yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
A fork would imply a source code for Samsung Internet. It is probably proprietary and not available for the same reasons that Samsung stock camera source is not available, which is why a broken camera is always an issue when building custom ROMs for Samsung devices.

I doubt you'll find a fork to compile your own Samsung Internet but you can probably find some versions of modded Samsung Internet apk's to try.
[General Questions and Answers] Crrrr:
Q: What is Disable_DDm-Verify_ForceEncrypt and why would you use it?

So in looking over a few Youtube videos about custom roms made by the Eureka team (mainly for Samsung devices), using the Eureka kernel (https://xdaforums.com/t/kernel-cust...-a10-for-android-10-q-11-r-12-s-roms.4159503/), I saw that they wipe all, including Vendor and that after flashing the custom rom with TWRP, they also flash a .zip file called Disable_DDm-Verify_ForceEncrypt_.zip

What is that and what is it for?
[General Questions and Answers] Dougmeister:
Installed Noble ROM 2.1.1 the other day on my Galaxy Note 9. Linked a Google account to it and got an email saying "Finish setting up your Galaxy Note10+ with Google".

Why does Google think it is a Note10+? Any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Your noble ROM might be based on a rom released for the note 10+.
[General Questions and Answers] Comrade AU:
I can't find lineage os 19 for infinix s4 x626
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
you think lineage os images come from thin air ? some user that has this device has to make them. your device isn't popular, thus there are no lineage os 19 images. if you want one, make one
[General Questions and Answers] Jupex:
So I was in oneplus 7 pro open beta for android 11. Well that expired like a year ago. was too lazy to switch 11 official, untill yesterday. Did my backup to google drive. Can see the backup, but can't restore it. During the initial restore it skip the step completely. What gives?
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
can you manually restore it ?
[General Questions and Answers] Jupex:
How do I do that?
[General Questions and Answers] Frost_17:
Want to know what is the stance of Google with regards to using Gapps packages (like Nikgapps, Opengapps, etc). Is it okay for users to flash these packages into custom roms or are there legal issues regarding this?
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
You are safe.
[General Questions and Answers] Frost_17:
And what about Roms which come with Gapps preloaded (like Pixel Experience, Evolution X, etc)?
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
You are also safe
[General Questions and Answers] Frost_17:
Is it so? I thought google apps are closed source and you needed to acquire a license from Google to use these apps in a rom.
[General Questions and Answers] mrrocketdog:
@Frost_17 i think "we've" been installing gapps since android cupcake. it is A.O.K. :)
[General Questions and Answers] mrrocketdog:
ok i've got a question maybe somone can help with. i've got a stock galaxy A52 5G and it seems i've enabled or disabled something that has caused a small "person" figure to appear in my nav bar in the far right corner.

clicking it does nothing that i can tell.

a web search has revealed no info that explained this "person figure".

anyone know what it represents and/or how i can rid myself of it?

thanks for any suggestions :)
[General Questions and Answers] AlmirBiH:
Hi, i cant find right ROM for my tablet, is there any chance to dissassemble rom, change ‘drivers’ for digitizer, power ic etc..and build again ? My tablet have allwinner a33 cpu and i find rom who matching with cpu wifi but not matching with digitizer, for example …and some other rom matching digitizer but not matching wifi … so i want to unpack > edit > build ..any chance ? I am total newbie and I know its old and cheap tablet but must learn on something … thanks
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
The ROMs / flashable zips add the apps as pre-built binaries. They are not compiled from the closed source.
[General Questions and Answers] moto07734:
That's an Accessibility shortcut to use features like Select to Speak, TalkBack, etc. I know Samsung has their own way of doing Accessibility, but you should be able to de-activate in:

