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[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] NippleSauce:
I'm also a fan of Google phones in particular due to their clean Android interface design. Samsung just has more options in the settings menu, however, I only have to go into the settings menu like once or twice per week - so that doesn't bother me at all.

But with that said, this S21U phone is definitely snappier than both my old Pixel 3XL and one of my family member's OnePlus 7T. And the speed jump, in my case, could be a result of having a Snapdragon 888 and using the 120hz refresh rate (whereas those other two phones have slower chips and only support 60hz refresh rates).

But yeah, based on you asking about custom ROMs, I can tell that you're not in North America and have an Exynos version of the phone (as any Snapdragon devices in NA don't support official bootloader unlocks and so you'll have to pay over $100 to unlock your phone in the potentially distant future). If that's the case (you have an Exynos), then yes, you will be getting custom ROMs in the near future. But if you're actually in NA, then no; you won't be getting any custom ROMs for quite a while.

But if you do have a Exynos version of the phone, then that would be rather interesting. Everyone online is continuously saying how the Exynos version performed better than the Snapdragon version in some benchmark tests. But it'd be pretty funny (and highly unfortunate) if the Exynos phone performs far worse in actual usage situations when compared to the Snapdragon phone. I'm already very well aware of the Exynos phones getting much hotter than the Snapdragon phones, but I'm not sure about the actual usage performance difference yet.

Oh, and one more thing! To comment on the glass, definitely beware of the S21 Ultra's glass! It's super, super fragile and isn't just the new, Victus Gorilla Glass that they said that it was (so it can scratch and shatter extremely easily as a result).
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] RacerX1911:
Oh wow! Thank you so much for the write up! I actually have the Snapdragon model (Canadian) and thought the bootloader lock wasn't an issue anymore... darn it...

Ya I totally agree with everything you said about the phone, great phone, way faster then my oneplus 7t, but I think I'm still selling it.

Thank you for your response
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] fr0st420:
If you want a quality curved screen protector go with this one. It fits perfectly and there are no air bubbles. A UV light cures the liquid adhesive. It's pretty much a knock off of the whitestone dome glass screen protector.

Amazon.com: (2 Pack) amFilm 3D Curved Tempered Glass Screen Protector for Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G 6.8 Inch, Fully Compatible with UltraSonic Fingerprint Scanner, UV Gel Application

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[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] lawtq:
How are finger prints on this? Cause I've got the dome glass and it is stupid expensive but damn, finger prints are almost non existant or come of real easy and it feels glassier than a very glassy like material made of very glas like stuff

But I'm glad other companies are coming out with their own
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] shaolin95:
Can you comment on the fingerprints compared to the whitestone?

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] blackhawk:
No SD card slot. A missing keystone feature that greatly limits the usability and flexibility of the phone.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] ibenjakinov:
When I try to connect to the Data Network, I get PPP Connection Error; Error Code: 11. I have my number@vzw3g.com and vzw as the password, and #777 as the number. Any ideas how to fix this? I tried reinstalling the carrier cab. Also did *228 a couple times. Are there any settings in EPST that I need to change?
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] x51:
You need to call support.. Tell them you hard reset your device and you need a DMU reset. (they zero out your ESN, removing all your services and then add them back)

You can also do this online if you have another device you can switch activation to and then switch back....

you may get a tech who is gonna have you try all different kinds of things.. enter this user / pass.. no try this one... but keep on them. Tell them you do this all the time cause you are a software developer or something and you have to test on clean fresh device, and when you hard reset you often need a DMU reset... they will do it.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] nitro66215:
Your DMU.key is corrupt. You can do 1 of 2 things.

1) Call VZW... Tell them you loaded the new MR1 update and currently have no data. Your research leads you to the fact that the DMU key needs resetting and only tier 2 support and above can do this. While they are saying they are resetting it... put the phone in flight mode. They don't tell you this. Then put it back when they say it's good.

2) logon to verizon's website and activate an old DATA phone. wait 10 minutes. Then re-activate your titan.

Putting the phone in flight mode both times cancels any possible hung data sessions.

