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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] Svirusx:
Hey,

I have compiled kernel for Galaxy s7 Oreo. But here is problem because of all my compiled kernels for Oreo are too big.

Is there any possibility to compress kernel or boot.img before flash or another way to make kernel smaller?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] darkmind21:
Hello guys im loocking for an advice.

I'm on note 8 dual sim and I need to know if I can set one for call and one just for webbing like chrome and etc...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] BC01:
Hi,

you can set a sim for calling, sms and oobile data.

I Think this would be the right information for you:

https://www.samsung.com/hk_en/support/mobile-devices/how-do-i-use-dual-sim-or-usim-cards-on-galaxy-s8-or-note8/
[Android General] CRMBTDI:
Hello all forum-members!

I am new in this forum and I don't know how to root a smartphone.

I have seen this in YouTube:

....ttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fhCoY7nOTaE

and I want to do exactly this also (sorry that I have deleted the first letter of this link, but as a newbie I don't may write complete links).

Now I have this smartphone: Vodafone Smart 4G with Android 4.2.2

Unfortunately my smartphone is not supported from Android Auto, so I'm looking for a new smartphone.

I live in Germany and I'm looking for a new smartphone with:

1.: a removable accumulator (battery)

2.: which is supported from Android Auto (the smartphone must have Android 5, better Android 6, perhaps Android 7)

3.: which is not expensive (I think 200 Euros maximum).

4.: with maximum a 5"-display (if possible not more than 5") and if it's possible with at least hd-resolution (1080x720 pixel)

5.: with at least a quad-core-processor

6.: with minimum 2GB RAM and minimum 16 GB ROM.

7.: with a microSD-slot

Which smartphone has all these features and it is also possible to root it very easy without using a computer (because I have only an old notebook with Windows XP)?

I hope that I don't ask too much and I wish me a lot of good ideas and good answers.
[Android General] xanthrax:
you can find your answer here

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1620179

thread closed
[General Topics] milli260876:
I've just switched from a W950i SE to HTC Touch Cruise:)

My only problem being synchronising the audio as mp4 doesn't show up on ID3 tags ... I've got a plug-in on WMP11 is there a mobile variant?

Strangely when playing the songs show album/artist/song and art??

Only problem nothing in main menu all come under unknown...
[General Topics] milli260876:
will coreplayer fix this easily?

can you browse via album art etc...?

cheers
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Syed Shahriar:
I received an update in Magisk just a while. Anx opening up i have found that my magisk is not not installed and so the root is gone.

I clicked on install button, it says Install with zip and another option is install with patched boot.

I clicked on install with zip, it downloaded a zip in download folder, but as we dont have recovery now i dont know what to do with that zip. or should i go for patched boot img. and if yes? then how? thanks!
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] herecomedatboi:
I had it too and root was detected after I rebooted my phone.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Syed Shahriar:
did u update? and how?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] pack21:
+1

I lose my root, magisk don't update, and rebooting don't solved.

I'm getting tired of A2.

:(
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Benjamin_L:
What are all of you doing? Just install the modified boot image and be done. Never had any issues here.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Syed Shahriar:
need a link of that modified boot image. !
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Benjamin_L:
It's in the dump thread of the August image
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Syed Shahriar:
i m a bit of noob here. i gathered that patched_boot.img from august dump. now what to do in order to get the latest magisk working?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Benjamin_L:
Just use as is, flash with fastboot, or patch the unpatched one with magisk manager and flash that. More wasn't needed on my side.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Syed Shahriar:
I flashed patched_boot.img, now it shows magisk installed . but root is not there still. i have one option INSTALL, clicking it says 1)via zip 2) patched boot
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Benjamin_L:
No the patched boot image already is like installing magisk. Or to put it differently that's what happens when you install it the normal way so all you need is to flash the boot image and have magisk manager installed
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Syed Shahriar:
ok now as its stands, just flash the boot image and then open up magisk. ( i have already magisk installed , but as unrooted, and it asks to update)
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] conan_88:
Can someone upload the stock boot img from the August security patch so I can patch it with the updated magisk v17 because I have the same problem?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] bartoloandre98:
I i already have the august patched boot image, can i just update magisk from the app?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Benjamin_L:
Find it in the dump thread
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] conan_88:
I couldn't find a boot.img in the dump files. only bootanimations.zip but I don't think that's it.

Can you please tell me the directory or the file name so I can search for it?

Thanks.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] Benjamin_L:
Dump thread I said: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=77275242&postcount=25
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] conan_88:
Found it. Thank you very much. It is working now.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] SpaceInvder:
Hello. Couple days ago I've updated my 5T to Beta 14 (Oreo). Today I've noticed that some of the ui elements became pink/purple.

