yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] rajeshkoshti:
:confused:also last time I checked there were some roms which didnt support dual sim.

Most users dont mind occasional hiccups but no compromise with basic functionality.

You should go ahead with Lineage, its not the most feature packed rom but then one can tailor cook with different mods according to one's taste.

:good:

Edit: ..and yes my friend if u want to ease the process of unlock+root+backup etc. here's the link to the toolkit that will help you save time and (maybe) not brick your device with readymade codes built into the toolkit.

https://xdaforums.com/g5-plus/devel...olkit-root-t3605203/post72255202#post72255202

Kudos to the developer.

Edit 2:

This comparison video may also help you a great deal, the owner of the video has put in a lot of effort. Do hit the button if you like the video, my friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qNJMeXkVIM

I guess I am gonna go with the AEX - AospExtended, best of both the worlds.:cool:

Have fun.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] kartiklohia:
I don't use online storage. I keep my photos in local storage only. So that's not a deal breaker for me at all.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] Fererio:
I'm right now using havoc is it is a great rom with great features but I think it is draining the battery a bit faster.

So I want a good time which is stable and the battery life is pretty good.

Any suggestions??

:confused:
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] rajeshkoshti:
No ROM is bug free, once u enter modding/flashing world u need to be prompt in trying variety of roms so that u get tailor made experience as per your usage pattern. Try other roms and u decide for urself. Afterall all this comes with a red bold DISCLAIMER.

:highfive:
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] wastedige:
I'd stay away from that tool - I tried it last month when trying to root and most of its steps did not properly work. I ended up doing everything after unlocking bootloader manually
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] Dishe:
Actually both that tool and the video in that post weren't terribly helpful. Unlocking bootloader isn't difficult enough to need a tool and the video was a generic rom discussion, but details vary by device and he was not talking about the G5+. Im already aware of what the roms are supposed to be, but his findings on that phone might not be consistent with our own.

I do appreciate the response and trying to help, though! So it sounds like now I'm leaning towards lineage simply because I think I can get around the issues preventing me from PE, while still getting the benefits of a clean 64-bit Oreo rom.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] rajeshkoshti:
one more thing, do we tick all the boxes while taking backup through twrp?

Have been reading lot of warnings about taking EFS and Persist backup, so whether efs and persist should be backed up separately or just tick these boxes along with entire backup?

plz suggest.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] psychopac:
If I were you, I'd backup EFS and Persist both seperately and also along with the entire backup considering how precious these two partitions are.

Another reason I'd like to give you here to make a seperate EFS and Persist backup is for cases where you just need to restore EFS and Persist partitions and not the entire ROM.

Whenever you feel like going back to stock, just restore the entire backup back.

But that's just my opinion.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] sinchan_nohara:
try Arrow rom it doesn't have many options but havr useful rom unlike other roms they are in the place where they should be not consolidated in one place.

And rom is super smooth IMO its more smooth than any other custom rom and everything works smoothly.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] ChaudharyAshif:
Go for Havoc OS (By Akhil_dev) without a single thought. I am using is from last 1 month. It is fast and fluid. No need to use any xposed module or anything else for any customization. It has lots of customization options built in.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] atrain2324:
I second the latest AEX. It does have one small bug that happens to me and several others: Toggling WIFI off doesn't bring back LTE so make sure in "developer options" to toggle "mobile data always active" to get fast network switching on.

So far, so good, no battery drain for me at least.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] sinchan_nohara:
Try latest arrow 9.0 it's very stable and super smooth haven't faced any bugs till now everything works fine
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] Rutambh:
Nougat - Stock

Oreo - DOT Os (Best in Everything, Believe me I Flashed So many roms and After that, This Feel Perfect)

Pie- Arrow
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] Dishe:
LOL- so crazy how varying everyone's opinion is on this!

