yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Simonkjam:
Yes, just delete the string in .txt file and if you want also the relative .cab file in the folder. The special settings cab fix some shortcut and set a lot of values such as the Batterystatus dynamic overclock, so is highly recommended
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] F0ll3:
Hi guys, there're 2 errors in the 007 Pack.

1) all the paths in the SDconfig.txt are to \Storage Card\VBus\xxxx.cab (xxx is the name of the program) but they'll MUST be \Storage Card\V007\xxx.cab

After flashing my wizard, the installation didn't start without this change!!!

2) also in the SDconfig.txt file there's a path to Wireless Time

CAB: \Storage Card\VBus\WirelessTime v2.0.1.CAB

but in the V007 Folder, the correct name is WirelessTime v2.0.3.CAB

So the installation doesn't start, it will give you an error. You Only have to rename the path to this file, like this

CAB: \Storage Card\V007\WirelessTime v2.0.3.CAB

Nice Work :D

Bye
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Simonkjam:
TnX!!!! Today i'll fix it!!! :D
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Simonkjam:
TNX!!!

FIXED!!!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] F0ll3:
i flashed with tnt vanilla 19209, and installed the 007 pack.

it's very useful, fantastic, but the battery goes down too early!!!! ONLY 3 HOURS (bt off, wifi off, no calls, only some sms/mms). I don't understand!!!!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Simonkjam:
3 hours??? impossible... what radio rom do u have? i've the 2.71 from faria, try install it, here's the link: RADIO ROM 2.71

Also look at the advanced config app, there's various settings for energy saver (sd related i think)

Try this things for now
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] F0ll3:
i never installed radio rom, is it simply a cab file? or must i"ll flash with this file? i put battery power and htc home in my phone, and yesterday i charged the battery...after 12h, some sms, many calls,and wifi connections, i've 50% battery. Nice!!! i think my battery went down in 3 hours 'cause i forgot to close the media player (but it was inactive!)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Simonkjam:
It's a flash-type update, simply extract the files and run the RUU exe :)

HTC Home? Useless...

Unistall home and battery power and try this my friend... View attachment 97847 maybe you have an iphone with the kjam cover...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] F0ll3:
i`ll try it...after the university`s exams :) tnx!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] zasanil:
Hello, I bought a note 8 N950U that was refurbished. It says it's a sprint brand, currently at software TMO - n950usqu3bra9. I am using this on the cricket network though.

I found a guide to go from the tmobile BRA9 to oreo (crc2) using odin 3.13.1. This isn't the latest version of oreo though, so would I be able to update ota afterwards? or odin to a later version after that?

What is the best way to get to the latest version of oreo, and which version of oreo would I want to be at, since there are different versions for different carriers?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Mr. Orange 645:
There are no longer different versions for different carriers with Oreo.

But to answer your question, just down load the latest available from the SamFirm tool then flash it with ODIN. Easy peasy.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doctor Andrew:
After many searches for the best help on my new Asus ZenFone V V520KL, I have no way to unlock the bootloader. Asus doesn't provide any support for this 2017 model, nor does Verizon, the company the phone was made for.

It comes stock with Nougat 7.0 OS, 32 GB ROM & 4 GB RAM. It's got a decent size screen and runs not too too bad.

I'm wondering if one of the tech people here would be so kind as to help me with not only unlocking the bootloader so I can then install a custom recovery image, preferrably TWRP, since I have used this type of program before on my other ZenFone 3 Zoom.

I already have ADB tools on my Windows 7 notebook (32-bit). I used it to install the last root on my other aforementioned phone so it will work.

What I'm wondering about is the bootloader unlock tool, custom recovery image (TWRP), and a way to root the bastard. Hopefully we can relock the bootloader after the job's done because it's annoying on my other phone to always have to bypass the "Can't check for corruption." screen before the phone actually boots. Again this is for the Asus ZenFone V V520KL model. There is really no information anywhere right now I know of that gets this job done.

Having a custom Pie 9.0 ROM upgrade would be the best if possible once we root the device.

My name is Andrew, S.D. from Canada.

Thanks and blessings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocoso:
Root

Did you find a way to root it?:confused::)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doctor Andrew:
No, I still need help with the original post. I can root the ZenFone 3 Zoom ZE553KL but they already tell us how to do that in another forum.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qasemion:
the Bootloader for v520kl is already unlock by ENG Firmware

Just serch it in forums
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doctor Andrew:
You're talking to a noob. Give me the location of ENG firmware.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dayvis.farfan@yahoo.com:
Hi friend, in the other post de link for downloading de ENG Firmware is broken
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocoso:
This is the link

http://www.mediafire.com/file/lc17b75qbvy018z/Asus_Zenfone_V_V520KL_All_WW_ENG_T3.3.15.zip

I tried to flash it did not work for me..

