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[General Questions and Answers] PufferDude:
Can someone please assist me with upgrading from Nougat to Oreo/Android 9, 10?

I'm using Huawei P8 Lite 2017, with Resurrection Remix Custom Rom by Haky86, on Android Nougat.

I was hesitant to upgrade before (2017) because at that time, many phones were bricked trying to upgrade to Oreo.

There were also some Vendor complications (China & Europe) for custom roms in Oreo.

I remember there were Partitions A & B? I didn't know what were those about.

I also still remember a warning to not use the most up to date version of our Stock Oreo Rom for our phone when trying to install the default stock rom for treble support.

I still have my bootloader unlock code, bootloader is unlocked, rooted, I've also watched a YouTube video how to upgrade using TWRP.

All I need now is some assistance with what not to do, some links to point me in the right direction, some info with what I've missed during these years like is TWRP still the main recovery? Or something I should take note of.
[General Questions and Answers] Raresh T:
Well, if you are clinging to a smartphone from 2015, sure. But if you are using a new phone, rooting will get you literally nothing in terms of performance. Perhaps a small battery gain, like half an hour. Sure, in 2022, it will allow you to install custom roms, to use that smartphone a little longer. Performance wise, doubt your phone will feel slower, two years from now.
[General Questions and Answers] elojete:
Yes, is a complicated process, but does it still works even if the computer does not recognize the phone?

I also had my phone updated with some program because it did not allowed any more android updates and i needed whatsapp

Edit: I just checked in a chat history of the person who helped me at the time, i had cyanogenmod 9 apparently.

Edit 2: What i mean to ask is if do i need the original firmware of the cellphone even if i have to get that other program? I am currently downloading everything i need.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
You will find here some development for your device https://xdaforums.com/p8lite/p8-lite-2017-development there are some updated TWRP and also a ROM running 10 on it.

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Probably here is all that you need https://xperiastockrom.com/sony-xperia-s-lt26i
[General Questions and Answers] JimzFreebies:
From last few days, few banking apps update their apps. Now the updated versions not working.

Magisk hide with different package already done

App already hide in magisk

SafetyNet also passes.

All other apps working fine with magisk hide

Help Plz
[General Questions and Answers] Stoder_Solet:
In the last 5 days, my iMessage not working at all (after update)

Does anyone have the same issue?
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
I think you are missing the point of rooting. It gives you more control of your device. And the things you are mentioning only scratch the surface.

I'm on the Pixel 2 XL now (soon to be P5 probably), and I'm on the stock ROM and stock kernel.

There's more to rooting than custom ROMs and kernels.
[General Questions and Answers] d3smond:
I have seen that MIUI global rom comes with Google phone app and Google contacts instead of Xiaomi apps.

Does anyone know if the spam reporting features in the Google phone app work on that rom?

If you sideload the app on MIUI then it will crash if you try to report a number as spam because it doesn't have the necessary apis or whatever.

I bought a Poco F2 Pro for my GF and it comes with the EU rom with Xiaomi phone app, not Google phone.

I am gonna buy a Mi 10T pro as soon as it gets released and I would like to try to install the global rom on it if the Google phone app works fully.

Thx
[General Questions and Answers] Raresh T:
The spam report feature does work on Miui European rom. I ve tested myself
[General Questions and Answers] elojete:
Okay thank you, i got "Sony_Xperia_S_LT26i_6.1.A.2.55_Generic_ARA_4.0.4" because i got two more but no idea about them, i guess the one i downloaded has the latest android version and etcetera.

I think i have everything and i am gonna start in a moment, just one last question about it: How do i install CyanogenMod? I do it after doing everything else? Because my phone is old and i cannot use whatsapp anymore so at the time i installed CyanogenMod so i could use it.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
It was a long time ago since your last request that I don't remember if your device was in a kind of brick/bootloop; in both cases you need to restore the stock ROM that previously was running onto your device, the ROM that I linked is intended to do such thing.

From there you could read this guide about how to flash CyanogenMod running ICS, of course you must have as first requirement a device alive and in the guide you will see a link to unlock bootoader if still available for such piece of antiquity https://www.androidgadgematic.com/2012/08/install-ics-404-official-cyanogenmod-90.html

And it looks that there are yet newer custom ROMs available like this https://xdaforums.com/xperia-s/rom-naosprom-xperia-s-t2958516
[General Questions and Answers] elojete:
Yes i have been not getting online much, i have a Sony Xperia LT26I stuck in bootloop which appeared out of nowhere.

Is a very old phone but i dont have money to buy another one and i really need whatsapp.

Thank you for the answer, i will get to it and let you know what happens, is complicated for me but i will do my best, regarding the newer ROMs i fear that they will not work but i will see about that later.

