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[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] TheGorf:
I've had my 6T since early December '18. I've gotten about 10 or 12 days of actual use out of it since then. Between fighting the thing to work and letting it sit at the Acer repair center in Texas. I have a YouTube video called "Why my OnePlus 6T sucks and OnePlus Support is awful" which will explain the whole ordeal.

Anyway I have tried a couple forums and now I turn here trying to find help and advice. I'm not sure if anything hardware is broken. OnePlus customer support apparently won't speak to me anymore so that path is now cutoff. What I think I want to do is just blow away everything I can and wipe the phone as clean as I can and start over. I really don't want to muck about with modding and running non-standard images yet. But I can't find any walk-throughs that match what I'm seeing. Most of them say to turn on usb debugging (got it), then enable oem unlocking (got it), then use adb to do "sudo fastboot devices" and I can see the device. Here's where it breaks down.

The OnePlus package doesn't contain any of the .img files I'm told to use. It's just bin files:

-rw-r--r-- 1 gsweet gsweet 201 Jan 1 2009 care_map.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 gsweet gsweet 8683 Jan 1 2009 compatibility.zip

drwxr-xr-x 3 gsweet gsweet 4096 Jan 29 18:39 META-INF/

-rw-r--r-- 1 gsweet gsweet 1746783678 Jan 29 18:38 OnePlus6TOxygen_34_OTA_018_all_1812262016_dd285a05bd4349ce.zip

-rw-r--r-- 1 gsweet gsweet 1746770571 Jan 1 2009 payload.bin

-rw-r--r-- 1 gsweet gsweet 156 Jan 1 2009 payload_properties.txt

Can someone help me out and explain what I am suppose to do with this stuff?
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Jimi Mack:
I don't want to amd most will not want to sit watch your video. Lets start with what is the main issue, is the phone unlocked or locked and supplied by T-Mobile. Have you tried a complete master reset of the phone, what has the repair center informed you of any issues. There are steps before you should just try flashing and not know what you are doing, it could make things worse.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] ogkillergreen:
Who is your carrier?
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] reppi:
Use the MSMtool to completely wipe it and try again. Be sure to use the correct tool for your phone (t-mobile, McLaren etc.)
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] TheGorf:
T-Mobile
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] OhioYJ:
Why does everyone go through all these hoops? I had a phone that appeared to arrive DOA, OP support was less than helpful, and I told them I would return both phones, as I was in the return period or dispute the charge. Did you not pay with a credit card or PayPal? Luckily I was able to get my phone working myself, but the entire way customer service handled it was not reassuring.

Don't get me wrong OP has good customer service for some things, it just with some of these hardware problems they have no idea how to handle them.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] TheGorf:
OnePlus is very adamant that the return period is 15 days. They absolutely refused to take my phone back beyond that. As for credit dispute, yes, that paperwork has been filed, but there is a 60 day window to do it in. I should be in the window to get a chargeback.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] TheGorf:
Ok, so I tool the advice in this thread and ran this msmDownloadTool. Exactly how long should this really take? I rebooted the phone into fastboot. It's a black screen with a big green START across the top and then it says "Fastboot Mode" and then a bunch of information about the phone. the msmDownloadTool has been running for about an hour now.

[IMG="screenshot"]https://i.imgur.com/NYjf0wil.png[/IMG]

[IMG="OP6T"]https://i.imgur.com/QWvT0som.jpg[/IMG]
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Frankenscript:
(oops, you posted while I was typing, so you've got the MSM tool, but maybe the rest of my note will be helpful)

My opinion is that the original problem (Waze, etc.) was due to overly aggressive app management on the device, and there are lots of ways to reduce the optimization both generally and for specific apps to correct the problem so that you don't wind up at the north pole on your way from Portland to Seattle or whatever.

If you still have any interest in working with the device, step one is returning it to real factory condition using the MSM tool. I believe for the standard 6T the thread is here:

https://xdaforums.com/oneplus-6t/how-to/tool-6t-msmdownloadtool-v4-0-oos-9-0-5-t3867448

When things go loopy, this tool is a reliable way to get back to square one.

