yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] Youdoofus:
d@mnit. that mammajamma beat me to it!!! this is exactly one of the main reasons i come on this site, to help people fix stuff exactly like this lol but this dude with the knowledge popped on here first and got ya taken care of.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] Charkatak:
Don't mention it! Thanks to you too! I am really happy it made your phone work! I just like to be more practical than manufacturers(you know which one I mean) and unfortunately tech support mostly gives pre-written answers. I have tried few times to help other people in that forum but moderators didn't like it(got a warnings) and I can't provide links anymore there.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] bryetownsend:
Ugh that is frustrating to hear! That manufacturer (not Apple or LG or Nokia), private messaged me and said that "the hardware that comes with the Samsung Galaxy S9 phone from AT&T is different from the Hardware that comes with the Xfinity version and your AT&T purchased one will never work on CDMA networks" to which I responded "Can you replace it? It is under warranty for 6 more months" they said "We CAN replace it but only with another AT&T version." Absolutely absurd. I am VERY thankful for you, I've bragged on you all day to my coworkers in our IT department. My wife and I plan to have a child in the next year or so, if it is a boy I will name him Charkatak, unless you have another real name that you go by?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] Youdoofus:
please DM me. if you have links that get you warned, i would seriously like to know what they are. i would honestly appreciate it

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that might be taking it a bit far LOLOLOL name your kid Lamborghini and maybe theyll give you a Urus!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] Charkatak:
Oh...don't name your child Charkatak :) It means: When you for example make an evil joke or your day has a lot of obstacles and it feels like en evil joke.

Basically a moderator from that forum removed some of my posts and PMed about their policy where we can't post external links that violate the policy or such. I promised to them not to post links, but instead I just tell people to search for XDA site and post things here. :) Pretty easy way out
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bird bird bird:
Hey there I am looking to permanently delete certain system apps from my phone and my question is how to ensure that even factory reset will not re-enable them.

My question is whether this can be achieved purely with rooting a device and using superuser tools or whether this requires flashing a custom-built ROM that has had the undesired packages manually removed.

Any insight greatly appreciated!

Thanks
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] ktdt00:
October security patches released...

https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/blueline-qp1a.191005.007-factory-c36610c6.zip
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] sliding_billy:
Worked exactly the same as the 10 and .C3 build for me. Flash-all (minus -w) and patched boot in Magisk. No issues.
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cle_m_ent:
4.3 MB from the C3 update.

After the C3 update I had an improvement in the battery's life but after few days was the same. I hope this will better this time.

Edit : multi-tasking freeze is here again...
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] wildnux:
It worked fine for 10 and .c3 build, but magisk_patched.img does not work for me. It installs fine and the phone boots up fine but magisk says it is not installed :(

~/Downloads/pixel3/blueline-qp1a.191005.007$ sha256sum magisk_patched.img
46432e0feae1b97f631165a10eb0049041c2e6fffce89a6a2733bf8aee9dc9ac magisk_patched.img

Do you have the same sha256sum? I used canary build of magisk to patch it.

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Nevermind. I had to patch with beta version of magisk. Version: 19.4 (19400) and it worked.
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] sliding_billy:
Good deal. I just never leave Canary for my Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL despite having other devices on stable or Beta.
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] BNSoul:
what Google Play System update patch level are you guys on? I'm back to August, 1 from September, 1 after installing the October OTA.... so what's going on here?
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] arhncmh:
Installed yesterday. Now wireless provider signal only shows as 4G, no LTE.
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] gmmurphy:
Can I use the same magdisk patched image from C3? Or should I pull the boot image from this update?
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dcarvil:
It might work, but I think it is asking for trouble. Try the installation method at https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/tutorials.html#ota-installation

It is much simpler, and you don't need to patch boot images. I just did it an hour ago using the latest Magisk from the Canary channel. I saw a report in another thread the latest from the Beta channel also works. I don't think it works with Magisk from the stable channel, but have not tried it.
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] georgs_town:
Did you uninstall all the modules before doing this?
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dcarvil:
No, I did not uninstall the modules, I just followed the instructions in the tutorial.
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Toronadian:
I was able to flash the factory image by running the "flash.bat" script with "-W" removed. Security update is dated Oct 5, Google Play system is dated Sept 1. Just to be safe, I uninstalled Cerberus before running the script as Cerberus caused me issues transitioning from Android Pie to Android 10 last month.

Other than Cerberus, I only have magisk for rooting, no modules loaded, no edXposed. I re-routed using the latest Canary build for Magisk, patching the boot.img and then flashing the magisk_patched.img in fastboot mode.
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] codygs83:
So I'm having another major problem. When I updated to 10 from 9 running dirty unicorns, everything flashed fine except for the image update zip. I remember it had something to do with the active slot but I cant remember for the life of me what I did last time to get the image to flash. Currently when I run flash all bootloader and radio flash fine, but flashing the image zip my phone boots into the fastbootd recovery screen and fastboot command screen shows fastboot: error: command failed. Sending sparse product b FAILED.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Right now I'm stuck in fastboot on my phone.

