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[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Didgesteve:
No, you can't do anything to resotre lost keys, not unless you made a backup of them first. You can fool the phone that the DRM is in place, but that's different to restoring them.

You can unlock you phone and put a custom rom on there, there are some Pie threads here on XDA, eXistenZ Pie, or LineageOS. But getting these to work isn't a simple download the rom and install it. You need to follow the instructions on the Sony unlock, then install TWRP, which will give you the ability to flash roms and recoverys.

It might be worth sticking to a stock rom and using janjan's kernel, wich will fix any DRM problems and give you compatability with Magisk

Yes, the camera does work on Pie, even with bootloader uinlocked, but there are some other features that remain disabled, but nothing important.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Sc0rp1on:
Thx for Reply. My Old XZP has unlocked Bootloader, Oreo Rooted within DRM Patch from XperiFix. But now, the Display is broken and the Phone is dead.

I have buy the Same Model (Locked & Fresh) and want to remove System Apps , have Root and eventually Pie. But i want to have all functions like unrooted and hoped that the time brings out new Methods for that.

I have read here, that the camera Quality gets down on pie root.

Now my Hope / Question:

Pie + Root within DRM Features (Fooled DRM is ok also) or should i Flash Oreo and use Xperi Fix again, like my old one?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Didgesteve:
Pie or Oreo is a personal choice and you'll get people batting for both sides on the forum here.

You can stick with what you know, or go with stock Pie and use janjan's kernel, that will get you Pie build with DRM fix.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Sc0rp1on:
Thx for Answer.

I have read the thread about the kernel and pie and i cant find Information for camera Quality (i have read pie root make camera Quality bad) and about the Screen-Modus (Superlebendig / Professional/ Standard). My old Oreo Rooted One was running perfect, but i would try pie, only if i can get sure, that cam and Display works like stock Rom.

I hope you understand my english and my wishes :)
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Didgesteve:
The camera on the Sony works perfect or it doesn't (takes green pictures), it's a myth that there is some sort of half way 'poor' quality.

There is no degradation of camera quality with rooted Pie no DRM, if you think that might be a problem then use a 'fixed' rom or kernel.

Try Pie and if you think that the camera is broken, then go back to Oreo
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] j4nn:
[MENTION=3682241]Sc0rp1on[/MENTION], [MENTION=4354390]Didgesteve[/MENTION], in my opinion, it is totally worth to backup and restore locked TA to preserve drm keys, if just only in order to be on the safe side.

The unlock procedure erases all userdata anyway, similarly as when you do downgrade to exploitable oreo...

Anyway, I am not sure about the camera quality - is it really a myth? Please see here for few pictures comparisons where differences are visible. You may visit the linked posts too for more opinions / previous discussions.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Didgesteve:
I wouldn't advocate anyone unlock thier phone without backing up the TA partition. but I was replying to a question.

I can't see any difference in the pictures myself and I think if there were a difference more would have been said about it.

Myself I was an early jumper and unlocked my phone before backup and restore of the DRM keys was possible, so that rather shaped which version of firmware I use. I didn't step to Pie, I stuck with Oreo and a 'fix' that keeps everything sweet.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] j4nn:
[MENTION=4354390]Didgesteve[/MENTION], it's not easy to do a good comparison - only those who have two phones or at least have a locked _and_ unlocked TA backup of one phone could try. Although many complain about camera quality in general.

But as you could see in the linked "xz1c locked oreo vs unlocked pie comparison" post I tried to compare having two xz1 compact phones side by side, one still locked and one with lost drm keys.

And comparing the not downsized original photo images you can clearly see some differences - which are cut to attached pictures so you can find them easier in the original files available for download.

It could have been a coincidence, but it's have been done two times in a row switching the order of the phones getting very similar results of quality difference in each trial.

So in my opinion, it might be a myth or may not.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Didgesteve:
It may or may not, but no one else seems to have noticed.

If you think it makes a difference then use Janjan's kernel with built in 'fix'
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] j4nn:
[MENTION=4354390]Didgesteve[/MENTION], that "no one else seems to have noticed" - a rather big assumption of yours. There are many users complaining about xzp/xz1/xz1c camera quality in general.

