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[Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 Questions & Answers] anagramgenius:
Unable to flash with QFIL either.
[Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 Questions & Answers] blood1995:
Yeah I also tried it today with no luck

this is the error it gaves with qfil using the latest version

Download Fail:FireHose Fail:FHLoader Fail:Process fail

is it the same error as yours?

tomorrow I'll try to flash with different version of qpst

uhhmm maybe not really tomorrow... i don't know
[Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 Questions & Answers] anagramgenius:
Yeah. The device gets detected, but I get the same error as yours.
[Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 Questions & Answers] lechesinplatano:
i got the same error, nothing has worked so far
[Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 Questions & Answers] kool.5:
Hi guys!

This seems like an impossible problem. I too am facing the same thing, and believe me, it occurs quite randomly. One day you are using your device peacefully, and the other it just drops dead ?.

Have continuously tried to contact Asus support, but to no avail. Tried everything, from unlocking bootloader again, to flashing fastboot roms, to manuallu formatting and flashing partitions from fastboot.

Every f***ing thing gives the same error - "Error flashing partition : Write Protected".

I guess there's nothing to do except take it to a service center, which being in India amid this COVID-19 lockdown seems like an impossible task in the near future.
[Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 Questions & Answers] cheremenin:
So, looks like this is STILL an issue, and no one has found a solution besides going to a service centre and having to pay for an expensive motherboard replacement?
[Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 Questions & Answers] ravijaisingh:
Have you got any solution in 2024 my phone also got dead with same issue
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] handy77:
I am unable to get my phone to load to download mode screen with warning screen. So I can root my phone. Only up and power and brisk takes me to recovery menu.

Tried

brisk and down and power then connect usb

Brisk and down then connect usb

None of these take me to the proper download mode screen. Can some please tell me what I am doing wrong.

Does Samsung Kies recognise theirs note 9 mines says device not supported.

I also getting message Connection problem or invalid MMI. How can I fix this
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] Rosli59564:
Hold vol down+bixby for a few seconds then connect usb to pc.

Kies only for old phone like note 3/S5. Newer phones need Smartswitch
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] handy77:
I have tried many times and watched YouTube tutorials I cannot seem to get my phone into that mode. Maybe my phone is faulty.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] oddbehreif:
Are you sure your phone is a genuine Samsung phone?
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro Questions & Answers] VirusMagnus:
Hi community,

When I was flashing my device using MiFlash I made a mistake and chose "Flash and Unlock" then my device send this message: "This miui version can't be installed on this device". I can not install any ROM or Recovery because the phone is locked. I tried everything: EDL Point, MiFlash Unlocked. I don't wanna give up. I'm sure there's a solution but I need help. Any idea?

Thank you
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro Questions & Answers] Naveenthemi:
If the bootloader is locked, you might need to flash using an authorised account. They are only available at service centres these days..so that's your only choice ig.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro Questions & Answers] VirusMagnus:
Yeah I friend of mine got a EDP account so he made the job. Now I tried to install a custom ROM but it doesn't work so I installed the original rom but when I'm setting up the phone I can't connect to Network (Wifi nor SIM) so I can not log in in MI Account. Any idea?
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro Questions & Answers] Peaceful.Ori0n:
Maybe try to flash the ROM again.

Also, I need an authorised account too, could you please help me with getting one?
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro Questions & Answers] Naveenthemi:
Ah that's a firmware issue, a lot of people experience that when they revert back. You would have to clean flash MIUI again.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro Questions & Answers] VirusMagnus:
Issues with WiFi and SIM card. I fixed

I Already skipped Mi Account log in. I had issues with WiFi and SIM card. I fixed WiFi with EFS files but SIM doesn't work yet. It can not recognize IMEI . A contact made a EDL flash but it didn't work.

I rebuild .qcn file for RN 7 but QPST software says files doesn't match with device, even though I rebuild the .qcn and it bricked the phone.

Any idea?
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro Questions & Answers] VirusMagnus:
Problem resolved. Just needed to use the right .qcn file.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] crest_delta:
Hi Folks!!

