yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Realme GT 2] Vishal P:
See the changelogs itself, attracts me to buy Neo 3. Hopefully Realme fixes the issues on GT 2 also.
[Realme GT 2] apsol:
Yes I read it.

But that's on China judging from the support for GT 2 series I think neo 3 is gonna get the same treatment on Europe.

Unless you import it of course .
[Realme GT 2] Vishal P:
I don't think so. I do agree that China version and Global version are different. But if they have put efforts to fix bugs in China rom, they can easily migrate that patch to global rom too. I have seen this happening for Xiaomi devices. Global gets same patches after a couple of months.
[General Topics] elm0nch:
Hi folks!

Couple of weeks ago my girlfriend bought an iPad mini 6, I've been using it from time to time and I got some thoughts about it I'd like to share with you guys.

-It's a powerful piece of hardware, very comfortable to transport, hold and use.

-I would never buy anything with IOs, to me it's just an inconsistent an limited SO that I can't get used to.

-There's absolutely nothing with Android that's similar or could compete against the iPad mini.

Do you think we will ever see any product from any Android tablet that could be in the "8 inches" market?
[General Topics] Neuromancer:
I've been asking myself the same question for a while now. I used to love the 7-8" size, as it's a perfect "reader" size (not too small for this like even the biggest smartphones/phablets, and not too big&heavy like 10+ inch devices).

Quite some time ago, I had Huawei Mediapad M3 Lite, which was a solid 8" gadget. And later on, I tinkered with Chuwi's Hi9 Pro and Hi8 SE. Not sure if there's anything newer available at the moment out there.
[General Topics] elm0nch:
The only tablet I found that could "compete" with the iPad Mini 6 is the Lenovo Legion Y700

But still 8'9" of screen, enough to loose my appeal for it
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] paul_one:
Heya guys,

I did get TWRP + LineageOS 18.1 working on this tablet a few months ago, and have been enjoying it (along with Magisk + google apps).

I had to use Odin, since no other method worked - but I had to borrow a laptop for that (since I don't use Windows, and the Linux apps didn't work at all).

Since LineageOS 19.1 was released, I thought I would give the upgrade a try, and also the backup + restore method a try for TWRP (must be tried + tested right? .. Or so I thought).

So, I get a USB drive, exfat formatted, double the size of the internal storage.

I backup all partitions except for "Dtbo", "cache", "EFS" (so all the stuff that might be touched by a potential patching I wanted backed up)..

Data, I also renamed the "media" to "mediabak" and backed that up - so that I wouldn't lose any media files either.

I then "install"ed the LineageOS 19.1 zip file using the TWRP "install" button.... Cleared the cache, aaaaand got the LineageOS boot animation and then just continual reboot...

5 reboots later, I boot into TWRP: "no worries - I shall restore from my backups!" I say to myself.

I restore everything except the "data" partition, thinking "it's OK, it's only data and it'll save me time restoring that"

... NOPE! - reboot and now I just get continual reboots but no boot animation.

"Maybe I need to wipe them before hand?" - so I select to wipe the partitions (vendor, system, cache, ...).. Only data+recovery not being wiped.

Restore

.... NOPE!

"Let's try data - maybe there's something funny in there?"

.... NOPE! - and what's worse, I get a tar extraction error (255) - probably due to the fact the partition isn't encrypted (as a guess) - I found a webpage showing the "data" files in the backups are only tar files, and on my laptop they show as OK except for having some missing "TWRP.security.encrypt" and something about a missing equals sign on the extended metadata (so I think the data is all intact, so I can probably transfer / extract it after I get the tablet back).

"Let's just try to re-install LineageOS 18.1 from the images... Wipe system, grab the image from the net, use TWRP to 'install' the image"

.... NOPE! - still stuck with a boot loop.

Why will TWRP not install the OS properly?

How can I trust TWRP after this, with no ability to restore things?

What am I missing here, since there's no logs or errors for me to check I'm flying blind here and fairly annoyed at the fact that something so simple (essentially extracting files and running a few scripts for a 'normal' upgrade run) is failing so hard.

... Can anyone point me in the right direction?

