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[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Va2c:
The only real reason to get OP 7 Pro over K20 is for OIS. Makes a real difference during low light and while shooting video.

Wide-angle camera is also a little better and has manual focus. During day time, you won't get much difference cause both have same main sensor. GCam fixes most of the color inconsistencies for both phones.

If you plan on shooting at night time, I highly suggest you go for OnePlus. Even the 7T has OIS so that's a good middle ground [and has 2x zoom instead of 3x].
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] jhs39:
You shouldn't believe anything you read in the tech press about OnePlus phones--especially what you read on XDA.

OnePlus fired all of the programmers who created Oxygen after OnePlus Marshmallow and moved all coding to the Hydrogen team in China to save money.

Hydrogen was supposedly the Chinese ROM for OnePlus phones--but since OnePlus doesn't actually sell phones in China they were programming a ROM nobody used.

Since Oxygen Nougat coding on OnePlus phones has been completely inept--a fact that is widely known among developers and software engineers but not discussed on XDA.

The last OnePlus phone developers actually used was the OP3T--which was the last OnePlus phone released before the Oxygen programmers were fired.

All development for OnePlus phones is artificially sustained by OnePlus who gives free phones to developers since they would never spend their own money on OnePlus devices.

Since developers don't actually use OnePlus phones as their daily driver ROMs and kernels for OnePlus phones are compiled. These ROMs always have bugs--any build of any custom ROM for a OnePlus phone always has bugs even if it's supposedly stable.

Since OnePlus ROMs are compiled by developers who don't use the phones daily themselves multiple ROMs will often have the exact same bugs at the same time. Someone will post code to fix the bug on GitHub and if the code is approved all of the devs for the various ROMs will incorporate the same code into their own ROMs.

Usually developers of OnePlus custom ROMs don't know there are bugs in their "stable" ROMs until users report them and these bugs are sometimes serious enough to affect the basic functionality of the phone.

I personally used "stable" OnePlus custom ROMs that wouldn't boot up beyond the splash screen, where the ability to make or receive calls was broken, where Bluetooth, WiFi or GPS was broken, where opening the settings or trying to make a call would completely crash the UI--you get the idea--and this was all on ROMs that were labeled as stable.

Because the firmware on OnePlus phones is ineptly coded it's impossible to take decent pictures without using the ported Google Camera App--a $200 phone from Samsung or Xiaomi takes better pictures than a $700 OnePlus phone using the native OnePlus Camera app.

OnePlus phones are overpriced and ineptly coded--phones from Xiaomi and Honor are a much better value.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Robbo.5000:
Don't read too much into the above post.

As far as hardware is concerned, there is not much difference between the 2, with the exception of OIS being added to the OP phone. Both have the same Sony sensor as the main module, but OP have slightly better secondary modules.

Software wise Xiaomi seem to be ahead of OP, in terms of computational photography. As I see it, Google and Huawei are way ahead, with Samsung third and probably Xiaomi 4th when it comes to computational photography.

So OP edge the camera hardware, but Xiaomi edge the camera software.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Anonda:
I also in confusion about these two phones.

Finally Op cancelled only for Headphone jack.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] josephnero:
Better check both phones in gsmarena camera tool and check yourself
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] niyonsv:
Already checked, viewed videos and read many articles. But I want to hear from real people besides reviews, that's why I'm asking.

- are the images great with the photos taken with GCam?

- does the EIS work with all three cameras? or with any camera?

- if the K20 Pro is compared to OnePlus 6T in camera how do you rate them?
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] AvgZing:
- GCam makes colors match up closely. Night mode is minorly better on the OP, but for a casual user it's not incredibly noticeable. Astrophotography is just as good as on any other phone. Main cameras are the same on both phones (48MP Sony), while wide angle is minorly better on the OP (imo, not enough of a quality difference to justify price difference)

- EIS works with main camera on both phones in GCam, OP has OIS on main camera as well. Neither phone can take wide angle video in gcam. OP can't take wide angle video in stock, K20 Pro can.

