yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] Provided:
thanks, one more question. in the first steps the guide has these lines of code:

fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta_patch.img

fastboot boot twrp-3.3.1-test3.img

but later on it just says "Flash Magisk and Disable_Dm-Verity_ForceEncrypt.zip."

i understand that it is the zip of the magisk file, but in order to do the fastboot flash command, i have to specify what partition, and the guide doesnt say what partition, so i don't know how to flash those two. unless i am supposed to do this trough twrp??

this is the post: https://xdaforums.com/t/twrp-3-3-1-0-root-updated-kane-troika.4102839/

i am at the part where it is the root-first time-1st method

thanks again
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
These steps are done through fastboot.

That´s it.

When no partition is mentioned it´ll target to the active one.
[General Questions and Answers] FindingShrek:
Thanks for suggestion but it doesn't work..

BTW I already fixed it... After a few months not using it and tried to put again on my laptop

it's unallocated partition suddenly show up when i tried to open it through EASEUS PARTITION MASTER... Maybe my laptop/pc has a problem/issue reading my SD CARD unallocated partiton..
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
it's because it isn't a popular phone. threads are being made by users. if the number of users having this phone on xda is quite small, no one makes a thread for it
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
For your camera, a GENERIC camera (but very complex) for most devices is Open Camera, which you can find on the playstore.

@crrr "If you build it, they will come"
[General Questions and Answers] Crrrr:
I've tried Open Camera (also on F-droid), but it seems to over light the screen when using it and it is kind of annoying. Also, can't see noticeable differences.

Out of all generic camera tried so far I would say (all available on F-droid, except Camera Go):

1. FreeDCam: kind of very hard to use, but takes slightly better photos and has additional options

2. Camera Go (downloaded from XDA): can't see any improvements in photo quality, but has additional options

3. Lineage camera: ok photos, but not verry easy to use

4. Simple Camera: the same ok photos, but even harder to use
[General Questions and Answers] UnbrickMyHeart:
My Google Pixel 3 (2018) regular size phone seems to have "hard" bricked itself shortly after the latest Android update. Last I knew, my phone had about 70% battery and was just chilling next to me not on a charger. When I went to use it it was completely unresponsive.

I've tried holding the power button for obscene amounts of time and also tried holding the power and volume down button. I've tried different chargers and also plugged it into my laptop. No device seems to be recognized by my laptop in File Explorer, but if I hold the power button long enough while it's connected, my laptop makes the sound like a device disconnects and then reconnects.

I contacted the official Google support line but they were unable to help.

Is there anything else I can do to try and get this phone working again? I was hoping to wait to upgrade until the Pixel 6 comes out later this year.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
have you checked this reddit post beforehand?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleFi/comments/f5v326
[General Questions and Answers] PseudoMax:
Hi, I hope someone here can help...

I have a relatively cheap Chinese tablet that has Android installed. It is my daughter's tablet and she forgot her PIN (and that is after trying all possible PINs that I store over the years). I thought ... not a problem so I went into the developer options on the tablet and factory reset it and wiped the cache. However, somehow that has corrupted the user data. So now:

- I can boot to the setup screen.

- I connect to WiFi

- I get told that the tablet has been reset and therefore needs to be logged into from a previous user (I assume a security measure)

- I then go through the process of using my google account (which was the primary account on the tablet before)

- It successfully goes through the whole process, but at the end says an 'unknown error' occurred and starts over (and note, it must at least in part be recognising my account as it comes up with all the expected account details as I go through... and I have tried the wrong information as well as different gmail accounts and then received an error immediately ... so it clearly knows my gmail account is correct but refuses to unlock the tablet)

- I have been in touch with the manufacturer and in fairness they have tried to be helpful, but have not provided me with a firmware to use (perhaps because it can't be used?)

- I have also tried 'adb' but I can see the device and even get to the 'sideload' option but can't shell into the device as I get "This adb server's $ADB_VENDOR_KEYS is not set". I have deleted the '.android' folder but although it seems to reset the adb server it does not allow me to shell in (I assume because the device is not rooted?)

Can anyone help me properly clear the corrupt files so I can restart from a genuine factory setup?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Crrrr:
Hello,

As there is no separate thread for the Samsung Galaxy A20e where you can find all relevant information, I wanted to ask if it is possible in any way that I create one and try to bring up all the applicable information from the general thread and from the A20 thread.

I am not a tech person, but I am able to read, understand to organize information.

