yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Realme GT] samuk190:
that doesnt make sense at all lol, buy a 5G phone to not use 5G?

Ok 5G does eat more battery but it is not so much as people say, it is just 20% or less than 4G, instead of getting a SOT of 8Hour you will get 7h20

it would be better to set refresh rate to 60hz rather than disabling 5G, as 5G have latency much lower for gaming and other stuff
[Realme GT] spiral5:
Hello, this is a serious matter, I do not understand about your laugh.

When you check consumption, you try to obtain them with networks and not at home with Wi-Fi. When you activate 5G the phone is simultaneously sweeping 3g, 4G and 5G networks, not just 5g. Currently, as a step at the beginning of 4G, 5G consumes a lot and many users due to their operators do not have 5G, so it is much better to remove 5G than to lower the refresh rate of the screen from 120 to 60Hz, this not only saves Less battery less than removing 5G, also affects the quality of user experience.
[Realme GT] bppjenil:
Thank you
[Realme GT] samuk190:
switching mobile networks don't affect battery so much as you think, but the continuous connection yes
[P3600 ROM Development] msrsaco:
Nobody cooks an spanish version of Diamond ROM for HTC P3600i ?
[P8lite General] Vitordroid:
Hello,

I have a huawei g play mini, with honor 4c "chm-u01" firmware CHM-U01C432B570 , i want to installl a p8 lite rom on it.

Can i flash the stock p8lite rom onn my chm-u01 without problem?
[Sony Xperia 1 Questions & Answers] masteriori:
Hello All,

My Sony Xperia 1 (J8110) device has no network unlock attempts remaining, which means every time I enter a new code to unlock my phone, it keeps failing. Is there any way to reset the attempts counter from 0 to 5? Other than the qUnlockTool which requires you to buy a credit, is there any way to reset the counter?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Many thanks
[Realme 8 Pro] matiirk:
Hi, I found working method for backing up QCN via QFIL (QPST). Also You can enable some modes for diagnostics and engineering/testing/unlocking vowifi or volte.

Firstly You need to Authokendecrypt after entering *#9434* using Oppo Free Unlocker or Secrecy Unlocker (easy to find on Google or xda in region change topics). Then enter *#649010# and to unlock any option You need to enter Confirm code which is 6776 and You are ready to go to backup or restore IMEI and many more. I will upload full list of Engineer Codes pulled out from firmware, just need to get to my pc. Feel free to ask questions, i will try to help. Maybe we can find out something interesting. Im digging to find a way to root or unlock bootloader ofcourse... Or at least how to change region to Vietnam or India to unlock via official deeptesting app.
[Realme 8 Pro] Kurt Krummbein:
Interresting thingy... any new findings?

Changing region doesn't help, also no DeepTesting in India or China :-(
[Realme 8 Pro] StratOS_HTC:
To enter the Engineering Mode: dial *#899#

and the code is *#9434*
[Realme 8 Pro] ziuta24:
how to turn on vowifi? This option doesnt exist Anyway
[Realme 8 Pro] StratOS_HTC:
Any 1 tried with Engineer mode togle on.

It puts a phone connected with PC to communicate with phone with specified driver

SDM720G-IDP Quallcomm driver ?

View attachment 5464409

This should be the way to diagnose a lot of stuff ...

SnapDragonMobile 720G ?
[Realme 8 Pro] StratOS_HTC:
Damn, those VM ware drivers and windows machine :(

Didn't see it ...

View attachment 5466173

Now doing the things I can ... repack without the check ... Will try ...

QPST is now enabled, finnaly ...

Flashing enabled without using tools :)

Thank you @matiirk , but will be nice if you point it out before ... To much of my time has passed almost 4 nothing.
[Introductions] blackhawk:
So does this mean you made this rant up to troll people as well?

After all you're one of us...
[Introductions] TL Gamer:
What's with the over abundance of uneducated people on the net?
[Introductions] blackhawk:
Yes, well... perhaps you have purpose, you can teach.
[Introductions] TL Gamer:
Except that doesn't apply here because you replied to me first which makes anything you can try and say in accordance to what you're doing, invalid.

So congratulations, you've just let everyone know and see your iq level

Thanks for the laugh and awareness flag.
[Introductions] blackhawk:
When your first post is a lengthy rambling rant you dimed yourself out.