Beta 13 was okay.

So do you have the same problem on your 5T beta 14?

(I can't post screenshots, dunno how)
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] SpaceInvder:
Solved the problem by changing the theme.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] ConradB:
Thx, nice work :good:
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] hasanzahir:
Thanks to the OP. Great post! Totally noob friendly guide. Nice work.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Lione2:
It should also work on mi a2, thanks!
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] BubuXP:
Sure, but you can't use the posted patched_boot.img, because they're designed for Mi A2 Lite (daisy) and not for Mi A2 (jasmine).

EDIT: I posted the patched and original boot files for Mi A2 jasmine in the second post. I don't know if I can make a thread in the Mi A2 forum section with an adapted copy of my guide, there are already two guides there (even if not polished like this) and I don't want to create more confusion with a third guide about the same argument...
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] krzygaj:
i've installed magisk from previous guide - what steps should I take to apply OTA update? - 12 to 14?

Now magisk informs me that there is 17.1 version - how to update it?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] BubuXP:
If you flashed directly the patched_boot.img via fastboot in both slots A and B as the other guide said previously, you must flash the original boot.img to both slots, then start the guide from point 10.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] krzygaj:
I did as you wrote but still can't install August update - is there any log?

- extracted boot.img from rom: http://en.miui.com/download-354.html

- did fastboot flash boot_a boot.img and fastboot flash boot_b boot.img and rebooted

- next rebooted and did fastboot boot patched_boot.img with patched_boot 9.6.4.0 (July update) - patched with Magisk 17.1

later did steps in guide - but when i do system update it stops on first stage :confused:

Any ideas?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] BubuXP:
You tampered the system partition? Try flashing also the system.img in that case.

Another case could be that you made an OTA update from the June build to July: in this case the partitions on the other slot (probably only the boot partition) where lost when overwrited with fastboot (and cannot be restored, as we don't have any June build ROM or OTA).

If everything fails, do a full fastboot flash with MiFlash tool, but using the flash_all_except_storage.bat script, that should keep your data intact, restore all partitions (A and B) to stock versions and you can then apply OTA (before or after installing Magisk, but I suggest after installing Magisk so you can test if the guide works fine).
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] krzygaj:
Thanks above worked :good:

Hope the next update will go smoothly :D
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] jashancheema:
:svetius:
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] T4Ump:
September?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] PC295:
When booting comes a warning message because of the unlocked boot loader. How can I disable this message?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] ConradB:
you can't turn that off with open bootloader
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] proton242:
Guys, after i have unlocked bootloader i cannot charge my phone when is off because he go on when I insert the plug, it's normal?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] ConradB:
No
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] proton242:
ConradB you have some suggestion? Thank you
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] BubuXP:
Same problem on mine, I don't know if it's a ROM bug or it's caused by unlocked bootloader or Magisk.

The only solution at the moment is charging while the phone is switched on.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] proton242:
Ciao BubuXP, provando a rimuovere Magisk (lasciando il bootloader sbloccato) tutto torna alla normalità, cosa dici, crea casino quando patcha il boot.img?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Txatxiquesi:
You cant uninstall if you dont want problems with the OTA, but, you can freeze the unwanted apps, i personally use 3C tools.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] thorin0815:
You can disable (freeze) apps with tools like Disable Application from the Play Store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iamaner.oneclickfreeze

Or you could use the Magisk module Debloater to uninstall unwanted apps systemlessly.

https://xdaforums.com/apps/magisk/module-terminal-debloater-debloat-t3584163

Personally I prefer the first method.

Btw. most apps can be disabled without the help of any third party tool within the Apps menu inside the Android settings.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] bedencic:
when we get patched-boot for november update. i get bootloop when running october patched boot on november update.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] merlin.berlin:
here you can have my patched boot img of November update:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X6iNEhL5bN5-00CClM9wz2s1Oc5RqOip/view?usp=sharing
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] sinthemau:
Hi [MENTION=5474836]BubuXP[/MENTION] and all,

I have followed your very detailed and well done guide for installing Magisk: all is gone well but cannot update

november OTA for my fault in installing AdAway classical way, before reading how to systemlessly install through Magisk, so I think my problem in OTA is due to this...

My status now is:

1) TWRP official installed and running OK

2) Magisk 17.1 installed and running OK with root and some modules installed

3) GCam API2 and some GCam APP

4) Titanium BU licesed

5) Adaway installed (but before to activate to systemless support from Magisk Manager...then I activated but maybe too late so it messed with Systems, probably this is why OTA doesn't work!!!). Tried to restore host file from Adaway but same failure in OTA.

Have you some suggestions abour fixing my settings to do correctly the OTA update?

