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[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] allcaps33:
This has happened before:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/11/21/google-fixes-disabled-bootloader-unlock-pixel-2-phones/

And a random Google search revealed that this has been a constant issue for about a year.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] DuckRuckus:
Unless I missed something, why are you putting the SIM card in before unlocking the bootloader? That was one of the conditions you defined in the OP.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] allcaps33:
Not many people know *not* to do this. I honestly didn't think that the Verizon Sim had anything to do with it until I tried it- intentionally.

My point in bringing this up is that it should *not* happen in the first place.

Let's assume that VZW has nothing to do with this at all.

Then why is bootloader locking?
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] DuckRuckus:
I can't answer your last question, other than to say that refurbs seem to be in limbo, so to speak. What I can say, is that this would be a more useful thread if it was a shout-out to VZW users to unlock their phones, prior to inserting the SIM card, than to complain about Google's support. The latter won't change anything.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] allcaps33:
My phone wasn't a refurb. It was purchased at launch. VZW users have *NOT* been able to unlock their phones withOUT a Sim card in it. That's been a thing for a while now.

So that's definitely NOT it either.

I feel like you're doing little more than trolling on behalf of Google support. Or VZW. Makes no difference though, as I'm sure there is an explanation that actually makes sense.

I agree with you on the fact that this seems nothing more than a bashing session. How else would this get fixed without finding some half-assed hack? Gremlins?

No. A public statement by a group of users. This is an ongoing problem that was never thought out from the beginning. It was never thoroughly fixed.

You could be on to something in the sense that VZW should allow for BLU. But that won't happen. They've been petitioned. They've been harassed. They've been cried at. We all know VZW won't change their policy.

So with all of this gone through (what seems like a thousand times over), what else do you suggest? How do we actually resovle this?
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] Diesel_Jeremiah:
I have two Pixel 2 Non-XL phones. One is a work phone with the camera removed.

My girlfriend liked my new phones, she bought a Pixel 2 Non-XL for herself.

All three phones were purchased from Google.

All three phones are unlocked.

All three phones have Verizon SIMs.

All three phones had the SIMs in when unlocking.

With my two phones I've had zero issues with manually updating. I use the factory image (-w removed), TWRP, Magisk, and ElementalX kernel. I do not remove my SIM when updating.

My girlfriend's phone is not rooted. She wanted to keep OTAs, though I unlocked the bootloader to keep from a system wipe if she changed her mind.

Maybe your right. Maybe there is an issue with Google not having a sanity check if the phone is Google with a Verizon SIM.

Though, I don't see the issue with them giving you a new phone, leave your SIM out, unlock and move on?

If you really feel that strongly about this, I feel your only viable option is to get the list of people who are affected and get a Class Action lawsuit going. Though, the fact that tampering with the bootloader is clearly defined in the warnings of the phone and Google's website, they might say "you broke it you bought it."
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mugsee:
Hi guys,

I'm looking for any details of a Tilt repair center that might be able to repair my tilt. I previously bought it off eBay and the seller is not replying to my emails for procedures on how to get it repaired, so assume that this is not a warranty claim and that I'll be shelling out for all costs associated.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Btw, this is in regards to the battery consumption problem detailed in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=371734&page=16

Thanks.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] fone_fanatic:
I'm on the same boat, bought it off ebay, denied the warranty from Squaretrade and don't know if ATT will cover my problem. I haven't tried yet but i will... i'll tell them something like i recieved it as a present from a relatvie who bought it from an ATT store with no contract.

I'd suggest going to an ATT store and trying your luck, if they deny to repair it for you then head over to pocketpctechs.com. I know they repair pda's. Or you could directly call HTC USA, get their number from their site, or call ATT customer service and see if they can give it to you.

The battery drain problem seems software related and not hardware (atleast in my case)

have you tried changing your radio?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mugsee:
I'd love to goto an AT&T store but unfortunately I'm all the way in Australia. :( Let us know how you go with trying to claim directly from AT&T with no paperwork. I'm hoping they have an internal register of serial numbers/imei's that they can refer to when determining whether items are still under warranty or not.

