yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agonoize:
i don't know how to search this, thus i can't find what i am looking for, all i get are results on how to create images (pictures)

i want to make a system image from the current version of android running on my mobile (android 9 pie)

yes, i know how to make a backup trough ADB, but its not what i want, as said, i want to create a clean image from the current running system, in order to have a backup in case android 10 has bugs, so i can easly set it back to what i was before

- how to?

thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agonoize:
still looking how to do this

thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 1890170:
Search Internet for device's Stock ROM and if found keep it on safe place thus you can flash it later if needed. :)
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] hodgie2005:
What is your favorite ROM for the T-Mobile Wing. I am looking for a ROM that is fast, and the MMS will still work.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks! :)
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] hodgie2005:
Radio Version

Also, the new Radio version would be nice
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] fzzyrn:
the best rom for any device is the one that you like the best.

In the herald forum, the main contenders are OpenTouch by ttran, Touch-it by itje, itspapablack by papamopps, Asergs roms by aserg, and just2clean/justme by ivan. There are other roms made by other people, but these are the main ones (kidnamedalbert and ginolin come to mind)

usually, the radio rom doesn't that make that big a difference, but the best one for me is something along the lines of 3.21.90 or something like that
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] duprade:
People always ask "whats the best rom?"

Try a couple of them, and see what YOU like.
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] c1bear:
sounds like they just want to take the easy way out and not read all the post on each one. read and dive in if you dont like it you can always flash aging :) and become addicted like the rest of us :D
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] damnitpud:
I can understand people not using the results from a search. All of the ROM forums are huge...look at TTran's newest thread OTP 6.5 167 pages or so...thats a lot of information to cipher even as an advance user!

I think there should be the release thread and a second thread with all fixes. would make questions from noobs a lot easier to answer. Hopefully some wouldn't have to ask questions!
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] live4nothing:
I agree with you there man. The forum is so huge and sometime the search function does not help much. You know what, I think the moderators should "sticky" all the newest ROMs so people don't have to hunt around for it.
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] duprade:
I actually think that the chefs should change the subject lines on their older roms to "OUTDATED" .. and that will be alot less trouble on THE moderator.
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] live4nothing:
Of course that works too, but that doesn't help when the chefs became inactive, like Aserg or ITJE. Unless people monitor the forum frequently for awhile, it is quite difficult for the to find the most updated roms from those chefs. Maybe this is why sometime we still see people asking how to flash TouchIT 3 or something (REALLY) outdated like this on the forum.
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] gfmoss:
as a newbe that took 6 weeks to figure out how to flash my frist rom and "still" not sure I got a current realease, I think you guys are on the right track. IMHO of course. ;)
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] ivanmmj:
I just look at the posted date. :p
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] spleck:
It would be nice if there were a reliable list of ROMs rather than just forum posts. I hate digging through hundreds of "me too", "that's great" posts to get to REAL information.

It's especially tough because I'm not the one using the ROM--I flash it for my wife and she has no clue what's out there or what she wants--she just tells me what she has problems with and what she doesn't like about what's on her phone now.

That being said, What is a suggested ROM for my wife? She uses EpocratesRX, text messaging, contacts management, and Google Maps.

She's using OpenTouch 5 or 6 right now and she has problems with the scroll bar disappearing in the text messaging app, whenever she reboots, she has to change the display orientation to landscape and back to get the start bar to appear, etc. She can't stand all those little quirks. She also wants to scroll through her contacts and be able to call one easily with few clicks--right now if she gets to a number she wants to be able to hit the green call button and dial, but it just brings up the dialer with her last called number, not the number of the contact she was looking at.
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] fzzyrn:
if remember correctly, OT 5 had some problems with messaging. I don't recall what exactly those problems were, but that might be one of them.

Try using icontact or pocketcm for her contacts. They're simple, intuitive, and nice looking.

As for a rom for your wife? Try them all. It sounds like she has some applications that not alot of other people use, so try a "clean" or "lite" rom with lots of memory for extra application. i personally suggest Open Touch 6 lite.
[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] ivanmmj:
There's a whole review thread right under the Herald Development forum. :p
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] OmgOmgHax:
Hello guys, so my problem is that i was using revolut through googlepay with no problems on my OP6 and i had activated my card in there approx 2 years ago. Problem is i am trying to activate the SAME card on my new OP8Pro and it fails miserably. Is there any way to copy and "verification" files from OP6 to OP8P? Any other suggestion to make this work is always welcome. (PS: both phones are not rooted)
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] ilian:
Hi. I had the same problem 6 months ago. If your Revolut card is registered in a non authorized country you can not activate it anymore. Or I don't succeed.

I don't know a method to transfer the authorization from your old phone.