Note- if you recommend a rom, it would helpful to say WHY, like, what was better about it vs other roms? Was it better battery? Better cameras? Better performances? Better customization? What makes it "better" for one might not matter to another, which I'm wondering now may be why there are so many different opinions.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] Dishe:
Ok, so I have to be honest here, I went with Lineage to start. I am afraid of ROMs with heavy customization, I have been burned in the past with poor battery life and little things that did stuff I wasn't expecting (like aggressive management of apps that made me miss certain important notifications, etc).

So rather than listen to most of your suggestions, I decided I wanted something simple and familiar, figured there's less to go wrong. A lot of the recommended roms claim to be "based on Lineage" anyway, so I thought that would be a good starting point.

Turns out I'm not too thrilled with it.

1) First, I can't get contacts to sync, and it looks like I'm not the only one with this issue judging by the last few pages of the thread.

2) It also isn't passing Play Store Security certification or Safety Net, and it seems the only way to make that happen is using a Magisk module. I actually wasn't planning on keeping the ROM rooted so that the security features of certain financial apps would work. I know certain roms like Pixel Experience pass safety net and other certifications out of the box without root, so I was assuming Lineage would too. (guess I was wrong)

3) Notification LED is not enabled. This is something I had heard Lineage 14 had, and I had it with my stock rom using a zip I had flashed. Showed me when the phone was charging (very useful at night, instead of waking up to find out the cable was borked and didn't charge all night) as well as blinks when I get messages. I can't find it in 15, maybe I'm not looking in the right place but it isn't where Google says it should be.

Maybe these will get fixed in the next update, but its been a while so who knows when that will be. In a nutshell, I could jump through some hoops and get most of this sorted out I think, but the question is why when there is likely a ROM more ready to go out of the box. So back to the drawing board.

Pixel Experience has the photo sync issue, Lineage won't sync contacts, and won't pass safety net without root. Dot and Arrow seem pretty new, not sure how I feel about that (and not interested in P until more support has been rolled out for various apps- my brother has it on his PH1 and hates it). I usually like roms that have been around long enough to iron out the kinks, but then again it seems the ones that have been around aren't so kink-free themselves so far!

What should I try next? Havoc? AEX? Now knowing what I didn't like about PE and Lineage, which way would you steer me?
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] NZedPred:
Perhaps your best option is to forget about 64 bit and just stick with stock. What are you missing from stock? From your first post the only benefits you pointed out were increased in benchmark scores (do they really matter for real world performance) and compatibility with more recent versions of gcam (what specifically do you need from them). The reasons for using stock have been started in previous posts in this thread.

Custom ROMs will always have some sort of issue. They don't have the testing resources of the OEMs, and as much as people love to say things like hey we've got P on this phone when Motorola still haven't got it a stable O release out, how many of them end up ditching this rom and that rom in pursuit of stability, battery life, etc.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] Dishe:
Fair enough. You're right that I would value stability over performance, but after owning and using quite a few 64-bit phones, there's something about Moto's insistance on 32-bit that gets under my skin, especially when I know it is capable of better.

But I would let that go if it weren't for the Gcam thing. I have been using the 4.2 Gcam with RAW support (thanks to Savitar/@defconG) on Nougat, and it has been one of the major reasons I didn't return the phone after getting it 9 months ago (stock camera is subpar imo, so much worse than my previous phone I almost went back to it). I tried the 5.1 64-bit Gcam versions, and aside from the gimmicky portrait mode stuff, I actually found it far more stable and faster than any of the 32-bit Gcams. That alone I suppose was my initial reason to want to move on, and the performance bit was just reinforcement. At the end of the day, I feel like I'm using a rom that doesn't support the software I want to use and slows down my hardware while we're at it.

Now, as to my expectation that custom ROMs are reliable... I dunno man, this is the first phone I've had that I stayed on the stock rom this long. I've NEVER had major custom rom issues like this before. I've been using Lineage since it was Cyanogen on Android 2.x, and OmniRom and others as time went on... heck, custom rom on my Nextbit robin was MORE stable and fixed a bunch of bugs in the stock rom! I don't accept that with so many people working on the custom scene for this phone, there isn't a single daily driver that would work for me. I just haven't found it yet.

