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[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eak.the.human.:
Hi. This happened a while ago but I finally have the time to deal with my poor Nexus 6p. It spent a few minutes in a hot tub a few months back. Rice for more than 48 hours - nothing. Brought it to Staples where they put it in the machine that heats the gel balls (?) to remove the moisture. Charged it for a few minutes there and it actually turned on! Awesome, except the touch screen doesn't work. Battery seems to hold a charge, screen turns on and looks fine, volume and power buttons work, and I couldn't figure a way to test the fingerprint scanner or camera. Factory reset it. So now the phone is stuck to booting to the options menu with recovery mode and all that.

Is it possible to determine or guess what is wrong from this information? I've looked at the teardown, and I'd assume there is an issue with the pressure sensor, but I don't know enough about phone construction and parts to know if it's the sensor, or the part that connects the sensor to the screen, or something completely different.

I wanted to get some advice on what to do from here. Other than tossing it or leaving it forever, I have three options:

1. Repair shop: This seems like the easiest option, but potentially expensive enough that I'd be better off getting a whole new phone instead. Would a diagnosis be a separate process/transaction than the actual repair service? There are a few nearby shops for me to check out.

2. Fix it myself: The 6P seems like a pain in the ass to take apart and put back together (2/10 repairability score). I don't think it's beyond my ability, but the time and risk that it involves for me to do it myself makes me very hesitant. I also don't know exactly what I'll find inside the phone.

3. Sell it: Sell for parts and buy a new phone. If it comes to this, I need to know what I should expect to get for it. It's good hardware, and the parts that still work seem in good shape.

I wanted to consult the internet before going any further. So, how boned is my phone? Any different suggestions? Thanks for reading and I appreciate any advice.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hawkswind1:
You could flash the factory image but I guess you still wouldn't get past the setup screen without touch. I've been repairing electronics for 10+ years and if it came into my work I would disassemble it and look for obvious signs of damage/corrosion at the screen/digitizer connections, and look for track marks on the motherboard where a short could have occurred, or blown fuses/resisitors/diodes for the digitizer. Beyond that it's really a matter of swapping in a screen assembly (we have cracked glass 6p lcd assemblies that would work fine as a test unit). If that doesn't fix it, I'd order a main board. Having said that, it's not a phone I would want to own or even repair for a customer without telling them about the potential for future issues from the water damage. PM me if you want to sell it cheap for parts.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drnizeguy:
Screen and digitizer assembly is 'only' $60 - $80 on ebay or ali. So that is worth the risk. If this is not the problem you can sell it again for the same price, so no money loss here.

Waiting a few months though, is a long time to wait to dry your electronic devices. When it happens the best is to take it apart immediately to avoid corrosion.

The 6P is not easy to take apart, but it is do-able. Hardest part is the glass on the back. But if it cracks, a replacement will cost you less then 10 bucks.

What I would do is order the screen, take the phone fully apart, if there is a lot of corrosion, wash the mainboard in a contact cleaner (or if you don't have this, wd40 could work) then wash it with alcohol (to remove the wd40) and let it dry. Assemble the phone with the new screen, and hopefully it works. This way I fixed an Oneplus One 6 months ago, and it is still running perfectly.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wiltron:
To add a bit of clarification - use 99% USP Isopropyl Alcohol. It shouldn't be more than five bucks at your local pharmacy (Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada sells it for $1.99 for 500mL).

While using the 75% USP won't cause any serious issues, it is diluted with water, as it's more of an antiseptic (I can explain why 75% is better for wound cleansing than 99% if anyone wishes), and you'd just be prolonging the drying/repair process.

Use a lint-free cloth to dab the components - keep it away from the battery terminals on the battery itself. It is OK to clean the connecting terminals on the motherboard though. There are sandwich clips all over the LCD/motherboard, so be extra careful dabbing the cloth in there - one bent pin in any of those clips and your phone will need to be sent away for repair by a specialist.

DO NOT POUR IT ALL OVER THE COMPONENTS OR LEAVE IT SOAKING IN ANY AMOUNT OF ALCOHOL.
[Huawei GX8] Fraz07:
I tried almos everything but nothing worked.... any ideas?
[Huawei GX8] surdu_petru:
I think you use a wrong TWRP, that's why your device boot into TWRP !

