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[Google Pixel 4 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] bigmatt503:
FIXED IT!! After taking the March update I flashed this patched img the phone boots up to a black screen. If you use the power button it brings up a White menu with "power off" "restart". So then I turn the phone off and load fastboot and flash the stock boot img and everything works again. Any ideas? Figured it out.... Magisk modules that were running.
[Google Pixel 4 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] mydjtl:
Can you flash any of them without the use of a computer?
[Google Pixel 4 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] mnrivera210:
Nope. TWRP or any other recovery is not yet compatible.
[Google Pixel 4 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] pa.pn2:
Yes with ex kernel manager it's possible
[Google Pixel 4 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] i5lee8bit:
Here's an updated patched March 2020 QQ2A.200305.003 boot image with Magisk 20.4.

I've been using it for the last 2 days and haven't noticed any problems as of yet. Couldn't direct install in Magisk Manager, so feel free to use this if it makes things any easier. OP, please feel free to add this link to your post if you want.

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=306923
[Google Pixel 4 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] mushtafa:
Added to OP, cheers
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] Lurdy:
I bought a Mi 9T for around 220€ a few days ago, and although I love it so far, I can't stand MIUI. Delayed notifications, user tracking, bloatware, and so on...

I started the 168hr countdown on Sunday and I plan on unlocking the bootloader and flashing Pixel Experience next weekend.

However, I want to know if there are some features that stop working or work less well on a custom ROM. Most of all, the camera and the fingerprint scanner. Everything working alright? I know that some ROMs, on some phones, were affecting photo quality and performance. Anything like that on the Mi 9T?

Cheers!
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] zgfg:
Did you check in the ROM section, thread devoted to Pixel Experience.

Also, it would be IMO more logical to expect useful answers there, among the users of the particular ROM.

Sorry if it doesn't help
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] Lurdy:
Thanks for the answer.

I don't mean any downsides to installing Pixel Experience specifically, but any ROM not based on MIUI
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] Icebullet99:
Can't speak for other ROMs, but with PE, things are mostly fine, including the camera. Battery seems better with an extra 1 hour screen on over 2 days usage. Except for the fingerprint scanner. On the current build, the recognition is great (no worse than on MIUI!), but fod does not work when screen is off or on AOD. However, a patch may come later this week or the next, fixing the fod on AOD.
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] zgfg:
"recognition is great (not worse than on MIUI"?!

- On MIUI is next to totally useless (or even without that "nextt")

"fod does not work when screen is off or on AOD"

- What is the use of fingerprint if it doesn't work when phone was resting (hence the screen turned off or went to AOD), I eg receive mail or WA message and want to read/reply, but fingerprint cannot unlock the screen
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] internetjlmb:
In my experience with aosp roms:

*Bluetooth audio don't resume music if a call enters

*Fingerprint recognition is far better on miui (depends on the rom, but imo miui is much better than any aosp)

*Instagram stories doesn't upload long videos (15sec +)

*Sometimes microphone is not activated on video calls (messenger, WhatsApp, duo)

*Android auto not working (except on PE and PE based roms)
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] ogpog:
Hello, I am poised to start customising my Redmi Note 8T. I've done loads of reading and have an outline plan but would appreciate a sanity check / review of this in case I am either missing something or doing something I shouldnt. Phone is currently encrypted, TWRP can unlock it fine. I want to end up with an encrypted device but there is nothing precious on the phone at the moment (stock MIUI as delivered, pretty much unused since the unlock factory reset).

Here's what I have following my research on other threads here:

First, what I have done already:

0. get phone Redmi 8T willow 128GB with stock MIUI (DONE)

1. unlock phone (DONE, 7 day wait!)