Next up, I think I'm trying Resurrection Remix...
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] sinchan_nohara:
To be honest most of the Oreo roms is going to be update monthly most of the devs is working on Android pie. Many roms are not being updated on XDA because many devs prefer to use telegram. Many roms are not being updated on XDA but devs push update on telegram.

I have tried all the custom ROM available for Oreo and linage and pe are my least favourite it has so many problems and I don't know my lineage is so famous other roms like AEX and arrow are way batter than lineage atleast for me.Safteynet passes in every ROM except lineage atleast for me.I only had contact issue with open gapps I am using Ezio gapps with no issue.

Arrow rom is pretty new but this is only ROM for which I can say that it is better than stock Oreo in terms of performance and smoothness can't say about battery.battery will always be better in stock ROM plus point with arrow is Kabir who pushes update for Potter is also co-founder of arrow if you have any issue you can talk to him on telegram directly you will get faster response from him on Telegram

Using arrow 9.0 for 2 days with no bugs in a few days it's going to be official with weakly update you can try that .
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] Dishe:
I've noticed that Telegram is where most of the development for this phone tends to be these days. Its a shame because it's more like a chat service and isn't as easily searchable and archivable as a message board. I can read through threads of a particular rom topic here, but there's a lot more banter to filter through on a telegram chat to find useful information.

Either way, I happen to be on Telegram so that I could keep up with Savitar and the Potter Photography group there. What groups should I be looking for re: roms?
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] sinchan_nohara:
First there is general group where you can chat about Potter [MENTION=8823993]G5plus[/MENTION] and there is a channel where all the important links and announcements are shared so you don't have to go through all the chats [MENTION=8823993]G5plus[/MENTION]links there is group and channel for Android p also [MENTION=8078108]Pfor[/MENTION]potter and [MENTION=8823993]G5plus[/MENTION]p and there is an offtopic group where you can talk about anything you want [MENTION=542022]potter[/MENTION]offtopic .

I don't know if I can share telegram groups name here.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] Dishe:
Wow, the Telegram group is so lively and active, so much ROM information that is missing from XDA. Its a shame, as I like the format of the forum better in the long run.

Anyway, I decided to try Arrow rom after it was recommended by multiple people. I must admit, it is pretty amazing out of the box. No glaring issues like sync problems, safety net pass out of the box, even has a 5.1 google camera with portrait enabled built in. Notification light does what I want as well.

Time will tell re: battery life, but this seems to be a very good basic all-rounder so far. I knew it couldn't be true that there are no daily-driver ready ROMs for this phone.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] sinchan_nohara:
True telegram is where you can find most up-to-date roms and other things. I like telegram more and sole reason is because you don't have to deal with strict XDA rules you can freely ask what you want to ask without any people reminding you again and again of what rule you have broken and you get answers quickly than you ever will on XDA

many of the roms on xda threads are not being updated for months mostly new devs are staying away from XDA in favour of telegram.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] Dishe:
I'm noticing that. Back in the day when XDA was still new (and Windows Mobile was a thing), we mostly took to IRC channels. It was the best way to get up-to-the-minute info and talk to people in real-time. But all that stuff is only as good as people who are available at the moment to help. If we didn't post everything on XDA, it would have lost as soon as people moved on from those devices and platforms and projects. Now, years later, I can go back and dig through some old projects on the forum and find roms, tweaks, and discussions organized by topic instead of seeing the same question asked by different people ad nauseum. I was able to pick up an older device and make it into something useful thanks to archived stuff here, and all without bothering people who have moved on and possibly don't even remember the details of that older device anymore. And I can revive an old thread and ask relevant questions and pick up where that conversation left off if the people care to come back and comment. All this stuff isn't as easily done in a chat interface. I find it kind of alarming, there's got to be a centralized place to search and discuss in a more organized fashion. A sub reddit maybe, if XDA's rules are too restrictive. Whatever the case, I'm glad I found the information and community I wanted to find. But a lesson to other folks on XDA- there's a lot more going on outside this forum!
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] rajeshkoshti:
I am doing great on AEX. Lol it even has LED notification light:laugh:

just everything feels perfect just few hiccups here and there, but truly free from all limitations full customizations.

