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[Other SmartWatches] Phillycyclocross:
I'm a newbie into the world of Android smart watches but in the past week I've watched hours of YouTube videos on these Chinese smart watches. I've come to a couple conclusions. Battery life sucks across the board and none of them can hold a candle to samsung or apple. But with that in mind Istklm want to try one out. And I've narrowed it down to two on AliExpress. One is the Zeblaze Thor

<Can't post a link because I'm new>

And the other is the Colmi I1

Both are 3G android 5.1 watches with 16gb memory. But the Comic has 2gb ram and the Thor only 1gb ram. I've seen more about the Thor but next to nothing about the Colmi.

Any suggestions?

And just to be clear, cam any of these Android Chinese smartwatches send and receive texts? I don't care about calls but I want to be able to send and receive tests from my watch without having to do it from my phone on the middle of a meeting.

Also, some of these watches are approaching the $150 mark which st that point makes no sense because I can get a hold of a Samsung Gear 3 for $200 and not have to worry about any of this.

Thanks in advance.

J
[Other SmartWatches] Phillycyclocross:
Any help??

Really just need to know if any of these Chinese smartwatches can send and receive texts that come in through your cell phone?
[Other SmartWatches] Phillycyclocross:
40 some views and not one person can answer. This is the least helpful board I've ever posted in.

Ended up buying a Samsung Gear s2 so I don't have to worry about the cheap Chinese knockoffs.
[General Questions and Answers] juanmendoza3d:
My stepfather bought a phone (Blu Dash G) and it got stuck in the boot screen, hard reseting and clearing caché didn't solve it so i want to flash but i can't find the ROM, the closest i can find is the one for Blu Dash 4.5 whose specifications are the same as the dash G and both were produced in 2016.

Any help will be appreciated
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kraker77:
please ineed help it's g4 with s/n 607 safe!!:(:(:confused:
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptorddd:
nothing is safe but pretty much id say its good.

i have 601.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] MarcusBS:
Pls, could somebody give me tha REAL original bootlogo? The ones i have found on XDA has a bad quality... I think somebody who never changed bootlogo could give me the file or somebody who have the stock firmware could give me logo.bin... Anyway, thanks for any help.

EDIT: I have found a way and got the original bootlogo picture and made by myself a zip for flashing it. Now it's just perfect. I have uploaded that for who needs: https://mega.nz/#!fZIziATZ!eP5ftkmRqrCN3-Q-h5MshJBtB-H_maczLjbSHRcC850
[Lenovo A6000/Plus Questions & Answers] xda_borj:
Hi Guys! First of all, thank you for all the devs who worked so hard for keeping our devices alive and sharing their works in public.

I've been using custom ROMS for these past years and thanks to xda-developers.com and to the devs. I was planning on going back to STOCK rom especially KitKat 4.4.4 ROM. I missed the experience of it. However, before going back, I would like to verify things first 'coz I have forgotten the experience.

Is there anyone who's still using stock ROM kitkat on their Lenovo A6000 (1GB) ? If you are, can you please share your experience especially with the RAM and Battery usage and life?

That's the main two reasons I am keeping on following devs on their work. I wan't to experience a long battery life and a good RAM management. I just know that the stock ROM kitkat really is awesome.

Can anyone please post their battery life and RAM usage of STOCK kitkat ROM?

Thank you very much!

Regards
[Lenovo A6000/Plus Questions & Answers] sasukay:
Stock Kitkat was definitely the most stable. But there was this problem of mediaserver which would eat up all the battery. Otherwise I too used to used to enjoy its flawless experience.
[Lenovo A6000/Plus Questions & Answers] xda_borj:
Thanks brother!
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] ThisWasATriumph:
I have the A2017U model. I read the 7.0 update (B15) was buggy and slow. Will I need to be on 7.0 to get 7.1.1?

Opinions?
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Choose an username...:
Just update until it doesn't leave you anymore, if you don't get to the latest (B29? I don't know) you have to download the latest official zip (BE SURE IT IS FOR THE A2017U!) and unzip it to get the update.zip from inside, then throw that one on the internal storage and go to Settings - Updates

On the A2017G the last 2 updates have zero problems. We had B01-02 (7.0), then B03-04-05 (7.1.1) and on both 04 and 05 they fixed everything. I'm positive that the U firmware is even better than the G's.

