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[Huawei P20 Questions & Answers] sax_as:
HUAWEI P20 store demo problem

HI oslo83,

Seems that you are the right guy for my problem (removing HUAWEI P20 store demo).

Can you help me?

Thanks !!
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Crike:
I would like to add selected YouTube playlists as channels to the Android TV (Oreo 8.1.0) home screen. I would like a separate channel for each playlist. I would like for them to show the latest content first and auto-update as new content is added.

Is this possible, without creating the app?
[Asus ROG Phone Questions & Answers] darkphoenix2012:
No damage, stopped turning on, they already want me to pay shipping costs to and from them. So I fully expect their ****ty customer support to try and charge me since they already have tried to screw me once before by charging me four times for the initial purchase price upon ordering the phone.

Does anyone know what their service charge is to replace a screen? Has anyone gone through their BS circus acts?
[Asus ROG Phone Questions & Answers] bbmaster123:
Where did you buy the phone from? Did they really try to charge you nearly $5000 for the phone?

I've gone through Asus RMA over the years, maybe the particular repair centre closest to me happens to be great but I've never had major issues with them. A laptop repaired in under 2 weeks, handful of motherboards, most of the time free or reasonably priced. If the device was under warranty they just accepted it. Never had to pay shipping though since its not too far from me.

If the screen is just defective then it should be covered by warranty as that would be a manufacturer caused issue. Your total cost should be whatever it costs to ship to the repair centre, and thats it.

let us know how the saga plays out! Good luck!
[Asus ROG Phone Questions & Answers] darkphoenix2012:
Yes they did try to charge me 5k for it, and I ended up paying around 600 dollars in overdrafts and returned payment fees for all of my bills. My bank said it's Asus's fault, and guess what Asus said? "Our system doesn't make mistakes, it's a problem with your bank."

I've had absolutely dreadful results in the past with their turnaround time, and they've sent back a GPU and motherboard that were "fixed" but not really. I'm predicting to be told I have to pay around 500 to have it replaced somehow. And to be honest I may be done with them as a company for life, I've had about all I can stand at this point.
[Asus ROG Phone Questions & Answers] ermacwins:
Which country are you in? They should fix it for free under warranty.
[Asus ROG Phone Questions & Answers] darkphoenix2012:
Just a quick update, it took them this long to get back to me. I received two extremely low resolution pictures showing very tiny surface scratches to the frame and the glass on the top left corner which would be from car keys.

Apparently that voids warranty and they want a suspicious $500 even to replace the entire OLED and glass assembly. As I expected a crock of BS from this company I'm not entirely surprised. What a joke though, $500 for an undamaged screen? Who's their drug dealer?
[Asus ROG Phone Questions & Answers] bbmaster123:
Unfortunately I had to deal with a similar issue with HTC for a defective camera module. Factory defect. If it comes broken from the factory its on them to replace of fix it. Legally. The warranty is an agreement IE a contract. Even the 90 day warranties.

I had to threaten and start the process of a lawsuit, and of company no company like that would want to lawyer up for such a small sum. The next day I got a reply from them saying they would cover everything, and I eventually got my phone fixed.

Ive had a similar issues like that with Corsair and Gigabyte. It happens all the time. No one wants to take responsibility for anything, and sometimes you gotta force em haha.
[Asus ROG Phone Questions & Answers] darkphoenix2012:
After previous experiences, they're not going to budge. They don't even have this phone in their system to FILE for an RMA, that took an hour phone call to begin with. I'm just never going to buy from them again, they're ****ing garbage when it comes to treating their customers right. I never got the $600 plus dollars in overdrafts out of them for their system charging me repeatedly for the order either, even after my bank concluded it WAS their fault.

I will however be throwing my story up on every social media post of their for the rest of 2019.
[Asus ROG Phone Questions & Answers] bbmaster123:
If someone is proven to owe you money you have legal precedent to collect it. They know this. They also know a lot of people wont go through the hassle of trying to collect their money. So does LG, HTC, Samsung, OnePlus, etc and they will all try to hold on to that money if possible. Usually thats as simple as not responding to the customer. Its easy when you dont have a storefront. Only really Apple does (AFAIK), which makes it easier to argue with them and get what you should be getting.

