yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Corgism:
Z3 owner looking to upgrade here and made an account just for this.

I pledge 20 EUR to the bounty, not just for XZ Premium, but the upcoming XZ1 is also fine with me.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] AJHutchinson:
I'm in £30.. :svetius:

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There's always Magisk to mask the root :good:
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] dazza9075:
Thanks, I'll do some research in to that. :svetius:
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] karrouma:
how can i pay by internet card or money transfer.

no paypal here

pls send me a link
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] munjeni:
I'm made pre pre alpha trim area dumper, curently don't own xzp to test but I'm waiting somebody try and report, see optional step 2 here, maybe non functional but we can't know until somebody try :)
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] dazza9075:
I'm up for supporting you, but I've been on WM for years now,, so bare with me, I am not a complete novice, far from it as you can see from my profile, but my experience is some what out of date!

I flashed this phone using your tool the other day with out issue, so your wanting me to what exactly?, Dump this trim area and do what with it?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] munjeni:
Let me know first if that working! :)
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] iKlutz:
Hey guys. I'll throw in £30 too. Sorry it's not much. But I really want some basic root functionality without loss of DRM key related functionality.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] leijonasisu:
When the person who sorts the method out, does it. You either donate to them via the 'Donate to me' button under their profile or contact them directly.

So at the moment we're just waiting for someone to get the fix together.

I've added the new total to the front post. So far we're at: $475

Whoever ends up pulling this off is going to end up being able to buy himself a brand new XZP with the money. I can also imagine a lot more direct donations too from outside this thread.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] dazza9075:
is there a way of doing just the dump rather than the whole flash caboodle!?

I don't recall seeing any options to dump anything but imight have missed them.

I can flash the whole thing if need be, its not a major deal to get up and running but if there is an option to just dump, then id rather that.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] leijonasisu:
Are you saying that this is a proposed method to backup and restore the DRM keys, or something else?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Corgism:
You kicked off a great thing over here! Really sick of the latest flagships being on lockdown, and Sony is the best option for me because of the near-stock experience and overall most familiar rooting experience for me.

$475 is a great start for the first few days, and the weekend isn't even over. The Z3 bounty reached $2000+ within the first 10 days:

https://xdaforums.com/z3-compact/general/bounty-root-unlocking-bootloader-method-t2940539

http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/11/24/xperia-z3-series-root-bounty-hits-2400/
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] karrouma:
Will donate 15-20$

Giving a puch for xz1 my next phone
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] chesterr:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/0...axy-s8g955u-rooted-isnt-ready-prime-time-yet/

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8+/development/root-g955u-g955u1-snapdragon-sampwnd-t3658911

I just saw this over android police and wanted to share here.

I know that Samsung and Sony has different ways of handling android but thought this might help cause they achieved root so that means we can too on LB. Hopefully.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Charos87:
Could you add £10 from me, all I have to offer I'm afraid but I wanted to give something to help make this happen!
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] will0n:
I'd like to add my $15 . I'll keep following the thread and hope things will happen soon:victory:
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] munjeni:
I don't own XZP to test but yes I have made pre pre alpha feature of the trim area dumper, only new version newflasher have that, dumper is untested curently! If dumper somehow working I will need to see log and look into them to see if all units is dumped (pm me by providing your log, don't post it public!)

You must download latest newflasher! https://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/progress-newflasher-xperia-command-line-t3619426
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] mirhl:
[MENTION=4280921]leijonasisu[/MENTION]

Please correct first post.

There's nothing special in how Sony phones handles root.

If any it's dumb easy since they can get the bootloader unlocked.

The thing though is that you'd want to gain root (to preserve DRMs) without/before going down the official way.

But you could just as well never root anything (just unlock BL), and you'd still loose them for the records.

p.s. I hope that if our munjeni overlord get the bounty, he might want to finally release the sauce of some of its magic after so many time
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] SyLvEsTeR20007:
I am in for €40

I am in for €40.

Lets get it done.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] karrouma:
me 15$
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] ryanz999:
put me down for £10
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] monsterjamp:
I'll add $35
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] ameel:
Happy to contribute $20 to the bounty. Can we have a tally of the total bounty please?

