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[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Finnzz:
Personally I wouldn't pay attention to the OS of a TV, I would just get the best specs possible for the price. If you don't like the included OS you can buy a Chromecast, Fire Stick, Roku etc to use with the TV.

Generally I would not recommend buying a FireTV television. I would go to a site like Rtings and see what they recommend in your price range.

I would avoid Toshiba, JVC, Westinghouse, RCA. These names are just being licensed out to Chinese manufacturers to try to bank on brand names that were once associated with quality.

For under $500 I would recommend Hisense and TCLs main TV lineups. Both these companies are trying to build brand recognition by offering TVs with features that outprice LG, Samsung and Sony.

I would look at the Hisense U6G (2021) and U6H (2022) which get a lot of praise. The U6HF is the U6H with FireOS. Also keep in mind that TV models vary regionally. The U6G sold in north America may be a very different TV internally than the same model manufactured for Europe.

Rtings only reviews TVs for North America. You can check out Vincent on YouTube. He covers European/UK models and is very knowledgeable

The 3 Best TVs Under $500 - Summer 2024: Reviews

The best TV under $500 we've tested is the Hisense 55U7K or Hisense U7K, although its 55-inch size sits just a tad above that amount when not on sale. It's easily the best TV at that price point, with an amazing selection of extra features.

www.rtings.com
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h1ghtower:
Hiya, Finnzz. I have just read your post at 20.00 U.K. time. WOW, sounds like you’ve been busy helping me out. You,ve been absolutely brilliant, mate! Unfortunately I bought another TV at dinner time before I read your advice. On a brighter note though, I bought a Hisense 43A6EGTUK (43 Inch) 4K UHD Smart TV
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h1ghtower:
Which only cost £250 From Amazon. It’s on VIDAA and is no.4 on amazons top tv list. Not the exact same model you recommended, but, considering it’s a 2022 tv its pretty damn close. I’ll certainly use the Rtings for any TVs I buy in the future though. Would you mind if I refer any friends who need technical help to this site with your name in the future, Finnzz? Your brilliant and thanks again, fella.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] sn4k3:
Hi guys, I just send my main phone to assistance, so for almost two weeks, I have to go back to mi A1.

Any suggestions on the best rom? I'm testing the pixel experience, it's good, but it's laggy if I use more than a couple apps... I know, It has 5 years, just trying to survive this couple weeks 😄
[Redmi Note 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Illyve1:
Disabled ads and recommendations in all apps I could find, yet they keep appearing.

Boost speed now is showing ads, security is showing ads, even the file manager started showing ads. How to fix it?

Also tried enabling and disabling "msa" which I had disabled cause I read it would disable the system ads, it didn't help.View attachment 5751507
[Redmi Note 8 Pro Questions & Answers] redrooster62:
Hey Friend I have similar problem too. I turned off permissions/notification when I first bought the phone and all was good until recently. I have ads on Cleaner now and every time I open text messages always asking about chat features. Just today my lock screen and home page changed by themselves. I know text message notification for chat is from Google. Maybe they think phone is old now so send us all this ****.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Lumyat:
I'm new to custom rims so I don't know how they work with OLED burn in issues.

Does lineageos have burn in protection like shifting pixels from time to time in AOD or in notification bar?
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] MJPollard:
I don't believe it does, no. Other custom ROMs do, though, such as crDroid (which uses LineageOS as its base).
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] japostolo:
Hello , if anyone can help me please ... I was rooted on oos11 and using magiskhide props config i edited my fingerprint so i was able to use google pay. When i recently updated to oos12and rooted google pay diddnt work i was not meeting security standards so i thought i would do the same procedure with editing fingerprint props, but on the list of devices that appear oos12 does not seem to appear for oneplus 7 pro. Is there a solution to have rooted oos 12 and google pay?
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] Alfotiney:
Yes brother, I have oneplus7pro 1917 and my problem was that I use cdma and I want to update but after the update the network disappears and there is no code to open diag to modify efs so I did the following downgrade to oxygen 11 and after that flasht twrp 3.6.2 and then install majsk root and then download the following add-on TWRP_A_B_Retention_Script and I did the backup efs via twrp and after that I downloaded the update ota12.1 and after the update did not reboot go to majsk and choose instal to inactive slot and choose reboot and then you will notice that the device has been updated to Android 12.1 and you have root and you also have twrp installed, go to twrp and do a restore I hope that this experience helped you, and I am sorry that my English is not very good and I used google translate
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] japostolo:
Thank you for the kind reply , i perfectly understood what you say no problem from tour english, but my problem is not to root the phone i was rooted already with the nethod tou said , my problem is to install working google pay on rooted oneplus 7 pro!
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] yassine2217:
If you use magisk try enable zygisk

and deny google service and google play

next step install saftynet from this repo

Release v2.4.0 · kdrag0n/safetynet-fix

Highlights Play Integrity bypass without breaking device checks or causing other issues Disabled use of hardware attestation on Pixel 7 and newer (@anirudhgupta109) Other changes Updated instruc...

github.com

and follow the instruction of this module

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[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] japostolo:
Thanks for your reply i have already enabled zyisk and cofigured deny list but to no luck. Previously on oos11 the problem was solved by editing the fingerprint through magisk hide pro config. But this procedure is not supported now because i cant find there a fingerprint for oos 12 (only 9,10,11, see attached photo).

Is there anyone managed to make google pay work on rooted oos12 ? And if yes how?
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] travis82:
Used s21 fingerprint. So far no issues
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Primokorn:
Hello,

I tweaked a lot of my Nexus 5 and Oneplus 3T but it's going to be the first time that I'll flash a GSI ROM.

For the moment, I just unlocked the bootloader and read threads during several hours :)

Odin is ready for a potential flash in a virtual machine (since my laptop is running GNU/Linux).

My current firmware: T500XXU3CVG4

CSC code: EUX

I downloaded the latest firmware via samloader (maybe useless): T500XXS4CVJ1. The 4 .tar.md5 files have been extracted: AP, BL, CSC and HOME_CSC (HOME_CSC is not necessary since I want to wipe my user data). I have no CP file.

The tablet is very slow so I hope that LineageOS 19 (or 18.1?) will help.

I downloaded: lineage-19.1-20221011-UNOFFICIAL-arm64_bgS-vndklite.img.xz (source) to install LOS 19 with GApps.

I have no external sdcard.

How can I flash this GSI build?

Should I install this TWRP version then follow these instructions?

Should I flash SM-T500-GSI-kernel.zip to fix unwanted reboots? Or is it specific to LineageOS 18.1?

Too much things to learn/read/understand since I purchased my Oneplus 3T lol

Any recommendations are welcome!

Thank you in advance for your kind help.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] lewmur:
Why don't you have an SD card? You are saying your 500 is slow. You are using Odin an not Heimdall, so I'm assuming you aren't a CLI fan that would rather do things with fastboot instead of just flashing with TWRP. SD cards are dirt cheap. I recommend you get one, install TWRP, put the files you want to flash in it and flash with TWRP. Then you can move all of your data, such as movies, photos, music and downloads to the SD card and not lose them every time you need to wipe for a clean upgrade. This will also help speed up the tablet by increasing the available internal storage.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Primokorn:
Why? Because I don't need it :) I have 2 phones so this tablet is used to have a bigger screen when searching stuff on the web with my wife or when cooking.

Actually I like CLI tools but I found few information about Heimdall to flash properly and a hard brick is not far away if I don't flash the good partitions.

Odin is used by many people and I have never touched a "modern" device with A/B partitions, GSI builds,... so...

I don't care wiping the data since I quickly backup/restore them through adb pull/push.

I have few documents on the tablet so moving files to an external storage wouldn't change anything. By the way I'm not convinced that moving pictures and movies to the external sd card would help.

Can I do what I said in the original post? Can I follow the instructions in the mentioned post? Is there a special kernel to flash for LineageOS 19?

Thanks for your support.