- K20 Pro is very significantly better than 6T. It matches with the OP 7 Pro much better.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] niyonsv:
Thank you so much for the details mate. But unfortunately I'll be buying a pre-owned OnePlus 7T tomorrow. A deal is almost confirmed. I found a couple of things of 7T better for me than K20 Pro. The motorized pop-up camera is one I don't like in K20 Pro, and that's why I'm not even picking 7 Pro, which I can get in the same range. Also I love the 90Hzv display.

These things are too personal and I won't say that K20 Pro is not a good one. It's a great device and I should have brought earlier once but I didn't have money that time.

Anyways thanks again for the detailed information.

EDIT: Just dropped the deal because of unreliability.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] MartonDev:
I just use GCam and it's miles better than the stock op7
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] dyush007:
Unlocked bootloader, flashed twrp through fastboot, no errors, when I input fastboot boot recovery.img it didn't work, Failed (command unknown) tried booting into recovery manually through keys and stock recovery opened up. Tried flashing Orangefox, same error. What do I do?
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] RedGreenBlue123:
Use custom roms.

Or boot into recovery after flash, before Android boots.

Stock ROM always overwrite recovery with stock.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] cm0002:
Has anyone tried using the 7 pro dual SIM tray in the 7t?

There seems to be a much better selection that doesn't ship out of China directly.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Guides, News, & Discussion] abhiiceman:
Hi guys I own a galaxy s10, I was running on android 9 then I switched to the first beta update of android 10 in that I encountered the ph ok ne lockout issue where the phone wouldn't unlock even if we enter correct pin and resetting from stock recovery was the only option. But after the reset I'm not able to set the pin/pattern/password which in turn wont allow to add any biometric. I tried reverting to stock android 9 using smart switch app in pc still same issue and after that I received the official android 10 still the issue was not fixed.

I tried contacting samsung customer care but they are the worst run by a bunch of non technical guys reading scripts with no solution.

I also visited samsung service center they tried updating or resetting but the issue wasnt solved hence their answer was motherboard needs to be replaced.

My phone is 10months old in mint condition and dont want a bunch of wankers opening my phone to replace a motherboard when the issue can be simply fixed through proper software update.

Please suggest me any solution to overcome this. Xda was my last resort before going to give my phone to replace the motherboard for this simple bug.[emoji17]
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Guides, News, & Discussion] abhiiceman:
Bump
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ripthulhu:
Why did you update to the beta and not the full build? There was a hotfix for this problem in the beta around beta 2 I think?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Guides, News, & Discussion] abhiiceman:
From android 9 I enrolled to beta and installed beta 1 but within a day or two I got this issue so I reverted to stock android 9....

But the fix was only released for beta users [emoji21]
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ripthulhu:
Just download the 10 beta and the OTA's and flash them in order. I'm not sure if flashing stable 10 will fix this right away.

Check this thread for the files: https://xdaforums.com/s10-plus/how-to/galaxy-s10-sm-g975f-official-oneui2-10-t3980879
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Guides, News, & Discussion] abhiiceman:
Beta 1 and beta 2 links are not working.
[iPAQ rw6828, XDA Atom ROM Development] medellinrob:
Hello.

I have an o2 atom life and an 8gb microsdhc.

It couldn't read the card, so I searched and got a sdhc.cab

After using that, the phone is able to read the card, but reads only 4gb.

What can I do to use all the memory?

Regards.

tags: microsd hc micro sdhc 8g 6gb 4gb 6g 4g mwg memory

(for future noobs)
[iPAQ rw6828, XDA Atom ROM Development] medellinrob:
Please... any one?
[iPAQ rw6828, XDA Atom ROM Development] nicefile:
use sdhc driver ,and miniSD sdhc card or microSD sdhc (t-flash) with adapter. U must use wm6.0 or 6.1 rom as wm5.0 has 4gb storage limit

rgds
[iPAQ rw6828, XDA Atom ROM Development] kosmodisk:
can you send us feedback if it worked? thanks :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] Denver3D:
Hello everyone,

Sorry for disturbing you but I'm desperate, I tried everything and I can't find a way to unlock my bootloader, Here are the steps I've done so far ... First I've activated the OEM Unlock option in the dev mode, then I've turned off my phone and booted into recovery by pressing bixby boutton + Volume up, Then I choose Reboot into bootloader and so far from there I got only a screen saying to hold Bixby + Volume down for more than 7 sec to reboot the device and also got a bar code there ... I don't got the function to unlock the bootloader as everyone else ...

