yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S6 Original Android Development] chocolote4444:
This is an open discussion about the Straight Talk Galaxy S6. Here I want to discuss about possible root access along with a possibility to downgrade. Looking for any volunteers to help me with this phone.

I own a red magic 3, a G6, and an old S6 with straight talk firmware. I usually use my G6 and S6 to play around with for development purposes.

So awhile back, I managed to root my galaxy S6 straight talk with a third-party rootkit. Not long after that I wanted to upgrade this thing to marshmallow. I managed to succeed in doing it, only to be left with a useless phone.

Upon my research, you can flash an SM-S907VL firmware which appears to be a TracFone firmware for the S6. However, the 907VL appears to not support straight talk users. I attempted to downgrade back to the S906L but the strict SBoot prevents me from going back.

A half year later, I'm still messing with this phone. I want to see about finding a way to gain root access or look for any loop holes (possible exploits) that we could do with this phone. I managed to find a way to root the SM-S907VL. Here's how:

I first did some deep digging on the internet and found combination firmwares for this particular model. Combination ROMs are (what I believe are test ROMs for phones). I managed to flash a combination firmware to it. After that I rooted it with kingroot, uninstalled kingroot SU and switched to SuperSU. Then I installed Flashfire and I tried to flash the SM-S906L but no luck.

However, upon even FURTHER searching, I managed to flash the SM-S906L by ONLY flashing the system.img by extracting it from the md5 and adding it to a tar archive.

Well here is where things get complicated, since I only flashed the system, the kernel is running on a later kernel security patch. Which means rooting it with Kingroot fails. Also, the CVC and modem is still running on the SM-S907VL so even if you put a straight talk sim card into it, it won't work. Bummer :(

I'm wanting to see how far we can go into this phone and hopefully find a way to somehow get it unlocked somehow.

I'm all ears for y'all! :)

EDIT: Crap, posted in the wrong category. I should have posted in the general forum.
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] lumuel08:
pls help my phone is dead, no fastboot no recovery.
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] Redmi 4A abdal:
how it happened,

i think only solution for you is going to service center
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] wsdyleon:
why ？does it boot reaptlly？only note8 pro will crush，no fastboot
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] mudinhu:
Taking advantage of the topic, my phone goes into fastboot mode, the drawing of fastboot appears, but no longer recognizes on the pc as before, updated drivers
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] wsdyleon:
just miflash pro
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] Redmi 4A abdal:
did you used mi flashing tool,
[Mogul, XV6800 General] brrymnvette:
My phone has to be restarted about every other day. Stuff just starts disappearing off the home screen and taking forever to do anything. Would an upgrade to 6.1 help this?
[Mogul, XV6800 General] x51:
Are you on a stock Rom?

Since an upgrade will install a brand new Radio and Rom... Yes, it should help this. (so might a hard reset) However if your issue is Hardware( doesn't sound like it) or some poorly written app you have installed (could be) then the upgrade wont help unless you replace the hardware, or dont install the bad app.

So.. Yeah go for it.. It should help. If you havent flashed before.. READ the instructions so you can avoid major headaches or a bricked phone.

My Stock Verizon Phone locked up often... (once or twice a day)

Upgraded with DCDs most excellent Rom, Now my phone is solid.
[OnePlus 8 Questions & Answers] apit23:
Hi,

I really like to use custom width on all my previous phone.

But the current setting for Developer option/Smallest width is only 411 dpi.

Can I go above the value without problems such as poor fingerprint reader position ? Can someone share their own dpi value?

Thanks in advance.
[OnePlus 8 Questions & Answers] Xeroman0:
Im using the 8 pro and i set my dpi to 520.

In oos10 the only issue was that the navigation gestures were too picky and kind of hard to use due to the smaller trigger points. (Also the ringer switch toast was too high but thats just aesthetic so whatever)

In oos 11 that issue is gone and i see no downsides at all.

In any case, go ahead and try it out. You can always change it back
[OnePlus 8 Questions & Answers] apit23:
Thanks a lot mate! It looks much more to my liking now.

How did you figure 520 value? Did you just through trials and error ?
[OnePlus 8 Questions & Answers] N173M43R:
I use 587. It's what my 5t was at when I switched, but I like things very small.

(I buy big phones to see more content, not the same content but bigger).

On anything built right for our phone I have no issues, but roms ported to our device sometimes have issues placing things.
[OnePlus 8 Questions & Answers] apit23:
*edited*
[OnePlus 8 Questions & Answers] apit23:
Wow! That must be really small. Are you not having a bad time when reading text or something?
[OnePlus 8 Questions & Answers] N173M43R:
Not really. I wear glasses, so as long as I'm awake I basically have 2020 vision. And I keep my phone at a normal distance from my face.

