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[General Questions and Answers] mstrnemo:
Thank you guys

I am exhausted from spendings days on this gonna take a brake and hopefully tommorrow i can go to the next step now that i unlocked the bootloader and add twrp recovery.

Goodnight for me atleast i dont know where u guys live...
[General Questions and Answers] Coldtrain6989XD:
I got a fastboot error: cannot load "magisk_patch img" : No such file or directory using CMD. My image is on my desktop on win10's laptop I was trying to follow this guide https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-4a-how-to-unlock-bootloader-root-pass-safetynet/ The file is in directory the desktop
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Yes, of course, you don´t need to root it in order to flash a custom ROM although after all the process you most will likely root it to gain an extra access to customizing zone. I put it as optional step, some users just want to unlock the bootloader to root device while some others could want to unlock it in order to flash a custom ROM, it´s up to you.

"- Download the same ROM that is already in your device,"

Edit: Is to have the stock ROM at hands in case something goes wrong.

When you say that your device is running Android 5.1 and the last available is Oreo you have to make a difference to not confuse the things, Lollipop was the latest official firmware (if so) and the version that you found is totally a different thing, is a custom/unoficial.
[General Questions and Answers] Kingjo99:
Hi guys my YouTube/flash/camera has stopped suddenly after I have installed a flashlight app from Google play because my phone was less than 5 percent battery and I nedded the flash directly after I runed the app flash and camera stopped and the I have noticed YouTube have stopped and its it's like have no internet access cuz I have and speed meter app and when I launch YouTube no internet usage detected

I have tried all ways from resetting, installing a rom all these doesn't get a result for YouTube now I have installed YouTube vancer app and it works properly but flash and camera not working.

Now I doesn't have any access to camera from any app Facebook Instagram WhatsApp can't upload an status either by sharing it from gallery directly

And in video calls getting black screen and don't know if the other answered the call or no

Please if any one facing this problem please help getting this out and if it's an s virus how to delete it thanksView attachment 5213419
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
You can do it in three ways:

- Put the right path where the image is avoiding spaces.

- Put the image in the same adb/fastboot directory.

- And as was said by xunholyx you can write "fastboot flash boot" and then just drag and drop the image to the cmd window.
[General Questions and Answers] Coldtrain6989XD:
how do you do third option ?
[General Questions and Answers] Black Swift:
Hello! this one is a simple one.

i have an LG K40s, that i use as a backup phone in case one day my phone dies for some reason, it just upgraded to android 10.

this phone has some really cool alarm sounds that a really like, i`ve searched the web to find out the way to extract both ringtones and alarm tones from that phone and i found the default place is in /system/media/audio/ringtones but i could not find that directory, does anyone know i way i can find a way to extract such sounds or their location?

that doesnt involve rooting or unlockin bootloader or anyting too complex.

Thanks in advance!!
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
From the directory where is placed your boot image drag and drop it inside the cmd window
[General Questions and Answers] Coldtrain6989XD:
still confused ?
[General Questions and Answers] Coldtrain6989XD:
I placed it in platform tools my patch img but when I use CMD it says the file in not in the directory when it is
[General Questions and Answers] Coldtrain6989XD:
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[General Questions and Answers] Arceste:
Hello, I just recently bought a Galaxy A31, but there's a distinct lack of support for it other than root. Say I wanted to port TWRP (and maybe down the line actually dev a custom rom), are there any up-to-date threads that could walk me through doing this without hard-bricking my phone? On a related note, if I were to flash an unofficial TWRP built for the Galaxy A51, how much damage could this do?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Are you sure that your device is detected? Type "fastboot devices" and you have to see your device serial listed.
[General Questions and Answers] Coldtrain6989XD:
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[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
If I´m not seeing bad you are using Power Shell, you can either customize your Windows to open cmd by default instead or from PS switch to cmd typing cmd, then run the fastboot command
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Can you attach a screenshot from inside the adb folder?

And what about "fastboot devices" prompt?

