yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] daddymikey1975:
Link to the app in play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ackagedisabler

Note that you'll also need the "BK plugin 2" app to go with it

I'm on ARB7 firmware and have zero problems with BK working as it should. View attachment 4480913
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] fruithead:
the bk plugin 2 is the problem lol.

if you dont already have it in your app history, it will not allow you to see it in the store.

trust me i tried for hours.

you simply CANNOT gain access to the bk plugin 2 if it's not already in your app history

EDIT: it's possible they reuploaded it, like pdp did. it seems the devs try to stay ahead of the play store by reupping every few days/weeks with minor changes and then google takes it down again.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] daddymikey1975:
Have you looked on apk mirror for the plugin?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] fruithead:
No I am not that savvy. I always get nervous about stuff like that. Is that website always safe?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] daddymikey1975:
Make sure the developer is the same, but otherwise yes it should be fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] qyrus:
BK was taken down by the developer due to Samsung. That said the developer provided a work around on their development blog

https://kunkunsoft.wordpress.com/fix-package-disabler/

A bit of work involved but the app works afterwards.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Brokk:
I tried opening both of the APKs direct from that link, but it gave the same error parsing the package.

I downloaded it to my phone, then opened it from there and it worked fine. Followed the instructions and I was able to fully use it.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] :
hi, i formatted my S9+ just when BK Manager and MDM Extension apks were removed from Play Store.

my question is, i have both of these apks files in my storage, will i be able to install them manually and whether the disabler app will still work as it was before? can someone kindly advise?

i have emailed the developer a couple of times asking the same questions, but not getting any response or help and was never my intent to ask for a refund.

File 1. com-kunkunsoft-packagedisabler1515128400

File 2. MDM_Extension_2_Full

as for the time being, is there any other good disabler app that we can use safely? i feel so lost without this app/feature.

thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] daddymikey1975:
I have both apps installed and fully functional..

They both auto installed when I got my S9+ and setup my Google account.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] iverson3-1:
I followed this but I still can't get it to work. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or maybe it doesn't work anymore? I have recently used adb commands for other apps and they work fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] qyrus:
The ADB command in the instructions is for a wrong package. You just need to change it to the one in their download link.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Brokk:
I did manage to get this working, but since then I've had a notification pop up on my phone a couple times which makes no sense to me. I'm wondering if this is a side effect of making that app an owner on the phone.

It tells me my phone is a "Managed Device" and that the organization may install software and make changes on the phone without my knowledge or consent.

A) That sounds scary, since I the phone didn't come from an organization.

B) Why is it suddenly popping up and telling me this? It's not asking for permission. It's not even asking me to acknowledge or read it. Just stating it like a fact. It's popped up at least twice over the last 2-3 days.

Any idea what's going on?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] browniegirl:
It's a response to trying to disable more packages than sammy wants you to. It removes a bunch of features. Sammy's way of trying to get people not to use package disabler.

What I did was disable all I wanted then uninstalled the disabler and it went back to normal with everything still disabled
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] BladeRunner:
Is there a list of packages that are safe to disable?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Vipindasu:
Package Disabler for Samsung is back

App Name : Package Disabler Pro+ (Samsung)

Available in google play store.

That's it. It's a one-click solution to deal with bloatwares.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] XBOHDPuKC:
Nice business model. Release app, complain that google removed it, re-release it and ask people to pay for it again.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] adek89:
Hello, I have an error with the mentioned application. The previous time it worked without a problem but I had to do a format so when I again wanted to install it and turn on, I get an error message with the product key. I will add that the 'unlock oem' option has not yet appeared, does it have any connection with her that she does not want to work?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dule2303:
Same here

---------- Post added at 03:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:32 AM ----------

And i uninstall package diaable but when i want to install again i must pay the app????? I pay this app once,i dont want to.pay twice for same thing
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] jcsww:
That is the scam with this app! You buy it, it gets removed from the Play Store for some unknown reason, and reappears again in a few weeks, invalidating all previous purchases. Stop giving these people money!
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Zoruda:
This app is bull****. Just go through ADB. There's no reason to keep having to pay this one developer all the money because he or Google keep taking it down without honoring all the purchases. He simply has to look through all the people that bought his app and send them a key. But he doesn't. He's taking advantage of Google taking it down.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] insaned:
Word of warning as I bough the app through their website and no reply since 4 days. Needed to open a PayPal complaint.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] William9928:
Amazon firestick 1st gen

