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[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] danielristov:
Hi friends please help me, i have XIAOMI REDMI 5 PLUS. Everything was working fine, i put my phone on charger on the night, and in the morning phone was turned off.. i try to power on and only happens Bootloop (stuck at MI logo about 20 seconds, and restart) i tried to flash all of this version One by One via EDL mode, and my phone still dont want to turn on.

Bootloader is Locked (it is immpossible to unlock because it wont turn on) , so via Fastboot i can't flash other recovery like TWRP..

These are all versions i try to flash one by one in EDL mode (test Points).. Every flash was end successful but phone only bootloop..

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[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] joke19:
Flash the last fastboot rom with miflash tool and a short path. Example: C:/ROM/(unpacked rom inside)
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] danielristov:
i tried now with the last version of rom, flash was success like with the others versions of rom's, but phone still bootloop
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] joke19:
You clean all or save user data
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] joke19:
Clean all and wait. https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/miui/vince/
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] joke19:
Maybe wipe data in stock recovery help
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] danielristov:
yes, i flash new firmware with Clean All options.. I tried and with Save user data option, but same problem happen.. It dont want to go in recovery to wipe data, only stays Mi logo.. the only options is Fastboot, but bootloader is locked and it is impossible to unlock without working phone.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] joke19:
Extrac

Extract the stock recovery then fastboot boot recovery.img or first fastboot reboot recovery
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] danielristov:
with "fastboot boot recovery.img" i got message : FAILED ( remote: unlock device to use this command )

with "fastboot reboot recovery.img" it says uknown reboot target recovery....
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] joke19:
Fastboot reboot recovery without .img
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] danielristov:
i tried with and without .img , it says: uknown reboot target recovery
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers] joke19:
Sorry ideas more
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] Habeebi:
Guys i might sound stupid, but I want to try something weird, I like Poco f3 on eu rom everything is good, but I was thinking if I can swipe 48mp camera module to 108mp is that a good idea will it work, did some one has though about this Bec I'm gonna try it or
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] laid1995:
What do you mean by module.

Like you want remove the camera device and put another?
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] hairyfred:
Swapping a camera module is very very unlikely to work.

Even if it has the same connector high chance it still wouldnt work hardware wise

AND even if it was physically hardware compatible, you would still need to do a lot of dev work to get it functional software wise

tldr not possible/feasible
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] Habeebi:
In china Redmi k40 pro + is same as Poco f3 but there is different in camera module it's 108mp and Poco f3 is 48
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] Habeebi:
What do you think about Redmi k40/ pro / pro plus in china are all same and rebranded as Poco f3 globally don't you think there might be chance that would work Bec it's same tho Humm
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] Rstment ^m^:
buy it then and let us know
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] CHGICEMAN:
As you write yourself, there are different Redmi K40. But there is no different Poco F3.

If so, only the K40 without "Pro" or "Pro Plus" are the same as the Poco F3.

The Pro, for example, has a different SoC and a different camera, namely 64MB.

The Pro Plus has a 108MB camera.

Redmi K40 vs K40 Pro vs K40 Pro+: Specs Comparison - Gizmochina

Xiaomi internal comparison between Redmi K40, K40 Pro and K40 Pro+.

www.gizmochina.com

As the others have already written, the hardware may have to be done differently, but in any case the drivers and the software in the ROM must be adapted. Just swapping it out will 100% not work.
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] pressy03:
Wouldn't it be easier to buy 108mp phone and flash it to global miui? Just a suggestion
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Fred Newman:
Can anyone assist me in getting a WM6 original Rom for my tytn II in order for me to downgrade from 6.1 . A pointer to a download link would do :)

thanks in advance
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] pfcsabre:
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[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] Charleh:
My wife bought an S7+ from Amazon and it's been fine for a couple of months. She had a popup today which warned that the device would be locked because it was part of a trade in scheme and there was some sort of problem. I assumed some sort of malware but I was working so I didn't do much with it but now the device appears to have locked into a sort of "kiosk mode" where we just get 2 screens:

All the blurb is plastered with "Samsung Electronics UK" but the domain the email is going to is "tradeinresponse.co.uk" which after some Googling seems to have been linked with some scam stuff in the past.

I've tried safe mode with the same locked screen, plugging the tablet into a PC results in it locking to the first screen.

