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[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] RAMBO29:
First have MiFlash with driver and Fastboot ROM, zip of TWRP and then backup everything. This can help you with soft brick. Hard brick requires opening and touching the contact points, using EDL to flash rom, then TWRP and then your saved ROM.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] pokipokipxorn:
requires root

use Partition Backup by wanam (playstore), ensure you have enough space in your main storage (not the external sdcard)

(save as both .img & tar.gz, plus the 1st 100MB - see 'spanner tool')

Backup every partition, except the System and Data partition.

The partitions hold IMEI, wifi mac addresses, phone serial number which is exclusive to the phone. Doubt anyone, including Xiaomi support could restore them.

Follow this guide to backup your QCN (imei numbers)

Store all files from above at safe location #1, plus another location #2.

Brick happens all the time, including flashing official Xiaomi updates, even if phone is not rooted, bootloader locked. Many such cases on the net.

So, a backup is the safest option.

It's the 1st thing I did after receiving a new phone. 2nd step is to calibrate the battery.

It is YOUR responsibility to backup your phone essential partitions. Sometimes, official OTA updates are botched, or the phone is low battery during flash, or simply bad luck.
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] AllenPlaysGames:
I just rooted with Supersu on my OP3, but reading more into this all rooting thing, I found out about Magisk. I dont know which one i should use.

I'm only rooting for apps that require root on the play store, that can help me auto farm and stuff in games. nothing much. I probably will touch Xposed for some bypassing root detection or something that can help me in games. That's really all im gonna use root for.

Thanks!:laugh:
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] theduke7:
if you're purpose is hiding apps from play store so you should go with Magisk it does that automatically without the need of something else...

also Xposed doesn't work on Nougat
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] Hw4ng3r:
If you need to pass safetynet (ie. some banking/payment apps and games like Pokemon Go require this), I'd recommend going the Magisk route; it has a built in toggle/tick box for this function.

With Xposed, we don't currently have a stable Xposed for Nougat, although this is getting closer and closer. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but if Xposed is active, you will fail safetynet. Again, Magisk has a toggle for enabling/disabling Xposed if you need it to pass safetynet, but everytime you toggle this, you will have to reboot your phone.

If you don't care about safetynet, then either or has solutions to what you're looking to do (with hiding root).
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] AllenPlaysGames:
So like, if you want to cheat on more "secure" games (like games made by bigger companies) u need to bypass safetynet. And Magisk is better for that
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] theduke7:
yes
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] Puddi_Puddin:
Magisk all the way. It's so much more easier to use and a ton more functional especially with the modules.
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] soham_mehta:
MAGISK ??
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] emuandco:
See my sig ^^ Even my Watch is modded with it
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] A Sad Napkin:
Magisk.

SuperSU is now owned by a Chinese company so we have no idea what they are doing with the data. And i don't trust root access by a closed system.
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] Pankaj Rai:
Magisk
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] smartass08:
my sim card got blasted due to radiation of battery and now it is affecting my country..plzz help i m afraid this will lead to world war 4
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] rochakz:
first let ww3 start
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] furkhan67:
Dispose ur phone deep inside the ground
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] smartass08:
i afraid all the bodies in graveyard will become zombies:p
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] dodo2244:
What was that - the deading walk, I mean the walking dead [emoji39]
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] CZ Eddie:
lmao no not really. Nobody is going to make anyone a KitKat ROM.

But holy crap, I forgot just how much I *LOVE* and *MISS* KitKat.

That was the last great Android platform for all-out customisation.

It's been all downhill since then.

Google has said "FU" to customisation in support of higher security and a whole lot of other stuff we don't need. Or uh,, that I don't need.

You sure as heck won't catch me banking on a freaking cellphone even if I were running stock unrooted.

I'm setting up an Odroid XU4 (think Raspbery Pi, but more bad-ass).

And its stock ROM is a currently developed KitKat 4.4.4.

And I'm having a bunch of fun installing all the COOL old apps I used to use.