Also, Which device do you have?
[General Questions and Answers] budandboru:
What are the rules we were asked to read first?
[General Questions and Answers] SMOKEzmn:
Is uninstalling themes manager app from the system safe??
[General Questions and Answers] Faris-Craft:
I need help figuring out how to fix my problem! My phone is samsung note 2 GT-N7100 ViperOs ROM. My camera works fine, but when i try to edit videos in kinemaster or powerdirector the colors are all messed up. I tried shooting a photo with red blue green objects. Then edited it with kinemaster or powerdirector. When i exported it the green was oversaturated i think. The red was purple blueish. And blue was yellowish orange. Please help
[General Questions and Answers] SMOKEzmn:
Your color correction maybe incorrect check it in your settings
[General Questions and Answers] Faris-Craft:
Its not the screen colors, its the video itself
[General Questions and Answers] MiguelAngelo94:
hello i would like you to help me because i have a galaxy s9 g960f so i researched it is german and i want to put a stock rom 8.0 or 9.0 and give me error device 14 binary 6

ola gostaria que me ajudassem poes estou com um galaxy s9 G960f pelo que pesquisei ele é alemão e quero meter uma stock rom 8.0 ou 9.0 e da-me erro device 14 binary 6
[General Questions and Answers] Faris-Craft:
Are you updating a standard ROM for your specific device or not?

Você está atualizando uma ROM padrão para o seu dispositivo específico ou não?
[General Questions and Answers] Qwerty_in_me:
Does anyone know how to install a bootloader on a bare mettal MTK-67xx?

in a fit of desperation I formated the whole device meaning there is no preloader and thus SPFL throws a BROM error saying the device tried to boot before anything could be flashed

I have tried the DL buttons and shorting testpins but to no avail.

If you have any mtk67xx documetation on the flashing process please share

Thanks in advance!

Tl;dr- no preloader on device, no flashing via spfl. What do?
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
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[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
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[General Questions and Answers] Sophonos:
Hello, could anyone of you please explain to me how to root a TCL 10L mod. T770H with Android 11?
[General Questions and Answers] semhsp:
Hey I want to change rom on my phone but since I've used this rom for a couple of years I have a lot of stuff I don't want to lose. What's the best way to change rom without losing all of my stuff? Is there anything I can't save?
[General Questions and Answers] zeroderp:
i have 3 lg v20 H918

one of them is seen by my linux mint 20.1 desktop. this is my good stable and never touches any mods till my two better phones are running.

the other 2 i can get into fast boot, they were previously rooted & running orea/8 stock rooted

neither of those other 2 phones are recognized by my pc

i am using the adb reboot bootloader and get no joy on the 2 suborn phones.

both of the two phones refused to flash roms of any sort or type after a twrp wipe.

one of the phones is now fastboot only and nothing else ever happens and no connection to the pc is ever made

the other phone still goes into twrp most of the time,,sometimes fastboot only,,and still refuses to take any rom of any sort at all

my goal is to reflash twrp, and throw on lineage stable

BUT

not desktop connection?

someone pleas help me unbrick these two
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Try flashing first only the preloader.bin with lk.bin and lk1.bin if available to restore the preloader after disconnect device from PC and start from zero to flash the other partitions. Note, if you see two lk partition but just one lk file duplicate one of them and rename it lk1, both would be the same file.

Not sure if this will solve your issue so it depends in what exactly you did before but this is the way to restore the bootloader partition. Plus some OEMs add an extra preloder, I hope the brick was not with this one.
[General Questions and Answers] mstrnemo:
"- Download the same ROM that is already in your device,"

Edit: Is to have the stock ROM at hands in case something goes wrong.

isnt that what twrp recovery does so when the custom rom is no good u can just go back to your orginal android???

yes orginal 5.1.1 the last offical android for m2 and the linageos 15.1 based android 8 is custom

i have another 2 qeustions

i went to the m2 forum and saw in thread for linageos 15.1 android 8 based

creater says better to go for linageos 14.1 because it is smoother but i wonder say i flash linageos 15.1 and i dont like it can i then just flash another custom rom?

