yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] zswielder:
False. If you look at the leasing contract, nowhere does it say that you are required to keep the phone with Sprint for 50 days. It specifically tells you that you can "own" the phone by ending the lease early, paying all remaining leasing balance as well as the device purchase fee. Once the phone is paid off and owned by the customer, the phone is eligible to be unlocked. In fact, this had been automated for a long time. However, Sprint realized that they messed up this deal by crafting the lease with such an easy way out. People were cancelling the lease left and right. So, Sprint decided to change the rule by imposing the 50 day rule and by "relocking" phones that had already been unlocked. The issue is that Sprint screwed up their own promo by writing such a half-ass contract/lease, and then customers played by the rules that Sprint created to get the phone cheap, but then Sprint is making those customers suffer for Sprint's mistake. Do I think some people exploited this deal? Sure. Do I support those people? No. Do I blame them? Not really. If you run a business and you make a mistake, you gotta pay for your own mistake. You can't expect customers to pay for your mistake. That's what it means to run a business and that's why people go to business school to know better. So, yes, Sprint is at fault.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] runderekrun:
Where do you get this notion that just because you own the phone it's eligible for unlock? The deal was 50 days before this deal came around and it will 50 days well after this phone. They messed up and was automatically unlocking. They fixed that. You should have known there would be risked getting a 500 dollar phone for 150. If you play with fire, don't be surprised when you get burned. Now please try and stay on topic. I HATE getting an email notification about an update on this thread and it's just people *****ing about Sprint. Sorry to whoever got an email about this post.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] zswielder:
Unlocking was not the mistake. Unlocking has always worked that way. Many simply didn't know it and kept calling them up for unlock rather than waiting for the system to automatically unlock it. Do your homework. As for where I'm getting the info, I confirmed it with many Sprint reps. They confirmed that once the device was "fully paid off and owned" by a customer, it was eligible for unlocking. They also shared that when the corporate realized their mistake, they sent out an email instructing everyone to for the 50 day unlock policy on all phones. So, yes, I stand by my information that actually came from Sprint itself. Next?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] avd:
Basically you are both arguing the same point.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
Sprint's policy for unlocking is not on the leasing or the service contract. While those can vary from plan to plan and with promotion. The unlock policy is a company wide policy and can be found on the website. It states that phone are automatically unlocked after 50 days and the account must be in good standing.

https://www.sprint.com/en/legal/unlocking-your-sprint-device.html

Just because you own it does not mean they must unlock it.

50 days and in good standing is the requirement. Now some people may have been able to get around it, but that is the policy.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tom1283:
I managed to get the phone into diagnostic mode and connected to QPST. I believe this allows some additional access. I am past my abilities here. I'm hoping someone here knows more and can take this further. My steps are below.

My Setup:

-QPST 2.7.460

-Bootloader unlocked

-Rooted

-Working ADB , drivers, etc

ADB commands:

c:\adb>adb shell
mata:/ $ su
mata:/ # setprop sys.usb.config diag,serial_cdev,rmnet,adb

From there QPST instructions are pretty widely available.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] hardiklukhi:
i need help to unlock my phone

i have attached my file[/QUOTE]
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ben_jiang:
This is great. I have been thinking about this method for a little while now but never had the time to do it. I have done similar unlock on HTC 10 and Moto Z2 Force. Hopefully this would be the same idea. Keep up the good work!:good:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] brian015:
I have two essential phones, one I waited for the 50 days and unlocked. The other, bought before I found out sprint fixed the lease unlock thing. So the second was sim locked and I was not fond of paying for the privileged to unlock. Using your idea, I made a full backup of the unlocked phone in twrp, restored that on phone2. Of course bootloop, so flashed the oreo3 ota again, booted up no problem as a copy of phone1 but is now accepting other sims. Sure I realize this may only be tricking the phone and may have issues to activate on other carriers but this will work for me.

