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[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] bobby janow:
Yes, you are correct it should take longer than 5 months. On my OG Pixel that happened after a year and it was slight. I really noticed it when my GPS completely just crapped out and Verizon sent me a refurb / new one (couldn't tell it was in great condition). But after that the battery life was back to when I first got it. I hope it's not the update that did this.

BBS does not need root. I've been running it for close to 2 years with no root on my 5X, Pixel and now the Pixel 2. There is a command in the OP I think it's in post #3 that has a command you enter in adb (no root $) that will give you all the statistics that root would give you. I believe its heading is something like: "If you don't have root..." If you can't find it let me know since I know it's a very long 3 or 4 OP posts.

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Believe me I know. It's why I haven't done it so far.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] AndrasLOHF:
The April update has severely impacted my battery life in a positive way. That said....I'd run in Safe Mode a day or 2 to see if that brings battery life back to par if I'm having issues before nuking with a factory reset.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] chriskwarren:
I do a factory reset after any major update...and the April update was a major maintenance release so I did a reset. Before that, I did a reset in March (just because I had time off and was bored), and prior to that, I did a reset after I got my phone in December and it updated to 8.1 out of the box.

The April update seems to have improved my standby power draw a bit, that's about it. My battery life has been consistent since I bought it.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] jimv1983:
Does the ADB method do anything to the phone that would cause a warranty or insurance claim to be denied if it was detected? That's the biggest thing that keeps me away from rooting.

I haven't tried safe mode in years but I remember it doing strange things to my phone. I don't even remember what it did since it was so long ago I just remember a hassel getting back to normal usage after going back to normal mode so I've been hesitant to do it again.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
Unlocking the bootloader doesn't not void your warranty. As far as root goes, if you fastboot a factory image, it'll completely wipe your phone and no one would be the wiser :cool:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] bobby janow:
The adb method will do nothing that can be detected or cause a warranty issue. Just delete the BBS app. At this point or for your issue I'm not sure what root will give you other than agita. I'm not a fan of safe mode either. It always caused weird stuff to happen. You can read this and they kind of confirm that 3rd party apps might cause issues. I'd just do a factory reset if you can't see what is happening with BBS.

https://www.getdroidtips.com/boot-pixel-2-pixel-2-xl-safe-mode/
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] nookie1916:
Interestingly enough I decided to factory reset after the April update. My battery life was awful today after the update and was already about to die. I had 31% battery according to the phone before the reset. After I factory reset the phone turned on and read 51% battery. Just find that a little odd. Will see if battery life improves now and report back.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] jimv1983:
My concern has always been if the reason for needing a warranty or insurance claim makes it impossible to revert back to the out of box state (locked bootloader snd unrooted with factory ROM). I only have this concern because a few years ago a friend on mine had his volume buttons stop working. He was rooted running a custom ROM. To revert to stock out of the box experience he needed the volume buttons to work but since they didn't he couldn't reset it to out of box state. He sent it in and the warranty claim was denied. Since then I haven't wanted to take any chances. Especially for a device that costs over $900.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
You can still lock the bootloader if you wanted to before you returned it. If that ever becomes necessary that is :good:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] bobby janow:
If you're on a custom rom, rooted, can you just lock the bl with no consequences? Root is not what it used to be. I've seen it said flash stock before you relock. You're saying it's not necessary?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
No..no Bobby, not until after you fastboot back to stock. Then locking it is ok. I shutter to think how that would end up if you locked it while on a custom rom :eek:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] bobby janow:
As far as I'm concerned there is no reason to unlock or root according to what the op is requesting. I'm not sure how this has turned into a rooting discussion. Rooting will do nothing to help battery life.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Rnguyen91:
How do you guys get such good battery life? I used to get 9 hours but pretty much after the first update, everything went to ****. Im averaging around 4 -5 hrs sot.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] jimv1983:
Yes, I did get a bit off topic. I was just curious if the ADB command needed to give BBS the correct permissions would put the phone in a state that would result in denial of warranty and/or insurance claims(like unlocking the bootloader, rooting, installing custom ROMs, etc does) and it went a bit off topic. Sorry about that.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] bobby janow:
No sweat. The adb commands will do nothing at all except allow BBS to show stats. Delete the app and it's gone. Since it's not root there are no changes made system wide. The only change is for the app itself. Even without deleting the app there is nothing that will affect anything in the system.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] richii0207:
It's all based on type of usage like MPG on a car. You're a heavier user.

Case in point: on my Galaxy S4, my average usage net a SOT of 2.5 hours. Just to prove how much it can change based on usage alone, I posted a screen with a SOT of ~10 hrs.

