yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] n3kf:
The more I search, I guess that it appears there are some privileged partitions. This method you mention gets around that irrespective of the SIM and Bootloader being unlocked already.... Sigh....
[General Questions and Answers] elementdoesit:
i am curious how the regular uses on this website make best use of it, please tell me how to use this site. i would appreaciate it if you give some examples.
[Off-topic] DelphinusMinor:
I can only see the general search for the whole forum. Man, this material look forums are adopting are so fugly. No texture, no lines, just pure fugly. Harder to navigate also. It's not a matter of me not liking change, it's just ugly. Why do forums have this need to do this? I don't even come here anymore since the changes.

Anyway, is "Advanced search" the only way to search the forum you are actually in now??
[Off-topic] blackhawk:
Har, I use dead reckoning... this be a pirate site.
[Off-topic] shadowstep:
Nope. When you click in the "Search..." text input box, there is a dropdown list right below it, where you can define the scope of your search, i.e. where you want the search to happen. Just select "This forum" in there and the search will lookup your keyword(s) in the forum you are in. :) See the screenshot below for reference:

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[Off-topic] DelphinusMinor:
I'm an idiot. Take a pepperoni and punch it through my head. Thank you for the reply.
[Off-topic] blackhawk:
Drop down and hidden menus make fools of us all. I'm always forgetting which menus go where here. Some of the layout here isn't intuitive at all... Eventually you'll run across the bounty if you keep going, har🤣
[Off-topic] DelphinusMinor:
I guess I just miss the old forum. Heh. I still hate the material look everyone on the internet is adopting though. It has no soul, it's empty.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro Questions & Answers] DelphinusMinor:
My daughter locked herself out of her phone and she doesn't live near me so I can't get the phone into my hands to fiddle with it myself. I think I rooted the phone before I gave it to her so I want to know if there is a way to delete the password/pin file in recovery?
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro Questions & Answers] :
There's no way to delete that pin lock , all you can do is format data or either contact your daughter further.
[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] dbreed53:
This is the device I have.

I see many variants of the A21 & A21S, but not this particular variant.

It is a BoostMobile device,

I'm including screenshots from PHONE_Info so there is no mistake about which device this is.

@minz1 It is my hope that you will look at this, and perhaps consider tackling this little B******!

You were fantastic when tackling the SM-J727P from Boost, and had I not physically destroyed

two of them trying, once again, to resurrect them (which I renamed Lazarus I, II ,III ,IV, V & lastly VI as each was resurrected)

I would still be happy as a clam using the Perx. But, Alas! They are gone for good and this was the Mid-price alternative from Boost.

I stay with Boost because after 4 years, I have 35G of Talk, Text & Data on my account AND 50G Hotspot!! WhoopWhoop!

So, I really hope you are looking for a new challenge.

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As seen below, there is NO OEM Unlock option,

and USB Debugging can be toggled.

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[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] charles.persinger:
I have the same device and I dont believe anyone is up for this challenge. There is still no real solid information across the web!! I have looked and looked.
[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] andrax4life:
im in middle of working on it right now. i know im late to this thread but for future refrence.

this is a compilation of multiple steps from several guides i can not assure you this will work but give it a try.

1: download magisk

1a. if you dont have connectivity on your phone enable usb debuging.

1a.2 download magisk apk on your computer and if install adb and {fastboot}

1a.3 use #adb push /path/to/magisk.apk /sdcard

2. build a recovery image by following the steps in this github repo

https://github.com/DozNaka/exynos3830-a21s-twrp

3. option A download a pre built rom from the bellow xda link

option B follow his manual rooting guide

https://xdaforums.com/t/root-possibility.4130739/page-3#post-83915657

like i said i dont know if this will work but it does logically fit and it cant hurt to try it. i will update when i succeed

-ANDRAX4life
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Ev0luti0n_:
hello folks! The problem is the following: Left softkey and right soft key do the same thing, and the messaging key and the internet explorer key also do the same thing. However, while writing an SMS the left softkey that is the send key, works properly, but only there.

This is the 2nd time i have the problem. The first one i had WM5 original, and flashed it with TNT beta, and had the phone hard spl'd, and it solve the problem.

Now i have the same problem again, but reflashing didn't solve it. I did have my qtek overclocked to 286 and was connected to activesync through USB at the time this happened again. Do you think that it melted down some tracks of they keyboard on the PCB or damaged any other component?

heres a screenshot of what happens when i press the left softkey on the today screen.