Here is the right SuperSU for flash on Android MM .

Good luck !
[Huawei GX8] Fraz07:
Stuck on logo

What if i wanted a device not rooted now?

I installed the twrp version you said and now it stucks on the logo screen... :(
[Huawei GX8] Fraz07:
Ok i got upset and i restore to factory preset

now i'm stuck on the huawei logo, what can i do?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms_happy:
Soo.... I messed up and edited the build.prop specificly the ro.build.type property. I tried to enable some debug options without validating if this would be a good idea (hint: it's not).

It seems that this has bricked my phone, the first LG splash screen shows up with the powered by android, and the second animation just keeps loading forever (making the phone very hot). And the LED flashes blue continously.

I did manage to get the device visible in ADB but it tells me that the device is offline so I can't do anything with it.

Tried booting in recovery mode (holding power button + volume down) but it just own't go into recovery mode.

Some extra info of what runs on my phone:

- version H815

- Android 6.0

- bootloader unlocked

- TWRP installed

- Rooted

- XPosed installed

Any idea on what I could try to fix it? (I guess stuck with a brick but oh well).

Thanks!
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vortuks:
What do you mean, by it can't go into recovery mode?

Nothing is showing on screen?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jinderation:
Go to downlod mode either use lgup or lg flashtool to reflash the firmware that you are on... Do u remember which firmware you were on ?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms_happy:
Thanks for the replies!

I meant that it just boots 'normally' when I press those buttons, it shows me the first LG logo and the second animation just hangs, whatever I do. I tried all sorts of combinations with the power button + volume down. (Keeping it pressed, briefly letting it go after the lg logo and repressing them).

I don't know exactly which firmware I was on but I can't even get my phone into download mode (same as my other response, pressing volume up doesn't do anything).

The recovery and download mode used to work but I have no idea why it doesn't now...
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carach_CZ:
When booting the phone, hold the power button and volume down button simultaneously, when LG logo appear, push the power button again. You should see the white screen, where you choose "YES" twice. Then the phone should kick you into TWRP or different recovery mode.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vortuks:
But how the hell editing build.prop can mess with recovery and download mode? Sounds incredible
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptorddd:
Maybe he has bootloop issue... ILAPO
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms_happy:
Yeah I have no idea why the buttons aren't working for me. After a lot of searching I found this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/g4/help/soft-bricked-device-t3248144

Which is basicly the same thing I'm experiencing, ADB comes online for just a brief second (kept spamming the reboot recovery command) and got in TWRP and I just flashed another which worked fine.

Odd thing is, even now my phone works I can't start recovery or download with the hardware buttons...... oh well, thankfully adb works as it's supposed to.

Thank you all for your help!
[Remix OS for PC] RobinHood16:
I need a new patched copy of initrd.img after upgrading to version 2.0.402. Prior to upgrade, it was mounting /system as read/write, but now it mounts as read-only. I can't use the initrd.img that I had before, because it's only about 1.5 MB, whereas the initrd.img that came with this new version is about 5 MB. Can anyone help me out here?

Brandon Taylor
[Remix OS for PC] kretex:
may we need to wait the dev to relese initrd.img version 2.0.402 patched (r/w)
[Remix OS for PC] sergio_prado:
I did root in version 2.0.402 following the tutorial that is in the link below and it's all working perfectly using the old initrd.img (1.5mb).

http://xdaforums.com/remix/remix-os/rmxtools-remix-os-data-img-t3308158
[Remix OS for PC] imanesaurus:
I edited that latest .402 initrd.img by my self

it's worked on me

try it. attached below
[Remix OS for PC] pipyakas:
thanks :) how did you edit it to get rw? :D
[X Play Themes and Apps] Pipsname:
So. I will be the first to say it and I am sure others will follow.