Also you can rollback officially and with the BL locked anytime you want (data will be wiped though), just get the official zip for the version you want and do the process mentioned above
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] ThisWasATriumph:
So updating forward doesnt wipe data, but rolling back does?

Also, how is root support/BL unlocking on latest firmwares? Still available to me?

Thanks for your input.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Choose an username...:
Updating doesn't wipe, however keep an eye out just to be extra careful. Just look somewhere on the Updates page, and it'll say "This update will not wipe your data".

Root and bootloader unlocking is fine, and it seems that you can use axon7toolkit to do all that stuff easily. Otherwise just unlock on an older version an update, there's nothing you can do (apart from issuing the command) that will relock your phone

BUT BUT BUT I think that bootloader unlocking wipes your internal storage and data
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] pelelademadera:
unlock wipes data... be careful.

my recomendation is if you feel comfortable with stock, upgrade, you cannot unlock with nougat, but you can downgrade, then unlock.

If you like to test custom roms, I recommend to unlock, then upgrade, I use unlocked bootloader with stock rom and otas with no problem at all, I flash stock recovery from twrp, upgrade, then flash again twrp from edl, root and do whatever you want, when otas appear, reflash stock and upgrade, then twrp again....

Im now on aosp extended, really good rom, with really good performance and better battery life. my main problem is the camera, but I find that flashing super gapps (with google camera) works really good.

Its a very simple camera, but works really good, as stock in auto, you lose manual and raw, but I dont care about that things
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Choose an username...:
You can't unlock with Nougat?? I heard you can simply use MiFlash to get Fastboot, then get there and do your stuff. That's what axon7toolkit does anyways
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] pelelademadera:
Maybe, I dont know. When I unlock I had to donwgrade to b10 (marshmallow) to do that

Enviado desde mi ZTE Axon 7 mediante Tapatalk
[Motorola Droid Maxx] eeffeemorgan:
Hi, I am trying to root the droid maxx and I have an Idea but I need a custom either gpt.bin file from the droid maxx stock rom or a way to change my boot.img size from 7,476 to 10,240 .

So, could somebody teach me how to read/edit the gpt.bin file and resize the boot partition.

Or, teach me how to resize boot.img files.

Thank you for any help.
[Motorola Droid Maxx] sd_shadow:
the bootloader is unlocked?
[Motorola Droid Maxx] eeffeemorgan:
No however I have found a way that I can flash boot.img and gpt.bin files to my phone (as long as they are the right ones for my device). When I open my boot.img files using carliv img kitchen the output file is less than it was when I put it in, and then when I flash it my phone says "invalid img size for partition boot."
[Motorola Droid Maxx] sd_shadow:
you cannot change partition sizes, with a locked bootloader
[Motorola Droid Maxx] eeffeemorgan:
I have been able to flash gpt.bin isn't that the partition?
[Motorola Droid Maxx] eeffeemorgan:
Also what is motoboot.img and how would I edit it?
[Motorola Droid Maxx] eeffeemorgan:
I believe i may have found a way to flash gpt.bin without an unlocked bootloader. Also, is there a way to edit motoboot.img because I can't find one.

Thanks for the help!
[Motorola Droid Maxx] sd_shadow:
sure you might be able to flash a modified gpt.bin, but the device won't boot
[Motorola Droid Maxx] eeffeemorgan:
Well that's okay I learn from trail and error, if all else fails I can factory reset with adb or rsd lite. Also you still haven't answered my original question how would I one change the partition or boot.img size.
[Lenovo P2 Questions & Answers] realista87:
as you may know, the QC feature from lenovo....uses a "proprietary" standard, i don't know why.... i think it is a stupid decision by lenovo but i tested some qc 3.0 chargers/power banks and no one can charge our phone over 5v.

only the STOCK charger can go until 12v ( tested with an usb tester)

i am still waiting the 14 days to unlock my bootloader and flash a custom rom, but i SUPPOSE that every custom rom does not have the proprietary quick charge capability. or am i wrong?

i would just undersstand if the possibility to use the fast charge is also possible with EVERY custom rom just because it is a harwdare relation "among" he phone and the stock charger, or is there something that every custom rom BREAK disabling the qc feature?
[Lenovo P2 Questions & Answers] realista87:
mmhh... i'm a little sad to have a phone which is capable to be quick charged ONLY with the lenovo charger...... and not every qc 3.0 charger....
[Lenovo P2 Questions & Answers] asus535:
get those for your reserve, I got it and really fast-charges P2.

