yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] deadmatrix:
I am not sure - but I think Qfil needs to be set as a Flat Build - not Meta - using files:

Programmer Path = prog_emmc_firehose_8976_lite.mbn
Download Raw Program = rawprogram0.xml
Download Patch = patch0.xml

Now -- When I try this - I still get an error:

Download Fail:Sahara Fail:QSaharaServer Fail:The Directory name is invalid

Does anyone get past this at all???

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Success!

Just solved my own issue - must use a much newer version of Qfil! I was successful with version 2.0.1.7 - I had to install it as opposed to downloading a zipped exe and running from an extraction point.

I downloaded my copy from https://www.androidbrick.com/downloads/

Just scroll down a little and watch for it manually.

Will update as I get further!

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I can confirm luckychild's success. After six months of nothing but a black screen and a flashing red led and some occasional vibrations - I have restored my friend's ZU680KL that she mailed to me half a year ago. And I have made it to a stock Android desktop.

After you flashing using qfil per my prior post - you will still have a black screen - reboot to see Asus - In search of Incredible come up - rejoice - It'll go straight to the bootloader - from there - you want to run "ftm-flashall.cmd" from the zip you downloaded from the Portuguese website luckychild linked too already. Once it runs, your good to go. Continue on with his instructions. All credit to luckychild for putting the pieces together. :)
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] gubbilo144:
Good just got my edl cable in the mail, going try to fix my Asus zenfone 3 ultra that's been in my dresser for 6 months bricked.

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Were do run the ftm-flashall.cmd in qfil or adb
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] deadmatrix:
Run it from a command prompt window. So like at a DOS Prompt. Nothing to do with ADB.

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After running the command - it'll boot up to a custom Qualcomm rom - it will have no Gapps of any kind on it. That's why we still need to sideload the rom from Asus's website that you can download from them. I have trouble sideloading over here - not sure why. I have to put it onto a microSD card to flash it from the phone's recovery. Also - Don't forget to wipe data and factory reset it before booting up post of the sideloading. Otherwise it'll possibly get stuck trying to optimize apps - it froze on 'Android is Starting' for me and when I power cycled manually - it corrupted the UI. Had to go back and run the ftm-flashall.bat again.

Just realized the ftm-flashall.cmd that i listed earlier - is a typo - the propper file name should end in a .bat I believe. Sorry for the mistake. Not enough Coffee.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] gubbilo144:
i got it thanks so much guys im updating in recovery now,my asus zenfone 3 ultra paperweight is back alive
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] deadmatrix:
Glad to hear it! So we have a now reproducable cure after years of nothing in the pipe really. I am thinking of writing a start to finish post of how to deal with it for beginners that can be pinned by a mod. If someone else wants to beat me to this, feel free - especially since I don't actually even own this model of phone.. Might maybe pick it up though.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] deadmatrix:
Here's another link to the files to fix the ZU680KL that luckychild posted too earlier hosted from my Google Drive.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dICOgZDpPymFDaJQXzaKy3LfzjBeVNf9/view?usp=sharing

Let me know if there's an issue with access - deadmatrix@gmail.com
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] hillg001:
Anyone of you success stories willing to do this project for us? We'd ship this brick to you - pay to ship both directions. We will gladly make it worth someone's while. Feel free to p.m. us, if someone could bless us this way. Thanks in advance.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] Asavagerocks:
How do you get into EDL mode when you have a EDL cable?
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] Asavagerocks:
Zenfone 3 Ultra - Now Unbricked

I was able to get my zenfone 3 ultra unbricked, however now there's some issues now. One of them being a high ping and disconnects on HSPA+ even with full bars! (Tested at my work, and it worked fine; Possibly a local cell tower issue?) another issue which is with the flashlight shortcut on the quick settings menu, When you click on the flashlight icon It will crash the phone and it won't turn back on until you hold power+vol down. Other than that there's no other issues to bring up.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] deadmatrix:
After I finished successfully repairing the one my friend sent me from up north - I factory reset it and blindly shipped it up to her not having tested anything really beyond the welcome wizard and witnessing the Android desktop. I was told after it arrived that the stock camera was not working, the app would fail to connect to the camera hardware, the phone would literally lock up and need to be restarted - factory resets would only sorta fix it very short term.