Settings>Accessibility> …see what's checked.
[General Questions and Answers] mrrocketdog:
thank you very much. it was SDMaid that was checked under Accessibility. unchecked and got rid of that "icon". yay!!
[General Questions and Answers] Frost_17:
Meaning roms with GApps baked-in are okay to use?
[General Questions and Answers] weebkent:
so im one step away from installing a new rom on my device but i have a problem. The one i want to use is here: https://ci.android.com/builds/branches/aosp-android10-gsi/grid? but im not sure which one i should get. i know my device is arm64-aonly but there's like 4 arm64 GSIs.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Google's android operating system, including Google apps are open source and freely available to the public. There is one thing that can be considered a restriction "of sorts". Typically the Gapps must be packaged individually and not built into the custom ROM zips then flashed separately from custom ROMs, that is why the ROMs and the Gapps packages are downloaded and flashed separately. Sometimes, ROMs are pre-packaged with the Gapps built into the ROM but not often and is usually done this way for specific reasons.
[General Questions and Answers] Frost_17:
So such roms with Gapps pre-packed are still okay to use, isn't it?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yes, you were already told it is ok.
[General Questions and Answers] Aintor:
How to change the typeface of the browser(like chrome) and the apps that are based on webview? It seems change the fonts.xml can't help.
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
If not, all manufacturers shipping stock firmware flashables are in big trouble ;) Stock firmware usually comes with integrated GApps. Also, see my next point regarding RO system partitions.

Google apps are generally not built from source, but distributed as pre-built packages, AND, it has become much more common to include GApps with the newer custom firmware (ie ROMs). I would propose this is the case as more device become RO System partitions, so disable the ability to flash the extra components over a first flash of the base ROM; its a one time flash. Historically, the GApps packages were flashed on / over a R/W system partition after the ROM was flashed.

He was told a lot to consume & interpret & filter, and I know what I said was not as committed & concise as it could of been.
[General Questions and Answers] jurtoh:
Please help find firmware for umax visionbook 7a 3g or something similar that will work
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Well, check this

https://xdaforums.com/t/xda-developers-forum-rules.4200559/

4. Use the English language.

We understand that with all the different nationalities, not everyone speaks English well, but please try. If you're really unable to post in English, use an online translator. You're free to include your original message in your own language, below the English translation. (This rule covers your posts, profile entries and signature). You could try :- https://translate.google.com/ or https://www.babelfish.com/ or use one of your choice.
[General Questions and Answers] mrrocketdog:
ok ,

need a little "spoon feeding" and i really dont like having to ask 'this way' ;

i have recently acquired an Htc one M9 , ATT , on Android 5.1 , stock. i can make calls (finally) but thats it. no browser , internet , email , etc. a good friend started helping me here thru PMs but havent heard from him in a couple of days ……… so , according to him i should :

{check the api &

network settings may need to be set for your network.}

ok , well i do know how to search on the internet and am not "total" noob , but darn if i can figure this out.

also , the M9 continually asks for google play services update. which i found , DL'd and installed (it is still asking for update however). also tried to update firmware (over wifi) and it says "no update at this time. and i know the M9 should be able to update to 7).

any ideas i can try? any "spoon feeding you might like to do? i have a paypal acct. and willing to pay a bounty to get the M9 up and running.

p.s. any mods , i hope the mention of a bounty is a.o.k. :)
[General Questions and Answers] Locodgets!:
Hello all. I have a Samsung S3 i9300 here that has a custom ROM (I believe). It's Android version is 4.3.1 and the ROM is CyanogenMod. The device is already rooted and one hardware fault it has is the Charging port/USB connection point is not functional. I want to return it to back to standard so I have downloaded the stock firmware which is in the form of a zip file with a (Odin) .tar file inside the zip archive. I started by installing the SafetyNet Test app and the device failed the test. I then istalled Official_TWRP_App so before I try to take serious action I would like some advice. How do I revert the OS back to standard?
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
If your talking about the web page presentation, then, a lot of the web pages you visit explicitly set/specify the typeface, and so would overwrite anything else you select / set for the system interface font
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
You can try with some GSI, instead https://xdaforums.com/t/gsi-11-lineageos-18-x-gsi-all-archs.4205461/
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Download an app like this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tk.hack5.treblecheck&hl=es_PY&gl=US, it will say you exactly which image you need. For next, here you have a reference about, under the naming section https://xdaforums.com/t/official-aosp-r-mod-caos11.4265059/
[General Questions and Answers] weebkent:
hmm does that mean i can use an arm64 ab .img? im not exactly sure about it since mine is a-only

