yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] baboon23:
If you install the Jan Firmware image + AOSP vendor (.088) on both slots, the TWRP installer should give you permanent TWRP.

If it hangs at the boot logo, reset to bootloader and manually hit Start. it will load.

If you go with the steps above - you will need to flash TWRP again after you install and run Carbon, just to install gapps, but the latest carbon runs well for me with the TWRP installer, assuming you have the Jan firmware + AOSP vendor.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Thanks for quick reply.

I'm currently using crDroid (unofficial version), and will try your "manually hit Start" to see if it works since I got stuck at Essential boot logo after flashing rom and TWRP installer.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] baboon23:
If you have the correct firmware and vendor it will work fine. Make sure you use the latest image from Carbon site.

Keep in mind first boot of Carbon after install takes several minutes.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Thank you for help, I finally get it works. The trick is flashing vendor image, this must be done before anything else.

btw, lift phone to wake not working, I guess this is the only bug.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] baboon23:
Lift to wake works, but i think I know what your problem is.... Your sensors aren't working.. I bet you also don't have Auto rotate.

I had to use the steps outlined before exactly to get the sensors working... But with the latest Carbon version, with AOSP on both slots before installing the ROM, I can flash TWRP Installer and still have sensors. I basically installed it just like crDroid.... Flash Jan image, Flash vendor, flash TWRP, format and flash ROM, flash TWRP ZIP, reboot once or twice until the ROM loads up.

let me know if you got it.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
What? My sensors doesn't work? Can you show me how again?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] baboon23:
I am only assuming. Is Auto Rotate working for you ?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
I didn't check that, and I'm already back to crDroid.

I followed your instruction with flashing vendor image but like I said, only "lift to wake" not working, everything else is ok.

Basically, the process to install this ROM is exactly like install Paranoid Android rom. They both need vendor image upfront before everything else.

I might come back to Carbon rom one day.

Thanks mate.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] foueddyf:
I can confirm that lift to wake is indeed working.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
I tried again today and "lift to wake" works without Gapps.

If I flash this rom with Gapps follow then Auto rotation and lift to wake not working.

(maybe something is wrong with my device), I goes back to crDroid again.

But thanks for the feedback.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] retro486:
Why is this phone such a PITA for ROMs? I've never had to jump through so many hoops with such a high retry rate. Is it because its an early treble device or did Essential just screw it up? I'm at the part where it boots but sensors aren't working even though I flashed the Jan vendor to both slots and followed all the steps except flashing the twrp installer. PA and Lineage weren't quite this difficult either. Why? What's the difference?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] baboon23:
It's pretty simple with the Lineage recovery/Lineage OS official... Problems start when you install TWRP+other roms. It's just not working well with this phone no matter the vendor.

It will work eventually, just as you say a pain in the butt
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dlenos:
Anyone have the issue where when restarting to recovery after sideloading CR 80 with TWRP you get into CR Recovery and PC will not recognize it?

D:\adb>adb sideload open_gapps-arm64-10.0-stock-20201223.zip

adb: sideload connection failed: no devices/emulators found

adb: trying pre-KitKat sideload method...

adb: pre-KitKat sideload connection failed: no devices/emulators found

D:\adb>adb devices

List of devices attached

D:\adb>
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dlenos:
Is there a nightly/weekly update still being produced for this rom?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] foueddyf:
A small update on recent changes | CarbonROM Blog

Greetings everyone First of all, we’d like to start off by wishing you a happy new year from everyone at the CarbonROM Team. Now onto the news we go: As you ...

blog.carbonrom.org
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] hedgecore44:
Essential Phone - mata | Get CarbonROM

www.get.carbonrom.org
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MuddyDog:
Excerpt from the CarbonROM Blog:

"A small update on recent changes"

January 01, 2021

As you probably noticed, we moved PAX to a Monthly cycle... set PAX on Feature Freeze and it will only receive bug fixes and security patches from now on. The only user-facing changes to that are less frequent updates and the change from Weekly to Release. You can upgrade to a Release coming from a Weekly without problems."