--

Paul_one
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] paul_one:
*UPDATE*

So, I've got a semi-update:

I' was able to use Odin again to flash stock ROM, then re-flash vbmeta.tar, then re-flash recovery, then re-flash lineageOS 19.1

19.1 looks AWEFUL on first boot, nowhere near as 'refined' as 18.1 (using a scroll window center aligned makes me thing of old HTML from the late 90s before CSS).

Anyway, so I am able to boot into LineageOS 19.1 .. If I restore the "system_image" and wipe the data partition (clicking the 'wipe data' button) it allows me to also boot into 18.1 .. GREAT ....

...Except...

I still cannot restore the data partition using TWRP.

Still errors with a "extractTarFork()" error, code 255 .

The tars look "fine" on my Linux machine, and extract with only missing extended metadata errors.

I wrote a script to extract the tar files and run it in the TWRP terminal - it errors about file duplicates (no metadata errors).

I see that this is actually due to a character length limit on the filenames.

One sub-directory it tries to extract (sessions) is shortened (to 'session') and all files within it are extracted as the new shortened directory name... Meaning that it tries to delete a file (which it cannot since it's a directory) and write the file (which it cannot since the directory exists with that name)!

How is this possible when ALL android pathnames are disgustingly long. How has this not been seen before and why is this so cr*p?

There's 2 other 'tar' files (sym-links to 'toybox' - which I assume is a busybox clone) which are a different size to the normal one in the PATH... So I'm going to try those, but I'm a little lost as to how effective this will be, and I'm AMAZED that these errors aren't coming up on any google search since it seems it's broken from the foundational commands!

... How this ever backed up 'correctly' in the first place I will never know - but I'll never trust TWRP to 'backup' my data partition again..

--

Paul_one
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] paul_one:
Further update:

I progressed with the boot of the system to include a user account and put a decryption pattern on.

After rebooting, ensuring the "wiping" method was "rm -fr" in the settings, I was able to restore from the TWRP data backup.

I then have been able to copy the contents of the old /data/media directory into the new one.

... yet again: however....

The boot of the OS now is stuck on "tablet is starting", with no progress, no change, nothing.

I've tried another restore of the system_image but that hasn't changed anything.

I'll leave it going, just incase it's like a "restorecon" and all the files are being 'corrected' (which could understandably take a long time)... But isn't tarused to stop this sort of b**ks from happening?

This is the worst experience of "backup" I have had in over 20 years!!

If I had known the backup + restore mechanism wasn't actually tested I would have performed my own "dd" to stop any of this.

Hopefully this will be a warning for anyone else trying to use TWRP for 'backup' of actual data and people can make a much better choice going forward.

--

Paul_one
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] paul_one:
Another update:

So, I am attempting to check through various differences between a "clean" /data, and the /data that's restored and doesn't let the UI come up fully.

I thought "logcat" might be able to point me in the right direction (error message about "Unable to find com.android.systemui")... But it's not exactly helping me out with the mass of other minor errors etc.

I was able to get a tiny bit further by renaming the "/data/app" directory, so I'm now prompted for the pattern to decrypt/log in ... But the "tablet is starting" pops up after (as if the setup wizard is completing or something).

Pressing home does nothing. I can pull down the status bar to access things in there - but the "home" isn't coming up properly.

So, now it's just a long journey of trial+error to try and find the problematic files/directories.

--

Paul_one
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] vpn560:
https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-official-gts4lv-gts4lvwifi-12-lineageos-19.4396111/post-86655455

The difference between 18.1&TWRP and 19.1&TWRP is inability of TWRP to decrypt /data/media were TWRP directory locates. So once installed, 19.1 makes backup/recovery functions of TWRP inoperable since TWRP cannot nor decrypt nor find encrypted /data/media/TWRP. You can make sure of that with the file manager while in TWRP, seeing abracadabra instead of directory names in /data/media, which is an alias path to /storage/emulated/0 (0 stands for user0), where Download, TWRP etc locates.

The only thing You can do with TWRP when 19.1 installed is to whipe System and FORMAT Data.