If yes, what would I have to do? I haven't seen any links to someone to talk to about this subject...

Regards,
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
All regarding the Galaxy A20e can be discussed within the G-A20´s Forum.

You can post a new thread in the proper section.

Both devices share many aspects at the cores, the main differences are just how they look and feel for the user, this means that some development for the A20 with some (minimal) change/s also can suit for its modest twin A20e variant but this is up to the developers.
[General Questions and Answers] rwms:
Hello good people. I need your wisdom.

I have the phone of a deceased relative and I've been tasked with recovering the pictures from it.

The phone has a locked SIM but I can get the PUC from the ISP.

The phone is also locked with a pattern which we don't know.

I've seen that you can get rid of the pattern with Aroma File Manager but from what I gather that needs TWRP and an unlocked bootloader. How can I do that without access to the phone and without data loss ?

I will try to gain access to the google account but checking if she's logged in some PC in the house. Maybe I'm lucky and everything is backed up there.
[General Questions and Answers] El-oi:
Hi guys, I need some help with a query, i have been asking myself if its possible to have any sinergy between a micro SD inserted on a phone(android) and an app. I mean if its possible to program an android app that could use some data storaged in the micro SD, is that possible or android apps are limited to the data in the phone?.Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] mstrnemo:
Hi i wanted to update

i reinstalled windows10 and then installed everything again and adb fastboot worked.

But now i have a strange new problem this is what i have done before hand

unlocked bootloader

installed twrp3.5.2 latest version

now when i try to flash the rom i get a error message saying invalid zip file ???

i reinstalled twrp tried again nothing

installed a older twrp nothing

redownloaded the file and flash and nothing

Have u ever seen something like this and know what causes it?
[General Questions and Answers] FAU57:
Okay hi everyone, i really hope I'm putting this in the right place because i think i have at least a general idea of what i need to do but part of the problem I'm having is figuring out where to get all the files and stuff ill actually need, I've done quite a bit of reading on the topic and it does seem possible but no one guide is enough. OKAY SO

i am looking to remove windows 8.1 RT from an ASUS TF600T. After that i would like to put some other operating system on the device. Basically windows 8.1 RT is unusable at this point, i can only access like half the web and theres literally like no apps for anything. So if theres an android operating system i can install that would be cool, id even settle from something like Chromium OS or some kinda linux port, hell if its possible id even just stick windows 10 on it. its a fairly powerful device on its own but without support from ASUS or Windows its basically a glorified paperweight. SO if anyone has any ideas or knows of a good guide to do what i need to please point me in the right direction. Lastly i just want to say thanks for reading this post and i appreciate your time.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
This happened many times, you have to double check the integrity of your zip file, there is some applications that can do that in Windows, also consider that moving/copying the zip file something in the structure may change, check in TWRP if the md5sum verification is active, check too if Windows is detecting the zip file as a kind of trojan/virus, Windows could "hack" the zip file turning it invalidate (I know it, it sounds strange)

The issue is addressed clearly to the zip itself and not either to your device or the TWRP version.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
hey there. I ve searched around about your tablet, seems that is locked pretty tight, with a encrypted key that prevent anything else except for windows rt from booting up.

I did find on YouTube this video which might be the solution. (

) if you aren't terrible fond of that tablet anymore you could give it a go.

afterwards, if everything is good, you could try to use this script (

https://www.reddit.com/r/gpdwin/comments/6ipa6c
). been using it on a windows 10 laptop, does provides significant performance improvements. keep in mind, haven't used windows rt, so I don't know if it will work.
[General Questions and Answers] mstrnemo:
I found a program and checked it seems oke.

windows doesnt see it as a virus.

if with md5 verification u mean zip check then i tried it both. (i dont see anything called that)

also odd i tried it with another custom rom and that one worked and did it exactly the same way wtf ?
[General Questions and Answers] Owan5746:
Hello !

Are there custom rom for the snapdragon variant of the Samsung Galaxy s8 ?
[General Questions and Answers] FAU57:
hey so is this just hear say and not an actual things

Microsoft 'golden key' blunder lets you install any OS on Windows hardware

Microsoft has accidentally released 'master keys' for Windows 10 that allow installation of software at the core of the OS

www.wired.co.uk
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
PeaZip is a good tool for that.

I meant disabling Zip signature verification.

It might be that the zip was corrupted in the sideload process or the files inside contains something unreadable for TWRP ie. a bad flasher script or non present at all, check inside the zip what you find.
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
Of course. If apps could not use all the data on a 512GB sd card, what use would it be? That would be 512GB of unusable space.