But just with regard to oreo vs pie, read the xzp thread from here: post#27, particularly post#30 contains very interesting internal stuff.

I would like to believe sony stopped conditioning camera with keeping bootloader locked with pie but somehow I am not sure about that at all considering all the circumstances and my linked camera quality comparison test.

Thanks for your advice, luckily I do not need janjan's kernels as I've implemented the TA backup exploit, so both my phones can have drm keys restored (in fact one of them is still locked on purpose).

I (and anybody who saved TA-unlocked.img together with TA-locked.img) can switch easily between "drm keys restored" and "drm keys lost" states for testing/comparisons.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] shoey63:
I have 3 xz premiums running pie in my household. My wifes - never unlocked. Mine - unlocked with no ta backup. And a third one which I acquired cheaply recently - unlocked with restored original ta backup running a kernel with [MENTION=4418980]j4nn[/MENTION]'s commits which hides bootloader unlock status.

The photo quality appears similar on all three devices. Maybe closer scrutiny on a pc will reveal differences.

However restoring original ta with blu hide kernel will always be the optimal solution regardless of camera quality due to the fact that it also restores widevine L1 functions (eg: screen mirroring etc.)
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] j4nn:
[MENTION=4675598]shoey63[/MENTION], that's right, on phone's display, differences are probably not visible.

But if not zoomed out images are compared on PC, you may see some differences as my test showed.

Most people just take a quick shot to post it on a social network, there you cannot see a difference at all, as the image gets downscaled automatically - so majority may not complain.

Anyway that "restoring original ta with blu hide kernel will always be the optimal solution" is right - should behave as much as in still locked state as we can get.

Mentioning screen mirroring - does it depend on drm too in case of pie?

I tested it with oreo and it needed TA-locked restored with bootloader unlock hidden to get it working - running just kernel hiding BL unlock with lost drm keys is not enough with oreo.

I cannot test it anymore and I wonder if it still depends on drm keys with pie too or if sony dropped that dependency similarly as making camera somehow working instead of green pictures with pie.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] shoey63:
[MENTION=4418980]j4nn[/MENTION]

Screen mirroring still is reliant on drm keys on Pie.

It won't connect with unlocked bootloader and stock kernel.

However with restored TA backup and blu hide kernel it connects without issue.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] mirhl:
The problem with screen mirroring is just the use of HDCP.

You can disable it with persist.debug.wfd.enable=1 or persist.debug.wfd.appmonitoring=1
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] Orenk:
I Have JASJAM (Herm100)

When I Turn on, after Soft Reset/shut down, (Even hard reset), when I try to use wifi, here's whats happens:

1) It finds all networks around (status:Available),

2) It tries to connect to network, by asking me for (un)secured connection confirmation... (Status:connecting)

3) From 'connecting' status it becomes to 'Available' (instead of 'connected')*

4) After 2-3 retries of different networks(step2), all networks become 'Unavailable' and It cannot connect to any network anymore. and its not finds any new network until next soft reset.

* sometimes it establish connection and I can surf the net, very slow, but it hold it for less than one minute.

* Signal strength does not a parameter, battery is 100%, and network is set to Best Performance.

* I Have no problems to turn it on/off with the comm-manager.

* I'm not sure when Exactly it happened, but I Suspect that it happened around the time that I've upgrade to 1.54.00.10 radio, but since I've read that it does not affect on Wifi, I suppose it's not related.

Any suggestions ?

I use Schap's 4.30 should I Change to other ?

Thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] Orenk:
I've found the cause, now searching for fix

I've changed to CRC 9.2 Rom..

(The schaps looks better to me...)

Same symptoms.

After few hours of trying, I've found the cause for this problem...

It happens when the wlan is set to 802.11g or 802.11b/g or 'mixed mode'

It can connect to 802.11b only, with no problems.

That means that I Cannot connect to most wlan I can find.

Please note that the schaps and crc roms already has the 802.11g tweak.

If there is a solution to connect to 802.11g or mixed, please let me know...

I'll search for solution, if I'll find one, I'll post it here.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] VC_48:
Exactly the same problem!!!

