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[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] Voliminal_8:
I've been researching a whole lot of privacy focused apps and started replacing them one by one.

But ROM should be first.

Does aosp ROMs or CrDroid contains Google services?
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] garylawwd:
Crdroid contains signature spoofing if you want to install microg.

Probably the best rom at the moment when it comes to privacy and going gappsless
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] Voliminal_8:
What exactly is signature spoofing?

And microG?
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] garylawwd:
If you are so focused on privacy then ditching all Google apps and researching microg would be the first thing you should do. Replacing apps now is useless as Google will still pull your data from every app on your device so long as play services are installed (or any Google app for that matter)

Read here

And here for more information
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] debido666:
Paranoid Android 10 is out, someone needs to bring it to this phone.
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] garylawwd:
It is. But it comes with gapps. I think there is a build without gapps also though
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] Voliminal_8:
Ok thanks for the links.

So wait, is microG needed? If I got it right, you only need it if you want to run most of google apps. Right?

If I get CrDroid without Gapps and install very other app replacement like, NewPipe, Singal Messenger, etc. won't it be google free?

Damn I'm confused.
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] Jemec26:
Micro G it's kinda confusing first times you read. To answer your questions, yes, you will be Google free. Microg is mostly for apps that depends on Google services to live. It replaces the Google apps but without sending any info to Google anonymously. They just connect to make a login, that it's why signature spoofing is important, without it, microg wouldn't be able to fake gapps for those apps who required then.

Different thing is that you don't use any app who doesn't require Google services. But banking apps, for example, most of them requires it, so that it's the moment when microg plays the fake game.
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Burt Squirtz:
The thread title says it all. Rather curious how I can get my hands on the Chinese version. I'm an American living in States, but those prices are ridiculously lower. The handset itself is supposed to be identical. Anyone know how I can order one?
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Amd4life:
Kind of crappy for OnePlus to charge America an extra $137. Fake tariff response.

https://m.gsmarena.com/oneplus_8_and_8_pro_launch_in_china_you_wont_like_the_prices-news-42716.php
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] tickertapes:
Chinese 12GB 256GB in black with oxygen OS

Ordered mine for £780 inc delivery, hopefully will be delivered before the weekend. Sooooo excited :) I've loved my OP5T but so looking forward to wireless charging, IP68, OIS 120Hz etc.
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] LJAM96:
Where did you purchase it from? With the reports of the screen issues in some phones im hesitant to order from another country in case OnePlus have an issues with warranties with phones from different regions
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Burt Squirtz:
can you tell me exactly what you did to accomplish this bro? Like step-by-step. I'm assuming you went to oneplus.com/cn and used Google translate to navigate through? And it'll allow you to ship to United States?
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] jericho246:
No. He most likely purchased it on a site like Wonda Mobile dot com or Trading Shenzhen dot com.
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] tickertapes:
Yep, you got it. According to DHL tracking it's in the UK already ?

I've bought phones from Wonda before without issues.
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] evilhomura89:
The handset won't be identical

The Chinese version will be missing out on quite a few LTE/5G bands support in the states

https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/g5870q/psa_chinaindias_op8_is_cheaper_but_itll_be/
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] tickertapes:
I have bought foreign phones before and have always found ways to enable/disable bands as needed.. The Snapdragon is very versatile. I'm hoping that installing the international oxygen OS rom will configure the bands. When I get the device I will thoroughly test every band and let you know how I get on.
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] tickertapes:
I still have DFS tools installed on my desktop. The last time I went down this route I ended up enabling every band there was.. naughty but fun.:)
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Burt Squirtz:
Haha your post cracks me up, mate. Did you ever get the band unlocked? I'm torn between waiting four more days until it's available in the US, or getting it off of Wonda.

Perhaps you can help me decide. When the phone arrived, did it look brand-spanking-new? Or were there fingerprints all over it? After all, they had to manually flash the international version of OOS I'm assuming? and did it come in original packaging? Or do they just take the components out and just stick it in a random box?
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] mikey_sk:
Careful the Chinese version is missing a few of the bands we use here. Think o2 is fine but the rest need band 32 I think for lte advance so you may get slower 4g speeds if on Three voda ee or their mvno's.

Maybe you can unlock bands. Wonda mobile a great trustworthy store
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] mlkemac:
I'm in Canada and bought a pro 256gb from Alibaba for about 1240 CAD all in. Flashed with global ROM.

Very risky for general user but I've been buying equipment and components for my company from Alibaba for years now. I personally have never had an issue (with fraud anyways)
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] tickertapes:
Well, just setting up my Chinese black OP8 and all seems well. VoWIFI, VoLTE, everything working beautifully. I've got a

12 GB model for less than the 8GB model. Happy bunny.
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] cultofluna:
From Where you got it...
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] tickertapes:
The seal on the box was broken to upgrade the firmware but the device was still wrapped in its protective film. I'm currently on band 20 VoLTE and the device is identifying itself as the international version. I suspect the relevant bands were enabled/disabled with the ROM change.
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] tickertapes:
Wonda mobile.
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Pr20:
Question for those using chinese version in USA.

