Softbricked after AT&T OTA, tried many things, any help appreciated

Had stock AT&T SGH-I747 at Android 4.2.2 rooted with chainfire working fine. Today an update installed automatically and now I'm dead.

At first, it would show the Samsung logo and maybe another, then just go black.

Now normal booting, or attempting to boot into recovery gives: "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."

If attempt to boot into download mode, it succeeds. But everything will end up with "FAIL!" in Odin and show "fused 3 > binary 0" on the phone. I've tried multiple Odins: v3.10.6, 3.09, 3.07 and multiple recoveries (Clockwork 6.0.4.7, etc.) and stock ROMS (UCALG1, UCDLK3).

Even Kies "Firmware Upgrade and Initialiasion" option, where you enter in SGH-I747 and the serial number will go through all the motions and then fail, with the same "fused" message showing on the phone.

Grendelin had the most similar situation (I can't post external links yet, but you can get to it at http:__androidforums.comthreads_at-t-gs3-at-t-issues-after-downloading-newest-update.860382_ by replacing _'s with /'s) as me but the difference is that he was able to flash a recovery image which led to further restoration.

Please help. If it's not possible to recover this, I would just like to get a couple years' worth of pictures from /sdcard/DCIM/*.

[Q] How do I edit a few things in About Device?

Hey guys. I am the developer of the S5 ROM (Original S5 Experience for S4 Mini i9192). I want to edit a few things in Settings/About Device, but I'm not sure which files to edit. Can someone please tell me what files I need to decompile and edit, etc?

Couple of things i've noticed.

Had my 16gb moto g for about two weeks now and i've noticed a couple of things that bug me a little.

The first thing i've noticed is a slight distortion in the ear piece, happens randomly during a call.

Secondly when selecting a ringtone or receiving a call the sound plays very quietly for about a second before jumping to the set volume.


has anyone else had a similar experience?

Phone storage encryption - tips, things to avoid, or general advice?

(Verizon HTC One M9, S-OFF, bootloader *** UNLOCKED ***, Software status: Official, TWRP recovery installed, Android version 5.0.2, HTC Sense version 7.0 Software number 1.33.605.15)

I'm anticipating a requirement in my near future to turn on "Phone storage encryption (Protect content on this phone with a password)" under Settings -> Security. When I did this under similar circumstances on my HTC One M7, it seemed to adversely affect the performance of the phone. I encountered a lot of random freezes at various points (after entering my unlock PIN, waking up the phone, switching apps, even occasionally during phone calls).

In fairness, I had a lot of stuff on internal storage on my old phone - pictures, audio, etc. - that I now store on my 32GB microSD card on the M9. Nonetheless, the prospect of encrypting my internal storage is intimidating, especially because it's apparently a one-way operation, and there's No Going Back if the phone performance starts to lag as the old phone's did.

Has anyone else experienced any similar troubles after turning on Phone storage encryption? Also, I'm not averse to moving off of the HTC stock ROM; I just haven't done it yet. Is there a particular ROM that seems to perform better -- or worse -- with encrypted internal storage?

Thanks.

Want to do a few things with Tasker, need help pls :)

Is it possible to keep bluetooth off till a call comes in then have tasker turn it on then off when the call is complete? I'm trying to maximize my battery.

Also i would like certain programs to come on at certain times and shut off at certain times. Thx :)