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[General Questions and Answers] Noonski:
Maybe this will help you in your quest for XDA Anniversary.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=313165

&

http://web.archive.org/web/20030202121312/http://www.xda-developers.com/

If you decide to throw a party don't forget to have Jameson or Jack Daniels in the house, before you send your invitation to me.

Found a nice little sentence that still holds up on that old XDA page:

"We prefer unsupported chunks of information over no information any day"

So unless anyone comes up with the correct earlier date.

You can trace the last edit of that page, January 28, 2003.

But it can probably be traced even further.

If you take a look at:

http://web.archive.org/web/20031229083505/http://xda-developers.com/

You'll see that back in the day n@k3d Pictures weren't an issue. (drop down selection box About the Hardware >> N@k3d Pictures of XDA)

As the site has matured, less and less of these are posted. But Mike's still got a nice collection of these on his own site.

http://www.mikechannon.net/page1.html

So it's a party every day here at XDA.
[General Questions and Answers] MikeChannon:
It may be around the third week in January 2003. BUT that's not confirmed yet - we're waiting a reply from Admin on the precise date.

The server is in Holland.

Peter Poelman one of the founders and still around today as is Itsme (with the coveted Developer / Moderator rank), albeit that they are not active on a day to day basis, but still responsible for the site. I believe, but I stand to be corrected, that FLAR our current Admin, was brought in by the likes of Peter to take over day to day Admin when he and others took a back seat and had to spend more time running the parent company.

Whatever the date, the Membership will be required to donate towards bottles of Bubbly for the Mods. (If you like, you can also donate to the Psychiatric fund that takes care of Admin staff when they retire in a state of utter mental breakdown)

Mike
[General Questions and Answers] Noonski:
Smart Move.

So ATM the closest date found is 17-01-2003.

December 17, 2002 Found an older Edit.
[General Questions and Answers] nir36:
How do you celebrate such an anniversary? and where? and what? huh?
[General Questions and Answers] + Que PPC:
I dont know... but lets see

Well I dont know how to celebrate but maybe i can make something
[General Questions and Answers] Ather:
another awaited member :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] isach59:
Looking out for help

I need to edit the boot.img but my problem is that every time i unpack the img and repack it the phone doesnt boot anymore (even w/o modifyng the boot.img only unpacking and repacking) it enters into a bootloop

is this bcs the boot.img are signed ? or that theyre in a different fromat like ext4?

Im flashing the boot.img with SPFlash tools

I got the Custom Rom and the boot.img from this thread https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-xiaomi-qin-f21-pro-custom-firmware-root-playstore-certified.4405615/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renate:
Some boot images are AVB0 signed. Hard to tell if that's even checked.

You've got to tell us how new/old, how fancy your boot image is.

My best advice (as always) is don't take apart a boot image if you don't need to.

You can always use my ImgUtil.

At the very least you can use it to see what you're dealing with.

C:\>imgutil.exe /v /l myboot.img
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] isach59:
Thanks for your fast reply. is it possible to repack with the imgUtil tool?

what im trying to achieve is to block the access to the recovery menu on the phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renate:
Just do the imgutil command above. It won't affect anything but it will tell us what we're dealing with.

I don't know why/what you want to do to recovery.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jenneh:
@Renate Oh my goodness, thank you! This is precisely where I left off last night I finally learned how to unpack the boot image (using linux wahh) and now you share such a cool tool! GOSH AND ITS WINDOWS TOO. Thank you! There's literally so much junk tools out there it held me up a year x.x Miss Renate do you have tools for the system images too? TBH I just used superrs kitchen to unpack my stock image, but i'm not sure the tool will work for repacks bc I tried in the past and kept getting boot loop but i suspect that's something to do with whatever is stored in the kernel and ram disk? Sorry last question, have you wrote up something somewhere that I could read about what to do with the ramdisk or kernel?? Thank you for always being on here
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] isach59:
I did imgutil /i and worked !!! thanks a lot this is a great tool

how can I modify the recovery menu this is the file I get (attached) I tried with Hex and notepad++ but couldnt find the entries of the menu

What Im looking here is to remove the option to wipe and format the phone from the recovery menu

Or maybe I should modify the init.rc ? to create a reboot command when entering recovery

but how can I send this command ?

this is my init.rc
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renate:
There are 5 versioned types of Android images plus the latest unversioned type.

