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[LG V20 Questions & Answers] runningnak3d:
[MENTION=3795276]elijah420[/MENTION] What software version were you on before this started? Why does it matter? If you were on ZV7 or earlier, then you can flash a VS995 KDZ in download mode, root it, and then fix your phone. If you were on ZV8 or later, then you still might be able to salvage your phone, but you will have to run firmware from another model since you will not be able to root and flash back to Sprint firmware if you were ARB 1 or later. Better than having a totally busted phone though.

Last possibility is to use the debug firehose that I have, but that is an even bigger unknown than running firmware from another model.

-- Brian
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] not Tony Stark:
Hello Everyone. Sorry Noob here. I just want to ask for help for my "bricked" htc u11. My HTC u11 wont boot after I upgraded it to OREO.

-Phone respond to Power button. But it just give me a blank screen and it vibrates.

-When connected to a charger, phone's screen blinks with battery icon and a lightning icon inside the battery icon. (I assumed it is not charging)

-Phone can enter Fastboot mode only using the button combination and fastboot can detects the device. ADB can't detect the device due to I can't find a way to enable DEVELOPERS option/USB debbuging because phone is dead and not booting to homescreen.

-CAN'T boot to recovery/bootloader/download mode

-Secure state : S-Off

-Device State: RELOCKED

-PC device manager can detect the phone under Android USB Devices as My HTC

I tried to flash TWRP but no luck. It wont boot to recovery. Everytime I choose "Boot to recovery" in Fastboot mode the phones turn off but wont boot to recovery. the phone turns off but after a seconds the screen blinks with the battery icon.

I dont know what to do now. I hope u can help me with this. Thank You in advance. Have a great day ahead!
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] paulpier007:
Hello, let's try and see if anyone can help you.

First of all, you should give us some information on the firmware version you were using before upgrading to Oreo.

Try to restart it in fastbboot and then connect it to the PC and type the following commands:

- fastboot devices (if it works it should recognize the device and continue with the next command);

- fastboot getvar all (tell me the information you see on the line

(bootloader) version-main:

Let us know...
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] not Tony Stark:
Hi thank you for your reply. Yes fastboot recognizes my Device. and heres the getvar all command result.

(bootloader) boot-mode:FASTBOOT

(bootloader) unlocked:no

(bootloader) off-mode-charge:0

(bootloader) charger-screen-enabled:0

(bootloader) battery-soc-ok:yes

(bootloader) version-baseband:

(bootloader) version-bootloader:

(bootloader) variant:MSM UFS

(bootloader) partition-type:cache:ext4

(bootloader) partition-size:cache 0xE000000

(bootloader) partition-type:userdata:ext4

(bootloader) partition-size:userdata: 0xDAD000000

(bootloader) partition-type:system:ext4

(bootloader) partition-size:system: 0xEF000000

(bootloader) secure:yes

(bootloader) serialno:HT73G1800223

(bootloader) product:HTC_Phone

(bootloader) max-download-size:536870912

(bootloader) kernel:uefi

unfortunately I forgot the firmware version before i upgraded to oreo.
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] vegetaleb:
You could try to reflash oreo as you have soff, just grab an OTA file compatible with your cid and flash it in download mode
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] not Tony Stark:
I tried this already but I got an error. I'll try it again and post the error here. And i' ll check also the ota file. thanks for the reply
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] zopostyle:
Just flash you RUU again and you are good to go.
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] vegetaleb:
Most important thing: how did you update to Oreo?

Did you flash an OTA from SD card?

If yes did you pick the proper CID?
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] not Tony Stark:
Thru OTA
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] not Tony Stark:
Im downloading now the RUU. I will update u guys later. thanks for your help.
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] vegetaleb:
Did you check the CID? a wrong CID can bring the phone
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] Snah001:
When going s-off via sunshine app it is only s-off till next reboot. After that it is s-on again and you can't flash firmware till you get to s-off again via sunshine app.

Trying to ruu the device is one way to go.

