yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Try with:

- adb reboot bootloader or adb reboot fastboot, either, as one of these commands, probably you didn't try it, let the device without pressing a button, but for the other command, press the other button except the PWR button, the same try rebooting through menu, pressing the other button except PWR button.

- Program your device to power off/on, at a certain time, and keep pressing the other button except PWR button, when the time comes.

- Go to recovery through command adb reboot recovery, and from there you may find an option to go to fastboot mode.

- Open the back cover and just pin the PWR button.

- Connect to a PWR supply charger, and at the exact same time, press the other button to enter either to recovery (if it helps, remember the menu options), or to fastboot.

- If nothing helps, probably you may take it to a repair center, most likely you will need this button to fix the troubleshooting you'll find tweaking with your device.
[General Questions and Answers] Varkos:
Yeah, stock Miui
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
It seems that the theme market is not allowed for your region, be European, Chinese or Global, I actually flashed a custom Miui based ROM (eu.ROM), as they based its build on the Chinese ROM, I can't enter to the Global market. If the issue comes from there, then setting a VPN or changing your region may fix it, but the first thing to try is, clearing cache even data, restarting the device, and checking if the system apps have some update.
[General Questions and Answers] Varkos:
Honestly, I just though of the changing the region. Will do soon to see what happens and respond afterwards.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
does anyone know the chinese equivalent forum to xda ?
[General Questions and Answers] sergio-bodyweb:
Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra stuck on TWRP, please help : https://xdaforums.com/t/stuck-on-twrp-fastboot.4463501/
[General Questions and Answers] bebe_svk:
hello, on Redmi Note 9 Pro is possible to format SD card as Internal storage by quick / easy way?
[General Questions and Answers] z3ro_<00l:
I'm trying to flash my Samsung a20 with lineage OS but I haven't rooted an Android device in absolutely forever I think the last time I did that I was running lollipop so if somebody could please direct message me so I could talk to you a bit about this whole thing and just clarify what is necessary what exactly I need to do Etc

Cuz I think I know what I need to do but I am not sure and don't have enough experience with these weird quirks of modern android
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
https://xdaforums.com/t/root-twrp-more-android-10-q-complete-guide-for-the-a20-a205xx.4095589/

https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-11-0-unofficial-lineageos-18-1-for-galaxy-a20.4260403/
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
go back to stock

Selling phone, revert MI 10 to stock without bricking?

Hi All, I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to flashing and I nearly bricked my phone when I first switched to the EU rom (which I love). When I flashed my Mi 10 it was an EEA carrier variant running MIUI 11/Android 10. I did not permanently flash TWRP and forgot to take a backup. I flashed to...

xiaomi.eu
[General Questions and Answers] z3ro_<00l:
Already have read through those more times than I can count and still came away with more questions than answers which is why I need to talk to somebody who is more knowledgeable with this whole subject cuz I've been out of the loop too long and can't find anything that's really helpful and most importantly I want to make sure that I'm not going to screw anything up as with all my reading all I've ended up with is conflicting answers and myself being rather confused
[General Questions and Answers] sergio-bodyweb:
A bit more specific?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
When you messed in some way, some things, in order to solve it, you need to format data. This means that if you flashed a stock ROM, you have to use the option to overwrite all the partitions involved, through Mi Flash tool you have to use, flash and format data option.

Also, no need to change partition format, this is almost never required, it does more harm than good.

As you can boot to TWRP, if it's allowed, then backup what you can, although it's a thing you have to do to the very starting point, probably you have a second chance to do so.
[General Questions and Answers] sergio-bodyweb:
Thx, anyway I tried everythiing, from flashing a chinese stock in fastboot to install from scratch a weekly in festboot, format data, all..... still stuck in TWRP.

WTH is going on?
[General Questions and Answers] plegdroid:
Hiya Matey, I've sent a link that "maybe" of use, in your thread, keeps this thread tidy. Before taking any actions, I would highly recommend reading the whole thread, to gage what may work, and what has failed, ☕😊
[General Questions and Answers] jenbcute:
I just got a new device, Blu C5L Max, that I'm trying to put Magisk on but I cannot figure out how to do it! I've searched XDA for two days & nothing...

