yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] therealashish:
Omg! I've recently shifted to Canada and was not aware about this.

Now I wonder, why did I order this 1900 CA$ device.

Is there no way to unlock bootloader in Canadian S23 Ultra units? I am unsure if I'd be able to manage with a phone without an ability to flash a custom ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] EtherealRemnant:
Not at this time.

Might as well get used to it as this is the way the industry is going. For example OnePlus 11 allows unlocking the bootloader but there is no longer a free way to fix your device if you brick it since the 9RT came out. This has meant that the 10T and 10 Pro have had basically no development.

Pixels have unlockable bootloader still and plenty of custom ROMs are available but... well... you'll be dealing with a lot of other headaches like a battery that probably won't even make it 24 hours on wifi and much less than that on 5G thanks to an inferior Samsung modem. They also have random hardware problems like I've had my screen start flickering and eventually get green lines twice on my Pixel 7 Pro and there have been many others reporting similar issues and now there are reports of pieces straight up falling off the phone surfacing too and this thing has only been out since October...

Pick your poison I guess.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] oVeRdOsE.:
wow , this is nuts . Any reason why other than make sure they sell their own software?

5-8 years ago we were laughing about Apple, but now android are doing the same thing.

Those phone a solid 8 years phone power wise, and the only way to keep them updated is aftermarket ROM !

OP, Im coming also from a OnePLus 5, and also from canada.

I also paid 1900$.

And I'm starting to regret my choice, I have only few days to return it.

Should I get a Oneplus 11 ???
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Talderon:
I have had Android Phones since the OG T-Mobile G1. Back then, I rooted EVERY phone I have had.

Now, what is the big deal about Rooting? EVERYTHING I rooted for, you can do now without rooting. I don't get it. :(

Maybe I am just getting old? LOL!
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] EtherealRemnant:
There are still some apps that don't work without root. For example I use Network Signal Guru to read the QCI and report my findings back to reddit. I also use root so that I can take screenshots of any app or screen I choose (the secure flag really irritates me - even Apple doesn't dictate where and when you can take a screenshot of crap on your own device yet I can't even take a screenshot of the Comcast cap usage screen to send to my roommate unless I log into their website).

I can live without both of these things which is why I decided to get the S23U but I'll miss them regardless.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Talderon:
Thanks!! I get that some apps won't work without root, but it seems now that people want to root more to say they did than have a real reason for it.

I e given up on rooting mainly because of the inherent stability issue with Custom ROMs and the constant flashing.

Again, I just may be getting old. Lol!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] EtherealRemnant:
That's why I just started rooting the stock ROMs on my last few devices.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] oVeRdOsE.:
adaway native, Android updates, security updates, tasker (better than the samsung one), force sim tweaks, few aptoid apps, audio drivers (viper4droid), wifi jammers.

Well fun stuffs.

For me was really to push the programmed obsolescence.

Windows phone should have win the battle. I m wondering if they can be able to do like win10 ; youknow, no matter what pc, cpu, gpu ; you can virtually install win10 on ANY machine with 512mb of ram and over ! including the security updates !

Single android ROM per single phone should be illegal
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] oVeRdOsE.:
this, you can still use stock rom, but with root benefit.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Talderon:
Ok, I take back what I said. I just rooted and older tablet to install a more current ROM.

But, still don't get it on new devices. Again, that's just me. Lol.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] peacey8:
The reason Samsung doesn't allow unlocking the bootloader in North America is because it's a security issue and they cannot guarantee their secure functions won't be compromised with secure apps such as banking.

The banks are complaining to Samsung that they don't want to be held liable if your phone is vulnerable and your credit card is used. Health apps and government apps do not want to be held liable for your data being hacked. Carriers are complaining they don't want to be held liable if your phone is hacked. Security cannot be guaranteed without Samsung's Knox working correctly. It is simply too much of a headache for Samsung to allow unlocking the phone.

With the world becoming more digital, expect unlocking your bootloader to be a thing of the past. I'm sure Europe will catch up soon enough.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] oVeRdOsE.:
I agree is way less useful.

Like changing kernels to unlock the phone or overclock or RamSwap to share ram with memory ; it is stuff from the past that you don't really need.

