yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] poverome:
You should search on Google for the specific Brand and model for a guide.

Generally, you'll need:

- Odin flash tool

- TWRP recovery

- Your chosen root method's material (eg Magisk image)

- Drivers for your device

Don't forget to BackUp your device

Normally, you need to enable USB Debug by opening Settings -> Device Info -> Tap on build number until you see "Developer options unlocked" message. o to Developer options and enable USB Debug. Then, you'll want to boot your device in Download mode, by holding Volume Down + Home or Bixby + Power On and keep for some seconds, plug your phone after launch Odin, select AP and choose your TWRP, then click Start. Note you'll need USB drivers for your device for this step to succeed.

From TWRP, you can finally flash your Root image.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
If these are the specs from your device, https://phonedb.net/index.php?m=device&id=4537&c=ntt_docomo_sharp_aquos_pad_sh-08e, then, it doesn´t support GSIs, and for fastboot mode, you should try commands like adb reboot bootloader or adb reboot fastboot, apart from hardware buttons combination methods.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Try to enter to recovery mode, then you probably need to format data, or go to download mode (reboot to bootloader) from there, and flash the latest firmware, using Odin, the first method your data will be erased, and for the second, if you want to preserve it, don´t use the userdata partition, I mean, any CSC file you find in the firmware.
[General Questions and Answers] poverome:
Tried, no luck
[General Questions and Answers] silencehope:
Thank you for your advice, but my phone is currently unable to connect to a computer, and I am unable to enter recovery mode
[General Questions and Answers] Ayaanic:
Can Someone help me Root My SM-G988U...

S20 Ultra 5g
[General Questions and Answers] poverome:
Yes, these are the specs. And no, I can't reboot to bootloader using such commands. I always boot in system (Android user mode, the "regular" boot).

I don't know what to do, I'm locked with this device as if I were bricked, yet I can install *some* Apps...

Sigh...
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Anyway, not much to do with, it´s a very old device, probably, the most you can is debloating it, for rooting it, you can try the EDL method, just search for "EDL and test point method", and how to flash using QPST, I guess bootloader is not locked (as the old days was), but take in account that, by changing some official image, device couldn´t boot at all.
[General Questions and Answers] poverome:
Thanks, tried with no luck.

QPST can't see my device, and EDL reboots my device in normal mode.

=(

Edit: I can only boot in Recovery mode, with

adb reboot recovery

in that situation I can see a red triangle with a black exclamation mark above a laid green Android robot and a "No command" text below it.

After some minutes, the tablet reboots automatically to regular system, if nothing is done.View attachment 5915007
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
You didn´t successfully boot to EDL mode, QPST only sees device in EDL mode, if you search the complete information I pointed out, you can see the difference, EDL mode is under Qualcomm HS-USB QDloader 9008 in the device manager, once you get it, device stays there, it won´t reboot. You can only get it using the test point method, in your device, not through commands nor hardware buttons.
[General Questions and Answers] poverome:
Argh, does this mean I have to mess with solders and PCBs?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Yes, if you are not able to boot to fastboot mode to try it through it, then no other way. If there is some other official tool to flash it through fastboot, always that you find out the right combination hardware buttons, and also you find the firmware, to patch the boot image, you could avoid the EDL method.
[General Questions and Answers] ZG_DEV:
If you need help , i am here ❤️
[General Questions and Answers] ZG_DEV:
It bricks because some of system files are corrupted or removed , or the folder /system got removed from the DEVICE SYSTEM ITSELF
[General Questions and Answers] ZG_DEV:
And to solve it , you need to flash ( install ) the OFFICIAL rom for your device
[General Questions and Answers] poverome:
No booh :'(

Ok, I can just send somehow the tablet to Docomo, Japan, and make them unlock carrier and upgrade Android to latest supported version.

I was already aware about this, but I don't know anyone in Japan and going there personally is not an option.

There is a code you can enter to do right this and Docomo knows such code, but they require you to bring your device to a Docomo store.

After unlocking carrier, they can upgrade Android, or you can do it yourself playing with VPN/Roaming.

Thanks anyhow.
[General Questions and Answers] mlarry:
Hello everyone.

I don't have experience in android modding, or at least it is very limited.

At this point, it seems to me that to build a custom rom for a device, its kernel's source code must be available.

Lately, a device caught my attention: the redmi note 11, codename spes. This smartphone, along with some others, was at the center of a controversy regarding its kernel, that xiaomi only open sourced about 15 months after its release.

Still, some custom roms were released for this device (I know of Pixel Experience and Paranoid Android), even without xiaomi sharing the relevant source code.

