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[Moto Z Play Questions & Answers] weilt:
Just wanted to ask if anyone else has experienced a "swelling battery" problem - I noticed my battery life starting to get worse, then one day the display actually began detaching from the frame - turned out my battery had started "bulging"/swelling, so much so that it had pushed the screen off the frame (phone was basically disassembling itself).

long story short, I was in HK and had the battery replaced at a stall in Sin Tat Plaza. New battery seems ok. Just curious if anyone else has had a similar battery failure.

In case anyone reading this is experiencing anything similar, this could be an option:

https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Parts/Moto-Z-Play-Replacement-Battery/IF368-005-2

If this had been available when it happened to my Z Play I would've gone for this option (since the swelling battery had pushed the display off the frame already, the hardest part of the job was already done!)
[Moto Z Play Questions & Answers] JR Bautista:
dont use HK battery it's fake battery and getting your device to slow. your components will become damage in the future as the technician said
[Moto Z Play Questions & Answers] weilt:
Hi,

thanks for the warning, but so far the thing is working fine. The battery swap was done in front of me so I could see what was being done. The replacement battery had Motorola markings etc. and as far as I could tell it was an original.
[Moto Z Play Questions & Answers] JR Bautista:
in the first place so good but in long run ? is not good bro
[Moto Z Play Questions & Answers] weilt:
thanks for the warning!

but as far as I can tell it's basically a Motorola battery, so I am not worried (Motorola's not such a big brand that people are likely to be making "fake batteries" for them - I'd actually be more worried about aftermarket iPhone or Samsung batteries)
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gserlupi:
Hi all, sorry if I ask questions already made and answers many times, but while reading well here and there in this forum, I have ideas a bit 'confused.

I own the device in question, currently stock Samsung with Marshmallow 6. I would like to unlock it, get root permissions, install a recovery (maybe the twrp) and maybe flash a new Rom like the LineageOS.

Can some "holy" summarize the steps?

Because I do not understand if I have the bootloader locked or not, if just I do the operation of the "autoroot chainfire" and then flash rom (everything from Odin) or if you need anything else. I would not brick the device...

Thanks and sorry for my english...!!!!
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Deeptesh Basak:
Asus ZMPM1 3/32 model. I was on Havoc Pie official with TWRP 3.2.3. I flashed 327 stock rom using TWRP, now I've lost the TWRP. So when I go to flash TWRP using ADB ,I type the command and the process pauses and the phone shows the message "Press any key to shut down". Please help.
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] R00t2192:
i had the same issue not sure why but it did not work when i connected it to a usb 3.0 port but worked with a usb 2.0 port try that
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] nabinshajm:
same problem

facing the excat issue. Note: Tried all USB ports in my laptop.
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] nabinshajm:
Solved

faced the issue untill I realized it was an issue regarding USB 3.0. The phone cannot support such a higher data speed. Use a USB 2.0 hub between your PC and your phone. That solved my problem.

For some reason connecting the phone to a usb 2.0 port in my laptop also did not solve the problem.

Btw, issue came up for me after recent update to pie
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Artemis mode:
Try usb hub
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] jade01win:
UP iam facing that too
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] arvs47:
I am facing this too , After recent pie update my Camera2api got disabled when trying to enable it I got this issue and still i couldn't enable it

tried another pc and it says okay but still it is in legacy
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] starlord143:
I have been trying to flash twrp since January. Still no luck. Can anyone help? I have been following the exact steps mentioned in the respective threads for every twrp version i tried. USB 2.0, changing data cables, unlocking using officia unlock tool because unofficially unlock process didn't worked when i tried. It got stuck. All it shows is "press any key to shutdown ".

This is my 3rd android phone which I'm using right now. Always used custom roms. And now its frustrating that I'm stuck at the starting line of it all... Please help me
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] renda-l:
You have already tried USB HUB? I switched to USB 2.0 port, but don't work. For me, the USB HUB connection, a particular USB 1.1, works.
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] starlord143:
I Don't have a usb hub and my patience is also running out. Thanks though
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] aneesh cochin:
Worked well

Broh. For last two days i also facing the same issue. Today I made it.

Without closing 'command' box in pc, and removing usb,,... keep restart to fastboot mode.

Or

Restart pc without unplugging usb(mobile should be on fast boot mode) direct open flashall_aft.bat/ flashall_bat.cmd....
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Vvk380:
It it bcoz...fastboot commands are not supported on AMD processors..

U have to use usb 2.0 external hubs as it wont work on built-in usb 2.0 ports also...

Or switch to some intel machine
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Anubis86:
Restart in FB mode.

Connect phone to pc with 2.0 port.

