yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] ComfySofa:
Before i start many thanks to Aman - thanks for being extremely patient and helping out no end.!!

So, first and foremost i followed the instructions in the rooting guide and for me it went wrong. I wasnt sure i was doing it correctly but like following a **** satnav i blindly carried on and soft bricked it.....not to worry im all good again - this was my 3 week journey. I thought it would be good to put down my experience as while ive rooted a lot of phones in my life at the same time i dont do them that often so i always find that im always... "learning again".

Followed the instructions on the other thread and downloaded the image, extracted it using the payload dumper - that itself was a pain in the arse as i couldnt get the linked one running - spent a good few afternoons, gave up and found one called "payload dumper 2021" which gave me a convenient exe to run and that worked fine (hurdle one over) - im trying to find the link to it so i can post it here but i cant...if i can ill update this thread...

I think this is where i started going wrong...i patched the boot.img from the downloaded os and flashed my phone. I got a black screen after booting (looking like it was dead) but if i held down the power button the reboot window showed up. Tried a wipe of cache etc etc but it didnt change.....not sure what i did after that as it was 3 weeks ago but ended up with a softbricked phone - all it would do on boot was crash dump. i had fastboot and recovery.

I tried the MSM tool on 3 different bits of hardware and none worked. Always hit the Firehose timeout error at 16seconds.

I also tried manually flashing the images but hit an error when i tried to reflash the product and system images....filesystem error.

Cue Enhanced Fastboot

Release v1.3.0 · libxzr/FastbootEnhance

New icon Add support for opening zips with payload.bin inside Add support for showing progress on taskbar

github.com

Put the phone into fastbootd and away you go. I actually had a couple of these phones to do so used the Oxygen updater to get the latest version of the os (i got 11.0.11.11EB13BA) - extracted that, patched it with magisk so it was ready to go.

Once i had reflashed the phone - using the enhanced fastboot Aman told me to delete the "cow" paritions first - this was where i was hitting the error manually flashing. Browse to the payload.bin file and it did the rest. Phone rebooted and it was alive again. Back into fastboot to install the patched boot,img (this was taken from 11.0.11.11EB13BA). Once rebooted i installed magisk by copying it over to the phone first and then a straight install.

Reboot the phone again, once booted with usb debugging on i then launched "adb shell" then type "su" - the request for root appeared on the phone and im done,

Not sure what the legalities of sharing the above OS image and the patched boot.img that goes with it are.

If anyone gets stuck ill try my best to help as others have helped me.
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] Sony make.believe:
Told ya, that the people in the telegram group could may help you out! :)

Happy to hear that everything is working again 👍
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] ComfySofa:
Yep - many thanks - just trying to help spread the knowledge a bit.!
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] sam_htc_touch:
Hi, seems like I have managed to brick my phone as well that was received this morning only and I proceeded to root it. Tried the MSM Tool, but that doesn't seem to be detecting the OnePlus Nord CE 5g, device manager showed my phone as QUSB_BULK_CID:... which wasn't correct so installed the QualComm USB Drivers from here after which the phone was detected as QDLoader9008..However, that doesn't seem to have helped as well as there was absolutely nothing happening in the MSM Tool

Am wondering what can be done to revive the phone?
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] ComfySofa:
Well, lets try.....first and foremost you need a rom and you need the enhanced fastboot software.....ill see if i can find a link...
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] ComfySofa:
Try this version....

[TOOL][Windows] Fastboot Enhance [Payload Dumper & Image Flasher]

Fastboot Enhance What it can do? - Show fastboot vars - Switch between fastbootd & bootloader - Switch between A & B slot - Flash Payload.bin in fastbootd - Flash images - Erase partitions - Delete logical partitions - Create logical partitions...

xdaforums.com

Then, get it into fastbootd mode....
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] ComfySofa:
Once youre in fastbootd mode - can be fiddly....get the latest plaform tools download and type in fastboot reboot fastboot while your in standard fastboot mode (with the green "start" at the top left)

youll know when your in fastbootd as it looks like recovery but says fastbootd in the middle of the screen....launch the fastboot enhanced and the click on the load payload.bin file from the extracted .zip file of the rom you downloaded - i got 11.0.11.11 using the oxygen downloader app but if youre phone is bricked im not sure than can be loaded up on another phone....
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] sam_htc_touch:
Thanks for the super quick response :)

