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[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] ThePS4Gamer:
Hello there, other S10e owners,

Recently, I took advantage of an early Black Friday sale to get an S10e, the phone I was craving for a while. They said the image quality is on par with the Pixel 3 after the May update, but in reality, it's just as noisy and "oil-paintingish" as my Xperia Z1 Compact from four (!!!) years ago.

The samples are in the attachment of this forum post; the first and the third image was taken with the Google Camera app, and the second and forth one with the Samsung Camera app. The first two images were taken with HDR, but the latter ones without HDR.

As you can see in the non-HDR pictures, the Samsung Camera picture has less noise, but cold, washed-out colours and less detail thanks to the aggressive noise cancellation.

On the other hand, the Google Camera image has the correct colour representation and more detail, but with the sacrifice of noise cancellation.

With HDR+, though... Things get even worse. The Samsung Camera app now blurs out even more detail and the Google Camera app just cranks up the ISO to levels that make the image too bright.

In conclusion, the image quality is not on the promised levels, but I hope there's something I can do with it (like a good setup.xml file that can fix GCam to shoot exceptionally good images in both sun- and low light or fixing the Samsung Camera app). So, in order to fix this, I need your help. Please give me advice to pimp back up the image quality to the levels I saw in camera reviews.

Edit: Oops, I forgot to mention that I have the Exynos version.
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] Julyh0rse.ManU:
Please give me the Gcam download link. I couldn't find any Gcam version that worked well on my S10e Exynos. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] ThePS4Gamer:
If you can do something with it, here's the link: GCam Exynos APK

In sunlight, it should theoretically work with the stock settings, but they say it's recommended to change the auto-exposure correction to 1/2 sec, the Night Sight correction to 1/4 sec and the exposure compensation to -3,0 to get the best out of daytime GCam photos.

For Night Sight images, it's recommended to use the mackytravel-nightsight.xml file without any changes for outdoor night photos and for indoors, turn off auto-exposure correction and exposure compensation, change the Night Sight correction to 1

or 2 sec (depending on the level of darkness) and in the Advanced drop-down menu, turn off the ISO limit. This way, you can get more detail out from the S10e's powerful camera sensors.

Lastly, if you'd like to shoot something with the wide-angle lens, just change the auxiliary camera switching method to the long-press method.

You can find my GCam config folder with all of the said configuration files at the link here.

Just install the GCam apk, copy-paste the config folder to the root of your internal storage (/storage/emulated/0/) and double tap on the black area around the shutter button to choose between the three configuration files.
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] Wutang200:
I've noticed a similar thing with my camera on my SD 855 model where images taken using the camera just don't look very natural or realistic. They look very much like a painting!

Currently I get better results with HDR on and scene optimiser turned off.

My iPhone 7 photos still look a bit more natural at times but obviously less detailed.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] johnny886:
Due to improper operation of some users, the persist.img was damaged, so I deleted it. For details on how to fix persist, see the tutorial in the forum.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] reg66:
Thanks, but what mean when you keep saying 'brush'!?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] johnny886:
brush=flash!
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] ateber:
Hello,

I just got my rog phone 2. and I am WW_16.0640.1908.12_0. And I was wondering if this method will still work on it ? https://www.screencast.com/t/MWxNqQnAt
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Warlord_Link:
Follow your method but can't read persist, got this error:

00:00:05: {ERROR: WritePort:5164 Could not write to '\\.\COM3', Windows API WriteFile failed! Your device is probably *not* on this port, attempted 100 times

How can put the phone out of EDL Mode?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] masl100:
So after that I will receive FOTA through the asus website or from the system update?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] johnny886:
You need to install Qualcomm's driver first, then follow my tutorial, long press the power button and the volume up and down keys to exit the EDL mode. If you are not familiar, you can go to youtobe to watch the video first, thank you! I hope I can help you.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] johnny886:
Yes,you can!
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] johnny886:
If there is a system update, you can download the upgrade package

to the root directory of the phone, and then restart the phone, you can

enjoy the system upgrade service, will not know your data, enjoy it!
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] oilsuriya:
WW_16.0622.1907.33_0 will still work on it ?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] ateber:
Where we can find the drivers that you mentioned. My computer cant find any device. I tried to reboot in fastboot as you mentioned and after I started "0.Reboot to EDL Mode.bat" it is saying waiting for device.