Edit:

He beat me to it.... GRRR
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] ibenjakinov:
Well thanks to both. I was afraid I needed a DMU reset. Suppose I'll try option 2 with my old Razr. Thanks for the quick response.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] ibenjakinov:
Sorry for the double post Opera Mini was acting up on me.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] deeznuts2:
Have you ever had a technician reset your DMU? This has been discussed before and seems unlikely. They always seem to start a trouble ticket and send it to some other network department. If you got a technician to do it I'd be interested in knowing that since in my and other's experiences, the technicians generally dont know how/cant do it.

Your best bet is to do the "reactive old phone" method
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] nitro66215:
yes. I had one do it earlier. Just as I explained. Told the CSR exactly what I needed... they hooked me up with Tier 2... and the person actually reset it while I was on the phone. I had the same exact problem / error.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] x51:
At least 6 times in the last 12 months (with Tech support)... but one of my friends is a tech and I just shoot him an IM If he's working.. otherwise I call and deal with tech support.

I hear you though... I've found that both an Akey and DMU reset are sometimes painfull.. Trying to talk a tech into doing it can be rough. Thats why I start off telling them I'm a software developer and I need to do this all the time.. bla bla bla (Plus they flag it in your file.. so they can see that Ive had it done often, if they read that part). Some of them figure I know what i'm talking about and jump right to it, and others will make me dance like a monkey going through each step of thier troubleshooting guide.

The important thing is to be nice.. if they want you to take out your battery, take it out.. If they want you to try another username... try it.. eventually (because there is no other fix.. on thier end) they will have to do the DMU reset...

Oh... And when they act like it was thier idea... just go with it.. ;)
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] ibenjakinov:
I tried the activate old phone method with no luck. I may not have waited the full 10 min (wasn't sure if that was important), but I did *228 with the old phone (Razr) and could make calls with it. I then switched back to the 6800 and did *228 opt 1 but still get the PPP error. I noticed in EPST under the Security tab that my PPP password and HDR AN AUTH password are all symbols. Do I need to change these to "vzw"?
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] x51:
Hrm.. I should have mentioned this before.... When you activated your Razr, you should have been prompted that it will remove the data plan... Did you add it back to your plan online?

Also, re-run the VZW carrier cab... it "Should" fix any username / password issues you might have created while messing with them...

The ultimate problem is still the Data services... but if you messed up the user / pass you wont know if you fix it.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] ibenjakinov:
Got it working after re-running the carrier cab. Thanks.
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] AberSabeel_a1:
Please need help with xiaomi note 9 (m2003j15ss) 12.0.6

I can't root,unlock bootloader or even flash with sp tool or mi flash tool

I seached a lot but wasn't successful
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] VD171:
Did you format your device?

Do you have baseband?

If you lost your imei, you can't recover it forever.

Only Xiaomi Centre can recover it.

I'm sorry.

For rooting, you need to unlock bootloader.

Try using a SIM from an operator that does not requires imei.

That's your only chance.
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] Communos:
Look. If you don't have any backup of IMEI, Only Xiaomi can fix it by replacing the whole motherboard, take the phone to them with bootloader locked and don't tell them you rooted or flashed anything ( if you did), they will cover the device in warranty.

If you don't care about IMEI and Sim detection, You can flash engineering rom, Unlock bootloader on it as it does not need sim card and flash roms.

I'd recommend the first option, take your phone to service centre if possible.
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] AberSabeel_a1:
This device belongs to a client, he wasn't sure what happened to lose imei

but I think it was lost after update.

Baseband found and there isn't a backup

Mr

Communos

I found an engineering rom

MERLIN_Engineering_AL2522-Merlin-V039-Q-0513_QP1A.190711.020_by-VD171

by VD171

www.mediafire.com

is it ok to flash it?

can I downgrade to 12.0.4?

any risks?
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] VD171:
Updates can't clean imei.

Only Xiaomi centre can recover imei properly.
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] Communos:
Yeah, after flashing engineering rom you can flash miui 12.0.4, but that won't recover IMEI either.

My friend is working on an IMEI modify tool, he will by trying it out on his Merlin today.

I'll let you know if it works, so you can recover the device's IMEI.
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] c.whoopee:
Y

Now youv'e mentioned it, does it work?
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] Communos:
Still working on it, MAC address issue has been resolved, he's still working on IMEI.
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] c.whoopee:
Going to wait for that.

Global or Any variant?

