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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] adz3d:
Can't you add the app to game tuner or game launcher (not sure which one) and disable notifications?

I guess it at least works when whatsapp is open.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Edutera:
The only way to solve this is installing an older whatsapp version (prior to oreo) ... I did it and now is working perfectly...

There is a bug with whatsapp and the notifications channels...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Hersilo:
there is no error, and google does not do something without being able to customize its options and more referring to notifications.

To disable the pop-up window go to "Settings> Notifications> (go down until you find whatsapp) enter> enter group notifications and message notifications> importance> select" High "(which is just sound).

By default it is in Urgent (which is sound and pop-up window on the screen).

I hope that is the solution that several users are looking for. Greetings.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] al3x1980:
Anyway to disable notification bar contents as well or disable notification bar in general and get some sort of icon on the top showing there is something to whatsapp related.. going to be honest my wife sometimes sends me some subjective material and I don't want the world to see.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] RobHaines:
Notification seeting reverts back

Hi

I followed the steps

"To disable the pop-up window go to "Settings> Notifications> (go down until you find whatsapp) enter> enter group notifications and message notifications> importance> select" High "(which is just sound).

By default it is in Urgent (which is sound and pop-up window on the screen)."

But when the next WhatsApp message come in it reverts to Urgent by itself , even if you turn off notifications completely.

Same for others?:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] abdulai123:
Same thing here. I've done that countless of times. Instead of Urgent, I set it to low because I don't want any sound, and for sure not that super annoying dropdown notification that appears on screen.

All I want, is a little whatsapp symbol on top letting me know there is a message, or if customized that way, a blinking light when a message comes in. Silent.

But to no avail, it always gets back to "Urgent".

I'll try medium now.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Fran1o86:
Anyone found a solution for this? I have the same issue, soon as i get a whatsapp message it reverts the notification settings! So frustrating!

EDIT: Okay I found something that works for me. In the Settings > Notifications > Whatsapp, I set the profile to be "High", and it hasn't overwritten my changes yet, no popup anymore.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] fffeLix:
Couldn't find the same importance level under the WeChat setting mentioned sad, why is that some app like WhatsApp has these setting while others don't
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] 3thman:
No matter what I do I still get the pop up notifications once I receive a new message
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Tinsung:
Setting the Importance to 'High' worked for me to stop WhatsApp heads up. I have Samsung Note 8 on Oero 8.0.

Thank you thank you thank you. Been doing my head in since getting my Note 8.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] al3x1980:
can anyone post the whatsapp version pre oreo that doesn't have the notification bug issue?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] DesChips:
Setting the importance to "high" solves part of the problem since it disables pop-ups. But that doesn't solve the vibration/sound problem...

Setting it to "medium" or "low" doesn't work since it will revert back to "high" after the next message I receive.

So there's currently no way to solve this : I either get full notifications from WhatsApp (vibration on each message, including group messages, okay no pop-up but 300 vibrations per day is quite annoying), or I disable all WhatsApp notifications and then I don't get anything... Retarded design

It's seriously bugged as hell... Was super fine in Nougat (using Galaxy S7 edge)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] tdfeeser:
Ok
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] VictorML:
Hasn't this been solved yet? Why the hell does WhatsApp override the settings in the notification channels after you change them? How can this even be allowed by the OS?

I've been facing the same issue for months. I want my group chats to be set to "low" importance and my private messages to "high", which works perfectly fine with Telegram. But WhatsApp keeps reverting the settings no matter what I do.

Any way to solve this?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] toooby:
Exact same problem here, super annoying.

This. Unbelievable....
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Kris the wizz 15:
What I've found is you have to disable the pop up notifications for both normal chats and group chats within Whatsapp itself, otherwise it'll always override the settings you're applying in android settings.

You'll find them in Whatsapp >> Settings >> Notifications

You've got to disable 'Use high priority notifications' both under 'message notifications' and 'group notifications'
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Waancho:
Hi.

Can somebody explain to me how i can install a ROM, and choosing not to install certain apps that come with it.

For example, i want to install AospExtended, but it comes with AOSP-versions of calendar, clock, dialer etc.

I wish to use the Google-versions instead.

If i just install the ROM with GAPPS, i get both Google and AOSP versions of the aforementioned apps.

If i then uninstall the AOSP versions, the GAPPS versions do not work properly.

Thanks in advance.:good:
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] jawz101:
You can use the OpenGapps Aroma installer to replace the stock apps or use your own advanced config file to remove stock versions of apps. The Aroma installer is the easier way but creating a config file isn't too difficult

https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/wiki/Advanced-Features-and-Options
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Waancho:
Excellent, that was what i was looking for, editing the config file. Thanks!
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] kanej2006:
Your other way is to use Titanium Backup, amazing app in which you can easily freeze or remove unwanted apps. As long as you are rooted you can remove any unwanted apps.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] cfclay:
I bought the phone from Sprint and used it for Sprint; then now Cricket. Sprint has terrible service here; I roamed for days sometimes traveling for work. I would swear the phone freezes and lags more when you are in that funk area of having no service or poor service.