I wanted below things and I have got them:

-center clock

-camera2api - gcam

-nav bar customization

-ntwrk status - dwnl upld speed

-circle battery

-system wide dark/black theme

-accent color selection

-fonts

-call connect/disconnect vibration

-lucky patcher...

and these below I haven't tried yet, I am after these now

-cast to smart TV without chromecast

-complete adblock (in app/pop ups)

-dolby atmos/viper sound mods

:good:
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Shako1993:
Hey, can I install gcam without root?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] DiesFrae:
You can, but it won't work fully cause HAL3 is not enabled by default and you'll have to root to get it to work
[General Questions and Answers] :
Hello everyone,

I've flashed my galaxy s6 edge SM-G925I with custom Lineage OS based 8.1 ROM.

Now I want to flash the Stock Android Nougat ROM on my device but I'm failed to do so using Odin.

When tried to do so, I got SW Rev. fail device 3 binary 4 error on the download mode.

Please help.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] sammys8:
I am having the same issue/error message when trying to flash stock Android nougat on my galaxy S8. Can't seem to figure out where the disconnect is.
[General Questions and Answers] :
May be firmware got updated and now it's not reverting back to old version. Please let me know if u find solution.
[General Questions and Answers] sammys8:
Been searching everywhere, will let you know if I come across anything.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Both of you, boot to recovery, factory reset your device, thrn boot to download mode, flash your firmware via Odin, if you still have issues, try these troubleshooting steps for a failed Odin flash.

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/general/guide-t2345831
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] >`xW0:
How can I access Recovery Mode on LG V20? I want to wipe system cache partition due to problems with Wi-Fi and Tethering. The only option I have is factory reset. (Volume Down+Power)
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Andy Chi:
Plug in USB cord to laptop.

Turn off phone.

Hold volume down button.

Plug in USB cord to phone.

After you see a flash of blue download mode, release volume button and phone will boot to recovery.

Do your thing.

Side note, Install the correct V20 variant twrp img to recovery so u don't have to do this enter recovery method anymore, you can enter recovery from the twrp app menu.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] >`xW0:
I tried the method and led me to fastboot, no option to wipe system cache partition from here. I'm missing something? It's another way to solve connectivity problems?

Thanks!
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Alibaba0101:
Do you have twrp recovery flashed?

Turn off phone

press volume down and power together until the lg logo displays

release and press the power button

click on yes to reset

and it should land you in recovery if you have twrp installed

otherwise use lgup to flash the kdz to our phone and restart everything.
[Google Pixel Questions & Answers] chugger93:
So I just got my refurb pixel since other one broke. It came with oreo. Pie is available thru system update. Should I update? I dont care to run a rom or anything, but I do want to make available my sprint hotspot. I know you can mod something to make that work, On my other phone before it broke it had 7.1.1 and it was rooted. I had a tethermod.zip file and I had to run this in shell: content update --uri content://telephony/carriers --where "_id=2918" --bind type:s:default,supl,mms,ims,cbs,ia,dun