I'd like to test out cr9.0 (for Android 11) whenever it becomes available.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] foueddyf:
It's monthly now to apply the security patches. It's very minimal development for Android 10 as they're now mainlu focusing on Android 11.

Their Android 10 rom is very stable though.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] hedgecore44:
Adaptive brightness does not work for me. I tried resetting it via Settings/Apps../Device Health Services/Clear storage and no change..

Also screen stays on during phonecall. I guess the proximity/light sensor is messed up. Anyone else have this?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Pendragonx315:
so CarbonRom R is now based on Android 11 .. looking at the officially-supported hardware elements I didn't see anything mentioned about Wifi Calling ..

Can anyone comment on whether it's working for them yet? I absolutely need that feature if I'm going to use this rom (it's currently working on LineageOS 18 for mata)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] hedgecore44:
Anybody still use this rom? I see it is still updated but on Android 11?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] hedgecore44:
I installed the latest. I dont know maybe importing contacts from an Android 12 export broke it but I could not open the Contacts or Phone app. Launcher would also glitch/skip every once in awhile while going back and forth from recent apps. I will not try again.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mhamzas:
360 cam working?
[Android Apps and Games] jorel138:
Hi guys I have a problem I want to unlock bootloader huawei CRO L03, but when I follow all the steps I get an error

"failed (remote: unlock failed - err: 0x7001)",

I searched and can not find the solution, who can help me
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] Nathamio:
As the title suggests, is it possible to unpack and recompile the System.img.ext4.lz4 found within the stock system image? I'd like to poke around with stuff and see what happens. I know it probably won't accomplish anything but let a boy dream :D I can't fine any guides out there that work for this but hopefully a dev will bless me with his magic.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] storm68:
If you go to android software and hacking forum here on xda you might see what you're looking for. It's a devs section.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] VICosPhi:
Use 7zip lz4 to extract img then mount img in Linux and then you can access raw system. I can extract and upload it for you if you want to give me the file name for the firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] Nathamio:
If I mount it in linux can I modify it without having to write it to a new img? I tried mounting it and it won't work. Is there some special tool I need to install?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] VICosPhi:
You extracted the xxx.ext4.lz4 to xxx.ext4 then again extracted xxx.ext4 to xxx.img using 7zip LZ4 before mounting to Linux, correct?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] Nathamio:
I am also having an issue repacking the image as odin says invalid lz4.

I'm trying to but I get this error:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] VICosPhi:
I haven't tried modifying and repacking the file yet, but what I did was extracted the lz4 to ext4 and then ext4 to img using 7zip LZ4. Then I mounted the img in CentOS and copied the /system folder over to get it Deodexed. Someone posted the other day that you can repack an IMG file and just flash it as IMG without having to convert to EXT4 or LZ4 on an S8 with v2 bootloader. I don't think this has been tested on a newer or v3 bootloader like S9.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] mahotlov:
Micro-instruction for unpack lz4 formats

-Download lz4 programm in attach. Extract in any folder.

-Put in lz4 folder system.img.ext4.lz4

-Open CMD line for lz4 folder and write:

lz4.exe -d system.img.ext4.lz4 system.img.ext4

-wait

-Done. We have system.img.ext4.

Now we can unpack this with SVAImgUnpack or any tool
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] bleros:
nope decoded but linux reader not work, svaimg not work is oreo
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] wernerwa:
I just converted the S7 Oreo Image (BTU-G930FXXU2ERD5) on my debian linux machine. To convert the android sparse file to the raw ext4 image, both worked simg2img and SVAImgUnpack.exe.

Which step does not work? The lz4 decompression? Or the conversion of the android sparse file to an raw ext4 image? Or the reading of the raw ext4 image?