Then, wifhout leaving TWRP, You can INSTALL, not RECOVER, prepared on external SD 18.1 zip. You can't recover since You can't create /data structure by means of TWRP, but installation of 18.1 can. Then reboot into system, scip all settings and reboot to TWRP. Now You can recover to previously saved 18.1 BACKUP.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] Marty Red:
That's unfortunate. I only discovered this now after upgrading from 18.1 to 19.1 four days ago....and then tried doing a backup through TWRP....which threw up a 255 fork error....

Wondering if a fix will be included with the next vewrsion....twrp-installer-3.6.1_9-0-lake.zip....

Is there any other backup/recovery through recovery you can recommend?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] djimel:
Bonjour,

j'ai installé lineageos 19.1 (20221025) avec TWRP (3-5-1) sur mon oneplus 5T

tout est OK

Mais lors des mises à jour proposées par le telephone (>paramètres>systeme>gestionnaire de mises à jour) le tel redemarre en bootloops sur le logo lineage ???

Réinstallation de linéage mais en faisant un wipe paramètres usine et installation de TWRP (3-7-0)

= tout fonctionne paraitement (les mises à jour de la branche également)

Si ça peut servir....
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] Friend of Bill W.:
- English Plesse

- wrong forum ; this is for Samsung Tab S5e, not Oneplus..
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 (2021)] svicksmile:
hello all, i'm looking for any safety method for root my Redmi Note 8 2021 at MIUI 13 android 12 without brick or encrypt files, I searched through several places and saw that they use it in different versions (miui 12.5 or less or using redmi note 8 normal)

I appreciate if someone can help me

And yes, i already have bootloader unlocked btw
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 (2021)] FreakyJoost:
13 can also be rooted with Magisk.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] gsmlab:
Hi,

Is there any way of installing Live Messenger on HTC Raphael? :confused:

I had it on my HTC S710 WM6. :)

Can i copy it from the S710 to my new Rahpael? :confused:

Thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Rudegar:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=334621&highlight=messenger

maybe?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] omaralt:
not one of those worked on my fuze.... really frustrating trying to get my hotmail email on my fuze.. you would think microsoft would make it easy for you to use MICROSOFT hotmail when using your MICROSOFT windows mobile phone...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] DeepThought:
This will probably not help you much but monx has included Live Messenger into ROMeOS².

Maybe he could provide you a working cab-file?!

HTH
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] omaralt:
f*ck it, i'm pissed, so i ended up making a gmail account, and just forwarding my hotmail to gmail. everybody's been telling me to do that for a while, this is what finally got me to do it :) cant believe how easy it was to set up a gmail account on the fuze!!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] ehmPlankje:
I had the same problem and used the same sollution :D... just took a g-mail account to forward my e-mail to.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Rahza:
It is possible

Hi,

It is kind of a effort to get Windows Live Messenger to work on a Raphael without it being pre-installed. Trust me, I know. I went through the same pains as you guys did. Every cab file I downloaded just simply didn't work....

But I've found a solution, but it's kinda tedious to do it. And I can't really remember what I exactly did. In general this is the process:

1) Download a registry editor, for example Resco Explorer or PHM registry editor (google it)

2) Download the cab file for Windows Live (without messenger) from Microsoft.com

3) Download Windows Live Messenger 10.6.39.1300.cab. It floats somewhere on xda-developers

4) Pick up your old WM device with Windows Live pre-installed and also install a registry editor on it

5) Install the registry editor on your Raphael. After that install Windows Live with messenger. Don't start it!

6) On your desktop open the Windows Live cab (no messenger) from Microsoft with winrar (http://www.rarlabs.com) and extract the xml file located in it. Open this xml file with notepad

7) In this file scroll down until you see the registry edits it uses when installing. What you need to do is compare these to the ones in the registry of your Raphael. I can remember that a string named "Login" was missing from my Raphael, so I manually added it to the registry of my Raphael. But there are more that I can't remember.

8) Take your old phone and compare its registry entries for Windows Live Messenger to

the registry of your Raphael. Copy these over.

9) Start Windows Live every now and then to see if it works. When it doesn't compare the registry entries again and copy some over. Eventually it will work...

I told you it is a lengthy process, but eventually I got it to work...

