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[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaye48:
not work dude :( i really need droidboot
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Janus Jerom:
Thread Updated

Content Updated for Boot-animation and Themes for Asus.

Also certain changes in Q&A is also initiated.

Enjoy reading. :good:
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deadfun:
This is a noob question,

My older brother gave me his old zenfone 5 (4.4.2)

I am planning in unlocking bootloader and installing a Marshmallow rom,

the question is:

If I unlock my boot loader on kitkat, can I install roms that uses lollipop kernel (and above)?

thanks :)
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Janus Jerom:
Definitely, You can flash any version of custom ROM you want it doesn't matter what version your Stock ROM had. We have even Android Oreo, but it has numerous bugs as its under construction level. If you want you can try that or you can go for even Nougat or Marshmallow ROM of your wish.

For unlocking bootloader

Click here

This thread is safe and securely unlocks because there was numerous complaints that after unlocking so many troubles do occurred on devices like camera and freezing issues, so for taking a better safe path go for this.

I also recommend you to please do read all the information provided in this thread to better be aware of things that comes on the way.

Hope you find it helpful Bro.... :good::good:
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hasnularif:
i want to ask how to change the font in KK540 ? and how to fix the gps location ? my location is not accurate, especially when i navigate to somewhere, is it related to my previous rom in RR nougat ? please answer me mate
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Janus Jerom:
In KK540; Go to settings>Display>Font style.

In RR ROM; You have to install Xposed Module and download 'Fonter settings'. But as far as the device is concerned I can't guarantee the level till which its possible as for Android Nougat though Xposed module is available there are much restrictions. So I haven't tried that yet.

GPS bug is actually the glitch caused when you are navigating to a particular place 'offline'. But the A-GPS mode is perfectly working for devices irrespectively. So I guess its better you navigate online in A-GPS mode.

There is no issue or bug related to previous build of ROM installed on your device as far as you have done a clean install while flashing the new one.

Is there is any further clarity required Bro? :cowboy:

Hope you found it helpful... Bro... :good::good:
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boomshiva:
Hello there . Please have a look on twrp 3.1.1 and update the topic accordingly :laugh:

Also it would be great if you add about Oreo roms . Thank you
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Janus Jerom:
Thread Updated

Content updated for TWRP version 3.1.1 and 3.1.0

Certain updates in Q&A under Custom Recovery

Thanks [MENTION=7086483]Boomshiva[/MENTION] for a reminder. OREO ROM updates will be updated SOON

Enjoy reading. :good::good:
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saiteja dandu:
zenfone 5 touch problem

my zenfone 5 touch is not working properly..i have done factory reset..now touch is completely gone....is there any solution for this??if i root my phone,is there any chance of working propeerly??? please help me...
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boomshiva:
Hello . First of all what do you mean by "touch is completely gone " ?

Don't you think it's some hardware issue . Or you are confident that some flashing gone wrong and it's the byproduct of it .
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saiteja dandu:
At present iam using lollipop version...i have changed my button set recently...from that day my phone touch not working properly...

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bro... I have changed my phone button set...and from that day there are touch problems....sometimes touch will not work in normal mode then if i one hand mode it works good...but in normal mode it is not working nice with some touch problems such as:

1. during answering phone call to pick up call it is not possible...but if i scroll down notification bar and if i click on answer button iam able to pick up call

2.during browsing if i touch screen and scroll on screen...sometimes it will work and sometimes unnecessary things will be opened and then if i auto rotate my screen it will work properly...

if touch is not working at all i will not bother...but it is working partly and if anyone faced this problem or can help me to solve please help me...
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boomshiva:
So it's hardware issue . I cannot help you with it . Just a suggestion visit your nearest service centre . May be [MENTION=8030028]Janus Jerom[/MENTION] would be able to help you .
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pamihex10:
hi just another noob question here.

its been long time since i go for rooted and flash it with official stock rom from asus (currently still using jellybean, don't laugh).

I'm about to flash it with nougat from rr n final (ota). is it ok?

or are u guys suggesting me with any other custom rom? bcause i like my phone with simple much like stock.

and provide me with step by step (safest way) to do it? im not that techie (esp. on android thing)

thank u guys
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boomshiva:
If you. Need minimal customization then rr is not for you . You must flash los by flex

Steps to flash

1) unlock bootloader

2) flash twrp

3) make a clean flash of rom and other stuff .

Read the first post before doing anything .thank you
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pamihex10:
thank u. i've read that.

if i choose rr, then it's posible to do dirty flash? to keep data,contacts and even apps? i use "root zenfone" v14604 that was old.

oh is that rr is more advantage, stabil, and more batt saving? honestly tell me.

thanks
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Janus Jerom:
RR-N ROM can be dirty flashed, but the only problem is that it should be of same version. If you are moving from one version to another clean install is recommended, also clean install helps remove minor bugs and brings smoothness to your personal device.