By the way, I'm wondering if the S9 image is using ext4 or f2fs. Maybe that is the problem.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] bleros:
i treid on windows , s7 oreo , no worry i have tried on vmware machine with debian and superr kitchen :) work fine
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] alex.do:
End of day you will find out that once you modify the stock image, it's no longer "stock" and probably fail when you try to flash it. Integrity verification wont let you. Unless you OEM unlock and flash a custom recovery, which WILL certainly trip your knox. There is no way back. For now. (I hope.)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] bleros:
i tried again work fine was my mistake :D first lz4 used then droped into svaimgunpack then ext4explorer :highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] dknight178:
Hi,

I used 7zip to decompress firmware downloaded from sammobile (s7 edge). But the boot and recovery img I got were boot.img.lz4 and recovery.img.lz4.

I used your tool to get the .img directly without going into .ext4. Did I miss something in the steps I took? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] mahotlov:
dknight178

Hi. This instruction I wrote for s8/s9 (+)

Their images in firmware have ext4 extension.

You're doing everything right.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] nvan7891:
Only certain partitions , like system and userdata, will have images that include the ext4 extension. Possibly cache, as well. Basically just the main partitions that are always mounted and regularly interacted with when the system is booted up and running.

The tar archives used by odin aren't the basic version that 7zip is capable of making,. You need to use an actual tar excutable, and include certain argument. On windows, your tar command should look something like this:

tar.exe --create --format=gnu -b20 --quoting-style=escape --owner=0 --group=0 --totals --mode=644 -f yourFW.tar boot.img.lz4 recovery.img.lz4 system.img.ext4.lz4 userdata.img.ext4.lz4

That would make a basic AP odin-ready tar package. Then just use md5sum to finish it off, though I don't believe its necessary Something like this:

md5sum.exe -t yourFW.tar >> yourFW.tar

move yourFW.tar yourFW.tar.md5

I attached d a zip with windows version of tar, md5sum, mv, and ls.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] Rehvix:
I f I want to make a flashable zip, what steps would I take to extract stock firmware to do so?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] brownstyle:
up
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] hochocnua:
i had error

lz4.exe : The term 'lz4.exe' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At line:1 char:1

+ lz4.exe

+ ~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (lz4.exe:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] bleros:
wrong path and dont use powershell use cmd as admin
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] rename_nick:
Hello everyone,

I'm currently living in Vietnam and have a LG V30 H931 AT&T. I don't have at&t sim and outside US.

How to update my LG V30 over the air or other kdz to flash it?

Thank you for your reply and let me know about above that!
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] jaysus145:
Finding a way to flash it may be your only hope for now as I was informed, by LG Support Chat, that the only way to get the update for the H931 was via an OTA, and that an active SIM was needed for that.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] TxanMoe:
crossflashing kdz h933

H93320e_00_OPEN_CA_OP_0320.kdz
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] ChazzMatt:
https://xdaforums.com/lg-v30/help/how-to-root-access-devices-t3787412
[MX Player] fede01_8:
I don't mind ads as long as they don't pop up while I'm watching a movie.
[MX Player] Thirumalai.K:
No. It may show a banner ad when you pause. But, It neither show any ads while playback is in progress nor pauses itself for showing ads.
[Galaxy Grand 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benjamin3:
I need unbrick.img for galaxy grand 2 model SM-G7105L, someone who has this same model, please create this file and share it, I need urgent repair my phone in death for bad flashing. :(

the process is very easy here are the instructions in youtube search: How to make an Unbrick Image for ANY Samsung phone with ONE-CLICK!! (I can not post the link).

thank you very much to everyone who can help me :bueno:
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uniquedivine:
The screen works but the touchscreen doesn't. I have some important files on there. It's a Sony xperia z2.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adriano-A3:
What?! CWM is dead dude a long time ago :p

Check this bro
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] pranavaryans:
SlimROM is a custom android operating system. The main goal is to offer users a slimmed down but still feature rich alternative to other android operating systems.