Just wanted to point out if there is clean backup for people to use there is a way.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] whymoo:
Hm... Then it is possible the lock status is stored on a different partition.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DrvLikHell:
Can you tell us exactly what you selected to backup in TWRP? I'm extremely surprised this worked.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
Yes I'm surprised also.

This would mean that they are not using a hash to hide the bits that they changes.

Or at least it's not device specific.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rahuuler:
essential sprint feature

I believe sprint is required to unlock, but who so ever bought it, please go through the documentation guide it all mentioned there.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] zswielder:
There were people who said that international unlock was only for certain days, but I can confirm that this is not true. I think it's only true if you did an international unlock by specifically requesting a Sprint rep to do it. If you got your phone unlock through the initial automated unlock process (within 3 days since you paid off the phone), then it should remain unlock forever (as long as you don't put a Sprint sim back in). I have 2 that I sent to my parents, and they've been able to use them just fine abroad. Now I just have to figure out how to unlock mine (mine got relocked by Sprint). I hope we are getting closer to figuring this out.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] docna:
You are misunderstanding what an "international unlock" is.

International Unlock is a concept that allows Sprint to let you use a foreign SIM card in your phone, for a limit period of time. It's done to handle the "travelling overseas and want to use a local SIM while I'm there" use case, without them having to fully unlock the phone. International Unlock won't let you use, for example, an AT&T SIM card - even if you happen to be overseas.

"Domestic" unlock doesn't really exist. It's just 'Unlocked'. In an unlock state, you can use any SIM card, in any country - including the US.

Your parents phones aren't "international unlocked", they are just "unlocked". That's why it works overseas, and they would work just as well in the US as well (not including Sprint, who would very possibly re-lock them the moment you put one of their SIMs in the phone)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] zswielder:
I know perfectly how these unlock categories work. That's why I specified that it would be a different story unless someone actually had a Sprint rep do it for them (which is time limited). The word international unlock or internationally unlocked is generally used by most people to simply refer to a phone's ability to accept/use foreign sim cards. Most people don't use it based on technicality like you are, even though you are very much correct in the way you define terms.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DrvLikHell:
This isn't exactly correct. My first phone was unlocked automatically in 3 days after paying off the lease, but that did not include an international sim unlock. I have a sim card from a cellular provider in Europe and when I put that sim card in it asks for a sim unlock code. However, the phone works fine with sim cards from the US like H2O, UltraMobile, Project Fi, etc. So while it is unlocked for domestic carriers, and will remain so until I put a Sprint sim back in it, it's still not fully unlocked. Waiting on my 50 days for that.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mrpibb:
Maybe it's your sim, because mine was auto unlocked after paying off the lease and i was able to use the phone abroad when i went to Asia. I just bought a local sim and popped it in the phone and everything worked. Never requested an international unlock.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DrvLikHell:
Nothing wrong with or different about the sim. It works fine in an unlocked Galaxy S6, and in my Moto X, and I'm sure it will work fine in every other unlocked phone I have.

After checking it again, one of my EU sims gives an error and one works. I never bothered to check both EU sims before. Strange that they both work fine in all my other phones, but not in the Essential
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] zswielder:
You could try installing the beta (Oreo) to see if it works. Worth a shot. I also heard about people who could actually still use it even though the phone displayed invalid sim message. There are so many mixed reports when it comes to Essential.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfu11:
Some international sim cards are UICC, UICC stands for Universal Integrated Circuit Card. It is a new generation SIM (Subscriber Identification Module)some older ones are not The essential phone is uicc compliant and Sprint has all the power over their essential phones. It really sucks because they can and do lock it out of international use at will. So that might explain why one works and one doesn't.

https://www.justaskgemalto.com/us/what-uicc-and-how-it-different-sim-card/
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DrvLikHell:
That could be it. But yeah, also there are so many different issues with Sprint and this phone. It seems like three different people can have three different experiences from doing the exact same thing. I'm right at my 50 days though, so I will be done with Sprint completely and they should no longer have any reign over my phone at all once they process the official unlock.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Steadfast888:
Just a few thoughts.......