Most of my freezes are when I'm driving; that's most of my phone use anyway. I've used app killers and memory boosters, and I keep reading that those actually do more harm.

I have an iphone for work and it never freezes; and my best android experience was with a Huawei Honor 8; it had no freeze to speak of.

Is it the phones hardware, how it plays with apps, or does it just need more ram, or are there bad/buggy apps? It's not uncommon for me to use Waze, Uber Driver, Glympse, and an app that either plays audio, or sometimes video like DirecTV. It will almost always freeze.

I've done resets and restores. Wonder if a fresh reset and reinstall of apps would have any good effect?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] indian84:
Do not use any app killers or memory booster. They do more harm then benefit.

If you are on Nougat, update to Oreo Beta 3. Or wait for a few days. Essential will be pushing 8.1 beta soon, hopefully within this week.

I use Waze everyday, and have never had freezes. I'm running OB3.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] cfclay:
Thanks for the suggestions,it just seems like beta builds, for someone who uses the phone to make money (where you need 100 reliability), are not the best choice.

I'm not saying Waze is an issue, that's just one of several apps that o have open during the problem times. When I do use the ram boosters they typically indicate they are finding almost 1 gb to free up.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] indian84:
FREE RAM is wasted RAM. As per feedback here and in other forums, Oreo Beta builds have been much more reliable than Nougat builds.

I never ran Nougat, so can't compare unfortunately. But OB2 and OB3 has been rock solid for me.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] cfclay:
Hmm. Maybe I'll give it shot tonight. Can you go back to nougat if it doesn't do well. For that matter when will the production build of Oreo be out?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] indian84:
I would suggest you wait for a few days. Apparently Essential has fixed a lot of bugs in 8.1 beta. They did mention that the may release it within this week. If you don't feel comfortable on Beta, you can go back to Nougat, but you will loose your data.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Jank4AU:
[MENTION=5575664]cfclay[/MENTION] - Today, in order to help combat sluggishness and choppy scrolling, I turned on Force GPU rendering in developer options. It's helped in my opinion. That's usually a setting developers use when testing, but since this is more or less a test build, I figured I'd give it a shot. I also changed my transition animation settings to .5x from 1x. While that won't help smoothness, if you're getting laggy experience it may help speed some things up a bit for you. May be worth a shot and may just give the perception things have improved, but overall I've been very pleased with the performance of the oreo beta 3 release.

[MENTION=4570506]indian84[/MENTION] - where is everyone getting this information that oreo 8.1 beta may come out on friday (I've seen that mentioned in several places) or in the next few days. The only thing I can find is where Essential just said they were skipping 8.0 to jump straight to 8.1. Can you point me to where timeframes have been mentioned? Thanks in advance.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] cfclay:
Hey, I sideloaded Essential Phone Oreo Beta 3 (OPM1.170911.254 and I have a dumb question- how can you tell it applied. There were no errors on the computer, but I think there may have been something on the phone that said installation aborted, just barely noticed before I chose to reboot.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Jank4AU:
[MENTION=5575664]cfclay[/MENTION] - Easy, go to settings, system, about phone, and look at the build number.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] cfclay:
I have NMK24B
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] indian84:
That's not Oreo.. You are still on Nougat..
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Jank4AU:
Should have the build you were trying to flash if it was successful, like at the bottom of my screenshot.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] runsoverfrogs:
So going back to your original issue. Sprint did cause the phone to lag and do weird things. That was a given. I was able to get out and use TMobile. the difference is night and day. I do want to point out that cricket caps it's lte speeds at 8mbits, this is from having cricket before and it would sometimes drop to 3 and 4 is more consistent. I'd check the snrs and the speed you're getting from cricket , in 2018 8mbit cap feels a little low
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] cfclay:
I'm on the unlimited 2 plan and getting 3 Mbps lol. Still, works beautifully compared to Sprint. I do see your point though. This is my first month to try this service, and I've used about 10gb a week and it works just fine, so I'm sticking to it.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] cfclay:
Here's the error I get when trying to sideload the Beta Build 3. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?View attachment 4415714
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] indian84:
You on January security patch.

Hence that error..

You have to wait for beta update..
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] rignfool:
Not to burst your bubble...

But effing with the GPU does not fix the issue... It's just your rose colored glasses...

Neither performance for the governor... Nor any setting in developer options will fix it...