edit: nvm, i found an aonly img file, thanks for the help :)
[General Questions and Answers] Comrade AU:
well, thanks, but I have some doubt about some device features not working
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Do you want to return to stock and keep TWRP or do you want to return to stock along with stock recovery?

If you want to keep TWRP, you can try finding a I9300 stock firmware that has been converted into a flashable .zip and flash that using TWRP.

If you want to return to stock along with stock recovery you can try an app made for rooted Samsung devices called Mobile Odin, it works well on the older Samsung devices like the S2, S3 and S4. Place your firmware file in your external sdcard, then install Mobile Odin on the device. Open Mobile Odin, find the option to flash stock firmware and flash the firmware(if it prompts you to grant superuser permissions, grant it). Your firmware file should be a .tar.md5 file, if that isn't what you have, you may need to extract the file to get the .tar.md5.
[General Questions and Answers] soulofalion7:
Hi Everyone! Is there any GUI application on windows that can somewhat automate the process of installing custom ROM with G Apps? You know noobs like myself can sometimes make mistakes and ruin a phone instead of giving it a new life. I don't want to seem demanding but something like that would solve a lot of problems coming from people who are not into tech.

Thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
While such app might be good on paper, you really want to give a strange app admin right over your phone, being in charge of flashing gapps and roms? What if someone mods said app, adding a Spyware or makes your phone send all his data to an unknown location? Even if something like this exist, I would advise against it. Either learn on how to do it yourself, by following guides around the web and questioning everything or don't. You really want to trust an strange app with your data and privacy?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
The closest thing to automating the process the way you want is to create a script that automates all the steps involved in flashing the ROM and Gapps then running that script in a command terminal in Windows. If you don't know how to create or use such a script, you're better off learning to do it the way the rest of us do.

Its not that hard.

1) unlock bootloader(if it is locked)

2) install TWRP

3) flash ROM and Gapps via TWRP

4) factory reset in TWRP and wipe cache and dalvik cache

5) reboot into system

6) done
[General Questions and Answers] Hydra.in.power:
I need help to know how I can unlock bootloader in my OPPO A1K. I try with ADB command but my OPPO A1K unable to go in fastboot mode.

Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
How To Unlock Bootloader On Oppo A1k CPH1923 OP486C - TweakDroid

tweakdroid.com
[General Questions and Answers] soulofalion7:
WOW! I was putting too much trust into open-source stuff and totally forgot that it can exploit so much. Thank you dear sir for a thorough reply. I will learn to do like the rest of you.

Massive Respect. 🙇‍♂️
[General Questions and Answers] soulofalion7:
Dear Droidriven, thank you for making it very precise. I'll attempt on flashing the ROM after I have complete grip over all the steps. 🤜🤛
[General Questions and Answers] Locodgets!:
Thanks Droidriven, I am gonna try your first suggestion first as it seems easier.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
The same could be said about the flashing tools created by members here and made available here, the ROMs, various other mods, apps and various other software created and made available here. XDA does an ok job at catching shady things being posted here but the principle of odds makes it inevitable that some bad things slip through the cracks.
[General Questions and Answers] Creep Crusher:
Hey guys.

I am struggling for the last few days to do a full backup of my samsung note 8 to my pc. I prepared an external hard drive with a lot of space for that and didn't managed to back up.

I tried to perform ADB pull command to transfer the entire storage/emulated/0 folder. My phone storage is almost 60gb of total space out of 64. And the folder generated by adb pull was only around 19GB which means lots of files are missing.