But funny enough, even if people are not interrested anymore about Overclocking, some S23 Fanboii are pretty exited to speak about the SD 8 gen 2 ''''for galaxy''' bEcAuSe OvErClOcK .

lol

but tasker , real debloat, adaway and viper4droid are still pretty useful now. Is it worth the effort ? probably not .

I'm glad vanced can be installed on non-rooted device.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] peacey8:
Regarding AdAway, these days you can run your own DNS over TLS/HTTPS server in the cloud that goes through a pihole or other ad blocking program, and you can just use that server in the Android OS Private DNS settings. You don't need to be rooted to block ads at a system level anymore.

If you don't have the knowledge to setup your own cloud server, you can just use AdGuard DNS servers. You can customize it to block ads from your AdGuard portal and use it as a DoT server in the Android OS settings. No server setup needed.

AdAway has really become obsolete these days.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Dexrn:
I downloaded the stock rom for the SM-T280 and extracted the zip, ap and other files, but i got stuck at the .img files, main one is system.img, attempting to open them gives me "Corrupted Disk Image", Linux doesnt help either, cant recognize the FS, but if i try to export to disk image it will give me the file, but i cannot open. Any Ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] ipdev:
If you are tying to mount the image locally (on computer) you will need to use raw image.

More than likely the image files you have are sparse images.

In linux, you can convert them to raw images using the simg2img command.

Example

[ip@lost P5a]$ ls -la
total 872116
drwxr-xr-x. 2 ip ip 4096 Feb 16 17:10 .
drwxr-xr-x. 44 ip ip 4096 Feb 16 17:05 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 ip ip 893030692 Feb 16 17:05 system.img
[ip@lost P5a]$
[ip@lost P5a]$ mkdir system
[ip@lost P5a]$ ls -la
total 872120
drwxr-xr-x. 3 ip ip 4096 Feb 16 17:10 .
drwxr-xr-x. 44 ip ip 4096 Feb 16 17:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 2 ip ip 4096 Feb 16 17:10 system
-rw-r--r--. 1 ip ip 893030692 Feb 16 17:05 system.img
[ip@lost P5a]$ sudo mount -o ro system.img system
mount: /ip/P5a/system: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
[ip@lost P5a]$
[ip@lost P5a]$ simg2img system.img raw_system.img
[ip@lost P5a]$ ls -la
total 1744220
drwxr-xr-x. 3 ip ip 4096 Feb 16 17:11 .
drwxr-xr-x. 44 ip ip 4096 Feb 16 17:05 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 ip ip 895975424 Feb 16 17:11 raw_system.img
drwxr-xr-x. 2 ip ip 4096 Feb 16 17:10 system
-rw-r--r--. 1 ip ip 893030692 Feb 16 17:05 system.img
[ip@lost P5a]$ sudo mount -o ro raw_system.img system
[ip@lost P5a]$ ls -la
total 1744224
drwxr-xr-x. 3 ip ip 4096 Feb 16 17:11 .
drwxr-xr-x. 44 ip ip 4096 Feb 16 17:05 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 ip ip 895975424 Feb 16 17:11 raw_system.img
drwxr-xr-x. 26 root root 4096 Dec 31 2008 system
-rw-r--r--. 1 ip ip 893030692 Feb 16 17:05 system.img
[ip@lost P5a]$

Cheers. :cowboy:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Renate:
You can always use a hex editor and look at the start of the image.

Sparse files begin with:

3a ff 26 ed
ed26ff3a (little endian)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Renate:
This is an example of the most pointless use of sparse files.

Going through the hassle to save 3 MB on 900 MB?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] ipdev:
What do you expect from Google. 🙃

System image I had readily available to use for an example.

Pixel 5a (barbet-sq3a.220705.003.a1)​

The example was primarily to show the error when trying to mount a sparse image.

Then how to use simg2img to convert the image.