As best I can tell with my limited IQ...🤣
[Introductions] maxq1:
OP will prolly freak-out if he/she knew people use "battery backup" to refer to batt life (or batt condition in general) ✌️
[Introductions] Tajil:
guys,

if we look into a dictionary and insert the word "scan", we would get several meanings:

1.observation

2.reviewing

3.research

4.startle

5.a brief reading

6..........

so, base on it I agree with U more approprie to call it "picture" rather than "scan".

but, if we just insert random picture, the app wont work! so here, we know that the app is indeed processing some pattern here and there (IMHO).

another thing that i have to agree with U is our phone indeed is not a scanner and it take a picture not scan a picture.
[Moto G6 Play Questions & Answers] ilikecake567:
I have Havoc 4.5 official GSI fresh install, wiped data, then Immediately flashed magisk 23.0 but it gets stuck on N/A and boot loops after 10 ish seconds. I don’t know what’s happening as the same thing occurs with other Android 11 GSIs I tried. If I use an Android 9 GSI it boots and magisk works fine.
[HTC Cavalier] blackjack2:
cuz I'm thinking of upgrading and I'd like to know if they have the same battery since I have an extended battery that works very well. I would really appreciate this information guys/gals:D

Its my first post in this forum, I usually post on the Excalibur group

TIA
[HTC Cavalier] oldsap:
no i dont think so
[HTC Cavalier] lhickin:
Definitly not......I have both phones and the extended battery for the Dash - they are not interchangeable I'm afraid..... :(
[HTC Cavalier] ffergie:
S620 vs s630

Ihickin:

I am considering the S630 to replace my 620 and I see that you have both. Is the S630 a worthwhile upgrade?

Thanks
[HTC Cavalier] oldsap:
s620 pros:

slim

sexy

s630 pros:

3G

faster speed
[HTC Cavalier] lhickin:
I would agree with oldsap's comments........but my experience with the S630 has been less than stellar. On the original HTC WM6 ROM I experienced a LARGE number of lock-ups, data loss and general dis-satisfaction.

The excellent work done by cruzzmzz on this forum for the WM6.1 build is definitly the way to go.....it's still got a couple of little bugs in it but on the whole *much* better than the WM6 ROM :)
[macOS] Nameless Foe:
OK, I understand that there is many "Hackintosh" video guides out there to be found...

Would it be worth my time to create a step by step guide?

Or would I be wasting my time considering XDA Computing Fourm is not what the majority come here for?

Cheers ;0
[macOS] ipdev:
When I look for a guide/walk-though, my Google/DuckDuck search starts with xda (then normally github) before a general search.

I do not think it would be a waist of time to write up a step by step guide.

It looks like there is some interest already.

macOS on my Lenovo G400 xdaThread - Link

This is a new part of xda and the more involvement the bigger it will grow. 🙃

The little bit I have read about Hackintosh, there always seems to be issues making everything work.

A good guide and general discussion thread would be a big help.

I would not be surprised if more than a few xda members are hackintosh users.

Cheers. :cowboy:
[macOS] Nameless Foe:
I agree!!.. XDA Computing forums might be small right now but I believe it is going to grow super quick...

I will need to do some poking around and see what the best options are for making a guide

There is so many different PC hardware that may or may not be compatible with Hackintosh..
[macOS] abdoulgaf:
now we have a full guide on opencore website
[macOS] GeeAyeZee:
I have a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus elite running the latest version of Monterey with OpenCore bootloader. I would be interested in anything hackintosh on XDA
[macOS] Nameless Foe:
OK cool. I will make a guide this weekend.. I have been super busy with work and haven't had time to build the guide 🙃
[macOS] Nameless Foe:
OK. Good to know. I have not seen this yet. I will look at it. I have my own methods that I prefer just like you with opencore
[macOS] brick00444:
Very interested! I have a HP Notebook - 15-ay137cl that I want to try hackintosh on.
[macOS] abdoulgaf:
I build a full working hackingtosh BIG SUR on my LAPTOP ASUS ROG G732WLS 2020. if someone need help and EFI files. iam using open core for that. all working wifi, bluetooth, sound etc..
[macOS] pink-panther:
Hi, I am very interested in help with booting usb and setting up the bios for my Dell G3 15 Gaming (3500) Black laptop so that I can successfully install Hackintosh.

