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[Off-topic] kmt5150:
Hey, Hey XDA World!!!

As some of you who utilize Amazon may know, there has been a huge problem with companies who pay for fake reviews to elevate their sales. IMHO, Amazon has been fully aware of the problem. My main concern is that when ANY sort of discussion comes up about this on the Seller Forums, they shut it down with the claim that 'they're looking into it' or 'we forwarded your concerns to the appropriate team'. This is my reason for opening the thread here on XDA-Dev, so people may discuss it without being censored by the Corporate Overlords who, by the way, took away Seller's ability to call Amazon for immediate support. They make us rely on ONLY the forums.

Another big problem Amazon Seller Support uses this response with is the old "A-Z Refund Scam" where someone will purchase a high-dollar item, claim it arrived broken and return something not resembling the originally purchased product, which in one case a scammer bought a top-end gaming laptop, made an a-z refund claim saying it was broken and proceeded to box up and send dog s**t to the seller.

One pissed off seller made a topic post yesterday and Amazon closed it just 7 hours ago.. "It was a lively discussion".. :good: Here's the topic post: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/fo...ent-to-gain-traction-to-this-issue/560288/128

As an Amazon Seller, it is frightening to see Amazon allowing this and other worse types of abuse to continue. What are your thoughts on this? :confused::confused::confused:
[Off-topic] Deaddpool:
Potato? :silly:
[Off-topic] kmt5150:
My thoughts exactly lol
[HTC U Ultra Questions & Answers] Pocket_rocket:
My HTC U Ultra battery was lasting very little, so I went online and bought a new one (allegedly genuine). After installing it, the battery lecture was 15%, I plugged the phone to the charger but the value wasn't increasing, so I assumed it was a calibration issue. I used the phone until it shut down, and plugged again to the charger. It's been an hour and it seems not to be charging, there is an exclamation symbol and the orange led is blinking. ¿what can it be? I'd hate having to discard a phone that, battery aside, worked like charm.

Thanks.
[Redmi Note 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Saulius Joint:
Hello XDA community and devs.,

As a title says, - my Redmi Note 8 Pro don't vibrate at all. This is a new 128/6ram global phone (in white box), MIUI 11.0.2 PGGMIXM). I just received this phone 2 day ago.

1. I tried turn on vibration via settings everywhere, didn't worked.

2. I tried turn off battery saver, - didn't worked.

3. I turned vibration via notification bar by pressing on 'Vibrate' icon, - didn't worked.

4. I downloaded various apps from Google Play by search "Vibrate test" and none of these apps in testing made my phone vibrate.

When I asked my friend to bring his Redmi note 8 pro (128/8ram - from red box, but same MIUI version), to compare both phones using same settings and my phone didn't vibrate, but my friend's phone did!

What I didn't tried yet.

1. Reset phone to factory settings.

2. To flash phone using MI flash tool software for fresh version of MIUI. But I don't want to do this, because phone's bootloader is locked and I may lose my phone's warranty by doing this (not sure here, need to read Banggood warranty policy).

I already submitted a feedback in MIUI, just not sure how this can help me. Maybe you guys had faced this vibration problem before and can advice me about I should do next, because I have bad feeling this is about hardware and this Redmi Note 8 Pro is simple defective.

Thanks for reading and for advice. o7
[Redmi Note 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Saulius Joint:
Little update, I did phone factory reset, - still no vibration in phone.
[Redmi Note 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Green Arrow05:
If u find any solution, do help me too. As my vibrational motor is too low....
[Redmi Note 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Muad.Dib:
You can specifically test target the vibration motor using the MIUI Hidden Settings app from XDA Labs,

If you cannot make it vibrate and vibrate mode is on, I guess you have to return it.

Many other users have the same rom and I have not seen many complaining about this problem.

Good luck,

Regards,
[Samsung Galaxy Watch] kazim.asghar:
Hi,

I am having issue with voice quality of my galaxy watch active 2 during call. It feels like speaker dont have capacity operate at full volume. If it is on full volume, it will be distorted and really bad quality.

Samsung told me it is working fine as per standards.

Anyone else facing this issue or all the watches have worest voice quality?
[Repurposing Old Devices] Zincubus:
Hi

I’ve just unearthed an old Casio portable TV ( small 2” screen) and it’s only analogue . Other than not receiving a signal it’s in perfect condition,

Shall I just chuck it or is there another use ??

Thanks
[Repurposing Old Devices] Zincubus:
Anyone ??
[Repurposing Old Devices] Kablum:
Possibly use it as an oscilloscope display? Or even set it up with a faux-scilloscope screensaver for cool factor.

Put on desk or build into a pc case-mod as a temp/fps heads-up display.

Mount it tastefully by the front door, linked to a security cam or smart doorbell.

Use it in a retro-pi briefcase build for authentic on-the-go vintage gaming.