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I am sorry but i already have an issue right at the start, i went here https://xperiausbdriver.com/sony-xperia-s-lt26i And got the drivers and i am about to add them manually but there are two: sa0103adb and sa0103rndis, i have no clue which one is the one i should install, or if i should install both, the first one has a sa0103adb86 and sa0103adb64 files and the second one sa0103rndis86 and i have a 64 bit system so i guess that the first one?

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I am sorry but i already have an issue right at the start, i went here https://xperiausbdriver.com/sony-xperia-s-lt26i And got the drivers and i am about to add them manually but there are two: sa0103adb and sa0103rndis, i have no clue which one is the one i should install, or if i should install both, the first one has a sa0103adb86 and sa0103adb64 files and the second one sa0103rndis86 and i have a 64 bit system so i guess that the first one?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Don't worry about, I don't have a S20 Ultra, just emphasizing how difficult will be dealing with an old device, not too much responsive as one would want.

I would go for both but probably won't work on a 64 bit machine unless it has a well adaptation to 32 bit programs/drivers that were those used in the times of your device. If it doesn't work you could try using a W7 machine or running it on a virtual machine or installing it as second system.
[General Questions and Answers] Jochen K.:
Hi,

in March I asked a question which, as far as I can tell, remained unanswered.

So, here's the part that I find most mystifying/annoying/bothersome again:

On my device (Galaxy S9, LineageOS 15.1) the GlassWire app has identified a number of apps (in March four, since then about a dozen, some of them suddenly after an update), that both download from and upload to the internet, even though I have withdrawn their permissions to go online in App Info (all are paid-for, ad-free apps).

I wrote to all the app publishers - mostly without any answer, sometimes with obvious rubbish and only once with a halfway credible explanation.

As I don't know what's going on, to be on the safe side, I have replaced all those apps with alternatives that DON'T go online.

So:

-how is this possible?

-Is there a way to find out what those apps transmit?

Kind Regards,

Jochen
[General Questions and Answers] DragonFire1024:
Some more questions about this LGE K500 (mdh30lm, lm-k500, LG K51). I'm looking over new CVEs in an attempt to root this thing. I have questions about /dev/block/platform/bootdevice/by-name/xxxxx. How many of those 'partitions' are supposed to be mounted RW, if any?

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You can try a firewall like NetGuard, where some of the features you have to pay for but it does log IP addresses and resolves host names, of applications trying to transmit data. Unfortunately I don't know of any way to tell what they're transmitting unless you catch them any act by going through their data folders.
[General Questions and Answers] Jochen K.:
Thanks - that answers my second question; now if only SOMEONE could tell me how an app without permission to go online can happily do so....
[General Questions and Answers] DragonFire1024:
because the permissions inside an applications manifest specifically the ones that allow them to connect to the internet don't always stop them from doing so. Many applications bypass regular means to get on the internet in some form or another. Like GPS for example operates without a connection to data services or Wi-Fi.usually if applications are accessing the internet when they shouldn't be it is because of other permissions which allow them to do so but not necessarily intentionally or mischievously. And it's usually not for more than literally a second before they disconnect in most cases.
[General Questions and Answers] Jochen K.:
Thanks; I'm still baffled; other permissions?
[General Questions and Answers] DragonFire1024:
If you look in an applications manifest file, you will see a string of permissions which allow it to do certain things period for example though the Google clock may never actually connect to the internet officially it still needs to grab a Time code which is still technically connecting to the internet period and unless you have are really good firewall like netguard where you can monitor every address every application accesses, it's really just a guessing game as to how much what applications actually access the internet or some portion of it and for how long.Also realize that many devices have guest accounts on them that are always active but are still there period if an application has a permission to interact across all users on the device it will periodically check the guest account.
[General Questions and Answers] elojete:
I installed the drivers but i get a "code 10" and in the device manager the drivers appear with a yellow triangle and a exclamation mark... I did all the steps from https://xperiastockrom.com/flash-sony-xperia-stock-rom and i just have to press the "flash" button, but the computer does not read my phone despite being curenntly charged by the computer and making the sound that i plugged it in.

I mean, it does read it, it just appears as "unkown usb device".