2. flash TWRP (DONE, used 3.3.1-1 official version, but MIUI overwrote it when I rebooted)

3. Backup from TWRP (DONE)

Next, the to-do list:

4. flash vbmeta (fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img)

5. flash TWRP 3.3.1-10 version (fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.3.1-10-ginkgo-willow-mauronofrio.img)

6. reboot into TWRP (fastboot reboot, hold volume up + power)

7. Wipe /system, /data, and /cache

8. flash Havoc-OS-v3.2-20200229-willow-Official.zip

9. flash open_gapps-arm64-10.0-pico-20200229.zip

10. reboot & test

11. reboot into TWRP (fastboot reboot, hold volume up + power)

12. flash magisk zip (Magisk-v20.3.zip)

13. flash disable_dm_verity zip (Disable_Dm-Verity_ForceEncrypt_02.24.2020.zip)

14. reboot & test

15. Install via magisk manager the SQLite3 binary (SQLite3.Universal.Binaries.v1.0.zip)

16. Reboot

17. Install vis magisk manager the GPay SQLite fix (GPay.SQLite.Fix.v2.0.zip)

18. Reboot

Thanks very much in advance.
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] iaio72:
Hey [MENTION=7532389]ogpog[/MENTION], at step 4, where you find vbmeta to flash?

Thanks
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] the_weird_aquarian:
flashing vbmeta is not really needed..however keep it just in case.

in fastboot rom inside images folder
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] iaio72:
ok solved thanks
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] ogpog:
Well I tried without vbmeta and ended up with the panic-inducing "The system is destroyed" screen. I went back to fastboot and flashed vbmeta and twrp again, then installed the cutom rom, set it all up, then went back and installed magisk.

I got vbmeta from reading https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=81591273&postcount=196 and downloaded from https://t.me/rn8updates/80
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] Juanlufer4:
The same thing happened to me and I'm still not clear on the steps to follow to fix it and be able to install a custom rom. Destroyed system appears
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] Juanlufer4:
The same thing happened to me and I'm still not clear on the steps to follow to fix it and be able to install a custom rom. Destroyed system appears.

You did well with the steps outlined above??
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] bluefender:
nothing is clear, not really..to many gray areas..like can i backup rom to external sd card, why exactly in twrp do you backup rom wise, and Disable_Dm-Verity_ForceEncrypt_, iv read its two files in one, new roms are not like the old days ie marshmallow kitkat, i used all in one tool flashed twrp..all went well then flashed then flashed magisk and then the dm-verty thing, ended up in a bootloop, then tried to use mi flash tool to put original firmware back, error error, got back using twrp and using eea recovery rom, although i was on on global, remember fast boot rom is not the same as recovery rom, same rom though, all very confusing...for me anyway.
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] ogpog:
Just looking back over my notes from when I did it. Here is what I wrote:

A modified vbmeta.img disables verify boot on devices using Android Verified Boot. You need to disable dm-verity on the fastboot command:

fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img

source https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=81591273&postcount=196

(the above is a command-line given on your computer connected to your phone which has been booted in fastboot mode (boot phone with power+volume down). You need the fastboot command on your computer (I use Linux and it's in a package called "android-tools").

If you forget to flash vbmeta, you'll see a message "the system hass been destroyed". Just go back to fastboot mode and flash it.

This is the process I recorded, but please verify it rather than folllwing it blindly, and bear in mind that later versions are available now :).

0. get phone Redmi 8T with stock MIUI
1. unlock phone (DONE, 7 day wait!)
2. flash TWRP (DONE, used 3.3.1-1 official version, but MIUI overwrote it)
3. Backup (DONE)
4. flash vbmeta (fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img)
5. flash TWRP 3.3.1-10 version (fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.3.1-10-ginkgo-willow-mauronofrio.img)
6. reboot into TWRP (fastboot reboot, hold volume up + power)
7. Wipe /system, /data, and /cache
8. flash Havoc-OS-v3.2-20200229-willow-Official.zip
9. flash open_gapps-arm64-10.0-pico-20200229.zip
10. reboot & test

I get your sentiment - it's feels hard doing this on any Android despite having decades of expert level professional computer experience. But it's really a miracle we can do it at all and we have the good people providing roms and the information needed to install them to thank for that. I think the "brick fear" makes it worse due to the lack of a console port or bios to fall back to like you have on a computer. I think the first post in the thread should contain all the information needed to install the rom but it's a moving target so I guess it's a difficult call to expect it to be maintained.