How is it working?

I want the green 256GB version and dual Sim. So going down this route might be my best option.

Only problem I see is if I have a screen issue, will be harder to return.

What do you guys think? Thanks for the replies.
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] wilpang:
I have used Wonda Mobile and returned a mobile with no issues, you pay for shipping if you change your mind with a fee but if it's faulty they will reimburse you.
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Duncan1982:
I have ordered many times from Wonda Mobile, can't rate them high enough. My 8 Pro was shipped on Monday and I had it by Saturday, 12/256gb £100 cheaper......:good:
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] Replicatorz:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/164057105750

Just bought this today but now i see there ain't much for this model here, all i see is for the SM-G973F model but can the SM-G973U be rooted and use the roms for the G973F?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] StoneyJSG:
Nope, you cannot cross firmwares. Your phone is also bootloader locked with no way to unlock it. There's no root method yet either and probably won't be. I have the G975U (U.S. Galaxy S10+), so I am in the same boat as far as root and bootloader goes.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] Replicatorz:
I should of checked the model number to see what was available for it before i bought it but i guess i will have to deal unless by chance something is done about it which won't happen as everybody is gonna work on the s20 now. I wish phones were more like computers in which you can use whatever the hell you want on them, idk why carriers have such a issue with it since people will still pay for their services all the same.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] StoneyJSG:
The S9 just got root like a month or 2 ago. The S10 and up have greater security measures to overcome, which has been a dead end to people trying to find a root method.

Carriers argue that root "takes away from the user experience." What that means to me is they don't want people who know nothing about how these phones work poking around and messing crap up and then returning the phone or claiming insurance or warranty or whatever. Some phones can be bootloader unlocked via the manufacturer like HTC (they used to offer OEM bootloader unlocks, they may have stopped I don't know). I think the One Plus phones come rooted (not sure though) and I believe the Pixel phone line are easily rooted (again not sure, so don't quote me).
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] Replicatorz:
My first smartphone was a HTC One Vx i do believe and that was where i learned to root phones on, then i had a galaxy s6 which i rooted aswell, then a LG Stylo 3 but LG doesn't seem to be friendly to rooting either. I was thinking of getting a HTC u12 instead of the s10 but went with the s10 cause of price, now i wish i would of just got the htc u12, i think htc's are comparable to galaxy's myself, but galaxies are more mainstram choice cause of high quality materials.

Edit: This is most likely bs? https://www.recovery-mode.com/andro...amsung-galaxy-s10-sm-g973u-android-9-pie.html
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] StoneyJSG:
Yeah only the exynos variants can be rooted with the exception of the Hong Kong variant which has a snapdragon and can be rooted. The Sprint 5G version can also be rooted. That link you posted is probably BS given nobody here in the forums in talking about it. It could be real though, but as far as I know the OEM unlock option is either not present on the G973U or is present and just does nothing when activated. Someone else with more knowledge of it might chime in, hopefully they do because now I am curious.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] Tel864:
LOL, or just Googled it. It's pretty old news that's been out since the phone was released.
[Xiaomi Poco X2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] 00day:
[IMG="The main logo"]https://i.imgur.com/b4rKFZq.jpg[/IMG]

ExtendedUI is custom-rom based on PixelExperience that aims to provide different UI than any other rom on the market.

Also, we got ourMOD EDIT: LINK REMOVED you can find here updates about the rom, screenshots and more.

- Refined UI by cfdddd (00day/00day0)

- GAPPS included

- Ambient edge lighting

- Double-tap to sleep on statusbar / lockscreeen

- Smart replies toggle

- Battery charging light customizations

- Notification snooze function

- Navigation bar customizations

- Lockscreen shortcuts customizations

- Configurable amount of screen height used for gestures

First Time Install / Clean Flash

DO NOT FLASH GAPPS, ALREADY INCLUDED

1. Download the proper flashable ZIP for your device

2. Reboot to Recovery

3. Flash this MIUI package. Mirror

4. Flash the ROM

5. Format Data

6. Reboot to recovery

7 Flash Magisk (Optional)

8 Reboot to System

Update / Dirty Flash

1. Download the proper flashable ZIP for your device

2. Reboot to Recovery

3. Flash the ROM

4. Reboot to System

MOD EDIT: DOWNLOAD LINK REMOVED

ExtendedUI source code

ExtendedUI devices source code

- PixelExperience

- LineageOS

- OmniROM

- POSP

- Havoc-OS

​

XDA:DevDB Information

[ROM][10.0] ExtendedUI for Poco X2/Redmi K30 [OFFICIAL], ROM for the Xiaomi Poco X2

Contributors

00day

ROM OS Version: Android 10

Version Information

Status: Testing

Created 2020-04-19

Last Updated 2020-04-19
[Xiaomi Poco X2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] strongst:
Thread closed until kernel sources are provided.