Also, is there a proper way to formally pledge the amount and have it locked in (like some sort of escrow)? I'm not too familiar with bounty pledges here.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] SyLvEsTeR20007:
I agree. Also, Dev should get paid right.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] sToRm//:
I did a few patches on a few files and was able to manipulate the key status. But Sony did a good job... If I hack system files, the TZ drops and locks some functions (flashing system is needed then). I will do more research and will try to get that b*** cracked. There is a thread for devs and people with knowledge about Sony DRM and device security https://xdaforums.com/xz-premium/development/devs-xz-premium-drm-fix-solution-t3659940 Maybe there is somebody interested. I will post my experience, too.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Corgism:
I'll do an unofficial tally of the bounty since OP has been away for a few days.

Last update was 475 USD.

Add:

10 GBP - Charos87

15 USD - will0n

40 EUR - SyLvEsTeR20007

15 USD - karrouma

10 EUR - ryanz999

35 USD - monsterjamp

20 USD - ameel

Latest tally is about 640 USD
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] misi444:
$100 from me.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] YasuHamed:
You are the owner of the phone, you paid for the phone, and it is your right to ask to become the full owner of your phone, right? :)

i wish sony realizes that and send us TA.img file in email when we ask bootunlock key against imei number :(
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjy:
You should make a common thread with XZ1 phones, since they are exactly same hardware as XZP.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] vansmuk:
Sign me up for 20$
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] leijonasisu:
Tallied the recent additions. Sorry I have been sick but I am definitely not going to disappear!

Keep the donations coming guys and if anyone can test the pre-alpha dumper by munjeni and post logs:

https://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/progress-newflasher-xperia-command-line-t3619426

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=73461060&postcount=26

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=73482739&postcount=38
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] SyLvEsTeR20007:
What is wrong with this root method?

http://www.androidinfotech.com/2017/06/root-sony-xperia-xz-premium-nougat.html
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Lirannl:
That it irreversibly wipes the DRM keys.

We all know that the XZ Premium can be rooted, but you'll have some features permanently disabled.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] karrouma:
we know about the root, and how to root via kernel modifiyed.

all we need here is the DRM keys fix to have all xzp feature worked properly

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no green pictures when flash is on ?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Lirannl:
Personally I need the DRM keys because I want to be able to restore my device to a state where I could make a warranty claim.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] RJASSI21:
This is one of my reasons too. Mainly to restore features and get root. If all works then we may also attract some custom roms to this device aswell. Its not as simple as it used to be. We used to be able to get root on locked bootloader up until 64-bit Xperia's were released (Z4 and on...). Annoys me how difficult it is now but someone will crack it one day.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] ex3meex:
It's so hard to backup DRM keys and root? :((((((
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Corgism:
Honestly I think the current effort is way too narrow and limited since it's only in the XZ Premium section, and none of the readers of other XZ forums will visit.

What we need is a wider thread with a bounty for DRM backup/restore + root for any 2017 Xperia XZ (XZs, XZP, XZ1, XZ1 Compact). Can OP do this or any volunteers to do this?

This will get us more eyeballs and a larger cumulative bounty to move faster, as of now the bounty has been stuck at $725 with a high % of useless whining posts "Y SONY NO GIV US DRM ROOT".
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] mirhl:
whistles

And with XZ1 coming loaded with 5th August patches, I guess we are quite done there too.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] leijonasisu:
Hmm no new pledges in 2 weeks. I'm going to test the andro dumper myself. I've been on vacation so I haven't had time.

Also the above link that Mirhl posted seems like it could be very useful. I have held off updating my XZP so I still have the Day 1 version with no updates made what-so-ever. I advise anyone who wants to back up DRM keys to keep their devices unpatched in case we get a method to backup DRM keys via this new exploit.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Corgism:
I've created an XZ1 + XZ1 Compact root/DRM bounty thread, and you might want to repost your info about the BT bug/potential exploit there.

