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[General Questions and Answers] ismachispa:
Factory Reset

I can't iniciate my OnePlus 3 with OxygenOS 4.1.3

I rooted it when it was in android 6 and I've update using the custom recovery TWRP, so I lost the root acces but I could access to custom recovery to uptade ota by ota.

Yesterday I decided to update OxygenOS to 4.1.6 but when I tried to iniciate TWRP I just get a black screen so I did a format in the OxygenOS options and flashed TWRP again. And I got same blackscreen. Next I tried to update from OxygenOS and his update option but when system reboot I got blackscreen and I just can power off pressing many seconds power key button. Now I just can access to fastboot but not to recovery or access to the system(oxygen OS).

What can I do now?

Could do I a factory reset from fastboot?

Thanks and sorry for my noob's actions/dudes.
[General Questions and Answers] pig_slay:
Thanks I will be trying the "Make your own ROM" thing I did not know that existed lol I will be doing this because the Philippines is just full of phones that are only available locally
[General Questions and Answers] Frankie Bananas:
Thanks Droidriven

Thanks for hollering back Droidriven. As you guys give me the bigger picture of the rooting process and what it can be, I do see that there may be benefits to keeping my options open. Initially my thinking was strictly limited to, 'improvement by subtraction'. Remove, remove, remove..... But better audio is hard to argue with. As long as I wouldn't have to unknowingly grant Google permission to install a video camera in my bathroom so they can watch me showering in the morning. Forgive the paranoia. Which apps I may chose to install is research I'll do on my own without bugging you guys about it.

I would ask one last piece of advice before I let you go. There seems to be two schools of thought on how the root process is actually accomplished. Some use their computer and some just load a prog into their phone that supposedly does everything for you. Thoughts? Is one method any more effective than the other? I'm not entirely computer illiterate and even if I blew it all and bricked my phone, it wouldn't be life and death. It's just a Note 5 and if I ruined it, that would just give me an excuse into looking for a Note FE somewhere. I was totally geeked about the Note 8 coming out but whatever I have, I'd want it rooted and I wouldn't even try that with a really good phone. Thanks again.
[General Questions and Answers] ahmedpatel81:
Flashing file

Thanks for the reply. I have tried to search for the security patch by itself but I can't seem to find it. Is it fine if I flash the following file: https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-c5/SM-C5000/TGY/download/C5000ZHU1AQC5/127662/.

If I can use it do I flash the file as you recommended me to flash previously and just to confirm I won't need root right?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yes, there are two "schools of thought" when it comes to rooting. That is because the are generally two ways to do it.

1) flash a custom recovery via adb/fastboot/flashtool then flash SuperSU in that recovery, this process requires an unlocked bootloader, some can't be unlocked.

2) if your bootloader is locked and can't flash custom recovery, use a universal rooting app installed on the device, such as Kingroot, Towelroot or similar app. Or use a universal rooting tool via PC.

Regardless of what ROM you use (stock, modified stock or custom), you can remove or not use whatever Google apps you don't want. You can control what they get from you and what they don't.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
That is probably the complete firmware including the patch, yes you can flash that if your region is hong kong.
[General Questions and Answers] ismachispa:
factory reset 2.0

is recovery estritly necesary?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Necessary for the device to work or function? Not necessarily, but you will probably run into an issue where you will need recovery to fix the issue.
[General Questions and Answers] rege42001:
Not sure if this is the right spot for this or not. I have a galaxy s3 recently my videos are all jacked up. They work fine on YouTube but in a browser or on Twitter they don't work I tried erasing the cache but that didn't work
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Are you on stock or custom ROM?
[General Questions and Answers] rege42001:
Stock
[General Questions and Answers] Jaswanth chowdhary:
Problem in twrp recovery

Hey there I'm using lenovo s850 and I have struggled more andmore for installing twrp

But finally i have done it but while installing any

Other Roms it was saying unable to executing update zip pls say some solution for it
[General Questions and Answers] rege42001:
I'm on a stock rom
[General Questions and Answers] ismachispa:
power off op3

Hi!

my op3 is in a continous boot, I mean, I think I soft briked my oneplus3. After boot I get a black screen so, I push power key 15 seconds and It power on again. I can enter to the fastboot and select power off but the phone power on again. What should I do to power off?

Thanks. :crying:
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
When you say browser and Twitter, do you mean the browser and when viewing Twitter in browser?

Or do you mean the browser and the Twitter app?

What android version do you have?

Have you made sure your apps have been updated, including Google play services?

Are the videos that are having issues being opened in YouTube? Stock video player? Or flash player in browser?
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
Have you tried another browser?
[General Questions and Answers] rege42001:
The browser and the Twitter app. I think it's 4.0. I'm not sure what they are being opened in. If I open a vid in YouTube it works but if I open a vid in Firefox of Twitter app it's all messed up
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
If it attempts to open in another Web page then it's using flash player in browser.