There are really simple examples, such as a video player or Music app. They play large files sitting on your SDCard.

These are simple examples, but one could imagine a large app specific file, that only one specific custom app could read or write to; instead of something generic like an MP3/
[General Questions and Answers] mstrnemo:
I ran peazip it shows no problems

zip signature verification is of

When i open the zip on computer there is another zipfile and when i open that it has the following inside

install

meta-inf

boot.img

system.new.dat.br

system.patch.dat

system.transfer.list

vender.new.dat.br

vendor.patch.dat

vendor.transfer.list
[General Questions and Answers] El-oi:
Thats nice to read, in addition to this im not so into android programming, i asume that there is like a "library" that has some functions to read-write in the sd memory or something like that?What im trying to do basically is an app that could display some videos/docs that could be storaged in a micro sd, in a more family-friendly way in contrast to a regular file manager.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
A zip inside the main zip? if it´s the case this is the problem.
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
Wait a sec, you say " im not so into android programming" but then say "What im trying to do basically is an app". Thats kinda contradictory.

At a high level, the MediaDB scans and stores a link to all media found on your device. Normally apps query the Media DB (through the content provider) to return the file-types they wish/can "play" As such, each music player does not need to handle/find the contents on your SDCard, they all simply query the Media DB.
[General Questions and Answers] thailinh.bui:
how can i do it? can you tell me more, pls!!
[General Questions and Answers] mstrnemo:
That is what it is called when i hover over it with my mouse also i stil have peazip installed so when i click it it open it in peazip as a folder so it doesnt get unpacked huh ? does that mean it isnt a zipfile or is it ?

When i downloaded this file it was off this internetlocker site thing and when i click download it says wait zip in progress ? could that be it ?

should i try flashing just the so called zipfile inside ? whats the worse that can happen?
[General Questions and Answers] El-oi:
Oops, yeah your right, I would probably be working with other people more into android programming but in order to tell them what i want to do, i should know if this kind of app is possible or not and also to know what kind of resources are available to do this. Thats what i wanted to say. On the other hand, so in that way i assume that a regular file manager is based on queries to the Media DB, right?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
If I understood well; open it is different that unpack it, the zip inside the zip still remains there. Depending in the browser you choose, for example FireFox offers at the time to download a zip the option to "open it with" or "save it to" I always choose "save it to", also in case you download it through Mega there is an option to download it as zip that could confuse even more.

It´s highly probable that the "antivirus" as they do some kind of checking inside the zip file they corrupted it or simply by cutting internet connection some browsers can deal well with that and can´t restart exactly where it left prior to this happened.

Of course, TWRP can´t unpack a zip if doesn´t have before that a set of instructions to do it AKA a flasher script. The files that you showed and are inside the second zip look like the correct starting from Android 9 and if they´re for your device are supposed to not damage your device. All the errors may come from the mistakes that I pointed out before.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Ages have passed that I don´t remember exactly your issue but if I am not wrong you wished to flash a GSI on a device that doesn´t have a custom recovery, in this case you just have to decompress from one of the available GSI in the AOSP GSI project or other/s, in case they come in tgz format, from there you get an image to flash it in the right partition.

This explain some additional steps https://source.android.com/setup/build/gsi and here´s a useful site regarding that https://www.androidsage.com/2019/02/13/download-android-q-gsi-generic-system-image-project-treble/
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I don´t know particularly about your device but I think you should go to the BIOS/UEFI and you´d need to perform 2 things; clear the DRM keys licenses and disable secure boot, if these actions can´t be done then probably you can´t change the OS.

Depending in your BIOS/UEFI settings, it includes a way to backup the keys licenses before but it could be that the option to disable secure boot it´s grayed out, anyway there are newer Linux distros that can work with but for a different Windows version won´t work (probably).
[General Questions and Answers] mstrnemo:
So i tried to flash it with the zipfile inside the zipfile and it worked !

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UVFwf6h9X3Y/hqdefault.jpg

I couldnt have done it without you!

Thank you so much u should get a raise!

Edit: however because i didnt wipe the current rom of the phone it did a dirty flash wich also happend before this one ... if there was a peble between my cheeks i would have popped out a diamond ... scared of the old bootloop

once my phone is fully charged i will wipe the current os and then flash it again clean to avoid any possible problems so i know it is not of that.

cant be to carefull.
[General Questions and Answers] mstrnemo:
I also have another qeustion and that is i want to go without google no gapps no playstore nothing i have tried it for 2 days now and i constantly get this annoying message how there is no play protect and it shows up constantly in surtent apps driving me crazy is there anything i can do about that ?