Send from the amazing HTC U11
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] not Tony Stark:
I downloaded the RUU and trries to flash it via fastboot. I tried the command " fastboot oem rebootRUU " but everytime i do this the phone just shut down and not booting with that black screen with htc logo. Then i need to do the buttons combination again to open the device to fastboot mode. I cant flash the RUU because i cant enter the RUU mode. I tried to flash the rom on fastboot mode and this is the error

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

Invalid sparse file format at header magi

any help guys? Thank you in advance
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] not Tony Stark:
Hello. I upgrsded to OREO officially. on phones settings - update.
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] vegetaleb:
Did you flash a custom bootloader before doign the update? You know like custom bootloader that don't show the warning message when you root your phone.

If so then it's the culprit because you have to flash back stock bootloader before trying a RUU or big OTA like nougat to Oreo.

So for now you have access to download mode?
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] shivadow:
Wrong cid and it won't flash.

Most likely took an ota on a rooted phone. Needs to be flashed back to stock.

*WARNING* do not s-on or relock the bootloader when you want to update. Just flash a signed ruu.zip from the external sdcard and you're good to go. It will unroot but it will leave s-off and unlocked bl alone. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to s-on or lock the bootloader. Doing so will cause more problems than it solves.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] jjchdc:
Hi everyone,

I tried root on this and am trying to go back to stock, but when I flash a factory image I get the following errors. in the CMD.img. In my device manager the phone is showing as a LeMobile Android device!!!??? I've tried installing drivers to see if that would make a differance and it says the latest drivers are already installed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] 1Cubesolver:
The should actually be correct. I've got the same ones on my computer when I boot into the bootloader. Did you verify that the factory image downloaded correctly?
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] cntryby429:
I would let it run for a while. On my last computer (very old) with the og pixel, I swear that flashall.bat would appear to hang at that step for 20 min or more. With my new laptop, it's more like 20 sec
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] Rukbat:
Have you checked Control Panel/Programs and Features for Windows Driver Package - Google, Inc. (WinUSB)? Or are you running some other driver?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] BriniaSona:
Am I able to install Oreo on the Canadian Note 8? Also why does Canada have it's own special Note 8 variant?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] winol:
All those variants, usa, canada, china, korea, are made to meet specific requests from carriers, why exactly? That I dont know
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] BriniaSona:
Ah, doesnt look like the orea update will install onto the n950w variant. ODIN says

"<ID:0/005> Odin engine v(ID:3.1301)..

<ID:0/005> File analysis..

<ID:0/005> Total Binary size: 4494 M

<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

"
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] justinxfan:
The Canadian model is the exact same model as the US model. It just has different firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] BriniaSona:
Oh, looks like I need a better tutorial. I kept getting a thread error like posted above. I'll just wait until july when they release it before the note 9 releases.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] winol:
Take a look:

https://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_site_...news-29997.php
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] GibMcFragger:
Yep. Works fine. I flashed it on mine.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] cheemacool:
Do you have to flash different modem or CSC ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] GibMcFragger:
I flashed the Telus modem and HOME_CSC after (from the latest 7.1.1).

You need to flash your carrier's HOME_CSC or you won't get carrier features such as VoLTE.
[Nexus 6P General] Mister_Magister:
REMOVED
[Nexus 6P General] PawanRockz:
I Don't think this kinda stuff is allowed on this forum.
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] shaolin95:
Hello!

So I am getting my wife the Mate 10 Pro to finally upgrade from her Note 4. While she is not a fan of 18:9 screens (I hate them too) there is not much to choose for OLED and newer phones these days.

I was debating the OnePlus 5T over this but it seems the camera is still better on this one plus the unit looks better to my eyes which is a plus for my wife too.

Just wondering if there are any issues I should know before I buy it.

Thanks
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] Ramid15@gmail.com:
Yes there are many

Don't believe the reviews

The only good thing is the camera

Phone lags

Bad at games

Battery is bad. Don't believe the hype. To make it good u have to use Huawei battery to kill every single app in the background

It suffers when it comes to smoothnes and scrolling

Emui is just BAD

Stereo speakers is a joke. The secondary is extremely low

I believe it's a 800usd phone... U better think Samsung or pixel or even v30 from lg
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] penfold:
Don't listen to the guy above, it's an amazing phone. He must have wandered in from the samsung forum.

