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[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] litetaker:
For all practical purposes, the best/definitive experience of Android is obtained on a Samsung device nowadays. So much so that Google released certain new features in some of their apps on Samsung devices ONLY to begin with, not even their own Pixel devices. And Pixel software experience is terrible. And Samsung has innovated so many new features that Google slowly incorporates into stock Android. Samsung Dex is still unparalleled. I personally don't like some aspects of Samsung UI. The squircle icons, the excessively round UI elements with large paddings.. Sadly, Google seems to have incorporated some of this into Android 12's Material You styling. Android 12 looks more like a Samsung One UI skin. That was my FIRST impression when I played around with Material You, i.e. how much it reminded me of Samsung's style.

I agree that Xiaomi's MIUI has a load of flaws in them. The latest is their custom per-app dark mode override has been broken since they released MIUI 13 and before that you had to do some funky things to make it show the list of apps. They never allowed us to see notification history for some strange reason. These are two issues I can think off right away. But otherwise I feel that the software is pretty decent and I had no major issues with it and the battery life with Stock ROM is quite good. I personally don't understand the vehement negativity towards MIUI. Perhaps in the past it was attrocious, but now it is decent. Just like Samsung's One UI. Remember the awful TouchWiz days!? I still have an old tablet with Samsung's touch wiz on it! Bottom line, MIUI is nothing exemplary, but definitely usable and fine, with some minor issues.

In fact, I do like some of the things in MIUI versus stock. I like the fact that the Settings button is immediately visible in the notification shade (like it USED to be on Stock Android) rather than having to swipe again to reveal the quick toggles. I do like some of their built in apps, like the Clock, Calculator (which is very feature rich) and Compass app. So, overall not too shaby.

But I ranted a lot in this thread and none of this is relevant for this topic! :D So back to relevance...

I do use GSam battery monitor and after a lot of usage I feel like my battery life on Stock MIUI is similar to Arrow OS. I used Arrow OS 11, I used MIUI 12 and 13 and the battery life on all of them was very similar. Arrow OS 11 had some weird bugs with incoming phone call sound and Bluetooth when using Navigation. But Stock MIUI has no such issues. I've slowly decided to stop paying close attention to battery life as it is mostly very good for my usage.
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] cyanGalaxy:
For me the hate for MIUI stems from all the little things.

Notification History & Log being hidden (Can be accessed through an Activity Launcher),

Holding a notification and clicking "More" doesn't bring to you to the specific notification channel,

No Gestures on 3rd Party Launchers,

Recents-Animations broken on 3rd Party Launchers,

Dolby Atmos Sound effect doesn't apply to the first volume step.

Touch Sounds are way too loud, regardless of users volume,

For Google Clock to work properly, you need to disable MIUI Battery Saver,

MIUI Boot Sound is way too loud, also regardless of users volume,

Annoying additional restrictions/permission-manager which cannot be turned off anymore,

Fullscreen Pop-Up with user-unfriendly 10 second timer when trying to change sensitive permissions,

Adaptive Refresh Rate only activating when Screen-brightness is >80%, and only after 2 second delay,

YouTube, Games etc are forced to 60 Hz,

MIUI Camera doesn't respect Default-Gallery setting and always uses MIUI Gallery,

Default Camera cannot be changed,

Monet Colours cannot be customised,

Almost all apps used to get forcibly themed dark (even when the app already had Dark Mode), and you had to individually disable it for all apps. This made text from some apps unreadable.

I do like a few changes Xiaomi has done to Android with MIUI, like bringing back down the Brightness-bar (retarded change from Google), Custom Fonts, the really cool Live Wallpapers, its Dolby Atmos and much more...

I also do like many of their apps like Mi Fitness and the Calc...

But all the little issues give me micro-aggression. It's not a 100% reliable OS in my opinion and I'm still a tiny bit concerned about its Privacy & Tracking.. it's still a chinese company and China is ruled by CCP. The chinese Gov't can control their Tech companies.

Samsungs OneUI does indeed seem like a good and stable experience. But I'm also not a fan of goofy rounded corners and padding.

I bought my Galaxy Note 8 when TouchWiz was still a thing. Then a System update came and upgraded me to OneUI 1.0 and I kinda didn't like it all that much. TouchWiz looked a bit more professional to me, but that's just personal preference.

I'm more into Edgy than Curvy ;D
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] BrokeBloke1969:
Yes, Naptime still makes quite a difference with its agressive dove settings and disabling sensors.

