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[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] nsabir:
So i have this A2017G owned by a cousin of mine. He had never tempered with anything except updating OTAs from the settings app. Meaning Stock everything and BL locked. Now, all of a sudden his device lags a lot (after the N-B06 update). When booting the device the boot animation lags like crazy. And it almost never gets past the boot animation (always restarts at Axon 7). The times it does reach past the boot screen, the device hangs after a minute or so and restarts.

Things that i have tried:

# Factory resetting through stock recovery.

# Downloading update.zips from ZTE and trying SD Card update trough stock recovery. Which always fails saying Signature verification failed.

# Booted to factory test mode and tried adb devices on cmd. Nothing comes up as there is no new device on the device manager. Also no sound.

# Booted to EDL mode and flashed N-B06 from this post: https://xdaforums.com/axon-7/how-to/guide-ztea2017v2-0-0b08-t3658636

Nothing helped. Same old lags. And of course, the device is unusable.

What to do? Suggestions?
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] jw1985:
Get a new phone. Unfortunately I think it's some hardware that is broken. But in case it's not try to flash b05 instead?
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] djona12:
I don't see anything else you could do since adb doesn't seems to work. I'd just RMA it with the warranty still being in effect. And if it was purchased trough amazon you'll probably just get a new one ! (that's what happened to me last time).
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Choose an username...:
Did you try downgrading through EDL? I'll post the link to MM B10 for you to install through EDL, see if that helps. I seriously doubt that it's a hardware issue since it would not even boot if that was the case (take the Nexus 6P and 5X as an example: big cores busted and the phones wouldn't get past the boot logo).

Don't unlock the bootloader if you can't fix it, it'd make matters worse if LOS-based ROMs didn't work.

Edit: Here are a couple of links for B10 from 4pda. should be the same file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bynn_Z9_tfeOZWZmN1o2U09pWVU/view

https://mega.nz/#!ZhwR1BAD!PuIWa5Vivk3DxZ1Dgk-wAoITxiKmBiR-j1U8wZZidTw
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] nsabir:
I have tried this EDL package as well. Most of the time it says can not found programmer file. Only once it said can not find hello packet, reset status. That also ended up in error.

The N-B06 EDL package flashes fine. But the problem still persists.

I have also tried replacing N-B06 recovery.img with TWRP recovery.img and flashed it. But that just bricks the recovery.

Currently the 2 EDL packages i know are these two. N-B06 and MM-B10 for the G. The N one works fine while the MM one doesn't. Do u have any other EDL packages?

I too think it's a software problem since he has never dropped the phone and only used it for 2 months.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] jw1985:
I think something is wrong with the hardware. I had a similar problem as u with my last phone a honor 8, it frozed up and it was nothing I couldnt do other than go back to the store with it. I got a new one.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Choose an username...:
I got that package from 4pda. if you go to the 4th category brick repair manual, then enter the link that says "Qualcomm drivers and MiFlash" it will redirect you to 4pda. no need to translate: just open the spoilers (I think it's the 2nd) and you'll find all of the images. You obviously have to use the A2017G ones. there's B10, i think B11, B05, B06 and maybe another N package too

The thing is that it'd be best if you could downgrade to Marshmallow, as that would probably do some other stuff that N packages don't do.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Perru:
Do you have an external SD card plugged in? Try to use without external sd, i already had lags because of a defective sd card (that couldnt be rescued nor reformatted :( )
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Choose an username...:
I was gonna suggest that, but a read-only SD card wouldn't provoke that. I had one that got read-only after using it as swap for a long time, and you would only notice in twrp (booted in ~2 minutes). If he was able to try to install a system update through the recovery, he was able to write to the SD card --> it's not dead
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] nsabir:
It lags the same. Regardless a sd card is inserted or not.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] nsabir:
Thank you for mentioning there is EDL packages in 4pda. I just tried the packages that are available for the G variant on 4pda. But the problem still persists.

I was thinking that too. Trying to downgrade through EDL. But so far i've found only one MM so far, B10. But that ends up in error during flashing process.