And to be honest, I tried repairing it to a technician but at this point, NOWHERE and NO ONE could repair this phone properly. They all offered similar treats such as:

-REBUILDING

-REFORMATTING

AND NAHH.. CANT FIX THIS

It's hard to find a committed technician to handle this sort of things like they make it so complicated.
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] Communos:
Any varient :)
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] c.whoopee:
I edited my reply. Please read again
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] c.whoopee:
W8? WiFi MAC address??! How did you fix it?
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] VD171:
Neither Xiaomi Centre can recover it.

They just change the motherboard and then send the older to the factory.

{Mod edit}
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] oka1:
From the Moderator Oka1 - To all in this thread, stay on topic when posting, personal commentaries do nothing but get deleted and you get kicked for your efforts from XDA
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] mudaran:
Hey! I wish you success in your work. Imei is a big problem, especially difficult for novices like me. I hope it will be easy and a solution will be found.
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] Communos:
Thanks, we were able to restore IMEI on a device, But it had problems with connecting to network, we'll start to work on this problem soon.
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[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] VD171:
Keep atention, people.

We need recovery options and not modifications for hobby or for breaking the law.
[Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers] Rlucifer.01:
can you tell me how to do unlock in eng rom ?
[Walmart Onn Tablets General] clintongsan:
Hi all. If anyone could help me out I"d greatly appreciate your time and any advice.

So I got this tablet from my brother, working and all, but Google FRP was on it and he couldn't remember the credentials from when he first set it up. "No worries," I proclaimed like some advanced Android tech, lol, "I'll get it running" First thing, I downloaded the "stock.img" firmware from the only other ONN tablet page. Then SPFLASH tools. Then I plugged in the tablet; holy crap theres instant connection (this is better than ODIN haha). I immediately click the Download tab, load the scatter file, the stock directory, etc and hit "Download" after only a couple of minutes, SUCCESS.

So it reboots.

Oh, wait wait, I did nothing to format the tablet and so I'm just back at FRP.

Back to fastboot.

Open SPFlash Tools and goto format, formal all except bootloader, Start. Now though, as I'm waiting, I look over and my niece is pressing buttons on it, nothing seemed to have happened tho on my PC except I noticed moments before, likely when my niece started pressing buttons out of my view, that the little red bar that normally shows progress turned completely red and filled from 0 to 100 in a split second. I left the device and PC alone, only to get a notification after just a couple of minutes reading:

"ERROR : S_FT_ENABLE_DRAM_FAIL (4032)

[EMI] ENABLE DRAM FAILED!

[HINT]:

Please check your load which matches to your target which is to be downloaded"

**I'm noticing that my PC, for whatever reason, is bouncing between seeing the device as USB Serial COM5 and "MK6***" So when the device bounces is when the connection seems to be losing. I'd be happy to share my output for format if this makes sense to anyone.

The only thing is, I cannot get any screen whatsoever to show up on this tablet. I've tried holding down power, power+vol down, power+vol up+vol down, for up to 30 seconds and yet nothing comes up. It's almost like I don't have a bootloader or anything anymore as the device just kind of seems stuck. Even if I try using the DOWNLOAD tab, I still get the message as above. If I try to do READBACK I get a slightly different message. The READBACK will start and the red bar doesn't fill up instantly but after a couple of minutes I get:

"ERROR : S_COM_PORT_OPEN_FAIL (1013)

[COM] FAILED TO OPEN COM PORT

[HINT]:

1.retry a new COM port (tried switching to another USB with no success);

2.retry a new cable;

3.retry a new device;

4.restart the computer and try again.

Am I missing drivers? I communicate with my MOTO on this laptop just fine because of the google usb_driver, but maybe I'm missing a driver? Or maybe the device is bricked in just a tiny instant of someone tapping a button?

Any help would be much appreciate. Thanks a lot!
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] Misaka9710:
I have an unlocked snapdragon variant s10, but the only ROM I could find that supports it is https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-unofficial-10-0-lineageos-17-1-beyond0qlte.4190389/

So does Exynos variant ROM work on my snapdragon?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] It_ler:
AFAIK no. Please do not flash Exynos firmware/rom to your snapdragon device.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] TacoDeMuerte:
No. You will brick your phone if you flash an Exynos ROM to a Snapdragon phone.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] trickyrick:
In Tasker, I can manually run the task and every thing works (dimmer levels set and i get sms)

In the task it adjusts the level of a dimmer switch in sharpTools to 50 - wait 4 seconds - than level to 100 - then send sms

The profile is started with a notification

When I get the notification I will get the sms but the dimmer will not trigger

Any ideas

Thanks
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Anton_G25:
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[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Chakotay168:
coolio. great work. maybe I can do it as a total noob

does every thing work?

it is also working with LineageOS 18.1?
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Anton_G25:
Andy Yan's personal builds // GSI - Browse /lineage-18.x at SourceForge.net

sourceforge.net

I'll be trying 18.1
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Mr_mapka:
Hi

My build doesn't match with any available firmware.

