yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raymondu999:
Hey there. I was wondering if any of you were into flashing... One thing I wanted to ask was, is there any way of flashing ROMs onto our devices by virtue of using VMware Fusion?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] xxnoelziexx:
I am a mac user and I always use my virtual machine to do all my flashing and have never had a problem. I am currently using VMware on my macbook :-)

I have a windows xp pro sp3

and a vista partition but all flashing is done under xp.

I have flashed a treo 750

Kaiser

i780
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raymondu999:
I tried recently to flash a new ROM onto my TyTN from VMware, but it tells me that I need to get a newer version of upgrader, or something like that.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jmat:
It's 100x easier (and faster) to flash via your microSD card, if your phone has the ability.

I gave up on flashing via VMware/Parallels after I pseudobricked my phone a few times (thankfully I was HardSPL'd, so it was easy to recover).
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sev7en:
I suggest you to do that operation by using a phisical Windows OS. I do that by using Parallels Desktop for Mac but it woesn't work (e.g.) perfectly using the Nokia Software Update.

No issues at all with PDA (JasJar and TyTn2).
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raymondu999:
So there's Parallels... anyone have experience with doing this on Fusion?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] petervbeck:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=399762
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] buffylig:
hi..I've a G4 and a new macBookPro and to flash roms into my i780 I've tried to use parallels (on Intel's macBookPro) with 2 positive results in 10 times..firewall and other programs in conflict(..I'm using XpPro sp3 and MacOSX10.5)....the best way is BOOT CAMP for me : more stablility than virtual machine!!

..good night..
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ceramik:
Hx2750 ASK?

Hello tommy_adsl,

Thank you very much for sharing your work

I'm hx2750 user

do you add hx2000 WM6.1 ROMs Series Korean Language, Location and Keyboard after Posting?

waiting for your answer

Thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treehugger31212:
Hi

i have an elephone A5 and it had a problem and i had to flash a stock rom but the one on the internet is Elephone_A5_20181128 my phone came with Elephone_A5_20181226 and because i flashed the Elephone_A5_20181128 it has a wireless update to the one the phone came with but it fails to install i guess they was updates before it and the one i flashed is old. :crying:

i was wondering if anyone with one of these phones has made a backup with twrp they could share. it would help a lot thanks.

sorry for bad grammer :(
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] intel3000:
Hi, Friends

I m still on 4.5.14 ( Nougat ), it's not that I haven't tried updating the ram but when I updated ( to 4.5.15 ) i was getting low battery performance, less camera performance and overall it just didn't sound fully baked and stable enough for me to update.

What I need from a phone is :

Stable Run

Great Battery Performance

Good Camera Performance

Any other useful feature are optional that it already has without effecting the beforementioned points.

Now android has released version 10 so i am almost 3 OS ver behind , Can anybody help me to know, Are there any real benefits of updating to latest OS apart from cosmetic changes ? I am an old motorola G user so i had to ask since they have forced us as a user so that we will brick if we go back to previous versions, they had changed something in the booting process ( mix of hardware and software )( i don't have an option to root since i use lots of financial which doesn't work great with rooting etc )
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] VajeenK:
For any one want to update ota without losing root

https://oneplusonestop.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/ota-update-rooted/
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] intel3000:
Please help me on this ? Is there no Op5 user here ?
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] strongst:
But that will never work if you're on nougat like op :)
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] strongst:
There's no Android 10 for oneplus 5.

And the last OxygenOS versions are stable as Nougat. I can't imagine why you should not update to Pie? :rolleyes:
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] intel3000:
Thank you for replying!

I know but i came from using Motorola Phones and they use to have a lot of issues with their updated ROMs plus they have disabled the functionality of rolling back as well so one has to take lots of precautions before updating to the latest roms even though they are available earlier than other manufacturers.

Just wanted to know if the rom is stable enough and didn't issue in normal use. I use lots of financial apps, due to security reasons rooting is a no go for me. So I am just being cautious.

Also, I use the non rooted version of GCam for Photography needs so is that still available with Pie or not ?
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] strongst:
For the gcam I don't know cause I never use it(have a professional DSLR) but check out apps section :good:
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] intel3000:
Thank you, Just one more question. Will it be easy to roll back to previous ROM ( Nougat ) in case I want to. I heard that since Oreo and in nougat there is some difference due to partitioning. Can I just upload the ROM onto the device and reboot into recovery to go back or I have to make partition myself?

The main thing I want to know is, DO I have to root to rollback or i can do that without rooting?
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] strongst:
You can roll back with local upgrade, but that's always risky when downgrading and you have a locked bootloader. I can't recommend this.

