yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] BBM-Lee:
If it's not an AT&T corporate store, it's a Mom & Pop shop...

If they say "Authorized Retailer" they are not directly AT&T, they are reselling AT&T services and do not have to follow AT&T Corporate return policies...

Most of these locations are owned by individuals, or groups of individuals, as a business venture...

Keep in mind, anywhere from 50 to 85% of Wireless stores are NOT corporately owned by their service provider, and all of them (except T-Mobile) are allowed to put giant signs on the front of the building saying "AT&T" "Verizon" or "Sprint"... Sprint requires "Authorized Dealer" added to the logo, T-Mobile requires you to name your store something, and if you use T-Mobile logo it can be no more then 25% of the total sign space. AT&T I don't know the exact policy on their signage, but should require "Authorized Reseller" in the sign...

Of course, people can ignore these requirements, One of my old bosses did.. Hence why he's an old boss..
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] BBM-Lee:
Quick Tip:

If they don't offer the IPhone they are not corporately owned...

At least in the DC metro area, every corporately owned AT&T store has a live active IPhone on display for customers to try
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
I worked for Acer Computers and they *****ed out with customers every single time something like this happened. This is sound advise
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
Gizmodo has reported Iphones being out of stock everywhere.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Automatic:
first, look up the definition of 'refurbished'

second, a salesman lied to you? :eek:

The tip about a comparable model works (at least it did for a friend of mine).

man up, you were going to hack it anyway. you have warranty for the rest of the year. Try to find a device support center near you.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] wilsonzone:
I also had to return a laptop. Bought a "Comcrap" with extended warranty. First the screen, second the keyboard, third would not charge any battery. (I had 2). Bought at Best Buy warranty after the third return, this classified as Lemon and they sent me a "comparable" replacement. What they considered comparable, I considered an atrocity. I went back to my Geek Squad and explained to a supervisor that I not only has this been a tremendous pain in the apse but a I could not continue with this hassle. Two hours of pleading my case and showing my extensive documentation (OCD) I walked out of the store with a NEW Toshiba and new warranty. I agree be calm, firm and steadfast. They need to be in the hotseat, not you. If all your ducks are in order then they will have to do the right thing, because they will know you will except nothing less. AT&T is a very large and lucrative company, they wont be hurt by replacing your tilt, and I bet you will be forgotten within an hour of leaving the store. ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] bubbleking2:
Okay, I am absolutely certain that this was a corperate retailer, the retailer I went to before them doesnt even stock the phones and they told me to go to a corperatly owned store. The store I was in stocked every AT&T phone that I can recall (they had an iPhones too, my friend got one there). And they carried other AT&T products besides phones. I am 100% certain the the store was corperately owned.

When I walked in to return the phone I should have gotten a new one NO QUESTIONS ASKED. The man examined my phone and made me hard reset it in the store. The camera then worked and he said that the store could not replace it. I then left the store and my phone's camera ceased to work again the next day. I should have had a new phone that day, the man let me leave the store with a broken phone. Im going to see if I can make time to check back at the store today, if I do, I'll post how it went.
[Honor View 20 Themes, Apps, and Mods] diggyphil:
In case you have not tried it out, it looks pretty cool on the View 20.

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-battery-ring-energy-ring-app-hole-t3918681
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Myself5:
​

CarbonROM is an aftermarket firmware based on the Android Open Source Project. We are dedicated to fast, stable, and feature-filled roms, honesty and communication with our users, and openness with our code. We like frequent builds, with the very latest and greatest hardware support and fixes. We strive to not only provide you with the best rom we can build, but also to give back to the Android community and our fellow developers. For us, this is about creating something we can be proud of and hope you will enjoy.

Please feel free to look, build, and use our code at CarbonROM's GitHub...

Disclaimer:

While we make every effort to test these builds as much as possible, we are not responsible for anything that may happen to your device, family, pets, or perception of reality. We ask that you do your part to know your device and know how to recover from problems before you flash! These builds are experimental and can contain Bugs (as listed above). Make sure to do backups.