Then, there are many threads on optimizing performance to keep the apps you need alive. People love the 7 hrs of SOT but there are plenty of tradeoffs to get there. I'm currently running very stock, unrooted etc. but have "locked" the key apps I depend upon so they are unlikely to get killed off in the background. Open each app, go back to the home screen, use the recent apps button to bring up the small image of the app in question, use the dots menu on the upper right and toggle the app to be locked. Once this is done, the app stays alive, at least for me. There are also various settings for optimization of battery performance, but I haven't needed to do much else than the above process.

Good luck!

---------- Post added at 12:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:48 PM ----------

I believe you use a different mode to connect; see post 1 in the thread of MSM use. It's not fastboot mode, but the qualcomm mode.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] TheGorf:
Oh wait!! I got it! The volume up and down buttons. I see it now. It loads the Qualcomm port correctly and is now running. Ok here's crossing my fingers...
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] OhioYJ:
Yes they are, that is why it is very important for people not to play these games with OP, if their phone isn't right, just return it. Im glad to hear you got your credit card company involved, that should get everyone more responsive.

Hopefully the Qualcomm tool fixes your problem and you can put this all behind you. OnePlus really is good at customer service for certain things, but they really are lacking on some other ones.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Frankenscript:
Good luck. Let us know how it turned out. I always have a high clench factor when running these kinds of tools.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] p51d007:
NOT saying you did or didn't, but after reading so many posts on MANY sites, I wonder how much negativity towards any certain brand, is due to people that can't keep their fingers off it? Rooting, flashing, modding etc.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] TheGorf:
Yeah I had somebody else accuse me of that in another thread. But I can assure you I am only working with the stock image that came on the phone.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] TheGorf:
So the tool that it's thing perfectly. And the phone came right back up. however it appears to be doing exactly the same thing. My issue isn't so much the background apps getting killed. It's the fact that I can't install anything. Or I might be able to install one or two apps but then it immediately goes into the same mode where the apps just hang at installing. My last update on my OnePlus ticket about an hour ago was that they think the problem is my Wi-Fi. :confused:

Some still at square one. I don't really know what to do beyond this. I guess I'll just wait for my credit card dispute to go through or for OnePlus to do something.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Frankenscript:
Some people actually did have problems with wifi; there seem to be a few routers out there with 5.0 GHz protocols that are a bit wonky and the phone borks; it connects but doesn't reliably pass data. These people have no problem on other routers or on their own router's 2.4 channel. Not saying that's the case here, just passing along what I've heard.

Do apps install fine using mobile data as a test? That should rule out the dubious wifi diagnosis.

Sorry you are having this issue. Most of us find this to be a sweet phone; perhaps there is a weird hardware fault in yours that is making it go crazy.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] t2jbird:
Try switching to a 2.4ghz WiFi band
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] TheGorf:
I don't seem to find anyway to choose the band within OxygenOS. I can't select the SSID and tell it to only run over 2.4 . Am I missing something? Are there tools that can do that?
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] ZeroKool76:
While I didn't watch your video, most people have been able to restore their debices to fully stock with the msmtool. I myself have soft bricked mine more times than I can count and have found that the fastboot rom method has saved my ass more times than I care to mention. But, supposedly the msmtool will fix your criticals, in case that was part of your problem
[General Questions and Answers] bsginns:
DUMB QUESTION (yet simple idea)... :o

Is there an updated list or page that lists all phones that have been successfully modded/customized or even can at least be rooted?

It would make life so much easier for EVERYONE. Xda is the sole reliable resource for the internet world of on all related android development, so I figure this would be the best site to find it. If it was easier to find, it would make all your hardworking moderator's lives much easier & less frustrating over as many redundant questions of "Can my phone be rooted" & "Is there custom rom's for this model yet".

