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[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] Indopunx:
I tried this method and it seems to work for me. Since you're limited to only 5 different fingerprint scans, I scanned my right thumb a total of five times at different angles (since I typically hold the phone with left hand and scan with my right thumb). I scanned my right thumb starting at the six o'clock position (meaning my right hand is at the bottom of the phone with my right thumb pointing upward on the sensor) and continued with the other four scans moving my thumb and hand in a counter clockwise direction until the fifth and final scan resulted in my hand and thumb at the four o'clock position. I find that out of ten attempts, I have can usually login in to my phone 8 to 9 times. You do need to press hard and hold it and you do need to be mindful of your finger's location.
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] Sliksta:
Jus saw in another thread that another phone with same fp reader recommended to register the fingers in complete darkness. going to see if this helps.
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] fyby:
I already ditched FP scanner but yesterday I tried different thing. I registered my thumb but not close to the tip but closer to its middle. Then I was able to unlock phone 100% of time. Its unnatural, but it works. So its definitely thing of registration and positioning of finger. FP scanner works in this case very good. If you scan your finger a little off the middle, it fails. So there is really bad software for FP scanner. Hardware (thank god) is great.
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] AndroidMilos:
I tried this and it works for me too
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] rikbrouwer:
The software update I received today (with security patch 1 April 2019) seems to have improved the fingerprint scanner. I barely have any misfires. Can someone else confirm?
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] papped:
It improves it, but it is not fixed. It still fails a lot with 3 registered fingers of the same finger and is still even with the fix basically crap compared to the Oneplus 6 fingerprint scanner,which works faster, far more often, and with only 1 registered finger.

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Ps, for the first day after the patch I had less misreads. They will return later...
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] Sliksta:
I've confirmed that update is working for me. Still testing, but preliminary results seem to indicate a higher success rate. Im going to try it though at various power levels and with battery saver on/off. Will post later this week. Im excited!

oh and Papped, according to Juho's tweet, you need to remove all the fingers and re-do with just one or different fingers; let us know!
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] papped:
So far it does seem better, I guess the fingerprint reader was actually recording them completely wrong to begin with. Will try for a few days, just to be sure

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Getting some misreads occasionally again already. It is still a lot better than pre-update though
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] Mobstergunz:
Can anyone replicate this?

Decoded Pixel (@decodedpixel) Tweeted:
[MENTION=273706]Taras[/MENTION]huntley [MENTION=741676]techa[/MENTION]ltar Video of the fingerprint sensor unlocking phone with a packet of chewing gum and someone else's finger https://t.co/jwY4ZG7uCh https://twitter.com/decodedpixel/status/1120051077905362944?

This seems like the update is just more lax with finger print accuracy
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] stefanve:
I'm not, but I didn't re enroll . I will try to do that. But looking at the comments no one else was able to replicate that behavior

Just did a re enroll , but I can't replicate the behavior at all. I also feel that it is highly unlikely that a pack of gums was able to unlock it (unless it was added, not sure if that is possible )
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] fyby:
First I was happy, that sensor is working great now. But then more problems with finger scanning poped up, so I tried to scan my thumb more times. I ended up with my thumb scanned five times (as 5 fingers), where most time it worked well.

But thats ridiculous. Anyway it seems to me, If I position my finger exactly in the middle, it is ok. If I shift it a little (that should be ok) it is problem for scanner. According to my experience, phone has problems putting data together into one piece. So its very sensitive, how you position your finger during scan.
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] papped:
There does seem to be an issue where it works better for a while, then begins to degrade accuracy eventually over time again. I might just turn the fingerprint off...
[Nokia 9 PureView Questions & Answers] Hildr:
Maybe I get the right move from the start, but I have less issue with this fp scanner than what I had with the P30Pro. Maybe because it's positioned at the center of the screen and it's far more natural. It works great with my 2 thumbs and my index. It's still less useful and quick, and reliable than a back fingerprint than can also be used for gesture. I really don't get that trend.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Questions & Answers] carlinleos:
Hi, Iam new to Xiaomi phones and I would like to know what is GSI.

Thanks
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Questions & Answers] GVN.Gallus:
You can google it instead of post a thread and wait for answer.

GSI

To be shortened, its a generic system image ( rom ) that can run on multiple devices.
[Honor Play Questions & Answers] krzyh07:
How do you rate GPS in this phone?

I am considering it as my next phone but I've read in a review at notebookcheck.net (sorry, can't add links) that GPS quality for navigation is very bad. What do you think ?
[Honor Play Questions & Answers] Zbyszekcz:
GPS works perfectly. Better than Samsung J5, or Redmi Notr 5 and 6 Pro.