Should i just press the flash button and see what happens, or there is something wrong going on?
[General Questions and Answers] DragonFire1024:
Okay and a little bit more about this LG again. It seems like you can teach an old dog new tricks. I managed to get 'run-as' to work in /data/local/tmp. A few years ago we had a little trick with Amazon tablets where they made a boo-boo and one of their social media bookmark applications. They actually left it open for debugging and you were able to use run as to gain a little bit extra permission running as that application. That's about all I can remember of it though and I know we used it at some point to gain root access on those tablets period so now I'm trying to figure out what else I can use run-as for. You can also apparently send it commands but I'm not sure what kind of commands it takes. And that would be a lot of time taken to look through the Amazon threads and see what we did back then. This is an older cve, but I'm trying to perhaps get Lucky with something like this. Basically building an APK with all the superuser goodies inside of it that would launch when you start the application or something. (CVE-2019-2215) https://github.com/grant-h/qu1ckr00t

I've managed to recreate the APK from the link above and compile it and install it on my device before I realized all of the asset files and the POC were all 64-bit ?. So now I just have to change out those files with 32-bit.

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I've had that happen to a few devices recently. Are you on Windows 10 by chance? It took me a bit to get that driver to work which is the standard universal MTP driver. It will finally install once the phone gets into a certain state usually in recovery or download mode. But if you're pressing buttons too quick or hold them down for too long then the computer will immediately disconnect from the device.

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I've had that happen to a few devices recently. Are you on Windows 10 by chance? It took me a bit to get that driver to work which is the standard universal MTP driver. It will finally install once the phone gets into a certain state usually in recovery or download mode. But if you're pressing buttons too quick or hold them down for too long then the computer will immediately disconnect from the device.
[General Questions and Answers] elojete:
Yes i am on Windows 10, the problem is that the phone has only two states: charging, or the bootloop. The computer does seem to read it but apparently the drivers are missing (which is weird because until the bootloop i used the phone just fine on the computer)
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Neither in charging mode or bootloop a flashing can work. You have to be sure that your device entered correctly in fastboot or recovery mode, as I said you previously the device would act in a weird manner though you have to try it a lot of times, in older Sony devices you've get either blue or green light led indicating that you correctly connected to PC in the right way BUT if this happen you have to update the drivers by searching where is located the new ones (right click on the mouse). Open previously the tool flashing to see if device is listed too apart that device management on Windows.
[General Questions and Answers] elojete:
Oh, i did got a green light in one moment, so if i get the green light i can flash it?

Edit: So i just got the green light and the sound that the pc makes when i plug something, then the green light turned off and it made a sound as if i unplugged the phone, it started again with the red light which is what it does when is charging and now is charging, this is confusing, but if i cant recover the phone i am screwed.

Edit two: Here it is what happens, the green lights gets on, the computer makes the sound that i plug in the phone, the green light gets off and the phone starts with the sony logo, then the red light turns on and starts charging.

Edit three: The flashtool does not seem to recognize the phone, i just did the green light thing (which last only like a second, and i wonder if the code 10 of the drivers have something to do with it) with the program open but i did not saw anything different :/
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Yes, it would be recovery mode, check in device manager if your device is listed, update the drivers if it's needed. I know you installed the drivers previously but sometimes they are not properly detecting device so you have to update it, they contain adb and fastboot drivers and sometimes they get a little confused and every time you put your device in fastboot or recovery you should have to update it manually, this happened to me only with old LG and Sony devices.

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This happened cause you didn't update the drivers properly, the recovery or fastboot connection when a PC didn't successfully attached don't remain more than 4/5 seconds.
[General Questions and Answers] elojete:
Okay i will do that but the green light last only one second, the drivers say "code 10" error and the device manager recognizes the phone as "unknown usb device"

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It says that all drivers are updated to the latest, here is how they look: https://imgur.com/gallery/oiitk0x

And if you go to here https://xperiausbdriver.com/install-xperia-drivers-manually They look exactly the same, so i am confused...

I downloaded one from here https://xperiausbdriver.com/sony-xperia-s-lt26i and other from here https://xperiausbdriver.com/category/download, but the first one were called "sa0103adb" and "sa0103rndis" (the 64 and 86 bits that i mentioned the other day) and the other one is "android_winusb", i installed both of them just in case.

When i plug the phone, first i get error 45 (device not plugged in or something like that) and then error 43 (the conmputer stopped the device because something)

This is honestly driving me crazy
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
It is simple, google is here to make money, they make a lot of money through advertising, advertising is delivered/sourced via the internet, if they enabled you to easily stop a specific app from accessing the internet, then you could easily stop the advertising and therefore block their income stream.

If blocking the internet for a specific app was built into android, then the many add-blockers (host file builders) would hardly exist.
[General Questions and Answers] Jochen K.:
I realise that not the phone owners are Google's customers but the advertising companies.

But - for that reason I only use apps with paid-for ad-free versions for which I can block web access with a clear conscience.

Among the 250+ apps on my device roughly 200 IMHO don't need to go online to work, and nearly all of them „behave” perfectly.

A handful occasionally do try to go online, and then put up an error message concerning "No internet access" - also acceptable.

