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[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] Mojar7070:
If you're looking at bestbuy or Wal-Mart as your choices for purchasing your device, you're very limited. You'll need to do some research on which devices are bootloader unlocked and not tied down to any US carrier.

You're best bet is to wait until you're in a stable location and order online. Whether you get any of any of the Google devices or an international version of Samsung devices. It's the only way to truly know if the device will be able to be rooted.

Also, I believe this question should in the better placed in the Main forum general question area and not in a Google Pixel 2 sub forum.

Good luck.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] PorcoMaster:
thank you man , i am thinking of risking buying a google pixel 2 xl, online it says that it can deliver in 2 days , i am just worried about not being at hotel location when it arrives or getting a pixel 2 xl screen problem , i will not get any warranty on time , my next option is lg g6 , that for as i know its easier to find and it hand bootloader unlocked from manafacturer on demand.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] PorcoMaster:
hey man just getting back to you , i have choose the gl g6 us997 , i was determined to get pixel , but as soon as i got to both phone on bestbuy , i was sad about buttons place on pixel , and gl g6 was just perfect , i like to use volume buttons to shoot on games or on camera and pixel buttons are just far away from both sides and i didnt like it , thank you man for your advices
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] gruiz3:
Just got the update message!
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] crazy1990:
I look on tmobile official page and there was no mention of oreo update of this phone. I looked at this webpage https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-35970

Can you post your screenshot?
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] Amd4life:
It is indeed live. I have Oreo on one device, trying to go back to stock on my second device and re-root.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] GoldenEpic:
For my device (on 26.7), it says it's up to date. They're rolling the update in waves.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] the show stopper:
Woooahhh..... Can we get a flashable zip file for it?
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] joemossjr:
Posted the oto zip in rom section
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] imna357:
same here, nothing, and when checking on T-Mobile page, it says it is still on the testing phase=(

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can anybody post a screenshot on OReo T-Mobile? Thanks
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] gruiz3:
https://imgur.com/a/M3GOL
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] BeyondtheTech:
TmoNews reports it's being released in waves. I'm sure we'll get it over the next couple days, but I'm impatient and spoiled since I've been on iPhone for the last few years.

For the uninitiated and those who just forgot, is there a dead simple way to install the firmware on a stock T-Mobile Z2 Force using a microSD card, or does it need to be done through ADB? I've already downloaded both files (the 900MB really long filename and the 2.3GB zip file) from the other thread.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] das7771:
Well, I just received the Oreo Update on my TMO Moto Z2 Force and now no one can hear me during phone calls. Phone was working perfectly until Oreo installed and my phone rebooted. Going to try and wipe cache in Recovery to see it that does anything. I wouldn't be too anxious to update until a few peeps have chimed in.

Update: I was able to get my phone to work correctly, but only after completely disabling WiFi Calling. It seems something has broken in regards to WiFi calling. I have tried everything I can think of to get it to work with that option active. I don't use WiFi calling anyways, so no big deal for me, but still should not have happened to begin with.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] gruiz3:
To be honest, I haven't talked to anyone yet. But my stand by at night went from a 9 percent drain to about 3 percent. I haven't encountered any issues yet. I'm hoping it got rid of the audio hissing mine had sometimes and random audio anomalies in YouTube.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] kuruptnation:
No fair
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] Venter:
I have not rooted or anything. I had the update two days ago. Everything works fine with me. WiFi calling no problem.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] Uzephi:
Those were spin lock errors in the audio driver that were fixed in kernel upstream of 4.4.72-76 so it should have those fixes since it is 4.4.78.

