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[Google Pixel 4a Guides, News, & Discussion] malu8888:
Hi,

anyone got experience changing from xiaomi to another manufactuer? i`ve been using a xiaomi account on my xiaomi for calendar and contacts. now that i bought a google pixel 4a i`m having problems getting the google calender sycned with the xiaomi account.

Any idea? I tried to export the calendar but it wasn`t possible.

Thanks and kind regards,

malu
[Google Pixel 4a Guides, News, & Discussion] dandu3:
can't you just install the regular google calendar app on your xiaomi and then I think it should automatically fill itself out? for the contacts you can probably also just install google contacts and have it do it's thing
[Google Pixel 4a Guides, News, & Discussion] malu8888:
Hi dandu3,

thanks for your reply. Installed google calendar on my old xiaomi and i synced with my mi account calendar on the xiaomi (phone). But still there is no connection to my new google pixel google calendar.

The problem I see is that the xiaomi account has no email address, so I can't just add the account on my google calendar on my new pixel.

Any other ideas?

So far I've tried:

1) When firing up the new pixel I connteced my old xiaomi via c-typ cable to tranfser data/concats/apps but at the end of the process there was a error msg that these datats/contacts/apps couldn't be transfered to the new pixel

2) Installing the share me app (by xiaomi) on both phones. This would let me transfer everything except calendars :(
[Google Pixel 4a Guides, News, & Discussion] malu8888:
[Solved] the iCal import/export 3.2 app worked. It recognized the local xiaomi calender icals from my old xiaomi and I could tranfser it to my email account. On the pixel I synced this same email account.
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] Ria_melati:
Maaf kalo custom rom apakah mempengaruhi hasil kamera? Hasil lebih jernih? Atau biasa saja? Maaf saya masih newbi🙏
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] Harry0309:
Next time write in English.

Not sure if I understand correctly (because of translation), but custom ROMs uses ports from MIUI or Android One devices, so the quality of photos is the same.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Questions & Answers] Vertolis:
Even when I use duckduckgo, firefox and other privacy browsers, personalized ads based on the content I search show up on the system's "recomendations" (I know there's a way to disable them to appear - the problem is the informations xiaomi have about me), so I don't want to use it anymore.

However, I definitely think MIUI is the most beautiful android UI I've ever used. It's not the most functional or optimized, but it looks so good. Is there a way to get at least the MIUI's 12 control center without, well, actually using a chinese ROM?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Questions & Answers] badadam:
Try installing Mi Control Center from Google Play. I use it to customize my stock MIUI contol center.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Questions & Answers] Vertolis:
I thought it wouldn't be that easy. Thank you man, that app worked almost perfectly.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kingkongking 123:
Hello everybody! Just a short but >massive< problem! After I unrooted my note 8 I unable to use smart view. I just can stream some pictures or videos to my tv using quick connect/smart view but every time i try to mirror my display the tv says: "connecting to note 8...." .... short after this massage: "connection to note 8 disabled". I just don't understand where there is a problem? Someone with the same issues? Maybe you could help me :) ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kingkongking 123:
Someone?
[General Questions and Answers] TheSecondComing:
It's a Wiko UFeel lite so I guess it's not common down here & yes I did it accidentally (I didn't want to wipe out all partitions), in fact, I tried many times before resorting to it to flash the phone the classic way, but each try it failed so there am I...
[General Questions and Answers] Lderz:
Need an help to this too
[General Questions and Answers] mvikrant97:
What's the problem with your device?

firmware download link

Wiko_U_Feel_MT6735

MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

www.mediafire.com
[Xiaomi Redmi 8A Questions & Answers] dmilz:
So i unlocked bootloader, flashed pitch black twrp. Booted to twrp, flashed olivewood india firmware succesfully. Hit restart device and it went completely off. No sign of life. Anyone who can help me please

update

//device flashed succesfully in edl mode using unlocktool and is now fully working.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Astroks:
Hello, I bought an S21 Ultra from Bouygues in france. I realize that I am stuck under an operator rom. I tried to flash the XEF firmware but nothing helps. I am both under the XEF rom but still with the BOG csc. Which is strange besides because I feel that it will block the OTA. A solution ? Should reflash the firmware bog not cause any concern?

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[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Amir majadly:
I suggest you wait for twrp
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] introid_FR:
Twrp?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] introid_FR:
C'est toi qui a posté sur le forum Samsung? ^^
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] y2kkingboy:
I had a small guide on how to change the CSC for exynos models.

You need to download the firmware first.

https://xdaforums.com/t/call-recording.4225179/post-84423755
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] introid_FR:
Does it work with Android 11 and S21 Ultra?