I had already tried the Fastboot Enhance v1.3.0, but that doesn't seem to detect my phone either. Wondering if I have lost ADB etc and hence the phone is not being detected anymore? And that is the first thing that needs to be fixed somehow?
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] ComfySofa:
Youre more than welcome....its needs to be in fastbootd mode for the enhanced fastboot to do its work....what have you got at the moment onscreen?
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] sam_htc_touch:
It's completely black, I was earlier able to get into Recovery Mode, but that's no longer happening as well - Did manage to somehow come into Safe Mode (shown at the bottom left corner) earlier but at the moment its completely black.
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] ComfySofa:
ok. if you hold the power and up volume down without the usb cable in to hard reset it then when it vibrates the once hold the down volume button down (hopefully that should get it into standard fastboot mode)
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] sam_htc_touch:
somehow not able to get into fastboot mode anymore, it shows the standard warning about bootloader being unlocked and then proceeds to attempt to boot with red dot in between and smaller white circles revolving around it...this goes into an endless loop - the only way to come out of that is by long pressing the power button which brings up the option to either "power off" or "restart"

and the story repeats :-(
[OnePlus Nord CE 5G] ComfySofa:
Well, if its any consolation yours is in better shape than mine was....youve still got a sort of working os.....! mine just went to crash dump mode....99% sure youve still got fastboot its just gonna be a bit of a faff getting into that mode....definately the way youre doing the key pressing/holding...
[General Questions and Answers] ashekanet:
does sony japan versions (eg :-xz3 801SO) have different hardware from global versions (xz3 h8416)?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Digs:
I have an imate jasjar

I need to do a soft reset.

My standard soft reset button (external point) is broken, doesnt work.

MY VGA screen is not showing certain menu items at the bottom. So installing software isnt much help.

Q: Is there any way to run a soft reset from finding the soft reset *.EXE in the windows directory of WM5 on the pocket pc ?

What other means of running a soft reset do I have ?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Digs:
Taking the battery out for a while seam to instigate a soft reset...phew !
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] nighthawk626:
To everyone that's been having horrible battery life on this phone and people didn't believe it, I've found the problem. Not sure what cheap parts they used but the 5g is the problem. I disabled my 5g and I was able to to go from 6 hours 100% -30% to 10 hours 100% - 30% with the same use. If you want to save more battery, just leave battery saver on. Disable the extreme battery saver though.

I've found that I'm able to use the phone for the whole day with little loss to function this way. Good luck to you all.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Morgrain:
That's the general consent of this forum and has always been the primary advice for people with battery life. problems. In like... 15 threads. But of course it's nice to see that you managed to improve your battery life.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] miravision:
External Samsung Exynos modem inefficiencies to blame here. VoWifi saves more
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] ram4ufriends:
How did you disable 5G?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] parakleet:
I have noticed improved battery life by disabling smooth display.

Doing so sets your display at 60 all the time.

the constant thrashing between 60-120 was killing my battery.

I expect this will be resolved in future updates
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] blaze909090:
Don't forget to leave your display turned off, that freakin' bug needs to be solved asap!!1
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] nighthawk626:
Dial *#*#4636#*#* then switch network to LTE/wcdma or something similar that doesn't have 5g in front of it
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] racetrack_rob:
Unfortunately still get massive drain with NR(5G) disabled.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] nighthawk626:
To think I passed up on buying my first ever iPhone with the 13 pro max just to buy this **** stain of a phone. I can never trust Google for another phone ever again
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] lemonspeakerz:
Why not just go to settings and select 4g as preferred? Doesn't that disable 5g?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Alekos:
some carriers don't allow you to do that (Fi, maybe AT&T, some in the EU etc etc)

just be careful using that dial code. I recommend anyone going into that setting, take a screenshot of the default "Network type" each carrier/region/country uses a different setting. there's like 19 different ones. you won't hurt your phone but it might cause a headache.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] henihazbay:
Whatever you do nothing really fixes Mobile network standby and horrible 5g drain. Unfortunately
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] EeZeEpEe:
The only thing that we can hope for is the "General improvements in network stability and performance" listed in the changelog helps. Personally, I haven't seen more than 17% battery usage for mobile network standby over 24 hours.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Shipoftheline:
Talking of battery I was told this P6P has an adaptive display like the iphone 13 pro which would go down to 10hz but when I activated the on screen display it only went down to 60 which is the same as the S21 Ultra so another Google lie
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] nighthawk626:
It's very clear by now that Google outright lied about a bunch of stuff to sell this phone. Using cheap parts to sell a premium phone. The software improvements don't mean sh*t if the hardware got worse. Especially battery life and signal strength and consistency
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Lughnasadh:
From what I understand, the screen display (from developer options) uses SurfaceFlinger to show refresh rate but SurfaceFlinger can't show/detect anything below 60Hz. Anything below that can only be shown/detected by the display controller. So the screen display will only show as low as 60Hz even if it's at 10Hz.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] skyman631:
Fi allows you to disable 5g, but you have to be in "Safe Mode" to do it.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Alekos:
i didn't elaborate. some carriers allow the change in normal mode, others in safe mode and some only in the dialer menu... and rarely, some in the EU don't even allow the change in the dialer menu to stay.