What I did is take a Curve card, put the Revolut as default card and made the Gpay authorization with the Curve.

It works since without any problems.

Did it to WearOs also
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] OmgOmgHax:
I created a Curve account, (didn't order physical card yet) but still i can't use curve in gpay.. :S did you register your Curve account that you live in bulgaria or in another country that gpay works?
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] dlads:
How does it fail? If safety net works (non rooted) then surely it'd be a case of contacting recolut?

Chances are your card will be expiring at some point anyway so this was going to happen sooner or later
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] OmgOmgHax:
I already contacted Revolut and they told me that I am not living in the supported countries of gpay. Yes I am not rooted. My card will expire in 4 years, so you guess I would like to use it till then ?
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] ilian:
Registered in Bulgaria. But for me it worked only after I received the physical card. I was unable to activate/use the Curve account before.
[OnePlus 8 Pro Questions & Answers] OmgOmgHax:
I don't know, I hope it works after I order the physical card. My last option as I read somewhere else, would be to change my Revolut address to a gpay country, then create a new virtual card, register it in gpay, then change address back. Apparently it has to do with Revolut mostly and the number that the card will be generated. I don't want to have to reach the point that I have to do this, as I use Revolut as my main bank and in case it raises any alarms about that changes of addresses I could end up with a frozen account.
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] hlhmark:
I have a CPH2025 running CW though I purchased it from Amazon UK and can confirm it's Unlocked Network wise, is there no way of flashing just a Global CPH2025 to it so I'm able to get updates quicker?
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] backfromhome:
Nope
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] klanbo78:
There's a flashing tool used by Oppo, Realme and OnePlus phones called MSN Download Tool.

It's what they use internally and there are always leaked / cracked versions available for OnePlus, but not so much Oppo. IF you managed to find the right version you could in theory change your software version. You'd need the tool and .ofp file (which is the full firmware).

I have a couple of cracked versions of the tool and OFP files that I stumbled across when trying to convert my Chinese version to global, but not willing to try on my CPH2025 in case I brick it (plus I have the global version so nothing to gain by doing so). Sure Oppo would reflash under warranty if you could be bothered with the inconvenience of not having a phone for a week.
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] dominicstg2:
is there a way to get colouros 11? on the global version somehow by flashing using this tool?
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] klanbo78:
Unlikely, there are only a few leaked versions of the full firmware, I have found A14 and A29, as ColorOS 11 isn't even out yet is say there is zero chance of getting a leaked version that someone has cracked.... Just have to wait.
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] Adam_Conway:
It is actually possible to change to global! I put a small tutorial up on Twitter to show you how to do it.
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] Mitar00:
Hey! Which region did you choose exacly and what was your software version before you got coloros 11?
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] Adam_Conway:
Singapore! It's in green in the screenshot. I was on global before switching.
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] Mitar00:
Thanks! I changed to singapore but it says that the a.46 is the latest version. How did you manage to get the OTA? Thanks in advance!
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] Adam_Conway:
It came in instantly for myself and a friend when I switched to Singapore. I guess just leave it for a while?
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] Mitar00:
Okay, I will. Were you on a.46 before the update?
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] PrinceLc:
Hy and do you have successfully updated to ColorOs 11 ??
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] Mitar00:
No, my phone says that the a.46 is the latest firmware :/
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] Adam_Conway:
I don't know sorry, I hadn't used my Find X2 Pro in a while.
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] anasmhds:
If i want to return to global which one i should select?
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] bartek45:
Does it factory reset the phone? How is 4g/5g performance when you switch regions? I imagine Singapore would use different bands... And how does it look with Google Pay, certifications, Widevine etc?

Update: Never mind, tried it, the *# code is actually for a realme device, can't find one specific to Find X2 or X2 Pro, and have no idea if there is a way to extract a list of those secret codes from the device itself...
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] Adam_Conway:
The *# works on the Find X2 Pro. It's not Realme-specific. Google Pay still works for me and didn't notice any mobile data difference. No factory reset either
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] klanbo78:
I've tried and it works. Changed the region a few times, tried Singapore, UK, then the multi-language E - all worked fine. It even disabled and enabled region specificNone of them have me a ColorOS 11 update though which is why I was doing it.

However, I changed to Thailand True and now this procedure doesn't work. Now stuck on Thailand ?. My fault for playing too much!
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] bartek45:
Damn I must be unlucky. Will be stuck on .46 CPW for ever :/
[OPPO Find X2 Pro Questions & Answers] klanbo78:
Thanks for the post Adam, you've made a lot of people very happy. This change in regional settings had enabled people to get ColorOS 11 early, replace carrier specific software for a more generic version, get features like the Theme Store and call recording working and even opened up the possibility of having dual SIM on a single SIM variant!

