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[Google Pixel 6] Biggenz:
I find the camera pretty crappy if I'm honest. Detail in all of my pictures, including in well lit areas, are mediocre at best.

Night mode is absolutely useless too. If I compare it to my old Huawei Mate 20 Pro night mode pictures, there is no comparison.

Thinking of getting rid of the Pixel and getting something with an actual decent camera.
[Google Pixel 6] LLStarks:
Pixel shots have a very specific look. It's not always realistic but it's beautiful. Live HDR and zero shutter lag are so nice.

If you're coming from a OnePlus phone, it can be a literal night and day difference in quality.
[Google Pixel 6] vandyman:
Is it possible that it is the selfie images that is breaking the camera? 😉
[Google Pixel 6] sic0048:
What hype was there with this camera? Sure it has a new sensor that was talked about quite a bit, but everyone was saying that they picture quality was NOT different than the older Pixel models.
[Google Pixel 6] neptun2:
It is different but you need to try raw shooting to see the differences. Google's jpeg processing is far too aggressive regarding noise reduction so the small details are lost and stock jpegs look similar to older pixels. I will take some pictures these days to show the difference between stock jpeg and one converted from raw.
[Google Pixel 6] neptun2:
Here are links to stock jpeg from phone and one generated from raw file via adobe lightroom:

JPEG from raw:

jpeg from raw.jpg

drive.google.com

Stock jpeg:

stock jpeg.jpg

drive.google.com

For me the raw file generated by the pixel 6 (especially with night mode) is very good. It has a lot of detail and low amount of noise. In this case i have not applied any post processing except the auto button in adobe lightroom mobile hence no noise reduction and sharpening at all. If you prefer sharper and cleaner picture this raw file can handle both without any problem. Comparing the two pictures main problems with google's stock jpeg looks to be following:

1. Too much sharpening

2. Too aggressive HDR bringing up some nasty noise from the shadows

3. Too aggressive noise reduction. IT is not only very aggressive removing some fine details but it is also applied in different levels in different zones causing patches which are more smeared than the rest of the picture. For me this looks very ugly.

As i doubt that google will give us and settings to adjust jpeg processing my advice to everybody looking to get the most from the camera is to shoot raw with night mode on even in daylight and process the raw file the way they like it. It is always good to also have the raw file as backup because software constantly improves and in future you may get even better results from the old raw files.
[Google Pixel 6] Kag:
I don't like the main camera for close subjects, the depth of field drop off is too shallow for my liking and the focus area is small causing soft edges due to the large sensor.

People who take pictures of food a lot might have a love hate relationship.

It is also annoying to scan qr codes due to the soft edges.
[Google Pixel 6] androidbuff123:
And what about that main camera for video calling on duo or whatsapp? Is it crappy only for me or are you guys experiencing the same?
[Google Pixel 6] karmacoma7:
Wow, you have just made my day
[Google Pixel 6] nutzcase:
I got my pixel 6 last week and it takes some crazy selfies.
[Google Pixel 6] biglo:
It's God awful for me as well but I'm guessing not much people are using the phone for video calls. And the last update didn't do anything. Video calls looks like a phone from 2017.
[Google Pixel 6] vip-nord:
Google Issue Tracker

issuetracker.google.com

stared the issue :)
[Motorola Moto G20] Kezk:
How do I make Whatsapp notifications vibrate when DND Mode is on?

Maybe it can be done with ADB?
[General Topics] JaydenDev:
Am I allowed to provide a guide on how to do it, its an easy process and I've done it with the apk and installed it on my device.
[General Topics] JaydenDev:
The latest blackberry keyboard pre-patched apk before I managed to patch mine was 1.0, I managed to find and patch a 4.0 apk.
[General Topics] JaydenDev:
I have to go soon, but here's a quick non-in-depth tutorial

< I have some concerns a tutorial would get me in trouble >
[General Topics] JaydenDev:
Anyone know if I'll get hit with some DMCA legal stuff if I post a tutorial?
[General Topics] JaydenDev:
it SHOULDNT be a problem right?
[General Questions and Answers] Shoitah:
The novel CAT S22 Flip was released in September, and is pretty much the only of its kind. It actually has an unlocked bootloader, and I was excited to try to root it. However, there's no version of TWRP designed specifically for it! Having never rooted anything before, does anyone know my options in this case to get TWRP for this phone? (Or another method of root I'm not aware of would also be fine.) Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] vrlm:
Hey. I'm in the same boat. I need to add su binary but looks like the only way to do it is with TWRP. Have you succeeded? I keep trying to find a way to do it, so far no luck.
[General Questions and Answers] vrlm:
Sweet!!! How does it look like?