anyway, disabling Wifi Calling helped idle drain for me but it was only a 2 night test. went from 1.4% /hr drain to 0.3% when idle. that's a lot. too bad I need the feature.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] lemonspeakerz:
Tell me why I would not want to disable Wi-Fi calling. I have been using it by default but I'm not sure if I'm benefiting it from it at all. So if it's draining my battery I would love to disable it. At the moment my battery is not stellar, but it could be much better since it's such a large battery.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] pcriz:
They said they really need it. Depends on your signal situation where you make the most calls and texts. If your mobile signal is trash at home then wifi calling would offset that. If you aren't benefitting. Turn it off.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Alekos:
so my office and room are in a basement so I spend 70% of the day "underground". If I have wifi calling disabled, I don't get calls about 40-60% of the time. texts always work because it uses wifi using RCS (I mostly use Signal so it's all good there). so it's just calls. If I had a stable mobile connection (even 1 or 2 bars, but 100% stable) then I would turn it off.

Just depends on your situation. Materials, cell towers, carrier, the moon etc all play a role in how stable your mobile connection is. many think 1 or 2 bars is bad but it isn't 2011 anymore. you can have a stable connection at lower bars, but also unstable too. most just don't know what to look for. (Excellent app is Network Cell Info Lite on playstore)
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] lemonspeakerz:
Thank you for this information. To expand on my question with this new information, I actually haven't used any other WIFI (for the last two years) aside from my home's WIFI. But at home, I get a decent cell signal.

Would you say it would be safe to then disable wifi calling? I wonder how much better battery i'd get.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Alekos:
I have 2 wifi AP's saved in my phone. if I do have to use another wifi.... scratch that I never do. I'll use a different phone with no information if I have to.

it's hard to say. charge your phone to 100% one night before bed. turn wifi calling off and see how it goes. if you lose 3% but lose 18% when it's on, then you know it's a big deal. it might only be 3% or 4%, in that case I would keep it on. easy to test it.

but it's such a good feature. it makes calling so stable and clear. I have faith they'll fix it. but who knows, for me it was only 2 days of testing. going to try this trick for a few days:
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] jimv1983:
That isn't surprising at all. Even with 5G off it's bad but not as bad. The Exynos 5123 modem is the problem. It's total garbage. It's so inefficient that Samsung should be ashamed of releasing that modem at all
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] selayan:
Let's see if the January update manages to improve that modem with some software updates. Buut you really can't fix bad hardware with software. Lots of the reviewers also mentioned they had no issues with battery drain which is pretty much a lie at this point.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Excuse me. Please do not accuse others who have no problem with battery drain of lying. I do not claim that anyone who is having a problem doesn't, and you shouldn't be claiming that those who aren't having a problem actually are.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] selayan:
I honestly don't know how you concluded I am accusing you specifically or anyone else of that from my post? This is my observation from watching several Youtube reviews on the phone, MKBHD was the only one that mentioned the battery was bad but also did not mention the inefficient modem. Also includes my observation after going through the Google Pixel Support Forums and the subreddit as well.

I am not claiming anything other than my own experience with the phone. Not sure why you got so upset over that statement, as personally if someone else had said that I would think nothing more of it.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I'm not upset. You said that reviewers are lying. I think it's rude for you to claim that others are lying. That does not match your newer statement that (you are) "not claiming anything other than my own experience".

Likewise, I didn't claim that you called me a liar. It was a demonstration.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Morgrain:
Quite unlikely. Ergo: No. That just mean that these people had no problems. Since a phone has more than 10000 factors playing a role for battery life, like

- 4g or 5g?

- lots of wifi or mobile network?

- how many apps are running in the background?

- how much nits does a person need to be satisfied? I know people that like a dark display, then there are people that need full screen brightness ramped up, those two people will have night vs day experiences with a phone (5h SoT vs 10h SoT)

- what's your climate? Does your phone need to cool down often?

- What kinds of apps do you use? 3 hours Youtube will amount to the same amount of battery usage like 1 hour of gaming

- How many services are running in the background? Hello Google? Accessibility stuff? Now playing? AoD? ALL of that is putting a drain.

- How many apps are doing updates or backups in the background? Some need to be configured to do it at night. Both account to deepsleep being a distant dream, meaning the idle % usage will be higher than need be.

Et cetera.

The problem is: Battery life differs. Then on top of that will come A12 as being buggy and that battery usage might differ in two matching pairs of phones, meaning if they both get used side by side, with the same usage, they might have a different battery life (especially since the battery capacity can differ massively - there are people with 5200 mAh running around, whilst others have shown their 4700-4800 mAh capacity - that's easily 10% difference out of the box, and there is nothing that you can do about that).
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] selayan:
Reviewers should be more critical but that isn't the case all the time it seems because no one wants to lose sponsorship/ perks of course.