Okay, I see that Brian015 has already achieved this unlock by flashing a twrp backup of his unlocked phone on to his locked phone. Has anyone confirmed this working yet? Any ideas as to why this worked? Has anyone tried flashing/downgrading to the original firmware that allowed the unlock before the patch? Is anyone willing to privide a twrp backup of an unlocked sprint phone so I can try Bryan015's unlock method?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] EliteXen:
I have both a Sprint Essential and a factory unlocked Essential. I tried the TWRP backup method, but that didn't work...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Steadfast888:
Just a hunch.......

I could be wrong, but, I am thinking it has to be a back up of a sprint unlocked phone. I am guessing that whatever change is done when sprint sends the unlock command is what is being copied to the locked phone during the restore. If someone has a sprint unlocked phone and a sprint locked phone they could test this and report back.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] zswielder:
That makes sense to me.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] slikerhael:
Just got my laptop back and I've finally been able to get twrp installed on my (unlocked from factory) Sprint lease essential. The usb doesn't want to stay connected and requires duct tape for it to get an adb connection. I've made a backup of everything with twrp and moved it over to my locked Sprint essential but twrp on it doesn't recognize the files for restore. Is there something I'm missing here?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] EliteXen:
TWRP creates the a folder with the serial number for the current phone and places the backup in that folder. Did you move the backup into the serial # folder of your locked phone?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] slikerhael:
Alright that got the recovery images to appear, however they did not unlock the device. The images came from a Sprint lease essential that accepts all SIM cards but claims to be locked in the UICC menu. Maybe thats why or maybe it just doesn't work in the first place. Unless the OP posts restore files for us to try I'm rather skeptical that it worked.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] joominyeo:
I really hope we can get that done because talking to sprint reps is giving me an enormous and unnecessary headache..
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Steadfast888:
I thought this thread was dead, but I see you all are still working at it. I thought I would report what I have found. I have been flashing whatever I could find to test the going theory. So, I flashed a few of the firmware dumps from another thread. After flashing one of them I was able get a read on my sim but the os was super unstable, for some reason when dialing out it kept going straight to verizons recorded helpline, though I wasn't even using a verizon sim card, and putting a verizon sim in didn't change anything either. I am thinking it might have been a dump from someone using verizon but thats a theory. Maybe I needed to flash both partitions and maybe a firmware dump from an unlocked sprint might help also. I am going to keep working at it and report back.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jashenberner:
We have both an unlocked Sprint Essential Phone and a locked Sprint Essential Phone. We just completed this first idea for unlocking the phone but I'm not sure how to send the .txt files.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] screamline458:
Attach it to the comment. Hurry, I'm sure there's a ton of us that would love to fix this since Sprint won't do any to help us.
[General Questions and Answers] efrin:
I have Blue Live One X running 6.0 that will occasionally boot up into a mode where it will never go into "Deep Sleep" state, resulting in much shorter than normal battery time. I can see this with CPU Spy app. If I then reboot it will usually behave normally and spend as much as 80% of it's time in Deep Sleep if I'm not using it. It's always had this annoying behavior and I'm wondering if there's any fix for this.

Also wondering if it's time to replace this phone. It's been okay for the price but I'm thinking about the Honor 7X.

Thanks for any advice.
[ZTE Trek 2 Questions & Answers] footwork*:
Could someone help me unbrick a ZTE Trek 2 K88? All I've got is QHSUSB_BULK .

Or point me in the direction of a guide? Thx
[ZTE Trek 2 Questions & Answers] GuestK00251:
t restarts in QHSUSB_BULK mode or forces itself to pay for the power-on button, installs the driver with zadig, then installs the driver, now restarts the tablet connects to the PC and now comes the most uncomfortable part, reboots the PC with the tablet connected and use jasminetool.

