yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I might have a way, but it isn't pretty. And I learned recently that some think it to be even more unethical than what we are already doing. So I won't post here.
[Fire General] savvytechwinner:
Sure, what's your way? I might be able to help you out.
[Fire General] manups4e:
If we can read the signature from a stock rom and apply it to SuperSU.zip we could flash it through stock recovery
[Fire General] savvytechwinner:
No, you can not flash SuperSu.zip through system recovery
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Unrooted stock Here. supposedly in /data/system lies packages.xml. I found it in my rooted phone after downloading, installing and uninstallimg a few amazon apps. The signature is somewhere in there. It's a matter of what one.

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I have been trying to reprovision the device with no luck. I can pretty much get the tablet into full kiosk mode, but doesn't do much good if I can't define a Device Owner.
[Fire General] manups4e:
i was able to get the .pem certificate from cert.rsa inside the latest zip update from amazon.. but not the pk8 yet ^^
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I believe there are 4 signatures, two public and two private, depending on where you got the aim of course. For e,ample, if you got an Amazon app from Google play, there would be 4 signatures. I believe and could be wrong, Amazon's private ones are the same across all apps.
[Fire General] manups4e:
i was thinking about zip signature.. and i used the cert.rsa from the official 5.4.0.0 update downloaded from their site (it's a .bin file but i just renamed it to .zip and voilà)
[Fire General] savvytechwinner:
So... couldn't you just pull an Amazon System (Preinstalled) apk, rename it to a zip, and grab the cert.rsa from the apk?

The attached file is the CERT.RSA from FireTabletSettings.apk
[Fire General] manups4e:
it's the same certificate of the latest zip update you know ^^
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Forgive me for not understanding...What exactly is it you propose and what are the steps?
[Fire General] manups4e:
i was thinking about extract the signing certificates from the latest fireos update and sign the supersu zip with them.. the problem is that i can't go over the pem certificate.. i need the pk8 that i can't get yet.. i'll give you the steps when we'll be sure this could work (i'm not even sure this will work neither)
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Not even sure what I am doing will work either. Having a hard time trying to recompile an APK now that I figured out how to decompile and edit them

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Umm AppOps for Fire? Found this in the FireTabletSettings.apk

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Ok...I finally figured out how to use Apktool. I managed to edit the FireTabletSettings and rebuild the APK. It reinstalled, but either I 1) didn't make the correct edit 2) The reinstall isn't taking over the old one.

I think it's both. I am not sure what kind of edit I am supposed to be making.
[Fire General] savvytechwinner:
How did you decompile the apk?
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Ohhh...We need to test this.
[Fire General] TheBigEasy88:
I can honestly say that you've definitely peaked my interest!!! I just recently purchased a Samsung tablet to root it so now my Fire is collecting dust. I see no reason why I can't try this out unless someone has a different opinion. I'll try to run it later this evening and report back!!!
[Fire General] DB126:
This actually has some potential. Long shot for sure but samples a broad range of supposed exploits with minimal effort.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Indeed. And it appears to be regularly updated as well. I will take a closer look at it today and see what I can come up with.

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Well since we don't have a way to resign the APK with the original signatures (APKtool apparently does not re-add them once decompiled) I am not sure this is the way to go, but if you still want some instructions, I'll post some in the next day or two. I have to upload a few Amazon apps to my rooted XT907 and look at the packages.xml file and try and see what might be the signatures and keys.
[Fire General] DB126:
That's because the forgery is easy to detect. There are ways around this but it crosses an ethical boundry that I'm not willing to discuss in public or private. Like all dubious cracks copious detail can be found on the web. However, root is assumed so limited/no use in the current context.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
This site seems to have many more tools and exploit programs. They just wrote about LARE a few days ago so we just might have a chance.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I gave LARE a shot. Took me a while. I set up a virtual machine with VMWare that runs the latest Linux Ubuntu (I have Ubuntu partitioned on my hard drive but can't get the drivers to install for my WiFi adapter). I managed to download and save all the exploits, but I couldn't get it to run any. I know I was doing something wrong, I just can't figure out what.