Its just weird to see the varying user reports, obviously people with issues are more likely to complain, but I also find it hard to believe that every reviewer got a perfect handpicked phone to test. I felt like after I watched so many reviews and then used the phone myself, read other people's experiences, talked to friends that also have the phones too; sometimes I wonder, how or why did they miss or not talk about this at all?

It is actually the reviewers/influencers overall that could drive changes for future of these phones and I would want that to have a positive effect on the next Google Flagship.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Morgrain:
NEVER, EVER fully trust a reviewer that gets free products. They will get cherrypicked, top-notch products that do not represent what you get on the shelf. Even IF they are legit/honest, they will still get the best performing products that are usually not the ones you get as a customer when walking into a store, since ESPECIALLY most tech devices come down to a chip lottery. Most of the "big" tech reviewers cannot be trusted, even though I'd lay a portion of my hand in the fire for Anthony from linus.

There are some legit reviewers out there, that ONLY buy products of the shelf like you and me - those you can trust without greater problem.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] selayan:
This is true, there are several factors. I feel like most people use the phones as they get them out the box with all features default enabled by Google. I wish some of the reviews would have broken down their usage patterns and settings so at least there is some baseline. Some people do this, but its hard to get a good feel of that baseline.

Reminds me of Digital Foundry and how they break down performance for certain video games on PC vs Console or Gamer's nexus where they get into details of comparisons but who am I kidding, no one will do that for phones!
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Morgrain:
That's actually one of the greatest problems that tech reviewers quite can't handle. All those GPU tests and CPU tests on barebone testbenches with perfect airflow and cherrypicked chips... worthless. We need tests that showcase real world usage, meaning I want a benchmark where in the background

a) Steam is doing an update

b) Discord is running with a videocall

c) Displayfusion, XBOX, Nvidia Broadcast, Onedrive, GHub for Microfone etc. (just examples) are running in the background

d) ofc you also have a browser with 60 tabs on a second monitor

e) the products were bought off shelf, meaning no cherrypicking

f) put the darn PC in a box/"case" BELOW the table, right in between some other stuff, partially suffocating and gasping for fresh air

e) et cetera, get creative

And THEN benchmark Battlefield, or Cyberpunk, or whatever. 'Cuz that will be the FPS that people can get real-world. Not those cherry picked test-bench scenarios.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] steelersmb:
I was a beta tester and just received the final version and ever since my phone is running very slow and burns through the battery. Is anyone else having this issue? The last beta was working great but this is horrible!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] steelersmb:
There was an update today and it's running much better now.
[Windows 11] jenneh:
EDIT-- This post is super old (but still works).

Another method (maybe better for your use case?) is the Aurora store. Please see the COMMENTS SECTION.

How To Download any app on the playstore, Without installing GMS, GAPPS, AMAZON, Or any other App Store

EVOZI:

https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/

GOOGLE PLAY STORE:

Android Apps on Google Play

Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. Anytime, anywhere, across your devices.

play.google.com

Simply paste the playstore link to evozi, of the app you want to download!

This is not warez, you Can Not Download Paid apps.

This site just caches and backs up all our favorite apps.

Rarely, if you're looking for something too obscure, it will not be able to locate it.

Have Fun :D
[Windows 11] :
Google Play Store lets you download and install Android apps on an Android-powered phone or tablet or emulator if GMS Core already are installed thereon.
[Windows 11] jenneh:
Sometimes evozi will say something about "you're being rate limited" and it won't work. I think this is bc they are getting too much traffic. I use Evozi in this example, as it is the cleanest (adless) experience, but do bare in mind you can always use other Mirrors~! sites like APKpure.com are mostly safe
[Windows 11] synackers:
any idea how does https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ work as am trying to automate some work and i dont want to depend on apk-downloader or any other mirror
[Windows 11] jenneh:
@synackers sorry I just now had the time to research what I wanted to share. There's a "store" that has access to the playstore repositories, that is open source, and gives the user the freedom to choose to enable google features or not. This works on windows phones too and I would guess WSA too?

It is called the "aurora store" it's website is here:

auroraoss

None

auroraoss.com

This is still new to me so I can not explain it personally but the knowledge is available :)

This article explains a little about it and shows pictures

Maybe they have a github repo somewhere you can obtain the code you need to dl things

Hope it helps!
[Windows 11] synackers:
Hi Jeneh , to be honest am not interested in any open source apk mirroring available in internet

am seeking to understand how auroraoss or evozi actually works behind the screen ... how do they give you apk to be downloadable is also fetched from other mirror or do they have google developer and google offer any api to play store ..etc

more deep technical details is of my interest . i do appreciate your feedback