Even with how optimized Android 12 is you cannot escape bad programmed third party apps, so use something like IceBox to freeze not often used apps too
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] litetaker:
I guess these can be frustrating issues for some, but none of this is an issue for me. I tend not to get overly worked up by minor software issues. In fact I do not mind the additional 10 second delay for sensitive permissions. For power users it maybe too annoying, but for ordinary users it is useful to show such warnings to help them avoid making big mistakes and messing up their phones or falling for scams. And anyway, it is just an extra 10 seconds delay. I do admit that blocking access to notification history is annoying but I have learned to live with it. Having the per app dark mode option is genuinely useful as it allows me to force dark mode on only some apps that I use that don't have a dark mode built in, rather than forcing it on all apps via Developer tools. Although this is not working anymore on MIUI 13.
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] cyanGalaxy:
I think the Warning with 10 sec-timer is the most infuriating one. :x

About Notification History, you can download Activity Launcher, search "Notification History" and make a shortcut for that hidden Activity to your Home screen!

That's what I did, because I use Notification Log & Notification History regularly.

However Notification-History on MIUI is a bit broken. You have to enable Light Mode to see the text properly 😄
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] litetaker:
Thanks a lot for the tip on how to get Notification History! That is very useful! It is stupid that Xiaomi blocks us from accessing this useful information natively and we need to use a third party app to expose this activity, but at least now I can see the history and get some info! Sometimes I get a ping on my phone and I am not sure which notification caused it. Now I can get more clarity! Yay!
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] Abdel1993:
We are now 1 year on, and Naptime + Servicely doesn't matter one bit on new devices. I've been running Android 13 for a while now and have never felt the need to install these two apps.

With Android 14 around the corner, app efficiency will be addressed even further by TARE and the introduction of new background APIs.
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] lapirado:
I'm still using naptime since a9/10. And see no reason to not use it. Induce deep sleep faster.

BTW, anyone noticed that naptime was removed from play store?
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] cyanGalaxy:
Yup i think Naptime and Servicely do improve my battery life! I can see from the Naptime Doze-logs that my phone goes to Deep Doze faster and the battery life does seem improved.

I just checked, and Naptime seems to be gone from Play Store, tho not Servicely. I think Google are being twats again...
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] skyNET:
Hi, I could not run Naptime on Oxygen OS without Root. Did you find a solution? It worked fine on OOS11.
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] cyanGalaxy:
Does the app not start for you? You don't need Root, you can grant the permissions via ADB.
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] skyNET:
First of all thanks for your answer.

Yes, of course, it doesn't start properly, it shuts down quickly. I gave permissions with adb in OOS11 and it was doing its job really well (Naptime). But after I upgraded to OOS 12, I saw that the following command string "adb -d shell pm grant..." did not work and gave an error. I can't get around this problem, have you tried it? Naptime is a really successful app and OOS needs it.
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] cyanGalaxy:
What error?

Enable USB debugging, connect your phone to PC, get the Google SDK Platform Tools, open the folder in Terminal, and type the commands exactly as written.

If you are on MIUI, you also have to enable "USB Debugging (Secure Settings)"
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] skyNET:
Let me show you the simplest with BBS!
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] cyanGalaxy:
Try "adb shell" -> "pm grant ..........."
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] skyNET:
Like this?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] King Mustard:
I bought a used Galaxy S21 Ultra from SmartFoneStore.

Settings > About phone > Software information tells me I'm running One UI v3.1 (Android 11).

Settings > Software update > Download and install tells me:

That all seems rather out of date?

EDIT: Ironass on the Android Central forums has discovered the issue. (link)
[Palm Treo Pro] xarope:
For those of you who have been scratching your heads about SMTP not working, after upgrading to the Treo Pro, here's why:

http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/index.php/2008/09/18/windows-mobile-6-1-smtp-issues

I was really stuck at one stage, having just upgraded my wife's phone from a Tytn II (stock ROM which would have been WM6.0); by coincidence I had just upgraded my SSL certificates on my email server, and was wondering if I had done something wrong, so after a couple of hours of checking, lo and behold, I found the above thread, and the corresponding fix below:

http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/index.php/2008/10/15/windows-mobile-smtp-fix

You have to have a love/hate relationship with M$... :mad:
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] mashen11:
I forget to enable OEM unlocking,and now wy Surface duo only Bootloader mode,can you share me the firehose files，my Email:mashen11@gmail.com
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] Deleted member 12128409:
What is your OS ?
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] mashen11:
android 11，and now android os don‘t boot。
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] Deleted member 12128409:
And how is the bootloader screen ?
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] Deleted member 12128409:
You can acess recovery mode ?
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] mashen11:
Don't,Select Recovery Mode and Device reboot
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] Deleted member 12128409:
Why?
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] mashen11:
May

Maybe boot img is broken,So i need firehose to flash boot in 9008 mode
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] mashen11:
prog_ufs_firehose_sm8150_ddr.mbn A Surface Duo private fierhose file .Or EDL Loder flie 000a50e100450036_9671f3d6922201ed_fhprg.binView attachment 5613115
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] Deleted member 12128409:
What is the firehose?
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] mashen11:
Qualcomm firehouse communication protocol
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] mashen11:
Or share the surface duo 9008 firmware
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] Audi121212:
Ican acess to recovery mode....whish update.zip can repair