I M BACK

Finally after more than a year when my NEO was dead it now has a second life..

Gods Grace alls OK now.and hope it remains in good health..

Will soon upgrade to WM6

Thanks

Chirag
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] l3v5y:
What did you do to it?!?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] crest_delta:
Actually I did not do any thing..

got the board replaced.

I had been searching for it since more than a year.

Finally found a second hand board I just paid Rs.2500.00 around 55 US$
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] l3v5y:
That's cheaper than a replacement LCD I got... Which was £55.. Although that was some time ago.

Does your device still have the same IPL/SPL?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] crest_delta:
Yes the IPL and the SPL are the same..moreover now the splash screen is O2 (earlier it was dopod)

Actually at this cost I got the following replaced.

1.Board

2.Screen-one of the service guy where i had given for repairs (earlier to this) had replaced my OG screen and the screen which he installed was not compatible to O2 neo.)

3.Finally I went with my batt which was not used for more thn a year and found tht it was dead too.so the service guy gave me another batt (second hand batt) free

4.Finally on the following day in my office I broke my stylus luckily i had a spare one..

So all and all every spare part was replaced ..lol

Now will soon upgrade to WM6.1
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] l3v5y:
So all that remains of your original device is the housing!
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] crest_delta:
Yep All parts had been changed
[Android Head-Units] M3Power28:
Hi there in px5 android 9.0 mtce_mx2_v3.41_1 which canbus setting do i choose because my panel buttons none of them work.my model car is Citroën c4 version b7 of year 2014.does anyone know?thanks

Sorry if this post is in the wrong thread if so please direct me to the right one.thanks in advance
[Android General] Metalhead02:
Not sure if this is the best place for this but, I need help to develope a new game, right now I am out of a laptop but will get one soon if possible. Anyway if anyone that might be able to help with my idea then tell me because there is money involved. I have the idea but not the means. As far as I can see, it will be a good one. If anyone is interested, let me know.
[Android General] Serecomputing:
So, what's the idea?
[Android General] Deleted member 1890170:
You can build Android apps on your Android phone using AIDE - you can download AIDE from the Google Play Store or head to the official website.
[Android General] Metalhead02:
No, this game will require a computer I'm sure of it, it being a fps. It's a war game.
[Android General] Metalhead02:
Well, if there truly are no takers then I will have to just do this on my own and keep most of the profit. Truly, if someone helped me or a group of people did then they would be paid if the game was a success (which to me it seems very promising) but I can't make you say okay or yes to this proposition. This game idea is for your Android, not a console, thus much less work involved.
[Android General] ranasrule:
what in the world are you talking about? what are you expecting from the community? So far all I can tell is that you want to build "a war game".
[Android General] rszibele:
A great idea is only the first step towards success. Hard work and persistence is the other requirement. As you yourself said, you don't have the means, that would imply others will have to do it. I doubt you will find any one who has the means and is willing to put in the majority of the work while you only offer an idea. Thinking about great ideas is easy, executing them the way you imagined it is hard.
[Samsung Galaxy J5 Questions & Answers] yukinoshita:
i need file combination g570f for binary u2.
[General Topics] pipera:
I needed to restore my Whatsapp messages without having a proper whatsapp backup, in cloud or local, just a TWRP data partition backup (without userdata, thanks to encryption and some other unrelated problems), so, having only data/data/com.whatsapp directory with the unencrypted databases and files to work with, the usual solutions discussed here weren't an option. In my case, fully replacing the com.whatsapp folder and changing its permissions, as some other sources recommend, resulted in Whatsapp crashing for reasons I ignore. Such info was on the right track and after trying all kind of stuff I finally was able to restore my messages. My steps were as follows, hopefully it works for you too:

Requirements:

A backup of /data/data/com.whatsapp, it should have the databases and files subdirectories.

Rooted Android phone with Whatsapp uninstalled.

Basic terminal usage knowledge. (Should be possible to do it with a decent enough file browser but I won't cover it, feel free to adapt it)

If you need to manually extract com.whatsapp from a TWRP backup:

Locate the different data.ext4.win### files in the TWRP backup.