Although i only press the left softkey, it's as if i pressed also on the right softkey and typed up those numbers simultaneously and letters.. :|

Any help would be appreciated!
[Sony Xperia 1 III] Kylewolf:
Has anyone who has unlocked noticed any weird bugs, or notice any of the DRM removed like the xperia 1 II?
[Sony Xperia 1 III] Kylewolf:
Wanted to bump this since more people likely have the phone now
[Sony Xperia 1 III] Hippie459MN:
I unlocked my bootloader and rooted it first thing so I can't say if there are any ill effects but I have been using the phone for a few weeks now and everything is working perfect for me. I dont use Netflix or anything like that so I cant say about them. Also dont know if google pay works or not as I dont use it but I think with Magisk Hide it will work.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] OhayouBaka:
No features/DRM are lost since relocking bootloader on Xperia devices since 2019. On 2019 and 2020 devices, the only change would be the "Has been unlocked" flag value in service menu will be changed to "Yes". On 2021 devices such as the Xperia 1 III, this flag has disappeared from the service menu, so I don't think there's any downsides now.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaddieMoo68:
Hi how does side loading work android apk?, Specifically DPI .. Can i side load a 480dpi app on 1080 x 2280 pixels, 19:9 ratio (~442 ppi density) phone?.

would i notice any difference to the eye would it be ok for the phone? What will the difference be? I know universal is better or no dpi from my limited experience thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 1890170:
Sideloading an APK simply means to not download and install it via Google Play Store.
[OnePlus Nord N100 Questions & Answers] windlitbic:
I'm sure my question hasn't been answered yet, but is it possible to root without having a PC? I'm a novice when it comes to Android modification but the update to 11 and the new DSU dev option seem hopeful. I was hoping I could somehow use Termux to unlock bootloader and then flash with magisk patched boot.img. I'm on the Metro variant (oem unlocked). Screenshots of build info providedView attachment 5408421View attachment 5408423
[OnePlus Nord N100 Questions & Answers] thomaskmaagaard:
I'm not familiar with carrier locked phones. If it's OEM unlocked can't you just unlock bootloader with fastboot? It sure would be the easy option.
[OnePlus Nord N100 Questions & Answers] Fr3akyMurk:
Highly not adviced to root without a PC, i tried it once and bricked my phone.

The bootloader can be unlocked, boot into the bootloader (with adb: adb reboot bootloader) and then type (fastboot oem unlock)
[Google Pixel 4a Guides, News, & Discussion] JeBird:
I am trying to install Calyx OS on pixel 4a. I am new to this and have hit several snags in the process but am currently stuck and can not find anyone who has posted a similar problem with solution. I am installing using a microsoft surface pro running windows 10. I have adb and flashboot in the same folder as sunfish-factory-8.2.8 (from calyx website, not unzipped) and the device-flasher from the calyx website. I have updated the google USB driver and am able to unlock the device and find it with fastboot devices command. However, when I run the device-flasher and follow the steps (It seems you are actually not expected to have the device unlocked when starting), I get an error that says " 'powershell' is not a recognized internal or external command, operable program or batch file. " I have repeated the process on another older windows device running windows 7 and got the same error message. Is this a problem with the device-flasher or something with my devices and what is the process to complete installation? Thanks. View attachment 5408427
[Google Pixel 4a Guides, News, & Discussion] jawz101:
It looks like it runs a powershell script. I don't think Windows 7 comes w/ Powershell by default. It used to be a closed source install on Microsoft's site but it looks like they made it open source and now release it on Github.

Install PowerShell on Windows, Linux, and macOS - PowerShell

Learn about installing PowerShell on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

docs.microsoft.com

Installing PowerShell on Windows - PowerShell

Information about installing PowerShell on Windows

docs.microsoft.com

specifically, go here https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.1.4

and download either PowerShell-7.1.4-win-x86.msi or PowerShell-7.1.4-win-x64.msi depending on if you use 32 bit or 64 bit Windows and it should work.
[Google Pixel 4a Guides, News, & Discussion] JeBird:
Thank you for the help. The screenshot is from my surface pro 4 which has powershell. My older laptop may not have had powershell. I think in looking at another OS, that a script is needed to temporarily set the PATH or some sort of attribute so that powershell can be accessed by the executable file. I couldn't acuatlly figure out how to do this. So instead I loaded Graphene which has a surprisingly easy online set up. I haven't gotten to use it much to see if it is actually good but I could at least get it running on the phone.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ashishkotnala29:
Thanks a lot for this, I find this the only working solution for Pi-hole + unbound on Linux Deploy. I was able to run pi-hole from scratch on debian/ubuntu based images but was not able to get unbound running and not sure why it always gave SERVFAIL.

Anyways, this worked I wonder why...