Feel free to **** talk them for the year, but personally I feel like one post in an easy to see place is good enough. May as well put that extra effort tightening the vice on them. its not impossible. And its yours.

I hope everything works out for you bro, best of luck!
[Asus ROG Phone Questions & Answers] Versumoner:
Hi there, got the same. Pulled out of pocket - black screen (later started to blink and bootloop)

so, as i recall i've seen a "scratch" nearby the left airtrigger area. later on i couldn't find it so i just forgot about it (thought when i'm going to put on some glass protection i wount be able to see it at all)

but, it appears that "scratch" was an amoled matrix crack... because when it all went black and then white - i can clearly see that crack is in this area. the phone itself is undamaged, not a single scratch, and there is NO WAY i could apply such a pressure to pass through glass and damage te amoled (seen JerryRig bend test?)

so far waiting for the shop to answer about would they exchange phone or not -_-

idk, at last - when a phone is designed to have a pressure applied (airtriggers) how come it cracks?....
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] nurunet:
On my A5 2017, the fingerprint reader is slow and does not offer the greatest detection rates. Often, there is a long enough delay for an unlock that I am wondering if the finger was maybe not detected. Rather annoying. How are speed and accuracy on the S9?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] jamil aboudaher:
My galaxy S9 unlocks as soon as I put my finger on the scanner, its fast and accurate, it only fails sometimes when my fingers are wet... Also fingerprint gesture is pretty responsive, I use it everytime to see my notifications.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] Guatiao:
Fast and accurate in my case also.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] ClassilyContagious:
Firstly, I hope this is appropriate to post here - I'm new to this and I'm just getting to grips with it all!

Basically, I live in England, but I'll soon be moving to America. While I was on holiday in America this year, I bought an unlocked Note9 because it was cheaper with the exchange rate, and I thought that it would be the better decision, given that I'll be living in the U.S. soon enough.

However, the firmware is different in certain ways, and I much prefer the U.K. firmware versions. There are things missing from the firmware, that my Dad's U.K. Note9 has, and that my old GS8+ had.

My question is, if I flashed the U.K. firmware to my Note9 would that change my device status? I want it to still say 'Official'. Also, would it do anything to the KNOX counter - or would it even work?

Thanks in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] bober10113:
uk model is a N960F

us model is a N960U

you cant flash anything from one to the other.

you should have bought the uk version. a high % of Americans buy the international versions for various reasons. one being the locked bootloader on the us version stopping them from attaining root and modifying the system to their will. this year the international F model you guys have in the UK apparently is the lesser phone performance wise. i think it is negligible since rooting is a big advantage in some cases.

anyways please dont mix up unlocked phone meaning not bound to a carrier or region and unlocked bootloader.

cpu arch:

exynos = F model =unblockable bootloader

snapdragon = U model = locked bootloader

both models are avalablabe in region unlocked models.

there are other variants like the N9600 which is special in a way that being a snapdragon, it can have its BL unlocked.

there is also a N960N which is 99% identical to a N960F model.

A N960W In canada which is 99.999% like the us U model.

and finally the F, N and n9600 are all available in DS models too( 2 x sim cards /dual sim)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] ramiss:
I'm curious, what stock features does the UK version have over the US version?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Limeybastard:
It's got that sexy date speed indicator in the status bar

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] thinkotherwize:
can't get it to load with modified boot

i partitioned it as directed on a 32gb card flashed modified boot and it wont load also theres a weird glitch on this rom where once your battery hits about 20% it just instantly drops to 0 also cant install a custom recovery with easy magic (any of them) do u know the code to unlock the bootloader?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Matty1993:
Sorry for the late reply ive been busy busy busy making android 6.0.1 for the R11 max its almost finished,