Rename them adding .tar at the end of the name and open them with Winrar/7zip.

If the .tar contains another data.ext4.win###, extract it and repeat the process.

Once you have access to the actual contents inside the files, locate the file which has the data/data/com.whatsapp directory.

Extract that com.whatsapp directory.

Once you have your copy of com.whatsapp:

Copy your backup of com.whatsapp directory to your phone (I will use /sdcard/com.whatsapp as example).

Install Whatsapp but DO NOT RUN IT. Try to use the same version. (Probably works between versions to some extent)

Install an Android terminal emulator and launch it. (Tested with termux)

Elevate, enter /data/data and show the permissions of the installed Whatsapp com.whatsapp directory:

$ su
# cd /data/data
# ls -ld com.whatsapp

You'll see something similar to:

drwx------ 10 u0_a117 u0_a117 4096 2020-03-09 17:28 com.whatsapp

Take note of the user/group, will have u0_a# format. (In my case will be u0_a117)

Enter into that directory:

# cd com.whatsapp

Copy files and databases directories from your transferred com.whatsapp copy in step 1 to your install location. (Don't forget the final space and dot)

# cp -R /sdcard/com.whatsapp/databases .
# cp -R /sdcard/com.whatsapp/files .

Change both directories owner and group to the one seen in step 5.

# chown -R u0_a117:u0_a117 databases
# chown -R u0_a117:u0_a117 files

Check the permissions to be 100% sure that the user/group are correct.

# ls -lad *es

Launch Whatsapp.

Whatsapp will ask you to configure your phone number. Once you're done, you'll see your messages right there.

If Whatsapp crashes after launching it, you wrote a wrong user/group when changing permissions. Whatsapp overwrites the contents of com.whatsapp before crashing, so you'll need to reinstall Whatsapp and start again. The user/group will be a different one each time you install it.
[General Topics] Yaagod:
My system was buggy, not being possible to boot and backup via TitaniumBackup or similar..

I tried your method and worked perfectly via OrangeFox Recovery (with the terminal and the included file manager that facilitates copy/paste operations)

Thank you very much!!
[General Topics] agustincordoba:
Thank you for this tutorial. I have the same difficulty as the first respondent, in that my miui system is buggy and constantly restarting so no time to do a chat backup with the normal procedure. I also have orange fox recovery so I shall try to follow your instructions to the detail. Hopefully all will go well; I shall post back later with the results.
[General Topics] agustincordoba:
Did you introduce any variation or it worked straight off?

One thing that worries me is checking all the permissions
[General Topics] MLX:
Thanks a lot! I'd just drop my device and it's screen broke, and I was able to "transplant" my WhatsApp installation to another device just fine!

I was trying something similar to this long ago (but also copying some whatsapp-related files from /data/user/0/) and it didn't work, maybe they were related to authentication? Anyway, if it works I don't care :P
[General Topics] david_lev:
Very nice guide.

you can skip the chown part and use

cp -rp databases files /data/local/tmp/

to keep the permissions and ownership.

And i think that

pm clear com.whatsapp

will do the work, you don't need to uninstall if the app opens after the installation.
[General Topics] xDonatello:
It worked! You are great!

Thanks a lot
[General Topics] biddybloke:
does this still work, iv tried exact but whatsapp keeps closing
[General Topics] Trolli91:
I just want to say a big THANK YOU. I can confirm that it's still working.

As I have no root on my phone I have used the internal Terminal of TWRP Recovery instead of an app and executed the commands there. They were running without problems (except the command "su" of course) and WhatsApp recognized my previous data.
[General Topics] JackDCalloway:
Custom ROM died yesterday, not able to do backups, recovery had problems too, so I managed to find some Whatsapp inside a TWRP Backup.

