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[Android General] kallum7:
I think nick the sn writer tool with tee support is missing a key piece of Information which umidigi is not going to give us and I think they are wanting people to contact them directly and wait 3-6 months for their phones to get shipped back to China for them to repair them then once shipped in a few days they will probably email saying that they can't fix it and you will have to buy another phone
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Yes very probable caus i read all their forums and no one succeeded in doing that, do you think we can push them somehow? An email address, a forum anything maybe they wake up :)
[Android General] kallum7:
I have contacted them and they said to use tool then after the tool didn't work I contacted them again but no answer
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
I opened a thread again with them and asked them on how to resolve the tee and google issue,

Open similar tickets after explaining that sn writer with tee support doesn't workmaybe they'll get back to us by feb 1

https://umidigi.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals

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Umidigi'ers we need ur support, please anyone with a red tee and Google is requested to open a ticket here to hekp resolve the issue

https://umidigi.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals
[Android General] kallum7:
I am going to wait till Sunday then contact them
[Android General] xxlren:
Interesting that this his been brought up. I have had the issue since October 2019. Google 未激活 TEE 未激活。 The Chinese means 'inactive'. I followed every bit of information available, and I was still unable to restore my IMEIs and remove the red text. Bencebacsi obviously posted directions to fix these issues, but his method is plagued by persistent errors for almost everybody
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Gr8 assist us by opening a ticket in the link above plz, thks
[Android General] xxlren:
Righto, I'll do it now .
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Many thks, they wont reply before feb 1 as it is holidays now in china apparently
[Android General] xxlren:
It's rather pathetic that they will ignore all tickets from 20th January up until 2nd February. I'll resend it after that day.

Red text Google 未激活 TEE 未激活

UMIDIGI S3 PRO

Persistent red text on the screen after restoring IMEI with SN writer.

Bencebacsi guide on Umidigi forums does NOT work. We are all desperately seeking a solution from Umidigi support staff. Please reply to me directly, or post publicly on the Umidigi forums
[Android General] Zahr:
Sounds like I was lucky to have gotten IMEIs back & gotten rid of the red TEE GOOGLE text.

I posted how I did it back on July 11 & posted a link for someone who needed the Non EU version of the SN Writer & I also replied describing the files & their size the Writer needed. I think they were able to get rid of the red text too.

The ROM I used was 4/30 dated.

I'm sure I left the SN Writer configured to when I restored my phone. I can go take a look & report back.
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
I just checked ur post of july 11,

If you can detail ur windows os, which drivers did u install amd the steps + a screenshot of snwriter would be gr8 for believe me i tried almost everything and am willing to try ur way 1 more time but i guess there's something seriously missing in bencasbi tutorial...

Appreciat ur input
[Android General] Zahr:
My OS is Windows 7 32 bit & the drivers I installed are "MTK USB ALL v1.0.8".

I had to try different USB ports with original red cord the phone came with.

I'll get snapshots of the SN Writer setup.

I followed the steps posted in the UMIDIG website forum so here's the steps I posted in a reply to a user:

"In my case of the red text, I think it was caused by using the "format whole flash except bootloader" under the Format tab in SP Tools in an older version of SP Tools because I got the PMT changed for the ROM msg.

SPFT 5.18 would fail every time so I found a newer version 5.19 & first reflashed the 4/30 dated ROM without getting the PMT msg.

The SN Writer I used was the NON EU one since I'm in the US.

I only left BT & WiFi write options ticked in the Write Options for getting rid of red text.

In the MD1_DB spot I used the one with "MDDB.META" at the beginning of the file name, size 289kb.

In the AP_DB I used the one without the "ENUM" at the end of the file name, size 168kb."
[Android General] Zahr:
The screenshots show how I left the SN Writer to get rid of the red text. I highlighted which files to pick from within the extracted/unzipped ROM folder when clicking on the "MD1_DB" & "AP_DB" buttons. You may have to navigate to where you extracted the folder.

