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[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] zzcool:
i never liked dex the big dex text in the corner the lack of live wallpaper support the weird ui design, wish someone did a desktop replacement properly instead of what they did with dex which was everything bad from windows and none of the good.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Cyrax-001:
so what I understand is this, they removed linux support but kept Dex as a way to use your cellphone as a portable PC. What is the problem since you can still connect your Note to a monitor and still use it as a PC that supports games and applications
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Collin80:
I'm not sure if you're just trying to troll or you're really like that. It's hard to tell.

But, it seems like you're wrong. Linux on Dex was integrated into the ROM. I got burnt by upgrading from an S9+ to Note 10+. I had no idea they'd drop support for LoD entirely and never support the Note 10 at all. It was done pretty suddenly. Without ROM support it won't run so that makes it really tough to work around on a Note 10.

So, I'm going to second the sentiment that it was a real **** move to create something like LoD, get many people excited, then abruptly drop it without any warning and also not open source it. There are plenty of us who would have been willing to support it and continue to develop it but now we'd have to start essentially from zero. That sucks. I'd expect this kind of crap out of Google as they're world famous for this kind of thing. I had hoped Samsung would do better. I should have known. Anyone else remember when Sony let people install Linux on a PS3 then suddenly decided to cancel that after advertising it everywhere and having research facilities using it for important projects? It seems like big corporations are perfectly happy to screw their customers on a moment's notice.

But, in the end UserLAnd exists as does Termux so I guess the vast majority of us will just use those. But, I'm not happy about it and I will remember this garbage. Elephants and hackers never forget.

But, hey, thanks Microsoft for screwing all the linux people who have Note 10 phones. We really appreciate it. Dex is really awesome on Linux too. I love having to boot to Windows to be able to use DeX. :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] jim262:
The manufacturing of phones is not done for the 1%, that care about LoD, but rather the 99% that don't. Get over it!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Tidbits:
DeX itself is integrated to the rom, but Linux is not. You still had to download the beta app and then use the app and install linux through that. There was no real integration of linux itself. Basically they turned DeX into a VM like all other software solutions that isn't integrated. You can just use a cable into a monitor an DeX you can use without booting Windows, Linux, or MacOS.

The difference between Sony and this. Sony advertised it as an actual feature for devices, but left themselves the option to remove features in terms you had to read before setup(people skip these).LoD was never advertised as an actual feature and advertised by Samsung as a side project which they may change or close it from the beginning of beta.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] blackomegatm:
I'll miss using libre office on my phone. Was able to do actual work on it for a while with linux on dex. Not excited to having to pay for ms office, which I don't use even on my pcs.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] largechad:
I was actually excited for linux on dex

This is unfortunate, I was very excited at the prospect of a full linux install on my samsung.

I have 256 gb of storage what am i supposed to do with that now?​
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Dreadsta5889:
From the begining Samsung said this will not be a permanent thing, It would never make it out of beta and would not be around for long. If your were hoping/expecting something different than you only have yourself to blame.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] player911:
Then why even bring it into the public eye?

Why not open source it?

I don't think they were profiting off of it. If you don't want to run with the ball, pass it off.

LoD is really a futuristic type idea. Dex works for my needs, but why stop there? For how many years have us nerds been wanting a total desktop solution in our pocket?

Samsung probably beta tested it with you all, found how awesome it is, pulled it, and looking to market it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] jemfalor:
wait for huawei.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] dave7802:
All this LoD is dead.......

All the app did was launch a container to launch linux, the app itself then used VNC into the OS.

Everything you need is on the store already, you have terminal, this is more than possible to do.

I run Ubuntu and Arch Linux, single click to deploy then i VNC to the Desktop.

This is no different from LoD they just have VNC baked into the App
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Comphard:
Aren't there any alternatives? Other applications running Linux ROMs in a container on Android in the same way, just not developed by Samsung?

In theory it should work just fine in Dex ecosystem.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] noha.ibraheem:
I understand what it means to be minority/niche. Maybe Samsung dropping support for LoD is financially reasonable, but I'm sure that smartphones can and will replace a big share of the PCs market in the future. These Android devices have the capability but only lack the authority to run Desktop apps. This is the reason why me and my team are determined to continue developing our project, NOMone Desktop.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ERROR_MAN!:
How can i RooT my 2.3.4 "SonyEricsson XPERIA Play (R800i)" with build number xxx.69?