I tried looking for other solutions but even for rooted devices there is no easy way to transfer everything to your pc.

My phone is not rooted but might consider doing it after I managed to backup and factory reset.

Is there any easy way to transfer every files on the phone to pc with few commands or input?
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
How about doing the backup the old fashioned way? One by one, this way you are going to be sure.
[General Questions and Answers] Creep Crusher:
I have lots of folders from various apps and stuff with images I edited and videos and so on.

So going one by one is gonna take a while. Also doing it one by one means I might miss some files.

The thing is I know there are more efficient way to do it. And I want to use that opportunity to learn it.

I also intent to do more then one format of my phone so doing it one by one every time gonna be hard.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Do you have a micro sd slot?
[General Questions and Answers] Creep Crusher:
Yea I do. Tho most of my phones don't have any. So ideally I want to find ways that do not relay on an sd card.

Tho if an sd card is the best way I will do it. If you have any advice doing it using sd card I will be happy to know.
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
If you went from Android to a windows PC, chances are that your Windows PC is not case sensitive, while your Android phone is. 2 large files in the same directory, will simply overwrite each other.

I personally only back up files that would not be auto/created by the system. You SD Card will have files that are used by and generated by apps, and not stuff you personally would need to backup.

I would try using an FTP server such as found in MiX, backup to a case sensitive server, and be rooted. Also maybe do a comparison by riooit paths to see which path you are missing data from your previous attempt(s).
[General Questions and Answers] Dougmeister:
I love the new Noble Rom v2.2 but for whatever reason, my Galaxy Note 9 is having problems sending and receiving text messages now.

Are there any other ROMs for my Exynos Note 9 that have Android 12?
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
You seem familiar with custom roms. Is there any reason why you don't want to check yourself the subforum dedicated to your phone?
[General Questions and Answers] Dougmeister:
I am only familiar with them in that I can follow instructions very carefully, lol.

I once soft-bricked this same phone because I followed the instructions incorrectly, so now I'm a little paranoid.

I will check out the sub-forum, but the last time I remember looking, I was a bit overwhelmed either by the sheer number of options or I wasn't sure if the ROMs would have the basic features that I wanted. So I was looking for some of the more "popular" ROMs to start with.

I hope that made sense.
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
I dont know your device, but as a general rule, the first custom ROM most people look to, is LineageOS.
[General Questions and Answers] MaxterXen:
Hey there! I am trying to root a Vodafone vfd 1100, I tried so many things like one click roots, (I do not have access to a computer right now) and they all failed. Even tried the magisk one, but I cannot open fastboot... Can anybody give me a working way to root this tab without a PC? Any help is appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] RyDeg4999:
So I have a Crosstopic Android and Windows 10 Problem. I installed Havoc Os 4.16 on my device and now my HP Laptop does not show the Redmi 5 Plus Phone in the device Manager, but the device is charging.

But when I go into Fastboot mode the device is showing and I can use USB-Debugging.

I tried different cables and ports.

USB Debugging and Root is Enabled.

What can I do?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Check the drivers you had installed, re-install them if needed, do a clean flash, if nothing of this solved, then nothing you can do in your own, most likely it's an issue with the ROM itself, ask the dev and/or the forum, if other users are facing the same.
[General Questions and Answers] RyDeg4999:
Thanks for the reply.

So I already did the following.

1) Downloaded the correct Driver with the inf file.

2) went to fastboot on my device and connected it to the Pc

3) Installed ADB Driver via Update Driver

What am I doing wrong? Is there maybe a exe file so I do not need to connect my phone to install the right driver?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
If I understood well, you are going to fastboot to install the ADB drivers, fastboot drivers are needed for fastboot mode, MTP has nothing to do with fastboot. If you are using ADB installer, IDK which, your device may or may not be connected, the ADB installer 15 seconds requires device connection to identify the device, but generic Google drivers doesn't. Search for Xiaomi drivers and install it, they are in exe format. Anyway I wonder what happened prior to that, didn't they working? Or this started after to flash this ROM?, And what about the second part of my previous answer, are you sure it's not an issue ROM related?
[General Questions and Answers] RyDeg4999:
Prior to the new Rom everything was working with File Transfer and all the other Options shown.