Advantage of RR ROM is that, the level of customisation one has in your personal device. If you are a minimal user you can go for what Boomshiva recommended you in your last post.

The ROM is stable of course as it says OFFICIAL. So don't worry about that. But for battery you should flash certain add-ons like GovTuner or L-speed. (This thread has information about that please visit the first page.)

For your kind information I can't guarantee the ROM stability in your device because for some user there are some problems. So visit this link and use this to your unlocked bootloader.

-Click Here-

Hope you found it helpful.... :good::good:
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pamihex10:
millions thanks boss.

think i go for rr. but do i need to flash to kit kat, then marshmallow, then lolipop, then this rr?

or just clean flash to rr?
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Janus Jerom:
Sorry for the late reply. I was out for a work. :o

You can hit the thanks button to express your gratitude than mentioning in a post. I will be so pleased. :angel:

There is no requirement for you to move in order for the upgrades into reaching Nougat. You could directly make your progress by doing a direct clean flash if the RR-N ROM zip file.

Hope you understood... Bro... :good::good:
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juyel92:
It doesn't matter whether you are in KitKat or lollipop or marshmallow. The thing which matters a lot is you should unlock the bootloader and the twrp recovery should be installed (for flashing the custom ROM).

Once you have twrp installed with unlocked bootloader, then you are ready to go. Just download any of your favorite custom ROM and then clean flash it using your twrp recovery.
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shivamdc454:
I am unable to get any root access after flashing RR latest build . neither su or magisk working ...

Flashing Magisk 14 getting an error unable to locate boot image.
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boomshiva:
Flash the below root add-on from twrp . You can enable root access from developer options after flashing

https://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4164822&d=1496039040
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soldier2000:
My touchscreen and display are both broken and as many others i didn't backup my data on my internal memory, like whatsapp.

When i connect my Z3C to my computer it still sees the Xperia Z3 Compact phone but it doesn't show any files. I expect that this is because it's on 'charging modus', and not on MTP etc.

How can i extract my data :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a1291762:
If the phone still gets on WiFi, install a remote control app from play store website. But it has to be one that works without setup on the phone, obviously. I don't use such an app myself so can't recommend anything particular.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] fkfs9:
Is there a way to prevent whatsapp preview of the incoming msg from displaying on the v20 second screen? Hate to see the msg showing up while Google map is on.

Thanks
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinkiyo:
thx work perfectly for me
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexL84:
after

>> sm list-disks

it says:

/system/bin/sh: can't create sm: Read-only file system

Tried with

mount -o rw,remount,rw /system

It says:

mount: '/dev/block/dm-0' not user mountable in fstab

Any idea?

Thank You
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danibus:
??

Pls explain how you make adb shell

Are you using windows?
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexL84:
windows 10. cmd as admin

than I opened adb shell from the sdk\platform-tools directory
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danibus:
Pls try this mini-adb this instead using sdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kjfIFQdc9tUnl4c3NwejBXNTQ/view

If you have same error, no idea :confused:
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dragoboss:
Seems like the way your phone's filesystem is configured you are unable to remount a certain part of your partitions.

Is your phone rooted? If so you could try through the phone itself with an console/terminal emulator.

Honestly, I think su is a necessity to begin with either way even with adb.

Heya danibus, I was wondering.

You say in your tutorial that doing this would cease the usage of the SD card as external storage.

Makes me wonder, have you tried doing this through the use of partitions, dividing the sd card for example in two halves, 32gb each, then adopting one of the partitions with the internal, leave the other one mounted to the external mount point?

I would try myself right now but my phone doesn't arrive for another week.

Cheers:good:
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danibus:
No, as my SD is only 32GB, if I make i.e. 50% for internal storage and 50% for external, I will have only 16GB for install programs+data (internal storage), I prefer 32GB for them

But you can try and post here result!
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nonosann:
I did this manipulation and it worked fine (once I found the correct and last version of adb...).

It took maybe 5 or 6 minutes max.

BUT, if I tried this it is because the phone showed en out of space message and I couldn't download an update. Then after the extension of the storage, I still was unable to down load and apply this update.

The phone showed 80 Go of memory (64+16) with the third party app, and the setting menu still considered the internal memory as full. So, it worked but it was not a solution to my issue.

Do you have any tip to tell in order to solve this problem ?

thank you very much !
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike.nascimento:
Hello

What ADB version did you get?

Did you restart your phone and tried to download/install update?

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I really like this post.

