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[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ceelos218:
You can update to september build and it won't relock.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] irish hammer:
Stuck

I have been trying for hours to install an older ota, but i keep getting a prompt that downgrad not allowed. any help?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JHXDA:
Thanks Jon -

My mother in law just had the same experience after being on a non-sprint network for 3 months. Today she got the INVALID SIM alert. I noticed under the About phone tab that there was a new header called Brand and it had Sprint below it. I called Sprint and they confirmed the phone was fully unlocked and ready for domestic and international use. I emailed Essential and got a generic response:

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out. This error message indicates that this device was originally purchased from Sprint and never properly unlocked from their network. The recent update didn't lock the phone directly, but rather was just a trigger for the device to check its carrier-lock status.

If you are the original purchaser, and you have fulfilled all of your contract obligations with Sprint, you should be able to contact them to have the device properly unlocked.

If you purchased second-hand, the seller did not have this device unlocked from Sprint before selling it to you. We recommend seeking a return / refund, as this device will not be able to function on a different carrier. Unfortunately, Essential has no ability to remove carrier locks on devices. This can only be done by Sprint by the original purchaser of the device. If you are unable to get a refund or exchange, we suggest filing a dispute with the marketplace (e.g. eBay), as this device was sold to you with a carrier lock.

Sincerely,

Essential

Essential Customer Experience Team

What a generic response. I even noted that I verified with Sprint that the phone was fully unlocked. Now she has no backup and we're in the midst of a storm that can potentially take out her landline. Essential team really dropped the ball on this.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jon_ybanez:
that's the exact same response I received from Support when I reached out to them. I didn't want to wait for Sprint or my seller to confirm the unlock status so I decided to reattempt flashing again. thankfully, I wasn't too invested into the setup yet & was able to accept the resets that occur during flashing.

Sorry to hear about your current situation, I hope Essential is able to identify a fix for everyone that's affected
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] irish hammer:
Downgrade

I tried to downgrade to every single build below the most recent and my touchscreen is completely unresponsive for each build. any ideas?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aaroncal:
The NMK24B flashes OK up until the end and fails on certain partitions and still can't get the modems to flash
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jon_ybanez:
If you are unable to flash certain partitions, you may need to perform a flash critical_unlock. I'll share the actual command when i return to my PC but the command should also be listed in other threads here

commands:

fastboot flashing unlock_critical

fastboot flashing unlock
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ezio.Nguyen:
You need unlock_critical
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ChadHughes:
So fellow essential owners -

If you complain to sprint about your problem (or just tell what it is, really) and then tell them you don't feel like you should be paying for anything - they will let you do the One free year of service bring your own device promotion! Doesn't matter what service it is - as long as your number is eligible to be ported you get one free year of sprint service. I chose to go to the sprint store to get my sim card (so i can use my essential today) and they waved the sim card fee and sprint called me back and set it up! Now I have my essential phone back! It's marvelous! I bought a temporary phone for a couple hundred and I immediately missed my essential thank goodness i can return the other phone. It works out! Just make sure your number is active so you can port it. Free service for A YEAR, legitimately, if you do it right. I have total equipment protection on for 13 a month but you can turn it off at any time. Just a heads up! It's worth switching to sprint for me to keep my essential working, i have my old number, and possibly a better carrier.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mexicandroid:
Can't downgrade through OTA, you must install the fastboot files through adb
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JHXDA:
Spent some time last night and finally got my mother-in-law up and running thanks to Jon_Y. I supplemented his steps with those described on Essentials website. In the end we're back to the latest Sept build and fully functional on Verizon. Spent a couple hours in total with Sprint and they were absolutely of no help- even placing the blame on Verizon. The community in this forum is so helpful!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] freetreephotos:
I still can't flash the modem partition after run unlock_critical.

fastboot oem device-info

...

(bootloader) Verity mode: false

(bootloader) Device unlocked: true

(bootloader) Device critical unlocked: true

(bootloader) Device modem EFS unlocked: false

(bootloader) Charger screen enabled: true

OKAY [ 0.012s]

finished. total time: 0.013s
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Milly7:
Could you be more specific? What happens when you try to flash it?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] freetreephotos:
Thanks for your reply. I finally got it to work. I first burned a wrong firmware version, so got the modem partition locked error. After I changed it to the NMK24B version, then everything works.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
For all reading you must be on NMK24B to flash the modem files. This is detailed in the other thread about brainstorming an unlock.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rommelleva:
It work man, thank you :good:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] stephxo:
Can you explain the process you did to achieve this? I'm using AT&T prepaid, but I've tried to downgrade back to 8.1 (since the phone was working prior to Pie) and each time I would flash 8, the touch screen lost its function. So I'm back on 9 and invalid sim.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] thepolishguy:
I had the same problem. It was because I was trying to manually flash all the different files one at a time....

fastboot flash system system.img

etc.

