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[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
If you dont have a spoecific need for it, then I think you can assume, you dont need it. But, as others have said, those that need to do specific things, its the only way.

Just for clarity. Root and unlocking bootloader are two specifically different things. One can unloock their bootloader, and not instance root. People flash custom ROM's (unlocked bootloader) and run that custom ROM un-rooted. Where they cross over and get confused is that unlocking your bootloader is normally the first step to attaining root, but you can stop there.
[General Questions and Answers] Sentimental Sugarcube:
Hello, XDA Developers!

So, my question is: Does anyone know the latest software update of the Samsung Galaxy Fit2 smartwatch?

Recently, I was gifted a Galaxy Fit2 (SM-R220) smartwatch. Recently, I have also been dealing with malware (the spyware type) on all of the mobile devices I own, and it has been extremely stressful for me. Because of the fear, persecutory delusion, paranoid thoughts — whatever you want to call it — of being electronically harassed, I looked at the accessory's "About band" in the Galaxy Wearable/Galaxy Fit2 Plugin app, and I noticed that my smartwatch's software version is R220XXU1AVB9.

I searched the version online to see if it's the latest update, but to my surprise, I couldn't find that specific software version anywhere — every website told me that the latest update is "R220XXU1AVB8" (updated on February 2022) and it's been driving me nuts.

I have also tried to get ahold of Samsung experts through their official website, Facebook/Messenger, and Google, but it has been a difficult task. I've already gone through most websites, threads, and manuals/software information there is, and I still haven't found the current software version of the smartwatch.

Thank you so much in advance.

Spoiler content hidden.
[General Questions and Answers] aidyntv:
hi i may haved bricked my phone and was hoping someone could help me fix it. i have a alcatel 3x 5058a and i flashed a pixel 6 system image and a recovery that is incompatable with my device. i am pretty sure i can fix it if i can access bootloader, but i have no way if doing that. so i was hoping that there is a program for windows that can force boot it in to bootloader because it still tryes to boot the device when i press the power button, or maybe there is a button combo the boot directly to bootloader from power off state or something. ;please i just need any help i could get om this, and if a program doesn't exist, maybe someone can create one. i would prefer a responce as fast as possible, but i would atleased like to it's being worked on.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Firstly, you never have to flash images that weren`t created for your specific model, this only produces (most likely) this same result. Just guessing, you probably confused for the 2019 model, the yours is 2018.

The device not booting to bootloader mode, it`s either, due to the lack of the drivers properly installed or with the flashing of wrong images, the bootloader is now unbootable, so, try the first thing, to can see what next.

In case this first step doesn`t work, you`ll need to repair the bootloader partition, for this you need to find and download the exact firmware for your device.
[General Questions and Answers] Mluck0315:
Brand noo noob here. I have 5-6 Fires (mix of 8” and 10”) installed around the house running Fully that I use to dashboard for home automation purposes. Love Fully, but inevitably, there is some intrusive ad or message that intervenes. I’d like to prevent these intrusions so that the dashboard and/or screensaver is the only thing displayed.

Question: am I in the right place? Will XDA solve this prob? TIA….
[General Questions and Answers] blackdove777:
I'm pretty new to XDA and maybe I should have posted in this thread to begin with. I've posted my situation here: https://xdaforums.com/t/bricked-lg-velvet-5g-lmg900um-please-help.4482741/ and not received any feedback after a week. I'm not sure if its because of noob errors on my part, lack of detail in my explanation or challenges with my specific device. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
[General Questions and Answers] aidyntv:
hi, so I don't think that the bootloader partition is damaged because I never sucsecfully flashed any other bootloader. my plan was to flash the pixel 6 bootloader and hope it would boot , because it new what the system image was called. but i don't know the current bootloader partition name.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I mean by damaged something that now it's unaccessible or non-functional, Alcatel devices result in that, when an unauthorized image it's flashed. Read again my post and try to answer with better information, to get a better help, the most info you can provide always will help to help you better.
[General Questions and Answers] gr3uh:
Hello, so I recently got a Moto g 5g 2022 "Austin" and decided to root it. I unlocked the bootloader, got the stock rom and patched it with magisk. I took the patched file and flashed it successfully to both slots. I then flashed a blank vbmeta image and rebooted. The phone rebooted perfectly normal but then when it turned on it says the device is locked.

