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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Enclave:
Hey guys,

i have a dead i-mate k-jam/wiz 200.

Until about 6 months ago i didn't know i could have soo much fun modding my phone, then a friend forwarded me here. within 20 minutes i had my spl unlocked and was modding away, best thing i ever did with a phone.

Now, my wizard is dead and i had to purchase (god forsake it a nokia 6121 classic), yes you have full permission to shoot me for a fairly un moddable phone however, it lights up and makes phone calls while i drool at the HTC diamond...

my main question is i have everything backed up on mini-sd from the wizard and would like to know is there a dedicated PC only program (like pimbackup) that i can use to retrieve the data, i have almost 200 contacts i can't retrieve plus some sms messages i DO need and hope their is a PC based software that does the same as PIM backup does for the phone?

does anyone know of a dedicated PC software that can handle the work?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] ashasaur:
Well lemme ask you this, how is your Wizard dead? Does it not boot? Not charge? Not turn on etc..? And what did you do to get it to the way that it is...it may be reversable with the proper steps.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Myrddin Wyllt:
If you can't connect it to something (be it GPRS, WiFi, or ActiveSync), you can't retrieve data from it, that's pretty much going to be the end of that story, unless someone can point out a test bed you could plug an unpowered phone into and retrieve data with.

This is why you should always:

Back up important contact numbers to your SIM card, so you can switch phones on the fly without losing contact info

Sync your phone and duplicate your contact lists with Outlook (or you can try Thunderbird/Finchsync), so you can recover after a critical failure

try not to brick your phone :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Enclave:
Still confused...

To be exact for about 4 days it would power on but after around 1-2 minutes it would fade to white on the screen, i somewhat suspect water damage, but i have been careful with the device.

Never modded something i was at least unsure of. now even if i try charging it doesn't work, even with a replacement battery i tried. It shouldn't be the rom cos i haven't had problems other than the usual you get with a few weeks use.

hasn't been overclocked (although i have been extremely curious about O/C'ing a phone :P )
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Enclave:
Miss my k-jam

Sadly i only have a mini usb cord to use as charger so it narrows possible fault finding options down :(

i still have the data on mini-sd but now-days nowhere has SD capability and i backed up to PIM backup regurlaly.

Always synched it (with the company i was working for, since then they've deleted the profile for reserve space :( )

would push the boundaries but nothing that *should* brick the phone itself..

for a while it would power on, get to the windows 6.1 splash screen, boot then just randomly fade to white..

only thing i can put it down to is weather damage..but even then?!

any way i can retrieve the data from a pim backup file?? (that's on the SD card itself?)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Enclave:
2 years later...

Well I fixed the unit finally.

Seems that the battery went completely flat and wouldn't charge which i resolved by splicing a USB cable and attaching to the battery itself.

Now that the phone charges i can't connect to PC in Win 7 x64, XP etc. i think my soldering job on the mini USB port is to blame.

The rom i previously had loaded crashes (fade to white then restart) whenever i open the text messages menu regardless of how many messages may be stored etc.

What i'm hoping to do is flash an old official rom, trial for a few days then re flash a new rom, is it possible to flash directly from an SD card?

The information i've found so far is rather vague and from what i could find says you need to run mtty and winhex but that's where it ended.

Anyone else attempted the SD card method?

Device info:

Rom's a TNT based one WM 6.1.0.0 (don't have original RUU anymore so don't remember specifics)

G3 Wizard

IPL - 3.08

SPL - 3.08

GSM - 02.19.11
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] nutpants:
Has anyone got the Canadian covid alert app to work with LineageOS and microg?

the latest build of micro g supports exposure alerts ( or whatever they are calling it so you don't think big brother is tracking you)

but i have been unable to get it to run at all on my s7 flat 930-w8.

if anyone has it working could you tell me what you did for it to go

( i have tried 16 and 17 LineageOS for microg and all i get is the coved alert app immediately closing, the development team could not care any less about lineageos and microg (https://github.com/cds-snc/covid-alert-app/issues?q=is:issue+is:open)microg appears to be working fine other wise)
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HughReynolds:
I bought my galaxy note 4 in Saudi Arabia and It's been 6 years until my phone fast charging has stopped working. I don't have idea how did it stopped working. I've changed different charger together with different cable but nothing happened. A charger with same output and a cable that holds up to 2.1 A. Nothing happened. So I decided to go to service store and they changed my flexy charge kinda thing. And they said It's probably something wrong with the IC on processor or in the machine. My guess was fast charging doesn't work because the USB port has damaged *probably, so by replacing the USB port will work again. I kinda think that they replaced the sparepart with replica or I could say grade AAA and not with the original (which an average store can't provide such a thing). And yeah I go to an average store which I read on Google review with around 300 people giving 5-4 stars.