I downloaded Termux as it has the ability to do bash scripts and wget. The issue I am having is getting the script to run on the tablet so I can use Ubuntu to do what needs to be done...If I could get them talking to each other. It says Apache Server running, but I am not sure it actually is.
[Fire General] savvytechwinner:
Intrestingly enough, DragonFire, would this exploit allow root privilege escalation?

http://seclist.us/remote-root-exploits-for-the-samba-cve-2017-7494-vulnerability.html
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I never thought I'd be happy to say I've broken some things. I'm not really sure how, but I'll try to explain.

I decompiled an apk: DeviceSoftwareOTA.apk and took out a few permissions from the ORIGINAL manifest in the folder marked original. I removed WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS and the received boot complete and write settings. I recompiled and copied the apk and renamed the copy DeviceSoftwareOTA1.apk.

Instead of trying to take out the actual program at first, I went another route. I started to think about the thread that tells us how to install Nova Launcher and literally break Fire Launcher. I looked at the codes and just replaced the Fire Launcher apk with DeviceSoftwareOTA.apk.

adb -d shell pm install -r -d DeviceSoftwareOTA.apk

That reinstalls the apk and causes it to crash on itself when it tries to load. Then I reinstalled it with DeviceSoftwareOTA1.apk as we would any other apk. It worked. See attachment 1. I started to do the same with other Amazon apks, only just breaking them. One by one they broke. I even had some icons appear on the home screen that have never been there before. See attachment 2. (The music icon, the connect to whatever and downloads. I'm afraid to click them, especially the one that says "connect to..." Connect to what?

Then I noticed something weird. In applications, every app and I mean every app, system, Amazon and third party, are now showing as empty. No data at all. 0.00. Of course they all still work, at least all my 3 rd party ones do. Haven't tried any others. See attachment 3.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I'm not sure. I read somewhere about one of the new exploits. Not sure if it was that one, but one of them haven't been used in Android before so no one knows. I haven't heard of Samba affecting us though I don't know if anyone has tried.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I have more to add. I totally forgot about Kingroot. But I don't like the XDA app so I'll get into detail when I get home.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
So Yeah. I gave Kingroot two permissions in it's manifest and installed it onto the tablet: rite secure settings and write settings. May not have been a good idea if it caused all the apps to say there is no data in them whatsoever. Everything works but I can't install anything. Not even APKs. But everything works otherwise.

It could also be due to me trying to root myself using LARE. Could've hit a script that erased data in /system/ and user space apps and I thought it was malfunctioning and forced stopped Termux. That could be a good thing as it might mean one of those scripts work and I screwed it up halfway through a real rooting process.

I probably should do a factory reset but I am curious as to what exactly is going on. Assuming all the apps data was actually wiped, wouldn't they cease to function? I monitored what was happening on my tablet with Greenify (when I was doing changes with Amazon Apps, Greenify would be notified of the changes and adapt). I was also watching the movements with another app that I can't name here. I can confirm with that app, the Amazon apps keep reinstalling themselves. So at least I know the method to break them works, in concept. DeviceSoftwareOTA was continuously renaming itself to DeviceSoftwareOTA-1 and -2 and then back to normal. It was hopping between /system/priv-app and /data/app. Those two apps are the only ones I've been able to use and confirm, though our changes to the xml's visually appear not to be working, I think they are and I think the effects aren't seen in the apps xml when reinstalled.