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However before getting this I also got an error to which I factory reset.

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Please tell me what I did wrong.
[General Questions and Answers] OFz:
Hello, i want to know what application allows a phone to control a other phone with some very important requirements.

1- Because the phone I need the remote for has an almost broken screen. I need the app to be able to connect any time I need it, which means it needs to stay in the background, as well as its own id/ip.

2- And, when remoted from another phone, the connection is automatically accepted, which means I won't have to do anything further for future connections (of course I can set up for the first time for it).

Thanks for read.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
strongly suggest replacing that screen. while such apps do exist, you would need to set them up on your phone with the broken screen. as for the apps, you could try Vysor or Team Viewer
[General Questions and Answers] aidyntv:
hi so i downloaded and tried to flash the image with sp flash tool but it could not regagnize the device. infact my computer could not regagnises the device at all.however it did know that a device was connected , it just did not n\know what it was. the in\mage is attached below.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
You have to, firstly, fix this, search for the proper method to install drivers for MediaTek devices.
[General Questions and Answers] AVAndronov:
Android 11, OnePlus Nord N10. Using for a couple of months. Everything worked fine, but recently, phone started to use way more battery. Like, it would only last about 8 hours, even when I hardly use it at all.

At first, I thought Google Chrome was the culprit. Phone's Battery screen in settings showed Google Chrome and Google Play Services as two top battery users, even when I would have chrome closed (recent apps shows nothing).

I have disabled Google Chrome and switched to Opera, this seemed to help, but then problem returned. Google Duo and Google Play Services were two top users.

I disabled Google Duo and now EVERYTHING is draining battery.

For example, right now, I have 40% battery gone in ~3 hours since full charge. I have hardly touched my phone at all (about 15 minutes of active usage max). My Battery summary shows many apps from my phone (maps, taxi, money management, youtube, messengers, work apps, productivity apps), each using 1% to 2% battery. And Google Play Services using ~8%.

How can I troubleshoot this to find out the root of the issue?
[General Questions and Answers] Mark Yngell Kate:
Hi guys, hello again subwaychamp nice to see you here.

Can i request to have a full backup partition for realme 7 rmx2151 or if you don't mind just a system.img is all i needed, because my system.img partition is empty after i format my device in sp flash tool.

My device has a custom recovery orange fox when i reboot or power off my device there is a warning red text about system.img partition was blank please help me on what do i need to do or to have system.img
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
For idle drain, look into BBS. Read the OP, I think it will require at least 6hrs of not using your phone.
[General Questions and Answers] Renate:
I suggest USB solutions. I don't want to get mixed up with anything remote control as it sounds like dual-purpose spyware.

Do you have ADB enabled? If so, you can use my adbgrab.exe (in the sig).

It's painfully slow compared to other ways of screen mirroring but it works without loading anything.

Click with the mouse, use navigation keys, F5 is refresh.
[General Questions and Answers] AVAndronov:
Thank you, will try. Seems like the best tool for the job
[General Questions and Answers] Shimmy99:
I'm still tinkering with the custom ROM for my board without success - but am wondering about something now. I think the problem is that on Android the /dev/block/by-name bit only gets populated with eMMC partitions on device start. Because I have the userdata partition on a separate device (SATA) than the kernel (eMMC), then it fails to find the former. So what is the "most correct" way to make Android also populate that with partitions from other connected devices in early boot, before it needs the userdata? Where/how does Android determine which devices it will use to populate that /dev/block/by-name path in early boot?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
As far as I know, it doesn't populate the partitions on boot, the partitions are populated when the firmware/operating system is flashed on the device, then is read from those partitions during boot. The partition structure and locations are assigned during the flashing process by whatever flashtool is being used, the flashtool uses a file that is specific to the device to assign the partitions, different devices use different file types, Mediatek uses scatter file, Samsung uses PIT file, etc..