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We spend an astonishing amount of time developing this software. We can't spend much time on XDA as a result, so if you need support, please try the following:

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XDA:DevDB Information

CarbonROM, ROM for the Google Pixel 2 XL

Contributors

Myself5, CarbonROM

Source Code: https://github.com/CarbonROM

ROM OS Version: 9.x Pie

ROM Kernel: Linux 4.x

Based On: AOSP

Version Information

Status: Nightly

Created 2019-04-09

Last Updated 2019-08-28
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] gforceriders:
Fyi your post isn't loading on the XDA app.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Badger50:
Shows up fine on the XDA labs app :good:
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] gforceriders:
After you posted now it's working lol. Strange man strange. Carry on with flashing peeps.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] CyberpodS2:
Rock on brother! Be flashing this next week when back from my cruise!!
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] encephalon9986:
What gapps do you recommend for this ROM. It has been a while since I ran carbon.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Myself5:
Haha, weird things.

I recommend OpenGapps.

Flashing procedure is

Flash Carbon

Flash TWRP

Reboot to recovery (this switches slots, it's important)

Flash GApps

Done
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
is anyone else having trouble with Gboard themes on this ROM? If I pick a gradient theme it just hangs and crashes.

I flashed this with Mini gapps first and had a hard time getting through setup, tried again with pico with more success.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] KageBeast:
I flashed the micro package and can't even get past checking for updates. The data transfer tool keeps just keeps crashing.

Edit: Tried flashing the pico package instead and now device health services keeps crashing.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] DonQuixote77:
Has anyone tried razorloves' MindTheGapps package?

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=1395089523397912604
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] omair2005:
How to flash if I only want twrp temporary? Same way?
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Myself5:
Leave out the "Flash TWRP" part and replace "reboot to recovery" with "reboot to bootloader and boot the twrp image"
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] CyberpodS2:
Not judging but simply confused...

I see people not wanting to install twrp and it just makes no sense to me why I would want to limit my options and functionality.

It's been like almost a year since twrp had been totally stable for me with no decryption or touch issues.

Again, what is it folks are afraid of??
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
I'm digging how clean and fast this ROM is. Hopefully you get your server issues resolved soon.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] SamuelBegui:
Trying this out again! Carbon was the first ROM I've ever used on my Pixel 2 XL and absolutely loved the experience.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Myself5:
So do I... We already have a new host because we're fed up with the old one. Currently waiting for the old one to finally answer our support ticket and bring the server back on so we can move our data to the new server and can call it a day with the old host.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Bilge656:
Has anyone tried installing NanoDroid with this?

I went from factory image -> flash rom -> flash twrp -> reboot recovery -> flash magisk -> flash full nanodroid.zip

This leads to a bootloop until it boots back into recovery
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Bilge656:
When I try to set up any password, it does not let me proceed after the second test. Confirm gets grayed out
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Myself5:
The issue here would be magisk. You usually need to boot to the system at least once before you can sucessfully flash Magisk. Don't know the reasons but it's seems to be an ongoing theme on A/B devices. Same happens on my OP6 and 6T
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Bilge656:
So theoretically I need flash the rom in 'A,' flash magisk on 'B', boot into the system once, reboot recovery into 'B,' and then install nanodroid?

Edit: Well I ignored Magisk and rebooted to recovery to install nanodroid after rom installation and it booted back into recovery unfortunately.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] TNS201:
Ooops wrong post
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Myself5:
Erm, I never worked on NitrogenOS, nor does Carbon have a boot sound. Are you sure you're right here :D?

Also Visual Voicemail requires the Google Phone APK. You can manually install it or via GApps.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] TNS201:
sorry! lol I posted in the wrong tab so sorry!

I checked my old phone too and now VVM is gone on that one too. I have to send it back to google. It had an older OS on it so it appears Googles new Phone app is broken.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] joshojshshoj:
Hi! sorry, I can't seem to find the link on the cr-7.0. Can anyone help, please?
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] RogerF81:
https://basketbuild.com/filedl/devs?dev=CarbonROM&dl=CarbonROM/taimen/CARBON-CR-7.0-OPAL-WEEKLY-taimen-20190408-2007.zip
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] joshojshshoj:
Thank you so much!!!
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] t-ryder:
Del
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] sacca25:
It's like dt2w stops working after some standby period, about 30 min may be.

Except this no problem so far, keep it up!

edit: nope it's completely random, it has nothing to do with time
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] CertifiedBlyndGuy:
That's interesting... Instead of enabling it via the sysfs node in your kernel manager, enable the option in ambient display. There isn't any haptic feedback and the display takes noticably longer to 'fade' on, but it works successively. I'll look into it since I can reproduce the issue myself.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] sacca25:
I've it enabled in AOD.

