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[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] michaelswengel:
I chatted with a Verizon agent on their website and was told that after the phone was completely paid off I could unlock the bootloader. HA.

Hilarious.

I chatted with another and she refused to answer whether or not the bootloader could be unlocked.

Another agent said no, it can't be.

Yet another thought I was talking about unlocking the phone from the carrier.

*FACEPALM*

Bottom line: Verizon is clueless.

I also Tweeted @ Verizon's customer support on Twitter and got the usual runaround about "unapproved modification". Sorry. Unapproved by whom? It's my phone. I'm the one that approves or disapproves modifications, thanks.

In other news, I posted on the Verizon forum asking about a bootloader unlock, and my thread was deleted. xD

Why doesn't Verizon want the bootloader unlocked? What are they trying to keep us from removing?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] CyberpodS2:
It's not about keeping us from removing something as much as someone adding something that would effect the corporate security market they are selling to.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] michaelswengel:
That’s a good point.

In that case they really should sell a non locked down SKU of the P2 for the average user imho.

But they seem to think that unlocking the boot loader will violate a warranty blah blah blah - despite the fact the OEM provides instructions for doing so and encourages users (who know what they are doing) to do so to reflash firmware or test new builds.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] cjegan2008:
Yeah I chatted with Verizon's tech coach about this.

They apparently have an inside track to Google, and the representative email their internal Google contact about this very same issue. Google wants you to buy directly from them, and there's no way Google will support the unlocking of the bootloader officially. I even tried to get them to do a device swap for the Verizon variant to the Google variant, and was pretty much told to return mine and get a Google variant. I paid for mine full price, so I should be able to do what I want with my own phone. Apparently not. Hopefully we can start up a bounty for the devs to unlock the bootloader. I'm willing to throw in $100 off the top. So it's up to the devs if they want to devote time and resources to this. But there's the offer ?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] dmb219:
I know having a phone you can't unlock is frustrating for anyone who frequents xda but I have a P2XL from Google and haven't unlocked it yet and may not. The phone is awesome as is. Hacking it seems to create more problems than benefits. It hurts to say it but this phone doesn't need any tweaking. I realize that most of you reading this will be appalled at the notion of leaving a Google phone stock but you will see the light.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] TokyoGuy:
Realistically speaking, how many customers do you think call up asking about a bootloader? Of course they have no clue what you're talking about. The staff are trained to deal with typical inquiries from customers, and I'd wager hardly any of those buying the Pixel even know what OS version the thing runs let alone understands what a bootloader.

Please try and have some perspective about the subject you're discussing. Outside this forum and several other websites, no one knows or cares. I'm not trying to be rude, BTW, just pointing out its not necessarily fair to expect know-nothing base-level Verizon customer service representatives to have professional IT knowledge.

As for why Verizon doesn't want customers to be able to unlock the bootloader, can you answer the question in a way that some zero-information mainstream customer would actually understand? If they don't care, Verizon won't either.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhythmbytes:
Hey Devs & people using OPO!

After years of using OPO, I still feel that my phone is still capable of running for another couple of years :fingers-crossed:. Since, I'm an avid photographer, just wanted to know if:

1) Is it possible to port the Pixel 2 Camera App to Bacon?

2) If point 1 is ever achieved, would Bacon be able to live up to the Pixel 2 Camera App?

Thanks & Regards to all the community,

Cheers :angel:
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Setting.Out:
If someone tried, a partial port could be possible, but not full functionality..
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhythmbytes:
Thanks for your answer.

That's true, but OPO still is capable of capturing HDR shots, right :fingers-crossed:

So, it would be great if somebody from the wonderful Dev's could take the burden of bringing the awesomeness of the Pixel 2 Camera app to the Bacon world & we could leverage on all the goodness :D
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Setting.Out:
We have hdr on our camera apps currently.. :)
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iPusak Gaoq™:
Don't think it is possible due to no camera2 api for our device...just look at latest google camera for example none have manage to port it due to missing camera2 api...
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LLStarks:
Simply put, no.

