tasking" working and the Wowhome killed..
This is nice, but.. its the boot process that is a painful.. as I only get about 6-8 attempts to rip down the Task manager before the Tab freezes..
Next step is to rename "launcher.apk" to see if I can release it from trying to claim the resources that I want the other two to take.. so here goes...
Nope.. didn't do anything.. still getting force close's on the multitasking.. but at least by using the above method I am not having to do a factory reset as I can kill the looping process.. So now its just a matter of trial and error.. rename everything that usually starts on the wow-home and see which one is getting in the way of "multitasking"
Edit Took Multitasking off.. had to do a manual delete of it, as the program installers didn't let me take it out.. but once done I hit the "home key" and it gave me the usual option of what do I want to "map" to it.. so now I mapped it to ADW and seems to be be running fine..
confirmed that after 5 boots ADW is now home and I have renamed "launcher.apk" back to original state, will try to transfer some screen shots over the next few days..
time out from this thing..
I BURNED NEW VERSION of the PROGRAM, ALL PASSED FINE, BUT did NOT WORK CAMERA, I BEGAN burn u0 AS it is RECOMMENDED In DESCRIPTION To PROGRAMEE. AFTER BURN u-boot.bin GT2005, HAS GOT BRICK!!!
ON BUTTON POWER does NOT, NO VIBRATIONS , TRIED ANY COMBINATIONS, ALL ELSE BRICK, HELP WHO CAN!!!
WHAT have SAID HERE http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831178&page=134 I killed MY flash!!!
AS NOW I CAN brighten HIS ? and can I this does their own power not using special device, which beside me simply no!
DD,
Would love to help you but I dont know what you are trying to say..
its seems you are getting a "no response" from your power buttons..
but you are also saying that you can see your Battery meter, Which kinda tells me you are seeing the header but no other screen..
I got this too when I screwed around with the change of loader to ADW..
What I did was re: burn the WWE10B_Android_393477-v9full.ius
This was to reset all the files and operation system..
I also had the problems with the camera and burnt both of the drivers for them..
works now..
Also, as a note.. I had some problems with the on/off button.. i.e not turning off right away.. what I did was just leave it for a few minutes. then Push and hold it for 4 seconds or so.. then release it.. I made sure all things plugged in to it where pulled out.. things like the USB mouse, keyboard or USB to USB cords..
my button combinations are
"Power+Home" ... gets me to sd options and factory reset
To burn recover press "Power+Home+Back" and hold it.
Then "back" to get it to burn a recover process..
K.. hope you get it back..
shall tell as I did
1)folder OV2655 burned u-boot-nand.bin
2) burned WWE10B_Android_393477-v9full.ius
board was loaded all were fine, only did not work camera.
I burned folder GT2005 u-boot-nand.bin
device was included but camera on former did not work!!!
whereupon I burned folder GT2005 u-boot.bin
the rally of the rebooting device was not included and ceased to respond to any actions. single charger at connection, fires red indicator of the charge to batteries!!!
For me just happens the same. I burn the U0 flash with the u-boot-nand.bin from OV2655 folder and everythng was fine; on the screen appear the message that i could remove the OTG and reboot but...then my FT2 just do not reboot. It only vibrates continuosly (more that one hour then I hit the reset just to stop it) without going on. The screen remain blank. I've tried all the possibile buttons combination in order to reach the programing state or the recovery console without success. I can charge the battery cause I can see the redlight on the pad...I've prepared a 2gb SD with the rom WWE10B_Android_393477-v9full.ius, made with iuw, and is inserted in the boot tf reader, without success
djidai said:
shall tell as I did
1)folder OV2655 burned u-boot-nand.bin
2) burned WWE10B_Android_393477-v9full.ius
board was loaded all were fine, only did not work camera.
I burned folder GT2005 u-boot-nand.bin
device was included but camera on former did not work!!!
whereupon I burned folder GT2005 u-boot.bin
the rally of the rebooting device was not included and ceased to respond to any actions. single charger at connection, fires red indicator of the charge to batteries!!!
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DD,
You say you burnt the "GT2005 u-boot.bin " ...
This could be your problem.. as no where in any instructions I have read so far says.. "burn -- u-boot.bin"
But the pictures and the writing in the MSword file clearly says...
4. Buring of Uboot
Get the OTG tools ready, u-boot-nand.bin files for 10- or 8-inch tablets; connect the devices and open the IUW software as follows:
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As I don't know enough about the .bin files, you could only hope that someone more knowledgeable chimes in with a fix for you..
As said before, I burnt GT2005 - u-boot-nand.bin - 1st... had only green for a camera..
then burnt OV2655 - u-boot-nand.bin - 2nd.. and it works like a charm..
