yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rich in KY:
Thank you! Yes I will research where I can get the lowest CACHE eating apps. And remove KODI as you are indicating it is not great for a low memory device such as my Insignia Fire TV with it's mere 8GB of internal storage.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] pensador:
DAMN!!!!! what the hell....

Unbelievable!!!!

Thnx 4 sharing dude!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] adamdon89:
I was gona buy from them but when a seen they only do "Bank To Bank Transfers" a shat out of it. Don't see why any site wouldn't do paypal.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] rakdoll:
I'm glad i never got those payment instructions. ;) who knows where my money could be right now!

And also remember, when ordering from them, you will probably have to pay the toll and VAT at your home country, so it really isn't even that cheap.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] WizzarD-me:
OMG

What a clueless webshop contact.

I think you should inform the owner of the shop so you can get this guy fired!

thanks for sharing
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Blob8me:
Amazing.......

You should copy the web-link from here and send them an email with the details of this post..... not good at all? and "who" pays "bank to bank" only these days - very strange indeed? :cool:

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[Touch Pro, Fuze General] rakdoll:
I thought to do so, but after doing whois pings on the domain, found out that the website is registered to a person with a same surname than the person answering my e-mail. Family biz.. :) They can go to hell with their stupid shop, just ordered from expansys. :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] joymike123:
Sounds very dodgie.... Thanks for sharing....

I bought from highstreet "Kamla" in London on Tottenham Court Road... UK version for £499.

A bit more expensive but from my past experience with HTC P3600 which was quite unstable initially, I thought it's better to buy from a shop where I can go back to if anything goes wrong.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] th1nm1nt:
I tell you...that is nuts. I had an issue with the first Touch Pro I ordered. Thank goodness I did it on E-Bay. Paypal refunded my money after my dispute, found another seller, and bought two of them with next day air delivery. Though I had one seller try to mess around with me, money was safe, and still had my Touch Pro within a week of the UK's launch.

Good luck with your next seller.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Olipro:
if it wasn't blindingly obvious to you already:

DON'T PAY BY BANK TRANSFER OR WESTERN UNION.

A merchant who doesn't take cards is generally always a scammer; bank transfers/WU are irreversible, this is precisely why they're required by scammers.

If you want to buy a device, buy it on a card; the price is cheaper than average for a good reason, use your noodle.
[General Questions and Answers] osmafuda:
IMEI number become 00000000000000 after EFS lost some files by mistake

So anyone know anyway to restore original IMEI

Any advice

What should I do in this situation
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] Scorcerer:
Hello everyone.

My phone is currently on V409N30f_00_LGU_KR_OP_0126.kdz, i was successful in unlocking it via 9008 method, and just a moment ago i was also successful in patching it with magisk (thanks to great guide here: https://xdaforums.com/t/root-eu-lmv405ebw-magisk.3912959/ ). I had some problems, mainly i didn't know that you actually need proper abl_a/abl_b to boot the OS (i thought it's not a part of boot process, unless you push some buttons, but that doesn't seem to be the case). My final problem is that i can't seem to be able to get a proper permanent fastboot installed, and by proxy i can't get TWRP as well. Therefore i have couple of questions here:

1. How to get proper fastboot on an encrypted phone with android Q? Do i have to get rid of the encryption? How?

2. From what I understand, the boot partition needs to be patched to include TWRP, similar to how magisk was prepared - is there guide how to do that?

3. Why the phone fails to boot if i try to sideload/fastboot to TWRP image provided on this forum?

Thanks in advance for all your support :)
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] AsItLies:
Follow this link for the 30f boot_a with twrp injected.

Let me try to clarify a bit; The engineering v35 abl is Oreo. So if you have it installed, the phone won't boot, unless your OS is Oreo (which it isn't).

So the purpose of having that abl isn't to boot the phone, it's only to be used for things like 'fastboot oem unlock' or 'fastboot flash abl_a abl_original_a.img'

it's not to boot the phone. And yes, absolutely it's a part of the boot process ;) abl stands for 'android boot loader'.

So to make use of that v35 eng abl (after you've unlocked the boot loader), would be to flash it to the inactive slot on the phone (most people that would be abl_b). That way, you can use twrp to switch slots, use fastboot, then switch back to the active slot.

