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[General Questions and Answers] mrgbuzz:
I hope this is not too vague a question. I've been using a Redmi Note 9 Merlin and ran into some trouble trying to flash a ROM so eventually I gave up as it was a common issue with this Mediatek device.

Its time for a new phone but I'm in a bit of a tailspin in terms of what to buy. I had a Nokia 7 Plus - which had a Snapdragon 660 chip and didnt encounter many issues at the time.

Is the general consensus that Snapdragon phones are easier to manage in terms of updating/upgrading/changing ROMS?
[General Questions and Answers] sedferrari2023:
Why does TalkBack say STOP on my Samsung A14 when trying to access the L swipe menu when trying to bypass the FRP?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
The option to wipe completely, has nothing to do with unlocking the bootloader, mostly, this action would damage some critical partitions leaving your device unusable.

Saying "...it doesn`t work" has no relevant information to help with, better, refer to which model are you trying to, and describe the issue better.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Probably, this old trick was "patched" in newer Android versions.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I assume it`s a Huawei device, and the bootloader is unlocked. If so, then flash the stock recovery, and flash the firmware from it.

As a side note, erasing system wouldn`t help, it has no relation with your issue though. And check to not use an emulator, or a HUB USB, with other devices, try to connect your USB cable the nearer you can, to the motherboard, i.e. in the back of your PC.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Not at all, the today called, Merlinx (to not confuse with the old Nexus phone), has no issue at all, to flash any ROM you want (and available for), it happens, same with more or less, all devices, they need a specific custom recovery, and a specific firmware, to be on.

Android 13 ROMs work fine with 12.5.4, and Orange Fox recovery, also some custom ROMs have too, a custom recovery, i.e. ArrowOS, LOS.
[General Questions and Answers] mrgbuzz:
I had issues with MTK roms whereas the SD Rom for the Nokia 7 Plus went ok. I've had another read about things and looking at certain devices, I will likely stick to SD going forward.
[General Questions and Answers] Skeuomorph:
No idea why this might be happening, then? ☹️
[General Questions and Answers] Slim K:
You can always use a PC and adb debugging to capture a Logcat and save it while replicating your experienced behavior, that way you would have a clue whats happening. Use command:

adb logcat > path_to_file.txt

Start the logcat before replicating your behavior and terminate the logcat after it crashes and see whats happening, I wager you SystemUI is also crashing with it.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yes, if your storage is full, it could cause this.

Another possible cause is an app that is necessary has been disabled or uninstalled.

Another cause may be conflicting cached data, in which case, the solution is to boot into stock recovery and wipe the cache partition but do not factory reset, then reboot the device.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Well, I read a lot of times people claiming that, personally, I never faced a special issue for being MTK, and not a Qualcomm device, albeit, special software for end users, are available, for free, majorly made, for MTK devices.

The specific case for Nokia model you`re mentioning, is not a conclusive parameter, I had 3 RN9, I flashed a lot of ROMs on all of them, even I bricked the first of them, because a wrong file uploaded, and recovered, completely, both IMEI included.

Some difficulties also, lies, in the security measurement, OEM put in those devices.

Finally is a personal decision although the facts.
[General Questions and Answers] asdf234123:
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[General Questions and Answers] Skeuomorph:
Thank you very much to both! I'm definitely trying to keep the storage lighter, but something tells me that's not related to this issue, because like I said in my previous post, it has happened with only 34% of the storage full.

I'm going to give both the logcat with adb debugging and the cache partition wipe a try, but I would appreciate it if you could let me know some of the specific apps that could cause this if they were disabled. I ask this because I do have some of them disabled, mostly Google stuff I never use like Google Maps, Duo, Calendar, Wallpapers, but certainly nothing like Google Play Services, the Play Store, Carrier Services or anything in the system apps list.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
If it is caused by a disabled app, it is more than likely a Google app or a system app of some kind, otherwise, there probably would not be an issue. Hard to say since I don't know specifically which apps you disabled/uninstalled or what they do.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I didn`t follow completely your issue, but, I don`t think someone suggest to you, to free up the storage, unless it occupies the 99%, it`s not related with.

Although the cache partition is intended to give better, or fast performance, sometimes, also it needs to be clean off.

There are other points to consider, based in the incomplete info, like:

- RAM is enough to deal with the apps you use frequently?

- Did you format data, in some point in the time, specially when upgrading (to the now outdated Android version)?

- Some Motorola are poorly (terribly) optimized, there`s not much to do here.

- Recent apps, is managed (in some Android versions) by the launcher, check that.