So the moral of the story at this stage ( and it might be going in to the FAQ at the top)... dont Burn - U-boot.bin.. be careful of what you are doing.. as you could brick your flytouch...
What are these GT2005/OV .. directories you are talking about?
The rom I download has 0.6.1.2 and 0.6.1.5 directories containg u-boot-nand.bin files.
I can confirm that it's required to burn one of those to U0 first, before using the easyburn setting to flash the entire .ius file. Flashing the pad seems to take 2 steps: 1. Upload file to be flashed to device. 2. Flash uploaded file to nand. Without burning U0 first with the new u-boot version, it will *NOT* do step 2. But once you *have* flashed the new u-boot, you don't have to do it again, ever. Just reflash the *.ius file using easyburn.
To confirm that step 2 takes place, the pad will display texts and progress bars on its screen after the IUW tool has uploaded the .ius file. This takes a few minutes at most.
In the rom dev thread I have explained how to extract the ramdisk, kernel and system images from the .ius file. I'll move it to here:
stragulus said:
I'll have a go at it later if no one has beat me to it
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uImage:
Code:
dd if=WWE10B_Android_393477-v9full.ius bs=1 skip=260096 count=2681856 of=uImage
ramdisk.img:
Code:
{ dd if=WWE10B_Android_393477-v9full.ius bs=1 skip=503296 count=64 ; dd if=WWE10B_Android_393477-v9full.ius bs=503360 skip=1 | gzip -cd - |gzip ; } > ramdisk.img
system.img (gzip header = 0x1f8b08, got it wrong before):
Code:
dd if=WWE10B_Android_393477-v9full.ius bs=3352128 skip=1 | gzip -cd - > system.img
You can use these images directly in burntool, though I think you have to flash U0 before they will actually work. Without doing that, I'm seeing the old boot image (green screen) somehow.
I was wondering whether someone form the gurus could have transformed the existing 2852 firm into a one upgradable vias a SD card (in the form of update.zip). I am afraid i will not dare do all this complicated steps (seeing already 3 owners of bricked flytouches). Thank you!
What are these GT2005/OV .. directories you are talking about?
The rom I download has 0.6.1.2 and 0.6.1.5 directories containg u-boot-nand.bin files.
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stragulus, you would be seeing what we all have got, if they are downloading the same files..
0.6.1.5_1.4.587_GT2005
6x files.. u-boot-nand.bin, u-boot.img, u-boot.bin, spl.S, u-boot.S, u-boot-spl.bin
0.6.1.2_1.4.587_OV2655
2x files.. u-boot-nand.bin & u-boot.img
I think the problem is that they didn't read the instructions before loading files in to the IUW program
sdedo71 said:
For me just happens the same. I burn the U0 flash with the u-boot-nand.bin from OV2655 folder and everythng was fine; on the screen appear the message that i could remove the OTG and reboot but...then my FT2 just do not reboot. It only vibrates continuosly (more that one hour then I hit the reset just to stop it) without going on. The screen remain blank. I've tried all the possibile buttons combination in order to reach the programing state or the recovery console without success. I can charge the battery cause I can see the redlight on the pad...I've prepared a 2gb SD with the rom WWE10B_Android_393477-v9full.ius, made with iuw, and is inserted in the boot tf reader, without success
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I quote myself cause the same happened to me. I've used the right .bin ( u-boot-nand.bin) file from the folder OV2655 and everything was fine until I reboot. Then my pad only vibrate...
sdedo71 said:
I quote myself cause the same happened to me. I've used the right .bin ( u-boot-nand.bin) file from the folder OV2655 and everything was fine until I reboot. Then my pad only vibrate...
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Ouch.. any more info you can give? You used the supplied IUW tool? On what OS? Native, or in a virtual machine..? It would also help to know the board revision, which you can find if you open up the device. There's a guide on that somewhere. Can anyone else who has this problem also report this information?
I flashed the other version (GT2500) to U0 without any problems. Except that the camera doesn't work.
Here are some info.
Os Windows XP Pro
Soft for burn IUW tool
No Virtual machine
I cannot read the board rev (my pad is still closed...)
Hope someone could find a solution...
Flashing U0 is risky.. I wonder if those problems could be due to bad bits in the nand flash? Those pads really should have a non-flashable routine that allows one to reflash the bootloaders. Perhaps they can still be saved with a jtag cable..??
I was thinking the same...Do you know if there is some sort of jtag interface such as routers or Satellite STB? I made my personal jtag interface some years ago just to operate on some devices adn must be somewhere in my desktop...
who will answer? my device possible to return to lifes ?