I've had samsung, LG, motorola and nexus phones and this is the best by far. I can easily go a full two days without charging regarding the battery life. Emui takes some getting used to but grows on you and gives you full control over the system and apps which stock and other brands do not.

The camera could be better but it is still damn good for a phone and better than most other phones.

As for the 5T I think the main differences are the dust and waterproofing and the battery life, u have to decide if that's worth the extra money.
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] jaseman:
Any phone you buy can have problems! It is the luck of the draw! Just go to any forum you want and read about the problems they "ALL" have. Much of it depends on the phone you actually receive and how you use it!

I have the Mate 10 (non-pro) and I feel that it is superior to the pro version for many reasons that can be found in the spec comparison. I prefer an LCD screen! But either way it all depends on the phone and you. I think mine is the best phone I have ever owned (and I have owned too many to remember) and I have now lost the desire to even look at anything else to possibly replace it for years to come! Also, the way I use it I can go 4 days...yes that is FOUR DAYS between charges. Show me any other phone that can do that!
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] Karl212:
I have a mate 10 pro for a few days now and I can sum it up with two words : thumbs up ! I upgraded from a note 3 (battery dead, my only issue to be honest), and you really feel the difference thanks to the camera, the autonomy and you'll get used to the MIUI quck fast. if not, just change the laucher (NOVA, Microsoft, etc.). It really looks and feels great. The only BS part of it IMAO is the AI thing, you cannot feel it at all. But for all the other aspects, go ahead...
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] Ramid15@gmail.com:
Seriously some owners are just weird and not honest

i am not from Samsung forums (whatever that is) i have the mate 10 since day one it was launched here in Kuwait. The only difference is I prefer to give a true life experience not if I like it or not.

I DARE anyone says it doesn't lag to open champions game for example and video record it and share to prove how smooth it is. Or even scroll in Instagram or Facebook. It feels pathetic.

I DARE anyone to turn on all notifications from social media and emails and show us the battery and how great it is. It won't last 4 hours SOT.

I DARE anyone says it's smooth to compare the scrolling with any other flagship from 2016 not even 2017

I have the OnePlus 5 and in comparison the mate 10 is a heckup joke

I dare anyone says emui does't feel like a stupid copycat version of a Chinese knockoff of iOS

I still owns the device cuz of infrared, PC mood and i like the monochrome camera but to advice someone to own it and spread what's proven to be pure lies is not my cup of tea.
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] Luinwethion:
I have no speed problems or whatsoever, besides there are a few comparison between the 10 Pro and the Pixel 2XL and both are on pair on speed.

Tbh for me EMUI was always nice and smooth, since I tried it the first time on the ascend mate 7, specially when compared with Samsung Experience, although the Note8 seems to bug down much less often.

EMUI does many things its own way, like it's not possible to expand notifications on the lockscreen, neither is it possible to drag the notification shade down from the lock screen.

Although I've found a way to keep background apps working just by putting them on the system exception, some apps specially the ones not optimized for Oreo might still give you headache, between EMUI own battery saver and Oreo's default background app policies, you might find some apps that won't run properly if they need to do stuff on the background.

There is not smart unlock based on location or voice.

As for bugs, the most annoying I have is Bluetooth audio is half broken, AAC codec cannot be selected.

Huawei needs to improve the portrait mode, specially on the front camera.... the Pixel app port does a much better job.

Cameras are amazing, specially if you wanna do things on manual.
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] mikeazores:
My experience with the phone is basically the opposite of yours.

I'm very satisfied with the phone.
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] rogerinnyc:
I upgraded from a Note 4 to the Mate 10 (non-pro) and would do so again. Definitely an adjustment period, but it's speedy and has an amazing battery. Routinely getting 8 hours screen on time and about 2 days of standby. But as others have said, the power management can be over-aggressive, so if you read the forums, there are some apps (like KinScreen) or scrollable calendar widgets that will keep being killed. The Huawei launcher also is useless IMO.

