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[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Jon12345:
I have read lots about the Diamond in the last couple of days with many conflicting views. But it seems like this site is full of tweaks that might actually improve the phone.

Can the users here tell me if they think I should get one and give just one reason why? :)

Thanks,

Jon
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] liamhere:
please read before you bother to post

this is asked all the time....

you need to take the time to read and make up your own mind

i am more than happy with my diamond

welcome to the forum
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Sergio PC:
Same here happy as a dog with my Jewel.

I believe all my fellow Forum members are 100% happy of the powerful Jewel they own.

Trust us you wont be disappointed specially after a visit to the kitchen:D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] sutt359:
Im happy with mine coming from a nokia n95, ok the diamond could do with a flash and a better battery.

Other than that its all good....
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] tomchap:
There are loads of posts about this dotted over the forum, granted they are a bit of a trek to find.

It all depends on what you want to use the phone for. For my needs its great. Plays music, cameras ok, the VGA screen is really really nice and I do actually like TouchFlo 3D.

Good luck with the searching, and hope you find the answers to help you decide.

And I have to say the Diamond is the best phone ive owned, and ive had a lot of mobiles and pdas in the past. Its mainly thanks to this forum for that. So many dedicated people. Thanks xda! :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Jon12345:
Part of the reason for me leaning towards the Diamond is the existence of this forum. When I found it, I thought to myself, "Wow! Loads of help at hand, regular ROM updates, tweaks, the lot!"

Currently I have an old Sony Ericsson K750i and the joystick barely works now, so it would be a big step up.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] tomchap:
Well im sure it would better than the current SE phone. Heres some of the reasons why i love my diamond.

1. So many app / utils / tweaks available and very cheap to buy extra programs for it. (donations to developers are all good to!)

2. Activesyncing my phone to my pc, always been an easy task with Windows Mobile.

3. Being able to control my phone using my PC (MyMobiler - excellent little program)

4. The Small size of the phone, it really is very small! Easy to use one handed

5. Screen Quality - VGA, you wonder how you coped before!

6. Easy to transfer info to and from the phone - Activesync or Removable Drive (USB Flash drive)

7. GPS - Tomtom on your mobile, excellent! Works very well

8. 4GB Storage - Plenty of space for what i need.

There are tons more! Post would be the longest on here if i kept on talking! hehe! :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] RingTone01:
Here's my 2 cents. Got my Diamond yesterday, loved it, it look so wonderful. Just bear in mind that I am coming from a Trinity with a fast ROM.

I started to play around with the phone for awhile and took me back to when Winduhs released that beta testing Vista. It looked nice and pretty but it was a pain to use after you've been using XP for a while.

Regardless of what i just said, i love the Diamond and I might keep it. It makes my Trinity looks like a monster but it lags too much as it is.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Black93300ZX:
If support and constant updates/improvements is what you're looking for, you've found the right phone. This forum is above and beyond any community I've ever seen when it comes to tweaks, ROMs, and any sort of improvement you could possibly make to your device. Just make sure to read all directions and pay attention closely, a lot of these things can turn your beautiful Diamond into a $700 brick.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Ste.Al.th:
Mainly because it's a tool which simplifies my work/life...not a mere toy to be shown on saturday evening (any reference is casual :rolleyes:)

But in any case those are all personal opinions, I think you should make your own considerations and evalutions of a product before to buy that or another.

Be a subject talking about an object, not viceversa :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] DanGlee:
Got mine last Thursday on Vodafone... it was nice, but a little laggy, then I updated it with a cooked ROM (swiftBL I think it was) and its a little beast now! Best phone ever!

Trying to get TomTom 7 on it at the mo.

For my first WinMo (coming from a Motorola KRZR) its just superb! And with a little READING the instructions, its pretty easy to update the ROM, add apps etc...

Get one and never look back!

Please don't be a fanboy! :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Black93300ZX:
Someone who reads the directions and finds it easy to do, without asking 500 times how to flash a ROM?

Edited to maintain my reputation of not being gay. Hah.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ballface:
If you have no problem to spend some extra money in missed calls, in general is a good toy.