I use Google Maps, Waze and AutoMapa.
[Honor Play Questions & Answers] tech_infinity:
I use Google maps and uber a lot. No issues whatsoever gor me.
[Honor Play Questions & Answers] mrmagmaa:
My phone is also too bad.... It's not accurate
[Honor Play Questions & Answers] calinorg:
No problems with GPS whatsoever. Works really good.
[Honor Play Questions & Answers] XDARoni:
I see some people have issues with the GPS on this phone, but I have not seen any issues at all.
[Honor Play Questions & Answers] tigsandmitch:
I feel as though when using it for navigation it can be slightly behind causing me to miss turns on islands or getting into lane early enough
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwwhana:
hi.

when i try zerofill bootloader test. can't booting my device.

i think so my device's boot0 is broken.

but i backup raw boot0 partition by flashtool.

can i restore boot0??

when i connect usb on linux.

show

~$ lsusb

Bus 003 Device 015: ID 0e8d:0003 MediaTek Inc. MT6227 phone
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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Questions & Answers] v:
Hi,

As I consider to purchase an A2 and I wonder which pros and cons there are from the perspective of a former A1 user.

Which are the improvements?

Which are the disappointments coming from an A1?

Thank you very much in advance

V
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Questions & Answers] skyline91:
I had A1 before A2 lite. Here are pros and cons for A2 lite. I got A2 lite only because of size and smaller bezels, but i hope to upgrade to MI 9 SE if it'll have global launch.

Pros:

- larger display size

- smaller bezels

- smaller device size

- larger battery

Cons:

- micro USB

- almost none custom ROM development
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Questions & Answers] v:
Very useful comments.

Thank you very much!

v

PS: Does that bigger battery give you more milage?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Questions & Answers] skyline91:
Yes, it gives you more mileage, but i think that full potential will be seen after we'll have custom ROMs.

Also i forgot to mention one more con: notch is sometimes annoying because when you have multiple icons/notifications in status bar it changes it to one dot because it doesn't have enough space for all icons and it's annoying when it does it almost every second for some period of time (because of network changes arrow or other changes). I don't know if you know what i'm talking about :D
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Questions & Answers] v:
I don't know if I know what you're talking about either. :D

Oh indeed, I can imagine that the small notification area is annoying.

It looks as If I keep my A1.

How do the cameras compare?

Thanks again!

v
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Questions & Answers] skyline91:
I don't use camera very often and when i do i use stock camera app. So i can't compare picture quality. On A1 i used gcam but as far i can see there isn't fully working gcam for Pie roms, so i'm too lazy to search for the best working cam app. :D
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Questions & Answers] v:
Here's another one.

That's why I never upgraded my A1 since Fall '18. Too lazy to sort this Pie stuff w/ GCAM which is a must compared to the crappy X stock cam app.

Missing the FM radio app though. ;)

Today the A2 lite arrived. Liked on first glance but Pie is not my piece of cake.

I still miss the old HTC UI as it was on my HTC M7.

(Reminds me a little about how I felt when Windows became unavoidable after having used Apple ][ DOS, CPM, MS-DOS. :D )

Damned I sound like my lovely grandmother!
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Questions & Answers] skyline91:
I upgraded A1 to pie but i can't remember what i did with gcam :silly: and soon i bought a2 lite.

i think that stock aosp still doesn't have enough features like custom roms, aosp like lineage os would be great :laugh: and now miui looks very good, they have almost all aosp features + xiaomi ones

mi a2 lite would be perfect if they put features like amoled screen, nfc, usb type c. i was happy when mi8 se launched, but was very dissapointed when they annouced it will be only for china. so now i'm hoping mi9 se will be available for global market.

hahaha games for dos were dope.
[Moto G7 Questions & Answers] ptn107:
Does unlocking the bootloader display boot warnings on startup like the X4?

Can someone who has unlocked post an image of it?
[Moto G7 Questions & Answers] StykerB:
View attachment 4722176
[Moto G7 Questions & Answers] mingkee:
Yes, it shows up like G6 and X4
[Moto G7 Questions & Answers] ptn107:
Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] djspice:
Greeting Wizard family! Im trying to back up my contacts from my phone to my computer but the part on the phone where you plug the phone into the computer is broken. i tried the PIM backup but its not letting me save the contacts to the sim. Any suggestions?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Myrddin Wyllt:
If your laptop has bluetooth it can use that for Activesync, too. However, it has to have been connected via USB at least once before to work.