Blu C5L Max

BLU_C0170WW_V11.0.G.04.05_GENERIC_11-02-2022_1707

Android 11

Can anyone assist?

Thanks!

I found firmware on Easy-Firmware.com but it wants me to pay!
[General Questions and Answers] z3ro_<00l:
I am still in need of someone to talk to for some assistance I haven't done this in too many years and all the form posts are just confusing after a while so anybody that could message me would be greatly appreciated
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
After to flash the stock ROM, reboot to the stock recovery, don't flash TWRP yet, and perform a factory data, try to boot.

If not, if you backed up dtbo and persist partitions, depending on what caused the issue, it may be helpful, restore them.

And once I solved this, by flashing the super image through TWRP, some build number trigger the FBE while others not.

This issue comes from decryption.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
You may read this https://www.ayudaroot.com/root/blu/como-hacer-root-al-blu-c5l-max/
[General Questions and Answers] jenbcute:
I'm gonna assume, since it says you're a senior member, that it's safe! I usually don't trust any info unless it comes from XDA!

Trying now! Thank you very much! 😁
[General Questions and Answers] jenbcute:
Ok, first of all I had to MAKE my pc download MTKRoot because it said it detected a virus!

Anyway, I got it but I am having issues with every step of the directions starting with the drivers!

Everything pertaining to the bootloader is greyed out!

Are you sure about this MTKRoot?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
In order to flash a custom ROM, you don't need to root it, you just need to unlock the bootloader, and in this case, for this device, a custom recovery to flash through.

Steps needed: for generic solutions, just search on Google.

- Enable USB debugging, and OEM unlock.

- Install the Samsung drivers.

- Power off your device, and while pressing the both volume buttons, connect device to your PC, this will lead you to a menu, to unlock bootloader, follow the on instructions.

- Install TWRP using Odin, and search for a vbmeta patched file (in case you can't boot, you need to flash it too), you will find it in the A20 forum, https://xdaforums.com/t/twrp-official-recovery-for-a20-and-a20e.4267815/#post-86192489, untick the option to reboot automatically in Odin, when the process ends, disconnect device.

- Reboot manually to TWRP by pressing PWR + volume up buttons.

- First in TWRP screen, swipe to allow modifications, and recommendable, format data, take a backup of (personally I do from) EFS, dtbo, persist.

- Flash the custom ROM of your preference.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I can't sure you that this method work, so I don't have this device, although I saw this method working for other MTK devices, but without a stock ROM, from where you can get the boot image, to can patch it through Magisk, the rooting process for you will be all about trial and errors, anyway, the site seems trustable.

In the past, when I badly need to use some file/tool, most of the time, to fix some device's issue, I reserved and installed other Windows drive in other partition, to keep safe the main.

Unisoc processors are not good to modding, though, be sure to properly install the drivers first.

Bootloader grayed out means that your device can't be unlocked, prior to do anything more, you should get it visible.

Once you can unlock the bootloader, here's a method, to port TWRP for your device

Additional info:

Once you can back up your device, you can patch the boot image (most typically) and flash it.
[General Questions and Answers] z3ro_<00l:
This just tells me everything I've already read a hundred times and I have more specific questions that I don't want to go and make an entire thread about as that wouldn't really help me much either that's why I came here asking if somebody could message me so I could talk with them about this entire thing as all that information is practically useless to me that's just like the rest of this stuff I've been reading it just keeps leaving me with more questions than actual answers I mean really if I was confident in my ability based off of the information I got from all of the form posts here I've read I wouldn't be sitting here asking for someone to message me so I could talk to them about all this shenanigans

