yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] sal82:
problem #1: i literally installed ubuntu just 2 hours ago and i've already lost root permissions? how and why? i can't edit .profile. and i NEED to edit the file as the sole purpose of installing ubuntu is to learn to build roms. the lineage OS building instructions say i need to add a few lines of code to it.

problem #2: my WIFI is too slow. it only supports WPA personal and my router says that encryption is only 54mbps. speed tests show anywhere from 8mbps to 60mbps. meanwhile, my windows computers' speed tests are where they're suppose to be...around 100mbps. i was using the latest version of linux mint for about a week. same issue.

any help would be greatly appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] sal82:
i got problem #1 fixed. i had to make a root password.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArinAbdul:
After testing custom and official ROMs I'm gonna review them here to help ppl chose there rom

I'm planning to keep this up to date as far as I can

You can reply with your opinions.

MIUI 9 v8.3.22 global beta

26 mar 2018

Pros

-Screenshot scrollable

-Fast

-204000 antutu

-Hotspot + wifi at the same time

-Easily 13h battery with hq games

-Substratum works on apps

Cons

-No xposed

-Low volume on wire headphones

-Can't easily skip music with volume keys

-Not enough modifications

-No PIP

-Some apps(Google translate, scann3d) can't use camera correctly if camera2api was enabled

Pixel experience 20180228

20 mar 2018

Pros

-AOSP

-Xposed (partially, some modules can't know it's activated)

-Smooth overall

-Good volume and sound everywhere

-Very good battery

Cons

-A tiny bit slower 190000 antutu

-Multi touch glitches (hard to play pubg the aim spins fast cuz it deformes the location of the 2nd touch)

-Wifi only works after a boot if you clean dalvik cache

-Phone heating up while charging (bad for battery)

-3D games and apps have glitches when you get a notification over the screen

-Not too much customizability like other AOSPs

Not even with gravity box as it can't be activated even though it's enabled in xposed (with latest beta3 magisk xposed module)

-Google photo uploads pics in full size to your Google drive and fills it(tho you cant change it to the unlimited one thinking its a pixel phone)

-No treble

Dotos v2.1 20180330

30 mar 2018

Pros

-Very smooth and fast

-No bugs everything works perfectly wifi bluetooth

-No heating up while charging

-204000 antutu

-Fully customizable

-Beautiful settings

-Xposed fully works + Android P-ify

-Treble enabled

-A nice unique camera app that can record 120fps normal speed videos

-Front hdr fix already there u don't need a zip

Cons

-Still having the double touch bug at this point I think it might be my phone but it's not there on miui Hmmm?

Makes games frustrating like pubg

-The battery is a tiny bit faster draining than on miui
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rick_BR:
About Pixel Experience

Battery is on par with other ROMS ( I use Greenify and GMS doze)

I haven't noticed any problem with multitouch here and I play various games

Wifi works perfectly too, no reboot to activate

I don't use pop-up notifications, so no glitches here

I have PIP ( Maps, YouTube, etc)
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArinAbdul:
U use the same pe version and what firmware?
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rick_BR:
I use 02/28 build and 8.3.8 firmware.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArinAbdul:
Well i updated the firmware and still same bug all of em
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] xristos2:
Any comparison review between global and China? Things that are not working on China or things that are exists only in global? Problem with Google services in China?

Thanks in advance since I'm thinking moving forward from global since long time now there is no proper update...
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Goneforcertain:
I too get wifi issues with pixel experience. After some time (maybe 10 minutes or so) the wifi constantly drops and does not work even though it shows as being connected, but I've found this issue persists for all oreo roms for the mi 6, even miui, so this issue for me is not specific to pixel experience. On 7.1.2 I have no such issues.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArinAbdul:
Well you have to deal with Chinese apps like 20 of them also there's only a few languages mostly Chinese and English and there are some parts that stays Chinese like the search app,tho you can't switch it to Google search app

You can install google apps easily but you can't set Google assistant on the home button

That's it nothing more if u can live with that switch to it
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] winderor:
hi, anyone tried the mokee rom?

why there is no thread about this rom here?

i saw they have an Oreo for mi6. i had mokee on my

zuk z2 pro and it was the best.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArinAbdul:
Well i had the Chinese rom first week on my phone and I'm pretty sure things were like that also I'm not talking about rooting it or switching to eu rom
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] wildger:
Uhm...