Ok so....i have been looking for some tutorials (semi NooB here) and i cant seems to find some new one or one that is consistend or just about root.

Also many are outdated, poorly written, and there arent many tutorials as i saw about RooT-ing XPERIA Play, at least not the one with build number .69.

Also if i DO find some good (as i saw from comments) like this one for example: https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2204321 (i mean i only really trust XDA forum for stuff i do to my phone) the links for necessary files are long gone.

So...if anyone can please help me or rederect me to some updated, good and thread or website with tutorial that HAS working links, please do! :)

Anyway...

So i got "SonyEricsson XPERIA Play" (R800i) with build number 4.0.2.A.0.69, With Android version 2.3.4. Its never been RooT-ed as i know.

So i just want to RooT it so i can remove ANNOYING bloatware and free up some space and make it clean teh way I want tbh! I see no other reason to RooT it... I mean there is one but im still thinking about it (for now) and that is, as i heard, since X-Play doesnt have any OFFICIAL updaes, its stuck on Android 2 (gingerbread) i heard that i can flash a ROM to Android 4, and that improves gaming, which is what i want TBH, i mainly, if not always, use this phone for gaming and emulators, and if Android 4 custom ROM can improve already great (for X-Play ofc) performance, id be happy to do so!!!

But first thing first, i like to get informed first of all... But as for now, im just looking help for first step, and that is:

How to RooT my XPERIA Play, please?

Thanks guys! ^^
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ERROR_MAN!:
Anyone..i tried numerous stuff, but im constantly stuck..cant seems to rood. idk what am i doing wrong
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Agret:
https://xdaforums.com/t/how-to-zerg...-3-x-not-ics-4-x-or-gb-after-11-2011.1312859/
[Android Head-Units] ghino:
Hi, I would like to talk in this thread about a new kind of head unit with MCU STM32.

Do you have ? How is working?

Personally I have bought two week ago and am using it from a week and is better than the px5 unit that I have to another car.

Is there something to do to root it ? And is there the possibility to have modded firmware as other px head unit?
[Android Head-Units] simbac:
following. i also need firmware for that same unit , mine got corrupt and now I dont have audio, boots to radio which does not tune, no sound . Can you get the firmware for this device for me from your device??
[Android Head-Units] ghino:
Hi, unfortunately I bought from bangood and I have not the firmware. I am looking for it too. I would like to root also.

If it's sound and tuner, are you sure that is a firmware problem and it is not hardware ? I suggest a return for warranty of unit is new.
[Android Head-Units] OperatorB:
Hi everyone! :fingers-crossed:

I have a 'blue aluminum' PX6 with STM32 arrived some days ago. From outside it looks just fine however when I started to test it thoroughly it was proved to be disappointing.

I attach software detail in a screenshot.

From software/OS point of view my unit is very unsophisticated.

- OS has been customized by the manufacturer, almost nothing like android 9 on a phone.

- 'Radio' is a startup app and cannot turn it off, very annoying for me.

- 'Settings' app is very customized with limited functionality, really basic.

- The system does some iteration of boot cycle sometimes, I have not yet figured out what is the trigger.

Personally, I would install a custom ROM such as for MTCD/MTCE variants as soon as I have it, sadly no ROM for STM32 variant yet.

I am very sad that such a "modern" hardware has such poor software. :rolleyes:

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[Android Head-Units] OperatorB:
Hey,

I am also unskilled to extract the ROM from my unit (STM32).

I have seen a post on rooting this STM32 variant, you can try that.

Here is the link: https://xdaforums.com/android-auto/android-head-units/rockchip-px6-mcu-stm32-t3976665/page5

Thank you for being active on this topic! :good:
[Android Head-Units] da012807:
HI! The root is work, but don't update th SU Binaries! My HU goes to bootloop after restart. :(
[Android Head-Units] OperatorB:
Oh, I am sorry to hear.

Does reset button help getting out the loop?

Thanks for the warning. :good:
[Android Head-Units] da012807:
No. The HU is in transit to Poland for warranty repair.
[Android Head-Units] OperatorB:
I hope it returns to you asap working better then ever before. By the way, how did you confirm that rooting was successful?
[Android Head-Units] da012807:
Hi! I ckecked with some apps they needs root acces.
[Android Head-Units] da012807:
Hi! I receive back the HU from Poland. It works well. Brand new Android 10. But the kernel version is 4.4.167+. I think, its only an Android 9 Pie.