And yes I did go to Samsung store first and for some reason they can't fix my phone unless I accept my risk that fixing it will make the phone dead. And it cost higher for like over 50 pound. That cost could get me a new phone lol. Probably because I bought from overseas.

I'm frustrated with this issue regarding with normal charge I had to wait for hours just to charge until full battery. And yet while this battery comes with 3000 mAh, it depleted fast like around 6 hours while using productively. I admit this phone was the best at its generation. To be exact, I charge my phone from 0%-20% around an hour. So to go full battery, I must charge for around 6 hours or let it charge for the night.

My question is:

1. How does fast charging works? Is it really the processor that controls current output? Or somehow just change the flexy charge will make it works again?

2. If somehow I can't stand with this phone, which Samsung phone that actually more reliable and great than my galaxy note 4? (I kinda like Samsung A series, it comes with cheaper price with alot advantages but you guys can give me options)
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostwheel:
I assume you already checked that. But just in case. You checked settings->battery->fast cable charging ?

Turn off and on...

And with something like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JYVPLLJ you can check that fast charging works. Should go to higher voltage if it works.

Fast charging can stop working because of the USB cable. I had to change cables a couple of times when fast charging stopped working with them. So I can imagine that USB port can affect it. It is controlled by the processor, which is why some kernels don't have fast charging.

You can replace the USB port on the note 4. It only costs $10 on ebay. But it is not an easy replacement, because you have to separate the screen. I managed to break my screen doing that.

You can also try to buy several replacement batteries for your phone, and an external charger. Then walk around with a replacement battery, and when the battery dies, pop another one in. And charge the old one in the charger. That could also solve your battery problems, because it could be that your battery is old. (and the standard battery on the note 4 is 3220 mAh, not 3000mAh. I saw a video on youtube claiming that fake note 4 came with a 3000 mAh battery)

The best phone to replace the note 4? That's pretty easy to answer - another note 4.

Some people like the note 9 very much. Of course it doesn't have all the features that our note 4 has! The LG V60 also looks nice.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HughReynolds:
Oh yeah, I also checked the settings and yet nothing happened. Thanks! I'll check that later.

So the fast charging controlled by processor. But is there any possibility by tiny little piece in a processor has damaged and that's why the fast charging has stopped? I did told the service store to change flexy charger as many as possible, but still it's not working. And I told them to replace my usb port on my stock flexy charger, and still it can't do the thing

Sorry I seem misspelled there, my battery comes with 3220 mAh, so my phone is genuine from Samsung.

Thanks for the advice! I somehow found desktop charger that it looks like this, www\amazon\com\Universal-External-Charging-T-Mobile-SmartPhone\dp\B00PC06MJ6 , do you think it will let charge?
[Microsoft Surface Duo Themes, Apps, and Mods] savage25rcracer:
Microsoft Launcher Beta is the way to go! It works so much better! Fixes gesture problems and overall performance.

I had to do a Launcher Dance to install it.

1. Install another Launcher, I just installed Nova Launcher.

2. Go to the app settings for Microsoft Launcher and force Stop it.

3. Install the Beta apk

4. Uninstall the Launcher you installed in step 1.

Microsoft Launcher Beta apk

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/micro...-2-200902-91377-android-apk-download/download

Beta program link

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.microsoft.launcher
[Microsoft Surface Duo Themes, Apps, and Mods] Birdsfan:
How has the performance been using both screen? I am a beta tester for this launcher, been for a awhile but it will not allow me to download from the playstore. I was guessing this launcher was not optimised for the duo??
[Microsoft Surface Duo Themes, Apps, and Mods] savage25rcracer:
Works the same as the original installed, Just better!
[Microsoft Surface Duo Themes, Apps, and Mods] Birdsfan:
Maybe I'm missing a step but I don't see there is any difference in the launcher. I installed Lawnchair and set as my default, force stopped the M/S launcher then installed the APK then deleted Lawnchair? Will I see a different launcher version or have any of the beta settings??
[Microsoft Surface Duo Themes, Apps, and Mods] savage25rcracer:
The app groups icons will look different from before. Basically same from stock otherwise. But overall performance is greatly improved.
[Microsoft Surface Duo Themes, Apps, and Mods] xgp0006:
I can't tell much if a difference yet. But I am indeed in the beta... Still a totally nerfed launcher or KNOWS it's a duo and it hides all the good options....