I'm asuming that you are looking for how to tell android to look in a different location for the partition when it needs to load data from that partition?
[General Questions and Answers] Shimmy99:
Yes.

Actually, I have managed to get a solution and it works so far, but I'm not sure if it's the "best" or the "proper" way to do this - I pass on the bootargs to the kernel the option "androidboot.boot_devices=fe2e0000.mmc,fe210000.sata" - note the ".sata" option. (This can be done through the U-Boot command line.) This seems to then allow it to see the userdata partition on the SSD and it boots correctly. But I'm not sure if that's how it's "supposed" to be done or if there is a disadvantage to this method that wouldn't become apparent later, for I know with other types of software, there may be often more than one method to do something, but only one "preferred" method.

What I mean by "populate" is not "fill with data" but "have the kernel populate the device folder /dev/block/by-name/" with the links to partitions drawn from multiple hardware devices and not just the eMMC, since the system expects in several places apparently (some coded into binary files in the Android system!) that the userdata must come from specifically /dev/block/by-name/userdata, which resides now on the hard drive. The whole point here is I'm crafting a custom ROM that allows this and moreover allows dual-boot with Ubuntu 20.04 (with rootfs on the hard drive too) through some mechanism, potentially involving something like GRUB (which U-Boot theoretically can chain into the bootloading process via its "bootefi" command), so of course I use the flasher to lay out the partitions physically.
[General Questions and Answers] Mluck0315:
Posted this a week ago but didn’t receive a reply. Can anyone kindly point me in the right direction? Please and thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
could you show a link for this "Fully" ? google shows only a page for wood desks.
[General Questions and Answers] mat68046:
Newbie Questions about Rooting S10

US based using "international" version to get unlockable bootloader (from reading this forum)

S10 SM973F Exynos

ONE UI 4.0

Android 12

Panama firmware

Bootloader is unlocked (though button is grayed over now, even though enabled). I get the warning on reboot and Knox is tripped.

Odin v.3.14.4 on PC

Magisk 25.2 installed on phone

Used Frija to download the firmware for the phone using TPA as the CSC. Noted that CSC is BTU but didn't seem to matter to Frija whether that or TPA.

Patched the AP using Magisk and attempted to flash via Odin. Turned off Auto Reboot to be able to choose Magisk at will (?)

Odin hangs at Start Nand, so thankfully no bricked phone yet. Attempted to use HOME_CSC instead of CSC but got same result either way. I'm using OEM cable but will try others while checking here for assistance.

Also unsure how to get phone into Recovery Mode, suggested button presses don't work.

I had successfully flashed this ROM when I got the phone, but had patched the original via Magisk, but could not get it to boot into ROOT mode. Perhaps I can go back to that ROM and try again if it won't mess everything else up.

Any suggestions appreciated!

-MAT
[General Questions and Answers] 0lPlayerl0:
so I flashed cwm and install a custom from and after that, I installed the stock ROM now its boot looping and it won't be fixed with flashing stock ROM again I installed the custom recovery so I can use a custom ROM but when I want to do that is says Can't mount /sdcard
[General Questions and Answers] Oshwoosh:
Hello,

I have a galaxy a03 sm-a035g/dsn, 64gb storage, 4g ram, bought in germany in 2022.

I cant find a correct subforum in the samsung section...

Basically all i want to is flash DTS:X ultra/ headphones files to my phone.

(Bootloader is unlocked)

From what i have gathered i could do this without root using twrp.but after installing twrp the phone will only start into the usual recovery mode; there doesnt seem to be a designated file to flash twrp on my a03.