That being said. I may be willing to entertain the notion of taking on some other people's phones. I do have a lot on my plate, but I think it's manageable. I do not currently possess one of these phones anymore. So besides shipping costs, any hypothetical proceeds would probably go towards trying to purchase one myself, a zu680kl, to continue helping the community with diagnostics and troubleshooting. Well and I'm having a bit of a falling out with my LG G6 too lol. Noteworthy to advise I am in Western Canada to those who are wondering about shipping their devices somewhere.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] Asavagerocks:
- Snipped -

I was also able to un brick my zenfone 3 Ultra, Everything works right for the most part but there are some issues. (Listed Below)

In the end I had to end up using that android 6.0.1 Qualcomm DEV rom that they had mentioned.

Everything works somewhat ok; I will explain with a list of what's wrong with it.

- Poor Audio (Fixed with Doby Atmos) Note: There are some issues still like the lowest volume may be too loud for some, Unless you're in a loud room. Another thing is that it seems as the speakers get too loud.

- Camera takes pictures that look like they're missing some color. (Not fixed; Don't know how to fix) This issue is with all 3 party camera apps.

- No quick settings menu - can be fixed with 3rd party app.

- Battery only displays up to 70%, But the hardware cuts off like it's at 100%, then it stays at 70% for quite some time til it's lower than 70% (Tried to fix VIA Battery calibration, Didn't work.).

- No finger print reader.

- No FM Tuner.

Here's a complete list of all of the zips I had to flash with TWRP; If you're interested in all of the download links I could provide them in the next post.

- SuperSU - Used for root

- Open GAPPS for Android 6.0.1 - Any variant - Google APPs

- Encryption Disabler

- Doby Atmos

- Deep Buffer Remover (For Doby Atmos to work correctly)

My final thoughts:

Overall, I am not really happy about this, There's technically no stock roms out there ment for this device, that "Stock Rom" that they offer is basically just a update file. ASUS has very poor support for their phones. What company in their right mind would allow for bootloader unlocking if they can't even provide us with the real stock factory rom.. I personally feel like I've wasted my $300, I would love to send it back or sell it, But I can't even do that cause I can't get it to function properly enough to even do that.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] deadmatrix:
Happy to hear yet another success story!

I absolutely agree the ball was dropped hard here by Asus.

Why are you forced to use Qualcomm's developer Rom?

As soon as I have my hands on my own zu680kl I can try and find fixes for problems such as the ones you have listed.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] Asavagerocks:
The reason why I was forced to use the dev rom is cause when I was on the stock rom I wasn't able to use the flashlight without crashing the device, There's also a issue with how unstable data is. It might be the local cell tower but sometimes the ping and bloat is 500+ ms and it never gets over 1 Mbps. When I am in other places I get up to 3Mbps (Capped by my cell provitor) but it's still unstable cause it don't like to connect to the cell towers fast enough. The phone also only uses HSPA+ for data, while my mom's phone, and my sister's phone the Hauwei Mate SE get LTE and they also connect to the cell towers faster. I did have a old phone that ran on HSPA+ the Lenovo Phab 2 Plus but it's now in the parts bin cause the screen shattered and there's no point in fixing it cause the mic for phone calls is not working. Both devices has poor support for 3rd party roms.

On another note;

I asked ASUS if they can provide us with a real stock rom, but they wouldn't; They just wanted me to send my phone in to be worked on, and since the bootloader is unlocked it will cost money.

If I do end up getting a factory flashed one back from them if I do send mine off, I will happily pull the needed system images off so you guys can have them.

Another thing I noticed is that I bought my phone expecting it was the International version, But I think it's the japan version cause it has WW in the sku.

Instead of putting the stock rom back on I would rather get Lineage OS, they have Lineage OS on the Mi Max, so why wouldn't they be able to devolop a rom for the zenfone 3 Ultra? You wouldn't think that it would be a less popular device than the Mi Max.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] Asavagerocks:
I have a new idea that I am gonna try right now. Im going to download the first firmware update file Asus ever released from their website, Update from there, and then I will release 2 versions of the backups via TWRP.

