A few observations from new user - LineageOS Questions & Answers

I recently installed Lineage OS on my Samsung Galaxy S3 (D2ATT), which had previously been running CM13 with no problems. After installation I noted several issues:
1. Automatic Time Zone resulted in GMT, where I am in GMT-5. I had to manually set time zone to get correct time.
2. The Lonely Planet Guides app would not run, failing during initialization with an error message asking me if I wanted to restart or submit a report (done).
3. During pairing with my 2015 Toyota Highlander , loading contacts went into a loop (rotating circle) and would never complete. Trying to restart it resulted in an error message that an error occurred and the load aborted.
Reloading my Nandroid backup of CM13 all of these functions worked normally again.
The issues above were the only failures encountered during my two day test. Generally speaking I was impressed, but ended up taking a backup of LineageOS and reverting back to CM13.
If I can be of assistance in providing any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me at jajohn80 at gmail <dot> com.
Thank you for your efforts into breathing new life into my old product.

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Installation failure -18

Dear All!
I have reported already that I have some problems with my phone to install new apps and to update certain others. First of all, I set back the command installLocation to "0" - this has apparently helped to install new apps. However, this did not solve the update issue. Apps which have been shifted to the SD card need to be moved back to the internal storage before an update can be led successfully. Today, for the first time, I got a failure notice: "Installation failure -18". Does this information help in order to resolve the issue? Any ideas?
Kind regards,
Glumardok
Market installation problems
I am also having market installation problems I am receiving the following error when trying to install apps "Installation unsuccessful"
I have done a hard reset and installed most of my previous apps but when I try to load new apps I get the "Installation Unsuccessful error"
I have also tried many soft restarts with little success
Can anyone tell me why this is happening