I am also going to root my phone i dont know if that can help?
[General Questions and Answers] Thrishen:
Hello everybody. I dont know if you guys can help me with this but please assist me if you can.

So ive got a programming assignment due soon and i tried my ultimate best to do things right but its so hard and im struggling.

Could you guys please help me. I dont want to fail.
[General Questions and Answers] Domi_nik:
Hello,

I have a Leeco Le S3 X626 and I want to install TWRP on it. I went on twrp.me to download it, but my device isn't listed there.

Which other model should I choose to install it?

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[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
I have not personally built a file manager, but if i did, i would NOT use the media db. Not everything gets scanned into the media db; for example, system files. A file manager is also based heavily on the tree structure of the file system, which is more difficult to extract from the media db. Also, it is based heavily around files, where a file-manager would also navigate through directory structures without files. etc etc etc If I was building a file manager, i would not be adding in the extra layer and source of complexity and possible inherit errors and weaknesses of the media db.
[General Questions and Answers] El-oi:
Ohhh I see, i would search more information about this, in addition to that what would be the best resource to android programing. I mean .... i dont know if android programming has something like IDEs for python or C++, but i guess so.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I didn´t understand well what you mean, perhaps that you don´t have GApps but still receiving message from Play Protect?

Provide some link of the ROM or some screenshot.

What is supposed to help with? the fact that you don´t use GApps? if is then no matter with or without GApps, can be achieved independently.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
None of those would work in your device.

Check this
[General Questions and Answers] svet6ma:
Greeting you.

Anything can be done for AOC A2472PW4T (G3SMNTA22)? Is there ant Custom ROMs for it? It has an old android and became less useful.

And (there is one guide to root I think). Is there any other and what I can do with root on this (ALL IN ONE) Android Monitor?
[General Questions and Answers] thailinh.bui:
Hi everybody!

Please tell me if I flash a rom with img extension, do I have to extract it or flash it directly in recovery mode?

Thanks for reading this <3
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Let´s use a simple example to do that.

You can choose an GSI for your device from this list: https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki/Generic-System-Image-(GSI)-list

Then you go for the first Android 11 GSI available, tapping on the download link you will get this https://sourceforge.net/projects/tipzbuilds/files/GSIs/CorvusROM/Beta/20210623/

You will see files grouped for three architecture variants, you have to choose the appropriate for your device from there, install an app like Device Info from Play Store or similar to know it.

If you choose some GSI for ARM64 architectures then you will get this: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tipzbuilds/files/GSIs/CorvusROM/Beta/20210623/ARM64/

If you pick from the list the first one you´ll see that it has an extension .img.xz in other cases you can find others with .img.tgz format too, anyway you just have to decompress it using for example 7-Zip or PeaZip or other of your preference till you get finally a file with image extension (.img) this is the more you have to decompress it, an image doesn´t have to be decompressed/unpacked again but it has to be flashed through fastboot mode, can be done too through TWRP but for this purposes is most likely recommended to flash it through fastboot mode.
[General Questions and Answers] Domi_nik:
Thank you for that video!

I did everything what that guy showed, but when I put in cmd:

adb reboot bootloader

my phone reboots and it's stuck with a black screen (no Chinese signs like in his video) and in the bottom left corner it says

fastboot mode

After I write

fastboot oem unlock-go

it says

< waiting for device >

and after a couple of seconds my phone is again on my home screen and on cmd it's still "waiting".

What should I do? How can I fix this?
[General Questions and Answers] mstrnemo:
Sorry for my bad english

What i ment was trying to use a custom rom without installing gapps so i instead installed f-droid and aurora appstore(in case u dont know it gives acces to all the apps in the playstore as an apk without needing a googleaccaunt or any accaunt for that mather).

Now i downloaded some apps trough aurora and when using them i constantly get a message that i dont have googleplay protect on my devices because wel i dont ofcourse...

And my qeustion is there a way i can hide or spoof/fool the apps in thinking i have googleplaystore on my phone without actually having it?

kinda like banking and someother apps with root where if they detect root they stop working properly but magisk came up with a option to hide magisk to these apps so they will work normaly.

do you understand what i mean?

Edit: basicly i dont want to use gapps anymore but do stil want to use my phone and apps (to an extent) as i used to.