I need your guy's help though on what partitions to backup from TWRP.

If this works right as I said I will release 2 versions of the backup, One rooted, and one not rooted.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] Asavagerocks:
Well here's the deal, I wasn't able to give you a TWRP backup. After hours of testing I have found that the last update before upgrading to android 7.0 is the most stable without any weird issues eg: Flashlight not working.

Here's a link to that file:

https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/ZenFone/ZU680KL/UL-ASUS_A001-WW-13.6.15.21-user.zip

Just use the update from zip section from the recovery you get from those raw firmware files a few pages back.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] av8or091:
ZU680KL avail in Edmonton

I have a brick you can play with.

Absolutely loved the device and form factor but certainly was amazed how easily it bricked with an Asus update.

Had to regress back to my S7 which I subsequently re-flashed with S9 ROM.

Finally gave up on the small screen and just purchased a Note 9 but would love to have the ZenFone back up and running.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] mac231us:
is this your issue?

https://www.asus.com/zentalk/thread-129339-1-1.html

https://www.asus.com/zentalk/thread-209305-1-1.html

I just got one cheap and fixed it myself
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] deadmatrix:
Sorry I meant to reply here weeks ago back at the start of the month, and "Monday" has been kicking my butt ever since, it does brick extremely easy, but I hope to figure out some of why and resolve it. I have debricked three of these devices, 2 in person myself and one remotely in Hong Kong via Google translate and talking buddy through it all. All 3 were/are a success. I have noticed the odd bug pop up after a while's usage post debricking. Ie. Wi-Fi DNS issues that were not present on any other devices. And camera issues were the user interface was present but unresponsive and camera feed was pitch black. No other issues beyond just simple annoyances like a very aggravating and annoying word replacement that's not that accurate on the stock keyboard. Otherwise the experience is good.

Av8or091, if you like can give your device ago. In a simple nutshell, not all people are in a good financial situation, so in the past I have negotiated $50 USD for the repair service itself, plus bidirectional shipping at owners expense, and I am happy to be very flexible on the repair costs. I very much realize not everyone can afford to spare $50 with how expensive everything else is today, so for I would like to include options for pay what you can/donate, or even free/pro-bono options too, just cover the bidirectional shipping so I am not out of pocket either. Also, as a disclaimer, I am not well off myself, I can not afford to replace your device no matter what, so I will not be liable, nor offer a guarantee, but so far to date, I am doing my best to baby every device that comes into my possession and have had a 100% success rate so far. But Monday can and does happen. Lol. Any proceeds I do make are just going to go towards eventually acquiring one of these devices for development and testing anyways. Now I am in negotiations for maybe acquisitioning one of the 3 I already fixed, but I think my wife would prefer to gain some proceeds first as to not strain our finances any, as that's a major concern for her. But that's up in the air.

Asavagerocks, if you would like, if we can figure out the shipping details privately, I could try my luck with yours to see if I fare any better on your device. No costs of time or charges or anything as you already debrick yours, I just wanted to see if there was something we could do to get you off that developer Rom. Let me know either way, just looking to help where I can, all good either way.

I can be contacted through here, PM, or on FB/Twitter as [MENTION=4149040]deadmatrix[/MENTION], or email me at deadmatrix at gmail.com if anyone has any inquiries, and I am in South Western Canada just a handful of hours away from Seattle.

Cheers!
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] Asavagerocks:
I was able to use the last Android 6.0.1 stock room before Android 7.0. However there are still some issues that are quite annoying. First I'll start off with the real kicker. I run my phone on crickets network, and their hspa+ tower near where I live is so slow it's unusable, my mom and sister have the same service with different phones, they both have hauwei mate se phones and they never have bad coverage and they also get LTE everywhere. Another problem wich is a minor annoyance especially when it's dark is when the flash light decides to not work. Meanwhile in the camera it works perfectly fine.