"MIUI 9 v8.2.1 global beta

Cons

-No good themes(mostly girly) "

A lot of people like the themes that you can find there and what you do mean with girly???

"Pixel experience 20180228

Cons

-A tiny bit slower 190000 antutu

-Multi touch glitches (hard to play pubg the aim spins fast cuz it deformes the location of the 2nd touch)

-Wifi only works after a boot if you clean dalvik cache

-3D games and apps have glitches when you get a notification over the screen

-Not too much customizability like other AOSPs

-Google photo uploads pics in full size to your Google drive and fills it(tho you cant change it to the unlimited one thinking its a pixel phone)

-No treble"

1)I got over 204000 with antutu

2)No touch glitches in my phone.

3)Not really, it can fixed in various way. In my case i was able to fix it, just by disabling all my magisk modules.

4)Of course, the idea is to be mimic a Pixel phone

5)That´s something you change in photos settings. So not really a con

6)How it is a "con". Treble will help us to get new version of Android faster but that´s when NEW version of Android roll out like P. At this point, Trebel is a nice thing to test and see how the GSI behave
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArinAbdul:
Well I'm talking about my experience about the rom you didn't have to panic tho i know some bugs are not there on some phones but i know alot of ppl had the same bugs

Also I'm not an idiot i know you can't change the setting in the photo app on PE

I didn't write treble i wrote "no treble" which means that it's bad it doesn't have treble yet

Next time read stuff carefully

Btw I'm happy about your reply so ppl know that it's possible to get your solid experience on PE which I couldn't by doing everything possible. Peace
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArinAbdul:
Dotos v2.1 20180330

30 mar 2018

Pros

-Very smooth and fast

-No bugs everything works perfectly wifi bluetooth

-No heating up while charging

-204000 antutu

-Fully customizable

-Beautiful settings

-Xposed fully works + Android P-ify

-Treble enabled

-A nice unique camera app that can record 120fps normal speed videos

-Front hdr fix already there u don't need a zip

Cons

-Still having the double touch bug at this point I think it might be my phone but it's not there on miui Hmmm?

Makes games frustrating like pubg

-The battery is a tiny bit faster draining than on miui
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ccelik97:
To me all the same but with popkern kernel r27c schedutil governor improved active battery usage and deep sleep works so idle drain is almost zero overnight (Systemless xposed for greenify, amplify and naptime).

Also I was waiting for things to get stable enough to update to oreo but there was another thing that made me stay in nougat: a working dolby atmos + viper4android setup. That oreo atmos port from axon 7 wasn't to my taste - I like classic atmos' virtualizer and volume leveler ratios - but finally have found a port that works in DotOS 2.1. For viper, the first one in magisk repo works well.

From 100% to 30% with a lot of flashing mods, getting stuck in mi logo then restoring system+vendor backups from twrp (yes I'm pretty quick when I'm impatient) in first 1 hour, in total more than 7 hours of SOT and 2 hours idle and battery didn't even go higher than 37°C. Quickcharge works (3A) and also it doesn't heat too.

That dolby oreo zip (not a magisk module):
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArcOnFire:
Any more ROM reviews?

I'm currently looking for AOSP-based ROM that drain moderately slow during usage and have no WiFi battery drain problem.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] bozy09:
im currently on xiaomieu but idk which miui rom is best does anyone have any recommendations (preferably with ota updates)? Thanks in advance
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] diseriocarm123:
This dolby zip give me an error with your same settings but without popkeen
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArinAbdul:
I tried bunch of miui roms but i stuck with the global dev rom cuz it's the most stable rom overall and every other rom always had a bad thing like battery drain or heating up but it's up to you maybe you want customizations that are in other miui roms
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArinAbdul:
I recommend Cosmic os i tried it abit and it was the best aosp I've tried on mi6

