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[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jfoj:
I have searched here and other forums a bit with no real luck finding a real answer.

Before Pie I believe my PH-1 was working fine. Since updating to Pie it seems if I leave the house the phone will not automatically reconnect to my home network. I have played with a number of setting recommended with Wifi, Location and Battery with no luck.

From what I have picked up Pie can be problematic, not sure if these issues are being worked on in the background?

I also think there may be an issue with WIfi distance, but have not confirmed this 100% yet.

I have a Bluetooth LE interface that I recall working before Pie, but it does not appear that the phone can find the Bluetooth LE interface now.

Any help, suggestions or solutions would be appreciated.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] rignfool:
When in doubt... A factory reset gets everyone on the same page...

If not... Delete the /sdcard/Android/ directory and wipe data in TWRP and see if that fixes it
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jfoj:
Just wanted to update this thread that I ended up resetting phone to factory defaults and the Wifi connection issues seem to have been resolved. Now if I can find out why the charging LED indicator is no longer working. Seems after a brief search this may be an issue with Android Pie/9?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] gk1984:
LED works for me. Did you turn it on? I think it's in display or notification settings
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jfoj:
The charging LED worked fine before the Pie/9 update. If there is a place for changing/setting this feature I have looked and looked and cannot find it.

I believe I found it in earlier Android versions but for the life of me, I cannot find a setting.

Anyone have some suggestions?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jfoj:
Not sure why I was not able to find the Battery Charge setting. It was probably because it was at the top of the screen and I must of have started to scroll down immediately.

Access your Settings Menu

Select Apps & Notifications

Select Notifications

Turn on Battery Charging Light
[Crosscall Smartphones] agal87:
Hi there!

I just bought the Crosscall Action X3 phone, which it is quite cool

However when I plugged into my computer in order to try to develop some app, I was shocked by the fact that logcat is quite empty:

./adb logcat

--------- beginning of main

11-04 20:10:13.338 360 360 W auditd : type=2000 audit(0.0:1): initialized

11-04 20:10:15.579 360 360 I auditd : type=1403 audit(0.0:2): policy loaded auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295

11-04 20:10:15.579 360 360 W auditd : type=1404 audit(0.0:3): enforcing=1 old_enforcing=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295

And no application was reporting to logcat

It seems logcat is somehow disabled by the ROM

Is there any solution known to that?

I have seen that in Huawei phones there's a secret menu in order to enable logcat.

Does anyone know if there are a generic hidden menu or something like that?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkraines:
Hi,

I own both an 8.4 and 10.5 Tab S running on the latest Lineage OS. I just put an EERO mesh network in, these 2 tabs behave the same, they drop from the network, sometimes I have to forget and reconnect. Then after awhile, I have to hard reboot the network and both of these to get them to connect with internet. Both tabs have the same problem. I have many other WIFI devices that don't do this (android, iphone, fire tab..etc). If I don't move around the house, they are stable, it's just moving around that causes the issue.

I called EERO support and they said the tabs might be having issues frequently switching to different mesh nodes and may be blacklisting do to these frequent connects/disconnnects between the mesh devices. Has anybody run into this. They didn't do this on my older Nighthawk, but that used repeaters, it wasn't mesh. For the other devices I own, I've never seen more stability than on EERO. Is there some setting or something to try and fix?

Any help/ideas appreciated.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gellmar:
If I understand you correctly, the problem is caused by dropping off WiFi in deep sleep mode. Did you try setting "Sleep WiFi with device sleep" to Never?
[General Topics] Olipro:
So... me and cmonex are buggering up to London next week... odds are highly on for the day being Wednesday.

We're going to mooch around, but does anyone fancy meeting up for a pint and some device admiring before we bugger back off again?
[General Questions and Answers] miguelpty2702:
I wanted to update my s7 edge to oreo via odin. So, i think i just flash it bad (instead of put one archive in bl i put other in ap, idk things like that). so i saw it told me An error has occurred while updating the device

software. Use the emergency recovery function in Smart Switch. I tried flashing again the firmware in odin but it just stuck in initialization. I just tried in diferent version of odin nor switch mode.