from what my notes said. Anyways. Just wondering if I can download 9.0, root it and do a tether.
[LG Spirit ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] :
Didn't expect someone to make it, just flashed on my device and everything works flawlessly. But I do have one question: Do I have to re-flash magisk after ota updates? Thanks!
[LG Spirit ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] AgussVicious:
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I think not
[LG Spirit ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] :
I've been using this ROM for the past 4 months and I love it. I don't think I had any big issues. The only complain I have is that the camera recording sound is too low. I don't know if that's only me or someone else is also experiencing this. And I've run into couple of blue screens, but again not sure if that's magisk(I used to see lots of them after upgrading to beta) or ROM's fault. So far I've had better experience than with any ROM I've tried before. Thanks for your work! Are u going to update it anytime soon?
[LG Spirit ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] ismaf6:
I can not configure it because it does not accept my google account.....help
[LG Spirit ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] virividiann1434:
The current link points to a normal LineageOS version, not a microG one, just wanted to report that.
[LG Spirit ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Devel] wonzay:
Nope. It's microg version, I have checked it today. Microg needs to be updated, but in overall this rom is pretty fast.
[Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) Questions & Answers] pro100jekon:
Hello everyone! I've bought this device recently (1 day ago) and found a (I suppose it belongs to it) hardware bug with sound from side loudspeaker. And I am very surprised that nobody wrote similar thread in this forum. UPD: found thread here, sorry, forgot that word "speaker" suits... :D I "represent" Russian-speaking community from 4pda, and this issue is met pretty often.

The point is when you play video or play some games or simply type some text (with typesound), the loudspeaker can "eat" some part of playable sound. It is absolutely random when you play it without any charger and not random when the charger is plugged. We named it "sound hiccup" and this problem was discussed in some threads on Samsung forum, but there was no any normal solution of this problem.

I've recorded some video to show it to service center and I'm showing it to you:

[YOUTUBE]XZXGtFjtg00[/YOUTUBE]

Timecode when it starts is 1:10. Then I showed that it works below volume threshold and is OK above it.

So, did you meet same problem? If yes, how did you fix that? Phone is new, as it appeared, it is from UAE (the phone has its ROM, I'm from Ukraine), I can't reflash my phone until I send it to SC and receive it back but some users with different ROM region have the same problems but not at the same moments as I have.

Hope for your help, thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) Questions & Answers] Hovo01:
I have that bug too

Can you join here https://t.me/joinchat/CS3WpUl4nQVgtOrA2zt4KA

It's a telegram group for a8
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rawnq:
All i know is my device is desire 816 dual sim with 1.5 g ram , i wanted to install custom rom but it's confusing out there so many names such as a5_dug , a5_dwg ,a5_ul and many

I don't want to brick my phone flashing wrong rom

Please help me

Thanks
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] moventura:
Sorry, posted in wrong forum. Please delete.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] zajebisty12:
just got the 8525 brand new out of the box from a guy for 200$

amazing deal.

i upgraded the rom to the cingular WM6 and i love it only problem is it seems slower than the wm5...

like when i open the camera it lags more than it did on wm5 .

I tweaked it out with htctweaks util and it help alot of the startup but is there any way i can fix the camera

2nd question :

i really want to send files thru bluetooth i edited the bluetooth tweak thru htctweak util but still i cant send files

im on aim constantly so plz add me if u can help me or reply

aim = xxcracoviaxx
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Carty:
To send a file over bluetooth, turn it on first and then from File Explorer, Tap & Hold on the file then select Beam File.

Bluetooth File Sending is much easier and simpler when you have Resco File Explorer.

Btw, 200$ is an amazing deal. Also try some better ROMs from xda rather than shipped ones. I always liked the plain vanilla ones.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] galaxys:
Great 8525 Deal! & welcome to the forum! Here's a wealth of starter info:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=325748
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] zajebisty12:
i cant find any vanilla roms could u direct me to one i really want a fast rom
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] XtreMe_G:
there's plenty of choices in the wm6 subforum. in case you didnt know, a vanilla rom might also be called a clean rom, or even a light rom
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] SD5150:
Not sure if its the fastest, but it works well for me on ATT, try VP3G's rom, but make sure you read up on HARDSPL and such first, to make sure you don't cause an unnecessary headache for urself.

Here is the link to his ROM:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=334946
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] zajebisty12:
is there anyway i can install a rom on my mac?