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!":crying:

Other than the augmented reality part not working the game does work well over all on the Moto X Play.
[X Play Themes and Apps] Zaktadriel:
I had to download Pokémon Go to notice the mxp doesn't have gyroscope :(
[X Play Themes and Apps] kos25k:
it's ok moto bro's ☺ is just a game..we are proud of our unique mxp,we are not like others! ☺☺
[X Play Themes and Apps] yeeahnick:
good!
[X Play Themes and Apps] i_piss_on_apple:
Just don't give such statements.. U r making it much worse.. Makes all mxp uses feel like sore losers
[X Play Themes and Apps] Ebrahim Ali:
Well that was dumb. How come Moto didn't see fit to include a gyro? Anyway the game isn't even for me in South Africa. You can grab the APK online though.

Plays well on my moto G2
[X Play Themes and Apps] kos25k:
noooo dude!how can u even imagine this conclusion?

I just want to say that it's ok it's nothing more than a game!

if there was a bigg problem with an important app for example...then I would say yes u r right!

next mobiles will have other new sensors and new apps will come out..what must we do then??

(at this point,we keep only your great nickname ☺??)
[X Play Themes and Apps] lokesh.acm:
I don't know about you guys but i check every spec before buying so i knew i was getting a phone without a gyroscope. I made that decision. Yes Motorola could have included it but they did not and although i curse them on ocassions like this, i remember that i made the decision to buy based on other good features the phone was offering. Also Motorola DID NOT force anyone to buy. You made the decision and by blaming Motorola now, you are just blaming yourself. Sorry if i hurt you :p
[X Play Themes and Apps] kos25k:
http://www.appy-geek.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=15&articleid=68658816&source=sms

also if u search a little in kickstarter...I saw that some guys invented a phone case that has inbuild sensors,lazer,and many more removable items that u can choose which of them to attach to the case!
[X Play Themes and Apps] anadarco7:
Well I tried today it works well
[X Play Themes and Apps] Pipsname:
Maybe one day the game will support acceloromitor plus compas.
[X Play Themes and Apps] Ebrahim Ali:
It works perfectly. Personally I prefer the regular mode to the large and incoherent AR mode,i lose too many poke balls trying to catch something
[X Play Themes and Apps] kos25k:
wtfffff 4 new pokemon xposed modules the past week.....
[X Play Themes and Apps] K.khiladi:
Agreed totally.

Automated reply by JARVIS

---------- Post added at 09:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:31 AM ----------

Moto didn't force anyone to buy the X play. Before buying any phone, check it's specs properly but if you didn't and then start saying blah blah, then it's ****.

I don't miss gyroscope. Hell I didn't even know it doesn't have it.

Automated reply by JARVIS
[X Play Themes and Apps] kos25k:
pokemoniacs maybe some good news for you http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3415351
[X Play Themes and Apps] Ebrahim Ali:
Anybody know any tricks to reduce battery drain when using this app. I tried downloading offline maps for the areas I'm in but I made no difference honestly.
[X Play Themes and Apps] VMannn:
Use the battery saver in Pokemon GO settings.
[X Play Themes and Apps] Ebrahim Ali:
That just dims the screen. It doesn't work properly with the X play becuase of the lack of a gyro
[X Play Themes and Apps] pijes:
you need the moto z force plus the battery mods for pokemon go. even if you hit a tree or got hit by a car, at least you'll be relieved that your phone's screen didn't crack.
[X Play Themes and Apps] :
I don't know why but Pokemon Go works pretty laggy for me. On Huawei P8 Lite works much better than on this phone. :|
[X Play Themes and Apps] sileniusmike:
This game drains my phone faster than my wifes Galaxy S6 and that is sad coming from a 3630mah battery.
[X Play Themes and Apps] josegon30:
Even with low bright screen and with the battery saving option enabled? Did you try Greenify?
[X Play Themes and Apps] Ebrahim Ali:
I thinks it might be becuase the X Play's sensors aren't the best. The s6 has better sensors, Ive seen similar situations with other phones compared to the X Play
[X Play Themes and Apps] josegon30:
I can't install the new version (v0.37) could someone?

