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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Shuthefrontdoor:
Anyone else experiencing spen glitchy behavior? Example I'll be hovering the pen over the screen and it'll scroll or select things without me touching the screen and sometimes it won't register the spen touching the screen when I actually try to scroll, or I'll use the square app at work and when my clients need to sign the screen it'll register the pen before even touching the screen. I really like the spen feature but at this point it's too unreliable to even use, is this normal behavior? My wife's note 8 exhibits the same behavior. Tmo note 8 and we both factory restored before setting up and did clean install no transfer data crap.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] L1N3B3CK:
do you have a screen protector ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jason504:
No not me works great and I use my Spen everyday.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Shuthefrontdoor:
No I do not, my finger touches are fine, it's only when I use the spen does it act glitchy, do you think it's defective?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pool_shark:
No issues with mine on Verizon, with a screen protector.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ingenious247:
Are you using a case with a magnetic kick stand?

My guess is yes.. can't use that with the Note's digitizer as the S-pen tech is magnetic based

If this is not the case (pun intended) then you probably have a faulty S-pen or Digitizer
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Shuthefrontdoor:
No just a regular super slim case, it's so annyoing as it only exhibits the problem sometimes not always , I guess I'll have to take it back
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ingenious247:
You're not using a magnetic car mount either, right?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Shuthefrontdoor:
I do in the car but I noticed this issue immediately after first spen use and I didn't have a magnetic car mount yet, so I don't think they are related and I don't use the spen when I'm in the car
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] DrIzzLe85:
Some of the Same

I also absolutely love the S Pen and I've had the note line for years. This time around with the Note 8 I'm experiencing a weird glitch that's happening with Google products ie Google Chrome Google app Google Maps. Especially when I use the Google app to read different articles. When I open the articles it will literally freeze and not recognize any touch. However if I open that article with my finger and scrolled just a little bit with my finger then I don't suffer the same problem but if I initiate scrolling with the S Pen it freezes every time. This is really frustrating to the point where I have to force close the app to get it to respond at all.... Google and Samsung please figure this out!!!! It really is maddening!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Raklik:
At least Spen works with no issue on my phone. I use it pretty often for making notes and also I found it faster and convenient to write in chat messages..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kxdaorbit:
Try changing the nib. I had similar problems which seem to have gone after a nib change, maybe coincidental.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pete4k:
No problem on mine at all. See if you can borrow spen from somebody and test with different pen maybe? Also I would reset the phone and test again, before sending it back.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Shuthefrontdoor:
I exchanged the phone and so far it's been good, fingers crossed
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Capzlawk:
Are you maybe triggering some of the events and tools that the S-pen does without touching the screen? One place this first "caught" me off guard was reading email. When you hover just of the screen it gives you choices and can do actions. There are also scroll choices in Chrome that fire up by hovering.

Just to make sure, I suggest watching [youtube]eXAxJbfpzBA[/youtube].

If it isn't behaving like in the video and you know you aren't triggering hover events, then I would definitely get it replaced.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deleted member 7436581:
I can't understand why third party case makers continue making cases with magnets in them for our Note series. It usually causes issues with the S-Pen. Like, a foldable stand can just be designed to "click" in place when not in use. You don't need a magnet for that. And for the wallet type cases they can just use velcro or something to clip it back into place without a magnet.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] MadTalDisease:
Any update? I also sent my phone in for repair of a similar issue and when I got it back, it seems like nothing was fixed. Samsung wrote that they "replaced cosmetic" whatever that means?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] winol:
I had a similar issue with my note 7, as the recall started and I refused to surrender my note7, claiming warranty was not an option, I bought a spen, and, that solved it, to this day works fine, in this case with a note 8, you must go and claim warranty or, try with some one else's spen to sort the problem out
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] MadTalDisease:
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately in my case it seems like the s pen is not the issue. I've gone into a Best Buy and used their pen and I still encounter the same issue :/
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Dankert01:
I had the same problem when searching with Google and the result was shown in Chrome. Using the SPen and the site hang. Using my finger no problem. I then changed from Samsung Internet Browser to Chrome as default browser. The problem was gone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Capzlawk:
I've had this same issue with two Note 8's and now my Note 9. When I'm following a link in a news article, if I use my S-pen to scroll it locks up. If I use my finger, no issue. 3 phones and countless stylus options (it happens with my tablet stylus, and both my 3rd party Wacom pens. It's annoying.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uglyfatandalive:
Hey there,

My friend's old phone alcatel pop d5 suddenly stopped booting. It either stays on alcatel logo or endlessly optimizes "Android" but never starts. I have tried many times to reset the phone and wipe the cache but without any success.