Though if it works for you... Good...
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Jank4AU:
Yeah, it hasn't fixed anything.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] LordLugard:
The lag and freezes has nothing to do with being on Sprint versus being on Cricket or any other carrier. I get the random freezes and lags too and it's really frustrating. The phone throttles and unthrottles itself at random times with no rhyme or reason. I'm all stock, not rooted, no beta software and the phone would stutter, lag, freeze while i'm doing something mundane. Also touchscreen issues at times.

I already have (had) my device setup the way i want, so not interested in starting all over just to try/test out beta software. I'll just wait for the official Oreo to drop.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] cfclay:
Certain apps seem to really cause problems. I reset my phone and installed most of the apps again. When you connect carplay and use another GPS app like glympse, it can be a complete dumpster fire. Locked up on me twice today
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] manr1mg:
Awesome! I Had an memory booster app, took it off and my phone responds way better now. Thank you!
[Xolo Q3000] iammrugesh:
Rom:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n6Ksm0tHlGZx0kG9FLIHASfsjSls4Kze/view

Port patch:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7f-pYTY_SYsdUFxb3FjWlpXSjg/view

I am not try it...so flash and post review.
[Xolo Q3000] A_M_D_1:
thanks will try and review
[Xolo Q3000] A_M_D_1:
great bro awesome like before!?
[Xolo Q3000] KD shashwat:
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[Xolo Q3000] A_M_D_1:
yeah! we are using xolo q3000 to its

fullest because of this rom(miui):svetius:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] AwkwardUberHero:
New to the world of Pixel phones, but love my device so far. Battery life is great, camera is superb, and a welcome change from my iPhone to the world of Android. I did a bit of digging, but did not find an exact answer, so I wanted to post this question up.

I have recently started using Substratum, along with the Swift Dark theme. While it looks beautiful on my device, I am seeing an increase in depletion of my battery. I have been using it for about four days now. While I have not ran any graphs or done extensive measuring on the device, it seems like I was losing an average of 6% battery per hour. Installed the theme yesterday, charged fully and unplugged at noon-ish. Used Pocket Casts on the drive home for 40 minutes, normal browsing on device, instagram etc and camera once or twice. When I checked around 7PM, I was at 63% battery.

Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong, or is there a fine tuning that I need to do while using Substratum? While I dig the dark look, I would rather have a battery that doesn't drain as fast.

Without Substratum, I can usually unplug at 730AM at full charge, and have about 60-70% battery when I get home at 5pm or so.

Thanks, appreciate all the users and bevy of info on this site.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
I use the same theme as you. Have never had any battery drain from a theme at all. Having said that, if your themeing any social media apps, you might start there and disable them. It could be a possibility. Any apps that have a native "dark mode" I don't theme them. That's my 2 pennies worth :good:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] AwkwardUberHero:
That is a good idea. I will start there and see what I can find out. I have not tried to theme many of the social media stuff yet, but will start removing items that already have a dark mode.

Thanks again.:good:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] MrBrady:
I've always wondered (and thought) the same thing, but the answer I receive from the community has been a resounding "no", especially with dark themes as they save a bit of battery with our types of screens. However, I'm still not convinced. Sometimes not only does the device seem to deplete the battery faster, but it also seems to not be as fluid.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] AwkwardUberHero:
I totally understand that. I am still trying to get used to this Android thing again after being on iOS for years. While I love a good jailbreak, the openness and creation that you can do with Android has always had my ear.

I have enabled Swift Dark again now, and not enabled it for Instagram, WhatsApp, Spotify or XDA Labs, as Badger suggested about them having their own dark modes.

I still have issues understanding what we can do in Substratum, but from what I can grasp so far, I like it.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Prattham:
Intresting

I'm using swift black and 4 other themes for specific overlays since it themes 90% ofr the apps that i use

I'll disable the overlay and test it without it, tbh i also feel like this sometimes
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
Now fluidity, that's a different beast. To that I would give a resounding yes! There are some heavy duty themes out there that will cause a definite UI lag when opening certain apps. The Swift dark/black/white themes aren't in that mix from personal experience though. But it's definitely not your imagination ?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] AwkwardUberHero:
Which items would you suggest I theme with Substratum? I am currently running the theme on the System UI, as well as the google services. Instagram is disabled, Whats APP, XDA, Spotfiy etc.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
I think your in good shape. Again, anything that has a native dark mode, leave alone. I do most everything you mentioned, I don't touch chrome or maps though. Also, just an FYI. When you get updates from play store that are currently themed, you may find them force closing on you because the theme hasn't been updated for those apps yet. So either don't update them, or just disable that particular overlay in the substratum manager ?
[Android Apps and Games] Avedik:
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Fly on a spaceship, dodging asteroids, rescue lost astronauts, exchange them for currency, gain more points, break records, unlock new cards and bonuses ! Prove that you are the best!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] dedq:
I have come across like this for the first time in my life, I just can't believe it that it's impossible to install custom recovery and that the phone lags if the user is granted root permissions.Is there something one can do to manage to flash custom recovery, do I have to unroot my phone if I want to get my performance back ?

