yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deusfaux:
https://imgur.com/a/bJq1l

Told by LG Canada my phone had warranty coverage specifically for the bootlooping issue, and sent it to FutureTel in Ontario for what should have been a free repair (hell, I should have it back by now).

FutureTel dings me back with a $450 repair quote saying the warranty status is denied because of 'corrosion'. I had them to forward me the photo above.

What? No. I'm the kind of person that keeps my phone is a ****ing ziploc baggie outside of the home - there is no way this phone saw any moisture outside of what is normally in room air. No steamy bathrooms even. I photographed the moisture indicator being white and untouched, immediately prior to sending it in.

1. how does corrosion occur without moisture stickers showing moisture?

2. can corrosion not occur for reasons other than user damage/exposure to external moisture? Don't batteries leak sometimes? I've found corrosion inside electronics remote controllers on the contacts for the AA batteries and that had nothing to do with user damage or external moisture.

3. Isn't corrosion on the opposite end of the motherboard from the CPU (the photo is showing near the usb port) very unlikely to be causing bootloops where the phone shuts down due to processing stress of booting up the OS?

4. they repair the bootloops under warranty by replacing the entire motherboard anyways. I feel like this is them refusing to repair my car's engine because they found a bit of rust near the gas cap. are they just trying to weasel money out of me for what should be a free repair?

5. arggg
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] republicano:
that's the problem, your board could get moisture from your washed hands, sweat, trapped moisture between a case,

I had the same thing happened to me, the moisture stickers are still white but the area by the USB had some corrosion, sent in for warranty and was told a new board is required at 600$.

i think in the future i will try only get phones with some water protective grade or nano coating because very easy for the board to get wet and an easy way for them to avoid responsibilities.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrelles:
I had two phones denied warranty coverage in the past 2 weeks because of this same crap. I recommend sending an email to the law firm that originally engaged with LG here:

www[dot]girardgibbs[dot]com/lg-g4-bootloop-class-action-lawsuit

It seems to me like LG is trying to deny as many warranty claims as possible. If there are enough reports of this, I think we may get another lawsuit against LG.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sylvania:
I just received a similar letter from LG, denying warranty for being a 'tampered device' with a 'fake backcover'. Now, while I did replace the back cover (I broke the camera lens); I fail to see how that affects the required repair, which is a motherboard replacement.

They claim that it is no longer covered under the 'original limited warranty'; but the original warranty period is over anyway, the only warranty remaining is for the bootloop. They want $356 to do the repair; I paid $430 for the phone originally.

LG certainly appears to be trying to deny as many of these as they can.

I’m going to call them and complain; maybe see if Google is better about honoring the warranty. But I don’t really want to buy the phone again when it will just bootloop again sooner or later.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] prasun patla:
Hello everyone ,

From past few days i'm facing massive problems with my touchscreen , for example - can't able to type properly always ended up with something else which i did'nt wanted to type , trying to call contact A but call connects to contact B , not able to unlock my lockscreen (sometimes after 7-8 times trying , it works) and many more . But whenever i plug in my redmi 2 prime to charger (wall or in pc ) all the touch problems vanished :3 it works smooth as hell and i do not face any of the touch problems but as soon as i unplugged it from the charger the problem again reappears :confused::confused:

Anyone of you facing such problems?

Thankyou for helping guys :):laugh:

P.S - I did reset , flashed fastboot rom , flashed recovery roms but none of them worked .:crying:
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] Riyanx55tu:
I get reverse problem when i connect the phone into charging and use it. Screen gets unresponsive or keeps tapping itself. Its a normal problem in low end devices. Now in new phones it would had been fixed. But in ur situation i think its a problem with data connection of high frequency. Coz i got that problem in a low end lava device of 2013 , where screen becomes unresponsive when connected to charger or when i turn on 3g data connection. In my experience it might be due to high signal strengths the phone would gets junky. Try flashing back to kitkat miui with clean flash and update to miui lollipop if u have 2 gb ram phone
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] LuanHalaiko:
It could be becouse of the voltage, are you using a custom kernel?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] sarsary:
Hi,

UPDATE-

Thanks to SirNamero who has the maximum screen on time on this thread period. SirNamero Has provided us with two solutions to increase SOT (screen on time) on the S8.

1) Using BK package disabler to disable some apps and services. The xml of his package disabler has been included in the thread.

2) Using greenify only to enter aggressive doze mode as soon as the screen is off instead of waiting for hours. (That may delay some notifications of some apps)

3) Using dark theme. (can be found on theme store for free).

4) Using an amoled wallpaper could be found on apps such as zedge.