Edit: I just did a factory wipe and it's flashing fine now. I'm guessing it had something to do with the magisk patched boot img I was using. I really don't know what the problem was.
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ipeacocks:
I am on Android 10 and can't install latest small security update. https://i.imgur.com/0TMV5i8.png

Before I've restored image according to Magisk doc https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/tutorials.html#ota-installation
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] jd1639:
Just download the full factory image, edit the flash all file to remove the -w, and then flash that in fastboot mode. Make sure you save the flash all file and the -w is removed before you use it. Trying to take the ota on a rooted device doesn't work well.
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ipeacocks:
[MENTION=4858937]jd1639[/MENTION] w/o -w root will disappear but my personal data on phone persists?
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] jd1639:
Yes, you'll loose root but your data will all be there. You'll have to move a copy of the stock boot.img file to your device, let magisk patch it, then move the patched file to your pc and flash that with fastboot. Almost all of us do this process with each update.
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ipeacocks:
[MENTION=4858937]jd1639[/MENTION] Are you talking about this `-w`?

https://imgur.com/nlbZdht
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] jd1639:
No. Download the factory image to your pc and extract it, it's a zip file. In there you'll see a flash-all.bat file. Edit that. I use notepad ++. Then save it and just double click on the edited file (I'm assuming your using a windows pc). There is also another zip file you'll find after you've extracted the factory image. Extract that too and you'll find the boot.img file you'll need to patch with magisk for root.

Edit, sorry, I didn't look at the image you uploaded that closely. It is the -w I was referring to.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] MicroMod777:
Anybody have Verizon VS996 LG v30 modemst1 & 2 dumps? I need to restore mine after having flashed AT&T's.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] HueyT:
Download VS99630c kdz and extract it with LG firmware extractor v1.2.6, kdz first, then dz to get all partitions
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] MicroMod777:
So if I just do a kdz I'll get them installed then?
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] HueyT:
You could use dual mode lgup to partition DL install just the 2 modem files, but safest to install the entire kdz

Remember how you bricked to qld 9008 when u mixed and match modems between variants?
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] MicroMod777:
Yea, those T-Mobile modems killed my vs996.
[Redmi 7A Questions & Answers] DebrupGhosh:
What is the fastest way to load apps on external sd? Because link2sd seems to be much slower than usual..or are there any way to install main apk in internal and cached or documents of the app in external sd?
[Redmi 7A Questions & Answers] MDV106:
You can try the riru-Storage-redirect module via Magisk and see if it fits your needs
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] firedup:
Is it available anywhere in UK other than Expansys? TotalPDA says 'In Stock' but when you call them they say the 13th.:mad::mad::mad:

Want one NOW!!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] walshieau:
yes from ebay.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] firedup:
Mmm no good to me, I need next day delivery...anyone know anywhere else? I'm going to have to pay Expansys otherwise and I HATE them!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Spawn12:
Well your only choice is Expansys then but beware you will get a non uk spec model which means you wont get any HTC UK warranty support. IF anything goes wrong with it, you will need to send it back to Expansys for them to sort out and the worst part about it??...you will only get 12mths warranty not the usual 18-24mth warranty that comes with UK spec models. Plus you will have to register the unit with HTC Asia to get any updates.

The worst thing is that Expansys are selling at a far higher price than other retailers. Personally if i was you, id wait the extra week or so...totalpda are saying they will have them next week and they are selling them for £410...a hell of alot more cheaper than Expansys.

But your choice though, i wouldnt touch Expansys with a barge pole now...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] firedup:
Yeah I think your right. I havent bought anything off them in years as they're always arrogant and overpriced. I'll wait until next week.

Cheers
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Spawn12:
I would say its the best thing you could do mate, im really after one myself although am not too sure if ill end up keeping it but id rather wait an extra week or so and get a proper UK spec model...that way i know ill have tech support by HTC UK and updates via them as well. But thats not to say that you wont get updates via HTC or warranty if you do buy a grey import...just means that you will have register the unit on the asian website rather than the uk one. Plus theres always the fear that seeing as you didnt buy it from a uk retailer, you might not end up getting it fixed/replaced should it go wrong etc. And just to point out, Expansys havent as of yet even confirmed what or how the warranty works with these grey imports.

Plus too many times inthe past ive paid a silly price to have the latest phone, only to find out that the price dropped in a matter of days.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] firedup:
Yeah fair comment - you sound as bad as me! I just want something to play with over the weekend!:rolleyes:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Spawn12:
LOL i know, i dont want to wait but id rather be safe in the knowledge that should my Diamond go belly up...ill have full HTC UK support and updates.