Cheers. :cowboy:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Dexrn:
I was searching for

1f 8b 08

when doing this.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Renate:
That's the gzip header. (But you knew that.)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Dexrn:
Yep, for some reason it worked when trying to extract the Recovery and Boot.img, i assume because maybe one of the CPIO images use the same header (if that is even how it works), either way i was extracting some kind of zip file, I dont remember if it was the ramdisk or the actual image that was extracted though.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Dexrn:
I also wonder if there is some way (other than binwalk) to extract the sboot.bin file as it would give us the original filenames inside, and it also contains the boot images (i attached one)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Dexrn:
This didnt work well for me for some reason, sometimes it just wouldnt work, and I do not know why.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] Dexrn:
I also want to find out how to extract the bootsamsung.qmg file
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] potatoloco37:
ive looked and looked and cannot find anything for this model.

if it helps, soc is exynos 7570, and full model is J337AZTUS9ATB2

any help is appreciated
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] potatoloco37:
its also from cricket
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] potatoloco37:
i have realized this may not be the correct place, i will look in j3 forum
[Touch Pro CDMA] pspkicks316:
Well I [finally] got my Touch Pro yesterday at Verizon. Pissed at the RAM issue, I was hoping mine wouldn't be as noticeable (the lag).

I've been messing around with it, installing stuff, etc.. I've got a few questions though.

How can I disable the Wake On New SMS? The registry key isn't there and it's really bothering me.

I'd like to know how I can tweak it to run faster and less laggy, also. Considering the Wake on sms reg key wasn't on my VZW stock ROM, I didn't feel like bothering to look for other stuff because I didn't think it would be there.

Also, is there an extended battery for the VZW TP??

My battery did not last that long. It was down to around 20% after 15 hours (With slightly heavy use in the morning). Is there a battery that [preferably] doesn't need an extended back cover?

And how many of you would recommend returning mine and getting/hacking the Sprint one to work with Verizon? Is it a hard process? Doesn't seem it. i'm debating doing that, because this lag and stuff is just bull****.

Thanks in advance
[Touch Pro CDMA] tbhall77:
I dont own a touch pro, but generally when windows doesn't have a reg key it'll default to some predetermined setting. So, my advice is to try creating the key and setting the sms setting you want. You have nothing to lose. If it doesnt work just delete the key you made.
[Touch Pro CDMA] pspkicks316:
Yeah I guess I'll try that later. Not really sure how.

I'm leaning towards getting the sprint one and switching it over to VZW.

Anyone know where/how I can get it for the, like, $300 I've seen? Or do I need to pay full $5xx for it?

Been reading this tutorial (link) on how to do it. People recommend using Live Search Cashback to get it in the $300s. Anyone have and info on what that actually is? Sorry for the noob-ish question, but I've never heard of Live Search Cashback before, lol.
[Touch Pro CDMA] tbhall77:
Google is your friend. :)

I'm guessing this is what they refer to. http://search.live.com/cashback
[Touch Pro CDMA] pspkicks316:
Sweet! Thanks, I can't believe I never noticed this before. I'm sure I'll be using this a LOT now. Lol.

Well, thanks for that part.

Anyone have any feedback on using the sprint over vzw on vzw's network?

*edit*

Oh my God. The sprint has a white-ish silvery back and chrome sides.

NO WAY. NO.

That just completely turned my thoughts around on this.

Unless, can you switch out the faceplate for one with black instead of chrome and get a replacement black battery cover?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Rajaasim1980:
Hello everyone,

Is there any custom roms out there which provide unlimited google photo backup in original quality as was the case with Pixel 1?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] sjrhsjrh1975:
Hi,

I have a Diamond on Orange with the original firmware.

I have just tried to download Betfair mobile to my Diamond. They send you a text with the download link which opens in Opera. But i get an error saying that my mobile does not support Java applications???

I used to have Betfair and Stan James applications installed and working fine on the Diamond. I then tried to install another bookmakers app and it came up with an error.

Tonight i have just installed the Orange firmware update and tried to re-install the Betfair and Stan James apps but neither work now, all coming up with the error of not supporting Java.

What can i do?

Many thanks
[Asus Zenfone 9] bullguardx:
Hello, so my intelligent mom didn't used Zenfone (her ex boyfriend's phone) for few months now and few days ago she turned phone on and ofcourse she forgot pattern to unlock and also was signed in with the ex boyfriend's email and as I am good son I tried to help her with hard reset but now phone stuck in some lock safe mode or something like that and I can't finish activation cause it's asking me either pattern or email and she don't know any of that -.-', so I came here to ask if someone can help with this so she can use that phone or there is no hope without one of two things?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Christian
[Asus Zenfone 9] Hermann2306:
This sounds like FRP (Factory Reset Protection). anti-theft protection.

I think there are 2 options:

Contact ex friend, he must log in and deleted his Account from the Phone.

