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[Moto X4 Guides, News, & Discussion] nogods:
When I had to replace my Samsung S7's I bought Amazon Prime moto x4's. I found them to be every bit as good as the S7, more than adequate for me, and I liked the cleaner android experience. But then Pie started rolling out. I needed to stay on 8.1 because I use a phone recording app in my work and I could not root the Amazon Prime version.

Then I saw the best buy deal for $200 for the 4gb/64gb rootable X4 (Android One version). I replaced my three amazon prime versions, rooted the android one versions, and all is well. Sold one of the amazon prime versions, gave one to a relative, and turned the other one into a bedside clock and radio.

The only downside was the lack of wireless charging which I use for 99% of my charging (including a wireless charging dock in the car. I even have a few portable charges with built-in QI wireless charging). But a $12 wireless charger adapter that sits inside my case overcame that problem.

I think the moto x4 4gb/64gb Android one version for $200 is the best value in an Android phone right now.
[Moto X4 Guides, News, & Discussion] HACK3DANDR0ID:
I went to best buy and bought a Moto One, returned it for Moto X4 because there was no development for the Moto One.
[Moto X4 Guides, News, & Discussion] dougo007:
Smart move.

I also was looking for the best value for the lowest cost.

Continuous development gives a phone value over time, and thus I bought this phone (after $30 refund) new for $135 that had a long good two year history and continuous increased developmental work over time. Much better than buying an expensive new phone with no support. Part of that history also included a high carrier VoLTE coverage, also important. I expect this to be a big upgrade from my last phone (50% more RAM, 70-90% faster processor, and 100% more storage).
[Moto X4 Guides, News, & Discussion] ToastyOhms:
Agreed! Yes, the design is a little dated with the display and 16:9 aspect ratio. I greatly prefer a front fingerprint sensor over rear and I am fine with what comes with that, larger bezels.

Stock Android, nice design/build quality, 1080p ips display, SD630, 4gb/64gb, solid cameras, NFC, ip68, USB C, headphone jack, and a front firing speaker for $200. You can't beat this. Especially if you need CDMA/Verizon support like I do.

One big thing Motorola always has over many other unlocked phones is CDMA support. I unfortunately can't utilize the many great GSM only unlocked phones on the market. Where I live in Wisconsin, Verizon and US Cellular are the only logical choices. Horrible AT&T / T Mobile coverage. I pay $105 a month for 3 lines on Verizon Prepaid, 15gb of data on each line. It's nice to have priority over the thousands of people in my area who use straight talk/total wireless (Verizon MVNOs) to. I used Straight Talk for a month on my iPhone SE and the data speed capped at 5mbps. After I switched to Verizon Prepaid, my data speeds are always around 50mbps.

I'm stock Android or nothing. I love that Motorola doesn't waste time and resources on ruining Android OS by skinning and bloating it. Motorola will always be my go to for unlocked phones for 3 reasons. CDMA support, stock Android, and Value.
[Moto X4 Guides, News, & Discussion] Letitride:
Ditto, I'm a happy camper with my new Android One X4 (on Fi's software) 4G/64GB capacity, plus more storage with mSD card, mostly for pix & videos when we travel - for a net cost of about $80 including a nice Poetic heavy-duty case, after getting a $92/94 trade-in credit for an aging SS Galaxy S7 Edge with its infamous ghost screen (annoying as hell) that I had been using, since selling the Nexus 6 with a new battery on Swappa; and DW traded her Nexus 6P with the aging (45% capacity remaining) battery into Google, for a (gasp) Moto G6 - and got refunds, enough to get an integrated 4,000 mAh battery case for her all day (gaming) use.

