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[Off-topic] masterlokaj:
Brave is leading a privacy standard that gives users a simple way to opt out of privacy with a single switch.

Several companies, including DuckDuckGo and The Washington Post, are supporting the standard.
[Off-topic] swing2app:
This seems really amazing.

Privacy is really one of the major concern for everyone.
[Off-topic] masterlokaj:
Brave ranks among the best third-party browser apps out there. However, its lack of extension support forces several users to rely on other browsers as well. But this might change in the near future.
[Off-topic] mrrocketdog:
can you explain why everytime i use brave i get the notification , "this app will not work without google play services"?
[Off-topic] mrrocketdog:
uhmm , can you use words. because i dont understand that picture at all. or , if you dont know just say so.
[Off-topic] masterlokaj:
Brave Browser, the privacy-focused web browser, announced today that it grew in usage by over 130% in its first year of the release of its 'Stable' version.

On November 13th, 2019, Brave Browser released its first Stable version after it had already accumulated 8.7 million monthly active users (MAU) and 3 million daily active users (DAU) during its Beta period.

Over the past year, Brave Browser saw an incredible 130% growth to reach 20.5 million monthly active users (MAU) and 8.7 daily active users (DAU) as of November 2020.
[Off-topic] galaxys:
That's some impressive growth stats! kudos
[Off-topic] masterlokaj:
A quick comparison with the major browsers Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi confirms that Brave for Android has the best rating of all the browsers mentioned.

Brave -- 4.7

Microsoft Edge -- 4.5

Opera -- 4.5

Google Chrome -- 4.2

Vivaldi -- 4.1

Firefox -- 3.9

Brave browser ships with a native ad-blocker and promise that the company that is behind the browser does not turn its users into a product.
[Off-topic] masterlokaj:
Brave web browser , announcing it now has 20 million monthly active users and 7 million daily active users.
[Off-topic] masterlokaj:
Brave is available for download for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, in 80 languages.
[Off-topic] masterlokaj:
The Brave 1.0 version is fundamentally different than the other version because it’s Chromium-based and uses a new ad-blocking algorithm inspired by Ghosterty and uBlock algorithms. Plus, Brave is available for Android, iOS, Linux, Windows 10, and macOS for the first time. According to Engadget, all of Brave 1.0 top features work perfectly on all platforms.
[Off-topic] masterlokaj:
It’s a free, open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. using the Chromium web browser, Chrome’s open source alternative. In the short time I’ve been using it, it’s clear to me that its memory is infinitely better than Chrome’s, as is its cookie management: my work means I enter a lot of different publications regularly (and have access to most of them thanks to my business school, but not all), I have to delete cookies from time to time in order to keep accessing some pages: now, with Brave, I don’t have to enter the preferences to delete anything anymore, I just have to leave that page and enter again. All the pages I usually use look good, and are void of advertising; also, some of the sites that forced me to temporarily turn off my blocker have stopped doing so. This is because of the greater user privacy protection from not depending on a company
[Off-topic] xanthrax:
duplicate thread closed

we`d follow this one

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/best-fast-free-safe-privacy-browser-t4130865
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Ramses7420:
Hi,

For a few days, when I want to install a theme (which I already installed before), when it is applied, it hangs at 28% for about 45 seconds. Then it ends.

When I go into the settings of my Note 9, that's what it gives.

I tried everything, uninstall Custom OneUI, etc., nothing changes.

An idea about my problem

Many thanks for your help
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Rosli59564:
What is Custom One UI? Is it the app to make third party themes stick? Maybe it has not been updated to work with latest samsung update.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] ramses742001:
I use Custom OneUI for few days and no problem

Envoyé de mon SM-N960F en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hrafnblod:
(SOLVED)

Hi,

Ive been searching around all week now trying to find a way to do the above, root my note 4 without a factory reset.

As far as i can gather, my bootloader is unlocked.