Now I don't want to seem rude but this is just tiring no one else reply to me giving me form posts or "generic" written instructions I need someone knowledgeable to please message me so I can talk with you as that is the type of help I need that I can't get anywhere else certainly not from the form posts I've already read too many times
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I don't think someone is interested enough to sit in front of you, to give you all the answers to your questions, this site is keep alive for Android lovers, volunteer and enthusiast to help others for free, all here we have our lives, we are not here because we have nothing to do, but we reserve a time for others, but not to spoon-feed on you, most of us, started from zero, just reading and reading, and also bricking some device, from time to time, I never thought to ask anyone to give me a complete guide to make the whole process, XDA is not intended to do so, you have to search here, and read there, this way, you could complete and satisfy your curiosity. I understand, in some way, your frustration, but you'll never find what you are searching for, the learning curve is a process that never ends, no matter you can do it now, to your A20, later, the things can change (and totally) for the next device, so better, try to learn why you have to do this or that, and very important, the order how they have to be done.

Furthermore, I could, because some guides are more or less, generic, for devices that share some specs, but I had the A20, it didn't take me more than 10 minutes for the whole process though.
[General Questions and Answers] z3ro_<00l:
Okay I'll make someone interested then cuz I'm over here trying to root my phone with nothing but my ****ing tablet so I have questions like do I need Odin or can I just push the file through console commands and crap like that or how I found so many conflicting answers about needing a customer recovery or which one to even use that's why all these form posts aren't bloody helping me cuz I'm in no man's land with no one to talk to that's why I came here pretty much out of options seeking assistance I don't need my hand held through the entire process as I've rooted Android devices before but that was like freaking nougat and lollipop absolutely forever ago and the weird questions I have I can't find a written answer for that's why I was trying to find somebody that would message me so I could actually talk to them and clear some of these confusions up it's taking me forever to get as far as I have and I'm surprised I have but I need somebody to talk to that knows more about this than I do who's experience isn't like 7 years out of date so for the love of God can somebody actually help me cuz you do not understand how frustrating it is to be sitting here with no one to talk to with relevant experience leaving you stumbling through the dark with only half an idea of what the hell you need to do and no idea of how you're supposed to do it hell I'm probably the first draft idiot who's ever tried to do this and just like everything else in my life I don't have the correct tools to do it the way everyone else says to so I have to try and find weird workarounds and jury rig a solution
[General Questions and Answers] mrrocketdog:
wow!! @SubwayChamp. just wow! :)
[General Questions and Answers] z3ro_<00l:
Yeah once again I have seemingly painted myself into a corner where not having the right tools or whatever specific thing I need to do down a path that no one else has taken or at least documented but I think this is possible although that's me kind of just guessing what little bit of information I've been able to find and cobble together
[General Questions and Answers] Madara_96:
Hi everyone my Proximity Sensor is Damage so i want to Freeze it value at 5 , i tried an Xposed module it working but it need to be reactivated after each reboot and it not stable , my question is how can i Freeze it by myself manually to stay at the value 5 forever , thanks .

Redmi Note 8 Pro MiUi 12.0.7 / Rooted
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
You can disable the option in incoming calls, also you can try to fix it through engineer mode, in case it's not a hardware issue.
[General Questions and Answers] MrMetra:
Hi, I want know how I can port a rom

I have a Snapdragon phone
[General Questions and Answers] plegdroid:
https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-how-to-port-roms-snapdragon-windows-linux.3801391/

Welcome to xda

😊☕
[General Questions and Answers] SultanGris:
Samsung wallet sucks, I can't get it to work without giving it my biometrics and I'm not going to do that. How can I go back to Samsung pay and get that to work again or get rid of Samsung completely and make Google pay work with the swipe up on my Galaxy Note 20 Ultra? Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Madara_96:
Yes thank but i have disable it during calls but in WhatsApp or Telegram this option is not available im still having this problem , i have tried CIT app and it shows the sensor switching between 0 and 5 all the time without any interaction , im sure it a hardware issue , Do you know how can i disable it forever ?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Then, there's no option to disable it through MTK/CIT engineer mode.