I'm trying to enable device admin but cant seem to get it to work, I'm having trouble with the commands an I'm working on some things for the 4k fire stick as well with pd but I'm kinda stuck if anyone has any input or helpful info please reply back thank you!
[General Questions and Answers] Celulareschinos:
Hi everyone,

First post here. I purchased a Cubot Kingkong. I liked the toughness and the price. Has Android Nougat, 2gb of Ram, 16gb ROM, MT 6580 quad core processor.

What I don't like is that it's slow, in my opinion. I tried to find a custom ROM, but couldn't find one.

Do you a custom ROM that can work? Thought about Android go, but it would need to be updated to Oreo first.

Thanks for your help.
[General Questions and Answers] Lannig:
Slow? I have this phone and I find it very reasonably snappy for its specs. The MT6580 is a 2016 entry-level processor. Not any great performer and no firmware will do miracles.

Besides, its Nougat Android is 100% bloat-free (a good surprise I must say). And the 2 Gb of RAM are enough to run it correctly. Don't think Android One would make much of a change here.

Your expectations might be too high for a sub-100€ phone.
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
does anyone have a scatter file or custom recovery for this phone? how did you root?
[General Questions and Answers] LosTigeros:
Please post here:

Result of:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
cat /proc/kallsyms | grep tpd_i2c_probe

Dump of:

cat /proc/kallsyms
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
CUBOT_KING_KONG:/ # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
CUBOT_KING_KONG:/ # cat /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
0
CUBOT_KING_KONG:/ # cat /proc/kallsyms | grep tpd_i2c_probe
c07d2970 t tpd_i2c_probe
CUBOT_KING_KONG:/ #

see attachment

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YmOF9IRJhOEHLFHXgjBcBi74kvKrna0s
[General Questions and Answers] LosTigeros:
What is the kernel architecture? (you can check that in CPU-Z) nevermind

Try this:

twrp-3.2.2.0-cubot_king_kong_7081c-20180831-2340.img (updated)

If it'll not work then this:

twrp-3.2.2.0-cubot_king_kong_7081c-20180831-2356.img
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
i have tested, both not booting. i think we should just give up. maybe this method does not working for MT6580. i have requested kernel source code from Cubot but they denied
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
Cubot King Kong has data mining spy app in OTA updater

https://www.xda-developers.com/report-android-phones-transmit-data-to-adups-a-chinese-firm

dont expect any firmware updates (they wont provide Oreo for sure) - better disable OTA updater instead:

pm disable --user 0 com.adups.fota
pm disable --user 0 com.adups.fota.sysoper

edit: do not update to V24 battery drain increases dramatically. Just stay at V16
[General Questions and Answers] LosTigeros:
Whats the touch driver here?

1. *#*#3646633#*#*

2. Other extra

3. Device info <-- result
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
the code in dialer did not work, but i could enter Service Mode with MTK Engineering Mode apk. unfortunately there is no device info in Others. is there another way to check, maybe dump some file?
[General Questions and Answers] LosTigeros:
Use an app from google play called Device Info HW
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
Hey,

thanks for your support and time! I have downloaded this app and this are the results. it shows Touchscreen gt1x (i2c 1-005d)
[General Questions and Answers] LosTigeros:
Will it boot up after just decompressing and compressing it again? Try: twrp-3.2.2.0-cubot_king_kong_7081c-20180902-2017.img (not patched).
[General Questions and Answers] Lannig:
Thanks a lot for providing a usable TWRP, even if only one you can boot from fastboot and not flash. It serves its purpose of installing SuperSU or Magisk, good enough for me.

I'm no Android kernel wizard but I fail to see how booting from a flashed partition or in-memory through fastboot makes a difference as far as the touch driver is concerned?