Idk I just like having a lot on the screen. I do a lot of reading and web surfing on my phones.
[OnePlus 8 Questions & Answers] yujiaxin:
I'm using La sys tools to modify density to 360

even lower density can be configured successfully, But the nofiy bar and camera "hole" displays abnormal when the status bar is pulled down.
[OnePlus 8 Questions & Answers] esjames:
454 works nicely for me.
[OnePlus 8 Questions & Answers] galaxys:
Also using 454!
[OnePlus 8 Questions & Answers] Ammitz:
I toggle between default 411 and 520 on 8T
[Realme 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] nikhilrangari:
I've seen a discussion in the telegram group for Realme 5/5i about DotOS for RMX1911. Can someone send me the link to dotOS and intrusctions to flash it??
[Nokia 5 Questions & Answers] EzhikOFF13:
So, Nokia released open sources of their phones. I can't posts link right now. (only like this: nokia . com /phones /en_int /opensource)

Can we hope to custom firmwares like Pixel Experience? :eek:
[Nokia 5 Questions & Answers] Benderisas:
Chances are low. This particular phone model is old and doesn't have a big user base.

There were some tries in this forum, maybe we could get those people notified.
[Nokia 5 Questions & Answers] EzhikOFF13:
how? I really tired of this lagging and bugging official firmware :(
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] dogukans3131:
As you may know, even if it's rare some Tab 2 devices just won't accept Android 7. When you install any ROM that is based on Nougat device will just refuse to work properly. It will lag so bad you won't be able to do anything and forcefully return to Marshmallow.

I'm happy to announce that I found issue: Busybox. Yes, it appears Busybox somehow messes the Android 7. I've also found it messes with Android 6. So, I decided to test all latest 7.1.2 custom ROM's made by Andi.

LineageOS 14.1: Latest 2020 build with OC kernel, lagged after Busybox install.

Unlegacy project 7.1.2: Same as above, however system lagged after boot so I can't test it

Omnirom 7.1.2: Worked like charm until I decided to update it's busybox.

So, I decided to stick on Omnirom 6.0.1 and used it's native busybox instead of updating it. The problems I suffered while I used LineageOS 13.1 is gone. My wifi works properly and no constant app crashes.

I have no idea why Busybox would mess system up, but something between 1.22.1 (the version Omnirom comes with) and 1.30.1 (current Busybox version on Busybox Pro) is definitely not compatible with Andi's ROMs
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] tony800708:
Enjoy guys

http://andrewloh.com/HTC/Diamond/Base/RUU_Diamond_hTC_Asia_HK_CHT_1.93.832.2.exe
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] MickyMax:
Which build is it please ?
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Anubis86:
MaxProM1 6gb varient

Only internet working.

No calling or sms working.

Someone pls help.

Tried many Rom but same problem.
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] aniket.lamba:
Do you have enough talktime balance to make calls and send messages?
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] Anubis86:
Using Jio, plan will reupdate on January 21

But now flashed using fastboot mode, & got it worked again.
[Samsung Galaxy A50 Questions & Answers] Barbaad Billa:
After more than 1.5 years if use as daily driver, the phone has started to show its age. The app loading times are high, the phone frequently hangs a lot and there's a lot of lag in almost every app. I just use it for calling and internet and don't play any games.

The support for Exynos custom development is something which will prevent me from buying Samsung devices in the future. As of now, is there any chance that we will see a custom ROM for this phone?
[Samsung Galaxy A50 Questions & Answers] fmarx1:
The closest thing at the moment is an Android 11 GSI with some A50 specific tweaks that [MENTION=8842170]RandomAJL[/MENTION] made. It works pretty well, but all of the AOSP-based GSIs have the same intermittent stuttering on the recent apps screen and sometimes app drawer.

If I were you, I'd try a factory reset if possible. My A50 is running fine with no hanging and lag in apps. I'm using InfinityOS with Quantum Kernel though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] titatuto:
Hey all of you,

I have the [official] Lineage 17.1 flashed to my sony xperia xz2 compact.

I want to increase the maximum volume for my headphones. Therefore I made changes in the mixer_paths....xml files, but nothing changed. So my questions are:

1. As there are 4 mixer_paths files (mixer_paths_i2s.xml, mixer_paths_qvr.xml, mixer_paths_skuk.xml, mixer_paths_tavil.xml), in which of them should I apply my changes?