If it's attempting to open straight into playing the video in its own screen then it's using your stock video player or 3rd party video player if you have one installed and set as default, if not then it's using stock player.

Try going to system settings>applications>video player(or whatever video player you have set as default player)

You're looking for the stock video player(or whatever player you're using), clear data and cache for that app in settings. Then reboot the device and see what happens.

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Stock update.zip can't flash in TWRP, it has to be flashed using stock recovery.

TWRP is for flashing custom ROM .zips such as AOSP, CM, LineageOS, etc...
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
You need to use the latest official twrp image or the blu_spark (from his kernel thread / download section), there has been done so much development since marshmallow for this device and especially the custom recovery story for this device is a exciting one, so flashing OOS nougat with a marshmallow recovery will lead to all kinds of problems, use fastboot to flash latest (official) twrp and try to boot into it, then go ahead with flashing OOS nougat...
[General Questions and Answers] AnaseSkyrider:
[LGLS620] Updating / Replacing O.S.

I'm using an LGLS620 android phone, hardware version rev.1.0, android version 4.4.2, kernel 3.4.0+.

I'm unable to update my O.S. for an unknown reason. It says I need at least 68.4 MB of space, but I have 200+ MB of space.

I'm thinking I'll need to just manually replace the O.S. on it but I don't know if that's necessary nor really how to go about it. I just found this site a little bit ago, and there's a lot of info dumping trying to search around for stuff and trying to not irritate the good people of the forum with my lack of having read necessary posts.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
It's not just browser, it's also the Twitter app.
[General Questions and Answers] rege42001:
I switched to the stock browser that lets me watch videos [emoji53] as far as I can tell Twitter is the only thing that still won't play them right. Idk

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This is my Twitter

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This is my Twitter app

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This is my Twitter app
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Have you cleared cache and data for Twitter in system settings?

Have you tried booting to recovery and wiping only the cache partition? If you have TWRP, wipe dalvik/ART cache also. Do not factory reset, it shouldn't be necessary.
[General Questions and Answers] rege42001:
Yea tried that too[emoji17]
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Uninstall Twitter, boot to recovery, clear cache, reboot, install Twitter from PlayStore, try again.
[General Questions and Answers] ismachispa:
Hi, a noob question:

I had a custom recovery installed(TWRP) but suddenly when I try to launch it I got a blackscreen

Recently I had an issue with a update and now I could'nt access to the android system(OxygenOS).

I just can initiate fastboot. If my bootloader is unlocked could I flash another custom recovery and reset the android or something? or should I use another way to recover the phone?

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
What is the device brand and model #?
[General Questions and Answers] aff3p:
Is there a thread somewhere that lists all devices where full root (persistent, for the purpose of uninstalling 90% of the apps) is possible?

The reason I ask is I'm looking to buy a waterproof phone that is rootable and preferably flashable with something barebones. It's hard enough to find a waterproof phone, and they are so rare it takes forever to figure out if you can get root on one because few people are trying.

Side note: The Samsung waterproof phones cannot fall out of a boat for 30 seconds and survive.
[General Questions and Answers] ismachispa:
question

It's a OnePlus 3
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
All devices are rootable, it's just a question of finding the method that works on a particular device.

There is no thread with a list of phones with known root methods. You'll just have to pick a device that you like/want and research if it has a known rooting method and custom development available.

Here is the thread that is intended for members looking for device suggestions on their next device. Ask your question there.

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1620179
[General Questions and Answers] lolaralph:
Noob question about AOD install on galaxy s6

Brand new member here, hopefully this is an okay spot to ask this. I've installed the apk and the AOD app is on my phone, it's even in the standby menu, although the icon isn't as dark as the rest, I assume this means something. I keep getting the "The always on display.has stopped" message. I've cleared the storage.but I don't have the option to clear the cache. Any help.or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] crashxb:
oneplus 3T sign in

I bought a oneplus 3T, registered with a new email two days later i turned off my phone and forgot the password and the email i registered which led me to restore factory settings "thinking my problem will be solved" turned out that i still need the email i registered. this message pops on the screen as soon as i turn the phone on . "the device was reset. To continue, sign in with a Google Account that was previously synced on this device"

P.S i didn't add any phone number or recovery email*

is there any posible way i can open it? maybe contact a certain website? i have all its stuff the + online receipt from a very will known site "lately owned by amazon"
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Contact Google support for account recovery, they might help.

There are several tricks for bypassing Google FRP but there are no general tricks that work on all devices.

You'll need to search for ways to bypass FRP on your specific device, there's probably a well used method.
[General Questions and Answers] AnaseSkyrider:
Bump.
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
Check this thread. There are links to the stock ROM, and guides for unbricking.