Or

Go to service center, but you need the invoice to prove that its your Phone.

After that your mom can Login/create a new Account.
[Asus Zenfone 9] bullguardx:
thanks for fast response, but there lays a problem, I can't contact him I've tried dozen times he just doesn't answer to my messages, just seen -.-' and as a matter of fact he fled with device box and papers including invoice for phone, so I'm looking for some kind of bypass if there is any..thanks ☮️
[Samsung Galaxy Watch] BDMCGaming:
I have a Galaxy Watch 42mm and I was wondering if there was a way to root it?
[Android TV General] Atharkhan101:
Hello All!

I have created this post so that all the users of this TV Model can share thoughts, tricks and tips so everyone can be benefitted.

Please discuss only about model MiTV 4A Pro and not others. Different screen size doesn't matter however the model should be same for discussion please.

Thank you all. Lets contribute.
[Android TV General] Atharkhan101:
To make External SD Card / USB Flash Drive as Internal Storage, root is not required.

Steps to follow:

1. Turn ON MiTV

2. Insert USB Flash Drive / Pen Drive. I used one with 64 GB.

3 Go to Settings (Gear Icon) / Device Preferences / Storage / SELECT USB FLASH DRIVE / Erase & format as device storage

-It will take like 2-3 minutes and displays an option like 'Move installed apps to this drive (your USB drive), I went with 'Yes' and it will take like 3-4 minutes to move the apps.

Done!
[Android TV General] nandob:
Hello, can you help share file firmware, L32M5
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & O] LinkyWolfka:
Hi, on the github page to which you link to download the file, there is a file with lavender in its name. Can we use this file directly or is this not recommended?

Translated with DeepL
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & O] FakeShell:
Manjaro is no longer maintained, look into droidian instead
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] santhiew:
Play Store work fine on my S22 Ultra and Note 20 Ultra over ayear, but suddenly, it start to have problem and not working as expected. I Hhave tried everything but cannot solve the problem. I badly need help because I don't kjnow how to get help from Google, and Samsung. Here is the problem

1. On both device, when I start Play Store, go to Manage apps & device, tap on it,, then tap on All apps up to date,, tap on check for updates, it show nno updates and stated that everything is all set. Started on Feb 3, 2023, there is a yellow trainge with exclamation show up next to All apps up to date

I tried everything as suggested on the Internet, force stop Play Store, Clear Cache, Clear Data, clear Play Services cache, reboot, but the peoblem is still there

2. After doing that several times, ehrn I tap on Manage apps & device, Play store do not check the update anymore, it display a sattelite image wirh message Something wehnt wrong - Try again. This happen on both device

3. Because of that, I factory reset both device, ans start from scratct. Play Store start working but after aday, the problem Something went wrong Try gain come back

4. Next I stop Play Store. ClearCache and Data, start it again, both start with an old Interface (see picture) and it start checking and I can update apps. But after a coouple of hours, if I start Play Store, it will show up a new interface. ANd when I do ehat reorted in 1, it will show Somwthing went wrong - Try again, and go nowhere.

I badly need help, and want to knpow whether other people also experirnce this problem? Or its just me?

Help please

Regards

Sanchai Thiewprasertkul

Bangkok, Thailand

email sanhaithw@gmail.com
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] nobodyAtall:
Go to Settings/Apps. Find Google application not Play Store.

Clear Google Application Data/Cache. Restart the device immediately.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] santhiew:
Have tried what you advised, clear cache and data from google app, reboot, the problem still there
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] theforbidden:
Hello guys, what colour do you see Mbappe's shirt?

a. Blue

b. Purple

View attachment 5834935

I'm in stock rom (Vivid scheme) and seems purple, but in other phones (or PC) it seems blue. It is normal in miui?
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] L8ter:
Blue.

Watched it on my F3..
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] theforbidden:
Stock rom? Scheme?
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] L8ter:
Stock rom and Automatic colour scheme.

View attachment 5835407
[Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40] L8ter:
Yeah, I don't care about updates, never change a working system, lol..
[OnePlus 9] wizardknight:
I have an LE2115. I tried to update install CRdroid, and during the process the guide required an upgrade to firmware F18.

