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[General Questions and Answers] kevinmlgnoscope:
i have a SM-T280 with linageos 14.1, i've run into a problem with gapps, it seems that if i have gapps with a google account on the device, whenever it reboots it triggers FRP and blocks the rom, so i have to reinstall it from scratch

im using gapps pico.

im aware of FRP destroyer but im a bit worried that its a one time thing and if it re enables FRP for some reason then my tablet will essentialy be bricked.

any other way to prevent this so i can use google play store, this tablet sometimes crashes system ui and causes a restart, so when that happens the tablet nukes the rom and i have to flash stock through odin, its very annoying and i cant use other app stores cuz they don't update frequently enough.

any help would be appreciated
[General Questions and Answers] GrafRaf999:
is it possible to install android on HUAWEI MatePad 11
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Go to system settings>security and disable the "Find My Device" setting, then FRP should no longer be a problem.
[General Questions and Answers] tchl:
Made a boo boo late last night trying to roll back Android 12 to Android 11. I was not alert enough to realize that I was only flashing the boot.img to the device and not the factory image that I downloaded from Google. Now, when I attempt to flash the Android 11 firmware I get the error message FAILED (remote: Partition should be flashed in fastbootd).

I've updated my platform-tools but I still encounter that error message. Any help?

The flash all batch file worked all of a sudden. Maybe I was still directing to an old version of Platform-Tools.
[General Questions and Answers] Sahib Abbas:
Tried to download the files on my ssd and it worked. thanks a bunch. opening the download directory,all i see is quite a few hash files,sin files,TA files,xml files and a folder called "boot" that contains sin files,xml files,zip files and a TA file. Are these all im supposed to get? Or am i missing something?
[General Questions and Answers] kevinmlgnoscope:
thank you, i'll try it
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Yes, these are the ones you need.
[General Questions and Answers] fracarol:
Hi all, does anyone know if something happens if I remove and put back the SD card on my phone while keeping it switched off? Or when I will power it back on it won't have noticed anything (which is what I want)?

This may be a stupid question, but thanks anyway :)
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Well, if you have apps installed on that micro sd and you modify those apps data, of course you will see a response when you turn on your phone. If you wont do such things, you have nothing to worry about.
[General Questions and Answers] fracarol:
I have no apps installed on that SD card, just data, so ok. I was worried about losing some preferences, for example images saved on the SD and set as favourites in Samsung Gallery, but this way then it shouldn't happen. Thanks a lot :)
[General Questions and Answers] olelink:
Does anyone know the actual methodology by which a carrier locks a SIM?
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
I think is a program. The smartphone maker gives the said program to the carrier, allowing him to modify the smartphones according to their wishes. That said, you need that program in order to Sim unlock a phone.
[General Questions and Answers] olelink:
I believe it's theoretically possible but I do not believe anyone has done so, or at least that anyone has posted about it. It has a bootloader and you can load stock images through the sd card.
[General Questions and Answers] olelink:
It would also require an Android version that supports the device**
[General Questions and Answers] Master Melab:
The bootloader does not get verified on your phone?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
It no longer matters, I will soon be replacing the device and throwing this piece of junk in a drawer with the rest of my unused devices.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
If I don't remember bad, you had (have?) an A10s with MediaTek? Actually, bootloader can be unlocked even in many carrier branded phones. I saw it in some LGs, even from Boost, Verizon, etc.
[General Questions and Answers] spartan197089@gmail.com:
Hi guys I built/port some firmware to éxynos to éxynos soc but I don't can solve the screen lock security

Some body can help me to fix it it I tray to port j400m to j5 sm-g570m thanks guys for any help about it.
[General Questions and Answers] Aseemitha94:
Hi,

My Redmi Note 9 Pro (curtana) is not 9 Pro anymore!

I unlocked my bootloader and flashed global ROM, just because I wanted to experience the google dialer and messaging apps. But I wanted to go back my previous ROM which is Indian ROM. Again I unlocked the bootloader and flashed Indian ROM but in MIUI camera watermark still says that my 9 Pro is a Redmi Note 9s. No matter how many times I tried clean flash with or without or with locking bootloader it still stays as 9s not 9 Pro. Also in my MI Account it shows my device is 9 Pro but the device image is not a 9 Pro or 9s, it's look like Note 9 Pro 5G china version. Safteynet passed with or without bootloader locked, but this issue making me really frustrating. Kindly assist me someone on this issue.

Really appreciate your support.

