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[Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) Questions & Answers] retriger:
If your only concern are updates then you shouldn't worry because you can always go back to stock Samsung ROM using ODIN and you will still get updates (security updates because this phone won't get any more feature updates as we all know). But what you will lose are some Samsung apps like Samsung Pay, Health, Pass, secure mode in Samsung browser. These things will no longer work and will tell you that your software was modified and you won't be able to use these things anymore. Other than that everything will still work as far as I know and experienced myself.

So I would say that if you want something new on your phone then go for it. And considering that there are some really good ROMs for this phone now it's a really good time. There's even an Android 11 ROM with One UI 3.1. You can also try GSIs if you add treble. So there are lots of possibilities.

Personally, I only use A8 now to try new ROMs that come up. I'm not a big fan of GSIs because they seem unoptimized for my taste. But these new One UI 2.5 and 3.1 ROMs are pretty great with Samsung features and they are also very snappy and fast which is great. So I would say try it and see what you like. But also be careful not to brick your device even though I don't see how that would be possible.

Also, I don't think this was the place for your question because there's another place for questions but whatever :D
[Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) Questions & Answers] Quentief:
Thank you for your answer, that is really interesting, could you advice me some tutorials to install these ROM ? I don't think my phone has the Treble architecture. When you said One UI 2.5 and 3.1 ROMs, I suppose this is made by Samsung. But if Knox counter is triggered, the Samsung features will not work ?

And I apologise if my post is not in the right place, I'm new on this forum
[Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) Questions & Answers] retriger:
I don't know how much experience you have with stuff like custom ROMs therefore I don't know how much guidance you need. But as you might already know before you do any modifications to your phone BACKUP YOUR DATA if you want to keep it because you might or will lose it in the process. Once you do that you can be sure that nothing will be lost or damaged.

Now for your question about ONE UI ROMs. I don't know if I understand it correctly. But what I can say is that these ROMs are not made by Samsung. They are ported from other phones like S9, M31 and A7 (2018) to our phone which is A8. They have all the great Samsung features and UI and are also quite fast apart from some bugs and popups after restart. But in my opinion they are great. And about KNOX, as I said only a few Samsung features won't work after you modify your phone but other than that everything else still works. It's obviously up to you to choose what matters most. I'd say that if you want a fully stable experience then just stay with stock ROM but if you want to try something new and don't care about maybe a few bugs that will come only then try custom ROMs because they are not perfect.

So if you are going for it then you will need to begin with this thread and install TWRP:

https://xdaforums.com/t/recovery-official-twrp-3-3-1-0-for-galaxy-a8-2018.3818201/

Read the instructions thoroughly and do everything as it says.

Then if you want to flash ONE UI ROMs I would suggest these ONE UI 2.1, ONE UI 2.5 or ONE UI 3.1 ROMs. There are some other ROMs but I haven't tried them so just search the A8 forum for something else that you might like.

On the other hand, if you want to try GSIs, first you need to follow this guide and trebelize your phone:

[GUIDE][TREBLE][A530F/A530W] Project Treble Guide for Galaxy A8 2018 (18/04/2019)

Project Treble Guide for Samsung Galaxy A8 Just to make it clear I'm not responsible for whatever damage this could possibly cause to your device. Treble is everywhere, so why shouldn't we join it? I'm proud to announce that Galaxy A8...

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Then you'll need to flash treble vendor from here or here. And then you can pick a GSI you want to try, flash it and see what you get. You can get stuck in a bootloop or something but then just try something else.

I think that's it. Hope I didn't miss anything. Remember to carefully read through the threads and that it's your responsibility if you brick your device. But if something bad happens just flash stock firmware with ODIN and everything should be alright.
[Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) Questions & Answers] Quentief:
Thanks for your reply. I still have not tried anything, the irreversibility of the knox tripping is making me very hesitant. Some people argues that a lot of functionalities will not work, including banking application. But others claim that the application Magisk is perfectly able to hide the knox counter, and ensure to the user the possibility to use any application. Is it possible for someone to attest if this works ?

