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[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] Surfinette:
Hello,

I'm in France where Huawei has decide to release only the pro (and lite) version of the Mate 10.

Coming from Mate 9 (which I love), I want to upgrade to Mate 10 standard (notably for its upgraded camera) but not to the Mate 10 Pro, because I hate the screen ratio of the Pro (tested on a friend's phone) and the absence of audio jack.

Anyone understand Huawei commercial restriction over the standard version of Mate 10?

Is the standard Mate 10 available in other European countries (such as the UK)?

Do you know how I could purchase one (L29 version), while still being entitled warranty?

I'm so upset with this marketing strategy.... Do you think Huawei will come to it sense and will eventually release the standard Mate 10 more widely?

It's probably a lost battle, but is there a petition going on on this request?

I wrote to Huawei support about the availability of standard Mate 10 in France but they didn't care answering me... Is there any influential website where Huawei may listen to its customers?
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] Cephalus:
I'm in Australia where both the Mate 10 and the Mate 10 Pro are available, but I still opted to buy mine directly from China because their market is the only one which has the higher-end Mate 10 (non-Pro) with 6Gb RAM and 128Gb storage (i.e., the ALP-AL00). All of the suppliers I've seen on AliExpress perform re-branding to ALP-L29 prior to shipping, and the OTA firmware upgrade I received today confirms that Huawei's servers are treating my 'phone as a genuine unit.

Of course, purchasing from China won't give you local warranty - so if anything goes wrong during the warranty period, you'll have to send it back to China for repair/replacement - but the cost saving was big enough for me to justify the potential gamble. I paid a little over AUD$960 (about 627 Euros) for mine including DHL delivery from this seller and I was so happy that I ordered another one for my son.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahc10:
Hello,

I want to buy an android phone with the only purposes to:

1. Root it

2. Use an auto clicker app or write a script to auto click.

What phone do you suggest considering: price and difficulty to root?

Thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] storm_99:
By using kingroot
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s3tupw1zard:
Hello guys,

im trying to port the halium project on the galaxy s4 jfltexx.

Now i want to verify if the local manifest is matching so i can build it from source.

Can anyone verify if its right or correct it if its not matching.

im using the source from the halium docs: Vendor from TheMuppets, Device specific source code from Lineageos and the kernel from lineageos, too.

So heres my local manifest:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
<project path="android_device_samsung_jfltexx" name="android_device_samsung_jfltexx" remote="los" revision="cm-14.1" />
<project path="device/samsung/jfltexx" name="android_device_samsung_jfltexx" remote="los" revision="cm-14.1" />
<project path="proprietary/vendor/samsung" name="proprietary_vendor_samsung" remote="them" revision="cm-14.1" />
<project path="android/kernel/samsung/jf" name="android_kernel_samsung_jf" remote="los" revision="cm-14.1" />
</manifest>

Thanks in advance!:D
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah Zahawy:
I've purchased my XZ Premium 2 months ago, i had no problems with it so far great performance, incredible HDR screen, with Android 7.1 nougat on board, and updated it to Android 8.0 oreo the performance got even better. but i noticed a problem after receiving a small update in January 2018, in playbacking some videos on Sony's video app, the issue is whenever i play an mkv video formats the video gets laggy as hell, first i thought the phone doesn't support this format or something like that, but when i tried to to play another regular mkv videos the same issue occur, I got frustrated then i tried to play the movies that I watched month ago it had the same issue, before it was playing fine now it's laggy, i was like "what the hell is going on", I've lots of videos with different formats and resolutions, my XZ Premium can play 4K and 4K HDR content h264 and h265 codecs just fine, but when playing some 1080p video that is mkv / wbem format h264 or h265 the video gets laggy, even playing 720p videos, the problem don't occur with mp4 files only on mkv videos, it's so annoying.*

Imagine the phone can run 4k with no problems but lags when playing 720p videos, lol what the f*** is going with this phone really?.

My old Xperia Z with Android 4.4.4 kitkat can run the video without lags but my new XZ Premium lags, lol this new update totally ruined my new phone for good, I'm a big fan of Sony Xperia phones my first Android phone was an Xperia and the last phone I've purchased is an Xperia.

Plus: my friend had the same problem on his Xperia Z5 Premium, when he updated his phone from Android 6.0 (marshmallow) to Android 7.0 (nougat), I downgraded it to 6.0 and the problem* gone, i really wanna know why is this happening with the new Xperia updates.