At least there's one thing I've learned from this for sure. Maybe I shouldn't have broken the OTA package xD

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Well I may try it I don't know, but according to the source page:
[Fire General] savvytechwinner:
If you hadn't know, KingRoot is borderline malware, so use it at your own risk. Of course, I am not sure why "some app" erased app data and made Device ota hop around the device.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
IDK why it was doing that or if it was even that Kingroot did it. Is there any kind of diagnostic I can run? Are there any log files I can view?
[Fire General] savvytechwinner:
Nope. Just have to reset it. Sorry to hear.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Reset went well. I would have loved to know how I did it though. I was thinking though. With the FireTabletSettings.apk, why don't we try to break it and reinstall a version we modified? I'm sure I managed to break a few of the apps, but I think my mistake was messing around with kingroot. Well nonetheless, back to the drawing board.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
The exploit section of that site, no longer exists.

http://seclist.us/category/exploits

404. Not found.

EDIT: Nevermind. It seems to be up and down.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Hmm. This looks intereasting as well. Found this in one of my bookmark lists: TheFatRat – Massive Exploitation Tool.

Source: Screetsec/TheFatRat
[Fire General] savvytechwinner:
I pretty much gave up breaking the settings with apktool, it kept giving me god dam* errors.

Look at the image I attcahed

That was "apktool if framework-res.apk" which was the framework I pulled from the tablet.

When I decompiled the Settings apk it gave me too much errors to even put them on here.

I tried Apk multi tool and got the same errors. Using Linux i also got the same errors >:| and I installed Java and Java JDK and still same errors.

Screw it
[Fire General] savvytechwinner:
Don't be afraid to click it. It is "connect to goodreads" and normally is hidden from Fire Launcher, this is shown when use of Nova. Not sure how you got that to show on Fire Launcher.

Can you show me how you decompiled the apk??

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The music, connect to goodreads, and downloads are all apks that are hidden from Fire Launcher, when you install nova launcher you will see these apps in the drawer. No need to worry, the apps work like they should, the music app is actully com.android.music, so this is a stock app in android.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I am not sure how. Could be from the steps I listed prior, with DevieSoftwareOTA, or Kingroot. I just kept trying to break OTA and app store via those commands. I would have to go back and try to recreate the events.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I have an old app, and I haven't been able to get it to work, unfortunately. It's called Permission Remover and it really is a shame it doesn't work. However, It does download keys from a public server, to sign APKs after you have removed permissions. I am hoping they can be of some use to us, so I uploaded them to my Google Drive (XDA doesn't accept the file types). Click here to view and or download. If you have any issues, please let me know.

I've no idea how to view the contents.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Downloaded Kingroot and sat here pressing root again over two dozen times. It got to 70% and I accidentally hit 'request.' Now I can't get it past 32% I could seriously f***ing break this thing. Arrrggghhh!!!!!

EDIT: It almost rebooted twice while I did that.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
65% is the best I've been able to do since then :(
[Fire General] CaptainPatterson:
Hello guys, been lurking here for a few months now. Mine gets to 70% with Kingroot everytime and fails. The absolute main reason I want root is to delete the nearly 1 gig of junk apps from this tablet
[Fire General] daniel3016:
I have been trying with 5.4.0.0 for a couple days now. It will always fail at 70%. I'm real grateful for all the work that has been done on this tablet. We now own 4 of them (3 running nexus) . This community is super awesome.
[Fire General] savvytechwinner:
Thank you for sharing your experience. Much of what you do won't affect how KingRoot will root your device. It works by finding cloud exploits and remotly executing them, and since it fails, the most likely reason is because the device is strong, meaning there are no exploits that are found and working.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Mine got to 72% earlier.
[Fire General] laharl_22:
I can wait maybe for a 5.3.3 root or i can update?this is my first tablet i have 4 smartphone custom roms.is not totally my priority on my fire 7 so i dont know if i update
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I honestly think Kingroot has a root strategy, but I am sure it stops the process before it can root. I have had the % got up really fast only to have Kingroot tell me root failed as it does so. I am beginning to think this rooting app is a big joke for those who work on it. Or maybe a competition and when the competition has to keep going, Kingroot stops.
[Fire General] DB126:
Well known the vunerabality scan algorithm is unsophisticated at best...as exmplified by the highly variable number if runs required for a successful outcome on known rootable devices/ROMs. That said, I doubt KingRoot has an exploit for FireOS 5.3.2.1 or above as someone would have stumbled upon it by now.