Is there any way to install TWRP through EDL without unlocking bootloader? Also, is there any way to unlock BL without adb? If i could at least unlock the BL, i could flash twrp through EDL. There are EDL packages available for flashing TWRP.

Thanks.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] jw1985:
Why don't u just go back to the store with it and get a new one? Its clearly something that can't be fixed by yourself unfortunately.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Choose an username...:
Not all that clear, but yeah the last thing I'd do is unlock the bootloader.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] jw1985:
Mabey but I think as in my case that something has happened with the hardware. I think it is a hardware's fault that has come up to the surface when he updated the phone like it did 2 me. But hey, it's just my theory.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] nsabir:
The problem is axon 7 is not available in our country. If he has to rma it then he has to send it to a relative in Sweden. Then the relative can do that for him. That's why he asked me to do what i can to revive the phone. RMA is the last resort for him.

Now, i guess i will give up and tell him i did everything i could.

Anyways, thank you all for helping. :)
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] armyofpunk:
Hey guys, I'm trying to find a solution to get Google listening even with screen off, wondering if there are any build prop tweeks or suggestions to get it working. I like using LOS 14.1 and because Moto voice is pretty much useless, I'd like to get it working with Google.

Thanks
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] ricardofjayme:
I really would to know it too... Moto Voice is not more necessary once Google Assistant is available and better... but, the feature that allow "call" the phone while screen off is essential for me...
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] Vcek:
I think if you enable the option "trusted voice" it would work. Settings > security > smart Lock > trusted voice
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] joaovrsouza:
Has anyone tested this?
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] ricardofjayme:
did not work for me.... once i turn off moto voice and turn on trusted voice "Ok google" works only with screen on
[Motorola Droid 4] Edolo_Elvis:
Hi everyone,

Please how to repartition the Droid 4 because the stock partition give me this 636MB=for system, 3GB=for userdata, 1.2GB=for cache, 1.2GB=for webtop and 8GB=internal, and that is not enough for install Android 6 and 7 with their GAPPS, even the mini GAPPS can not be install because not enough space, i can used SAFESTRAP for a virtual but it also used my internal wich is not enough for me and i dont known how to create a virtual partition with the external memory, so please help me repartition it, i known that parted, fdisk, gdisk etc... can do it, but i dont known how to do it please help me because i like this droid 4 and seeying it run on nougat will be a pleasure for me.

thanks;)
[Motorola Droid 4] Puppymang:
maybe you got a response somewhere else but what worked for me is using the modded safestrap that allows you to use the webtop partition to install the system instead of using the system partition.

https://github.com/timangus/droid4/

please be sure to read the instructions within the page. its relatively simple and this helped me get cm 14.1 running with pico gapps
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] chmcke01:
I am going to be blunt...some friends of mine are having some issues in their marriage due to one of them having a porn addiction and also just using their phone too much so they came up with 5-10 apps they want to be able to use and don't want anything else to be usable including browsing the internet. Being their most tech savvy friend they turned to me for help.

He had an iPhone 6S Plus and it was very easy to set it up to lock down apps and even prevent web browsing even if he did manage to get a browser installed via Restrictions.

Unfortunately his phone recently died out of warranty and his wife had an old Galaxy S4 anyway so was due for a replacement. Their carrier (T-Mobile) had a special on Galaxy S8's for a buy one get one free so they ordered two of those to replace his non-working phone and her old one. (not relevant to the question, but I also have T-Mobile and took advantage of that deal too)

I have tried and tried to find a way to do those things they want on Android but am not having any luck. Most of the stuff I see for Restrictions on Android are for people wanting to put THEIR phone in like kid mode prior to handing it to their child. Other apps like Norton App Lock work for some apps but not all apps are listed and for example doesn't allow restricting the built in internet browser.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] naruto.ninjakid:
I would download applock from the Google play store. Let's you lock apps and then a pin is needed to unlock. I use this one

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.applock
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Charkatak:
I never needed this function, but see what Secure Folder can do for you.