I am only relutant because there is still no feedback.

I have the Huawei P8 lite 2017 for only a week, it is still in its warranty and I don't want to void that.

I have a 32gb sd card, I have it as the predefined storage, still I have installed some apps and the internal storage has been decreasing, I have read that, once an app is updated it goes to internal storage.

I really like to keep the original Huawei software/firmware updated and looks like that this is no great solution...

Another thing that I have read is that is possible to format sd card as internal, but not under EMUI 5.0...

Thanks guys
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonic_ear:
Is this work on Nova lite?
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellda:
Its dosent works! all looks OK but I dont have the space of my sdcard. its Total: 128Go dispo : -4,33.

I dont hunderstand why i have no room....
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metabolito:
In the OP it says to install a third party app to see the actual free space like a file manager, try that.

Enviado desde mi PRA-LX1 mediante Tapatalk
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jenda701:
Thanks works magic, got some trouble to get it works on first time, problem seemed to be in external sd setting. Once set to use as external memory and formating all went just as explained. Thanks again Jan
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rider27:
Hi everyone, i've got issues with my P8 lite 2017 since I've done this trick.

Everything works great but when I wanna download something, my phone tell me it can't download because of there's no SD card.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] valkata1212:
So I got myself an SD card and i did the tutorial with adb and made the sd card as internal memory. But now when I try to update my apps from the Google Play store I get the Insufficient storage... :thinking:
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shweeney:
had to redo this after receiving an OTA update. After the update it appeared that the adoptable storage was still there, but apps were writing to the internal storage only and the phone quickly ran out of space.

Even after redoing the ADB changes I had some trouble with Spotify which claimed there was no storage available and refused to launch. So I ejected the SD card, reinstall Spotify and then remounted the card - this seems to have fixed the issue.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thlobato:
Help @ mixed 60

After doing this command "adb....... mixed 60" it worked fine, but now my huaweii p8 lite 2017 only recognizes the 40% and can't read the 60% part of the disk. looks like it´s not mounted.

How can I mount this 60% of the disk? thanks
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barz13:
Hello,

What happens if I remove the SD when the phone is turned off?

Or if i want to completely restore my phone?

Thanks for your help :)
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cassa1990:
Hi all,

First of all thank danibus very much for your tutorial, your help is really precious. I have applied your method at my P8 lite 2017 and I am currently using a third party app to check my storage. It seems to me that the only internal storage considered by the system is the sd card, and is not really considering the initial internal storage as a place to store data.

Is still possible to access the original internal storage to save/move/change files?

If yes how?

If not, since my internal storage has still 7 GB of free space, should I undo the procedure, wait until the internal storage is almost filled and then redo the procedure again?

Thanks a lot!
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryka93:
does anybody tested this method on a mediapad?
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MilhasGirl:
ADB Command

Hi!

Just got a P8 Lite 2017 and i,m trying to move some app's to my SD card.

I followed the steps but in the ADB console, when I write " sm list-disks" It says that sm is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Help.....
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TommyWhite:
Is this for p8lite Alice (not 2017) as well?
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Laniakeea:
same here, any solutions?
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S1thh@ck3r:
??

if i enter: >> sm list-disks. adb says acces denied. what should i do? (P10 Lite with Elemental 1.1 Custom Rom) the rom is still EMUI 5.1
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZeroZorro:
What worked for me:

To install and use ADB the proper way follow this: ADB, Fastboot en Drivers

After opening CMD prompt (or Powershell) as Administator you can start the shell by typing "adb shell"

After that the sm commands etc will work...

Oh, and in OP it stated something like 179,64 but in my case it's 179:64 so use that too in sm command (: instead of ,)

Worked for me! Good luck...
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S1thh@ck3r:
thanks but

i already have Xenon HD on my phone and i have the option to format it internally.......so no need for adb
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El_Dark:
Guys, I know this is not a Motorola forum... but since the topic is about the same.... I have a 16GB Moto E4 Plus, and a 64GB U1 SD card, once upon a time I used:

sm partition 179,0 mixed 80

so I was left with 12GB or so for internal and the rest for media files, however one day I had to take out my SD card, and had the urgency to use my phone while the SD card was in use... so now I don't know if the phone is actually using the adopted storage... how can I tell if it is? PD: My phone is not rooted, it has only a few months, so I can't root it yet :( any ideas?
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldAndy:
Hi guys, just got P8 Lite 2017 and tried this trick which I had done on previous Moto E 2nd gen successfully. First had problem with ADB driver solved by using adbdriver.zip which actually installs/corrects incorrectly installed drivers. Next installed ADB for Windows (in my case Win7). Note commamds are typed in from DOS prompt if your are not using full SDK (like me), in this case commands need to be prefixed with ADB SHELL so sm list-disks becomes adb shell sm list-disks then it works.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fantast9000:
Hey,

I tried the command >> sm list-disk from terminal and it said "command not found". When I type in adb devices, it lists my phone. So I think I got adb console to work? Why is the command not working?