I've already installed like 25 Xposed modules. Many of which can't be used on Lollipop or newer, let alone Nougat.

SOoooooo much customisation can be done to KitKat.

And even a default black theme. How cool was that. :good:
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] SonarMonkey:
Theoretically speaking, would it be possible to build a KitKat ROM for the Pixel XL? Or any device for which the oldest source code available is newer that 4.4.4?

I would never actually install KitKit on my Pixel XL, but I'd be interested to know if there is a process for this sort of thing.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] CZ Eddie:
I'm not a dev but what little I've dabbled around with ROM's tells me that your source code needs to match the OS version you're trying to port (or at least be similar).

I'm sure someone may come along and tell me I'm wrong though.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] PWn3R:
I'm here to tell you that you are wrong. XD - In all seriousness, you could with enough time and backporting probably make a 4.4 ROM for the Pixel using the drivers from whatever it came with ?7.0?. It wouldn't be easy and I can't say I have the skills and I don't have the time or willpower, but that's essentially what they did for some of the OG android devices to get them running on newer versions than what was released. The Motorola CLIQ comes to mind, they ported 2.1 on to the 1.6 drivers.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] 335Deezl:
I'd give it a run, if some genius made one.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] fizbanrapper:
Definitely possible, but nobody with the skills has time for that. Lol
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] graffixnyc:
I decided to create this thread for those of us that got the device already and want to discuss our first impressions of the device. It seems us posting stuff in the shipping thread is cluttering it up for people who are still waiting for the device.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] hollowlog:
The build quality is pretty astounding. I picked up my Pixel XL and kind of felt bad for it.

It's not as snappy as the Pixel.

The hardware buttons take some getting used to.

Haven't messed with the camera yet.

Textra isn't working properly and I'm not sure why. The send button doesn't do anything. I had to enable "use enter key to send"
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] graffixnyc:
I agree about the Pixel being snappier. I have the smaller pixel and it's for sure snappier and more fluid. I love this device though.. It's beautiful. I haven't messed with the camera much either yet.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] EniGmA1987:
My first impression was actually pretty bad. The rest of my post actually belongs in the build quality thread so Ill put it there.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] worldsoutro:
The design is very nice! Everything else like software pretty bad.

I think this is the fastest time I have decided to return a device
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bricky23:
How can software be bad? It's stock Android. Didn't you know what stock Android is?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dr_rick13:
lol.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] worldsoutro:
I tried to be nice, its a beautiful phone but then you turn it on and its like eh
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] IM0001:
As far as snappyness, is it something like the transitions being slow or something else?

To make it more snappy, go into developer options and set the transition speed to .5 instead of 1. That should make things seem to zip.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] graffixnyc:
animations to .5 is what I do on every device I own as one of the first things out of the box. It's for sure nowhere near as fluid as the pixel. It does open apps up quicker in some cases, but scrolling through lists, webpages, the feed in Google now is not as smooth as it is on the Pixel
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kirdroid:
Feels so good in the hand, update was waiting when I tried to set up. Have to see if it's not snappy as others have mentioned and I too have used pretty much every flagship so will immediately know if this thing lags or hiccups are there. Will update in few hours.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] IM0001:
Interesting, but not surprising. The Pixel has proven again and again that it is a finely polished machine software wise. The kicker for me keeping this device or returning/selling it will be the Pixel 2 XL. Nothing else really blips my radar otherwise. OEM theming from the likes of LG/Samsung writes them off since they also are always locked down as all heck. After using a Nexus I am hoping the Essential can gain some form of similar following, but if not, Pixel 2 may be the only option... We shall see...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] graffixnyc:
If the XL 2 is smaller footprint wise than the current XL then I'll most likely get that. I like smaller phones. I would have loved a smaller Pixel 2 with no bezels. I'm kinda pissed at Google for not making two exactly the same devices like they did for the first gen (with exception of screen size/resolution and battery) this time around. If I want the smaller pixel, I'm gonna a have to deal with the bezels again. Lol last year I ordered both the xl and smaller one. Returned the smaller one and kept the XL then switched to the smaller one and freaking love it. I have Google sending me a replacement (figured I'd get more to sell a refurbished device than an almost year old device) and now I'm not sure I want to sell it. I might just hold on to it until the 2 drops.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] IM0001:
My only gripe I can see from the leaks is if LG really is making the XL, well then we have LG's shoddy build quality to worry about.

