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[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
Please read and share your ideas. I am sure that we only together can create the best possible solution. Maybe you know othere ways/apps to solve a problem. As of now I share my point of view.

My hope is, that at the end of this to have an "howto" covering as many aspects as required for this.

First thing nevertheless is install TWRP/Magisk, which seems to be more tricky than usual.

While you can debloat your ROM without root, there are imho 3 reasons for doing that:

microG needs be installed as a system-app to have working location service (get your location by GPS or by offline database)

you will have problems to install a firewall and adblocker. There are solution with don't need root (Netguard and Blockada), but both base on a "virtual" VPN connection and you can have only one at a time. So you do have either a Firewall or an AdBlocker, but not both.

The way of create and restore backups are much better with root. I can recommend TWRP itself for a general backup and migrate for apps/settings.

For those like me, coming from unrooted stock fw the recommendation is to

root with Magisk - details here

flash the TWRP - details here

spoofing the signature for usage of microG instead of playservices

install microG and "friends"

debloat stock ROM

migrate data from old to new device
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] jelbo:
Tricky indeed and even more tricky is installing updates. Once you know the procedure it's ok, but it is still a major hassle compared to a stock OTA update.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
here

Sure, I am aware of that. I just read about it. But there is no other way except you are happy with stock. First time is always a nightmare, but I hope once get used to it.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
How did you managed that switch from Gapps to microG? I assume if you delete Gapps without MicroG installed you will get lot of problems.

How did you manage to spoof Stock Rom? Are you on 11?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] lp35:
Hi all. Very interesting conversation. Has someone successfully used microG on stock rom on a daily usage? In my past experience, using microG without signature spoofing is making a lot of apps not working properly...
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
I think spoofing is a must have. I just evaluate how this can be done.

With Android 11 it is more difficult. I found that one (but not sure whether signature spoofing works):

https://xdaforums.com/t/module-smali-patcher-7-3.3680053

this one:

https://xdaforums.com/t/signature-spoofing-on-unsuported-android-11-r-roms.4214143/

or via NanoDroidPatcher

https://xdaforums.com/t/module-syst...7-microg-pseudo-debloat-f-droid-apps.3584928/

It says:

11.0 / SDK 30 (R)

Patcher does not work from TWRP

Patcher works from Magisk if your ROM's services.jar already contains classes.dex

I checked that and /service/framework/service.jar contains that classes.dex

So I give this a try, downloaded the patcher and started it out of Magisk. Log looks ok so far. It requires reboot.

The problem with enabling Magisk is - you have to boot with "recovery" mode - and not sure, it fails several time (although USB is plugged) or phone reboots again and than Magisk is disabled - while booting into TWRP still works.

So my guess is: This causes some problem.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
Step 3) - Spoofing

Have been successful:

I followed that thread:

https://xdaforums.com/t/signature-spoofing-on-unsuported-android-11-r-roms.4214143/

But I just created a spoof_AVDapi30.zip. My thinking just flashing that one for spoofing seems to be wrong. Also flashing both: spoof and microG_AVD....

So what I did was flashing out of Magsik (Module install out of memory) NanoDroid-microG-23.1.2.20210117.zip and followed by spoof_AVDapi30.zip.

Power off. And take care you boot with Power + Vol+ + Bixby + USB Cable pressed until you see the splash-screen.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] steventorres:
I really hope stock + MicroG takes off!
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
It is already. I started debloating - that is another step. See this thread:

Debloating S10e

I am still in testing phase and I would like to see once an FW-update via OTA will happen. Curious what will happen with my system.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] steventorres:
Amazing! Keep us posted!
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
Debloating is done.

Final step is takeover of my previous installation. I do that with the tool/app migrate. That works rather fine.

I am not using the special sections to export contacts, SMS ...

Contacts will be exported from the app itself and than imported in new device.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] steventorres:
Is this dead? Hehe
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
No it is working. Have you tried that?