Nothing touched on kernel manager (as I don't have it)
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] CertifiedBlyndGuy:
Strange. I am not able to reproduce it via ambient display. Could you please provide a log?
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
I found after toggling all the AOD options off and on it works.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] sacca25:
Here
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] CertifiedBlyndGuy:
Thank you. I'll have a look as soon as possible
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] nebula9:
Two main issues.

One, I was only able to install opengapps full, not stock. Any reason for that? Stock would break it and send it into a loop until it automatically went to recovery.

Two, even after having a working install with magisk and gapps, the OTA update this morning completely broke the install (giving me a "your device is corrupt" and an offer to factory reset upon boot).
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] ethicker:
Looking for the procedure

Hi all

I'm really sorry to bother, first attempt on installing a custom ROM.

I read a lot of posts, but is there a complete procedure to install this rom on my pixel 2 xl ?

Thanks a lot
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
You'll need to download

The latest fastboot and adb installed on pc

-Mindthegapps 9.0 for arm64 (android file host)

-twrp.img on your pc

-twrp installer zip (on phone)

-latest carbon rom zip(on phone)

-remove device lock in security

-reboot to bootloader

Fastboot boot twrp.img

Swipe to factory reset

Flash carbonrom

Flash twrp installer

Reboot recovery

Flash mindthegapps

Reboot system

When you boot twrp go to settings and turn off screen timeout and the suggest install twrp app. This saves a headache.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] ethicker:
Thanks a lot, I'm gonna try it right away
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] CyberpodS2:
Custom rom OTA features on Taimen have been spotty at best since the beginning. Several things can be at play including switching a>b or b>a on reboot.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Ericarthurc:
Anyone running the latest weekly for taimen? There is still development weekly, but just wondering where this rom stands in the world lol.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
It's a pretty clean and fast rom.

Only thing is now playing doesn't work. Good rom otherwise.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Ericarthurc:
Sweet; thanks! Is it running PQ3A.190801.002, Aug 2019?
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
Yep. It gets updates every Wednesday
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Myself5:
Wait, are you the same user who reported that on Discord? Still don't get why this is working for me. I'll look into it.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] jumo0n:
Could you elaborate , please?

I am having an issue with the OTA update. It starts downloading the zip, but after a moment i just stops and nothing more happens. Tried three times - no update seems possible. Any ideas? Can i safely update via downloading the zip an flashing in twrp? Thanks a lot!
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Myself5:
Managed to reproduce the issue now and it seems like I fixed it on my followup build. Fixes are pushed, so let me know how the next Weekly is doing for everyone.

For OTA issues: Try to delete local OTA data using the 3 dot menu -> Settings -> Maintenance inside CarbonDelta. You could however also manually download the zip and flash it inside TWRP. just be aware the procedure will be a little more complicated as you also need to reflash GApps and all other mods (like Magisk) that would usually just survive an OTA update done inside the system.

if you want to manually update though: Boot to TWRP, flash the ROM and the TWRP installer. Reboot to TWRP (You're on the opposite slot now). Flash GApps. Reboot to system. After that, reboot to TWRP and flash whatever mods you want (e.G. Magisk).
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] nkhater:
Great ROM, thanks for your hard work
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Juzman:
With the latest build from 04/09, do we still use August vendor?
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
Yep. Looks like it'll stay that way until some Q ROMs come out
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Myself5:
Yep, pretty much that.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Juzman:
Latest build all flashed and working beautifully. Downgraded from Q official.

Flashed April stock and wiped userdata so I could keep TWRP decryption before flashing. :)

I installed Microsoft Teams (for work), and notice everytime I try and sign in, I get half way through typing my email address it freezes and the SystemUI restarts. Upon further inspection any work-related apps are causing SystemUI restarts (Intune Company Portal, Play Store under work profile etc), they load then after a few seconds phone freezes and is back at PIN screen.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] nkhater:
How do I downgrade from Android 10 to Carbon? Android 10 OMG!!!
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
I got sick of 10 in a hurry too

Flash-all.sh April factory image (if you want to keep encryption going forward, if not just flash August)

Boot system

Flash August OTA with twrp

Then you'll be good to flash carbon or any other August rom
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] nkhater:
You have been thanked Boss:good:

---------- Post added at 03:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:19 AM ----------

one more question, when you say "just flash August boot system", do you mean boot.img or bootloader-taimen-tmz20r.img?
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
Flash-all the factory image then boot it before flashing a custom ROM.