I personally have been relentlessly trying to simply find out if/which Cricket or even Cricket-compatible* phones, that can be currently often found/findable** for

under

$200 (preferably under $150), that are able to be at least rooted (but would prefer ability to do more). It's been a very aggravating search. ANY insight would be very much appreciated :fingers-crossed:

NOTE

: * "Cricket-compatible"= a.k.a. gsm phones that are technically possible to be unlocked to use on Cricket

** "currently often found/findable"= meaning to include phones that may been originally alot higher $$$ new, however it has been awhile since they were released (theyre old lol), but they still have good enough hardware/technology to perform sufficiently - so if you watch craigslist/classifieds close, you can manage to catch a good deal on a used one
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] DK_Unbegrenzt:
When you read a review post on the web or watch a review video on YouTube of a certain smartphone, the reviewer will probably spend time commenting the white balance performance of the camera. But what is white balance exactly and why we need it on our smartphone camera?

White Balance

The color of the object looks different from their intrinsic color in different light environment, and white color changes the most significantly. For example, a piece of white paper looks a bit yellow under the light from a filament lamp, and looks a bit blue under the blue sky. Our powerful eyes can correct the color cast caused by different light environment, so we seldom notice the changes and feel good. Hence we can say that our eyes have the ability of Auto White Balance. Cameras need such feature as well, otherwise the pictures can look quite awful.

Adjust white balance on smartphones

When we take a phone, the smartphone camera automatically performs white balance, which we call it Auto White Balance (AWB). Most of the time, AWB works perfectly and the color of the picture looks accurately. But occasionally, it does not meet our demand precisely or we have a different from normal demand. Then we need to adjust the white balance manually in the camera APP. Below picture taken with different white balance setting show us that we can take very different photos by adjusting the parameter of white balance.

[IMG="Photo taken by different white balance settings"]https://scontent-hkg3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/p720x720/51116725_543858399429981_4313855995232124928_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent-hkg3-2.xx&oh=cce899db8cea4c937082ef7ad5f4bbc1&oe=5CF199EE[/IMG]

It is easy to have above different white balance setting done on our smartphone. For example, on our smartphone, open the camera APP, choose to use the Pro mode. And we can see the “AWB” logo as shown in below screenshot.

[IMG="In Pro mode, tap the “AWB” icon"]https://scontent-hkg3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50964937_543859339429887_8679423199139594240_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_ht=scontent-hkg3-2.xx&oh=01a43a10c9c35d787902114e7c9dca62&oe=5CB96AA8[/IMG]

[IMG="Choose different white balance setting"]https://scontent-hkg3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50951976_543859622763192_5924901200079093760_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_ht=scontent-hkg3-2.xx&oh=29831dd45b6427c2e10b5f5c1da6395e&oe=5CEFB7E4[/IMG]

Thanks for reading my very first post! Any ideas or suggestion, please feel free to leave a comment below. ;)
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] themissionimpossible:
Congratulations for this first message!:)

This looks to me as an original contribution from you, as I couldn't find on Internet a content exactly like yours... whereas sometimes people post messages containing the same text taken from the Internet pretending it's their work...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] kb389:
so will it work?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] iceepyon:
It probably won't work as the Verzon variant of the Note 9 is designed to operate on Verzon's own LTE network.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Joe237:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] kb389:
i asked a Samsung representative and he/she said that it will work, just to be sure i asked twice and he/she said that he/she was absolutely certain.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Joe237:
I have note 9 verizon with att sim, but I also test the t-mobile and it works as well
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Jammol:
It will work. ??

ALL US Note 9s are exactly the same. Just different carrier. ??
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Detroit Amerson:
Verizon started doing carrier locks on the Note 9 like other carriers do. Once it is unlocked you can use Odin patched to flash the globally unlocked firmware or any carriers firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] ceo.mtcl:
Yes it will work.

Verizon's version is factory unlocked for anysincard lte network across the world.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Themes, Apps, and Mods] PuffinNugz:
What's everyone's preference? I like the themes due to icons and accent colors, etc, but I don't like how I can't activate night mode on Samsung browser when running a theme. Any other pros or cons that others have found?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Dr.Lost:
I like keeping everything dark in general, better battery life for AMOLED screens and better performance. (Less to render, like that's an issue on the note 9???) I always keep my device in night mode but I also have a black ui theme installed.