Camera2 is not supported and even if we just wanted a working camera and app without it, Google Camera hasn't been updated for 32-bit ARM devices in over a year.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] robrodrigues:
I tried the Los on Xiaomi Mi5 and I'm very disappointed because I turn on the security pin and the fingerprint.

When I thought that I could only unlock my phone as usual putting the pin or even the fingerprint, if I turn off the phone, and turned it right on I only need to swiped the screen up and voila Mi5 unlocked without asking pin or fingerprint

Enviado do meu MI 5 através de Tapatalk
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Ibuprophen:
Your best bet is to post this question within the following Official LineageOS thread for your device.

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3501971

Good Luck!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I DO NOT PROVIDE SUPPORT VIA PM UNLESS ASKED/REQUESTED BY MYSELF.

PLEASE KEEP IT IN THE THREADS WHERE EVERYONE CAN SHARE
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Questions & Answers] 14karanveersingh:
hello, sir

i use xioami redmi note 4 I forgot to put a password in App lock, how to fix it without hardreset
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Questions & Answers] prathu30:
boot into safe mode by long pressing the power off/reboot option and then uninstall app lock. hope it helps
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] godfish:
I'm looking for a guide that can help me Root and but a custom ROM on my Pixel XL? I've tried doing it and I get stuck and BOOT loop, the whole thing is really confusting and I can't find a guide to help me get it done? can someone help? I'm old and getting stupid I guess.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] nabbed:
Sorry, cannot help with that.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] richii0207:
It's in the "Guides, News, and Discussion" section. If you're having difficulties finding a straight forward guide listed on XDA, perhaps it is in your best interest not to customize at the moment in case you run into an issue and then end up not having a phone for hours to days due to not being able to find an answer.

Just looking out for you.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
I too could not find a guide specifically on creating a ROM for the Pixel XL. I even searched, I was going to post a link for OP. Maybe the google AOSP page might help. It sucks that CyanogenMod is no longer around. They used to have good guides.

Here is a link the the AOSP tutorial. (not pixel XL specific) https://source.android.com/source/initializing

You will also need the vendor and driver file from https://developers.google.com/android/drivers
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] y2grae:
First - make sure your bootloader is unlocked - that should be an easy enough guide to find

then TWRP

then find a rom and read through the opening post and the recent ones.

though I'm sure i've found guides in general here for the pixel.

it IS a different beast to regular though. so get familiar with the sticky guides etc on the forum pages
[OnePlus 3T Questions & Answers] JayTheKid:
I just got this phone today. One plus 3T A3000 model. Out of the box brand new it comes with OS 4.0.3 (Nougat 7.0).

How do I go about getting this bad boy rooted on supersu, custom recovery, unencrypted, and closed all on the most recent update 4.5.0? (Don't want 4.5.1)

Please walk me through each step and I'll appreciate any links!! I've done some research here before buying the phone but I'm not sure where to begin. I have everything pretty much I need to flash and install ( adb fastboot, patched boot images, firmwares, supersu, xposed SDK 25, tarp download, etc). I just need the proper steps so that I don't mess up.
[OnePlus 3T Questions & Answers] MoonBlade:
Here you go...

TWRP Recovery

Read OP
[OnePlus 3T Questions & Answers] RASTAVIPER:
There are dozen of topics about each question.

How it's possible that you made your research and you are asking about the most basic stuff?

Why don't you start with what you know and ask questions about anything that is not easy to find?

Unleashed by ONEPLUS 3T rooted
[OnePlus 3T Questions & Answers] JayTheKid:
You're right, I just wanted extra reassurance. So in the thread the other guy linked above, it says you can flash SuperSU or do the DM verity patch before that. it says you don't have to do both, so does that mean I can bypass DM verity by just flashing SuperSU or do I need to do the other thing first to guarantee unencryption?