It will still have some of the ipv6 latency spikes that randomly happen on web pages unless Moto cherry picked those net fixes from 4.4.97-106
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] gruiz3:
The audio issues are somewhat solved. If the YouTube video is in the background, it's fine. But the audio hissing is still present if I'm watching the video. It's only in YouTube. I'm considering buying the Google usb c audio adapter to see if it's an issue with the proprietary moto audio protocol.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] the show stopper:
I assume no. But to find the answer i think you should post in the oreo thread with the question. Few people have flashed orea on their phones so they should be able to answer your question.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] Chrisy8s:
So funny story... I own two of these tmobile devices... one stock, one unlocked and rooted. My stock device is still on august security patch and isnt receiving ota updates at all. So I called tech support cuz something is obviously wrong. first, they couldn't comprehend that I was talking about ANY update and not just Oreo... I haven't received OCT or Nov patches even... Then, since they were stuck on oreo what was interesting as the tech support people at Tmobile say that the latest release for our phone is 7.1.1 August patch... which we all know is wrong for several reasons. Needless to say I am not impressed with their tech department...
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] DeoreDX:
My standby drain has been the opposite. It's a little worse for me that in 7.1. I went from about 1-2%/hr in standby to around 5%/hr in standby. I've been off the charger for a little over 3 hours today with just 9 minutes of SoT and I'm at 86%. I'm not complaining, it's not bad, but before it was spectacular. Now it's just average.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] gruiz3:
I'm usually on wifi, that is my usual use scenario. I get around, no joke about 6 hours plus sot. As for my audio issues are still prevalent and now my netflix is a black screen all the time. But overall I'm still happy with the update. If I turn on power saver my standby time tanks lol. I think it turns off my wifi and tries to hold on to my one or two signal bars. I'm debating unlocking bl and rooting, but I really haven't felt a need. I'm probably alot more forgiving of the z2 issues due to I picked it up at 375.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] smokenbiskits:
Got mine
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] Grizzly27:
Got mine as well.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] papadelogan:
I received a notification for the Oreo update, but I'm guessing it will fail given that I have the bootloader unlocked and am rooted using CFAR. Here's the question:

How do I get on to Oreo and keep root?
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] bbergin76:
Got the update last night.

My lock screen now randomly turns on from time to time mostly when it senses motion near it. The phone had done this when I first got it and there was a setting I disabled to stop it from happening. Option is still disabled so it's not that.

Anyone else with random screen wakes?
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] Uzephi:
You turned "Moto Display" off in the Moto App?
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] bbergin76:
Yes. That and Approach for Moto Display. That's what worked to stop the screen from turning on before the Oreo update.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] Uzephi:
Then it has to be either the app having an issue to disable that feature in the kernel or the kernel itself. I'd wait to see if anyone else is having that issue on Oreo
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] !M4G3:
Enable Moto app, then disable the feature, then disable Moto app. That's what I had to do . Was surprised that even tho the app was disabled the Moto app managed to enable that annoying feature by itself .
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] bbergin76:
I did that last night before seeing this response and have been watching it all morning and it seems to have stopped. Was coming on to post about it when I saw your reply.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] bbergin76:
New issue to research, when using stock messenger as default I do not receive non-T-Mobile texts. I do get them if I use Textra though.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] spydersilk:
Wife had the same problem. Disabled stick and used a different SMS app

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Thing I don't like is turning navigation bar off to use gestures doesn't really make the bar go away, it's just faded, but still visible if you look close enough
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] spydersilk:
Nm, turns out I have screen burn in. Lol
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dilemina:
Did you ever get the update rolled out. I am still on the august patch too, and I still have the 2.0 mod platform that randomly restarts the phone when attached to mods.

I even got a similar response from the help desk, and they said that Motorola handles updates and connected me with Motorola's help desk. Motorola's help desk said that that guy didn't know what he was talking about and that T-Mobile rolls out the updates for phones with their firmware.

This was in late December and early January and I still haven't received the OS update or the security update, or even the mod platform update. How about you?
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] Chrisy8s:
to my knowledge they pulled all updates. there is a thread here on how to sideload it though if you want oreo.. you dont even need to unlock bootloader to load it.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] BeyondtheTech:
According to their support page, they’ve released an corrected update to the Oreo upgrade just yesterday.

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-35970
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dilemina:
Well.... That's cool. Except I still cannot get the update through the normal method. It still says I have the latest version....

Might have to do a manual one, once somebody snags it.
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] TheLooq:
Yeah, me either. Why bother putting a check for updates option in settings if checking for updates does nothing but give you the fist?
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] kendallgreen:
I have upgraded to Oreo 8.0, OCX 27, and checking for update says "Your device is up-to-date". I don't know what the update to OCX 27.1 would get me, since I am on the Dec 1, 2017 security patch level and have no problems
[Moto Z2 Force  Guides, News, & Discussion] amarryat:
If you've had seemingly random phone calls where they can't hear you, hopefully it fixes that. Specifically the calls would be to Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge T-Mobile customers.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] Dunkelherzmann:
A friend of mine tried to root his S8+ from T-Mobile while following random instructions on the Internet and got his phone into this weird boot screen, which I must say I have never seen before.

Note: I have tried many times to enter to download mode by using the power button, bixy, vol- combination to no avail. When I turn the phone off and plug it in into the computer it gets recognized as QUSB_BULK.

[ UPLOAD MODE ]

Unknown Error

DDR Vendor : unknown

SOC_HW_REVISION : 2.1

skip print_summary_to_lcd...

Generating summary...