THERE IS A UNSOLVED BUG WITH THE PHONE ON SCEEN BUTTONS. Every time when you receive a call and put it out of the pouch you answer or loose the call automatically. This is a bull****.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] RingTone01:
Just use the Diamond tweak tool thingy and I can see vast improvements already, you guys don't mess around huh? I want my diamond to perform, i have a bad habit of using my phone while driving, which is a bit hard to do on a touchscreen. I think my Diamond is almost there.

I really don't want to flash this puppy, kinda scared of ruin my warranty.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Black93300ZX:
Just be cautious in whatever you do, and make sure you don't brick it... Whatever you do, as long as it's done correctly, can be reversed later on. Original SPL, original ROM, 100% warranty okay. But hey, if you're happy with the performance now, leave well enough alone. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] RingTone01:
Thanks for the heads up, I figured that if everyone is trying to get a diamond ROM why should I do anything, except for tweaking it of course. :)

I was surprised to see that the ROM I have on my Trinity isn't the same as the real thing. It works, and works well and that is all that matters.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] AndyYan:
Since you mentioned me, I've taken a brief look - can you boot ARM64 AB on Pie? On many devices, updating to Pie changes the arch to AB. Note that "A/AB" in GSI is not the same thing as physical partition layout.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Yahoo Mike:
On stock Pie, Hackintosh5's app reports it's an A-only device supported by VNDK 28 Lite. System properties confirm that.

I just tried to load an AB GSI ROM over Pie. The device boots to qcom diagnostic 900E mode.

So looks like it's definitely A-only on stock Pie. There's just something unusual about the treble implementation on stock Pie.

Loading an A-only GSI over stock Pie just hangs on reboot. It never gets to the boot animation. I've unsuccessfully tried different combinations of permissiver, disable_dm-verity and magisk. No luck.

(There is no vbmeta partition, by the way.)

But thanks for the suggestion about trying AB. It was worth a try.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Monpseud0:
Hi Yahoo Mike,

is the LOS 17 fully functionnal on TB-X605F?

Thanks
[Thinkpad Tablet General] kmh5147:
Success and Failure

I went through the process above and this worked great. I do have one small problem......

Twrp loads with a black screen and is unusable from the tablet screen in recovery mode. Fortunately this isn't a big deal if you use adb from your pc to control twrp.

2. FLASHING GAPPS

Put the tablet into recovery from adb or through hardbuttons.

open cmd:

adb shell

twrp wipe cache

twrp wipe dalvik

twrp sideload

adb sideload <location_of_your_GApps.zip>, e.g. adb sideload C:\GApps.zip
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Yahoo Mike:
TWRP for Oreo (8.1)

Here's a version of TWRP for Oreo (8.1) for TB-X605F/L. It doesn't mount the data partition, but everything else works. I'll try to fix the data partition next week.

Does anyone have a TWRP for Oreo for TB-X705F/L ?

This device is not Certified by Google

This seems to be a common problem with GSI images.

Use ADB and follow instructions under "How to bypass certified device after first boot?".

Note that the GSF can change whenever you do a factory reset. If it changes, you need to register the new GSF.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Yahoo Mike:
I don't know if LOS is "fully" functional. I loaded it, but didn't thoroughly test it. Wifi worked.

I've been using Quack and it's stable. Wifi, camera, bluetooth, audio all work. NovaLauncher works fine. Some graphics flicker until they load. I haven't found the right settings under "Phh Treble Settings" to stop that.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] kmh5147:
I would recommend going with lineage os based on my testing so far. Some apps are a little buggy with flickering, and random minor issues hear and there. I'm thinking we need an updated bootloader, is a newer bootloader available???
[Thinkpad Tablet General] kmh5147:
Lineage OS 17

I just wanted to give an update with lineage 17, I was able to get passed the issues with the gapps by registering the google services id through their webpage.

Everything thing seems to work very well...... wifi, audio, and both front and rear camera work perfectly. The only problem I am still dealing with is flickering in overlay situations, and nothing I've tried from a developer settings perspective fixes the issue. If the flickering can be fixed, I think we'll have a really good option here.

One other thing I wish I could get working in this lineage OS is the google assistant ambient mode. I can't get the option to show up in the assistant settings. Have ambient mode on this tablet would be perfect with the original alex cradle.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Yahoo Mike:
I think we're stuck with this bootloader until we can work out how to load GSI over stock Pie.

I'll have a look at the overlays on the weekend. Maybe that will fix our problems.