Furthermore, I have also noticed that the slowing are mainly caused by the new applications versions. I though maybe I could find a wa to downgrade the Google Play Store, to use older version of the applications ? I tried to manually downgrade Maps and the result is really convinicng. The slowing issues of the A8 could come from there. What do you think about ?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] nabboR:
Hi guys!

When reading the User Manual on page 100 it says that you can use Transcriber and/or Letter Recognizer, Transcriber is a handwriting recognition soft that should be in the device, but not in mine! :confused:

(see below for romversion etc.)

Coming from Symbian smartphones this is the thing i miss the most, that u simply can do the handwriting in every app onboard.

Do YOU guys have this in your HTC TP?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] WDawn:
Don't worry it is in it. If you open an message/note etc, on the bottom you will see a keybord icon, next to the icon, there is a little arrow pointing up. Tick the arrow with the stylus and select 'other input methods'. There you'll find the transcriber.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] nabboR:
Yes m8, I understand the user manual, but it simply is not there!

I can't choose what simply does not exist!!:confused:

So, do you mean that you can choose between both Transcriber and Letter Recognizer??
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] hollowdark:
You can choose between keyboard, transcriber and other.

Looks something like that(in english if you have an english ROM of course):
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] apd:
They are there. Click the upwards arrow. You may need to select "Other Input Methods". Transcriber may not be there on all ROMs.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] fhsieh:
The WWE ROM should include transcriber. Diamond users are reporting that other regional ROMs don't include all SIPs. But you should be able to follow the instructions from the Diamond forum/threads to install it if it's missing.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] TomasNM:
Transcriber is built-in feature in all WM devices as well as Letter Recognizer. If you don't see it,there are maybe some registry entries,those disables it. Try to look for unhiding Transcriber in registry or try to use piece of software called Pocket Tweak.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] nabboR:
OK Guys, thx for your input here trying to help me out!

I've got a Swedish ROM and it simply doesn't exist, what's the easiest/best reg editor to use if I want to search in depth to find this option?

Anyone else in here with a Swedish ROM that have the same lack of software?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] onesolo:
I think the lack of Transcriber is common on non-WWE HTC Roms. My former device, an Qtek S200, was from a portuguese operator and it didn't had transcriber.

My WWE Touch Pro has transcriber...

I think this is the logic, WWE Roms have transcriber, non-WWE Roms don't have (only if the operator or local HTC customize it).

By the way, you can always download it and install it. Google it...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] TomasNM:
ptweak

Try to use this...

Install it,after that there will a 'Pocket Tweak' icon appear in Start>Settings>System. Tap it and go to 'Input Panel' card and look,if there is transcriber or not.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] easycure1974:
There is no transcriber in swedish roms, has not been in Qtek9100, Tytn or Tytn II. But you can downlaod a cab and install it.

http://www.smartmobile.se/files/Qtek 9100/enableRecognizersSVE.CAB
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] JimmyMcGee:
HEY! Take it easy on the Starred out Curse words.

This thread would have been just as effective named "Where is Transcriber?" or better yet "Transcriber Location?"
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] rhedgehog:
you only ever get transcriber in the following languages:

English

Spanish

Italian

French

German

Brazilian Portuguese (But not proper Portuguese)

Seems microsoft don't bother activating it in any other language. Why it's not added by the OEM's is a nother matter.....

And as for the manual, it's only cos it's a standard manual that is translated from english and HTC don't bother to remove the bits that are not relevant..it's full of stuff like that!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] nabboR:
@JimmyMcGee:

Yeah, of course you're right, I'm sorry, was just frustraded:o

And to all of you, a big thx clarifying/helping me with this issue!:)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] ptyindian:
nvm i found the romeos one its in the extra cabs if you are looking for it.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] egolivar:
Spanish Transcriber?