Hi,

I use Schap's ROM 4.31 and Radio 1.38.00.10

I have at my homenetwork new Belkin N wireless router (working in b/g mode), every device connect without ANY problem, notebook, even another PDA (Asus), but TYTN does not. I tried every possible setting...

I will be REALLY VERY HAPPY if someone find solution...

Otherwise this is the main reason, why I will buy another PDA (Xperia)
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] asmora:
Hello,

As the title says the smart call id function that would normally would detect the scam calls got disabled after i did a hard reset on my phone, or at least that's when i noticed it was missing.

I remember having it enabled after i first used my phone and even worked after the system updates.

I tried wiping the cache and the data from the smart call app and hiya service and excluding them from the battery manager

but still it doesn't work.

Anyone with the same problem that managed to find a solution?

I live at Europe, Greece, because some have reported that it has to do with the carrier you are using. The thing is that it worked and then stopped.
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] Poluux:
I flashed a new firmware and hard reset it. I'm able to use the smart ID fonction with no issue.

Isn't it the power optimize fonction that disable it?
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] asmora:
I am reluctant to flash or even root the phone just yet... I contacted Samsung about the problem and they wrote me back that usually it's the carrier that disables such features. Maybe this is the case i don't know, eventually i downloaded hiya from playstore that does the exact same thing since its the same service that was inbuilt in the rom of the mobile, it would have been better to able to use the inbuilt feature than to download a separate app.
[Google Pixel 3a XL Questions & Answers] appro77:
Is there a way that I can get long press of my Back button to put the phone to sleep, same as is available on OnePlus devices? My phone is rooted.
[Google Pixel 3a XL Questions & Answers] Giocarro:
I'm interested, too.
[Google Pixel 3a XL Questions & Answers] thereal_bigjake:
Don't know how to do that but I've added an extra invisible button to the left of the back button using an app called Custom Navigation Bar
[Google Pixel 3a XL Questions & Answers] appro77:
This does exactly what I want. Perfect. Thanks for the heads up. :D
[Google Pixel 3a XL Questions & Answers] b0li:
If you use magisk for root, you can flash edxposed for pie in magisk and then gravitybox module for pie.

You can add long press back button to sleep or kill foreground app in gravitybox.
[Samsung Galaxy A50 Guides, News, & Discussion] t3chg33k:
Most of the sites listing Samsung firmware provide "Unlimited Speed" download as a premium option and limit the free download to a pitiable 15 KB/sec.

IMEI.info allows you to download the firmware at full speed. It will initially download a 11MB file called Samsung Hard Downloader after you select the CSC which then allows you to download the latest firmware for that CSC, presumably directly from Samsung.

At the time of this writing, for A505F, the Indonesia/Thailand/Malaysia firmware are at ASE6 whereas others are at ASE3, ASE2, ASD6 and even ASD5. Hence, I always end up flashing the firmware from one of these CSCs and they work fine. Moreover, the bloatware is far less compared to something like INS and all of the region-specific apps added at setup are uninstallable.
[Samsung Galaxy A50 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sukhi:
Why download a third party untrusted app when you could download at full bandwidth from Samsung servers directly through Samfirm?
[Samsung Galaxy A50 Guides, News, & Discussion] t3chg33k:
SamFirm is also a third party tool which is officially marked as deprecated by the author, though it still works in most cases. The download source and file is identical for both, so there is no benefit either way.

Just posting another full-speed option since a lot of people would land up on SamMobile or SamFrew when searching for a firmware which have premium unmetered download options. Also, it is easier to check the latest firmwares for various CSCs from the website.
[Samsung Galaxy A50 Guides, News, & Discussion] BaapJaan:
Thanks, captain.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Questions & Answers] vendetta17:
I just installed some widget showing the clock and i dont want the small upper left status bar clock to show. How can i hide it? And btw can i completely hide the status bar showing on homescreen? I mean signal icon, wifi icon and battery. I am using Nova Launcher. Thanks in advance.
[HTC U11  Questions & Answers] foosoomin:
Just saw hardware info, my U11 assembled in India, Samsung factory

Any of your phone is the same too ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Almeidowski:
And if I install GApps, will I be able to remove each app if I start to dislike it? Thanks. (I assume I can remove the apps installed manually on the Play Store)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raiz:
With G apps,you can select and download the Aroma Package, you'll have the choice to install what you want. But once it's installed you can't remove the apps (unless you have root) because Gapps are installed as system apps.