I've seen in another thread the possibility to extract all the images from the payload.bin of the OTA dump (already done), but my concern is that there are then 2 ways to do.

First is:

1) look at the active slot with "fastboot getvar current-slot",

2) "fastboot set_active" the NOT ACTIVE slot and "fastboot flash" all the 14 images ONLY in the NOW SET ACTIVE SLOT

3) "fastboot boot patched_boot.img" extracted from OTA dump and patch with Magisk

4) install Magisk directly

Second option is to "fastboot flash" ALL the IMAGES in BOTH THE TWO SLOTS...e.g.:

"fastboot flash devcfg_a devcfg.img"

"fastboot flash devcfg_b devcfg.img"

and so on for all the 14 images. The other steps I think should be the same of the first one.

So, what do you think about the way of fixing OTA update? What are your suggestions, please?

I'm very afraid to mess all in my phone, I'm not much an expert, just a noob that follow smart indications on the forum :)

Grazie 1000 per la guida e le ottime indicazioni che mi hanno fatto lavorare senza problemi sul mio terminale ;)

Ciao maurizio
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] harvey:
if you flash in both slots, you have the new version in both; that's all. Otherwise you could activate other slot and boot into your old version. Possible the better variant, if something goes wrong with flashing.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] shmaiz3r:
Followed OTA update method to update November OTA but got "Installation problem"..

I have no Adaway or any similar ad-blocking app.

Untouched stock recovery.. using greenify and Icebox btw

Note that I unfreezed all system apps prior to OTA update and rebooted, then performed steps to update.

I originally installed Magisk using your method AFTER updating to October.

It downloads the OTA update file but gives problem at the end.

Here's a screenshot:

http://imgur.com/CInMplX

https://i.imgur.com/CInMplX.jpg

[IMG="SCREENSHOT"]https://i.imgur.com/CInMplX.jpg[/IMG]

What do you suggest I should try?

many thanks!
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] BubuXP:
First post updated with November patched_boot.img, vanilla boot.img and full OTA dump as .img files.

I'm sorry for the delay in uploading the new updates, but my job keeps me very busy sometimes...

Obviously yes.

I'd do this: uninstall AdAway, fastboot flash only the system.img extracted from the OTA (same version as the vanilla ROM you're using, you can find them in the first post of this thread), try to update now. If not working, fastboot flash also the vanilla boot.img (you can find it in the full OTA dump you already downloaded right before), update without considering Magisk (it will not work because of the vanilla boot), then install Magisk following the guide (no need to reinstall Magisk Manager).

I'm not very active in the forum lately, but if I'm not wrong, TWRP at the moment is not very useful. I suggest to not install it (maybe only boot it via fastboot when needed) while using Magisk. Because TWRP and Magisk resides both in the boot.img, you should flash TWRP at first and it will override the vanilla boot.img, then you should install Magisk and it will be installed side-by-side with TWRP in boot.img: Magisk Manager will save the boot.img before inserting Magisk, to restore it when installing OTA, but that boot.img isn't vanilla, it's the TWRP one, and it will not work with OTA.

I hope I explained myself well, tell me if I must be more intelligible (in Italian via PM).

Same suggestions that I wrote right above, and that you can also find in the troubleshooting section in the first post: flash system.img at first, if OTA continues to give error flash also the boot.img (that cannot be untouched, because Magisk is installed there). There should be no need to unfreeze apps or change anything (I don't know Icebox, are you sure that it doesn't touch the system partition?)
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] sailay1980:
Hi,

I m on October security patch and I have fail to update OTA at the beginning. Because I changed system font to get my favorite "Zawgyi font". Then cannot remember, freeze some system application by Titanium.

My solution is

firstly flash (platform-tools) system.img from this thread "9.6.9.0 (October 2018) OTA update dump as .img files". But somehow fail with error ,header size mismatch, not remember correct error word.

Then I download official ROM "http://en.miui.com/download-354.html" and extract system.img. Then successfully flash and reboot. follow this thread instruction.

12. Uninstall magic" > "Restore Images" but very important: absolutely don't reboot the phone now!

13. Close Magisk Manager and go to "Settings" > "System" > "System update" and install the OTA update. After the update is downloaded, a two-stages update will begin.

14. When both stages of the update process completed, it will ask to restart: DON'T DO IT!. Open Magisk Manager again and tap on "Install" > "Install" > "Install to Inactive Slot (After OTA)" and after that you can tap on "Reboot".

After the reboot you will have the updated Android version with Magisk already working.

DONE with update Oct security patch.

finally I compare two system.img, from official rom has only 1.7GB. But I download from this thread was 2.6GB and it was not flash able and generated error. I have to use 1.7GB system.img.

happy flashing.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] sinthemau:
[MENTION=5474836]BubuXP[/MENTION]

Thanks a lot for your time, indeed; all was very clear and detailed but....