I recommend, if you don`t care, to format data (backup what you need first), then use this app or similar https://adbappcontrol.com/en/ to "debloat" the unnecessary apps for you, you will have the possibility to restore the apps you "deleted" previously, ever that your device boots again. delete just few apps, and check what´s happening.
[General Questions and Answers] DragonFire1024:
So I have come to the conclusion that it is definitely a managed device. But there's a catch. Sometimes doing a factory reset through the settings application for whatever reason will reset the device without the managing tools or work applications activated. They don't even appear on the device. However if you look at the logs you can clearly see some things try to communicate with the applications that no longer exist. If you perform a factory reset while flashing firmware and even through recovery then everything reappears once the device reboots. The same happens through the settings application only it's Hit or Miss as to whether or not the applications reappear or not. There is no pattern or number of times you can do this before it either persists or disappears. However in my findings I have also discovered that most Samsung devices will allow you to gain ADB access without advancing through the setup wizards. It is a matter of simply activating the right commands in the engineering menu dialing secret codes through the emergency dialer. In doing so another tool that I have discovered will grant your ADB access and allow you to essentially disable the setup wizards and the applications that cause the managing device in the first place. The trick is to uninstall these or disable them before you advance through the first screen of the setup wizard making sure you stay disconnected from Wi-Fi and mobile networks. after that everything starts to activate. But if you disable the setup wizards, then change a few secure settings through an ADB shell, then you can proceed to uninstall or disable the "Knox enrollment" application. Once you do that you can re-enable the setup wizards. If you do all this before you go through the setup wizard and connect to Wi-Fi then nothing reappears and the device is as normal as can be even in the logs.
[General Questions and Answers] Shigave:
Hello. I've been looking for multiple apps that help me enhance productivity and also help with quality of life aspects. I would really appreciate it if you help me find them or at least some similar apps or ideas.

1. An app that recognizes message and also email 2FA codes and send it automatically to the website that is requesting it.

2. An app that might enhance One Hand mode (allow shortcuts to the empty space, for example) and also to the multi-window feature. In order to choose another app I have to do a swipe gesture with two fingers. I'm wondering if there's any way to create a shortcut instead. I would rather not use two fingers to change between apps.

3. An app to group or manage notifications more thoroughly. I want to pin some notifications so they stay at the top and preferably they are highlighted somewhat.

4. Be able to showcase weather temperature on my status bar at all times.

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] NotGio:
Hi

I made a set of pngs to use on my phone, but I need to make an icon pack, does anyone know how to make one?
[General Questions and Answers] Skeuomorph:
If it's of any help, here is the full list of the apps I disabled:

Calendar, Chrome, Contacts, Drive, Duo, Gmail, Google, Google Indic Keyboard, Google Japanese, Korean, Pinyin & Zhuyin Input (4 apps), Google Play Movies & TV, Google Play Music, Maps, Messages, Moto Help, Motorola Notifications, Photos, Telcel, Wallpapers, YouTube.

I wonder if it could also have something to do with denying certain permissions to some apps I didn't disable. For example, the only ones I allowed for Google Play Services are Phone, SMS and Storage, and the Play Store has Phone and SMS allowed, nothing else. On the other hand, I didn't modify any permissions of any system app.

Ok, so storage doesn't really have anything to do with it, but I wasn't aware that the cache partition needed a cleanup once in a while, that could be worth checking, too.

I'm afraid I don't have any app to check how much RAM is available on my phone, which one would you recommend the most for that?

As for formatting, I have actually performed a couple of factory resets of my phone, yes, twice because of some evidently unusual behaviour (battery charge dropping in no time) and most likely caused by malware, and once precisely because of this issue, since I thought back then it might be related to malicious apps. In all those resets I also wiped the cache partition before wiping the data.

This also got me thinking a lot, because I'm not using the stock launcher, but a third-party one (Nova Launcher). Do you reckon it would suffice to just set the stock launcher as the default one instead of Nova to check if the issue persists after that, or would I have to go whole hog and uninstall Nova for that?

I looked at it and it says it allows you to disable and uninstall pre-installed apps without root, yet I thought that is technically impossible (uninstalling them, I mean, not disabling them). Is there any significant difference between disabling those apps by means of that tool and doing it right from the phone's app manager itself?

Lastly, as for some Motorola phones being terribly optimized, is there anywhere I might check if my phone's model is among those?