Asee..
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
No, it's A12 but I'm upgrading to S20+ 5G, just have to be certain that I get a version that can unlock bootloader.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Oh, it´s a real upgrade, just in case you want to tinker with it before to throw it to the trash boat, this guide would work too https://xdaforums.com/t/how-to-unlo...k51-k61-and-other-k-model-lg-devices.4364489/
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Thanks, I'll check it out and see what I come up with.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Here you can start by checking the real model you have https://www.mi.com/global/verify/#/en/tab/imei BTW you didn't need to flash the Global ROM, these apps are available for anyone in Play Store.
[General Questions and Answers] tchl:
Boot looped a Blu G9 Pro and I've failed at flashing the 2 firmware versions that were linked here on XDA. When flashing with the flash tool, I get this error message... ERROR: STATUS_EXT_RAM_EXCEPTION (0xC0050005)

Searching online it says this error may be from having the wrong firmware but I've literally tried both versions for this phone. Any guidance is appreciated.

I bricked the phone by manually flashing the wrong file.

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[General Questions and Answers] dcard228:
can someone explain to me why suddenly my phone is suddenly not gonna be connected to the network after a certain date? the customer service dude for at&t didnt seem to know what he was really talking about so i dont trust him, but he said it has nothing to do with the 3G removal and had something to do with the FCC? im pretty pissed because its a great phone and i kinda dont want to get rid of it after only a little over a year. i have a Redmi Note 9 Pro btw
[General Questions and Answers] NewbieDori:
Uhm,hello i am new here.I am here because i could not find a solution of my problem anywhere.So basically i have an apk folder or something and i do not know how can i install it View attachment 5486545View attachment 5486547
[General Questions and Answers] NewbieDori:
Btw thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
You have changed the extension and thus your file manager does not understand its an apk. change the extension back to APK. Then when you click on it, your file manager should give you the option to install it.

On a side, to gain root, you should look into if Magisk is an option for your device.
[General Questions and Answers] grrigore:
Hello, what other options are there apart from Google Play Console? My app might not get accepted as it uses permissions that help the app run "forever".
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
If it is due to a decision or action taken by the FCC, there is nothing you can do and there is no sense in complaining about it because the FCC makes the law in electronic communication and we as users must abide by those laws.
[General Questions and Answers] NewbieDori:
Yes i want to root my phone but i need to wait 7 days because of this stupid rule in xiaomi phones .
[General Questions and Answers] dcard228:
okay but can you actually explain it like i asked instead of being dismissive and saying im just complaining, so that way i dont waste a couple hundred dollars getting the same kind of phone the FCC is restricting?
[General Questions and Answers] WickedThunderQueen:
I have 2 older Windows cellphones there both 635s and are both factory reset. I know I can turn them into media player type of cellphones for things like music or photos and videos but is there a way to turn them into a gaming phone. I would like to use it for playing pool games and some different android games. Is there something like that I can do with the phones while in a vehicle? I can use my service phone for a hotspot I was just wondering if there is a way to add android apps to the phone or is there a way to turn the phone into an android phone. Right now the phones are useless to me so I am wondering what could be done with them.

Or if there is anything other than turning them into an android phone.
[General Questions and Answers] Spassd:
Trying to Install TWRP bricked my phone:

When installing TWRP I was too fast and I forgot the

*fastboot flash boot recovery.img*

but I already did

*fastboot boot recovery.img*

So it seems to try booting TWRP without me having flashed it. Then I just got the SONY Symbol and nothing happened. Had to force shut down the Phone and when turning on I again only got the SONY Symbol.

I could use ADB to enter recovery (which was the default recovery then) and it told me system is corrupt, I can only do a factory reset. So I did it and now I just get in red marks:

*Your Device is corrupted, it cannot be trusted and will not boot.

Your Device will be powered off in 5 seconds*

Any idea what to do?

Of course I already tried to get back into Fastboot mode and repeated the 3 Steps for TWRP Installation correctly. Fastboot boot recovery.img just leaves me again with a SONY Symbol and nothing more happening, blue lamp is still on.

ADB reboot recovery leaves me only with SONY Symbol and red lamp instead of blue.

EDIT: Phone = XZ2 Compact

Can I unbrick it with the Sony Flash Tool?
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
It seems you flashed the recovery image over the boot partition, try flashing again the boot image from your stock ROM over the boot partition, then reboot to recovery and wipe dalvik/cache if available in case you can't boot.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I'm not sure, maybe something to do with its SAR(specific absorption rate), maybe it is outside the SAR limit imposed by the FCC or maybe it is a policy imposed to protect the interests of carrier/communication corporations by limiting the ability of users to activate devices by the switching of SIMs instead of activating via the carrier support line or website or maybe it is to make it easier to regulate and control who is who and who is using what device. If you really want the most accurate answer to your question, you should be asking the FCC, not here and not your service provider.
[General Questions and Answers] aceman1126:
Ok so I checked very quickly and I'm not sure if this is against the rules but I didnt see where it would be so I apologize if this is a no go and wont be mad if a mod nukes it but I'm kinda outta options so here goes:

Tl;dr up front:

I have a Note 5 that is screen locked with a pin and I need to either extract the data from the phone or disable/bypass the pin.