I couldn't deinstall com.samsung.android.kgclient and blocking its UID (with awfall) causes some battery drain. Maybe I have to live with not blocking this.

Anyhow, I am wondering whether debloating is required at all. Cutting the connection to Ethernet (to not talk "home") might be enough.

I don't not have enough understanding of what will be better: remove or just block.

A removed app might not spend time on connecting servers again and again, while a missed service can cause trouble if you don't expect that.

Probably it is best to uninstall apps you are really sure there are no dependencies to others and block the others-
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] VenfefulRat:
So just install those inside of magisk and reboot? I'll give it a shot.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] steventorres:
Dead thread, I see.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
What are you continuously posting about dead thread? Any question or any feedback? Strange. It is is all set and done. What do you expect?

@VenfefulRat:

This wasn't a real question, right. It was stated to do it out of magsik. It would be great to have some feedback.

@All: A forum lives from reading (to gain knowlegde ) and posting (sharing experience, ask questions, give feedback). If someone ask and he gets answer I would expect a feedback or at least a like (as a sign it has been read). Otherwise people stop posting and the only left here are those who ask or feed the troll. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] steventorres:
Thanks, I got confused with this thread. I expected a file to flash in TWRP like the other ROMs. Sorry.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
No, it keeps at stock ROM, removes Google stuff, add microG instead. So it is some work, but worth to go if you want get back some more privacy.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] kriz_:
Hi, i'd like to achieve the same.

I took a different approach.

I started with ambassadii rom, which is an already modified stock rom, which gets regularly updated. Debloated that from twrp with my custom debloat list.

Flashed nanodroid zips (bromite webview, fdroid, microg).

I couldn't manage to get signature spoofing to work. That's the only thing missing. 😀
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
That is probably a simplier approach. But updates not come over air, but with ODIN, right? (Just seen, last update 2020 ?!?)

Question is how this will cooperate with the changes.

What is difference of bromite webview to normal one?

Regarding spoofing: Check this: https://xdaforums.com/t/debloated-stock-microg-for-best-performance-privacy.4240057/post-84614107

and give feedback.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] kriz_:
Updates manually over twrp. current version is oneui 3.1

Bromite is -> https://www.bromite.org/

no, this https://xdaforums.com/t/debloated-stock-microg-for-best-performance-privacy.4240057/post-84614107 does not work
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
Strange, that works for me.

About Bromite. Why not just use a browser like firefox or fennec?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] kriz_:
agree. as browser fennec + ublock (addon). and bromite webview as a privacy enhanced webview component replacement. Webview is used to display html within other apps, like within e.g. a reddit client.

i'll wait for a nanodroid implementation or a similar comfortable solution for signature spoofing
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
I just test a new (for me new) approach:

To keep privacy on stock ROM (no root, really just stock) I installed netguard (firewall without root) and enable my few apps only - and block anything else.

Make sure you see all apps on device and block all by default.

I was surprised that there is no really problems with gapps. So they keep on device but with no internet connectivity. The notifications from Whatsapp and Signal working like a charm.

As replacement for Playstore use again FDroid as much as you can and Aurora (installed via FDroid).

To keep system clean right from beginning don't enable mobile network and WIFI before installing firewall. You can download it here:

Releases · M66B/NetGuard

A simple way to block access to the internet per app - M66B/NetGuard

github.com

and copy it to phone by USB.

It looks like that there is no need for the replacement microG. Can this be true or do I get fooled.

I have to watch the setup a bit longer, how the power consumption behaves and if some apps run crazy because of some blocked network.

Annoying was the ongoing notification that setup was not completed. I finally could stop it, but I am not exactly remember how, somewhat via app menu and stop it. It was not possible just do disable the notification from that app.

Again I am curious to read your feedback.

I recommend to use as much as possible apps from FDRoid and replace privacy sensitive apps as contacts, calendar, ....