1st shows which file I picked after clicking on the "MD1_DB" button

2nd shows file I picked after clicking the "AP_DB" button.

I saved it, hit start on the SN Writer & it passed.
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
I've tried this on win 7 64 bit didn't work, i'll try later this weekend on a 32bit version, [MENTION=9810212]xxlren[/MENTION] [MENTION=8398722]kallum7[/MENTION] anyone with a win7 32 bit machine can give this a try?

Thanks Zahr,
[Android General] kallum7:
I don't have a win 7 machine

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Also has anyone found a android 10 gsi image that works with our device
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Don't mind , the sn writer with tee support is def8nitely screwed up، i tried his suggestion but never worked... Android10 try those of igor7 on github, colt os and bliss are good...give them a try
[Android General] kallum7:
Because nick I have bliss 9 pie on but it is half stable half not
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Android 10 has a vudeo playback issue as someone needs to provide a device overlay for our device to fix it . u can try havoc, evolution all are good but my.problem is network reception degrades on cust roms so i stay on debloated stock, u should do the same i'll provide some screenshots for u
[Android General] kallum7:
But it has that stupid tee and red text and my mind won't cope with that on the screen all of the time
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Let's hope we get a solution next week from umidigi, my eyesgot used to chinese letters :):cyclops:
[Android General] kallum7:
I wish someone would port a Samsung or oneplus rom to our device
[Android General] kallum7:
hi does anybody know how i can resize my system partition then i would be able to get a custom rom which i know works and get google apps installed
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Reboot to twrp recovery, select wipe, check system then advanced and do both resize and repair reboot then to twrp before trying to.flash gapps
[Android General] kallum7:
hi nick i dont know what size to resize my system partition
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
U cant specify the size just select resize and repair system and it will automatically do it ( i will add 2gb or so to system partition
[Android General] kallum7:
ok cheers because when i go to install gapps it says successful but when i reboot into the system it is not there so i dont know what to do
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
After u resizze make sure to reboot to twrp to make partition refresh, then indtall gapps, if they are not showing that is because some gapps can't install on a system root partition so look in the thread for other gapps like exlitegapps or mindgapps
[Android General] kallum7:
cheers nick will try later on as a bit busy right now
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Anytime no worries ،please also dont forget to open a umidigi ticket plz in the link 2 pages back
[Android General] kallum7:
i already had a ticket open for about two weeks
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Heres the link

https://umidigi.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals

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Umidigi'ers we need ur support, please anyone with a red tee and Google is requested to open a ticket here to hekp resolve the issue

https://umidigi.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals[/QUOTE]

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U need to reopen they were in chinese holidays and they deleted ur ticket :) thkd
[Android General] MikeyLee:
I'm so sick of this phone. No Android 10 update, the camera is garbage and no matter what app I use, beauty crap is still applied to photos. I'm over it,
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
It is ok Mikey, soon we'll have a custom android 10 working image... Umidigi are so over this device not giving us attentiin at all
[Android General] kallum7:
Nick i tried recontacting umidigi this morning and they are still closed for newyear/coronavirus we have to wait till the 9th or 10th now to contact them

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i am thinking of trying to create an android 10 rom because it is a joke not having any support for our device
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
If u have the knowledge why not :) we will be so happy, try to port oneplus rom that would be nice and i guess u can ask for support community is very active
[Android General] kallum7:
or i might try and look at getting a android 10 custom rom and copy the content of the kernel from the original rom to the custom one and do a little tweaking
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
You might wajlnt to follow phusson's guide on how to create overlays for our device then port colt os or havoc that would be fine... We are missing overlays for android 10 as per my understanding
[Android General] wornfrets:
Can anyone tell is there any improvements in terms of photo and video quality in 20190412 firmware compared to the 20190404 or they just fixed some bugs in the camera app?
[Android General] Magic Ren:
Yes please! I'm also interested in this but I have no possibility to install ROM by USB.
[Android General] raghav2984:
Really strange to me as well. Had the 7 days jail period with S9. But that at least had some strong community to discuss. I'm not sure of this. Still struggling since last 24 hrs
[Android General] cy-rock:
yeah i never dealt with such drivers :confused:
[Android General] wornfrets:
just noticed that the changelog for 20190412 says:

so I guess there is no improvements of photo/video quality compared to the 20190404...
[Android General] ghost45:
Sorry but i'm out of my home.. Try to use this other command:

"Fastboot flashing unlock"

Try it...
[Android General] wornfrets:
In their review of Umidigi S3 Pro, DeviceSpecifications say that they were not able to record 4K with Open Camera app on this smartphone, they have even published screenshots of Open Camera where the max allowed video resolution is 1080p - can anyone else confirm this?
[Android General] raghav2984:
Unfortunately now phone is not listed even in adb devices command. I get a blank line. Great. Looks like I'm struck badly
[Android General] ghost45:
So at this point... i belive that in windows 10 there is a big problems with the drivers to recognize the device..
[Android General] Magic Ren:
My S3 with stock app have no option for 4k. 1080p only.
[Android General] wornfrets:
The stock camera app doesn't allow 4K recording (yet). But the more odd thing is that even the Open Camera App doesn't allow it.
[Android General] raghav2984:
Hi Ghost 45,

Thanks for the good work. Your suggestion for new command "flashing oem unlock" worked finally to unlock. I tried to flash your recovery and succeeded in that also. But after setting everything, formatting the data twice and then rebooting into system to copy the magisk file and then I try to reboot to recovery. But it shows "no command" with broken android bot. Is there an issue with twrp? Why is it lost after booting into system?
[Android General] cy-rock:
Try in developer settings

Revoke USB permissions
[Android General] wornfrets:
S3 Pro achieved 14 hours and 45 minutes in the browsing test, that'a a very good result! The charging time is a bit slow though - 2 hours and 40 minutes:

https://www.devicespecifications.com/en/editor-review/2c099f/10
[Android General] ghost45:
Error from the server of xda developers have duplicated posts...sorry !
[Android General] ghost45:
Hi RagHav,

It's normal in every device with android 7 and newer version , if you do not block the system with right root the original android system have a check that reflash the original recovery!

If you read carefully my instructions i wrote that!

If you reboot without make a right root with magisk or supersu after reenter in android system automatically reset the recovery flashed and replace the original one.

So do not enter in android system if you do not have completed all the steps!

1) So...you before copy magisk xx version in your sd card and after try to make again all the step from zero, from 1 point.

2) Must be copied the twrp in adb folder where are located all the adb command, before all the steps .

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img where the recovery.img (twrp.img renamed recovery.img)

try again:laugh::good:

Have a nice Easter Day to [MENTION=371528]Everybody[/MENTION]!
[Android General] raghav2984:
Hope everyone had a happy Easter.

Regarding the twrp, I had managed to flash twrp and from twrp I managed to install magisk 18.1 from a otg device. I tried to install all mods and it works ok. When I try to boot into recovery again, it shows no command. Can you try to fix this. Thanks a lot once again.

Note: I cannot flash twrp and wipe DATA as I had already started to use my mobile. So kindly help to make sure twrp can detect the phone without wiping the data.

Also is there a mod to make sd card as internal memory? I used to use xinternalsd with xposed. But xposed is not yet supported in Pie. Also S3 pro don't have dual messenger option. Can it be added?
[Android General] cy-rock:
if anybody has the secret recipe to install windows 10 mediatek drivers let me know :)
[Android General] ghost45:
Tell me better what mean the recovery not show commands?

Is impossible to every device the procedure is the same! when you start the root procedure you will lost your data!!!

From android 7 the sd card memory is not set to primary memory this is a new feature connected and introduced with android system i can't able to modify this feature.

Tell me better what mean not have dual messager?
[Android General] raghav2984:
Picture attached. It shows that no revovery is found.

