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[HTC U12+ Questions & Answers] aces2high:
Hey guys,

I have unfortunately managed to crack my U12+ screen during the first month of use, and since there is a general lack of spares online, I decided to send it for repair to the official european HTC service (CTDI Regenersis in Poland). They are asking for a bit over 300 Euros to repair the screen.

I would like to ask if someone has any experience on the same repair from the same service. Yes, I have heard the horror stories and I have also read the trustpilot reviews, but I would really like to have some personal insight. I am confortable in paying the service fee, as long as they return my phone with the same pristine condition I sent it in. I have used the official service in the past (red camera tint on the M7) and they made a poor job in reassembling the phone (screen gaps, sticky buttons, and my device returned with more scratches compared to what it had before), but I do not remember if it was the very same company in Poland.

Given the build of the device (glass edge all around) I think that I am not the only one in need of screen repair through the official service, so I hope that someone could share his/her experience. Do you think its a good idea? Or should I just go for a new device alltogether? (the U12+ can be found new for around 470 Euros)

Thanks in advance.
[HTC U12+ Questions & Answers] aj88cab:
I am in United States (Atlanta), I needed a screen repair and could not get any reply from HTC after several emails, there is no phone contact listed that I could find.

I located a national repair service provider (Cellaris) that repaired the screen for 250USD (233 Euros). They had to order the screen from Korea, it took about 3 weeks to arrive. The repair was very well done and looks factory original. Cellaris stores are not "official" HTC service stores, but they seem to be very experienced in all cell phone repairs. The stores are located in malls, shopping centers, and in many Wal-Mart stores.

So to answer your question, if you find a good, experienced store, the repair should be like new.
[HTC U12+ Questions & Answers] Alan-B:
Hi,

Attention anyway independent repairer! Europe (Belgium) HTCU11 replacement screen low sensitivity no longer worked. 300 €

-Back problem of sound and poorly glued screen! back to the repairman

-Repair 2, its ok trace of glue on the edges! After 15 days the edge of the screen degrades small cracks !!

I still think the HTC service is more likely to be better !!

I had a HTC10 internal platinum replacement and no problems, work done very well.
[LG V35 Questions & Answers] X-Nemesis:
Hi, so I flashed my AT&T V35 to the Google Fi variant since I am in Canada and cannot get any AT&T updates ever.

The flash went over just fine but when I checked my phone's 'about' settings I noticed that the Software Version still says V350AWM10h instead of the Fi variant which is LMV350ULM. The flash process in LGUP said successful so shouldn't the software version on the phone reflect that?

Thanks
[LG V35 Questions & Answers] xela19115:
Cross-flashing cannot change the HW ID of the device.
[LG V35 Questions & Answers] X-Nemesis:
So the Security patch level will change but the Software version is tied to the HW ID of the device and will remain as such?
[LG V35 Questions & Answers] xela19115:
Basically, once you cross-flash, you will not be getting OTA updates for the ULM software. You'd have to manually update your phone. Let's just say that from a bootloader perspective, you still have the AWM device even though you are able to run ULM software.
[LG V35 Questions & Answers] X-Nemesis:
Thanks for the quick reply and answer. I was gonna have to manually update anyways so it's all part of owning this great phone in Canada.
[LG V35 Questions & Answers] ChazzMatt:
Interesting. This is completely different from crossflashing the North American LG V30 variants: US998, AT&T H931, Canada H933, Verizon VS996, regional carrier AS998, Sprint LS998.

Cross flashing those completely converts those variants to whatever firmware you are flashing. No, you won't get OTA updates -- but it gives you those bands and also reflects the firmware version, etc in About Phone. Many people cross flash H931 AT&T to carrier unlocked variants and it becomes that phone. Cross flashing to US998 also gives you fastboot flash commands -- but for H931 takes away a couple of the minor AT&T LTE bands while adding others and even adding CDMA bands. About Phone will show you that you have US998 with the correct version firmware you flashed.

So, strange it's different with the V35.
[Samsung Galaxy S10+ Themes, Apps, and Mods] Emperor_Jesse:
Is there a way to keep a face widget expanded after turning off the screen and then keeping it expanded once the screen is turned off/on instead of clicking on the widget again?

