yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] hartleyshc:
No. Not at all.

Like I've already stated at least 3 times, you'll need to boot to TWRP, use adb shell and DD each partition to an img file.

I'm just going to write a script to what I think each mount point will be. I'm doing it blind with no way to be sure until tomorrow/Monday.

It will back up both the a and b partitions.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] djkinetic:
I don't think u should do it blind just ask someone to pull the partition list that has an unlock. I would do it but I won't get my token till Thursday.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] hartleyshc:
So heres what I have come up with. This script should back up all partitions into a and b img files.

I turned echo on and put a pause at the end. When the script is finished, scroll through and look for errors. If youre still stock T-Mobile, Im sure one of the a or b partitions will be 0kb. They might double the data, we'll find out.

The fastboot roms that everyone is using so far is flashing to both the a and b partitions.

Copy the text, and put it in a .bat file in the same directory with your adb, fastboot, and TWRP.img.

If you have any issues with this part, then you shouldnt be doing this at all.

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It's not fully blind. This is the partition list from the global unlocked version of the phone. 9.0.5.

The partition list *should* be the same. Especially since people are partially flashing and getting a booting system. But at the same time, everyone is flashing with echo off and they have no idea what has actually flashed or not.

I should be getting my token file today or tomorrow, and unless anyone gets any errors or 0kb partitions that they shouldn't get, then this script should be just fine.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] djkinetic:
Yeah I noticed that looking at the bat files.. we need to figure out what causes the ota to brick not allowing us to just flash the ota..with project treble we have to rely on the community providing full img roms.. unfortunately I can't look into it with a locked bl.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] hartleyshc:
Yeah, with echo off people don't even know if anything has failed. It didn't boot TWRP, so it didn't flash the recovery and critical partitions.

I'm going to make a full backup of my system, then do the flash that everyone else has and see exactly which partitions fail.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Justice_Beaver200:
Put the full 9.0.5 on my TMo6T and all is well. Didn't have a TWRP.img in the directory. Is that bad?
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] ozzmanj1:
How is OOS compared to stock Tmo build? Don't mean to thread jack. Just curious
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] mang0:
Wtb speedier fingerprint sensor! Lol.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] ozzmanj1:
Also not sure if related. My nephew has a op6 and sent me this. Saying it may help with our 6t

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3818775

[WORKING] Decrypt Oneplus 6
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] strictlyphat:
Just run the bat file in fastboot right?
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] nima0003:
No, there are 2 other zips in the file you download, extract all the files from this and put it in the root of the file you downloaded. The flash the flash a partitions bat

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I also noticed on the international rom, colors are way more saturated. Yes I'm on the same color profile.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] strictlyphat:
Thanks.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Dark Nightmare:
Replacing the boot.img with twrp as the boot.img causes a bootloop to recovery, I'll redo the flash again with the echo on once I boot.

Note: when twrp is flashed after when rooting it boots fine...

Log file with echo on: https://pastebin.com/kfnR1hkR
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Pain-N-Panic:
I know there's a reason you're trying this, could you explain? I don't see the point/reason you would replace the stock boot image with TWRP in the fastboot flashable images.

On all other phones I have always flashed the stock boot image first along with the other partitions, then after first boot I would go back and flash custom recovery and root.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Dark Nightmare:
Everyone keeps saying we’re supposed to put twrp in the fastboot files to flash so that twrp can flash critical partitions post fastboot flash, just like you I follow a similar procedure, so to get this idea cleared up, I swapped the images to see what would be different. It flashed fine, but was not used to flash any critical images and only caused a bootloop,

Therefore I swapped it back to the stock boot image which booted fine. I even flashed the system with twrp preflashed and that didn’t do anything either... so maybe now people can stop saying twrp is the reason critical partitions aren’t being flashed, because in all three cases it wasn’t used or called...
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] mackentosh:
Are you running 9.0.5?
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] hartleyshc:
It doesn't flash TWRP. It boots TWRP. And it's the recovery-criticals.bat that does this and it's called upon by the flash-all-partitions.bat file.

It's in the very first line of the recovery-criticals bat. It's looking for a TWRP.img file in the same directory. It uses adb shell DD commands to flash those partitions since those partitions aren't accessible by fastboot.

Looking at your log from before it looks like you're running just flash-all-partitions-fastboot.bat this doesn't flash persist and it doesn't flash recovery or the critical partitions.

flash-all-partitions.bat runs 3 scripts:

flash-all-partitions-fastboot.bat

flash-only-persist.bat (flashes persist) flash-all-partitions-recovery-criticals.bat (flashes the recovery and criticals)

Also, TWRP is a custom recovery, not boot.img, which is why it bootloops.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] strictlyphat:
can i just go straight to 9.0.5 with the full zip? or 9.0.4 first?
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Pain-N-Panic:
Thanks for the clarification. So with all this....have we come to a conclusion whether or not flashing critical partitions is necessary? I'm coming the pixel family and never unlocked critical before.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Dark Nightmare:
Yes you can, full rom only, no OTA zips.

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I only use the flash all partitions file, not the fastboot bat file, hence my log, twrp wasn’t called as can be seen in the log and me flashing my device four to five times back to back, including my test of swapping boot.img as well as having twrp before flashing...

Edit: I am aware of why it bootlooped, I was simply testing to clarify a few things, I’ll put the twrp.img named differently next and see what the results are.

If there’s a specific way you suggest since I’m clearly missing something here, do tell, my device is open for testing...
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] mackentosh:
What files did you flash for 9.0.5, I don't wanna brick again ?
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Dark Nightmare:
flash_all_partitions.bat

I think your brick was caused by some kind of check in the OTA file, it was the OTA file you attempted flashing when you bricked right?

I’m gonna look at the script in that file when I get a chance to later.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] mackentosh:
Yes it was the OTA , I gotta read before I leap next time but I'm glad I got the ball rolling for us TMobile guys ?
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Dark Nightmare:
I’m glad too, even if I’m stuck flashing full roms every update, lol.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] hartleyshc:
On your log, at the very end, it says hit enter to continue. This is where the pause is, and after you hit enter it runs the persist script and then the recovery-criticals script. Did you just close the window when that part was done?

At the very least the bootloader isn't being flashed. That right there is enough reason for an OTA to crash.

And if you do continue, I really recommend using my script first a few pages back. I would make sure there's a backup.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Dark Nightmare:
Edit: I’ll use your script and attempt the additional parts, if any, give me about an hour to get home.

After that it says finished and closes itself, no output or error saying it wants to flash persist or criticals, I’ll put the image file and see if it attempts to do any additional flashes, what do I name the twrp image file? Twrp.img? Recovery.img?
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] hartleyshc:
Do you have all of the bat files in the same directory as the img files. They're all called upon by the first script. They're all also echo off so it very well could have just opened a black cmd window and then closed.

You need to take all of the files from the Other_flashes and have them in the same directory as everything else. Edit every one of them to do echo on. And then in the same directory have a file called "TWRP.img"

Again I would create a whole new directory, put my script in there along with TWRP.img and back up your files.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] LLStarks:
The recovery/criticals bat asks for TWRP.img. You can name it whatever you want as long as the bat matches and can call it.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] hartleyshc:
flash-all-partitions-fastboot.bat : this .bat will flash all possible partitions through fastboot (Except persist) , there are some criticals partitions that can't be flashed through fastboot;

flash-only-persist.bat : this .bat will flash only persist partition in fastboot mode (This is good for people that have problems with sensor);

flash-all-partitions-recovery-criticals.bat : this .bat will boot the twrp and will flash criticals partitions, use this carefully;

flash-system-boot-vendor.bat : this .bat is the same of older flash-all.bat and so it will flash only vendor, system and boot;

flash-all-partitions.bat : this .bat will run flash-all-partitions-fastboot.bat , then flash-only-persist.bat and then flash-all-partitions-recovery-criticals.bat

This is straight from the fastboot ROM thread.

It should be noted it is unknown what's going to happen and it's very possible someone could have a hard brick flashing the -recovery-critcals.bat.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Dark Nightmare:
I did all of this correctly, I’ll place the twrp image and make the backup when I get home.

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Guess we’ll find out soon enough, hopefully we can get that download tool to recover soon, lol.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] LLStarks:
Yeah, we need that tool. But if criticals flash without issue, there should be no more signature checking whatsoever and OTA flashing should be fine with at least stock recovery. Not sure if decryption is perfect in twrp yet.

I say this with the caveat in hopes that the global bootloader isn't looking at board revisions or anything else that may flag the phone as T-Mobile.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] cwalker0906:
Recovery on a/b devices is in the boot image, at least on the pixels, there isnt a recovery partition
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] hartleyshc:
Correct. Which is why we boot to TWRP and then run an install script to install it. And not just fastboot install recovery TWRP.img. AFAIK, it is like this on all a/b devices. And it's why the stock rom zip files are different (all of the data in a payload.bin file).

The point I was making is that you don't simply rename TWRP.img to boot.img and flash it.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] P650SE:
I didn't want to create a thread just to ask such a basic question but I'm not sure where else to ask. :confused: I'm thinking about buying this phone but I really dislike the notch and would prefer to keep it 'hidden' at all times.

Ever since my first Android device (2012 Nexus 7) I have always enjoyed flashing custom ROMs and tinkering with the software on my devices. My question is, should I decide to flash a custom ROM to the Pocophone, would it still be possible possible to hide the notch in something like AEX or LineageOS?

I have to assume not because the size of the notch on every device is different. But maybe the custom ROM teams could implement a feature to add an optional black bar at the top, with a setting to adjust the height (measured in Pixels) to match the height of the notch on the device in question.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] prabh98:
Actually I also hate notch. I owned whyred previously I've shifted to poco because of development pace and most of the developers here can build from scratch .IMO u should go for lineage it has always notch hide option and has least amount of bugs :good:
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] P650SE:
Thanks, that is good to know that Lineage already has the option to hide the notch. One of the reasons I'm also considering Poco is because of the pace of development. :D (I miss the OnePlus One which had the best dev community ever!)

Does the option to hide the notch in Lineage work just as well as the one built into the stock MIUI ROM? And does it have symmetrical curved corners?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] prabh98:
Actually poco has large curves due to which curves are not symmetrical .notch works better than stock in lineage especially the notification icons are handled way better than stock :)
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] P650SE:
That's great. I was worried about not being able to see my notification icons so that's good to hear it's not an issue in LineageOS. I'm hoping to get the 128GB version of the Pocophone a bit cheaper on Black Friday. ;)
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] vigilante7373:
Hi everyone.

I'm thinking about buying POCO F1, but I've searched several threads and I still haven't understood.

Is there any ROM that can disable the notch area? Like move the status bar below the notch so that we could have just a normal status bar?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] bravo2526:
yes almost every linage based rom has this optuion now ..and i have it oof from last 15 days and now i think i have forgotten that my phone has a notch too..
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] freddymanson:
im using miui. rooted, and i i stall the notif mode

so my notification icons will be show below the clock

the clock area on the left side of the notch becomes 2 lines

1st line for clock, 2nd line for notifications

heads up to the themes, apps & mods section of poco f1

there is a specific thread on that, and updated frequently
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] freddymanson:
just like attachment
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] youvedone:
I don't have any "Hide" option in the developer options of LineageOS [Official] - or do I miss something?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] paulnv:
I can report that currently Havoc OS has that feature built in (in Havoc Settings). Check attachment.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] Desooooo:
Display bug after flash stock rom

i flashed stock rom on nonia 5.1 plus (nokia x5) and after that the device think that i'm whthout notch. the notch is cutting / hiding my screen .

I can see half of my wifi icon at the top because the other half is under the notch , like you cover the screen with something. Any help?

[IMG="notch bug after flash stock rom"]https://imgur.com/gallery/C1lInRI[/IMG]
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rover1312:
NUBIA UI 6 (not very different from ui 5 at all :D)

Whats NEW:

1. A much better ui experience (almost no lag while scrolling)

2. nubia's mavrick voice assistant in CHINESE ONLY

3. wallpapers from the new nubia z18

4. while using face unlock the phone wont unlock when eyes are closed.

5. stable gaming experience (50 - 60 fps on pubg mobile on HDR)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. download all the files given below

2. using a working TWRP recovery wipe data,Dalvik/ART Cache, cache, System

3. flash in the exact same order as given below

i. flash nubia v2.84.zip

ii. flash the v2.86 OTA update file

iii Flash Gapps for 6.0 PICO

iv. Flash magisk of your choice

4. Boot up and ENJOY ;)

Downloads:

V2.86 OTA file

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SXn-dcdP-XJglf8bQMpigqUNCYY1C0tA

v2.84 ROM file

http://ui.nubia.cn/rom/detail/29

Gapps file

https://opengapps.org

ROM REVIEW:

after using it for around 2 days the battery life is mediocre it will last you about 8hrs with around 2-3hrs of screen on time . i havent expierienced any major heating issues apart from when i was playing games like PUBG . when battery drops below 30 you will experience major fps drops while gaming. nubia's multiwindow mode is one of the best i have tried compared to oneplus,MIUI,AOSP.
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Aroneswart:
Sir can you please tell me the link for 7.1.2 noughat rom that you used in youtube for fast charge proof nx531j indian version
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rover1312:
Mokee unofficial by tintin

https://yadi.sk/d/4ayugOpO3SSSNN

For fast charge flash QC 3.0 fix from miui 10 patches

Enable AEGIS after boot to get the amazing standby battery backup....
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] fangkampanat:
After install this i try again 3 time still stuck on Be yourself screen. How to fix : (
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rover1312:
try flashing only 2.84 from nubia downloads and see if it boots up then flash 2.86 OTA with gapps.

or

download the new 2.86 full rom from here

http://ui.nubia.cn/rom/detail/29
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
Miui 10 vs Nubia UI 6.0 comparison regarding battery life, signal strenth and performance please.

