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[General Questions and Answers] SalamiNinja:
how do i post a thread or forum post??
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Are you spelling the file name correctly when you type the command? Is the update zip stored in your fastboot folder on your PC? If not, you will have to include the path to the file in your command or move the copy of update.zip to the folder where fastboot/adb.exe are located, then the command can properly find the file without having include the path to file in your command. What is contained in the update.zip, extract it to see it's contents.

Also, the thread you linked says that method will not work if your recovery partition is not intact, you may have corrupted your recovery partition, preventing this method from working.

Have you tried downloading a stock firmware for the device or extracting the update.zip and then flashing the individual .img files via fastboot using fastboot flashing commands for each .img?
[General Questions and Answers] Novice_independence:
1. Are you spelling the file name correctly when you type the command?

Yes i am, upon connecting my phone to my pc, I type "fastboot devices" and if I don't spell it right or i am not in the right folder i get the error ['fastboot' is not recognized], If i am in the right folder (C: \.android) and type fastboot devices I get [XXXXXXXX fastboot] if i type "adb devices i only get [list of devices attached] and then nothing.

2. Is the update.zip stored in your fastboot folder on your PC?

Yes,it is stored in my .android folder, where fastboot and adb is located.

3. What is contained in the update.zip?

It is the only attached file

4. Have you tried downloading a stock firmware for the device?

I looked around for a stock firmware for my Sense tw102 but all the google pages and XDA forums lead to expired/dead links. I did find a tutorial on XDA that basically allows me to save my stock firmware as a backup in case I brick my phone but I only backed up my data, I didn't know i had to backup my stock firmware too :(

(The XDA tutorial to backen a stock firmware: https://xdaforums.com/t/need-a-loader-file-to-unbrick-moto-g7.3938342/ )

5. Have you tried extracting the update.zip and then flashing the individual .img files via fastboot using fastboot flashing commands for each .img?

The update.zip doesn't seem to have any .img files so idk how to

There's another .img file titled "recovery_samsung_11.img

I thought samsung11.img would flash without a problem when I use the command "fastboot flash boot recovery_samsung_11.img" but it returned:

sending 'boot' (58324 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.869s]

writing 'boot'...

FAILED (remote: size too large)

finished. total time: 1.869s

Idk how to free up space using fastboot also i just need something operational and low on storage, oh and thank you for talking the time to help me, i really appriciate it!
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
ADB will not respond while in fastboot mode.

The recovery .img you have might be just the recovery itself instead of a whole boot .img. I could easily be wrong though. If it actually just the recovery by itself, then, instead of:

fastboot flash boot recovery_samsung_11.img

Try:

fastboot flash recovery recovery_samsung_11.img

I'm just grasping at straws here, so, don't try this command without first verifying whether or not your file is the recovery by itself because flashing things to partitions they weren't meant for will brick your device. There is also the possibility that what I'm saying doesn't even apply because of how things constantly change in how Android is partitioned and what those partitions contain. For example, on some devices, recovery is packaged as part of the boot.img and on others it isn't or In the past, some devices had recovery packaged with the kernel(which can also be part of the boot.img but in a different place).
[General Questions and Answers] Novice_independence:
well before i try, is there a way to redo this fastboot command like fastboot clean partition or fastboot delete useless files?

Edit: same issue, file too large :(

Edit 2: I managed to get the latest twrp recovery.img and used your command to enact it...

Output:

sending 'recovery' (4690 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.142s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.063s]

finished. total time: 0.205s

Afterwards, I attempted to access the recovery mode on my phone but it was without a success. I am attempting again in different methods as im writing this
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
For the next, you should know that never you have to use the Format All instance in SPFT, this is reserved for engineers, SPFT is an advanced tool that can completely wipe your device.

In a normal flashing round, some partitions are ignored by SPFT, you can try editing the scatter file, first open SPFT, choose the OFP file, previously extracted, see which partitions are listed, and compare one by one with your scatter text, you have to edit it and change it where it says download = false, for true, with this, you only will do a step furthermore, to get sure more partitions are effectively flashed, you can use too mtk client from GitHub (just search it).

Although that, there are two main issues here, oppo_custom files have the ability to fix many things to the device, but unfortunately, the right one is not provided in the stock firmware, you should search for one, in case, at this stage, you can't solve the issue.

And second, only MTK DownloadTool_Rcsm can flash properly all the files, but it is reserved for commercial use.

Anyway, you were lucky to recover the IMEI, and trying the first method, may or may not solve it.

In the super_map file, you have to check which is the right super image according to your region.
[General Questions and Answers] WorstHacKerEver:
Hello how do I unlock my galaxy A12 without PC or with my pc
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Some Samsung devices of the new A series can enter to unlocking mode using hardware buttons, as the A01,2,3 series.