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I think I found the drivers. Now after I hit 0.Reboot to EDL Mode.bat The screen on my phone turns off and I think I am in EDL Mode, then I hit 1.ReadPersist.bat and the generated persist.img is empty and also I tried to read it through uedit64.exe but no luck. Here is a video for reference. https://www.screencast.com/t/wdjJzo4iLsc
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] dungnghien:
Still not update OTA
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] tamghi:
Is those tools or similar tools available for linux ? If so, where can they be downloaded ?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] RedLeader00:
Does this change the fingerprint from CN to WW?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] dungnghien:
Can not read persist.img 0kb. I have installed driver ELD mode
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] arxxx:
so no fota update? still manual update?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] avivv:
Will this procedure wipe my phone or not?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] ckultanahiran:
Same issue as me.

Thank you.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] avivv:
Me too ):
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] KanadeTi:
Yes It does!

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Just make sure your path do not containing Spaces

For example: rename "How to flash Gloabl Firmware without ROOT" to "ZS660KL"
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] avivv:
I tried but still the same.

With some drivers I get the error message:

" {ERROR: Failed to open com port '\\.\COM4'}"

And with some I get something like Windows can't write file.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] KanadeTi:
reinstall the driver maybe effective

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[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] avivv:
YESSSSSSS I managed to solve it.

What I did?

I changed the folder name to what suggested by KanadeTi and moved it to c:\

I installed this program and cleared all the previous Android\Qualcomm devices:

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

Also whenever I was trying to run the file the QPST configuration software was open and interfered with the port so you have to close it.

Also I downloaded the latest Qualcomm drivers :

https://gsmusbdrivers.com/download/qualcomm-hs-usb-qdloader-9008-driver-64-bit-windows/

and that's it, worked like a charm, I verified and my fingerprint is changed to WW.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] RedLeader00:
Thanks, could I follow this guide on my phone? Taking into account that it is already ww in rom and fingerprint but it was done following the 21 flash steps method. I just want to have widevine L1 as my phone currently shows L3.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] AdamxDesolator:
johnny886 thank you so much!!! I was on last CN firmware and it worked like a charm!! I'm on WW firmware now without any issue at all! Just restored my last backup and the transition is flawless!! Awesome!!! Thank you Again!! You are the best!! :D
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] KanadeTi:
You can follow this guide.

https://xdaforums.com/rog-phone-2/how-to/guide-convert-cn-to-ww-rom-26-08-t3961042

Flash WW raw and relock your bootloader.

Then use the method provide by this thread(to change fingerprint). This should make your phone widevine L1.

(Even you just flash raw image and relock your bootloader, you get widevine L1)
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] lavenderyew:
Odd thing is I can read persist.img but unable to find CN inside it
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] v3ll:
what if the phone bootloader already locked? and i can't unlock it again via apk (said connection issue)
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] reg66:
https://xdaforums.com/rog-phone-2/how-to/how-to-unlock-rog2-phone-via-edl-mode-t4008267

You could try this method to unlock bootloader again...
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] avivv:
Watch the Youtube video and you will understand what to do.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] reg66:
So, does this method wipe the device? I saw it was asked but I don't think it was answered...
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] jlcfeliz:
I would like to say thank you, my rog phone 2 was dead, I performed the procedure and he came back to life
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] reg66:
Does this method wipe your device? Thanks
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] tong5563:
help my phone totally unable to turn on after clicking reboot to edl mode please help me!!!

(Solve)

i stuck in edl mode just hold vol up+down and power to quit.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Przemobtm:
Blocked Phone

Hello

I tried to do everything according to the tutorial, but I got to point 3 my persist file is 0 bytes. I can't turn on the phone or do anything.

Please help
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] tong5563:
try hold vol UP+DOWN and power
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] ngageqdzdh:
can you give me the original persist.img of cn version?i change cn to ww,now i can't upgrade，put the upgrade package in the root directory of the phone,but it said upgrade failed
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Juraviel:
I think there's a typo in the last bat file (fastboot.exet). Does that not affect the outcome of the procedure? I think it's supposed to wipe the device at the end but doesn't because of the typo
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Bocil00:
Help me

can i use this method? with my spec asus fingerprint CN rom WW 16.0622.1906.19 and where do i start?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Bayramm:
its worked after i try a few times.. well thnk you
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] alucke:
it keeps giving me 0 byte persist.img. I have tried 10 times and the same thing everytime. HELP
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] he11fire_ua:
I somehow unsuccessfully flashed my device through raw and now my serial number is displayed as C4ATAS000000

Also, the persist folder on the device is empty.

I think this is the problem.

Can someone post me a ready-made persist.img perhaps by editing and flashing it I will solve my problem.

There are 3 more people with the same problem. For all people, it appeared after flashing raw with a SIM card inserted
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] tuannghia1985:
Please help me. I have widevine security L3 instead of L1 (also at relock bootloader). Here is what happen to me:

1. Unlock the bootloader and get persist.img, but wrong size of package then i have lost the serial number (C4ATAS000000). The size of persist file is 16mb instead of 32mb by default.