Help with Note 4 please

I may have a bricked phone on my hands, my fault I guess.
Although, I feel TWRP should share at least some of the blame.
I'm hoping someone can help to get me going again.
Last Xmas I got a refurbished Note 4 from Ebay and followed directions
here to root it. This all went well, I put TWRP 3.0.2 and Jasmine on it,
and it has worked just fine since then.
A couple days ago I realized I hadn't made a Nandroid backup of my phone
lately so I went into TWRP and did so. This went just fine and I stored
the backup on the external SD card.
A few hours later I bought a cheap home controller from Ebay. The controller
brand name is "Vera" and despite all of the negative comments on Google Play
I went ahead and installed the app. For the next day or two my phone began to
hang, stall, hesitate, whatever... and I remembered installing that app from
Google play so I went into the app manager and selected the uninstall option.
This caused the phone to hang indefinitely, I had to cycle the power button to
regain control. I then went back to Google Play and downloaded an uninstaller
program, told it to uninstall the vera app. It tried for a long time but
eventually gave up. "Uninstall failed" was all it would say.
So to stop this Vera app from hanging my phone I ran a freeze program ("Freeze"
is the actual name of the program) and had the vera app frozen. This worked, my
phone began to respond normally again. But I didn't like having this bad software
in my phone and that is when I remembered the recent TWRP backup.
I decided to do a complete restore with TWRP. TWRP did a restore of boot - (success),
recovery - (success), system - (success), data - "ERROR extractTarFork() process ended
with ERROR=255". Thanks TWRP, that really tells me a lot...
I repeated the restore effort a total of three times and same results. Google
wasn't much help, one suggestion was to unmount the data partition and try again.
Same results. Same error. Another suggestion was “stop and learn how to fix it”, well
sure, but I need a solution right now, I don’t have time right now for the learning part.
This is probably my first *big* mistake, I exited TWRP to see If I could boot
the OS and maybe fix it from there, (factory restore or something...). As you might
have guessed, it wouldn't boot the system with an incomplete data partition. I
suspected it too but I was desperate to try something. It would have been nice if TWRP
had warned me not to exit, instead of just saying "error 255..." because now it wont
boot back into recovery, just hangs. Odin mode appears to be working but I suspect it isn't.
It looks like it enters odin mode just fine, but odin can't see it.
So here is where it stands at the moment:
SYSTEM - Wont boot. Shows the Samsung logo, shows "custom", hangs at this point.
RECOVERY- Wont enter recovery mode. Small text in upper left says it is entering recovery
mode then it hangs.
ODIN/DOWNLOAD - Appears to enter this mode, usual screen appears, will not communicate
with Odin, will not communicate with adb.
One other note, the external sd card has a copy of the twrp log file written to it, as well
as the nandroid backup. But plugging the sd card into an adapter and then into a pc... It
says it can’t read it, and would I like to format it(?).
And of course there is valuable information on the phone.
I've run out of ideas, I'm asking anyone who is still reading this lengthy message(apologies)
for any other options, suggestions, any hope at all, instead of just throwing it in the trash.
Thanks for reading. I hope the dialog was understandable.
RT
UPDATE:
Progress. I have odin talking with the phone now, was able to re-flash TWRP and boot into it.
Still getting error 255. I am under the impression that this means I am out of space???
I pulled the recovery logs with adb, here is the relevant lines:
==> extracting: //data/app/radiotime.player-1/lib/arm/libtunein.uap.so (file size 5499572 bytes)
I:Unable to extract tar archive '/external_sd/TWRP/BACKUPS/657e54fc/2017-04-08--07-58-24_JasmineROM_v7.0-MMB29M.N910VVRU2CPF3/data.ext4.win001'
Error during restore process.
I:Error extracting '/external_sd/TWRP/BACKUPS/657e54fc/2017-04-08--07-58-24_JasmineROM_v7.0-MMB29M.N910VVRU2CPF3/data.ext4.win001' in thread ID 0
I:Error extracting split archive.
Error during restore process.
extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255
I:Set page: 'action_complete'
Iperation_end - status=1
I still don't understand "error 255" well enough to proceed. Google is not a wealth of information when it comes to this subject. Any suggestions on how to proceed are greatly appreciated.
thanks!
RT
LAST UPDATE:
I want to thank everyone here for all the help. Or the lack there of.
Since I had Odin and TWRP both working, I reconstructed the phone from scratch.
Re-rooted and re-installed Jasmine. So I am back up and running now, I just need
to get all the apps re-installed and configured.
But I must say that I am really disappointed with the lack of support from this forum.
It used to be that people were falling all over each other to help others out.
But 3 days and 49 views and not one of you had anything to say.
I guess that's what happens to all forums sooner or later, the newbies here don't know what
to say and are just looking for answers to their own issues, and the regulars become jaded
over time and can't be bothered anymore.
I used to think this forum was awesome, but now its just another forum like all the rest.
I will look to other websites for any future learning.
To the Admin: (If you can be bothered for a moment)You can close this thread, I consider
the issue resolved, and you can close my account too, I won't be back.
Good luck to you guys.
RT
RootieTootie said:
I may have a bricked phone on my hands, my fault I guess.
Although, I feel TWRP should share at least some of the blame.
I'm hoping someone can help to get me going again.
Last Xmas I got a refurbished Note 4 from Ebay and followed directions
here to root it. This all went well, I put TWRP 3.0.2 and Jasmine on it,
and it has worked just fine since then.
A couple days ago I realized I hadn't made a Nandroid backup of my phone
lately so I went into TWRP and did so. This went just fine and I stored
the backup on the external SD card.
A few hours later I bought a cheap home controller from Ebay. The controller
brand name is "Vera" and despite all of the negative comments on Google Play
I went ahead and installed the app. For the next day or two my phone began to
hang, stall, hesitate, whatever... and I remembered installing that app from
Google play so I went into the app manager and selected the uninstall option.
This caused the phone to hang indefinitely, I had to cycle the power button to
regain control. I then went back to Google Play and downloaded an uninstaller
program, told it to uninstall the vera app. It tried for a long time but
eventually gave up. "Uninstall failed" was all it would say.
So to stop this Vera app from hanging my phone I ran a freeze program ("Freeze"
is the actual name of the program) and had the vera app frozen. This worked, my
phone began to respond normally again. But I didn't like having this bad software
in my phone and that is when I remembered the recent TWRP backup.
I decided to do a complete restore with TWRP. TWRP did a restore of boot - (success),
recovery - (success), system - (success), data - "ERROR extractTarFork() process ended
with ERROR=255". Thanks TWRP, that really tells me a lot...
I repeated the restore effort a total of three times and same results. Google
wasn't much help, one suggestion was to unmount the data partition and try again.
Same results. Same error. Another suggestion was “stop and learn how to fix it”, well
sure, but I need a solution right now, I don’t have time right now for the learning part.
This is probably my first *big* mistake, I exited TWRP to see If I could boot
the OS and maybe fix it from there, (factory restore or something...). As you might
have guessed, it wouldn't boot the system with an incomplete data partition. I
suspected it too but I was desperate to try something. It would have been nice if TWRP
had warned me not to exit, instead of just saying "error 255..." because now it wont
boot back into recovery, just hangs. Odin mode appears to be working but I suspect it isn't.
It looks like it enters odin mode just fine, but odin can't see it.
So here is where it stands at the moment:
SYSTEM - Wont boot. Shows the Samsung logo, shows "custom", hangs at this point.
RECOVERY- Wont enter recovery mode. Small text in upper left says it is entering recovery
mode then it hangs.
ODIN/DOWNLOAD - Appears to enter this mode, usual screen appears, will not communicate
with Odin, will not communicate with adb.
One other note, the external sd card has a copy of the twrp log file written to it, as well
as the nandroid backup. But plugging the sd card into an adapter and then into a pc... It
says it can’t read it, and would I like to format it(?).
And of course there is valuable information on the phone.
I've run out of ideas, I'm asking anyone who is still reading this lengthy message(apologies)
for any other options, suggestions, any hope at all, instead of just throwing it in the trash.
Thanks for reading. I hope the dialog was understandable.
RT
UPDATE:
Progress. I have odin talking with the phone now, was able to re-flash TWRP and boot into it.
Still getting error 255. I am under the impression that this means I am out of space???
I pulled the recovery logs with adb, here is the relevant lines:
==> extracting: //data/app/radiotime.player-1/lib/arm/libtunein.uap.so (file size 5499572 bytes)
I:Unable to extract tar archive '/external_sd/TWRP/BACKUPS/657e54fc/2017-04-08--07-58-24_JasmineROM_v7.0-MMB29M.N910VVRU2CPF3/data.ext4.win001'
Error during restore process.
I:Error extracting '/external_sd/TWRP/BACKUPS/657e54fc/2017-04-08--07-58-24_JasmineROM_v7.0-MMB29M.N910VVRU2CPF3/data.ext4.win001' in thread ID 0
I:Error extracting split archive.
Error during restore process.
extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255
I:Set page: 'action_complete'
Iperation_end - status=1
I still don't understand "error 255" well enough to proceed. Google is not a wealth of information when it comes to this subject. Any suggestions on how to proceed are greatly appreciated.
thanks!
RT
LAST UPDATE:
I want to thank everyone here for all the help. Or the lack there of.
Since I had Odin and TWRP both working, I reconstructed the phone from scratch.
Re-rooted and re-installed Jasmine. So I am back up and running now, I just need
to get all the apps re-installed and configured.
But I must say that I am really disappointed with the lack of support from this forum.
It used to be that people were falling all over each other to help others out.
But 3 days and 49 views and not one of you had anything to say.
I guess that's what happens to all forums sooner or later, the newbies here don't know what
to say and are just looking for answers to their own issues, and the regulars become jaded
over time and can't be bothered anymore.
I used to think this forum was awesome, but now its just another forum like all the rest.
I will look to other websites for any future learning.
To the Admin: (If you can be bothered for a moment)You can close this thread, I consider
the issue resolved, and you can close my account too, I won't be back.
Good luck to you guys.
RT
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sorry we missed your call gratz on the working phone . you know what they say "give a man a fish he ****s up his phone .....