Here's a video sample of the issue I'm talking about.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/t95l8ls1uj9siy0/2018_01_17_11_51_35.mp4
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] xrenoix:
HELLO test this best player :

MX PLAYER look here: free version https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad&hl=fr

or paid version pro: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro

Codec mx player here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.ffmpeg.v7_neon
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah Zahawy:
Thanks, I'm already using it, playing videos on H/W+ feature,

But this way the X-Reality pro won't work, if i play it on the normal H/W the video gets laggy again, as I was say this problem occurred after the update, I'm just waiting for a fix or update to fix this issue, or I'm downgrading to Android 7.1.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] kevinhecox99:
i didn't get any lag at all, i previously owned a XZ and still do, latest Android flavour and not a single problem... hmmm
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] xrenoix:
Test this new Firmware https://xdaforums.com/xz-premium/how-to/firmware-g8141-47-1-12-34-flashtool-0-9-t3736217 !

Test with full wipe sélect All case in Flashtool
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah Zahawy:
Mine is G8142, the dual sim version.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah Zahawy:
I have no problem with it too, this issue is just with playing some mkv videos, like I said, it can run 4k HDR videos without lags.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] FRiC_xda:
MX Player is problematic for me if I use HW+, I have to use either HW or SW. But the problems aren't lagging, but more like frames not getting decoded properly.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] xrenoix:
OK i upload for your dual G8142 ;)!!! ?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah Zahawy:
Yeah, exactly if it was laggy really then i would hear the audio stops for seconda and resumes, but this time the audio is playing just finel, the only thing that's lagging is the video, like you said it probably the frames aren't decoding property or something similar to that
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah Zahawy:
Thanks I really appreciate your help, but before I flash out my OS, i wanna know if you have the same kind of problem or are certain this is the way to fix it, you know I've some important data (app data) and i don't want to lose it, and it's OK of I just flash it without wipe out the user data.

BTW mind if you tell me what region it is? The firmware i mean.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] xrenoix:
This is customised RU !!! ? save your app in your Phone in setting or with Xperia compagnon !!! I have no problèm vidéo for this moment !!!
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah Zahawy:
I've flashed the firmware but the issue didn't get fixed.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyh:
As I am sure all Alcatel Idol 3 owners noticed by now, Alcatel have, over the last year or so, released on Google Play "updates" for most of their builtin software - the launcher, file manager, radio player, photo gallery, calendar and more - with what is, if I can be blunt - malware, updates whose only intention is to show you ads and notifications (whereas the original applications, obviously, did not have ads) which you have no way of disabling, and who knows what else.

I avoided this crap by "uninstalling" the updated applications and getting back the preinstalled versions.

BUT, today I started getting on all my Alcatel Idol phones (I have 3 of them!), OTA Android update. And I'm worried what would happen if I click it. Will I get the "updated" (malicious) versions of all the builtin applications with no way to revert them?

Does anyone have an experience with the new OTA update that came out yesterday? Can you tell me if after the update, the "joy launcher", "file manager", etc., are decent versions or the crappy versions which show ads?

P.S. Alcatel, you guys are idiots. I love your phones, and in the past bought 5 of them, but I'll *never* buy another phone from you because of this malware issue.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mankann:
I know that feeling, bros :rolleyes:

Actually, I managed to uninstall built-in apps using adb shell, which was described in the discussion about Debloater (the app itself did not work after Marshmallow update):

pm uninstall --user 0 com.package.name

(this uninstalls system apps for the current user, so that they cannot be launched, do not notify about their updates in Google Play, and this works without root)

Dear nyh, what is your region and phone model (like, 6045K or 6039Y or with other letter in the end)? Here in Belarus (Eastern Europe), my 6045Y does not notify of any update (current system version 6.0.1-010 20).
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyh:
I have the 4.7" model 6039S, and three more phones of the 5.5" model, I don't remember now their model number.

What I'm running now appears to be Android 6.0.1 build number "1BGD-UED2". I don't know how this relates to your number. I noticed the "update" program tells me the new version is "0100020" which is suspiciously close to the number you said, maybe it's the same. With your version, does "uninstalling" the "Joy Launcher" (and other) applications to get back to the preinstalled one, gets you a decent version, or one with ads?
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mankann:
Ah, I understand now. It seems that your phone wants to update to the version that removes fastboot commands (so I suggest you triple-think and triple-check before upgrading).