Do you have any ideas how I can boot again into this phone? Maybe sideload something or I don't know... I'm stuck here.

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uglyfatandalive:
No Ideas?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Teddy Lo:
Hi , I think you need to re-flash your stock firmware , so search on the internet for stock firmware for your device and flash with SP flash tool .

Here is example what you need to do, but when you find your firmware make sure is the same model .

https://youtu.be/KhYmZoeQPx0
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] SteveC01382:
Hi Guys

My T-mobile MDA Vario III is staying on the "checking sim lock status please wait" screen.

I enter the code provided by the excellent sim unlock utility but have no way of completing the unlock!

I am being stupid or is their a solution to my problem?

Thanks

Steve
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] fallen00sniper:
Calling all mini owners, donate to tdm, found a mini for $100 and sent him the info for it.

He has been working very hard to bring us root, now let's bring him a Dev phone!

Unlocking, root and custom ROM will come a lot faster if we get a device permanently in his hands.

https://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=4126377
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] Deleted member 7646815:
It is so nice to see that the community cares more about serving the consumer than the actual company does. ?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] Muggx:
Well, i'd like to donate, but how?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] fallen00sniper:
I know right

I guess you would have to pm him to ask how you can donate to him, I thought he had a link up for donations.

I'd take the donations and buy the phone for him since I live closer to the seller, but I don't know if he got the PM I sent him about it and bought it or not yet.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] fallen00sniper:
He's gotten the device, use the link in the op to ask how you can donate to tdm and offset the cost, he plans on releasing custom roms soon.

Very exciting time to be a mini owner.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] OptimusVDarwin:
I'm excited and can't wait! I'm coming from a Nexus 5 and Nexus 5x those have very good development support, I can't wait to start flashing ROMs and kernels on this mini!
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Hey [MENTION=4420242]fallen00sniper[/MENTION] hope you don't mind me hijacking this thread, but I wanted a place to update everyone on progress and I didn't want to start a new thread.

Current status as of Oct 3 2017

Unlock

Unofficial unlock tool has been released.

Waiting for official ZTE unlock.

TWRP

Alpha version posted in unlock thread. This uses the binary kernel and init from stock (including enforcing selinux) and does not have decrypt support, so it is not optimal.

Working on a full source build and eventual official TWRP builds.

Custom ROMs

I have just now successfully booted the device with a source built kernel based on the ZTE provided sources. I'm starting on Lineage 14.1 support. This will probably take at least a week or two.

Once Lineage 14.1 is working reasonably well, I will also do an AOKP build since that is my preferred ROM. I can help community members with other ROMs, but I won't maintain them myself.

Other

Collecting information on regional variants.

[MENTION=4079289]saymonek[/MENTION] has a single-SIM UK/Europe version that is reportedly stuck on 6.0. Are there any more variants?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] fallen00sniper:
[MENTION=4126377]tdm[/MENTION], completely fine by me.

while you are in the rom getting them up and running, check into why the touch screen sucks at positional tapping, mine isn't 100% accurate lol
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Did a bit of research on variants by trolling through ZTE support. So far I've found:

* USA version.

* UK Carphone Warehouse version.

* International "open market" version (eg. Austria).

* Hong Kong version.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
First build done:

Package Complete: /home/tdm/out/laos-14.1/target/product/tulip/lineage-14.1-20171003-UNOFFICIAL-tulip.zip

This is going to need a fair amount of work before it boots and runs, but ... progress! :D
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Oh also FYI... I've been cribbing from the HTC One A9 (hiae) device for Lineage builds. haie is maintained by intervigil, who I had the pleasure to work with at cyngn. I'd say he is one of the top four or five device people in the custom ROM world. And it looks like he has been actively working on Lineage 15.0 so we should get that soon after nightly builds start.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] MrWhite0429:
It's so exciting to see device development take off!
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Just a quick update...

I had a ... uh ... "server malfunction" yesterday so didn't get a chance to do much. However, I'm back in business today.

So far today I've got linage to start the boot animation. Should be able to get all the way to the home screen tomorrow.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] djeniuss:
Hello, can I change my axon 7 mini back to the US variant? It was originally US variant, I mistakenly switched US band in the engineering menu and Iost network services. I managed to get it working with the European firmware from ZTE Russia. Would like to revert to the US variant. I noticed in the bootloader version, the US version is P852A12 whilst the European variant is P852A11. Any luck on reverting to US variant?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Can you not access the engineering menu and switch back?