The kernel could be compressed with gzip or lzma with/without a stub or uncompressed.

It could have the dtb appended to the kernel or in its own section or not present

It could have AVB0 signing or not.

Your image could be padded or even truncated.

I still don't know what device or what type of image we're talking about here.

Please quote at least the lines out of imgutil.exe myimage.img /v

Yes, the whole point of imgutil.exe is that you don't have to explode everything and park it in Windows directories and then try to put it all back.

I'm still unclear what the point of this whole project is.

Is it to prevent yourself from accidentally wiping your device in recovery by hitting the wrong key?

Or is it to prevent some evil person from wiping your device?

Me, I don't mess around with the recovery menu.

I make sure that I have rooted ADB available in recovery and just disable the whole recovery executable/menu.

Anything that I want to do I can do over ADB in recovery.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] isach59:
The point of this project is to prevents employees of a company to wipe their phones.. this phones are locked to some spcecific apps and nothing else, the company doesnt want their employees to have another apps on the phone.

How is it possible to disable the recovery from ADB?

I tried removing the recovery file but when accesing the recovery via adb reboot recovery the phones gets stucked at the boot logo and needs flashing back the boot.img to turn back on the system.

That is why I wanted to insert a reboot command in the init.rc from the ramdisk.

Please tell me what do you think is the best option and how can I achieve this.

The phone Im dealing with its a Xiaomi Qin F21 Pro

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renate:
Well, security is not my field of expertise (or passion), but:

Make sure ADB works in recovery

Set ro.adb.secure=1 to enforce ADB authentication

Generate some ADB keys and make sure that you have a safe copy

Put the public key in /adb_keys

Make sure that it all works

In init.rc under the recovery service add "disabled"

Now you've got a recovery that shows as a blank screen. ADB is present but will only work on your authorized keys. If you have a need for the recovery menu just type start recovery in ADB.

Now, there may be a problem that people can get to recovery but it keeps on going back to recovery. That may depend on who/what is supposed to wipe the BCB or /misc. When testing you can start recovery and exit that way. You may need to have a script or something wipe the BCB or /misc.

While ro.adb.secure=1 is no security in the regular system, in recovery it should be a guarantee as there is no confirm dialog possible. But check.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] isach59:
This is what I get:

imgutil.exe boot.img /v

Header2: 1,660 (0000067c)

Kernel: 11,291,051 (00ac49ab) 00000800

Ramdisk: 7,875,739 (00782c9b) 00ac5800 2022-11-09 17:08

DTB: 98,837 (00018215) 01248800

Signature: 1,600 (00000640) 01261000

Command: bootopt=64S3,32N2,64N2 buildvariant=user

When I add disabled in the init.rc under recovery If the phone gets into recovery with adb it gets stucked a the boot logo.

Also I had some trouble creating the keys

Anyway I would like to say Thank you for all of your help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renate:
If you disable recovery the screen when it boots will be whatever. The important thing is if you have ADB running correctly. Moreover, if you get lonesome you only need to start recovery

Recovery has a ramdisk. You need to add the adb_keys to that. If you're having trouble don't set ro.android.secure until you resolve it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oswald Boelcke:
Hello and good morning, @isach59

Welcome to XDA. I hope you'll always get the support you require.

However, prior to your next posting please read the guidances that are stuck on top of every forum like

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and the others. I've moved your thread to Android Q&A.

Thanks for your cooperation!

Regards

Oswald Boelcke

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[Xiaomi 12 (Global)] 1500cc:
I have a 12 Lite, but I'm guessing this might be similar for all 12 models.

I'm using the standard Google Messages app, and I like to set different sound notifications for text messages from certain contacts. So to start, I go into the main Messages settings area, then Notifications, Incoming Messages, and set a universal ringtone sound we'll call "A". So far so good. Then I go into a conversion I want to make unique, hit the three dots, Details, Notifications, and change the Sound to ringtone "B".