If you wanna have some fun try KingOroot which is even more malicious but occationally has yielded results when KingRoot fell short. Problem is those devices were generally unusable after acheiving an unstable root due to the crapware that accompanies KingORoot.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I've trried it several times. It takes significantly longer then Kingroot and actually finishes. Every time, no root. In my experience with Kingroot, when it's doing it's thing, and the % rises drastically, it continues it's thing. But lately it would do just that and literally stop the process the second anything starts to happen. Doing that also stops any possible root exploit from working.
[Fire General] DB126:
KingRoot's repository of devices, known vunerabalities and potential exploits lives in the cloud. Possible a recent refresh altered the path taken on these devices.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Got a private message from someone. I'll just leave it here. Comments?
[Fire General] thefanum:
Not the focus of this thread, but WiFi drivers in Ubuntu usually just require getting it online over Ethernet, updating, then opening the "additional drivers" application and letting it find and install the proprietary WiFi drivers from the internet for you.

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If you want root NEVER update. Unless your device has an unlocked bootloader.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philo_:
If this is the wrong place to post this I apologize and please let me know where to post or kindly move the post.

Long and short no device protection plan at all. Looking for someone experienced from the community to replace the display. Looks like the glass isn't broken. It looks like the LCD/digitizer died. Phone fell (in case). Doesn't light up at all except for the flashlight but appears to turn on etc. power button is a bit mangle as well. If someone can give me an idea where to look or a ball park price I'd be grateful.

I've looked online and I do not have the skill to try this one myself.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DANIELWHITT:
Check this place out,https://www.replacebase.co.uk/ all oem parts and do most parts needed for the nexus 6p, i think its about 120 ish pound for a new lcd and miframe assembly.

hope that helps
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philo_:
Thanks for the tip. I'm not in the U.K. and I'm looking for someone who's done this kind of repair before. From what I've read and seen it's not an "easy" job.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
Well, to start with you may get more helpful replies if you put your location and carrier in your profile, making them visible so people know where you're from rather than saying "thanks, but I'm not from the UK".
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philo_:
I meant no disrespect to anyone. I'm in the us (Pennsylvania). Phone was direct from Google/Huawei and was being used on att.

Thanks for suggesting I add that info. I didn't think about it.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
It's cool.. none taken! There's no harm in putting your home town in your profile. There are a LOT of ppl on XDA and someone may know a good local repair shop in your immediate area. Best of luck.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DANIELWHITT:
Order the lcd and try the repair yourself, the hardest part is opening the thing, when mine broke, i ordered the lcd and a new housing which came with everything i needed, once it is opened the swapping of stuff over was the easy part, but as i was replacing the the lcd and housing, i didnt mind damaging the existing housing to get the thing apart, and when i was finished i had a brand new looking phone and only took around an hour or so to do it, youtube has some good videos on it. A new housing isnt expensive and you can learn a bit about your phone aswell. i made mine into a black and silver version. lol
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] marcdw:
I flashed DARK ROM not knowing one single thing about it. We don't have a thread and I didn't see a Google+ footprint (yet).

ROM is totally bare as far as apps go. Nothing there but AudioFX, files, and Settings. Not even a launcher.

At first I thought it was broken but then realized it was probably by design. Leaving it up to the user to provide their own apps. Nothing needs to be uninstalled, disabled, or frozen (as some folks like to do).

Currently I have a mostly transparent setup (themes, TBO Clear apps, etc.).

Searching some more I found the Nexus5 thread for this ROM that details its features. It apparently has signature spoofing support making it ideal for microG / NanoMod.

The dev does provide his own gapps and extras in the OP. Full support for Viper even with Enforcing.