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Here is the link:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=78833735&postcount=52
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dayvis.farfan@yahoo.com:
Hi friend,

It's de the same rom for this page

https:

www

hardreset.info/devices/asus/asus-v520kl/faq/firmware/ because, the size of this rom is 813MB

and the size of the rom of the link that you provide is 775.53 MB and the files is the same name.

or this rom has been updated.

someone know what version of android have this rom
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doctor Andrew:
Okay so we now have a link to just the ROM it looks like. Do we have a way to unlock the bootloader yet and install TWRP first? What about the TWRP image file, do we have one of those as well?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
To flash the ENG rom, you do not need to unlock the bootloader. Just the Asus flash tool.

Once you flash it, you can reboot to fastboot mode(adb reboot bootloader) and use fastboot oem unlock to unlock bootloader. Be warned though the ENG firmware is very basic. No web browser, no google play, you can't pull down the notification bar etc. (Great battery life though with about 7-10 days since I am not using it at all).

As of right now, there is no TWRP for it that i know of. In fact, I can't even boot into recovery atm. I also am unable to get boot.img file form the .raw file so the various methods to root it seem to be out of reach for the moment.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doctor Andrew:
I've absolutely no interest in the ENG firmware. Still looking for a solution to the original post that people can understand and use easily.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
Well, ENG is the only way i could figure it out but I finally manged to get root on the phone with magisk. Still have some work to do to get play store and everything else running properly, but for now, hardest part is done. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daniel.Sim:
oh my god - rooooot

Good time of day, Faericia, this is just great news. You can share the experience of getting root with magisk?

Regarding Google Play and all that, where you need Google, using a bunch of microG and Aurora store.

MicroG is the core of Google services, which allows you to pass authorization through Google, synchronize and do it all without any garbage code, according to my observations, the expense is not much spent.

Aurora shop, as an analogue of Google Play, the application, the ability to save apk.

Due to the lack of binding to your Google account.

I think this connection may be relevant and rooted.

The initial partition should appear as root, it intends to resolve all the problems that I have in my phone. for asus applications, after I have done my best, several attempts have already been made.

It was possible to look in read mode using root explorer.

Perhaps you can somehow remove the protection of verizon on the bootloader.

PS the most hardcore variation of raw firmware, a hex editor, search in that between code, boot, recovery, system, etc. Very large empty spaces. previously there were 100 miles earlier.

I think this is part of verizon jokes.

This article should be cut and placed in img.

Thanks so much in advance.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Larchu:
hello when you finish you could share through a tutorial what you did I have my asus v with verizon rom and only data but if I can make it functional with the rom eng then better
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
Okay, Here are the steps. Before anything else though, I should warn you that I have not been able to get safetynet to pass. So if you have apps that require safetynet to pass, this may not be the way to go.

First you will need the ENG firmware:

https://mega.nz/#!l7wBlQ4B!uB63yH5Rir24GaSfDMWKowqdz-N_sc6SJ-q1WuuGiqM/

Also Asus Flash tools v 1.0.0.72:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11rcjOgdpJhpK97GzbhYK6cYEIWOtzKE9/view

I am assuming you know adb and such. If not, search the forums and get the adb tools.

Using adb, Reboot to bootloader. ( adb reboot bootloader )

Load the .raw file in the asus flash tool, select v520KL and flash.

Once flash is done, unlock bootloader by going into bootloader (adb reboot bootloader) then type (fastboot oem unlock.)

Here is the patched_boot.img I used if you want to just try to flash that and see if it will work. This is for the eng firmware.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fUxGc27lrodR3ro9MIspde73G8Xg9VlW/view?usp=sharing

Go into bootloader and flash. (fastboot flash boot patched_boot.img)

Install magisk manager and test it out.

If you wish to patch the img yourself, the steps are below (still working on it):

So now we have the phone unlocked, and the software is very basic. We also need the boot.img file to patch since we do not have TWRP. Since I couldn't get it from the raw file (the extracted file is invalid with a size of 0 bytes) I decided to extract it from the phone. But to extract from the phone we need root. So for this next step, temporary root will have to do.

You can get temp root by using KingoRoot. Use the PC version and you will get root. This is just so we can extract the files from the phone itself.

I need to find the steps for the next steps again, but the basics is, extract boot.img from the phone. Patch it using magisk manager and then flash the patched_boot.img in bootloader mode. I had google play working(chinese version) but once i removed kingoroot it kept crashing. I currently have magisk and it gives me the root permissions but safetynet fails. I will retry this tomorrow and see if I can fix the safetynet issue and update this post with the steps.

Also I seem to have borken recovery mode on my phone. That may be because I tried flashing bunch of other stuff before I managed to root it so I do not know if it will be the same situation to you or not. I believe after I flashed ENG firmware, i had access to recovery mode at one point, but I may have just messed it up. Either way, Expect updates in the near future.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daniel.Sim:
asus recovery

A huge over many thanks.