I like the music player once it's expanded and want to keep it that way while I have music playing. This way the player buttons come down more on the screen and more accessible + show the artwork.

Attachments:

Lockscreen with the normal music player and the other is single-tap on the player to show the album cover.
[Samsung Galaxy S10+ Themes, Apps, and Mods] Emperor_Jesse:
On the plus side, Spotify now works with this music player.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Questions & Answers] obituary2u:
Hi, My phone is showing these symptoms :

If I connect it using USB cable, no USB icon shows up in status bar, PC does not recognize any device connected to it(with or without driver you should be able to see a USB device connected to it) also it wont even charge!

Phone charges fine with charger

If I turn off phone and connect it to PC it will start to charge

Holding volume up and connecting to charger will result in LED turn blue and a black screen but still no USB device shows up in PC for fastboot

If I go into USB Preferences and connect the USB to PC everything is grayed out except enabling charge connected device

what I've tried :

Use different cable

Use different PC

Use different OS(windows10/Linux)

Reboot phone

Removing SD card and SIM card

Factory reset phone

Clean USB port

My phone is using latest Android pie Build 52.0.A.8.14, developer mode and USB debugging is also enabled.

I would appreciate if you let me know how to resolve this If you think it's not a hardware issue

Is there any way to install TWRP without having USB connection to the phone ?
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
Mtp and ADB are working?
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Questions & Answers] obituary2u:
No all are grayed out in phone and not working, also in linux lsusb shows no new connection even the phone does not get charged with PC unless I turn off the phone
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
Sounds like Dataport in USB Slot is broken

Hardware damage
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Questions & Answers] obituary2u:
Thank you for your reply, and I assume there is no way to install recovery without data connection.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
Warranty ASAP

Our don't you want to use this device for years? :)
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Questions & Answers] obituary2u:
Not really I'm going to use it for 2 month and then keep it as my backup phone, also I don't think it has warranty I bought it second hand in Canada
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
If you don't rely on unlocking, usb data transfer, etc it is fine
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Questions & Answers] cdytoby:
I know this is a old thread, but

I have a similar issue, I need this phone for debugging purpose, and I "fixed" it by turn the usb-c around........

Just like the old usb.

I don't know why. I already tried multiple cables, all have "one side connection", it seems it's phone's hardware issue. But I'm not sure.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Questions & Answers] obituary2u:
That's not the case for me, looks like some people are telling this has happened for them after updating to 52.0.A.8.50
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Questions & Answers] Black Stern:
I'm also having the same problem with the same phone (android 10 build 52.1.A.2.1).

This problem started yesterday and somehow my SD card is not recognized anymore, it's asking to reformat it.

Rotating the original usb cable does help!

Only it doesn't want to connect to finder on my Mac, I have yet to try a windows pc.
[Moto X4 Guides, News, & Discussion] Snow755:
hi

my new Moto X4 android one is comeing on friday i wish too get me the new samsung galaxy watch active the ? is will the samsung galaxy watch active work on the moto X4?

thanks
[Moto X4 Guides, News, & Discussion] MotoX4Custom:
Yes, the Samsung Galaxy Watch works. The Galaxy Watch also works with an Iphone and all other Android devices that are reasonably current. I have a "Michael Kors Bradshaw Access MTK5012" this works perfectly with the phone.
[Moto X4 Guides, News, & Discussion] Snow755:
dos wifi calling work on moto X4 android one ?

hi

i will be useing verizon soon on the moto x4 android one and would like too no if wifi callling will work ?
[Moto X4 Guides, News, & Discussion] edufur:
Most likely... but tread carefully. If you unlock and root your phone, you will not be able to install the Samsung software necessary to communicate with the watch. You will need Magisk to trick safety net if you want it to work after unlocking.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] numus:
As the topic states, is there anyway to change hte screen size on a FireTV Stick? I have a 720p plasma that doesnt have a disable for the overscan and since I cant resize the display size on a Stick anymore, I am kinda hostage to losing the sides of everything.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kcp877:
Adb you can. I use adblink. Open command and type this below. These are settings I used. Do it from a laptop in front of the tv and you can watch it change as you type in numbers. Few tries to get it right

wm overscan 42,40,40,25
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] numus:
WIll this persist through a reboot?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kcp877:
Yes it does
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssurell:
secondscreen.apk

