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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greenbeans71:
This the LG LS 751 Zv5 Boost variant. What happened was that I got into the build prop and that's when the bootloader started. After the logo comes: Security Error, authentication failed #9]. All of the modes are open except bootloader. Recovery status frst 5. I'm pretty sure I corrupted the path judging by the recovery logs. The phone will not respond to ADB commands, it's stuck in sideload mode. My question is this: since the damage I caused is at the apex of the build and only several characters displaced, is there some way I could simply apply a custom patch instead of wiping and flashing the entire image? Assuming I can get it to go into ADB... So, um, how can I get it out of Sideload? Thanks to all!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 69ragtop:
I have a 5th gen Fire HD 10 running 5.0.0 as I blocked updates out of the box mid 2016. However, when I went to restore it, I un-rooted it and did a factory restore before I remembered renaming otacerts.zip. The renamed file did not survive the factory restore. I want to put it back to normal where it gets updates from Amazon automatically. Can someone with an 5th gen HD 10 share their otacerts.zip file with me? Thanks in advance!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 69ragtop:
still need this ... anyone?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MontysEvilTwin:
Can't you download a software '.bin' file from Amazon, rename to '.zip' and extract the item you want, or am I missing something?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] greenbeans71:
My question is whether it is advisable to attempt to do this or not. I have read conflicting opinions about it, one that advised against it was a 2016 thread here on Xda, saying it would brick it. Others report no issues. What is the truth? Are there other options to remove KR and retain root?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mattwong2120:
I'm using Dutty's new 6.1, and finally got around to start playing with the "internet sharing" function, which i find is REALLY REALLY COOL!

That means i can browse anywhere i want with my laptop thru HSDPA as long as i have my tytn2 connected

but i'm wondering, will O2 charge me extra for doing this? i already paid like 7.50pounds extra for unlimited web browsing...

of course, this is assuming i dun go downloading full movies and something stupidly big, you know, jus simple web browsing and recieving email and all that.

any ideas?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] weasel:
Just read the smallprint in the O2 contract. There will be a "fair use" policy which will probably give indicative usage limits. I use my T-Mobile Vario III on the move all the time to hook up my laptop and have never had any issues from T-Mob.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Jygar:
I would suggest caution as most of the T&Cs state that using the phone as a modem is breach of the contract, however it never stopped me using my old Vario 2 lol!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaveShaw:
I asked about fair use when adding an ulimitted data bolt-on to my current contract.

I asked I assume there is a fair use policy on this, of say 200Mb?

She replied that the new bolt-on's (as of a month or so ago) are completly unlimited in terms of usage.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] landwomble:
if it's not written down...!

you might want to check the contract to see if it excludes "tethering". they're unlikely to notice, but you don't want to get hit with a big bill...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaveShaw:
I'm not going to try it. Just repeating what I was told. :D

Not sure how much truth there was in that...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Jygar:
I reviewed the O2 boltons they all have "fair useage policies" much the same as T-Mob.

Vodafone and Three currently charge when you go over there data limits.

And from what I can tell Three are the only compnay to allow "tethering".
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] demented_goose:
Yeah 02's fair use policy for their "Unlimited" data bolt on is about 200 meg. Quite how they can call it unlimited is beyond me.

If you are using an 02 bolt-on that must mean you're on pay as you go. Could you give me some advice on how you set up your connections because the auto config thing which came on my stellar only configures for contract and i'm a bit confused. I've found the settings on this site but my phone currently has two connections, "mobile web" and "O2 active" and i don't know what the difference is between the two so i'm not sure what i should put in where (if that makes sense).

Thanks a lot
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] AtoZ0to9:
Is anyone else's 5t pretty sensitive and auto rotates at times you don't want it to just by a small movement?
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] AtoZ0to9:
So this is still driving me crazy, small movements continue to make the screen auto-rotate when trying to do something. Is there any way to calibrate the accelerometer?
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] AtoZ0to9:
Any answer for this?
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] worldsoutro:
Don't rotate it ?
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] nadejo:
this was allways an issue to me on all oneplus devices. Theycan fix this problem by simply raising the rotation trigger treshold. but i guess there are not venough complains. it should be possible with root too but i dont know exactly what file/line to modify.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] ghosty0:
Yep, I have locked mine to portrait mode which seems to be fine for me 90% of the time for me. I do hope they fix this though..
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] albireox:
+100 but unfortunately seems most of the people (including oneplus) don't care.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] Baldilocks:
Yep. I had a thread on this when it first came out.