Here is a screenshot of the battery life resulted by the above

https://up.3raq4all.com/uploads/nov17/1510157757111.jpg

Here lets compare how many hours each person is getting on his/her S8 screen on time. Please share screenshot of your SOT under 15% and your settings including-

Please only take part if you are on stock firmware.

1)

1) Screen time out time

2) Screen Resolution

3) Black or white theme?

4) Wallpaper type e..g. colourful or black.

5) Facebook installed or not.

Thanks I have included mine

1) Screen time out 5 mins

2) FHD

3) White theme

4) Amoled Wallpaper

5) No Facebook app

6) Instagram and snapchat are used often

7) Secure folder used often.

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] SirNamero:
1. 1 minute

2. WQHD+

3. Black and gold theme

4. Black and dark grey

5. Facebook is installed

I should note that I'm on the Oreo beta. I use auto brightness. AOD, nfc, and edge lighting are disabled. Used BK package disabler to disable a lot of bloat and everything Bixby related.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] da'vinci:
1) Heavy usage (unplugged from charger when it was 95%)

2) QHD+

3) Black theme

4) pixel 2 live wallpaper

5) Messenger and Facebook apps are used all the time (the most used apps so far)

6) Instagram, snapchat, skype, WhatsApp, viber...

7) few minutes on a game

8) wi-fi only

9)fingerprint and iris are used
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] sarsary:
Hi, you seem to have a great SOT compared to the time you had the phone on. If you had it for 18 hours it would be still around 5 and half hours. could you please share with us the xml of the apps you disabled using BK package disabler so everyone benefit from your solution.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] SirNamero:
Sure, here you go. I also disabled all of the services for these packages as well.

Edit: forgot to mention I also use Greenify solely for the aggressive doze feature (enters doze mode as soon as screen goes to sleep instead of waiting an hour or more)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] jonny908:
I think worth mentioning is what kind of rom are people using: stock or custom, and kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] sarsary:
Thanks for including your disabled apps XML and mentioning about greenify I will put that in the main post for people to use
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] msk:
I just got my S8 recently and was messing around with the settings and trying to see how I could get better battery life as well. This was my best result so far. I probably could have easily hit 6 hours SOT since I had 11% left at that time.

1) Screen time out 1 min

2) FHD

3) DarkEmerald theme

4) Amoled Wallpaper

5) No Facebook app

6) No Instagram No snapchat

7) Secure folder not used.

8) Data Saver On

9) Power Saving Mode set to Mid

10) I had disabled various packages as well, using the adb debloat method.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] vladimir_carlan:
Screen on time is so relative. Depends what you do and where you do it. Right now I'm at 6h SoT with 25% battery left. This after using my phone for 2 hours outdoor during a cloudy day. If I play Need for Speed no limits for 1 hour as I normally do my SoT will drop to 5ish hours in total. If I add to that a sunny day I'd be happy with 3.5h SoT.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Blaalad12:
I have personally used package disabler pro on a couple of Samung devices including the s8 and while it is great for disabling bloatware. I have NEVER noticed an increase in battery life / screen on time!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Tinola:
iPhone6plus to SamsungS8

I'm loving the new phone. But maybe it's just because it's a new toy. I miss some of the jailbreak tweaks and I'm yet to read on about rooting.

I agree SOT is dependent on use case basis. Anyway, here's my settings:

1.) 5 min

2) FHD+

3) Black theme

4) black homescreen wall and black and white lockscreen wall

5) Facebook disabled, messenger installed but haven't signed in yet

6.) Auto brightness ON

7.) AOD off

8.) mobile data off, always on Wifi, BT manually set when BT headset is being used and activity tracker is being synced

9.) manually disabled some app mobile background usae and settings

10.) added most apps to "Always sleeping apps" setting

11.) 6 email accounts all on Auto Sync schedule

12.) Location on (high accuracy)

13.) Bixby off, Gnow off

14.) No social media apps, unless you consider reddit and flickr as one

15.) Screen is set as AMOLED photo (no other reason than just trying this out when I sent photos from my mirrorless to the S8)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] merlin66676:
Dumb question, where are you finding the graph for battery usage. I can't find it. On VZW if that makes a difference.

Nvm, found it. Didn't see the button at first
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] partcyborg:
Or you could try rooting. I get 6.5h sot on a daily basis. With white theme, WQHD, mobile data always on & terrible reception

Oh and only charge to 80% ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] crixley:
Honestly it's such a stupid comparison. So many different factors. If I turn everything off and use lowest brightness obviously I'm going to get more sot.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] uddhav.reen:
Everything except bluetooth on and phone on high performance mode. Mobile data and Wi-Fi switching from time to time and I'm getting around 7 hours on stock SD S8+.

P.S. it's 7 months old.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mbashat:
A couple of screenshots from two different times.