To use that proved boot_twrp_a.img, you need to 1st, save your original boot partition, just in case. Then flash it (using qfil) to boot_a (assuming that's your active slot). Then, don't boot the device, go directly to recovery. Once in twrp, format data. Then reboot recovery. Then flash magisk and dm_verity.

then u should be all set.

cheers
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] Scorcerer:
Thanks for the TWRP image, i'm gonna flash it after weekend, when i'll have acces to the phone and will report back :)

One more question here though, are fastboot flashable files also flashable via qfil ?
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] AsItLies:
Yes, absolutely. With qfil you can pretty much flash anything to any partition. That's why it's wise to be very very cautious, you could flash the wrong image to a partition, it won't stop you, and it could be too big of an image for that partition but qfil will keep writing it and write over the neighboring partition(s)!
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] Scorcerer:
Alright,

I went in and flashed v35 eng abl via qfill into abl_a. That gave me fasboot, which i used to do:

fastboot flash boot_b boot-twrp-30f_a.img (the twrp image i've got from you)

and

fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta_b blank_vbmeta.img

Then, i switched over to b slot, and rebooted straight to recovery.

In TWRP, i wiped data with formatting it, rebooted to recovery again (didn't got asked for password, i think that's a good thing), then installed magisk.zip via sideload (didn't have it on sd card) and Disable_Dm-Verity_ForceEncrypt_03.04.2020.zip afterwards.

I still have 2 problems though:

1. I can't mount vendor - in the log i'm getting "Failed to mount /vendor" (unknown error 150)

2. If i try to boot to system it loops over, i have to wait till it switches over to a slot, which gives me fastboot back, which i'm using to boot to recovery on slot B.

Should i just YOLO it and try to install Lineage directly from here (as i have TWRP)? That's my end goal...

EDIT:

I just noticed by DDing off the vendor_a it's reeeeeally different form vendor_b, and i'm considering copying stuff over, especially since i already did KDZ couple of times, so i'm not afraid of starting over.

EDIT: this let me mount /vendor finally, but boot to OS still loops.
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] AsItLies:
First thing I see is that you flashed, assuming what you typed above is exactly what you did, vbmeta wrong.

it should be fastboot --disa... --disa... flash vbmeta_b vbmeta_blank.img

The 1st parameter, after 'flash' should be the partition you want to flash to. Then, after that, the image you want to flash to it.

2nd, just ignore the 'can't mount vendor' in the output of when you zip install magisk or dm_verity, it's irrelevant.

So why is it bootlooping when trying to get to system? Possibly the incorrect vbmeta command? Or maybe you didn't format data? (for format, you have to type in 'yes'). Possibly it's not the right image for the os? It is, beyond doubt, 30f that you flashed?

cheers
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] Scorcerer:
But that's what i did - i didn't change the command in my command and i copy-pasted it straight from command line and it says vbmeta_b everywhere...

Yup, i didn't change name of the boot image you provided so i won't make any mistake here. Also, i noticed that after i restored from KDZ it forced me to grant access to internet and downloaded some kind of patches - can it be that those affected the booting sequence somehow and i should just take clean dump of abl_b for example so that it can be patched properly?

Oh, just now it occured to me, i can basically take two dumps, one after kdz restore and the other after booting it, then compare them with md5 and i'll know if it actually does something to them...

EDIT: one more question, is KDZ restoring both slots properly? or only the currently active one?
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] AsItLies:
hmmmm, confusing. So u speak of clean dump abl_b so it can be patched... but we never patch abl (a or b).

and no, the 'downloaded some kind of patches' are just updates to their specific apps, it's not making any change to 'system'.

when using lgup, you should first use Part D/L and choose all partitions (you can clearly see it's doing both a & b by the list). Also, if doing a 'refurbish', it should be updating both slots. Only 'upgrade' would do one side and then switch to that side.

cheers
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] Scorcerer:
Okay, so, step-by step, i'll try it once again and will also be taking notes meanwhile :)

First, i restored from KDZ by refurbishing V409N30f_00_LGU_KR_OP_0126.kdz to be exact.

Just now i flashed eng35 into abl_a which got me into fastboot no problem - the fastboot screens says SECURE BOOT is "yes" and DEVICE STATE "unlocked" which seems okay i guess...

Flashing the TWRP image you provided with

fastboot flash boot_b boot-twrp-30f_a.img

I intend to leave abl_a with fastboot for the future and so i plan to boot from b side :)

Now the vbmeta:

fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta_b blank_vbmeta.img

went in just fine.