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The reason why I didn't use the Android 7.0 stock rom is because if you would use the flashlight in the toolbar it would crash the phone forcing you to hard reset. There was also a issue with the mouse curser randomly popping up for a split second. The same problem persists with the HSPA+ problems on the stock rom. I told Asus about the problem via Facebook and they asked me to log what was going on but I don't know how to make such a log.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] av8or091:
EDL Cable

Any guide on how to use the EDL cable and software for those of us not as up to speed on these issues?

Cheers,
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] stinka318:
Has anyone tried volume up or down and plugging in USB.......
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] lucian1983:
Hello! I didn't thought that there is any hope for my bricked Ultra until I found this post and the raw files for the QFIL tool. But unfortunately, the tool gives me an error referring to "failedsaharaserver" or something like that. Any ideea on how to solve it?
[Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers] lucian1983:
The problem was that the phone didn't booted in EDL mode, pc showing in device manager something like "Qualcomm diagnostics 900E" and not "HS-USB QDloader 9008", so I made a home-made EDL cable to force the phone to enter EDL mode.

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From there I used QFIL to flash some kind of "locked" rom I found on internet, but I managed to get the phone to boot only in fastboot mode after this procedure. After that I used the rom provided in this post earlier, I extracted it and I runned the flash-all.cmd command present in the extraction folder, the phone being connected to the PC in fastboot mode. The result is that now I have the developer rom that other people were talking about here, a basic version without Google services installed. What to do from here?
[OnePlus 3T Accessories] sub7even:
hi all, just wanted to share, tho it is not tempered glass, but it does the job to cover all the screen nicely. It is a normal screen protector but the edge was slightly curved.. It is cheap and it also come with back protector film carbon pattern.

Refer here.. https://www.lelong.com.my/3pcs-onep...ctor-guard-gmh81-I5418665B-2007-01-Sale-I.htm
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] jwong.hhf:
Tried many apps but none is working with stock rom with root. I know gravitybox can do it but I don't want to install xposed framework just for this...

Thank you for the tips in advance.
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] j to the 4n:
Custom rom is also no option?

We offer that feature. You could also just lower the brightness/set different steps for the different light sensor values.
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] jwong.hhf:
Sorry I didn't mention I have to use stock rom due to the fingerprint payment issue.

I just thought if there's a simple way to turn the light off by editing a system file:)

Tried echo "0" > /sys/class/leds/indicator/bln but no luck.
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] j to the 4n:
Fingerprint payment issue? What would a custom rom change? I mean you are rooted already, so I assume you are using Magisk to bypass safetynet.

That will also work on a custom rom.

If your if a carrier specific billing you can use the Magisk Module version of our rom. It is a 180MB magisk module that you can disable anytime to return back to stock.

Else you could edit framework-res to turn off the button lights, should need an edit in services.jar too to bypass signature check ...and make it an magisk module.
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] jwong.hhf:
Only Chinese stock rom support two major fingerprint payment apps in China. So I have to stick to stock rom. Sad...
[LeEco Le Max 2 Questions & Answers] sdjetani:
For that you have to do some simple step...

1. flash VoLTE patch.zip of shivatejapeddi, https://redirect.viglink.com/?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_150935192924514&key=f0a7f91912ae2b52e0700f73990eb321&libId=j9dx5zk001000n4o000DAf6ri0408&loc=https%3A%2F%2Fxdaforums.com%2Fle-max-2%2Fdevelopment%2Fvolte-patch-le-max-2-t3574344&v=1&out=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fopen%3Fid%3D0B5PC7BT-GgCwN3J1NzhDVUFNdjQ&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fxdaforums.com%2Fsearch.php%3Fsearchid%3D440787399&title=VOLTE%20Patch%20for%20Le%20Max%202%20%7C%20LeEco%20Le%20Max%202&txt=Link

2. wipe dalvik

3. reboot

4. again boot in to recovery

5. backup ROM

6. Wipe all data( system, dalvik, data, cache)

7. restore ROM

8. reboot

9. just go to Dual sim &mobile network under setting menu

10.off VoLTE HD call and again ON

11. reboot phone

if there are HD call icon on status bar you can continue VoLTE call. icon will come after minutes

if icon didn't appear just repeat step 9 to 11 you will definitely find HD call icon

Spacial Note Anytime HD call logo disappear Just reboot phone( it may require reboot twice, i have try that thing) it will appear again.....