On a separate note I tried updating pi-hole but it only updated FTL version to v5.13 and I know the core and web-interface is also updated and newer versions are released but for some reason pihole shows it's up to date in the "pihole -up" command BUT it shows update available on web interface (admin panel).

Can you let me know why?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
What model phone do you have?

CentOS 7 Was the only distro I could convince to work on every android phone. Android 4.x shipped with a 3.0 kernel and CentOS has a glibc juuuust old enough to be able to run with a kernel that old.

Yesterday I released version 1.5 which should take care of the update issue. Give that a shot and let me know how things look for you.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ashishkotnala29:
I dug into this more seems like this PR merge causes it: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/4475

I reverted the changes to that script and it worked. I made a comment on that PR, hopefully they'll fix.

Thanks for the update, I'll check it now.

I use Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G (codename: dior). Using my own self-built LineageOS 14.1 (Kernel 3.4.0). I understand the issues with having older kernel version with newer distributions and yes, you're right CentOS 7 would be perfect for this use case. Unfortunately pihole install script by default didn't support CentOS 7 on ARM so I didn't go that way initially.

Also, Is there a way I could check for newer versions of your container other than XDA?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
Hi Ashish, The 'official' page is located on GitHib:

https://github.com/DesktopECHO/Pi-hole-for-Android

Nice find with the git versioning issue! You can also just run ``p4a-install`` which does the same thing but skips the version check and force-installs the latest Pi-hole release. I think they will fix this... fyi the Pi-hole installer works on CentOS ARMv7, that may not have been the case a year or two ago. In any case if you're on Kernel 3.4 you should be able to get a modern distro running without too much grief. The project page on GitHub has all my fix-ups, you should be able to apply them against your preferred Linux flavour.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mrbox23:
Very nice! Running on OnePlus Nord N10 here. arm64-v8a
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mrbox23:
Few hours later...

Stopped for some reason...

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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mrbox23:
Going again, nothing is logged, however it seems to function well and good.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
Hi there, I'm pretty sure the disk resize had something to do with your issue -- I see "pihole -up" was complaining there was no disk space left.

For what it's worth, my Galaxy S2 has been running Pi-hole months at a time without issues.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
One more thing, just an FYI if you're interested... as of P4A update v1.5 you can tell Linux Deploy to install to a folder on your Android device instead of a disk image. That way you don't have to worry about filling up the image file.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
I rebuilt a newer version of Git (2.34) for CentOS 7 on ARMv7. I can upload the RPMs if you want to try out updating with that version instead. It's probably all academic anyway as the Pi-hole folks are working on a resolution.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ashishkotnala29:
Sure, thanks I can try that later.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
Here you go!

GIT 2.34 CentOS 7 ARM v7
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ashishkotnala29:
Had to figure out the dependencies and I only installed 4 packages out of all those and I think it is working... The results are promising.

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This test is on your v1.4 image because it makes sense there. Using old git 1.8.x we only got FTL update here.

Finally going through the update and it was a success!

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Thanks a lot for compiling these RPMs.

Here's are the prerequisites which are needed to install the RPMs you complied.

sudo yum remove -y git
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum install -y emacs-filesystem pcre2

Then only install git, git-core, git-core-doc and perl-Git. That's all!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ashishkotnala29:
We managed to figure out the issue. It was the "git fetch --tags origin" command on v1.8.x. For some reason this doesn't work the same as in modern git versions.

Discussion here: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/4475

Fix here: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/4575

Thanks for your help!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
You’re welcome! And thank you for chasing down that bug.

They had a similar issue with bash on CentOS 7 a few months ago. Next re-spin of P4A I think I’ll just include the updated Git just for a little extra insurance. Will also be switching to OpenSSH from DropBear (so Gravity Sync can work) now that I have sorted out why it wouldn’t start.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ashishkotnala29:
Hey @DesktopECHO I have a small issue idk who to ask maybe you've come across this in your testing.

I have a very old Chinese android tablet running Android v4.1.1 on kernel v3.0.8. It has 2 cores Cortex-A9.

Everything seems to work fine but as soon as I turn the screen off the detected core count reduces to 1. It's like 1 core is put to sleep and is no longer "visible" to the OS. I've verified this using the "htop" utility and on pi-hole web-ui (hover over green/red status beside load averages).

I am using wake lock apps to keep the Wifi performance high. I also tried changing CPU governor to ondemand/interactive/performance still same behavior. Any ideas how can I keep both cores online while keeping screen off?

EDIT: Seems to be working fine when switched to ondemand governor and restarting.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
Sometimes the closest you can get is to just turn down the screen brightness to zero which should be 'good enough' for most situations, we just need to find where that control is on your device.