I asked the Developers but I did not find any related issues. I will now try and find a xiaomi Driver exe File and try that. But I only can find ADB and Fastboot Drivers with inf Files.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus USB Driver for Windows (Official Mobile Driver)

Download the official Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus USB Driver for your Xiaomi Mobile. We also provide all other Xiaomi Mobile drivers for free.

gsmusbdriver.com
[General Questions and Answers] RyDeg4999:
Exactly what I did. But Prior before clicking Finish I have the Option to choose one of these 3.

View attachment 5600357
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
You don't need to do that. Install the win_ usb.inf from one of the zips, using right click from your mouse, and the Qualcomm drivers, from the other zip, it's an executable file, you don't need to connect your device in the process.
[General Questions and Answers] RyDeg4999:
I did that to and then still no Driver was shown in the Device Manager.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
And what happened prior to flash this ROM? Your drivers were working?
[General Questions and Answers] RyDeg4999:
Yes drivers were working. Phone showed List of Options (Mtp,ptp,Charging only)
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
OK, then I was right, as I said you in my first post, it's ROM related, a known issue in various models, starting with A11, you couldn't fix what the dev can't.

Wait till this can be fixed for the dev, or use FTP transfer, or go for other ROM, built from other source.
[General Questions and Answers] Dougmeister:
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[General Questions and Answers] corulh:
Hey, i need help for a problem i have been dealing with. I have a Samsung Galaxy On7 (SM-G600F) phone and i downloaded an update at settings tab. I started installing it but after 2 hours, it was still stuck on Samsung logo screen. I removed battery, then put in and turned on but it didn't worked. Samsung logo appeared , then "Android is starting optimizing app 15 of 15" , again Samsung logo appeared and it got stuck at screen.

I don't want to lose my files so i tried to firmware it by using Odin with only "HOME" files about 3 times. They didn't worked either. It was the same as old situation.

If anyone can help, I will be very appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Well, for starters you need to unlock the bootloader. For this you need a computer. No computer? then another rooted phone might also work.
[General Questions and Answers] MaxterXen:
So the only other device available for me rn is an Alcatel 1c 2019. Can you please help me? Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] theboone:
Can anyone tell me what this error means?

It's in the Doctor on Demand app (on Zygisk Denylist). View attachment 5600727
[General Questions and Answers] Dougmeister:
If I want to do a FULL backup (so I can try a different ROM and be able to come back to the ROM I have now if I don't like the new one), I go into TWRP, select Backup, and these are already checked: Boot, ODM Image, and Data (excl. storage).

Do I check anything else? Recovery? Cache? System Image? Vendor Image? Baseband? EFS?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
The most important I always back up is baseband, EFS, dtbo (if present), persist and vendor (or its equivalent on other devices).

The essential back up is about 200 MB.

But If you care about your data, then back up userdata.

The other partitions are still present in the stock ROM.

It seems, your device needs a factory reset to can start normally. Try first if only wiping caches/dalvik cache solves it.
[General Questions and Answers] corulh:
I want to do factory reset last if i got no other choice. I want to recover my files but i don't know if it's possible or not. Thanks anyway. Are there any other possible ways ?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Not much you can do, wiping caches and dalvik would worth it the try (this won't delete your data), and the other thing is trying to find the exact build, you had previously to this, and flashing it again.

Device refusing to boot, is most likely due an interference from the data not being formatting.

Of course, this is discounting that you had any issues while updating, i.e. some partition from your device or some file from the update was corrupted, it seems nothing of that happened, otherwise you would receive an error update warning.

The other reason could be the FRP protection, in some updates this is included as an extra measure from Google (in compliance with a vendor)