Type this cmd:

fastboot boot twrp.img

(The file should be in ADB folder itself. Here twrp.img can be replaced with the file name which u have but should be a recovery of your phone only)

This cmd will temporarily boot your device in Twrp; if not try to hard pess those keys to boot to recovery.

From Twrp flash again Twrp.img to flash Twrp permanently. Now again reboot to recovery to test it.

I hope this will help
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Brummaha:
Asus Zenfone Max pro m2

Guys,

I have a problem that my phone (Asus zenfone max pro m2)was bootloader unlocked but was running Asus Official ROM, recently phone got turned off itself while using and not starting past boot.

When i try to flash on fast boot mode i dont see any devices connected, can someone suggest me further? it ll be really helpful to get my phone back

C:\adb>adb devices

List of devices attached

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

C:\adb>adb devices

List of devices attached

C:\adb>

==============================

Trying fastboot - press any key to shutdown
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Siba9658:
usb hub worked for me too
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] abhi_dev:
@nabinshajm I also tried using both the USB but didn't work. Do you got the solution ?
[General Questions and Answers] SliceOfDeath:
I have been using Drive Syncrypt (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.semaphore.drivesyncrypt) for a while now, primarily to backup work-related documents to my Google Drive (PDFs, Power Points, etc.). My phone started running low on space so I finally purchases a micro SD card and moved all of my files there. Down side is that Drive Syncrypt doesn't read from external SD cards so I can't point it there to back stuff up.

I looked around for a way to "trick" the app so that it wouldn't see it as an external SD card, but my researched proved to be more confusing than helpful. Some suggestions included "mounting the folder as a drive" (no idea what that really means), creating a symbolic link to the folder on the SD card, etc. This is all stuff I am not well versed in. :(

My question is: is there a way to make it look like a folder on an external SD card is not actually residing on the SD card, allowing me to point apps like Drive Syncrypt to it for syncing purposes?

Thanks in advance, any help would be greatly appreciated. If more details are needed or anything is unclear please let me know.
[Huawei P20 Questions & Answers] oxfordmark:
Hey

I cannot setup my cards on Google Pay on Android Beta.

Any workarounds?

Cheers
[Huawei P20 Questions & Answers] oxfordmark:
Anyone???
[Moto Z2 Play  Questions & Answers] Guerre710:
Hi, i have a problem, i flashed the stock rom (oreo august patch) after using toxyc os, but there is an annoying browser that i can't disable, it opens automatically when i'm using google or facebook, i want to unninstall it or at least disable it. when i press the multitasking button, that browser hasn't a name and thats weird, i tried to set the opera browser as default, but i can't.

also i tried to find the name of the app using game guardian searching the process, to unninstall it with root unninstaller, but it was a waste of time.

My device model is xt1710-06

Greetings from Argentina
[Honor Play Questions & Answers] _a!:
With the notch enabled (might as well - if you disable the notch the notification icons don't move down a line so you might as well have a fullscreen background instead of black) most apps don't actually use the space. The launcher does, for the backdrop. Oh, and citymapper. Not Firefox, though. Is there a way of forcing apps to use the top of the screen when in their fullscreen mode. I'm not talking about what the phone calls fullscreen - forcing that makes no difference here.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] alvalvano:
I presume I have a hardware issue but before I contacted support thought I'd ask the real experts ;)

The behavior: the radio will initially lock (well enough to grab a vmail notification), but after a minute or so, I can see it cycle between H, E, no signal. Then it will seem to lock again (enough to Exchange sync), then cycle again. It stays on "no signal" much longer than it stays locked.

In the last 2 days, I have reproduced this with at least 5 different radio/ROM pairs on both WM6 & WM6.1, including

Dutty's 19209 (radio v1.58.16.27)

Q-Mobile (radio 1.27.14.09)

NoThrills WM61 WWE V3 (radio 1.65.14.06)

Alex v5.2 (radio 1.27.14.09)

as well as several other combos. I should note these have all worked for me in the past.

Now here's the strange part. With a stock ATT ROM/Radio the signal STAYS LOCKED.

I have tested and confirmed with both:

1.62.502.0 (radio 1.27.14.09)

1.57.502.2 (radio 1.27.12.11)

Is there anything one could think of that would cause this behavior?

/av
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] redbandana:
after you flashed the rom w/ the new radio did you do a hard reset?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] alvalvano:
I did indeed.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmcareavey:
Good afternoon everyone,

Been having an issue with a Fire HD 8 (7th Gen). that I have been trying to figure out for a long time.

I performed an OTA update to the latest 5.6.2.0 and on restart it immediately goes into System Recovery Mode and no matter what options I select, its stuck in this loop.

I have attempted to install 5.6.1.2 and 5.6.2.0 via adb and will only boot past the Amazon logo if I leave the tablet battery to completely drain and put it on charge again. But once it is restarted or powered off again, back to the System Recovery Boot loop.