I also tried to get a temporary root, via the kingoroot pc version, it did not work, I suspect it because I installed eng, but did not oem unloock, when I did unlock, I somehow managed to get the boot out of the firmware, the user from 4pda was patched, but said that this boot is from 8 android, I thought that I had schizophrenia because later on trying to get boot I also got 0mb, this was due to the unexpected end of the archive.

In general, by flashing this boot, I also found a recovery mode and even a recovery mode, but going into recovery a message from Verizon was displayed, standard, when you roll the eng firmware for 5 seconds, hold something, etc. Well, you understand. And the whole laugh is that it was in a circle.

I suspect that asus had any plans for this device or for this amount of components. In other words, it was some kind of blank that was abandoned, maybe asus thought that this exclusive for verizon will make a trap, and then they say on the basis of v520kl we will make a non-exclusive open device, but alas, a huge member between two rolls.

Therefore, fortunately or unfortunately, recovery was not broken by you, most likely it was not working initially, but this is only a guess.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
I know recovery mode was working with VZW firmware. I know this because I tried installing using adb sideload several times. I might be mistaken on getting there once i flashed eng firmware but again, it has been a month or two since I tried it and all I know is, it won't go into the recovery screen now. Oh well, not my main phone so irrelevant.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] game #1:
I have installed patched boot img with fastboot. Now have root. But there a lot of apps not working. No Google apps at all. And no way to install them.

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Have installed patched boot img by faericia. Now I got root. But eng version doesn't have Google apps, so no play store, no Google pay, no accounts, no Gmail. And I don't know how to install it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
The only time I had Google apps was when I had kingoroot root still int he system. I then downloaded the Chinese google apps installer and used that to get it. Once i removed kingoroot google framwork kept crashing making it unusable.. If you don't need to pass safetynet, that might be the way. Othewise, I am still trying to work on it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] game #1:
I found out how to stop frameworks from crashing. Just make it a system app. I use link2sd for this.

Now all gapps work nice.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikushasw:
Well

can't for the life of me do anything about that damn phone. no way to make a side load. can't get root unlock. nothing to do.

I'll try QFIL
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocoso:
there has got to be a way to root the phone by now?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikushasw:
can't fined anything yet

No i am searching all the time and can't find anything on th web
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikushasw:
Asus ZenFone V V520KL

update it by mobile network to oreo and the issue should be resolved
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pizzano17:
Newbie here

I want to know which is best cuz seeing a lot of ups and downs on this trend

I've been sending much on Bluetooth tethering and it's a problem my phone hasn't seen Wi-Fi since never.. Just want a perfectly working phone Wi-Fi working without a problem and want to be able to download like pubg and other stuff just that

Any suggestions

Phone not rooted and I on the other hand need a simplified tutorial about how to go about that.

I don't plan on having root cuz I don't want to be banned from some apps
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adeeb588:
My Cell don't go to edl mode... I trying so many attempts but fail...

Edl Cable try but fail

adb/Fastboot command but no response Pleas help me out if you know the v520kl Test Point
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wolf45801:
Sorry to bump and old thread but is there a way to root this device my GF has been bugging me ever since the bought it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manahymails@gmail.com:
hi ideol, have U a tuto video for this topic please
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kariumi:
Would you be willing to share your BoardConfig.mk, device tree, build instructions, etc? And maybe how you went about making those?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adeeb588:
My devices not going to edl mode via adb mode or with edl cable please help me how to put in edl mode or give me test points
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] choopacabra:
I see the ppl here saying the bootloader doesn't need to be unlocked in order to sideload this raw ENG image, but it doesn't seem to work for me or I'm missing something

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Verifying update package...

E: footer is wrong

Update package verification took 0.0s (result 1)

E: signature verification failed

Restarting adbd...

Installation aborted.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] game #1:
Now I need original boot.img , want to flash it and get safety net back.

Is there anyone who has original Verizon firmware?

Damn, Unfortunately, camera stopped working.

Wtf!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
Do you have the link for the one you used? The ones I install either don't work or won't add my account for whatever reason.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] game #1:
I used Google apps installer. After that I make all installed apps as a system apps.

But you should install frameworks at last, because of annoying crashes every second.

After that run play store as usual and it will update all necessary apps.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] game #1:
Can anyone extract bluetooth.apk from /system/priv-app/Bluetooth folder?

I had a problem with connecting Bluetooth speaker, it gives me error crashing.

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
I found the original vzw firmware. i will try to upload it. Soon hopefully.

I managed to brick my device so unless I get lucky, guess I'm done with this phone. :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] game #1:
Great, waiting for the firmware.

No great, that you bricked your v520kl.