I finally figured out how to make the flashall.bat work.

It is simply typing in (to fastboot)

flashall

I always tried fastboot flashall and it never worked right.

Once I used, flashall, I got my touchscreen back. YMMV.
[General Topics] CoreyC:
hi all,

I'm looking for some way to use the Smart Playlist functionality in WMP (desktop version) on my Wizard.

I'm currently trying to learn a language and it's really annoying to be rocking out to my favorite songs and then here "blue....alabastru...blue" followed by a few more songs.

What I want to do is set up a Smart Playlist that will play all of my mp3's/wma's EXCEPT those that have an ID tag of LANGUAGE LEARNING. While I don't change out my music all that often, it does happen, which is another reason why I want a dynamic playlist instead of one that I have to manually open to edit out the language files.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Edit: In a perfect world I'd like to find an all-in-one media player that can play Divx and XviD videos well. CorePlayer and the like would be perfect, but it doesn't look like it supports dynamic playlists :(
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] basty95:
Hello i need some help to unlock the bootloader for my huawei mate 10 pro.

I tried DC-unlocker but he gives me error 375.

My firmware is Build BLA-L09 8.0.0.132(c781) with june security patch
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] Sipi1302:
read here maybe you found yours answer

https://xdaforums.com/mate-10/how-to/unlock-bootloader-limited-time-xda-users-t3838973
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] basty95:
Thank you but it is only for honor.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] steelmaggot:
If you do some research you'll find it's for honor and Huawei, seen it this morning myself
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] hamadazh:
i said that too but unfortunately it's for honor devices only.

https://xdaforums.com/mate-10/how-to/unlock-bootloader-limited-time-xda-users-t3838973/post77543257

Read the responses
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] dedeman89:
Did you try HWOTA8? It also has tools for unlocking bootloader.

https://xdaforums.com/mate-10/how-to/guide-mate-10-flash-oreo-update-package-t3716814
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] Jindivik:
did you follow this ? https://www.dc-unlocker.com/how-to-read-huawei-bootloader-unlock-code

didn't have any problem with mine. BLA L09 .132 (C34)
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] hamadazh:
No,, this tool working only if you already have the code.

just alternative to ADB and cmd.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] novastar1:
Fellow C605 users

Since we seem to have a relatively small presence on XDA, I was hoping that we could collate all our region related discussion into one topic.

What firmware version are you all on?

I'm on b138 that I got via ota around mid July

No updates since

Is this unique to me?

There is one update newer on FF but no approval yet.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] novastar1:
I'm the only C605 user left?

?
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] felipy2k:
Mine was c605 , i rebrand it to c432 but the No OTA came , i got the 150 but from FH!
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] novastar1:
Nice

I'm feeling hard pressed to pay that FH money ( on principle)

No doubt that FH is an unrivalled service

I also just have a little warranty left in my country

Did you get the AI night shot as well?

Is it a significant difference?

Currently on b138 with July security update myself
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] felipy2k:
Yes i did since 145 i think, but is not ALL that ... Is ok!
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] cgcm7784:
i'm on .137 since july
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] Coreinsp:
I'm also on .138 July patch with face unlock still waiting for .140 it's taking forever now.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] Buran79:
I'm on 137.

What I really want is to rebrand and convert to dual sim.

But FH tool says must not be on July Patch Updates
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] novastar1:
My mate 9 just updated to August

But my mate 10 is still stuck on July

Not sure how to feel

Maybe something is really wrong with the mate 10 August and that's why it's not approved and pushed out
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] novastar1:
New mate 19 build is now approved on FF

Nothing in system update yet
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] Coreinsp:
Got it today.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] novastar1:
Is there anything in there other than the GPU turbo update?

Specifically the updated low light camera mode that most other models got already?
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] Coreinsp:
No only GPU update it added game suite but about that low light camera mode I don't see it but I have night mode camera not sure if these 2 are the same thing tho this phone is new bought it a few weeks ago go like a 3 updates right away after turning wifi on.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] novastar1:
Updated with FF like in the other topic here to b140

Ai low like shot is working (although it's not in the changelog)
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] Coreinsp:
Seems like .140 went from approved to unapproved I wonder why is that?
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] novastar1:
Not sure what update shenanigans are going on

There shouldn't really be an issue with the software itself as to c605 is lagging behind c636 and c432 now
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] Coreinsp:
Got (C605patch01) today
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] kenjikj:
I finally got a update today!! I'm on 141.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] bluei:
Hey guys!