I've downloaded few firmware and the CSC is apparently always German :(
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] y2kkingboy:
I have specifically written this for S21 Ultra. It is what I'm using. You just pick whatever firmware you need. Me and the other users of S21 Ultra on the other thread wanted to enable the native call recording feature in S21 Ultra and the Indonesian firmware had it and this is why I was explaining how to flash it.

Just read the instructions carefully and you could apply it for any Samsung firmware and it will not void warranty as it is an official firmware from Samsung.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] introid_FR:
DFU mode is download mode?

I've done this already few time with French firmware, where on your protocole you're supposed to change the CSC? I'm still keeping the german CSC.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] y2kkingboy:
I'm not sure what you mean. But before all that are you using an Exynos or Snapdragon model? this is only for Exynos.

Try the Indonesian firmware. Honestly it is pretty much the same except of the Samsung pay app which shows options to add Indonesian pay cards and whatnot. Other than that it's the same in every way + native call recording.

I highly suggest to use the CSC file and not the home_csc file, this will format your phone and you will lose your data. But it will make sure that it will stick. Be sure to use all the files as I indicated in the post. If you don't want to lose your data DO NOT use the CSC file and use the home_csc.

Edit: yes DFU is download mode.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] introid_FR:
What I want is to be able to change the CSC region to France and not Germany to be able to have access to Samsung Pay France because righ now I'm stuck with Samsung Pay Germany.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] y2kkingboy:
Oh then just download the firmware and unzip it and use the same method. Use all the files as I have explained and it should work right away.

I suggest you try 3 ways.

Try way 1: use all the files BL, AP, CP and HOME_CSC. When it reboots see if the CSC was changed or not. If it didn't, try way 2

Way 2: the same way but remove the SIM card until full boot and check CSC. If it didn't change. No hope but way 3.

Way 3: use all the files BL, AP, CP and CSC. This will format your phone. IMO, there is no way this will not work.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] introid_FR:
For me I've done this already.

What do you mean by IMO please?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] y2kkingboy:
Short for in my opinion.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] introid_FR:
Oki lol. Well apparently no solution for me right now.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] UNIK97122:
yep, pour passé en XEF j'ai activé le unlock OEM dans le mode dev, ensuite j'ai flashé avec odin, du coup je suis en XEF, mais bon BTU est plus rapide pour les updates

Translation: yep, to switch to XEF I activated the OEM unlock in dev mode, then I flashed with odin, suddenly I am in XEF, but good BTU is faster for updates
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] introid_FR:
J'avoue ne pas avoir tout compris, le dev mode sert à quoi exactement?

Est-ce que cela permet de changer le CSC (pays)?

Translation:

I admit I haven't understood everything, what is dev mode for exactly?

Does this change the CSC (country)?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] UNIK97122:
le mode dev permet pas mal de chose notamment de débloquer le verrouillage OEM soit opérateur , donc changer ton csc

Translation: the dev mode allows a lot of things including unlocking the OEM or operator lock, so change your csc
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] introid_FR:
Débloquer l'opérateur et changer de pays ne sont pas deux choses différentes ?

Comment le passer en pays France dans mon cas?

Tu valides le debloquage OEM et tu reflashes avec Odin?

Translation:

Unblocking the operator and changing the country are not two different things?

How do I spend it in France in my case?

Do you validate the OEM unlock and reflash with Odin?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] UNIK97122:
Oui et tu prends le XEF qui est France débloqué, par contre enlever le oem fait un factory reset et quand tu flashera les prochaine fois utilise home_csc si tu comptes garder tes données

Translation: Yes and you take the XEF which is France unlocked, on the other hand removing the oem makes a factory reset and when you flash the next time use home_csc if you intend to keep your data
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] nir182:
Hey,

I need HELP.

I have Redmi 9. Unfortunately, I do not remember which ROM and which MIUI was installed. I think it was 12 GLOBAL.

I've tried to install TWRP and magisk, though something went wrong and I'm now in bootloop. I can get into fastboot but don't know how to continue from this position,

My thoughts that I've tried to install TWRP or magisk that don't fit to my phone.

Phone is unlocked.
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] Rukbat:
unofficial twrp 3.4.2 Root Xiaomi Redmi 9 (Lancelot) claims to be a working TWRP and instructions for installing Magisk. (I don't have the phone, so I can't test it.)
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] razers211:
well your best bet is to download the stock rom and flash it with sp flash tool using the brom bypass, only thing you have to know is which exact miui version you had, otherwise if you have an unlocked bootloader you don't have to worry that much as it will not harm your phone
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] daniel04222:
can it be done if cant go into fastboot mode ?
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] kazuhiko23124:
be careful when flashing your stock rom do not flash with format all mode or else you imei will be lost
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Clues:
My xv6900 runs plenty fast.

It also gets pretty warm and the battery could last a bit longer.

Backlight brightness and timing helps.

But what about *gasp* underclocking?