You can only use a command in the jasmin tool if you use the command again, you must restart the tablet or computer. I leave you with the recovery of stock B15.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hjDm6rR3vvc2wd-AmkuecPo4gXmpPKGb/view?usp=sharing

you must extract the jasminetool tool and then execute cmd, I leave the link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iexvAypXJNYXyWAWLzqI95wT0LUlTAHJ/view?usp=sharing

cmd paste it in the folder extracted from the jasmine tool, now run cmd inside the folder jasminetool and then copy the file recovery.img in the folder jasminetool, with the connected tablet run the following: command jasminetool-win64 write recovery recovery.img

Ready only have low stock ROM of Android 7.1.1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/123qLAC8XwfRHMIMl2wr97y8eLHjWuPea/view?usp=sharing

http://code.nwwn.com/files/android/k88/jasminetool.zip

http://zadig.akeo.ie/

and a video tutorial in Spanish:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7_osOgWd5U&t=6s

and if it does not work, try another pc
[ZTE Trek 2 Questions & Answers] ev1lchris:
Instead of installing using Jasmine (which technically I can't access right now) could I do a ADB sideload from recovery?
[ZTE Trek 2 Questions & Answers] GuestK00251:
Yes too.link firmware https://drive.google.com/file/d/123qLAC8XwfRHMIMl2wr97y8eLHjWuPea/view?usp=drivesdk

You must extract and then do the adb sideload

Enviado desde mi K88 mediante Tapatalk
[ZTE Trek 2 Questions & Answers] gdillard1002:
Adb

Adb does not work in qdloader
[Samsung Gear S3] wisefreakz:
Hi,

After the upgrade, I'm simply unable to Install any app/watchface directly from the watch.

When I press the install button, a message comes up saying "Verify your identity to activate your Samsung account. This is required to continue using this service and other features."

Point is that I see no way on how to activate it. To me is all activated... so no Idea on what they want me to do.

Please help.

Tks
[Samsung Gear S3] maddie01:
This is good news that the lte versions are starting to get the update. You should be able to log into your samsung account from the phone and log out and then in again...you can also use the samsung members app or the "Contact Us" in the Gear App and send the question into Samsung and you may get a reply...
[Samsung Gear S3] claudioalfatec:
Another bug. I have credit card (black)when i win Samsung Rewards . When add this card , app Samsung Pay is closed.
[Samsung Gear S3] wisefreakz:
Tried the log in/out. Nothing.

Changed the phone and reset gear. Nothing.

No one else with this problem?
[Samsung Gear S3] wisefreakz:
Really no one with ATT version had the same problem?
[Samsung Gear S3] andre.berenguel:
Same problem here. No solution yet. I've already done factory resets, but no changes.
[Samsung Gear S3] wisefreakz:
Hi Andre... I sorted it out today.. it was a lucky move.

As you have notice, from time to time you receive a message at your watch saying that policy blablabla was updated andyou must go into a certain link and when you access it, there's no accept option.

Here's what you have to do:

1) Access the following link: findmymobile.samsung.com using same account you have logged at your gear app.

2) There will pop the option for you to accept the new terms blablabla. When you press AGREE you will be logged off.

3) Logging to the same link.

4) Reboot your watch and VOILA.

No more annoying messages and you can install stuffs directly from your watch.

Let me know if this works for you too.
[Samsung Gear S3] rogerperk:
All this talk about installing stuff on the watch. I use mine in a minimalist way - phone, text, email, tracking a walk or run, and weather. That's it. If I need more I go to my phone. But to each their own.
[Samsung Gear S3] wisefreakz:
Sure... but having annoying messages in the watch from time to time is a pain in the a$$.

Also, its like the watch wasn't acting normal... for me all good now.
[Samsung Gear S3] rogerperk:
Oh I completely agree with you on that! The comment was extraneous. I had some UI notifications when I first got the update but after afew resets they went away. These watches seem to operate more on emotion than logic sometimes.
[Samsung Gear S3] wisefreakz:
Hahaha... Too much emotional!!!
[Samsung Gear S3] mythoc:
after 1 year this worked. Thank you so much. (I used Microsoft Edge without adblock to get to the terms page)
[Samsung Gear S3] hx4700 Killer:
Just found this thread after ages of this message on my S3 conneced to my Note 8 and this did not work. I used Edge, accepted the agreements, rebooted watch then phone and watch but still get the message! :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vega113:
I tried to open aroma file manager zip in recovery mode of my HTC phone but it wont. Please help
[P3300, MDA Compact III ROM Development] bartvani:
Does anyone know a program that makes the screen of the Artemis like a real agenda? Where you can write instantly and scroll easy through the pages? I hate the look of the normal agenda, and it is impossible to make a fast hand written note in the agenda.