I believe the XZ1/XZ1 Compact bounty will gain a lot more traction because there's a larger market for both models compared to the XZ Premium, they are new devices so more news coverage recently and more popularity means more potential bounty pledges!
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] karrouma:
i will move to xz1 bounty donate for it . i will move my donation to xz1
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Lirannl:
That's EXACTLY why I haven't updated my phone. My father saw it and was about to tap the update option for me, and I told him I want to keep any security breaches open, so that I could backup the DRM keys.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] mirhl:
Not like you cannot rollback to older firmwares, ya know?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] avi312singh:
Lol
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] CM17X:
As far I know, you can't.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] _LLJY:
You can
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] SyLvEsTeR20007:
Guys, I just got an email from one click root that they can also now root the xz premium 8141 (they had the 8142 already). I have contacted them to ask about drm keys. Fingers crossed....

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Quick reply from them. Check the screen shot.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] SyLvEsTeR20007:
Regarding one click root.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Charos87:
I'm not sure I would be willing to try an unverified root method but if you do please do report back.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Lirannl:
Scam.

The people who respond are "all women" (I don't believe it), and they said the app won't root my phone, but that they could root my phone for me for 30 dollars if I have a stable windows PC and a cable. As I said, a complete scam. I obviously replied with "no thanks".
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] LukeyWolf:
If an official bootloader unlock came out, would that keep the DRM keys?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Lirannl:
No. There already is an official bootloader unlock. There's no unofficial one because there's no need - the official one works. It's just that it wipes your DRM keys. That's the entire problem.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] LukeyWolf:
Ah that makes no sense to me, why does Sony even give the option if that happens anyway?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] unfaix:
I pledge 50 bucks, I did a bounty for the LG G5 and followed through with my pledge.

Be confident that I'm good with this ledge as well.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] GeramanX:
I'm in with $20 USD.

What's the total bounty at this time?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] awdrifter:
Can someone hack the older Xperia camera app to be compatible with this phone instead? I only care about the ability to use the camera to it's full resolution/functionality. I'm still torn between this and the S8 (which has a worse camera).
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] gregbradley:
Thread cleaned and then closed at OP request
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christy.Creates:
First time posting here so bare with me.

I was using my Straight Talk /CDMA Samsung Galaxy S7 and I noticed it acting weird and sluggish so I restarted it. When it restarts after the logo screen it has me enter my pin, says verifying, the it has a locked padlock that unlocks with a colorful circle around it. Then it says Android is starting up. I did a factory reset on it because I read it could of had malicious firmware. It still starts up the same but now it seems my service is messed up. Well at least my SMS. I will send a message, it will have the spinning circle, it will send (i think) but says it failed. I have cleaned the partition and rebooted but nothing is working. HELP it is only a few months old.
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] sirhc:
This is CypherOS. An extension to pure Android. CypherOS tries maintain the purity of Android while offering useful features for users. The goal is to give the highest level of performance whilst achieving Simplicity.​

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CypherOS, ROM for the OnePlus 5

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Source Code: https://github.com/CypherOS

ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat

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Last Updated 2017-08-14
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] sirhc:
I do not own this device yet. If anyone could post some screenshots that would be great
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] poincare:
Hey bros! Does this work on encrypted cheeseburgers?

EDIT: I went ahead and clean flashed it from stock. Stuck at the 5 bouncing colored dots. I'm encrypted. Guess it does not work on encrypted cheeseburgers. :'(
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] dispatcher2412:
No this doesn't work on encrypted devices. I just checked it myself.
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] sirhc:
I'll investigate this, in the mean time if someone is running unencrypted, I will appreciate feedback as well
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] digital box:
Does not boot on unencrypted either (doesn't reach boot animation). Tried on 4.5.6 and 4.5.8 firmware.
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] killer618:
Try flashing SuperSU
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] liver20:
Good

Enviado desde mi ONEPLUS A5000 mediante Tapatalk
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] Mar-cel:
Does not boot on encrypted
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] abax4401:
Anyone been able to get this to boot?
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] poincare:
No. This is not booting in encrypted, nor on decrypted phones it seems.
[OnePlus 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] sleepwalking0593:
Is this dead?
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] Devhux:
Just wondering if anyone else notices screen flicker at low brightness on the Oneplus 5. I noticed it immediately as I was setting up my phone, and while I haven't used an AMOLED-equipped phone since the note 7 briefly last year, I don't remember seeing it on that phone.
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] invinciblecc:
Nah
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] hjthjthjt:
It is because of AMOLED.
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] TechOut:
Is it all the time or only when there is animation?
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] Devhux:
All the time. I've actually gotten used to it pretty quickly though.
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] AbrahamW08:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS6/comments/34t923/is_your_screen_defective_test_for_yourself_by/

AMOLED has that problem. Not an issue for me, but try this to see the effect.
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] Maaalx:
yes

yeah, i start seeing this for 3 days specially when i put reading mode, until today, it changes to black color and the screen stop working :confused:
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] Devhux:
I've completely gotten used to it now - don't notice it at all
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
Hi guys.