Also i didn't have the multi touch issue that I had with other aosp roms you can watch the video i made about it on my channel andyflasher
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ccelik97:
To be honest I've switched back to 0401 dotOS the next day I've wrote that comment because there were some wakelock issues with the popkern. And dot (0401) has gcam fix to its date so it's working out of box (after enabling camera2 api). And I've also tried a few (oreo compatible they say) dolby atmos ports but in the end I gave up because it's not the same atmos like the older versions. I like it's virtualizer and volume leveler (it does increase volume levels dynamically for different frequencies so I could use viper to decrease them all while dolby was on, so the hissing sounds would be gone. Like a noise gate you know). But again the oreo version isn't the same and not to my taste.

Finally I've ended up tweaking with viper, adding some reverb etc and also the viper devs seem like they wanted to have a leveler like dolby atmos (old) so they've added more controllability to the playback gain control. Plus enabled the viper ddc so I've got a profile like my old viper+atmos setup.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] _abc:
As the title says, Is it possible to Flash SM-G955W firmware on SM-G955U from sammobile.

PhoneInfo app screenshots:

General/Model:

CSC Code:

Firmware:
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] TheMadScientist:
i know the samfail partcyborg rom does it
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] _abc:
Thanks for the reply. I searched on xda and it seems it will most likely trip knox. Is it possible with the official firmware from sammobile using odin?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] TheMadScientist:
Partcyborg rom does not trip knox as it does not unlock the bootloader
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] turboedm:
A..are you serious?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] TheMadScientist:
Yes as the boot-loader is not unlocked Knox is not tripped on snapdragon S8s we do not have twrp or custom roms besides the one....

But as we have locked boot-loaders that is a perk to it as Knox is nearly untrippable
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] turboedm:
Doesn't root break samsung pay though? That ROM comes pre-rooted.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] TheMadScientist:
That it does it does break pay
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] TheMadScientist:
I have never went through the csc switch so i do not know the exacts to it but it could be as easy as just flashing the u1 firmware and which you pick determined by which bootloader your on now
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] turboedm:
Yeah, Samsung Pay is used on a daily basis for me. Unfortunately I can't use a custom ROM if it's rooted :(
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] TheMadScientist:
Most people go from W to U not the other way but I dont see why it wouldnt work
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] _abc:
How do I tell if the boot loader is locked or not? I booted to Download mode at it doesn't say anything about boot loader there.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] TheMadScientist:
They are all locked all the us snapdragons and ws only china and exynos has unlockable

There is basically nothing you can do to trip knox

All of us that test and those that dev

I have tested some pretty righteous stuff and still no knox trip Infact mine is currently on its way to the repair center for stuff I flashed just testing some theory out..... but it was major stuff not just with the rom or anything I dont want to scare you....
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] thefish123:
Trying this

Hi there,

So I am trying exactly this (flashing an SM-G955U with firmware for SM-G955W). My reason for doing this is I am hoping that it will improve the reception since SM-G955W is the Bell Mobility firmware and I am on Bell Mobility in Canada.

I have tried Odin 3.13.1 and 3.12.5. I got my firmware from SamMobile.com. This is the link to the exact firmware I downloaded:

https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s8-plus/SM-G955W/BMC/download/G955WVLU5BRG4/230118/

I put my device into bootloader (power off, power on with Power+Bixby+Volume Down) and when I try to flash I get FAIL! SHA256 is invalid in Odin.

Any suggestions? Am I missing something?

I do not want to root my device. Just flash with stock firmware to re-brand it for the carrier I am using. I want this phone to be as if I purchased it from Bell directly if at all possible. Or should I be using the generic "Canada (XAC)" firmware instead of the BMC firmware? I can get the XAC firmware here:

https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s8-plus/SM-G955W/XAC/download/G955WVLU5BRG4/230670/

OK, slight update on this. If I use the PrinceComsey edition or Odin found here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dzNPNe2SPVPr2FR1R9aPmbiENajzRsMN/view?usp=sharing I can get it loading but it loads to my phone real quick (doesn't seem like it transfers everything) and then reboots and my phone is still running the same firmware (with all my apps installed, etc) as before.