The same way i did the first one or do i go back to the orginal android of the phone wich was 5.1.1 using twrp recovery and then flash another custom rom?

what does it mean when in the title of the thread it says unoffical pixelexperience rom or unofficiall linageos rom ?

does it mean not made by the people who made the orginall pixelexperience or something like that? and just someone taking that custom rom and then change it for there own useage ?
[General Questions and Answers] zeroderp:
a full reinstall of all your apps individually will be required.

all of your stuff from each individual app needs to be saved individually, if there is no way to back it up, or if the new version of your app is not compatible with your old back up,,or if the app is no longer available for your new rom , then that will be a loss point

the only way to avoid this is future proff everything you do.

keep all your data on a 1 TB, or 512 GB sd card you can backup every other week to an external drive, and the same for your desk top PC

NEVER use the folders the OS OEM intends to send your stuff to. i always deleat those to avoid problems when i first start a fresh install.

organize your desktop into small catagories, and in each of those is more folders. totaly organized.

A backup , or restoration is only ever copy this desktop to that new hard drive/os install, and magically your done.
[General Questions and Answers] mrrocketdog:
deleted for content. :)
[General Questions and Answers] mrrocketdog:
as @zeroderp says , sdcard is way to go. for just apps and their data titanium backup will do the job.:good:
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
This is in case in the process to flash TWRP or root it or something else you get bricked then you should have to restore to its original state through an official tool and the stock ROM. Custom ROMs only provide a few partitions and all the rest work with so you should need more partitions in some specific case. Of course if you can access to TWRP, can backup some stuff and don´t lose access to it you should restore it.

As said before if you have some backup made through TWRP you can return to the original firmware (5.1) always that you want, assuming that you didn´t do nothing extreme but sometimes is needed to flash the official stock firmware through the official stock tool, it´s a thing not to a previous knowledge just you´ll see it in-the-go.

Unofficial ROMs don´t mean much for the user, there are good enough unofficial ROMs.
[General Questions and Answers] Coldtrain6989XD:
I'm not using adb justing fast boot my folder for plat form tools is on C drive and my patched stock image is in the same drive. Also I have the pixel 4a
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Generally is called adb folder, this means the folder where the SDK Platform is, idea was take a look inside and see if some file is missed. Also you didn´t say till now what about fastboot devices prompt, this is important to know if at least your device is detected otherwise no way to send commands nor any file.
[General Questions and Answers] Coldtrain6989XD:
The device is detected.
[General Questions and Answers] Coldtrain6989XD:
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[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
@Coldtrain6989XD

The name of your image is not magisk_patched_wHNtU.img instead of simply magisk_patched.img as you are trying to go?

Edit: In case my post was not enough clear: You have to type the exact name of the image so adb/fastboot can find it.
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Backup data only with TWRP and restore that. Or use the Swift Backup app (my personal choice) and save all of that to the cloud.
[General Questions and Answers] Alpine1982Sa:
Hi,

Can someone please help me. I have a problem with my Samsung S9 not receiving any updates since 2019, so I was searching for a way to do it manually. Long story short, I downloaded Android 10 Samsung firmware for my phone via Frija but I dont know how to extract/unpack the file. It has enc4 extension (SM-G960F_2_20210125132434_n511q35yam_fac.zip.enc4). I already tried to delete enc4 and leave .zip but nothing happens. I know it maybe a stupid question but can you please tell me how to unpack it ???
[General Questions and Answers] Qwerty_in_me:
Depends of the type of stuff

I'd suggest you root your phone if it's app data you want to keep, get a password manager like kxdb (it has a creddentials database) for backing up your logins and apk manager for making a coppy of the apps you want to backup.

In short; there's little you can't back up, just make sure you know what you're doing and how to do it
[General Questions and Answers] Qwerty_in_me:
According to file-extensions.org:

"File extension enc4 is associated with the Samsung Galaxy, the smart phones and tablets series that use Google Android operating system.