From a device off, try pressing PWR + volume down buttons, if you are redirected to the unlock bootloader screen menu, then you can, just by long pressing the volume up, as indicated in that menu, by pressing volume up shortly, then you can cancel the operation.
[General Questions and Answers] Scripter84:
Hey all,

Trying to unlock the bootloader for my wife's Nokia C30. I have done all the standard stuff;

- Enabled USB debugging

- OEM unlock is set to yes

- Drivers installed etc

- No PIN or security set on phone

However when I boot into "Fastboot Mode" the 'Device State' is "Lock".

I then tried to run the "fastboot oem unlock" command (through powershell as admin) but get:

FAILED (remote: 'Unlock bootloader fail.')

I have also done a factory reset and had the same results. Does anyone have any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] galih_ken:
Hi, anyone knows a video player that can loop video seamlessly? I mean seamless and without milliseconds pause in between.

I have many video which should be played with perfect loop but I haven't found even one video player app on android able to do this.

On windows there's mpv and mplayer, but on android??
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Those steps are to be able to unlock the bootloader in the next steps required, they don't unlock by itself.

Since last year, Nokia started to provide keys/token, to can unlock bootloader, to some eligible devices, it can't be unlocked just using command like you tried.

For a strange reason, actually I can't find the official page (in a quick search), so you can search it more extensively, something like "Nokia unlock bootloader official site", it could be also, that it is temporarily (or permanent) suspended.
[General Questions and Answers] O.operator:
Hello,

been having great trouble trying to install stock rom onto my BLU View 2 (B130DL), running android 11 I believe.

I accidentally took the battery out of my phone while it was still running.... sure enough my phone became corrupted and I am forced to either keep trying to reboot for eternity or factory reset (I have some very important things on this phone that I'd like to salvage). I have tried re installing the stock firmware onto the phone using ADB which always leaves me with

"E:footer is wrong

Updage package verification took 0.0 s

E:Signature verification failed

E:error: 21"

My phone is only ever recognized by my pc when i plug it in after I press "Apply update from ADB".

I've also tried the SP Flash tool method, but my phone isn't ever recognized and nothing happens.

I can't boot into fastboot mode on my phone because there is no fastboot option in the list to pick when I am in recovery mode, and no combination of long hold power key + up or down works to get into fastboot either.

Neither my phone's bootloader nor developer options have ever been unlocked, never rooted or jailbroken obviously.

Am I doomed? Should I just factory reset? Would I be able to install the stock firmware with a SD card as a last option?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
In order to use SPFT, you need to update the drivers, installing the MediaTek drivers, you'll need to update them, after that your device has to be recognized like MediaTek Preloader USB VCOM or a similar naming depending on the version.

Once you get it, you need to bypass the DA/SLAA restriction, you may read this https://www.getdroidtips.com/bypass-mediateks-sp-flash-tool-authentication-protection/ and here other tool https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient

Once you have all, don't flash the userdata partition.
[General Questions and Answers] lm8lm8:
hi guys

have a xperia h8216

with lineageos 20

Id like to know :

how could I enable the camera access directly on lock screen?

how to change the bottom to up swipe to accept incoming call, to a left to right swipe?

thank you :)
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Check if those options are present in the lock screen and security settings (where they're placed may vary), if not, then ask the developer to include them in some build.
[General Questions and Answers] lm8lm8:
its the official 20th release of lineageos
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Actually, I'm not using this specific custom ROM, and I don't check, but you should search for those functions you mentioned. There are some custom ROMs, I knew of, that have them.

Also, you can check on the changelog, and the next to come is announced https://www.lineageoslog.com/20.0/akari
[General Questions and Answers] kos25k:
Hello guys.Please some help here.I want a way (maybe with tasker or macrodroid) to have option (probably by pressing volume & power buttons combo) to fake an incoming call (with stock ringtone and dialer)I know there are some apps out there,but they mimic the fake call with their own iconic dialer and also only by setting the time manually for phone to make the fake call.I just want to avoid stupid and arid conversations like:When will you get maried,or to avoid stupid conversations at work.Thanks for possible help.
[General Questions and Answers] NightRaven49:
hi all,

just wanted to ask if it is possible to obtain logs from bootloop in recovery? my mi mix 2s running los 18 started bootlooping when it was tethered to my laptop, and does not show up in adb when bootlooping so i am unable to to logcat. ive also tried looking for /sys/fs/pstore/console-ramoops and /proc/last_kmsg but they do not exist.
[General Questions and Answers] michal_jb:
Is there a simple way to map app identifiers (like 'com.andorid.chrome') to 'pretty' app names?

Specifically i have TWRP backup that i have extracted data directory from, and i'm trying to see what apps were installed, and potentially restore their data (that's a separate issue).
[General Questions and Answers] LordLiverpool:
Hi

Hopefully I'm posting in the right place.