Thanks,

The Fish
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] avo1213:
I recently went from bootloader 5 G955u to g955w. Phone was carrier unlocked. Need a combination rom and a rom from your desired canadian cell provider with same bootloader version.

Follow the carrier switching steps. Then follow the flashing standard firmware steps.

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8+/how-to/snap-guide-flashing-standard-fw-carrier-t3627255
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] thefish123:
I am really interested in how you did this. I keep getting a fail at step 13 in the "Carrier Switching" section. The only thing I can think of is that I am using 3.13.1 and his guide says (under step 6) that I should be using Odin 3.12.7 but I am using the one from the download links the author provides in his post.

The failure message I get on my phone itself is SW REV CHECK FAIL: [abl]Fused 5 > Binary 2 which makes me think this has something to do with the bootloader being at version 5?

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!!

The Fish
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] thefish123:
OK, just to answer my own question(s) and document this for Google. I successfully carrier switched my SM-G955U to Bell and it now reports that it actually is an SM-G955W.

You need version 5 of everything (boot loader, factory ROM, HOME_CSC, etc). You also need to use the new “3b” Patched Odin 3.13.1 by realbbb available here:

https://xdaforums.com/android/software/patched-odin-3-13-1-t3762572. Otherwise I could not flash the HOME_CSC file.

Basically you can follow the instructions here:

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8+/how-to/snap-guide-flashing-standard-fw-carrier-t3627255

But replace the references to Prince Comsy Odin with the 3b patched Odin. In fact I think you can use 3b patched Odin in place of “standard” Odin as well.

Regards,

The Fish
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thousandmilestogo:
I am using a HK variant samsung c5pro. Model - sm-c5010. Running android 7.0. It has a built in samsunc keyboard which is also HK themed and it doesn't have the bengali language input. The stock keyboard already has it. How can i get that keyboard?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] iamraushan:
As there is feature in Samsung S9 and S9+ that you can change blured background of live focus mode pictures like this Attachment#1 on Samsung website it says

Please note: For the effect to appear strongly, take the photo in a dark place with a strong light source that does not spread out widely.

I tried it in different lights but no luck if anyone having idea about it please share:)
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] topimax:
Hi there.

Just read that the Huawei p20 will be able to record in super slow-motion like samsung S9 and Sony zx1/2.

The Huawei p20 will have same hardware as the mate 10 pro, so shouldn't mate 10 pro be able as well?

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[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] Kenny243:
It is rumored that P20 won't have Leica branded cameras and P20 Plus has 3 cameras. So I am guessing they have different camera hardware.
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] topimax:
Samsung and Sony doesn't use the same camera or processor either.

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[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] vodovodo:
The slow motion in Sony and Samsung is possible thanks to a DRAM chip in the camera. If Huawei do that so the answer is no, it won't come to the mate 10

Let's dream possible of fixing the scrolling smoothness and games
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] ciberboss:
mate 10 pro have slow motion mode

bl29 b129

i can confirm
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] tboy2000:
Yes but it's not super slow motion.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] mameenbh:
I really dont understand why my Xiaomi MI A1 sounds better than my Axon 7 when I use the AUX in my car? I really dont understand why because I have to lower my volume 3 steps back from full for the sound to be clear on my AXON 7?
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Choose an username...:
You really don't understand how an AUX works?

The Axon 7 has the DACs, but it also has 10 volt amplifiers. Those are made for driving high-impedance drivers. Your aux is not a driver. hence it distorts when you input 10 volts to it
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] RobboW:
Try to minimise equalisation also. You overload the input stage of the headunit. I run a 4 channel amp in my car for the doors and a separate amp for the subs. I equalise partly on the phone and partly by the amps and none by the headunit. Can push the volume really high with clarity but I also keep the phone below maximum volume simply because it can and will overload the input. Any other of my devices will not overload it like the Axon beast.

Mostly I will use BT in the car. Less issues and I have stalk controls and inbuilt BT for the HU. I prefer to use the 3.5 jack for headphones as Choose an username suggests.