Thanks !
[General Questions and Answers] Amante10101:
Hi.

I am totally new to this site and app developing in general. I used the above method (ty AL) to modify the Swiftkey Keyboard app and now just need to re-sign the apk and install it on my device ( ZTE Blade Z Max) I googled how to and found Android Studio, i just am having trouble using it I guess. Im just starting to learn how to modify/develop android apps.

If anyone knows how or can offer up another method for re-signing please help! Much appreciated and tyvm.

Amante
[General Questions and Answers] Thebear j koss:
Try the file explorer MiXplorer found here on xda. It has an apk signing add on feature. It is the my favorite and 1 of the best file managers available. Easily the best for free.
[General Questions and Answers] Amante10101:
Tyvm ill try it out.
[General Questions and Answers] Amante10101:
So I installed MiXplorer (totally awesome app btw) and MiX signer but how exactly do you use it to sign, doesnt seem very straight forward and cant find a how to on google.

Amante
[General Questions and Answers] Thebear j koss:
You need to install the Signer add on. Settings--->add one. After that, long press your apk you want to sign hit settings button, then scroll to sign. Choose with automatic i believe. Refer to the MiX FAQ thread. Link located in OP of MiX thread.
[General Questions and Answers] Amante10101:
Im a retard lol, never occured that i could scroll the elipsis menu. Thanks a ton bro.
[General Questions and Answers] Amante10101:
Signing worked! fantastic.

Decided I wanted to change more of the sounds in swiftkey to have a couple more themes with the original one i modified so I went through the 7zip process described in an earlier thread, except this time when i did it it didnt replace the mp3 sound files in the apk with the waves I wanted to substitute. This time it just added the .wav(s) to the apk while leaving the .mp3(s) there along with them. seems wierd. I changed the names of the .wav(s) to the same as the ones i wanted to replace, right clicked folder and hit add to archive. Selected drop down menu and selected apk and made sure store was the option selected and zip was the method selected. No go. Any suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] Amante10101:
Nvm I got it, some of the sound files for sound themes in apk are .wav some are .mp3. Just made them mp3 and it worked

someone must have got lazy/didnt need to organize w/e when creating the app. lol.

My first app project complete. yeah!

:cool::cool::cool:
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Gailardia:
Good morning. I BELIEVE my V20 was still rooted when this happened. I gave my phone to a friend to use, she updated it when it said there was an update. After she updated and she restarted the phone then it started the bootloop. I cannot get into recovery and when I try to enter download mode then it does what you see in the video. Does anybody know what I can do. The only mode that I can get to is fast boot. Even doing a factory reset does not work. Thank you in advance for all of your help. View attachment 4414322
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Gailardia:
Is there no one who is able to help me with this issue?
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] runningnak3d:
You say you were rooted. Have you checked to see if you still have fastboot flash available? If you don't, then no, there is nothing you can do if the phone won't completely boot to download mode.

There are 3 ways to fix an Android phone:

1 - download mode (if you have a KDZ) -- but your phone won't boot into it

2 - recovery (if you have TWRP) -- You say it was wiped by the OTA

3 - fastboot (if you have fastboot flash available) -- This is your last hope.....

If you have none of those, then only LG can fix your phone.

-- Brian
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] suhridkhan:
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[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Gailardia:
I am still able to get in to fastboot but I am not super familiar with fastboot as I am with download mode and recovery. When I boot in to fastboot mode, how should I then proceed?

To suhridkhan:

The issue is that the download screen shows for about half a second and then bootloops. It is like this every time.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Gailardia:
Does any have a factory image for a TMobilw lgv20 so that I can flash my phone with?
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Gailardia:
So I found a factory image and have tried to fastboot Flash a system image, recovery image and nothing is working. As you can see from the picture, the area which I'm getting saying unknown command. Does anyone have any ideas?View attachment 4419209
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Gailardia:
Anyone able to assist with this matter?
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Gailardia:
Anybody at all?!
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] ivoh95:
Try using fastboot commands to get into recovery or download mode?
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Gailardia:
I have tried. See my posts about the download mode and fastboot mode.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Gailardia:
Ok, well I guess I will just have to wrap up this forum as no one seems to have or know a answer. So I will just toss the phone. Thanks anyway.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Still_living714:
People have moved on from the v20. Only a few remain and apparently no one has had your issue. Sorry I couldn't help but don't give up, good luck
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] runningnak3d:
The engineering aboot was overwritten by the OTA, so no, there is nothing you can do except send the phone to LG ot hope that one of the firehose methods works.

-- Brian
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Gailardia:
Yeah I know. I myself have moved on to the Note 8. It is just always good to have a back up.