Well, I am confused. How did they do it? Did I get it wrong? Is the specific kernel's source code really necessary?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
They were probably ported from another device with the same hardware architecture that has a kernel source code that was made available to the public. If such a device exists and has released source code and has had custom ROMs made for it using the source code, ROMs from that device could be ported to other similar devices with a little work. This is pretty common and frequently done with many devices and ROMs.
[General Questions and Answers] Anon1onexp:
cm-12.1-20160425-unofficial-kyleve lollipop rom auto restarts trying to find a fix,didn't know where to ask the question, forgive me,,thanks for any help
[General Questions and Answers] Drunk1n:
I have a Ulefone Armor 12 5G, it recently has started to have an issue where I can't install apps from the playstore, search functionality in a few apps has stopped functioning, so I need to hard reset my phone and figured it would be nice to root it, remove bloatware, and upgrade it to the newest version of Android (currently on Android 11).

Searching everything related to my phone doesn't show much, it does show how to root it, and mentions it is the same as the Armor 10 but that is all.

For more obscure devices like mine, which ulefone doesn't even have a manufacturer subgroup, is it easier to root the device and remove bloatware manually, install a generic ROM, or make a custom ROM using the OEM ROM as a base?

It's been about a decade since I really did any ROM work so I'm well out of practice (I believe gingerbread was the last time I did any ROM work). So lots has changed, and it would be nice to have an ability to keep my phone on the newer versions but also would like some level of stability on a phone that the manufacturer has stopped offering updates for outside of security related updates.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
A clean flash, often, can solve this, either, formatting data previous to the installation, or doing it, after, before to boot. Of course, all that, is assuming that the ROM is good to run, but...if this is the ROM you are talking about https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-5-1-1-beta-2-port-gt-s7392-lmy49g-cyanogenmod-12-1.3322742/page-31 it has terrible reviews, so, no guarantee at all.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Easy is a very relative concept, To figure it out, keep in mind that you´d need to: unlock the bootloader, patch a boot image (usually with Magisk), and flash it back using a tool like SP flash tool, to can reboot, you may or may not need to flash a vbmeta and/or format data, depending if your device had no issues at the time to reboot.

For updated Android versions, if there is not some devs interested, you should focus, either, in making it by your own, or flashing a GSI that´s compatible.
[General Questions and Answers] Anon1onexp:
Thank you, I get it
[General Questions and Answers] Drunk1n:
Yes I agree easy is relative, and I guess that would also mean it depends on how integral the manufactures bloatware is to their own ROM on whether it is "easier" to remove the bloatware or develop my own ROM.

It's good to know that I wasn't finding it because it is obscure and not because I'm now forum inept.

So as someone that is new to XDA, how do I start to create some breadcrumbs for us ulefone users. Can I make a Ulefone manufacturer subforum, or is that admins only? If I can then I'll start my own thread for my progress on a ROM for the Ulefone Armor 12 5G in that subforum, otherwise what subforum should I start my ROM build thread in so I don't mess up the archival process...
[General Questions and Answers] Anon1onexp:
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Thank you, I get it
[General Questions and Answers] Kocka2:
Hi!

I have a samsung SM-A520F that is unrooted, has factory software. For some reason app permissions - phone/storage both have the same 57 entries with permission enabled that I don't recognize. All 57 follow this format:

com.samsung.Dream_A11y_lowvision.accesscontrol

com.samsung.Dream_A11y_lowvision.firewall

com.samsung.Dream_A11y_lowvision.inputmethod

com.samsung.Dream_A11y_lowvision.japan

Googling any of this gave me no results. Any idea what these are? Should I be concerned about this at all?
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
A clean flash should return you to the state before it started rebooting. But if its always been the case, you are simply back to a clean reboot, but still a reboot.

Another less nuclear approach is to go into recovery and wipe you cache and dalvik.

I havent seen it on recent android versions, but a last_kmsg log is what is used top track random reboots. Its basically a logcat of the previous boot. ie the one that randomly rebooted.

If you are rooted, some other options I havent used myself in decoding a boot loop, but I have baked into my app for that rainy day. TeMeFI The link is in my signature. To d=find the numerous boot-logging options, use the Magnifying glass is the flyout toolbar and search for "boot%log"

Also look at boot chart
[General Questions and Answers] SCLead:
As a complete newb (and I do mean *complete*), I’d like to find a relatively modern, widely supported phone to root and tinker with. I’m thinking S20 or newer, but it appears any US market version of those options will have a locked bootloader. How does everyone source phones to tinker with?

If I purchase an asian market phone, say an S21 SM-G991F, can I expect it to have the correct wireless hardware to function in North America? Is there an easier option than trying to track down a gray market phone from a foreign market?
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Get a Pixel. The a series is quite reasonably priced.
[General Questions and Answers] Cauã098:
Anyone knows how to put custom rom in zenfone 5 selfie pro(x017da)?
[General Questions and Answers] SCLead:
There’s an idea! I had my mind stuck on Samsung options, because that’s what I most commonly saw being utilized in my professional experience (very narrow, specific and obscure application), which is a large seed to my motivation to learn more and start to build my ‘toolbox’ for this stuff.