"Uninstalling" system apps does not revert them to preinstalled versions, it makes them completely unavailable until hard reset (they are only listed in Settings labeled with "Disabled for current user" and cannot be run). If you decide to do this, you should first install some alternative apps (like Nova Launcher, Google Calendar etc), or else you won't be able to boot and use your phone.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichmoimeyo:
I have the Idol 3 5.5 6045l(USA) Android 6.0.1 Build number 7VGE-UEE1.

I am reluctant to install the OTA I have pending:

______________________________

System update available

010 01 (471.5 MB)

New in this version

Version 7VGS-UES6 includes a security update that fixes Android major security flaw.

Update info:

- Netflix service

- Gameloft games

- UE improvements& bug fixes

______________________________

I am baffled that Alcatel would include Netflix & Gameloft with a major security fix.

After the adware riddled system app updates(that I've reverted to original) I will wait for more information before updating.

I love my phone and was considering buying a back-up or an Idol 4s especially as it seems that the front-facing speakers have been dropped from Alcatel's 2018 lineup.

But the bond of trust concerning system & app updates has been broken.

[Not sure whether one will be able to revert adware riddled system apps after the update]
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mankann:
That's real bad :(

Maybe this "security update" is resolving BlueBorne vulnerability (actually I wrote Alcatel about this, and they told me not to have bluetooth on all the time, wait patiently and install an antivirus which of course I did not do). But Netflix or Gameloft as system (priv-)apps is a no way (I struggled with TWO hidden Facebook services preinstalled on my phone until I found a method to "remove" them, which I described above).

If such an update comes to me (it may take days, weeks or months before it reaches all regions), and if no one installs it, I will do it and report here :)
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PN04:
I was stupid and sleepy and didn't fully check the update notes in depth when I saw it pop-up yesterday, I figured the majority of it was for security and maybe a couple of quality of life improvements like a new lock screen, even the entry about the Netflix app just sounded to me like they were fixing a problem people might have been having with it. suddenly I have and Netflix app I didn't want, a news app, some sort of Alcatel store front and two space wasting games (or at least one game and some gameloft "50 free games thing I have no use for).

I got rid of the apps that could be insta-deleted, and the netflix app can at least be disabled, but the filemanager is by far the worse offender. It's "boost" download and obnoxious UI, not to mention it clutters my notifications and lock screen. I've managed to quiet it down by canceling its access and whatever permissions I could. The fact that it restarts itself after a few seconds is just as irritating even before the reports that it actually may make my phone operate worse. I haven't experienced anything yet aside from the Google Play store crashing once while trying to figure out how to get rid of the update, but that was shortly after doing the factory reset and it's only been a day.

Whats mroe annoying is this now part of their most recent update on Idol 3. It's now impossible to revert or kill this as it's all baked in, not even factory reset will remove it. The new file manager app restarts at every turn, even after Force stop and will not allow you to disable it, and it seems to resist methods of hiding it from the user. I'm still seeking ways of getting rid of it that dont require rooting my phone but at this point it seems like the only possible answer, which is a shame because I was fine not rooting android, this was a really nice phone until they ruined it with this garbage. I know I'm pretty much screwed because My computer doesn't always seem to respond properly to Android stuff for some reason so any attempt to root will probably result in me bricking the thing, and even if I could root I'm not certain I'm comfortable with my phone being that open with other applications like this roaming around not to mention the questions of whether any of my desired apps will respond poorly to my doing it. But I wanted to at least add my voice to the rest that are complaining about this and telling Alcatel this is the last product of their's I'll ever own.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichmoimeyo:
[MENTION=5812978]PN04[/MENTION]

Thank you for your very detailed report. Sorry to hear of the predicament you are now in. It goes without saying that I - thanks to you - will not be updating.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zxcvb2:
have you held down on a notification and hit the (i) and then block notifications?

does it somehow disregard that? that was a new feature added in marshmallow
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PN04:
I have, it takes you to the app notification section where you can reduce it's priority, stop it from peeking and "hide sensitive content" (not sure what that last one means but I turned them all off anyway). As far as I can tell it's teeth are pulled as long as I don't actually start the app or give it any permissions when it asks, but the fact that constantly force stopping it only gets rid of the menu bar on my lock screen for a few seconds and that little stupid broom icon is constantly showing in my bar at the top means it's still an ugly scar on an otherwise nice phone. also App memory usage claims it's used 27 mb in the last 3 hours and I havent' even touched it.

I'll probably be studying up on rooting this weekend.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Taxik89:
Same here, no update for me either thanks to PN04's findings. I have managed to silence the Update app by uninstalling updates on the app and then turning off auto update and notifications. So far so good, no nagging messages about the update. Considering my latest security patch is from Nov 2016, I was not expecting to get any more anyway.