Also rolling back from oreo to nougat I can't think of it.
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] 350Rocket:
I would think that using banking apps you'd probably want to be on a newer version just for the security updates. This is the main reason I'm sticking to stock these days and just taking ota updates. Stick to pixel or OnePlus or Android one devices etc and you don't need root to get good software. I use Google pay and banking apps, purchase order online so I don't want to mess with rooting anymore except on my old backup phones like my htc one m8 to update it to Oreo from marshmallow.

Even if I could have root and Google pay working then you can't just keep updated by over the air updates as far as I know. I'd spend too much time researching how to install updates and regain root etc while now I just get an update pop up on my phone once every couple of months and tell it to install and wait a couple of minutes and it's good to go again.
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] 350Rocket:
I meant to add that I'm on 9.0.9 and I have had no issues with it. Performance is great, Camera is good, battery life is good. I had this phone for 2 years updated regularly from nougat to pie. I dropped the phone in the ocean and had to replace it, used a pixel XL for several months (on Android 10 recently). I bought another used op5 because I needed dual Sims for work. I don't regret it.

There was a choppy scrolling issue that came and went for a little while on pie (my first OnePlus 5 and also this replacement) but it seems to be completely gone now. Either with a recent update or possibly some setting I changed in developer options. Even when it had that issues it loaded everything extremely fast and held everything in ram usually. Battery life has never been an issue for me on this phone. It's better than the pixel XL but a lot and way better than a Galaxy s8. Standby time is really good and screen on time can go over 6 hours. Sometimes I unplug the phone before bed before it's even fully charged (90 percent or so) and go to work the next day and come home with over 70% still at 5pm.
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] arcticphoenix:
My OP5 went from stable to buggy after my first OTA update. Once I rebooted from the first update my phone started to freeze up and blackout until a forced reboot.

Once I hit 9.0.4 I lost use of my gyro, camera, and GPS. Until I used an Unbrick tool and went back to 8.1 Oreo.

The phone still freezes up, screen blacks out, and LED lights turn a baby blue color until I force a reboot.
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] 350Rocket:
That sounds like a hardware problem. Did you not attempt to return the device? If it was a software bug that happened to all of them it would have been talked about extensively here back when this phone was new and still popular.
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] arcticphoenix:
I apologise for necro-posting

Turned out to be a faulty(corrupt) OTA flash. Rolled back to 8.0 OTA and it went back to normal.:eek::rolleyes:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RyanJames b:
Hi I'm trying to root samsung a105fn everytime I try to boot to recovery I get error verifying vmeta image and goes straight back to download screen please help I just want to root my phone with magisk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] lbreak:
Hi all,

I seem to get this issue with pretty much every single Android Device I've owned in the last 8 years, particularly Samsung ones, and that's the good old "Android System" battery drain.

I have tried everything over the years, except rooting the device, but nothing has ever worked as a permanent fix.

I have tried:

- resetting device

- clearing cache

- restarting phone

- Shutting down background tasks

- Low battery usage location settings

- Deleting apps

- a million other things

But one way or another, Android System will eventually make its way back to the top of my battery usage stats.

I've come to the conclusion that it's the OS itself that's badly coded which causes this.

Has anyone, anyone, ever figured out a way to get on top of Android System battery drain?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] louforgiveno:
I'm not sure this effects that, but while setting up phone from a factory reset etc, do you Uncheck the fields that pop up such as analytics, wifi scanning (even while off) and all the other ones ?

I uncheck all the crap i can. It's possible if you leave those checked that could be the culprit a bunch of services running in bckgrd....

Just a guess....but if you say this has happened on all your androids....maybe this is why.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] lbreak:
Yep I un-ckeck all of those fields. Makes zero difference overall (I have tried both ways).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] louforgiveno:
That sucks, could it be due to social media apps syncing constantly? Sorry I'm out of ideas....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] winol:
Ibreak, maybe the problem is caused by apps sending reports and analytics via google services, samsung related stuff always sends analytics, even if you do not facebook, the damned thing is always lurking and consuming resources, google app and chrome also are resources-hoarders, I use ccswe to disable all useless firebase, crash, analytics, ad listeners, campaign trackers, components and some boot listeners within many apps
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] lennie:
Enable Developer option

then go Settings» Developer options» running services

Here you should see a bunch of services running. A number of them should fall under Android System, close all related to Android System (it is ok to do so)

Then under Google Play services close all (well two of those services are persistent so they will auto start back in a couple seconds, lockscreeen service and Google location service), nothing you can do about this other than to disable Google play services which would then cause a lot of apps to cry like pandora, samsung internet browser, play store, YouTube etc.

Then go settings» apps» 3 dots at upper-right hand corner» show system apps» android system» battery» disable background activity

On each restart Android system background activity will be automatically enabled so just disable it on each restart.