--EDIT-- I could unistalling the app and re-installing it
[X Play Themes and Apps] Nico3d3:
Version 0.37 introduced a new stupid restriction, you can't launch the game if the phone is rooted and it use the same method as Android Pay to detect root (SafeNet). This is lame since Niantic used it as an attempt to stop cheater from playing. Cheaters already have way to circumvent this while us, normal honest user, will have to jump through hoops to play the game.
[X Play Themes and Apps] Ebrahim Ali:
Yeah I'm pretty much done with this game
[X Play Themes and Apps] gewe:
I tried the Xposed module RootCloak, but Pokemon Go 0.37.0 still won't get past the server login.

I am using Titanium Backup, so I don't want to unroot.
[X Play Themes and Apps] fiferboy:
Magisk will allow you to keep playing while rooted. It requires you to unroot your phone first, which I wasn't able to do cleanly so I started over with a new flash. Once you install Magisk and the phh root mentioned in the following thread you will be able to turn root off (simple switch in the Magisk manager app) and start up Pokemon Go as normal.

http://xdaforums.com/android/software/mod-magisk-v1-universal-systemless-t3432382

I have tested this on my Moto X Play and it works just fine. I haven't noticed any scenarios where it doesn't work the same as the old method, but I have had the (very occassional) unexplained reboot so stability could be slightly worse than the normal root method. I have since cleared my Dalvik and cache and haven't noticed the problems again (I restored the data portion of a backup on top of a new flash so it might have had some strageness).

There is also a good article explaining the procedure, but I found the XDA thread to be most useful: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/09/11/guide-play-pokemon-go-0-37-rooted-android-magisk/

Hope that helps.
[X Play Themes and Apps] gewe:
Thanks, I will try it.

Edit: Unfortunately the unroot option of SuperSU fails, without telling me why. Are there any options to unroot (without losing data etc.)?
[X Play Themes and Apps] fiferboy:
That's what I encountered, too.

I started out by doing a clean flash (including erasing user data) and using the Google Account backup data to automatically reinstall all my apps. Unfortunately, there were a couple of critical apps that the data was lost for.

What I ended up doing was to restore a full TWRP backup (make a backup before you do this!) and did a "dirty" flash afterwards, where you go through the entire flashing procedure but DON'T erase the user data. This keeps all your apps and data but removes the changes to the system portion of the install. After that I installed a custom kernel, Magisk, phh superuser, and (systemless) Xposed (in that order) through TWRP, then installed the Magisk Manager and phh superuser app from Google Play.

NOTE: This method will leave the old SuperUser app installed which interfered with the new root application before I noticed that. I HIGHLY recommend removing the SuperUser apk (uninstalling the application, not un-rooting through the application) before installing Magisk et al.
[X Play Themes and Apps] gewe:
I uninstalled SuperSU by answering No to the question "try to reinstall boot".

Everything seems to be working now (after reinstalling Pokémon Go).
[X Play Themes and Apps] gewe:
I don't know what happened, but I can't play Pokémon Go anymore: unable to authenticate. I noticed I have version 0.37.1 now.

I disabled Xposed, rebooted, disabled root using Magisk manager, no go.

Root checker says my phone is not rooted. Is there something else I should do?
[X Play Themes and Apps] fiferboy:
I have been able to play by using the steps you indicated: disable Xposed, reboot, toggle root in Magisk Manager. Pokemon Go works fine for me with that setup - version 0.37.1 as well.

My suspicion is that Xposed isn't really disabled despite what it claims. I say that because when you have root enabled it gives you that "This device, OS, or software is not compatible with Pokemon GO" error, but Xposed (in my experience) is the one that triggers the authentication failure. I don't know if it is worthwhile for you to try uninstalling Xposed (with the uninstaller in the Systemless Xposed thread in the Magisk forum) to see if that fixes the problem.
[X Play Themes and Apps] gewe:
Uninstalling Xposed solved the problem.

But you report using Pokémon with Xposed disabled. How can I achieve that?
[X Play Themes and Apps] fiferboy:
I'm not entirely sure why it wasn't working for you. Disabling Xposed through the "Xposed Installer" app and then rebooting (not using "Xposed Installer" to do this - maybe it does a soft reboot by default just to load/unload modules?)