2. Which changes do I have to apply? And where exactly?

I tried to increase values RX.. Digital Volume as well as DE.. Volume to 92, brought no changes. Also changes in <path name="headphones"> (also RX.. Digital Volume to 92) didn't change anything (all of the last things were tried in mixer_paths_tavil.xml).

Thanks for helping out
[Android Auto General] shadaia:
Hello.

I'm trying to configure my android auto so it works wirelessly. The wireless android auto is supported on Toyota Aygo 2018+, so I should be good here, and it's obviously supported on S20 FE 5G. The phone is connecting to my X-Touch without a problem, Android Auto is working flawlessly on USB, however when I simply launch the car it does not connect wirelessly. I updated android auto from apk mirror (it's not available in my country) and I tried enabling wireless projection, however when I turn the setting on in the developer options it does not appear on the list when I go back. I tried to reboot my phone just after I did that but it still didn't work.

Do you have any suggestions?
[Android Auto General] mike.s:
No, it isn't. Just plain old AA, not wireless. Wireless only very recently started appearing OEM in cars. In 2018 it would have required an aftermarket head unit, which began offering AA wireless support in summer 2018, not long after Google initially announced AA Wireless.
[About XDA developers] farukb:
simple yes or no,no need for numbers,just curious

thanks
[About XDA developers] mrvanx:
no, not a dime sir ;)
[About XDA developers] farukb:
ok,thanks,so you are volunteers with nerves of steel:D
[About XDA developers] Flar:
Yep and they thrive on the love and appreciation of the community, so be sure to show em just that ;)

Greetz,

Flar
[About XDA developers] farukb:
i do mylady:)

then again they aren't really volunteers,you did chose them,right

ps a new logo in logo thread
[About XDA developers] JimmyMcGee:
You've never heard of forced volunteerism? :p
[About XDA developers] farukb:
when did you became a mod:)

ah yes there were 10 big guys that forced you,you couldn't stand a chance:)
[About XDA developers] fzzyrn:
sometimes, they really should get paid.

flar, by the way, you need to create a title called "designated tech support whore".
[About XDA developers] avathar behemoth:
just showin' some love to the mods :) keep on doing the good work
[About XDA developers] JimmyMcGee:
About 6 hours ago! :D

Not big guys, but seductive Sirens. :p
[About XDA developers] farukb:
respect brother:D

anyway they clean trash after us:D
[About XDA developers] redbandana:
wow jmcgee is now a mod, congrats boss!!! :cool:
[About XDA developers] Ameet:
I wish I got paid to buy the world :rolleyes: But like Jimmy said those seductive sirens were good in negotiating :D
[About XDA developers] farukb:
no negotiation...brute force
[About XDA developers] DaveShaw:
Sir, I don't know what your selling, but sign me up. :D

Dave
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thundercatyzf600rjon:
Hi there. I've flashed RR 9 om my phone. I now have an issue with Google assistent and Smule. The mic in my headset doesnt work with these apps. IT Works fine in-call. The build in mic Works fine too. I've tried installing hardware tester. Mic 1 Works in headset. Mic 2 is very low Perhaps due to my cover?? Is there any way to fix this without root? I dont want to root my phone as I have important personal apps that dont work on a rooted phone.

Update. It seems like Google assistent won't switch headset mic on. But it turns off inbuild mic. The headset is beeing registred.

BR Jon
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Dematen:
When i tap Airplane mode quicksetting the WiFi icon gray but not the Mobile Data and LTE icons, also if Mobile Data is disabled.

Do it is normal?
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] halb9:
Quick Update:

It turns out the phone isn't actually shut off. I found this post where the user is able to connect to the phone and have a shell after that.

I can confirm that.

root@halb9-ntb:/home/halb9/Apps/Android SDK/platform-tools_r30.0.4-linux# ./fastboot boot /home/halb9/Downloads/xiaomi/twrp-3.4.0-0-tissot.img
Sending 'boot.img' (29460 KB) OKAY [ 0.809s]
Booting OKAY [ 0.742s]
Finished. Total time: 1.585s
root@halb9-ntb:/home/halb9/Apps/Android SDK/platform-tools_r30.0.4-linux# ./adb shell
tissot:/ # ls
acct init.rc plat_seapp_contexts system
bin init.recovery.hlthchrg.rc plat_service_contexts system_root
bugreports init.recovery.ldconfig.rc postinstall tmp
cache init.recovery.mksh.rc proc twres
charger init.recovery.qcom.rc product ueventd.rc
config init.recovery.service.rc prop.default usb-otg
d init.recovery.usb.rc res vendor
data license root vendor_file_contexts
default.prop mnt sbin vendor_hwservice_contexts
dev odm sdcard vendor_property_contexts
etc oem sdcard1 vendor_seapp_contexts
file_contexts persist sepolicy vendor_service_contexts
file_contexts.bin plat_file_contexts sideload vndservice_contexts
firmware plat_hwservice_contexts storage
init plat_property_contexts sys
tissot:/ #

But I honestly don't know how to proceed from here.