Some info: https://www.samsungknox.com/en/solutions/secure-folder

How to set it up: https://www.androidcentral.com/how-set-samsungs-secure-folder-galaxy-s8
[HTC Tornado] khals:
Hi folks

I'm having a rather annoying problem with my Qtek 8310 device.

After aprox. 5 seconds, the screen turns off for no aparent reason :confused:

Backlight timeout is set to never, display timeout is set to 1 minute, while the ligh sensor is disabled.

Here are my specs:

Windows Mobile 6 OS 5.2.318 (Build 15341.0.0.1)

Radio Version 4.1.13.28_02.61.01

RIL Version 2.002

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Thanks in advance :)
[HTC Tornado] 5-4-3-2-1:
just been looking for the answer to this myself... try here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1440298&postcount=512
[HTC Tornado] Exitao:
Well, I'm sure it's not for "no reason" and I'll bet that it's not 5 seconds.

I'll bet that it's 7 seconds precisely and that you're using the automatic key lock app.

And the previous poster did post a good link.

Edit the registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Power\LockLevel

to a value of 0 and turn off your phone and restart after about 5 seconds.

Turning off automatic key lock and later turning it back on with require you to repeat this.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
I have been trying ROMs for years now in my string of Motorola phones, and every single one of them has had one set of showstopping bugs or another. I haven't been able to find any firmware that I could actually live with for any length of time.

I am currently on AOSP Extended v3.3 and it can not give me notifications! My phone just vibrated with a phone call but it was not in vibrate mode! There was no phone with jiggly wires on the sides and when I turned the ringer up it was already at max! Yet no ringer.

I've missed appoointments because the calendar notifications don't work, I miss texts all the time because it can't manage out a tone.

All of us here keep upgrading to the next version in hopes of shedding one or more show-stopping bugs, but it's a dream continually unrealized.

Can any qualified developer tell me why this is so hard? Why can Android not get the basics right, even now that we have reached Oreo? Why is this advanced OS not able to do the little things a phone must do? Never-mind the advanced features like pie controls -- I'd learn those if I trusted this thing. But even on the best phones (my prior was a Moto X) I cant get a phone I can rely on.

PS - I tried an Apple phone for work a couple years ago and it worked, but I just hated it.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krondar:
Lineage 14.1, Official. Installed the 'official way' (motorola unlock code). Not rooted. For me, working like a charm :)
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xMotoDA:
You should try a different rom. AOSP Extended is based on AOSP-CAF. When I used a different ROM but also based on AOSP-CAF (purenexus) I faced the same problem.

Right now I’m on unofficial Lineage 15 (it still has some issues: random reboots sometimes but that seems to be an upstream issue as Pixels are also rebooting and having to use Footej camera to record video).

As [MENTION=1926946]krondar[/MENTION] said official LineageOS should be your best choice even though it doesn’t have some other more advanced custom ROM features. (Or just stock ROM from Motorola if you’re OK with Marshmallow)
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yousvel:
AOSP Extended is one of the best you can find here. But the version you are using is very old. I would recommend you clean flash the latest version and I believe you will love it.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El_Nuevo:
I tryed Cyanogenmod 13 and it was awesome, and now I'm with Lineage 14.1 and everything is ok... no bugs, :)
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
Over the years I've tried every firmware from MIUI to Paranoid Android to CarbonROM to Cyanogenmod to ResurrectionRemix, and all have one set of basic problems or another. And worse, seem to deteriorate over time!

This should never, never happen with an advanced OS in the 21st Century. So I moved to the AOSPs and find the same syndrome! This implies a basic problem with Android -- after so many years it can not be gotten right. It's alarming.