Cheers buddy! ?
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sofiene.Saidi:
Hi all,

I have found this simple guide to unlock the bootloader on LG V20 H910 have someone tried it then installed lineage OS 17.1 after please ? :

https://www.hardreset.info/devices/lg/lg-v20-at-and-t-h910/faq/faq/lg-bootloader-unlock/

Thanks a lot for your replies.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] cnjax:
That guide is bs
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sofiene.Saidi:
Can you tell me how please ? This video from 2016 confirm it too :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-71Z-C4nAA
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sofiene.Saidi:
Yes it was a BS since no bootloader mode in this device so please dirty santa is the unique way ? Please notice I am on oreo so if you have a link to a complete guide please do not hesitate
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] jailedmike:
This is not the right place to ask for help with this... Check out the "guide" section... And ask questions In " Questions & Answers" section.

I think this is best method:

https://xdaforums.com/v20/how-to/guide-root-twrp-lg-v20-using-dirtysanta-t3722278

Others use h915 kdz.

Please refrain from posting on this thread again. It will make me regret helping.

Don't forget to thank people who help you in the thread with thanks button. Specially if the guide they made helps a ton. Note this will get rid of at&t software. I think there is way too restore it still but I have not checked for a while.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] trado:
this is helpful
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] grmoro:
Is there any current way to unlock the bootloader on the LG V20 H910 with AT&T's latest firmware release? AT&T has locked diown the bootloader, and with LG no longer in the cell phone game, they aren't able to provide the OEM bootloader unlock code as well. A few people have also mentioned that the Dirty Santa no longer works on these devices. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] dextructor:
At least did you try to follow the instructions available? According to this post from October-2022 it worked on H910 AT&T.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] grmoro:
Yes. I tried it and its useless. Struggling to find a bootloader unlock process that actually works for the H910.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] dextructor:
You are looking for help, because you don't know how to solve it. So we as a community need a little bit of cooperation from everyone to be able to understand if it's a limitation/roadblock of the method, or if you are doing something wrong for whatever reason.

So posting: "don't work", "it's useless" and anything like that not only don't help but discouraging others who read this threads. Tell the problem/error that you encounter.

I found another user who said that he flashed dirtysanta directly and once have TWRP he worked around it the downgrade flashing necessary.

As last resort you can swap the motherboard for one that is vulnerable for the exploit.

But if you wanna some one-click "I don't wanna have trouble" solution, I'm sorry that I can't provide that.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] grmoro:
I have a clients device that needs to be updated, hence the search to unlock the bootloader and then update the device. The posts I come across, even new ones seem to be reposts of others work from before LG shut down their bootloader unlocking service, so ehen you follow their steps they don't work at various steps. I've been updating devices as far back as Android 1.5 and for some devices its a struggle to update them at all. Replacing the pcb isn't an option right now as the customer won't pay for it. Hence I scour various websites and forums for solutions as other post their success/failure in doing the same on this device. Too often I find people posting about updating their devices, only to find that they either already had their bootloader unlocked before LG shutdown their service to do so, or they just don;t reply to a PM about their process, hence they're fake posts, or old posts from years prior being reposted for no valid purpose. The amount of tim I spend to update peoples devices and test custom ROMs is actually fruitless in terms of money paid, but more for me to keep devices out of the landfills whenever possible. Every time I mod a device I make and keep notes, as well as the files used, stored on one of my NAS as I know I'll be doing it again in the future, including properly and fully testing custom roms to determine if they're actually working properly, or exactly what their issue(s) is(are), and I keep finding a plethora of bugs and issues with too many custom ROMs being pumped out before proper testing. I routinely turn down some device update requests when update steps are convoluted, fractured or even requirements are no longer valid. I'll keep looking around and trying various methods as I come across them. Thx.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] dextructor:
No problems, I feel for you because I like to keep people using devices that otherwise would be discarded without real needs.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] dextructor:
Did you try this other method?
[Magisk] marcog1956:
Hi, i tried many times to use MAGISK app on a tablet ASUS FONEPAD 7 (model K00E) with Lollipop in order to patch the BOOT.IMG.

Always failed during the patching, with the messages:

DEVICE PLATFORM: x86

COPYING IMAGE TO CACHE

UNPACKING BOOT IMAGE

CHECKING RAMDISK STATUS

STOCK BOOT IMAGE DETECTED

PATCHING RAMDISK

REPACKING BOOT IMAGEUNABLE TO REPACK BOOT IMAGE!

INSTALLATION FAILED

I have searched for all the possible articles etc, without success.