One for home, one for work, one for travel

https://tr.aliexpress.com/item/Original-Lenovo-12v-2a-fast-charger-adapter-1M-micro-usb-data-sync-cable-for-Vibe-Shot/32810682769.html?isOrigTitle=true
[Nexus 5 General] Rondeau7:
I decided to move onto the Nexus 6 community soon. I love the Nexus 5 but it is time for an upgrade. Hammerhead will be truly missed but not forgotten! Thanks to every developer that has given support to this device.
[Nexus 5 General] Thanhtho96:
Wtf
[Nexus 5 General] kamild_:
k.

I won't be moving onto another phone until it dies. Since I don't think I need an upgrade (maybe besides battery and cellular signal strength) :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] lemmings:
How can I avoid WM going to sleep when I'm transferring "big files" with WIFI ?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] atomikpt:
yes of course.. just in the battery menu configure that PDA doesn't go sleep..

cheers.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] lemmings:
It's already done...

In fact, I'm using "Slide to unlock" (S2U2) and I'm trying to sync my RSS feeds with "pRSSreader" using WIFI. After a few minutes, the screen goes to black and wifi is disabled...

So I'm looking for a solution to get my update and lock after finish
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] licht77:
Another possiblity: Keep WIFI activated when going to sleep....

I use this to ensure keeping skype and msn online via wlan... u will find the registry key somewhere here in this board if u like it like this (just be sure to turn wifi off when u dont need it for battery reasons)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] caulirick:
Hey lemmings,

The easiest way is to install kaisertweak.

There is an option in the XML file under Wifi Standby Mode: Enable the function

Soft reset and you're done!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Jay2TheRescue:
The WiFi turning off on me has bothered me on occasion. I looked and I don't see any WiFi settings on Kaiser Tweak. I'm using Version 0.4 if that makes any difference.

Thanks,

Jay
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] lemmings:
Viva Kaiser Tweak ! ;) I've use it to enable Wifi Standby Mode.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ~~Tito~~:
Yea, I hate that. Good thing they made Kaiser Tweak! I would be a forever annoyed by the sim contact list showing. . Is there a solution to hid them forever?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jackburnt:
Just changed this. Thanks!

My university has a log in for Wifi and I was tired of logging in everytime my phone went to standby. Now I'm always connected!

Battery hog though.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Jay2TheRescue:
I downloaded the latest version, which I find out is 0.41 (my old was 0.4) and now I see the WiFi setting. Thanks!

-Jay
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kareeem:
The wifi standby freezes the phone on the Tytn.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamdip62:
Somebody help me unlock my bootloader on my Moto G 3 osprey ?? I can't unlock this even after watching all the videos in YT and reading all the blogs. I wanna root my device and then upgrade to a custom ROM(lineage OS) but I don't understand the 'bootloader unlock' process. Dude you gotta help me ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RealWelder:
You gotta go through their website. Under development you should find unlock bootloader.

You have to do fastboot getvar and then copy the output into their website so they'll provide the key. Then just

fastboot oem unlock (key)

Then flash TWRP and your custom ROM. (You may have to extract the boot.img from the rom zip and flash it with fadtboot.

fastboot flash boot boot.img

Then flash the zip with TWRP.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] MarcusBS:
Well, once I have looked for bootlogos for my device (A5 2016) and just found bootlogo with bad quality. Even the "stock bootlogo" available here had bad quality. So I worked for bringing it by myself and have found the Black bootlogo backup by my own device. It was stored on my internal storage. I made a flashable zip for it and also made the white version from it. I hope you like it.

I have also put in this post the bootanimation, but this (bootanimation) is taken from Advanced Ruby thread, so, thanks to [MENTION=7856078]DasNuddel[/MENTION] for it.