Thank you very much.
[General Questions and Answers] ShellGracy:
Look, a year ago I bought this thing, brand new, in it's box, and i started to root it, funnily enough, for some reason, when the bootloader is unlocked, the system disappears the baseband, it says baseband null and no imei. That is by unlocking the bootloader using fastboot or using mtk client, it doesn't matter, I tried many things and the imei still disappeared, and reappeared the moment I locked again the bootloader. So i gave up and used adb to disable annoying apps and nothing more. But I tried something before that, I downloaded the original firmware, the thing was that the firmware is nowhere to be found, that was a backup of someone on YouTube. Yet the same problem, imei disappeared, unfortunately, i forgot to uncheck nvram and nvdata (For some reason, he included them in the backup) so the phone ended up with an imei of another random phone of youtube, I didn't really see a problem considering everything worked fine, signal good, wifi good. System the same. But now, ten months later, i wanted to change carrier, buy a new sim card, basically, but that problem came to bite me, the imei has to be the same as the imei that the box where it came says. It's mine, i have the box and the check of it, I bought it brand new from an store, so now the problem I face is this:

How on earth do I change the imei into the original one? I tried meta tool, but I think this thing doesn't have meta mode or I don't know how to enter that state. The best thing that works with this thing is mtkclient. But something weird happened with it, I think I made a backup of the three things, nvdata, nvram, nvcfg (From before I flashed the new firmware), yet when i flash them imei doesn't change I event tried to erase those partitions to see if something changed (No imei nor wifi mac) (mtk e nvram,nvdata,nvcfg), but it didn't, imei was the same, which is pretty weird. Wondering closely, i see that the imei is stored in "/mnt/vendor/nvdata", it's possible that the vendor partition is the one who stores the imei? Or it's just that I needed to erase those three partition then factory reset for the imei to get deleted? Either way, what I really need is...

How can I change the imei? It's Helio P22 (MT6762/MT6765), with DA encrypted (That's why i had to use mtk client with kamakiri exploit).

What tool I can use? Or what tutorial should I follow? Is there any way that i can modify nvdata (Because I guess that the imei is somewhere in those three files)? I'm willing to try everything as long as I don't have to pay.

Help! It's urgent!
[General Questions and Answers] drakonan:
I am trying anything to migrate an app's files to another device (not android). This is a new phone from Walmart - Nokia C110. I've got some data from my (user) installed apps but nothing can seem to access the data for any purpose. To keep it simple one app I use is Termux (yes I know I can copy files out from it but just for simplicity) if I need to backup my app files what from it what can I do? Google Backup isn't working, and I can't see my app data from either /data/data/com.* (I know, I'm not rooted) or /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/data/com.*

using any adb/ any app i've tried including the AOSP files.

I don't have another device other than a cloud vm and the internet in general, but this has to be possible? It's weird to me I'd need to root the device to backup my app data and migrate it to another vendor, this is not sounding like a Google device (or the Google company)

I've got adb open at least thinking maybe I could grant perms or something so far I've tried the adb backup command which seems as ineffective as Google backup. Termux is using 244mb by itself but the entire backup for a full backup was only 18mb.

I'm open to anything but don't want to brick the phone since it's all I have I'm wondering if maybe a temp priv. esc. would be nice I guess if that is my only option(?) since I'll only need to move the files off once. I don't know if I can manage to do something with the bootloader without wiping the data for the app or if that's even possible? Do you need a ROM file for that? There's a setting in Developer Options to unlock oem bootloader if that matters. I've also tried to backup just one app with adb but the same thing, 47 byte backup file was generated. I've also tried "adb shell run-as" but I guess the app needs to be specified as debuggable (none of the apps I've tried including termux are)

What can I do to get these plaintext app files moved safely off my phone?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
The Google search app usually needed for other things to work properly, whether you actually use Google search app or not. Other than that, I don't see a problem with the apps you disabled/uninstalled.

Also, uninstalling via adb without root, doesn't truly uninstall them, it just makes it so that they do not show in the app drawer and not running in the background but they are actually still there.
[General Questions and Answers] slamkeys:
Is there a way to do something like a factory reset on Android 10 without it deleting sms and mms messages? Or would this depend on the phone model? It's a Moto G Power (2020 version). I do not like cloud backup systems and have yet to find a way that can reliably locally backup sms along with mms messages so i was wondering if it's possible to reset without losing those kind of files. I was getting inconsistent information on this.
[General Questions and Answers] hypermodernist:
unbricking gs5 pro, any advice
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Being an invader, the supposedly culprit, then you should stick to "whatever" stock. RAM management can be found under developer options, and also in the settings, most of all Android devices, have a dedicated section for that.

Set the stock launcher as default, uninstall Nova, at least temporarily, this would be useful to check and discard.

In the paper not, but, if you think there is a malware, it would find a way. The tool "cuts" the app´s head, not simply put it to sleep.

Comparing the RAM your device has, the RAM that it is used, and how many apps are using it, are 3 values to put in the equation.

Finally, if nothing works, probably you can update or do a fresh install of the latest version available for your device.
[General Questions and Answers] Slim K:
Try this app. If you download the f-droid version, you need to set it as the default SMS App in your phone settings. The App is open source so you can compile it yourself if you're privacy conscious. Also no, you cannot reset and keep data retained, you're basically restoring your phone to The way the ROM first booted up.
[General Questions and Answers] fassal:
Hi everyone!