I'm unable to work with terminal, can't change directories, maybe because of Android 13. But with total commander app I'm able to move file and database folder and rearrange owner, group and permissions. at least I'm pretty sure to get it right. whatsapp still crashes.
[General Topics] samwhiteUK:
Worked an absolute treat, thank you. Reinstalling all my apps will be a pain, but worth it. Whatsapp was the one app where I was worried about losing data.
[General Topics] MK Yee:
thanks bro , i update my ROM through updater and cause bootloop , and i need to clear data to boot fine , this will cause my whatsapp data lose, follow your step , i copied /data/data/com.whatsapp from orangefox , and after flash new rom , by following ur step , my whatsapp data chat history restored PERFECTLY ! god bless u bro
[General Topics] sieger007:
I was using whatsapp plus all this time and got a notice that upgrade to offical whatsapp which I was going to on the week-end but alas before that whatsapp truncated my msgstore.db from 2g to 100mb. I have whatsapp crypt14 backup from 1 week ago. I will loose that data. Now it wants me to verify myself. I had been using this above method on my own never thought it would need doc like above .Inspite of that it will gimme message that msgstore.db is corrupt . It will rename it to ~.corrupt and create a new msgstore.db. Has anyone experienced this issue ? what causes it ( version diff ? ) . How to fix that ? what does whatsapp look to clear database integrity. Right now as I write this - I am without db . I have whatsapp plus backup which is ~24 hrs old but it is plain db un-encrypted. I have 2 ops to play safe :

-- Reinstall WhatsApp plus and hopefully it will let me in ( verify me ) . Then take official backup . Un Install plus and install original whatsapp

-- Is there a way to use whatsapp encryption and encrypt this msgstore.db and then put it in the database backup folder :

/sdcard/WhatsaApp/Databases/msgstore.db.crypt14

BTW have to chown the entire folder not sub dirs alone

You have to

chown -R ua_xxx:ua_xxx /data/data/com.whatsapp
chown -R ua_xxx:ua_xxx\_cache /data/data/com.whatsapp/*cache*

the cache folders have a different GID _cache

Why did I use whatsapp plus : cos official whatsapp is a performance hog. It is highly restrictive to my freedom. Some really stupid senseless impositions e..g cant forward to more than certain # of contacts. File size is reduced while sending attachments. Messages deleted by opp party cane be retrieved too much liberty suppression. I
[General Topics] blackblex:
I just want to share that: currently this method continues to work as explained by the user.

I restored my chats from WhatsApp plus to official whatsapp
[General Topics] kxxrodix:
Within /data/data/com.whatsapp/files there is a folder named "decompressed", and the libraries in it are specific to your SoC architecture. This folder is automatically regenerated when you launch Whatsapp if it wasn't present. I also delete this file and it gets regenerated cldr_strings_xxxxxxxxxx.pack in the files directory

Normally I keep the com.whatsapp/shared_prefs directory and it restore without needing re-authentication
[General Topics] abhinavp649:
I was using FMWhatsapp for a very long long time. Why? Cuz the original one is so stupid and FMWhatsapp allows so much facilities and security features that really make me think why the meta is not enabling such features which are actually there the application but are kept disabled. As per meta, using modded WhatsApp is a threat to privacy. Yeah Sure! I'm carrying around an android with google services continuously running and listening and tracking all my activities already then thats fine having an extra application doing the same thing.

But the application came to halt when they imposed some kind of signature verification (i guess) to validate the installation and it broke the entire application and did not even gave me the chance to take a backup. But THANKS!!! to the FMWhatsapp it allowed you to take a data backup from the data folder from the system which otherwise requires root access and my main device isn't rooted at all and I still got the data copied as backup.

but still it was unusable until I found this guide!!!!! today after months which I literally tried an hour before writing this and guess what.. IT WORKEDDDD!!!! IT WORKKEDDDD!! dayumm I was literally laughing for like 10 mins straight!

After all this, I want to tell everyone who might come here with some hope that this sh*t really works BUT you have to do few other things also to get the old data intact with new WhatsApp application. But this will only work If you have the unencrypted database backup.

Step 0: !!GET A ROOTED DEVICE!!

Step 1: Copy the backup and the folder where WhatsApp keeps the media files to your Desktop/Laptop.

Step 2: Extract the backup and check the folders for .db files.