Back on my impressions & likes on the Moto X4, memory & storage/expandable capacity, decent battery life, running Pie after a series of OTA update (probably leaving it stock, "restore" G.Pay (Magisk ... yeah, lots of constant attention) and NFC, and, of course, 3.5 mm headphone jack/front-facing (solo) speaker and a decent "hobby" piered camera for those travel & family photos (not great, good enough) and Android Auto that works (in-dash navigation, supported by our 2019 Hyundai Sonata on a 7" display ... was a pain with the G6, easy with the iPhone SE on Apple CarPlay). For our global travel needs, the X4 has more radio bands & flexibility than the G6 or G7, comparable to the newer iPhones - this should serve me well abroad on "Fi" supported partner/roaming cellular networks & VPN-enabled WiFi hotspots.

I kind of missed the slightly bigger 5.7" (18:9) G6 screen & sleek look but it is still on Oreo patched thru Jan. 2019 - probably at some point, unlock BL/root & load Lineage OS to keep it going, a year or more from now when DW wanted something better, she's happy with her "Fi" services & OTA updates for simplicity. I looked & considered the G7 and even the "Play" variant & the bigger screen, yet without NFC - not truly worth it for a marginal "upgrade" of incremental jump in values for money. For my XDA fun & challenges, I'm going next with a Xiaomi Mi/Redmi global dual-sim in the 6" factor (6.2" or 6.3" if I feel like it) running Android One, that should keep me busy.

All these done at minimal/subsidized Google Fi trade-in when promotions were being run between last year & now, I realized that both the G6 and X4 are getting bad trade-in, but I ain't paying $500+ for a Pixel 3/XL brand new, even with whatever generous trade-in & credits. For play, I got a Huawei Honor - dual sim, running Pie (Linerage OS) for travel & on WiFI, and, down to a good old iPhone SE (16GB only) with a Google Fi data-only sim, that's great for travel for VoIP (Ooma, G.Voice, WhatsApp, Duo, etc.) except that Fi blocked it from tethering ... including Apple CarPlay.

Lastly, I am running the X4 on T-Mobile's network and when traveling outside the USA, switch out the nano sim to Fi's data only sim, since I've been using our Google Voice's number, practically 95% of the calls are VoIP/WiFi calling (and, Ooma's mobile app for outbound call, using a ported "home" number.)
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] VictorPLopes:
Hi! I have a Zenfone Max Pro M1, and I really want to update it to Pie. The only thing that's holding me back is the lack of Gcam. Should I update it now and loose Gcam, or should I wait for a stable version that may include Cam2Api?
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Sayan44:
There are 3 bugs

1. Cam2API not enabling/Gcam not working.

2. PUBG HD not working.

3. Audio output via Headphone is slightly lower than Oreo builds.

Apart from that everything is as stable as Oreo if not better.

Choice is yours if you can cope with those bugs or not. For eg. for a non-gamer like me those bugs hardly matter, Pie is good for daily driver for me.
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Saransh808:
Review

Zenfone Max Pro M1 Pie Beta Review Points

Cons.

GCAM not working, even after the hal3 enable command.

Audio output via headphones is slightly lower.

Pie navigation bar has overlapping icons and recent app slider is not optimised.

PUBG not available in HD settings.

If you are in roaming, the icon on status bar will have overlapping icon for 'R' and '4G'.

Split-view in not easy access. Now from the recent apps screen you have to tap-hold the app icon above the app card and then select split-view to enter the split-screen.

Pros.

Apps opening slightly faster.

Animations are better.

Once the system is free of bugs, the whole thing will work better then Oreo.

Till then wait for the stable release and stick to Oreo.

Personally I miss GCAM, rest I don't mind.

P.S.
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] ankshious:
One more issue is night light is not working although it's present in the developer option. Screen brightness seems too much for night.