My build is C431E13R2P7 but available is only C431E8R2P7

Is that any problem?
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Mr_mapka:
OK, so I found the difference.

The number after letter "E" is related with the OTA for device.

The question is can I use "update.app" from the lower OS version?
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] maciek_1988:
WARNING! Unfortunetly it didn't work for me and block my 2 laptops win7 for logging in... I ask PP for refund of this SCAM. Its very embrassing something like this on respectfull forum... Grrr.
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Anton_G25:
it works great been running lineage OS 16 for weeks now. I was running windows 10 though
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Anton_G25:
mine didn't match either you can first reinstall the lower version OS and use the tutorial
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Anton_G25:
was only able to get it working with lineage os 16. The others where unstable
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ScaryCourage:
P30 user approves. Converted demo phone to global and unlocked bootloader. Bootloader works only on 9 version of android, if you update to 10 it will lock again and for this time it cant be unlocked. Its only 19eur for 3 day license (enough to do a job). I think it will work for p30 pro too.
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] rabalder69:
Hey, would you mind sharing where you found twrp for p30? above is only linked to p30 lite and on the twrp website huawei p30 is not listed...
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Anton_G25:
can always give it a try the TWRP listed above is for (Kirin 710 CPUs) maybe you can try searching for (TWRP Kirin 980 CPUs) which your P30 has. I found the following (note mate 20 also uses Kirin 980):

https://xdaforums.com/t/recovery-un...te-20-x-aka-everest-evr-al00-evr-l29.3892283/

Download TWRP for kirin

Download TWRP Open Recovery for kirin

dl.twrp.me

How to Install twrp Recovery Root Huawei P30 Pro MT6570 - unofficial twrp

download twrp recovery root Huawei P30 Pro MT6570, user who own Huawei P30 Pro MT6570 can root it by following below instructions

unofficialtwrp.com
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] rabalder69:
So I managed to unlock the bootloader. Sweet! However, none of the twrp images you linked worked, appreciate it though. Maybe you have some tips? It's when I try to use the command "fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk twrp.img", it says something about the command failed. I presume it means it is for another device.

Looks like you can compile twrp yourself, I might find the time to look into it this weekend. Cheers!
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] rabalder69:
Hey guys, wanted to do a quick update. So I figured out why it wouldn't flash twrp, I had FRP locked. You can disable this in developer options, easy fix. But I didn't go on with flashing twrp, I found another site: "openkirin.net". It supports a wide number of kirin devices, P30 included. They use the stock recovery so there was no point flashing twrp. Anyways, the ROM is really stable, everything works except my banking app thinks I'm rooted. I'll try and install Magisk and install the hideMagisk module in the near future.

I'm a little surprised that noone has mentioned OpenKirin on the P30 forums, I only found it after extensive googling for a solution lmao
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] maciek_1988:
Unfortunately from my experience DC Phoenix and HC client are scam programs and can't unlock Huawei bootloader (tried with this instruction on p30 lite android 9 without success). No money back so if you want lose 19$ for italian digiteka just try it :) From my side is only warning to not feed cheaters from italy.
[Huawei P30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] XBlu:
I used DC Phoenix and HCU client and it works. They are not scammers and they are not from italy, btw.
[HTC Excalibur] drifterrolly:
not sure, i just got this phone, but when i linked my motorola bluetooth headset to the dash, it only worked when i made outgoing calls, but incoming the calls went through the phone still? any ideas how to fix this?
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
Start using the search feature on the top bar :)

Look here
[HTC Excalibur] Bupahs:
Is it a stereo or mono headset?

In either case make sure it is set as your default hands free device - go to connection manager, select menu > bluetooth > your headset > settings > set as handsfree

I had too many problems with my old Motorola Mono BT so I finially got a new one ( Jabra BT8010 )