Os version: KC1E0112-PA1-1.1.4.3.1 - BLINK161 - 20191129 - 701F

MCU version: STM32-20191028-11-KC6-41
[Android Head-Units] OperatorB:
Great news!

You got a new MCU version also I guess.

Is that the 'general' blue aluminum version with plastic display you got?

I would be surprised if that is really Android 10, because my galaxy S10 just got update for Android 10 some days ago.
[Android Head-Units] da012807:
No. My HU from Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32808121524.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.66ca4c4do0qUhl
[Android Head-Units] OperatorB:
Grats mate!

Hm..it looks not so cheap hardwarewise.

In an alternate universe where I have a car to fit this model I probably bought one too. :cyclops:
[Android Head-Units] da012807:
Thx! I'm still waiting for rooting and hope to custom rom for this MCU ;)
[Android Head-Units] aphilgr1:
Anyone has an STM32 Android firmware in .img format? Needed badly
[Android Head-Units] pal.istvan2000:
I have mine rooted... 😁👌No problems with the firmware... Never got any errors or anything... Maybe I was lucky and they sent me one which was made with attention 🙈😂
[Android Head-Units] rb1213:
how did you root it?
[Android Head-Units] pal.istvan2000:
Uhmm... I just installed supersu and copied all files needed for root in their places... Reboot, Then busybox and there I have the root... 🙈
[Android Head-Units] tvladan:
Does anyone have a guide for upgarde from android 9 to 10 for dsp units via loader mode? And a good firmware image pls!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pascalo69pascalo69:
search root and custom rom for lenovo tab tb-x505l

thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imedeiros:
Root lenovo M10 X505L

Hi! I am looking for the same...Feeling quite alone with this tab model... Any luck with this?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watafak:
Still no one knows how to root it? :o
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watafak:
Its easy to unlock bootloader, but then trying to flash patched boot img, I get this:

"c:\adb>fastboot flash boot magisk_patched.img

target reported max download size of 535822336 bytes

sending 'boot' (0 KB)...

FAILED ()

finished. total time: 0.003s"

Who knows where the problem could be? :/

EDIT: I made it, just tried in other PC and it worked. Finally I have this old tablet with unlocked bootloader & rooted (^^,)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el-Loko:
Would you please describe what you have done to unlock bootloader and to root? And please share the links to to the apps (magisk patched...).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AwA8:
Hi,

can you please share your steps and files.

i am really interested in rooting my x505l
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 Questions & Answers] minionhunter:
My SD card keeps a persistent icon in the taskbar and a message that it is inserted in the lockscreen. Is there any way to get it to stop popping up like this? I've exhausted my googlefu on it and only find links to how to remove the SD card, but that is not what I need. I've never had a samsung phone or tablet where these notifications keep persisting where they are not needed. I don't need the tab to keep telling me I have an SD card in the device, I know that already, I just know i have a card in it.

Thank you for any help you can offer.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 Questions & Answers] minionhunter:
Ok, finally it swiped away. I swear I couldn't do that before. I don't know what I did.

Still can't swipe away LMT from the task bar.
[HTC Vox] naidu001:
Hi All,

Is it possible to disable the green light blinking in VOX.

Initially i thought it was for network...then later found that even blinks on offline profile also.

If it can be disabled..i can save some precious battery life..
[HTC Vox] pe039975:
Hi naidu001,

you can use DontForget utility.
[HTC Vox] h4waii:
DontForget does not work properly on the Vox for disabling the LED. Unfortunately there is no current way to disable it, even by removing the LED driver keys in the registry.
[HTC Vox] Pikranus:
I use RadioLED, it's not that convenient cause it stays in the memory all the time, but it's the only thing that works for me.
[HTC Vox] h4waii:
Hm. I didn't realize there was an application that worked for this on the Vox. Do you have a link or can post the file perhaps?

EDIT: Found it. It still does not seem to disable the GSM LED for me.