I tried with diferent usb cable nor other usb port

When i try to recover it with switch mode it just tell that it cant because it isn´t compatible (I even put the s/n)

Could someone tell a alternative tool to odin?

Help please, i think im losing my s7
[General Questions and Answers] Halamix2:
I'm not an expert, you could try using Heimdall (https://glassechidna.com.au/heimdall/) instead of Odin, not sure if that helps.

If not then your phone may be bricked.

If you are desperate there is this thing called unbrickable mod that requires physical intervention, but I haven't found it for s7 edge
[General Questions and Answers] miguelpty2702:
Okey, i tried with heimdall but it doesn´t recognize my phone. i will try with another PC . In case it doesn´t work too, i think that **** just dead
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shamiflavour:
hi guys

after a lot searching around i could not find any guide on xda to install twrp on power 5.yes i have come across other models but not this specific one .then searching on net i came to know one of guide to install twrp..after trying whole day i finally go through unlocking boot loader and flashing twrp. but problem i am facing is i cant reboot my phone into custom recovery it would reboot into its own android recovery.

any ideas what could be wrong or there is special recovery.img for ulefone power 5.

what could be that i cant figure out
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turra:
I have the same problem
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shamiflavour:
I dont know when some tech or expert will solve our problem..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luks333:
head to 4pda.ru and check there, from what I have read it's seems they made it (not without hassle, though).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shamiflavour:
Thanks mate i will have look and get back to you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ant0ni084:
I have the same problem, I follow the russian guide too, it doesn't work.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -V-O-Y-A-G-E-R-:
Any luck with this guys?

I followed instructions from 4PDA, however,

1) if I flash ROM v1 I can get into TWRP but the screen EVERYWHERE looks broken (so, something with the drivers is messed up)

2) if I flash ROM v2 I cannot boot into TWRP, as it it just isn't there.

I tried both methods of flashing files, with MDT tool and via ADB/Fastboot, the results are the same.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Damionix:
Monitoring

I just got the upgraded Power 5S, and was also wondering if there is any root method for it. From what I have been reading and gathering, it seems there is no sure way just yet. If anyone has any luck, please do let us know.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ServoDoREI:
hi, i have power 5 , can be install costume rom ? already
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -V-O-Y-A-G-E-R-:
No custom ROMs as far as I know.

Don't expect to see those anytime soon. Custom ROMs require a large user base. This one will have a marginal amount of users.

Rooting should however be possible. You can use Google translate to navigate 4PDA forums and install TWRP.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Damionix:
Mixed Results

The issue is that there are a couple of mixed results on the rooting. I haven't actually seen proof of any working.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -V-O-Y-A-G-E-R-:
Russians say it's working for them.

There rooting sticks if you delete a file mentioned in their tutorial, a file located in /system folder, before rebooting for the first time.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] niceguy1430:
https://www.stupdroid.com/2018/07/root-twrp-ulefone-Power-5.html

Worked for me after trying 2-3 times.

But Using root with Galaxy S launcher(my preferred one) not stable for long, after some time it starts giving issues. If you load twrp and then root, then continue using stock launcher. Xposed working too, but most of the modules not compatible with Oreo 8.1.

Note : DONT load ANRC and similar modules of Xposed which alter basic root files, your phone will refuse to boot and you will have to load the OS again. Gravity Box also starts giving issues after some time. I use an older version of Whatsapp extensions, Xwifi(Wifi name in status bar) and status bar download progress. These 3 are all I need.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] niceguy1430:
https://www.getdroidtips.com/twrp-recovery-ulefone-power-5/

Same guide, works but once you unlock bootloader and load twrp your internal memory will get wiped out so make sure you backup and reload important files
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarelMinnaar:
TWRP 3.2.3

So my UMIDIGI Plus E got stolen a few days ago (thanks to the thief for helping me get rid of that piece of junk) - I have the Ulefone Power 5 now. None of the TWRPs I could find worked for me, so I ported it from TWRP I found for the Power 3 (and tested it - it's working). So I uploaded it to my MediaFire account (and have the link), but I've never posted on XDA before so I can't post the link to it here because I don't have 10 posts yet....