Some quick digging suggests Verizon Pixel 6a’s will still have a locked bootloader. Am I safe to assume a factory unlocked US-market handset would allow unlocking the bootloader via the dev options menu? I really have no use for the phone outside a learning tool, and budget is always a battle, so I’m trying to make the most educated investment I can, so I don’t wind up with something locked.

Thanks for the tip!
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Yeah. Get the (carrier) unlocked model directly from Google if you can.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
They recently flashed a ROM, so I just assuming they did it over the existent. Some ROMs require clean flashing. I realized many times that, Android didn´t boot because of that. Flashing even a ROM over a very similar ROM, I noticed that some overlays still remain, if formatting is not done, that´s not good for performance, and can result on a device not booting.

Personally, never wiping cache and dalvik (only) solved.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
The first you´d need is a custom ROM...
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I usually take as a group for devices, based on the processor, this is a kind of general rules for every that is in there. There are other criteria, of course, Android version, for example, that makes different some things, like R/W properties, partition scheme, etc.

Removing bloatware is exactly the same for every device out there, there are some apps that, although you can remove them, you shouldn´t though.

you wouldn´t for this specific device (most likely) but based yourself in information like processor and Android version, this can ease the seek.

You can ask admins to create a forum, in the meantime you can create a post, in general questions, if time after, the forum is created, admin can move your thread to there.
[General Questions and Answers] Anon1onexp:
Sorry, but I don't know how to find your signature for the link , and thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Anon1onexp:
They say restarting is caused by kernel issues

They say the restarting is caused by the kernel problem
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
You probably have display signatures off

TeMeFI
[General Questions and Answers] Anon1onexp:
Thank you for the link
[General Questions and Answers] wizzle523:
Hey

It has been a long time since I posted - had to create a new account as forgot the details of the old one!

I have previously flashed a Xiaomi Mi 11 Pro from its official chinese rom to Xiaomi EU successfully so have some experience from 2 years ago!

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I now own a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro with FW MIUI Global 14.0.2

I have got to the stage where the waiting 160 hours is over and I can unlock my bootloader.

I want to move from MIUI Global 14.0.2 to PixelOS located in this post

https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-13-official-pixelos-aosp-stable-13-05-2023.4497443/

Could someone help me with a guide/tutroial on what I need to do after I unlock the bootlader ot flash to this rom? The instructions do not cover this and I struggled to find how to install a custom rom on xiaomi redmi note 10 pro from official.

Thank you!
[General Questions and Answers] Cauã098:
yes, that's what i meant. I didn't find a Custom Rom for the Zenfone 5 Lite(ZC600KL), I want to know if it exists or if you can use a Custom Rom from another cell phone. If really don't have any way to install Custom Rom on it, then can you please give me tips to improve the trash ZenUi that this phone has?
[General Questions and Answers] Odai_:
Hello there

my Samsung A12 is unaffected after flashing it using odin.

I flashed my phone with magisk patch to root it yet the it seems like nothing happened

what I did

1 unlock the bootloader which caused the phone to wipe data

2 with magisk I used boot.img to create magisk patch

3 using odin, I selected magisk patch, bl, cs and csc files to flash my phone

4 odin gave failure so I added Home_csc file for which odin is supposed to successfully flashed my phone

but when I open my phone its state is no different from how it was after I unlocked the bootloader

I tried wiping the cache, factory rest, re-flashing but none seems to work
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Probably any here can´t do more than you, by your own, searching for a custom ROM for your device.

You can´t use a custom ROM that was developed for other device.

The most you could do, IMHO, is get rid of some bloatware https://universal-android-debloater-gui.uptodown.com/windows and/or https://xdaforums.com/t/tool-adb-appcontrol-1-8-0-ultimate-app-manager-debloat-tool-tweaks.4147837/
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
It seems that thread explains very well the steps you need, I can only add, that you probably have to format data through recovery (again) in order to have it accessible (R/W), and take a backup from the most important, then pull the backup to an external storage, then move on.

View attachment 5919863
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I don´t think is unaffected, after unlocking bootloader, probably it made a factory reset.

Regards the rooting process, did you check that Magisk is not within your apps? maybe grayed out because you´d need to update it.