Break out of chroot:

[android@localhost ~]$ unchroot

Find a hint for where screen brightness is controlled:

localhost:(unreachable) # find /sys/ -name brightness

For my device I get:

/sys/devices/platform/soc/1a00000.qcom,mdss_mdp/1a00000.qcom,mdss_mdp:qcom,mdss_fb_primary/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/soc/78b5000.i2c/i2c-1/1-005a/leds/vibrator/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/soc/7864900.sdhci/leds/mmc1::/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/soc/200f000.qcom,spmi/spmi-0/spmi0-03/200f000.qcom,spmi:qcom,pmi632@3:qcom,leds@d000/leds/charging/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/soc/200f000.qcom,spmi/spmi-0/spmi0-03/200f000.qcom,spmi:qcom,pmi632@3:qcom,leds@d000/leds/green/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/soc/200f000.qcom,spmi/spmi-0/spmi0-03/200f000.qcom,spmi:qcom,pmi632@3:qcom,leds@d000/leds/blue/brightness

In my case it was the first entry, so to confirm we'll try turning down the brightness:

echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/soc/1a00000.qcom,mdss_mdp/1a00000.qcom,mdss_mdp:qcom,mdss_fb_primary/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness

It worked! Sometimes you have to try 1 instead of 0 as the minimum value. Usually it's 0-255
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ashishkotnala29:
Thanks for this. Yeah I was aware that keeping screen on will let me achieve my goal but I was trying to avoid it unless absolutely necessary.

I've been using this app for keeping wake locks since for some reason the CPU and Wifi lock options in Linux Deploy app do not work for me on the two devices that I tested. "Partial wake lock" option in this app works great, keeps wifi up and CPU too while screen off.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] savvyyy:
I've googled something like this a month ago, it's like you guessed. Thank you so much @DesktopECHO !!

This is probably a very silly question but give me some leeway.

If I'm browsing the web on the android device where my pihole is deployed, shouldn't it be blocking ads as I'm browsing ?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
You're welcome! To use Pi-hole on your phone you would need to set the DNS to 127.0.0.1 so it knows to use the local Pi-hole DNS instead of whatever it would get from DHCP.

Also if your phone is on a mobile network instead of WiFi, you'll probably need a 3rd party app to override the DNS settings provided by the carrier. I have not played with that option too much but it should work if that's what you need.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] domekrap:
Hello everyone very warmly. I'm a new user, so if I'm writing wrong here or something like this already exists, don't put me up against a wall. I am looking for help how to root my Sharp SH-D1 phone. I am trying different applications but with zero success. Kingoroot takes an awfully long time to stop at 73% and they keep going up to 100% but still each time the root message fails. Can you help?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] HeyHoHoo:
Hey Linux deploy gives me a Error after start "rc.local..... fail"

How can i fix it ?

00:09:41] >>> start

[00:09:41] Checking file system ... skip

[00:09:41] Mounting the container:

[00:09:41] / ... skip

[00:09:41] /proc ... skip

[00:09:41] /sys ... skip

[00:09:41] /dev ... skip

[00:09:41] /dev/shm ... skip

[00:09:41] /dev/pts ... skip

[00:09:41] :: Starting core/emulator ... skip

[00:09:41] :: Configuring core/mnt ...

[00:09:41] :: Configuring core/net ...

[00:09:41] :: Starting init/run-parts:

[00:09:41] rc.local ... fail

[00:09:41] <<< start
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
People can't help you without the right information. Are you absolutely sure that is the correct model name? I don't see any information about that phone anywhere on the internet.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
Hi did you get this sorted out after? I think you may have asked for assistance on the GitHuib issues page.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ashishkotnala29:
Hi @DesktopECHO, hope you're keeping well.

I wanted to know the process of taking backup of the system/container and create a rootfs.tar for myself so I can migrate it from one device to another.

I do see a sysprep file in your repo, I assume I have to run that and then shutdown the container and after that I'm not sure how to create a tar for my image. Could you help me with the process?

Thanks!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DesktopECHO:
Hi there, in Linux Deploy there's an option to back up the image to a .tar.gz, then I can SFTP the image wherever it needs to go.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Harsha31:
Thank you for this guide.

I removed the battery of phone and connected directly to router USB port. It's working. Need to test for longer period of phone goes to deep sleep (happened overnight on battery)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ashishkotnala29:
If you haven't figured out yet then you can use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.wldonate&hl=en&gl=US

Keep it on "Processor" level so you can turn off the screen.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Harsha31:
Sorry, didn't update before . Phone doesn't go to sleep when charging. so all is working well.

Thank you for the hint