In my current S9 the twrp doesn't ask me to wipe the internal memory. But in your current file you had provided, we need to flash the internal memory and also cannot mount the memory to the PC while in twrp. This situation to wipe the data occurs due to the flashing of twrp everytime. So we need to make sure the twrp remembers the settings and its not overridden by stock recovery.

Since xposed is not available for pie, I'm unable to use xinternalsd module. There is another magisk module called Tai chi which has some similar options as xposed. But I'm not sure of its reliability and still can't use xinternalsd

Dual messenger means we can have two accounts of WhatsApp, Facebook etc. On same phone. This is default option in many phones. Umidigi S3 pro don't provide this option. So is it possible to include it?
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
So i contacted umidigi and they got back with the answer to follow the guide of snwriter tool as it has proven and has been tested to work! Anyhow i re-asked.couple of questions and while digging in their community i found that the A1 device stores the certificstes in a tee partition in the fingerprint chip and each device has to be programmed by umidigi to restore that in case it failed so apparantely we are there( thats my guess)

I'll keep u posted on the outcome, i even asked if they have a paid service..let's see
[Android General] kallum7:
Hi nick our tee partition is stored in the second system partition we have two system partitions
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Hi, yes u r right i am reffering to Umidigi A1 thread where they have similar red tee , their partition is in the fingerprint and they need to generate a file then send it to umidigi to send them a flashable file to remove red tee
[Android General] kallum7:
I was going to try and create android 10 custom ROM but I was looking into it and it requires like a really high spec computer to create it and it has to have Linux running on it and it would take about 3-6 weeks to months to create

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Does anyone know what camera app UMIDIGI use for the device and has anyone managed to port it to a custom ROM
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Thanks for ur efforts in all cases, i dont know abt the cam, i tried porting it with some libraries but it didnt work
[Android General] kallum7:
your welcome and i was looking at that screen overlay issue we dont really need a screen overlay

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and has anyone got a good android 9 rom suggestions except bliss os
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Havoc, or of2apk microg rom these are the ones i tried
[Android General] MikeyLee:
How were they?
[Android General] kallum7:
hi nick have you got a link for of2apk
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
They are good but i have seen better signal on stock rom, other than that full of customizations

https://xdaforums.com/project-trebl...arm64aosp-9-0-0r21-microg-ufofficial-t3878115
[Android General] MikeyLee:
Right on. I might have to give it a try
[Android General] thesamim:
Can't find it now, but there was a post that said "just use fastboot to flash any GSI system."

LPT: Don't do that with Lineage OS android 10 GSI (lineage-17.1-20200111-UNOFFICIAL-treble_arm_bvN)

Currently stuck in a bootloop always returning to the "No Command" Dead Android screen.

Be glad to reset to factory, but all the methods I know (ADB, fastboot, SP Flashtool) require getting at least to a point where the device is visible to my computer.

I've tried volume up and power, volume down and power, volume up AND volume down and power: same results.

Phone won't turn off completely (so I can use PS Flashtool): as soon as battery dies, and I plug USB it starts the boot loop again.

Any suggestions?
[Android General] kallum7:
Hi people sorry I didn't have a chance to reply back I have installed arrow os on at the moment seems stable up to now will see how it goes maybe I just stick with this rom or I might change
[Android General] MikeyLee:
Do you have a link? Any other info on this ROM?
[Android General] kallum7:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/arrow-os/files/arrow-9.x/GSI/
[Android General] Amiga1000:
What about security update and languages? on the arrow rom
[Android General] kallum7:
It doesn't have built in update options you have to manually update it

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I don't know about languages
[Android General] kallum7:
has anyone found an android 10 rom that works with our device please as i hate android 9 atm
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Fixing red google and Tee

Hi everyone,

after contacting umidigi they updated the guide to a new step to be added to hosts file

check it out here, i haven't tried it yet but i will try and confirm

https://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=18634&page=2

[MENTION=9810212]xxlren[/MENTION] [MENTION=8398722]kallum7[/MENTION]

yay!