EDIT AGAIN: It will disable the GSM LED while the application is running and it works to flash LED every 5 seconds when an SMS is waiting! It works! I might disassemble it and find out what it's hooking to and see if it can be done in MortScript. For now I'm using a .lnk that runs load.exe and starts RadioLED at startup.
[HTC Vox] cpt.bert:
seems u know how to handle it hehe, could you make a similar program using mortscript? i would really like that!
[HTC Vox] h4waii:
I will look into it. Running it as a bgprocess takes up roughly 600KB of RAM. Not bad, but not so great. MortScript would chop it down to only 30-40KB.

I think it works by hooking API and interrupting the LED driver and then allowing it to pass after reading a registry key to check for any unread SMS. If there was a way to dump RAM in realtime this would be so easy.
[HTC Vox] cpt.bert:
...dont understand it but i sounds great! think u can make it work?
[HTC Vox] h4waii:
After looking at a short snippet code dump from RadioLED.exe, it uses standard nLED API which is not really possible with MortScript. I have attempted to use some of the nLED controlling applications made, but none of them yield any results so far. I will keep working.

EDIT: Okay, I have included RadioLED and radiodump which is a strings dump of the PE. It should include any required API calls, however, http://blog.csdn.net/hesicong/archive/2005/08/02/444156.aspx and http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/led.html give clear and concise .NET and C examples of controlling the LED. The ALLLEDMGR driver is not used on our S710's - so NueLED from no2chem does not work and neither do most other applications currently available.

Perhaps it's time for me to dust off the Visual Studio CD and whip some **** up for you guys.
[HTC Vox] h4waii:
Alright. VS2008 installed. I will be slowly working on making an application to control all of the LED's on our Vox. I am borrowing a laptop and will be working on it while I have the laptop once a week. Will update when I have working code!
[HTC Vox] mdou:
Not trying to hassle anyone but has any progress been made on this?
[HTC Vox] naidu001:
Patiently waiting...!!

Yeah...Patiently waiting...!!
[Moto Z3 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] rocktone:
Hello,

If you're like me, you may have accidentally flashed and wiped your partitions, including the bootloader, causing your device to become an expensive doorstop or paperweight.

First of all, take a deep breath.

Second of all, you can use blankflash to fix it and allow the phone to boot back to the bootloader.

Check if your phone is detected. On Linux, your phone will be listed in lsusb as a QUALCOMM MODEM (or something close to that). That means your phone is not truly dead!

Go to https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/beckham/blankflash

Download the zip file there

Save it somewhere

unzip the file

If you're using Linux (you should be), this is easy at this point. Plug the phone in, and run ./blankflash.sh

The terminal will flash and say that it's attempting to poll /dev/ttyUSB0 (or something similar). This is a good sign. Linux, unlike Windows, will let you directly write to a raw USB device. On Windows you'll have to install buggy QUALCOMM drivers that never seemed to work for me. (not that it won't work for you, but I wouldn't bet on it)

It's likely that the flash will fail. Keep trying. Hold down the power and volume down buttons and keep holding it down.

Eventually, it should work and you'll see that the phone has been flashed. Your phone will boot to a weird looking bootloader screen. Once that happens, you are done. If you reboot the phone, it'll boot to the same screen, and you can simply use fastboot for the rest.

I hope this helps someone. I spent 4 hours trying to get my device to rise again from the grave. If I can save one other person from this same issue of trying to find a working blankflash, then it'll be worth it!.
[Moto Z3 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] TheWerewolf:
Actually, for the record, Windows most certainly lets you write directly to a raw USB device. Just not the way Linux or Unix does it.

In any case, the blankflash.sh script just runs qboot - which is exactly what the Windows version does except it runs qboot.exe.
[Moto Z3 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] j_cesarbm:
Grace and Peace my friend. Thank you very much for your help. With your help I was able to recover my MOTO Z3 Play. God bless you.
[Moto Z3 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ftagnome:
Still bricked Z3Play

Hello -

Here's my situation - I've got a bricked Z3 Play. It was rooted, with twrp-3.3.1-1-beckham installed, though the recovery screen never worked right after that - only brought up the splash screen.

All was well until I tried to install XPosed Framework.

Now my phone won't boot (bootloop), and as I mentioned already, TWRP doesn't work - it gets stuck on the splash screen.

From the Fastboot screen, I can execute some fastboot commands (fastboot version 29.0.5-5949299) however can't flash - it fails.