So, the dozen or so that do cause data transfer (usually in the region of 10kB to 100kB per day) annoy and bother me enormously.

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P.S. I just took another look at those four answers that I did receive from app developers.

One of them mentioned that he had used Google Firebase - which would indeed point right back to your reply to my original message.
[General Questions and Answers] DIR49DNOR0N:
Hey, i currently cannot update the "Google play systemupdate". It is not checking for updates when clicked on (in about phone), it just does nothing.

The tab below security update tab (under security) is absent. I suspect that it has to do with the fact that i have not connected a googleaccount to the phone yet.

Can someone confirm that you are required to have a googleaccount to recieve these security patches?

Or is there another reason this could be happening? This is my first android 10 phone so i am new to the project mainline thing.
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
What device? On Pixels, checking for updates is in settings > system > advanced > system update
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Firstly is highly recommended to use a W7 system, I don't think that W10 has good compatibility with this kind of drivers.

No matter that your drivers are updated and most probably you don't need to update them but when more outdated better to have some concordance with the device/year-times, the moment to "update" them (I mean refresh them) is not simply installing them by the usual means but when your device is plugged; follow this process from the step 1 to 7 https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/M...3-ADB-Interface-Driver-Driver-201030026.shtml By the way are you trying to enter with vol up + connect to PC and vol down + connect to PC?
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
You can download and manually install the latest updates.

Get the firmware here: https://www.oneplus.com/support/softwareupgrade

Instructions for how to flash the update can be found here: https://support.oneplus.com/app/ans...e-the-software-version-on-your-oneplus-device
[General Questions and Answers] elojete:
I dont have Windows 7 anymore, i could try it at the computer of my brother maybe, when he is not around. I already did that thing with the drivers but i guess i will try it again, and yes i did plug the phone with vol down pressed and then connecting it to the PC but it just gets a green light for one second and then is red light/charging.

This is so frustrating, the worst part ifs that it got the bootloop out of nowhere, from one day to another, i have no idea what happened.
[General Questions and Answers] PhoneTechNoobie:
Hardcore blunder here- through developer options, I mistakenly changed the DPI in settings to "2000" when I meant to input "200" for what I thought was default. As such, I could no longer navigate to the same area to revert it back to normal for obvious reasons (icons/etc were too small and the developer options screen would not show anything). And if that wasn't bad enough, I restarted the phone like an idiot..

The device I use is a Huawei Mate 20 Pro (un-rooted), and right now I am stuck at the lock screen because I cannot access "0" on the numpad, which is one of the digits in my passcode.

Am I completely and utterly screwed? Is the only solution to factory reset by booting into recovery? Any advice is welcomed, and I wouldn't hold it against you to tell me what an idiot I am.

Found out a solution by plugging in a USB Keyboard to input my code manually! However, I am still impeded in accessing Developer Options to undo my blunder with DPI. Editing this post accordingly!
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
If you sometime accessed device through adb (or luckily you can set it up right now) you could use it to change DPI https://www.**********.com/change-dpi-density-on-android-without-root/

Edit: Link doesn't work, just type: "adb shell wm density value" where value is DPI desired, this may or may not work in your Android version.
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Mainline comes from the Play Store. And you need to sign into the Play Store to get updates from it. So no, you almost certainly won't get Mainline updates from the Play Store.

I say almost certainly because this is something I've never seen asked or talked about anywhere. But it makes sense to me (obvious even) that since the updates come from the Play Store, you would have to be signed into that to get them.
[General Questions and Answers] DragonFire1024:
Did anyone know KingRoot has its own app store? None of it is in english. Used an activity launcher to get into it. Whatever it is, KingRoot is available in that store. Launching it also activated another permission inside the app, REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES and INSTALL_PACKAGES. Attached a screen shot.

Also have been reading logs while using kingroot. Today I saw something new. Something about trust tonic and TEE. Looked like it was trying to get into the keystore and trying to get key codes of some sort. Sorry no screenshot of that but I will get one the next time I see it.
[General Questions and Answers] DB126:
SMFH - why in the world would anyone trust an app store published by this shady entity. Red lights everywhere. Step right in ....
[General Questions and Answers] DragonFire1024:
My thoughts exactly. I just found it a bit odd and a little bit bizarre period either way something about it isn't sitting right with me. I'll have to do a little more research just for my own ****s and giggles and see if I can figure out exactly what it is and where exactly it's based. Well at least we know where it's source is.the one thing that I found weird was the only English I could find was the search I did for "root". It was the only word in English.
[General Questions and Answers] Rhinal:
Question: is it possible to root the Samsung tab A 10.5 SM-T597P I have searched on here only to find the 590 but not 597 thanks in advance.