I suspect it has had somekind of non-t-mobile standard wizardry performed upon it prior to my ownership (2nd hand). The reason i think this (naive?) is as i understand it, these, in the UK, were locked to t-mobile sims new, however, mine can use any sim. also, since my ownership (couple years +), maybe 3 or 4 times it has randomly rebooted and gone into some kind of anti-"fiddling" mode stating something along the lines of "this phone has none genuine blah blah and is now locked. take it into a t-mobile shop to get fixed". A simple battery pull has "fixed" the issue each and every time.

Now, the actual main reason i want to root this, apart from the obvious other advantages, is to be able to perform a complete backup (including all the backup locked out apps). i have a few apps ive paid for, but have since been pulled from the play store, thus, should this phone die, i have no way of restoring them.

it seems that, the only way to backup these apps is to root the phone. i can only find ways in which to root my phone that involve a factory reset. hence im stuck in a catch 22.

According to posts i've read, fastboot doesn't work with my phone. I have been reticent to actually follow through with any method which may reset/factory wipe my phone (as, if i understand it correctly, changing the bootloader/recovery will?).

even though i have found apk's for some of these apps, they are only for the trial versions, and not what i have previously paid for. furthermore, some of these companies have either gone bust, or simply refuse to respond to my emails. losing their cache i can live with, losing the full apps i "can't".

i use a laptop with arch installed. i have occassional access to a windows10 pc.

please please tell me it is possible to root this phone without losing these apps. Or at the very least, a way of pulling/backing up these apps.

ive not found a browser that can see into the data\app folder. adb can see into the data\app folder and pull apps, but not the apps i want to backup which have been pulled from the play store that ive paid for.

phone details:

model sm-n910t

android 6.0.1

baseband n910tuvu2eqi2

kernel 3.10.40 - 9385989

dpi@swhd4419#1

build no mmb29m.n910tuvu2eqi2
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QuoPrimum:
Have you tried Odin? Samsung phones don't use fastboot but have their own flashing tool.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hrafnblod:
I'm now rooted, cheers :)

I used ODIN on windows and CF_Auto Root.

I was just incredibly worried about getting a phone wipe/reset. I think, with having read through so many different guides and discussions, and having first tried to find a linux only solution, I'd ended up confusing myself. It just seemed that, when I thought I understood the process enough to actually physically start the rooting, all I could see was boot loop, bricking and factory reset issues in the guides.

Awesome forum.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ninjasinabag:
Any apps you buy on the play store don't just disappear.

Check your actual purchase list for your Google account, it'll force a cached page.

Which is how I found out Activision pushed a (paid) mobile version of Zombies, removed it, then pushed the same game to the market which they continued to update.
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] jakegsxr11:
Are there any mods, roms, or kernels that allow for adaptive charging? Something like stopping the charge at 80% or only charging from 80-100% for the last hour of overnight based on previous usage patterns, or similar to the iPhone charging options?
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] Deleted member 7671171:
The open beta builds have exactly this
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] jakegsxr11:
Can you tell me where I could find more information about the open beta builds?
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] Deleted member 7671171:
Ffs just Google OnePlus 7pro open beta
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] jakegsxr11:
Sorry, I guess I thought it was something on XDA and I couldn't find it here. Thanks.
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] pitrus-:
Why not use ACC magisk module and companion app to give your adaptive charging in any ROM?

https://github.com/MatteCarra/AccA/

Check out my LOS daily builds at https://lineageos.wickenberg.nu
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] jakegsxr11:
That's more like what I'm looking for, I didn't know that module existed.
[Samsung Galaxy A50 Questions & Answers] Karele:
Hey guys ! I've broken glass in my a50, digitizer and display are fine. Can I replace just a glass or its stick to the digitizer and display and I have to replace all 3 things?
[Samsung Galaxy A50 Questions & Answers] elliwigy:
shops usually wont touch it unless replacing the entire display assembly.. reason being is because its difficult to separate the glass from the rest without damaging the display or digitizer
[P3600 General] masscoma:
Upgrade wm6.1 virgin rom p3600 ITA need & aiuto aggiornamento Wm6.1 rom vergine p3600

Ciao a tutti , mi sapete dire che file mi servono per aggiornare il mio p3600 a windows mobile 6.1, però in modo vergine senza programmi o rom installate?

grazie dell'aiuto

Hello to all, I say you know what files I need to update my p3600 to windows mobile 6.1, but so virgin without programs or Roma installed?