EDIT : wanted to provide the requested information but it's been done already.
[General Questions and Answers] LosTigeros:
In gt1x its because of this:
[General Questions and Answers] Lannig:
So get_boot_mode() returns a different value depending on how TWRP was started, from the recovery partition or in-memory from fastboot? and the touchscreen driver basically disables itself in the former case? I've learned something new today, thanks for enlightening us (and I'm impressed by your knowledge of this source code BTW).

EDIT: [MENTION=7285913]aIecxs[/MENTION]: unfortunately you're right. Dr. Web has spotted them as the infamous Downloader adware. Guess I'll have to take care of these once I have root.
[General Questions and Answers] Rayslava:
And what about custom ROMs? Is it possible to build Lineage OS for this device?

I'm thinking of buying one, but if there won't be any OS updates it'll be much worse than I expected.
[General Questions and Answers] marko.milioner:
I unlocked the bootloader and tried booting the recovery using this method, but the TWRP logo shows up and the phone is stuck in a bootloop (TWRP logo shows up and disappears over and over again) .

I have tried flashing with SPFlash tool with no results. Every other recovery in this thread simply does not boot at all. What can I do to debug it? I have tried every possible method to root this phone with no success (neither TWRP nor "one click root" apps work). If anyone knows something, please help. I really want to root this phone in order to remove the malware that is preinstalled on it (adups fota). Note that I am not a developer and don't know much about these things beyond flashing custom ROMs. Thank you in advance
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
please do a read back for boot.img and recovery.img with SP Flash Tool
[General Questions and Answers] marko.milioner:
I'lll do it as soon as possible. It's my sister's phone and she is currently in another town. It will take some time as we do not see each other often. In the meantime I disabled the malware using adb pm (for user 0, as I don't have root). Thank you for your reply.
[General Questions and Answers] Lannig:
OK, I'll take over then.

Here's a dump of boot and recovery images of my own King-kong made with SP Flash Tool : https://mega.nz/#!9iRHxQbC!382Wb6at5Pqsd-yyL2PiGo-JB1ZLPkYkBrwYlOxRZUw
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
Now copy to phone, install MagiskManager-v6.0.0.apk, patch the boot.img and flash it back :)

If you still need TWRP, please provide a zip archive with all /cache/recovery/last_log.* files, i will have a look into why it fails
[General Questions and Answers] Lannig:
Oh yeah... thanks, I know how to generate a patched boot image. Actually, I prefer using PHH's toolkit (I have it installed locally on a Linux box). Magisk is based on PHH's toolkit and SuperSU, I've been told.

Just wanted to contribute. Not sure I'm really wanting to root this phone yet.
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
was busy with kids, seems i have mixed up you with marko.milioner, sorry ;)

edit:

TWRP was crashing on (fuse) vold mounts. I have fixed this. There was some entries /devices/mtk-msdc.0/11120000.msdc0* in fstab.mt6580 but probably should be /sys/devices/mtk-msdc.0/11120000.msdc0* i have removed now from recovery.fstab - anyway if still crashes, you should able to access twrp from adb shell

edit2:

i have checked your stock boot.img - it has the same "bug"? (like mine) in fstab.mt6580 :confused:

/devices/mtk-msdc.0/11120000.msdc0* auto vfat defaults voldmanaged=sdcard0:auto
/devices/mtk-msdc.0/11130000.msdc1* auto auto defaults voldmanaged=sdcard1:auto,encryptable=userdata
/devices/platform/mt_usb* auto vfat defaults voldmanaged=usbotg:auto
[General Questions and Answers] Lannig:
Thanks for the update. I am eager to give it a go, however at this time my KK still has a locked bootloader. Will it work for a non-flashed TWRP like this (fastboot boot twrp.img)?

Or do I need to unlock the bootloader anyway?

EDIT: OK, I have found out about this 1st question already:

D:\ANDROID\KINGKONG>fastboot boot twrp.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.604s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: not allowed in locked state)
finished. total time: 0.614s

So the reply is: unlock required.

If so, does this smartphone force a factory reset upon unlocking? (not all of them Mediatek phones do...)
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
this one is not booting. but i have tested unpacking + re-packing on linux, i have uploaded a shell script for this here and with this it will boot (un patched)

---------- Post added at 18:44 ---------- Previous post was at 18:38 ----------

WARNING: Yes this will Factory Reset, don't do that!