Pro:

- no loss of garantie

- easy to do - even for beginners

- full features keep enabled (if not be blocked or debloated), especially VoLTE, VoWIFI, Cam, Dolby, Encryption ...

- Ads can be blocked too

Cons:

- notification works only for apps who can manage that on its own (but most important: Messangers can do that). you might miss notification of ebay. In fact other that that I don't miss - but your use case might be different

- not 100% save if traffic is bypassing VPN / Firewall

- make sure to enable Flightmode before shutdown and disable only after complete boot and start of Netguard
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
There are many different ways. Best is probably do exchange them while system is not running - in TWRP. If I remember right I used Nanodroid - that replaces them without any other manual action.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] starbright_:
I don't connect to internet before installing netguard. And if you don't allow some apps you have an ongoing notification

I seems to be not as easy to let disappear the notification "Android setup / Galaxy setup". I could finally make that without connecting to internet.

If you go to setup/notification you can not disable notification fro that. But: Tap on the icon and go down to force stop. With stopping the app the notification disappears too.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] sinist3r:
Hi,

I live in Holland, i bought a HTC Touch Pro about two weeks ago, since then from time to time i have some issues with my TP.

Phone:

Modelnr: HTC Touch Pro T7272

ROM: 1.90.404.1 NLD

Radio: 1.02.25.19

Protocol Version: 52.33.25.17U

Software:

Advanced Config 3.1

Registry Editor

TomTom 7 NL

Skype

Issues:

TouchFLO 3D is all scrambled (see attached pictures for examples)

This happends mostly in the morning, but has also accured thru the day. Once or twice per day. The funny thing is, that i'ts only the TF3D that is scrambled, WM6 and other applications display just fine. This is over if I turn the TD off/on, soft reset.

Device is hanging with horizontal grey stripes over the screen. (see attached pictures for examples)

Had this twice now.

Hickups in MP3 in the stock player

Happends from time to time, in between 5 and 10 minutes. It's not that bad, but annoying anyway

All this is happend on the stock phone with nothing changed, as well after i had installed software on it.

I called HTC Support, they said that they have heard nothing about these issues and asked me wether i wanted to let them bring it in for reparation. For now i said no beacause i'm thinking that this is a software issue insted of a hardware one, that's why i'm asking you guys what to do with this?

My questions are:

Are those Hardware or Software issues?

Can these be fixed?

Should i return the phone under warranty for service/replacement?

Please give me some advice. Thank's in advance!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] cyber weesje:
yo heb je al een hard reset geprobeerd is het dan ook nog altijd grtz tom belgium
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] sinist3r:
No, haven't done a hard reset yet.. wonder if it is going to help?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] cgeyik:
Doe het nou maar gewoon...

(just do it)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] sinist3r:
*resetting* ^_^
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] sinist3r:
Preformed a hard reset. ***waiting & looking for things to go wrong***
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] mav5:
I've seen the same thing happening on a diamond.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] ardsar:
Read the forum - this is a common problem -there is a thread on here describing it as "broken glass /screen". In fact there are many threads on this!

It's assumed that this is a software issue, some seem to have it, some don't depending on the version of ROM you have. I think there are currently 2 - a ...401.. and a 405 in the version number. From what i have read, version 401 appears to be the worse.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=418150&highlight=broken+glass

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=420700&highlight=broken+glass

Please use the search function, this forum is getting very repetitive.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] WatskeBart:
The "broken glass" thing never occured on my device.

But the "grey screen" happend only once on my device also in the morning. It never happend again and i didn't changed anything after the "grey screen" occured.

Now i have flashed a new ROM from DCS TouchPRO v1.0 and i have never seen this issue ever since.