Righto lets get started and get you up and running with the modified boot.img

Firstly how did you partition the Sd card, what partitions were they formatted to exactly and in which order,

They must be formatted in this exact order ill include the info aswell

Label: DATA

Format: FAT32

Type: PRIMARY

Label: MMCBLK0P2 (use lower case letters)

Format EXT4

Type: PRIMARY

i use mini partition magic and it works beautiful,

If the system boots on your device also it means that the boot.img is compatible with the device,

Which means that the modified boot.img is also compatible with your device as the original untouched works and all thats been done to it is the mount points were changed to the ext4 partition on the sd card,

This is everything that was done modifications to files were as follows

mount ubifs ubi @ userdata / data -> mount ext4 / dev / block / mmcblk0p2 / data

mount yaffs2 mtd @ userdata / data -> mount ext4 / dev / block / mmcblk0p2 / data

mount ext4 / emmc @ usrata / data -> mount ext4 / dev / block / mmcblk0p2 / data

mmcblk0p2 is the name of the 2nd EXT4 partition of the sd card, which must be second and not first

The sd card must have 2 partitions, the first FAT32, the second ext4, both primary

Try that and see if it works,

If it dosent boot past the power on logo message back here you may have another revision board as there are a few in which i have a boot.img for 2 of the R11 max boards so will get your phone working with whatever GB storage you set as your partition

Did you also make sure you have the NAND version of R11 MAX also as there is an R11 which is emmc and not nand ? There are 5 variations of the NAND R11 max and 3 or 4 variations of the R11

basic info on the R11 max 5 build versions

Storage type: NAND (typically hynix)

Flash Size: 512mb

DRam 478mb

Radio: 2G GSM

The only diffs for the ones above are the partition infos and the bull**** storage capacity,

Basic info on the R11, 4 build versions

Storage type: EMMC (unknown)

Flash size: 2.5GB

DRam: ( unknown )

Radio: 2G GSM & 3G UMTS

Let me know how you go and sorry for the late reply
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Matty1993:
Oh by the way what you think is a Glitch isnt actaully a glitch,

Theres nothing i can do about that unfortunately,

In the framework-res.apk battery stats are set in 15% increments to much work for me to fix on the status bar, go to settings then battery and turn your battery % on thats at least accurate

And in physical terms of the battery i hope you dont actually think there a 3000Mah battery,

They are actually cheap chinese lithium cells that produce only 1000Mah and dont last very long at all mine did the same thing around 20% if you know what your doing you can re cell the battery with a samsung cell or similar as long as you are very careful and dont put to much force on the pcb on top of the cell to much and desolder it properly you will have a working battery that actually lasts, i did it to mine but i run a phone repair shop, i dont advise you do it if you are inexperienced in that case find a replacement battery that is decent quality same same size and pin location and youll be sweet.

And about the custom recovery again nothing i can do about that ive built and not used any tools that dont work half the time with so many diff variations of custom recoveries ive made,

Ive packed them with twrp ramdisk and made all edits but they just refuse to boot and only flash white and reset,

The bootloader is pre unlocked as youll notice theres no OEM unlock,

However if you really wanna try yourself,

Connect to the phone via adb and use one if the commands below to get you into fastboot mode, thats as far as youll get though fastboot oem unlock hangs on waiting even though fastboot devices shows the device

Syntax:

adb reboot bootloader

adb reboot-bootloader

adb reboot fastboot

adb reboot-fastboot

Forget which one it is but you can try for yourself,

Ive been trying and trying to get a half decent recovery for the next 6.0 build its still stock but ive done alot of mods to recovery like enabling adb in recovery and redoing the default.prop within it also
[Miscellaneous Android Development] thinkotherwize:
guess i'll just hold out

well its working pretty good sans battery life, lol

are you compiling a real marshmallow build? because that will for sure solve the sdcard as internal issue and you can install gapps etc.... the playstore would work etc... it wasn't until marshmallow that google started letting you use your sd a internal, still an awesome job man i love this project, its a hobby of mine taking old bricked or soft bricked phones and trying to get them to optimal standards so far so good! keep me updated on the progress.