//edit 1:

When using direct shell access, twrp has its own command reference. See TWRP Commandline Guide.

I transfered my desired LineageOS 17.1 ROM via adb push to my phone and tried flashing it directly from the twrp shell. But this throws me another error.

root@halb9-ntb:/home/halb9/Apps/Android SDK/platform-tools_r30.0.4-linux# ./adb push /home/halb9/Downloads/xiaomi/lineage-17.1-20201013-nightly-tissot-signed.zip /tmp
/home/halb9/Downloads/xiaomi/lineage-17.1-20201013... 0 skipped. 36.5 MB/s (593077782 bytes in 15.501s)
root@halb9-ntb:/home/halb9/Apps/Android SDK/platform-tools_r30.0.4-linux# ./adb shell
tissot:/ # twrp install /tmp/lineage-17.1-20201013-nightly-tissot-signed.zip
Installing zip file '/tmp/lineage-17.1-20201013-nightly-tissot-signed.zip'
Checking for Digest file...
Unmounting System...
Flashing A/B zip to inactive slot: A
Failed to mount '/vendor' (Invalid argument)
Step 1/2Error applying update: 7 (ErrorCode::kInstallDeviceOpenError)Updater process ended with ERROR: 1
To flash additional zips, please reboot recovery to switch to the updated slot.
Error installing zip file '/tmp/lineage-17.1-20201013-nightly-tissot-signed.zip'
Done processing script file
tissot:/ #

This stuff is giving me headaches!
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] halb9:
[Solved] Phone shuts w. TWRP [3.4.0-0 - 3.3.0-1] | Xiaomi Mi A1 != Mi 5X

Hi there,

it took me A LOT of work but I finally solved it ... in a way.

It turns out my phone isn't actually an Xiaomi Mi A1. (tissot) But rather an Mi 5X (tiffany).

It seems like Xiaomi produces the Mi Series with the A1 as the "international" and the 5X as the "chinese" branch.

And while they look the same on the outside and even the specs are pretty identical there are some minor differences e.g. in the supported LTE bands.

So what happened and how did I found out?

Like I already said in my previous post I ordered my phone from ebay. It was labeled as a regular Mi A1.

At this point in time I wasn't aware there is an alternative version to the Mi A1, so I just proceeded with trying to flash the device. I did this with two of my other Mi A1 devices before. So no need to double check, right?

As you can read in my above posts this didn't go so well. After my posts I let my frustration cool of a bit and came back a couple of days later. Clear mind, fresh start.

Some more reading and experiments I finally stumbled upon this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDpQ9C8FBA

And although the video states the devices are identical I was on a new hunt. Some more digging lead me to this...

Taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Mi_A1

Ok, so there are two versions! How do I find out the version I have?

Xiaomi has an IMEI checker on their website.

https://www.mi.com/global/verify/

With my two known-to-good-devices it says "international" version. As expected.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to just check my new device. I just (soft)-bricked it. With no way of getting to the IMEI number. I had to get back to stock rom.

For this I used the Xiaomi Flash Tool

https://www.xiaomiflash.com/download/

I tried flashing from inside a virtual machine with Windows. Didn't work. So I set up an old notebook with a recent version of Windows 10. And luckily this time it worked. The flash tool automatically downloaded the stock ROM. Interestingly the version it choose was a chinese version. With no Google Play default install.

Now with a running stock firmware I was finally able to confirm what I suspected for quite some time. With the IMEI from my new phone checked by the Xiaomi website it was clear it was a rebranded Mi 5X.

My ebay merchant agreed to take back the phone and give me a refund.

All I need to do now is get me a new Mi A1 phone. The right one!

I hope this summary helps someone. Either by preventing or at least reducing the amount of time spent on this clusterf.

Good luck!

TL;DR.

- My device wasn't an Mi A1 but rather an unlabeled Mi 5X.

- Had to flash original firmware back via Mi Flash Tool.

- Returning device to merchant.