But there are already threads started with these 2 issue's so keep tracking them and maybe you'll find the answer there.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] sinist3r:
After the hard reset i haven't encoutered any of the above problems at all... so *hoping* it is going to stay like this.... thanks for advice.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] sinist3r:
The "broken glass" effect just started happening again... :(
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] phillips321:
same here, broken glass, only way to fix is a soft reset :(
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] rayho:
Hi sinis3r,

Have you install any other applications on Raphael?

Or after hard reset ( pure rom , no 3rd party apps ) and you still see this symptom?

Can you simply show me the re-produce steps? I would like to have a try and if it is the same issue then I might be ask my dealer for more detailed.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Xtreme XL:
are these programs installed on the main memory or on a memorycard?

some software programs have conflicts when you install them on a memorycard.

if so, try to install them in the main memory of your TP and see if the problem still occours
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] sinist3r:
all are installed on my main phone memory.
[Realme 2 pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kartikkala:
Hii everyone!!!!!

I have created a mod to enable dual speaker (speaker+earpiece) on realme 2 pro.

Disclaimer : I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead sdcards, thermonuclear wars, or anything bad you do to your device. Please try this at your own risk.

Procedure: 1. Download the file from below link.

2. Download es file explorer.

3. First go to /system/vendor/etc/mixer_paths_18321.xml, copy and paste this file to your internal storge (for backup).

4. Now go to downloads (wherever u have downloaded the file), copy it and go to the same location, i.e. /system/vendor/etc and paste it here.

5. Change permissions to the following (see screenshot).

6. Reboot an enjoyyyyy!!!!!!!
[Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite  Questions & Answers] lupccs:
Hi everybody!

I'm thinking about buying this 5G model but there is an issue I found out in a similar model I owned (Mi 10T lite 5G) , and I read in some forums that it can affect the Mi 10 Lite 5G model too.

Does the hotspot function work for more than an hour? especially if you use the smartphone from time to time as you use the function or (oddly! ) if you change the position, inclining it a bit or leaving it standing. Can anybody try that for me or at least tell me if they did have this kind of problem in the past?

Thanks in advance
[Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite  Questions & Answers] Mobilelearner:
If number of user connected to network are high. Then some user got disconnected from network. But after sometime you can get internet.

There is no issue with hotspot.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Black Bear:
How do I get raid of boring T-Mobile splash on today screen for the original HTC black or something more attractive, please?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] fyew-jit-tiv:
Search for "Create a boot splashscreen"
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Black Bear:
I'll have a go at it now many thanks.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Black Bear:
Refrence hot to get raid of T-Mobile splash on Diamond. I've got attachment but looks like its not a CAB file. I placed it on the internal memory on HTC but it didn't work.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] paulc2k6:
i havn't downloaded this but i'll take an easy guess based on the file name. this is not a cab file, its a zip file contianing the tools and programs etc needed to make or change the splash screen. hope that helps.
[Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro (Redmi K30 Pro) Questions & Ans] ninohs:
As the title said, is there any recovery that fully works at the moment?
[Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro (Redmi K30 Pro) Questions & Ans] NOSS8:
100% functional none
[Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro (Redmi K30 Pro) Questions & Ans] ninohs:
And which is the best? I need just decription works and there is no problem to boot on it
[Xiaomi Mi 10T / 10T Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] paul999:
i just noticed something with the mi 10t, it still use zram with 100 percent swap rates... i wonder why because the phone have 8gig of ram...my guess is because ddr5 ram it just so much faster so they store more stuff in it. or maybe because the phone only have 4gig ram but they emulated to 8 gig?
[Xiaomi Mi 10T / 10T Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] paul999:
another thing i notice is when you set the io read ahead for 10t to 4096, the phone will become more snapper and quicker.. you really notice the difference
[Xiaomi Mi 10T / 10T Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Mohamad Gahed:
can you plz explain how i can do this to try :)

i have a MI10T pro
[Xiaomi Mi 10T / 10T Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] pijalaccount:
can you share your configuration here and how it affect bencmark.

i think 100 zram is way better than default 60. also 4096 read ahead is unfair.. i will prefer 128 for stability.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] Tomar777:
Since yesterday Discover does not work, telling me there was an problem logging in, i get the same from the Google app.