Stuck in setup wizard after factory reset

Alright, hello everyone,
I'm having a pretty weird issue here. I've flashed my DUK-L09 and the C432B183 EU Firmware, everything was running fine.
I couldn't make a backup of the /data/ partition though, someone told me to wipe the data to decrypt it, but nothing came good after this.
So I tried to flash back the old recovery image by extracting it, flashing it via fastboot, as I would normally do; enter the factory reset, run it.
Everything is good, it goes up to 100% pretty fast, less than 2 minutes. I then enter the setup wizard the NFC is acting weird. It keeps activating
and deactivating illogically. So, ignoring this issue, I kept up configuring the phone then once I'm logged in Google and sync'd, pops a Huawei ID
logging page really really fast then goes back to the EMUI menu at the beginning of the Setup, in an infinite loop.
Useful information to let you help me better:
- Many firmwares. Currently trying to flash back to B120a and NoCheck from OldDroid and Morph. (Edit: Didn't work)
- Phone unlocked, TWRP accessible.
- Getting a weird "Error 9" when trying to run Update.zip from TWRP.
- Sideload working, but not transferring anything.
- Cannot find any B182 or B130 stock firmware. Everything seems to be gone from Huawei's servers.
- The loading logo isn't Honor anymore but Android, for a reason I can't yet understand.
- Restoring a clean backup (without /data/, since I couldn't back it up) did not fix the problem.
- Trying to update with the 3 buttons do not work, even with the right firmware (C432B183) (Software install failed)
- Factory reset works with the right ROM, but gets me to the setup loop issue.
- The loop occurs when I am supposed to see the Huawei ID setup page. If I do not put any SIM card, or WiFi
I am prompted to choose which way to restore data; if I skip this step, it blinks and doesn't do anything.
- I tried to restore via WiFi (Google's cloud stored data from my account), but it does the same thing as mentioned
earlier. It blinks multiple times rapidly the "Huawei ID" setup page then goes back to the first Setup screen w/o
me being able to do anything about that.
I'll be glad if you knew the answer to this, because I'm all lost right now.
Greetings, Kameyuu.
UP !
After many tries and a LOT of hard work, and spent an entire night (was about to spend the second night on this), I found the culprit and now I know what the issue is, it sounds completely legitimate.
So here are the reason and the solution to this issue:
Actually, my CUST was somehow broken. I never flashed it back because no one told me to flash the CUST.img back. They told me to flash BOOT, SYSTEM, and RECOVERY only.
So, after I downloaded a software called HUAWEI Multi-Tool (From hwmt.ru) I noticed they were also asking for the CUST.img and USERDATA.img (<- this one was apparently optional)
So, trying my luck I flashed it. Did a factory reset, and all, it acted weird and failed, then I tried again and it succeeded. So, with all my hope I booted the phone to the system, started configuring... And it worked !
I was able to set up the phone. For a -yet- unknown reason, some apps look missing and the NFC is still blinking on and off repeatedly and randomly, but I'm investigating that.
If you have any question on the precise steps feel free to send me a PM or ask in the thread directly I'll be glad to sort your issue out.
[EDIT]
Sorry, double post I don't know why my message was posted twice. Feel free to delete this message @moderators