Step 3: Use any SQLite explorer (I used DB Browser) and explore each database and every table in each database and replace mod name with just WhatsApp. Lets say you have installed YoWhatsapp then where ever in the database any entry exist with YoWhatsApp just update it with only WhatsApp. This step is fairly long and exhaustive. So take your time.

Step 4: In the media folder, rename all the folders with just WhatsApp only. Lets say it is named as "FMWhatsapp Documents" rename it to "Whatsapp Documents".

Step 5: Now copy whole media folder in the phone where the WhatsApp will look for the media.

Step 6: Follow OP's guide.

!!DONE!!

See, It could be true that my steps might be totally unnecessary and useless but to get the precious data back its really not a harm to go few extra steps!

Warm Regards,

Abhinav
[General Topics] saurabhtamne:
Thank you so much!!!!

You've been a savior!!!

This method still works perfectly...
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] kD:
Hello Everyone,

I recently bought this device G7 play with on-going offer with MetroPCS. Since last one week, I've been getting my hands dirty on successfully building and booting the kernel from the source code provided by moto here https://github.com/MotorolaMobilityLLC/kernel-msm/releases/tag/MMI-PPYS29.105-134-7

I would like to share with you all my progress currently.

Working:

Boots

Touch works

Not Working:

Camera

Baseband (radio)

A lot more

Screenshot :

I will update my progress here and release it once I manage get around few major issues and also I'm working on building TWRP for our device from source.
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] brickhayabusa:
Sorry for my ignorance, but what does this mean for the g7 play development?, Thnx
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Electimon:
Hello, is this 32bit or 64bit?
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] kD:
I will try to build a functional TWRP, custom kernel and maybe even a ROM.

It is a 64 bit build
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Electimon:
Do you have telegram?
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
@kD

You might be able to get LTE working by reflashing the modem and wiping modemst1 & 2. Your kernel might actually get around the security problems we have with installing twrp on stock as well. I'd love to do some testing with it. If you feel like dropping me a link, please send me a pm.
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] kD:
Sent a PM to you.
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Fdraco10:
Thanks for your work!!!

A custom kernel for this device will be amazing! Go on!!
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] 00p513:
Using this kernel im going to build halium-boot eta s0n
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Xx_strong3rxX:
This is amazing!! Please continue, you are a hope for us and share your progress with us
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] hudsonbra:
nothing new?
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
@kD

I don't know if you saw this but one of the devs from Motorola finally updated the build process. You'd have to adapt some minor things like folder names, and the -j number but it should work. I can't believe how stupidly complicated building the kernel modules are. No body would remember this line for line, and they waited like a year to tell us this crap.

https://github.com/MotorolaMobilityLLC/readme/blob/master/MMI-PPYS29.105-134-7.txt
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] 00p513:
Seems like great news! When we can get a 64 bit OS running ill make a zip to convert from this 64 bit rom to 64 bit halium 9!
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] LoboOMaioral:
Hey man! Good work! Any news in your 64bit kernel?
[Moto G7 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
@kD

How do you get past this part compiling the kernel?

( perl -le 'print \"# This file was automatically generated from:\n#\t\" . join(\"\n#\t\", @ARGV) . \"\n\" ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/msm8953-perf_defconfig ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/moto-msm8953.config ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/debug-msm8953.config ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/debug-msm8953_32.config ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/debug-sdm632-channel.config ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/moto-msm8953_32.config ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/moto-sdm632-channel.config && cat ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/msm8953-perf_defconfig ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/moto-msm8953.config ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/debug-msm8953.config ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/debug-msm8953_32.config ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/debug-sdm632-channel.config ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/moto-msm8953_32.config ~/android/kernel/msm-4.9/arch/arm/configs/ext_config/moto-sdm632-channel.config ) > ~/android/out/target/product/generic/obj/kernel/msm-4.9/mapphone_defconfig || ( rm -f ~/android/out/target/product/generic/obj/kernel/msm-4.9/mapphone_defconfig && false )

It originally gave me an error because of an extra ' symbol in there. Upon removing it, the command goes through, but... It drops me into some kind of "perl shell" that I can't get out of to enter the next commands. I almost have a script ready to auto build our kernel, but that perl command is holding up progress.