The backstory to this whole thing is this was my wife's phone and when she passed away in 2019 the police took the phone as evidence. They desperately wanted in the phone (obviously) to build a case and hopefully put some fentanyl dealer in jail.

Because the phone was turned off and hidden they didn't initially find it at the scene but I was able to talk a girl into giving it to me. I took it to the cops hoping they could do something with it as I have no idea what the pin is.

Fast forward to a couple weeks ago and they finally alowed me to come get the phone back... after 2 damn YEARS... but I'm coming up empty on trying to get data off this thing. The cops never could get anything off it as far as I know.

I was hoping that the Samsung find my phone website would work but it only allows me to lock the phone remotely... like it's a 2nd pin on top of the normal one.

Data recovery software is a no go and here I sit with a phone with no damn removable sd card and no way to get into it... I've tried all I can think of and so far can only get to kinda talk to it via adb sideload on stock recovery but obviously that goes nowhere and I cant even load a shell from there so at this point idk what I can do or if it's even a possibility to get data from it.

Can data be recovered after a factory reset?

This thing must have a ton of baby pictures and videos of us as a family and I can't access any of it.

If ANYONE out there can help in any way please let me know. All I want is the pics and vids. I can pay or send the phone or whatever if it's possible I'll do it.

I never thought I'd run out of time with her or that the pics I took would be all I'd ever get to have but it is what it is...

Anyways if anyone anywhere can help please let me know.

Also, before someone thinks this is a scam or whatever I can verify everything I've said and if you need proof I'm willing to send it directly.

Thanks for even reading this
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
My advice, stash them and forget about them. Or sell them for cheap. Turning a windows phone into an android phone is hard, troublesome and full of bugs. A ported android running on windows phone. What gaming? You are going to be lucky if the Facebook app doesn't crash your smartphone.
[General Questions and Answers] gmfeld:
My question is about these forums. How do I stop "watching" threads? And how do I stop getting push notifications on my Pixel everytime someone opens a new topic? These should be easy settings to find but I cannot. The only choice I see to "unwatch" threads is to unwatch all. Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Spassd:
Thanks, yes I have no clue about this stuff but you basically mean I placed a recovery file in the boot partition and there I should only place the boot files. For recovery always the recovery partition?

Sounds just logic of course, but I followed the tutorial of TWRP:

unofficial twrp 3.3.1 Root Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact / Dual - unofficial twrp

Download twrp 3.3.1 root Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact/Dual Supported Models are H8314 H8324 & all Dual Models root by Flashing Magisk 19.3

unofficialtwrp.com

They tell to use

'fastboot flash boot recovery.img'

So is this wrong?

In any way I told that I forgot exactly this step and only did the

'flash vbmeta'

and then typed directly to boot the recovery (which was not actually installed).

Now do I only need to install the stock recovery again or do I also need to find a stock 'vbmeta' whatever this is? Because now I have the stock recovery and the TWRP vbmeta installed I guess.

I want to use xperifirm (special downloader) for xperia firmware, but it has server issues ... any idea where I can get a stock recovery? I only find the stock ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] Tanzin01:
any idea why phone always boots into twrp recovery? This started after i clciked "Erase data" from phone settings(reset). Now cant boot into system. Also tries a xda post but it wast helpful for me(DDing something).
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
You made some mistakes, which suggest you don't really understand what you are doing. First, I would suggest to refrain from using other websites than xda. A lot of these websites are just copy paste with somewhat changed files. Second, find the thread of your device, find the guide you need and read through all its pages. 10,100, 500, read through all. Modding a device is like baking a cake. If you don't mix it the right way or you do wrong things, it doesn't turn into a cake. I suggest you go back to stock, stay there until you have finished reading everything you need, until you have everything you need. You can't jump into flashing random stuff around the net, without risking hard bricking your smartphone.
[General Questions and Answers] Dustin0308:
Hello. Not sure if I'm posting this in the correct area, but I have a few questions. I have not been involved with android for about 5 years but used to regularly root and rom my older android phones. I have been on Apple since then but am looking to switch back to android. My questions are which newer phone would you guys recommend with the most support for this? I also require one basic thing, I need to be able to bypass the hotspot check on the phone due to the area I live having zero internet options until Starlink is released in my area mid-2022. I currently run a jailbreak with tetherme and it works flawlessly but it is an iPhone 8 Plus. I know this was easily done in the past but don't see much on it here. Is there a way to enable this feature after rooting and rom like it used to be? (Hopefully it is ok to ask this question and doesn't break any rules, but if not I apologize and ask mods to remove this portion of my question). If anyone could point me in the right direction, that would be appreciated. Thank you!
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Let's be clear, if you really didn't flash some files onto the boot partition, and of course neither onto the recovery partition as the guide forgot to mentioning then your device remains the same, flashing the vbmeta custom anyway you broke "the matrix".