OP: Please check your PM-Inbox for more informtion.

You can read about it HERE why it's mandatory to post actual kernel sources according to GPLv2.

Thanks

strongst

Forum Moderator
[Android Stick & Console Computers General] techdimi:
Since I am new to Android Tv Boxes I want to ask if is there a way to have Full HD quality of Youtube videos on a cheap Android Tv box.

In most of the reviews that I have seen about cheap chinese Tv boxes they have good specs with plenty of Ram for my needs, fast cpu and big of storage but they are not able to playback Youtube in full HD which is so frustrating and I cancel a potential purchase.

Is there a way to bypass this issue eg with custom rom or an app like newpipe and skytube in froid ? I do not like xiaomi mi box s so please do not even suggest it.
[Android Stick & Console Computers General] aidanmacgregor:
​

Smart Youtube TV, up to 4k on most devices (Mine is S905X)

https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/

Ps if you get a S905X based box then try my custom ROM (Shameless self promotion)

https://xdaforums.com/android-stick...om-android-tv-custom-rom-7-1-2-s905x-t4098131
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] SaidJan:
Hi,

I flashed LG G5 H850 full zip file on my H830 by mistake, and now I don't have adb, fastboot, download mode, recovery. No screen at all.

It's just Qualcomm 9008 in device manager. I tried to use Qlif and g5 elf file to fix it, but it needs rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml, which can be extracted from kdz file. I tried to extract it myself, but didn't work.

Any one can help me or if anyone that has octopus box, can help me to extract those 2 files. I heard it's possible to extract them by Octopus box.

I really appreciate it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eagle07:
I lost the funcionality Phone in my N8000. I think i lost the imei e someone more else. How can i restore my efs? I have a backup of my efs in format zip and format tar made 5 years ago ( i dont remember what application i used) , but i can not install via Odin or via Twrp, said Invalid Zip format on checking Digest File. I think the problem is checking the md5 generation that is not compatible with Odin and Twrp.

Someone can help me to restore the /efs partition with old backup. Thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
see your identical post .
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eagle07:
I resolved this situation, using Solid Explorer and Qute Terminal with root.

Credits

http://androidadvices.com/restore-imei-efs-folder-galaxy-s3-details/

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eagle07:
It is not solved, when reboot the system, the imei of phone, N8000 is another, is from another file from i used to recover.

Manually from my backup what files and permissions i have to copy to the /efs in root of my N8000? First i copy nv_data.bin, nv_data.bin.md5 and the folder /imei and works. I do not known the original permissions of the files, perhaps now the problem is this.

Someone can help me?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eagle07:
With this guide "[GUIDE] Recover your IMEI in 9 steps. " https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/general/guide-recover-imei-9-steps-t1264021 , i resolved my problem with imei, no problems with reboot, but now i did not have access to Wifi, i can not connect to my Wifi Network.

Someone can help me, how can activate wifi? What files i need to copy from my backup? Before clean the /efs i made a backup the old efs.

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Flash stock rom .
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eagle07:
I flash the stock rom and now i did not have any problems
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] g_x86bit:
Hi to everyone,

looking in the details of battery usage, I saw a service / app called "-5", can anyone tell me what it is?

Xda gives me error in uploading the photo, below is a google drive link, Remove the spaces from the link

https:/ /drive.google.com/file/d/1Qc6hLkcMwgZmEAzJnemjKHQ4dvbZp5Sr/view?usp= drivesdk
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brick00444:
Is anyone having signing into the A&E app or the History app? After I put in my info and enter , it goes back to the choose a provider page. I have tried alot of different things but can't get it to sign in. Other apps like DiscoveryGo and others work perfect. Any ideas would be appreciated. I'm using a 4k stick.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] RedXYT5:
Normal 6T currently running Cr droid no magisk or kernel.

Basically due to this a/b partitioning stuff flashing instructions seem to be really weird and mentioned in 99 different ways. So I was wondering what to do if I just wanna revert back to stock rom.

My original plan was to format data completely in twrp.

Fastboot boot twrp

Flash OOS

flash twrp

Reboot recovery again

flash OOS

Flash twrp

then boot system

and potentially install a kernel after that.

I wanna clean flash so I don't want methods that may allow me to keep my data.

Thanks you in advance.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] mitchst2:
Flash fastboot ROM

https://xdaforums.com/oneplus-6t/how-to/rom-stock-fastboot-roms-oneplus-6t-t3862516
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] OhioYJ:
You just need to reboot recovery after after formatting data. No need to fastboot TWRP. I agree though using the fastboot ROM is my preferred method as it will do both slots at once.