Luckily it looks like the V30 isn't as bad as the G6/G5,etc and hopefully we may possibly be past the bootloop issue of the past 2 years from them? (Knock on wood).

HTC may not have the bezzle sizes figured out, but their build quality has been pretty reliable working with metal for a long time now. LG is still new to that gig.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ~~Tito~~:
I wouldn't trust LG at all. The V30 looks nice, and I have seen V20s out in the wild, but after dealing with the G5 and past devices I wouldn't trust them at ALL.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ndonnine:
Not sure what you guys are talking about. This is much faster than the gaalxy s8 I turned off and it the same speed if not slightly better than the pixel.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bretrick30:
Not sure if it's because I have been using a friend's S8 during the time I was waiting for my Essential Phone to show up or what, but the Essential phone looks really nice but the sharp edges make it feel like a much larger phone than it really is.

Oh and the camera lag...

It is a bit upsetting with all the anticipation while waiting and I am already considering returning it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] isopure:
Could it be due to all the negativity, it has tainted your first impressions?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kceb83:
I'm getting weird scrolling lag. Anyone else noticed this?

---------- Post added at 11:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:47 PM ----------

Guess I should clarify. It's almost as if the screen sensitivity is not calibrated right. When I try to scroll very slow it is not smooth at all. Doing stuff like fast scrolling is fine but slow movements not so much.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ZooBaAr:
Coming from a 6p and 5x I like this phone. NIce feel in the hand, it's substantial . Fits in my 5x case but of course the buttons are rong lol.

I am going to have to play with display as it doesn't turn on quickly when I pick it up, sure its just a setting.

Edit: nope, still wont turn on when I pick up the ph. Still does not register touches around the edge for menus and such, that kinda annoying.

All my apps set up much quicker than I remember from the other 2 devices and it will take me a few hours to get it setup the way I like it ( root plz )

The cut out for front cam will take some getting used to.

Edit: used to it ;)

God stock android is just yech, I can hardly wait till substratum is rootless or we get root.

Sound wise I'll listen to it at work tomorrow and see how the adapter works with my sennies but I already had a Tron BT adapter that I really like.

Edit: sounds great with adapter or BT. Adapter lets the sennies use its inline controls for vol, skip.

I am less fussy than most ppl and I needed a phone, couldn't wait for big G to get off their butts so this.

I hope Essential gets out updates in a timely fashion, if that doesn't happen THEN it gets the axe.

Edit:

Still not sure what i'll do, its a really nice phone. IF Essential steps up and TELLS us something, i'll be much happier.

Cables: PH1 is REALLY fussy about what cable you use, what worked for my 6P might for PH1, only google cable worked when using fastboot.

Android Auto sometimes connects and likely disconnects no matter what cable .

Fingerprint reader is hella fast ! BUT now I can't get into smart security tab? grrr

Zo0
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ImMurtagh:
Does anyone have a valid customer support phone number for Essential? Since they have shuttered their support webpage, I am feeling a bit cut off. I was one of the people sent a phishing email and took my appropriate defensive measures such as canceling my card. I just want to check-in to make sure my order is squared away properly.

Thanks!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] stewa2jm:
+1 650 300-0000

---------- Post added at 01:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:33 PM ----------

Just refreshed the support page and it is back up. I have not tried to send a message, however.