From the (frozen) TWRP screen, I can execute ADB (Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.41 / Version 29.0.5-5949299). I can even get an ADB shell and see the phone's filesystem.

QBoot (Motorola qboot utility version 3.40) never finds any device.

I have installed the latest Moto drivers from their site. I'm running Windows 10, in TEST mode.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.
[Moto Z3 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] kewlzter:
Fastboot "boot" into older version of TWRP?
[Moto Z3 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] sprays:
In my case, lsusb found my moto z3 play as a "Motorola PCS"

Because of this, i guess, the ./blank-flash.sh stuck in "<waiting for device>"

Its mean i need install a driver? im using distro Deepin 15.10.1
[Moto Z3 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] KageCM:
Sorry for the length. TL;DR: It was the USB-C cable/slot. Needed a USB-A to C or the USB-A slot

I ran into a problem trying to fix a hard brick so I'm posting what happened to me and what finally worked just incase anyone else runs into this kind of problem. First heres what got me into trouble. Now instead of wiping out a partition, I was trying to make backups of Slots A and B before doing anything. I had finished Slot A and was typing in my preferred backup naming for B when TWRP just restarted. I figured something might be bugging so I opted to reboot the Recovery. BIG mistake. I ended up switching to the empty B partition, which I didn't realize for many hours.

I was stuck with hard brick, the phone showed up as a QUALCOMM MODEM like rocktone said, but blankflash kept not finding the phone.

[ -0.000] Opening device: \\.\COM9
[ 0.006] Detecting device
[ 34.020] ERROR: sahara_greet_device()->change_mode()->do_hello()->IO error
[ 34.020] Check qboot_log.txt for more details
[ 34.021] Total time: 34.022s
[ 34.021]
[ 34.021] qboot version 3.86
[ 34.021]
[ 34.021] DEVICE {
[ 34.021] name = "\\.\COM9",
[ 34.021] flags = "0x64",
[ 34.021] addr = "0x28FD74",
[ 34.021] api.bnr = "0x482CE0",
[ 34.021] }
[ 34.021]
[ 34.021]
[ 34.021] Backup & Restore {
[ 34.021] num_entries = 0,
[ 34.021] restoring = "false",
[ 34.021] backup_error = "not started",
[ 34.021] restore_error = "not started",
[ 34.021] }
[ 34.021]

I went as far as trying a making a bootable live usb of linux, which I have no experience with, trying to fix this and getting almost the same thing.

[ 0.000] Opening device: /dev/ttyUSB0
[ 0.000] ERROR: device_open()->error opening device
[ 0.000] Check qboot_log.txt for more details
[ 0.000] Total time: 0.000s
[ 0.000]
[ 0.000] qboot version 3.86
[ 0.000]
[ 0.000] DEVICE {
[ 0.000] name = "/dev/ttyUSB0",
[ 0.000] flags = "0x60",
[ 0.000] addr = "0x161C5A60",
[ 0.000] serial_nix.device_pathname = "/sys/bus/usb/devices/4-1/4-1:1.0/ttyUSB0",
[ 0.000] api.bnr = "0x13D03D0",
[ 0.000] }
[ 0.000]
[ 0.000]
[ 0.000] Backup & Restore {
[ 0.000] num_entries = 0,
[ 0.000] restoring = "false",
[ 0.000] backup_error = "not started",
[ 0.000] restore_error = "not started",
[ 0.000] }
[ 0.000]

It was still a couple hours later of banging my head against a wall that finally made me think of switching from USB-C cable/slot I was using (this phone is my first experience using USB-C) to a USB-A to C cable/slot. I was so confused trying to get linux to work and it kept hanging so I rebooted to windows and blankflash worked the first time with the cable/slot switch. Hopefully this is helpful to someone down the line.

TL;DR: It was the USB-C cable/slot. Needed a USB-A to C or the USB-A slot
[Moto Z3 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] moonlightdrive:
Thanks, it worked on the first try and literally took 5 secs. (setup: Windows 10 64-Bits), i did not download a particular Qualcomm driver, just plug the dead device and Windows recognized it as QHUSB_BULK. Again, thank you.
[Moto Z3 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Redman3000:
Hopefully helps

I don't know if the info will still be helpful, but I booted TWRP 3.4.0-0 and works fine with Z3 play. I haven't tried to flash it, I just " fasboot boot " it.