Why is Lineage better? What is it based on? How is it different that it doesn't have these problems? How do you find out that one ROM is working better than all the others?
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nubry:
I've been using purenexus ROM for a few month and never faced any issue,not even a little one. It was 100% stable for me and the perfect ROM for a daily driver. AEX Is very good though and lineage OS 14.1 too.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
Actually I'd installed PureNexus right after my post above. It's 4 times faster than AOSP Extended v3.3, although I have yet to put it through the wringer. Time will tell.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] V-Droid:
Why where you using such an old version of AOSP Extended? Currently version 4.6 (nougat) is available and work on Oreo has begun.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MotoJunkie01:
Latest Stock Android 6.0.1 with [MENTION=6485916]squid2[/MENTION] r20 kernel works flawlessly on my Moto G3 (xt1548). Two consecutive months of use and not a single bug found.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
Why? Because I don't have time to be bit-twiddling every other day on my phone. I need to use my phone as a phone, since I am an adult.

Checking, my version of AOSPExtended was 9 March, 2017. You see 5 months, as old? What's the matter with you?

And no matter HOW old, why is it ever acceptable to you that it would sit silent as my phone calls, texts, appointments go by, and it forgets which keyboard I've chosen repeatedly? With this 13th generation of Android, the mission-critical fundamentals are completely busted? It was quite a feat to accomplish that.

Thankfully so far PureNexus is working. I hope that lasts more than 5 months without deteriorating.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] V-Droid:
If you don't have time to be 'bit-twiddling' on your phone then why did you bother on unlocking the boot loader and flashing a custom firmware?

Personally I haven't tried pure nexus, but it is very possible that 5 months ago pure nexus had the same bugs as AOSP Extended. Since they are custom firmwares, they are susceptible to bugs, that's why mainteiners push out weekly or monthly updates.

If you think that pure nexus or any other rom will deteriorate over time then you should probably restore the stock firmware of whatever device you are using, well... That of you have time, if not than don't blame maintainers remember they are not being paid for anything.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
I don't have time to be bit-twiddling because I have actual work to do. But I want the extra features in custom firmware. Is that unusual? Is that not why most of us do this?

It doesn't matter whether PureNexus had the same bugs 5 months ago. I am using it now. In the real world one can not disprove a negative. Susceptible to bugs? Like the frickin' phone not ringing? And it forgetting basic settings? That should never, never happen. Again, these are mission-critical functions of a *phone*.

The maintainers are doing it for fun and recognition. But those maintainers who lazily emit schlock and dreck should be outed. That is not been happening, and it is time is does, for the protection of users.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MotoJunkie01:
I'm not making this statement because of my obvious bias of being employed by Motorola Mobility. But nobody knows better how to create ROMs for Motorola devices better than Motorola. I totally understand your points and agree with your logic on many of the shoddy custom ROMs put out for Moto devices. Cobvetsely, however, I have to give much deserved credit to some of the XDA pioneer developers who have a passion for both Android and our beloved Motorola devices. [MENTION=1006674]lost101[/MENTION] stands out, as well as [MENTION=718594]super[/MENTION]R, [MENTION=6485916]squid2[/MENTION], [MENTION=6085001]Sands207[/MENTION], and the great [MENTION=7313305]Buzbee2[/MENTION] just to name a modicum of these dedicated individuals.

If all else fails your expectations, go with a pure stock build, with root, busybox, debloating, with the custom ROM type flexibilities and customizations provided by deodexing, Xposed Framework mods & tweaks, etc, etc. You don't necessarily need a custom build to enjoy the perks and customizations of your Android OS, Grab yourself a stock build of your choosing and mold it like a piece of clay, and be your own architect. As a brilliant attorney once stated, "at the end of the day, my client is ultimately the captain of his own ship."

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I'm not making this statement because of my obvious bias of being employed by Motorola Mobility. But nobody knows better how to create ROMs for Motorola devices better than Motorola. I totally understand your points and agree with your logic on many of the shoddy custom ROMs put out for Moto devices. Conversely, however, I have to give much deserved credit to some of the XDA pioneer developers who have a passion for both Android and our beloved Motorola devices. [MENTION=1006674]lost101[/MENTION] stands out, as well as [MENTION=718594]super[/MENTION]R, [MENTION=6485916]squid2[/MENTION], [MENTION=6085001]Sands207[/MENTION], and the great [MENTION=7313305]Buzbee2[/MENTION] just to name a modicum of these dedicated individuals.