Sorry my google translation

www.TrialCom.it

:confused:
[P3600 General] surferpalm:
You don't have need of more file for update the P3600 at WM6.1 you have a need of one room....:)

see this:

http://www.solopalmari.com/smf/index.php?topic=22665.0

Or this:

http://www.solopalmari.com/smf/index.php?topic=22616.0

And later you can find one ITA ROM here under this same section.

Good flashing!!

Bu be carefull flashing is very funny but is At the same time is dangerous...you have a little knowledge of this....;)
[Wear OS Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tifil:
Hello,

I have a fossil Q 4th gen. But I have one question about the gps.

I want to know if it's possible to use google maps into the smartwach without using the smartphone ?

For exemple, how can I set an itinerary in my watch, without using the phone. Because, when I don't connect my watch to my phone, she can't find my position, to find it, I must activate the gps into my phone.

Thanks a lot :)
[General Questions and Answers] Ivone:
I bought it via https://chicmiya.com/collections/fashion-trending-1/products/mobile-phone-1 (of course I got screwed)

In the attachments are the specs.

Can anyone look at it a tell me more? How bad are the specs, is it perhaps a copy of known model. Tools I can use? Can I change ROM etc?

TIA
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
It's safe to run this if you've already cleared parts out. It's ideal for right after you've rooted.

You will be left with a very clean Palm phone. If you use Fdroid, love open-source, and loath Google then this is for you!

Everything works well. There is one issue with the dialer where you scroll to the top with the scrollbar and it crashes. Instead of using the scrollbar just swipe on the names to scroll.

# Objectives:

1. remove all bloatware, including Google

2. Fix incorrect APN settings

3. Remove traces of Verizon

4. Battery life enhancement

5. Suppress adb debugging warning

# TODO

1. Make the script ask whether Google apps are to be removed, and differentiate.

# Pre-requisites:

1. device is rooted!

# Usage

Run ./exec.sh in a terminal and follow the instructions.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tmrodden:
Thanks for releasing this. Do you have any data on performance or battery life increases after making all of these changes? Also, since this script seems to remove Google services, would I be able to do a factory reset of the device to restore Google services?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
All Google crap is removed. You can modify the script to exclude those removals if you want (please share your changes and I'll include for others).

All changes are to /system and /vendor, so considered permanent.

If you do a factory reset chances are it won't boot and you'll need to re-root again. Best avoid.

Battery life difference is significant, as is to be expected by removing so much junk, specifically services.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
One issue, it somehow removed the clock app. I'll have to remove that from the list when I find out which one it is. For now you can install it again via "Clock" on apkpure.com
[Miscellaneous Android Development] g60madman:
It's on line 30 of the palm.sh

DeskClock
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
Ah I thought that was a home widget. Now fixed.

Please let me know if there's any other bloatware crap which I've missed.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
I've found /vendor/bin/mmid is writing to logcat and responsible for a lot of wakeups. Prevented it from respawning with chmod 000. No negative effect so far so will add it to the next script revision.

Also by killing that I now get new battery information in logcat and a lot less logcat messages. I believe that process was responsible for killing something related to power details as I kept getting process startup details. I now get a lot less messages and also proper battery stats in logcat -

02-18 14:01:38.354 1223 2332 D BatteryService: Processing new values: chargerAcOnline=false, chargerUsbOnline=true, chargerWirelessOnline=false, maxChargingCurrent500000, maxChargingVoltage5000000, batteryStatus=2, batteryHealth=2, batteryPresent=true, batteryLevel=97, batteryTechnology=Li-ion, batteryVoltage=4397, batteryChargeCounter=715903, batteryFullCharge=796000, batteryTemperature=240, mBatteryLevelCritical=false, mPlugType=2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] grimez:
Really appreciate your work on this. I edited the palm.sh file to the following to try to keep all the extra Google stuff intact:

#!/usr/bin/env sh

mount -o rw,remount /system

mount -o rw,remount /vendor

## OBJECTIVE: 1 ##

echo "Removing user installs..."