Good luck! :good:
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
It's not a matter of how much space you have left out of your 200MB, it's a matter of how much of that 200MB is available in the right partition to have enough space to download the OTA update.

It sounds to me like you have limited space in the partition that the OTA is downloaded to before it flashes but you have plenty of space in storage. There is a difference.

Uninstall some apps or delete some app data, then, if you're using a file explorer with a recycle bin feature, make sure the recycle bin is empty and you'll probably have enough space then.
[General Questions and Answers] AnaseSkyrider:
That's the thing; I've been uninstalling apps. That's why I have 200 MB of free space now. If that free space needs to be in another partition, then how do I know what to uninstall?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Have you tried booting to recovery and wiping cache?

It all depends on where the OTA downloads the update on your device. On some devices download OTA to cache, some download OTA to internal storage, I'd imagine that some even download to system before flashing the update.

Do some reading about updating other devices from the same manufacturer as yours, it should be the same.
[General Questions and Answers] yashgumaste:
Any way to safely root Samsung tab 3v SM-T116NY ?

I need recovery. No Kingroot.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You can flash recovery without root if there is an Odin flashable recovery for your model number.
[General Questions and Answers] ismachispa:
Hi, I have rooted my Op3 with magisk.

When I use Link2SD to convert an installed app to system app I got this error: Device or resource busy. Any idea or solution?

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] AndresX:
I please need help with my phone's Wi-Fi hotspot...

Hi to all!, I'm having an issue with my phone (It's a LG F60), the Wi-Fi hotspot works fine, I can share 4G with friends and other devices, until then it works perfect. The problem starts when I try to connect my Nintendo Switch to my hotspot, the console receives internet fine, but my NAT type is C (Which if I'm not wrong, it would be kind of NAT type 3 equivalent on PS4 ). I'm not planning to get NAT type A (NAT Type 1 on PS4), because I don't think that's even possible on a cell phone hotspot, but I need at least NAT type B (NAT Type 2 on PS4) to play online. I tried all kind of things, even acessing the LG hidden menu but it didn't help, I know I need a public IP address in order to achive open ports... and I have it, but the thing is that even with that I can't use it. My dad gave me his phone to make a test and I got NAT type B (Perfect!), he has a Huawei G8 and the thing works really fine!. But we have a kind of limited data plan, 4GB, so I can't use his phone forever. I noticed that he has Android Lollipop, I searched online and I found out that a lot of people that had similar issues than me had Android KitKat phones, but when they got Android 5.0+ the problem wasn't present anymore. So... guessing that the problem was KitKat, I updated to Lollipop 5.0.1 and the problem is solved! My Switch has now NAT Type B!... but Lollipop is... just terrible, at least on my phone. I have lower battery life, more RAM usage, less internal space (the F60 has 4GB internal memory, which the user can only use 1.32GB), and is a lot less stable, I installed Xposed on my KitKat with no problems, but in Lollipop is just a mess, also debloating that Android version is dangerous, a lot of times I ended up bricking my phone because deleting the wrong app... (On KitKat that doesn't happen, if I delete a system app the phone will still work but may fail a little, but it's usable enough to re-install the app). So well, that is the problem, I can have NAT type B if I install Lollipop at the cost of a lot of issues, or I can have my phone working fine as I always, but the only issue I will get is the NAT type C. Isn't there any way to fix this on KitKat? I can't find a solution... Thanks in advance! (And sorry about making the problem REALLY long, I wanted to detail my situation as much as possible)
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I suggest a better device if you're gonna do the things you're doing. Cheap, crappy and limited hardware only gets you cheap, crappy and limited results/performance.
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
What is it you actually want to do? Cause link2sd is meant for devices with actual physical SD cards not only as mount point of the internal storage, at least that's my understanding of it...

If you want to make some apps system apps you can also simply use a "system app mover" from store or copy the files manually via root browser to system partition...

Again, maybe you describe first what you want to accomplish
[General Questions and Answers] AndresX:
Thank you!, Is there a device you would recommend? Something that doesn't have a really high price (200+ USD), because I don't want to buy another phone to end up like the F60, it doesn't even have Custom Recovery or any kind of development...
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Try a Nexus device or a Pixel device. They are guaranteed to have custom development and you can find a Nexus 5, Nexus 5X or Nexus 6 between $100-$150..

There may be something newer and cheaper that will work for you but I don't know your options there because I don't keep up with every device out there.

Just stay away from MTK devices unless they are very popular and have alot of custom development available.
[General Questions and Answers] Evil-Maiden666:
3 Questions.

1: what is the use of /mount system and the meaning to it.

2: can you flash a verified signature custom rom using STOCK recovery? if so how?