>>General Info

>>DDR Info

>>DCVS Info

>>RPM

Recovered from an exception

Done...

I was wondering if any of you have had similar experiencies or perhaps even help me find a solution. Thank you in advance for your assistance.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] TheBigEasy88:
This isn't anything out of the norm and has been covered more times to count. Get back into Download mode and finish the process.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] Dunkelherzmann:
Thank you for your answer and thank you for pointing out that I should have said that I've tried countless times to enter download mode by pressing vol- + power button and then power + vol- + bixby to no avail.

The only way to get the phone to boot into something is to press all buttons together while waiting around 10 seconds which, gets me to the screen in the picture.

Is there another way to enter download mode apart from using the regular bixy + vol - + power button combination?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] gerryl432:
hold down vol- and power only. when it resets, immediately keep trying bixby vol- and power. also if the phone is in a case take it out.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] SOGKush420:
i think you have a fake s8+
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] Dunkelherzmann:
It doesn't work, it gets detected as QUSB_BULK every time, only if I press all buttons does it give me a screen which is the one posted.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] Dunkelherzmann:
This is a genuine S8+ from T-mobile, I've made sure of it!
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] 123pmart:
This happened to me

This is the worst, after giving up thinking my phone was bricked I just let it run out of battery. After it was dead i held volume down + power + bixby while plugging in a charger and to my suprise it went into download mode. I tried again and again to confirm it worked and it worked every time. So you just have to wait till the phones completely dead, and hold those 3 buttons while plugging it in to a charger.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] Dunkelherzmann:
Thank you for your answer, I did try that but it didn't work for me... no download mode, just that upload mode - unknown error...
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] suhaibahmad:
I have the same issue plz help
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] omar0aziz:
Yup I've seen that same screen you're referring to on my S8+ Tmobile. It's tricky but you can make it work. Change the way you try to hold that combination of buttons. As previous answers mentioned, you have to be quick.

Here is what worked for me:

I plugged the phone into the computer, using the original USB cable.

Hold "PWR"+"BXB"+"VOLUP" until you see the phone's screen blacking out completely. Then IMMEDIATELY hold "PWR"+"VOLDN" and keep holding. That should put you back into Download Mode.

Again, it'a bit tricky so keep trying and checking your technique but you should eventually get it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] billa:
I've seen that issue before where no button combination gets you out the QUSB_BULK mode. I'm afraid it's a corrupted bootloader (aboot), which can only be fixed using a special "Dead-Boot" package, which uses a QComm low level loader (not download mode). You can search for it, but it's pretty hard to get since it's specifically written for each model. Here's a package available on a pay site https://combinefile.com/index.php?a=downloads&b=file&id=32731
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Pecata:
Anyone else having issue with Facebook notifications?

Every other app works fine - Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn..etc.

I checked my app settings and notification settings within Android and everything seems to be in order. Even re-installed the Facebook app and still no dice.

When I open the app I see I have notifications, however my phone isn't notifying me of anything related to Facebook. I have open the app to see the notifications within the app.:confused:

Anyone else having the same problem?

I am on Pixel 2 XL 8.1 stock.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] laureanop:
Did you disable background activity for the app?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Pecata:
No, it is active.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] hescores72:
Having the same issue. Also there are times the app doesn't recognize that the phone is connected to WiFi. The app continues to update the feed, but the videos won't auto play until I turn off WiFi then back on.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] solohsu:
Have you ever cleared the cache and data under the Google Framework Services trying to push the OTA update? It is said that would break GCM things.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] hescores72:
I have not, but the problems have been since day 1 of getting the phone. I'll give it a try and see if there is an improvement.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] vickyshahh:
hey have you got a solution to the problem i am facing the same problem
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] minilandl:
Similar problem with bootleggers on my Redmi note 5 pro
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] y2klol:
Can it done? I was thinking autoinput but realised each conversation has to be entered into to backup (this is a problem when I get a new conversation every week or so).
[Amazfit] gswolf:
I guess a lot are aware of the thread http://roundandroidwatches.pr which shows how to port Android Wear apps to Android in order to run them on the Amazfit pace watch. The above mentioned threads describes the principle solution on a mobile with the help of an App "APK Editor" which works only with the paid version.

Therefore I was looking for a free and easy GUI controlled solution running on WIndows which serves the same issue which I found with "APK Easy Tool v.1.41".

1) you have to ensure that JDK and JAVA are refences by your Windows PATH variable and that they run on the same version. I am using java build 1.80.. and javac build 1.8.0....