I can get into recovery and I wanted to try a wipe, but the wife has some drawings on there she's done in Sketchbook that she would like to keep.

I'm a software developer by profession but I work with Windows/.NET and SaaS stuff so I've not got much experience with droid devices (a bit of java here and there in the past, but not so much XP with the OS itself)

So my questions are:

Does anyone know if this is any sort of official thing or is this malware/scam stuff as I suspect?

Is a factory reset likely to resolve the issue?

If I want to factory reset, can I pull files off the devices internal SD via ADB or some other tool before I do it?

Do I have any other options?

Kind of a wind up - I'd just have factory reset it by now to find out but like I said, I don't want to lose any of the wife's data if possible. If she gets anything back I'm going to make sure she sticks it in the cloud.

Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] blackhawk:
Always backup critical data redundantly to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC.

Or you will lose data eventually.

Factory reset but you will lose all data. If the drive is encrypted, you likely already have.

Sounds like ransomware. Contact Samsung and do some Google searches. See what you got and if there are any work arounds.

You may need to reload the OS completely if it's a rootkit and running on Android 8 or below.

This could be a nasty little bugger...

If it wasn't present on the device when purchased, your wife either downloaded or installed it. She needs to be more careful!!!

Maybe this will impress that onto her...
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] Charleh:
Thanks for the advice but I've already googled as much as I can. The domain doesn't go anywhere except a holding page though through reverse lookup it seems there are also other domains on the same host including some legitimate businesses that appear to do Samsung second life schemes for devices.

I've googled the actual lock message but no-one on the net seems to have seen it before.

The wife hasn't installed anything, she got the device a few weeks ago (from Amazon, supposedly new) and did a transfer from her old s6 (that has gone to my daughter) to the s7 using Smart Switch. Since then she's not installed any other applications.

It's not "critical data", per se, it's just drawings she'd like to keep, plus copying stuff onto physically disparate hard drives seems a bit overkill given she can just drop the files into a cloud storage account and have way more redundancy than you/I could ever reproduce by doing manual backups.

I'm posting in an s7 forum about an s7 so it's going to be running Android 10 at the minimum (given that's what the device ships with). Not sure why the comments about Android 8.

Anything she could have installed would have been from the Play store (and I don't believe she installed anything other than what automatically installed from what was on her old s6), plus her apps are from a reputable vendors (Autodesk etc). My son has a tablet and he installs all sorts of crap and hasn't had this issue because the OS prevents stuff like this from happening unless you allow side loading.

Is it possible to install a rootkit from the play store? I didn't think so ..?

So, either it was on there when we got it, it's legit or it's a vulnerability that exists in the OS and we are some of the first people to see it...
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] blackhawk:
You can do what you want but any backup database that requires a password can be lost.

I have close to a dozen backup hdds, there's no way to I can lose my entire database.

At least use 2 OTG flashsticks to completely backup the data but hdds are still preferable.

NEVER encrypt data drives... and verify the backups are complete and readable.

As to how it happened you're going to have to sort that out or suffer the same fate possibly again in the future.

A factory reset seems inevitable at this point.

Afterwards change all passwords.

Malware has always existed on Playstore albeit not much or for long. She may have imported from your daughter's phone.

You got some potentially gigantic problems now.

Personally I would have already gone full nuke by now. It's simply not worth the risks.

In the future hawk the download folder daily for files you didn't authorize. Delete any unknowns without opening. Scrutinize all downloads and installs carefully, always. Scan as needed with Malwarebytes. Online Virustotal can be used to scan smaller files and apks.

There are also maliciously scripted jpegs too that can cause damage to any files in the same folder when opened. Be aware of any changes or strange behavior in the download folder. Vet all downloads before moving into your database.

Use a good brower like Brave and be careful what links you click, in the browser, emails and texts.

I can't even begin to estimate how many websites I backed out of, closed that tab or wiped the browser data over in the last year alone. Better safe than sorry. Zero malware infections in over 1.5 years and that's running on outdated Pie.

Almost all malware, rootkits etc are loaded by the user. Some will self install if the device's security isn't configured correctly or if not spotted on a timely basis. Androids, even ones with out of date OSs are generally very secure unless the user does something stupid... learn or get burned.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] Charleh:
With all due respect we aren't getting anywhere here, I don't want backup advice or malware advice, I want to know the answers to the few small questions I asked about whether this is legit and if I can access the device files or not.