The other possibility to flash the DTS:X sound codes to my device would be using Magisk but i dont get my phone rooted either.

I have no access to a pc here and havent used odin before anyways.

Im a newb to this stuff and i like sauce hollandaise.

Anybody have any suggestions or could point me to the right subforum?

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Catbutnot:
Question abt XDA wesite: can I add laptops to my device inventory?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Probably you can try sideloading that ROM, if CWM supports sideloading (I guess yes).

About the SD Card, that can't be mounted, it's an error from CWM, so don't expect someone else to fix it, CWM, is deprecated.
[General Questions and Answers] bndlovu084:
Hi I'm a noob here. I have a samsung galaxy A01 that will not start up. The power button seems to be unresponsive and if i put it on charge all that happens is that the phone lights up then switches off again almost immediately. No logo or writing or anything is shown before it switches off. Does anyone know how i can solve this problem?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Did you do anything to cause this or did it just happen randomly for no reason? Were you trying to flash the device or modify the device before this happened?
[General Questions and Answers] bndlovu084:
Nope i didn't try to do any of that. It happened for no reason
[General Questions and Answers] leoson:
Hello

I want to post a pre-recorded video live on Instagram. I want to use the Instagram app for this

There are 2 ideas. (Sites providing Instagram streaming services are illegal and there is a possibility of banning the account, so it must be done with the main Instagram app)

The first one is the obs program to use its virtual camera feature in the Android emulator, which unfortunately was not possible for the virtual camera to come as hardware on the device manager and the emulator sees it as a camera, and it caused a lot of trouble, no matter what I did, it did not work. The manycam program was successful, but portrait and desired size were not possible and the image in the camera was problematic.

The second way is to create a virtual camera in the phone with an xposed or Magisk module or a program and define a video to play as a camera.

For lsposed, there was a module called VCAM that provided exactly what I wanted, but no matter what I did, I could not launch it. There were no video tutorials.

There are many programs for Facebook, YouTube, etc., but everything is limited for Instagram

My brain is stuck because of too many searches

If anyone has experience or solution to do this please help
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Two possibilities.

1) the hardware is damaged, replace the power switch.

2) your software is corrupted, reflash your firmware if you can get it to boot into the correct flashing mode for your device.

It is more than likely the second one that I Iisted.
[General Questions and Answers] shamsaboubkr:
Help please

I want to flash GSI on my device but I can see there are two categories "VNDk and Vndk-lite" so my question is how can I know which one to flash for my devices
[General Questions and Answers] Mluck0315:
Of course, Fully is here. However, I'm not wed to Fully. All I'm trying to do is show a web page (which is my home automation dashboard) *WITHOUT* the fire tablet going to the lock screen, or switching to notifcations. Just want it to sit there just on the dashboard with maybe (or not) a screensaver.

Thanks so much much for any help. I'll dive into XDA if folks around these parts think it could address my probs!
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Install treble info and it should tell you whether you have a vndk or vndk lite device.
[General Questions and Answers] mat68046:
Any assistance at all?

I can't do what I need to d with this phone until it's rooted and I'm not getting anywhere.

Thanks,

Mat68046
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Have you used a guide from your device subforum? Have you checked those guides?

For sure you are not the first to have encountered that problem, read that subforum. Or you could wait for an answer.

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[General Questions and Answers] shamsaboubkr:
Please I need a navigation bar style tweaks module for Android 12 (Lsposed/Edexposed/Magisk)
[General Questions and Answers] quantazelle:
What's the best way to backup an "image" of the phone at its current state? Like, with all the settings and apps, and without relying on windows or internal backup software? I have a Galaxy Note 10+ and spent about a week customizing it with all my base apps. If it gets stolen or an automatic upgrade happens, I'd like to be able to restore this base image, at least.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
If said device gets stolen, you can restore that image only on another note 10+. Those types of backups are not universally compatible.

https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-nandroid-backup-backup-restore.2191610/
[General Questions and Answers] Lordshandyman:
Does anyone know how to root or at least modify the 2022 Chevy Tahoe infotainment 3 system? I think the model name is gminfo37. The Android version is currently Android 10, security patch August 1, 2021.