Factory resetting equating to better battery life means that an app was draining it, hence why a clean install has that effect.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] EeZeEpEe:
Yeah but if your usage has been pretty consistent especially on a regular work weekday yet you go to sleep with less battery percentage, something's not right.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] bobby janow:
I sometimes wonder if the app just isn't tuned for these updates. Then all of a sudden they are alarming, waking, and draining battery unbeknownst to the user. Therefore a fresh install or FR without installing all the apps at once might be able to isolate the culprit. BBS will help sometimes if you know what to look for. Partial wakelocks is huge IMO as are alarms.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] jimv1983:
That's why the comparison has to be based on the same (or very similar) usage.

Example:

A common work day would have me leaving the office with 10 hours off the charger with 1 hour of screen on time. That 1 hour would be 50/50 browsing with Chrome and the Facebook app. From the day I got the phone until the February update I would leave work with 87% left. For that typical usage I mentioned it was very consistent. However now I'm leaving work at with 80% pretty consistently with the same usage that was previously having me leave work with 87%. Now if my usage for the day included GPS navigation, a lot of calls, talking a lot of pictures, games, etc then of course it's going to be much lower but that's not usage pattern I'm comparing. Obviously that wouldn't be a fair comparison.

If factory resetting impacting battery life mean an app was draining it then that tells me a factory reset is pointless since the battery life would be the same after I reinstall all the apps. It seems to me that if a factory reset does help then it means that somehow the update process messed something up, didn't do any needed cleanup after the update, left things in some bad state, etc.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] irieblue:
I did a complete factory reset after the April update since buying new in October and the battery life is significantly improved. Was left with 20+% before, and now with ~50% with same usage.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] bobby janow:
Thanks. As much as I didn't want to hear that I'm glad of it too. Might be time to plan a time for that. Did you manually restore apps or Google restore?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] irieblue:
I manually restored everything which gave me the opportunity to do some app cleansing :)
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] chriskwarren:
I usually go through my apps and uninstall them from my device before doing the reset..that way the automagic restore just restores stuff I want to keep. Its easier to go through your device to decide what you want instead of the app store in my experience.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] beezar:
I was having poor battery issues and apps force closing since the March update. I tried the April update for a few days and no luck. Bit the bullet, factory reset as well as reflashed the April update with the -w flag still in place (completely wiping the phone). Then I spent a couple of hours restoring my phone.

Now my battery life is back to being good and no more force closes. Sometimes, you just have to bite the bullet
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] jimv1983:
Last night I spent the several hours to do a factory reset. I have also seen a significant improvement. It's still not as good as it was before installing the February update but certainly improved.

Pre-February update:

Standby: 0.333%/hr

Screen on(just browsing): 10%/hr.

Post-May Update - Before Reset:

Standby: 0.5%/hr

Screen on (just browsing): 15%/hr

Post-May Update - After Reset (only about a day so still early)

Standby: Went to bed at 100% and checked it 7.5 hours later and it was at 98% but quickly dropped to 97%(like 3 minutes of browsing). If I had to guess maybe 0.35%/hr.

Screen on (just browsing): maybe about 11%/hr.

Still can't get that 9 hours SoT of browsing over 40 hours off the charger but a significant improvement and certainly good enough that I don't feel the 2.5-3 hours spent doing the reset was a waste.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] galaxys:
Sometimes a factory reset can definitely help the device performance, battery, etc...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] EeZeEpEe:
Good to know. I'll probably do a factory reset when Android P gets finalized. Although, I am liking the way Adaptive Battery is handling it so far.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] [GS]:
Hi,

My Wireless router supports channel 1-14 for b/g/n standards , but when I choose channel 14 on my modem, my Phone is unable to see the network. I am sure it is working fine because my laptop can connect to my modem and use the internet.

does anyone know any methods to enable channel 14 on Galaxy A5?
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] andrew2401:
As stated above that's the message I receive after the latest update to lineage. I'm running the leeco le pro 3
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] nezlek:
Check out the other areas discussing the Lineage April fools "joke." You might be a victim of THAT. If this is an official build and not the first one on the device, you could think about trying a (dirty) re-flash of the last update from March. NO guarantees but it fixed my LOS devices after the 01 April "update." There was also a build.prop fix mentioned in the other posts but I was happy with the re-flash. Good Luck.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Ibuprophen:
I don't have this device but, the following Thread Post (from the Official LineageOS thread for your device) is a fix someone had found in response to this same question.

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=76107014

Good Luck!