Thank You for answer

Dell G3 15 Gaming (3500) Black (i5)
[macOS] Cicada_3301:
I think I can help you with that
[macOS] Cicada_3301:
Check dortania and olarila, those are reliable sources for hackintosh
[macOS] brick00444:
Hi, I'm interested in getting Mac Osx running on my HP Notebook - 15-ay137cl . I have had a couple other laptops running osx but can't seem to figure this one out to get to the install screen. I have never used OpenCore but that seems to be the thing to use. any help to get started and help with the kexts I might need would be great. Thanks for your time.
[macOS] Cicada_3301:
Read dortania guide for kaby lake first, then configure config.plist to make it boot then fix the persist problems ( sleep, wifi, bluetooth,...). Make a post on xda so i can help you.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] PineappleMousepad:
Is there any way to have this phone rooted with encryption working? I would use Lineage, but it doesn't support VoLTE. I'm aware that TWRP will very likely never work again once the phone is encrypted, but that just means that I would have to flash everything I need before encrypting.

I'm on AO 20h ROM currently. My idea was (after making sure I never need TWRP again)

1. Flash stock 20h kernel zip without dm-verity and forced encryption disabled

2. Flash stock 20h boot.img (not sure if this step is necessary)

3. Reboot into system

Does this have the possibility of working? If not, what do I need to do to make this work?

Also, where can I find the stock kernel and boot.img?
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] PineappleMousepad:
I attempted to just flash the boot.img I extracted from the 20h kdz. This didn't work, because when I rebooted it just brought me to fastboot every time.

Edit: Second attempt was to extract the 20h kdz to get both the boot.img and the system.bin files. Then I patched the boot.img with Magisk Manager on my other phone, and moved it back to the sd card. To get the system.img from the 52 binary files, I used the KDZ Extractor which has an option to merge system files into an image. My plan was to flash from TWRP the system.img and then the patched boot.img, but when I went to install the system image, I got a warning message that the image was too big. It shows as 6GB on my computer, and the system partition is 5.4GB.

The only other idea I had in mind was to flash the 20h kdz, but interrupt the installation before it boots for the first time and "encrypts", then go into fastboot and flash the modified boot.img, but this seems excessively risky.

Edit Again: I DID IT!

And I'm not even locked out from using TWRP! Though I'm stuck on Nougat - 10p - with the method I used.

1. Patch extracted 10p boot image with Magisk app

2. Flash 10p with LGUP

3. Flash TWRP to recovery with Lafsploit, reboot to recovery

4. Factory reset from TWRP

5. While still in TWRP, flash the patched boot.img from 1.

Now my next goal is to deodex and try to get signature spoofing working so I can use MicroG. I've tried the Smali Patcher, which appeared to work, but it gets stuck on the T-Mobile splash screen. Same thing happens when I try to install Xposed with any method.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Descent2:
Hi there Pineapple!

Not too many people do care about H918 anymore. I am just like you trying to get something done, so reading everything I can find. I will point out the things I've learned already, but do remember I am not a dev, nor a senior member, not even a very experienced one.

So, above you were saying :

1. Flash stock 20h kernel zip without dm-verity and forced encryption disabled

2. Flash stock 20h boot.img (not sure if this step is necessary)

Well, the "boot.img" contains the Kernel and the Ram Disk, or at least this is what I've read in Android Internals - Jonathan Levin [1st Ed] free on his site. So, now it should be clear that if you'd do 2, it will overwrite 1.

About Encryption and Root:

ENCRYPTION:

Encrypt your phone before rooting, -> root, -> apply ROM. Not the other way around! Tested on Android 4-6.

Once you root or install various ROMs you lose the ability to encrypt your device.

You will have either hanging, rebooting, or the animation stalling

Discussed: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2791587 and

http://androidforums.com/threads/how-to-encrypt-a-rooted-device.866968/

Un-root if already rooted. Encrypt. Re-root.