Which device do you have? They might all need slightly different overlays.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Yahoo Mike:
I tried HavocOS (2020-07-09) with GApps. It booted and was pretty smooth, but I couldn't enable root or adb. Might need to wait for the next release.

It also insisted on face unlock, which was annoying.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Yahoo Mike:
Here's a guide on how to fix the "Insufficient storage space available in System partition" when you try to install GApps.

solution

In TWRP:

press "Mount"

untick "Mount system partition read-only", then tick "System".

go back to main menu and select "Wipe". Don't panic. We're not going to delete any files from the system.

select "Advanced Wipe"

tick "System" and select "Repair or Change File System"

select "Resize File System". If that button is not there, then you mounted the system partition as read-only. Go back and

un

tick that.

confirm that TWRP is asking "Resize System?" and then swipe to resize

now you can go back to main menu and install GApps

why does this happen?

The system partition is roughly 3GB in these devices. However, after flashing a GSI image, the filesystem size can be considerably less.

For example:

X605F:/ # df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 1.3G 26M 1.3G 2% /
tmpfs 1.4G 188k 1.4G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.4G 25k 1.4G 1% /tmp
/dev/block/mmcblk0p26 260M 172k 260M 1% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p52 25G 46M 25G 1% /data
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 128G 24G 104G 19% /external_sd
/dev/block/mmcblk0p24 1.9G 1.8G 60M 97% /system

X605F:/ # blockdev --getsize64 /dev/block/mmcblk0p24
3221225472

In this example, the partition size of /system is about 3.2GB (3221225472), but the filesystem size is 1.9GB with only 60M free. Because there's only 60M free, GApps fails with the message "Insufficient storage space available in System partition".

The solution is to resize the filesystem to include the unused 1.3GB on the partition. That's what TWRP does in the solution above.

Here's our example filesystem after following the steps above:

X605F:/ # df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 1.3G 26M 1.3G 2% /
tmpfs 1.4G 188k 1.4G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.4G 45k 1.4G 1% /tmp
/dev/block/mmcblk0p52 25G 46M 25G 1% /data
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 128G 24G 104G 19% /external_sd
/dev/block/mmcblk0p24 3.2G 1.8G 1.3G 59% /system

There's now 1.3GB free on the filesystem because it's been resized to fill up the whole partition. TWRP saves the day (again) ... and GApps is happy!
[Thinkpad Tablet General] kmh5147:
Hi Mike, I have the TB-X605F and its hardware version is 60.

Thank you for all of the effort in making this thing work!
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Mr. Jedge:
I was also able to install AOSP 10.0 Quack on my TB-X705F using your guide. Thanks so much! Didn't install TWRP yet as I don't know if it supports Oreo. With regard to that, i'm assuming it refers to the vendor rather than the rom we're running, correct?

I did encounter a little bit of flickering for some graphics. It's very intermittent. Seems like it affects dark grays more than anything. Most everything works fine. Will try some others and report back.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Mr. Jedge:
What 'smallest width' are you putting in the developer option. The standard DPI settings are for a phone i'm assuming because everything is huge lol. So far I feel like 600 & 790 are good settings depending on how large you want things.

---------- Post added at 07:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:59 PM ----------

Running the July Build of Descendant X and so far its pretty awesome. I've noticed that the flickering seems to be limited to Google Applications. For instance if you scroll through the Play Store.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Yahoo Mike:
That's correct. TWRP needs to be compiled with a kernel from a stock Oreo boot.img.

The TWRP for Pie seems to be incompatible with the stock Oreo vendor/firmware/bootloader we have to load before flashing a GSI. TWRP is functional, but the screen is blank. That's fixed by compiling TWRP for 8.1 with the stock Oreo kernel.

But you might want to try the X705 TWRP (for Pie). You might get lucky and it works.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Mr. Jedge:
Do you think the flickering is an overlay issue, or an issue with the vendor? I was going to try flashing a different Oreo build to check, but it looks like there are no full images other than the original; only OTAs.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Yahoo Mike:
I built and installed a vendor overlay, but it didn't fix the flickering. I'm not really sure it did anything.

I started playing with the "smallest width" parameter you found. On stock Oreo it's set to 800dp. When I used 800dp on the GSI, most (but not all) of the flickering stopped. At 600dp, the flickering started again.