Apps opening seems faster because animations scales set to . 5x default in the developer section.
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] VictorPLopes:
I don't play Pubg and I don't listen to music, my only real concern is Gcam. I just wanted to know if the update compensates the lack of Gcam, but thank you very much, because I didn't know about the audio bug! ?
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] VictorPLopes:
Personally, I could deal with all those bugs, but I really like Gcam. If it was available on this Beta, I would not think twice before updating. But thank you very much for the information!
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] Nikick83:
I have a s10+ from tmobile with the latest update installed. I have an odd problem and am not sure if it is just me or the software. So when I place a call the screen is on of course. I then move the phone to my ear to take the call and of course the screen turns off. Now this is where the issue is. So while the call is still going on if I pull the phone back off my ear to be in front of me normally it should turn on the screen again, however it does not. No matter what I do, the only way to turn the screen on is to press the power button. Is this normal, because all my other Samsung phones did it correctly. Please let me know if this is a widespread issue / normal or if something is wrong with my phone specifically. Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] Charkatak:
You probably already restarted the phone, but what about turning it off, then back on? The proximity sensor on my S10e at times may take couple more seconds to show the screen after I move my phone away from the ear
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] Nikick83:
Thanks for the reply. Yes I have tried restarting my phone no luck. Also when I pull it away from my ear I have waited 10 seconds or more and still nothing.

Anyone else, especially with a s10+ from tmobile with the latest update?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] chuckboy1129:
I'm having the same problem
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] Nikick83:
OK, well at least I'm not alone. So now if more people post maybe it is a software thing instead of my specific phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] Nikick83:
Thanks for the reply. Yes it's very frustrating...

So I tried your suggestion and for me it doesn't work.

Looks like this might be an issue for several people just not wide spread. Time to exchange the phone.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] xstrike9999:
Can someone please make a guide on how to unlock the bootloader and install the global ROM on the chinese version?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] ted presley:
Just read it. It's simple.

https://en.miui.com/unlock/

For flashing, there's also guide about fastboot flashing on en.miui.com download section.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] :
And never lock bootloader again
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] picitup:
I'm having some problems unlocking. If I go to the site above and click on "Unlock Now" it takes me to a Chinese site which I can't navigate.

If I use the miflash_unlock.exe I get part of the way through and it says:

Can't unlock. Your account isn't associated with a phone number

I've googled it and some advice is to go to your account, but once again I'm redirected to a Chinese site.

Has anyone got round this?

Thanks

Steve

---------- Post added at 07:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:43 PM ----------

I translated the Chinese text using Google and it said my details failed validation. The next button was to change my password which I did. I entered my email address and clicked, but never received the password change email.

Looks like the whole process has gone south....

Cheers

Steve
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] phnikola:
Hi all,

Hope this will not steal the thread:

If I get Global device - can I freely unlock then lock the bootlader?

Huge thanks
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] Nuno Oliveira:
You certainly have an option to change language on site to English, search at bottom.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] picitup:
Yes I tried that, but it came up with a script error for any language. It seems to be working now though. I had to log into my account and add a recovery phone number. Then turn off wifi and enable mobile data and go into developer options/mi unlock status, add account, receive a text and eventually was asked to wait for 360 days while they harvest my data lol.

I requested an unlock from motorola and they emailed it the next day!

Just 15 days to go....

Thanks

Steve
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] phnikola:
Hi guys - can anyhope confirm / answer the question?

Thank you
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] ted presley:
China or Global is the same, unlocking bootloader will have waiting time.

Locking it is easy, but unlocking it again also still need waiting time.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] Nuno Oliveira:
Can a Global DEV version be installed, by fastboot or internal update, over a Global EEA on a locked bootloader?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] ted presley:
I don't know, and that's too risky to try. Unlocking bootloader of Xiaomi devices is so easy, just be patient for waiting time.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] KimCheeZZ:
Can I assume that I would get L1 widevine support with the global rom?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] B00giemanpt:
Hello. If you got a china version and you unlock bootloader to install glogal rom, you cant lock again the bootloader. If you do you will get a brick.

Global version is not affected by this. You can unlock and lock it again has you pleased.

Widevine support is supported by hardware not software. As far as i know Mi9 as L1 support.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] xstrike9999:
would like the answer to this myself
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Hi all,

I've managed to find a dump of build 19900, however I haven't managed to make a working ROM out of it as yet. I'm hoping to find a way to get it working with bepe's kitchen tools - therefore removing the reliance on a custom chinese binary to build these ROMs.