This straightens out your partitions and gets the system partitions flashed.

ABC thread has good instructions for updating

https://xdaforums.com/custom-roms/a...ive/rom-builders-collective-t2861778/page2334
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] alanyoshi:
How do I flash gapps? Through PC or TWRP?
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
All through twrp

After you flash ROM + twrp installer zip, reboot recovery and flash gapps.

Instructions are on the first page
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Br4no:
Hello All,

I tried to search the thread but havent found anything about loosing twrp after OTA.

So, when I update the rom via OTA I always loose twrp and have to flash it again.

And has someone of you an issue with markup app? I cannot open any image with that app. It always stops working... Attaching logs...

Thank youu!
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] CyberpodS2:
After flashing pretty much any ROM, TWRP needs to be flashed again. This is due to "recovery" being part of one of the partitions that gets overwritten.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] xXFlashoholicXx:
I've been out of the modding loop for a while so help me out. TWRP also needs to be reflashed after flashing any boot image right? So this goes for kernels too?
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Myself5:
Yes, with an exception. Most kernels for the 2XL are not just boot images, but instead only kernel images with AnyKernel installers. That means they extract the boot.img, replace the kernel binary and repack them, leaving TWRP intact. An example for that would be Franco Kernel from [MENTION=3292224]franciscofranco[/MENTION]
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] xXFlashoholicXx:
Gotcha, thanks for the help
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Br4no:
Thanks, I know, but I've just thought that the updater in CR solves that somehow and twrp should stay.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] joeo10:
Want to know the order in how to install the ROM since I'm considering flashing this.

Correct me if wrong but the TWRP order:

Wipe Cache and Data

Flash ROM

Flash TWRP zip

Go to recovery

Flash GAAPS (if ROM doesn't include it)

Flash Magisk

Done?
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
Pretty much, you'll have to be on August Pie first. Mindthegapps or nano work well
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] joeo10:
Most likely going Aroma Gapps since I have Google Fi.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Br4no:
Hello,

Dont you guys experience any reboots? It rarely happens when I lift and check the phone. Will try to grab logs next time...

Thanks
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] GROOVYJOSHCLARK:
I am testing CR as my new daily driver (coming from Havoc), so far, not 1 issue, reboot, FC's, nada, the one thing I will add is that you should use MindTheGapps, not OpenGapps. I had nothing but failures with OpenGapps, which I believe is because their framework is updated for newer OS's, whereas MindTheGapps is still older.. Google framework will update in the background once running the OS. It works fine with the latest version of MindTheGapps but not with OpenGapps, I tried full, nano, pico, ETC., they all failed at the copy/transfer stage in the initial Google framework setup. MindTheGapps worked flawlessly.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] TheSayaMan:
I'm obviously doing something wrong. I can't' get this rom to boot. It bootloops a few times then says data corrupt and then hangs. These are the steps I'm doing. I flashed last stock pie, booted phone up once. Rebooted to bootloader, fastboot boot twrp.img. Wiped data, and Dalvik Cache. Flash rom and twrp.zip. reboot to switch slots, flash open gapps.zip, reboot. What am I doing that's not right? Oh, I'm wiping system also, maybe I shouldn't be doing that?
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Myself5:
Make sure to flash stock twice so that its on both slots. Also don't wipe system, thats useless on A/B devices given the installer does that already and only causes potential issues. Besides that you steps look fine.
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] GROOVYJOSHCLARK:
DD

This ROM is still the best daily driver ROM for the Pixel 2 XL, hands down. I have gone through and tested them all for at least a week. Carbon ROM has yet to let me down, crash, or bug out in any way. Not ONE issue to report, even the OTA function worked yesterday with the latest monthly release! I am very happy with this ROM!! Devs let me know what else I can do to support development other than the PayPal links on the website (I already gave a gift from the PP links) but I can help with testing, development, ETC.

I am THOROUGHLY impressed with this ROM!
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] sant03:
How's the battery consumption in this ROM? I just bought my new Pixel 2 XL, but flashing the ROM procedure looks nightmare. :(
[Google Pixel 2 XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Edmontonchef:
Battery has always been good on this rom.

You'll have to format data and roll back to August P on both slots first.