Problem is, changing to ringtone "B" for a specific contact also goes back and changes it to "B" for the universal ringtone for everybody. Then if I go back to re-set the universal ringtone to "A", it also overwrites the specific one I had set for my unique contact. I can't keep them separate.

I've also tried doing this from the main Settings app, and it behaves the same way (I think they both end up in the same place anyhow)

Has anyone successfully set unique text notification sounds for specific contacts?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] storhaugey:
This post is probably hardware related, so I hope it's not that irrelevant here.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S8, SM-G950FD that hasn't been used for over a year because it's gone completely dead. Won't turn on, not even battery charging display, i tried charging it overnight and still no results, the battery doesn't even get warm. I've tried bringing it to a service center but they don't fix Samsung phones, so I decided to try fixing it by myself.

The first thing I do is I check the battery, it does look weird but I'm not sure if it's the main problem. Here's the image of the battery.

My question is, could the battery be the reason the phone won't turn on? or could it be other things such as my charging port, or the display screen itself?

Again, sorry if I made a mistake somewhere, thanks for any help.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
Replace the battery. Go from there.

It won't boot without a good battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] storhaugey:
Thank you! I'll definitely do that, but I got a question, can a phone be turned on by using it with a charger without having a battery attached?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Arealhooman:
No.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] storhaugey:
Alright, Thanks so much!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
The charger might provide enough current to open the boot menu. Booting uses a lot more current.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Arealhooman:
hm I very much doubt it, pretty sure you need a battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Arealhooman:
https://xdaforums.com/t/q-how-to-run-a-phone-without-battery-only-by-connecting-charger.1634648/ perhaps I am wrong
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Deleted member 11818907:
upload image on http://pomf.cat, imgur is blocked at my school
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Arealhooman:
Lol it also blocked for me, imgbb.com is best
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Deleted member 11818907:
some phones prevent it from turning on while the battery is removed even if it is on a charger
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
Not sure. There may be fail safes. They're designed to operate from the battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] storhaugey:
here's with imgbb link
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] storhaugey:
update,

I changed the battery with a new one, it still doesn't turn on, nothing shows on screen.

I guess it has something to do with the motherboard then.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
Does it respond when the charger is plugged in?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] storhaugey:
no, it's same as before.

now I'm trying to charge it overnight with a cable connected to pc, hope something happens tomorrow
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
If the port board fails it won't charge. Could that be what started this?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Deleted member 11818907:
shouldn't new batteries always at least have some charge when they arrive?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
If they are good they have to unless they reached their auto shutdown voltage. Typically they have a 50-70% charge.

Hell you can get a used N10+ for $300 and up. It's a quantum leap in performance.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mustardman29:
Do you have any indication it is booting? Like do you feel it getting warmer? If you do it could be a bad screen. I have an S8 with a bad screen and it's just blank but I can tell it's booting because of it getting warmer and vibrating. I think the S8s are known for having the screens fail. I can get a replacement screen on Aliexpress.com for less than $100 but it would only be worth it to me if I could put on a custom ROM. Unfortunately, bootloaders on snapdragon S8s can't be unlocked and probably never will be. So it's not worth it and I guess it's going to the recycler.

The irony is that my old Exynos S7 is happily running a custom Android 12 ROM and doing everything I need it to do. So if you are in the market for a super cheap unlockable Android phone you can't go wrong with an Exynos S7 running Custom Android 12 ROM.

I just bought an Exynos S10 off ebay which will be replacing my S7. Qualcomm/Samsung can go pound sand trying to force us into upgrading our phones every few years.
[General Questions and Answers] Cavalry'shere:
I'm in the market for a new phone and I just saw a Note 10+ 256GB for $500 (converted roughly); my only other option is the Realme GT Neo 3 within the same price range.

It's a phone from 2019 but the specs still look pretty good and of course, there's the premium build and stylus, the stylus is a very nice bonus since I do a bit of digital art and I can use it on the go. The unit is also sealed and it has a 1-year shop warranty.