If you Root with SuperSu, you have to manually kick start SuperSU when rooting after the encryption is in effect

Also see about issues with TWRP and Encryption in some devices

(Unable to decrypt the data partition on boot due to bug in TWRP)

(yep, H918, and it seems to be happening on stock ROMs as opposed to AOSP)

not sure if on H918 it is related or not to TWRP bug

Secure Boot (aka dm-verity) also complicates persistent rooting. <- look like you already took measures here

Xposed:

Xposed now also exists as a MAGISK MODULE, so no longer DETECTED if installed thru MAGISK <-try this

Had some issues with Android 7 (Nougat) but most were fixed. <-maybe try different version?

De-Odex

Why? Are you going to be theming your apps? AFAIK,

ODEX = (pre) Optimized Dalvik Exe file format (compressed, not fully compiled yet), separate from .apk

android apps are stored in .apk packages, not as easy nor fast to run as if already Odex-ed

De-Odexing just means having your apps on ROM sort of "collected" back to ".apk". You need that where you want to have an easy access to app resources, i.e. for theming.

QUESTIONS:

1. Could you, please, post the versions of all the components you've used? Like TWRP, Magisk..

2. So, microG doesn't work on rooted stock Nougat on H918? (Damn, I wanted to de-google)
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] PineappleMousepad:
Yes, while doing this I did learn that the boot image contains the kernel. Looking back, that statement seems silly now that I know that. You are correct about encrypting before root. I did boot into the ROM and did the initial setup, then went back to TWRP (which thankfully had no error decrypting) to flash Magisk via the patched boot image. I did get rid of secure boot too, but I don't know if it was necessary in this case.

I tried three different ways of installing Xposed. First was through the Magisk Module, but this just made me get stuck on the T-Mobile screen. Had to remove the module from TWRP. Second was "systemlessly" as described here: https://magiskroot.net/install-systemless-xposed-framework-nougat/ . This had the same result. Third was by using only the Xposed Installer 3.1.5 apk, which didn't seem to do anything at all.

Deodexing the ROM is necessary to add signature spoofing, which is necessary to install MicroG, so it can pretend to be the real Google Play Services. Usually in the past I've done this with the Nanodroid patcher https://nanolx.org/nanolx/nanodroid but it didn't work here, which was odd because it did work on the Alpha Omega Oreo ROM (which didn't have working encryption).

1. The TWRP that's on the laf partition is the one that FWUL 2.7 installed. The TWRP that's on my recovery is 3.5.2_9-0-h918.img. This is the latest official release. To unpack the boot image from the stock kdz, I used LG Firmware Extract 1.2.6.1. I moved the boot image onto another phone which had the latest Magisk Manager app on it (23.0) to patch it with Magisk.

2. Not so far it hasn't. I've deleted everything Google with System App Uninstaller, /d/gapps, and adb. So I'm going without Google Services or MicroG for now. I'd like to change that though, since MicroG makes it far more livable.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Descent2:
So, you have the same end goal as I do - privacy. Have you considered buying the de-googled phone from Brax?

Honestly, this never ending enigma with H918 has me wondering if I should just do that. I mean, I don't sweat some learning and work, but now that the V20 forum is basically dead....
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] PineappleMousepad:
That reminds me of the people on ebay who try to sell 12 year old Thinkpads for 3-4x what they're worth just because they flashed coreboot on them. Except it's way easier to install a custom ROM on a Pixel than it is to flash coreboot. The Pixels are also very different phones than the V20 - no removable battery, ir blaster, 3.5mm jack, good DAC - but if you want the most private and secure smartphone, a Pixel with GrapheneOS (not Lineage) is what you want. Flash it yourself, it's way easier to do it to Pixels than LG's.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Descent2:
Same here.

May-be not that crazy, 3-4 times, but yeah, he sells Google Pixel 4 XL 128 GB with lineage for over $700 where that same phone is $380 on Swappa, lol. It's not as drastic as you memory of e-bay, but it is twice the worth, still.

But then again, considering how much Rob is doing for the community to propagate the awareness, may-be this isn't all that high of a price. Some busy people won't even blink at his prices, but would never invest this much time to decipher everything. Sadly, I, myself is a sucker for the know how, instead of focusing on making money.

You are right in that I did pick this phone as "last phone with removable battery" myself. I actually do remove the battery from time to time when I don't want to be tracked, and drop the phone in the steel covered glove compartment, where no weaker field communication can ever reach it.