Any suggestions or advice would be great.

Thanks

Gaz
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryry2424:
Hi Gaz,

I've been having the same EXACT problem with my fire HD8 7th gen tablet. When it first happened to my tablet it happened when I was doing things in the file manager. I believe something went wrong and corrupted or moved files needed to boot properly. Because of this, I figure the solution will be to download TWRP and use it to reinstall the proper software. I haven't tried this yet but I believe I'm on a good lead. This YouTube video is what I will be following:

If you have found the solution already, I would love to hear it.

Thanks
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
updated 11/9/18

Some people have run into issues with twrp working as needed. The following are some of the solutions that have been found:

1) Some have used PBRP instead of TWRP, **BUT** it seems the most recent version of pbrp does NOT work.

2) Some have found that booting TWRP works okay but doing the 'setprop persist' commands didn't result in cam2api being enabled.

2 a) to fix the above, they went into the 'mount' section of TWRP and disabled the MTP option. They indicated they also enabled 'persist', but it's uncertain if that made a difference. (Special thanks to [MENTION=6192195]lept_2014[/MENTION] for that!)

For most, it seems to work just by following the guide. I'd recommend this; ea and every time you go to fastboot, or to the device with adb, always be sure that fastboot and adb can see the device before proceeding. That narrows down the problems significantly.

If 'adb devices' does not show your device in the response, the problem is your PC and usb / adb drivers.

if 'fastboot devices' does not show your device in the response, the problem is with your PC and usb / fastboot drivers.

Thanks to all of the contributors. That's a big help to everyone.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] hugomoya:
Hello, perfect for me, like a charm.

My slot: A

Thanks a lot, best regards!!

PS: I use CMD. Problems in PowerShell with "fastboot flashing unlock_critical" command.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] kishd:
TingyiChens latest twrp from 20181020 works on my phone in both slots a and b. It just boots twrp into the active slot. I am running the October stock 9615 rom. Currently my active slot is b after the last ota.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] sharingan:
When the hell would xiaomi enable cam 2 api by default
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
Good to know. It's confusing why some of us get 'failed'. But it does work! As you point out also. I guess we can say that if you get a failed message, try setting the other slot active. It absolutely will work.

Yes, why don't they set cam2 by default sharingan, I wish I knew. But using twrp is pretty painless, so at least we have that.

Cheers
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] Avinjace:
Can some pls make video tutorial for this...pls
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] bojan1974:
setprop persist.camera.eis.enable 1 there is no need to knock
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] nhmanas:
Is slot a and b contains same data inside by stock?

Edit: this is my first system ab phone so be gentle please
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
knock what? not making sense to me, sorry
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
Probably the 1st A/B phone for a lot of us.

But no, they don't have the same 'data inside by stock' (I'm not sure what you mean by that).

They use different partitions for many things such as; boot, system, vendor (the most important ones). But they do use the same one for data (is that what you meant?). The data one is where our apps, media files, etc are kept, and that doesn't change with an OTA update.

Another important difference is there is no longer a 'recovery' partition, which is what twrp use to be installed in. Now, with A/B, the 2 boot partitions and the rest of the 2 partitions are the old 'recovery'.

So what does the 'other' boot partition have in it? Well the old version of the OS before the OTA update. That doesn't change with an update. The other slot is updated and then made active. Then when a new update happens, the current one becomes the old one (again). And on and on.

the reason this works is because the setprop persist commands only change the data partition, not system. And since twrp mounts data (of course it does, it's a recovery tool), it can execute the setprop commands no problems.

good luck
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] Ajakazema:
When i boot twrp i get error: device '(null)' not found.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
What is the exact command you are entering? What happens if you do 'fastboot devices' ? Does that command see your device?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] Ajakazema:
adb shell, but no i don't think it can see the device when it goes into twrp. I think it's a driver issue but i can't figure out why, tried it on 2 PCs and i get the same problem.

Edit: when i type fastboot devices it just says list of devices attached
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
yes it may be a driver issue. did you just unlock the bootloader? if yes, you have to reboot the device and enable adb debugging in dev options?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] Ajakazema:
Did both of those things.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
Another thing it might be is the pin / pattern security being set. Twrp won't let you touch the device if you haven't entered the pin / pattern.