- Check your IMEI with Xiaomi to verify what version you have!
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] ricky4695:
Hi at all,

my uncle's Mi A3 had cracked screen, so he told me to replace it with a brand new. I replaced it the first time, and after some time the screen became useless because of bad lines (green, blue, yellow) all over the screen that didn't let you do anything. So I gave back the replacement screen to the seller that sent me another one of it. Tested it, mounted it and now after a week the same problem. Now the phone has been shutted down because of low charge, this morning i tried to charge it and now it works well as usual. What the f*** is happening? bad screen replacements? Did I do something wrong each time I replaced it?

Thanks a lot to all who answer.
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] Sami Devo:
seller has good display??

checkup ur mainboard too.
[Moto G Power Questions & Answers] Lightyear99:
Exist some way or module to turn on 24 bits audio wired reproduction?
[Moto G Power Questions & Answers] DeathToy:
Could always try PowerAmp but that costs $. I haven't noticed anything going on with the sound quality but I'll see if it makes a difference when I get off of work. PowerAmp does have options to tune all of that stuff, though.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Nabeshin:
hi there,

a few days ago i installed the Beta of this programm and really like it, but it _seems_ to me that it dramatically shortens the battery-runtime... anyone else with the same impression?
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
Please note that I don't own the device and am not a dev. Just an Android enthusiast who knows how to build ROM's based on existing sources and loves privacy.

I built this version for someone I know who's about to buy a S10e and wants /e/ on it.

Please give me your feedback. This will be highly appreciated.

Changelog 11/25/2020:

Updating builds based on modpunk's LOS 17.1 V1.3

Changing the way proprietary blobs are integrated into the zip (hopefully fix the robotic voice on bluetooth calls)

S10e build uploaded on 11/25/2020

S10/S10+ uploaded on 11/26/2020

Changelog 11/08/2020:

Re-uploaded builds, manually replaced the vendor files in the .zip using the official from Whatawurst LOS builds as it seems my build method did not populate properly vendor.
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
Another one
[/e/OS Project] florek_18:
Hi !

It's awesome but for S10 I guess "soon" doesn't mean later today ? ;)
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
S10 at 96% !!! :D:D

Please note I am not a dev, just an Android enthusiast who knows how to build based on existing sources and loves privacy.
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
S10 (beyond1lte) build uploaded!
[/e/OS Project] florek_18:
Again: awesome !!!

Will test it tonight :) I was interested in this OS for some time already.
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
Keep us posted.
[/e/OS Project] florek_18:
I guess format data is required? With regular wipe data, cache, dalvik and system it's stuck on boot logo (powered by android i mean).
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
Are you encrypted? While for the bootloader version and firmware, please refer to the thread below; I used their sources:

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s10/sa...rom-lineageos-17-1-beta0-s10e-update-t4076585

As I told previously, I am not a dev unfortunately. I just build using existing sources proven to work.

edit: Seems yes, format data is required. This is mentioned in their FAQ.

Install LinageOS

copy the ROM ZIP file an external SD card

Boot into the recovery

Wipe cache + dalvik (wipe->advanced and select cache + dalvik)

Format data (wipe->format data, use the dedicated button, wipe->advanced does not work)

Flash the ROM (install -> select storage -> micro SD card and select the .zip file)

Optional: Flash GAPPS (e.g. OpenGAPPS)

Reboot to system
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
I also see that on my builds, the vendor.img is much smaller than in their builds.

I'll ask them.
[/e/OS Project] florek_18:
Yeah, thats what I thought as i flashed LoS from modpunk before. Anyway, doing complete backup and will try again.
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
I took modpunk sources to build /e/. But I fear my vendor.img is missing some things (my vendor.img are about 17Mo while his are up to 120Mo).

Need to figure out what and why.

Don't know if it could be doable to repack the /e/ zip with the vendor files from modpunk builds zips.

I don't know the S10.

Gotta sleep. Good luck and keep in touch tomorrow.
[/e/OS Project] catormeme:
So i just found out copying all the vendor files from modpunks lineage os to the /e/ zip with 7zip actualy works so il keep updated if its stable
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
Cool to know thanks.

I'll do for all the other files then.

What device are you running on?
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
Uploading zips with replaced vendor files now. Should be available in a few mn.

Please test and let me know. I'd like to see what device you are running on as well thanks.
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
[MENTION=9924784]catormeme[/MENTION]

Did you have to format data to boot?
[/e/OS Project] catormeme:
yes, i formated data before and after installing also did the same with cache and dalvic
[/e/OS Project] Anghirrim:
What device?