I wish I could find an app that worked well enough to let me just pick and choose what I want to auto-rotate, but they all are a little flaky.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] AtoZ0to9:
I've locked it to portrait. This is an OOS issue or all ROMs? Haven't dabbled with any custom ROMs yet, but if it can't fix this annoying issue, I'm all for it.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] terry_mccann:
Had this on all the Nexus ROMs as well....always on portrait does it for me.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] AtoZ0to9:
Just saw this in the articles section.

https://www.xda-developers.com/rotation-orientation-manager/

Could be worth a try.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] Spadizzle:
So when ever I receive a call, did this on nougat and now with the prepaid beta 1.

Phone will ring a few times and say missed call then either it will start ringing again or I will just have to call back.

2 or 3 rings for receiving calls.

Some thing I can change on my end?
[Xperia Z2 General] droid_ulti:
any one will and still use his sony z2 in 2018 , and why ?
[Xperia Z2 General] Hariskh:
YES because it works perfectly fine and has the developer community support
[Xperia Z2 General] Dr.TheMaster:
of course, I actually just upgraded to it from Xperia SP, it has a great CPU, a decent GPU and it still has amazing support here on XDA, we are getting a stable Oreo soon, and I bet we will get android P as well. It even has a very stable MM stock ROM (6.0.1 is the most used android version as of today) the only downside for me is the front facing camera, which was a good choice back in 2014, but now it's definitely not a good selfie camera, I will keep using it I guess for at least a year (or two) before getting enough budget to buy a year flagship...
[Xperia Z2 General] raminta:
Yes

Of course because it works like charm even in 2018 and it has brilliant developers that keeps this phone alive with their support
[Xperia Z2 General] droid_ulti:
snapdragon 801 is really very good cpu even after 4 years , even better than sanpdragon 810, as far for front camera it is really bad.
[Xperia Z2 General] ums1405:
Great reliable phone

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Still use it today as a backup phone
[Xperia Z2 General] Andandy:
SURE

Cuz power enough & live community
[Xperia Z2 General] Yanun:
Sure man.I have Z2 for 3 years.Still can't find reason to exchange him for a new phone.Z2 is still fast,good quality photos(main camera) and We have there great developers that keeps this phone alive.
[Xperia Z2 General] fatguy666:
Yeah, cause my wife knocked my XZ out my hand and the screen shattered ?
[Xperia Z2 General] rakeshbro:
My z2 got stolen last month. Just bought hTc U Ultra few days ago...
[Xperia Z2 General] AndroidXL:
any way to root it without downgrade or use flash things ? like with a soft in my pc like i did with my dead LG G2 ?
[Xperia Z2 General] AndroidXL:
tried KingRoot_pc_en but it says conect to internet I HAVE INTERNET !!
[Xperia Z2 General] mrsatan:
I have had mine since it came out. People are still amazed by it. Sure it has drawbacks but for what it was when it released it has aged extremely well. It's the best phone I have ever had for sure.
[Xperia Z2 General] LeGendAry SHAdow:
Me I have one I rooted it and unlocked bootloader and have existenz rom on marshmallow 6.0.1 and I have a 32gb external SD as internal storage so I have 48gb of free space for apps but 11for OS so its 37gb. And my camera is very good and my phone just blazing fast. Why do I need a new phone? This will be my beast for few next years. I may change it when I feel the need of it or just a big change in phone market happen.
[Xperia Z2 General] droid_ulti:
how did you make external as internal storage ?
[Xperia Z2 General] LeGendAry SHAdow:
Easy but not very good. (*DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK*)First you need a rooted device second you need app2sd I found it on Google play. The one with a blue droid and an external SD image behind the blue droid. Anyways. I just made an adoptable partition of 25gbs because I can't make more than 95% of the SD card as internal. After that you need to reboot and next you need to repair it the same way you created it but this time select repair. NOTE: creating the partition will erase everything on your SD Card even if it was 1 gb partition. Anyways after repairing you can go to storage in your phone settings and tap on the internal storage partition of the SD card theb tap the options menu and migrate data and confirm it. And now you have more storage than normal but not 100% of what you have for example I have 25gbs from the SD and 16 from normal storage. But I don't really have 41gbs of usable space. But I'm sure that I'm using more than 20gb for my apps only. Anyways some apps may get fps drops or stutter you can move them manually to internal storage (not the partition) to get rid of any stutter in that app. It's not necessarily heavy apps that gets that stutter. For example I had a light game that has stutter and gta sa hasn't any of it.