Where can I find the Spanish Dictionay or the Spanish Transcriber?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] TriAxisFL:
I think after you go through all the trouble of finding and installing transcriber you will use it a few times and realize it sort of sucks and is slow. I gaurantee you can type faster with the keyboard or onscreen keyboards then you can with transcriber, but its sort of cool when it works, which is a challenge to make it work properly all the time. Dont even bother with Letter Recognizer, I wont even get into that.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] Momotani-Hitoshi:
Thought I was super careful sliding around the edge to release the screen from the adhesive but accidentally cut/tear part of the ribbon cable circled in green. (

)

Everything still works after swapping the battery. Except screen turns off with active edge guester squeezes. Unlocking turns it back on.

What exactly does those connection for on the ribbon do?
[General Topics] wasserprojekt:
Hi everyone.

Every year millions of phones and tablets are produced. Because hardware makers don't worry about updating them, those devices are often dumped. However, lots of them are very capable machines.

As I've read these forums for years, I've seen a lot of work from a lot of people trying to bring those forgotten devices to life again by making unofficial ROMs with tons of customization, new features, and great efforts like LineageOS and PostmarketOS. However, those lack the resources to bring an updated OS for the majority of those binned and obsolete phones.

If I'm not wrong, the biggest issue about replacing the original OS on those devices are the bootloaders and drivers/blobs for the large amount of different hardware configurations. There are multiple workarounds, shims, ports that solve those problems for one or other device.

It might be quite naive, but i'd like to ask a question I've been thinking about lately. AFAIK, if I have the blobs/drivers for a camera, wifi, bluetooth, GPS or other "peripheral" for a devices' original ROM running Android 4.4, I can make it work on AOSP 4.4. I know this might be crazy, but:

As long as I have the blobs for a certain chipset and display/touch,

why can't we use a VM running a nano version of AOSP that matches the devices' original ROM that bridges the device IO to the main ROM?

As an example, imagine wifi. I could network bridge AOSP 9 to a VM running AOSP 4, which would then have the drivers so network would work. The same for bluetooth or camera or GPS, maybe? Is this absolutely unfeasible?

Thank you for your time!
[General Topics] karandpr:
That's sort of what project treble is.

Project Treble

The Android 8.0 release includes Project Treble, a major re-architect of the Android OS framework designed to make it easier, faster, and less costly for manufacturers to update devices to a new version of Android. Treble is for all new devices launching with Android 8.0 and beyond.

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[General Topics] wasserprojekt:
I was reading about it and it seems like treble is not very seccessful. I imagine Google isn't very interested on this, as they want phones to be sold every year. Anyway, I was asking about this specific method of making phones and tablets compatible with today's OS or, who knows, even linux.
[General Topics] karandpr:
Yes and the only way it might work is trebel. Because treble handles lot of the problems involved with booting newer androids on older systems.

You can run linux on older Androids or even Windows XP.

How to install a Linux desktop on your Android device

Get even more from your Android device by running a desktop OS! Lots of options including Debian (no root), Ubuntu, and Kali Linux.

www.androidauthority.com

Running Windows XP on Android

No rooting or custom modifications needed, we’re going to do this with stock Android and a few free (but high-quality) apps.

centerorbit.medium.com

Also, it's not that the OS gets deprecated, it's that the applications like Google Play services which become heavier as years go by.

Degoogled-Android on my Android ICS phone worked fine till it's screen got busted. With Google Play services, it was impossible to install any app since its paltry 400MB storage was extended/
[General Topics] wasserprojekt:
Thanks for your answers!

Running other OSes via VNC is just meant to use the devices as mere thin clients, and that was not the objective.

The Project Treble will never be as widespread as it should be, because Google is obviously not interested in making phones last longer (they want more devices to be sold). Of course I was not talking about devices 10 years old, more about 5yrs. They have specs good enough to run contemporary Android and most of non-entertainment apps.

The obstacles to being able to do this are artificial. The problem is there are no drivers and project Treble does not address this in any meaningful way. Manufacturers aren't interested in this too because they want to sell more chips. So the only way it came to my mind it could work was by running a very light VM with an older Android for which the components' drivers were available. Of course main components would still have to be compatible with newer Android, such as the SOC. But things such as wi-fi, camera... could be bridged from a VM, I believe.
[General Topics] hkjo:
Not sure, but I'd guess the low-level interface would have to be outside the VM.