I am no programmer so I don't know how to make a cab file for automatic addition of these entries. Please try it this way. When it doesn't work, I'll try to dig into my registry and post the entries here.

Scott
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] nyckid211:
Weird... I can get my hotmail emails through the messaging, and i didn't have to do anything fancy....
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] maja:
I made a cab running for any TP​

here the link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/158640294/WLMMob10.6.0034.08.cab

It is the same posted in wiki :D​
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] eiskoud:
works great! thanx!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] plasmastrike:
:) only windows live cab that worked on my fuze thanks:)
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] ecrudragon:
Hi Guys,

I am currently in between phones and i would like buy a good one, waterproofing is must, should i go for S21U or any Oneplus phone if yes which one? thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] blackhawk:
The N10+ N975U1 is a better overall flagship in my opinion, even toda. Bought my second new one for $800 six months ago. It's running on Android 10.

Waterproof? Technically yes but never test this on any phone unless it's a dive certified enclosure!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] ecrudragon:
Nah! too old for me i am looking for something versatile and younger :D
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] blackhawk:
Unfortunately every Samsung flagship that came after it suffered from design flaws and reliability issues. The N10+ is a proven work horse with a better form factor.

That's the best bet from Samsung in my opinion. If an SD card slot isn't wanted there are better competing phones from other companies. However in terms of color rendering index and white point the N10+'s display is still at or near the top, even today.
[OnePlus 8T Questions & Answers] saar17:
Hi,

So was running the android 12 c.15 (EU)version, and then tried to update to c.16 while keeping my root, via magisk, I most likely did one of the steps wrong and now the phone is bricked.

It happened to me before while I was running android 11, and I fixed it with MSM toolkit, however, for some reason now it doesn't find my device (tried admin mode).

The only why for me to shut off the device is goes into fastboot mode and then choose turn off. Im not sure if the device goes into EDL mode, as im pushing but volume buttons (without the power button, I know). when I connect the device to the computer there is the sound pop up, but it doesnt show in the MSM.

The only thing I can think of it is because im using :

OnePlus Community

Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up.

forums.oneplus.com

and the links there are only going back to android 11 11.0.7 something...it is possible that a new version of MSM needs to come out in order to use it?
[OnePlus 8T Questions & Answers] BillGoss:
Try reinstalling the Qualcomm device driver.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koarc lkas:
Help please, I need the files. My phone is stuck on bootloop.
[General Questions and Answers] corulh:
I have a samsung phone (SM-G600F) and i tried to update it this morning. I was waiting for it to complete update in 30-40 minutes but it didn't finished. I waited like 2 hours but it got stuck at Samsung logo. I don't want to lose my data so i need another solution than wiping all my data.

I tried to firmware it 3-4 times by "HOME" files so i don't lose data but they didn't work. It's all the same loop. Android is starting, then " Android is Starting Optimizing App 15 of 15" , after that the Samsung logo stuck at screen.

If anyone can help, I will be very appreciated, thanks.
[XPERIA X1 General] xperia123:
:( I Donno But It Was 24 Hour Clock Then One Day It Changed To Pm But Now Its Back To 24 Hour Clock, How Do I Change To Am/pm?
[XPERIA X1 General] Bxsteez:
You just have to go into settings and then into the system tab and then into regional settings. There should be a time format in there.
[XPERIA X1 General] xperia123:
thx but after changing it remains the same of 24 hour clock..
[XPERIA X1 General] Bxsteez:
Now that is strange.... Which panel are you using?
[XPERIA X1 General] xperia123:
touchflo 3d
[XPERIA X1 General] xperia123:
altho i changed back to the xperia panel (top left corner) it still 24 hour clock...
[XPERIA X1 General] xperia123:
help pls.. piush
[XPERIA X1 General] Bxsteez:
So your settings regional settings are set to United States? If thats the case i don't know what to tell u besides there is some glitch. try uninstalling touchflo 3d and reinstalling it. Since this is across ur entire system i think ur regional settings are set wrong
[XPERIA X1 General] xperia123:
How Should I Set My Settings In Exact Form Pls Help ><
[XPERIA X1 General] Bxsteez:
You should only have to change the regional settings to the united states.