I'm on a Mac, with a Huawei P8Lite2017. Android 7.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanieleManna:
Works perfetly :)

Thank you, this works perfectly!

I tried to undo this, just for curiosity, and after the process, you have to go in memory -> sd-card and it requires to cancel it, so you have to do it, then it will be everything normal :)

Thanks again.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pierct92:
HOW TO "UNDO" THIS TUTORIAL

First of all backup all your info using google account, AIR DROID, etc.

* Start ADB console. Write:

>> sm list-disks

We will read something like: disk:179,64

>> sm partition disk:179,64 public

Now SD it's available for portable use, I think it has been formatted (don't know, never made this).[/QUOTE]

Hi I would like to disable this process but with the line of command you posted nothing succeeds and right or incomplete? I hope you can help me I have run this process on a low quality sd and given the great slowness and the problem that if I try to pass data on the device the process freezes and does not transfer anything, or already reset the device since your procedure has not worked and that around the web I did not find anything. after the reset the device seems to have canceled the process since now the micro sd and removable return but despite this the problem of data transfer does not work neither internal nor external, at least I do not extract the micro sd and connect it directly to the pc only then I can transfer data quietly. I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hayvan.tierowski:
After everything my Phone still shows useless data: -6,4GB; SD Card 64GB...

Doesn´t change after installing new apps.

Windows Explorer Shows no internal memory anymore when I connect the phone, only the sd card with 29GB free (32GB SD Card).

Does anybody now a workaround?

Greetings

H
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxjustea:
yes, i had tried it on my phone
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kerels110:
Strange errors?

For some reason it says; >> : The term '>>' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the

spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At line:1 char:1

+ >> sm list-disks

+ ~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (>>:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

After i use the >>sm list-disks command.

It all works up till this point. Can someone help me please?

I've tryed formatting it differnetly, but none worked. I tried the following;

adb list-disks

sm list-disks

>>sm list-disks

>> sm list-disks

list-disks

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Hi guys,

I really hope someone can help me out here. The whole tutorial works up untill this point: >>sm list-disks

When i type that it gives me this:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.48]

(c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>adb devices

List of devices attached

57U7N17B03037332 device

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot> >>sm list-disks

Access is denied.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot> >>sm list-disks

Access is denied.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>

Can someome please help me?

Thanks!
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abadgamer:
hi

is it possible to undo these commands?

after using these commands, i cant see my memory card on my phone any more. i cant flash using sd card either. after wiping cache and data nothing happens. same old problem

can any one help me?
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FullOfMysteries:
Works like a charm on my p8 lite 2017 android 7. Now that android 8 is available for download I will undo this procedure. I just don't want my phone to get bricked or anything. I will redo this procedure on android 8.

Thank you so much for sharing this !
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FullOfMysteries:
I was also able to undo the command properly
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alecsandes:
Huawei MediaPad T3 8

Hi All,

I was able to do it on MediaPad T3 8 in this order:

1. Format Card in EMUI GUI

2. Set Card as default in EMUI settings

3. Connect to PC

4. Run ADB minimal 1.3

5. Run the following commands

a. sm list-disks /// it showed disk:179:64

b. sm set-force-adoptable true

c. sm partition disk:179:64 private

It worked but the issue is that I have now is that I have 128 GB almost full (I used 64 GB card + 16 from the tablet)

The issue is that I cannot start a quality stream in popcorn or other media apps due to lack of space.

Do you know any advice?

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Hi, see above post
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoldfishGam3r:
Can someone confirm this still works with the newest and updated android 8.0 rom? Thanks!
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoldfishGam3r:
I just tried this, and when I use the command "sm set-force-adoptable true" it says "Adoptable storage not available on device with native FBW" What should I do?
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucamiz01:
GoldfishGam3r I belive it is not possible to make it work like it is with EMUI 8.0 (oreo Huawei version). Indeed, for this and some other reason I will probably shortly rollback to Emui 5.1 with Nougat (EMUI 8.0 struggles with widget a lot from what I can see).

Of course if you are not using Huawei phone or Oreo than do not consider my answer :D
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] td6k:
Hi... I have also tested this after the Oreo update and doesnt work anymore... Same error "Adoptable storage not available on device with native FBE"

I prefer rollback to Emui 5.1... How can i do it? If i root my phone, could this be done with Oreo? Thanks!