I've uploaded it to Needrom dot com, but it has not yet been reviewed. You guys can try to search for it there.

If I could, then I would've uploaded it here.

UPDATE: I've just posted it at the My Digital Life forums under the title: TWRP 3.2.3 for Ulefone Power 5 (and 5S)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jojy thomas:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ihjc8o3mya0mnnu/TWRP_Ulefone_Power_5_AND_5S.rar/file

Thank-you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunoisa10:
not working for me : always the ulefone recovery

have you flashed only the recovery.img which is in the zip ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jojy thomas:
No, am not an ulefone user and i don't have the phone.

But i may buy it this year. I was just searching if this have twrp and someone told it worked. He was not able to upload or attach url as he doesn't have enough post so was just trying to help you guys to get it, That's it???
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunoisa10:
not working for me , always the ulefone recovery !

have you flashed recovery img which is under your zip ?

I've done the same and not working
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Loyal_Guardian:
Sorry to ask, but is there a clear solution/instruction? I've tried to flash the img. files provided by jojy thomas, but my phone would just request me to enter my casual password with the on-screen keyboard crashing, just to tell me that the decryption failed and have me factory reset my phone. I couldn't get into TWRP in any way, and just had to go along with everything else.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oes20:
Hi guys,

I got as far as you all, but here some links to the downloads available for me and some extra steps.

First the recovery.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/6tacdkh0d6na3ke/Power+5.rar

Just flash it. DO NOT REBOOT TO ANDROID. Just try to reboot back into the bootloader and reboot recovery. Then we all get the password prompt. Just go for cancel and wipe data. This is because ulefone always encrypts their phones with the stock rom. You can't turn it off. (at least I can't) MTP is not working, so go to the tab mount and mount sdcard. Now you can flash whatever you want.

The rom. Every website is pointing to this threat.

https://xdaforums.com/project-treble/trebleenabled-device-development/aosp-9-0-phh-treble-t3831915

You should take the arm x64 gapps version. But here the fun begins, you can't flash a system image with the recovery. So I did it using fastboot and got a beautifull bootlooping phone.

So I bricked it by flashing the wrong system image. Here a small guide how I fixed it:

Download this zip file (or the newest rom package).

Extract the system.img and copy it to your fastboot folder.

Browse with cmd to your fastboot folder.

type: fastboot -u flash system system.img

It will look like the process is crashing, but its just sending small amounts of data. Don't interrupt.

After all type: fastboot reboot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oes20:
Hi, I'll explain a little about this. Ulefone does everything for security so when you boot to android, it instantly wipes your flashed recovery image. You'll see the same at samsung devices. So all you need is: flash the recovery.img from my earlier post and after it type fastboot reboot. After black screen instantly press vol. up and you'll get into the factory modus. Next, browse to reboot and press power. Instantly press power+vol. up. Now browse to recovery and press vol. down.

This worked for me. Feel free to ask me more.

Here also a link to all files I needed.

http://www.mediafire.com/folder/55lxwzgdd938t/ulefone_power_5
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunoisa10:
issue is : for the last reboot : it's always Giving Factory mode : so no link with recovery here

rebooted to recovery and not fine

even with fastboot reboot recovery : it's is giving normal booting
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oes20:
Have you tried my recovery image? (this link) Maybe its just ulefone's buggy fastboot modus. I couldn't boot into it for a time for no reason.