I am confused about VoLTE entirely working with custom ROMs, especially lineageOS. Can somebody who as knowledge about it help me out?

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] Supershun:
i have a motorola moto x4 (payton) which is a phone with an A/B partition. I flashed a ROM that went to the slot B. is it possible to move it to slot a?
[General Questions and Answers] ToniK4:
POCO F3 - tel: links don't work

After using adb to remove google's default Phone app and installing Simple Dialer I can no longer open tel: links from my browser.

When I tap on a clickable phone number the browser's loading bar flickers and nothing happens.

I'm not sure if it's a browser issue because I tried it with multiple browsers and the issue persists, but if I try calling a number on the Google Maps app the dialer opens normally.
[General Questions and Answers] Umzkkk:
How to delete files both from tablet and google account without possibility of recovery, please please help

I tried using ishredder and shreddit and the files are still in my gallery, even non synced ones. They disappear only from the shred apps.

I need to delete files that are on a tablet with google account, where do I click to delete them from the Google account? And do I need to delete backups or turn off Google sync?

And how to delete (private) files from tablet without possibility of recovery?

And how to delete already deleted files (photos, videos, notepad text files), again without possibility of recovery?

Somebody stole my stuff and transferred it on their tablet and they actually allows me to use the tablet sometimes, so I want to delete my private files that contained even my accounts passwords...
[General Questions and Answers] Skeuomorph:
Could disabling the Google app be causing this issue then? I thought disabling that one mostly prevented you from using the Assistant and searching stuff.

As for adb-uninstalling apps, yeah, that's exactly what I had read: that without root, you can't really uninstall anything that comes with the phone, only "freeze" it.

I actually wiped the cache partition once more and did a new factory reset, and for now I'm installing the least amount of apps and trying to use them as little as possible so that RAM doesn't complain. I have also not installed Nova yet and, like you suggested, I'm sticking to the stock launcher in the meantime. I have installed two of the problematic apps to see if they still freeze the app manager's full list of installed apps or outright make the Settings app crash.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Why you should need to move to the other slot? Flashing through fastboot is always done to the convenient slot, unless you arbitrarily changed previously, if you did so, then check again the current slot you are using fastboot getvar current-slot and then switch to the other slot using fastboot --set-active=(a/b) where ( ) is the slot you may target.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
In the Global version, telephone app is linked to Google, maybe you can try by setting by default the dialer of your choice, but without "uninstalling" Google dialer. The Indonesian firmware contains the Miui phone dialer, in case you can try from, I mean, specially, it doesn`t have the Google dialer or the Google messages, if you don`t care about them.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
It depends on the device, VoLTE works pretty fine with some of them, I mean, there is not a previous reason, why it shouldn`t work.
[General Questions and Answers] Shigave:
Hello. I've been looking for multiple apps that help me enhance productivity and also help with quality of life aspects. I would really appreciate it if you help me find them or at least some similar apps or ideas.

1. An app that recognizes message and also email 2FA codes and send it automatically to the website that is requesting it.

2. An app that might enhance One Hand mode (allow shortcuts to the empty space, for example) and also to the multi-window feature. In order to choose another app I have to do a swipe gesture with two fingers. I'm wondering if there's any way to create a shortcut instead. I would rather not use two fingers to change between apps.

3. An app to group or manage notifications more thoroughly. I want to pin some notifications so they stay at the top and preferably they are highlighted somewhat.

4. Be able to showcase weather temperature on my status bar at all times.

5. Manage message OTPs and sync with PC

6. A way to better control volume and/or mic (mute mic during calls outside of app, control media volume and call volume separately)

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] cgda64:
My phone (redmi 9) is prob bricked. I flashed stock rom through adb and fastboot and now its stuck on a black screen and it wont let me get into fastboot mode or recovery and when i connect it to my laptop it keeps on connecting and disconnecting.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
You have to use SPFT, in order to recover from the brick.
[General Questions and Answers] lm8lm8:
hi people,

i have few android questions :

1. how to get the "accessibility services" means "control of the screen" for android (anydesk, droidvnc-ng, cache cleaner) enabled at startup? I restart my lineage everyday and i have to reenable it each time..

2. regading previous one, for anydesk or vnc server : how to get screen recording feature (to broadcast for remote control) functionnal for over ten minutes? looks like the OS added a kind of security to block any remote control after N minutes... how to disable it?

3. i saw contacts apps can now deal with sip addresses. how to do the same, means if i register a contact with xmpp address, to directly call by automatically launch quicksy/conversations?

thank you
[General Questions and Answers] cgda64:
The phone wont react to anything so i cant even boot it into fastboot mode