Settings->System->Regional Settings->Region

Set that to United States and look at the appearance samples. You should be able to see your time format and if its still doesn't have an am or pm go to the time tab and change time style to h:mm:ss tt
[XPERIA X1 General] xperia123:
i tried all... doesn't work tho
[XPERIA X1 General] Bxsteez:
Best other option i can give you is a hard reset. It should work fine. Have u tried to uninstall tfl3d?
[XPERIA X1 General] MrZippo:
I have UK on the time format, I did all this and it worked for me

Did you scroll down the options in time style???
[XPERIA X1 General] xperia123:
mine is hong kong and i set the time settings already but doesn't work ..
[XPERIA X1 General] Bxsteez:
change it to United States
[XPERIA X1 General] xperia123:
i did but it still remains the same afterchanging to united states, after changing to H:mM:SS and am pm
[OnePlus 6 Questions & Answers] rathiankush123:
i installed lineage 19 today on OP6

its working butter :)

the only thing i miss is pixel launcher

i rooted it and tried to install pixel launcher mod from GIT, but its crashing

anyone care to suggest solutions here pls
[OnePlus 6 Questions & Answers] HarmitR:
Well, I have tested pixel launcher v7.1.2 and modified it to black backgrounds.Give it a try.
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] entekss:
Poco F3 Eng (Factory) Rom

alioth_factory_images_FACTORY-ALIOTH-0519-2_11.0.zip

drive.google.com
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] roshan2989:
what rom is this? Need to request access for the share drive?
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] entekss:
It is a factory rom used to fix software problems such as possible opening, silence, not working. It's not miui. After installing this software, you should use the phone by installing the appropriate rom for yourself.
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] uvzen:
@entekss I have questions about this ROM, because as you wrote above it is a ROM to be repaired, so how do I flash it? Use MiFlash or some other tool? Will I be able to flash it in EDL mode without authorization?
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] entekss:
miflash or with oly using fastboot command "flash all"
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] uvzen:
Thanks for the answer, but one more question, will I be able to flash without authorization in EDL mode?
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] entekss:
I haven't tried it in edl mode, but I don't think it will be a problem. it's have all files for edl mode
[Oculus Quest] Zillion:
View attachment 5599971

The only thing to do is to get a kernel exploit or something to turn **get_unlock_ability** into 1 qnd then just unlock the bootloader in fastboot mode.

Sound easy but will not be as it requires editing a root filesystem file.
[Oculus Quest] wazzu232:
what? you didn't do anything. you found a story file talking about fastboot which anyone can radio access by sideloading a android root browser apk.... this has been known since the oculus go first dropped in like 2015....

you need a bootloader unlock code or script which only facebook can give you...it doesnt exist anywhere on the device and is not hidden...

you can try tool "mod" a system file but even if you somehow got the device to bypass the files intregity checks, it wouldnt actually work because you are "sandboxed". any changes you make will not alter system. functions or settings at all until you escape the "sandbox" which can only be done via a unlocked bootloader.

if still you somewhere tricked your device into saving any mods you made to system files, your device either will stop booting the OS or most basic device functions will stop worki g..
[Oculus Quest] raeumler:
so i tried to go to fastboot mode. but something went wrong (i pressed vol- and vol+ and pwr at bad timing) now the screen is black, no buttons are working, you cant even hold pwr to reset the devices. and it looks like its a bootloader mode. i got this in my devicer manager. View attachment 5628753

but fastboot does nothing and adb even too.... what is this? is it any usefull?
[Oculus Quest] Zillion:
That mode is used to flash the device but I doubt you can flash unofficial firmware.
[Oculus Quest] suiHotline:
How about the new DirtyCred exploit?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] SyNcViEw:
I have windows mobile 6 professional on the phone..

CE OS 5.2.1620 build 18125.0.4.2

What I want to do is, reload the ROM and install windows mobile 6.1..

I need all the help possible.. what to do, what not to do.. each and every detail as im new to this :o

Thanks!

and Hello EVERYONE, I'm new here.
[Realme GT 2] Vishal P:
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