Also I've bought my phone yesterday here in saudi arabia, and I got the latest firmware version and that it N975FXXU1BSL7/N975FOXM1BSL9

Model N975F/DS
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] Beetle84:
If you must unlock your boot loader, plug your usb into a pc, turn off the phone, hold volume up and volume down together, and plug the usb cable in.

Then you will find the unlock option.
[Lenovo Yoga Tab 2 Questions & Answers] forcedv:
This tablet worked fine on KitKat, found software update (64mb), downloaded and installed fine, reboot, found much larger software update (lollipop I think), download and pressed "install"......

Tablet booted to Lenovo recovery and began installing, reaches 100% and just hangs on "installing".

How do I fix this?
[Lenovo Yoga Tab 2 Questions & Answers] .:B:.:
Hi,

Did you find a solution to this in the meantime? I got hold of a 1380F as well, all KitKat updates went fine, until it grabbed the 1GB+ Lollipop update - then it reboots into recovery and hangs at 100% as well here. It seems Lollipop is only distributed as an OTA, so there's no archives floating around like for earlier 4.4 Lenovo builds.

Did you try if you can get it fixed by using the Lenovo Moto Smart Assistant?

I know you can boot into fastboot on the tablet and run all the commands that are defined in flash.xml in the 4.4 archives to get back to 4.4. Have done that myself already but I keep getting stuck on the Lollipop update, like you.
[Lenovo Yoga Tab 2 Questions & Answers] .:B:.:
For what it's worth, you can reboot the tablet into fastboot mode (hold the power button and volume down pressed simultaneously), and then use the Intel Platform Flash Tool to re-flash one of the older KitKat firmwares. That requires you to have them downloaded though - with a bit of searching you can find and download e.g. YT2-1380F_USR_S000219_1504281410_WW21_ROW.zip.

If that doesn't work out, you might want to try the Lenovo Motorola Smart Assistant, but I haven't had much luck with it if you can't boot into Android itself anymore (the LMSA suite has a companion app on the tablet to interact with it). On the plus side, though, LMSA will download the archives to C:\ProgramData\LMSA\Download\RomFiles, so you can back them up. The downloaded_resources.json file in that same directory contains the plain URLs the program uses to grab the OTAs (and probably full older KitKat zips too).

I've tried multiple times to upgrade to Android 5 Lollipop, but the recovery always breaks.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] hamza_iraki:
helle friends please i need help

i have samsung s9 at & t i want to know the options to locate my device if is lost after make hard reset or intalation new firmware
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] Youdoofus:
go to settings and search for "find my mobile"
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] hamza_iraki:
after hard reset or new firmaware instalation its work?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] Youdoofus:
yes, the "find my phone" service will work after a hard reset or new FW install, it just needs to be set back up again. If youre asking if your phone can be located after it was, for instance, stolen and them wiped and so forth, the answer is still yes, but it would take more resources than recovering a phone is worth.

If your phone was taken and you fear that it was wiped and had new FW flashed on it, write it off and move on to anther device. Its gone
[Huawei Mate 20 X Questions & Answers] juggamonkey:
Does anyone have the home launcher apk from emui 10 ? Wanted to see if works on 9.1
[Huawei Mate 20 X Questions & Answers] fp1707:
I think you need Root for that and pretty sure Huawei disabled already unlocked bootloaders and hence disabled root so can't really do that.
[Huawei Mate 20 X Questions & Answers] juggamonkey:
I have a unlocked bootloader
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] niyonsv:
I've been planning to upgrade from my Lenovo Zuk Z2 Plus to a OnePlus phone for a few months because of OnePlus's wide development support. My first option was 6T because of my budget (~300 for pre-owned). But after these months now I can afford a 7 series. But the confusion is which one to choose.