Reboothing to recovery - set the b slot to be active:

fastboot set_active b

rebooting form the phone buttons directly into recovery...Got TWRP 3.3.1-0 - asks for password, i have to cancel it obviously. Swiping to allow modifications and going directly to Wipe->Format Data->yes - works and done, but complains about /vendor and /data/media/TWRP/.twrps.

Going back a bit and rebooting TWRP to recovery again - This time it doesn't ask me for password so i think i got rid of the encryption.

Flashing Magisk-v22-0.zip from their webpage, i'm clicking on add more zips and adding Disable_Dm-Verity_ForceEncrypt_03.04.2020.zip as well, clicking on reboot system aaaaand bootloop :(
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] AsItLies:
Okay good, making progress for sure.when I get back to my computer I'll post a link to the magisk and DM verity I use that I know will work. Not positive that those are the problem, but everything else seems to be exactly what you should be doing.
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] AsItLies:
check this folder for the version of Magiisk I know works. Don't remember why, but have read the latest version of Magisk is a problem somehow. Pretty sure if you follow the steps as u did above, with this magisk, it will work.

cheers
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] Scorcerer:
Hiho, thanks for sticking with me.

I did everything the same except for using the Magisk you provided, and when i finally got to it, it bootlooped all the same :(

I tried to flash stuff in different order and stuff, but accomplished nothing.

And then I remembered i read somewhere that the OTA only does update one slot at a time, so i thought maybe Refurbish behaves the same and flashes the other slot (in my case it'd be A since i'm trying TWRP and stuff on B)

I started comparing partitions, and almost all of them were the same, except:

515cddf67500d0be189f6fc386bad7c7 /dev/block/by-name/OP_a

7fe5ca2a051d6dbb9ef191fbee0af98c /dev/block/by-name/OP_b

a4b4bbed1d0a0aa668d76558a9d10fb4 /dev/block/by-name/abl_a

4c47ecd7254de2dd84f88dbc3e31ccc2 /dev/block/by-name/abl_b

65c4413067309174d839b98b3c7eff0e /dev/block/by-name/laf_a

e7e47f8e1e05f21cf06c638bf537be67 /dev/block/by-name/laf_b

c62e2c813eeaba8682bb7dd5e26ffa8b /dev/block/by-name/oem_a

65b0e730e47fd0017c11852917ef1d2b /dev/block/by-name/oem_b

dd90de59c1b08c949326d1625a8e4d55 /dev/block/by-name/system_a

d192b99fd2cc8a48dd3f106d9f0f8233 /dev/block/by-name/system_b

Obviously abl_a is different since i installed v35 eng to it, but the rest should be the same, right?

Since they're not, can i just dd from a to be and be done with it? A slot always booted fine, but since I'm installing eng into it I never tried to do twrp and stuff there...
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] Scorcerer:
Aaaand it works :)

So the trick was just to make sure that the proper OS is actually here, and then, well, everything works like a charm i guess :) I used newer magisk, and so far everything looks okay :)

Now i'm gonna put in Lineage, but this should be easy :)

This also means that Refubish doesn't flash everything as we thought it's supposed to be :(
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] AsItLies:
yeah the only one I trust to flash everything would be part D/L. When doing it, you select ea individual partition, and they are all listed, both a and b slots.

The purpose of the 'dual' slots (and no recovery partition any longer) is to update 1 slot at a time, while the other slot is the older OS version. That's the way OTA's are suppose to happen. But if you use LGUP and do a Part D/L, then both sides have the same OS.

it's confusing. Good u got it working!

cheers
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] sptw:
Hi AsltLies,

I could see that you sent a 30f boot_a image with TWRP injected on it for Scorcerer. I'm on identical situation. Only difference that i want to stay on Pie. Probably i cant use that file as i'm on Pie.

Could you point me please how do i get to inject TWRP on a boot_a pie firmware. My devide and situation is identical as for Mr. Scorcerer. V409N, korea version.