I installed Nova and then rooted, which enabled me to kill the system app Power Genius and I no longer had the apps dying issue, but still had my battery life (especially with a little tweaking using Greenify).

I like the non-pro model better (front finger-print scanner) and it doesn't seem to have the bluetooth sound issues that some are reporting on the pro.
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] mikeazores:
I came from OnePlus 5 and mate 10 pro feels equally smoother. Also I have all the main social apps installed with the Huawei battery manager disabled and I get easily 7 hours sot. A lot better then OnePlus 5.

Don't know about gaming because I'm not a gamer.
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] M4rkzorz:
I don't understand the negative comments... Battery life is highly dependent on what you do. On WiFi you can get 7+h SOT, but when out and about using cellular it will be closer to 5 or maybe 4. The camera is very good, especially if you use manual controls but I wish it wouldn't completely crush noise in low light by making it way too soft (though I suppose this is a matter of taste).

If I were you I'd consider this phone mainly for the battery life and CONSISTENT performance. EMUI isn't broken but it certainly behaves strangely sometimes. E.g. sometimes when I open Gboard it goes underneath the navigation buttons which makes it impossible to use the space or change to numbers/symbols.

I would also say that this phone isn't worth $800. The Galaxy S9 isn't far off in terms of price and it's likely a better phone in everything except price and software.

My Mate 10 Pro hasn't suffered from any significant slowdown and even if it does a simple cleanup from the phone manager will do the trick.

If you can get it for $600 then I think is a fantastic value and overall an excellent phone that I don't regret getting for the equivalent of €550 over a 30 month contract.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jAm-0:
Is it possible to re-flash the stock bootloader? I believe mine is corrupt somehow.

It's a bit hard to explain how it's acting without actually seeing it, but it acts sporadic and barely works half the time. For example I can't reboot into the bootloader via adb, trying to power off the phone via bootloader doesn't work, and 9/10 times I try to turn my phone on it goes right to the bootloader.

Not to mention it takes ~15 seconds of holding the power button to get the phone to boot.

Installing Lineage was pretty much a brute force trial and error until it wanted to work.

Any suggestions?

Edit: Realized this is probably in the wrong forum, mod feel free to move it accordingly.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] return.of.octobot:
To answer your question, yes, you can reflash the stock bootloader. To do so, in addition to unlocking your bootloader via:

fastboot flashing unlock

You also need to run the following:

fastboot flashing unlock_critical

This will allow the bootloader to be overwritten (reinstalled) when you reflash the factory images from Essential's website. The downside here is that just like conventionally unlocking your bootloader this will also wipe your data, it's unavoidable. I believe it would also require you to go back to stock before reinstalling Lineage properly, I'm not 100% sure about that one. It's possible that you may be able to get away with flashing one of the stock firmware dumps from this forum on top of Lineage (8.0B3 preferably, it you intend to return to Lineage), I'm just not sure if they contain the bootloader image, you'd have to check and see. Whatever you flash, you want to make sure it includes a file named abl.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jAm-0:
I've fallen victim to way too many bootloops in my quest to get magisk, so I've flashed the factory images probably 10 times. I might just have a defective device.

Welp here's to not giving up and getting Magisk on lineage!!:good:
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jAm-0:
Does reinstalling the factory image from Essential reinstall the bootloader or should I still run the unlocks (even if Im already unlocked)?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] nrage23:
You have to do the flashing unlock critical if you have not to flash things like bootloader, boot, and modem.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] return.of.octobot:
If you've already unlocked your bootloader you do not need to run fastboot flashing unlock again, however you do need to run fastboot flashing unlock_critical as it is required in order to overwrite the bootloader.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jAm-0:
Great to know, thanks for the info. Too bad my phone is hardbricked now.