Link to a webcam as a baby-monitor.

Or just ship it to me and I'll do one of those things! Lol

Lots of possibilities.
[Repurposing Old Devices] bsammon:
A Google search for "NTSC transmitter" turned up some interesting results.

A lot of the interesting solutions seemed to involve a soldering iron.
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] Wutang200:
I normally refer to iMovie on my iPhone 7 to edit video clips with transitions and add other effects as well as music then export on 1080p.

Anyone know of the android alternative?

All the ones I've come across have subscriptions or in app purchases. Also the paid ones I've come across (Inshot, Kinemaster and Magisto aren't reliable as users have saidtheir whole projects get deleted without warning after app updates and things go haywire.

The others I've come across can only export at 720p.

Power Director is expensive with a yearly subscription.
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] trinec:
After moving to Android I used your mentioned app Kinemaster instead of iMovie. Never had any problems...
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] Wutang200:
Will give Kinemaster a try and see how I get on.
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] slicetwo:
Kinemaster is subscription if you want to remove the watermark. Androvid Pro was recommend to me on Reddit. It seems good overall and only costs $2.50.
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] Wutang200:
Ahh yeah noticed that about Kinemaster! Can't really call it an iMovie alternative especially considering iMovie is completely free and without ad's.

Androvid doesn't seem ti be capable of expressing video inn high quality such as 1080p 60 or 4K 30.

Honestly thought Samsung would have an alternative especially considering they're trying to convert iPhone users over to their devices.
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] remmyhi:
I am using GoPro's Quik.

Completely free, produces 1080p60fps movies with a very good quality. You can add transitions, make video cuts etc.

Wysłane z mojego SM-G975F przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers] Wutang200:
I really like the Quik app! I'll go as far as to say it's better than iMovie! The best thing is it's available on iOS too.

Only annoying thing is importing videos can only be done from the Gallery app. Not a simple thing to do when everything is stored on Google Photos.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] iceian618:
i run the utility and when in it starts to do the update the phone will reboot.

any suggestions on what to do.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] Keystone:
yeah....you are explaining very little there. What utility and what are you doing? Vista 32 or 64?

Have you read the Wiki with and where in the instructions are you stuck?
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] iceian618:
can you please tell me how to check which one im running i jus got the pc im use to xp.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] iceian618:
its 32 im trying do the new offical 6.1 rom for the mogul and the touch
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] iceian618:
any help i keep getting invalid command.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 Questions & Answers] lartomar2002:
My phone was rooted by using Magisk. My question is, if I do a nanroid backup with Magisk 20.1 installed and then at a later date I have updated Magisk by a couple of versions but something has happened to my tablet and I need to do a nanroid restore is there anything specific I need to do with Magisk? I am not familiar yet with Magisk and have read some horror stories over on the Magisk forum and I do not want to brick my tablet.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 Questions & Answers] jd1639:
You shouldn't have to worry about it. When you restore your tablet will be just like it was when you backed it up, you'll have the magisk version you had when you backed it up. If it was working then it'll work now as it doesn't know that the future exists. All your apps and magisk will want to update, if there are newer versions, just like it did from the time you made the backup to the time you decided to restore.

When you restore you'll want to do a wipe and clean install boot, system, and data.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] WasEdition22:
Guys good night someone of you know why the telwgram is out of air or if it's only me who is carrying more does not get out of it!:)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] J48BLE:
Everytime I see videos about the Note 10+ under screen fingerprint sensor, usually YouTube. They quickly go to the sensor, just briefly touch it and their phone unlocks. I have to press screen firmly, hold it there for about 1/2 or a full second, then it unlocks. What am I doing wrong:confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] stalls:
I see there same results
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] winol:
Hard to say, mine works super fast, but in fact I do not use any type of unlocking security! I never leave my phone unattended, and I have no sensitive content stored in it, so…
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] butchieboy:
Mine works great even with Whitestone screen protector. What I do when registering, I use left thumb, then right. I do this until 1st print is registered and continue the same for 2and 3rd and 4th
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] willhemmens:
I find it to be pretty poor compared to normal fingerprint sensors but does the job for the most part. It was definitely better before I installed a Whitestone screen protector, comparable to the optical unit on the ROG Phone 2.

I find a quick tap does sometimes work but most often I get a message to say press harder or something similar.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] ram4ufriends:
Coming from OnePlus 7 Pro..this FP sensor is just horrible...I can't even get it to unlock 50% of time
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] disturbd1:
2 things: you can change the screen sensitivity and that may help register with less pressure or time spent pressing. Also, I would remove the troublesome registered print and register again. Make sure you aren't pressing super hard during registration, and get every angle and position of that finger possible.