My issue: I had TWRP 3.0.2.1 on my honor and decided to update to latest version. Big error.

I have the TWRP app installed and I followed the procedure to flash recovery with that app. It seemed everything was fine, because it said ""recovery flashed".

Now when I try to enter recovery, my phone gets stuck at logo "your device is booting now".

I have to reboot in EMUI recovery to go out from that stuck page and to load normally the phone.

So I decided to flash recovery in the old ADB fashioned way: now when I get to "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img", the phone tells me "FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)"

Practically

now I have no TWRP

and I do not know how to proceed.

Some good Samaritan out there? :eek::eek::confused::confused:

Thanks.
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
My firmware is latest Nougat (BLN-L21C432B360).

I tried to flash TRWP 3.1.1. Before this try, I had version 3.0.2-1 as written above. I flashed twrp when I still had Android 6 with EMUI 4.

Regarding the way to enter TWRP, yes, I know the method and I do it.

The problem is my phone don't enter twrp but remain stuck at logo.

It seems that the recovery is not present or has problems.

I've tried even to reflash the old recovery, just in case. Nothing.
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Try this-

flash stock recovery for your model.

boot normally.

flash TWRP latest.
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
Now I try and post later.

What a mess. I should leave the old 3.0.2 which was working good...
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
I was already on nougat and the 3.0.2 was still working perfectly. I had flashed that twrp when I was still on 6.0 and after the update with firmware finder it was still working.

Moreover I used the official TWRP app to update and it failed miserably even if it said flash successful at the end of operation....
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
Then I used the classic way with ADB and still nothing.

I can see on the Windows shell "failed: command not allowed" :confused:
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
AFAIK, Factory Reset Protection is linked to account protection in case someone steals the phone. In this way it should be more difficult to wipe completely the phone and use it.

Anyway, just checked in fastboot and no, FRP is locked. I just had a look in developer options and I noticed that "Enable OEM unlocked" is greyed out. But it should not have nothing to do with flashing the recovery.

Or not?
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
Let's see
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] johnsci911:
Unlock your boot loader
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
Bootloader is unlocked.

For some reason, my "OEM unlocked" option turned greyed out, and FRP is locked again.

I will try this eve to lock bootloader again and restart the unlocking operation from scratch.

Will see
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
In emui 5 OEM unlock option is not there and can only be found in MM or Emui 4.x
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
you mean that even if I can't access TWRP, this should be still there and I cannot lock bootloader?

And you advice to do a factory reset first.

If this doesn't work? Then?
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
You mean that I couldn't even see the option?

I have nougat and emui 5, the option is present but greyed out
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Yeah exactly. See SS

This was there till emui 4
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
So how can I solve the problem?

Someone told me the only way is to lock bootloader in order to have again this option available to be turned on... And so start the process again.

At the moment I cannot access TWRP nor flash it through ADB. Practically even if bootloader is unlocked, I have a rooted phone with no possibility to do anything else... Regarding flashing of course.
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] Diamantes:
Thank you for your replies.

Anyway I really know now that I cannot buy honor for flashing.

I just tried a factory reset from advanced options.

After all the pin request etc, the phone rebooted and get stuck on the initial window (your phone has been unlocked and cannot be trusted-your phone is booting now...).

So I had to press usual buttons to enter in emui recovery, the only way I can get the rebooting option from this state.

Of course the phone is not reset.

I give up. This crappy phone is taking too much time of my life.

I will keep it like this. And I'm not sure at all I will get future OTA update.

I never EVER had these issues with Samsung phones or HTC, and believe me that I was flashaholic... I flashed tens and tens of ROMs, I rooted and unlocked all my previous phones with no glitches or whatever..,

This time I tried honor for the price.

Never again for flashing or playing around.

Just for normal, classic phone use, hoping it will last some other month before I purchase another brand.

Thank you all.