I just tried adb sideload <file.zip> while in recovery mode and i'm getting this

adb: sideload connection failed: closed

adb: trying pre-KitKat sideload method...

adb: pre-KitKat sideload connection failed: closed

When check adb devices its shows that device is unauthorized. But it's only unauthorized in recovery mode.
[General Questions and Answers] vrlm:
Actually looks like I have a problem with recovery mode. Instead I'm getting "No command" screen. It's not even getting into recovery
[General Questions and Answers] vrlm:
Oh cool. Didn't know that I could reboot stratight to sideload and bypass initial recovery menu. Thank you!

As for my previous issue with "No command" error on recovery boot, I managed to resolve it. When It's gets to "No command" screen, you need to hold Power + Volume Down just long enough to tap Volume Up. And then recovery menu will appear. So Press Power + Volume Down and then tap Volume Up.

When I tried to sideload su binary with

adb sideload <file.zip>

On the mobile screen i'm getting this error

E:failed to verify whole-file signature. Update package verification took 0.5 s ( result 1)
E:Signature verification failed
E: error: 21

Looks like recovery not allowing to install unsigned packages. Is there a way around it? Do I need to source another su binary or there is a way to sign it?
[General Questions and Answers] vrlm:
Ok. I think I'm getting closer to the core issue. I thought that I rooted the device, but I only unlocked the bootloader. So device is not rooted. As per original thread topic, looks like there is still no TWRP yet and boot.img is not accessible to modify. Tried to get boot.img directly from the device, but getting - permission denied.

Any other walkarounds i should try?
[General Questions and Answers] vrlm:
I've downloaded Chainfire SuperSu Zip packages, unpacked it and got a su file from arm64 folder. As you mentioned, su file is 108.5KB =)

I've pushed it to /data/local/tmp and made it executable

S22FLIP:/ $ ls -la /data/local/tmp
total 114
drwxrwxrwx 2 shell shell 3488 2022-12-22 09:36 .
drwxr-x--x 4 root root 3488 1970-01-01 12:15 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 shell shell 108496 2008-02-29 03:33 su

Maybe I'm missing something, I still get

S22FLIP:/ $ su
/system/bin/sh: su: inaccessible or not found
[General Questions and Answers] Bo&&:
Hi. I am trying to root the phone. I tried with QFIL to get the boot.img file with no luck.... I am trying now with su. I put the su binary where you said and execute it.

Now what should I do? If you can help me, I will be grateful
[General Questions and Answers] Bo&&:
Doesn't work. It looks like the su binary doesn't grant system commands root 😭

I really don't know what to do......
[General Questions and Answers] shawn99452:
You generally can't just sideload su and expect it to work, unless the phone is ALREADY rooted. It needs to be setuid root (owned by root, and with the setuid bit set in the permissions). You can't do that unless the OS is already rooted. The normal SuperSu zip file does this from a recovery like TWRP (where it has root access to the Android filesystem) during it's install script. When you just sideload the binary and make it executable, it's not owned by root (and you can't chown root it because you're not root), so it's just a normal binary and can't do any elevation.

I have this phone and would like to get it rooted too, so I can uninstall the Messages by Google app (which is the Go version and doesn't support Messages for Web syncing). But I think getting a TWRP for it, or finding an existing one that works on it, is the first step, since the bootloader is already unlocked.
[General Questions and Answers] dlsellers:
I'm in the same boat. Unfortunately, CAT is pretty obstinate about not releasing the stock rom for this device.

Have you tried installing an APK for the full version of Google Messages? I was able to install that on mine for web-syncing without any issues.
[General Questions and Answers] shawn99452:
I wasn't able to sideload the full version - it will try to install, but errors out with "Application not installed" after a few seconds. I think this is because the Go version is built into the ROM (can't be uninstalled, you can only uninstall updates to it). Unfortunately the Go and full versions have the same application id, so you can't just replace it without root (which would let you fully uninstall the Go version). I haven't tried uninstalling updates for Messages by Google first though; maybe I'll try uninstalling updates and then reinstalling the full version.