Before I got the Note 9 I was using the first gen pixel with android 9 and I can confirm it is so much better on the switching from say to night mode. The note has a bit of issues on that bet like I said I prefer night mode
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Themes, Apps, and Mods] galaxys:
Also prefer pie Night Mode on my Sammy....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Themes, Apps, and Mods] baferdi:
I was always using dark themes but now night mode all day long. It feels like the most complete experience for me. And I don't really need fancy icons.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Themes, Apps, and Mods] PuffinNugz:
I was just in the habit of using themes since my S8+. Rocking the night mode now along with the STEALTH icon pack.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] Severus_:
Hi guys,

I read that no difference between pixel 2 and pixel 3. Then, I can flash pixel 3 rom to pixel 2?
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] somin.n:
Hi, no, it is not good idea...
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] seabro01:
I think many have said the upgrade from Pixel 2 to Pixel 3 isn't that big but they are obviously not the same phone. Just look at the specs.

Don't flash any ROM for a different phone unless it's a situation like OnePlus 3/3T where they have unified ROMs that work on both phones. The OP3/3T are closer to being the same phone than the Pixel 2 and Pixel 3.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] tkacer:
We can't even flash a Pixel 2 XL rom on the P2 !!!:(
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] Severus_:
scan QR code on pixel 3 is awesome but it's not ready for p2 :(
[OnePlus 6 Questions & Answers] olik2000:
Hi guys,

I'll tell you the story first, so you can see the whole picture and answer me based on it.

A few days ago I was trying to flash twrp and magisk on my op6 oos 9.0.3. I failed a lot and went into a lot of bootloops and crashdump and black screen but got out of these situations somehow. eventually, I found a way to root using patched magisk and it worked, but I didn't have twrp. So I uninstalled magisc from the app itself and rebooted, but that caused my op6 to get into a bootloop. Luckily I was able to get to the fastboot mode but after trying to flash different twrp imgs, and failing becasue I was just trying without any previous experience and that's stupid, I know. Anyway, fastboot started to give me this error "downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY [ 0.769s] booting... FAILED (remote: Failed to load/authenticate boot image: Load Error) finished. total time: 0.784s " so I used this command "fastboot --set-active=B" to switch to slot b and it worked, then I flashed twrp and magisk successfully because I learned a lot from those failures.

So, idk what happened to slot a, so when I recieve an update in the future for op6, can I update normally from updates in settings or do I have to do it manually or what? I really have no idea and I would like to have an expectation to what may happen.
[OnePlus 6 Questions & Answers] happiy91:
As per my knowledge, since you already have your bootloader unlocked and have custom recovery, you might no lt be able to install updates directly. You will have to download them from oneplus' official website and then manually flash the updates. This has to be followed with the normal twrp recovery or unlocked bootloader.

I am not too sure about slot a and b, but I hope the procedure will be same. If you want to directly get updates, you will have to flash original recovery and OOS from oneplus' website.
[OnePlus 6 Questions & Answers] dewri21:
Download and flash manually using twrp. Should be just fine.
[OnePlus 6 Questions & Answers] olik2000:
That's really helpful, thanks :highfive:
[Shield Android TV Accessories] Roamin64:
The title says it all. Is it possible to turn off the xbox 360 wireless controllers that are used with a dongle? I have a custom built arcade style 2 player controller that is wireless and the rechargeable batteries are not exposed so I can't simply pull the battery tray out of the controller to turn it off. Anyone knows a way to do so? A remapping app maybe ? Or built in another piece of software somewhere?

Thanks in advance.
[Shield Android TV Accessories] livedeht:
Can't you just hold the Xbox button until it shuts off? I think it's like 10-15 seconds. I suppose if you didn't expose that button in whatever you built, that won't work =P
[Shield Android TV Accessories] .kaputnik.:
Looked into that a couple of years ago - got a wireless 360 controller hooked up via the official USB dongle to my PC - but couldn't find any way of doing it. Pulling the battery seems to be the only option.