If all else fails your expectations, go with a pure stock build, with root, busybox, debloating, with the custom ROM type flexibilities and customizations provided by deodexing, Xposed Framework mods & tweaks, etc, etc. You don't necessarily need a custom build to enjoy the perks and customizations of your Android OS, Grab yourself a stock build of your choosing and mold it like a piece of clay, and be your own architect. As a brilliant attorney once stated, "at the end of the day, my client is ultimately the captain of his own ship."
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
I am with you on Motorola, MotoJunkie01. No one else makes water-resistant phones, and is that not just a basic common-sense feature for something we carry with us?

But few seem to have common sense.

I've owned Motorola phones since cellphones began. I experimented with HTC, Nokia, and Samsung, but over time each one gave me reason to distrust the brand. Always came back to Moto.

I was afraid that Motorola had discarded the water-resistant feature, but the new X4 is at least IP64, so that will be my next phone. There are no custom firmwares for it yet but I'll make a note of the devs you cite. I do enterprise infosec, and rigor and quality are vital -- given my job and my nature it's why I'm so perturbed with these lackadaisical devs who learn only enough to knock something together and don't have enough sense to fix it. It's like spreading pollution...

I wish Whirleyes would bring his amazing multiboot feature -- no software enhancement comes close to being as useful and important to me, but impetuous people here pissed him off. There is some kind of multiboot available now, but it is not compatible with the XT1540.

For hardware features I rank waterproof first, large battery second, and dual SIM third. I've got to research whether the Asian Moto X4 will work in the US on Credo Mobile. (Verizon)

For software, security is of course number 1. I'd want to configure my phone like the Blackphone2, except with a hidden interface. We may soon be compelled to unlock our phones at borders and by police (which no matter what the Supreme Court says, is unConstitutional), so I'd like to unlock my phone, but have another (hidden) unlock for another side of it; another phone or at least storage place, with the two sides completely secure from one another and distinct.

The supposed "Crypto" rom here is nothing of the sort. He's just using a gee-whiz name, amusingly. Doesn't realize how silly he looks.

I've left my phone out overnight in the rain at least twice, and what a relief it is to have this protection.

And true, stock firmware can be relied on, although I wish it had some of the nice features of customs. And I wish it got security updates over time -- that's a key reason I move to the next releases of Android.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MotoJunkie01:
Friend we share similar views and sentiments on this subject. We also seem to share in the philosophy that The Due Process Clause, Equal Protection of the Law, and safeguards against unreasonable searches and seizures have essentially all been trampled through the mud when it comes to our privacy and expectations to privacy with respect to our smartphones. Law enforcement having the authority to compel a man (or woman) to unlock their device without constitutional safeguardsl, is synonymous of the police being permitted to kick down the door to a man's house upon a "whim" or a "hunch". Or a cop conducting a traffic stop and subsequent warrantless search of the driver's person and vehicle merely because the cop feels like it. I take great pride in knowing with 100% certainty that any law enforcement who attempts to track or trace my mobile IP, or tries to monitor anything about incoming or outbound data packets on any of my devices is chasing Casper the Ghost. But, anymore I can't be so certain about John Q Law's legal authorization (or ability) to stick his long snout into my device's internal storage. I'm working the final kinks out of a simple process that will completely wipe and heavily encrypt the wiped storage with multiple layers of random binary (with the morbidly numerous anticipation that they actually can and will spend countless man hours and resources on decrypting utterly blank and random blocks of binary jibberish). All with a self determined series of keyfob button presses.

Yeah I know I'm ranting and perhaps being a bit overzealous. But, just like you said, regardless of state or federal appellate court adjudications giving authorities such authorizations, such decisions run afoul of a handful of the most rudimentary tenets of constitutional safeguards.