Doing this, I've had no issues with using the reader.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] mzsquared:
I still struggle sometimes with the fingerprint sensor not being always dependable 'at will'. It's a great phone, but this problem is very frustrating to me, too much of a contrast to this phone's all other qualities.

Now in the Winter the problem gets worse, dry air=dry skin, at home I can use some hand moisturizer(it helps), but I don't think that's what the sensor designers hoped for to improve sensor's reliability.

I'm on it since S10 which I returned for the very same reason shortly after purchasing it about a year ago and replaced it with S10e, a phone that was perfect and free from my frustrations. Yet I swapped the S10e for N10+ just to have a bigger screen for reading my ebooks on it. Somehow I convinced myself that the sensor will have totally new hardware. Well, they did improve the software, the sensor in N10 is the same, more accurate in my opinion though, but it still lags behind expectations for a flagship, or rather, as I call it referring to its price: a battleship.

So, my new resolve now is to aim for S11(it all depends on Samsung's generosity with the N10 swap), not much”leaks” around about the S11 specs but I think they have a brand new and bigger, ultrasonic sensor in the works.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] itzik_man:
I removed my existing fingerprint registrations and did it as you suggested, 4 times slowly without to much pressure.

Now my fingerprint function is working flawlessly without any issues.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Negan:
"If you are reading this it's because you are using an application."

"This thread redirects to: https://xdaforums.com/gal...-team-t2149990 "
[ASUS ROG Phone II Questions & Answers] PhillipU:
Hi guys, sorry if my english is bad, but i need some help with mi phone... i buy an asus rog phone 2 tencent edition but the device come with WW Rom and i want update this, the device come with 1910.35, i see in app drm info and the app say i have fingerprint WW or at least I think so, how i can update mi device?, sorry if the question is silly but all i know about phones I learned from you jeje

If the question does not apply here please move to the indicated site.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Questions & Answers] thiagoserrao:
If is tencent version, you bought the chinese version with full convertion.

First, you can download the update using the asus website

asus. com/us/Phone/ROG-Phone-II/HelpDesk_Download/

Second - After download, just put the update on main internal storage. After that you can just reboot your phone, and after that the update will appears.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Questions & Answers] PhillipU:
i see the pag and asus have two updates more after update .35 the Version WW-16.0631.1910.44 and Version WW-16.0631.1910.64 , i need update first .44 or i can update with .64 now? in some pages i see something about change the name of the zip i need do this? or i can update as you say
[ASUS ROG Phone II Questions & Answers] thiagoserrao:
Nops, they are full rom, so you can just download the last one and update
[ASUS ROG Phone II Questions & Answers] PhillipU:
thiagoserrao this procedure is safe? any recommendations before doing this?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] fdeppieri:
Hi all,

I'm a professional in image processing for automatic identification.

I'd like to run on my own kaiser a particular program developed for realtime systems able to identify particular shapes on images.

I understand it is not allowed to access to full camera capabilities and resolutions due the unavailable of specific api knoledge and documentation.

I found something inside...but I have to spend a lot of time to complete the api. Are there someone with api interface specifications?

thanks

Francesco
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] reisyreinier:
Hi folks, i recently bough a G930A with comes with stock android 6. Then i see here in xda that oreo update has been released. After a failed flash(firmware from thread that converts in G930U) with odin i entered in recovery and turn off phone while download other firmware. Now the phone dont turn on and i try every key combination(donwload mode, recovery mode, force restart). I think that battery may be drained and put in wireless charger but nothing happens, previously i try charge it with regular charger all night. Please i need some advise to get out of this situation, in this moment i have a nice paperweight:(

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries,] Negan:
Everyone working with GPLed code, in our case the linux kernel which is under the GPLv2, needs to understand how the licence affects them, and the work they put out on XDA developers, to aid understanding a good write up of this issues has gone up on the portal, you can read it here;

XDA-Developers and the GPL

GPL compliance is taken very seriously on XDA, but at the same time I remind people to report anything via the proper channels rather than confronting anyone in public, which always does more harm than good.

A note to rom developers:

Using a non GPL compliant kernel makes your rom non compliant and subject to removal.

If you are using another developers kernel, linking to that kernels thread will make you GPL compliant (assuming that the kernel in question is compliant)
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] xxqxpxx:
Hello everyone,

So is rooting Worth it or should i wait for a while?
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] jim262:
Not nearly as important today as years ago when OEM firmware was buggy, laggy and without many features. Nowadays, most of the features we used to root our roms for are built in to stock roms and with as much ram as we have in phones, lagginess no longer seems to be much of an issue.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] Berner:
I was going to wait to root, but getting ads on my phone was a deal breaker. I need a good root-level ad-blocker.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] jim262:
You don't get ads if you opt out of them during setup.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] Aki07:
dns.adguard.com

put this as dns in wireless setting.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] tanzeel.ahmed1306:
Currently I have two reasons to flash

To access auxiliary cameras in gcam we need root

And also to use substratum themes we need root.