I was already on the newest (F20 I think) firmware, so I figured a small roll back would be needed. I downloaded F18 from the CRdroid firmware link, and when it was run it ended up bricking the phone. Annoying, but I didn't think it the end of the world.

To unbrick it I downloaded the MSM global 11.2.10.10 and flashed the phone with A11 (11.2.10.10). I was able to get back into the phone, and everything seemed ok at first glance.

The problem is now I can't install any updates to get it back to android 13.

If I do a system ->system update -> check for updates -> download and install. It says it downloads update LE2115_11.F.17_2170_20021123112, installs it, and reboots.

After rebooting the phone shows a successfully installed update message, but when I look at under About the system is still on Android 11 (11.2.10.10). No change at all.

If I try sticking the OTA zip LE2115_11.F.17_2170_202211231112 in root, and using that for a local update the phone gives me a update failed message after a few seconds. No useful error messages at all.

Can someone point me in the right direction? I can't figure out how to get this off A11 and back to A13 (F18).

This is making me want to rip out my hair as everything I have tried has failed to get me onto a current firmware.
[OnePlus 9] mattie_49:
I have the same device. After the 11.2.10.10 comes C48 first a12 build but it's marked F17 update. Then comes C-66 it's also marked F-17. Take it. Next update you guessed is labeled F-17 and it is actually F-17. Android 13. Then you will get F-18 ota as well. Then have to go into oxygen updater from playstore and update to F20. Latest with Jan sec patch. Since they dropped Android 13 all their device updates for op9 are labeled wrong. After msm you started on 11.2.4.4. I flash lineage and mess with things but mostly stay on stock as it's great and cam is good on os. Good luck. Check out pixelify by Kingsman 44. Real nice for op9 also.
[OnePlus 9] wizardknight:
Ok. Thanks. I will run the update multiple times, and see if I can get to F18.

I can't believe the naming is all buggered up. Ok, well maybe I can believe it. Seems like OnePlus is just not doing a good job anymore, but there are not many other flagship grade phones with unlocked boot loaders and custom roms anymore (and I have been using custom android roms since the touch pro 2 days). It's making me a sad panda.

I just upgraded from a OnePlus 7t to the 9 because I got a crazy good price for an open box phone on clearance. Now I am starting to wonder if I made the wrong decision.

If I have to download 5+ updates every time something doesn't flash right I am going to burn though my 1TB internet cap in no time.

Update:

After ~10gb of updates I got to F18.

Now to go and get a custom rom on this thing, and hope I don't have to unbrick it again.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mr_brain:
'cannot execute cloknot.exe' and 'cannot execute tskschedule.exe' and 'cannot execute repllog.exe' and 'cannot execute calnot.exe'...

these are intermittent, as in they dont happen every time i boot. any ideas?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] + Que PPC:
you didnt read enogh isnt it? upgrade your radio!

The title says all you need and if you need to search see my signature it say XDA search culture!!! it shows you how to found all you need here!

Mr TNT recomends to update your radio to 2.19!!!! he has the radio search for him! please
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mr_brain:
ok i found a radio upgrade for the UK... will this adversely affect me in the USA?
[Introductions] JamesGPB48:
Hello everyone very new here had some helpful stuff from people one here so signed up fully to make sure im up to date in this world lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Core Prime Questions & Answers] Beebo_ghost:
i've tried all available custom roms here they'll work fine except for that Bluetooth bug >> no sound in call while using Bluetooth earbuds or Bluetooth headphones

- they connect and appear in call but no sound

- Resurrection Remix V.5.8.2 the only one without BT in-call issue but still has a big fault when display light is off the system reboots >> is there any fix for all custom roms BT bug or RR-N- v.5.8.2 light off reboot ??

- i use ( liquid_coreprimeve3g-20170514-0507-nougat )with my 361h now but the BT in-call bug is the same .. PLZ help
[Xiaomi Poco F4 GT /  Redmi K50 Gaming] xXEphie:
Does anybody know the pins need to be shorted for me to boot into 9008 Mode (EDL mode)? EDL Cable, DIY EDL Cable, and buttons doesn't work for me. Also, I can't boot to fastboot and recovery.. Thank you!
[Xiaomi Poco F4 GT /  Redmi K50 Gaming] mhammad77:
how you bricked the phone?as i know this phone partition is a/b so if something went wrong with a software update or u mess with anything related to software it will boot with the old working system