I have tried many different versione of MAGISK, the last 20.4 and MANAGER 8.0.2 (i have used MAGISK install >> go >> method select and file update >> boot.img)

Obviously i have the original BOOT.IMG file, loaded on internal memory.

Please, may you help me?

Thanks in advance

Marco G
[Magisk] Didgeridoohan:
That's a pretty old device, and since Asus has been known to not quite follow Android standards I wouldn't be surprised if it's simply not compatible...

Since you say that you used Magisk v20.4 it might be worth it to try the Canary build (just in case there's been some kind of improvement upstream). You can find the Canary Manager on GitHub:

https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk

And providing the actual installation log is always a good idea (there's a disc icon in the flashing window).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Tungtata:
Few days ago. SamFirm, Frija have error when getting Samsung Firmware. Tool return error 200/401

P/s: Frija have an update to fix it now

I am just a technician but I using SamFirm everyday for my project

And when I try to fix SamFirm myself from a Remade open source named SamFirm-continued. You can check it here

https://github.com/lulindev/SamFirm-continued

and I think maybe someone like it and bonus functions what I added

So today I introducing SamFwTool

SamFwTool check and download firmware direct from Samsung Firmware Update Server. Firmware are official.

SamFwTool have not any background services (only auto check update), no startup and install required

Main function

Search firmware by model name and region code (CSC)

Download firmware, decrypt firmware

Check CRC

Extra

Auto detect your phone model name and region code. Just connect in MTP mode and press Auto detect

Play a short sound when download finish. I think its useful

Auto notice when there are an update

I will update

Auto extract firmware

Test integrity of archive

More check version source for new models

... and more if you have any suggest

And I put a small link to my website if you want to download older version or download direct with IDM and max speed. My website is free to use. So do not worry!

If you like this tool and want to invite me a beer. I will very thankful

https://paypal.me/DangThanhTung

Screenshot

[IMG="Auto detect"]https://i.imgur.com/8SBwzsf.png[/IMG]

[IMG="Download firmware"]https://i.imgur.com/qYpCrhQ.png[/IMG]

Changelog:

Version 1.21.0

As the description

Required:

dotNet 4.8: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-framework/net48

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)

Download:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=10763459528675578487

MD5:

f064ab82fcc40628ba452f6025393136
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Tungtata:
Reserve
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Hey, Amazing work there, i used the tool and works fine. I just wanted to post something to bring this thread to people's notice. Thanks for your hard work.

This is a good tool to use (Frija is good too). If you manage to keep this updated as and when Samsung changes things on their side this can get popular too. Thanks for the work.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Tungtata:
Thank you. I will keep update this tool and add new functions
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Geekser:
I tried to install but after unzipping it - when I attempted to run it, an error message sdaid something about not having the correct path or authorization to run....not sure what I am doing wrong? I do have the Microsoft stuff installed that you mentioned - and have never had an issue with older versions of Samfirm....let me know what I might be doing wrong.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] TheGoddessInari:
I tried to run it, what are you supposed to put in the Region field?

Tried with SM-986U (Note 20 Ultra), and the usual suspects for USA (TMB, SPR, VZW, USC) all came back not found.

EDIT: Also tried with SM-N986u and SM-N981U , no dice. Got "authorization failed" there, which is weird.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] enjoylife1788:
Awesome work. Many thanks. I have been trying to make frija work since 2 months to no success. Finally this worked as intended.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Tungtata:
please take a screenshot about your error

model code should be SM-N986U and CSC is

CCT

CHA

SPR

TMB

USC

VZW
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] PapaDocta:
same here authorization error

View attachment 5176465
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] ddbv346zhgrefgrhuwerh:
@Tungtata @PapaDocta

Hello,

there is a new software SamFirm Reborn. I can confirm that it works have today (18 January. 2021) to download the latest firmware for my Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra.

https://github.com/ivanmeler/SamFirm_Reborn/releases

Please make sure Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)* and Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)** are installed

*

https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=29

**

https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=5555
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] nguyenson_44:
Good job my friend. my Vietnamese friend.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Ronnie McNutt:
VirusTotal

VirusTotal

www.virustotal.com
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] xd4d3v:
no way i'm touching this until that's sorted,

they seem too many to be a false positive.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] billa:
It's open source, so you can examine the source and compile it yourself if feeling paranoid.

But it's outdated anyway since Samsung has changed their API, and this app hasn't been updated since 2020. You can read more about it here.

[Tool] Frija - Samsung firmware downloader/checker

* * * PLEASE UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE INSTALLING TO YOUR DEVICES AT ALL TIMES AND ME AND THE DEVELOPER ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SORT OF DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE * * * Hey Guys :) Frija is a new tool (successor of now depreciated tool SamFirm)...

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