I have just tried to flash the System image in the current active slot, but from fastboot I get the message:

"target reported max download size of 534773760 bytes Invalid sparse file format at header magi"

I attach here a screenshot of the terminal.

Do you know why it refused to flash????? I stopped the procedure waiting for an answer.

Buona domenica e grazie ancora
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] wirapuru:
Thanks for all the tips and instructions.

I did unlock/install/everything without any issues 1-2 weeks ago, yesterday I went to try doing the steps for OTA update, got some issues and now I'm trying to get back to its original state by flashing boot.img and system.img from the provided `9.6.9.0 (October 2018) OTA update dump as .img files` (also, thank you for those) at slot_a.

Flashing them worked, it booted. Problem is now I have no Wifi at this current instance at slot_a. No error messages or anything, only the Wifi switch won't activate (like it tries to go ON, then immediately aborts it and stays OFF). Weird thing is that I have the almost exact same system at slot b with Wifi working fine.

I'm not very experienced but I had my days of flashing stuff into my older phones (Milestone, Nexus 4), first thing I went to check was Kernel, models, etc at system info - but they are all exactly the same: https://imgur.com/a/oMywEja

Is there a simple fix to this on slot a? What could be happening (if someone don't mind explaining)? Thank you in advance
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] BubuXP:
About the system.img not flashing, this may be the cause:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/777663/simg2img-invalid-sparse-file-format-at-header-magi

I'm busy right now, I hope to find a solution later, but probably the system.img file inside the OTA is in RAW format, and it has to be converted in another format readable from fastboot. If you find a solution (i.e. a simple converter software, maybe the same one in the link) please post your results, thanks.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] wirapuru:
Also about the system.img not flashing first, oddly I had the same error message, but in my case the operation went through:

But no idea why that, or if even had any side-effects to it, but my slot_a system wasn't loading before, now it is. Let me know if I can investigate anything about that in here and I'll be glad to do it.

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About my issue trying to make Wifi to work after flashing boot/system (2 posts above):

I've tried to dump both modem_b.img and devcfg_b.img then flash them into slot_a, no deal yet. Can someone give a clue about where (which partition/image) that wifi specs would be? I just want to try to flash it from slot_b to slot_a and see if it fixes it.

Note: If that's on system.img or boot.img partitions I'm on a deadlock here - I'm doing this to have both as stock so I can do the OTA update. Also, I don't think it's boot.img, since I could `fastboot boot` with the patched_boot.img with both slots, and same results: slot_a w/o wifi, slot_b had it OK.

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Edit: I'll just try to flash original previous OTA ones' system/boot into slot_a until one has wifi working, so I can update OTA then reinstall Magisk. I'll be back with results.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] sinthemau:
After all the afternoon seeking for advice looking in the WEB for the error string I had and other issues related, I found that my problem is present in many cases of flashing System.img: causes seems pretty different and obscure sometimes...like USB port/cable not working or old version of the ADB etc.

BTW I tryed different port, cable and also the latest ADB of september 2018: same result as before!

Then I found a program to extract images from firmware (MTK Extractor Tool), the author says it is to Unpack and Repack System Images; here the link:

https://www.teamandroid.com/2017/07/16/download-mtk-img-extractor/

It worked in the "Build Firmware" Section and extracted a file that is about 1 Gb versus the more then 2 Gb obtained previously using the "payload_dumper-win64".

Now I have to say that I'M VERY AFRAID to flash this one (right or wrong...cannot say at all!!!)

Have you the possiblity to understand/check if this could be the right one?

Ciao

EDIT

I found another extractor here in XDA:

https://xdaforums.com/chef-central/android/tool-extract-repack-dat-img-android-5-8-t3670763

But the problem is that some people reports not working with OREO. I tried to run it but couldn't extract images, maybe because is seen like a virus too...
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] wirapuru:
[MENTION=2957165]sinthemau[/MENTION] just a side note about what you said above: the USB issue. I forgot to mention this, I also had a LOT of issues on this. I consider myself lucky I didn't dig myself into deeper problems, because my front USB ports, all 4, just wouldn't properly transfer the files through fastboot/adb. Worse: it would just hang the operation, no messages or nothing - forcing me to always hard-reboot (every time sweating). All worked fine after going through back ports.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] sinthemau:
[MENTION=3153819]wirapuru[/MENTION]

Thanks so much, other people report this issue, but I can use daily same PC using ADB/Fastboot and works without any failure.

Don't know...maybe it is possible, I will try to find another PC just to be sure ;)