Someone fork this and make it better already!
[Microsoft Surface Duo Themes, Apps, and Mods] hoyoonbid:
This for rid of 90% of random launcher freeze with gesture. Thanks a lot! You are the man!
[Microsoft Surface Duo Themes, Apps, and Mods] quikt:
Performance is nice with the beta thanks!
[Microsoft Surface Duo Themes, Apps, and Mods] jah:
Play store claims that this Beta launcher is not compatible withe my Surface Duo. Perhaps it has been removed.
[Microsoft Surface Duo Themes, Apps, and Mods] Hekkatte:
Beta is MUCH better!! Had to download and install the apk manually & it works great now!
[Microsoft Surface Duo Themes, Apps, and Mods] NexusPenguin:
Hi,

Yes, I've enlisted for the Microsoft Launcher Beta program and after some minutes, I was able to install it.

Not that I have seen much differences, but playing with it I discovered the "Group" option for 2 apps so when you hit that icon, it will launch one of the apps on one display and the other one on the second display.

Still there are really no options to configure it : even a thing to change icons is not there !

So really, I think we need a launcher that has options like Smart Launcher has, but that handles both displays well enough... We can always dream. But of course, as long as the MS Surface Duo sells in confidential volumes, there won't be anything to hope from software devs :-(

Regards.
[Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Questions & Answers] geminihc:
MIUI12 (Cc9pro) Is there an integrated VOIP dialer (SIP settings) on stock?
[Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Questions & Answers] Cryer:
Settings > Apps > System App Settings > Call settings > Advanced Settings > SIP Settings

Is that what you're looking for?
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] Angel28198428:
mi redmi 9 no entra en modo fastboot, se reinicia constantemente, flashee mal vbmeta.img, ayudaa muchas gracias
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] Hola117:
did you repair it?
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] Angel28198428:
no hace nada. sp flash me da error
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] Hola117:
Cómo te equivocaste por qué dices que lo hicistes mal? No era para el redmi 9?
[Huawei P40 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Aboutbillionz:
Hello, last week I bought p40 pro and installed gsf. Everything works perfectly but I couldn't find any working FakeGps app.

They neither ask for gsf and the map keeps saying "updating Google services" or they don't work at all.
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Guides, News, & Discussion] mitchell4you:
MIUIREX - Download MIUI 12 Updates & Check MIUI 12 Status

Note: This app still in testing so you might be face some unusual problems

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lazydevs.miuirex&hl

-----source Miui telegram

Looks like a new app

Just wondering... updating to Miui 12, Will this mean lose of data? or will userdate/app remain untouched

Cheers
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah.Csit:
This App not offical ! and it's first stable build of it .. But it's worth to make a ride there .

For your question:

No, The updating to miui 12 will not erase your data. totally safe and secure ?.

Otherwise, You will need to formatting your data only when flashing roms or switching between Beta and stable versions
[Google Pixel Questions & Answers] r@di@n:
Hello geeks, my og pixel's battery degraded gradually and is completely died now. I just noticed a slight split between the side of the screen and the frame (caused by the battery swelling). I know the oled is extremely fragile so I wonder if theres chances it is cracked due to the battery pushing it even though it's not that much swollen.

Thanks for your answers.
[Samsung Galaxy A30s Questions & Answers] RafaPCF 4321:
The new codename for the Galaxy A30s is being discussed in the telegram group

Among the candidates:

• Zephyr One

•Painite

•Andromeda

Zephyr One: A fictional plane from the agents of shield series.

Painite: Gemstone.