After upgrading Lumia 925 to Windows 10

Good day everyone,
Let me start off by saying I have searched for a good 3~4 hours or so for this on both google and here before I decided to post, but here's the situation, I have upgraded my Lumia 925 to windows 10 following this guide: https://forum.xda-developers.com/windows-10-mobile/guide-win10-mobile-offline-update-t3527340 using V4.1 and it was successful, however I ran into many problems which I cannot find the solution to and here they are:
1- I'm stuck on version 1511 (build: 10.0.10586.107) and cannot receive any updates, things I have tried are changing my phone model and name to my own (followed a thorough guide, but to my surprise they were already the correct ones when I got to them in the registry), I tried the OTC updater, gave me a message saying "there are multiple root elements. line 2 position 2", made my phone the enterprise version using the PPKG, update fails to download even after several retries and finally I wanted to try the last one which is here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/wi...m-builds-update-links-collection-cab-t3234805 but I am lost as to which to download as it doesn't list which one is for my device
2- Applications: I'm not big on those, I only use WhatsApp and occasionally Skype, but the problem is:
WhatsApp is performing poorly and cannot make any voice calls (the moment I tap it, it hangs up, tells me something is wrong and I need to reboot my phone, which I did several times, it also gives "missed call" to the called person)
Skype doesn't even launch, and I cannot download it through the store whatsoever, I tried restarting several times, closing the store etc, but nothing worked, the "free" button is there but it's untapable
Any help is appreciated as I'm kinda down to my spine with frustration over this.
Change in the registers "phonemodelname" to Lumia 930 and upgrade to AU - Windows 10 Anniversary Build 14393

Requesting Expert Help: Extremely unstable mobile after ROM-update failure

Hello!
I rooted my Xianomi Redmi Note 8 PRO with Magisk. I also installed the Pixel Experience ROM without a problem. Afterward, it worked really well without any stability issues. Then a new version of Pixel Experience ROM was released and I decided to update the ROM. But I must have done something wrong, despite reading the instructions. Afterward, the phone started to reboot randomly, which disturbed me greatly. Because of this, I flashed the Stockrom hoping that would repair the stability issues. But then it turned worse...
Now the phone crashes repeatedly and often! During the install, the phone crashed even before I could enter the WIFI password. But I managed finally to finish the setup after multiple crashes. Since then I have tried to repair my phone in all ways I can come up with.
1. I have installed TWRP. Wiped everything: Cache, Dalvik, System, Data, Internal storage.
2. Have also repaired the filesystem in all partitions where it's possible.
3. Installed Pixel Experience again
4. Tried to root the phone again with Magis v23, which I failed:
"Failed to mount 'system_root' (Device or resource busy)
"Failed to mount 'vendor' (Device or resource busy).
Right now, Pixel Experience ROM is installed. Now the phone crashes during the "The Phone is prepared... This can take a couple of minutes". It seems that it doesn't matter which steps I take to solve this. In this state, the phone is not better than a hard-bricked one.
Can anything be done to solve this mess?

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