The entire SlimTeam works together to bring you this tailor-made beauty straight from Android Open Source Project (AOSP) source code.

All of the sources can be publicly viewed through GitHub and Gerrit.

Downloads:

All Builds

Gapps

How to Root?

Flash SuperSU vX.xx(whatever new version available)

You can even use other methods of root, but I havnt tested them, so cant guarantee

Flash SuperSU after first boot of the rom( dont flash along with ROM and Gapps)

Installation Notes

Its extremely important to backup your current OS prior to installing.

* Wipe

* Flash Latest Firmware

* Flash ROM

* Flash Gapps

* Flash SU / MAGISK (Optional)

Thanks for all your support. If you like my work and continue to support, hit Thanks and donate.

* Paypal

* Paytm : 9586999937 (Pranav Trivedi)

https://t.me/pranavaryansROM

Kernel Source:https://github.com/pranavaryans1987/android_kernel_xiaomi_oxygen
​

XDA:DevDB Information

Slim ROM, ROM for the Xiaomi Mi Max 2

Contributors

pranavaryans

V_V3k

Source Code: https://github.com/SlimRoms/platform_manifest

ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.x

ROM Firmware Required: Latest Firmware

Based On: AOSP

Version Information

Status: Beta

Current Beta Version: 1.0

Beta Release Date: 2018-04-11

Created 2018-04-11

Last Updated 2018-04-11
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] pranavaryans:
Changelog

Will Be Here
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] pranavaryans:
ScreenShots

https://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/?id=26454#screenshots
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] reversegear:
Awesome work bro :)
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] pranavaryans:
Thanks Buddy
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] drmuruga:
Very glad to have you with mimax2, you are porting almost all ROMs available. After finishing start Oreo. Can you port tassadars multirom ? It will be great effort. Thanks again.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] pranavaryans:
1. I am not porting, i am compiling all ROMs from sources.

2. I am absolutely clueless about Multirom, as i do not have idea about it. Will look into it for sure
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] tom.android:
developer options menu and Dev tools are crash please fix it. Thank you
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] fgaurano:
What are the differences of dual boot patcher (that we currently have) and multirom? Pros and cons?

Wow! And another one! ? Good job mate! Thank you!
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] pranavaryans:
did not seen it, will check and fix soon
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] MiladHashMan:
Thanks man. you are just awesome.

I was using slim roms from my xperia x8 and miss this rom too much.

You have no idea how much im happy to see slim rom for mi max2.

--------------------------------------

I think we have to be honest and believe that Mi Max 2 is not popular so much. we have not many developers that working on custom rom for this phone.

so we have to be more grateful to pranavaryans.

Thank you man.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] kwezi:
Good rom. Used it a while back when i was on A samsung phone.

[BUG] Developer settings crashing when you enable and tap on it.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Cutieboy:
Waiting for Oreo
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] zenjedi:
Maybe you are doing too much too soon. Pick a couple of projects that you can update regularly and then release them. I for one would be happy to use slim nougat given its updated regularly.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] pranavaryans:
Okay, Doing Slim 7 with latest security patch soon :)
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] zenjedi:
My only request would be to add microg support to it.

OT - have you considered any gzosp base rom for development? IMO, they seem to be more smoother than others. I have experienced that on mido
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] pranavaryans:
Validus?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] zenjedi:
That is a very good choice ! :laugh::good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firstinit12345:
Basically, I have a custom ROM installed (Ressurection Remix) without GAPPS (intentionally) on my Moto G5 Plus.

Almost every app works fine, but some don't. These are for the most part apps that I backed up and installed using Titanium Backup.

The specific app I want to try to get working is DB Navigator. It works almost completely fine, I can search for new routes and change settings etc. However, I can't see tickets that I have booked. I don't need to be able to book tickets through the app, but I would like to be able to see the tickets I have already bought.

My question is, is there any way to get this app to work without installing GAPPS?

