Android

Read and follow instructions¹⁾:

• Select device / firmware on this site (e.g. G800FXXU1CRB1 for Galaxy S5 Mini / SM-G800F).
• Click on “CF-AUTO-ROOT” button to download Odin + image (leave all further options as default).
• Put your phone in download mode:
  • Disconnect USB from PC.
  • Turn off phone.
  • Boot the phone in download mode (VolumeDown + Home + Power). If it asks you to press a button to continue (usually VolumeUp), press the listed button.
  • Connect USB to PC and wait until serial drivers are installed.
• Start tools\Odin3.exe, check that ID:COM box is not empty i.e. Odin has detected the device on some COM interface, check “AP” and select image\image.tar.md5 as source image and press “Start”.
  If Odin fails with a message

  <ID:0/009> SetupConnection..
  <OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

  then try using another USB port or reboot Windows.

Alternatively, flash TWRP (or FlashFire), and then install SuperSU. For that:

• Download TWRP image for your phone (e.g. twrp-3.5.2_9-0-kminilte.img.tar for Galaxy S5 Mini / SM-G800F)
• Start Odin and flash above TAR file with above method by selecting it in “AP” input.
  You may wish to disable “Auto reboot” option to be able to launch TWRP using below steps.
• Hold the recovery mode key-combo (usually VolumeUp + Home + Power and then release Power when logo appears). TWRP will start. Now install previously downloaded SuperSU-v2.82-201705271822.zip from SD card.

• For Samsung Galaxy S7, S8, S9 take a look at /e/OS
• For Samsung Galaxy S4, S5, A3, A5, A7 take a look at LineageOS
  • For Samsung Galaxy S5 mini use unofficial G800F/M/Y LineageOS build. Installation steps:
    • Root the device and install TWRP from Google Play (skip this step if TWRP is already installed).
    • Reboot the device in recovery mode (press VolumeUp + Home + Power button and then release Power when logo appears), see key combinations for other Samsung models.
    • Backup system, data, and boot partitions just in case (usually TWRP suggests a reasonable selection set, so keep it default).
    • Wipe “Data”, “Cache” and “Dalvik” partitions (this is the default option). If you want to start from blanc, also wipe “Internal Storage” (all application data is lost, including photos).
    • Install previously downloaded LineageOS to SD card lineage-...-kminilte.zip via TWRP “Install” menu.
    • Install previously downloaded GApps to SD card open_gapps-arm-9.0-micro-...zip
      Choose smaller packages if installation complains that there is no space in internal storage. You can later install necessary Google apps on SD card.
    • Refresh your fingerprints as on new screen old fingerprints may not function reliably.

To change default USB option from "No data transfer" to "File transfer" go to Settings → System → Developer options → Default USB Configuration.

• Make backup of contacts:
  • Either using Nokia PC Suite via Bluetooth
  • Backup your contacts to internal SD card (Contacts → Settings → Backup contacts). Generated backup.dat is actually backup.vcf.
• Download RM_1037.zip and unpack it to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Packages\Products\RM-1037\.
• Alter files RM1037_059W097_10.02.11_019.vpl and RM1037_059W097_10.02.11_019.signature.bin. Replace in them the model with the one you need. Also change the model in the name of four files (including two mentioned). (see very detailed here)
• Download and install the latest Nokia Software Recovery Tool. The version 6.2.55 worked for me, previous version had problems with up-to-date firmware download.
• After you run it, it should suggest to install software version 10.02.11. Complete upgrade.
• Recover your contacts from internal SD card.

References:

• Обсуждение Nokia 130
• Nokia 130 DS как прошить и где?
• Nokia 130 DS как прошить и где?
• keepass -uuid:C4CEDC0739BE96458268442CFCE23A3E

Unlike the big Galaxy S4, mini lacks MHL and USB OTG support.

There is kernel with USB OTG Support for Galaxy S4 mini Duos (GT-I9192), but the problem is that phone will not provide power for the connected gadget so you would need to use an external power supply.

See also:

• List of phones that support OTG
• Wi-Fi адаптер через OTG

• USB Digital Audio
• Enable USB audio on any Android 4.0 device
• USB audio driver in USB Audio Player/Recorder PRO and Audio Evolution Mobile

• Press and hold the standby key on the right side and the home button at the same time. Wait for the border around the screen to flash white. This is the only method that work on mini.
• Alternatively enable Settings → My device → Motions and gestures → Palm motion → Capture screen and swipe with whole palm from right to left.

To automate screen capturing use adb shell screencap -p /extSdCard/screencap.png && adb pull /extSdCard/screencap.png

References:

• How to take a screenshot on Samsung Galaxy?
• How to take a screenshot on Android phones?

Go to Settings → More → Application management → All → Calendar storage and press Clear data.

The same problem is applicable to Google Contacts synchronization:

Go to Settings → More → Application management → All → Contacts storage and press Clear data.

• Open the mail application
• Tap on Menu button
• Go to Settings → [your mail account] → Sync schedule and make necessary adjustments.

• ProxyDroid (free)
• Autoproxy (€1.36)

Maybe Chrome supports that?