Thanks, (*DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK*)

If you want to know where did I get that knowledge it started from rooting the device which was from Android doctor youtube channel and I asked him about that and he suggested me to try app2sd it may help and after i've tried it I could make it real that my external SD card works as internal without downgrading to Android 4.0 kikat just wanted to say thanks to him because he helped me in an important thing of mine. I can still type but you'll get bored, good bye my friend.
[Xperia Z2 General] fatguy666:
I used this guide to root stock .291 https://xdaforums.com/z3/general/recovery-root-mm-575-291-lb-t3435214

You will need to install flashtool on your PC but it's easy enough - the only issue in regards to that is you may have to "disable driver signature enforcement" to install the drivers depending on which version of Windows you're using. If you need any help just ask.

Right now I'm running latest eXistenZ ROM (had to do a fresh install from Stock as was having issues) with EliteKernel v3, kernel UV -50mV to reduce some heat and give better battery life.. Also some tweaks to make it more like my XZ which had stock Nougat - latest Xperia Home app + Serajr Xposed + DPI changed to 400. Finished off with Cyberian camera mod and Viper4Android and my Z2 is probably better than the XZ!
[Xperia Z2 General] AndroidXL:
but mine its 6503 those are 66** ...
[Xperia Z2 General] droid_ulti:
i thought it was a mod done by developers , any way i stay away from those apps , they may slow the device.
[Xperia Z2 General] LeGendAry SHAdow:
They do slow the device and those apps also contain annoying ads when you're in the app but if you have low storage you can use them to benefit of external sd cards with lots of storage. i think my problem is only with migrating data which makes everything primarily installed on the external sd which slows the phone because its acting like its holding the OS. Or its mainly slow down caused by the app.
[Xperia Z2 General] Helbelinc:
3 Gigs of RAM, powerful CPU, decent Camera, fairly big battery.

Still better than many phones today.

And it still serves me perfectly well after all these years.
[Xperia Z2 General] reelaax:
Always using it I am not glad with his little storage only but every thing on the board is better than a lot of devices of 2017

Envoyé de mon D6503 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Xperia Z2 General] Aphex33:
Top notch device with amazing build quality and performance. One of Sony's best phones in my opinion.
[Xperia Z2 General] Adriano-A3:
I sold my Z2 and bought Le Max 2

Z2 is a good phone, but mine had poor signal and no fix
[Xperia Z2 General] MasterCrea:
what are the best rom with sony original apps for this phone?
[Xperia Z2 General] kersey:
Just use the latest stock, root and apply tweaks from Kernel Adiator and L Speed and you have the best of both worlds.
[Xperia Z2 General] ssnova:
I'm still using mine as my primary phone. I'm totally stock, using Sony's OTA Marshmallow release. I admit, it's annoying with Sony's Marshmallow release, laggy, slow, buggy, etc. I missed KitKat, man it was very smooth and had amazing battery life with stamina mode on. I had to upgrade though because Kitkat had too many security holes that needed to be patched. I was thinking about rooting since support seemed to have stopped from Sony... but after getting the phone hacked somehow, I'm a bit paranoid to have my primary phone rooted.
[Xperia Z2 General] fribriz:
No degradation in camera even though unlocked?
[Xperia Z2 General] xaadilhx:
Approaching 4 years later, the phone survived with it's faults like call volume, microphone issues. I think it's still mainly water protected with changed flaps.

16gb storage is probably the worst part with apps. Battery is still decent after these years. It's a shame stamina was messed up.

If only there were functional security updates, software improvements, battery & storage improvements, I could probably hold out.