Have you tried "fastboot flash all firmware.raw"?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
Its a hard brick so no fastboot or recovery or anything. Need to figure out how to flash qualcomm to get it working i think.

Anyways, here is the firmware:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ICTGkj2R1OapgOpp47u8PYQ1aVke2JBo/view?usp=sharing
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] game #1:
Downloaded the firmware, I will try to install it later.

About bricked decide, I read that you need special data cable, which flash Qualcomm devices.

Edit. Not a cable, need to enter to download mode. And then use emmc raw tool.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
Yes, the phone automatically goes into that mode so it's fine. Just need to find out what and how to flash which seemed complicated when I tried it before.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leonardy:
thanks

I managed to download the software version

but as indicated, I lost the playstore, the camera notifications bar among others.

I managed to activate the wifi, but without the above. at the moment I prefer the official verizon version.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
If you root it, you will get the notification bar and use google apps installer. (Just allow it to update. after you set it up as system apps) But anything using safetynet will fail in the ENG version.

Also if anyone is going back to stock, make sure to lock bootloader before flasing vzw version. The phone will not boot if bootloader is not locked and the phone does not recognize the command to lock it after you flash.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leonardy:
I do not have much knowledge with root and English is not my native language, but I think you could unzip both files on 3.3.15 ENG and 3.4.2 VZW and change the modems from 3.3.15 to 3.4.2 while preserving the other files and join them. but I do not know how to create the .raw files
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] game #1:
I'm not sure that the problem is modems.

I think it's Android configuration, it gets location and network preferences from mobile operator. And if says you are not in the States, it doesn't allow your to use Wi-Fi.

BTW, I came back to vzw 3.4.2 from eng firmware.

It's was easy as 1,2,3.

When you on eng and unlocked, you should enter to bootloader mode with power off and vol-.

Then from command line of windows type fastboot OEM lock.

Then fastboot flash all vzw.raw

Then fastboot reboot and you got your VZW back.

PS. You should install adb files on your computer. It contains adb, fastboot, drivers.

Vzw.raw is your Verizon firmware.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
I have tried unzipping the files. Unfortunately, not all of the .img files can be extracted properly.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] game #1:
I'm not sure but you might help.

So I need lock bootloader before flashing VZW or after, or no matter?

If we can lock after flashing, so we could extract boot.img from VZW and flash it after whole VZW firmware flashed.

And then lock the bootloader.

So we could patch boot.img with magisk and obtain root.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
Tried it.

A. Magisk does not patch the verizon's boot.img. Says it detects sony something and to use custom firmware. (something like that since i forgot it).

B. Yeah, I was going to try that as well. But if bootloader is unlocked and you flash VZW firmware, then the phone will not boot up. If you try to lock it, the unknown command is given. Either VZW firmware has different command to lock bootloader or they just removed that option all together.

As for the question, if you are on ENG and want to go back to VZW, lock bootloader whle you still have ENG firmware on. Otherwise, you will have to re flash ENG , lock, and the flash VZW.

I am also sure I tried to flash TWRP(for asus 3 deluxe) with VZW firmware and it wouldn't boo to recovery either just fastboot mode. Thats when I started flashing randomly(and most likely incorrectly) .img from eng firmware to cause the phone to brick. :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doctor Andrew:
New Update

Ok so we have a few different experiences. A bircked phone or 2. We now have a boot.img, a stock firmware that ISN'T the ****ty ENG firmware, the actual Verizon firmware and the Asus flashtools. We still would benefit from a bootloader unlocker (unless that's what the Asus flashtools accomplish, again I really don't know any of this stuff) and a recovery image I think. Does anyone have these yet?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faericia:
Okay, I will answer as best I can based on my limited knowledge. If anyone knows better, feel free to correct it. :D

1. There is no bootloader unlocker that we know of. Since it is verizon exclusive, seems they have made it so Asus doesn't release any software for it unlike their non exclusive phones. If you use Verizon firmware and the bootloader is unlocked, the phone does not boot.

2. I think you may be able to extract the recovery image form the verizon firmware but you don't need it. It flashes it when you flash the verizon firmware. No one has made TWRP for the phone so, no clue. Also, you need bootlaoder unlocked to flash TWRP. But unlocking bootloader with verizon firmware means phone doesn't boot. Plus, even if TWRP is flashed, phone won't boot to recovery either in the unlocked stage on verizon firmware. Also, cannot boot to recovery in the ENG firmware so even if you can install TWRP, until that unlocked bootloader problem is fixed, you are stuck. Oh, also the normal lock bootloader command isn't recognized in the verizon firmware.

I would mess around with it more, but i haven't been able to unbrick my device yet so, that is the state of things.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doctor Andrew:
Safe to say rooting this device is more trouble than it's worth. We either have a half working phone or a bricked device if we try these rooting options. Not what we want in my humble opinion. Signing off this project for now. Let me know of any new findings team. Great work.