Maybe after you have Xposed installed and you disable it from the app try doing a full reboot or even a shut down then powering it back on? Just a guess, though.
[X Play Themes and Apps] gewe:
I have done full reboots. I will give it another try (installing Xposed).
[X Play Themes and Apps] ehortolan:
Maybe you can try using supersu 0.78 with suhide and xposed v86.2, I managed to play with Xposed enabled by folowing this steps (PoGo 0.39.1):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=68778700&postcount=2120

I was on supersu 0.78 (marshmalux), so I:

disable xposed modules

uninstall xposed flashing the zip uninstaller

uninstall supersu (remove root) answering No to rebuild boot image

flash magisk v6

flash supersu v2.76(magisk version)

enter the command " echo "SYSTEMLESS=true" > /data/.supersu " in the twrp terminal

flash supersu v2.78

flash xposed systemless v86.2

flash suhide 0.53

wipe dalvik cache / cache

reboot system
[X Play Themes and Apps] Chaninoza:
Are the xposed modules compatible with systemless xposed?
[X Play Themes and Apps] ehortolan:
Not every module is compatible, i'm running amplify, greenify and gravitybox fine, but bootmanager doesn't work.
[X Play Themes and Apps] Chaninoza:
yep, confirmed working! thanks!
[X Play Themes and Apps] Chaninoza:
will be safe to uninstall magisk? my phone is lagging since i flashed it
[X Play Themes and Apps] varunadi:
Wow, finally a Pokemon Go thread, quite happy to see it! So, ever since it was released in NL here in mid July, I've been playing it without problems. When update 0.37 came out which blocked root users, I decided to unroot the phone (just because I was getting closer and closer to completing the Pokedex). So, instead of unrooting, I just did a factory reset, which removed root privileges, and the app worked fine. Even the subsequent updates worked fine. Until last wednesday (05-10-2016), when suddenly the app denied me from logging in, and repeatedly threw up the error "unable to authenticate, please try again later". Initially I thought it was a server issue so I left it and tried after a few hrs. But it still did not work.

Even created a pokemon trainer club account, that also did not login.

Created another gmail account, tried logging in through that, and STILL IT DOESN'T WORK!

Okay, let's factory reset. Maybe that would help, I thought. Oh no, I was so mistaken. Even that didn't help.

Mobile data, WiFi, doesn't work on either.

Even changed SIMs and didn't work.

Funniest thing is, I was afraid I was banned, but I did not receive an email from Niantic about this, and I tried logging in on a friend's phone, and voila, it worked! My account was very much alive and not banned at all (though I'm still wondering if my device is blocked for some reason). After that, I signed out of his phone and tried again on my phone, and same issue. Doesn't work. "Unable to authenticate, please try again later."

I read a thread on reddit (here it is - https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRo...e_to_authenticate_error_since_this_today_out/ ) ; some OnePlus users complaining about SafetyNet check and how an OS update resolved the issue for them. The thing is, my OS is completely updated and the last time I got an update was two months back! I have absolutely no idea what could have caused this issue, but it is definitely an issue on my phone. Which makes me wonder -

1. My phone is completely unrooted (never installed xposed), but the bootloader is unlocked. Is the unlocked bootloader causing issues, and should I possibly lock it again?

2. There is no possible update for my phone now, but might reverting to a previous update help? That would again involve flashing and might be risky, so I'm apprehensive of this.

3. Any other option I don't know of, which you guys might be able to suggest ..

Having spent a lot of time on this game, reaching lvl 26 and capturing 133 different pokemon, I would very much like to continue playing again for a while, so I would really love to hear from you guys on a possible solution for this. Has anyone else faced the same issue and resolved it? It would be greatly useful. Thanks!
[X Play Themes and Apps] Chaninoza:
Theres a working method to play this with root and xposed?? Ive tried magisk before and didnt work for me
[X Play Themes and Apps] Desinternauta:
Root? Yes.

Xposed? Not that i'm aware of.

Safetynet detects Magisk current version.
[General Questions and Answers] zaki01:
"This operation requires elevated permission try changing to root access mode"

I cannot access my sdcard i have flashed marshmallow rom in redmi 1s

This message is appearing in the inbuilt filemanager. my sdcard was working fine but when i removed and inserted it that's when the problem started and i cannot find the solution anywhere in the web please help me ASAP