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2766268
[General Questions and Answers] jonathanfv:
Hi everyone. I'd like to know, where are the best resources on porting ROMs to devices? I'd like to figure out how to port ROMs to my device, but first I need to decide whether or not I have enough time to spend on doing that. Also, I'm not sure about which is a better approach: should I base my ports on ROMs that are made for the same device with a different chipset, or should I base my ports on ROMs made for the same chipset but different device? (What I really mean is, should I port a ROM from Exynos S10 to Snapdragon S10, or port it from an other SD855 build to my Snapdragon S10?) What is the process like, or is there some kind of a general process I can document myself on?

Do you guys think it's realistic, given that I'm not looking to actually make a custom ROM but to port one? Or is this too big a bite to chew on? I'm of the opinion that I could learn almost anything given I spend enough time on it, so it's why I'd like to have a good general idea of the process. I like the idea of being able to be proactive and making sure the stuff I want to happen for my device actually happens.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] silvermagnet:
Hello, physical keyboard geeks!

I've added basic support for the galaxy s relay to the postmarketos project. You can now build a new kernel with a modern compiler that will boot on our sliders. Tested: Boot, usb ethernet, flashing with heimdall, nothing else.

Something like this might work to install:

apt-get install -y python3

Clone the repo and cd into it.

git clone https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap.git

cd pmbootstrap

Start the install wizard

./pmbootstrap.py init

Chose samsung-apexq for device and use the xfce4 gui. (unsure if graphics will work, but if it does it's the one you want)

./pmbootstrap.py install --android-recovery-zip --no-fde

Now export the zip file

./pmbootstrap.py export

It should give you a path to a zip you can flash with CWM or TWRP. If that doesn't work, then run install without --android-recovery-zip and try flashing with the heimdall wrapper like this:

./pmbootstrap.py flasher flash_rootfs

./pmbootstrap.py flasher flash_kernel

(Obviously, make sure you have a good usb data cable and not just a charge only cable, oh and make sure you have backups of your favorite android rom so you can go back to android).

Go forth and test! My dev phone's screen died so now it's up to YOU! File bugs in the postmarketos gitlab project issues. Complaints, insults about my mother, and general snark are welcome here. If you have a problem, I'm happy to ignore you while you figure it out, so don't be shy!
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] silvermagnet:
Here's a flashable zip: https://gitlab.com/5ilver/apexq/blob/master/20190329-pmos-samsung-apexq.zip

I can't test it (no working screen), but the root/boot heimdall flash version is working for me via download mode at least far enough to ssh into the phone and poke around.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] ingoreis:
Hi i managed to follow your Steps.

Thanks for that wonderfull Howto.

Installed FatToad on my regular Phone and PostmarketOS from you on my Spare t-699.

Your Display is broken?..how is that happend?

Managed to make a flashable CWM Zip and i did not go further than the PostmarketOS Screen.

ADB is not working and now after use Install via Fastboot..it stay postmarketscreen.

I let it stay the next 10 Minutes on this..maybe something usable come out :)

btw:

Do you come from Germany?

Maybe i can Donate you with my Spare T-699?

Many Thanks for your work..a second Post from me will come when i am little further.

And i had to laugh loud in the Moment where i saw that i can use simply the git Software Downloader for Gitlab too..and i thought i need a special Gitlab Software :good:

Thanks for teaching me this :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] silvermagnet:
Awesome! This is great to see! I'm in the US, but thanks anyway. Ok so the kernel booted on your phone. This is cool. Now the next steps are to get X working so we can use the screen and run programs. If the phone is connected to your computer with a usb cable, it should identify itself as a usb ethernet adapter that you can get a dhcp address from. Something like sudo dhclient -v enp0s19f2u1 and then ssh user@172.16.42.1 should allow you to access the phone. The errors are in /var/log/Xorg.log.0 I think. Need to get that dumped and give it a good hard look, maybe enable some fallback display mode or something. Need to probe around in /dev/input too and see what sort of input devices are detected. This is good progress though. We're getting the phone back into a supportable state. :D