That is, to be able to run the VM you'd have to have some drivers already in place. I'm also not sure everything can be virtualized. For example, desktop VMs couldn't so easily passthru PCIe or USB to VMs, at least in the past.

There's some EU push to make fixing and servicing some non-phone devices easier, and to mandate labeling phones (and other devices) with repairability scores. Maybe eventually they could mandate, under certain conditions, the logical separation of hardware and software?
[General Topics] wasserprojekt:
Well, after a long time, for those who where curious about this thread: the project Halium is exactly what was in my mind. If I'm not wrong, it basically consists in a minimal Android rom running on a Virtual Machine which then interfaces with any Linux distro, effectively giving the phone the ability to run a (more or less) updated version of Linux kernel and, therefore, many Linux distros. https://docs.halium.org/en/latest/project/Scope.html
[General Topics] wasserprojekt:
You are right, and I believe Halium just works on phones which are minimally supported by Linux kernel drivers (like basic SoCs). But all those other hardware parts, like GPS, Wi-Fi, Camera... can be brought to life this way, I think.

Thanks for your insight!
[OnePlus 8T Questions & Answers] LancerEvoDrifter:
So I've been wanting to get back into Android since I've been stuck with Apple for a long while, and with my mom wanting to switch back to samsung, I thought this would be a perfect time, so since I wasn't going to get the same phone as my mom (Note 20 Ultra) since although it has a micro sd slot (Which i could do with more storage), its a bit too expensive for me, I thought about getting either the Pixel 5, or the OnePlus 8T (Which I'm heavily leaning towards)

My question is, does the OnePlus have some of the features that google has on the Pixel 5? I saw this "Hold for me" feature that they have on the Pixel that I wonder if it's available on the 8T, if it does or doesn't isn't going to be a instant dealbreaker for me, but I thought it would be something nice to have since I'm considering the 8T for the storage option, more powerful processor, and the 120hz display.
[OnePlus 8T Questions & Answers] Raiz:
Hi,

To me the OP vs Pixel question is wether you like bigger or smaller phones at first. Oneplus phones doesn't feel very nice to hold, they're heavy and large. Pixel phones are more human hand-sized.

Second of all, this question is about features. And Pixel phones are the more resourceful phones for that. Oneplus has some feature that can be useful like call recording, but the pixels have way more, and with each pixel "feature drops" it adds to the features.

If you're a heavy gamer, the mist powerful phone is the Oneplus, but if your gaming is only casual, you don't need a beast so the pixel is fine.

Battery life tho is really different betwen those two. 2 days of heavy usage (8-10h SoT) with my Oneplus, 4 days for rare usage (3-4h SoT). Pixels are more one day and a half phones, but I didn't used one so I can't really tell.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] J685:
HI everyone.

I tried to remove downloading mode several times but i cant get through the set up.

some of the errors that appeared.

ODIN MODE (AVB Fail)

Vendor: Error validating footer (6)

Custom Vendor

VBMETA 6973FXXU90T JA, 35343967A

How can I remove it please
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] cris royal (Elec):
install stock firmware, N youre good to go...
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] cris royal (Elec):
[Tool] Frija - Samsung firmware downloader/checker

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

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[Samsung Galaxy S10 5G Questions & Answers] askdoaskoasdka:
I bought a used S10 5G that did not come with a charger, so I am using my Dash charger from my OnePlus 3 phone to charge it, and the estimated charge time is 9h. I am using this cable if it matters.

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Edit: I confirmed the problem to be specific to my Dash charger. I tested it on a Qualcomm charger and Google Pixel charger and the charge time was reduced to 1.5 hours. Why is it slow on my Dash charger?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 5G Questions & Answers] elesbb:
What kind of amps is your Dash charger outputting? For fast charging, you need quite a lot. Even my old Samsung charger with 2 amp output is about 9 hrs from 0 percent.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 5G Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
The charger/cable needs to fully support the fast charging protocols.

Get Samsung 25w brick/cable. Enable fast charging. Make sure the battery temp is at least 72°F at start, preferably 85F.