On the playstore, the will be removable at any time.

I think that installing playstore manually will be buggy because, it installs apps automatically, something that other apps are forbidden to do.

Have a nice day.

And next time put your question on your post, even if it's on the title :)
[Samsung Galaxy S10 5G Questions & Answers] henihazbay:
Can people with 5g signal available where they live, report how their battery life is with their device?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 5G Questions & Answers] Sean473:
This is my usage today... Day 6 of owning this phone and am really not impressed... 50% brightness throughout the day, mostly been doing Reddit today..

On Wifi from 8am-5pm and then 4G/5G till now.. Saw about 40 mins of Videos and YouTube... Really not impressed with the numbers I am getting and struggling to see how people get so much more than me with a S10+ etc..View attachment 4784504
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro Questions & Answers] Hemphiz:
Howdy. As the title states I'm looking for the PIE roms that have the "switch to 2G with screen off feature" AOSIP used to have this feature back on Oreo but not on the Pie OS
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro Questions & Answers] flammenwerferx:
Have you checked on the Suspend Action somewhere inside the OwlNest? I happen to see some "switch to 2g" iside the Suspend Action
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro Questions & Answers] Verity.:
I'm using latest Havoc OS 2.6 which is based on pie fw and it has that option in the settings
[OnePlus 6 Questions & Answers] gidea1408:
Hi Everybody,

I have the latest version of NL Prime on my OP6.

And I have an issue with all the icon packs: if I apply an icon pack from the NL settings nothing changes. I have to manually change the icon for every app on the phone.

How can I fix this issue?

Thanks.
[OnePlus 6 Questions & Answers] WINEMK68:
running stock 9.0.6 rooted, with Nova prime, no issues. Have you tried clearing Nova cache? or re-installing and trying again?
[Shift General] pitt1983:
sorry but shift have an anti-shock protection on hdd?

happened to me that when I "launch" my shift on the bed or i put in the bag very fast the shift turn of immediatly. when i turn on everything is ok.

i've seen something similar on a new acer travelmate.

but on the shift i don't know if this activity is normal or is a defection of my machine?
[Shift General] salmon:
put it this way, when i do that my device crashes... and has to be rebooted... one reason why i'd love to change the HDD for a solid state one at some point...
[Shift General] skin57:
This behaviour is normal (but a bit silly): A accelerator sensor detects an dangerous acceleration, usualy followed by an impact - in such an situation, the Shift is just powered off to protect the hard disk. When you turn the shift on again, it prompts you with an BIOS-Message "Drop detected"...

It's really a silly implementation of a shock protection: I'd have expected the hard disk to get in a safe park position, but not the shift to get powered off. Idiots at HTC. But i guess they wanted to safe license fees...
[Shift General] pof:
You can disable this "feature" by disabling 'HTC G-Sensor' in vista device manager.
[Shift General] pitt1983:
no, i think it can be usefull, i wanted to know to be sure that was g-sensor to turn off my shift and not a defection of it.

effectively i saw on others notebooks hdd envelopped in more rubber and other material to make it more anti-shock! but in the little shift make it is impossible.

you think that gsensor is useless?
[Samsung Galaxy S10+ Questions & Answers] SinisterDev:
This is really starting to get on my nerves now. Ever since I got my new S10+ from AT&T, it's occasionally done this thing where after I reboot the phone, I unlock it, and it briefly says "starting phone" on the home screen, and then will mysteriously do a quick reset, where it skips the AT&T logo and jingle, and just shows the Samsung splash screen , then takes me back to the lockscreen and it's usually fine after that.

However, Just now I decided to reset my phone, like one should do periodically, and it did the strange double reset after unlocking... Then when I unlocked it, after the "starting phone" message I tried to open a browser, and BAM! Quick reset again! Unlocked, let it start up, tried to open an app, BAM quick reset again after the screen briefly shifted from landscape to portrait mode (even though I was still holding it long ways in landscape position). Its never done this before and I'm getting concerned. It's never randomly reset while using the phone, this only happens right after a reset.