And how can ido it please help
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] mashen11:
Recover Surface Duo if it won't start - Microsoft Support

Learn how to install a recovery image on your Surface Duo in the event it won't start.

support.microsoft.com
[Microsoft Surface Duo Questions & Answers] ibrahimlaz1:
i would hope that ayone could share the qualcomm fire hose programmer file for surface duo 1 ?

i only have custom recovery installed . no rom or recovery

if you can share with me this i would be thankful
[Black Shark 4 Pro] b44b6:
Hi all

I bought a used Blackshark 4 pro from ebay. It was working fine but I stupidly wiped out data.

Now it is loading screen in chinese which I cannot bypass.

hass there anyone bypassed this?
[Black Shark 4 Pro] ksbwings:
I did wipe out my data by accident from recovery mode last month. The recovery menu was all in the Chinese language, and I pressed wipe-out by mistake (before I know about the video below). Of course, the phone is now fully reset, back to normal, even faster, & all G-app is propely funtion.

"I never got any problems like yours."

You might try to wipe out from "recovery mode". It might help in your case. Here is a brief video in English to understand "Recovery Mode" menu better:-

Recovery Mode on XIAOMI Black Shark 4/Pro
[Oppo F1] Twen Eve:
hello, I'd like to ask for help because my Oppo F1f soft bricked, I tried booting to fastboot with locked bootloader hoping I can just fastboot oem unlock there because magictricks is not working anymore, unfornately it just booted to ColorOS Recovery, when I try rebooting the phone it's just booting to ColorOS recovery again and again, I also tried turning off the phone and doing Power + Volume UP but it didn't work, I hope someone can help me with this problem, thank you very much

Informations about the phone;

- Allowed USB Debugging

- OEM Unlocking on

- NO SD Card

- Broken Volume Buttons

Things I have that might help;

- Windows 10 Laptop

- Platform Tools Installed

- Qualcomm USB Driver Installed

- Oppo F1f USB Driver Installed

- Oppo Firmware

- Miracle Thunder v 2.82
[Xiaomi 11T Pro] tqttrieu:
Anyone know to fix this?
[Xiaomi 11T Pro] tze_vitamin:
chek your gesture settings
[Xiaomi 11T Pro] tqttrieu:
I reset the phone, everything works fine now, i think this happen because i turn off "memory extension"
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] doggie05:
i dunno what is happening to my kaiser,but everytime i got sms,the time are wrong...i tried to flash with different rom but the result is still the same..

can anyone help me to fix this problem plizz???
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] DaveShaw:
Please search before posting new threads...

This has been discussed here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=374956&highlight=timestamp

And here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=396209&highlight=timestamp

before.

Ta

Dave
[Google Pixel 4a Guides, News, & Discussion] Zaxx32:
Some choice dev from VR-25...😮😲

https://xdaforums.com/t/tarb-a-backup-solution-for-android-with-recovery-mode-support.4443801/
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justauserthatusesaphone:
My old note 3 has no sign of life, no charging, no display, no vibration, no lights, and no voltage on the battery terminals. I'm just looking for a way to revive it (if possible of course) by the way, I don't have the resources or the time to solder in a new chip or stuff like that.

thank
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Step one has to be replace battery/ try a known good battery .

next flash stock rom via Odin .
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justauserthatusesaphone:
just a question, will it show anything on display or vibrate or show any lights if it doesn't have a battery
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
No nothing at all .
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justauserthatusesaphone:
I ended up jump starting the battery with a 5v power supply, and it ended up at around 3.6 volts but plugging it into the note 3 and then leaving it on charge doesn't make a difference at all.

If it can hold charge, than I think that the phone will definitely count it as a working battery.
[General Topics] Zero0880:
I had what I thought was a good idea for an app but i could never make it and I'm not sure if its even possible if it is it wont be easy...

App that finds and reveals subliminal messages on any audio...
[General Topics] orb3000:
Welcome to the forums,

If anything is possible you can make it happen in XDA!
[3D Printers] Maave:
Cuttlephone is a phone case generator for 3D printing. It's designed for playing games with your existing phones. It currently supports the Pixel 3, 3XL, 3A, 4A, and Galaxy S9+. The project is open source and I plan to add support for more phones with help from the community.

Do you have a 3D printer? Are you interested in making a phone case? Let me know what you think of the project. 3D models can be found on the Github site, Printables and Thingiverse. My build log with more pictures is on Hackaday.io.

NEW: I'm selling Universal Junglecat adapters on Etsy.

Hard plastic (PLA+, ABS) or flexibles (TPU)

Phone case mode

Switch Joy-Con rails

Razer Junglecat rails

The generator is written in OpenSCAD and heavily uses the customizer features. The build script makes 3MF files for each phone and case type.