Fast charging will disengage if too cool or hot (approximately >100F).
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Guides, News, & Discussion] LineArc:
Hello,

Making a thread to make it easier for guys like me to know which roms support gcam or raw capture so that we XDA members could test maximum number of gcam ports to find the best working one.

Let's see what do we have.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashraf61279:
I need firmware for Chinese tablet call touch

board no : tw_j0750bsa_v22_20160531

CPU : ATM7051
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashraf61279:
why there are no replay ?

please help me
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CXZa:
Might be difficult to find. ??

So, what works and what doesn't?

Can you enter the recovery mode? Then you could possible dump the partitions and see the problem...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashraf61279:
thank you for your reply

this TW J0750BSA V30 firmware work for me but with no touch screen work

i think ATM7051 K88 v1.6 may work fine but i can not find it for free ..

please if you can help me to find ATM7051 K88 v1.6 so i will try it

thank you again
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CXZa:
Hmm... I seem to have met this atm7051 before..

Actions Tablet Tools

Actions' PAD Product Tools (Developer Editions) Download 1.01.02 http://yadi.sk/d/wn0y5BdtFmQy9 2012-12-25? (Use newer versions for Ainol firmwares) 1.02.02 http://yadi.sk/d/Xf5NVryz998nC 2013-01-08? (Hero 4 nuclear upgrade tool) 1.02.03 http://yadi.sk/d/GFpAmhs39QZ67 2013-01-28? 1.02.04...

www.slatedroid.com

Flashing firmware blindly is a bad idea. Some damage can happen. There have been some cases of touch module has flashed a new firmware or changed touch settings so that the touch doesn't work anymore.

You could try this old thing... it's from year 2014 do it might not work though. (Should update it to use newer detecting modules from some newer Actions' firmware, but it probably isn't worth it anymore)

Tool: Touch and G-sensor Module Detector

Flashed a wrong firmware and the touch and/or g-sensor doesn't work? Here is a simple tool that tries to reveal the names of the modules needed. Flash in recovery mode. Download: http://yadi.sk/d/2M9WVoEIboAmZ Too bad that there are lots of different modules with the same name. But still, it...

www.slatedroid.com
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashraf61279:
thank you for helping me ,, but it still no good news ,,,

please can you find ATM7051 K88 v1.6 for me
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CXZa:
Cannot find that, sorry. I found one v1.2 forgotten to my disk. But using it hoping for the best would be wild goose chase.

v1.6: Why do you think it would work then?

Made another detector zip that use one touch detecting module more.

Taken from that 7051 kk firmware. Added also some touch modules to the package from two different kitkats.

See also your device's misc/modules folder what ctp_*.ko files is there. Sometimes manufactures just use the right module without using the ctp_detect.ko.

ACTIONS Modules Detector2. Flash in recovery mode.

ACTIONS_Modules_Detector2_[cxz].zip

View and download from Yandex Disk

disk.yandex.com
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkpop91:
I have a tablet that has had the wrong update and I don't know if you can help me find an update from this brand haehne a863k_a16 allwinner a133. My tablet keeps getting stuck in bootloop. I also can't get into recovery mode.
[General Questions and Answers] Dimgba Progress:
Pls i need help on disabling demo mode on my Tecno camon 16.

i used the code *#*#336674663#*#* and the phone is now in demo mode and i have lost network signal bar on my phone
[General Questions and Answers] ineedroot69:
you can go on developer options there's a switch for demo mode too

if you don't know how to access developer options just click your build number repeatedly on setting>about device
[General Questions and Answers] Dimgba Progress:
problem not resolved
[General Questions and Answers] ineedroot69:
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[General Questions and Answers] Dimgba Progress:
It didnt resolve the issue.i still have no network signal
[General Questions and Answers] ineedroot69:
you provably change something on *#*#336674663#*#* have you tried forcing your network as LTE only?
[General Questions and Answers] Dimgba Progress:
i have tried forcing to LTE using the code *#*#4636#*#* but to no avail.i cant also access the mobile network setting again
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 1890170:
How to manage Demo Mode for the Android System UI via ADB in detail is described here:

Demo Mode for the Android System UI