Step 1 of my Lineage Install Guide covers using the fastboot ROM. However if you are more comfortable using TWRP anf flashing it twice, do that.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] SebaUbuntu:
Create a TWRP-compatible device tree only from an Android recovery image (or a boot image if the device uses non-dynamic partitions A/B) of your device's stock ROM.

It has been confirmed that this script supports images built starting from Android 4.4 up to Android 12

Installation

pip3 install twrpdtgen

The module is supported on Python 3.6 and above.

Linux only: Be sure to have cpio installed in your system (Install cpio using sudo apt install cpio or sudo pacman -S cpio based on what package manager you're using)

$ python3 -m twrpdtgen -h
TWRP device tree generator

usage: python3 -m twrpdtgen [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-k] [--no-git] [--huawei] [--recovery_kernel RECOVERY_KERNEL] [--recovery_ramdisk RECOVERY_RAMDISK]
[--recovery_vendor RECOVERY_VENDOR] [-v]
[recovery_image]

positional arguments:
recovery_image path to a recovery image (or boot image if the device is A/B)

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
custom output folder
-k, --keep-aik keep AIK after the generation
--no-git don't create a git repo after the generation
--huawei Huawei mode (split kernel, ramdisk and vendor)
--recovery_kernel RECOVERY_KERNEL
path to a recovery_kernel file (huawei mode only)
--recovery_ramdisk RECOVERY_RAMDISK
path to a recovery_ramdisk file (huawei mode only)
--recovery_vendor RECOVERY_VENDOR
path to a recovery_vendor file (huawei mode only)
-v, --verbose enable debugging logging

When an image is provided, if everything goes well, there will be a device tree at

output/manufacturer/codename

You can find the script source code here: https://github.com/SebaUbuntu/TWRP-device-tree-generator
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] SebaUbuntu:
reserved
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Royna:
Deleted
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Erwin Abs:
Noiceee
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] 94burns:
Hi, trying to use this but I get error Arch not supported on my poco f2 pro. Any idea?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hadad:
Amazing work, this tool useful for create basic configuration for recovery:D:good:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] itzik16:
Nice work!

but the descriptions says samsung odin tar support.

script accepts only .img files.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] NullCode:
Hello Everyone and [MENTION=9769628]SebaUbuntu[/MENTION]. How do you think we can extract and make appended DTBs? Most new devices do not make use of a DT.img anymore. Even though the script doesn't support this, I want to do it by hand manually using a recovery.img But how?

---------- Post added at 08:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:41 AM ----------

do not worry, just rename the .tar.md5 to .tar and extract the recovery image from inside it to use in the script. Easy
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] SebaUbuntu:
TWRP supports dt.img, there's no need to append it
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Royna:
Hey there, [MENTION=9769628]SebaUbuntu[/MENTION], I tried to use your latest script as python. I see you use AIK to unpack recovery.img. But it cant unpack my recovery.img and says my image is in unsupported format. But my recovery.img isn't corrupted. And if I clone AIK myself w/o the script, It does unpack my recovery.img successfully. So what is the problem?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] NullCode:
I think you should remove the generator and clone it again. Because with my recovery images it works perfectly [or remove the aik folder from where it is in the tree gen with your own one]

---------- Post added at 03:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:35 AM ----------

thanks a lot for clearing it up!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Royna:
[MENTION=9769628]SebaUbuntu[/MENTION], is this script not supported in macOS Big Sur (The lastest beta ver.)? Installed the python module using the guide on your Github wiki. Run

python -m twrpdtgen /Users/roynatech/Desktop/recovery.img

with the terminal pointing at the root of cloned script.

Output:

TWRP device tree generator
Python Edition
Version 1.0.0

Cloning AIK...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "/Users/roynatech/Downloads/TWRP-device-tree-generator/twrpdtgen/__main__.py", line 6, in <module>
main()
File "/Users/roynatech/Downloads/TWRP-device-tree-generator/twrpdtgen/twrp_dt_gen.py", line 53, in main
aik_ramdisk_path, aik_images_path = aik.extract_recovery(recovery_image)
File "/Users/roynatech/Downloads/TWRP-device-tree-generator/twrpdtgen/aik_manager.py", line 59, in extract_recovery
copyfile(recovery_image, new_recovery_image)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/shutil.py", line 261, in copyfile
with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc, open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/roynatech/Downloads/TWRP-device-tree-generator/extract/recovery.img'

What's wrong here?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sulamerica_auto:
I also had the same error, can anyone help me? I'm using Windows 10 and trying to create my Nokia device tree!View attachment 5158647
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Deleted member 10740347:
hey i am trying this out but i got this error

Error: Please clone the script with Git instead of downloading it as a zip

i cloned the repo but it still says this