Most regular phones have a lower headphone output which is closer to line levels and presents less of an impedance mismatch issue.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] mameenbh:
The Mi A1 has a 10 volt amp too !
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] greyhamism:
Try switching to the standard DAC when using car aux? It's less powerful than the 'HiFi' DAC. Alternatively Bluetooth doesn't involve the double amplification pathway that AUX in methods entail.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Choose an username...:
Bluetooth doesn't use any part of the audio D/A system (no dac, no amp) xd
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] greyhamism:
I didn't say that it did, I said unlike using an aux in source it isn't :

-amplified by your phone's amp

-amplified again by your head units amp.

Using Bluetooth moves the D->A conversion from the phone to the head unit, after which the signal only needs to be amplified once, which depending on the source can result in a cleaner sound
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] canemaxx:
Since the March update I have been losing 35-50% of battery between 630-5 without touching my phone once during the day , has anyone experienced this?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] benhaube1:
My dad's Pixel did it with the February update. Factory reset fixed it. "Android System" was using tons of battery all the time. I haven't had any problem with mine yet.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] radiohead14:
title. most are just awful. looking for something that doesn't look outdated or straight copy of iOS or pixel. minimal and clean. currently using icons from eleven os black theme, and while nice, still copying iOS look. also have icons called [nota] dolphin. clean looking, and something similar to what I'm looking for. prefer uniform look also with app frames. any recommendations? thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] radiohead14:
judging by the lack of responses, I guess that's my answer. well I've scoured for a good hour, and found one. it's called echo minimal. not great, but close enough.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] Jimmmycrackcorn:
try PixelizeD - never mind...thought you said that you;d like it to look like Pixel
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] Lauren G:
Hello!

After I updated my s8 to Oreo, pressing the power button when I am calling someone turns on the display and then I have to press it again to end the call. The option to end the call with the power button is enabled.
[Galaxy S6 Edge Themes and Apps] TofuJoe:
[IMG="feature graphic"]http://www.meowsbox.com/sites/default/files/media/xda/feature512w.jpg[/IMG]

Real Battery Stats​

A simple lightweight app that queries the charge controller in your phone through the kernel sysfs.

Instant accurate readings - unlike the generic bloated battery monitoring apps available elsewhere.

Designed specifically for the Samsung Galaxy S6 series (Active, Edge, Plus, Regular) on STOCK ROM.

Your experience may vary on CUSTOM ROM.

Features

Fast and simple health indicator

Exact Full charge battery capacity in mA

Accumulated charge cycles since manufacture

Battery temperature

No battery draining background services

No root required

Installation Instructions

Download and install the APK

No additional permissions required

Screenshots

[IMG="ss1"]http://www.meowsbox.com/sites/default/files/media/xda/ss1.jpg[/IMG][IMG="ss2"]http://www.meowsbox.com/sites/default/files/media/xda/ss2.jpg[/IMG]

XDA:DevDB Information

Real Battery Stats, Device Specific App for the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

Contributors

TofuJoe, Meowsbox

Version Information

Status: Stable

Current Stable Version: 1.0

Created 2018-03-20

Last Updated 2018-03-19
[Galaxy S6 Edge Themes and Apps] TofuJoe:
Reserved
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Ashwin Prabhunerurkar:
General Information

*Play Store keeps hanging up on restoring apps? A reset starts the restore again, but hangs up after a few apps are installed.

A)You need to force stop the play store app in setting, and then open it again

Build 3 Notes

with april security patch and bug fixes released

Flash nutrino kernel for best performance

ALSO Even though gapps are included in the build they dont work for some reason on dirty flashing

So Also download the gapps i have included in the OP and flash right after the rom without reboot

If you have any random user app fcs

uninstall the app and redownload from playstore

Enjoy!!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Ashwin Prabhunerurkar:
one more
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] deepu458:
Thanks Dev, for bringing up this ROM to this device.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Ashwin Prabhunerurkar:
The guide and all links are online

Enjoyyy!!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gflexstump:
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