EDIT: The message center on the page still fails. Sent and email and it has not been returned yet.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] terrieyour:
Essential phone is the worst phone i have had in my life. Does not work, i left a message with you people if i don't hear from you by monday i am calling the fcc, i have had it, i have the camera as well.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Zargone:
Camera

Want to sell them? I'll give you $50.00
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Noteforme:
I'll give you $60.00:D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] toxic619:
My issue started with the S7. I couldn't download apps while on mobile data. I was and still am able to download apps while on WiFi. Now that I've upgraded to the S8, I still have the same issue.

Here is what I've done on the S8 which I also did on the S7 and did not fix the issue.

Clear Playstore Cache

Uninstall updates and reverted back to factory playstore

unlinked my google account

rebooted phone

ensured data saver was disabled

made sure that data usage for Play Store was allowed in the background and just for F**KS sake, enabled "Allow app while data saver ON"

Auto-Update Settings for Play Store is set to "Auto Update apps at any time"

WIPED phone to factory

I think I've hit all possible bases that could cause an app not to download via data. PLEASE help me, I've upgraded phones already, and FKN phone is doing the same thing.

I'm using T-Mobile, and hopefully these dudes are not throttling my data...

ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!!!!!:cowboy::cowboy::cowboy:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Charkatak:
Is your phone being charged/plugged in? My phone needs to be plugged in and with the screen off.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] xxxericxxx:
Hey, kept having same problem, what I ended up doing was clicking on the little arrow on the notification for downloading, or waiting for Wi-Fi, don't remember exactly what the notification is, but after clicking the arrow to expand there is an option to use data there.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] alvin612:
I'm having the exact same issue! Wasted a few hours of my life on calls with customer service of tmobile and google but didn't get it resolved. However, I randomly came to this trick: switch mobile network mode from lte/4g/3g/2g to 4g/3g/2g -> wait until 4g icon shows up -> download some app from play store (optional for me) -> switch back to lte/4g/3g/2g. After this dance, I am able to download apps from google play store via data.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Monsi:
Same problem here. The only thing that works for me is restarting the phone
[P8 Lite (2017) Discussion] Nelsitto:
I Bought this phone 2 days ago, when I first unboxed it, I tried out the earphones that came with it, i was listening to a static noise so I was ready to throw them in the ''trash'', but when I tried my normal earphones, same issue remained... its really noticable on lower volumes

It happens the same thing on the speaker of the phone, except its super hard to hear it unless you put your ear on the speaker, so its not much of a problem

but using earphones gets really annoying... do i have a faulty phone?

Edit: the static noise is not constant, when there's no sound playing, it stops after like 2 seconds, and then when i play something it comes again
[P8 Lite (2017) Discussion] metabolito:
I just checked mine and I don't have that noise ... I have a PRA-LX1....B170, rooted with magisk and Viper4android and the audio modification library modules for magisk, don't know if that has anything to do, although I don't remember having that static noise the first day I bought it either.
[P8 Lite (2017) Discussion] aciupapa:
Mine had that issue, I was able to minimize it using Viper4android and by using Honor 6x kernel from K-rom v2
[P8 Lite (2017) Discussion] dx020:
I also have this. Although I don't pay much attention to it since I don't hear it when playing music, it is a minor annoyance when pausing music or videos. Is it kernel/firmware related?
[P8 Lite (2017) Discussion] eagletdw:
I have same problem too (model: PRA-LX2C636B160). I tried stock player and some premium player players such as PowerAmp, JetAudio HD Plus, Neutron but nothing fixed. Looks like common problem. :(
[P8 Lite (2017) Discussion] Champignongnon:
Same for me.