2. Try to get another persist.img from another device, then use Ultra editor to find and change back to my real Serial Number. And it worked.

3. Figure out widevine security is always stay at L3, whenever bootloader is re-locked. Also Asus unlock bootloader apk from asus homepage is not working, it said "error network".

4. Do flash raw from all version, also factory reset...etc but no luck.

.............................................

Do you know what is really happened when we flash wrong persist.img and flash another persist (which is already change Serial number back to real one)?

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For serial number, please look back to your real one, and send me your SN by private inbox or else my telegram: 0985124353 then i could edit the persist.img to gain back your serial number, but you can not use a normal way of unlock bootloader as before. Due to bootloader apk from asus will no working at all even widevine is triggered to L3, can not gain back to L1.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] xhanty:
Hello everyone. Today I got my rog 2 tencent edition (which came from the U.K. with a friend to Turkey). It seems the seller converted my phone into ww 1908.12-0 firmware but my fingerprint is still cn (widevine is L1 atm if that matters). Now these are what I want to end up with; ww fingerprint, root access, latest updated firmware, and maybe twrp too. There are many guides here i know but i dont know which order to follow (first unlockbootloader, or first update, then finger or then what etc.)

Can someone guide me what to do from where i am (1908.12ww, cn fingerprint), which guides should i follow in what order? Thanks already.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] fethi2:
Your device should beAsus unlocked already, I have same device, you have to follow

1- Unlock bootloader

2- Follow the video step by step or root with root file (you have to check which build is your device) 1908.12 I assume you have

3- If you follow the video you are done

4- If you dont, after root install magisk manager.apk(which you can find on rooting section), then you have to install root explorer navigate to system mount R/W and go to /system/vendor/factory then find COUNTRY, open with text editor. Change CN to WW (capital letters)

5-Reboot

You're done.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] xhanty:
Thanks for the reply but what about 1910.64 update? As far as i understood from your reply, i should do all these steps with the root file of my current firmware which is 1908.12-0. so how and when im gonna updatr to the latest firmware?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] fethi2:
If you dont want root you can follow video and then you can upgrade via asus updater.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] xhanty:
Then how im gonna root? Just follow a basic root guide? Or we just cant have root with the latest firmware? Im confused.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] fethi2:
Do you want root? Either way best choice is first upgrade then root.

After updating to 1910.64 you can find root img dont have to download all of them, just root.img on this thread.

https://xdaforums.com/rog-phone-2/how-to/1910-64-ww-update-t4021947

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This is the other guide if you prefer. Step by step tutorial

https://xdaforums.com/rog-phone-2/how-to/guide-to-check-change-fingerprint-cn-to-t4002279
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] xhanty:
Alright then, now it has been resolved. Unfortunately my pc is linux right now, i will do these as soon as i find a 64 bit windows pc. Thanks for the help.

Btw do you know if viper4android is safe and working on rog 2?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] fethi2:
Haven't tried it yet. Speakers sounds well I think. I recommend a research before installing viper.

BTW if you brick dont panic if you can boot into bootloader mode. You can flash RAW files for a clean install.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] xhanty:
I want viper for earphones (for bass boost), i hope it wont brick my phone. We will see. Thanks for all the help bro.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] fethi2:
Your welcome and good luck :)
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Sinuhejrz:
does it works on the version 1910.64?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Chea Chandarin:
5.Open Persist.img with UltraEdit, press Ctrl+F, come out a search box, enter the capital CN,

click search, change CN to uppercase WW, Then press Ctrl+S to save

i just Ctrl + F i saw nothing not like as video you have shown
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Nikws:
Hello to all and thank you for your efforts in advance

The persist image file never appears in my folder

I followed the instructions

I unzipped I'm a folder under c: named with no spaces

I have the latest Qualcomm drivers

I tried the guide in a rog laptop with windows

I have the tencent version with the global rom and I would like to update to Android 10

Sorry if it's something stupid
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] AdamxDesolator:
How can we update to Android 10 from here? I get the message "updated filed" if I download the firmware from the asus website directly from the phone.. please help :)

I got a CN rog phone 2 converted with this method to WW.

now how can we install android 10 WW??

I just updated successfully from Version WW-16.0631.1910.35 to Version WW-16.0631.1910.64.

Now I'm trying to get from Version WW-16.0631.1910.64 to Version WW-17.0210.2001.60 but it fails.. any advice?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] masl100:
I want to ask which way better this way or with unlocking bootloader to convert to WW?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] NaisuTV:
Will this wipe user data? Fresh install? Need to unlock bootloader?