I've seen a few apps for other phones to OC, what about UC?
[Android Drones General & Development] Droid4200:
If you install a program on CrystalSky, by CrystalSky unchecks the " allow notifications " box in the "App Info". CrystalSky does allow you to enable it back on, and the app can send notifications, but if you reboot the CrystalSky it automatically unchecks the the "allow notifications" box again. Is there a program that can re enable notifications for selected or even all programs at boot? I have it rooted if that helps. Is there a file/setting I can modify / edit to stop it from blocking notifications?

Thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 11445165:
Many thanks for reading my post. I really apriciate your time :) .

I think I recently installed an app that used a rootkit to temporarily give itself root acces. The bootloader of my device is still locked (Huawei Ale-L21, I know the phone is old 😅).

After I found out, I deleted the app and factory recet the phone. I checked with root checker and my phone doesn't have root acces anymore.

Is it possible that the app has injected code into the system partion of my phone that will remain after a factory recet. I haven't found any traces on the data partion of my device and haven't noticed any suspicious activity after the factory reset. The app also didn't convert itself to a system app. And to reitterate, the bootloader of the phone still seems locked.

My main concern would be that malicious code could get acces to for example my camera without me knowing. Is this a realistic threat to worry about.

My second question would be: does malicious code manifest itself as a system app persé or could it affect my device in another way without me noticing.

Agin thanks to everyone who took the time to read and (hopefully) answer my questions.

💙
[General Questions and Answers] Nameless Foe:
You will probably need to flash your stock firmware
[General Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
Rootkits, the worst of the trojans... go full nuke with the reflash option.
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 1890170:
Note that a factory reset leaves the phone's system partition (the "ROM") untouched. If there were made any changes to the system partition (such as rooting), those will remain.

Only re-flashing phone's Stock ROM helps to get rid off of changes made to the system partition.
[General Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
Here's one of those:

xHelper malware: What it is, how it works and how to prevent it | Malware spotlight | Infosec

Research shows malware spreading and directed specifically at mobile users. Check Point’s 2019 Mid-Year Trends Report shows that cyberattacks targeting smart

resources.infosecinstitute.com

The newer OS's aren't vulnerable to this one but it shows how insidious these rootkits can be.
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 1890170:
@blackhawk

Because you tagged me:

I have never had the embarrassment of a phone I had or still have got infected with malicious software ( rootkits ).

I know how to protect myself from this. :)

And I never have bricked a phone because I know how to proceed correctly when it comes to rooting Android.
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 11445165:
I recently read up about bootloaders but would a locked bootloader not check the signature of the rom, so that if changes were made to the system partion the phone wouldn't boot or something allong those lines. Apologies if that is not how it works, I'm only just recently starting to learn about it.
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 11445165:
Could you mabey rephrase that? I don't fully understand what you mean.
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 11445165:
Would a virus like this show up in the apps section in your settings or do you think it wouldn't be noticable in any way?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
Preliminary guide to BACKUP / RESTORE with

OrangeFox recovery by ManoloRey

LINK

or

TWRP recovery 3.5.X_10-x by brigudav

LINK

! ! ! USE ONLY LINKED VERSIONS OF RECOVERIES ! ! !

Consider this guide for (decrypted vendor (or encryption disabler) + decrypted storage used) as BETA, I don't recommend backup/restore procedures with OrangeFox recovery Beta or TWRP 3.5.0_10-x for actual backups of your data (TRY THIS ONLY AT YOUR OWN RISK) ONLY FOR TESTING / EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES !

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this guide will be updated if I discover new facts or post new, updated steps or how-to's​
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
reserved
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] temporarium:
Thanks for your experiments and hard work in putting this together! 👍🏻
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] drahtwurst:
there is 2 checkboxes for super with the same size in OF. one says (Product, Vendor, System).

which one to select or both?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
Only one, backup of super from either is identical
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Kherham:
Thanks for this flashlight on the darkness.

Let me ask you a help. How can I decrypt my device? Wanna do it just like my old MI8, where I didnt need to do format data ever when go to update a rom.

Ever I go do recovery (OFOX or TWRP) I got this in screenshot.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
- download and flash decrypted (hacked) vendor from this thread or

- use encryption disabler zip, but that is a little tricky to use - you need to flash encryption disabler every time you update your MIUI base, or custom rom, if you forget that, on next boot your internal storage will be encrypted

- - to remove encryption from data partition after - you need to do initial format data (yes) - after that you can start to use wipe data if needed (some ROMs still need to use format data (yes) or they'll not boot - RR 8.6.6/8.6.7 for example)
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] pnin:
Yep, that fact just bit me today as I was away from the computer and had to reflash the latest Xiaomi.eu...
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] pnin:
Are there further instructions for first install? I did google but failed to find anything reliable...
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
not that I know of, just flash it as last thing before you reboot (either recovery or to system), but you need to format data (yes) to remove encryption
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] pnin:
As this [surya] 'encryption-disabler-v1' is basically a shell script (pasted to https://paste2.org/804aemGx, BTW), I took the risk to flash it without formatting 'Data' -- only I disabled any security beforehand, i.e., no pin, password or fingerprint.