Please help or develop?!
[P3300, MDA Compact III ROM Development] peterhoogstraaten:
I found mine here ;-)
[P3300, MDA Compact III ROM Development] bartvani:
I don´t think you understood my question. I would like to have it the other way around... So that one can go through 3D-pages on a touch phone...

:(
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x7nofate:
Hi, hopefully this is a good place for this thread. I have kranich extended battery 9600mAh. I'm looking for kernel for note 4 910F which support extended battery like kranich or zerolemon and magisk at the some time. I have found emontion kernel but doesn't support magisk. Need to be kernel for 910F which support extended battery like zerolemon/kranich and also magisk.

Please help
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] li0nh3art3d:
I'd go with Flashpoint kernel v3 was released like yesterday i think. works well for me
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x7nofate:
Flashpoint works great thank you, Merry Christmas
[Sony Xperia M5] Dragwar:
so, i keep getting this problem. the system_ui randomly stopped and crash my phone. i don't know what triggering it. sometime when charging, sometime when browsing, sometime when play games, sometime even when i don't touch my phone for hours.

but, i remember when it start. it was when i browse the web a lot with opera mini. it is uninstalled of course.

fix i tried? i used the xperia companion, it was the third time this problem keep return. and sony keep telling me to use the companion even though i tell them i did and the problem return. please help and thank you.

xperia m5 e5663

30.2.B.1.21 (marshmellow)
[Sony Xperia M5] ih8redsn0w:
So just a factory reset doesn't work?
[Sony Xperia M5] Dragwar:
nope, after few hours with only whatsapp installed and update all the default apps, system_ui crashdd again.
[Sony Xperia M5] ih8redsn0w:
I could only suggest downgrading
[Sony Xperia M5] Dragwar:
i have considered that, and want to avoid that. but i guess no other way then.. thanx fos helping.
[Sony Xperia M5] baalzebuub:
I think there is a problem with system partition. So you should system repair by Xperia Companion.

If you have rooted device firstly relock bootloader before system repair otherwise Companion wouldnt accept device to repair.

Or you can flash stock rom by using Flashtool. but be careful about FSC scripts.
[Sony Xperia M5] ih8redsn0w:
They said they've already used Xperia companion and even if you click no on using the fsc script it will refuse to flash
[Sony Xperia M5] baalzebuub:
Which version of Flashtool that say dude ? I'm always feelin' anxious while using flashtoolI because of that script issue.

I think im usin' 0.9.23.X. I'll check it when arrived home.
[Sony Xperia M5] ih8redsn0w:
0.9.23.1 is the one that doesn't work 0.9.23.2 works
[Sony Xperia M5] macamba83:
I could solve it removing the notification site from Chrome, from menu setting Chrome, web site setting, Notifications and bloqued all sites except Google, then the issue will desapire

Regards
[Magisk] ajh16:
14.6 flat out doesn't work for me. 14.5 works but has a looping logcat issue that generates around 30gb of logs a day and drains battery in a hurry. Works ok for me, but won't work for my wife's phone (having her go in once every day or two to clear the logs is a non-starter). 14.37 is reported by some as working without the issue, but I can't find it anywhere. I attempted a build from source, however there is an issue with the sub module pull of SE linux for that tag, so I'm unable to build it myself. 14.0 isn't an option as it won't install on an Essential PH-1.
[Magisk] Didgeridoohan:
The segfault with v14.6 on Essential phones is known. No idea if it can be fixed though. Let's hope so...

Meanwhile, you can find old release on GitHub.