After a long battle, I managed to root my Samsung XCover Pro using Magisk, by flashing the modified boot.img to the AP partition using Odin and then doing a factory reset. Now I'm trying to restore my apps+data from my rather ancient Sony phone, but I haven't found any way to make Titanium Backup work on the Samsung, and none of the other backup apps are any help either. Helium backup seems not to work, others won't install on my old phone because of the Android version. Google backup seems only to be intended to restore to the same phone. Migrate requires TWRP. The only remaining shot at getting Titanium Backup to work on the new phone (it appears to fail because of permissions) involves a manoeuvre requiring TWRP. So it seems that my remaining options involve flashing TWRP.

So, to my question: what will flashing TWRP to the AP partition with Odin do to my phone? Will it require a factory reset afterwards (I can live with that)? Presumably it won't mean re-rooting the phone.

I'm planning on following the procedure from here:

unofficial twrp 3.6.2 for Samsung Galaxy Xcover Pro SM-G715U

Download unofficial twrp 3.6.2 root Samsung Galaxy Xcover Pro SM-G715U, user who own Samsung Galaxy Xcover Pro SM-G715U can root it

unofficialtwrp.com

Any warnings, tips or reassurance welcome.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
TB has an add-on to work with, otherwise won't work in newer versions, search for it in the Play Store. There are also lower versions of TB, in other apk deposit sites, in case newer don't work with the current you have.

You may flash the TWRP image in tar format through the AP slot, just follow that guide, specially in the part where it says how to reboot to the recovery for first time, if you fail to do so, repeat the operation, you have to reboot to it manually.
[General Questions and Answers] LordLiverpool:
Yeah, I tried the add-on and also older versions - no luck. One time I got an older version to open briefly, once. That was it. I've more or less tried everything except flashing TWRP so that I can then flash something else to give TB the permissions it needs during installation.

So flashing TWRP won't do any harm? Will I need to do a factory reset afterwards?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
No harm if you do it right.

Put the TWRP file in the AP slot, make sure the "autoreboot" option is UNCHECKED, click start, when it finishes, disconnect device and power it off then boot immediately into TWRP using the button combination.
[General Questions and Answers] LordLiverpool:
Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] OloWons:
Hi i don't know if it is right place to ask questions, if not please delete my post

Here is my question, i have a samsung s21s and i don't have password to it (connected with google account) so i tried to do some factory reset, yes now i know it give me nothing,

google account connected to imei or something like that (phone remember after factory reset that he was connected with specific google account - if you know why then tell me) so i try to use adb and fastboot to change rom, and i can't ,

then i find out it is because i might have not unlocked oem, so i tried adb/fastboot oem unlock - not work,

then i saw that samsung phones have some knox security or something that prevent from changing system or factory reset, but i saw that you can circumvent this by adding new rom/ system on it (i dont know if system is the same as rom in phones) ,

then i tried do some images and zip to upload but i can't flash files (oem lock) and i tried odin 3 to flash it (he connected but when i send file it says fail) ,

meanwhile i tried install custom recovery but i can't (oem lock) , i think if i download good drivers or i do something not right, im using windows 10 pro,

i will try another cable if it is a problem (alredy tried usb 3.0 and 2.0 - no change) and next i want to change system on my laptop to some ubuntu or linux to make this phone work,

and no im not asking my sister to google account she will want money from me (she give me phone beucase screen was broken so i repair it)

sorry for language - english is not my 1st language

greetings
[General Questions and Answers] ohBanditXD:
Hi, i downloaded LineageOS 19.1 Source code for Lisa with Ubuntu WSL and i need help for customization, i nedd to know:

- How to change default launcher (PreBuilt APK)

- Add LockScreen Customization

- Add Prebuilt apk to system apps (background process and hidden icon)

Thanks! :)
[General Questions and Answers] DimonitoZzz:
Mod edit: 4pda link removed in accordance with XDA Rule #6 since that is another phone related site not

affiliated with XDA, and is known for it's distribution of malware and warez.

-Regards: Badger50

Senior Moderator
[General Questions and Answers] Gamering:
Hello guys! I hope I'm posting in the right place; I got a crappy 30 dollar phone off of Amazon (Blu C5) and I'm trying to debloat it, but when I woke up the next day, the apps were all re-installed (eg. tiktok) I uninstalled these doing "pm uninstall -k <package name>" and I also used the universal android debloater. Any tips to help it stop from reinstalling? Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] Gamering:
I think I can help here :)

For the launcher, I will assume you have an app store. If you don't, get F-droid or a fork I enjoy called the neo-store! Now you can get a launcher (I enjoy Lawnchair) and install it. Then you can go into the settings, apps>default apps>and change your home app to your prefered launcher. Enjoy

Now for the lockscreen, customizing is a quite broad term, but you can change wallpapers, and if I'm correct you can hold down on the lockscreen and add widgets. Sorry that I couldn't help more.