Andromeda: The Andromeda galaxy is a spiral galaxy located about 2.54 million light years away from Earth, in the direction of the Andromeda constellation

Digam qual é melhor.
[Xiaomi Redmi 4X Guides, News, & Discussion] hackarajer:
/*
* I'm not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed (like it did for me...).
* Please do some research if you have any concerns about features included in the products you find here before flashing it!
* YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
* Your warranty will be void if you tamper with any part of your device / software.
* Same statement for XDA.
*/

I bought a secondhand Redmi 4X with pirate USB board that only charges and have no mtp/adb/otg/mass storage/fastboot working (see the difference to the original one: [IMG="fake and original usb board"]https://i0.wp.com/ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1nrX1PHvpK1RjSZPiq6zmwXXaM/For-Xiaomi-Redmi-4X-4-Pro-5-4A-5A-6A-Note-6-Pro-font-b-USB.jpg?crop=3,3,949,615&quality=3498[/IMG]) . The cellphone came running the stock miui 11 based on Nougat 7.1.2 and I wanted to flash a custom rom through twrp, so I needed to explore a kernel exploit to got root and flash the recovery using terminal emulator. Here I explain the steps to achieve this.

1) Backup all your data

First, if you (like me), don't have a microsd, make a tar file with all the files you want to backup, then transmit it via wifi through the FTP feature of the miui file explorer. Later, I discovered that is faster do this via HTTP, making a server with some app like AWebServer and tranmit the file via HTTP to a windows host (was faster than in ubuntu). Use this artifice to make the transfer of your favourite custom rom too.

2) Root the device

The only root solution that worked for me was the executable file "su98-memory-kallsyms", within the zip file attached below. It explores the CVE-2019-2215 kernel vulnerability. First, transfer the file to the device, then using terminal emulator, execute the following:

cp /sdcard/su98-memory-kallsyms $HOME
cd $HOME
chmod 755 su98-memory-kallsyms
./su98-memory-kallsyms

After doing this, you wil get a full-power root shell, becoming capable to perform the next step.

WARNING: ROOTING LIKE THIS WILL MAKE YOUR DEVICE UNABLE TO BOOT (the kernel is left corrupted).

3) TWRP flash

Download the latest from here: https://dl.twrp.me/santoni/

and flash it executing the following:

dd if=/sdcard/twrp.img of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/recovery

4) Flash custom ROM

Reboot to TWRP (power off the device then hold VolUp+VolDown+Power buttons).

Now, you can:

make a factory reset and flash a custom ROM

flash the stock kernel to get back booting to the stock rom

flash the stock kernel and flash some permanent and secure root utility (like SuperSU or Magisk) to get the stock rom rooted.

5) Be happy!

:D:laugh::fingers-crossed::highfive::good::victory::cowboy:;):cool:

Source: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=83247423&postcount=81
[Xiaomi Redmi 4X Guides, News, & Discussion] akeishan:
I know it's been over two years but, for me, this did not work.

I get prompts from the su98-memory-kallsyms that seem to indicate the root was successful (disabled syslinux enforcing, root privileges ready...), then i use the dd comand, with no errors (53088+0 records in and the same out; 27181056 bytes transferred), but the phone is not rooted and TWRP is not installed.

Kernel is not corrupted and the 4x can boot normally or in miui recovery.

Also this user had a similar issue: https://xdaforums.com/t/flashing-re...ricked-asus-new-padfone-infinity-a86.3609844/

Initially I used a different terminal app and I got an error that $HOME was not defined. Then I used Terminal Emulator (by jackpal) and it seems $HOME points to a subfolder in /data/user/0/jackpal.androidterm/app_HOME - is this where it should be?

I am using android 7.1.2 and miui 11.0.2

USB debugging, OEM unlock, viewing attributes, external sources, usb debugging security settings are enabled

One issue i'm not sure is about the mi unlock status - it requires me to use the data connection, the it appears to work ("added successfully"), but I don't understand what is its final status and what i am supposed to do. The screen still shows "this device is locked" and at point 4 mentions I need to use a pc to perform the unlock ("download the unlock tool from our website" - which I can't , cos the phone won't connect via usb.

Any idea what to do?

Edit- was thiking maybe the vulnerability was patched, but apparently not. I have kernel 3.18.1. According to this site, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1942, the isse was patch only in Dec 2017 in the 4.14 LTS kernel [1], AOSP android 3.18 kernel [2], AOSP android 4.4 kernel [3], and AOSP android 4.9 kernel [4],

Edit2: - here the same method use also the su98 file: https://github.com/mufidmb38/CVE-2019-2215

Edit 3 - i just want to add that apparently the exploit works (in does allow to copy to recovery partition) - so maybe two other issues were at play - such as not having the bootloader unlocked in advance, or maybe the recovery partition being overwritten by system.