ORIGINAL SAMSUNG BOOTLOGO / BOOTANIMATION

Black Bootlogo & Black Bootanimation

White Bootlogo & White Bootanimation
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Strasius:
Am I screwed? I tried following a guide on here and now TWRP is gone off my phone and I have no OS. I really dont want to have to go exchange it...
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] R800x_user:
try looking for the original kdz for your model and flash the kdz using LGup here's the link

https://xdaforums.com/v20/how-to/v20-kdz-restore-failing-9-completing-fix-t3546817

you might need to do some manual searching for the tmobile kdz since in that link there is some kdz links but none specified for the tmobile variant, there is one similar to ours and that's the h918tn but im sure thats not for our phone.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Strasius:
I ****ing LOVE you! That was 100% what I needed! thank you so much! it saves me a trip and i can now try re rooting with safer methods.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] R800x_user:
I haven't rooted mine I just upgraded to the v20 coming from the v10
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Mike_Disturbed_1992:
Hello I was wondering if anybody knew if XPOSED was available yet for the V20?? I've been waiting a while for it and I was just wondering if it's available yet or not. Thanks everyone!
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Still_living714:
Unofficial nougat xposed yeah but according to the thread there's alot of bootloops and its not stable at all.
[General Questions and Answers] thetastycat:
Hey all - so I'm grandfathered unlimited on Verizon and *love* my unlimited 4g. At my girlfriend's house (right near an interstate), the data is absolutely rocking. But at my house, about two miles away, I usually have decent signal (half or a bit better), but the internet seriously struggles. For instance right now I've got my phone on Pandora and am wifi hotspotting to my laptop, where I'm FB Messenging. Every 30 seconds or so, my laptop says that my hotspot has no internet connection, and I have to wait 30 seconds or so for it to come back. I've just paused Pandora and at least I can chat uninterrupted now. Seems like I should at least be able to do these two things successfully...

Is there anything at all I can do to help it?

Many thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] Freewander10:
You'll probably have to move in with your girlfriend ;)

Maybe the area in which you live is extremely congested or there aren't enough/any cell towers nearby.

Nothing you can do about that.
[General Questions and Answers] thetastycat:
Haha - fair enough!! Just so weird that the connection just stops working even though I've got decent service showing. Is there any merit to any of the "signal booster" stuff you can buy? Can't really see how any of that could work...
[General Questions and Answers] Freewander10:
They're of no use whatsoever. Even worse than all those "cleaner" apps out there (thats supposed to say something).

If you live in an apartment/building with multiple walls/thick walls, that might impact signal strength and speed. You'll probably have to check out various locations inside your house (or even outside) and see where the reception is best. Near open windows good.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] asl9622:
Anyone having issues with updates in Google play store? It shows the data is downloaded but does not install. I have cleared app cache and phone cache. If I let it run for awhile it eventually downloads and installs. Any ideas?
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] hkbladelawhk:
I had this happen too. Though I never got a solid resolution other than a reboot.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Thisisabadname:
Sometimes closing Play Store from Recents after it finishes the download part and opening it again will activate the install. If simply closing from Recents doesn't work, force stop Play Store and open it again. That will most likely start the install.
[HTC 10 Questions & Answers] Xeazlouro:
So I have an unlocked HTC 10. a while back I managed to do all the good stuff to make it work with Verizon. I don't remember all of the things I did, but safe to say the needed things for it work on Verizon through the #*#*4636*#*# menu. Fast forward a year later, I'm still on 6.0.1 and I would like to know how I can go to the latest and greatest update from Android while being able to connect to the Verizon signal. I haven't kept up with anything from here so pardon my lack of knowledge.
[HTC 10 Questions & Answers] Tarima:
So you must be s-off in that case and you simply flashed the Verizon radios, right?

You can probably update your unlocked 10 to the latest software, and then redo the steps you originally did to get it to work on verizon.

To update:

If you were never rooted and didn't ever modify your system partition, make sure you have stock recovery and take the OTA update.

If you are rooted, but have an untouched system backup on hand, restore it as well as stock recovery and then take the OTA.