Play store is working ok, as is the rest of the phone.

Thought it was the google nova companion, uninstalled it, same happens with pixel launcher.

Cleared caches and data of the google app and play services.

Uninstalled Vanced micro G.

On the "Accounts" and "Google" section of the settings , everything is ok.

Could it be a problem from google and not my phone? Any thoughts?
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] Tulsadiver:
I've had it happen on occasion but not as an ongoing problem.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] Tomar777:
Funny thing is , if i choose another google account, Discover works.

Choosing the main account i have on the phone breaks it again...

The March update did not fix this...
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] Tomar777:
So i pressed the Google Lens icon on the upper right side of Discover, phone asked for a permission, i granted it, Discover started working.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] yaroszek:
Most things works, but rom has usual 11 problem very low SoT time compared to LOS17.1 and button vibration is low or missing.

For me would be nice to have it without gapps preinstaled.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] m54c1:
without gapps version = bootloop

you can configurate vibrator in xiaomiparts or kernel adiutor
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] yaroszek:
Yes, uninstall gapps its not big problem, but I have played chess in chess.com app and in LOS17,1 took 2%batt and on ShapeShift 9%. It is huge difference between. And play time was almost same.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] m54c1:
configurate kernel in kernel adiutor. choose schedutil governor on big and little clusters, enter 1800 mhz max frequency on big cluster and 1300 mhz max on little cluster
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] m54c1:
*2nd march*

fixed lock screen settings in shapeshifter
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] m54c1:
*3rd march*

shapeshift 2.4

oneplus launcher by default
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] m54c1:
*4th march*

safetynet problem has fixed
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] clerkinum:
Unfortunately the link is broken
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] m54c1:
will fix later (12 hours)
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] m54c1:
*4th april*

upstream sources to 2.4.1

update kernel

update oplauncher
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] m54c1:
fixed
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] m54c1:
*11th april*

update sources

op weather by default
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] baki_ii:
Hi, Rom is so nice but have a problem .It takes a video but it is not recorded. Do you have any information on this subject?
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] m54c1:
бля я чет забыл про хда

*6th of may*

updated sources

266 kernel
[Xiaomi Mi 6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] qadams:
Fantastic rom - installed on my *new* MI6 and is now my everyday ROM. Thanks!
[HTC Wings] ARNII:
Hello,

I have a problem with my HTC S730. The dataconnection in connmanager is turned off. But I can't get it back on. It works for half a year but now it won't work. So when my dataconnection is off I can't call or sms.

I tryed a hard-reset but without result...

Any suggestions?
[HTC Wings] jivo:
:confused:

I don't understand. You switched off phone at commmanager - maybe. After restart will be GSMpart fix at switchoff.

Do you go to commmanager and switch phone to on. You don't need dataconnections for SMS and call.

Maybe you switched on airplane mode. It isn't possible use GSM on airplane mode.

If you have switchon GSM, you need setup GPRS or dial-up at settings->connection. You will ask yours network operator.

If no,

Maybe you have problems with yours SIM cards, maybe you have problem with GSM operator or maybe you have problem with phone. If don't you repair it, you test to HW restart. BUT YOU WILL LOST ALL DATA !!!
[HTC Wings] 10332007:
If you turn off the data connection it will stay off until something in the phone prompts for network access. I usually just refresh my weather page and it fires up and is back online.

However since you hardbooted your phone and still have no luck you might be having other issues. Even more so since you cannot make a call or anything since disabling it. Any new software or flashing done to the phone's rom or radio?
[HTC Wings] ARNII:
Ok ty all!

My phone is back on.

I don't know how but it works.

Although I still have some problems with my network.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaiTarun15:
Can someone suggest me an app to create custom fingerprint animations.