I made a pastebin for the last one, but I'm a newbie in that regard, so don't quote me on it.

how to system apk stuff - Pastebin.com

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

pastebin.com
[General Questions and Answers] karib97:
Hi, just a question concerning the GCAM mod :

Are the Xml profiles at: GCam\Configs8 ? Because I don't find the profiles anymore (only ever in the LMC path).

I have also disable the stock cam. I hope it's correct. Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Fastboot stuff doesn't work on Samsung, the only way to OEM unlock Samsung devices is to enable developer options in system settings then open developer options and enable the OEM unlock setting.

If you want to flash the device with different software, you have to use Odin. All Samsung devices use Odin or Smart Switch to do their flashing. If what you are trying to flash is older or has a lower binary than what you had, it will always fail because the software security measures will not let you downgrade the software to an older, less secure software version.

If all you are trying to do is bypass FRP(factory reset protection). You don't necessarily need to flash anything. There is more than one method to bypass FRP lock. Do a Google search for:

"Bypass FRP (your specific model number)"

That should find several guides and videos with different methods of bypassing FRP, try them and see which one works for you. If you try and it fails, keep trying or try a different method, one of them will certainly work if you take your time, read each step carefully and follow each step exactly.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
There should be some kind of setting in your system settings to disable automatic system app updates.
[General Questions and Answers] OloWons:
i used samfw tool and it worked, thanks man
[General Questions and Answers] DragonFire1024:
So I really don't know where to go so I figure I would give it a shot here and see what I can come up with. I have recently acquired a Dell Chromebook 11. The last Chrome OS version officially supported was 76. So I have been using the brunch framework which without getting into a lot of detail, essentially enables the ability for the most up-to-date or most very recent Chrome OS to be installed on just about any device. However after a about a month of fooling around something weird it started to happen. I was losing access to certain settings because according to Google the device is managed. However that is not the case because there was no indication of that in the beginning. But a few days ago it started telling me I was not considered "the owner" and is thinking I am part of some kind of organization and it is managed by a boss so to speak. I can assure you that it's not, but somewhere along the lines it started to think that was the case. There is no device management application on it and I know this because I am able to go into developer mode, flash firmware and mess around with operating systems and other versions. If this were a device managed by IT company or whatnot, I would not even have been able to bring up the device's standard shell interface. I also don't have any managed applications or device manager applications installed on any of my devices nor are any actually linked with my Google account that would carry over the settings from one device to the other over the cloud. Not becoming very aggravated and cannot understand where this effect is coming from. Now I know Google does make a couple of applications designed for managed devices and you don't necessarily have to be signed into an organization I know they do a family managed device too. So I guess my question would be which applications are those and can I access them from another device in order to stop what's going on with this one? I'm really at a loss here because I have never experienced something like this on any Android or Google device ever. so if anyone might have an idea or two I'm open ears. I have attached a picture of the security and privacy settings page. No I'm also pretty sure this is blocking out many features like chrome://flags. And to make it a little more interesting if I completely log out of the device, I can toggle some of the settings I'm blocked from but as quick as I can toggle it on or off it switches it in the opposite direction and all the little people next to the settings I am blocked from disappear.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Could it be something to do with the specific build of OS that you installed?

Are you sure the device wasn't originally owned/registered by it's model/serial number/product code with the manufacturer under a corporate/business service account(a common practice with Dell branded devices) and it just took time for their system to "see" the device and "who" is using it?

Have you tried installing the most vanilla/debloated OS possible?

You're certain the device doesn't have any form of MDM(mobile device manager)?

Have you signed into the device then accessed Google settings using the device then disabling everything to do with device management and ownership on that device?
[General Questions and Answers] DragonFire1024:
That was my first thought because perhaps it wasn't wiping all the partitions like it was supposed to be so I started doing it manually using gparted.

100% positive. I have had it for about a month and a half now and this only started happening within the last couple of days maybe even a week give or take. If this had been a managed device originally I never would have been able to put it into developer mode. No developer mode no custom operating system or bios.

I did read somewhere if you manage to sign your account into a device twice, there is a chrome flag that allows this to happen for some devices for syncing purposes. Apparently it kicks on a sink that doesn't occur on some devices. So I have taken the steps of logging out of every device that I was logged into even my regular everyday one and we'll see what happens. Apparently if you end up signing in twice on the same device then problems can occur to say the least. It may be the fact that I tried too many images in a row and confused something somewhere. Now I just have to wait for the signed out devices to be extinguished from the account (you can't delete them anymore Google won't let you see you have to wait a grace period in some cases up to 28 days they vanished from your account history). It also could have been a possibility I triggered something playing with activity manager which I often screw around with on a new device.