I'm new to MIUI. As u Can unlock bootloader in 3 days!! Can anyone help us how to unlock bootloader of POCO F1?

Thanks.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] didgerid00:
Sign into a Mi Account on the phone. This begins the "binding" time period. Once you've gone past 72 hours of having signed in, download the Mi Unlock Tool which can be found here (https://en.miui.com/unlock/download_en.html). Install it and install the USB driver that comes with it. Then enabled Developer Options and in that switch on the 'OEM Unlocking' and the 'USB Debugging' options.

Enter Fastboot mode on your phone. To do this, switch it off completely. Then keep the 'volume down' and 'power' button pressed at the exact same time. You will enter Fastboot mode and it will clearly say so with a huge image of the Android dude bang in the centre.

Connect your POCO F1 to your PC via USB and fire up the Mi Unlock Tool. Then just click on Unlock and watch the magic happen.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] Skinpipe:
Type poco f1 bootloader unlock into Google
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] didgerid00:
Sign into a Mi Account on the phone. This begins the "binding" time period. Once you've gone past 72 hours of having signed in, download the Mi Unlock Tool which can be found here (https://en.miui.com/unlock/download_en.html). Install it and install the USB driver that comes with it. Then enabled Developer Options and in that switch on the 'OEM Unlocking' and the 'USB Debugging' options.

Enter Fastboot mode on your phone. To do this, switch it off completely. Then keep the 'volume down' and 'power' button pressed at the exact same time. You will enter Fastboot mode and it will clearly say so with a huge image of the Android dude bang in the centre.

Connect your POCO F1 to your PC via USB and fire up the Mi Unlock Tool. Then just click on Unlock and watch the magic happen.

---------- Post added at 04:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:57 PM ----------

/OffTopic

Did we just reply at the exact same time and get our posts sandwiched?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhilGizzle:
Hey XDA!

Yet another cry for help!

I found my old SGS4 and saw that it was working-ish. It was rooted, which I did not want.

So I found a guide here on XDA and installed stock software on the phone. Everything seems fine besides bluetooth issues.

Side story; the phone is for my dad, but he HAS to use a bluetooth headset for work.

I've been trying to find Danish firmware as that's where I'm from, and where it's needed. Yet I've been sucessful in finding Nordic Countries downloads, sadly with mostly broken links or download times of - way too long-.

So what I need help with, if possible are following;

Stock Firmware for Nordic Countries

How to solve Bluetooth issues
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
Have you looked on updato.com or samsung-firmware.org for stock ROMs?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] ninjaryder9r:
Can anyone help with enabling native hotspot on sprint S7. Running 7.0 firmware bra1
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] Suhas_JS:
Hey everyone... Is there a way to get both media as well ringtone volume sliders simultaneously on the screen???

I somehow happened to get it once in the morning, but don't know how I did it!!!

Can anyone help me with this???
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Y0sHii:
Hello, For as long as i have been with Verizon they have had some of the most aggressive bloatware and with the Galaxy devices some features are actually blocked or missing. Samsung cloud is one of my most used apps on my devices and for some reason Verizon blocks this all the time on the Galaxy devices and puts in their own backup solution. I don't know how if this is the same for other carriers but Verizon definitely does this. Here's a step by step guide on how to fully re-enable this feature.

1. Download and app called Quickshortcutmaker

2. Open app make sure "Activities" is highlighted at the top

3. In The search field type "Backup"

4. Select "Samsung backup and Restore"

5. Select the 4th option down (atleast for my 3 devices) it'll be named com.samsung.android.scloud/ com.samsung.android.scloud.app.ui.SCloudActivity

6. Tap "TRY" (create button did not work for me)

7. Once in the window titled Samsung Account tap the 3 dots in the right hand top corner

8. Tap "Settings" Then enable "Show Samsung Cloud Icon". Wait a little bit then DONE. The icon will be in your app drawer to access.

Unfortunately this doesn't enable the option to have this in you actual settings menu where it should be but this is the next best thing and now you can fully backup and restore your device. I recently helped a coworker through this guide and helped him out with some visual guides that will be posted below. Thanks.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] eskomo:
I didn't need to do any of this.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] wecramer:
You must not have purchased your device from Verizon
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Meky22:
Hi all,

I am a long time IOS user, I usually buy the new Note every year because I love it's design, I feel like it made for me, but also usually I use it for maximum 1 week and sell it, I am sorry but really I hate the Android which made by Samsung.