I have a couple other things that are non-functional due to Android Go I think, but it's almost impossible to find any documentation on the differences between normal Android and Go, especially for Android 11; Google has a page saying how great and wonderful it is, but it doesn't list any of the limitations. So far, other than web sync for messages being missing, I've also noticed that Chrome OS' Android Phone Hub feature can't see my phone, so I can't use it for notifications / messaging / tethering on my Chromebook like I did with my old phone - according to the Google support page for this you only need "Android 5.1 or later", but its quite possible Go omits this functionality too.

Additionally, the Drive Safe app for State Farm insurance can't detect my bluetooth beacon devices correctly - I can see them in the pairing tool but it doesn't seem to read any data from them, and won't detect trips; I'm not sure if this is a Go thing or something with BTLE on this phone. All my other bluetooth devices (Pebble, headphones, car radio) work fine, but those aren't using BTLE like the beacon does. The phone supports Bluetooth 4.2, but not all BT4.x devices support BTLE; but the phone can SEE the beacons, both in the app and in the Bluetooth pairing screen in settings (the device MAC addresses show up; it can't pair with them because BTLE doesn't do pairing); it just won't communicate with them. The beacons still work properly on my old LG G8 phone and on my wife's Galaxy S20.
[General Questions and Answers] shawn99452:
Uninstall Updates for Messages was the key; after doing this, I was able to sideload a full version (specifically, messages.android_20230725_01_RC01.phone_dynamic). This installed, and gave me the device pairing feature that was missing. The full messages app does seem to be quite a bit "heavier" than the Go version (200MB vs something like 12MB, and definitely a bit slower), but for me the browser access to messages is worth it. I had to reconfigure RCS messaging. And I suspect that Play Store updates for the Messages app won't happen automatically because it's sideloaded, but that's not a big deal.
[General Questions and Answers] dlsellers:
Great news! It definitely is heavier and slower. You will actually want to make sure to turn off automatic updates from the play store. I had mine on and it automatically updated mine with the Go version of messages.
[General Questions and Answers] shawn99452:
Ok, thanks for letting me know; I went to the Play Store, then manage apps & devices, manage, found Messages, and unchecked Enable Auto-update, so it should ignore updates for that app and still update other stuff.
[General Topics] los68:
First off let me say thanks to everyone for creating this awesome site. Next I'm having issue with my Kaiser. I've had it for about a little over a month and I can't seem to be able to receive/download pics/attachments that are sent to me. I e-mailed Tech support for HTC and I've been to the AT&T store and no one has been able to help me. Each time I try to download something I try's and them gives me an Error, Forbidden. Can someone please help?
[Black Shark 4] dementievafan:
can anyone guide me to a reliable website for rooting this device? i seem to have problems finding a correct adb driver for my windows 7 to use MIflash to unlock the bootloader, its not detecting it once i bootload it, its running android 11 on Joyui version 12.5

thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy A12] MauriJ2001:
Hi I'm trying to install a custom ROM in my Latin A12 (A125M) but flashing This TWRP my phone starts to do a reboot loop (Can't boot recovery and android)

For now I'm back on android 10 because I had the imei/Baseband bug on Android 11 firmwares
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] Abdo shniba:
Hey guys

I got a Poco F3 that has damaged gyroscope, accelerometer and fingerprint sensors, I tried everything online, it seems as the system is not recognizing them.

Is there a place to buy spare parts to replace them? Fingerprint is not necessary for me but the other sensors are important for navigation as it doesn't detect my movement correctly when I move and follow directions or when playing VG games and rotate my phone.

Thanks
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] Dariusdd:
...? did you buy it like that, or did it become like that? what caused the damage?

it might be because you mismatched the firmwares and flashed an 'aliothin' image on an 'alioth' or vice-versa
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] Abdo shniba:
I bought it like that, it has a locked bootloader and the firmware is global, what I want to know is the gyroscope and accelerometer can be fixed or not? I know fingerprint sensor is fixable ...