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.verizon.cloudsetupwizard'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.verizon.mips.services'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.vzw.hss.myverizon'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.jrd.verizonuriintentservice'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.verizon.messaging.vzmsgs'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.verizon.llkagent'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.vzw.apnlib'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.tcl.vzwintents'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.tct.vzwwifioffload'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.vzw.ecid'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.vzw.easvalidation'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.customermobile.preload.vzw'

pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.vcast.mediamanager'

echo "Removing system bloatware..."

cd /system/app

## WARN: no remove (will brick): GoogleExtShared SecureExtAuthService

rm -rf VerizonUrintentService verizon-wifi-offload vzwintents

cd /system/priv-app

rm -rf VerizonNameID com.customermobile.preload.vzw VZWAPNLib verizon-llk-agent

cd /vendor/app

rm -rf VzwDMClient

cd /vendor/priv-app

rm -rf MVM_vzw_app-release-phone-13.1.1-278.apk VZMessages-mobile-6.7.12-94-market-release-signed.apk Verizon_LocationAgent_vzw_v0.0.3.120_Production_NoDebug_release_signed.apk

In case anyone else wanted to try out a different version.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] phoneyDev:
Don't use "chmod 000" on mmid. If you do, you can see in the kernel log (via "dmesg") that the phone is constantly trying to restart the mmid service:

init: starting service 'mmid'..
init: cannot execve('/vendor/bin/mmid'): Permission denied
...
init: starting service 'mmid'..
init: cannot execve('/vendor/bin/mmid'): Permission denied
...
init: starting service 'mmid'..
init: cannot execve('/vendor/bin/mmid'): Permission denied

But if you remove or rename mmid (mv /vendor/bin/mmid /vendor/bin/mmid.bak), init gives up and doesn't try to restart the mmid service:

[10081.043211] init: cannot find '/vendor/bin/mmid', disabling 'mmid': No such file or directory

---------- Post added at 08:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:09 PM ----------

To get rid of the Verizon boot animation, you can just rename/remove the bootanimation.zip file.

mount -o rw,remount /vendor
mv /vendor/JRD_custres/media/bootanimation.zip /vendor/JRD_custres/media/bootanimation.zip.bak

This will give you a default pulsing "android" boot animation instead of the Verizon boot animation.

Alternatively, you can use the below "PALM" boot animation that I put together. I don't know what boot animation the non-Verizon phone uses, but it's probably similar to this.

drive [dot] google.com/file/d/114Q9BUSrkjjIt9fPT4B-s3VH0ExGClDi/view

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/tmp/
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount /vendor
mv /data/local/tmp/bootanimation.zip /vendor/JRD_custres/media/bootanimation.zip
[Miscellaneous Android Development] pmko1917:
hi

does anyone know how to remove/change the boot image of "Your device has loaded a different operating system"?

thanks in advance
[Miscellaneous Android Development] pmko1917:
hi

will deleting all the bloatware from verizon make it unable to work on the CDMA network?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
Doubt it, should be fine.

Funny that mmid didn't show in journalctl but does show with dmesg. I'll make the change. I'll remove the boot animation as well. - CHANGES MADE

If you want to modify the script to ask the user whether they want to keep Google crap, I can add that.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tmrodden:
I'm just now trying to run this script, but I'm not all that familiar with running terminal scripts and I'm having an issue that I couldn't find the answer to. I'm rooted on the 1AMG software.

I keep getting "Read-only file system" errors, which searching tells me I have some permissions issues. The script says to grant access for Superuser, which I've done. Below is a screenshot of my terminal with the errors. I've received the same errors on Windows 10 and in Linux terminal on Chromebook.

https://imgur.com/a/XTkrHN8

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
When the SU request came up did you grant or deny?