And which guide did you follow to apply it, some Samsung devices need the complete firmware to be patched, and flashed back to the device, not only the boot image, anyway, contrarily, if you patched the boot only, then you can flash the boot only into the AP slot.
[General Questions and Answers] Odai_:
yes unlocking the bootloader did a factory reset but flashing didn't do anything. magisk app isn't there also I installed it manually

I followed this guide, like I said I inserted the patched boot.img alongside with the other files cp, bl ,csc ,home_csc
[General Questions and Answers] Odai_:
help

my phone seems bricked, I flashed twrp but my phone didn't boot to system so I decided to flash magisk patch using odin again

and now my phone is stuck in bootloop and I can't enter download mode

edit: nvm, I managed to flash my phone back still not rooted lol but I will take to professional next time
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I didn´t say to flash boot image alongside the other images (apart) this won´t make a difference versus flashing only the boot image (and nothing more) but patching the whole firmware, for example, if you get an all-in-one file, then you should patch it and flash back in the AP slot, or, if you have separate files firmware, then you could patch and flash only what goes in the AP slot, BUT.... most Samsung devices require patching and flashing the boot + the vbmeta image, and flash it (in tar format) in the AP slot.

The guide you followed is a copy/paste AKA generic "guides", that may or may not apply for some device (a random maybe yes, maybe not), Samsung deserves specific steps.
[General Questions and Answers] mrgorungo:
so basicaly i have a bank app which checks whether rooted and whether usb debug enableed and if I add this app to magisk deny list to bypass 1st detection the hide usb debug lsposed module dosent take effect and bank app still detect usb debug enabled, how can I bypass this check

any good workaround? how do i bypass these 2 checks
[General Questions and Answers] mrgorungo:
xda comuniy , real?
[General Questions and Answers] qwertyuiop1289:
Which partitions are responsible for storing unique IDs like IMEI, S/N etc.? I only know about nvram, nvdata and nvcfg. Am I missing something?
[General Questions and Answers] lm8lm8:
hi guys, I found back an old gogle/samsung manta

I backed it up then factory reset it, but now... file manager and gallery default apps are missing

how could I recover them?

thank you

android 5 (i know..)
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Default apps are not deleted after a factory reset, so maybe those were installed by a user, this means, you could find them in the Play Store or other app store. And, you always can restore what you backed up, but, if you don´t want to restore all the apps, then you can select, depending on the method you used to backup, only the apps you want.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
It depends on the device and/or the Android version, in old MediaTek devices is a database (APDB/MDDB/BPLGU), and some other stuffs like calibration, SN; in some devices it´s in the EFS partition, persist. The partitions involved on storing IDs are NVRAM, NVCFG, NVdata, persist, protect1 and protect2, proinfo.
[General Questions and Answers] ccaye:
Hi guys,

I want to ask help for file glitch/corrupted problem.

My redmi note 9 pro (joyeuse) was fine during normal use.

but around four months ago, I changed pattern lock, and it just never unlocks again.

During this time, I have tried every old pattern and new pattern to unlock it, but all falled. and lock time is 512 mins now.

Since I debloated Mi services frame before, thus I can not add any mi account to the phone

so the mi unlock tool does not work. and my bootloader is locked.

And my current version is MIUI V11 which uses Mi recovery 3.0

so I cant pull or push files in sideload mode. ( some recovery 5.0 is able to perform that)

is there any fastboot command that i can clear cache to solve file glitch?

due to locked Bootloader, most of fastboot command is not working.

I was going to upgrade MIUI v12 so I can use recovery 5.0 in order to pull my data out.

but due to locked bootloader, I can only use mi assistant to upgrade stock firmware.

And for some wierd reason, Mi assistant only able to upgrade my phone to MIUI V11 and not V12.

mi flash also does not working under fastboot mode, it just cant flasht the miui 12 firmware,

under edl mode, it asked me to use auth account in order to flash it.

The only way i can think of is using paid auth edl to flash the stock firmware to MIUI12.

But i doubt that will erase my data which lost the whole point.

I want to ask has anyone used this method before. or is there any other method to unlock my phone or at least pull my data out.

thank you
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Lock screen not working? mm.

An app/service can´t be uninstalled through commands, you´d need root, But I guess you didn´t do it, this means two things, you, previously enabled USB debugging, and, the app can be reinstalled, reversing the script, you´d use to "uninstall" it.

Difference within 3.0 and 5.0 recovery versions is only that the newer have a new option to connect to Mi Assistant, but ADB sideload can´t be used by the user, it´s only used to perform official updates, not to pull files. You also can use XiaoMiTool v2., in order to flash a ROM, that can be picked from your PC.

Upgrading firmware through recovery won´t erase data, none update does it.

Mi Flash works on both, fastboot and EDL mode, but for the first mode, you´d need an unlocked bootloader and for the second, an authorized account. Search for a patched sahara/programmer/loader for your device, sometimes an ENG (engineer) firmware can contain it, not always though.

In Mi Flash tool, you may use the option "save user data", data won´t be erased.

Whatever is the method someone else uses to unlock the bootloader, data will be wiped.