You seem to be convinced it's malware, you also seem to be skim reading my posts which is fine - but I don't think your input is helping me.

I'm not going to use a different "paranoid" browser - chrome is fine, the tablet doesn't have a "security configuration" that is any different from the hundreds of thousands of other S7+ devices out there since it's a tablet and out the box it's ready to go. I'm not checking the downloads folder daily just in case some random malware has somehow "installed itself" onto my device, I'm also not keeping random flash sticks and hard drives lying about - I'll just use that geo redundant pretty solid cloud storage like most of the populace.

Yes you can put malicious content in a JPEG or a JPEG header, but it requires that there's an exploit in the OS or the app opening it (for example hiding a javascript eval in the file metadata); I don't think that's an attack vector on a tablet as far as I know given that she only browses, watches Netflix and draws using her S-pen on the device.

She's not imported "malware" from someone else's phone because if you read my post properly you'd understand that it was HER device that she transferred her data from - one that she's since given to the daughter (who has no issues). If you know how Smart Switch works you'd know that it's an unlikely vector (it just transfers data from application storage and then reinstalls the apps from the play store), plus the fact the original device doesn't have the issue...

Stop telling me to "learn or get burned". This is not a "misuse" problem. The wife is on Android 10, it's a relatively new and secure O/S and she didn't install anything she shouldn't have (she didn't actually install anything at all - it was the stock samsung application and the play store that installed the apps she ALREADY HAD on her previous device). It's not a "learn" scenario. Nothing she did should have caused this - if it is/was an OS exploit or some sort of security issue what could she have done to prevent it? Nothing.

What I have done is:

* Contacted the vendor of the device (we can still send it back if they've sent us a refurbed device instead of new as advertised)

* Sent an email to the address advertised to see what response I get (if they demand money then clearly a scam)

I've checked and the domain in the above shares a host with a company called MTR which happens to be a DCC Group company (one of the groups of companies I actually consult for) so worst case I'll speak to someone from DCC Group and see if they can shed any light.

Seems like it might be legit and quite possibly a mix up.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] blackhawk:
Do what you will... if you understand the origin of that phrase.

Anything that can't be IDed is considered malware until proven innocent🧐

The fact that you're now completely locked out speaks volumes.

Good practices and backup are your only defenses. They apply to the future not the past... so much for flavors🤣

Personally I think it's already too late for that device's OS load and data.

Of course I could be mistaken.

If you really want the data, take it to a data recovery specialist. They may be able to recover it.

When your at the beginning you can determine how potential data lose will end. When at the end, the outcome has already been predetermined by your actions or lack of.

You are now at the end... likely a dead end.

Been there, done that... actions have consequences.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] AnonVendetta:
@Charleh: if I were you, I would back up all important data and do a clean firmware flash with Odin. And a factory reset on top of that, just to be sure. Definitely sounds like you got hit by a scammer.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] Charleh:
Like I said there's not really any important data on there, just some drawings the wife would like to keep. Also, I can't backup anything since I can't access the device.

I'll probably just speak to DCC group and see if this company is one of theirs.

If the data is lost we are just talking some drawings the wife has done, there's nothing important on there, she just loses the layers (they are stored as multi page tiffs and sketchbook uses those as layers). She has all the images as flat renders on her cloud storage drive and on Instagram.

Think we just need to invest in some extra cloud storage as the free 15gb that Google give you isn't enough to store what she wants at the moment as the images are tens of megabytes each.

Worst case scenario I factory reset and flash it, best case I get someone at DCC telling me what's what.

The bit that gets me is that there are no ransom demands at this point so I can't be sure what's what. Usually by now with crypto ransom malware you are already being given demands...

We will see.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] Charleh:
It's not a big deal mate.

Stop flogging a dead horse, the most annoying thing is just that the device is unusable, regardless of me making backups or signing a pact with the devil or putting candlewax on my nips, it wouldn't have prevented this from happening..

The only reason I haven't tried a factory reset up to now is because if there's a chance I can get the drawings off the device I'd like to try it first before I nuke it.

Stop talking about my lack of actions, it's getting really boring. There's nothing I could do to forsee this happening and not my fault the wife didn't put the drawings on her cloud storage.