Any ideas? I've already tried wiping partition cache after big updates, doing soft resets. I'm worried that I'm going to have to end up resorting to a factory wipe, as others suggested I do when I was having battery drain issues on the ASD3 firmware, possibly because of restoring everything from a backup of my last phone when I got this one. Because supposedly restoring from backups from AT&T, Google or Samsung has caused all sorts of problems for people. I really don't want go wipe everything and spend hours try to get it all back on here manually if i don't have to.
[Samsung Galaxy S10+ Questions & Answers] mtm1401:
Had an issue with this early on but seems to have been fixed at some point, I'm I'm exynos though so probably not much help!
[Samsung Galaxy S10+ Questions & Answers] SinisterDev:
Dang... So it does appear to be an issue experienced on both Exynos and Snapdragon variants. I wonder if there is or will be a fix for this. I've been asking around and haven't gotten many responses about this problem at all. I'm concerned because it seems to be getting worse than when I first got the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S10+ Questions & Answers] macmanui:
I'm having the exact same problem. Sometimes it goes through quick reset, full reset, a couple more quick, then back to the Verizon logo, then starts up. Opening an app at that point usually does another quick, then full, then everything works. Glad I'm not the only one, but I haven't found any solutions either.
[Samsung Galaxy S10+ Questions & Answers] lordinvincible:
Mine does the same. Unlocked bought directly from Samsung. I don't reboot the phone very often so it doesn't bother me that much.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noidodroid:
Your Favorite Recovery Project - What do you rely on the most for play or in your work?

Hello All

I'm curious to what all Recovery Projects are out there other than the 5 i know of and what you rely on when it comes to your work. Please take the poll if you don't mind and also make a post on why you have chosen the Recovery. If you choose [Other] please let it be known the Recovery you are talking about. I always enjoy researching and testing out new Recovery Projects and using them on projects ! Hopefully this will help people catch wind of what all else is out there and give them some alternatives. =]

oh and as for myself? I rely on TWRP, OrangeFox and PBRP for my projects.

1) TWRP - Team Win Recovery Project - http://www.twrp.me

2) OFRP - Orange Fox Recovery Project - https://orangefox.tech/ | https://sourceforge.net/projects/orangefox/ | https://gitlab.com/OrangeFox/Recovery

3) RWRP - Red Wolf Recovery Project - https://redwolfrecovery.github.io/ | https://github.com/RedWolfRecovery

4) PBRP - Pitch Black Recovery Project - https://pbrp.ml/ | https://github.com/PitchBlackRecoveryProject

5) BRP - Batik Recovery Project - https://sourceforge.net/projects/batik-recovery/ | https://github.com/BatikRecovery

6) SHRP - Skyhawk Recovery Project - https://skyhawkrecovery.github.io/

7) EXT4 Recovery Project - http://4ext.net/

8) Philz Recover Project (deprecated) - https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2201860

9) CWM Recovery Project (pretty much deprecated as well) - https://xdaforums.com/wiki/ClockworkMod_Recovery

10) Rootz Wiki Recovery (RZR) - http://www.rootzwiki.com

11) Pterodon Recovery - https://github.com/PterodonRecovery - I witnessed this recovery load in less than a second with no lag navigation throughout GUI.. Hope to see more on this coming from the previous Founder of Red Wolf.

[UPDATE] - I am currently working with this team and helping them out with their development! So hopefully things will be sped up a bit in process. Really looking forward to seeing a beautiful fresh recovery in the near future!

12) Carliv Touch Recovery - https://xdaforums.com/t/recovery-carliv-touch-recovery-v5-7-and-v6-6.3389290/

Thanks,

noidodroid
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noidodroid:
I chose TWRP, OFRP, and PBRP. Why?

TWRP = Reliability and Stabiltiy. - One of the oldest besides CWM and support for majority of the known devices out there.

OFRP - Functionality and Reliability - Great options for just about everything. More than any recovery I have seen!

PBRP - Reliability, Stability and Functionality = Has just about everything and hasn't let me down!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anywaywhat:
OFRP - Looks amazing and it's kinda faster than TWRP plus it has add-ons.