The phone is the S8 international dual SIM version but only one sim was enabled at that time.

The phone is running stock.

1.) 1 min + smart stay enabled

2) FHD+

3) Black theme

4) black

5) not using any package disabler.

6.) Auto brightness ON

7.) AOD off

8.) mobile data always on, always on Wifi, BT always on, BT tethering to allow car access to internet is always on.

9.) Full power mode.

10.) 2 email accounts all on Auto Sync schedule

11.) Location on (high accuracy)

12.) Bixby on, G assist on.

13.) Both FPS and Iris Scanner enabled.

Note: I live in a very strong signal area. When on holiday in weak signal areas battery performance is abysmal.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] apham69:
Stock on nova

1) Screen time out time: 2 min

2) Screen Resolution: wqhd

3) Black or white theme? White

4) Wallpaper type: very colorful

5) Facebook installed, snapchat, instagram and messenger. Used very often.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] sp1312:
dude not possible at all.. i m damn sure u have charged multiple times for phone.. not till 100%. :D
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] apham69:
No I didnt.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Abubu:
Hello there,

So I was bored today, and since I have nothing better to do, I added 2 new sounds when you open and close the keyboard.

It's from the Tank Siege in the first Starcraft.

Here is the file, I created the reg file based on Wizeman's SNE V2.5 ROM.

ps: if that post is not supposed to be here, my apologizes!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dazb2001:
Works a treat on my O2 Stellar. Good work, my friend! :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Abubu:
Nice!

I'm new to ppc things, but I will try to make a cab :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jug6ernaut:
i have the sounds for super mario when he gets a mushroom and when he strinks....ill upload later in class lol
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jhego:
still waiting for that mario sound:D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jug6ernaut:
mario sounds

my bad dude! i forgot last night...studying for a test...here ya go!

just copy the to audio files to the windows folder

to import the registry keys u need the one registry editor that is built into the task manager(sorry forgot the name)

else u would need to manually inter the registry keys

KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\SlidingSound\

new key(folder)3

(in 3, three REG_SZ files)

named

value name - default

value data - mario(or what ever u want i to appear as in the menu)

value name - in

value data - 3_in.wav

value name - out

value data - 3_out.wav

the provided reg editor will not import reg key....but will allow you to manually inter them if u dont have the other registry editor....enjoy!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ugoff:
You beat me to it!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] playboy71322:
can someone put the mario sounds ina cab file plz im having trouble making it happen
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DvDark:
join for the sound mario cab
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] P1Tater:
OK OK OK, I forgot to make it.

Credit goes to the original poster of the files. I just made it in to cab format. Just install and soft reset. Tested and worked fine on my tilt.

Edit:

Also added to my 4Shared site. Link below.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
Didn't do anything special for me.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] P1Tater:
it really is not for me either but a couple of people have asked for it so i thought i might answer a request. just trying to give back when i can.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] playboy71322:
good lookin out man thx
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kareeem:
I don't find anything under sliding sounds when I install Mario and do a soft reset?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostrider888:
Hello,

Last week my mother came to me with the H818 G4 dripping wet. She dropped it into the toilet, then thoroughly washed it with tap water and soap (!.... yeah... ), then tried multiple times to power it on until finally giving it to me few hours later to "at least save the data from it".

I put it in 99,9% isopropyl alcohol and held it there for a few hours. Then left it for ~30h in a warm place for all moisture to evaporate. Fully charged it. It seemed like it came back to life, with the only problem of showing some bubbles under the display (the isopropyl alcohol must have eaten some of the glue that holds the digitizer). Barely managed to copy the contacts to the SD card when the screen started to show some artefacts, 15s later completely turning black and unresponsive.

Then I took it apart to find the golden felt strip covering the screen ribbon still damp. I left the motherboard in alcohol for a few hours (there were whiteish oxidation spots all over) and ordered a new complete and refurbished screen for the H818 from a reputable ebay seller, thinking that the screen data ribbon and/or controller got shorted and toast.

Now with the new screen, it still won't turn on. It makes the power on sounds, but nothing else. I did a hard reset holding the power button pressed for a while with the battery off, and then it showed a completely white screen before turning black again.

What do you think it is wrong with it? Did the motherboard get toast?

PS: just retested it and with a sim inside it is receiving calls. It's just that the screen is fully "dead"...
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deltadiesel:
Your going to need to remove oxidization with brush then a qtip and alcohol propyl that is near 100 percent....no 90 is not good enough

Then your going to need a lamp....with heat to dry it off, or maybe a blow dryer on cold air setting and let it sit

After that you really need a magnifying glass....if there is any white oxidation left your are still short circuiting (the phone won't power on properly)

This takes time and patience not dumping it in iproply, not letting it dry, and hoping your oxidized mothrerboard will boot

Guess what 90 percent means 90 percent alcohol 10 percent water

Are you sure u didn't damage the cable connector to screen or bent it any other way?