The GT Neo 3 is more modern and has a better processor but that's really all it has going for it.

I'm also concerned with the battery since it's sealed and the battery was made 3 years ago, as far as I know, phone batteries tend to bloat when not in use for a very long time, especially Samsung's. Not really concerned about the lack of support and software updates since I just want a reliable phone that can do well.

Should I go for the 10+?
[General Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
Welcome to XDA🤗

Grab it if it's a new factory sealed N10+ running on Pie, my preferred OS. Do Not update it.

I have a N975U (Pie) and a N975U1 (Android 10), both were bought new, the last about a year ago.

Nothing comes close to the Beast, this is the Note at its zenith point. It's a gorgeous and well balanced flagship capable of 12+ hour SOT with speeds fraction of a second slower than the S22U in many daily uses.

This N975U in my hand has over 8k hours on it, the only repair has been a battery. It runs, looks and feels like new. The display is still perfect with no degradation or defects. 5G isn't needed and the variable refresh rate displays have poorer color/gamma accuracy/calibration than this display. It's one of the best displays ever produced. The current OS load on this stock N10+ is over 2 yo, still fast, very stable with minimal maintenance. Security simply isn't an issue. A very dependable work horse of a phone.

Slam in a Sandisk Extreme 1tb V30* rated SD card and you now have a fast 1.25tb dual drive computer in your hand. It's a killer.

Replacing the battery isn't that expensive or hard for an experienced tech. It may be DOA after 3 years, just replace it.

*seamlessly streams vids and music. Transfers at about 4 gb@minute internally or about 2gb@ minute to/from PC. Use as a data drive; only apps, the download and DCIM folders go on internal memory. All critical data goes on the SD card. If the OS crash/burns, the SD card data normally remains intact. Do not encrypt it and always back it up redundantly, regularly!
[General Questions and Answers] Cavalry'shere:
Thanks for the reply! So there's a real chance that the battery might not totally work if it's sealed and remained unused for 3 years right? Won't it void the warranty if I try to replace the battery?
[General Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
You're welcome.

Li's lose about 2%@month due to self discharging. They have about a 70% charge when they leave the factory. Age in it's self degrades Li's. It may charge up, the 2yo one I got was down to 50% I think.

No idea if the warranty is valid. Never had to use it😃 The battery is covered under warranty though.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] mrfatiga22:
Dear, my name is Miguel.

I managed to install WhatsApp with the SAME PHONE NUMBER as the SMARTPHONE.

And make them work at the same time.

Soon I will upload a video of how I did it. Greeting.

Sorry 🙏 for the quality of the Video.

My other Post

https://xdaforums.com/t/how-to-inst...sung-galaxy-watch-4-wear-os-it-works.4369607/
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] Oswald Boelcke:
@mrfatiga22 Thread closed as you've already created a subject matter related thread that you've even linked in your post above.

Please review the XDA Forum Rules with special emphasis on rule no. 5 and post in existings threads instead of creating new ones. Thanks for your cooperation.

Regards

Oswald Boelcke

Senior Moderator
[OnePlus 9 Pro] nabril15:
Helloe

As of recently, something weird is happening with my Bluetooth connection with my car's audio.

After connecting, I try to play music but I cannot hear it in the car despite turning up rhe volume on the car and phone.

A setting within the BT's advanced settings is greyed out, and I ask if that is the culprit. See pic.

If so, how do I change that?

It worked fine 2 weeks ago.

My daughter's phone plays fine, so BT works fine in the car's audio.

Thank you
[Nokia 6.1 Plus (X6) Questions & Answers] mangled:
Hi,

Can someone please pm me if you can or have recommendation to someone/service that can unlock my bootloader from android 10. Techmesto does not appear to be responding.
[Nokia 6.1 Plus (X6) Questions & Answers] Pug2536:
Even I’m trying to do the same. Were you able to unlock your phone's bootloader?
[Nokia 6.1 Plus (X6) Questions & Answers] mangled:
Hi,

Yes techmesto replied approximately a week later and finally connected with them. It took maybe 20 minutes for them to unlock it. Phone has been working great since. Will strongly recommend /e/ os. The os runs smooth and everything just works well.
[Nokia 6.1 Plus (X6) Questions & Answers] Pug2536:
Did they do it for free or charge something? Also, /e/os on Nokia 6.1 plus?