What happens when you run mount -o rw,remount /system?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] al07th:
I have got the same "not permitted" problem

When I'm trying to mount the /system it says:

PS C:\adb\palm> adb shell
Pepito:/ $ mount -o rw,remount /system
mount: '/dev/block/platform/soc/7824900.sdhci/by-name/system' not user mountable in fstab

I've tried to execute ANY "palm.sh" commands manually:

Pepito:/ $ cd /sdcard && su - -c \"sh palm.sh\"
: sh palm.sh: not found

On any other command I'm getting "Read only" reply
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tmrodden:
I granted the SU request, and it shows as enabled within Magisk, just as it does in the screenshot in al07th's post above.

The mount -o rw,remount /system command you suggested gives the following responses when I tried:

https://imgur.com/i0UWfWx

This is all after having completely wiped the phone, restored to the latest stock firmware using Sugar (1AMGGFG0), and going through the whole process again with a fresh root.

Also wanted to mention that any commands involving the "/sdcard" folder usually result in an error. Only adding a second backslash ("/sdcard/") allows them to be accepted.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
>> So this fails - adb push push/palm.sh /sdcard

>> But this works? adb push push/palm.sh /sdcard/

Strange!

mount -o rw,remount /system -> you are not running as su, hence the error you have.

In the console enter su bash then run mount -o rw,remount /system and it should work without error.

This is what the cd /sdcard && su - -c "sh palm.sh" command is doing. Assuming everything is pushed already and you've in a su bash shell then you can cd to the /sdcard directory and run the palm.sh directly.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
If you don't have the script in the /sdcard directory you haven't run the exec.sh first. This implies you didn't look at the README. ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tmrodden:
Yes, exactly. Here is a screenshot showing the results of both commands: https://imgur.com/9QqSxwo

Thank you. The su bash command did seem to allow the mount -o rw,remount /system to execute correctly without errors, but the rm commands in the palm.sh script still result in "Read-only file system" errors. You can see in the below screenshot all the commands I entered.

https://imgur.com/ztAjkdc
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
I thought I stated you can't do erase all data after running this script, but I need to make it more obvious.

If /system and /vendor are remounted with -o rw without error then you're guaranteed to have write access, so something doesn't look right here at all.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
OK do the following.

1. print me ALL the output of what happens when you run exec.sh.

2. do adb shell, su, then the following -

mount -o rw,remount /system

touch /system/test

print me the output
[Miscellaneous Android Development] snoopy20:
cd /sdcard && su - -c "sh palm.sh"

You are copying it straight from the text file. You should be running that exec.sh file (which pushes the apks) and copying the output, which is the same without the escapes.

I ran it again on my already cleaned phone. Please use the [ code ] [ /code ] tags for console output.

Pepito:/ $ cd /sdcard && su - -c "sh palm.sh"
Removing user installs...
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Failure [not installed for 0]
Removing system bloatware...
Fixing APN list...
Removing Verizon traces...
Removing Unsold-product-on-shelf battery decay limit...
Removing adb debugging nag
Done! - rebooting
Terminated
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tmrodden:
Breakthrough! I think I've solved the issues I was having regarding script permissions. Within the main screen of Magisk Manager there is dropdown menu labeled "Advanced Settings." On every installation of the Magisk Manager apk that I made, there were two options in that menu that were always enabled by default:

Preserve force encryption

Preserve AVB 2.0/dm-verity

By disabling these two settings, then once again using the Magisk "Direct install" option (not sure if reinstalling is necessary), I was able to use the debloat script without any major edits. The only thing I still needed to change was adding a second backslash to the "sdcard" folder commands ("/sdcard/" instead of "/sdcard").

Also, Google Play Services was uninstalled through running the script, but still displayed in my apps list, and would give a "stopped running" error when launching Chrome. I went to the Google Play Services listing in Settings > Apps, uninstalled any updates that had been made to it, then it eventually recognized that it wasn't installed on the phone and removed itself from the apps list. After that, opening Chrome no longer results in the error.

Thanks again for making the script. Even with my troubles getting it to work, it made what would be a very lengthy process fairly quick. I'm looking forward to using this phone more often!