The "smallest width" also seems to affect calculations for the keyboard display. For some dp settings, the input dialog box is not drawn. It's there, but it's just not rendered. You can test it with the "smallest width" option. When you change the dp, just tap the option again. With some dp settings (like 700dp), the input text box is "invisible". You can use the keyboard to change the dp, but your input is not displayed while you are typing. Set it back to 800dp, tap on the option again and the input box is there.

While 800dp stops most of the flickering in PlayStore, the drawer (swipe from the left) writes over the whole screen.

843dp fixes the drawer problem, but does weird things to the soft buttons (back/home/recent).

840dp fixes soft buttons but the drawer problem returns.

And to make it even more complicated, portrait mode seems to prefer different dps. 721dp worked ok in portrait, but not in landscape.

It's going to be a matter of finding the sweet spot. Or perhaps there's a second setting that also needs to be changed at the same time ???

Anyway, give it a try.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Mr. Jedge:
New discovery. I downloaded a DPI changer to use instead if the smallest width option. Changing the DPI didn't yeild any difference in reference to flickering, but changing the resolution did. Default resolution is 1200 x 1920 which matches Lenovos specs. However I lowered it to 1180 x 1900 and the flickering has gone away completely....at least in the play store. Haven't noticed it anywhere else. The drawer blanks out the rest of the store however which is weird but acceptable. I'll keep playing around, but it's time to go-to bed.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Yahoo Mike:
Interesting.

Only thing I can add is that if you add the following to /vendor/build.prop you don't get that big font during configuration when you install a GSI.

ro.sf.lcd_density=240

In stock that is set in /system/build.prop.

Most of the GSI images assume lcd_density of 480 (xxhdpi) for mobiles, but our tablets are 240 (hdpi).
[Moto G7 Power Questions & Answers] gardina:
Hi

When I record videos in portrait mode, they get set with metadata to do a 270 degree clockwise rotation. (or sometimes they get set with metadata to do a 90 degree clockwise rotation. The metadata rotates it correctly since its encoding has it oriented wrongly and leads it to require that.

I don't really want that because some programs use the metadata but some ignore it.

So I remove the metadata, then it needs to be turned coutner-clockwise 90 degrees (i.e. 270 degrees clockwise), so I re-encode it rotating it counter-clockwise 90 degrees. (Or if the rotational metadata is 90 degrees i.e. needs that rotation, then i'd remove the metadata and encode it rotating it 90 degrees).

Is there a way, maybe a firmware update? to get the phone to get it correct in the first place?!

Thanks
[Moto G7 Power Questions & Answers] cgigate:
Tested on my phone, there is no problem
[Moto G7 Power Questions & Answers] gardina:
note- i'd like to edit my first post to make it a little bit clearer but the system won't let me so I will link to a clearer version here https://pastebin.com/raw/0Qj2WmRV But basically the same kind of thing i'm saying. In this case the file has rotational metadata of 90 rather than 270.. but the same principle applies.

can you do the following test from the command line with mediainfo and/or ffmpeg, to see if there is any metadata on a file that you record?

e.g. I get

C:\blah>mediainfo VID_20200814_223645187.mp4 | find "Rot"

Rotation : 90┬░

C:\blah>

C:\blah>ffmpeg -i VID_20200814_223645187.mp4 2>&1 | find "rotate"

rotate : 90

C:\blah>

Whereas a file with no metadata would show

C:\blah>ffmpeg -i VID_20200810_1503_halfcourt_2.mp4 2>1 | find "rotate"

C:\blah>mediainfo VID_20200810_1503_halfcourt_2.mp4 | find "Rot"

C:\blah>

which do you get?

And if you really get no rotational metadata... then I have to wonder why my phone is funny?!

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Watch] dryoussif:
Tried to follow a thread to chage the country in my watch to get access to ECG features and during flashing and got successful message from ODIN, watch got stuck in ODIN mode

i saw several threads for other watches to connect the watch using USB cable but Watch Active2 pins are 6 and don't know how to connect it to PC

i've the latest version of Samsung USB driver and the ODIN 3 version (not the tizen one).

I want to flash the original BL and firmeware again

i need help please

PRODUCT NAME: Watch active2

Watch screen shows:

ODIN MODE

CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official

SYSTEM STATUS: Custom

REACTIVATION LOCK: ON

Secure Download : Enabled

CARRIER_ID:

WARRANTY VOID: 0 (0X0000)

AP SWREV: B:0 K:0 S:0

Secure JTAG Disabled!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Watch] adfree:
A

I see no info about Model Name...