I definitely used minitool and followed your instructions to a tee i'm thinking 32gigs is too much for the boot.img i'm going to try and partition it smaller on the fat32 and see if it will boot then, how big do you reccomend i make the mmcblock0p2 partition? i made it 3 gigs could that be the issue? too big?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Matty1993:
Hey mate sorry for late reply was finishing up another alcatel U5 custom recovery project,

Yeah battery life isnt the best, next build ive added scripts to optimise battery life, ram and a few other things,

With the build unfortunately i cant fit an entire 6.0 system on a 512mb flash nand it just cant be done unfortunately theres not enough space but im working on that for a later build so at the moment though next build will use SDK23 system components but it will also include mostly SDK20, SDK21 & SDK22 system components that ive managed to merge into it,

Either way the modified boot.img is neccessary regardless, Gapps and play store i can confirm does work perfectly fine on this next build and there will be roughly 50mb so a couple apps can be installed before getting the storage low warning,

Even it if were a proper dedicated 6.0 build though again it would still need the modified boot.img as even though the app has been placed on the sd card it still has to run through the main system at startup and a full memory at startup will not boot the phone so again modified boot.img is necessary,

Shouldnt matter what size you make the partitions either, these boards support up to 32GB TF cards so thats not a problem,

I have a 16GB i made 2 partitions as follows

Data 7.5GB FAT32 primary

mmcblk0p2 7.5GB EXT4 primary

In that exact order & spelt that exact way if it is still not working for you then it is purely a pilot error (being you) as i mentioned normal untouched boot.img packed in with the firmware works correct ?

That means the modified boot.img will work also they are identical apart from the fact that the internal storage has been mapped over to your SD cards mmcblk0p2 instead of your internal mmcblk0p2,

If it is still not working i want you to please take a backup of your firmware and then from that zip up the following into an archive upload it to google drive or whatever you use and post the link to it here so i can download it and have a look at it to see if there are any differences anywhere

RECOVERY

BOOTIMG

MT6572_Scatter_file.txt

I highly doubt there will be any difference as it already works on your PMT info if there were something wrong it wouldnt boot at all even with the untouched stock one,

The boot.img and recovery has been highly modified in the next build so if your facing any probs still ill need to sort it out and possibly make a second version to support it, hopefully not the case tho.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Matty1993:
Attention all users of R11 max,

New build will be up in a week maximum, Google play is functional, i have also built a custom recovery for this model R11_Max however wont be released until the new rom is released.

Thread will be updated here with new links when its ready.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Aleq:
Hi,

is there any way how to tweak the color profile of Pixel 3? I find the colors too saturated for my liking, esp. the blue quick settings tiles are killing me. Screenshots do look much nicer on my EIZO monitor. The colors "scream" less there.

I came from Nexus 5X which was fine in these regards.

Any other option but custom kernel?

Thanks for any tips,

A.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] fury683:
Screen colors?

Go to Settings > Display > Advanced > Colors

There are 3 options to choose from.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] PuffDaddy_d:
You have to be rooted and install a custom kernel to change the RGB values. Or you can just download an app that places an overlay on the screen to adjust the colors.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XDroidie:
Hi All,

So I am trying to better understand the Android operating system, specifically in the security section as it seems to be more 'hands off' compared to Windows.

Let me start by saying I am no security engineer in any capacity, but its a field that interests me greatly, and I understand Windows security much more than Linux/Android

I know what root is in Linux, its essentially the system account of Windows, it can do anything, and gaining root on Android is essentially gaining system in Windows, and understandably is a dangerous account to have control of.

I also understand that Android uses a verified boot process, similar to Windows with Secure boot and Bitlocker (When configured correctly)

But for Android this is as far as I go with Security, admittedly its extremely limited is my knowledge of the Android security system, I have heard of SafetyNet APIs and this can control things like Google Pay and some other applications like My EE for example, and seems to be to basically be a verification method to make sure the system is not tampered with.