Go bother someone else with your multiple flash disk tinfoil hat backup routines (I bet you've got a tape drive in that routine somewhere too), stop trying to be helpful by saying "told you so" after the fact, instead try answering the questions I asked.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] AnonVendetta:
@Charleh: The way I see it is this:

The device's data partition/internal storage (where the drawings are stored) are encrypted by default, by Samsung. So, unless you can manage to use a MTP USB connection or ADB to make copies of them, then you're locked out and there's nothing you can do to recover them. Since they're located in an encrypted area, I highly doubt that even a professional data recovery business would be able to get them back. There are certain encryptions out there that even the US govt (NSA/CIA/FBI) can't break.

I'm assuming that you're not a l33t hax0r with uber skills, so unless you can successfully boot into Android again, your recovery chances are almost zero.

Or, maybe this company can help you out. It's worth a shot. But if I were a gambling man, I'd wager a lot of money that you will end up having to clean flash/reset, without being able to recover anything.

In the future, think about making copies of this stuff before bad things occur. As the saying goes, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, sooner or later. I rarely lose access to my data because I'm frequently backing it up.

Good luck!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] Charleh:
Thanks - that was a helpful answer. I suspected that droid encrypted the data - I was looking at making an ADB connection using Android tools. Might as well give it a try before I nuke.

I can't use MTP as the device auto locks when I plug in a USB cable.

Like I've said a few times it's not a massive issue if I lose the data - I work in IT, I know the importance of backing up important data. I've seen a client lose months worth of data to crypto-ransomware (they cancelled their backup solution a few months before saying they were moving to Azure soon so they didn't need it).

I've explained though, it's not my device and it's up to the wife to put her stuff on her cloud storage if she wants to keep it. She uses Google Drive for her docs etc.

Worst case scenario I complain to Amazon, wife is saying she doesn't remember the screen having a protector/film on it when she opened it and we still have time to return/exchange it since I have a Prime account.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] AnonVendetta:
@Charleh: AFAIK, Amazon has a 30 day no questions asked return policy for almost everything. If you're still within that return window, then I guess you just have to decide whether the loss of drawings is worth returning it, assuming all recovery efforts fail. I bought my Tab S7+ new direct from Samsung, I haven't encountered like what you describe. And your edge case is the first one I've seen.

I think it's possible that you bought a refurbished device that was preowned but sold as new. The original buyer didn't finish paying it off, returned it, it's sold to you, you get this message. It's either legitimately locked, or someone has remotely locked it and intends to scam you. Contact that company ASAP.

Another option is to find a local techie/shop that can remove this lock for a fee, preferably without data loss. They make want to see proof of purchase, if they're legit. This would at least give you the ability to use the device again. People used to bring me locked phones/tabs all the time, this is pretty much what I did for side cash. As long as they didn't outright admit they were stolen, I didn't care.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] Charleh:
Ok speaking to Samsung support and it's legit - what's happened is that someone's returned the device to the supplier after doing a trade in with it and receiving a new device from Samsung Trade In.

Supplier has refunded us and told us to keep the device until the issue is resolved with Samsung.

Now fighting with Samsung themselves about it. Absolute pisstake.

Basically I have a brick and although Samsung have the capability to unlock the device through Knox they won't do it until a resolution is found with the supplier.

Fun-times. Sent a complaint email to Samsung as they are essentially holding the wife's artwork to ransom because of an issue they have created with the rules of their trade-in program.

I've already received the refund too - sounds like the Amazon reseller is trying to wash their hands of it.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] AnonVendetta:
@Charleh: So, they refunded you AND they're going to let you keep the tablet? I'd be quite happy with that.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] Charleh:
Depends if the tablet is ever going to be functional again...

Fingers crossed!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] rkrigsman:
Time to reflash, ODIN or do whatever and see if you can and up with his + hers new(sort of) tablets.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] Alecrox:
Hello, some solution?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] corb06:
How did this end?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer] Charleh:
still ongoing - Amazon is trying to get hold of the original supplier but they've gone dark; I complained to Samsung and they are looking into it, just waiting for a reply.

They took almost a month to get back to me - only did so when I started complaining publicly on all social media platforms (Twitter, Instagram etc) - they don't like it when you do that.

Will update when I know more.