Hey, thank you so much for the version numbers, if I decide to go that way, I'll use those exact ones! (So far, do not want to cross into ARB1, but it seems that the lafsploit only works with 10p...)
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Descent2:
You know, the Patcher is also available from NanoDroid installed as a Magisk module. Their (Nano) description here:

GitHub - Nanolx/NanoDroid: [MIRROR] See https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid for main repository

[MIRROR] See https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid for main repository - Nanolx/NanoDroid

github.com

states that NanoDroid includes:

on-device framework-patcher for microG support (signature spoofing), with automatic de-odexing up to Android 8.1

Is that the method you tried?

Nanolx says that his patcher patches the sig spoofing support into one of the three locations: Magisk NanoDroid module, Magisk itself and /system. When you were using the patcher, did you see any of these choices?

Also, do you know that the dev of Magisk now works for Google? Now, I know that absolute majority of people would not see anything weird here, but I do, cause I don't trust Google, and thus want to de-google my phone. Specifically, a small conflict of interest while working for google and developing a software that supposed to oversee and support the escape from that same Google by de-googling the phone. Some stockholders might find this quite funny and demand that something is done about this.

I would try older Magisk. I know from other threads, that on 10p, some of the versions of Magisk that did work were: 16.0, 21.0, 21.4 ...
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] PineappleMousepad:
As long as Magisk itself is FOSS and hasn't been proven to be spyware, I'll trust it. The later versions actually have gotten better about privacy, since it now doesn't require internet. And the goal of the Magisk project isn't to de-google your phone. It can aid in de-googling, because you can uninstall system apps, but Magisk is just to gain root.

As for how I tried to use the patcher, I tried from TWRP, which gave me the error "failed to mount /system unsupported a/b device," and then if I tried to flash it from Magisk Manager it gave the error "failed to deodex services.jar"
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Descent2:
When you say you tried to flash it from TWRP / Magisk Manager, it is not clear to me if you understand that Nano Patcher is also available as a Magisk module, and if you have tried to add that Magisk nano module or used the Patcher by itself as provided by NanoDroid in a stand alone installer. Since I haven't used Magisk yet myself, I do not know if has the flashing capability and that is what you referred to, or if that meant you added the module. Like I said, still learning here.

I do understand that Magisk is only a systemless root , not a patcher or microG.

The H918 is not an A/B device. Not on Nougat nor Oreo in any case. Obviously, you know that.

So, your device is being misidentified as a much newer device.

I think that if you had tried a version of Magisk or the Patcher that is not YET aware of A/B devices, then possibly such mis-identification would not happen.

Of course the fact that it happens thru TWRP, gives Magisk somewhat an alibi.

I still think it is worth trying. May-be older Patcher first, then with older Magisk.

I keep holding Magisk in my attention because without it doing its job correctly, you could not take the next step, the one that isn't working.

Finally, Try some of these: https://download.lineage.microg.org/h918/ ROMs, they already have signature spoofing handled. I would think an older one might work, as I saw several threads mentioning that the later versions of LOS don't run well on H918.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Descent2:
Also, here is thread you might want to read and post your situation into:

https://xdaforums.com/t/module-syst...-pseudo-debloat-f-droid-apps.3584928/page-437

That thread discusses NanoDroid used as a Magisk Module, and there are few users experiencing a similar situation (with different errors) and some advices.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] PineappleMousepad:
I'm taking the nanodroid patcher zip from their website and attempting to flash in TWRP, which I've successfully done before on other phones. I also tried using the same zip and installing it as a module in Magisk. I don't think there's a separate file meant specifically for use as a Magisk module. I believe the a/b error in TWRP has something to do with the fact that when I'm in TWRP and I go into the "Mount" menu and select System, the check box only remains ticked for about 5 seconds, then it automatically unmounts again. No idea what the problem is there. I suspect if that weren't an issue, I'd get the same exact error that I get when trying to use the patcher with Magisk.

As for LineageOS for MicroG, that's what I was using before going back to stock, and it was great. But it's sadly unusable as a phone because of the lack of VoLTE. If not for that, this could easily be my "forever phone" with the huge battery.

I'm also now having a strange issue where many system functions (recents, settings menus, autorotate, second screen, statusbar) are running unusably slow, while any other app runs perfectly fine. I have to do more testing to figure out what this is, though. Edit: stuck at T-Mobile logo again. Gonna try to do all this with stock Oreo.