I would like to try this guide here as it seems very confiable

Thanks in advance.
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] AsItLies:
If you want to stay on Pie, your situation is easier, you can just follow the guide to unlock and then use fastboot to boot twrp, use 'ramdisk inject' to inject the twrp image. Reboot to recovery, format data, reboot recovery again, flash magisk and dm_verity.

cheers
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] AsItLies:
Didn't realize it was available, but follow for the 20n boot+magisk boot image. This Link

I'd suggest using qfil to (first backup your original boot partition) to flash this to your active boot partition. Then exit edl mode and use the key combo to go directly to recovery (now twrp). Format data, then reboot recovery, then flash magisk and dm_verity. All set!

cheers
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] sptw:
Hi AsltLies,

Thanks for both of informations. Let me try to explain a bit more. I am able to root the device with magisk. I made a boot_a patched using magisk apk and inject diretly into boot_a using qfill. It works like a charm. No problem at all.

The problem is that there are something wrong with viper4android using magisk. I want the older 2.3.4 driver and it has a kind of problem using convolver and system inject. User app method does not work.

I own a LG V20 with viper4android on it, and i can confirm that there are something wrong with viper on LG V40. My LG V20 is not a Bang & Olufsen and not even Merodian tune. Maybe the problem lies on this meridian audio tuned on LG V40. Chances are great about that. Devices sound differents and i have to accept this. But...

I would like to try the method that i used to root the LGV20 : Supersu and not magisk. I dont care about safety net. I dont use it. And a second problem with magisk : two apk refuse to open with magisk root method. I know they work with rooted devices but using rootcloack on xposed and xposed is very hard to get to work on magisk ( very limited )

So, i would like to use SuperSu method and not magisk to inject the old 2.3.4 viper4android directly on TWRP. I know how i can do it to works using the original drive and apk from the original devs. ( I dont like the new version 2.7 )

So, sorry for the long explanation, but do you know how i can install TWRP without to use magisk? ( That [TWRP] LG V40 / Judypn does not work. I only get bootloop ).

Thanks again.

In time: Maybe i'm doing something wrong to install TWRP. Do i need to instal it in both slots ( a and b? Do i need to access TWRP using the slot that is not active and make the zips install from there and not from the active slot? It's a kind of confusion for me. I already read a lot about it, but i'm still in doubt how it really works. I'm not interested to use another ROM, just stock.
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] sptw:
Well... i got to install TWRP in slot a. No more encrypt data. Install Selinux ( SuperSu ) too. Reboot to recovery and no more ask for password, so it works. Data continue to be there. TWRP see the Selinux root, but it always return to TWRP. It does not matter reboot to system, recovery and power off, it always return to TWRP. So, i go to the EDL mode, install v35eng on abl_a, install ablpiestock again to abl_a and...TWRP again...I cant boot.
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] AsItLies:
Hmmm, not sure yet what's going on but I updated the link above in prev post, it now points to a gdrive folder called 20n.

There's a new boot image in it that has just twrp injected, no magisk. Try that and see if it doesn't help. Be sure though of which is your active slot. The way a treble enabled device does ota updates is it will update the inactive slot, with the new version, switch slots, and then boots the new version. What that means is the OLD version is now the inactive slot.

So if u are on 20n, be sure to flash the new image to that slot, not the old one. If need be, use twrp or fastboot (getvar all) will tell you which slot is active.

cheers
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] sptw:
Thanks for that. I''ll try later and let you know about.
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] sptw:
It works AsItLies. That new 20nboot_a_twrp.img works great. No more encrypted folders and no more bootloop. Here is the steps i did:

1- Flashed 409N20n.... Using LGUP with Part D/L to make sure both slots "a" and "b" stay with the same firmware.

2- Setup the device. Only the things necessary like OEM unlocked and USB debug. Not even wifi and sim card on it.

3- Power Off and EDL mode. There i installed the V35eng image. I tried to install your twrp image on boot_a and ablpiestock on abl_a with Qfill, but no go. I really dont know why. So i had to made it in fastboot mode using adb/fastboot line command.

4- Reboot to Recovery mode and access the TWRP. It ask for password. I choose cancel. No data on it ( 0 MB ). I made a format data operation and TWRP could see the data again.

5- I choose mount operation and could check " system" " vendor" and "data".

6- I choose Install and use a OTG with the SuperSu.zip there. Swap to install. Unfortunately no go. TWRP aborted the operation due a " SePolicy " conflict.

7- I tried then your 20.4 magisk.zip that you offer before. No inject TWRP. Swap and...it install correctly...After that, i installed those verity.zip.

8- Reboot one time to Recovery again and everything was good there. No more encrypted folders.