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I DO NOT provide support via PM unless asked/requested by myself. PLEASE keep it in the threads where everyone can share.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] shallmann:
Would have been funnier if it had actually been on April 1st, instead of the build for 4/5.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] andrew2401:
Sorry for not replying sooner everyone I didn't even consider the message being part of April fool's. Because as someone above already said it was past April Fool's
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] 中本哲史:
No offense, but accordind to Wikipedia's definition of 'idiot', LineageOS team is a bunch of idiots:

"An idiot is [...] someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] nezlek:
And the person holding a gun to your head in order to FORCE you to use a Lineage ROM is ....... ? Take a moment to think about how many people donate how much time and do not ask you for ANYTHING in return to let you use it. Personally, I am not wild about the April Fools' joke thing, but in the long run, it shall pass.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] merrymeal:
And is anyone holding a gun FORCING the developers to make ROMS? They do because they want, like or whatever other reason. Because their work is free for us it doesn't mean they can do whatever they want. What will be the next one, muting your phone when making calls? Oh, yeah, these guys are sooo cool!

I agree with 中本哲史: LineageOS team is a bunch of idiots.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] nezlek:
Yup. You hit on one of the three. he other two are to edit build.prop or just flash the previous build and wait a few hours (at this point) for the updates that get rid of it to begin. It wasn't the brightest thing I've ever seen done, but the people in a hurry to tar and feather people over it are just as out of line as the poor excuse for a joke was.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] MColbath:
If it isn't too much trouble could someone dump their gpt.bin and the signed pit file. Although, I'm not entirely sure if I need the signed pit, I definitely need the gpt. Anyways, the commands 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/sdcard/out.pit bs=8 count=481 skip=2176' and 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/sdcard/gpt.bin bs=8 count=2176' should work. I'm attempting to reverse engineer the files needed for EDL and I need the gpt.bin so that I can make the XML for sahara. Thanks in advance.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] davidcie:
Did you get anywhere with this? It's a little crazy that Xiaomi, a "secretive Chinese company", can provide programmer and XML files to make QFIL unbricking possible but Google does not.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Mad Medik:
So i've been waiting for LG to catch up and release Oreo to the carrier branded V30s. One feature I missed from previously having an Oreo device was profiles.

I've just updated but I can't find where to set up a second profile in the menus. Can someone point me to it please.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Questions & Answers] karll1:
Really missing this feature from my old Z3 Compact. Anyone know if its possible to get these feature back via custom roms? Or is it hardware dependant?
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Questions & Answers] Didgesteve:
It's not that Sony have forgotten to add the software to this model, it's a hardware issue. The screen is different on the XZ series and doesn't remain live while the phone is sleeping.

Even if you tweek the kernel, the screen won't respond until it's live (on).

WaveUp works well and has had some positive reviews from XDA members.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kortcomponent:
A lot of the threads I have looked at are aimed at earlier versions and require you to look at your build number to match it with the file to decrypt the phone. My build number is nothing like the ones shown.

If anyone could post a really foolproof, step-by-step guide on how to remove forced encryption for Shamu running an 8.1 ROM, that would be fantastic.

Here's what I have tried: wipe *everything*, reinstall latest TWRP, wipe cache, flash boot_noforceencrypt.img, reboot into recovery, wipe cache again, flash latest Beltz (which I believe has a non-enforcing kernel built in), flash GApps, flash Magisk, reboot. Once I reboot into system, I see the white Google logo for a loooong time. I think this is the decryption happening? But I wiped everything so not sure what is being decrypted? If I interrupt that and reboot, it will boot up into Beltz but encryption is on. The longest I have left the Google logo on screen is 25 minutes before calling BS on it and rebooting. Apart from maybe not being patient enough, what am I doing wrong? TIA.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alryder:
When I installed Beltz I also wiped everything, including internal storage but I didn't flash boot_noforceencrypt.img. I just installed TWRP, ROM, GApps and Magisk and I never went through a process where the white Google logo took a long time. I don't think you need to flash boot_noforceencrypt.img because Beltz doesn't force encryption. I hope this helps, that is what worked for me.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kortcomponent:
I tried this but it made no difference. I even tried wiping it from within the OS before wiping in TWRP - still says encrypted once I get past all the setup. Hopefully it's something simple I am overlooking. All I can think of is that I am queuing the zips to flash one after the other - should I be doing Beltz, rebooting, GApps, reboot, Magisk, reboot? Or perhaps mMaybe something other than just ticking all the checkboxes when wiping in TWRP - like some other more effective wiping method that I am unaware of?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alryder:
It has been a few months since I did this so it is not fresh in my mind but it just occurred to me that a partition needs to be formatted (I think it is Internal Storage but it might be Data) and not just wiped to remove encryption. The fastboot usage for formatting a partition is:

fastboot format[:[<fs type>][:[<size>]] <partition>

Format a flash partition. Can

override the fs type and/or size

the bootloader reports.​

You can skip [:[<fs type>][:[<size>]] to use what the default partition file system and size are, I just can't remember if it was the Internal Storage or Data partition that needs to be formatted.