A typical .enc4 file stores update of operating system installed in the Galaxy smart device.

System Updates can be installed through OTA service in the device, or through Samsung Kies software."

I don't use samsung so I can't help you further.

Try looking on the official samsung tech support forums.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
SamFirm v0.5.0 for Windows - Samsung Firmware Tool

Download the Official SamFirm v0.5.0 Tool which allows you to download the Official Samsung Stock Firmware for almost all the Samsung Devcies.

samfirmtool.com

Also Frija can decrypt it.
[General Questions and Answers] Alpine1982Sa:
Thanks for the reply, can you tell me how do you mean to decript it with Frija, because I didnt see option in Frija to do that ?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Maybe you didn´t move the file to other place before Frija started to decrypt it? In the latest release (1.4.3) you have to set it up (in case is not marked) before to download the file, check the options CRC Check (looking for some errors) and Binary Nature (to decrypt it), when it finishes then it´ll start to decrypt it automatically.

Now that you already downloaded the file you can try some workaround

- Set the tool first.

- Start downloading again.

- Check Downloads directory, if a file is appearing there then try to replace the file for the one you downloaded previously or it doesn´t leave you disconnect some seconds from internet.

Also you have this tool, maybe you can install it and go directly to the step 4 https://www.thecustomdroid.com/samloader-tool-cross-platform-samsung-firmware-downloader/
[General Questions and Answers] Alpine1982Sa:
Thanks a lot, I will try your solutions.
[General Questions and Answers] DragonFire1024:
So I've had an 8-in ONN tablet from Walmart for quite some time. It's pretty close to stock Android pie and is "system as root." TWRP is ported and working. Downsides: 1) ramdisk is stuffed into recovery. 2) system as root may = true, but not according to fstab which has it mounted as /dev/root and I can't mount it rw and according to mount, fstab doesn't have a system to mount.

Now my question. Is there any way without repartitioning anything, to essentially for lack of better terms, repair the boot image and move it out of recovery and back into the actual boot.img? Magisk works, but makes it impossible or at least very much difficult to edit system file such as the build prop. In order to do so I have to edit it through /.magisk/mirror. Is it tricky part is whether I edit system or system_root? Nonetheless, editing any part of it seem to have an effect when setting the values set in the prop files.
[General Questions and Answers] najamahmedisb:
I have flashed my phone using qcom flasher its a snapdragon 800 device elife e7. Now the problem is I can access internal storage but phone storage is not available means can't save any photo content etc. I tried formatting with twrp but no help. It shows sdcard0 as vfat on adb shell but nothing works. Any help pls. Would be really grateful. Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Uthpala17:
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[General Questions and Answers] Uthpala17:
My android car stereo fader control
[General Questions and Answers] erikmanner:
I have a Huawei Honor 8 and the bootloader is unlocked. I want to install TWRP. So I use adb from the pc and I use the Twrp image file from the twrp.me website with the honor 8 version. I write the command and everything seems to work. When powershell says to me finished i try to boot to TWRP, but TWRP dont show up. I have tried different versions of TWRP(newers and older), tried to boot into erocery enz. But it don't work. When i boot to recovery with a ADB command the devices is booting for the rest of the day(I have waited hours long)and erovery is still surprisingly the same.

So what to do?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Did you try fastboot boot nameofrecovery.img?

Also some times you need to boot manually cause in some devices stock recovery tends to replace the custom recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] ranixon:
Hi, i have a problem with contacts in my phone. When I open contacts (the Google and the AOSP) it never stop loading. If I go to My info in AOSP contacts it closes. If I go Settings > about phone > Emergency information > Name, it returns me to About phone. Whatsapp says that there is no contacts app. I cleaned the caches of contacts, disabled and enabled both (Googel and AOSP), deleted my Google account, rebooted the phone. What else I can do before a factory reset?