Looking for a comparative upgrade, there doesn't yet appear to be a better Sony performer to date without sacrificing water protection, battery, speakers or other functions.

Why not improve on a fairly successful device, who knows, I'm learning to the a8 2018 or another Samsung with better battery life but it's a struggle to find a decent value replacement.
[Xperia Z2 General] 60Dan06:
Yes, I will, it's still a very decent phone. Great look, big battery, good performance and even the camera is still good. No reason 4 change
[Xperia Z2 General] ibrahime:
best phone for my .. best buy on 2018 ,best hardware ,,best design ,and reeally realy love it quality
[Xperia Z2 General] LeGendAry SHAdow:
depends

with just unlocking i don't see any bad thing but when i installed resurrection remix nougat i just felt how terrible the camera became. in existenz i had cyberan cam 88.0 so its features are superior than normal camera. for me the hdr is working in cyberian cam 8.0 but it jst sucks even before unlocking device. for now i will install multiple roms untill i succeed or i'm returning to marshmallow probably existenz so i can get my favorite mods back. because on rr nougat its fine and better battery and clean OS but still lacks mods . only flashlight mod and a sound mod that wasn't very good worked on Nougat. if you need mods marshmallow is best if you know mods for nougat don't even stay on marshmallow. anyways if you don't need to unlock bootloader you don't have to. i think it might be possible to backup drm keys or something similar or restore them if you did lose them (restoring isn't as good as original anyways) in my case i can't stay at stock i need to learn and need some functions that are normally locked without mods.
[Xperia Z2 General] xaadilhx:
Mainly I wish I could change my battery, get a new custom Rom to operate stably as the official marshmallow, with similar functions, nfc, android pay and some banking apps.

The battery I can manage but I suspect for the others I might be better off getting a new phone with oreo, and about the headache ?

Thoughts approaching 4 years of use?
[Xperia Z2 General] L3ibnitZ:
Hello,

the Xperia z2 ist and will always be a great phone.

Two weeks ago I lost my z2 (the white version) and a few hours later it began to snow and i had no chance to find it.

Now the snow is almost gone and a friendly person found it and cantacted me (one ofe the ice contacts).

I had no hope that it will be found and no hope that it will be functional or in a good condition.

(That's why I bought a redmi note 4 in the meantime)

But it was in a great condition. No water damage.. nothing.

I don't think that there are many phones that survive two weeks in the snow. The developers are on it, to bring the software of the phone to the year 2017/18 and I don't think that official marshmallow is that bad. And the power of the hardware is not outdated in my opinion there is plenty of power for everyday tasks and games.

In my opinion the z2 is still an awesome phone and I wouldn't have bought a new one if I would not have lost it for two weeks.
[Xperia Z2 General] Mohamad Serwan:
YES because it works perfectly fine
[Xperia Z2 General] a_wolfie:
I can't help you with the other stuff, but I changed my Z2 battery and it was not too hard. There are plenty of online guides to walk you through it. Just be careful when pulling of the glass back. Again, I thought it was worth the $10 (battery) and 45 minutes of my time to do.
[Xperia Z2 General] Adam15114:
My z2 is my "home" phone that i use for music etc. If the cameras could be upgraded I'd probably switch back to it as my main phone. Great design and battery life.
[Xperia Z2 General] brooker88:
Yep because it still works great although im still running LP as not sure how/if unlocking bootloader is possible when bootloader says "No" next to it. Tried guides but always failed
[Xperia Z2 General] matekns:
almost 4 years and it's working fine, so why not. You have stable android 7.1 and even oreo but slighty less stable. For me new flagships still not worth buying over my z2.
[Xperia Z2 General] 19iceman32:
Hi, what nougat ROM are you using?
[Xperia Z2 General] matekns:
LineageOS 14.1, but i see that is no longer available
[Xperia Z2 General] 19iceman32:
Yeah, link is already down. Was only wondering if someone had mirrored the link
[Xperia Z2 General] kanekanekane:
I am still using my Z2.

It performs allot slower than it used too. Probably due to apps using more Ram than they used too.

I have my eye on the ZX2, but don't want to be an early adopter, I will wait a month or to for the builds to improve.