Aside from that, look into pimbackup, and back up on a mini SD card. Cards and card readers are too cheap not to use them for this kind of thing. Just remember to stay at or under 2GB. Anything larger usually does not work.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] djspice:
thanks for the info!
[Huawei Mate 20 X Accessories] mazinya:
So due to the size, I couldnt find any good phone holder for this phone. Any recommendations would be appreciated
[Huawei Mate 20 X Accessories] yetiweston:
I just use a magnetic one and throw the magnet on the case I use, works a treat, easy on and easy off.
[Huawei Mate 20 X Accessories] ajsmsg78:
I'm using this one. It works great, never falls off the window and it can even hold a phone larger than the 20 X. It's the best one I've had so far.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/360-Car-Windshield-Mount-Holder-Bracket-Cradle-For-iPhone-Cell-Phone-Mobile-GPS/201093561067?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649
[Huawei Mate 20 X Accessories] scrumptyous:
I don't know if you have a CD player or disc changer

I have a CD player that I do not use and I picked this up off of amazon. It fits my smaller iphone and my larger Mate 20x. I switch phones a lot and keep 2 activated so I like having something adjustable.CD Slot Mount, Car Phone Holder
[Huawei Mate 20 X Accessories] frcraig:
I ordered this vent mount and it works great with room to spare. There is an easy release button as well.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01KM1J38G/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] jojofreddy:
Hey guys :)

I've seen some Android Q GSI Images on the internet and I'm asking myself whether or not they would work with our axon (A2017G for me)?

Also, I have a general question about GSI on Axon: I've seen A GSI Roms, B GSI Roms and A/B GSI Roms.. what's the difference and more importantly, which one of those can I take for our axon? I have trebleized right now on latest LiquidRemix Pie

Thanks in advance,

Fred x
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] stevecaboose:
No harm in trying them out. We use x64 A only. No idea what the differences are
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Choose an username...:
There are only two actually: A-only and AB ROMs, this pertains to the seamless update scheme. A-only means you only have one system partition, while AB means that there are two system partitions. If your phone is AB then the ROM can download updates in the background and flash them to the unused partition, and after it's done you can reboot and the active partition will be switched to that one. you basically don't lose time updating.

When Treble for our phone was made by djkuz, it was unclear whether it would be possible to implement an A/B scheme. We wouldn't lose much storage space (maybe none at all) because our stock system partition is actually huge, so it could be shrunk considerably and duplicated (I think it's 6GB in size). Oki said he would look into it some time ago.

Just use ARM64 A-only images for the Axon

Try Q yourself and report back, there's no obvious reason why it wouldn't work. maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, the question is why you would even bother with a leaked release idk
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] jojofreddy:
Thank you for your in-depth answer! :)

I've seen that leaked GSI Rom but also read an article that some sort of DP or Beta will be officially released soon. Maybe I'll get into Rom building, maybe I'll just try and report back, but of course: being on the very bleeding edge :D

Cheers
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] stevecaboose:
I tried the only gsi rom I could find at the time of writing this. I had no luck with all the vendors we have here. Every time I reboot I get a promising android text on the screen as if its booting but soon after it goes to the fastboot menu. It did this for every vendor i used. Let me know other peoples luck with this.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] king1990:
That leaked GSI will never work in axon7 because it requires the device to be "system as root" .

I heard that there will be another version of the GSI but could not find it anywhere
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] stevecaboose:
Could you briefly explain what this is?
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] deepsrd:
System-as-root requires the ramdisk to be part of the system image, as in the AB images

It also loads your img file into root " { "/" folder } compared to the normal /system before.

So, if your kernel is not configured to read the ramdisk from system, then it would not be able to use a System-as-root image.

This is my understanding of it, correct me if I am wrong..
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] CherJax:
Hi, I accidentally deleted 700 photos from my Samsung Galaxy S9. I purchased FoneLab-Android Data Recovery but couldn't figure out how to use the "advanced Root" to get the deleted photos. Everything I looked at, regarding root apps, said not to trust them. So, it's been 3 days now since I lost the photos, but I haven't used the camera because I read it could overwrite the photos I'm looking to recover. Can anyone help, in layman's terms? Thank you! Cheryl
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] *Detection*:
If the photos were on the phone and not the sdcard I'm not sure there is any way to recover them as the internal storage is encrypted, heard of people bricking their phone trying with various recovery programs

If they were on the MicroSD card you can run pretty much any PC software recovery program, although there are specific ones for USB/SD cards too

Future reference, make regular backups (How did you manage to delete 700 photos accidentally?)
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] CherJax:
Hi, thank you for responding. I think they were on the SD card. The album shows a picture of a camera and an sd card. So, I went to delete a video I just took but didn't realize I was on the "folder", selected it, and didn't realize until it was too late that I selected the whole folder! I hit cancel when I saw it was deleting over 700 photos, but again, was too late. So, if they were on SD card, how should I proceed?

Thank you!

Cheryl
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] *Detection*:
Take the SDCard out of the phone, get a reader or adapter to put it in so you can connect it to your PC

Make sure you do not copy anything else to that card

Install this on your PC

https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/card-recovery-software/sd-card-recovery-freeware.htm

Follow instructions to recover files to from the sdcard to PC

Good luck
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] CherJax:
Thank you so much! I'll give it a try!
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] heidisteen:
There is a site about recovering data from an Android phone. But for your Samsung S9, you need to root it first.

www.android-data-recovery.com
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] Guatiao:
Another option.