I'll make a video for youtube when I've the time to. Have you done these things with other phones before?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Loyal_Guardian:
Rooting that thing is a pain in the ass, but I managed to do it. (I'm no pro, but maybe I'll help)

-Flash the recovery image POWER 5/5S posted by the previous user jojy thomas

-Turn your phone on

Now depending on where you land :

-If you land on the TWRP recovery, factory reset your phone

>Enter twrp and flash Magisk, Reboot System

-If you land in the Android boot up system (prompted for password), hold Power off and Volume Up and enter the boot selection menu

>Choose recovery, Flash with Magisk from TWRP, Reboot System

Please let me know if it works.

Also, there seems to be an encryption issue where after setting everything up and then booting into twrp for whatever reason, it doesn't accept your decryption password.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunoisa10:
Yes . All my phones were rooted since 2006
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oes20:
This was exactly what I did. I'm going to see if I can delete the automatic encryption and some bloatware, now you have to factory reset every time you boot into twrp. Thanks for the information about rooting.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunoisa10:
I land here :

"If you land in the Android boot up system (prompted for password), hold Power off and Volume Up and enter the boot selection menu"

selecting Recovery is moving to ulefone recovery !
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Loyal_Guardian:
Okay, I currently can't help you a lot because I just hard bricked it, but make sure that you have flashed the bootloader and the recovery files with SPFlashTool with the files provided by the previously mentioned user. The only thing I can currently come up with is not having installed recovery correctly. So please double-check whether recovery is ticked and whether you have selected the right file and mode (firmware update)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oes20:
How did you set up the connection with the spflashtool? And what about flashing the stock rom in this way? I used fastboot for everything. If you are bricked, fastboot flash my image and you're fine ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Loyal_Guardian:
It's hard-bricked. It won't turn on nor get detected by the PC (Won't turn on meaning the power on/off button, even with volume keys is useless). I will try disassembling it tomorrow though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunoisa10:
even with using spflash tool it never reboot on twrp

any chance to see a video ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamr13:
So has anyone gotten this working?

Every single TWRP image I find for the Power 5 doesn't work. I flash it in fastboot mode with platform-tools (fastboot) then I try to boot it via fastboot boot <image name>.img, the phone reboots, vibrates twice and starts up normally. SPFlashTool doesn't even do anything when I click "download".
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamr13:
SUCCESS!!!

Oh my God, I did it!!!!!

I have it rooted!!

I'm going to provide a step-by-step guide for everyone here to do this too exactly how I did it.

Here's how I did it:

1) You need to have adb drivers installed and you need to have platform-tools downloaded. Open CMD/Terminal and do adb reboot bootloader -- you need to have USB Debugging enabled in Developer Options. If done right your Ulefone Power 5 should be on a black screen with "FASTBOOT mode..." or something in the bottom left corner.

2) Download this (It's crucial) - I have the boot, recovery and scatter all placed in here for you: https://mega.nz/#!F1h3UAJY!JrTELvtZLtXbaBCH9bPTH2nXezcxyemeUI54Uols7Kw

3) Download the same tool I used here tool: https://mega.nz/#!IxhRkaiR!g-KtQcQzzRnfq8twhu-QU16RPCxEU3KYK098lTNXNcI

4) Open the tool SPMultiPortFlashDownloadProject.exe and click the "Scatter File" button on the top left. Browse for the folder which contains all of the necessary files from the MEGA link I provided and click on the MT6763_Android_scatter.txt file.

5) Click Start all

6) Once you get the green check mark, hold the volume + and power buttons until the phone restarts to the Recovery, Fastboot, Normal menu and press Volume - on Recovery. Note: You MUST be connected to a computer still or this will not work.

7) Swipe to allow modifications in TWRP

8) Wipe the phone in TWRP

9) Boot the phone and complete setup

10) Reboot to TWRP again and install Magisk

11) Now you should be rooted, if Magisk Manager is missing from your app launcher, install the app separately from the Magisk forum page.