Before you waste your time you might want to show me your motherboard before things get sloppy and u really ruin it, or it it is ruined. In this case the oxidation turns brown (corrosion)....or it is simply not worth it because a components is damaged
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostrider888:
There are absolutely no signs of burnt circuits on the motherboard, and no (longer any) visible signs of oxidation.

I've found the service manual, and looking at the schematics, I'd bet that it's either the DW8768 dc/dc converter or one of the surrounding capacitors/resistors that shorted and died. Replacing such small components is beyond my expertise and tooling, so it seems like I'll have to take it to someone...
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deltadiesel:
Are you sure all the solders are clean?

---------- Post added at 12:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:32 PM ----------

You might want to try one more time with a brush ....if things start flaking off...its not clean

You will then need a qtip again.

Something as small as a solder point will cause short circuits

The brush is key

I would tlit while your brushing it off into a dark surface so u can see where it is coming off and and clean area with qtip again

Last thing you can try is electrical contact cleaner.....clean all connectors with it. Automotive section has it. Ie. Screen cable

After that next step is throw it against the wall or bang it like tvs back in the day

No one is going to guranteee reflexing the board and solder points after a machine did it.....it would take some precise mouse hands .... no one has to play around and try and mimic what a robot did. Not worth it nor are parts available other than the power controller chip
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostrider888:
Just came back from the shop, the guy said it's either (more likely) a filter that shorted from oxidation, or (less likely) the cpu got damaged from water ingress by the memory chip, as there are no signs of oxidation or burning.

He asked me to come back on Monday, as today is fully booked and he's not "comfortable with customers items sitting in the shop over the weekend". So I guess I'll find out on Monday...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] xxnirvana69xx:
I've got the lastest sdk tools and google usb driver installed and still get a fail when trying to run fastboot flashing unlock. I also have allow oem unlocking checked. Is there something I'm missing?

C:\Android>adb reboot bootloader

C:\Android>fastboot devices

7xxxxxxxxxxxx5 fastboot

C:\Android>fastboot flashing unlock

...

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

finished. total time: 0.003s
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] lucky_strike33:
sorry delete!!! try fastboot flashing unlock_critical
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] xxnirvana69xx:
Sure did. OEM unlocking is ticked.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] xxnirvana69xx:
Same thing.

C:\Android>fastboot devices

7xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx5 fastboot

C:\Android>fastboot flashing unlock_critical

...

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

finished. total time: 0.003s
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] lucky_strike33:
Try a different cable?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] xxnirvana69xx:
Unfortunately I am at work and only have the C to C cable that was in the box.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] xxnirvana69xx:
Tried with a slightly older version I had for my og pixel and it worked. Wonder what was up with the other version.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] canemaxx:
I have the latest adb and fastboot files and can not get my device to be recognized by adb can anyone help me with this?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] xxnirvana69xx:
Pm instead
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] canemaxx:
I started off with what I was using with my pixel XL and that didn't work and I have installed about 10 different version thus far and still nothing
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] xxnirvana69xx:
I basically ended up using another cable, different version of adb, and another computer. Hard to tell what the problem exactly was since I changed 3 things at the same time between it not working and working. My guess is the cable and/or the computer.
[Galaxy Note5 Themes and Apps] gavsi:
https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-rootless-pixel-2-launcher-google-t3688393

:good::laugh::p
[Samsung Gear S3] mouse100:
I'm becoming Crazy. I have a Gear S3 and I have downloaded latest xiaomi.eu MIUI 9 beta but I can't Connect to my Watch because I receive always the same error "download failed". Someone could help me please?
[Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, A7 (2017) Questions & Answe] brubru198:
Hello, I have a Samsung galaxy A5 2017 (Canada model) with Koodo mobile (no unlock).

I have install the nougat update, after that I noticed that my A5 2017 start to lag..

Of course, I have reset my phone.

2 weeks later, my phone start AGAIN to lag.....

So, RMA or reset another time ?

The other problem

When I restart my phone, I press the power button + fingerprint it's written ''you have a custom os on your phone''.

That's not normal, and I have NEVER root + install a custom roms.

Thank you ! :)
[Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, A7 (2017) Questions & Answe] Pandotaz:
Did you install via OTA or ODIN?
[Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, A7 (2017) Questions & Answe] DeadClown37:
Y ave the same problem update by Ota and now my phone tells me am root but newer root the phone just update the phone can some one help me koodo mobile version