In regards to the software issue; I've upgraded to all different roms and radios but none of them seem to turn the battery consumption down below 130mA in standby. I've even disabled all commuications items and left the today screen empty but no joy. :(
[General Questions and Answers] bunny.bear:
Hello! :)

I have had problems with the samsung theme store the last 4 days, even after the update.

When I apply a theme, the homescreen wallpaper also applies to the lockscreen wallpaper of the themes. Does not matter wich theme. The lockscreen wallpaper on the preview won`t apply. I have set my settings back to factory, powered it on and off, am on the newest updates and everything. Really frustrating. I have a s7 edge and I am on Oreo, newest version for my device.

Every help and answere is appreciated :)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] saimon36:
Suddenly my SM-G965F started random reboot. The device was OEM Locked, and everytime reboot on boot animation, I tried to flash full firmware by odin, but every time it's stucked on odm.img in odin, in Device (Download mood) showing "Secure Check Fail : Radio".

So anyway to get the device working?

RMM State: Prenormal

FRP Lock : On

OEM Lock : ON
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Ariful Hasan Soikot:
Is there any possibility to get Android P beta for Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1?
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] StoneSpider:
No
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] gepenx21:
Nope for beta,but maybe yes for official release
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Ariful Hasan Soikot:
Official P maybe next year/!
[LG G7 ThinQ  Questions & Answers] greyhulk:
The G7 has the ability to take a "motion photo" with each picture, similar to the Galaxy S7, S8, and S9. How in the world do we share it as a gif? And why do manufacturers keep giving us the ability to create things like this, but not sure them? It's maddening.
[General Questions and Answers] nekrosmsk:
Hey everyone,

I'm new and not sure where to put this so hope you forgive me or move it :)

I got the oneplus x 16gb "ONE E1003" with:

Android 6.0.1

OxygenOS 3.1.4

EDIT: I've successfully unlocked the bootloader with fastboot oem unlock by the way.

and I wanna root it. I've followed a root instruction video but ended up in bootloop and had to reflash the stock rom.

Now I searched better and found the suitable SuperSU for my model.

BUT I couldn't find a suitable twrp for my model / version. And If I found a link it was deleted.

Can you help me out please? :/
[General Questions and Answers] nekrosmsk:
well thanks for nothing xda "developers"
[Moto X4 Questions & Answers] Nickdroid86:
I have the 3/32gb version of the x4. I have the option to get a brand new Moto Z with 4/64gb which as you know is also AMOLED screen and Snapdragon 820 processor with adreno 530. However it's a single camera. Should I do this?
[Moto X4 Questions & Answers] ehbm:
The problem of Moto Z in my opinion is not having IP68 protection and the fingerprint sensor is that poor square with no gesture support. Otherwise it's a great gadget, I heard this Phone got a great price on Gearbest now.
[Moto X4 Questions & Answers] bookworth:
64 GB vs 32 GB, new battery...
[Moto X4 Questions & Answers] Nickdroid86:
So I got to own both. Sticking with the x4.

On paper the Z sounds better. But the processor slows down significantly when using multiple apps. I would even compare it to the new gen of Snapdragon 4xx series. The 64gb doesn't mean much because a large chunk is taken up by the software. The ram is an extra GB at 4 vs. the 3 on the x4, however running all the same apps, the x4 had much ram left open for use than the Z did. Ram management was terrible. Other than that, the camera was the worst in low light I've seen in a long time and bad in general. The battery was the worst and it also gets really hot really fast. Lack of fingerprint sensor gestures. The screen was very nice and vibrant but the x4 screen was also very good, just not quite as good but the no reason for me to keep the Z over the other cons. I wanted to get in detail with my experience because I got to use both extensively and there is no real world comparison anywhere on the internet other than the spec sheet which sounds good in favor of the Z, but it's definitely not in real life. Even the quadrant scores were way higher on the Z, but actually the phone felt useless with a few apps open.
[Moto Z2 Play  Questions & Answers] sunsetrower:
After a problem with my computer I lost the backup made with twrp, and I need to flash back EFS to the z2 after a few test I made. Can someone send me a EFS backup? Tried to restore it with LineageOS but no luck, I keep getting IMEI 0.
[Moto Z2 Play  Questions & Answers] St.Noigel:
You must restore your own IMEI .. But here are TWRP backup from my 1710-08:
[Moto Z2 Play  Questions & Answers] sunsetrower:
Thank you a lot!!!
[Moto G5S Plus Questions & Answers] Swizzy88:
Hi I have a xt1803 G5S Plus, retgb and have recently unlocked bootloader and rooted my stock ROM which is NPSS26.116-26-14.