Oh well cant wait for next week to come though....ill be honest im really wanting the Sony Xperia X1 though but seeing as that wont be out for sometime...im going to have to settle for the Diamond:p.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] jkr284:
Do what i did, look at the uk ebay sellers, see if one lives near by, ring them up or pm them and ask for one cash on delivery, i got one from manchester a few days ago (2hr round trip for me lol)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] firedup:
Yeah tried that bit only HK sellers at the min - can't really justify that round trip! The only UK seller says No cash on collection.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] mouseymousey:
I really don't see the problem with buying from Expansys.

So what if they're grey imports? No-one knows for sure the situaion with regard to warranty etc. And how many people have ever had to use the warranty anyway? The one thing that everyone seems to agree on is Expansys will handle repairs under warranty in the first year, and I can't see many people on here having the device for more than 12 months anyway!

Regarding software updates, I'm sure that anything HTC release will be available on here.

The only problem I can see is the price but I decided I wanted one now so I've stumped up the extra money to get it now.

Also, I would have money on TotalPDA et al having further delays, I think the DeviceWire date of 23rd June is more likely than next week, so I've bitten the bullet and gone down the Expansys route. And with Saturday delivery I should have it tomorrow :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] marisa4755:
I don't think you'll regret it. I have mine and it's very, very nice. Make sure you do the cache size tweak in the tweaks post fairly soon after you get it. It makes all the difference, it's very fast now and the Touchflow is working 100% better. Can't see anything 'wrong' with the phone at all. Hope you enjoy it as much as I am!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] CoolCheese:
Another Potential Source

I pre-ordered mine from Play.com if anyone's interested.

Cheapest price I found and should be special delivery (next day).

Stock date was originally 9th June but recently changed to 13th and holding there.

All the best. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] alipi2007:
i,ll giv u 10000% support. noce sound :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] someone1234:
I know you've bought it now so there's going to be no convincing you but i have to correct you anyway :)

The point is that you have NO idea what sort of waranty expansys are offering. It could be the case that they have to ship it back to asia to have it repaired adding alot of lead time for their processes on each end.

It could be that they don't cover some minor things that the original waranty would because they don't want to spend money couriering it to HK for something minor - you might say they can't do this because of the terms of the waranty slip or whatever, but there's alot to be said for intepretation of those terms!

The waranty is an added value service to the phone. Even if you never use it, and only keep the phone for 12 months, the resale value of your phone will be alot less in 12 months time vs someone who still has a 12 month UK waranty left.

Also because you don't know what the 'value' of a 12 month expansys waranty is, you could find in 2 months time news breaks online it aint worth ****, and sure you can legally fight for your rights, but your resale value on your phone will be impacted drasticly.

And for the risk of all this you're paying potentially 90 pounds more, to have it 1 or 2 weeks early. Hey thats your decision, but please don't be one of those people who tries to convince themselves it aint like it is. It is like it is, and if you go ahead, do it knowing that!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] mouseymousey:
I'm not sure how that post was correcting me, it was just offering your opinion which of course you're entitled to.

I've had mobile phones for many many years, and lots of different HTC models and I've never had to claim on warranty yet.

I'm happy to pay the extra and take what I think is a very, very minimal risk. If I listened to doom mongers like you I'd never do anything.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] mouseymousey:
Oh and regarding resale values in 12 months when it may or may not be out of warranty, just how much do you really think that will make a difference? Resale value of a 12 month old phone is going to be very low, with or without a year to run on warranty.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] mouseymousey:
OK, it's arrived! Which means I've been able to read the warranty card. The card states 24 months for the phone and 12 months for accessories.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] someone1234:
Well if i saw 10 phones on ebay, and 5 of them had 12 months left, i know which i would buy.

Correcting you in that you tried to make out waranty is worthless. Its not!

You may have had 1000 phones for all i care, eventually one will break. Thats just statistics.

With regards to 'If I listened to doom mongers like you I'd never do anything.' you completly missed the point. Its not about omg its all destined to end in misery. Its that there is a very real and sensible argument about waranty and support here. It is your choice weather to buy in spite of that - but instead of saying YOU dont care about the waranty you are implying no one should.

As for the waranty card there are conflicting reports, and this was my point - no one knows the truth right now:

- Some people are saying HTC have told them they categorically WILL NOT waranty the devices outside of their original intended sales region - and variations of essentially the same point.

- One person has said that HTC will not adhere to any terms on paperwork inside the box as it was not intended for this region.

- One person says he was told HTC WILL uphold the waranty.

- Expansys say these devices do have a waranty.