:confused:

SM-R820 or SM-R830 or something else?

B

https://xdaforums.com/smartwatch/galaxy-watch/galaxy-watch-active-2-44mm-sm-r820-odin-t4009587

Best Regards

Edit 1.

Uuupsi wrong Link...

Corrected.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch] ahchuan:
I had the same problem earlier this week and get it fixed by the local Samsung Service center. The Service Center has the necessary tool to connect the watch and flash firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch] ajb_111:
My bad on Samsung active watch 2 R 820 I stupidly flashed the Odin but did not check the AP box resulting in :

1) watch reboots but I have no touch screen sensitivity

2) can get into wireless download but watch is searching for AP without success

Any ideas or am i bricked :(
[Samsung Galaxy Watch] adfree:
[MENTION=220783]ajb_111[/MENTION]

Can you remember what you flashed?

Filenames?

Best Regards
[Samsung Galaxy Watch] ajb_111:
Thanks [MENTION=1030585]adfree[/MENTION]

R820XXU1BTG1_Tizen_3File_CSC (OXA)
[Xperia Play General] twgib:
I've been digging through a lot of old APK's but haven't had any luck at all. I've tried Pizza Boy, My Boy, GameboyID, etcetera... Anything I can use that will work? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] xxxrichievxxx:
Good evening everyone!

I am currently using the unlocked version of the S20 Ultra 5G on the AT&T network here in the states. I am interested in a ROM that has full Russian language support. Would I be able to install and use the AT&T 'bloatware' such as WiFi calling, 5G bands, etc if I install a ROM with the Russian language and install the User data for AT&T?

Which ROM has the Russian language built in. I tried the ADB way to change the language but it's only partially working as some things are still in English.

Thank you for your help!
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] varcor:
The Global variant with the Exynos chipset SHOULD have the best support for Russian language. What model do you own? Is your device bootloader unlocked or just carrier unlocked? If you have a US variant flashing Global firmware isn't an option and AT&T firmware isn't compatible with the Exynos variant.
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] yuriy.bolgov:
Did you find a solution with the Russian language?
[Asus ZenFone Max M1 Questions & Answers] AndreYSCA:
Hi, I'm trying to unlock my ZenFone Max M1 but the official app from Asus does not work, it always reports a communication error.

I wonder if there is some unofficial fastboot-based method like the one for ZenFone Max Pro I found on XDA.
[Asus ZenFone Max M1 Questions & Answers] billybutcher:
any success?
[Android Apps and Games] ShadowProger:
Check out this game!

Bricks Breaker

Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manybits.bricksbreaker.android

Genre: Arcade

Screenshots:

Description:

Bricks Breaker is a addictive and challenging brick game.

Just play it to relax your brain. Be focus on breaking bricks and you will find it more funny and exciting.

How to play

- The ball flies to wherever you touched.

- Clear the stages by removing bricks on the board.

- Break the bricks and never let them hit the bottom.

- Find best positions and angles to hit every brick.

Feature

- Free to play

- Tons of stages

- Various types of balls

- Easy to play, Simplest game system, Designed for one handheld gameplay.

- Off-line (without internet connection) gameplay supported
[Android Apps and Games] ConstantinGD:
30+ games with the same gameplay. The control is normal, and in principle understandable, just why the second line if the ball flies along the dotted line? Add some additional elements, for example, teleports for the balls, or vice versa, spikes - so that the balls burst, etc.
[Sony Xperia 1 II Questions & Answers] goudidi:
Hello

I own an Xperia 1 II XQ-AT 51.

I can't change the rom. I'm with the operator SFR and I want to change for a custom rom.

Thanks in advance
[Sony Xperia 1 II Questions & Answers] R800x_user:
There is only one custom rom available for our device, just wait for devs. Also Sony does have instructions on how to build aosp from source. Might want to look at that if you want to learn to build Android for the mark 2.

https://developer.sony.com/develop/...nstructions/build-aosp-android-android-10-0-0
[Sony Xperia 1 II Questions & Answers] cd993:
Ohh this is interesting, how difficult is this to do? Would we have to use a basic camera app or would/could stock be ported?