UPDATE:

For those that have these questions, here are the answers:

1. Yes, at the end of Flash process it should do a Factory Reset

2. Same as above.

3. No, I didn't unlock mine.

4. Updated to Android 10 using the official firmware from ASUS website

Thanks [MENTION=9463297]johnny886[/MENTION] for this very easy process.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Nikws:
I solved it

USB port problem

Everything worked after that

No data wipe

Fingerprint successfully changed to WW

As we speak I am downloading the update...

Thank you my friend

Edit: still getting the error msg after the restart when try to update....

Any ideas?

Downloaded the official rom from Asus

Edit: solved again by installing first the last version. Of 9 and then 10

Phone is almost perfect

Thanks again for the guide
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Juraviel:
be very careful with this guide, mistakes and omissions are plentiful, too many to list. starting with the broken-ass "instruction", i dont know why it doesnt mention all the way the process can go wrong, i dont understand why these guides mention what to do if youre already versed in changing roms and thus dont need this kind of help, and if youre not, it should be complete with all the things little nuances, i was constantly on edge the entire time (yeah yeah i know it's free and i can just not follow it yada yada, it's still my opinion you should take least bit of responability) if youre going to provide this.. whatever you wanna call it). that said. you can use it to upgrade to a10. doesnt require unlocking the device. you have to change folder name to something that doesnt contain spaces. you need to make sure you have qualcomm driver 9008 drivers installed and tested from a reputable source. while using ultraedit to find the CN line (of which there's only one, HOW HARD IS TO MENTION THAT???). you'll still probably end up with a 0 byte persist file, i dont even know what i did to fix it while frantically trying different things. all in all, if this is your first attempt at flashing/upgrading roms, learn everything from scratch and disregard this guide entirely. and no i didnt mention everything that needs to be executed perfectly, i want to forget i ever attempted this. i just wanted to issue this little warning since nobody else bothered. cheers.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Guybrush.d:
Hi everybody, I've just got a ROG phone 2 12gb 512 tencent version, I was surprised because I thought the tencent was just 8/128...anyway it come from China but it has a global rom

Build num. PKQ1.190414.001.WW_Phone-16.0631.1910.44

And the system says Android 9, now can anybody help me to upgrade it to Android 10 and enable the OTA? I have Google play, Netflix, etc but the system doesn't find any update. I also tried the Asus updater from this forum but it doesn't find anything, can someone give some advice on how to enable it? I don't think I need the whole process because my phone already has the WW firmware... thanks!
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Santhonius:
Download device info hw from play store and check device fingerprint if it is ww or cn. If it is cn then follow guides to change the fingerprint of your device to ww. OTA can't be enabled no matter what unless you choose to use cn rom with cn fingerprint. After changing fingerprint to ww, Asus updater should work. If your fingerprint is ww and the updater still doesn't work, download firmware from Asus website, put in root of internal storage, and reboot. For safety it is recommended to flash the last version of Android 9 before flashing Android 10
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Guybrush.d:
Well, thank you can't you provide me a link? I think my device has already a WW fingerprint, thanks!
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Santhonius:
https://www.asus.com/Phone/ROG-Phone-II/HelpDesk_BIOS/

Remember to check if the rom you're downloading is ww or cn. Both kinds of roms are on the website and you only want the ww ones
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Guybrush.d:
Thanks! I understand now...I was missing the "show all" button on Asus website, because it was showing me just the CN rom... So one more question which rom version is stable then? It's worth to upgrade to Android 10 or is better to stay on 9 for now?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Santhonius:
I think stable Android 10 is useable as daily driver, but it has some minor bugs (just hurts user experience, nothing that can kill your phone). If you want the newest stable for the Android 10 features and better security, go for Android 10. If you're very patient (Asus is very slow on updates) and absolutely hate bugs, then stay on Android 9.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Guybrush.d:
Thanks yesterday I've just upgraded to last Android 9 (.66) I'll keep waiting for a while I've got the phone yesterday so I can wait...
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] Chowfan27:
Same issue here did you already find any solution?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Guides, News, & Discussion] DJBhardwaj:
Hey everyone, I have decided to convert my Tencent edition to Global. I have found two guides in this sub-forum. One of them requires root, while the other doesn't. Could someone please tell me which one should I use?

1) https://xdaforums.com/rog-phone-2/how-to/guide-to-check-change-fingerprint-cn-to-t4002279

2) https://xdaforums.com/rog-phone-2/how-to/guide-convert-cn-to-ww-rom-26-08-t3961042

And what about unlocking the bootloader? I read that the official unlock APK from Asus doesn't work on Android 10?