Wont power on

Wont connect to pc

No fastboot

No recovery

Beautiful paper weight
[Xiaomi Mi 5 Questions & Answers] Kheppy:
Hi everyone, I have a Mi5 and I would like to install ROM Pixel Experience, then 2 mods, the Google Pixel 2 Camera and the Double Speaker. Could someone link me some tutorial for this? I'm scared to find some wrong tutorial and fk.d up my phone :p Thank you so much guys!
[Xiaomi Mi 5 Questions & Answers] Dearminder:
Unlock Bootloader, install twrp, flash rom, things u want and done
[Sony Xperia X Compact Questions & Answers] spartanbranizlav:
hi can someone help me install drm fixfor the mobile i opened the bootloader and los the drm keys

phone xperia f5321

andorid 6.0.1

compilacion 34.1.a.3.22

no rooted

bootloder unlock

:(
[Sony Xperia X Compact Questions & Answers] levone1:
Do you want to stay on MM? There's a good drm fix mod available for O right now, but I've never tried on MM. Not sure what's available...
[Sony Xperia X Compact Questions & Answers] realtuxen:
If you want to stay on MM, you can try some of the early versions of genesis kernel. (version 1.03 should work, I think, can't remember exactly. :/)

The other option is to extract kernel.elf and run it through rootkernel and apply drm fix.

For more info search and read, there are plenty of guides. :)
[Sony Xperia X Compact Questions & Answers] dzikikaktusik:
Can I use DRM fix (and keep camera quality) on custom ROM (OmniROM 8 or 9)? If so, which one?

Or is it possible only for stock based ROMs?
[Sony Xperia X Compact Questions & Answers] rancor187:
Good question. I am in this exact situation:

I am on the latest Omni Rom, android 8.

Camera quality is really crappy now.

Did you find a solution?
[Sony Xperia X Compact Questions & Answers] dzikikaktusik:
[MENTION=2137705]rancor187[/MENTION] I haven't tested anything until now but I feel more and more motivated to do so.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Questions & Answers] djembuuut:
Does anyone try drm fix on x compact japan version ?
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] calby17:
Hello,

I would like to install on my Huawei Mate 9 MHA-L29 c432 root using magisk. I have the current updates etc.

I currently have twrp and a unlocked bootloader. So how do i get magisk root? There are many post about flashing stuff but in the other they dont mention that so i'm a bit confused:confused:

its a QA thread
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] ante0:
You are on Oreo, yes?

If so, flash this TWRP (3.2.1): https://mega.nz/#!4DYngAxL!OJEgQ4a4cSTypHgRBbMQbok2BRDuVHSDXNktAJ_PnKQ

Or this (3.0.3): https://mega.nz/#!AWpymRbC!ncVMIZL177b2OssrjSuKVq2AyyxzUqj_BKfsMEAajhw

Doesn't matter which you choose, both work fine.

And Magisk v16: http://tiny.cc/latestmagisk

(The reason for flashing TWRP is because of the fixlinks.sh script. Magisk installer can't find ramdisk otherwise without modifying the Magisk zip).
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] calby17:
Thank you aigen. I m now running magisk v16.0 on my phone, cool! Thanks :good::good:
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] albertobom:
Dear friend I've install like this and everything is running good except for safety net test see
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] ante0:
Well, what firmware build are you on? And what mods are you using? That battery doesn't look stock :P
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] albertobom:
I'm on c432B365 and that is just a from the play store. No mods installed except for magik.
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] ante0:
Ah. B365 is some test build, it will probably never pass. I have the same on my Mate 9 and it fails for me too (even with the Huawei fix module).
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] albertobom:
Well for now I can live with it. I'll try on later updates. :good:
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] toto2011:
Im running oreo...when I flashed the Magisk file it gives me error...

---------- Post added at 11:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:26 AM ----------

When I flashed the magisk v16? successfully, then my phone get rooted? I want to flash p20 pro camera on my mate 9. please help
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] ante0:
And what error does it give?
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] Surfinette:
Hi,

Which build would you advise then that is official and would pass safety net ? B366 ? B367?
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] ante0:
B366. 367 is a test i think, it doesn't pass safetynet anyway.