Is there an app that could take a video of, lets say, max 10 or 15 minutes and when it reaches that time it would just overwrite the same file from the beginning? So I could record for an hour or so and when I hit stop there would be only last 10 or 15 minutes saved...
This would be useful to me because I would like to record while driving in case something happens or if I there is something interesting on the road, but I don't want to delete old files all the time or to worry if there is going to be enough space on SD card for longer trips.
Thanks...
Unfortunately I wouldn't even know where to start, but I would imagine something like this is achievable with tasker.
Tasker? I know its powerful, but I can't image what should I do with it to make it do what I want... I don't have tasker, so maybe I am missing something...
Before I buy it, do you know this can be done?
Just a notification if anyone else is interested... I found what I needed a few days ago. I doesn't overwrite, but deletes oldest files when it reaches limit, and with a tap you can save current file...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dailyroads.v
So its been like this since stock. Drag n drop music to several different directories trying to find the path that works. /music, /media/music, /media/mp3. Just doesn't show up. if I navigate to the music files manually they will play but only 1 at a time. I want to just hit shuffle and put phone off to the side. Any ideas?
Edit: solved, for whatever reason there was a .nomedia file on the root of my sd card and apparently it makes all sub folders invisible.
You know, this happened with me as well with this phone. But not any other android device I've had (This is the fourth). Is this something that the device is shipping with? It's kinda weird.
Did a search for Mediaserver in this sub forum, and didn't find anything.
Is anyone else having an issue? I'm down to 15% battery after 6.5 hours, which is weird, considering i only use the phone for maybe an hour total here and there.
igorr35 said:
Did a search for Mediaserver in this sub forum, and didn't find anything.
Is anyone else having an issue? I'm down to 15% battery after 6.5 hours, which is weird, considering i only use the phone for maybe an hour total here and there.
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Try wiping the data for it and rebooting.
No problems here.
Although I hear the Samsung S4 (and perhaps other phones) suffer from this process using a lot of processing power.
I hear it's due to duplicate music (media?) files or some funky named music files.
Other causes have been due to these apps and maybe others: Asphalt 8 / Yahoo Weather app
Try restarting into safe mode to see if it helps. Hold down the power off option (the menu you get holding down the physical power button).
igorr35 said:
Did a search for Mediaserver in this sub forum, and didn't find anything.
Is anyone else having an issue? I'm down to 15% battery after 6.5 hours, which is weird, considering i only use the phone for maybe an hour total here and there.
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Mediaserver will show up for two reasons:
1. You're listening to music or audio
2. You have a corrupt file on your phone and it gets stuck.
Your's is probably number 2. Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is find the file. It doesn't even have to be an audio file. Easiest way is to back the storage up to a computer, delete everything on the phone..verify the issue goes away and then, if so, slowly put stuff back on until you can find the offending file.
This is true of all Android phones. Happens sometimes.
Felnarion said:
Mediaserver will show up for two reasons:
1. You're listening to music or audio
2. You have a corrupt file on your phone and it gets stuck.
Your's is probably number 2. Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is find the file. It doesn't even have to be an audio file. Easiest way is to back the storage up to a computer, delete everything on the phone..verify the issue goes away and then, if so, slowly put stuff back on until you can find the offending file.
This is true of all Android phones. Happens sometimes.
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That's the thing I didn't put ANY files on the phone. Everything was re-downloaded from GP. I didn't move any backups over at all either, no pictures, music, anything...
It seemed to have stopped once I force closed GP Music.
My son's Nexus 5 mysteriously "lost" all its data and settings yesterday. However, when he switched it off overnight, everything was back as normal today - with one change: now it has "EeSee" appearing as per the attached screenshots. I can't find anything from a Google search about what this might be but am worried that it might be the cause or associated with this glitch. Does anyone have any idea?
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My son's Nexus 5 mysteriously "lost" all its data and settings yesterday. However, when he switched it off overnight, everything was back as normal today - with one change: now it has "EeSee" appearing as per the attached screenshots. I can't find anything from a Google search about what this might be but am worried that it might be the cause or associated with this glitch. Does anyone have any idea?
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I don't know why it would do that.
See if you can rename the folder. just looks like the folder has been renamed.
open the folder like your second picture and tap on the EeSee and then the keyboard should pop up.
see if you can rename it.
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I don't know why it would do that.
See if you can rename the folder. just looks like the folder has been renamed.
open the folder like your second picture and tap on the EeSee and then the keyboard should pop up.
see if you can rename it.
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Thanks - I have renamed it back to Google+... but still wonder why/how it could change like that!
Weird. I suspect malware for some reason. I'd make sure everything is backed up and factory reset or even reflash all of Lollipop and wipe the whole phone out personally.