I believe this ROM is big storage, so I'd like to make available a non big storage version as well for everyone to benefit.

Any takers to help out?

Download URL: http://rapidshare.com/files/113432995/Hermes_RomKitchen_19900.rar
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mrvanx:
Will take a look at it dude, aint got a load of time at the mo though. Might have a quick PM session and see if theres a WWE version we cna use.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] joshkoss:
Have you guys tried PM'ing Dvha79_ddt? I'm not much help on cooking but i'll try and suggest anything ;)

Good luck guys.

Need testers let me know.:cool:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
I've managed to get the ROM to build using Bepes kitchen, however it doesn't boot. It sits there at a black screen on power on...

This leads me to believe it's part of the XIP that is just wrong.

I've attached what I've extracted from the included os.nb by doing:

nbsplit -hermes os.nb

RomMaster -w 5 os.nb.payload -x -o xip.bin

Run xipport, choose Dump xip.bin

I then deleted os.nb & os.nb.extra.

Then put the XIP dump together as it should be (i think) for bepe's kitchens.

Not 100% sure where to go from here...

edit: Oh, I've attached the TOOLS directory too - just in case you don't have a copy of Bepes great work.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
This is a non big storage modded 19900 xip that works.

I haven't used in a kitchen just yet.

I will have a look at the dump later on.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Hmmm - I've used your XIP - it boots, but same as using the default ROM kitchen tools, it hangs after displaying splash2. I replaced the OEM_FLASHDRV.DLL in OEMDrivers with a non-BS version, in case that was an issue, but still no go...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
For now you can try to merge that XIP with the payload from the ROM (without kitchen) and it should boot&work.

Will try to get the romhdr.bin and in fact to rebuild the whole ROM folder and let u know whats happening.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rbin:
Using Dvha79_ddt 900

I know it's not what you are looking for, but I am using Dvha79_ddt ROM and it is working as well as his 701 which was very fast and rock solid. Would like to help in any way I can as I loved your ROM's apart from the issues. As a noobie where do you find these ROM's in the first place?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
A lot of it is hit and miss finding things here and there - like this kitchen that seems to be almost complete, but just doesn't work. A bit of hacking around and it can probably be made to work.

As WM6.1 doesn't exist for the hermes devices, it is always ported from something else - which can lead to weirdness.

Most of it is pot luck, and a lot of knowledge (and I'm missing some in getting this kitchen working ;))
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
just a working trick

what I am sure is working (tried it before) is replace the whole ROM folder from new kitchen with your working one and then just slip in the xip.bin into the new payload in a few steps.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Still can't get this working....

I've changed the BuildNB.bat to show the following:

echo.
CD ROM
..\TOOLS\buildxip.exe -b
if not "%errorlevel%"=="0" goto error
del out.bin
copy xip_out.bin out.bin
CD..

This should use your XIP in the ROM, which shows as 3.62.07.Dan - however I still can't get past splash2... Eventually, the backlight goes out, but it doesn't seem to display anything past splash2... Eventually, the screen goes off (power setting). Turning it back on via the power button just gives me a white screen... I'm at a loss to figure out what's happening here.

The OS.nb.payload is the same (non-BS) that I was using from my 10.1 release of my ROM, and the XIP folder contains the same XIP as 10.1 release (Build 19209) - however the XIP version shouldn't matter, as we delete it and merge yours into the OS-new.nb instead...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
About the same happened to me and after a re-flash of a good nbh I got some very strange things happening. I could not install any cab. Very weird.

I had to format everything.

Anyway the xip is working if slipped into old rom, but that's not much of a news...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
I looked into S00 of FLASHDRV.DLL module in order to convert it, but it does not look like usually.