If I were to call out for one thing, it would be for that page to also include instructions for Linux. Android is Linux after all :D

(sorry I just realised I wasn't on the havoc thread where the "first page" is - https://xdaforums.com/redmi-note-8/development/rom-havocos-3-1-t4043973 )
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] Juanlufer4:
Thanks for your interest, I just wanted to know if the steps you describe were correct. I had 2 systems destroyed and it's not funny. Hopefully it works

---------- Post added at 03:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:47 PM ----------

A doubt? started the rom well or encrypted?
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] archer2009:
Is there any YouTube videos showing the steps for the Redmi Note 8T ?
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] chakkrit_pond:
How to install rom gsi for Redmi note 8t
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] Technical:
+1 I'm trying to test GSIs on Note 8 (ginkgo) and I'm not succeeding in any way. Phone stuck on bootanimation (or, sometimes, reboot into TWRP).

Does anyone have the steps to success? Thanks.

I can start from scratch (MIUI 11).

Trying to flash a/b gsis of Android 10.
[Other SmartWatches] livingod101:
Hello all,

I just purchased the Ticwatch pro (not the LTE version) but from what I know there is no physical difference between LTE and non-LTE version.

The gigantic buttons!!! Anyone have taken apart this watch before? And, if you did did you notice if the button is a single piece that can be cut/modified, so it's more flush to the bezel; so when I turn up my wrist it does not accidentally make it do random stuff?

Any knowledge about this would help, thx in advanced.
[Other SmartWatches] rcky844:
I also have this watch and it works great with zero mis-clicks, the buttons seems to be intergaded.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] s_kates81:
Hi,

Have anyone noticed AVRCP buttons ( next/previous and play pause buttons) not working in Pocketmusic and PocketPlayer. But they are working perfectly in TouchFlo3d music player and also Windows Media player.

Any fix?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] diego1810:
:( I found this problem too as I always played pocketmusic; now I play my mp3s thru audio manager cause I don't know how to fix it, sorry.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] s_kates81:
that's weird, hope somebody could throw some light over this issue
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] s_kates81:
no fixes yet? nobody got a clue?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] timn2087:
is there button mapping options in Pocket Music player?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ceevee369:
Would be great if this could be fixed

i am trying to link different applications with AVRCP / A2DP though without luck...

it did worked on Tytn II , though the Diamond seems not to offer the possibility to control 3rd party Multimedi applic's

Coreplayer 1.25 ; no AVRCP - only volume control

Pocket player 3.6 : same as above.

WMP -on board : all works, but the sound output is less than the above

I will try to associate file extensions with other programs and report back if this would solv.

i guess only disabeling Touchflo might solve this temporarely as a work around.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Alexx_B:
I have same troubles with CorePlayer too :(

When I connect my DS-970, its controls TF3D player tab

I try to disable this tab - CorePlayer didn't work correctly too

but WMP did! :((
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ceevee369:
Reg tak request

I posted left and right requests to tweakers to have a look into this but without luck yet.

Advanced Config (or boinger66 add-ons for Advance Config 2.1) should be the most suitable solution though.

If you guys would liek to post a few other direct requests (no new thread yet) someone with the required knowledge might come up with something ..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] krij:
DS980 VS HTC Daimond + Pocket music

I have got the same problem. Now, I post my problem to Pocketmind support team already. They said, they will get back to me. Actually, I am not advance user and this problem should be a known problem, unfortunately, I tried to search on many web by using google, hopeless!!

If I got any feedback from the support team, will share
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] krij:
There is option on the button mapping but it did not work with AVCRP bluetooth. It works on the handheld itself
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] merlynuk:
Having same problem too.. have installed the WMP plug-in for Pocket player and enabled the workaround relating to play/pause for WMP A2DP in the config screen. However, still cannot use AVRCP to control Pocket Player from my Bluetooth car stereo.

Not a major issue, but it would be nice to get working as I've been impressed with PP so far and so will probably end up buying it.