My question is, can I use the note 8 like a Windows PC or laptop? when a new version of windows released I download it and install it on my PC, Can I install a clean, original, pure, not edited and up to date Android on my Note 8? before you say anything about Samsung's features, I don't want them, I need the Note 8 design on a clean Android.

I searched a lot on Google but I could't find an answer so I hope someone can help me here.

My Note 8 model is SM-N950F /DS

Regards
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sefrcoko:
To my knowledge Exynos source code isn't fully released, and Snapdragons lock the bootloader. That explains why there's less AOSP development (or none). You can check the rom threads for what's available, but they might not suit your needs.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Meky22:
Thanks sefrcoko, are the ROMs made by Google or by developers? Can I trust all of them or I must be careful?

Regards
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sefrcoko:
The custom roms are made by devs, not Google. "Pure" Android firmware is made by Google but you can't flash those firmwares on a Samsung device (just like you can't flash Samsung firmware on Google phones, LG phones, etc.). AOSP custom roms will give you the pure vanilla experience on Samsung, but there hasn't been much (or maybe anything) like that here, for the reasons I mentioned in my previous post.

Take a look at what's available in the rom threads... The more active ones tend to have many posts and recognized devs. Either way I've never had a custom rom that contained malware, etc., but root in itself means less security than stock. Of course read up and ask questions if you have any doubt about something along the way (but search first though lol) :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExSportCZ:
Hi all

Question is if it is possible to downgrade built-in app without root. The reason is factory image include quite new version of Google Photos which doesn't include option to not drain battery by enabling "backup while charging only". Installing older version is the cure but built-in apk is newer than latest apk which supports such option (v2.16). This old version creates such option in config file which is seen by the latest version too so upgrading GPhotos to the latest version still preserves this option in settings. Btw. running Android 8.1.

But it seems there is no way how to do it.

1. Uninstall is not possible as app sits as system one so it can be disabled only

2. App downgrade is not possible as also "adb install -r -d app.apk" is not supported in newer Android for no-debug files

3. It is possible to uninstall app from data partition so it seems app is not installed by "pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.photos" but by using adb shell pm install command it is not possible to install older apk as PackageManager sees SYSTEM apk and denies installation due to DOWNGRADE error.

Is it somehow possible, without root, to run once old version of APK which writes required attrib to Photos config file and then update app back again?

It seems it is not possible without root as PackageManager always refuse package installation also in case it is placed to --user 0 session.

Do anyone have some hints?

Many thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExSportCZ:
Nobody knows?:(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] deio:
Hello all,

Can someone point me on how to disable annoying shutter sound for camera? Tried deleting the shutter.ogg file, but no success. I'm on Dr. Ketan ROM and in ROM control, there is Screenshot sound off, tried that, but no success either.

Note 9 has different CSC partition and I can't activate cscfeatures.

Please.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] pigglett:
I have no root to use this

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dc7.SilentModeToggle

Works o both Note 8 and 9 fine
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] billu:
Another work around is put the phone on silent, then open the camera app and voila.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] OutCastedSheep:
Setting-->Sounds and Vibration-->Volume-->"System" scroll left to no sound.

works for me.

try it out.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] marvinmadman:
Right inside the camera app
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] j101399j:
Depends on the region/country. For most (like my AT&T version and your Verizon), it is in the camera settings at the bottom. But there are some countries (I believe Japan was the 1st) that does not allow the shutter sound to be disabled.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] deio:
I have dr. Ketan ROM and there is no Shutter Sound in camera app. Is there a way but not with system sound off, I need notifications?

I would like not to try any app because an app installs a service and I do not want to.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] kimber45:
Not an option for me, US CellularView attachment 4589644
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] deio:
I have downloaded Open Camera which has Shutter sound off, it's a workaround, but it's not original camera that is better.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] cpufrost:
This is the easiest way.

I don't use system sounds. I prefer my device to be as silent as possible. If I want to hear fake computer noises I can watch a movie. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Nochlab1:
In pie its there for everyone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Philip:
https://automagic4android.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1915&p=2517
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Cyclops1055:
I just use the Macrodroid app, I set it up that when I launch the camera it's turns off the system sound and then when I exit the camera it turn the system sound back on.

You can get it in the Play Store, just click above on Macrodroid.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] bram citoz:
How to turn off shutter sound on camera

On your sound " system " slide to off
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] shrampton:
You can download Silent Mode Pro app from the play store to silent the camera shutter.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Shafwan7:
that was the easiest way ?

thank you

now i can take photo happily without the noise :laugh:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] anilhk:
I did exactly same work Autoroid app. Works fine until I switch to Gallery app from the camera then it does not detect exiting camera to re-enable system sound