The Z2 had and has a strong custom ROM support for past years so I can't go for any device without it. That's why I'm going for OP device and it's my wish to own one since it's first launch in 2014.

So far after reading the threads of all 7 series phones including the 7T series, I think 7 Pro is the device with wide range of development support with most custom ROMs. But for my budget I could afford a 7 or 7T maximum or a 7 Pro with 6GB 128. If I pick 7 Pro with 6GB RAM will it perform worse than 8GB one? I'm a casual user but play with rooting, modding and so on. I stopped playing games completely a few years ago so it doesn't matter.

Since the upcoming OP 8 series will most likely with punch hole display which I never like. So if I buy a 7 Pro with 6GB it should last at least the next two years without any issue.

Please help me if I can go with 7 Pro 6GB 128GB, or should pick any bigger spec, or any other series.
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] niyonsv:
I complied the list of OnePlus 7 series ROMs. At present 7 Pro beats the rest in number of ROMs.

OnePlus 7 - Unofficial Lineage OS, Potato OS(Alpha), Kali NetHunter (overlay)

OnePlus 7 Pro - PE, xXX no limits, Evolution X, Havoc OS, BlissRoms, Paranoid Android Quartz (Beta), Unofficial Lineage OS, MIUI 11, crDroid, OmniRom, Elemental X, CarbonROM, Resurrection Remix, Kali NetHunter (overlay), AOSiP 9, and much more OOS based, Pixel based ROMs and many Pie ROMs

OnePlus 7T - OmniRom, AOSiP (Alpha)

OnePlus 7T Pro - OmniRom
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] mituzora:
I doubt you'll lose a significant amount of performance going with the cheaper model. If it's any consolation, my OnePlus 3T has the same RAM configuration, and while yes it's slower due to the snapdragon 821, it is still a very solid performer. I believe the Pixel 4 does as well, and OOS is not super bloated or anything like that. If you can swing it, I'd go for one of the 8 GB or 12 GB models, but those seem to be a bit difficult to come across new at this point. It seems like OnePlus may be clearing out their inventory as they had a sale on all of the 7 pro models, and the only one that's left in stock was the 6 GB/128 GB model, but that's pure speculation on my part lol

TL;DR If you can, get the higher RAM model of the 7 Pro, if not, then the 6 GB model should be okay, but that's entirely up to you. You pretty much only lose some multitasking capacity
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] niyonsv:
I just tried my friend's OP 7 Pro for the first time, but unfortunately it's too uncomfortable for my (small) hands. I tried with and without the back cover I found too much difficult to perform daily using apps. The curved screen is very great to look but it isn't user friendly (in my case). My friend has bigger hands he can use the phone very easily.

Everything is great, the 90Hz display, camera, and of course the speakers. It's just a few mm longer in all sides and about some grams heavier than 6T (which too he has) but I found it very difficult to use. I'm very sad that I didn't expect this kinda thing. Don't know what to do ?
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] niyonsv:
Thank you so much for the detailed response but I can't decide if I should buy it or not because I think it won't be comfortable for my usage.
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] niyonsv:
I think I better go for Redmi K20 Pro (Mi 9T Pro). I can get the highest end version 8GB 256GB for $340 with 1 year protection plan. For OnePlus 7 Pro with that spec it costs $600 without any protection plan. Redmi K20 Pro also has a wide range of development support, that's why I chose that. Please let me know your comments.
[General Questions and Answers] halfhumble:
Galaxy s8 on Verizon, a standard update notice kept appearing past few days, finally installed it. The minute it finished, it is now in an endless restarting loop. The phone does unlock and show my homescreen. I can get into it, but I only get about 10 seconds to do stuff then it freezes/restarts. Tried Clear Partition Cache in the recovery mode. Tried Safe Mode. No luck.

When I rush over to Settings>Software Update, and click it, it says "Software update in progress"....so it makes me think it is the remnants of the new software update completing itself, and that causes the rebooting. The final stages perhaps? Is there a way to CEASE that the second I unlock my phone? To stop all the background stuff.

Or maybe wouldnt make a difference. Any ideas besides factory reset? Way to revert back?