It appears to have worked, cause I rebooted into system with no issues. But how to verify?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
not sure what do you want to achieve by flashing of encryption disabler without actually disabling encryption by formatting your data partition...

so what do you want to verify?

if you start OFOX, on the initial screen you can see the state of your data partition (encrypted/decrypted)
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] pnin:
Thanks for your patience. I was under the impression that if you disable security locks then you had no encryption and the script would just ensure it would remain so. By your reaction I'm assuming I was wrong...

Overall, I am just getting fed up with always having to format data and having to start from scratch.

I not longer have OFox, I'm currently running brigudav's TWRP "v3.5.0_10-5-surya".
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Slim K:
As you said, that encryption_disabler.zip is a shell script, which makes the folder in /product/vendor_overlay/29/etc and copies fstab.qcom from vendor to it. Then edits every line using the shell command sed (aka stream editor) that includes the string fileencryption= with the string encryptable=.

The above described process is usually done on the first boot of a newly installed ROM as is with every vendor_overlay entry in product (minus the edited strings ofc). Editing it after the ROM reads vendor fstab.qcom and encrypts the data partition is useless. However, formatting data (deleting keystore essentially) and flashing that .zip should also do the trick. Might as well update your base MIUI and ROM while you're at it :p
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] pnin:
Thanks for the detailed explanation, Slim K. Sadly there's no escaping formatting data, which I'll do next...

I had done so already, hence my reluctance to do it again.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] XtraWater:
Hello

I tried to do a backup with this orfox version including 'super'. At the end it says:

Backing up Super...

Backup Failed, Cleaning Backup Folder

Do you have a idea what happened?

Edit: I guess it's because my phone is encrypted
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] temporarium:
Make sure you have enough space on the destination. Have a look at the OF log.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] temporarium:
I guess this is as good a place as any to ask: what is the advantage of decrypting data?

I don't think running encrypted slows things down (not like it used to in the past when devices weren't as powerful), and there is the huge benefit of having your data secure. Any lost/stolen phone will soon send up in the hands of someone (on either side of the law) who knows adb/fastboot, so just having a password isn't going to protect your data if it's not encrypted.

It's possible to do backups of encrypted data, just the same as unencrypted.

Formatting vs wiping: ends up doing the same - all the data is gone and has to be restored. So that's a non-issue.

So, why should one prefer to decrypt?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] XtraWater:
From my understanding the only benefit would be to update firmware without format data.

re backup super: There are about 70GB available on the SD card (destination of the backup). I tried to backup it again with the same result. Just looking at the log file but can't see what has failed. The line before Backup failed is:

I:Error writing destination fd(operation not permitted)
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] temporarium:
Your card is probably formatted as fat32 which won't allow such big files.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] XtraWater:
It seems the fileformat is VFAT. Should I format it to exFAT or better Ext3 or Ext4?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
exFAT if you need it to be readable also on PC or MAC
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] temporarium:
@jeryll , any thoughts? I think you're a proponent of running decrypted. Why? What are the pros/cons in your opinion?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
I personally just don't like if something is forced on me (at all), which POCO/XIAOMI does with that default enabled encryption ... why? Lets leave it off and if somebody want that, it can be turn on, no? What precious data do you have on your phone, that it needs be encrypted all the time? How often do you loose your phone to prove that encryption is useful to be default on? And seriously do you trust POCO/XIAOMI that they protect your data with "this" encryption?

If I wanted a secure phone the only option is Samsung (with Knox at least) - IT guys in my work only allows Samsung phones - if you want to use your phone in company network... - or some specialized phones available on the market, but surely not POCO/XIAOMI ...

Encryption turned on by default is not a problem, if you're a MIUI user, who update MIUI 10-20 times in the phone life cycle? For MIUI you only format data maybe once if you're upgrading also Android version ...

But for a custom ROM user, who likes to test new ROMs available and most of the time also likes to go back, because most of the new ROMs sucks anyway :(

Not to mention that if you have a lot of photos, music, medias on your internal storage - god forbid that you forget to backup those in cloud or copy to external sdcard... before you format data...

And what about backup restore? I want perfect nandroid backup as I was used to do on A9, and I want to restore it also perfect - you can forget about this with encrypted storage...

Personally I don't give a sh*t if my internal storage is encrypted or not - give me the tools for a backup and restore and ROM installation without format data and I'm a happy camper...
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] temporarium:
Thank you for you frank comments 👍🏻

I guess everyone had their usage scenario and "threat" level...

But, I agree, backup and restore are key.