I have noticed there are higher version numbers available like NPS26.116-61. How do I go about having the latest stock ROM with twrp and root access? I'm guessing the stock ROMs are not flashable via twrp. Would I have to flash the latest stock ROM via ADB like it explained here

https://xdaforums.com/moto-g5s-plus/development/flash-official-firmware-moto-g5s-plus-t3681018

and then unlock bootloader again, flash twrp etc like starting from scratch?
[Moto G5S Plus Questions & Answers] echo92:
I honestly would not recommend flashing NPS26.116-61 to your device. Despite the version number being higher, that firmware is actually for a different region (I think NPS26.116-61 series firmwares are for India and Indonesia, whereas the NPS26.116-26 series is for EU/UK). If you flash that, you may find yourself ineligible for OTA updates at all, since your build does not match that expected by the stock OTA servers, and if there are incompatibilities between the firmwares - since they are for different regions - you may have issues with IMEI/SIM access.

If you wanted to update though, you'd have to follow the steps in that guide. Though I don't have a G5S Plus, you would have to remove TWRP/root through a stock ROM flash (no need to re-lock bootloader), then update via OTA, then flash TWRP and re-root. If you can find a stock ROM with the same firmware build as you have now, you may be able to preserve your data by omitting the 'fastboot erase userdata' command from the stock ROM flash commands, but I would recommend you have a backup (e.g. TWRP backup) before flashing anything.

There's a copy of the NPSS26.116-26-18 stock ROM (June 2018 stock ROM) here, flash at your own risk: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=77025728&postcount=507 This build was released as an OTA update to retgb devices as reported here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/8w0c0c/june_patch_now_available_on_retgb/
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] myabc:
hello. i have galaxy s8 unrooted italian no brand and i one time flashed an original rom but it is not trip of knox. can anyone tell me how is possible to solve? thanks
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mamal73:
i want z3 dual .291 deodexed systemui file ..can anybody give me that?:(
[Mogul, XV6800 General] Synth3t1c:
thanks in advance for any help i get.

okay, here's the deal. i have a titan running wm 6.1 build 19199.1.0.0 no2, and wmwifirouter 0.91.

i use ppckitchen to cook my rom, and i tossed on there wmwifirouter. i did a hard reset afterwards.

ics doesn't have an option for wifi or adhoc or anything. i had talked to chainfire earlier today (he disappeared on me) and he said something about needing to install a cab.

the only cab i could find was adhoc.cab and i tossed it on my titan - it always says the install was unsuccessful. i hesitate to toss 1.0 on there because id have to recook my rom and toss on all my contacts and, well, it'd kinda be a pain. if there's anyway around using 1.0 that'd be awesome.

once again, thanks in advance.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] Dc_striker:
try the newer version
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] iTeemuu:
Hey Guys

I know this is a selfish/silly question but im wondering if anyone knows the delivery time for NA, Canada specifically for the phone.

I See they all range differently.

I see DX is 4 -10 Delivery period w/ ship out in 4-7 days

Aliexpress just mentions a 30-39 Day delivery period

and so on.

I have personally never bought a phone from oversea so i'm also a bit anxious whats the average delivery time?

Thanks in advance .
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] _katho_:
1-2 days from when they ship it with DHL Express, http://tradingshenzhen.com/. Maximum a week in total I'd say.