If you are rooted with no backup, or if the above options fail, the easiest and cleanest way is to backup your phone contents and run the latest Nougat ruu which will bring you to fully stock and updated.

Other option, since you're s-off, is to flash the OTA "manually" with twrp and through fastboot. Look for instructions in the twrp thread faq.
[HTC 10 Questions & Answers] drumz0rz:
No. To convert US Unlocked to VZW we had to manually set the CID and then run the Verizon RUU. If we flash the latest N RUU, I don't think that'll work on VZW. Last I checked (which was last fall TBH) VZW was on a different and older branch than the Unlocked latest head codeline. We should be able to run the latest VZQ RUU assuming someone has made one. I'm also looking for this. I'll update this post if I find it.
[HTC 10 Questions & Answers] Tarima:
Where does the OP say he converted to VZW variant?

There are two ways to get unlocked to work on VZW, one is to flash just the modem and the other is a full Vzw conversion. Based on the fact he states he had to go into the secret menu, my guess is that it was the former which is why I asked....

FYI latest vzw ruu can be found on the Verizon HTC 10 forums.

https://xdaforums.com/verizon-htc-10/how-to/verizon-official-ruu-1-19-605-9-t3377586
[HTC 10 Questions & Answers] drumz0rz:
Interesting, didn't know you could get VZW to work without the full conversion. That was the route I went, and despite it, my phone still shows up on Verzion as a 'Non Verizon Device' (Everything works though). Thanks for the link to the RUU though!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oblyvision:
Hello guys, I'm currently having storage space issue. When I was installing xposed framework on my device, I noticed something odd with my storage. It's the dalvik cache takes 1 gb of my internal memory, right after booting up and android is starting screen appear. Everytime I delete them, they just keep coming back.

My device running Android 6.0, LG K8 2016 and yes, It is ART. Is this normal?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solarsoap:
I notice this weird security crap also. It's a manufacture security or android putting it back.

Look at the block sizes... U need room to grow and sometimes the manufacturing just gets the phones sold without future thought. As long as it runs mentality. But if you somehow replace that boot.IMG all that weird crap will go away. Make sure you have a backup handy and flash. I notice this security thing talking from kernal to the phone and causing fast reboots also or timed booting.

I hope that information will help you.

The security and weird stuff stops when you nail that file. Sometimes manufactures have very strange protection tactics and programming.

Because in reality you should be able to specify the delvik file size right?

Things come back because something is in control of it and if it is missing lol poof... It comes back. Could be Android protection delivered by manufacture programming. That's my best guess :p
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oblyvision:
So this is abnormal case then. Hmm, If only this security patch allow me to flash IMG (custom recovery and such), I'll go to stock in the first place rather than this crappy OEM rom. This and odex apps kills my storage really fast.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solarsoap:
I know you can do an adb injection of cwm...

From that and inject su or super user and root explore.. I was able to perform that with...

Mtk adb. A mediatek app. You can also do it manually. But if you have weird things happening with a security patch like myself :) I have experienced that. If it's in the boot.IMG you can always swap it out for a working version. Or do a port injection keeping the kernal normal.

I was able to discover that if you take a ROM from same CPU and build number and extract it.. Then inject your stock ROM thingy over and repack it.

You can subvert things. Once the boot.img is loaded.. But make sure you backup your rvram.IMG or the iemi numbers.. Because sometimes those get missing when you do the boot.img repack and load into the system... Especially if that security is located on a ROM hardwired on a chip or some strange software watching things from the manufacturing side of things. Always make sure to backup all the main stuff so you can flash it back.

I hope this information can guide and inform.
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] Dogs1985:
Method 1

. Set Keep Wi-Fi on when screen is off to No.

. Enable the data.

Method 2

. Set Keep Wi-Fi on when screen is off to No.

. Disable the data.

Method 3

. Set Keep Wi-Fi on when screen is off to Yes.

. Enable the data.

Method 4

. Set Keep Wi-Fi on when screen is off to Yes.

. Disable the data.

Who can tell me which way to save more battery?:confused:

For Notification LED and Always-on Display, how you guys prefer? Either one turn on? Or both turn on will not cause power consumption? :confused: