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[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] sidhg:
Hey everyone

I just installed the December security patch.

Now that I have installed substratum, I can't find the installed overlays in the Overlay Manager. Tried themes like Swift dark and other themes. It still doesn't work.

Also I've updated the magisk manager to version 18.0 today.

Anyone facing the same issue with their device?

I'm using Pixel 2 XL

SOLVED: New substratum update available on play store.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
No such issue on my P2XL. Have you tried clearing substratum app cache and data? And/or uninstall/install substratum again?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] sidhg:
Yes I've reinstalled both the app and the theme.

Still nothing shows in the Overlay Manager.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
Does substratum have root privileges?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] kost7:
Substratum is not compatible with the new Magisk 18. As far as I know, a new version is worked on right now. You either have to wait or use Magisk 17.3.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] sidhg:
Yes it has the access to the root.

May be the new magisk update is the problem.

I'll wait for the substratum update. Thanks. :)
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] kost7:
I just can't stand the white pages everywhere; it drives me both blind and crazy, so I'll stick to 17.3 for the time being.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] CamoGeko:
Yeah I can confirm latest Magisk 18 breaks Substratum, so either stay on 17.3 or deal with being blinded by white backgrounds. Tbh I'm really surprised Google hasn't managed to figure out a way to actually turn all white backgrounds either grey or black, Samsung a has actually done it before them with the new OneUI lol

Shame on you Google.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Darriousx:
This explains the difficulties I was having getting some overlays to work. Thank you :)
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] JoeNeckbone:
Try flashing Magisk 18 in the Magisk manager app itself instead of in twrp, I was having problems gaining root until I did that. I'm currently on ver 18 with Substratum working.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] sidhg:
There is a new update available for substratum on the Google play. I hope this resolves the issue.

Edit: It's working fine now.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] CamoGeko:
Thats how I installed mine and Substratum still broke.

Anyways that's a moot point now, new Substratum release on Play Store fixes the problem.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] JoeNeckbone:
Even with Substratum taken out of the equation, I was having problems getting root with Magisk 18 until I flashed within Magisk app and chose recommended install option.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] davidisflash:
I'm on December update, have latest substratum after fresh install of latest update from Google. Magisk 17.1

I can compile a theme and they all show. When I restart and then try and change overlay state, it tells me to compile first ??!! Any idea
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] kost7:
Latest substratum works only with Magisk 18 afaik.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
Kost7 is correct. You must be on magisk 18.0 if you want to use substratum :good:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] davidisflash:
You guys are awesome ?

I've bootlooped before when installing the 17.3 zip in twrp. What's the safest way to upgrade to 18
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
Just let magisk upgrade itself from within the magisk manager app. Worked without issue for me :good::cool:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] davidisflash:
Did it with twrp and worked. Thanks again!!!
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kevincarpio08:
Hello so long story short, I live in central America and recently purchased a HTC M9 from a local store for 115$. The phone is perfectly functional, however it was very outdated. I asked for help and was able to update it to firmware 2.6.512.14. Now my questions are:

1) can I update to at least marshmallow? (phone currently running on android 5.1)

2) also, is my phone CDMA or GSM? I ask because when I go to the option "check for new system update" it says that software update only works in CDMA mode

3) are there any custom ROM compatible with my device?

I'll leave all the phone info below:

*** UNLOCKED ***

Htc_himawl PVT S-ON

LK-1.0.0.0000

RADIO-2.05.C1144060@50528

OpenDSP-v29.2.6-00492-M8994_0514

OS-2.6.512.14

Aug 9 2015,01:18:57(556209)
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaqman89:
Check out this and the post following it.

https://xdaforums.com/verizon-one-m...-htc-one-m9-marshmallow-t3316279/post71021253

It seems that you are out of luck, as far as I can tell. Sorry.

If you do, in the end, try to use Verizon firmware (since it is the same model it seems), and it works, please do tell.

Do remember that it would need S-OFF and might hard brick your device. It might also work but have modem/radio issues. But it might also work just fine. So it is up to you if you want to try and take the risk.

If a trade is an option, that would seem a safer option.
[About XDA developers] Teeemoo:
Hey,

One thing to begin with: I love Discord.

So I decided to join the XDA one's too.

Had some nice conversations on there - but actually - besides these the overall experience was pretty bad.

Almost every request got an ****post-answer (like just an emoji, saying obvious things...).

Well and the worst thing I've encountered:

The staff is the most unfriendliest team I've ever met.

Help requests got (If not ignored) denied by saying "dont message mods" or "well its not my task".

After asking the XDA-Portal Team, why I can't post here (the system said I should contact a mod) - I got banned.

Like - is it so difficult to say things like "Boi, not my task, but maybe XYZ can help you with that"?

No, ignoring - supporting spam and banning when someone has a problem (whos one of the only active helping persons on the server) is the way to go.

I might be a complicated person when it comes to discord because I dont think Mods / Admins are better than normal ppl - but most of the mods

think they are. Well no, they are nothing more than users with permissions to manage the server.

Is it just me or has anyone else encountered that behavior?

If yes, the staff should definitely give the discord some new, willing-to-help (+able-to) mods.

This is not a flame thread. I just don't think its a good way to represent a huge and great (!) community with such a discord server.

Greetings.
[About XDA developers] Deleted member 8425317:
Thanks for sharing.
[About XDA developers] Deleted member 8425317:
It sounds to me you've got an authority issue the moderators seem to bother you when they're only doing what you'd be doing if you were in their shoes how are you anyway
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] SH1M4BD3:
Sorry to make this post in Developement sections, since we (Mi6X) doesn't have the Q&A , General discussion sections for now... Anyone if it feels annoying feel free to contact, request Moderator to remove this Post.

I Love the performance of the phones SD660 pretty solid and smooth,thanks some devs has made the AOSP/LOS based roms for us. i used the mi 5s before and damn yes this beast beat that SD821 in some point.

As sad part the mi6x has only 3000Mah battery powered, so i'm really hope some devs here in near future build some MicroG compatible, as google services in some case drained our battery alot, so the MicroG was a nice solutions, compared to custom kernel as not all of us pretty good to set the kernel features correctly.

While the MicroG work with just only set in simple step just flash the nanodroid package right after the rom package and put the spoofing on inside the setting app done, nomore google services drain.

What about you guys ??
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] PIPIPIG233666:
soon we will have EAS kernel which will definitely help a lot
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] SH1M4BD3:
Sir your PE was an amazing rom, smooth sometimes its feel slipery:silly: will you made another rom syberiaos seems promising, it works good on my old capricorn..will glad to see its also boot on our Mi6X, thanks..
[Xiaomi Mi A2 / 6X Questions & Answers] PIPIPIG233666:
maybe later
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S Questions & Answers] taqi eldeen:
What is the best ROM that is free of bugs and can be used as daily driver ? (I haven't tried any ROM )
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S Questions & Answers] Adriano-A3:
Bug free is a strong term.

We have a couple of good ROMs to be used as daily driver.

Lineage, Pixel Experience, ArrowOS, AOSIP.

And you can use treble ROMs like Havoc 2.0.

"Best rom" depends exclusively of your experience, so take a time to try each of them and then tell us how was it.

Btw I'm actually using ArrowOS. It's amazing.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S Questions & Answers] ahmadadam96:
How does the speed and fluidity of custom roms compare to miui 10. I've been using miui and found it to be very smooth. I am worried custom roms would feel slower.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S Questions & Answers] russphil:
In my experience ROMs are just as smooth and snappy as MIUI10.

The biggest issue with them are bugs. Pretty much every Treble ROM I've used has had issues with the fingerprint sensor acting as a cursor and selecting theme when my finger presses it. I've tried AOISP and Liquid Remix, and on both I had an issue where the phone would lock itself every 5 or 10 minutes. Which made it made it super frustrating to watch videos.

I'm currently using ArrowOS and haven't noticed any issues yet, but I'm sure I'll find something. I'll probably end up going back to MIUI at some point. Things like slow motion video and scrolling screenshots aren't necessities, but they're nice to have.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S Questions & Answers] ahmadadam96:
Wow I actually didn't know miui supported long screenshots. Thanks for that! I heard treble roms tend to be buggy but last week an official pixel experience rom was released so I was considering running that. It's still on its first build but the second build should be released this month and should contain bug fixes that people reported. It's great to know that performance is still smooth.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S Questions & Answers] Adriano-A3:
I used Havoc 2.0 and never seen such issue. It's pretty weird.

Never seen also something like that in AOSIP. I could notice this bug in Havoc 2.0 when Now Playing function wass enabled. And hell yeah it's a lot annoying.

I miss a lot scrolling screenshots. Slowmotion you can get using Manual Camera DSLR app. There is an option to choose recording speed (half-dotted circle with "play" icon inside it).
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S Questions & Answers] zioxda:
My two cents: keep original rom and flash custom kernel. You will increase smoothness and battery life.

R.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] krz_ayman:
Hi everyone, I saw that during idle mode the image is like a strobe and in the settings the image size is blocked 16: 9 0.9 megapixels, and impossible to change. I saw the same problem on my galaxy s9 + and also a galaxy s7. I saw on the net that a lot of this problem !? how to solve it? thank youView attachment 4661145View attachment 4661146View attachment 4661148

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] ammar18:
its how slow mo works. it takes high frame rate video with lower quality. iirc the slow mo you will take is 720p in 480fps. since lamps flicker at around 50-60hz, and you have 480fps which means you will have a faster shutter speed, thus the camera is capturing light faster than how lamps flicker
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] krz_ayman:
ok thank you friend, and so it is normal that we do not know anything in the settings and the lights flash! then all slow motion videos will be in poor quality as long as the light is by "day"? A friend made a slow motion video with an iphone 7 in a dark room, and the slow motion is great! I try me and it is awful ... where I asked myself these questions.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] ammar18:
yes, it is normal if lights flash, especially at higher fps

the default option for the slow mo on the Note 9 is super slow mo, which is 720p at 960fps. it requires quite a considerable amount of natural light, as artificial light, or lamps flicker. to get the normal slow mo, go to your camera settings, edit camera modes, rear camera and check Slow Motion. that way you can get higher quality slow motion at a reduced frame rate which reduces flickering.

on the side note, when you use super slow mo, you can remove flickering by playing the video, press the three dots at the upper right corner, and tap on Remove Flickering.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] 6thtry:
These days the modern lamps can have all kinds of flicker frequencies and effects, especially at higher frequencies, due to using (cheap and/or small space) electronics to convert and control the mains voltage to the lamp's voltage/current, and the conversion has its own higher frequency.

The end result can still be flickering, just that it can also look different than the older 50/60Hz effect, depending on how the camera works. For example, it can show as lighter and darker stripes instead of brightness changes in whole frames.

For examples as seen right at my desk with the super slowmo preview: LED backlight display of my slightly old work laptop flickers wildly and full display effect; my newest LED backlight 4K monitor is steady; my older CCFL-backlight monitor shows a slow slightly colored rolling wave effect through a rainbow of shades (though in this case the effect could be caused by the actual LCD-panel control instead, or the combination of the panel and backlight both varying at different frequencies); LED stripe desklight is steady; fluorescent room ceiling light (has electronic ballast) is steady; the hallway light uses LED replacement lights for small halogen bulbs and flickers madly.

(The old laptop display is kind of bad one, it sometimes flickers even visibly while it "warms up", and it shows a bit of rolling flickering also in the normal photo mode preview, whereas the hallway lights and the CCFL-backlight display look completely steady in that mode.)

Slow-motion / high frame rate video recording not only needs plenty of light, it should be non-flickering type, either daylight or lamps with electronics that are good enough to give steady non-flickering light output. (Details, details: There are other means, but I don't think there is need to go into details here; photography/video forums/websites are better source of info at this point, as this applies to all cameras in general, not just mobile phones or specifically Note 9. Also, even normal photography should use non-flickering types of light, otherwise auto-exposure measurement just before the shot can get different light level than what ends up recorded on the sensor, possibly leading to bad and/or varying exposures, or even lighter/darker stripes on the photo if the exposure uses rolling shutter.)

The super-slowmotion preview is a nice way to check your lights, although it doesn't necessarily reveal all the problems. Normal camera with fast rolling shutter might be even better "detector" in this sense.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] ammar18:
true. i have seen some 'artificial' lights in super slow mo which appears to not flicker, even after taking the video. usually i check it first before taking a super slow mo video.

even in normal mode i can see some flickering on some laptop screens and monitors, and even the moving stripes sort of thing that doesnt go away even after tinkering with the shutter speed. so i guess its more dependant on the type of light, rather than shutter speed? (not implying shutter speed is not important in this regard)

thats a lot of information to swallow on me, but hey, not bad to learn something new.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] 6thtry:
The preview may use one shutter speed, even if the actual photo (or video) would be taken at another shutter speed. And how it looks depends on both the frequencies/effects on the light and the frequencies (and shutter type) of the camera and mode/parameters in use. (And there can be other differences in other cameras. E.g. DSLR's typically use one aperture when looking through viewfinder and adjust that aperture quickly when the photo is taken, then return it back to the "viewing" aperture. And that is why there can be a "DoF preview" button, which forces the desired aperture already during viewing. Ooops, again into details, photo/video websites are better for this.)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] krz_ayman:
Hi, I understand what you explain, but the iphone 7 is also able to film Slo-mo video support for 1080p at 120 fps and 720p at 240 fps. As noted in 720p 9 but it does not have the blink of light and its slow motion has a good image quality unlike our samsung.

So if we need an extreme amount of light to slow down, they are available only in certain good light conditions! Which makes the option not very attractive unlike the slow-mo iphone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] ammar18:
are you using super slow mo or slow motion in your Note 9's camera?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] krz_ayman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIHg5p1KBsY

In this video, the image is clear and there is no light except the object that is lit. I do the same test and everything is completely dark and the quality very mediocre.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] krz_ayman:
I use slow motion
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] ammar18:
what you see might look like there is no other visible light source, but actually it has lights from behind as you can see from the shadow. it can look like its dim because of its high frame rate.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] krz_ayman:
Ok the friend, so in fact everything is normal and this mode is used in certain light conditions.
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] mbwd:
Anyone know how to force the flashlight to stop flashing when the phone rings?