But you can try the stock recovery mode and check if it is possible to create an backup? If so, you can use TWRP Backup Converter for Android system recovery <3e> (unless it is encrypted)
[General Questions and Answers] marko.milioner:
Ok. I'll try it as soon as I see my sister again. Probably for the New Year. Thank you :D
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
today i figured out that SP Flash Tool can flash TWRP with locked bootloader - this mean you can backup your phone from twrp's adb backup from shell (even it is encrypted), then unlock, restore backup and root
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
[MENTION=5935148]LosTigeros[/MENTION]

finally i solved it by hex patching the comparison value, instead of eliminating the comparison.

i decided to change it from 2 -> to 1

so the touch works in boot and recovery mode

[IMG="kernel_jenkins_3-18-35_1526531231_MTK6580_7-0.png"]https://www.dropbox.com/s/7jic38n8l3vc1dm/kernel_jenkins_3-18-35_1526531231_MTK6580_7-0_preview.png?dl=0&raw=1[/IMG]

0 = NORMAL_BOOT
1 = META_BOOT
2 = RECOVERY_BOOT
3 = SW_REBOOT
4 = FACTORY_BOOT
5 = ADVMETA_BOOT
6 = ATE_FACTORY_BOOT
7 = ALARM_BOOT
8 = KERNEL_POWER_OFF_CHARGING_BOOT
9 = LOW_POWER_OFF_CHARGING_BOOT
99 = FASTBOOT
100 = DOWNLOAD_BOOT

So many thanks again for your great tutorial and your help! i wouldn't be able doing this without your effort
[General Questions and Answers] chrisr34000:
Is it possible to root the Cubot King Kong 3, following the steps of the guide in this thread?
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
No not same Chipset

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3880449
[General Questions and Answers] Lxcky:
Quite a noobie here

I was curious if i can install the Cubot King Kong CS firmware on my Cubot King Kong.

Unfortunately the SP-Flash Tool requested a format of my device.

After that i wasn't able to boot my device. I just had a white screen.

I was able to recover my smartphone through flashing the original firmware.

Is there a way to get the firmware of the Cubot King Kong CS on the Cubot King Kong?

For me it seems its the exact same device with just a different firmware version....
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
you tell us..

i would start with testing kernel aka flash recovery and try recovery mode
[General Questions and Answers] Lxcky:
Can you guide me more?

I used the original scatter file and only flashed the revovery-sign file from the King Kong CS using the SP Tool.

My device was booting up properly How do i continue?

EDIT: I don't think i did kernel flashing right. It doesn't matter which recovery file i choose in the sp flash tool. I have always kernel version 3.18.35.
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
recovery is restored on each boot no matter what is flashed. after flashing, hold Volume Up, disconnect + reconnect cable, keep holding and boot straight into recovery. if that recovery work the kernel is compatible
[General Questions and Answers] Lxcky:
I wasn't able to boot into recovery with the android 10 firmware.

I used the original Scatterfile and replaced the revovery-verified file through the recovery-sign file of the android 10 firmware.

After flashing the file i wasn*t able to get into the recovery.

This method worked fine for the android 7 firmware :/
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
from specifications it looks like the cameras are different. nevertheless it might be recovery is crashing because the changes between android 7 and 10 are too high. android 10 forces AVB, FBE, SAR which afaik requires different partition layout (not sure about ext4-dedup/logical partitions which would make things read-only anyway)
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
had a closer look into scatter file. the Cubot King Kong B-1 lack of partitions

persist

dtbo

vbmeta

tee

md_udc

otp

furthermore the Cubot King Kong CS has a super partition instead which probably contains dynamic partitions

system

vendor

product

little kernel has a bigger partition size 0x80000

recovery will probably fail because of that differences and not by the kernel. maybe we could change the partition layout and prepare missing partitions. but guess the super partition is a showstopper
[Essential Phone Accessories] cappysw10:
Haven't heard anything from Essential about the charging dock. Any insight I'm missing?
[Essential Phone Accessories] jhs39:
The PH-1 didn't sell well so the accessories didn't materialize. If there actually is a PH-2 and it does better maybe Essential will release a charging dock that will work with both phones. That's the best we can probably hope for.
[Essential Phone Accessories] feeway730:
According to their reddit AMA, the accessories will be future compatible
[Essential Phone Accessories] tomzefi:
I imagine it will roll out with PH2
[Essential Phone Accessories] toy187:
It's not because the phone didn't sell well, it's because they are being sued about how the accessories communicate with the phone...