[IMG="Power 5 twrp"]https://i.imgur.com/EmIfdkv.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG="Installed Magisk on Power 5 - working"]https://i.imgur.com/evE7VBU.jpg[/IMG]
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kyr4l:
Hey i tried to do that and the flash tool doesn't detect my phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Loyal_Guardian:
Reinstall the drivers completely. Use USBDEVIEW and uninstall anything that has something to do with your phone, and then reinstall them (either let Windows do it or do it manually)

Of course, do that only if your phone gets detected by windows itself. If that doesn't help, use SPFlashTool and try various versions.

---------- Post added at 08:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:35 PM ----------

Just some info I found on another post, dunno whether it's credible or not. Don't complete setup and reboot to TWRP. Instead, instantly after wiping your phone, reboot directly into recovery again and install Magisk from there. Don't boot into normal mode. This should decrypt your device, so if you accidentally get into recovery, the main partition shouldn't get encrypted. As I mentioned, I dunno whether that's credible or not. You'd have to try for yourself.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamr13:
Thank you, this could be some very useful information if it works. I wrote thia guide to reflect exactly what I did as the pages upon pages of Google I searched for weeks I could never find any working solution to get this working.

Couple days later and she's still going strong, got Xposed working on it too!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kyr4l:
Okay so i need to reinstall fastboot and adb drivers ?

And i don't understand that part : "Don't boot into normal mode. This should decrypt your device, so if you accidentally get into recovery, the main partition shouldn't get encrypted"

Does that mean that i shouldn't boot in normal mode after flashing SuperSU? (I don't want Magisk)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamr13:
I personally didn't have an issue with what I did (described in the guide) so you should be fine no matter how you choose to do it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kyr4l:
when using spflashtool it appears that i've everything frol the stock rom, i mean that there's system, boot, logo, preloader, etc... do i need to flash them ? are they diffferent from the stock ones ? do i just need to flash the recovery ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamr13:
I needed those files to be there for flash tool to do anything at all, all you need to do is select the scatter file and press start / download
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kyr4l:
so that will replace the stock rom that's it ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamr13:
As far as I know, it won't, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Check the scatter file and check for is_flash: true, that'll tell you what'll be flashed to your phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kyr4l:
In that case i can just uncheck everything except recovery in flash tool that will be the same but i'll check the scatter file and tell you what's inside

But if it comes from ulefone's website the scatter will flash everything for sure
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamr13:
As I said in the post, I changed the scatter file in the folder to only flash what's required for rooting, you shouldn't change anything that the scatter file flashes as chances are your attempt at getting TWRP on your device will fail, or worse, something goes wrong. Either way you will need to wipe your device, there is no reason to change anything at all.

Something to note: You'll see what files will be flashed inside flash tool.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kyr4l:
there's no "is_flash" line, only "is_download" i guess that's the same thing but preloader, md1img, md1dsp, spmfw, sspm, lk, boot, logo, odmtbo, tee, vendor, system, cache, userdata

are all set to "is_download: true"

so if i understand correctly that will overwrite all these, and i will probably need to calibrate the battery that's it ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamr13:
Yeah, my apologies, is_download is the line. I didn't need to calibrate the battery, but I'd highly recommend not picking and choosing what to flash should something go wrong.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kyr4l:
okay so i just need to load scatter file with spflashtool and click download when my phone's plugged in and in flastboot mode

then boot to twrp with "fastboot boot recovery" or hold volume up and power and do a factory reset with twrp

then boot the phone, rebooting to twrp after booting (and don't complete setup) and flash supersu, and reboot

that's it ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamr13:
After the factory reset, you're probably better off going to the reboot menu in TWRP and tapping recovery. It's faster. But yes, that's it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kyr4l:
i have to say that i'm a little scared about flashing the preloader, last time i did that my phone was hard bricked and i was never be able to fix it, (huawei's ****ing consumer policy about rooting, etc...)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamr13:
I feel you there, all I can really say is with that scatter file and everything in that folder, it worked fine on my Power 5. Just take your time and be careful.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kyr4l:
i checked your pics and we have axactly the same phone, but i'm always scared about that, what did you exactly modified in these files ? only recovery and scatter files ? or preloader and other things