2) You install APK Easy Tool v.1.41

after start-up you need to do the following setting for APK signing:

https://ibb.co/he7Gmb

[IMG="APK Easy tool config"]https://preview.ibb.co/fzpkew/apk_easy_tool_config.jpg[/IMG]

3) Select the downloaded APK, decompile it and modify open the APK directory

https://ibb.co/hdXcsG

[IMG="decompile APK"]https://preview.ibb.co/kFaaew/apk_decompile.jpg[/IMG]

4) Open the "Decompiled APK directory", step on the first level of app and open the *Manifest.xml file in a XML editor (e.g. Notepad++) and modify the data according to http://roundandroidwatches.pr

change min sdk version to, e.g.:

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" android:targetSdkVersion="24" />

change screen resolution to:

<application android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" ...

remove if available hardware line, e.g. :

<uses-feature android:name"android.hardware.type.watch" />

5) Click the Compile button the APP get assigned too

6) Transfer it to the watch. I used Apk Installer 3.5 on Windows to do do on a rounded up GUI solution (of course one can use ADB shell too)

PS: I have tried this with Invaders Android Wear APP and the entire process worked with any issues and the App is running perfectly on the watch.
[Amazfit] tiago199988:
i will give it a try later today
[Amazfit] gswolf:
Here you can find some Wear Apps which have been already converted and can be used on Amazfit.

http://amazfitcentral.com/2017/08/31/free-apps-amazfit-pace/

In addition I ported a flashlight App too. It worked but the light is not very bright: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/googl...elease/flashlight-7-1-1-android-apk-download/
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] tzuba12:
So I recently factory reset my phone and went back to stock after trying a few roms and now face unlock will not let me add my face data. The front camera just doesn't turn on to add it and it fails. I've tried multiple things: Rebooting, wiping cache+data, factory resetting, etc. Nothing seems to work. My camera in general seems to be a little slow to launch too. Any ideas on what to do?
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] sakerhetz:
Try to look in the camera and use Good light , i had the same issue.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] tzuba12:
Its not that. The camera in general is not launching quickly. I can open up the camera app and it takes 10 seconds for it to actually load anything so I can take a picture. Same with face unlock. If I press the power button, the screen won't turn on for a few seconds while I guess it loads the camera up, then it'll come on and unlock. Just earlier today, this used to be instant.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] sakerhetz:
I see ... You flashed some ROM'S???

First download the .zip file from oneplus site the OTA.zip

Then go to twrp and wipe cache, data, system not internal storage.

Flash the OTA.zip and you have a clean OS again.

Succes!!
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] tzuba12:
Yep.. Did all of that. Even went back to stock recovery. Tried it twice. I'll try again though.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] tzuba12:
Just did it again, annnnd still have the same problem. Camera app launches slowly, camera takes too long to load up when trying to set up face unlock and it just cancels it before it can load the camera. Don't know what to do.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Ghost.47:
Hi I used the app I offer to purchase a a Samsung Galaxy s8. Now before I bought it the person told me it was Google locked and the phone shop wanted additional 40 bucks to unlock it and I told him I don't want to pay extra for it I'll just buy it as it is. He gave me the IMEI and i checked on swappa before hand. It says clean and is not blacklisted or anything. I YouTubed some videos on how to bypass the Google account. And I downloaded a software called "Odin" and some other files along with Samsung drivers to install but when I got to the first step it said "failed". Everytime I do a hard reset it says "MetroPCS" but it is a Verizon phone and it said on the top corner when I was trying to download the stuff to bypass the Google account it said "original carrier is Verizon" the person told me he was able to use MetroPCS and T-Mobile on it so I'm thinking it's unlocked but I'm not sure. He didn't steal the phone because I asked and checked the IMEI. So I'm not sure what's going on. And is there a way I can bypass the Google account? I did it before for s6 edges and other Android devices. I'm not sure how to do it for this one. I paid good money for it because phone seems in excellent condition. Here's the werid part. I bought another s8 straight from Samsung as a trade in deal for T-Mobile. I read on the back it was made in China and the Google locked s8 I bought was orchid gray and it said made in Vietnam. Plus it was very lightly printed. Could it be a fake s8? And on the back it reads SM-G950U as the model number and I can provide the IMEI if anyone can help me. I would appreciate it if someone could shed some light on this. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] baune7:
What??
[Chromebooks] onyx2000:
I have HP Chromebook with play store and running Ubuntu crouton. How do I run root apps on this OS? IF WRONG THREAD PLEASE DIRECT ME TO RIGHT ONE.
[Chromebooks] Intelli69:
I am in the same boat as you are, my friend ??? Can anybody help?