9- Reboot to the system and...voila. wonderfull. On the road again.

10- I disabled automatic update on magisk. I could not install modules. I had to update, but i did on an apk. I continue to be on 20.4 magisk drive.

Now, the bad thing: i could not do a root using SuperSu. Probably LG implemented a code to avoid that. In the other way, i could see that all the problems with viper4android were due to the 22.0 magisk zip driver ( the only way to install 20.4 is using TWRP ). If memory dont fail me, 20.4 was the last one that is really good. 22.0 sucks. Unfortunately convolver dont work like i said before, but it is not a problem now.

Well, i am really happy. I would really like to thank you very much, for your kindness and patience.

God Bless you.

Continue to keep your good works.
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] hoangan102:
I am loading the partition to download mode using QFIL, then open it again, please help me lg v409n
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] hoangan102:
You need KDZ to 30b or 30c and install twrp latest version by fastboot. I tried it working
[LG V40 Questions & Answers] hkguy80:
Hello,

I have exactly the same issue as yours now. May I know how to fix the boot looping issue?

Should I clone all the directories that you mentioned from slot a to slot b ?

Before I tried the steps that you mentioned, I try to flash the v409N with LGUP's partition DL and choose all the partition. But it seems the OS of slot A and slot B still different.

Is there anyway to make both slot A and slot B is the same OS?

Many Thanks!
[Huawei P40 Pro Questions & Answers] Paylos95:
Hello guys.

Today i was trying to downgrade my P40 Pro with HiSuite 11.

At first time all was ok downloading the 10 version was 75% than stopped no internet connection.

After many attemps restarting PC, Router, Phone i cant use HiSuite to downgrade i become direct the message no internet.

Any ideas? I tryed everthing with firewall, wifi reset etc. and nothing.

Sry for my bad english
[Huawei P40 Pro Questions & Answers] richard_li:
I have completely same issue as you... did you finally find out solution ?
[Huawei P40 Pro Questions & Answers] Kaddy2727:
Hey bro , did you manage to downgrade it ? i've got the same issue

I tried Hisuite Proxy with Hisuite v11 and v10 but the same problem
[Huawei P40 Pro Questions & Answers] kefi999:
Same here...
[Galaxy Note 3 Accessories] alexcapone:
Samsung released an official back cover that could support qi charging. I doubt I'll be able to find this new but does anyone know where I can find it used at least? I tried ebay but couldn't find anything. Here's an article about it:

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 S Charger - Review - Coolsmartphone

Wireless charging is becoming something I look for in a new device, mainly down to ease of use. I'm lazy basically, just plonking down a phone onto a

www.coolsmartphone.com

Not looking for the S-Flip version by the way. It's only a back cover.
[General Questions and Answers] AjvarXX:
If I downgraded to 16GB S5 and need "optimizing" size of apk files, what are the best ways to delete unused arm8, x86, x64 libs from apk?

I remember myself for S4 Android 5 using either 7-zip or winrar to delete unused lib folders and 95% of apk worked like a charm, only few didn't.

Can I still do these with modern apk on Android 6 (those which fits and not module-based apk of course)? Because I tried one and it says something abou Synthaxis error while analyzing package.
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 1890170:
Of course you can remove originally bundled libs from an APK but that requires to recompile the APK, too: simply deleting these libs from the APK isn't enough.
[General Questions and Answers] AjvarXX:
OK, the full answer is to use MT Manager for that or its analog which will sign the package. Archieve managers don't do that and that is mandatory since quite some time.

MT Manager lets do everything withing a phone without moving apk to PC: Open it, delete all folders in lib directory except matching your CPU architecture (7a=32 bit ARM, 8=64 bit ARM), then Optimize with zip-align and Sign it.
[General Questions and Answers] VD171:
Just delete the files and folders you want and then re-sign the apk using apksigner: https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/apksigner
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Nylo:
I need a simple FTP application that has a small foot print for my Tilt WM6.1

Suggestions?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ErMeglio:
Why not simply internet explorer?

Ok it's everything but "little" but it's included in every windows-based pc...

You can open ftp links with user&pass this way:

ftp://username:password@address:port

Mmh...think some more expert users will give a better answer...

GlobalScape CuteFTP comes in my mind too, it's great but not little, you pay for it and it has to be installed!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Rudegar:
total commander også does ftp