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[LeEco Le Max 2 Questions & Answers] sdjetani:
Hope this is helpfull post
[LeEco Le Max 2 Questions & Answers] KuranKaname:
Why back up and restore, that won't change anything
[LeEco Le Max 2 Questions & Answers] sdjetani:
Yes bro, I am also socked why this happens. This was accidentally happens to me. so i shared here.

story is that i was flashing AOKP ROM for VoLTE but it failed after that clean restoration automatically i found HD call logo on my status bar and i try to call on JIO from my stock dialer. call was made nicely and voice quality was good also.
[LeEco Le Max 2 Questions & Answers] sdjetani:
Screen shot of HD Call logo

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] NewFallPlays13:
Hey there XDAers! I've made my way around the forum for a year or two now, but just made an account. I am working on a friend's Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (sprint), and trying to get a domestic unlock WITHOUT contacting sprint. I have found a tool called SSU (Sprint Samsung Unlocker, found here: https://xdaforums.com/sprint-galaxy-s5/general/sprint-samsung-unlocker-unlock-sprint-t2928250 ) but unfortunately, the app fails to launch, saying "Unfortunately, SSU has stopped." Others in the thread have claimed flashing to 4.4.2 would resolve this, but I cannot find a flashable file for it that isn't behind some sort of paywall! Can anyone here link me to the file? It would be much appriciated! :D
[Amazfit] e753:
Hi!

I just got my amzfit and I installed Amzfit.

I know that I can connect the watch to the wifi. Do I need to connect it? Beside send some file from my phone with some app, is there a reason to use the wifi?
[Amazfit] BravoCharlie:
The WiFi is used to check for OTA updates and download direct to watch or if you want to upload a sports activity direct from watch to cloud but it's not really necessary as the activities will sync to the App over bluetooth anyway.
[Amazfit] paty:
Then, how to disable the WiFi connection only? And leave the Bluetooth ON and connect to my mobile?

thanks
[Amazfit] BravoCharlie:
I think it already disables WiFi when it's in standby then will ask to connect when it needs it.
[Amazfit] pabgar:
I am going to buy stratos so I would like to ask: if the bluetooth connection between watch and phone is lost then does watch sync with phone by wifi ? ( when they are in the same network )

I think that Samsung gears S3 works this way
[Amazfit] lfom:
No, you can only upload Sports data to the cloud using WiFi on watch. Other than this, WiFi on watch is only used to update firmware and send error logs.
[Amazfit] Karl Schaummer:
I think wifi suit installed in Pace just for increasing price , nothing else . When want to update version , just use app to download and bluetooth to Pace . It is too wasteful when you can not use Pace's wifi to import musics and faces directly from internet . In Vietnam 4G is cheap so I online 24 hours without wifi but when update I must go to cafeteria , importing musics and faces must borrow computer from around . Annoyed .
[Amazfit] lfom:
On latest firmware (WOS2, firmware 2.x.y), already released in CN and in beta right now for International users, you can transfer music from phone to watch wirelessly. You can also do this and transfer watchfaces if you install some app like FileManager+ on watch, it creates a temporary FTP server that can be used to transfer any files to and from watch using WiFi.
[Amazfit] t666:
Wifi / bluetooth both

From the beginning I use Pace and Stratos and always totally confused sync usage.

1. it seems it needs to sync sport data by wifi only.

2. it needs to sync GPS and some other data like weather by bluetooth only.

3. Of course it needs bluetooth for phone notification which I never need.

4. It needs to be connected regularly to the phone by bluetooth to be able to sync over wifi.

5. Your phone has to be connected to the internet to get updates.

It is quite complicated system. Yesterday I had bluetooth ON and synced with phone. In the settings is AUTOMATIC SYNC ON. Wifi is remembered. Today checked Strava and nothing there. I forced to sync manually and it told me I need to refresh some "token" and need to connect to my phone. So any automatic sync has not been made.

In conclusion it needs WIFI + Phone and bluetooth to sync to the cloud and whats more, you have to do manually and check if it really happened.