If not, my suggestion would be to use QPST and/or QXDM. These are proprietary tools but you can find them for download. They will allow you to program the frequency bands that your phone uses.

Good luck.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] djeniuss:
I can access the engineering menu. The device is working but would have loved to switched back to US variant because it's a US variant initially but I am unable to install the US firmware I downloaded from ZTE US Support site
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
I'm sure we can get you back on US firmware.

What is the error when you try to flash the ZTE package?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] djeniuss:
Error Target machine P852A12 not found. I noticed my device bootloader has changed to P852A11 - Tulip. I checked my friend's Device which we bought at the same time from best buy in US, his own is still P852A12
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Ain't it beautiful? :)

It's alive

Edit: can't get inline images to work, so you gotta click. Oh well.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] fallen00sniper:
:victory:

I am considering not even worrying about the warranty lol

Big questions are, everything working?, can you return to stock?, and how does the performance of the rom feel?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Literally nothing except display and touch screen work yet.

I'll be working on getting all the subsystems functional over the next few days.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Alright now we have wifi. Still to go: bluetooth, sound, camera, fingerprint, gps, ...

---------- Post added at 05:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:11 PM ----------

The alpha TWRP failed to install gapps so I guess a functional TWRP is the top priority...
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] MrWhite0429:
Just curious on how the twrp is coming along?

---------- Post added at 04:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:31 AM ----------

Also. Where can I donate?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
I will be working on a fully functional TWRP next, see above.

My PayPal is paypal.me/tdmcode. Thanks!
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Built a (minimally) functional TWRP and posted a thread for it. I'll try to get it working better over the next few days, but it did what I wanted -- it was able to flash gapps.

Now that I have the play store, I downloaded some diagnostic apps. Turns out GPS is actually working. w00t!

[EDIT] Can someone try to flash SuperSU with TWRP and see it it works? Thx!
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] MrWhite0429:
I'll give it a shot once I put the kiddo to bed!
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] a2002:
SuperSU 2.82 - Failure Reboot loop

SuperSU 2.79 - Rooting successful after one reboot
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] MrWhite0429:
Can you post a link to the SU package you used? I tried 2.79 and apparently I had a bunk package lol. Bootloop city over here
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] MrWhite0429:
Never mind after a fresh download and a reboot the root stuck this time.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] MrWhite0429:
Pretty sure all of you know this but do Not update binaries. Superuser will tell you that you must update. However if you do it will trigger bootloop
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
And there's bluetooth and sensors.

TODO: sound, radio, camera, fingerprint, ...
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Do you know if quick charging is working, or if there is a way to know if it is working?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
I can look into that later. Basics first. :)
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Got the front camera working, but the back camera crashes the camera app. Probably a simple fix. Also made quite a bit of progress on fingerprint. Hoping both of these will be functional tomorrow.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
fingerprint works (for me).

I see support for 3 different fingerprint sensors. But I think only one is used. Could you folks please get the value of the system property ro.hardware.fingerprint so I can check? eg:

adb shell getprop ro.hardware.fingerprint

If we find that there are more than one sensor in the wild, I'll need to figure out how to detect which one is present. ZTE did not release their source for this little bit of magic, but I have a clue how they did it.

Thanks!
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] djeniuss:
So what's the way forward?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Second star to the right, and straight on till morning.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
And there's the front camera.

Now let's see if we can get radio and sound running. Then there's NFC and the notification LED and BT/WiFi MAC addrs. That should be just about all that's left, I think.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] djeniuss:
Okay. This is great. Any luck of how I can revert to US bootloader?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Yeah, I'll be reverting to stock at some point this week (possibly today) in order to note some stuff like the stock MAC addrs and update to the b14 firmware. I'll package up a couple of flashable firmware zip files (7.1.1 USA b12, and 7.1.1 USA b14) for twrp while I'm there, and give out instructions for others (like you!) to capture the international variations.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] djeniuss:
That's great news. My device changed to tulip after I flashed the European firmware. I will really like to revert to the US stock firmware and bootloader
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
I don't know what you mean by changed to tulip. Was it verdandi before? The US version is tulip.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] elandin:
Does the US version have Radio? The german(Eu?) version doesnt.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Radio as in cellular radio, not FM radio. :)
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] elandin:
ah. makes more sense now :) .