There's a thread "places to buy from" or something like that with lots of info.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] apatrick1:
I had a 6GB SE shipped to the US, took 5 days excluding the time it took the AliExpress reseller to process the order. If you order from AliExpress, you should probably go with HK Goldway. If you do, keep in mind they only ship twice a week, one of those is a Wednesday (the day they processed mine and shipped out) and the other a Saturday if I remember correctly.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] iTeemuu:
Do they ship to Canada?

And for some odd reason when i go to the check out page it becomes a different language despite the top right indicating "English" o_o so wasnt able to make out what it was saying

Thats also something im concerned about . Since i don't see alot of rating on some items just ordered quantity.

Okay Thank you very much for the feed back! Much appreciated .
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] _katho_:
They have Canada as shipping country.

HK Goldway is legit too.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] omek07:
Hello my friend . I am living to in Canada, Victoria BC and i am searching too for the phone.

If you find from where to buy the phone please inform me. I am searching to Gearbest site and to banggood. Ive never bought something from Aliexpress so i dont know if i can trust it.
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] djsubterrain:
I've tried both an unofficial AICP Treble build and the official RR Treble build on the OnePlus 5 after installing OB13 (Which the Treble app said had the vendor partition working), neither will boot. Both show a black screen with frozen cyan notification light. Flashed both using the latest blu_spark TWRP (twrp-3.2.2-x_blu_spark_v8.81_treble-op5_op5t.img).

Tried both while mounting the vendor partition in TWRP and with it unmounted, neither works.

After I had OB13 installed, I performed fastboot -w and then wiped all but vendor using the above TWRP. Still wouldn't work.

Anyone know why?
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] GraveDigger176:
Just got it to boot after talking to phhusson. Turns out the problem is that ro.build.fingerprint was too long (it takes a maximum of 91 characters.) When I changed it to a shorter, also valid build fingerprint (eg. the one from phhusson's AOSP GSI) then it boots correctly.

Found this in gsi thread maybe that fix your booting problem :good:
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] djsubterrain:
Surely that's something that needs to be fixed in the rom then? Or is that problem specific to our phone?
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] GraveDigger176:
Don't know that never used treble rom found this in this thread

https://xdaforums.com/project-treble/trebleenabled-device-development/official-crdroid-4-4-t3813104

He changed the line and the phone boots
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] turbotorsten:
Isn't the ro.build.fongerprint just in the build properties? So you can easily change it, I can't try ATM cause I need a stable phone for 2 weeks. Maybe try flashing phhs GSI of AOSP instead?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] klisza1993:
Hi. is there any solution to install this feature ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alYmFwQT2WA

Im useing CustomRom "S9ported"
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] klisza1993:
Ok i have found the solution. just download some Videos and set it AS wallpaper :D
[General Questions and Answers] PigsCanFly2day:
All right, I know my phone is kinda old. It's a Samsung Galaxy S4. It's got 16 GB internal. For a long time, I've been using a 64 GB microSD card for everything that I possibly can (apps, photo, video, etc.), but even still the internal storage just isn't enough. The OS & pre-installed apps take up the majority of it, & the remainder is constantly filling up from application data & temporary files. I can't update apps because I need over 500 MB available internal storage & I only have about 30 MB available on a good day. I'm constantly clearing stuff & having to restart my phone. I'm thinking I should merge the memory card to be used as internal storage, rather than external, but I really want to make sure I don't loose anything. I've always been nervous about merging the card as I'm not sure how safe it is if the card were ever to fail, but I think it's really my best bet at this point. I would use a new card; I already have a spare 128 GB Sandisk Ultra Plus card, which claims up to 100 MB/s read speed, so I'm hoping that's fine. I'm also considering rooting my phone at some point, but I'm kinda nervous about that.

What's my best bet to merge a new memory card & move the apps & stuff over from the old card?

Phone name / model number: SCH-1545

Android Version: 5.0.1

Please help! Thanks.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] JasMan78:
Hi,

I would like to read the secure setting "location_providers_allowed" and write the value to a variable named %Locmode.

When the task is executed and the location setting / variable is empty, which means the location mode is off, it should enable the location mode e.g. GPS.