In the end I did manage to unlock the phone using the official app -it unlocked without wait time- (it seems my USB cable was faulty after all) then I installed via the classic route - TWRP, Magisk and Havoc OS 4.16 (so far so good).

For the record, twrp-3.6.2_9-0-santoni.img, Magisk 25.2 and Havoc-OS-v4.16-20220423-santoni-Official-GApps.zip seem to be a good combo. Phone is now "Pixel 5" with Android 11. Two days ago I had a Redmi 4X with Android 7.1 :)
[Xiaomi Redmi 4X Guides, News, & Discussion] unluckyuser:
I have a redmi 4x that I'm unable to unlock the bootloader, so I wondered if this method could allow me to flash twrp and then flash lineage os without needing o unlock it. Would it be worth a try?

So, if I don't unlock the bootloader, the system is likely to overwrite my changes?
[Xiaomi Redmi 4X Guides, News, & Discussion] unluckyuser:
I tried this method on my phone with a locked bootloader, using miui 8.5 based on android 7.12 with security patch from 2017/09/01 and kernel 3.18.31

It failed to get root access, with the following output:

MAIN: detected kernel version 3
MAIN: starting exploit for devices with waitqueue at 0x98
CHILD: Doing EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
CHILD: Finished EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
CHILD: initial portion length 0x12000
CHILD: task_struct_ptr = 0x0
CHILD: task_struct_ptr = 0x0
CHILD: Finished write to FIFO.
CHILD: **fail** problematic address pointer, e.g., 0
MAIN: detected kernel version 3
MAIN: starting exploit for devices with waitqueue at 0x98
PARENT: soon will be calling WRITEV
PARENT: writev() returns 0x13008
PARENT: Reading leaked data
MAIN: **fail** retrying
CHILD: Doing EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
CHILD: Finished EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
CHILD: initial portion length 0x12000
CHILD: task_struct_ptr = 0x0
CHILD: task_struct_ptr = 0x0
CHILD: Finished write to FIFO.
CHILD: **fail** problematic address pointer, e.g., 0
MAIN: detected kernel version 3
MAIN: starting exploit for devices with waitqueue at 0x98
PARENT: soon will be calling WRITEV
PARENT: writev() returns 0x13008
PARENT: Reading leaked data
MAIN: **fail** retrying
PARENT: soon will be calling WRITEV
PARENT: writev() returns 0x13008
PARENT: Reading leaked data
MAIN: **fail** retrying
CHILD: Doing EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
CHILD: Finished EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
CHILD: initial portion length 0x12000
CHILD: task_struct_ptr = 0x0
CHILD: task_struct_ptr = 0x0
CHILD: Finished write to FIFO.
CHILD: **fail** problematic address pointer, e.g., 0
MAIN: detected kernel version 3
MAIN: starting exploit for devices with waitqueue at 0x98
PARENT: soon will be calling WRITEV
PARENT: writev() returns 0x13008
PARENT: Reading leaked data
MAIN: **fail** retrying
PARENT: soon will be calling WRITEV
PARENT: writev() returns 0x13008
PARENT: Reading leaked data
MAIN: **fail** retrying
PARENT: soon will be calling WRITEV
PARENT: writev() returns 0x13008
PARENT: Reading leaked data
MAIN: **fail** retrying

So I guess this method really nedds an unlocked bootloader?

I was really hoping that I could unlock this phone this time. Sigh...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] enzolino:
:confused:Hi guys, was wondering if anybody know of a Policy Editor style util/tool for the Kaiser.

We ship these Kaiser's to our clients to use with our custom designed software, however we dont want them to run anything bar our software.

With Windows you can use Policy Editor to allow only authorised applications to be executed. Can this be done with the Kaiser's.

Oh one more thing, does anbody know how to delete the settings folder or else the wlan icons off the start and implemented menu?

Thanks, for you help in advance.

Enzo:cool:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] shmilson:
Kiosk / Shell

I guess you're looking for something like this: http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/kioskengine/?en

or this: http://www.askarya.com/pocketpc/pocketkiosk/pk.asp ??

Regards,

shmilson
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] enzolino:
Thanks i will look at this tomorrow. Is there any program that is free? :o