If other GNU/Linux users read this thread, here is how to get a .img from the .img.xz downloaded from Andy Yan's personal builds.

sudo apt install xz-utils
unxz the_gsi_build.img.xz
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] lewmur:
To each his own. No, you don't NEED an SD card. I just feel they are so cheap that if I'm going to spend the time rooting and installing custom ROMs, which I've been doing with Samsung tablets for close to a decade, then why not add an SD card to make things a little easier. In all that time, in the dozens of installs and upgrades, the closest I've come to a hard brick is when I unintentionally flashed an AP without flashing the BL on a T510. The tablet would still boot, but only to the system. Couldn't get in recovery or download no matter what I tried. But at least the tablet was still usable. And, come to think of it, in all that time here in XDA, I've never heard of anyone else hard bricking a Samsung tablet by flashing. Sure, can't count the number of bootloop messages, and even the occasional time when it was necessary to let the tablets battery run down, but never a true hard brick that wasn't due to hardware failure.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Primokorn:
OK. I'll try the above instructions to install the GSI build from the fastboot mode of TWRP.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Questions & Answers] toroyo:
very good, I wanted to ask about the official rom of the poco x3 nfc, does anyone know if there is the official rom of miui 13 but that it does not have all the gapps as they come by default? For example, I only want the minimum ones that do not have so many installations, only Google Play and the necessary ones, I think they are called nano gapps, my question is if there is an official rom with the minimum necessary gapps? not with so many apps that the rom installs.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Questions & Answers] Noter2017:
It doesn't work that way.

If Xiaomi wants to sell phones with the PlayStore on it, it has also to include other Google apps and the Google search.

If you want the bare minimum from Google, you have to install a custom ROM.

Maybe it's possible to disable/uninstall unnecessary Google apps. Search around the forum for de-bloating. There's probably something in the guides section
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] paniro187:
I circled the issue here. It's an exclamation point that on the signal bars. I have full signal but no internet connectivity. Look at what it says under internet (networks available) even though it says I have 5guc. The only thing that immediately clears this is clicking the tool and circle in the upper right corner.

I would get this issue on the pixel 6 pro alot more but it's still happening albeit alot less on the pixel 7 pro.

Anyone else getting this issue?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] jaseman:
Never saw that on any phone. Seeing how you've experienced it on two different phones makes me think either you have a 3rd party app causing this OR it has something to do with your provider.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] DespairFactor:
try changing your network from 5g to lte, see if it improves
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
I am starting to think this is a T-Mobile 5G SA problem. I have a Tello eSIM that uses T-Mobile and it works fine but when I used the T-Mobile Network Pass eSIM to try out T-Mobile postpaid, it was constantly dropping and was actually booting both my eSIMs from the network.

On my OnePlus 9, the Tello pSIM would drop data all the time if it connected to 5G SA but fortunately I could disable that in developer options. There is no such option on the Pixel and my Tello pSIM was doing the same thing when I first got the new phone. Converting my Tello pSIM to eSIM just seems to have disabled 5G SA entirely on it so I wasn't having the problem again until the T-Mobile eSIM.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] MultiCulti:
This was the reason why i gave up on the P6 Pro a year ago!

It is less, but still have some times the issue! Connected to 5G, good signal, but no Data Connection, and after few Minutes i get the ! sign!

few minutes more, and the connection is coming back!

Provider A1 and Magenta in Austria!
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] z3nith66:
Yes I have that on P7P. That and many other issues, calls start burbling after 8-10 minutes. I miss calls, in general the network is very slow.

Waiting for an update before returning it.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] schmeggy929:
I believe this is a T-mobile issue. Where I live I get 5G UC around half the time compared with just 5G. There are a few spots where 5G UC shows connected however no data will pass. Same issue on my iPad Pro. At least I can turn off 5G UC on the iPad Pro. Can't find any setting where you can disable just the 5G UC.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] HipKat:
On the P6P, I had ridiculous Signal and Battery issues - til I disabled 5G. Where it's strong, T-Mob 5G is great but where it's barely coming in, it's terrible. Even on the P7P, the first thing I did in Network was choose LTE as my preferred
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] tsoump:
In the first place we believed that the porblem was Hardware in Pixel 6, but I consume that's not Tensor's problem anymore. It might be, but the carriers with the 5G antenna upgrades don't help the situation.

Do you live in supported by Google country, or not?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] MultiCulti:
As i can say, i had this issue the first time with the Note 10 + (Exynos) ... the Pixel 6 Pro was very bad with this issue, as i had to return it!

Now with the Pixel 7 Pro it started again, not that often as the P6P ... but still! And just on 5G!

Between with the S22U Snapdragon (S908E and S9080), also with the OnePlus and Sony etc ... i never had this issue!

so, i think it is a Exynos Modem Issue with few Provider Hardware 🤷🏼‍♂️
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] vnayurs:
I can confidently say it's not a hardware issue, I get this one of the networks. I use dual sim one is esim with 5g connection which works perfectly, but the other one with a physical sim gives this as when it loses the network signal
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Shebee:
Could it be a APN settings issue? I get this on my carrier if i don't set the proper APN settings.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Bxperiaz3:
I had this with EE in the UK on their Esim. Switched to Vodafone and haven't had the issue since
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SonnyKrockett:
I do think when I used the phone before I gave it to my wife, that I saw the same things. And yes, I'm on T Mobile.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
Yes, I'm in the US. It only seems to be a problem on T-Mobile and they're the only ones here that have a 5G standalone network (making things worse, they have it on both their 5G frequencies now so it happens every time that 5G connects). My Tello physical SIM that uses the T-Mobile network was doing the same thing until I converted it to eSIM and now it doesn't connect to the 5G SA network anymore (whether intentional or a bug is yet to be seen) and I've had no data drops.

For the record, I have heard this same complaint levied at iPhones.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] tsoump:
I have no clue.

The problem with two Sims simultaneously is obvious mainly in unsupported carriers (the trick is to switch the one sim to only 2G).

Maybe the antennas are weak in this specific area so the call falls from to 2G and this might occurs the problem (?)
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] myxdad:
Same issues started on my One Plus 7T Pro. No 5g, LTE works perfect. No version of APN settings can get 5g back. It's definitely a 5g SA issue.

Could be: intentional, tmobile/Tello issue they are unaware of, or just something they are fixing.... for over a month now lol
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
Check your developer options for a 5G network mode one. If you have it, switch it to 5G NSA only. That fixed it on my OnePlus 9. Seems to be hit or miss which OnePlus devices have the option though.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] myxdad:
No my rooted 7T Pro / Android 11 does not have this in developer option to switch between NSA and SA.

And I couldn't find any other way to mess with this setting unfortunately 🙁

With *#*#4636#*#* I can mess with a lot of antenna stuff, but still no NSA / SA option.

Everything I've read is that 5g NSA works and SA does not. Even though SA worked for years up until around early November from what I noticed
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
I wonder if they added that toggle in A12. I never looked for it when I was on 11.
[Motorola Edge 20] ctzulu:
well in the phone everything works

battery life is a little below average and i have no clue how i can tweak it because hebf is not running in root

now i scrolled through menu and found

USB SETTINGS

connected devices -.. connected devices is greyed out and blinking on off on off on off

after killing all usd apps and settings -still

can this be the issue ?
[Redmi 9 Power / 9T] Ali_Fathi:
My Redmi 9T has always trouble connecting to my wifi modem (D-Link). the wifi SSID is not listed, nor it can be reached by "Add network" option. but sometimes everything is ok and wifi connected automatically (password is saved after the first time it found SSID, so every time it "decides" to show me the network, it automatically connects). today it makes me mad, because I found the modem provides QR-Code connection link, and that didn't work either. I tried everything found on internet, some of which are:

- check the SSID visibility -> it IS visible

- check black-listed/filtered MAC addresses -> no filtering

- check maximum concurrent connections

- make wifi off/on -> same result

- reset the modem -> nothing new happened

- reset phone network settings -> failure

- restart phone -> nope

please note every other device can find the network and connect to it (including the writer's laptop). I doubt the problem is related to my wifi security level (WPA 2) but it can not describe the occasional connection, because security level has not been changed for years!

please help!
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] andygold:
I have a set of Kirkland Signature 10 hearing aids. With my old LG G7 ThinQ I had it set up to send all sounds from the phone directly to the hearing aids (HAs), including calls, music, texts, voice mails, etc. For text messages (SMS), it would speak the name of the caller and then it would read the message aloud. It would also automatically switch over to playing music from the phone Bluetooth-ing it into my car stereo. When I leave the car, it would switch the sound back to the hearing aids

With the P7P things are not so good! It seems every day I have to go into sound settings and switch to the HAs. Then, it may stay switched, or it may go back to the phone speakers. I never know what it will do. Phone messages always go to the phone's speakers. Music stored in the phone may play over the car speakers, HAs, or phone speakers. I never know which it's going to be. The biggest issue is when I'm waiting for a doctor's appointment or similar and I put on a YouTube video, and it may be on speakers or HAs. It's sometimes a bit hard to tell, until I get annoying glances from those around me . Any thoughts on how to force the phone to stay set up to stream to the hearing aids?
[Google Pixel 4a Questions & Answers] _sjain:
The situation & what I've tried

I dropped my Pixel 4a 128GB UK Unlocked and since then I always have no signal. The same SIM card works in an iPhone and another Pixel 4a, however.

If i dial *#4636#*#* and go to Diagnostics, the mobile radio power is off. If I turn it on it goes back off after I re-enter the menu.

My fingerprint sensor also became intermittent, however the repair shop guy diassembled my phone entirely and reconnected everything and since then it's working fine.

He said he also reconnected the modem antenna cable and flex cable underneath... I can only hope its true. Didn't work apparantly.

My plan & questions

I have another working Pixel 4a I got for really cheap (broken glass but works and displays fine).

Can I transfer the following parts from it to my other Pixel 4a without issue? Mainly I'm thinking of:

Will the IMEI change? If yes will it automatically become valid on my new phone?

The 4a with working modem is 64GB while the phone I want to repair is 128GB, is it fine?

The 4a with working modem is running Android 13 while the phone I want to repair is running Android 10 August 2020 (I don't plan to update) - will flashing the same exact version onto the working 4a before doing the transfer make sure its running the right baseband version / firmware or whatever, and will this be all I need to do?

Anything else I should be aware of?

List of parts I'm going to transfer from the donor phone

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333902171384

Official Google Pixel 4A Antenna Board - G949-00015-01

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353400600407

Official Google Pixel 4A Antenna 2 Coaxial Cable - G821-00627-01

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/402714986377

Official Google Pixel 4A Coaxial Cable Adhesive - G806-03235-01

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333902356899

Official Google Pixel 4A FPC Antenna 2 Flex - G949-00023-01

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403125046496

Official Google Pixel 4A Antenna 2 Conductive Adhesive - G806-03589-01

Other notes & more questions

Currently, my screen isn't glued on, the repair shop guy kindly left it unglued so any self repairs I do are not as risky.

Ideally I'm going to try and find a repair shop willing to do this for me, however I've not found any so far.

Still I have another question, did anyone here previously purchase the official Pixel 4a adhesive from iFixit from the UK/EU Store?

If so, when did you purchase them?

They're out of stock and have been forever, and it means I can't get the iFixit kit with battery + adhesives which would save me like £50 vs alternative sources.

I'm also planning to replace the battery on my phone - should I just follow the normal battery calibration steps there after installation? Anything special for the 4a?

All help appreciated.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] iyah123:
Hi XDAers ... I have a challenge.

Huawei mate 20X fell.

Screen broke, as in black.

Phone turns on and can get into recovery, but nothing more.

Unsure if it is sitting and waiting for my unlock code (tried it on the black screen a few times wout success), or what it's doing.

The output over hdmi is also black (but this is most likely due to not being able to select the correct mode when usb connected.

Does anyone here have any ideas on how I can extract the data (internal - no sd card) from the phone ?

My computer recognizes a usb connection, HiSuite also recognized a Huawei connection, but says the device not connected.

RPi also sees a usb device, but nothing can be mounted (suspect again need to allow this on the phone screen).

Any ideas ?

Thx

Iyah.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] flashy:
Hi Guys.

I'm planning on using some sort of mapping software on the move, is it possible to connect the Kaisers GPS to a laptop using bluetooth so that i can get GPS reception on the Laptop?