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] Jugher:
recover deleted photos

hello，

Maybe you can use the Bitwar Data Recovery to recover your deleted photos. As you have lost hundreds of photos, most data recovery tools are not free to use. So I think you can try this freeware.:cowboy:
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] hmorgan405:
Well bro, the situation is very hard to bear as I can understand the worth of those 700 photos. When luck is bad then you cannot do anything. But one thing can be done to get back lost pictures from your Galaxy S9 and that is by using a recovery tool like Android Photo Recovery.

Yes, this is the only solution that can bring back your disappeared pictures from Samsung phone. But remember you should not overwrite the files with new data. Using a recovery program is the only answer to your data loss and all your pictures will be restored without any backup required.

But I would also like to mention that if you have created a backup then kindly check them once. And if not then you must use the a recovery tool like Android Photo Recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tel864:
This may have been posted but I don't remember seeing it. I previously found a Teardown for the Exynos model, but Ifixit has posted this teardown of the Snapdragon.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+S10+and+S10e+Teardown/120331
[ZTE Nubia Z17  Questions & Answers] Loni626:
My z17 after 2 year of use have lost some power of the battery, for change the battery in Nubia z17 I must remove the screen ? There is a guide for teardown?
[ZTE Nubia Z17  Questions & Answers] Zjh0094:
Sorry no, because the screen must be damaged and the battery is not working.
[ZTE Nubia Z17  Questions & Answers] Loni626:
it's badly designed:crying:
[ZTE Nubia Z17  Questions & Answers] Spencer_D:
https://bbs.nubia.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1447763&extra=page=1&mobile=2
[ZTE Nubia Z17  Questions & Answers] Zjh0094:
Yes.
[ZTE Nubia Z17  Questions & Answers] Loni626:
it's like an impossible mission, well. Thank you for support
[Xposed Framework Modules] Depressed T.Bear:
I noticed the magisk module today on the repo. Sounds very promising and... tempting to me.

But, regardless of how much I'd love to finally have xposed modules on pie, there's one major deal-breaker here: Closed source.

TaiChi magisk (as well as xposed) are extremely mighty - which makes it mandatory for us to see and confirm what's happening behind the curtains.

As soon as it gets open source, I'll be back and support this project.
[Xposed Framework Modules] flamery:
Thanks for this great module, its nice to know there is hope for our locked bootloader devices.

I want to use snapfreedom, but the above steps wont actually work, snapchat will refuse to log me in since the signature of the apk has changed and its been uninstalled so my data is gone. Without root access I can't figure a way to copy my user data over to remain logged in. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
[Xposed Framework Modules] weishu:
The SnapChat itself refused you to login or other app can not login by Snapchat?

In fact, TaiChi non-root mode cheats the signature of app, if it cannot cheats SnapChat, i will look into it.
[Xposed Framework Modules] weishu:
In fact, I’ve been tangled for a long time whether to open source the TaiChi.

Whether it's TaiChi or Xposed-Framework, they are so powerful that it's hard to believe its security if it's not open source. But there are some reasons for me to not open source it now:

1. TaiChi is a framework, it gives the same power to modules, modules can do all that TaiChi can do. In magisk-mode, TaiChi can control your device completely(Although I didn't do that), so dose the modules. If TaiChi is open-source but some modules don't, it is not secure too. You can choose to use only open-source modules, but others may not. There are so many excellent modules are closed-source, such as Greenify, Xposed Edge, Snapchat, etc. Only open source TaiChi is far from security if some module developer are malicious.

2. Open source doesn't mean security. VirtualXposed is open-source: https://github.com/android-hacker/VirtualXposed . But if you read the XDA Thread of it: https://xdaforums.com/xpo...nlock-t3760313 . There are still so many users thinks it is not safe to use
[Xposed Framework Modules] weishu:
In fact, I’ve been tangled for a long time whether to open source the TaiChi.

Whether it's TaiChi or Xposed-Framework, they are so powerful that it's hard to believe its security if it's not open source. But there are some reasons for me to not open source it now:

1. TaiChi is a framework, it gives the same power to modules, modules can do all that TaiChi can do. In magisk-mode, TaiChi can control your device completely(Although I didn't do that), so dose the modules. If TaiChi is open-source but some modules don't, it is not secure too. You can choose to use only open-source modules, but others may not. There are so many excellent modules are closed-source, such as Greenify, Xposed Edge, Snapchat, etc. Only open source TaiChi is far from security if some module developer are malicious.

2. Open source doesn't mean security. VirtualXposed is open-source: https://github.com/android-hacker/VirtualXposed . But if you read the XDA Thread of it: https://xdaforums.com/xpo...nlock-t3760313 . There are still so many users thinks it is not safe to use.