I also want to know if i should just OTA 4.5 right now then do the whole process or would that mess something up, currently on 4.0.3?
[OnePlus 3T Questions & Answers] JarJarWinks:
It shouldn't make a difference. Also, you can also consider Magisk instead of supersu but that's your decision to make.
[OnePlus 3T Questions & Answers] redpoint73:
I agree it won't make much difference with unlocking bootloader, TWRP, root, etc. whether you update first, or mod first.

Are you talking about doing the OTA from the phone settings? If I'm not mistaken, that will cause a series of multiple updates to get you to 4.5. If that is in fact the case, I'd suggest just downloading and installing the full 4.5.0 zip, which will update it all at once (file and instructions on the following thread): https://xdaforums.com/oneplus-3t/how-to/rom-oxygenos-3-5-4-mm-ota-update-t3519074

Whether you do partial OTA or the full update zip, it will update the firmware. So need to worry about that separately.

This phone is very hard to brick. So you can feel confidant on that note, as far as relatively routine things like updating and TWRP, root.
[OnePlus 3T Questions & Answers] JayTheKid:
I need some help, I tried getting blu spark twrp and it says I have 0 mb on internal storage. Phone no longer shows up on laptop. Unable to add supersu or dm verity zip. I already swiped right to enable mods, what do I do now so I dont brick??
[OnePlus 3T Questions & Answers] RASTAVIPER:
Just follow this guide.

https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/...wrp-root-nandroid-efs-backup-and-more.475142/

It shouldn't be so difficult to flash a custom recovery and root.

Unleashed by ONEPLUS 3T rooted
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] darkmage06:
Hi, I have an issue enabling/disabling device administrators on my device. Whenever I want to activate/deactivate device administrator for an app, it will lock my screen automatically and I couldn't use my fingerprint to unlock.

For instance, I want to enable device administrator for Tasker. When I go in device administrator, it will show a list of apps. When I click on Tasker, before I could select activate, my phone automatically lock itself. Hence, I couldn't activate/deactivate anything. Is there something wrong with my phone? Thank you for your help.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sanctitude888:
Well, i've seen this case happened to my colleague's phone. It was caused by a malware disguising as antivirus. He granted device admin without knowing the consequences, thus control of device admin was taken over. Please carefully examine list of apps in device admin for suspected app. If that is the case then it would be easier for the issue to be sorted out on a rooted device. If not, try these possible options :

1. Try boot in safe mode, force stop and try to remove the suspected troublesome app.

2. Alternatively, you may try package disabler app to remove it

I'm no expert by any means, so others are probably more competent to provide solution
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] darkmage06:
Yea, managed to solved it by removing apps in safe mode. Thanks for your help.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] redsrule2500:
For me it's pretty simple thus far, which is why I'm kind of looking for more ideas.....

1. MioMap GPS

2. Google Maps

3. Opera Mini - BEST WEB BROWSER

4. Slick IM - BEST AIM CLIENT
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] rwcozens:
I use my Kaiser more for business functionality and my favourite apps are:

MS VC 1.6

Agenda Fusion 8.3

Magicall

Newsbreak

Resco Explorer

Resco Photo viewer

Digital Tesx Speech

SBSH iLauncher

SBSH Pocket Weather

Navigon Mobilenavigator 6

Shubaroo.com Group SMS

Pocket Dictate

VITO SMS-Chat

SK Tools

Softmaker Office Suite

The above programs are great and Kaiser runs very smoothly
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] greeek:
Aren't there already threads on this??

Not trying to be annoying, but no need to start more threads cluttering up this forum more than it is already...

It's a forum, on a developers site no less, not a make your own chat room service...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gqstatus0685:
greek if you feel that way you should have not entered in the forum. I hate when people do that man. What a waste of a post, get a life. You remind me of the annoying hall monitor jerk we used to have in elementary school.