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It worked i just tried it :)

thanks to umidigi Ben in special :)
[Android General] kallum7:
hi nick it has worked i am fully back to stock rom
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Seems the question to the support came back fruitfully :) we agreed something was missing :)
[Android General] kallum7:
Yes Nick we have eventually got a solution
[Android General] kallum7:
Thank God we have a solution because I was actually thinking of selling the phone and selling my OnePlus 3 and getting another phone Frome another manufacturer
[Android General] Zahr:
I'm still thinking of selling this phone because I can't stand the touchscreen randomly going crazy. Phone's on latest system update.

Also I'm wondering if the radio/modem from the EU version or a custom rom can be flashed into the US model for signal comparison.
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
I tried multiple modems i thinknresults are same, even that of US, no change i suggest u sell it..mit sucks anyway :)
[Android General] kallum7:
Mine has been perfect since I restored it and got rid of the Google and tee red text
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Then stick to it dont experiment qny further
[Android General] kallum7:
And nick yesterday I have made a support ticket and I have asked umidigi when we are getting android 10

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I won't nick
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Kman , your flashed latest firmware that of 18/08 or 16/08 something like that?
[Android General] kallum7:
What I did to get mine working Nick is use the sp flash tool and format all partitions then I flashed the 04/04 firmware then once I did that I used the no. Special write tool and got my IMEI numbers then used the tee write tool then waited for the system to load up then once I set it up it asked me to do an ota update then once it done the ota update I then went onto the umidigi S3 pro website scrolled all the way at the bottom clicked download then selected the latest version download the latest ota update and manually update it to the latest version and it has been perfect since
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Ok, i'm on the latest as well just checking because here 3g isn't working properly i lose data when 4g coverage goes out... It is phone related let me see what can i do
[Android General] kallum7:
You should see if you can do what I did it might be your partitions might be funky and not working perfect
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Yes sure i have to give it a try that way ... Weirdest phone ever in my collection of chinese phones
[Android General] kallum7:
Give me a message if you get any further
[Android General] kallum7:
great news ! i had a response from Umidigi we are not getting an official version of android 10
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Hahaha such a gr8 news :D
[Android General] kallum7:
Did you get your phone sorted Nick
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
I haven't tried yet , still a bit overloaded at work and i need the phone, wilo try over the weekend
[Android General] kallum7:
Nay bosh Nick
[Android General] Nickthegr8:
Well u were right flashing the original firmware fixed it and now i am running again the latest firmware ... Thks
[Android General] kallum7:
your welcome nick and i think all of us should team up and contact umidigi and see if we can persuade them do upgrade us to android 10
[Android General] kallum7:
please help i am hating this original rom to many bugs and glitches has anyone found a stable custom rom with a decent camera app that actually works
[Android General] MikeyLee:
I'm wondering since we are obviously not getting an Android 10 update from Umidigi if someone can port the F2 ROM to our S3 Pro. I was thinking about purchasing the F2 but seeing how Umidigi has seemed to have abandoned us S3 users, I'm done with them for now.
[Android General] kallum7:
what did you edit in the build prop and also what modules did you install with magisk
[Android General] damage98:
Well that's a shame, no upgrades

I guess for the price, I paid 187 USD, this is a good phone on T-Mobile us, but without upgrades, it's landfill at some point. Forum members, would you buy another UMIDIGI phone? I think I would but the price has to be every low. I've switched to iphone7 for my daily driver and that old device is still up to date and getting upgrades. Everything just works... The biggest glitch for me is lastpass. Works so much better on iOS.. glitchy on Android. Thanks for reading.
[Android General] kallum7:
I would buy another umidigi phone
[Android General] KiLL3Rw0lF:
Just finished rooting mine. Going smooth so far. Any news on any custom roms for this device?
[Android General] kallum7:
For a custom rom on this device you will need to use a gsi image ab
[Android General] MikeyLee:
What does that mean exactly? LOL