Otherwise it's a superb phone.
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] Vuska:
No warranty already ?
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] Abdo shniba:
Unfortunately no
[LG G Pad X 8.0 Guides, News, & Discussion] polygaryd:
So I hit monitor mode and then go to smart view on my galaxy s7 it sees my lg v530 and a screen pops up on my v530 asking to accept the invite. I hit accept and a screen comes up in the blurred background then disappears and both screens close the connect screen on the v530 and the smart view screen on the galaxy s7.

Both are on the same wifi router with no internet connection at the moment. Its screen mirroring I'm after. It shouldnt need to go out to the internet from the galaxy s7 only to come back from the internet to display on the v530. That would be insanely inefficient and just plain stupid. It should just send data over the wifi lan from one device to another.

As far as I've read screen mirroring can and will work with no internet connection exatly how i explained it should work so.... why doesnt it work? What am I missing?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Cool_Nutshell:
Hi ,

I am new to HTC Diamond, really appreciate if someone could help me :confused:

I have problem with changing status bar color on my HTC Diamond, the status bar background color at the bottom of the screen had change permently to "light grey" instead of "black" color on all of tab option, such as the white "Phone text" and ""Program text" appear on a "light grey" background on the Home page, which leads me very difficuilt to read the "white text", are there any programs that you have or know that can change the background color of the status bar, back to "black" or any colors
[General Questions and Answers] mousufsylhet:
I have Redmi 9 cattail (m2006cmii) with MIUI 12.0.13.0 global stable version (QCTINX) android version is 10 QPIA.190711.020 and Kernel version 4.9190-perf-g487ef5a, Baseband version MOLY.LR12A.R3.MP.V107.3.P104. I won't update it to android 11. how can I do it? Please help me.
[General Questions and Answers] blue_boi:
The people at xiaomi haven't released the MIUI 13 update for the Redmi 9 cattail (which would be based on android 11) till date.

and frankly i think they've completely ignored the existence of the phone 🥲

So all we can do is wait and hope that they actually come through and give us the update.
[Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016) Questions & Answers] Puyodead1:
Hello, Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this,

I have recently bought an SM-J337U and wanted to root it, I have searched for a TWRP build but there doesn't seem to be one for this phone. I have been able to get magisk working correctly however. I have tried to build TWRP minimal for the device by creating a device tree with the twrpdtgen python script, flashing the resulting image results in a bootloop with only the screen flashing briefly. I have tried for the past few days to change things around in the device tree (boardconfig/fstab) but haven't gotten anything to work. I also tried to build the full omnirom which results in the same bootloop problem (however at one point I was able to get to the recovery screen but there were errors about the cache partition and permission errors). So I'm looking for help in properly building TWRP for this device. If there's any more information that is needed, I am happy to supply it.

Edit: after going back and starting from scratch, it now shows a single line "Unable to normal boot. invalid RAMDISK LENGTH!"
[Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016) Questions & Answers] Meep Meep!!!!:
Hey, this is the wrong device page. You are in for device J3 2016 not 2018, which is the J3 337w/x/h/k/s. Also I am trying to mod this phone, did you end up making any progress?
[Touch Cruise General] kull:
Just wanted to share this. For those using Mac and PCs to sync their mobile device. This is a solution to sync files and folders you want to use in all three platforms. I use the Missing Sync on my Mac and also My Dropbox for synching files between my Mac and PC. Now to keep files synched on my mobile too I chose the My Dropbox folder as the folder to sync in Missing Sync. This way all three plaforms keep my files synched all the time. Maybe some of you are doing this... thought I would just share it.
[Touch Cruise General] uchari:
Do you know any good free app to sync my PC Pocket and my PC. Because "Missing Sync" isn't.
[Touch Cruise General] kull:
Missing Synch is only for the Mac platform. For synching only PC you have the Active Synch from Microsoft, that should do the job.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] viv_jen:
Noticed when playing Clash of clans yesterday, the application doesn't scale full screen. With controls floating some distance from the end of the screen.