Not all apps use really the proximity sensor, but the front camera.

If you are rooted, there is a module that can disable it, through LSPosed, I'm also pretty sure that some ADB command may work.
[General Questions and Answers] temp8799:
I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to customizing my phone via recovery and stuff. I know the basic stuff so as to how to install custom ROMs or gaining root access.

I know that LazyFlasher is needed if you're going to flash MIUI after installing TWRP.

But I'm looking for answers to these questions:

Difference between lazyflasher-no-verity-opt-encrypt.zip, no-verity-opt-encrypt and no-verity-force-encrypt. (If there is any other variant then please include that in your answer)

Can I flash any version on any device when it is needed or is it device specific?

Is there any official website?

When to flash the file?

I own multiple Xiaomi devices so answers to these questions will be helpful.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Actually, this is not true, I can't sure the exact version when this solution was not needed anymore but since 2 years that I don't use it, some TWRP are capable to do what the most of the users need, and specially others custom recoveries based on TWRP like SHR or OFR, although DM-verity is a set (or was) of various solutions in one zip, just interchanging the names, also the Magisk releases since years, do the same for what they were intended to perform.

Lazy flasher is slightly different, it's basic, and there were many variants depending on the device, DM-verity was a most universal solution though.

When needed, DM-verity worked on almost any device, I used Lazy Flasher just for MM and Nougat. I used to accept modification onto the device, avoiding enter to bootloop (at the final round of flashing), Here you have the XDA site for DM-verity https://xdaforums.com/t/deprecated-...ncrypt-disk-quota-disabler-11-2-2020.3817389/ and here something about Lazy Flasher https://github.com/jcadduono/lazyflasher
[General Questions and Answers] fonzacus:
its been a month after this message started popping up weekly, so far so good. nothing major happened like skynet being not a ok etc

hopefully someone else can chime in

note, i dont need security. im old, the user is the 1st and best antimalware there is
[General Questions and Answers] nashinnnn:
Hi guys, I have a SM-G780G (s20 fe snapdragon) with Android 12. I'd like to know if just by modifying the apexd binary in /system/bin, it could be possible for the apex files to be installed at boot regardless their signature.

I have understood the APEX file format was introduced in Android 10, and that the apexd binary is responsible for verifying, installing and uninstalling .apex files at boot.

I was told that, because of those .apex, it's not possible to completely disable signature verification. Before android 10, you could fully disable this by just editing services.jar.

But now, that deactivation is only partial and apparently, the rest of the signature verification is in a core-oj.jar inside com.android.art.apex, which will give you an instant brick in any attempt of modifying it (the signature changes and that .apex must be loaded).

So... If we could modify that binary to later edit com.android.art.apex and completely disable signature verification, we could use any signature and modify any apk we want (secsettings, framework-res, smartmanager, etc) without any rejects from system that causes errors when using a modified version, am I right?

By the way, I've looked for info about apexd and found this that seems to be its source code, written in C++, is it?: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/apex/+/refs/heads/master/apexd

Though I don't know if it'd work for a custom UI like OneUI, maybe they didn't bother on putting their code, maybe they did, well...
[General Questions and Answers] ManoharMaddineni:
Anybody know the exact app used to get telemetry of device in screenshots?​

Before somebody tells me, yes I did check the developer options, I could only find an fps counter, nothing else. (no gpuwatch) PS.I'm using an LG wing, so, no root. The pictures were taken from videos published right after they were launched, so, the phones is the screenshot are not rooted afaik