Found the the following thread after already being setup with it.

https://xdaforums.com/nexus-5x/development/rom-dark-rom-t3620086

ZTE Axon 7 A2017U, Dark ROM, Llama Sweet Kernel, Tapatalk 4.9.3
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] QAM:
Hola

This is really great feedback. I hope it helps others.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] joemossjr:
Been using dark rom all day in the thread he meant for this room to pretty much be as close to pixel as possible and I can say it's super close it's like pure Nexus workout the bugs
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] WesTD:
Hi. I builded LineageOMS ROM. This is my original thread. You can add first message if you want.

https://forum.turkdevs.com/konu/unofficial-oms-lineageos-14-1-axon-7.13257/
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] marcdw:
Oops. Deleted.

Premature ROM info. ?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ГАСООП:
Hi, I'd like to ask which ROM would you recommend

I used to have nexus phone and I loved it. What I'd like the most is stable experience with solid set of features. I don't need root. I don't need the high customisation but just stability and solidness. I want all the features to be working straight after flashing the ROM. I would like to have audio on quality like in the stock ROM. What would you recommend? I don't want to test all the ROMs.

Good support with ota updates is important too.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] lamplighter13:
Has anyone found a MIUI rom for this great phone ?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Santos8913:
I have a problem with the Z3 compact, the headset does not play the sound, the sound comes out only on the speaker of the device. Searching on Youtube I found an application called SoundAbout that resolved at first, but now appeared another problem worse, any minimal balance on the device disconnects and reconnects the headset alone. I thought it was a hardware problem, but what I see is in the Android device software. I can not stand to hear my music anymore. Has anyone had this problem? Help me please!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chamelleon:
Unfortunately it's hardware problem. It's also common device flaw in this model and to fix it You have to change whole audio port. It's not so hard. Just need to buy another one for about 5$ on eBay, open Your phone, take out motherboard, replace port (it's just glued to phone frame) and place all parts together again. There is plenty tutorials on YT how to do it safety. You can do it just using one screwdriver and hairdryer.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaddFox:
Before attempting any hardware repairs, flash stock firmware with the flashtool (followed by any custom rom you're using). Make a backup first!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] niftaliyev1988:
If you are planning to remove the battery door of your Z3c, just be very careful. The battery door is very easy to damage in z models, as they are very fragile. If you do not have skills to do it, better to take it to good service. Because, while you remove motherboard from housing, it is easy also to damage 2nd microphone. And try to check the sound by using service menu: *#*#7378423#*#*
[MX Player] lieuliau:
Hello, I'm using the latest MX Player 1.9.0 from playstore. I'm having lag issue when playing mkv videos with H/W+ with my S8+. If I use S/W then it's fine. Please help me. Thank you!
[MX Player] Thirumalai.K:
We are working on it. Hope it will be fixed in the next version.
[MX Player] Dbzfan:
vlc?
[MX Player] Thirumalai.K:
Is it happens with every file?

Can you share a sample / link to the sample with us?

Can you collect a bug report immediately after reproducing the issue in H/W+ decoder?

Does it happen with H/W decoder?
[MX Player] lieuliau:
I'm using 1.8.21 now but this bug is still there. It's not very lag but is a slight lag. Only S/W works fine.

Is it happens with every file?

Seem so, I'm watching Daredevil and it is lag with every eps.

Can you share a sample / link to the sample with us?

Here is an eps of Daredevil https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4OxRypmdPxGblhldndvalNmOGM/view?usp=sharing

Can you collect a bug report immediately after reproducing the issue in H/W+ decoder?

Here https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4OxRypmdPxGelVlcHpXTm5tQlU

Does it happen with H/W decoder?

Yes
[MX Player] Thirumalai.K:
Hi,

We have improved H/W+ on 1.9.1 which you can get it from alpha channel.

If you don't to be an alpha tester, Just grab the test build from our website (https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/translation/test-build) & install it manually. Your feedbacks will be highly appreciable.