Wanted to backup a few recent pictures first.
[General Questions and Answers] ktmom:
A factory reset is the last resort to fix this.

Maybe it's theme related. Try toggling the button layout (settings -> display -> navigation bar) a couple of times.

If you have substratum installed, try disabling it.

If you want to back up your pictures;

Have you tried accessing the phone using a computer? Either just through a file explorer or by using ADB? To use ADB, you may need to get into settings -developer mode
[General Questions and Answers] halfhumble:
I tried plugging into a computer, but I only have about 10 seconds, so I dont get enough time to access the files. I get into the phone drive on windows Samsung Galaxy>DCIM> CAMERA> ...then it reboots.

Developer mode is already enabled. Can ADB be used while on the recovery mode screen? I can access that command line looking screen as long as needed.

But accessing the phone normally like turning it on and unlocking the screen would not work, I would keep losing the connection when it reboots.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Try downloading that same version of Odin flashable stock firmware from the internet, the same version as the update that you received, then flash that via Odin. As long as the update does not upgrade your bootloader or your binary, it will not wipe your user data(pics).

But first....

If you can get to the homescreen and unlock the device, don't touch anything else once the device opens, just connect it to PC and retrieve your photos from the internal storage, then factory reset the device.
[General Questions and Answers] halfhumble:
I dont know what version the update was that caused it or how I would find out. But I ended up getting it fixed.

I just downloaded the most recent version firmware from SamFW.com, and used that one. The First flash, the phone was worse! It was now stuck at the samsung logo looping. I flashed it a second time, then it worked! Phone back to normal and backed up my pictures. I had used the home CSC file too, and none of my user data was wiped. I thought it was supposed to wipe that, got lucky

I assume once that OTA update comes back and tries to install, I may have this problem all over again. I can't go forever without the security updates.

^

I had tried that a couple times, it lasts about 15 seconds then restarts. Not enough time, I would get to the DCIM folder but before pics loaded, it froze and restarted.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
The most recent version that you downloaded might be the same update. The OTA updates and the Odin flashable updates are the same thing, the OTA update is just more automated. Flashing the same version as the OTA update via Odin, yields the same results. I think the Home CSC is the one that doesn't wipe user data. I think the Home CSC is intended for users that intend on keeping the device and using it in the same region/network and the other CSC is intended for users that want to sell the device or use the device in a different region or if you have a custom ROM and custom recovery on the device and you want to restore to stock. I could be wrong though.

If you do get a prompt for an OTA update, backup your data then factory reset the device then allow the device to update. That should prevent any further issues with updating via OTA.
[General Questions and Answers] halfhumble:
Okay, I see.

Well when the phone did boot back up normally after the 2nd flash, there was a pop up that said software update unsuccessful. So I'm not sure if the same OTA update actually updated per se. But yeah, next time Im ready, I've got everything backed up!

Thanks so much!
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I always prefer updating via Odin instead of OTA, it is much better and less chance of issues such as bootloop or random reboot. These are the issues you were having. I actually suggest using Odin or Smart Switch on PC the next time an update is available. Or, on older devices, use Odin or Samsung Kies to update. OTA is frequently unreliable, it commonly causes bugs, especially if the update is a newer android version than what is already on the device, it usually causes conflicts due to user data from your previous system apps and user settings conflicting with the new system because of differences between the older system apps and the newer system apps or differences in settings in the older system conflicting with changes in how the newer system settings are handled. Systems don't like using system data that was created by another system when there are differences between the two systems.

Another method that can be used is if your manufacturer/carrier releases a stock update.zip that can be flashed via stock recovery, they are made specifically for flashing via stock recovery ONLY, they are not the same as the stock firmware file that is flashed via Odin. These can be downloaded to the phone's internal/external memory then you boot into stock recovery then factory reset/wipe cache in recovery(backup data before wiping) then you can flash the update.zip. Alternatively, you can flash the update.zip without resetting/wiping(this is called a "dirty" flash), in theory, a dirty flash is useful when you don't want to wipe data or lose data. But that comes with a chance of causing bugs, as you have discovered for yourself during your update process.