From here you can choose either follow the right method or return to completely stock:

- To restore this partition, you only should need to flash the stock vbmeta onto the vbmeta partition.

- To follow the way to install TWRP, you did the first step, now you only need to flash or boot to the TWRP image.

The site lacks of proper steps, when there they say to flash the recovery onto the boot partition then they say to boot to recovery, how can you do that without a TWRP image either to boot temporarily to it or to boot to it as it was not flashed?

Those images are in the stock ROM, XperiFirm can have some issues with proper permission, firewall, storage onto your PC out of capacity, other than that never had any single issue with.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
In this thread users use to answer this kind of questions https://xdaforums.com/t/discussion-whats-your-next-smartphone-what-should-i-buy.1620179/page-1016 personally I always choose a device that have at least 6 months (more or less) to have some spent time for development, then search for the model adding XDA to the searching key, and if there's something interesting then go for it, also if it is not a problematic device for example Realme devices that tend to brick easily. Pixel, Xiaomi, OnePlus and (only) some Samsung devices may be the candidates.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
It could depend on your device, some devices need to flash the DM-verity to break the encrypted data that avoid booting to system, some need a vbmeta, some devices admit a temporary TWRP that must be installed every time you want to reboot to it, in some cases flashing the DTBO or again the boot image solve it, as you see may be various scenarios. Placing logs at the TWRP thread would be a good starting point.
[General Questions and Answers] Spassd:
So I understand now I still lack the TWRP image and I only have this vbmeta (for all my Aquaris X I did before there was always no vbmeta, so that's why I stutter here).

Now I tried to complete the TWRP installation of course. In the regular install procedure I read that you normally conduct

*Fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img*

thats what I did not do and what the link does not even mention, instead telling to do *Fastboot flash boot TWRP.img*.

So when I now try to do the first version from the official guideline then I get the response:

*FAILED (remote: no such partition.)

So my phone does not have a recovery partition? Sounds weird.

In any case I then would simply overwrite with the stock settings, but the Xperifirm tool has issues now, the creator told in his thread it doesnt work for anyone because Sony changed the request API, I have no idea what this means and if its just temporary or forever so I rely on other sources right now.

Would these 2 sources be "safe" to install with flashtool to get back to Stock settings?

Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact | XperiaFirmware.com

xperiafirmware.com

Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact H8324 Dual Stock ROM Firmware (Flash File)

Download the official Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact H8324 Dual Stock Firmware (Flash File) for your Sony Smartphone. We also provide all other Sony Stock Firmware.

xperiastockrom.com

THXXX for any info!
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
It is because your device has two recovery partitions instead, when you are totally sure what you're doing you should target to _a or _b slot, but some workaround is to flash it temporarily to the boot partition, then booting to recovery but not to the recovery partition but booting normally the kernel will redirect to the recovery image that is in the boot partition, afterwards doing the stuff through recovery and then flashing again the boot image to can boot to system BUT you need more reading time, I recommend that you firstly read carefully throughout the thread for your device the more info you can, you need to know first if bootloader can be unlocked and if there is a TWRP installer that can install it permanently and many more https://xdaforums.com/t/discussion-whats-your-next-smartphone-what-should-i-buy.1620179/page-1016

Well, I downloaded in the past from these two sites, I didn't have a noticeable issue after that.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Unfortunately, your only options are to figure out the password or find a tech shop that can disassemble the device and extract the data directly from the chip itself by soldering wires to certain contacts on the hardware. Other than that, you are out of luck.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
It should be

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Not

fastboot flash boot recovery.img

The command that you used flashed the recovery.img to the boot partition instead of to the recovery partition.
[General Questions and Answers] Carlos vM:
Hi, I recently flash ROM in my Infinix Note 8 Now one Sim card (A) is not working. I swap (A) with (B) in Sim tray but Sim Card (A) isn't working in any slot. I Checked in another device it worked. Imei is also not showing.

Am I need to flash stock ROM?

Where I can find Stock ROM for Infinix Note 8 X692?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You will have to flash your stock firmware.

For future reference, when you have a rooted device or if you have TWRP installed, DO NOT use the factory reset option on settings. If you want to factory reset such a device, boot into TWRP and use the factory reset option in TWRP, never use the option in system settings.
[General Questions and Answers] crashpb:
hey,

what is the correct procedure for replacing a dead emmc chip?

are there any extra steps besides just replacing the bga chip?

I have a xiaomi Mi MIX (lithium) with a dead emmc and I want to see if can revive it.

The soldering job (replacing the bga chip ) is not an issue for me but looking around it seems there are some software steps involved and for the life of me I can't find a proper guide.

If anyone could point me in the right direction I would be thankful .