I don't know that caused it, yesterday I received a WhatsApp, blocked the phone and minutes later no more contacts. I have a backup of my contacts, I can see them on contacts.google.com and there are working well on my backup phone. After this I started to use Simple Contacts Pro, but the contacts stored there can't be used with apps like Whatsapp or Telegram.

LineageOS 17.1, this rom.

Motorola Moto E5 Plus XT1924-5
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
Cleaning caches isnt going to do much. Clear the data. Make a backup of your contacts nefore you do so,
[General Questions and Answers] EbaFufu:
Hey, ive been trying to install device policy to use with my school-given email for online classes but im getting a "The security policy prevents the creation of a work profile because a custom OS has been installed on this device" message. Im not using a custom os. Android 10, Samsung galaxy note 9, model number N960N
[General Questions and Answers] curioushuman:
Hey all - Super noob here.

Could use help of those that are knowledgeable

Have a Pixel 4 XL - Decided to crash out of the blue. The Fastboot screen won't stay on long enough to select restart. This is what I see when I hold down power and volume down but then when I try to toggle anything, the screen just goes black again. Any advice on how to get the phoe restarted and powered back up? Thank you in advance! View attachment 5219053
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
You'll probably have to send it in for repairs.

Your bootloader is locked, so I assume you don't have OEM unlocking enabled in developer options. You probably don't even have Dev Ops enabled if I had to guess. If you had OEM unlocking enabled, you may be able to flash the factory image to get out of this, but you need an unlocked bootloader to flash that, and you need OEM unlocking turned on to do that.
[General Questions and Answers] curioushuman:
Thank you! I believe the Dev Ops is enabled because I remember doing some stuff to turn off the automatic updates a couple of months back and you had to get into the developer interface for that. I'm not sure how to flash the factory image if that's a possibility though?
[General Questions and Answers] minatoGG:
can you help me root my firefly mobile aurii inspire 4g phone
[General Questions and Answers] EbaFufu:
Does minimal adb fastboot tool work on Samsung galaxy note 9, i want to change the phone's resolution to reduce lag while gaming
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Samsung devices don´t have fastboot mode available to the user but you can use adb. Anyway you can change the resolution through developer options. Be careful cause there is a limit that you can put or your device may not boot.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Maybe is a second hand device? Policy apps detect some traces of some attempts of root it or something like this.

You should try flashing the stock firmware (the same that you already have or an upgrade if available) using from the splitted files the CSC_OXM (usually is this code) I mean the different CSC file than the CSC_HOME to do a clean flash.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
It could be that your device is trying to boot to the non-functional slot. You can try by setting as active the other slot with

fastboot --set-active=b

and then

fastboot reboot

If doesn´t work then you can flash again the stock ROM, unlock the bootloader and then use eg. this tool https://source.android.com/setup/contribute/flash
[General Questions and Answers] EbaFufu:
Thanks, the problem was a bug in the email that needed the device policy, i had already flashed it with stock firmware, but it's working now
[General Questions and Answers] charlie@39:
can we back up apps and app data with tar? termux data can be backed up that, is it possible for other app data ?
[General Questions and Answers] xunholyx:
Use Swift Backup from the Play Store. It backs up apps and app data to the cloud. I use G Drive for that
[General Questions and Answers] coelhooliveirar:
Galaxy S10 - firmware update via Odin - remove Google/Samsung account - OEM lock

Hello guys.

I am familiar to updating Galaxy S firmware via Odin. I did it many times removing my Google account as Odin itself suggests.

Is there any other option for that? I have a bunch of bank applications and other applications that uses Google account and really don´t want to login in every app again.

I read I can activate OEM unlock via Developer Options but is it safe? Are there side-effects for this path?
[General Questions and Answers] atcii:
I have an mtk device in bootloop. It never stops until the battery gets depleted, and automatically starts bootlooping again when it is plugged in for charging.

I am trying to flash the stock rom via Spflashtool, but since the phone should be in off state during this process, flashing fails. How to solve this problem? Any ideas?