Seems to be related to the NFC, I turned it off and and so far, no noise again :)
[P8 Lite (2017) Discussion] ilija simeunovic:
Also facing this problem.
[P8 Lite (2017) Discussion] Blackwolf14:
I have exactly same issue. Its really weird, annoying. When play music, there is no static noise. When I stop music, static noise comes.
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] d3vyarth:
I've RR 5.8.3 installed, heard f2fs is a better file system. I wanted to know if it is ROM specific? If it is, does RR supports f2fs? And other ROMs which supports it as well?
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] pipyakas:
it is kernel specific, and no benchmark have shown f2fs to have any real performance advantages over ext4
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] d3vyarth:
Which is better? Ext4 or f2fs?
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] pipyakas:
currently ext4 is more stable, and there's nothing wrong with it

f2fs is supposed to be faster, but like I said, not in the benchmarks I done with this phone
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] d3vyarth:
I don't want benchmarks, I want performance in day to day use. Did you observed any improvement in data reading and writing speeds? My friend has 1+3, and he noticed significant upgrade.
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] pipyakas:
Everything can be shown via benchmarks, one or another. If daily usage is improved, that means somethings has improved, either raw access speed or latency. The 1+3 has official f2fs implementation, this phone does not. Also the 1+3 use faster ufs storage compared to zuk z2's emmc, so comparison's off
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] pipyakas:
If you want opinions on f2fs from a recognized developer, check out this interview done by xda

https://www.xda-developers.com/interview-francisco-franco-kernel-1/
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] d3vyarth:
Thanks:fingers-crossed:
[HTC Cavalier] mssha:
Why My mobile (C730w)read the message very slowly ?
[HTC Cavalier] MaFu:
Which messages? E-mail, SMS or MMS?

Did you try to open the Task Manager and see how many Mb are free/used? If you have too many programs opened, the handheld gets really slow to perform any operation.
[HTC Cavalier] mssha:
SMS，

When I open the sms,the mobile show free memory is 22300Kb,so I think this memory adequately supprot to read SMS.

but I don't know why this happen ,thanks
[HTC Cavalier] MaFu:
E-mail read speed is OK? Did you benchmark your smartphone with others? I´m in mine 2nd one because the 1st was slow for eveything and was replaced.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] V@no:
Before android 7 on lock screen we could swipe on a notification, tap the app we want to open and it opens that app

Since android 7, we have to swipe on a notification, tap the app, SWIPE AGAIN, only then it opens the app. Who came up with this nonsense?

Is there a way disable this bs and go back to previous method?

P.S.

Is this Nougat feature or Samsung exclusive?
[Security Discussion] BLEEDCOLORYOU:
anybody care to help me out.

i dont know what it is or how to fix. im not rooted so i dont know
[Security Discussion] IronRoo:
I'm not sure exactly what your problem is, are you saying you are just seeing the msg "Messaging is sending a large number of SMS messages. Do you want to allow this app to continue sending messages?"

If yes, you are just exceeding the number of msg you can send in a set time, (normally this is 30 msg in 30 min in most phones, I believe). It's a security measure to prevent malicious apps sending lots of msg. It can be changed in some phones/rom easily but needs adb commands in others.

Maybe you changed this setting previously, to a lower number. Either way you are probably just sending more messages than this limit is set to. If you are not then you may have a malicious app.

Why are you looking at "net send" & microsoft cert, is it related to that app in the background? Does it send sms & that is causing the pop up? As I said I don't follow, please explain more
[Security Discussion] BLEEDCOLORYOU:
I believe I have stagefright I have some sort of third party running over my phones. Its not just the 1 phone its all
[Security Discussion] kushfighter2:
Simple answer

A noobie hacker (like me xD)

Is using a simple open source sniffing app. When it is turned on, chrome blocks the request.

Based on practical experience, nothing more

:)

BTW go to your router admin panel page and reset your password and disable WPS and enable mac filtering
[OnePlus 3T Questions & Answers] ¿GotJazz?:
Hi - I am sure that I shot myself in the foot here somehow.

I have a problem where I don't get any sort of display now when receiving a phone call. The phone rings, but the display stays black, Even if I unlock the phone, there isn't the standard "Slide to Answer" phone call display.

Can someone help me isolate what I changed? I was trying to block an annoying (and totally useless) green caller id pop-up box that kept appearing. I guess I was too successful in the blocking. :)

Thanks,

¿GJ?