Anyway my faves are:

palringo-Messenger program

Skype

Audionotes-Records phone call conversations both ways because you never know when you are going to need it

Call Firewall-Block people from calling you, have only people in your contacts able to contact you, setup blacklists etc.

Pocket Informant-Calendar program best one hands down

SKtools

WMROUTER-turns your phone into a router

Microsoft Voice Command-Read you your email, sms messages as they come in/open programs with your voice
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] redsrule2500:
Are you serious? I thought it was confirmed that this feature wouldn't work on the Kaiser....:confused:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] we3zy:
Well he's right. Its the first rule of the forum. Think of it as going to someone's house and doing whatever you want. Well your a member of this board, you have to respect the rules that are in place. If you didn't have to time to read it, I'd took my time and copied it for you.

1. Check if something hasn't been asked before

Some questions just keep popping up over and over. Please use the 'search' function in the menu above each and every page in the forum. Try entering a few keywords to see if your question has been asked before. If it has, please read the topics and see if you can figure it our from there.

(We acknowledge that part of the problem is that we never created a well-organized system of FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) documents. But then we're doing lots of cutting-edge stuff, and we'd rather build cool tools than work on perfecting FAQs.)

The exact topic and answers have numerous threads, about 30, for an estimate. Don't call him a jerk, he's right. Anyone can call you an idiot for denying understood forum etiquettes.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Mikulec:
yes, he is right, but I think its a waste of time constantly post the same thing(use the search button, it was asked). I know its tiring to answer the same q. over and over (yesterday I answered on 2 equal q.) and if you dont like it ignore the question and the post and do not answer him to use the search.

But I agree on the steps(search and if u dont find anything then ask).
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ewingr:
You know, for me, I try to search. But on this site ( and many others) I don't know how to search if my search needs more than one word. i'ave asked and no-one answers.

For example I wanted to find topics on "AE Buttons" recently. What I got was thousands of posts with the word "buttons". I don't see boolean as an option here (I use that on other sites for phrase searchs and am successful), and I've tried various methods with quotes, etc. with no success.

So, if the search engine/inteface were a little more capable, or if it is capable, then more intuitive or friendly, then search would be used more.

Personally, I don't mind much having the repetetive posts. New users to this stuff every day, and it's somethign to live with I suppose.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DarkDvr:
1. Resco Explorer with regedit/bluetooth/network plugins. Awesome stuff.

2. QIP for messaging (supports ICQ, AIM, etc etc) - freeware

3. HTC Home (gotta have it)

4. S2U2 - must have

5. QuickMenu - nothing's better than this launcher, period.

6. TCPMP or Core Player

7. Opera 9.5 beta - I love it!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] met3ora:
You can use Google to do a much more advanced search.

enter into Google something like,

site:xdaforums.com "phrase string"

If you put your string in quotations, it will search for the entire phrase.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] at10ti0n:
1. total commander -> best file manager: bluetooth, network, registry, ftp in one place! and its FREE!!

2. s2u2 -> full screen caller FTW!!

3. igo 2006 plus -> best nav software

4. all spb products: weather, pocket plus, gprs monitor, phone suite, time, mobile shell.

5. FTouchFL -> makes every app finger friendly ;)

6. im plus -> best messenger

7. coreplayer & tcpmp -> best video players

8. pocketmusic -> best music player

9. lcg jukebox -> music/radio/lyrics in 1 place

10. pocketCM keyboard -> best fingerfriendly keyboard out-there and FREE!

11. wkTask -> best taskmanager and FREE!

12. SkTools -> best maintenance software

13. QuickMenu -> best startmenu replacement

14. Advance Config 2.1.0.0 -> [first app on my phone after .net cf 3.5 :D ]
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ewingr:
Thanks for that!!!