The thing is it could be a number of apps or services that is causing the issue through Android system but a good indicator of which app might be causing your issue is to check Android system memory which is right below background activity, there it should show which app is accessing the memory through it the most. Disable that app or clean its cache/data.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] lbreak:
Thanks lennie,

How do I check this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] lennie:
It's in the same place you'd find background activity, but instead of going to battery, go to memory.

settings» apps» 3 dots at upper-right hand corner» show system apps» android system» memory

At the top above average memory usage you should see the app.

I would recommend using a package disabler (ccswe from the play store or package disabler pro from their website)

You can disable a lot of things but DO NOT disable

boot agent (could lock your phone in bootloop)

Android system (could hand your phone on boot up)

One UI (unless you have a different launcher installed and enabled)

IMS is important too

There's one more I can't remember right now, but you get the idea.

If you're not too sure if something can get disabled with no harsh side effects then just post the question

settings» apps» 3 dots at upper-right hand corner» show system apps» android system» mobile data

Shows a list of all the apps that have access to the network through Android system, disable the the ones you're sure you're not using or will use. That should shorten the list of potential battery drainer.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] lbreak:
Thanks again.

It just shows an app called "face" under Android System memory. I assume that's for face unlock.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] Nastrahl:
Be careful with disabling OneUI, because it will also disable the task manager and you'll got a really ugly one instead.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] lennie:
Yeah that's for face unlock. I used to use it but since the fingerprint scanner update it has been working really well with my screen protector so I don't really need it anymore so I have it disabled.

If you don't use face.

How i use my phone to maximize my battery is simple. Things I don't use or need I keep them disabled, some I simply disable until I need them like the play store or galaxy store etc. Every other day or so I would check those apps to see if there is an update I might want to install.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] Nastrahl:
I only use the fingerprint sensor, but it's still shows (only) Face there. Any idea?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] lbreak:
There's really no fix to Android System drain, it's especially worse when you're on mobile data.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] sparky91:
Does this ROM support OTG? My first Noob flash to JT1510365's unofficial lineageos 15.1 went great. However, no OTG. App checkers show question marks (chainfire usb host diagnostics) or missing xml files using usb host check. Regular usb charging/adb commands work fine. Any suggestions? Otherwise what a great boost to slow tablet. N7 2013 32g. Hope ive finally posted in correct area.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] mawhite:
I have installed the current version on WKTask and am having a small issue. When using the on screen "X" programs close as expected however when using either of the hardware OK buttons the programs minimize. I have been unsuccessful in finding a solution through searching the forum and on google. Can any one provide any addition insight on this?

TIA,

Mark
[Mogul, XV6800 General] NotLutzik:
double-execute WkTaskCmd.exe
[OnePlus 7T Pro (Regular & McLaren) Q & A] arsenal74:
Oneplus said they were working on one months ago but here we have the 7t/7t pro and still no sign.

I am pretty sure given how capable the Oneplus devs appear to be that if they really were working on it we’d have it by now. So I am now assuming that really are not bothered. Personally it’s a feature I like a lot (LG even managed it with an LCD!) I’d just appreciate some honesty from Oneplus.

Sorry a bit of a rant but I’d so like to buy a OP 7t pro but this (plus maybe wireless charging too) are important features for me that so many other OEMs offer.

YMMV, thoughts?
[OnePlus 7T Pro (Regular & McLaren) Q & A] vooze:
If it comes, I would image it would come with Oxygen 10.5 or whatever with OP8
[OnePlus 7T Pro (Regular & McLaren) Q & A] TheGripper:
They have been "working" on it since the oneplus 5. I had the five and also thought it was months from releasing it.
[OnePlus 7T Pro (Regular & McLaren) Q & A] arsenal74:
No way they have been working on it IMO.
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] themagicalmage22:
I have it enabled but it doesn't work. Didn't had the problem before in old versions.
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] nikolajankov99:
Same problem on my mi 9t pro. Battery saver is OFF. Since the miui 11 upgrade, always on (ambient) display won't work.

Any suggestions?
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] nikolajankov99:
I had the same issue, just fixed it.

I went to settings > ambient display > show items and there it was automatically set to turn on in 00:00 and off in 00:00, so technically it was never on. I just set show items to always.
[Xperia Z4 Tablet General] Lanemorribain:
Knowing that SnapDragon 810 is defective in this part, the SGP771's thermal throttling is really tiring.

I saw that it is possible to edit thermal-engine.conf. But I didn't see any tutorials or files for the Z4 Tablet. I tried to edit some lines but was unsuccessful.