But when my task reads the value of "location_providers_allowed" with the shell command "settings get secure location_providers_allowed" and it's empty / location mode is off, the variable is set to an invisible value.

When I build a check which queries if the variable %Locmode is set or not, the result is TRUE. But in the tab with the variables overview the value of my variable is empty.

If I execute an "Flash %Locmode" the shown message is "%Locmode".

Is this an issue? Is there another way to query if the location mode is off or not?

Nexus 5X with Android 8.1, rooted

Tasker 5.2.bf1

Thank you.

Jas Man
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] ktmom:
If the location mode is set to off, the variable %Locmode will not have a value so the flash action returns just the variable name. This is an "Uninitialized Variable" and the behavior you're seeing is described further down the Tasker user guide variables page.

When the location mode is high accuracy, your variable should return "gps,network", or battery saving mode it would return just "network".

In theory, just having the variable checked for "is set" would return true if location mode is anything but off. But because the variable is initialized in the process of reading the setting, it will pass the "is set" test but it will be empty causing Tasker to flash the variable name. I suspect this is an unintended gotcha, but it is working as currently designed.

Maybe better to test for the possible values rather than just if it's set.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] JasMan78:
Thank you [MENTION=6617276]ktmom[/MENTION] for the explanation.

I will try the opposite way to check if the location mode is on or not (IF %Locmode is GPS or NETWORK or WIFI)
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] ktmom:
You could try using;

%Locmode !~ \%Locmode

That should behave in the manner you previously described. "!~" means "does not match" and we're specifying the variable contains nothing thus mimicking an "is set" test.

The \ character is being used as a Java regular expression match. In Java the character after the \ is evaluated and in this case it's the content of the variable %Locmode. So the expression is evaluating the variable %Locmode does not contain anything.

And thanks, because researching this caused me to learn something [emoji4]

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] JasMan78:
%Locmode !~ \%Locmode

Works! But for me a little bit to exotic, because I'm not very familiar with java. When I will edit this task in e.g. one year, I will have no clue why I did this in the past. :eek:

Maybe I will get a little bit more into this later. Thank you again.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] ktmom:
Put a note to self into the task using an anchor. Plus sign -> Task -> anchor

Put your note into the input field then pause the action.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] JasMan78:
Wow, I'm using Tasker for many years now, but I've never realized the action "Anchor". Nice :)
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] ktmom:
Any input field on any action can give the same effect. You could use the input field in the action you have the if statement in. I just think the anchor action stands out more.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] Jake.S:
Hi everyone,

I noticed that using 360 camera on p20 pro, it only makes one camera working but not both. So instead you do not get 360 view. I wanted to check if others got the same problem? Is this app issue or something todo with p20 pro itself??

P. S idk if I posted this in right section.
[YU Yureka Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brickedmyphone1:
So I recently rooted and flashed a custom rom (https://xdaforums.com/yureka/general/rom-bootleggers-rom-v2-1-volte-t3777131) on my device, all was working fine until I realized that I didn't flash gapps. Downloaded gapps tried flashing (on TWRP) it but I got the error "error executing updater binary" . Googled up for a solution and got this:

Step 1:- Go to recovery.

Step 2:- Go to Wipe>>Advanced wipe.

Step 3:- Check data, system, cache & dalvik cache and then swipe to wipe all.

Step 4:- Then go to install zip from SD card and browse the Rom and install it.

Step 5:- Reboot the device

After this, somehow, I lost the rom but had my TWRP recovery still but I was able to flash the rom again using "minimal adb and fastboot". Everything was working fine but I still didn't have gapps and I thought I did something wrong with the steps aforementioned so I took a shot at those steps again. And boom! my device now keeps booting into "FASTBOOT MODE"(can't even go to recovery) and I tried several methods to try and fix and the most frequent "fix" I got for this on Google was to use adb and fastboot and use the command "fastboot oem unlock" but that didn't help either. PLEASE HELP ME OUT. JUST NEED TO GET A RECOVERY (TWRP/CWM) and flash my rom :(