Not sure how my display broke. One day it was just blank when I tried to wake it, but it worked after a few tries. It got harder and harder to use with the keyboard out, and so I got another one. When I started working on this port the screen had to be held very still or it would blank out. Now, it just won't come on at all. It is possibly a bad flex cable.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] ingoreis:
had this Error in my Linux:

pandora@xubuntu-Stick:~/Downloads$ sudo dhclient -v enp0s20f0u10
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.5
Copyright 2004-2016 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/enp0s20f0u10/62:3d:43:73:74:09
Sending on LPF/enp0s20f0u10/62:3d:43:73:74:09
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST of 172.16.42.2 on enp0s20f0u10 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x2be8f493)
DHCPACK of 172.16.42.2 from 172.16.42.1
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
bound to 172.16.42.2 -- renewal in 395804 seconds.
pandora@xubuntu-Stick:~/Downloads$ ssh user@172.16.42.1
ssh: connect to host 172.16.42.1 port 22: Connection refused
pandora@xubuntu-Stick:~/Downloads$

Unfortunaly Connection Refused @ Port 22

But you are right..Kernel seem to boot fine and it is a "NetworkDevice" :)

Phew Ameria is on the other Side of the World from here..thanks again for help to get it work.

Btw i saw an Android Device in my File Explorer from Linux but it cannot be mounted via MTP.

Edit:

I can connect but need a Password :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] silvermagnet:
The password is password
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] ingoreis:
Thank you tried it but did not work.

"ssh user@172.16.42.1"

gave me an error

"ssh: connect to host 172.16.42.1 port 22: Connection refused"

and

"ssh user@172.16.42.2"

ask for a Password and do not accept "password"

I am near..only this last Step to get the Important Files :)

Now i tried another USB Port and something is working but not working:

[ 8406.035731] rndis_host 1-9:1.0 enp0s20f0u9: unregister 'rndis_host' usb-0000:00:14.0-9, RNDIS device
[ 8406.366663] usb 1-9: new high-speed USB device number 34 using xhci_hcd
[ 8406.515928] usb 1-9: New USB device found, idVendor=18d1, idProduct=d001
[ 8406.515934] usb 1-9: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 8406.515938] usb 1-9: Product: Android
[ 8406.515942] usb 1-9: Manufacturer: Android
[ 8406.515945] usb 1-9: SerialNumber: 0123456789ABCDEF
[ 8406.519381] rndis_host 1-9:1.0 usb0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:14.0-9, RNDIS device, 66:93:21:86:d9:50
[ 8406.529243] rndis_host 1-9:1.0 enp0s20f0u9: renamed from usb0
[ 8406.555024] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp0s20f0u9: link is not ready
pandora@xubuntu-Stick:~/Downloads$ sudo dhclient -v enp0s20f0u9
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.5
Copyright 2004-2016 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/enp0s20f0u9/5a:14:3c:18:78:36
Sending on LPF/enp0s20f0u9/5a:14:3c:18:78:36
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s20f0u9 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 (xid=0x810a2043)
DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s20f0u9 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 (xid=0x810a2043)
DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s20f0u9 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 (xid=0x810a2043)
DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s20f0u9 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 (xid=0x810a2043)
DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s20f0u9 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 (xid=0x810a2043)
DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s20f0u9 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 (xid=0x810a2043)
DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s20f0u9 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 (xid=0x810a2043)
DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s20f0u9 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20 (xid=0x810a2043)
DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s20f0u9 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20 (xid=0x810a2043)

but do not stop that
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] silvermagnet:
172.16.42.2 is your own computer. Maybe ssh didn't successfully start on the phone. Try restarting it. Don't worry about getting the logs for me, I have a copy from mine. I just need to go through them and find the errors.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] ingoreis:
Restarting phone did not start ssh but i have an Idea:

gmtp had Errors too because i tried to vonnect with MTP

pandora@xubuntu-Stick:~/Downloads$ gmtp
Device 0 (VID=18d1 and PID=d001) is a Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Phone.
Device 1 (VID=16c0 and PID=0489) is UNKNOWN in libmtp v1.1.13.
Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
LIBMTP PANIC: Unable to find interface & endpoints of device
Fehler: Verbindung zu Gerät nicht möglich.
LIBMTP PANIC: Trying to dump the error stack of a NULL device!
LIBMTP PANIC: Trying to clear the error stack of a NULL device!
Device 0 (VID=18d1 and PID=d001) is a Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Phone.
Device 1 (VID=16c0 and PID=0489) is UNKNOWN in libmtp v1.1.13.
Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
ignoring libusb_claim_interface() = -6PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
ignoring libusb_claim_interface() = -6LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
Fehler: connection not possible.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] ingoreis:
Edit:

I have the Connection now :)

EditEdit:

Here is the Log that you want inside the Attachments:

EditEditEdit:

Fixed the Logfile..last Part was missing
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] cucumbers:
Hey this is great! I still take out my Relay "for a spin" occasionally, so I'm thinking of testing this.

I'm guessing the .zip is flashable withTWRP, not CWM?

I don't have any dev tools and I'm running Win10 (been ages since I've had a running Linux rig), so I'm not sure how much feedback I can provide. Should I wait until the build is a little more stable?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] silvermagnet:
It should work in either recovery, or at least the documentation I've seen so far does not specify. You shouldn't need any tools, just put the image I linked from gitlab on an sd card. Stability... well things are quite stable in their current very broken state. I ran my phone for almost a week straight, so no worries there. :p Getting X working is probably the next big step. It will likely be a while. The frame buffer driver doesn't seem to be giving very useful errors but I'm sure someone has bumped into the same problems on another phone, so we'll get there.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] ingoreis:
i tried little with startx xinit and others

and it seem to need xterm but xterm is not installed :)

(see the attached Picture)

I tried to change the Config from Display 0 to Display 1 but no success

and no Screen on the Relay for now.

And a little good Information:

Touchscreen is working.

When i touch the Display i see touched Coordinates in dmesg

Sometimes i had the Message that Xserver is already running on Display 0

but after trying some Things not more.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] silvermagnet:
Starting X over ssh probably will not work since your local term is not graphical. I tried putting a default screen section in the xorg config, but that didn't make the X service work. I've read that disabling 3d accel for the msm chipset in the kernel can help so I'll try that next.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] silvermagnet:
No luck with disabling MSM_KGSL, seems to have the same stream of errors followed by a segfault in the X log. I also tried including an additional package xf86-video-fbdev which had no effect either (I think it must have already been pulled in by a dependency). The msm-fb-refresher package appears in the similar looking samsung-jflte APKBUILD, so I'll try that later today.

Maybe the weston graphical environment is worth a try instead of X? Seems some other msm based phones like it.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] ingoreis:
About that i have no Knowledge but thanks that you try so much :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] ingoreis:
any News?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] silvermagnet:
I dropped my phone, got a dead spot in the camera, got another relay on ebay, and here we are with a perfectly good dev phone with a good screen. So I can hack on the display now. X11 is broken, but weston works fine. No update on last time, just select weston instead of xfce4 in pmbootstrap init. I'll get hackin on the 'red' problem, which from what I gather is pretty common and easily patchable.

https://i.imgur.com/vy18cjJ.jpg
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] ingoreis:
Wow Great News,thank you for still working on it.

When you send me your Paypal Adress via PM then i want to donate little Bit for you because you bought another T-699 over Ebay for us all.

This Picture look good and this "Red Error" is little bit funny and

i am glad to see Weston is working.

Touchscreen worked good?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] silvermagnet:
The touch screen worked great. The keyboard even works too! Some small gotchas, like numeric symbols being selected with shift instead of alt, but it works!

https://i.imgur.com/lE3x4OK.jpg
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] cucumbers:
Ok, this is really cool! I'm really not in a position to build installable .zips myself, but someone else is willing to do that I can help test.

BTW I wouldn't need to re-flash a stock to flash this, would I?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] silvermagnet:
Try this: https://gitlab.com/5ilver/apexq/blob/master/20190522-pmos-samsung-apexq.zip

If my guestimations are correct, you'll see something like this: https://i.imgur.com/HgMkYs4.jpg

EDIT: This zip does not seem to work...

> re-flash a stock to flash this, would I?

I don't know! I've been using the heimdall tools to flash.