yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] dagey:
I have tried with gdisk but I can try with that specific version and report back. I understand we can create imaged file systems, but one of the main reasons I do this is that I find fat partitions are fickle and can easily be corrupted where the whole partition requires wiped. By having a non fat partition I use that as a better backup option where I find it's easier to recover data in case of corruption or other issues. For such use, being tied to the fat FS would still incur the possibility of data loss so that doesn't work for my purpose.

Thanks and I'll report back,

Ryan
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
oh I wouldn't rely on f2fs for backups it still has bugs and there are no recovery tools for f2fs

https://xdaforums.com/t/4550931

https://android.stackexchange.com/q/250389
[General Questions and Answers] dagey:
Thanks for the suggestion to use gdisk. I downloaded the version you linked, but I still get the same behavior. I believe it is related to the fact that only the first partition gets a filesystem UUID in blkid. I'm not sure what this means, but it seems clear that the second filesystem isn't being properly created no matter what I do.
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
that's strange, especially the fact you tried on PC too. on the phone, can you create partitions inside a blank disk image just for double check to rule out kernel issue?
[General Questions and Answers] dagey:
I'll give that a try and report back
[General Questions and Answers] dagey:
Yeah I'm able to create an image, partition it into a vfat & ext4, then mount both of those partitions.
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
can you dd the file into mmcblk1 for testing purposes?
[General Questions and Answers] dagey:
Sorry this isn't clear to me. What am I using to dd into the partition, and do you mean mmcblk1p1/2? As mmcblk1 is the whole disk.

Thanks,

Ryan
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
yes, I meant the whole disk :) you created a test file that contains MBR or GPT and two partitions including UUIDs and file systems? If you dd it into the mmcblk1 it should create 1:1 copy of that disk image with two partitions including partition table.
[General Questions and Answers] dagey:
Well I'll be:

/dev/block/mmcblk1p2 on /data/data/com.termux/files/home/i2 type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel) /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 on /data/data/com.termux/files/home/i2 type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

/dev/block/mmcblk1p2 23M 46K 23M 1% /data/data/com.termux/files/home/i2 /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 4.9M 0 4.9M 0% /data/data/com.termux/files/home/i1

I can possibly use gparted to just resize those! Any thoughts on what was going on, why this method worked? Hrmm looks like resizing fat could be a challenge, but this certainly gets me closer!
[General Questions and Answers] alecxs:
there is also parted binary you can use on phone
[General Questions and Answers] dagey:
I have it and I'm playing around with it, thanks for all your help
[Lenovo Z6 Pro Questions & Answers] xxahmedxx2009:
hi i can not unlock my z6 pro in the https://www.zui.com/iunlock is there any way to unlock whe out wep

i get this erorr

The number of unlocks today has reached the limit, come back tomorrow!
[Lenovo Z6 Pro Questions & Answers] xxahmedxx2009:
if any one need to unlock any z6 pro
[Lenovo Z6 Pro Questions & Answers] YashvirGaming:
please uupload for Lenovo Z5s sn.image
[Lenovo Z6 Pro Questions & Answers] georgar:
Can you give a short description how to handle the file? Flash with fastboot?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] uinstitches:
Here's an example:

Old phone (correct time) - 13 Dec 1:17am.

New phone (wrong time) - 12 Dec 9:17pm

I just got my s23 ultra and automatic time was 4 hours too early so I set it ahead. But during the transfer via Smartshare (still ongoing!) I noticed the time and date of my photos is set forward 4 hours so half my pics on any given day are now grouped with the day prior.

How do I fix this? No Sim in my phone btw. Idk if automatic time needs a Sim to be accurate.
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Hi all,

I'm looking to pick up a sim free Touch HD (for use on T-Mobile). Over the past week I've done some research and I've found the following prices:

Carphone Warehouse (bought with O2 simcard) - £440.36 Phone + £10.00 PAYG O2 sim card {TOTAL = £450.36 inc VAT}

PrePayMania.co.uk - £499.99 inc VAT (+ FREE 5 DAY P&P) + 5% QuidCo {TOTAL = £476.18 inc VAT}

TotalPDA.co.uk - £505.99 inc. VAT (+ £9.95 P&P) + 5% QuidCo {TOTAL = £491.84 inc VAT}

Handtec.co.uk - £501.76 inc. VAT (+ £6.95 P&P) {TOTAL = £508.71 inc VAT}

LambdaTek - £505.48 inc. VAT (+ £9.50 P&P) {TOTAL = £514.98 inc VAT}

Clove.co.uk - £527.85 inc. VAT (+ £7.90 P&P) {TOTAL = £535.75 inc VAT}

Play.com - £474.99 ex VAT (with RAC voucher below) (+ FREE P&P) + 4% QuidCo {TOTAL = approx £546 inc VAT before QuidCo)

Expansys - £544.99 inc VAT (+ £6.95 P&P) {TOTAL = £551.94 inc VAT}
[Touch HD General] mlalahoi:
Handtec beats LambdaTek by a few pounds if that makes a difference....I just bought mine from them, ordered late Friday night and it was delivered in USA Monday morning with cheap shipping:

501.76 inc VAT

http://www.handtec.co.uk/product.php/1464/htc-touch-hd/79acef5c9460ba749d477eb28738e604
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Thanks! That's a pretty good price.. Assuming there's not a lower price I'll order one and get on with selling my trusty old Kaiser and brand new Vario IV to fund it :)
[Touch HD General] lie_ui:
mlalahoi,

How much total they charge you in USD (including shipping, and VAT). Do they charge us for VAT even we are in US? I would like to know the total cost so I won't be surprise.

Thanks!
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
Ordered mine yesterday from http://www.prepaymania.co.uk/ and its free delivery £489.99.

They are out of stock atm though so :(

Otherwise play.com is 499.99 and its in stock...
[Touch HD General] arifhanid:
Here's a great deal for the HTC Touch HD

Only £474.99 Delivered

http://www.laughingdeals.com/all-de...cked-mobile-phone-pound-549.99-delivered.html
[Touch HD General] redrazr7791:
:);)Yea im just looking for the phone itself.........how much in U.S. Dollars.....im a native TEXAN also
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Looks like we might have a potential winner here.

Does Play.com charge VAT on this item? If so the Touch HD could be:

£474.99 delivered inc. VAT = £403.74 excluding VAT. And it might be possible to get 0.5% quidco on top of that too.

Excluding VAT is the price VAT registered businesses and non-EU purchasers would pay (although I'm not sure about shipping costs for outside the UK mainland with Play.com).

Can we get the device any cheaper?
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
Damn wish I saw that 5% off play.com deal :(
[Touch HD General] shortcut3d:
I have one available posted on HowardForums.

For Sale HTC Touch HD:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1468512

My feedback:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?p=9372180#post9372180
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Currently it looks like Play.com has the best deal available, I wonder why they're not showing as out of stock like most of the other retailers!

I might order from them, although it largely depends on what T-mobile can offer first! Thanks to everyone who replied with suggestions, I think we've got the definitive list. Maybe this thread should be stickied for a week or two.
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Actually, the Play.com voucher deal only works if you are an RAC breakdown cover customer.

And even if you are, consider that the prepaymobiles through quidco is an extra £24.46 off, making it £464.89 with free delivery.
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
I got mine from Gumtree.com. Paid £390 for orange version (although completely unbranded) and paid £15 online to unlock. Grand total £405. Completely unlocked and unbrandanded generic software. Only small orange logo printed on battery cover.
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Good price as they're going on eBay for around £500. Was yours second hand?..

via PrePayMobiles, it's £421 ex VAT with £24.46 QuidCo = £396.54 which looks like the best possible retail price going for a new Touch HD. Even if you're a consumer and/or not VAT registered, PrePayMobiles is only £489 - £24.46 Quidco.
[Touch HD General] Taz666:
I have mine coming from Play.com xmas pressie of my girlfriend cant wait to play with it,
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
Wow she must really love you to spend £500 on her boyfriend :D
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
I read it as: "For my girlfriend", in which case he's a very generous boyfriend!
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
My order got cancelled due to stock :(

Need to get one from elsewhere now, http://www.theorder.co.uk/ seems the cheapest £499 inc del. Not sure if I can claim the VAT back if I buy it through work though....

Anyone ordered from there before?
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
I've been trying to get in touch with PrePayMania, but they're very slow at getting back to me. I did get a message that they were out of stock, but they don't know when they're getting more in. Which is odd.

Anyway, theorder.co.uk - who knows? Why not order with Play.com? They're the same price (and cheaper if you have RAC membership).
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
Need to claim the VAT back through work, Play.com doesn't include VAT as they are based in Jersey right?
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
That's what I thought originally but as it turns out they only have a dispensation with the Inland Revenue to not charge VAT on items UNDER £40.

That explains when I order DVD's and CD's with them they come as seperate orders to keep the whole purchase VAT free :)

The Touch HD would have VAT charged on it.
[Touch HD General] hussain143:
Try with clove.co.uk
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
Hmm totalpda is £517 inc del +5% quidco on top. Think I'll order that tomorrow...don't want to risk it with Play.com :P
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
I've just emailed Play.com... Will wait and see what they say...
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
Keep us updated then :D
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
LOL, I certainly will!
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
TotalPDA are showing in stock, but I called them and they are... out of stock. Stock coming in on Thursday.

Still, they're a pretty good company to buy from I hear, so I'll give them a call again on Thursday.

Interestingly enough, it might be worth doing the rounds on Thursday when all the retailers get more stock in...
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
PrePayMania say that they should be receiving some in tomorrow (10th Dec).
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
LOL I placed an order on TotalPDA at about lunchtime as I got impatient :P

Just my luck they are out of stock when it says in stock......now Prepaymania are getting some stock :@
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
I was monitoring this thread waiting for your reply. I imagined that you were waiting for mine and I did wonder if you'd have placed an order w/o phoning first :)

I only phoned since it seems everyone is out of stock of the Touch HD right about now and totalpda still having stock sounded too good to be true. And it was!
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
Haha yeah I was waiting to see if you heard back from Play.com!

Was too lazy to call :P hopefully get it on Friday! You gonna wait a bit then?
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Wait? About 6/9 more hours, perhaps!

I'll give PrePayMania a call first on Wednesday, if no joy then I'll call TotalPDA on Thursday.

I've already ordered the InvisibleShield for it.. would be a shame to have the plastic covers arrive without a phone to put them on!
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Ordered with PrePayMania today. Had an email conversation with a very helpful lady in their customer services (Melissa). They had 3 available at the time and one of those is now mine :)

They do free delivery, but I'm not sure what they means in reality. I guess it will arrive on Friday. Let's see who gets theirs first!

Did you order an InvisibleShield for yours?
[Touch HD General] redrazr7791:
anyone from the U.S. order from one of these places.......SORRY for the typo, i was using my phone
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
According to Google, approximately 301,139,947. I would imagine that excludes a certain number of illegal immigrants.
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
I have updated this thread with the latest prices from all the suppliers.

Come on people, thank me!
[Touch HD General] CPhoenix:
MobileFun.co.uk should be getting some in tomorrow @ £509 (+ £5.95 delivery)

Unless anyone has any voucher / discount codes for mobilefun?

Looking like prepaymania is the best :(

I've now given up trying to get one from Orange, so I'm trying to work out which would be cheaper - a non-phone retention deal with T-Mobile and buying from PPM or if waiting a few months until T-Mob have the phone instock. Grrrr
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
Prepaymania have taken it off their site!

GJ on the thread liddlefeesh ;)
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Thanks :)

Yes, I noticed that PPM have taken it off. My order actually failed after my card was blocked. Grrr. So I called the bank, re-authorised it and tried again and they declined it after it had been accepted.

So I had to replace the order again, just at the time the phone went off their site. I don't know if they're going to ship, since it looks like they don't sell Touch HD any more!

Who knows? I'll let you know what happens. If a purchase falls through with them I'll go with TotalPDA.
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Now they're out of stock at PrePayMania again and they didn't ship mine out :(
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
PrePayMania are getting more in stock tomorrow (Friday), but the price has gone up £10.

They might be the cheapest by a literal couple of quid but they are very hard to get hold of if you need to discuss your order over the phone. I've placed another order with them, but I'm really worried in case I end up with a crap service or duplicate orders. Has anyone here ordered from PrePayMania? If so, how did you find them?

If you can, try to reach Melissa (I won't post her email address here). She's on the ball and knows what's going on with the Touch HD's.
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
I'm still waiting for my work to provide ID to get my order through :( Pretty annoying as I was hoping to play with it this weekend!
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
If it makes you feel any better, PrePayMobiles thought I cancelled my order yesterday so they shipped out all the phones they had to other customers and I didn't get my order sent out :confused:

Made slightly more annoying since my bank blocked my card and made me wait an hour to unblock them. :mad:

They're getting more in tomorrow, but are selling them for a higher price. Hopefully it will arrive on Saturday but it might be Monday instead.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for Zagg to send out the InvisibleShield I ordered on Monday!
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Ok, PrePayMania failed, they took money (about a grand and a half) and couldn't manage to post the item. I used Google Checkout, which although cleared and authorised the funds apparantly communicate a special flag to the vendor as to whether the order is indemnified (against chargebacks) or not. Apparantly my orders weren't, so PrePayMania refunded them. How annoying!

In any case, I've placed an order with TotalPDA while waiting for PrePayMania to send me my 1.5k back.
[Touch HD General] Виток:
Clove.co.uk - £459 <--- I got mine here, reliable and fast shipping.
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
I've added them to the list. They arrive in fifth place.
[Touch HD General] ionutz6:
If its of any help to you, I have a small online shop, www.pdamobile.ro, selling all HTC devices and more. I can sell HTC Touch HD for 599 EUR (incl. VAT). Don't know about the shipping costs, though, never exported such devices. They are all new, sealed, from the official HTC importer in Romania...

EDIT: I just realised 600 EUR is more than 475 GBP, so no good info from myside. Dont know how to delete the post, though... sorry...
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
Failed the security checks with TotalPDA as we couldn't produce enough documents...ordered from PPM again after calling to check their stock. Despite being told there was stock there wasn't so ordered from Handtec instead!

This is proving to be a mission:o
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Mine is on the way from TotalPDA.

Foreverlost, if it makes you feel any better have a look at this:

That's my attempt to purchase one from PrePayMania.
[Touch HD General] DennisCooper:
Hi all

Friday 12th Dec 17.20 - Placed order at Play.com for £499 Inc VAT.

5.40 pm - Confirmation of order email.

Saturday 13th Dec 20.19 - despatch email from Play.com

Monday 0917 am - HTC Touch HD in my hands!

Maybe not the 'cheapest' .. but for sheer speed of service, smooth transaction and happy customer means I'm happy to pay a slight premium instead of pulling out hair like some of you lot !

Now just to get TomTom working...

Cheers! Dennis, West London UK!
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Hi Dennis,

You're absolutely right. It's a bit of a hair-pulling week, and almost impossible to get hold of one of these devices. (Or any device: I'm with T-Mobile and they can't/won't ship a Vario IV until next year).

The trouble with Play.com was that the £499 isn't inclusive of VAT - it's exclusive of VAT. VAT is supposed to be added on by UK Customs. Obviously, since Customs can't check every package most get through without the added tax.

Best,

Mike Wilson
[Touch HD General] nicktids:
I went in to CPW at the weekend and asked about getting the HD on O2 as its back in the catalogue and they said you could get it on pay as you go on O2 for the reduced rate of £450, worth checking out guys. They could have been joking with me.
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
Lol liddlefeesh, nice receipt :P

Hope mine comes tomorrow...although I've been hoping for a couple of weeks now :s Still haven't received my Brando screen protector either!
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Nicktids: They're probably lying, I'm sorry to say! Unless it was locked and/or there were other terms and conditions that would see you paying more somewhere down the line. Next time I'm going past a store I'll ask them, and it better not be an excuse to try to sell me something more expensive like salespeople usually do to hook you in.

Foreverlost: The receipt was from an ATM at the bank. It's absolutely crazy, you know I actually paid PrePayMobiles several times but they wouldn't ship, and in the end I had to walk away from the deal and go somewhere else. The lady there was helpful and suggested Play.com, which I would have gone with if not for the VAT problem I mentioned earlier.

Regarding screen protection, I have ordered (and now received) a full body kitt from Zagg (InstallShield). I'm receiving the phone tomorrow and will probably install it then. I've posted in this thread with some pictures: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3046955#post3046955
[Touch HD General] bigjee:
Has anyone ordered from handtec.com?

Touch HD

They are 499 GBP incl. VAT

If someone has please give feedback. thanks
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
Yeah I have ordered from handtec, hopefully arrive today...
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
Yay! Just got mine, playing with it now :D Very quick service from handtec, impressive!
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Now I'm jealous!

I'm still waiting for CityLink to deliver mine. The tracking page says that it is still in transit to the depot... for 24 hours...

Oh well... :(

Enjoy your Touch HD!
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Mine's arrived. I'm very impressed. Review going up later.
[Touch HD General] nicktids:
yeah thought it was a joke going to go for the mobiles.co.uk O2 version for free as my contract is up on xmas day. But don't know if i should wait until jan to see if another network takes it up.

anyway i'm spamming the sim free thread now with contract talk
[Touch HD General] bigjee:
Where did you get it delivered too? Do you live outside UK?

Did you use google checkout or credit card? Thanks
[Touch HD General] foreverlost:
It was delivered to the billing address in the UK. And I used a credit card.
[Touch HD General] Speedmaster:
£450.36 @ Cpw

I got mine today from Car Phone Warehouse for £450.36 inc.

If you ask for it sim free the price is a fraction under £500, but if you also buy it with a £10 02 pay as you go sim card, it works out as follows:

£440.36 Phone

£10.00 PAYG O2 sim card

£450.36 :) :)

Kevin
[Touch HD General] nicktids:
so the guys in CPWH wern't lying to me.
[Touch HD General] liddlefeesh:
Looks like they might not have been!

I'll update this thread OP with a suggestion to try CPW.
[Touch HD General] cipi055994:
damn that's high

i live in Romania and i bought my HD online at 2200 ron wich means 510 euro :)). a bit o difference from 500 euro to 500 pounds
[Google Pixel Questions & Answers] goister:
Hi,

I've a Pixel (sailfish) that I'm trying to load TWRP and Magisk, and I'm unable to flash the recovery image as the bootloader page shows "Device is LOCKED", even though I've already enabled OEM unlock in Developer Settings. How do I unlock the bootloader?
[Google Pixel Questions & Answers] TNSMANI:
Enabling the OEM Unlock option is the first step but it doesn't unlock the phone. It merely enables unlocking the phone. You have to use a specific adb command to unlock the phone. Since the command varies with models and I am not familiar with your phone, please search for the correct command on Google.
[Google Pixel Questions & Answers] goister:
Thanks. I'm following this page - https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-install-twrp/

I managed to unlock it with fastboot, but I can't seem to flash the recovery. I downloaded the TWRP image from https://dl.twrp.me/sailfish/twrp-3.7.0_9-0-sailfish.img.html and renamed it to twrp.img. I then performed the following steps as per the instructions from xda above:

booted to bootloader with adb reboot bootloader

Temporarily booted to TWRP with fastboot boot twrp.img

Copied TWRP image file to device with adb push twrp.img /sdcard

Go to Advanced->Install Recovery Ramdisk, select twrp.img and swipe to install

I get the following error

Updating partition details...

Failed to mount '/system_root' (Invalid argument)

Failed to mount '/vendor' (Invalid argument)

...done

Unpacking Boot...

Backing up Boot...

Unpacking /sdcard/twrp.img...

Repacking Boot...

/sbin/magiskboot decompress /tmp/repakorig/ramdisk.cpio /tmp/repackorig/ramdisk-1.cpio process ended with ERROR: 1

Error repacking image.

I tried to mount vendor partition, wipe and format the device and retry step 4 and made it a bit further (no more failed to mount '/system_root' and '/vendor' errors, as below, but still fails.

Updating partition details...

Failed to mount '/vendor' (Invalid argument)

...done

Unpacking Boot...

Backing up Boot...

Unpacking /sdcard/twrp.img...

Repacking Boot... /sbin/magiskboot decompress /tmp/repakorig/ramdisk.cpio /tmp/repackorig/ramdisk-1.cpio process ended with ERROR: 1 Error repacking image.

Any suggestions?
[Google Pixel Questions & Answers] TNSMANI:
You can download both the .img and the .zip files. After booting using the .img file, instead of step 4 above, you can try Install from the booted TWRP and navigate to where the .zip file is and simply install it. That is what the TWRP page for Pixel recommends:
[Google Pixel Questions & Answers] goister:
Damn...why did the xda instructions say otherwise?