I’m planning to get Lineage OS instead because i want my banking apps to work too.
[Nokia 6.1 Plus (X6) Questions & Answers] mangled:
Yes it was a small fee like 10$ I can't remember exactly how much. /e/ os has microg implemented and you can use banking apps too. They work fine for me anyway...
[General Questions and Answers] Noatmo:
Hi,

I'm in the process of trying to flash my phone back to stock because I messed some stuff up in the hidden menu. I've never really messed with any of this stuff before, but it seems like Sony offers all the tools I need and it seems straight forward. I have a couple of questions, though. Will flashing the binary found at this link reset the phone to completely out of the box condition and will it function as if I never messed with anything? Will it function as if it's 100% stock and still receive updates normally?

I've wasted my entire afternoon trying to figure out how to factory reset this menu and I'd like for the phone to just back to how it was out of the box.

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can offer.

The phone is a Sony Xperia 5 IV, btw.
[General Questions and Answers] xXx yYy:
A Factory Reset only removes all apps added by user and user-data.

Hence reflash Stock ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] Noatmo:
Thanks for the reply. I assumed that the rom reflash would reset everything, but I've seen posts on here saying that a rom reflash didn't reset that menu and I'm not sure which is accurate. So, would reflashing the rom actually reset those settings?
[Touch HD General] asxp:
Could you tell me is this possible or not?
[Touch HD General] borce_razor:
Soft will support, but I'm not sure for hardware.
[Touch HD General] asxp:
Could you tell me how can I do this or where I can find help?
[Touch HD General] friscoltu959:
i read blackstone´s hardware is the same of htc raphael,
[Touch HD General] arvindmd:
precisely, and i read on one of the review comment is that probably the hardware on hd for tv-out is there.
[Touch HD General] asxp:
What I have to do port TV-out to HD
[Touch HD General] Laurentius26:
Intresting thread, I will have a look at the Touch Pro rom dump to see if I can extract TV Out from it. :)
[Touch HD General] asxp:
I will be grateful
[Touch HD General] cracou111:
hi, should be good! I tried the tv out cable from mine touch pro but nothing happened on my HD screen!
[Touch HD General] prpmlp:
I tried the headphones from the HTC Diamond in the HTC HD and it says it would not work. I installed the driver and now it does. Could this is also be the case with th TV out
[Touch HD General] Blob8me:
Interesting - Can you past the driver you installed for the headphones please?????

.
[Touch HD General] kevinniven:
v out

I also think this should work. HD has the same 11pin mini usb as the pro!

I love the HD and if we could get it to work i'm 100% sold!!
[Touch HD General] sumitescp:
how much r u willing to sell your touch pro for?
[Touch HD General] 0cn:
TV-OUT useful? Used to play games? To the movies? Or browse photos? I don't think so!
[Touch HD General] fastie:
pls give us driver
[Touch HD General] IceEyz:
I don't believe this keeps popping up.

Somewhere on the forums, a HTC-Source confirmed the Touch HD would need different hardware to support TV-Out. It's not doable by software, according to HTC. If it would, they would have included it, just like the Diamond (which is assumed to have the same hardware as well..).
[Touch HD General] cracou111:
hi, just received this cab.

I have my tv out cable at my office so I couldn't test it yet!
[Touch HD General] kevinniven:
TV OUT

Cool test it and let us know!! I looked for the cable and it seems to be on back order.
[Touch HD General] slash_1:
hi prpmlp!

it really works?

can you give the driver for the diamond headphone using online please?
[Touch HD General] kevinniven:
Maybe?

I'm not sure. I did read that about the Touch Diamond. The HD has the same 11 pin usb as the Pro.
[Touch HD General] cracou111:
forgot to say that credit goes to unitedxempire

Junior Member ! he did the cab

will report tomorrow if it's work! i hope it!