Shame on you Alcatel for ruining an otherwise perfect phone! Maybe i can get one more year on this one. The Xperia XZ1 Compact is looking more and more attractive, apart from the price (native Wifi calling, VoLTE and band 12 on TMO US, stuff that this phone didn't have and start to become more important for me).
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PN04:
Glad it helped. I guess I can take some measure of comfort in that at least.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyh:
The result of the upgrade.

So, I was surprised nobody came up to talk about their experience with the upgrade, so I took a risk and updated two of my Alcatel Idol 3 phones (mine and my son's) to the new update. Like in the old movie, I have good news, bad news, and ugly news:

The bad news was that the application content of the update was just as lousy as I feared it would be. It has the evil file manager and a bunch of other crap applications which spew notifications all the time, spontaneously install applications you never wanted to install, and so on. The strangest thing is that the update claims to add Netflix support, but actually uninstalled the Netflix app that I already had installed, which was very annoying (I had to re-install Netflix, re-download my downloads, and tell Netflix that I don't have the "old" device any more so it will let me download on the "new" one).

Also, the last on the bad list: after using the new system for two days, I haven't found a single thing to be better than the old system. This update doesn't upgrade Android - it's still exactly the same release 6.0.1 as it was before. The "patch level" is listed as November 2017, so maybe it has some security improvements, but I can't really tell.

The good news is that with some considerable effort, I was able to get rid of all of the crap (at least, everything I found so far). There is a new application called "Apps" which installs random crap. You can't uninstall it, but you can "disable" it and it never runs again. The evil file manager you can't uninstall (or disable), but its menu has an option to not send notifications, and then it doesn't. Then I went to the list of applications and uninstalled (luckily, that's possible) a bunch of games and other crap that Alcatel installed for me. If Alcatel had a better track record, I might actually enjoy trying out the new games they installed for me, but as it stands, I was worried about what might happen if I run them - I prefered to uninstall them. Anyway, after doing all that (sorry I don't have more detailed instructions), I am running with the updated Android for two days, and I haven't seen another ad, unexplained notification, or unsolicited application being installed. Hallelujah!

The ugly news is that after two days, I'm starting to worry that this version is less stable than the previous one. In two days I had to reboot my phone at least three times, once it hung during taking a video, once when Netflix suddenly couldn't find my downloaded content, and once when another app suddenly couldn't use the SD card (and a reboot solved these problems). I can't say I never had to reboot my phone, but this seems to be more frequent than I used to do it. I'm not sure this a real new problem or just a string of bad luck - only time will tell.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyh:
What is "fastboot commands", and why should I be worried if they are removed?

This is not my experience... In the Google Play app. For most applications, "Uninstall" lets you really uninstall an app. But for built-in applications, when you "Uninstall" it asks you if you really want to revert to the pre-installed version, and that is actually what happens. This is why I did on my Alcatel Idol 3 for a year before this latest update. In application tray, when you long-press an application, it lets you "uninstall" regular applications, but for built-in application, the uninstall operation is simply missing. I never found any way to do what you describe - "disable for current user". Somebody above suggested this can be done through adb, but I never saw a way to do this in Alcatel's normal UI.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyh:
I wrote above my experience from the upgrade, which you can read, but I have two small comments about your experience:

It's hilarious (or more accurately, sad) how people who already had Netflix installed (like me), their installation got deleted - but for people who never had Netflix, it got installed and made unremovable. Great job Alcatel!

What I did to solve this was to reduce its permissions and more importantly, go into the file manager, go into its "settings", and ask it to stop its notifications. Luckily, it worked, and I never heard from the filemanager again. I don't know if it continues to do evil stuff in the background. It appears it is still running (my app info tells me it has used memory in the last 3 hours), but using "0%" CPU.

Yes, I wonder if someone in TCL lost their marbles with these adware updates... As I said, I bought *five* of these phones - for me, my wife (two phones), mother-in-law and son, and I would have continued to recommend their phones if it weren't for the tricks they started to pull off last year.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mankann:
One of the Alcatel's OTA updates (IIRC, it was from Lollipop to Marshmallow) removed the ability to send fastboot commands to the phone, so that it became very hard to unlock bootloader and install root or custom ROMs. Actually it was already discussed here many times.

You can either use adb shell or you can use shell directly on your phone via apps such as Terminal Emulator (Google Play, F-Droid). Of course you cannot do this within "normal" GUI, because it is designed not-to-be-able-to-break-things ;)