Thx

M.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] thx1200:
I'm following this thread because I plan to buy a Touch Pro when it comes out in my area and I want PocketPlayer to work with the AVRCP on my new car stereo.

I saw from your post about Advance Config and I was curious if anybody tried setting the Default Music Player for the HTC Music Plugin setting? Does that help?

Advance Config can be downloaded here: http://www.touchxperience.com/

As I do not have a Touch Pro yet, I cannot test this, but I am curious about other's experiences solving this issue.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] krij:
Until today, Pocketmind has not reply my question yet. May be, they could not figure out too. I posted my the same question in some other forum. One of the reply stated that I should find the plugin AVRCP for pocketMusic. Again, Until today, I tried to search in the google, I still could not find plugin AVRCP for pocket music. If anyone of you have a luck on this, please
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] krij:
After I launch your above web, then, I link to

http://www.touchxperience.com/

I saw the "HTC Music Manager" function in the description that allow you to choose default music player in the link but when install, NO "HTC MUSIC Manager". So ridiculous
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ratzefumm:
My old Touch was able to map the Hardwarebutton BT to Start/Stop, so i could pause/Play by pressing BT Sidebutton.

On the Diamond and on the old Touch this is implemented in 1-3 DLLs. As it is hardcoded in these DLLs - it is definitly not possible to "remap" these buttons :-(

I asked in the forum if it is possible to use the DLLs from the "old" Touch. ... No interesting feedback by now...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] krij:
Thanks for your info. Until today, nobody could solve this problem!!. I left this issue to Pocketmind and they said they would come back in 3 days. Now 10 days already. May be, they are also incapable to solve it : (
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] johny.mnemonic:
Same problem here with Mort Player on HTC Touch Pro (Raphael).

It seems, they changed the way BT stack interprets AVRCP commands, or hardcoded sending these commands directly to WMplayer, cause it is only think that works with AVRCP.

I hope this will be soon solved in some cooked ROMs.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] thx1200:
If you hear about a cooked ROM that fixes this, please post it here! :-)

I don't usually have time to comb through all the awesome stuff going on at XDA and would very much appreciate it!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] scociu:
Hi, is there a music player that can be controlled (next, previos, volume, play/pause) with the buttons on the stock wired headset? I can't use them in WMP and is very frustrating.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] krij:
BT function for Pocket Music

Still no response from Pocketmind. Also, tried to search, hopeless.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] thx1200:
Conduits is soliciting testers for some possible solutions for Pocket Player. See this thread for more info if you use Pocket Player.

http://www.conduits.com/community/forum_posts.asp?TID=1321&PN=1&TPN=2
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Jiggs1337:
I really wish HTC or some genius here could fix this. AVRCP is a standard that HTC should not be intercepting. Every player uses it. I hate having to use the HTC player.

It has been a long time now, and still no fix :(
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] thx1200:
I agree. HTC really did a stupid thing by not making this configurable. But I have noticed this is a trend HTC is adopting on their new devices. I think the Diamond and Pro are awesome, don't get me wrong, but there is numerous and pointless "hardwiring" all over TF3D. When they adopted a more "Apple" like graphical UI, they should have left the Apple-style hardwired code at the curb, where it belongs. WM devices should be highly configurable -- as it always has been! The hobbiest community downright demands it and we're the ones spending our hard-earned cash on this stuff.

Well, here's hoping somebody finds a solution. It's promising, at least, that a lot of smart people are working on this!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Jiggs1337:
I love my Touch Pro, but the music player is the one single thing i really don't like. Which shouldn't be a problem, since winmo has so many apps, but then HTC did this AVRCP thing. So the worst part about the Touch Pro also seems to the only thing that can't be changed. PocketPlayer is many times better for music, but i have to have the device in my hand while im walking, jogging, driving, etc. Not good.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Davey101:
No one's forcing you to use TF3D! :D

In my opinion the audio player is the only useful/useable feature included in TF3D but unfortunately it's loaded and running all the time, slowing the system down even after playback has finished! That will be why it's always intercepting commands.