(I apologize if this question has been answered already. I googled it, duckduckgo-ed it, looked through the forums and still found nothing :P )
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] jepoy900:
Sms alert tone interrupts while on a call how can i fix this.. it is a really big deal while i am on a call, then suddenly receive sms i have to wait for the sms alert tone to finish coz i wont here anything just the sms alert until it finish alerting

Need your help:confused:
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] biyor:
everyone have the same problem :) solution? i need it too
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] nissay:
i have the same problem i m a french sorry for my english but i cannot find any solution to trying stopping the sms song!

nobody have the same problem?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] batmite:
anyone ever solve this problem??
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] A4_Capone:
it is so annoying. I cant hear the person speaking. And it is so loud it is hurting my ears.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ccctexas:
Would be great to get a solution.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Megalopolis:
Hello,

I have the following problem: I tried to root my Samsung Galaxy S6 (SM-G920F) with CF-AutoRoot. Everything worked, my mobile rebooted and I tried to check if I have root. But it seems like it isn't really rooted. I tried a 2nd time but still nothing. What can the problem be?

I hope for a fast answer and feel free to ask me questions about my problem.

Best Regards,

Megalopolis
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hunimix:
in your experience with custom roms with marshmallow and nougat which is the most stable? ?
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UberRootWsk:
Lineage os 14
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c4rl0zz ch0nt4l:
Viper OS, Lineage os 14.1 , and personally,MIUI 8 and Flyme 6, although it is if you are not very demanding with the applications that you use, if you are looking for something different ;)

and well if you're interested in a rom oreo, Cosmic OS 8.0 and Bootleggers 8.1 is the one I have in use :)
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrTooPhone:
What ROM would you recommend to eliminate the need of a Google account?
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stonny20:
Don't flash gapps. If you need playstore you will have to sign in to google.

You can flaah any rom without gapps. :)
[Honor 7X  Questions & Answers] iGamer77z7:
I flashed over my /kernel by mistake, I still have fastboot but twrp can not boot, I beleive once a full OTA for the bnd-l24 is available I can fix it. What is in the /Kernel partition? OPEN TO ANY SOLUTIONS. If someone could pull their /kernel partition from an emui 8 bnd-l24 or I guess any variant assuming the content is the same, that'd be great!
[Honor 7X  Questions & Answers] mrmazak:
You should be able to extract the kernel.img from update.app

It is inside the udpate.zip you flashed to get Oreo

But if you flash wrong , it might get worse
[Honor 7X  Questions & Answers] iGamer77z7:
I can't find a kernel.img, can you tell me where it would be? I checked both update.apps, do you have a copy? you think since I can not flash the no check recovery I could switch the vendor and go to stock recovery and perfrom an update from a update zip on root of the external sd?
[Honor 7X  Questions & Answers] mrmazak:
it is right where i suggested.

in the update.app from the L22 oreo update.zip

You did say you are on oreo correct.

caution ,sounds like you are trying to flash wrong recovery. As the no check recovery is for nougat

.
[Honor 7X  Questions & Answers] iGamer77z7:
I never got the chance to flash the no check recovery thankfully, I can not extract the update.app it is givng me mismatch errors
[Honor 7X  Questions & Answers] mrmazak:
There is a setting in the extractor app. And uncheck the verify header, I think it's called.
[Honor 7X  Questions & Answers] iGamer77z7:
Okay so I flashed the kernel.img and the ramdisk.img and my phone has gone from dead dead to fixed thank you so much
[Honor 7X  Questions & Answers] triapoets:
can you share kernel.img and ramdisk.img?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] BackDaws:
It cant just be me that thinks the Samsung keyboard is absolutely awful.

I've tried to stick with it for ages but it's terrible.

Samsung usually have good keyboards.

Anyway apart from installing another keyboard is there a fix or a setting to turn on or off to make the Samsung keyboard usable ?

Thanks