- Expansys refuse to publically confirm the length of the warnanty, but some people have pasted emails from expansys confirming a 12 month waranty.

- Expansys have said that the waranty of the device is through them, not direct with HTC.

- People have been unable to register on the UK site, and only the english HK site.

- If HTC say that these devices were sold in this region without their permission, expansys will be fined again.

Maybe none of that matters to you, but i'm sure it does to some people. The uncertainty at least.

EDIT: Anyway i think my point is made and i don't expect you to agree with it. I'd rather this didnt degenerate into an argument, so thats my last word on it. Respond with any last comments you have on the topic, and lets leave it there :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] mouseymousey:
Yep, fair enough, no point arguing about it. Incidentally, the warranty is not transferable if you sell the phone, without HTC's written permission. Such permission will not be reasonably withheld, it says in the warranty card.

Just wondering how many people get this written permission before selling their phones, not many I'll wager.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] someone1234:
Actually alot of companies do that. Thats why generally i keep the receipt and never fill out the waranty card on anything i buy. That way if i never use the waranty, its just one more thing to try to sell it.

In fact i also can't remember the last time i used a waranty, but when i did the 'product' usually came back all nice and clean - a perfect opertunity to sell it lol! So when something breaks, i buy something new, wait for it to come back and then sell it.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Smartstradamus:
Is play.com the only place still saying stocks coming 13/06/2008,

If they are,how reliable are they for getting that kind of info better than others?

I ask because nearly all the ppc dedicated stores that are selling the uk stock of these mainly have way later stock dates.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] someone1234:
TotalPDA are saying they should have them on wednesday. Some people are saying they already have them but arent allowed to ship till wednesday.

Neither charge you until they ship, so you could preorder from both - at the risk they both ship at the same time lol

Who really knows, the dates changed so much with every site, it could be another 2 weeks.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] sumitescp:
eCell on ebay have them. CLICK HERE

1st class recorded post

390 inc P&P.

BEST MOBILE PHONE SELLER ON EBAY UK.

People who have pre-ordered from other websites can still cancel their order. IF you really want to save 40-50 pounds (if you do this please donate a small part from this money to xda-developers or to the DIAMOND PROJECT so they can get started with cooking.)

MODS, I do not know if I am allowed to "ADVERTISE" someone else's products. IF NOT please remove post, Thanks.

Sumitescp
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] someone1234:
Not bad! But these are going to be imports from HK too.

At that price tho, it could make sense to alot of people.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] nokmond:
I have one from expansys. The main thing i'm bothered about is will the official uk diamond have more power/ram etc than the grey imports? Device information on my diamond reports ram size is 192mb and flash size is 256mb. Think the uk is the same yes?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wardy:
Hi Nokmond yes the HK units are exactly the same hardware wise. The ROM is probably a little different as its said to be an Operators phone. This is only true if the operator has specified what it wants etc in its ROM... Like o2 version will be different and T-mobile (Pink) YUK!

With all the ROMs that will come on here and if they solve the SPL problem which I'm sure they will then you can then add whatever ROM you want
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] nokmond:
Thanks mate. Might as well keep it then!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] Sleaze0:
I have just purchased an S7 which includes the Oreo operating system (binary 5). Will I be able to restore my TRWP backup of Superman Rom (Nougat binary 2) on it? If so, should I just restore boot, system and data?

Thanking you in advance.

EDIT: Thank you for your replies. Restored Superman Nougat ROM on the new device (binary 5). Seems to run perfectly, but yes, bootloader and modem haven't been (and probably can't be) downgraded. Cheers :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] Beanvee7:
Yes and no, TWRP will let you roll back the ROM, but the bootloader will stay as is. A mismatch between bootloader and OS version can cause issues, but not always. YMMV.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] Youdoofus:
ymmv? your methods may vary?

nvm, your mileage may vary
[P8 Lite (2017) Discussion] Badoolo:
Well, I am using for testing purposes a P8 Lite 2017 PRA-LX1 phone with Android 8.0 on it.

I want to install crdroid because I am using it already on my Samsung S5 Mini and I like it. EMUI just feels really really bad.

HOW do I unlock the bootloader? I am OK with paying DC Unlocker but I absolutely don't understand how to use DC Unlocker.

If there is a free method, I am also ok with that.
[P8 Lite (2017) Discussion] France079:
Just use DC unlocker, download DC unlocker on playstore for your phone and download the software for pc. On your phone install and open apk and create an account (it cost me R60.88 south African carency you get 4 credits. They give you a user name and password ) now goto to pc and open the software (DC unlocked) goto service put user name and password than goto unlock and then read unlock bootloader put your imei number. They will give u in less than a minute. But make sure you phone in supported mine is Huawei p8 lite 2017 running Android 8.0