Any idea?
[Xperia Z4 Tablet General] deringhouse:
perhaps this post will help you

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=80080356&postcount=321

In the app there is also a settings page "Temperature" where you can enable "thermal throttling"

I just installed the app and can't say if it works well on my device.
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] qman66:
I've read about updating to the latest OTA and keeping root from several places including from topjohnwu himself but still a little unclear about this and don't want to mess it up. So in the manager I click uninstall and then press restore images. Then apply the system update? I'm not understanding if I have to download the new boot.img to re-root? That's where I am confused.
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] Pixeling:
1. Uninstall and restore images

2. Install OTA (Do not reboot)

3. Install Magisk --> Install to inactive slot. This works because magisk is still running as root and can patch the flashed boot.img.

4. Reboot
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] qman66:
Ok thank you. Unhiding magisk is not necessary?
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] Pixeling:
I don't think so
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] Cowbell_Guy:
Is this pixel specific? Or do you think this would work on the 7T as well
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] TheForgottenOne:
In theory it should work with any phone that has A/B (dual partitions) support.
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] rellomar:
One question. I have viper4android installed and I'm wondering when I uninstall and restore images, then update, will I lose viper and have to reinstall and redo all of my settings when I reinstall magisk?
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
I don't know what will happen via the OTA method, however, I can speak from experience that if you do your updates via fastboot and factory images, you will retain your V4A settings. I simply disable all of my modules, reboot, patch the updated boot.img, remove my face ID, fastboot the factory image with the -w removed, let it boot up, then fastboot the patched boot.img, boot up, enable my modules, reboot, and everything is as it was :good:
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] sharpz811:
delete
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] rellomar:
Could you possibly give me little more detailed instructions? I'm just coming back to Android after using an iPhone for a few years so I'm a little out of the loop with flashing. Mainly, I'm confused when you said fastboot flash the the factory image with the -w removed.
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
After you download and extract the factory image, you will see a file named, flash-all.bat. Within that file, toward the end of the script, you'll see the -w flag which tells the script to wipe your device. By removing that flag, your are essentially updating your OS without loosing any internal data kinda like an OTA does :good::cool:
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] tanipat:
with magisk installed how we can check whether we have update on the road, simply check in settings work?
[Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers] rellomar:
That worked. Thanks for the advice....makes updating very easy :good:
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] NerdVenom:
Not sure exactly when it happened, but my haptic feedback/vibration has stopped working on my phone. I've tried using Kernel Auditor to change the strength but it doesn't help.

Any ideas as to how I can regain it? I really hate missing some notifications because of it.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] manewinho:
Hi,

I installed a program on my Touch Dual that ******* my device. I can't even access to the Start menu. Is there any way of doing an hard reset without going to the definitions on the... start menu????

Please somebody help...
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] NetrunnerAT:
hard reset is hard reset ... it delete all!!!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] manewinho:
I know... I want to do it (hard reset). But the problem is that I can't access the Start Menu. Does anybody knows another way to do it?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
if you hard reset your start menu will be restored.

If you have any acess to a explorer aplication thru your today plugins, navigate to the windows/start menu folder.

Otherwise, hard reset with the keys shortcuts, like its explained in you manual.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] manewinho:
I can't access anything on the PDA since I turn it ON. It's like it gets stucked on something... I see the START Menu, and the two shortcut keys (in my case calendar and contacts) but I can't do anything unless turn the PDA off... But I will check the manual and see if I can do an hard reset without going to the definitions in the Start Menu (hope that's possible...)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] manewinho:
I have managed the situation. Hard reset made "manually". Anyway thank's to everibody that tried to help.

Some moderator/admin close this post please
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] foreverzero89:
xda used to be the best place for good how tos. but, over the last 3-4 years the how tos have been buried. i'm looking to root my s10e, but there are no stickyed how tos to root. where are they?
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] StratOS_HTC:
How to ...

Samsung added a new ‘VaultKeeper’ service which adds another lock on top of the ‘OEM Lock’ on the bootloader. Since fastboot mode is no longer available and possible block flash is verified/granted with bootloader feedback.

The new security feature will relock the bootloader once the OEM Lock is enabled and data is wiped. The bootloader state is then verified after the initial device setup.

Quoting topjohnwu “If you are running custom firmware with stock system, DO NOT try to wipe data or else you might end up bricking your device due to vaultkeeper locking your bootloader up, which will eventually lead to bootloader refusing to boot because unofficial partitions are detected.”

There are some good visual technicques added to fool current state while recovery manager coexist (TWRP) with magisk.

In every OTA update things are getting complicated, flashing now (Odin as examle) has more feedback with the bootloader and other checks.

There is a lot of how to's but only for initial builds ... Things are getting complicated ... Why to root this is a question now ?
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] hotrodwinston:
Often if there is no "how-to" thread it is because the phone does not have root or the root is complicated or still being developed.

How-to threads are for end-user simplicity not for ongoing development.