One would think that you do this:

Settings > Accessibility > Hearing > Flash alerts = Off

.

But that doesn't work. I'm on the Sprint LG V40 ThinQ if it matters.
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] Retarded Timing:
Yes that is the old way. They added the functionality under Sound.

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[LG V40 Questions & Answers] mbwd:
Awesome. Thank you!
[Google Home] Nick.bertucci24:
Hey guys, looking to do something sweet for my GF. I have a hue light system in my bed room with a google home mini and I want to create a funtion that will work with a command to start a Spotify playlist and change the color of my lights in one command. Our anniversary is coming up and I want to do something really romantic. The goal is to be able to say “hey google start happy anniversary” and then the lights change to pink and my google home starts playing let’s get it on.

No idea where to start help. I’m a novice at this and really want to be able to do this or learn how to do this by March!!!!
[Google Home] stijn2911:
You can do this with the 'routines' function of Google assistant. You need to configure this in the settings of your assistant on your smartphone.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dennisg34:
I haven't seen this issue in years with a phone where apps create some junk pics\files. My gallery doesn't show them, but Instagram and Snapchat do. I had to download file explorer to find and delete them, but how do I stop these from compiling again? Thanks!
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ruvy:
These are usually the thumbnails generated for all the images you have in your phone.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umass021:
How do you stop it from happening?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gaukler_Faun:
Normally thumbnails are in a hidden folder. Try to find out, which apps are responsible for those pictures (take a look at the folder name). For example telegram generates a lot of picture files. All pictures I see in a chat are downloaded by default. When you know the app there are probably settings (in telegram there are) where you can change that behavior...

Hope this could help.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dennisg34:
Unfort the games creating these thumbnails have no settings in-game to turn this off.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gaukler_Faun:
You can create a file named ".nomedia" (with the point at the beginning) in this folder. Than the pictures should be hidden for normal apps.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umass021:
Where do you put the file?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gaukler_Faun:
In the folder, where the pictures are generated. In general you can put such a ".nomedia"-file in any folder. In this folder, where you put the file, the media scanner of android will not scan for pictures, music, ... Of course also in all subfolders.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umass021:
How do I just make a file?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gaukler_Faun:
You can create it with an texteditor on your PC. Just create a new text file. Than save empty file as ".nomedia". Then copy it in the directory you want...
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umass021:
Thank you!
[OnePlus 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] k0rvan:
Bear with me as I'm no expert and I need to explain what happened.

I have an op6 running Android 9.0.2 rooted with magisk only. Tried all the tricks, installed magisk voenabler, did the numeric codes to condition the phone (*#800# and *#*#4636#*#*) but never got volte to work with att in us. Last week going on a cruise I was having issues with my phone not opening the login page for the ship's wifi (this is another bug on Android 9 because before update I didn't have this issue) so I decided to install the magisk Google dns repo to see if it will fix the issue and it did (the login page). And my volte it's working ever since too. It's being half a day since I'm back and I have rebooted the phone and run speed tests and is working fine. Can anybody with att confirm this to know if this could be a fix or a fluke?
[OnePlus 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] fireguy0306:
Tried the module, unfortunately it disabled the 2nd sim which is my AT&T one
[OnePlus 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] LBJM:
I'll be able to test VoLTE on At&T via red pocket and see if the MVNO has it later in the month, but I can confirm that when I was using the OP6 on verizon VoLTE was fully working. I was also on 9.0.2 PIE and I didn't need to do anything special to get it to work.

My understanding is your account needs to have VOLTE on it, or else it does not work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/9khnbj/enable_volte_on_att_with_op6/

https://xdaforums.com/oneplus-6/help/op6-att-volte-hd-calling-t3794878
[OnePlus 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Superguy:
I've had VoLTE on AT&T enabled since the beginning. It's an option in xXx's ROM and works great.
[OnePlus 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] se7ensde:
Just because the rom has options for volte doesn't mean it will work for everyone. You carrier itself needs to support volte as well. And lots of carrier make you pay extra for it.
[OnePlus 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Superguy:
Well, this thread is talking about AT&T, which supports it, and I have been using VoLTE and not paying extra for it. So what's your point again?
[OnePlus 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] se7ensde:
Actually it's about him wondering if it works you should read the op first and like I said just cause it's supported doesn't mean you automatically get it your not paying extra will that's good for you but there are others that do I actually answered his questions with useful information. What exactly are you doing here other than trying to pick arguments with people.
[OnePlus 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] KethG:
I'm also on att, not sure what you did wrong there, but i used the voenabler module and it works, have you tried switching your sims and see?

Is it contract or prepaid? I heard people say that prepaid sim won't get volte.