Is this an app issue or there is a device setting I'm missing?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Kemez:
This is app managed but that is actually good as the area behind the camera isn't touch responsive so it would not work in some cases.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Harshvardhan_Singh:
bro did you find any solution I'm still having this problem
[ASUS ZenFone 8] viv_jen:
No, sorry. Still the same issue persists.
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] xdduser:
I need to remove some uninstallable apps like YouTube, MI Music, MI Share, MI Pay, etc.

Which tool or method should I use to uninstall these? I heard there is some ADB tool by connecting phone to PC using USB. But I dont know the details.
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] zgfg:
Google is your friend. Since adb commands are common to all Android phones, you can find the guides elswehere, including various threads and posts here on XDA

Search, read, learn about the pairs of commands:

adb shell pm disable-user

com.google.android.youtube

adb shell pm enable com.google.android.youtube

or:

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.youtube

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.google.android.youtube

Here, com.google.android.youtube

is the package name for YT, hence given example is to disable/enable YT
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] yaro666:
debloat
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] xdduser:
Hi Thanks but there is no EXE in the link, so how to launch the application?
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] yaro666:
DOWNLOAD

And read FAQ, like literally there is an instruction
[Redmi Note 8 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] abhi.xv:
About LineageOS

LineageOS is a free and open-source operating system for set-top boxes, smartphones and tablet computers, based on the Android mobile platform. It is the successor to the custom ROM CyanogenMod, from which it was forked in December 2016 when Cyanogen Inc. announced it was discontinuing development and shut down the infrastructure behind the project. Since Cyanogen Inc. retained the rights to the Cyanogen name, the project rebranded its fork as LineageOS.

LineageOS was officially launched on December 24, 2016, with the source code available on GitHub. Since that time, LineageOS development builds now cover more than 185 phone models with over 1.9 million active installs,having doubled its user base in the month February–March 2017 And if you would like to contribute to LineageOS, please visit out Gerrit Code Review.

Installation Guide
​

Flash MIUI 12.5 ROM

Flash 12.5 based TWRP Recovery i.e - https://t.me/RedmiNote8ProOfficial/1078326

Boot to Recovery

Wipe System, Data, Dalvik, Cache & Vendor

Flash MIUI 12.5.x based firmware zip since it does not include firmware

Flash ROM zip & Gapps since it is a Vanilla build

Flash DFE & Format data

Reboot to System

Download Vanilla Build

​

Changelogs:

Initial Vanilla build

Prebuilt GrapheneOS Camera

Android OS version: 12

Device: Redmi Note 8 Pro (Begonia)

Security patch level: December 2021

Build author: abhixv

Kernel Source: Kernel

Support Group: https://t.me/dreamsupportbegonia/185175

Source code: https://github.com/LineageOS
[Redmi Note 8 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Compass Linux:
Is step #5 really necessary? If in step #1 a fastboot ROM is used it already contains the firmware.

Also what's the status on SeLinux and SafetyNet?

Very nice and good job!

Compass.
[Redmi Note 8 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] abhi.xv:
Hello Compass,

Step #5 isn't necessary to do so, but some users ping about the brick they faced while shifting from any other rom so i usually Suggest Users to flash FW too :)

For now SELinux is permissive & Cts fails by default but can be fixed using mods & hide props.
[Redmi Note 8 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Canny1913:
I hate Android 11/12 but this looks promising.

Also can't we just use Dynamic TWRP? (Yes we can)

Installed it and the issues are:

1)From restoring a backup,it may say it can't contact google servers,in that case re-login and it should be solved.

2)I can't find OEM unlocking in the settings

3)Can't change button shortcuts.They always stay the same

Also DON'T use UnicornHorn Kernel on this ROM due to the Android version,though you'll most likely end up in a soft-brick (Learned that the hard way)
[Redmi Note 8 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] devidfink:
Im so curious about battery life. I've tried couple of A12 rooms for N8P and all of them had the worst battery stats. I would only get 3and half SOT which is so bad.
[Redmi Note 8 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Canny1913:
Based on my experience,it's better than MIUI 12 (no battery drainage happened to me in both versions)
[Redmi Note 8 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Niflscud:
Hello! How to build this ROM? Is there an instruction?
[Redmi Note 8 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Spleeny97:
Hi my wifi sharing connection is connected but cannot access internet

Notifications works, Facebook app too, but Chrome doesn't neither Google Play store

So weird...