Is there any special reason you can't simply patch in an on/off switch somewhere on the battery lines?
[Shield Android TV Accessories] Roamin64:
Thanks for you input guys. Holding the guide button (which is mapped to home button with a 360 controller) will not turn off the controller. On PC , it is possible to turn off the controller using various methods. If you had all the Xbox 360 software installed , using the guide button you would have the battery level and a means to turn off the controller. Seems other software exist that does the same, but I had never looked for that before since I didn't need to on my PC. The receiver embedded in my PC is built from a 360 Ring of light board taken from a dead xbox, with a microcontroller sending either the sync command or turn off command over a serial connection. So I have 2 buttons on my case , sync and turn off. For the available software, one is a simple executable that you run , and shuts down all controllers. The other shows a little menu with battery level and a turn off option when you press the guide button. Of course I could add a switch to disconnect the batteries from the controller themselves, but that would mean modifying the controllers inside my build, and since I'm using play and charge kits for the controllers , that would mean hacking the controllers on the PCB itself, or at the play and charge kit. All this is possible, but was hoping that a simply software solution would do the trick.

Here is the code for the executable that just turns off all controllers. It seems it should be pretty easy to adapt to Android, but I have very limited programming skills , as I only program in C for microcontrollers (Atmel AVR). I have absolutely no idea what drivers are used on the shield TV to handle the 360 receiver or where I could read on them to figure out if turning off the controller has been implemented. I guess setting the turn off function to a very long press of the guide button would be the simplest way to turn off the controller. I'm leaving the source code here in hope that some Android Guru might read this and quickly come up with a solution. Meanwhile I will start looking at things on my side and see if I can figure out something.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/turnoffxboxcontroller/

#include "windows.h"
#include "xinput.h"

#pragma comment(lib, "XInput.lib")

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
HINSTANCE hXInputDLL = LoadLibraryA("XInput1_3.dll");
if (hXInputDLL == NULL)return 1;

for(short i=0; i<4; ++i)
{
XINPUT_STATE state;
memset(&state, 0, sizeof(XINPUT_STATE));
if(XInputGetState(i,&state)==ERROR_SUCCESS)
{
typedef DWORD (WINAPI* XInputPowerOffController_t)(DWORD i);
XInputPowerOffController_t realXInputPowerOffController=(XInputPowerOffController_t) GetProcAddress(hXInputDLL, (LPCSTR) 103);
realXInputPowerOffController(i);
}
ZeroMemory(&state, sizeof(XINPUT_STATE));
}
FreeLibrary(hXInputDLL);
return 0;
}
[Huawei Mate 20 X Questions & Answers] Derpling:
And if so, how do you find it?
[Huawei Mate 20 X Questions & Answers] NZtechfreak:
Prefer it, but then I'm a big phone person and place a high value on battery life and this is the best I've ever had, so don't see myself going back (still have the Mate 20 Pro currently). Apart from screen size and battery other differences is speaker on the Mate 20 X is far better (again, best I've had on a phone), prefer the fingerprint scanner location/reliability/speed, prefer the flat screen. Mate 20 Pro fast charging, easier handling and waterproofing the things I miss from the other side.
[Huawei Mate 20 X Questions & Answers] mscion:
I have both phones. I'm using the Pro as a daily drive but I take the X with me to work and use it for notes and browsing, using the Pro as a hotspot. I have the momax case with the pen holder. For me its a bit bulky with the case to carry around as dd. But its nice as a small tablet replacement and I like the pen.
[Huawei Mate 20 X Questions & Answers] Derpling:
I like big phones and want the X to replace the pro, but i like the ip68 and 3D face unlock feature.

If you had to choose, what it would be?
[Huawei Mate 20 X Questions & Answers] NZtechfreak:
Face unlock on the X not as good, but close. Good enough that not really a differentiating factor for me. Definitely X if I had to chose.
[Xiaomi Redmi 5A Questions & Answers] elemefaaoo:
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