3: how do you bypass FRP on Samsung Galaxy tab E SM-T377P on 6.0.1?

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1: what is the use of /mount system and the meaning to it.

2: can you flash a verified signature custom rom using STOCK recovery? if so how?

3: how do you bypass FRP on Samsung Galaxy tab E SM-T377P on 6.0.1?
[General Questions and Answers] EVOHDD:
Root s7 edge

Hey guys i own a galaxy s7 edge(G935F) branded by Telekom.

Now i am not sure if i can just root or i have to debrand first.

Thanks for your help!
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
What do you mean by "debrand?" Do you mean SIM unlock, so that you can use a SIM card from any carrier in your phone?
[General Questions and Answers] theimpulson:
I think yes! He means to unlock ? carrier
[General Questions and Answers] Kell5719:
I have the xioami 1s

Model number is HM 1W and I want to update it to MIUI 8 from the MIUI website, but it have a different model number (HM 1SW) will it work ?

http://en.miui.com/extra.php?mod=rom/download&r=226&mobile=no
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
Please check this

http://en.miui.com/thread-62403-1-1.html

Following the information from Miui forums only difference is the network/radio capabilities, so it's basically the same phone, but confirm yourself, I have no experience with xiaomi phones...
[General Questions and Answers] Kell5719:
I went to the updater app then choose update package it didn't work. It booted to the recovery and failed.

The picture below it's the file I choose.

I saw HM 1WS on the file name.

If can is there other methods on updating the device? Like using computer or ....
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
As I can't give you reliable information about this please refer to the device specific forum:

https://xdaforums.com/redmi-1s

In specific the Q&A/Help-section:

https://xdaforums.com/redmi-1s/help
[General Questions and Answers] Atronid:
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[General Questions and Answers] theimpulson:
Post questions here
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
If your generic device help section does not return any valuable answer you're absolutely welcome to post here, a direct question is preferred over some link into your device specific forum...
[General Questions and Answers] Kell5719:
It seems like the thread is offline, no one replies...
[General Questions and Answers] Sam Nakamura:
Well, then try searching the web, there's information available, by googlin "how to flash Miui global rom" I found this step-by-step guide:

http://en.miui.com/thread-307744-1-1.html
[General Questions and Answers] Todorokishiroe:
Help me please

I want to update or upgrade my Samsung Grand Neo Plus (GT-19060I) to mashmallow but there's no official firmware for this. Can you help me guys what can I possibly do?
[General Questions and Answers] theimpulson:
Is there a custom ROM?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
They don't know, they cant find a stock update, that's why they are asking what their options are. They probably don't even know about custom ROMs.

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Do a Google search for:

"TWRP for (your model number)"

If it exists, flash it via Odin.

Then do a Google search for:

"SuperSU.zip"

Then boot into recovery and flash SuperSU.zip.

The steps above will root your device.

Then do a Google search for:

"Custom ROMs for (your model number)"

If there are ROMS for your device, the threads where they are located will tell you what you need to flash it and how.
[General Questions and Answers] DrMarshal:
My note 5 sm n920c got stolen, it was protected with fingerprint security and back up pin. I changed my google password, unable to locate or wipe it through my google account, it says can't reach the device, and it doesn't show up in samsung account. What really bothering me is gallery(photos and videos)and other docs(unfortunately no back up either). Is there any way thief might get into my stuff??

Kindly share your expert opinion, I'm really worried about it:(

Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] Atronid:
You could lock it using KNOX (if you got the default recovery) via your Samsung account to prevent your data to be wiped/factory reseted (in most case someone who steal a phone don't do it for the data stored in)

You got also Google account to declare your device as stolen and lock it using FRP lock.

But if in these two cases you cannot access your phone... I'm sorry but except if you put an independent GPS tracker on your phone, you won't be able to recover it anymore.

I just hope you made a backup of your files that was stored in and get enough money to buy another phone and another SIM Card...
[General Questions and Answers] DrMarshal:
On samsung account it doesn't show up, it only show my new note 5 and older note3 which i used years back, the stolen one is not there. And on google account it's still there but unable to connect to the stolen phone, i requested lock and wipe option.

I am worried about the data on that phone now, it's bothering me day and night :(
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Sorry but there just isn't much you can do about it other than accept the fact that your device is gone.

I DO NOT PROVIDE HELP IN PM, KEEP IT IN THE THREADS WHERE EVERYONE CAN SHARE
[General Questions and Answers] bigbabo:
As far as recovery just make a peace with yourself thats not happening as far as your data only way they can get into the phone is by wiping it all "if" they know how to get in the recovery mode which in that case would be somewhat helpfull to u cause at least you would know that they cant get their hands on it other than that i cant think of anything else that would cheer you up .