Maybe that dump is not from a hermes device.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Hrrrm - that is possible, however the site said that it was for Hermes devices... Are you looking at it in the OEMDrivers directory or the XIP?

Can we swap out the FLASHDRV.DLL from a working ROM? I'm pretty sure that isn't tied to a certain build?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
I can try to make it work with the XIP from the 19900 version existing on this thread. (actually from there was the xip I uploaded). Could it work? There will be maybe a 409 & 804 conflict?? I have no clue really. Can only try.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
I don't believe the XIP is localised, nor are the OEMDrivers. I may be wrong here though. 409 vs 804 should in theory only become an issue when applications that use localisation is involved..
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
It is definitely not a hermes rom as the kitchen does not accept a hermes payload while other kitchens accept older (different) payloads. Kitchen halts at ImgfsFromNb.

I can not think of something else. I give up on this one.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Hrrrmmm...

What about this:

ftp://user:user@down.xbeta.cn:333/Aikon/Build19900RKXiaoQiao.7z

It weighs in at 145Mb, but it is supposed to be another Hermes 19900 kitchen that I haven't managed to get going either...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mrvanx:
The XIP definatly isnt localised at all,

What sort of sizes are you guys getting for the os.nb filesize?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
The download speed is obscene. It will finish maybe tomorrow.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
Ok, I didnt give up.

First luck today.

I managed to get pkgtool to read the dump from os.nb provided here.

I took all the .dsm. and .rgu from the kitchen and put them in the dump folder obtained with tadzio's (not overwriting existing ones) and bingo. Version looks different though.

From here there should be a go just by using tadzio's tools.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
From the kitchen:

OS.nb = 65,894,400 bytes
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Hrrrm... You've lost me here... Is there a link for tadzio's tools and what they do so I can figure out the relevance here?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
OK.

The point was that if you do not have the packages (dsm's and rgu's) you can not do the "classic" steps for building up a os.nb, but if u have them it's easy.

- ImgfsFromDump imgfs.bin imgfs-new.bin

- ImgfsToNb imgfs-new.bin os.nb.payload os-new.nb.payload

- NBMerge -hermes os-new.nb

That's what I did till bepe's new kitchen appeared as was only interested in stripping roms, which was easy this way.

But now even with "fresh" packages re-built the kitchen do not work (halts at payload as before)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] brownianmotion:
Umm, at a guess, I'd say he means these IMGFS tools, for building ROM images. Not 100% sure, though...

Edit: Okies, dan1967 got in before me. Never mind. :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
i got it to boot ok in this way; with a xip replacement though.

Anyone up for re-localisation?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
some memory info; on a fresh boot there's around 28m free; kinda hard to get around in foreign languages..
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Damn. I was hoping it wasn't a base of chinese, but a localised chinese (ie delete the localisation files, rebuild and it's in english)... Did you reverse engineer the supplied OS.nb, or actually run through making the ROM via the kitchen tools (ie OEM packages etc)?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
Just reversed the supplied os.nb and did not touch anything else; only used dsm's & rgu's from SYS folder.

I wish it worked in the kitchen though.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Heh - you and me both man ;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] joshkoss:
WOW

Wow dude, Watching you guys break this down is amazing.:eek:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dgaud007:
I'll admit I have no idea what this guy is talking about, but could this thread be of any relevance to this discussion?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=391524

If not, well, just trying to cooperate:)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Hrrrm - possibly... I'll have a play on the weekend... I've got an expo to go to today, then flight training on thursday, and a flight exam on Friday - so I'll get to it later on :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
I've managed to make a kitchen from the SYS folder of latest Kaiser (possible) ATT release.

I am testing a bit now.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dan1967:
Kitchen uploaded here for who wants to play with it.

It is an absolutely stripped version (no comm manager,dialer,mms, ringtones, etc) non bigstorage and it will launch your ExtROM if you have one.

DL here: http://rapidshare.de/files/39409021/KITCHEN_19209__19213.0.7_.rar.html

TOOLS folder not included, you have to add your own