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Here's my daily driver - A Pixel 4a case with Junglecat rails printed in TPU. I just went on a trip and played Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? in the airport.

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Here's an old pic of the Joy-con rails printed in PLA+ for a Pixel 3. Unfortunately Joy-con support in Android is crappy. Some emulators (RetroArch, PPSSPP) don't support input from 2 devices at once. Dolphin emulator handles it at least. My phone got the infamous Joy-Con lag which made these unusable. I haven't tested Joycon rails in TPU yet.

If you print this yourself, the rails must be removed with a blade, leaving about 2 layers of plastic. I do this by hand and it's tricky. Soon I'll make a tool for guiding the knife.

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[3D Printers] Oswald Boelcke:
@Maave Hello! How about if I move your thread to

3D Printers

3D printers problems, guides, questions & answers, hardware, software, development etc...

xdaforums.com

Regards

Oswald Boelcke

Senior Moderator
[3D Printers] Maave:
Yes please! I just discovered that board 30min ago :D
[3D Printers] Oswald Boelcke:
Accomplished.
[3D Printers] tormentum1000:
This is awesome, do you think it would be possible to work on a universal (telescopic) design for the case?

edit: forgot to say, maybe you could take the Ipega 9167 as inspiration?

edit2: or even better, the Betop H2?
[3D Printers] Maave:
Ya know, I thought somebody did that already. I found one on Etsy for sale but no free models. I'll check it out. I can easily make something that holds on with a rubber band
[3D Printers] tormentum1000:
nope, closest thing I found online are free JPGs but no model to print...

Here and here.
[3D Printers] Maave:
Here's what I came up with. It holds on with a rubber band or hair tie. I'll work on this more later and add a rail. I'll be more motivated if people post prints ;) Files are all available now as "Universal 2-piece" on the website

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New generator feature. If the case thickness exceed the Junglecat rail thickness, these wings get added.

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And Joycon of course. I may make this longer so that the Joycon stops at the bottom.

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In the generator, "manual supports" are set to none. I'm printing vertically so that I don't need to cut away the manual rail support. I'm using paint-on supports in PrusaSlicer and they pull off easily with tools. The Joycon is still a little loose, I'll keep tuning it.

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[3D Printers] Maave:
The telescopic clamp is ready. It's called "Universal Telescopic" and models are available on the website.

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Here it is holding a Pixel 3XL in a slim case. I tried printing Joucon rails facing down on this one. The telescopic rail came out great (no supports to remove) but the Joycon rails failed.

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It's rubber band powered. This design is too large for a hair tie. This translucent filament shows the sliding mechanism. This sliding part may need sanding for a smooth experience, especially with support leftovers.

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The outside of the sliding mechanism has an angle to hold that rubber band. The inside of this has a wedge shape to hold various phones.

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The generator has more customizer settings under the section "universal phone adapters". The "telescopic" checkbox activates the sliding feature. Clearances for the sliding rail are here. "body_chamfer" replaces the inside radius with the wedge (EDIT: I'm moving this checkbox to the "body" section). The overall size and the inside shape can be controlled in the "body" section and "screen" section.

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In the slicer you must separate the two parts. Add manual supports for the telescopic rail and the gamepad rails.

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[3D Printers] Maave:
v0.4 is ready

The latest design was made for the Galaxy Z Fold 4. Apparently some Fold cases have a fat crease. I've taken this into account with the "Chop Top" adapter. This cutout allows the hinge to fit and conveniently reduces print time and filament usage. Look for "Chop Top" on Github/Printables/Thingiverse

Also I added a brief Printing Guide on the website

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[3D Printers] neorean:
This is amazing, thanks so much for making this.
[3D Printers] Kazekage Gaara:
Can I fashion this to hold my phone vertically? I wanna play some 3DS games with the joycons attached on the side, like a Flip Grip.

I don't own a 3D printer myself, but I know I guy I can commission to print it for me.

Edit: Appreciate the effort so far and sharing it with us. Keep up the amazing work and thanks a lot! :D
[3D Printers] Maave:
Yes, I have vertical versions both Joycon and Junglecat adapters now. Check the Github site

Also a Joycon tablet-size with the rails higher up for balance. Joycon rails are a little tighter now. It might need breaking in but it's more secure for tablets. No pics yet

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[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] K0mraid3:
Can anyone shed insight into the EOS SWITCH function? This is found in OMC admin.

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[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] gav83collins:
eos is the epic online services , its an sdk afaik
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] K0mraid3:
Damn really? I'd never have expected it to be for that, lol why is it in this menu haha soo out of placeeee

Thanks for the answer, btw.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] gav83collins:
i cant say why as i dont know, i would assume its for use by developers of epics software
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] paynedave315:
What app is this?
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Village_Idiot:
Read the previous posts.