I love the build quality of Sony phones, they simply just last a long time.
[Xperia Z2 General] wadoo24:
Great phone, great battery life, great performance, great rom tnx to developer. I am use him as my premery phone.

The con he overheating when you used him for long
[Xperia Z2 General] AMiR FiFTY:
ty
[Xperia Z2 General] sajeevasd@gmail.com:
High quality hardware.. and good software support
[Xperia Z2 General] thelegendy:
Good software? Which software? :confused: :confused:
[Xperia Z2 General] neo4u44:
Once you get a hang of a flagship like Z2, you won't go back on budget phones and buying a new flagship is expensive. Except this phone is now almost 4 years old, I have no other plausible reason to replace it. It is still working like a work horse and its camera is still pretty amazing.
[Xperia Z2 General] kcajjones:
I'm using mine as a TV box with Kodi and an MHL 3.0 adapter.

My only problem is I can't get Magisk working on it. Anyone managed it on stock 23.5.A.1.291?
[Xperia Z2 General] casualxperian:
Yes, I bought it this year because I like the perfect combination of design and functionality. It's an old model, but.. "Old, but not obsolete"(c) ;)

Loving every moment of my Z2 experience!
[Xperia Z2 General] Fead:
Continue using the Z2

Thanks to the xda developers, I keep using the Z2, they're doing really good work, multi rom my favorite application camera is enough ram enough to design the best
[Xperia Z2 General] heyumf:
My back up phone
[Xperia Z2 General] scorpion040:
Play PUBG Mobile

Hey. I can play PUBG Mobile on my z2 using a low setting.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Guides, News, & Discussion] harshu0101:
I tested Android Oreo's pip and it works for some apps. And since many are saying that it doesn't work, I'll add some screenshots to show that its working. It worked for me with VLC, Video Calling(whatsapp, Duo), Chrome & web Youtube.

For Youtube you need to click on "desktop site" in chrome then play any video in full screen after that press home screen, it'll work.

For VLC, open any video in full screen, click options and select Pip icon and press home screen. As for video calling, it works with Whatsapp video call and Duo.

Screenshots:-

https://i.imgur.com/v4rMlkr.png

https://i.imgur.com/OR39T0v.png

https://i.imgur.com/u2LWlrJ.png

https://i.imgur.com/pgbYt6l.png

https://i.imgur.com/szrIi6x.png

https://i.imgur.com/F7hH7YM.png

https://i.imgur.com/F7hH7YM.png

https://i.imgur.com/I555Gwc.png

https://i.imgur.com/7C7Kx4V.png
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Guides, News, & Discussion] skroder:
Also, for PIP to work with the YouTube app, you need to have a YouTube Red subscription.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Guides, News, & Discussion] DetmL:
Not all apps support PiP. To check which app supports PiP go Settings > Apps & notifications > Advanced > Special App Access > Picture in Picture
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Guides, News, & Discussion] sanketnaik:
YouTube PIP isn't working for me
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Guides, News, & Discussion] NITRO_100:
Because you probably don't have Youtube Red.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Guides, News, & Discussion] joeyhuab:
Look for IYTBP YouTube app on XDA. There are rootless versions. Install them so you can use it with PiP without YouTube Red.

Found the link: https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-iytbp-injected-youtube-background-t3560900
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_spear:
I have a problem with my mom's Samsung galaxy i9300, ever since it's latest official firmware update 2 years ago (firmaware ver I9300XXUGNB6 ), Open VPN stopped working on it , nothing seems to fix the problem, i tried resetting , uninstalling and reinstalling apps, nothing works, every time I try to connect it I receive an error ,error log says problem might be related to the TUN driver, I tried rooting the device ), installed TUN driver through TUN.ko Installer app , nothing worked ,

, for my paid openvpn subscription, I have to use openvpn for android by Arne Schwabe ( I can't put on a link to the app since I am a new user )

error log attached in photo.

it looks like some native Open vpn components are missing from this firmware, my doubt grew bigger when I started browsing some "custom ROMs " for my galaxy and noticed most ROM developers mentioning "OPENVPN support" as one of the "features" their ROMS offered ,

does anyone own any information about this problem ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shivadow:
Old client not compatible with servers?.