I had to run earlier, but I'll add my progs now:

Must Haves

AE Button Plus - Great for mapping buttons

MS Voice Command

TomTom - Others maybe be as good or better, GPS is must have

MemMaid

MoDaCo Nodata

Sprite Backup

TCPMP

Kaiser Tweak

Others I have that are good

SPB Pocket PLus

SPB Shell

HTC Home Screen

MS Live

HTC Album

Screen Capture

BT Audio

NetRemote

WiFiFoFum

I have others but no need to list them.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] petervbeck:
- HButton

- RSSHub

- PocketPutty

- IPer

- CallFirewall

- PIMBackup

- fdcSoft Taskmanager

- TrackMe

- Invaders
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] sahoopes:
Mine

UltimateLaunch

TodayAgenda

rlToday

Capsure

MyMobiler

SpriteBackup

SuperDuKo

Basic4PPC
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jellibean75:
search

I can understand why someone would pot a question that been asked. I have tryied to search and search and search for information about issues on my phone and can't find the answer. For instance I can't seem to find anything about the s2u2. I had trouble and it keep looking up. I typed search and it bring up 300 posts about everything else. Not patient enought to sit there and feel my eyes cross over.

Or I had an issue with my battery draining, i did do search but there was nothing that meet my answer.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Happy_Shrimper:
For me, its got to be:

Chronos - Very configurable alarm clock/scheduler

Run.GPS - As a runner, this is a fantastic tool to track time, distance, map runs, add photos, real time location - only on day 3 of 14 day trial but it was awesome on my long sunday run. Upload routes to website along with photos taken en-route. Plug in headphones and you get real time speed, distance etc read out. It can also navigate you on predefined routes but haven't tried that yet. Anyone using alternative similar software to this?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Burko:
seeing as no-one mentioned it.

GsPlayer..... able to play any shoutcast radio stations.

Awesome if you have an inclusive data plan. :)

I also like Warfare Incorporated, Its quite old now, but if you liked the original command and conquer, you'll love it!

Slingplayer for if you have a slingbox obviously!

The others have pretty much all been mentioned Resco Explorer, TCPMP, Opera, Google Maps TomTom etc
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ewingr:
Phone Forwarding?

Well, sometimes you can't find anything at all, simply because you just don't seem to think of the right search terms to enter (even in Google). So I'm resurrecting this thread:

I want to be able to forward my phone to home simply, and back to voicemail simply. As you know be default changing forwarding is a bit of a pain: press green phone button; then menu/services/options/call forwarding/get settings. Then you have to manually enter the number.

Any software suggestions to be able to ultimately press a button to have it forward home, then anohter or toggle first button to swithc back to voice mail?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] flyinbryan:
OK to the hall monitoring snitch ^^$%$&&%$% and to the rest yes there are plenty of posts the same so what? Thanx to RWCOZENS I have found a program that I have been looking for for a long time. I just didnt know what it was called. So post what ya want ignore the jerks and have a nice day to all.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Moostafa29:
On the last several LG phones that I can remember, there have been 5 positions for navigation shortcuts. On this phone there are only 4. Does anyone know how to add that back in?
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Bchris1981:
I noticed that too on the V30 it only has 4 home touch button slots. WTF?
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] portcqb:
Do you want the 5th item being the app drawer? If so go to settings, display, home screen, select home then select home & app drawer
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] CHH2:
My guess is that they had to cut one of the slots out so it wouldn't be crowded with the nav bar hide/app scaling icon now being to the far left.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] jaedenhudson14:
^ This
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] CHH2:
I've got the full four down there and I've already accidentally ham fingered my nav bar out of existence a few times. First two times I did it I freaked out because I thought I had broken the UI somehow and made my nav bar stop functioning.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] jaedenhudson14:
I don't suppose there is a setting to get rid of that button huh? Personally it would but the hell out of me having it there.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] CHH2:
No, I haven't seen any option for that. I hide it on the home screen but I've realized if I am going to get burn in for anything, it'll be the Google search bar at the top of the home screen.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Bchris1981:
That works on the LG G5, but not the V30. And the V30 has a larger screen, so it makes no sense to take out the ability for a 5th button.