on the fingerprint side: im gettting "goodix" when typing in the adb command. hope this helps.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] mattx1002:
Same here.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Spent the past few hours trying to get the audio amp to go. No success yet.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] djeniuss:
I didn't take notice of the version when I had the US firmware installed before I flashed the European firmware. This what my current bootloader states

Android Recovery

ZTE/P852A11/tulip

7.1.1/NMF26V/20170519.163520

My friend's bootloader shows PA852A12 and we bought both devices at Best Buy the same day. When i tried to flash the US firmware i downloaded from ZTE US support site for thr Axon 7 mini, it gives this error message:

Installing update......

assert failed: getprop(" ro.product.name") == "P852A12"

E: Error in /sideload/package.zip

(Status 8)

Installation aborted.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
And there's the radio (cell radio) ... in service and data/lte works. Can't test calls obviously.

Edit: SMS works.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] djeniuss:
Okay. When will it be ready for me to flash back to the US stock firmware? Though I saw one US stock firmware on easyfirmware site. When I try to flash it via the stock recovery, it tells me the firmware is not signed. Can you sign it or can you work with it? If yes, I can download and give you link to download it.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Finally got the audio amp to turn on. Making beeps and boops when I adjust the volume now, and I can hear the shutter sound when snapping a pic.

I think I'm just about ready to push an initial device tree up to github.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
I'll need your partition table and the checksums for all your partitions (we'll exclude

system and userdata because they are huge).

First, copy and paste this script to your computer -- put it somewhere you can find it from a command shell and name it eg. getinfo.sh:

#!/sbin/sh

cd "/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name"
partitions=$(ls)
for p in $partitions; do
if [ "$p" = "system" -o "$p" = "userdata" ]; then
continue
fi
md5sum "$p" >> "/tmp/partinfo.txt"
done

Now do this:

* Open a command shell.

* Boot into twrp (adb reboot recovery).

* push the script to /tmp (adb push getinfo.sh /tmp).

* Run the script (adb shell /sbin/sh /tmp/getinfo.sh).

* Pull the generated file (adb pull /tmp/partinfo.txt).

* Send me the contents of the file (in PM is fine).

I'll use that to figure out which partitions you need to update.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] djeniuss:
I am yet to apply your custom recovery solution. I am still on the stock recovery. Please can you direct me on how to go about it?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
You must use twrp for this, stock recovery cannot provide a shell with the necessary privileges.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] djeniuss:
Please send a link for twrp .

Sorry for all the trouble. Thanks
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Go find it in the dev section.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Just noticed the splash image (the initial screen with the blue ZTE and powered by android) is in a standard BMP format, just flipped vertically. Someone creative could easily make a splash image changer that flashes in recovery.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] Bettaxis:
Just wanted to say thanks for the hard work with the Mini [MENTION=4126377]tdm[/MENTION]! There is a P852A15 Canadian variant also still on 6.0.1. Would the unlock tool work on this variant as well?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Highly likely. Give it a try.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] Bettaxis:
Thanks and will do, I'll post progress in the tuliptool post. Looks like ZTE posted the source code opensource.ztedevice.com(can't link externally until 10 posts) for the Canadian verdandi variant.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] fallen00sniper:
if i can figure out where the original is on this rom, i intend to back it up once i root if i get the chance to.

it's been a long time since i did anything like making a flashable, it was for the note 2 and i basically just altered someone else's work lol
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] :
So, I received this email from ZTE last night, and here's what it says (exactly as it was written):

"Hello，

I am very sorry,

I don't think there ever be an official bootloader unlock for a7 mini,

thank you"
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
It's the splash partition.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
I just received an official bootloader unlock from a ZTE engineer. To be precise, it's not actually an unlock, but an aboot (bootloader) which supports the oem unlock command. At least that's what it appears to be -- I'll be testing it shortly and creating a thread.

So whoever sent you that was apparently misinformed.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Oh, and now that I've got the official unlockable bootloader, I've upgraded my device to 7.1.1 b14. Now I have everything I need to make a TWRP flashable firmware zip. (mainly for [MENTION=1305709]djeniuss[/MENTION]).
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] MrWhite0429:
Will this be a more stable twrp?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] tdm:
Stable or functional? The current twrp is stable for me. It's just missing data decrypt and sdcard support. I realize those are important features and I'll try to get then working soon. But I've got higher priority things right now.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini Guides, News, & Discussion] MrWhite0429:
Sorry I meant functional. Lol. Been a long day here. Thanks again for throwing your free time twords this device.