• WiFiKeyShare
• WiFi Key Recovery

See also:

• 5 of the Best DLNA Streaming Apps for Android
• Top 10 DLNA Streaming Apps For android
• MX Player does not have proper DLNA support

• Put your certificate in DER format and CRT or CER extension to the root of your phone.
• Invoke Settings → More… → Security → Install from device storage.

• Android phone powers itself off
• Android phone powers itself off and on

• Samsung SmartSwitch can only transfer contacts, calendar, memo, app list, call log, SMS, fotos, device settings (i.e. not app data).
• To backup or restore app data you need:
  • Rooted phone
    • ES File Explorer File Manager (see here)
    • Titanium Backup (€5.99 for Pro version).
  • Non-rooted phone
    • adb backup (see What all does ADB backup and how do I restore part of it?). Check here how to extract TAR from AB:
      dd if=backup.ab bs=1 skip=24 | openssl zlib -d > backup.tar (skip 24 byte header which is the same for all ab's; see also How to uncompress zlib data)
    • Helium – a wrapper for adb backup via ADB. It also supports the rooted mode. It does not backup SMS, use SMS Backup & Restore (supports SMS/MMS backup/restore) or similar. Also it does not backup applications that prevent backup via the policy (Authy, HERE, Inoreader, Whatsup, Skype and others).
    • Wait until Android Lollipop (5.0) is available on your device.

Steps for backup:

• Fotos & media are easily transferred using any file explorer.
• Contacts / calendar / mail / chat is synchronized by Google (normally automatically).
• Whatsup chat history can be backed up to Google Drive ( don't forget to press “Backup” button before shutting down the application), Skype don't need to be backed up.
• Authy should be better backed up, but it's more secure to generate new QR-codes.
• Inoreader retrieves feeds from Google Profile.
• Backup/restore SMSes via SMS Backup & Restore, then delete all messages on source device.
• Create list of packages:
  adb shell "pm list packages -f" | dos2unix | grep "/data/app" | cut -f4,6 -d "=" | sort -u > packages_list.txt
• Create backup for selected packages:
  cat packages_list.txt | while read package; do echo "Starting backup of $package..."; adb backup "$package" -f "$package.ab"; sleep 2; done
  or for all in one go:
  adb backup -all -apk -f all.ab
  Since Android 12 and later asks for password for any adb backup invocation, it is more simpler to create backup for all packages and then unpack it and create application-specific backup as described here.

• Включаем отладку по USB
• FAQ по ClockworkMod recovery (CWM)
• Извлекаем личные данные с повреждённого/разбитого аппарата
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• You need to root your device (Samsung S4 mini, Samsung S5 mini / Root G800FXXU1AOG2 Android 4.4.2 On Galaxy S5 Mini SM-G800F).
• After that you can dump the internal memory:
  adb shell su -c "dd if=/data/media" > sdcard.img
  and analyse it with any utility you like (I prefer R-Studio).

1. Enable USB debug. For that:
   • Go to Settings → General → About device and tap on Build number seven times.
   • Press return, and now in General there is new item added Developer options where one should enable USB debugging.
2. Connect your phone to PC via USB ( Don't allow/enable MTP mode, just ignore that message). Now there will be unknown device (e.g. SAMSUNG_Android) in the list of other devices.
3. Call driver properties and on Details tab select Hardware Ids.
4. Copy the 2^nd device ID (e.g. USB\VID_04E8&PID_6860&MI_03) and add it to android_winusb.inf two times into two sections (four lines to be inserted) or use this version:

   android_winusb.inf

   [Google.NTx86]
   
   %SingleAdbInterface%        = USB_Install, USB\VID_04E8&PID_6866
   ; Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini
   %CompositeAdbInterface%     = USB_Install, USB\VID_04E8&PID_6866&REV_0228&MI_01
   ; Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini
   %CompositeAdbInterface%     = USB_Install, USB\VID_04E8&PID_6866&REV_0226&MI_01
   
   [Google.NTamd64]
   
   %SingleAdbInterface%        = USB_Install, USB\VID_04E8&PID_6866
   ; Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini
   %CompositeAdbInterface%     = USB_Install, USB\VID_04E8&PID_6866&REV_0228&MI_01
   ; Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini
   %CompositeAdbInterface%     = USB_Install, USB\VID_04E8&PID_6866&REV_0226&MI_01

5. On General tab click on Update driver, choose Browse my computer for driver software and point to android_winusb.inf. After successful installation there will be new device Android Device → Android Composite ADB Interface added, and unknown device (e.g. SAMSUNG_Android) is gone.
6. Download platform-tools_rXXX-windows.zip from here.
   The first time adb is connected to the phone, there is a confirmation message displayed on the phone screen to allow the application with the given RSA key to connect to device which needs to be accepted. The key is stored locally in %USERPROFILE%\.android\.
   In command line type adb devices which should display similar to:

   D:\Adb> adb devices
   List of devices attached
   5200bb49b0297384        device

   If the phone does not display the dialog to accept the connection / RSA key and above output displays something like 5200bb49b0297384 unauthorized, try to change the connection type from “Transferring files” to “Transferring images” in USB Settings, check here for more info.

7. Now one can use FARdroid plugin for FAR 3.x.

Also check manufacturer provided ADB drivers.