But I am trying to understand what other security issues can arise with root, on my One plus when the boot loader is unlocked it prompts a warning on boot which is to be expected, it cannot verify the software you install (TWRP, Kernel, System) is safe and untampered with, but what else can happen, specifically from being attacked, maybe during system usage and what steps can be taken to help improve security?

I ask this because I feel more secure on OOS with locked BL, of course, but I also like to add things in like Magisk, V4A and Energized and I am currently deciding which I wish to settle on, Locked OOS or Unlocked OOS with addons.

Can anyone provide any light and tips on the subject? ELI5 or Advanced explanation is welcome :)

Many Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerald94:
Hi!

I am in a similar situation as XDroidie. No security engineer, but I have technical background and I am also very interested in it.

I would like to learn how I can monitor my android system integrity and regular check if it is being tampered.

After some research I have the impression googles safetynet does a good job.(koz.io/inside-safetynet-3).

But I would prefer to live without Google Mobile Services on LineageOS or similar things.

Are there open source mimiks of safetynet, I can use as a personal security checker?

If for some reason I would get forced to use Safetynet, are there methods to check what safetynet does ? Did anybody before?

Thanks for your suggestions in advance!

Gerald
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers] stole775:
From USB mouse to USB flash drive I can't change from charge external device to mtp. I try original and 3th party adapter but nothing.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] SeaZz:
I had this Phone since September and never actually had a major problem with it. It was shipped to me with Android 7 . The first day i got it , i was setting everything up, installing apps ,etc. I think a week later , Android 8.1 Update popped up , I really don't like updating so i blocked the notification and everything was fine. Until Today that i realized the phone getting a tiny bit of lag , Overall uptime was about 1180Hours , So i decided to Restart. Which to my surprise updated the phone automatically to android 8.1.

I really DON'T like when Companies update your device without confirmation, I mean why do they really force the updates? (from when do they care about my device right?). Anyway , getting besides the point here, :confused: , I really wanted to ask if there is any way to force stop the firmware updates. I read that Android 9 Pie is getting close , and i really don't want to Update.

Is it possible to stop updates by rooting the device? In the end i was going to root my device soo,

(You can say whatever you want , but , Me as an 8 year android user (I had android 2 , 4,5 and now 7-8) I have to say , Every version makes it worse for the freedom of the user. Android 4(ICS and 5 - Lollipop) was the best
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] tarik880:
You can do it without rooting your device, Go to Developer options and untick Automatic system updates.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] SeaZz:
:highfive: Thank you very much, I appreciate it . Why didn't i check at dev options the first time? :confused: (I didn't really have a reason to change anything from the Developer Options , That's why i didn't get there the first time). Is there any way to revert back to android 7 and do the same :silly:?
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] TrueMS:
Dont revert to 7, its really not worth it. Oreo is in my opinion much more stable, used it all the time and nothing lagged or happened. I also recommend updating to Pie. Trust me or not but Pie is the smoothest and fastest version of Android I've ever had on this phone comparing to the Nougat and Oreo - animations and apps switching is much faster and fluent, same is overal performance of the phone.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] tarik880:
Yes, you can. Try it, if you don't like it then download MI A1's Nougat rom and flash it with mi flash tool, if you never did it before, see some YouTube video tutorial before doing that and also keep backup of your necessary files from the phone.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] riccetto80:
do a clean flash of ocotber/november rom, i bet your lag is because you updated too many time without a clean flash.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] SeaZz:
After some hours of using the phone with oreo , i've seen somehow better performance mostly on the ui but not on the apps. Messenger App Seemed to Lag a bit as well as the live view from the camera app. (When i say lag it's fine just not that smooth). I will run the phone for a while like this without changing anything . I'll maybe consider trying Pie after a while ,if it'll get a stable release on the phone.

Thanks for the recommendation :good: