yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] JazonX:
Firmware is what you call an operating system on the phones, and it is infact a firmware which is read only - if you not consider the root factor. The firmware we run, or the operating system in your terms (Similar to Windows XP) for phones in Android. We are currently running Android 12.

OneUI is the graphical layer which Samsung has built exclusively for their devices running Android. You cannot separately update them. When your Android OS is being updated, the graphical layer which samsung has built (OneUI) will be updated as well.

Odin is the flashing program built for windows. It can be used flash firmware to a Samsung device. More info on ODIN is can be found here ;

Rooting, ODIN, Firmware, CSC Information And Myths Debunked / Noob's Guide To Samsung Devices

Since a lot of people will have their Galaxy S22 Ultra soon and I myself am thinking about either getting an S21 Ultra or S22 Ultra, I wanted to summarise a lot of information I found out during researching as Samsung devices are quite different...

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You cannot flash an older firmware, as downgrading is not favored by Odin. You can always upgrade to a newer firmware if it matches your exact device model and CSC (Code that defines the region)

Nope, Carrier lock cannot be removed by flashing a firmware.

A few suggested here

Rooting, ODIN, Firmware, CSC Information And Myths Debunked / Noob's Guide To Samsung Devices

Since a lot of people will have their Galaxy S22 Ultra soon and I myself am thinking about either getting an S21 Ultra or S22 Ultra, I wanted to summarise a lot of information I found out during researching as Samsung devices are quite different...

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[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] DIGITAL™:
JazonX,

Thank you so much for the assistance and explanation for this. This was very helpful and now I feel a little bit more confident in my actions moving forward. Again, thank you!

A quick notice, those links you posted keep redirecting back to this post.

--Mike
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] JazonX:
URLs should work now, I've mistakenly copied the wrong link.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] Aijuss:
I have been searching for two days for this build, does anyone have his build stashed away somewhere. manila2d: 1.0.1820.3328 for me to doqnload.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schroeder09:
Whenever I try to use this app I just get the spinning blue circle of death. I tried enabling some permissions and removing root access based off of some old XDA threads, I had found. It didn't work. What's a good log viewer now?
[Motorola Edge 30 Ultra / Motorola Moto X30 Pro] AHMN48:
Hi there,

Gmail, WhatsApp, Telegram Skype, Google voice and more won't sync automatically and I'm not getting notification until open the apps manually

Motorola X30 Pro RETCN original firmware
[Motorola Edge 30 Ultra / Motorola Moto X30 Pro] Vullnet13:
My friend look for device shield in your device and there you have some options to enable background services that's an app, pretty sure that is causing your issues.
[Motorola Edge 30 Ultra / Motorola Moto X30 Pro] AHMN48:
yes, its device shield stops everything, after allowing for WhatsApp it's working fine

but Gmail, and Telegram do not update until opening and of course some other apps

some apps work fine when allow to run in the background in the device shield and some of them not working
[Motorola Edge 30 Ultra / Motorola Moto X30 Pro] Vullnet13:
You need to enable and auto restart there as well
[Motorola Edge 30 Ultra / Motorola Moto X30 Pro] AHMN48:
I did it too, not working

I'm going a reset factory with LMSAA

also something weird is happening

Sometimes personalize app 0kb data and force close until I do restart phone several times
[Motorola Edge 30 Ultra / Motorola Moto X30 Pro] AHMN48:
I found the problem for anyone who has the issue like me

first: Device Shield background running app should be ok

second: The device Shield Auto start app should be on

third: Automatic Battery saver turn on 1 AM - 6 AM, turn off this option, when battery saver is on force close all apps, after the battery saver duration is over apps doesn't sync automatically until opening them by your self

so the problem solved
[Motorola Edge 30 Ultra / Motorola Moto X30 Pro] ijuanp03:
NO issue for me.

1. Autostart apps from DeviceShield

2. "Allow running in background" for those apps in DeviceShield

3. From the app tray/drawer, press and hold an app (ex. Telegram) and tap on App Info.

Tap Battery and choose "Unrestricted".
[Xiaomi Poco F4 (Munch) / Redmi K40S] plshelp454:
I was trying to flash a rom with the help of twrp but accidentally deleted the vendor. Now am stuck in fast boot mode despite trying every flashing software (mi flash, xiomi tool v2) pls help
[Xiaomi Poco F4 (Munch) / Redmi K40S] plshelp454:
nvm fixed it
[Xiaomi Poco F4 (Munch) / Redmi K40S] Badger50:
Thread closed.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Questions & Answers] pedro.voteford:
My S9 / SM-G960F running LOS17.1 abruptly stopped voice out on cell calls. Callers come through NP, but it's as if I am muted [but obvs I am not]. Mic hardware works fine, tested with voice recorder, other wifi-based comms. Just cell/telephone & just transmit.

Thinking it might be some app interference, after taking a backup I performed a full data reset, which did not solve.

So I performed a full nuke'n'pave and put in lineage-19.1-20220730-UNOFFICIAL-starlte.zip but not solved.

Current device: S9

Baseband: G960FXXUHFVB4

OS: Lineage 19.1 2022-07-30 unofficial starlte

Service: TMO

Cell data works fine. Voice in is fine. Voice out is muted. Microphone works fine - calls via not-cellphone apps work perfectly.

FFWD to the current, I suspect that it's a conflict between the baseband being 960F vs. me being in North Am. on TMO = should be 960U. I am /guessing/ that with tower updates etc. my connectivity got sort of phased out.

So I have been attempting to correct the problem by flashing the baseband. Before thinking it was F vs. U, I found a TWRP-flashable 960F baseband [Modem_G960FXXUHFVB4_24.02.2022-flashable.zip] which updated no sweat but did not resolve the problem.

My current barrier is that there does not appear to be a TWRP-flashable 960U baseband. After grabbing modem_G960USQU9FUL1_06.12.2021.tar and unpacking modem.bin, I ran heimdall print-pit from cli and learned that my device's modem partition is RADIO, so in download mode:

heimdall flash --RADIO modem.bin --verbose --no-reboot

Asking for help, please. I'm sure it's probably some little thing being missed. I need to be able to make regular phone calls.

Thank you.
[General Topics] Renate:
/sdcard has a long and sordid history.

Some of it goes back to UMS (USB Mass Storage) compatibility and a time when only FAT terrorized the land.

Then we went to "fuse".

Then we went to "sdcardfs".

Then we went (back?) to "esdfs".

I say, let's burn case-insensitive on the pyre of false idols!

Ok, recently I was helping some folks with horrible performance in Android 11 that was using sdcardfs.

By "horrible" I mean an ls -l on a directory with 15,000 files was taking over half an hour.

Ok, well you may say that a directory doesn't actually need to have 15,000 files.

I went to work with a hatchet trying to find a solution.

vold loads /system/bin/sdcard which is supposed to be a daemon.

I de-daemonized it by turning it into a bit of code that does some bind mounts for /mnt/realtime/emulated/*/

It worked fine for a rooted ADB but it didn't do much for apps, which couldn't access /sdcard

So, I beat on system/etc/permissions/platforms and reinstated the way it previously was with android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE adding gid=1023

Everything worked nominally great, including performance.

Unfortunately I was missing a bunch of junk to having newly created files having 1023:1023 664

The upshot was that apps could create files and read them themselves.

Still, it was not conducive to sharing files between apps.

Oh yeah, and this had abandoned case-insensitive because it directly used the case-sensitive underlying ext4 of the dm-mapped userdata.

As implemented, case-insensitive is inefficient.

My solution overlooks much, although /sdcard/Android handling actually turns out to be the same as it should.

Thoughts?
[General Topics] blackhawk:
Yikes. A guide how to do this be great. That's way beyond my skillset. Good work😎

I'm still running on Android 9 and 10 on my stock N10+'s to avoid scoped storage, etc. Security isn't an issue they way they're configured. I depend heavily on the functionality of the SD cards... not willing to give that up as they also add redundancy when used as a data drive*. Pie is still my preferred version.

*too many "my system crashed, boot looped, etc how do I recover my data?" threads on XDA. With an unencrypted card, no worries.
[General Topics] Renate:
If the bulk of your files are either:

Copied from your desktop and used only read-only (MP3, books, etc).

Files written by an app and used by the same app.

Step one is doing a mount|grep emu to see if you are actually using sdcardfs.

If you are using Magisk for your root, this is pretty painless as if it doesn't work, you'll just break /sdcard, not ADB.

Replace (in a Magisk module or else backup and replace if using r/w) /system/bin/sdcard with the file below (only 64 bit!, please rename the file just "sdcard").

Edit /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml so that the relevent parts now read:

<!-- Modified to allow /sdcard without sdcardfs -->

<permission name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE">
<group gid="media_rw"/>
</permission>
<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE">
<group gid="media_rw"/>
</permission>

Reboot and cross your fingers.

On a Windows system you can:

C:\>adb push foo_upper /sdcard/FOO
C:\>adb push foo_mixed /sdcard/Foo
C:\>adb push foo_lower /sdcard/foo

On a Linux system you can:

$ adb push FOO /sdcard
$ adb push Foo /sdcard
$ adb push foo /sdcard

Warning: You will notice that newly created files will not be media_rw:media_rw 644

You can manually fix that if it's a problem.

Edit: If you're using a physical SD card, that could/will be different.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] lalord69:
my pro starter acting up, when u on a call and u press the volume down or up it does not do anything, doesnt even move, also, if u wanna turn the ring or sys volume up or down it does not move with the keys, the only way is doing it by touch on the screen but is very complicated since i have big hands, any one knows how to fix this? :confused:
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] killer2001:
I had this same problem and I couldn't figure it out. Eventually I uninstalled S2U2 and magically the problem was fixed...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] lalord69:
i tried uninstalling a couple of programs but the problem still remains....
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] DomSim:
s2u2 caused this to me too. make sure the option "dont use keyboard hook" is set to ON
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] lalord69:
negative... its a no go, i tried it and does not make a difference.
[Treble-Enabled Device Questions and Answers] miraz775:
I have installed pixel experience gsi ROM successful, but my battery maximum capacity turn into 1900 mAh instead of 6000 mAh , how to fix this
[Treble-Enabled Device Questions and Answers] defcondoc:
First, you must be rooted. Anytime doing things under root, is at your own risk. Proceed with caution. Always have a backup.

Then you will need to use a root file explorer there are many to choose from.

You will need to navigate to /etc/floating_feature.xml

Scroll or search until you see the capacity string value

Change the mAh capacity to your desired battery mAh capacity

Verify that you have 1900 mAh instead of 6000 mAh

If 6000 mAh is listed you may need to calibrate. Let me know and I can help with that.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] WebSnke:
Hi, I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 (G930F) and I wanted to install TWRP on it. Something went wrong and it fails to flash the firmware:

View attachment 5787303

I have tried to change the cable and I also tried to use Smart Switch but it still failed. Please help. Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] Not_Rich:
I had the same problem using the latest twrp from the official site.

This worked for me, download twrp 3.6 from here

Download twrp-3.6.2_9-0-herolte.img.tar

Download page for twrp-3.6.2_9-0-herolte.img.tar

dl.twrp.me

flash this with odin

Update twrp to 3.7 using the img file from Ivan's post here

https://xdaforums.com/t/recovery-ex...laxy-s7-herolte.3333770/page-83#post-87570457

flash this with twrp
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] WebSnke:
Thanks, choosing an older TWRP version fixed my problem.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hikarukaoru:
I have a tablet, purchased off aliexpress that I would like to setup a custom rom for.

Mainly i am looking to be able to keep the OS up to date to some extent, and if possible enable the multiple users functionality

The page for the tablet no longer seems to exist, but this is the pad 5 pro version https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004752505750.html

Andwing (brand) doesn't seem to haev that good of a website and seems to have missing models: http://andwing-smart.com/tablets.html

Specifications:

Model: Pad_6_Pro

Android version: 11.0

Baseband version: MOLY.LR11.W1630.MD.MP.V131.3,2021/09/10 13:53

Kernel version: 3.18.79 (gcc version 6.3.1 20170109 (Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02) ) - root@zy54 #1 - Fri Nov 4 16:09:27 CST 2022

Build number: P30_MT6750O_5M_EMMC_DDR3_256_24_HDP_YTX_HP_P34_Pad_6_Pro_20221104-175543

Custom build version: alps-mp-o1.mp3

RAM: 12GB

CPU : Snapdragon 870

Internal Storage: 512GB

Comes with 5G sim slot (although i really couldn't care about this one)

Would anyone know if there is one available I Can use?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oswald Boelcke:
Hello and good morning, @hikarukaoru

Welcome to XDA! I hope you'll alawys get the support your require.

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

Note: Questions go in Q&A Forum

If you are posting a Question Thread post it in the Q&A forum. Technical discussion of Android development and hacking. No noobs, please. Device-specific releases should go under the appropriate device forum...

xdaforums.com

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

Thanks for your cooperation!

Regards

Oswald Boelcke

Senior Moderator
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bt5corn:
Please get a refind for the above tablet.

Download antutu and confirm this but your tablet doea not have 12gb of ram or an sd 870. I think you will find it has an arm cpu and a mali gpu.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hikarukaoru:
Brand: P34

Model P34 Pad_6_Pro

Device: Pad_6_Pro

Board: Pad_6_Pro

CPU Model: Snapdragon870V/C

Renderer Mali-T860

REsolution 2560x1600

Rear: 24MP (6120x3920)

RAM supported Types: LPDDR3

Memory Channel :S Single-Channel

Memory Frequencies Supported 2.0GHz

RAM Total: 12GB

Internal Storage: 512GB

FileSystem ext4

Cpu Architecture 5x ARM Cortex-A53

Type: 64-bit

ABIs supported arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, armeabi

CPU Cores: 8

CPU clock Range: 2.0GHz

Craft: 28nm HPM

CPU Released 2016-Q2

Encryption Supported AES, SHA1, SHA2

Operation instruction supported PMULL

Display

Vendor: ARM

GPU Version OpenGL ES 3.2 v1.r18p0-00cet0.e348142bb0bcdf18abb600a2670c56a1

Vulkan not supported

Refresh rate 56 Hz

HDR Not supported

Wide Color Gamut not supported

Resolution 2560x1600

Size 11 inches

Desnity 180dpi

Pixel density 213ppi

xdpi/ydpi 213/213 dpi

Resolution supported 1600x2560@56.5Hz
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 11818907:
Please try to get a refund for your device. It almost certainly does not have the specifications listed. Many of these fake it, and actually use old RockChip/MediaTek CPUs. The YouTuber SMOOREZ buys phones and tablets like this, and they often have as little as 4 GB storage, 512 MB RAM and MT6580. Some have fake cameras and batteries that only last 2 hours. Sorry
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hikarukaoru:
The specificiations above are extracted from antutu from the device if it helps. not what was marketed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 11818907:
Try disassembling it most have stickers of the real specifications inside and if not you can see the labels on chips
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hikarukaoru:
I'm sorry but requesting i disassemble my device to prove your claim that my device isn't what it is... is absurd?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] filjusz:
Snapdragon 870 with Mali-T860 graphics and LPDDR3 single channel memory? It should be adreno 650 integrated graphics with LPDDR4 or LPDDR5 memory. Not to mention rest... :ROFLMAO:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hikarukaoru:
sigh. this forum really went to **** over the years i guess. Used to be actually helpful people here.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quantumsky:
@hikarukaoru, the rest of crowd is correct. No way this is a Snapdragon Pad. I got a same model from a different seller, and immediately realize it’s a scam/fraud after receiving by hands.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshuanh:
OK, I also got scammed... currently disputing the charge with my Credit Card Company.

The Vendor installed Android 8 and was able to fill in the info within the settings of the Tablet, so if you look at the specs it will say SD870, 12GB of RAM, etc...

BUT when you install thrid party software to verify the specs, many of them just pull the info that is written within the settings but some of them actually show the actual CPU, total RAM and correct version of Android.

1st of all I recieved a 10.1" (not 11"), with a MT8750, 3GB of RAM and it does have a 512GB harddrive and it is running Android 8 (not Android 11).

This is a total scam. I even ran GeekBench 6 and got scores of about 175 for single (should be over 1,000 if it really was SD870).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joymu:
Hi,

is it possible to root or install another firmware on these devices?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andiko:
Install CPU Identifier to check the real parameters of your tablet.

CPU-Z can also check you that but need to click on the CPU-Z online validation.

There you will see the real parameters of this fake tablet.

I bought two of these. If you made an unpacking video then you get full refund.

I knew this tablet wasn't real since it costed around 150 usd. Just ordered those 2 pieces for colleagues that wanted just to watch youtube videos.

XDA Developers Forum is made by people. And the above people were just too straight with you.

Cheers!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obitokun:
I got one tablet of these too and i looking for another rom, lineage, whatever, i just want remove this chinese rom from it haha, somebody ? @hikarukaoru some news ?

Thanks​
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphabethunter:
I'm also looking for a custom rom, custom firmware... Anything really. I'd take even resources to learn how to make a custom rom myself. If I update the android rom, should it fix the problem of having wrong specs showing up? Or would I have to go deeper?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rgd5:
In fact, the testimony from DevCheck

DevCheck Report Pad_6_Pro Pad 6 Pro Nov. 10, 2023 2:37 Working time: 47m 38s Deep sleep: 22m 3s (46%) Characteristics Mediatek MT6750 Characteristics: MT6750V/C Cores: 8 CPUs: 4 x Cortex-A53 4 x Cortex-A53 Process technology: 28 nm HPC+ Frequencies: 156 MHz - 1001 MHz 286 MHz - 1508 MHz Controller: interactive GRAPHICS ADAPTER Supplier: ARM GPU: Mali-T860 OpenGL: OpenGL ES 3.2 v1.r18p0-00cet0.e348142bb0bcdf18abb600a2670c56a1 Resolution: 128 0 x 800 Screen density: 212.8966 ppi Screen size (estimated) : 7.09 in / 180 mm RAM RAM size: 3 GB Type: LPDDR3 667 MHz Bandwidth: 5.3 GB/s Channels: 32-bit single channel Storage Size: 128 GB File system: ext4 OTHER CHARACTERISTICS Bluetooth support: Yes Bluetooth LE support: Yes USB host support: Yes Infrared transmitter: No NFC support: No DEVICE Model: Pad_6_Pro Code name: Pad_6_Pro Manufacturer: Pad_6_Pro Serial number: 139000004573918 System Android version: Android 8.1 (Oreo) Build: C30-V1.1-20230811 Security patch: 5 Nov 2020 Architecture: aarch64 (64-bit) Supported ABIs: arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a armeabi Kernel: 3.18.79 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 10 10:52:14 CST 2023 aarch64 Battery Battery type: Li-ion Condition: Good Capacity: Not available Network MAC address: 20:72:0D:39:19:3C 5GHz band support: Yes Phone type: GSM Dual SIM cards: Yes CAMERA Resolution: 24 MP (6120x3920) Focal length: 3.50 mm Focal 35 mm equivalent distance: 31 mm Sensor size: 3.64 x 3.19 mm (1/3.30") Pixel size: 0.81 μm Flash: Yes Front camera: 8 MP (3264x2448)

I won the dispute. The money was returned. I still have the tablet.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rgd5:
View attachment 6043971
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rgd5:
build.prop

Spoiler content hidden.

attempt to replace recovery from mt6750 did not work out

The mode does not work DA DL All with Checksum
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robert2k:
I also got scammed with one of this tablet (but full refound done) so I have this tablet, is there any way to place a correct android 10/13 rom and that show the real info?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agrus3m:
I have Chinese tablet. But i have already dropped original recovery rom. Can u help with getting original recovery img? https://www.hovatek.com/forum/thread-22701.html how to download all.

-----------------------------------<< Identifying tradesmark and model of device >>-----------------------------------

ro.build.description=full_k50v1_64-user 8.1.0 O11019 1691547728 release-keys

ro.product.model=Pad_6_Pro

ro.product.brand=Pad_6_Pro

ro.product.name=Pad_6_Pro

ro.product.device=Pad_6_Pro

ro.product.board=Pad_6_Pro

Searching Build.prop in vendor, Start: 0xF000000, Length: 0x28000000

Build.prop file found (Vendor)

-----------------------------------<< Identifying tradesmark and model of device >>-----------------------------------

ro.product.board=k50v1_64

ro.board.platform=mt6750

ro.mediatek.platform=MT6755

ro.mediatek.version.release=alps-mp-o1.mp3

-------------------------------------------------<< Information: >>-------------------------------------------------

The ROM contains GPT scheme, the full size of the firmware should be: 0x747C00000, The selected file has the following size: 0x156C00000.

You have the incomplete ROM. Now you can open the <Scatter file> tab and see which partitions were not read (they do not have checkboxes). Also you can remove the checkboxes on partitions that you do not need!

Preloader name: preloader_.bin, CPU type: MT6755, Memory: .

Platform: MT6755
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skileks:
I have this tablet, and i try to install a custom room, anyone can install ??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burners:
They "got me" as well 😁

Shame cause AliExpress has been so good recently.

So why the smile? I theoretically could have mailed back something of equal weight and still have the crappy tablet free of change.

My refund has already been issued, the card is no longer valid for additional charges.

Would die just to see any related legal ramifications from a company openly ripping people off.

Pot calling kettle Black ,my ass, that's a black hole calling the kettle black.

They should be happy I didn't theoretically put dog poop in the box. DON'T DO THAT!!! that is illegal, I'm pretty sure anyway, on multiple levels when leaving your county, or within your county, unless maybe marked as fertilizer 🤷 I'm no fertilizer shipping expert.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burners:
Nice I'm a new member since 2022, what's even more odd is that I was asking questions here back in 2016 about Chinese android radios. FYI in 2023 and owning the China-Tesla style unit, not much has changed but who else makes them.