Build number full_gminfo37_gb-user 10 W134D-W161.4.1-QIH22B-429.1 134 release-keys.

What I want is to be able to access the Android drop down menu that lets me put it into airplane mode, and to disable the wifi and bluetooth. Or even better, semi-perminatly disable the bluetooth and wifi apps so other programs can't turn them on.

After we first got the vehicle, I was able to disable certain apps, get into developer mode, and force close certain running services and reboot past the home screen into the developer mode screen that gave me the choices for airplane mode. The only problem was, if we backed out of this screen, or hit any other app, we could not get the screen back, and I would have to spend hours force closing running services and rebooting to get it back. Only thing is, I never did know the exact steps I did to get the bypass to work in the first place, and the work around made the radio a pain in the butt to use since we would have to leave the developer mode window open all the time. Also, we would have to force close the home screen before shutting off the car, or the next time the radio turned on, it would go straight to the home screen and not the airplane mode choice menu. We had actually gotten into the habit of leaving the darn thing running so we wouldn't have to fiddle with the radio again.

If only Chevy would have left this android feature available to the end user, we would love the vehicle, but as it is, it is strongly radiating us for no purpose, since we don't use wifi or bluetooth.

I thought about sideloading a simple "airplane mode settings app" that might let me turn it into airplane mode, thus disabling all the emf's, but I don't even know where to start since I don't even know what the head unit is called. What I would really like to do is be able for the bluetooth and wifi, and cellular to stay off, even after rebooting, but as it was with my last work around, the radio would stay in airplane mode, so the cellular "Onstar" was disabled, but the bluetooth and wifi would reactivate and I would have to take it out and back into airplane mode to shut them off for that on/off cycle or turn them off one at a time.

About 10 years ago, I rooted and custom modded our cell phones for a couple of years, then life got busy with kids and I haven't had a need for such things until this new vehicle, so I am not a total noob, but with my bad memory, I can hide my own Easter eggs.

Any help is much appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] quantazelle:
That would be fine, since I would just want to restore the same device back to a previous state. It might be good then to also do an app backup as well, for future phone transfer. Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
I dont think you need root, if you can get to ADB or issue shell commands. See answer 13 below for Wifi, similar for bluetooth:

How to turn off Wifi via ADB?

Im automating a testing procedure for wifi calling and I was wondering is there a way to turn off/on wifi via adb? I would either like to disable/enable wifi or kill wifi calling (com.movial.wific...

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[General Questions and Answers] ekmuz:
Hi. I have a question about running Bluetooth dongle on Android TV x86. I posted a thread about it. Can you help me please? My thread: https://xdaforums.com/t/android-tv-x86-bluetooth-dongle-dont-work.4492461/
[General Questions and Answers] Lordshandyman:
Thank you for your resonse. That thread seams interesting, but as of now, I am only able to install apps from play store that chevy allows (only apps available in play store are radio or news related). I don't remember how to get to ADB. In developer mode of the head unit, I can enable usb debugging, but there is no choice to install 3rd party apps. I don't even remember what programs I need on my laptop to be able to connect to the head unit. At this point, I don't even know what button pushes will reboot the head unit. The power button only mutes, or holding it down for 5 sec it goes to screensaver mode. I would say sleep mode, but the wifi and bluetooth are still active when in screensaver mode and another push of the power button instantly brings back the home screen. So far the only way to reboot that I know of is to pull the fuse or shut the vehicle off, open driver door, lock and walk away for some time.
[General Questions and Answers] shamsaboubkr:
Sorry if this question sounds silly.

But will a device still boot into system If I flash an imcompatible custom recovery ?