Device : Z Fold, Redmi Note 11s

From : InfoFull youtube channel

[Look at top left corner]
[General Questions and Answers] Biggfoott:
Just bought a used Xiaomi Poco M3 phone. Trying to unlock the boot loader and got to the step of Mi Unlock Status. It is telling me to insert SIM card and try again. My question is, Does it matter which type of SIM card I purchase? I was planning to purchase a cheap $10 1 month plan and SIM card. For example, could I purchase a Tello 1Gb prepaid SIM card powered by T Mobile and proceed with no issues after? Or are there other certain requirements when it comes to unlocking the sim card? Thank you in advance. I’m in the US if that matters.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
To unlock bootloader, you need to enable mobile data, and switch off, the WiFi, it doesn't matter which kind of SIM card you use to do so or you think to use once the bootloader gets unlocked.
[General Questions and Answers] fonzacus:
for xiaomi phones id rec your main (#1 sim) to not be a fake, as it might cause headaches later on

if you take a look at your manual, the main sim should be

inserted in slot 1

linked to your mi account

have an active data plan

login with your account in both the unlock tool and i.mi.com

locate your device

proceed to unlocking guide
[General Questions and Answers] lfad:
1. Settings -> system -> about phone (tap 7x) => now a developer -> attach phone with usb cable to desktop

2.Downloaded platform-tools_r33.0.2-linux.zip on desktop

3.Unpacked and opened command line in platform-tools directory

4.adb start-server

5.adb devices

List of devices attached is empty

Am i following the wrong guides ? What is the correct way to attach devices ?
[General Questions and Answers] fonzacus:
most mainstream linux distros ive tried had builtin android drivers in adb and fastb mode, if not then theres usual an error message that tells us to install something else

if youre using it from within the directory, prepend the command with dot+slash to ensure this dir gets 1st priority

FTR, dot+slash in most OSs = this directory, so try

./adb devices

BTW using devices autostarts the server so no need to type it

UPD

also needs usb debugging within dev opts
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
What mode do you have the device booted into when you connect the device to adb and type the "adb devices" command? System? Recovery? You can't connect to adb while in fastboot mode.

You enabled developer options but did you open developer options and enable the USB debugging setting?

Have you installed the USB drivers for your device?

Are you using Linux or Windows?

Are you cetain that your USB cable is not damaged?

Are you certain that your device's USB port is not damaged?
[General Questions and Answers] lfad:
yes tried ./adb devices ; /platformtools/adb devices ; sudo , ect same results

thanks

yes USB deggging enabled
[General Questions and Answers] lfad:
just turned on, not in command or recovery

also tried with phone needing os fix in recovery mode but same results on linux desktop (no devices found)

Revvl 2 (recovery) Foxx L590A (normal mode)

yes

device recognized for file transfer, does that mean all necessary drivers

linux

tried 2 different cables, both work for file transfer and charging

yes
[General Questions and Answers] lfad:
are the samsung a03 and A13 easy to root and get adb to work with ?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
No, device recognized for file transfer does not necessarily mean all the drivers are there. Typically, the drivers installed automatically the first time you connect your device to PC only installs the drivers needed for file transfer(i.e. MTP, etc.. There is a driver for download mode, a driver for recovery mode, a driver for adb, etc, etc.. These extra drivers usually have to be downloaded and installed separately. But, on a Linux machine with adb installed, the proper drivers should be there natively. When you installed adb platform tools in Linux, did it ask you about installing the drivers?

Also, some devices have to install an insecure kernel made specifically for their device in order to use adb.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Can you unlock the bootloader? If not, no, you can't root the device. But you might be able to use a "temporary root" method to run a temp root seasion allowing you to use adb commands.
[General Questions and Answers] zola619:
I want to ask about zram, is zram still needed in 6gb ram phone?

So i have realme 3 pro with a12 cusrom and have 4gb zram by default. I read article about zram, it's say zram no longer needed in newer android version, so i try to disable it using franko kernel manager and it work, but after playing genshin impact the games become laggy and hang. So i enabled zram and try playing genshin impact again and now the games running smoothly.

So why disabling zram make genshin impact lag? By logic disabling zram make phone run more smoothly right? Because no more compress and decompress proses in cpu.

Sorry for my bad english and noob question.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Absolutely.

Strange, but some devices need to enable (as a quick workarounds) file transfer to access the ADB connection, also, don´t forget to enable the option "controlled by this device" onto your Samsung phone.