https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/17/essential-lawsuit-keyssa-modular-tech/
[Essential Phone Accessories] cappysw10:
Well, not mention of the dock on the website anymore. Too bad, it's the one accessory i would have bought two of!
[Essential Phone Accessories] silverh20:
Anyone found any 3rd party USB-C fast charge stands? I liked my Samsung Quickcharge stand that held up my phone next to my keyboard.

Amazon has a bunch of sketchy looking no name USB stands but I cant tell if they'll be able to fast charge.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] sillyshyme:
The S9+ and the Samsung Gear VR Model SM0R322 GH69-25929A to hook up is anyone else having problems?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] foxmeister:
Is that the generation 1 headset, which was Micro USB and not USB-C?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] sillyshyme:
https://www.verizonwireless.com/accessories/samsunggear-vr/ It says its capable.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] foxmeister:
Where does it say that?

I've looked at that link and the S9 isn't mentioned.

Look at the connector - if it's Micro USB it is completely the wrong headset.View attachment 4481306
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] Jzerof:
]HI xda, first of all i apologyse for my english level i am from Argentina :p

So i have been trying in the last couple of weeks several custom roms for the MI A1 trying to finde the best performance one, the thing is that i ve found a problem on each one of the roms in all the roms when i try to turn on the scren with the power button or i try tu unlock it with my Fp the screen takes 1 second or so to activate, is this normal? When i was on stock 8.0 that didnt happen at all, please i nedd help
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] turtuv:
Hi guys, yesterday I got a smart lock notification like this. Anyone has received it? I disabled it, but I want to enable it again and I don't know what service is handling this kind of notification.

P. S. Ho my s9+ there is a "grammar error" because the message says "4hours" without the space between "4" and "hours". Is it like this for you too?

Inviato dal mio SM-G965F utilizzando Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] turtuv:
No one?

Inviato dal mio SM-G965F utilizzando Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] meyerweb:
My S7 Edge would lock the screen, requiring a PIN to unlock, after 4 hours, but I don't recall ever seeing a notification. I haven't seen similar behavior on my S9+, but I'm using Face Unlock, too, so that may explain why.
[Galaxy E5, E7 Android Development] RioFebrian:
​

Hi everyone. Here are my LineageOS 13 . They are stable and contain the latest android security patches as far updated by Lineage & Google AOSP.​

Lineage OS Android Distribution​

#include <std_disclaimer.h>
/*
[COLOR="green"]* Your warranty is now void. Knox 0x1[/COLOR]
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*/

INSTALLATION PROCESS:

​

* Reboot to TWRP Recovery using 3 button combo: (Vol up + Power + Home).

* Wipe (System, Data, and Cache)

* Install the ROM from SDcard using TWRP recovery.

* Flash GApps

* Reboot and wait.

* Done!

DOWNLOAD LINKS:

​

ROM:

lineage-13.0-20180324-UNOFFICIAL-e53g.zip

Custom Kernel Overclock For E5:

Go Now

Google Apps(Gapps):

OpenGapps

Thanks :

@jackeagle for kernel source

Kernel Source : Github

XDA:DevDB Information

LineageOS13, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy E Series

Contributors

RioFebrian

ROM OS Version: 6.0.x Marshmallow

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x

ROM Firmware Required: lollipop

Version Information

Status: Stable

Created 2018-04-19

Last Updated 2018-04-18
[Galaxy E5, E7 Android Development] RioFebrian:
Screanshot​
[Galaxy E5, E7 Android Development] Engineer Umer:
Hi, please tell,

1. Is this rom stable without Lags

2. Substratum Support

3. GPS

4. SIM CARD

5. WIFI

6. BLUETOOTH

7. MOBILE DATA (3G)

Are all these working ?

Thanks for your really hard work bro :)
[Galaxy E5, E7 Android Development] khaikate:
Cm13 Update?