Disable TF3D and use some 3rd party today plugins - that way you can have the all the flexibilty you want. :D

Edit: The Pocket Player plugin is really hand too!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Jiggs1337:
When i disable TF3D (which i really like, and disagree that the music player is the only useful part :) (infact its the worst part)) then AVRCP is intercepted by windows media player. This is not a solution sadly.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Davey101:
Even with windows media player not running? Strange.

BTW, not wishing to turn this into a "TF3D sucks" thread (something I'm prone to) but, having tried out a few launchers and settled on SPB pocket plus, there's no way I'm going back to TF3D on the Diamond. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] thx1200:
Can anybody else confirm that when TF3D is disabled, AVRCP is intercepted by WMP? I was under the assumption that with TF3D disabled, that wasn't the case...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] neuro159:
This is 100% correct. Even worse - Not PocketPlayer nor CorePlayer WMP plugin support can't override this correctly. Even on roms with no manilla at all.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Jiggs1337:
Its very frustrating. I really hope someone fixes this soon. I bought an expensive bluetooth AVRCP headset and cant use it as I'd like. Its almost false advertising to say that the TP/Diamond supports AVRCP standards, since they've taken such control over it.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] thx1200:
Please check out this thread. I had an idea, but I don't yet have a Diamond/Pro to test it out. I hope somebody else can let me know if this is something worth pursuing or if I am barking up the wrong tree.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=401600
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] neuro159:
I suppose the problem is not in Media player plugin - because all players that can load it and do work on other devices do not work on Diamond. Even AVRCP Agent http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=331385 (very promising) didn't work. I think it's in some BT stack module made by HTC

I'm currently looking inside bt*.dll files loaded by device.exe process, comparing them to same from my Touch to find the guilty.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] thx1200:
neuro159 - I figured as much, but I thought it was a place to start. I was hoping that whatever module is offending, it might be registered in the registry and it might be easy to point it over to alternate DLLs and therefore not require a cooked ROM to fix. There are at least three DLLs that require registry entries in the Tornado A2DP/AVRCP package for phones that don't come with support for it. I was hoping one of them might work...

On the bright side, I got in touch with HTC today and they forwarded my request about how to get AVRCP to work in 3rd party apps to a developer. I'm not particularly optimistic, but it's worth a shot!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Jiggs1337:
Thanks for the work your putting into it. I hope the developer can shed some light on what needs to be done.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] krij:
AVRCP VS Pocket Music vs BT function

This issue surprized me and I would say, many of us in this web due to the complication of the problem

HTC, haven't heard any thing that they will take any action

Pocket music (pocketmind) replied my e-mail that they are going to fix it but 2months already.

Listening music from WMP is ok but the sound system is not as good as Pocket Music. The annyoing thing is control function in case you don't like this song and want to skip, you need to turn on the handheld and use forward function.:mad::mad::mad:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] thx1200:
Conduits told me that they tried several different approaches and couldn't get it to work, but they are going to work on it again after the next release. I'm happy they keep trying, but I think this will only really be fixed by an OS patch (the sort of thing you get off the dark unsavory alleys of XDA). ;-)

My current thinking is that the problem may not actually be in the Bluetooth stack or (obviously) Bluetooth plugins. HTC runs (at least) several custom services to achieve their unique interface. An example is the service that translates finger screen swipes as a scrolling function, instead of an item selection (traditional WM). Spb has a similar service in one of their apps.

I'm wondering if one of those services also happens to intercept bluetooth AVRCP above the driver level, but below the app level and redirect it to the HTC player or WMP. This would explain why tinkering with the bluetooth DLLs hasn't led to any results yet. But this is just a hypothesis right now.

There's one great (free) app I know that lets you start/stop WM services, but I can't test my hypothesis until I get my Touch Pro (whenever Sprint releases it). If somebody wants to play around with this idea and try manipulating WM services, the app I speak of is DotFred's TaskMgr. http://www.dotfred.net/TaskMgr.htm Just go to the Services tab and have fun.