But since there is no straight way of rooting as in no official twrp support for now ..I will do it later . I can probably do without the above two things
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] xxqxpxx:
adgaurd is doing good for me so far
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] abalam:
Here I briefly provided the device with root, this to restore my apps via swift backup. Then flashed full OTA and back on original boot.img.

I have had root for a while but have not used it a lot, if you want to remove system / apps or something it will not work, thank you Google for this. As long as it is not possible to mount, root is useless for me.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] Lossyx:
Really it depends on what you want to do /achieve.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] YrrchSebor:
Personally I don't feel it's worth it, given the potential of creating other problems, having to fix boot loops, and generally falling into a rabbit hole vortex which has nothing to do with the everyday life in front of me ?
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] Cowbell_Guy:
In short, yes, mainly because you can get back some of the Google apps. The OnePlus phone dialer app is terrible. If you're rude, you can get the Google one. Also you have easier access to Google feed
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] jim262:
That is absolutely true, but virtually most of the things one can gain nowadays are rather minimal gains. Nowadays, with phones having 6,8 and even 12 GBs of ram and better optimized stock roms, they generally run smoother than third party roms. Ten years ago, that wasn't the case. Stock roms didn't have many of the features I wanted and the only way to get them was in adding them to third party roms, like AOSP. Now, many of those features are already baked into Android and overall development is down.

---------- Post added at 04:05 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:01 AM ----------

Don't have to be rooted to get Google feed. Many launchers have it, such as pixel launcher, nova, cpl, lawnchair and others. Also the google phone dialer can be added via apk. No root needed.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] Lossyx:
I agree with everything you said. But it's mostly not about making tweaks to get better performance nowadays.

For me, the biggest reason I root is because of Viper4android.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] Eddiemc:
Upside:

As of now:

Adblocking, Freezing apps, accessing system files, proper backups and restore, easier/more Tasker capabilities, proper substratum, "better" YouTube vanced, working gcam aux, custom kernels and kernel tweaks such as minimum brightness, oh, and did I say adblocking?

In the future:

Twrp, custom ROMs, probably a fix/mod for the goddamn ****ty default camera, you name it...

Downside:

Some reading about how to root

Actually rooting (unlocking bootloader needing a data wipe)

Remembering not to reboot before applying root again after ota system updates (and having to download full size every time)

Some extra settings/work needed to hide root from bank apps

Worth the extra hassle? absolutely freaking yea.

My device, my control?
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] jim262:
Everything you say is true, but you can achieve virtually all those things without root nowadays. Most major OEMs offer proper backup and restore software, no need for substratum as themeing (dark mode) is already built in to 10, all apps can be disabled with adb commands and many stock OS's also offer a ability to disable and uninstall many of them. Ad blocking can also be done to varying degrees with out root and most ROMs today are actually smoother and faster because of better optimization nowadays and lots more RAM and storage. These things were extremely important in the day when most phones operated with 2 GB ram and 16 GB storage, but things are way different now, so it is not as critical anymore.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] Kirahvi:
The question is "is rootiong worth it" not "should you do it" or "what was it like in the past." Please try to stay on topic.

"Most major OEMs offer proper backup and restore software." Not all do and most of the apps are abysmally lacking in features.

"no need for substratum as themeing (dark mode) is already built in to 10." Yeah not even close buddy.

"all apps can be disabled with adb commands and many stock OS's also offer a ability to disable and uninstall many of them." Having to connect my phone to a computer with adb installed and learn complicated commands or downloading an app and clicking uninstall/disable...

"Ad blocking can also be done to varying degrees with out root" You get much better adblocking with root and much more controll over your hosts file among other features.

Discussing is root worth it here on XDA is really ironic and shows what this site has become.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] gpz1100:
^^ How do I back up application ________'s data? I don't update apps daily/weekly, usually quarterly or less. Will take a backup (titaniumbackup) first before doing updating so I can revert back if there issues.

Google backup still is not 100% reliable. How else can the above be done on an unrooted device?
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] jim262:
"all apps can be disabled with adb commands and many stock OS's also offer a ability to disable and uninstall many of them." Having to connect my phone to a computer with adb installed and learn complicated commands or downloading an app and clicking uninstall/disable... Is that any harder than having to root your phone by connecting your phone to a computer also and use adb commands? As far as themeing goes, I can fully theme my phone on my Vivo Nex, Google Pixel, Samsung S10 and Note10, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Redmi and Huawei phones. Not sure which phones your using, you can theme all these phones. Dark mode can easily be enabled in Android 10 and OnePlus has offered a system wide Dark Mode UI for years and with Google now embracing it, virtually all Google apps can turn dark as well. Gmail, Play Store, You Tube, Photos, etc ... all dark.