And anything else u might suggest/wana mention
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rover1312:
For a better battery life I'd suggest you flash ui 5 en 3.05 and then clean flash miui 10..... I don't know why but I've always experienced a better battery backup after using stock en ROM about 4-5 hr sot , but this is only applicable for 7.x ROMs. Switching to 6.0 will update the modem.... Probably why we experience 2-3 hr sot.
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
had the same experience with stock modem(better battery life and no heating) so made a backup of it and restored it after flashing miui 10.

another thing to mention that i have tried crdroid, lineage, resurruction remix but they all had battery drain bcuz of google play services.. so i am using miui 10 now without google services installed, performance, smoothness and battery life is way better now.

hope our dear developer [MENTION=4852730]warlock9000nt[/MENTION] gives a brief thought to miui 11/ oreo ;)
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rover1312:
I'm getting a better battery life for Oreo compared to 7.1 Roms so I have taken Oreo h2os as primary rom and oxygen is 7.1 in data slot 1 using dual boot patcher.so whenever I need to listen to music or use the camera i just reboot to 7.1 ??.
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
great, tried downloading the rom from 4pda but its kinda tricky

would you please share the rom here on xda or an straight link for rom download

or you could start a new thread of H2os development.. just saying :fingers-crossed:
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
Currently on CrDroid 7.1.1

Want to try chinese stock rom v2.86

Could i directly flash v2.86 or should i install v2.85 beforhand??

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Please share Exact steps and needed files for dualboot/ install multirom for Nubia Z11.
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rover1312:
Due to kernel difference there are some issues with dual booting like switching between roms causes bootloop........ (I might have messed up while flashing something )

For steps on how to dual boot just follow this

https://youtu.be/FJmtMjBXWHo

Use the APK i have put on previous reply

While patching scroll to the bottom and select Z11

Edit:

The bootloop/ stuck on bootloader is due to clicking on "update ramdisk" in the dualboot app.
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
No network after flashing china v2.86, what is the fix if there is any?
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rover1312:
I haven't faced that one before.... Try rebooting,

Or try removing and replacing the simcard.

If that doesn't work fall back to EN3.05 frimware and flash 2.86 again.
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
tried them all but didnt work..

Luckily i had backup of En3.05's modem

i restored the modem and efs partition from En3.05 after flashing china v2.86 and it worked.

Thanks for the reply :o
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] freemanrw:
Worked fine for me. :D

Thanks very much for sharing this!

I was struggling in the last 3 weeks to install gapps and have them working...but with no succes!
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rover1312:
download gapps 6.0 pico and flash after you have booted the rom once.

if you want to flash nano gapps you will have to find a way to disable google startup service. preferably keep titanium backup open in background before rebooting to twrp.
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] a7cATR4z:
error 7 while flashing the update?
[Nubia Z11 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jitextension:
Does Volte Jio sim works on it or not

Does Volte Jio sim works on it or not
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] Hongphuc1992:
This is android pie.

Thanks sony.

Im from viet nam

XZ1 G8342
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] sling-shot:
Double tap screen to wake?

Can you please post more screenshots showing differences from older firmware?

How is the app switch screen?
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] Avati1992:
difference betwen oreo and pie?, some mbenchmark? 4k hdr videos? raw images?
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] cprasitnok:
Fast and smooth. Antutu 19x,xxx. Power Management.

Camera is work on unlock bootloader. don't need drm fix.
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] lilbrat:
Hmm.. The average score was already 19,9459..

Mine is still on stock oreo is well over that..20,0702
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] Tux111:
My score of xz1 on oreo was 200.xx, now on Pie is 210.xx and over
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Dexer125:
Hello, the Black stock theme was approved so here is the link. I am not author.

Link

New version 1.4.

GDrive
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] gagp2p:
how i can install this ? no find it in theme app, and vith open in browser also no works.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Dexer125:
For those who can't download, I've ported it via MIUI theme editor app ---> DRIVE
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Maxi_69:
Does anyone know how to install this theme? error is not supported from another source ...
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] gagp2p:
well smashed the device on the fllor, nothing of this themes work, even not the approved one, no ragio change, no wipe no reboot, no nothing.

will buy other cell.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ascarnold:
Great, but I noticed some bug:

- The sub-selection on settings is not well-themed

- The switch off icon is not well-themed, it should have a background color (instead of black)

Hope you can fix this issue.. Thank you so much, anyway!
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Dexer125:
Sorry I am not the author.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Vihru:
we need contact author someway.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Dexer125:
I've sent him an email.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Giansi:
Hey guys to apply the theme use an app you can find on Google Play called My Themer.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sid.soepic.mythemer
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Maxi_69:
[MENTION=5145792]Giansi[/MENTION], Thank you, my friend, I succeeded. The theme is great, I've been looking for this for a long time.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] _katho_:
Couldn't import the theme with MyThemer (greyed out when trying to select it), but could import it with MIUI Themer. Great!
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] nighthawk696969:
I imported it with MyThemer, but soon after the theme was reverted to the default one. Im on honk kong region.

Any solutions?