It might be a good idea to just disable them temporarily and then try again.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] Ajakazema:
Yea i tried that too, no luck.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
Are you using the version of twrp I mentioned in the first post? They aren't all the same, the one mentioned is specifically for this phone - Jasmine.

hard to imagine what else it could be...
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] Ajakazema:
Yea. No idea what the problem is.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] gagansembi:
in miui devices

you can also use booting into custom recovery then from pc adb shell and run these commands then reboot

no need to install magisk
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] KevMetal:
some things won't work and gcam might crash ..you need to enable ALL of these

using setprop or buildprop editor or recovery

persist.camera.HAL3.enabled=1

persist.camera.EIS.enabled=1

persist.camera.stats.test=5

persist.vendor.camera.HAL3.enabled=1

persist.vendor.camera.EIS.enabled=1

persist.vendor.camera.stats.test=5
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] Tianhe:
If rooted, simply use cam2api enabler module in magisk. The benefit of this is that its systemless so you dont have to modify build.prop and you can disable it anytime if you want to use stock camera.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
Okay, so just to narrow it down, once you've booted into twrp, I'm guessing if you did adb devices it would also say 'device not found' or whatever the not found message is saying, right?

If that's the case, it's not twrp, I don't think. If adb doesn't see the device any longer, while it just saw it with fastboot (to get to twrp), then something has changed with the connection?

if adb devices works, but not adb shell, and yer using the right version of twrp, is the phone somehow messed up? Does it boot okay?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] Ajakazema:
Yes, everything is fine untill twrp boots then it doesn't recognize the phone anymore, and i have to reboot the phone from twrp, and then it recognizes it again. The problem is with windows i think, not the phone.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] minnuss:
[MENTION=7636447]Ajakazema[/MENTION], [MENTION=2129545]AsItLies[/MENTION]

I had the same problem, booted into TWRP but not recognized by adb anymore...
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
Interesting, are you running Windows? Did you resolve it?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] minnuss:
I did not try to resolve it, because I did the camera2 enabling with temporary root method.

OS is Windows 10, fully updated of course.

TWRP was latest version.

I do know that ADB was working with earlier version of TWRP but when flashed, not booted, same OS Win 10, same cable, same USB port.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
Thanks for sharing that, probably a lot of people will benefit form it. I run Linux, no issues here using adb after booting twrp.

But, flashing it instead of booting, which is only slightly more complicated, seems rock solid. It's too bad so much time and effort has had to go into simply enabling cam2api.

Cheers
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] lept_2014:
Hi [MENTION=2129545]AsItLies[/MENTION] !

This command:

setprop persist.camera.eis.enable 1

It's not necessary because in Mi A2, EIS (Electronic image Stabilization) is enabled by default.

And one question:

¿Why force slot 'a' at the beginning, and at the end return to original slot? It hasn't any sense. It's not necessary.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
So do you think it hurts to enable eis? Then don't run it if you do.

Why force slot a? because when it was b, it failed? seems necessary to me... but hey, that's just me.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] lept_2014:
Maybe because of TWRP.

Thanks for your answer.

info about EIS
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
Maybe? or most assuredly? I mean, twrp is for recovery, but we're putting it into a boot partition.

But the point is to make it work, to set cam2, that's what we're trying to do.

what are you trying to do?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] Neel@1234:
Is there any ( even a bit) chance of bricking my device using this method? I just unlocked my bootloader today, and it was a pain to restore all of my data.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
Neel, as with all guides, I take no responsibility for what happens.

That said, if you follow what the guide says, there *shouldn't* be any problems. Most issues, I think, happen when people freak out if things don't go as expected. And then they start doing anything and everything they can think of that *might* help.

Don't do that. If something doesn't work, don't make it worse. Just reverse out, using what the guide says to finish. If you set active to A, when it was B, get back to fastboot and set it back to B.

basically, if you try both slots and twrp still won't boot, come back here to get help, don't just 'try this' or 'try that'... that's when things go wrong.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] Neel@1234:
Thanks mate, going to try it in an hour.

---------- Post added at 06:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:31 PM ----------

Well...I got a question. I only unlocked my bootloader using the fastboot OEM unlock command. Do I need to use the 'fastboot flashing unlock' and 'fastboot flashing unlock_critical' also?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] AsItLies:
No, I never used those commands. Just oem unlock for the bootloader.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] Neel@1234:
I just did all the steps and guess what? IT WORKED!

Thanks a lot man for making such a simple and user friendly guide.

Now for some info, my partition was 'a' by default and I booted twrp on it and the whole procedure went perfectly smooth.

I just installed gcam and can assure anyone that once you use gcam, you won't go back to the default camera for sure. (Except for the portraits maybe)

Once again, thanks a lot AsltLies!
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] paulozullu:
Wow!

Perfect!

Successful here too!
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Guides, News, & Discussion] pridix:
Hi!

I also had the problem that adb wouldn't detect any device in twrp so I could run the scripts to activate the Camera2API and EIS. The problem was the TWRP itself. After several times trying to use the suggested TWRP in the first post I used the PitchBlack TWRP mod ( https://xdaforums.com/mi-a2/development/recovery-unofficial-official-pbrb-t3830864 ) and adb worked in the twrp mode just fine. Thanks to the person that did the guide. The method works.

Regards,