EDIT: See this link (specifically step 11) for what needs to be formatted. You should not need to do steps 5-10 because Beltz does not force encryption.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kortcomponent:
That was it - thanks so much. I just went into TWRP and wiped AND formatted. Glad it was something simple. D'oh!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alryder:
Great, I'm glad it worked! If you feel I helped would you mind clicking the "Thanks!" button on my response? It's in the lower right hand corner under all responses.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktmom:
If you flash Magisk before first boot, it will prevent forced encrypt as well on ROMs/kernels which don't disable force encrypt.

The simple version is to FORMAT user data (backup first) then either flash a rom/kernel with force encrypt turned off (or Magisk as above). Wiping user data is not enough, it must be formatted.

This is true from MM up.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajaynsurana:
[MENTION=6617276]ktmom[/MENTION], sorry if I am being noob. I am trying for first time so just want to make sure I don't soft bricked my shamu. As you suggested, I need to format user data in TWRP so I assume it would wipe out everything including recovery so how do I install that again? After installing TWRP, I presume I would need to install ROM / Gapps via USB.

Please guide. Thanks.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktmom:
Formatting USER DATA (internal storage) will only clean the internal SDcard partition. As long as you don't wipe the recovery partition, TWRP won't be touched.

The only reason to format is to decrypt the internal storage.

The nice thing about Google phones like the N6 is they are nearly impossible to hard brick. Any other problem can be resolved by Fastboot flashing the stock factory image.

"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajaynsurana:
Thanks a ton for your quick revert, will try as u suggested earlier.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] briandanforth1:
Just to be sure I'm understanding correctly, formatting USER DATA will only clean the internal storage (the storage we always leave unchecked when doing a typical wipe before ROM flash]? TWRP gets left alone as it isn't part of the USER DATA but rather recovery.

If I were to follow this procedure, would it leave Shamu without a ROM to run on? If that were the case, I'd imagine that is where a USB stick loaded with a ROM and GApps would come in. Am I just way off and formatting USER DATA won't mess with the ROM so no need to worry about what is lost [other than photos and such) because simply redownload once all done?

I'm wondering because I got Shamu back up and running rooted but still encrypted unfortunately.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktmom:
Formatting just user data will not affect the recovery partition. It also will not affect the OS which is on the system partition. There is also a boot partition (kernel) and the kernel must be non-forced encrypting.

If you are running a stock ROM, then you'll need a 3rd party kernel or to make sure forced encryption is turned off in Magisk manager. Then formatting user data and restoring your files should get you decrypted.

Formatting is something I always did through Fastboot.

"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] briandanforth1:
Just FYI for anyone out there, the instructions here worked absolutely perfect for me. Unchecked the "preserve forced encryption" box, made a backup to a USB stick with an OTG cable thru TWRP, and then went to Wipe, Format, confirm by typing yes. Because I was using an OTG and USB, TWRP needed me to restart before it could correctly format. It did wipe, just couldn't format so upon reset, I formatted again. Rebooted Shamu and everything's good. Another thanks to ktmom and XDA.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolkillermax:
:good: good info...
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] elio321:
Hi all,

I have joined you as a Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 owner migrating from Huawei MediaPad X2.

I am used to TWRP and flashing ROMs

What ROM do I have installed ? (see screen shots attached)

What are my options with regards ROMs ? I see there is an Oreo nightly beta , how would I install it ?

Thank you

Also anyone recommend a case ideally transparent (I got the white full ceramic special edition 8/128Gb) but also that can also act as a stand for the phone in landscape orientation for media viewing

Regards

Mark
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] Twotems:
If you find a clear case with a stand please let me know. I'd love one of those!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routeme:
Hi Guys,

I would like to Upgrade my P525 to WM6.

I have tried many tools which are availabe in xda-developers. but couldnt find a answer. I am looking for english version of Wm6.

I tried to download the version from asus, but it comes up in Russian lang. & i am not really good at reading Russian.

i tried to intall the RomGalaxy.NB0 & tried to convert it to galaxy.cap, but then i have a problem, about loading that galaxy.cap ? how do i load that galaxy.cap, as i dont have any autorun.exe to go with it?

any idea?

Cheers

Route ME
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