yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] gosiaczek458:
hi, dont' buy it; first impression is good, but firmware is really unstable and box keep getting stuck in boot. i had to factory reset it 3 times already and had it for less than a month. I am looking at downgrading it to android 12 and see if it helps it
[General Questions and Answers] gh0stza:
Yeah after some research it seems those boxes has malware and all kinds of bad s^&t built right into the firmware. After trying the SlimBox ROMs I'm quite impressed ... so far. Only catch is they only really release ROMs for AmLogic SoC's. So I'm sticking with the AmLogics.

I recommend anyone else finding this form go the same route.

I have:

Tanix W2: Brillant with the SimBox ROMs - factory ROM isn't bad but it leaves a lot to be desired.

Vontar H618: Stock ROM isn't bad but without Magisk and some built in sketchy s&*t I wouldn't recommend it. Can't find a decent ROM for it either.

So stick with the Amlogics and you can't go wrong. For now atleast.
[General Questions and Answers] kinq06:
I bought exact same box on thread. Lemfo X88 Pro 13, was hoping to find a custom rom with features but no luck. It already shipped out so there's no going back :(
[General Questions and Answers] lebossejames:
Hello,

I have the same box, do you have found a solution because i must use 1 times factory reset.?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] gh0stza:
Try this site for ROMs, I see some of them have pre-installed magisk.

https://androidpctv.com/category/firmwares/
[General Questions and Answers] hayabusa777:
Hello, where did you get the ROM for Tanix W2?is thoa rhe box.

Tanix W2 tv box – Amlogic S905W2 – Android 11 TV Box – Dual WiFi | eBay

CPU: Amlogic S905W2. System: Android 11.0. Core: Quad Core ARM Cortex A 35. Type: TV Box.

www.ebay.de

I have:

Tanix W2: Brillant with the SimBox ROMs - factory ROM isn't bad but it leaves a lot to be desired.
[General Questions and Answers] gh0stza:
You can find the stock rom and slimbox on their site

SlimBoxTV
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rust Metal:
Hi there, I have a very big problem in my hands.

So, I had this LG K350N that I didn't use for quite a while (2-3 years or so) and wanted to try it out and root it, since it's TWRP native.

First boot.

Logo showed up.

Error message: "The device is corrupted. It cannot be trusted or functional properly", and it will not boot.

I tried EVERYTHING: flashing via Bridge, nothing, flashing via LGUP, still nada, LG Mobile Support Tool didn't even wanted to install on my PC, tried even with recovery, couldn't get even past the logo that the error shows up.

I've digged and reached the bottom, now please help me, because I don't want to bring it to a repair shop and spend money on him.

Thank you for your time and patience.
[General Questions and Answers] bndib:
Hello my friends

I have a samsung note 10 plus phone that fell, and this caused the appearance of a black spot and it increased in size little by little, and also the screen tactile broke down and now it works with the pen only, please help stop the size the black spot or remove it, and also can the screen tactile be repaired or no, thank you
[General Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
Replace the display.

Always use a good case like the Zizo Bolt otherwise this phone will get damaged.
[General Questions and Answers] bndib:
The price of the screen is very high, my brother, and I cannot buy it. Is there an alternative way to fix it?
[General Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
Replace the whole phone. At least you could use the old one maybe for some parts in the future.

Unfortunately there's no way to repair a AMOLED display as it is comprised of thousands of semiconductors in its matrix that controls the individual OLEDs. The touch screen circuitry was also damaged.
[General Questions and Answers] bndib:
Unfortunately, in any case, thank you, my dear brother, for your help, and accept my utmost respect and appreciation
[General Questions and Answers] snapdragon teaks:
so sad, this happen on mine too :cry:
[General Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
This phone won't survive without a good case. Not much help now, but bear that in mind if you replace it or haven't damaged it yet. With no case they are harder to hold too... slippery fish.

There's almost zero bezel... and the only thing they do more than corner hit when dropped is face plant on the display side. The spen corner seems to take more hits than the other corners too.
[HTC Excalibur] joeskull:
Sorry guys... i forgot to upload file...:D
[HTC Excalibur] Emanoel:
Joeskull

Thank you very much!!
[HTC Excalibur] lessafabio:
Very nice topic... it helps a lot.

I still have some troubles: how do you change the IE key to open internet explorer instead of celetask?

I'm using WM 6.1 by kavana but i don't think it was remade by anyone... i've downloaded you file but there is no portuguese option when i press fn + space. Do you have a any idea y?

And finally, have u downloaded any cab file to install the portuguese keyboard layout after installing your WM version?

Thanks in advance
[HTC Excalibur] joeskull:
I don´t know how to change IE key to open IE, maybe some registry tweak, try search this forum... IE sucks a lot and I don´t care at all. Even when I was running the original WM6.0 from Vivo, I never used that key, so I really don´t care at all.

In the beginning of this thread, you may have noticed that there is a link to "KAVANA REMADE BY RICKYWATT" right on top of the post, so, it WAS remade by "anyone" (in this case, Rickywatt - Thanks, Rickywatt). Kavana was the first one, then came the others with improvements.

And as you may already know (because I assume you did read this thread entirely), this is the only ROM that I had no several issues with keyboard. All others were trouble and a pain in the * to fix keyboard. That´s why I gave up all others and stayed with Rickywatt.

If there is no portuguese option when you press fn + space, maybe it´s because it´s not Rickywatt´s ROM.

Please, download Rickywatt´s and try again the instructions I posted here. As I was making this guide, I was doing it in real time just to be sure it´s accurate. I did it three times in my device and three other times in different devices (I mean, the same HTC-S621 from different people). So, if you apply them step-by-step as I posted here, you´ll see things are gonna work properly.

And finally, I haven´t downloaded any CAB to make keyboard work properly. Almost everything was already built in Rickywatt´s ROM, I just made some adjustments in the TXT file posted here. As I said, install KAVANA REMADE BY RICKYWATT and follow my instructions here and you´re good to go.

Thanks
[HTC Excalibur] ademarizu:
Hi buddy,

first: thanks for the tutorial!

second: I have a S60 BT, but I couldn't installed any rom. Every time I get a "corrupted rom" message. Have you ever seem this? I've read something that my phone could be blocked and that would be the reason.

I've tried to used that unlock from Rick, but didn't work. Do you have any more tip?

Thanks a lot man!
[HTC Excalibur] joeskull:
Try Google... Take a look @ this or this.

It's a very common error and easily fixed just by getting attention when upgrading ROM. There are SEVERAL topics about it. Use the search tool.
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Might be a good idea to read the Sticky "Noobs Guide To Flashing"

All files needed and info are there :)
[HTC Excalibur] puace:
I tried to change de et9 file in Windows directory but in this version i'm using (wm 6.5 build 21848 nrgz evolution mod) there is some type of protection that prevents me from deleting/editing the file.

I attempted to change de read-only atribute but it doesn't changes.

Any ideas?
[HTC Excalibur] joeskull:
First of all, copy the txt file anywhere on your device using your pc.

Now, in your device, use Resco Explorer to copy (and overwrite) this file in the Windows folder. Restart and you´re done.

Regards.
[HTC Excalibur] Pdro:
No one in Portugues Brasil yet?

Nenhuma versao 6.1 em portugues ainda?

We all brazilian guys here could ask these guys who do this modifieds roms how to translate or offer our help to translate something to our native language! If anyone here have contact with this guys and would like to help. I coud help!

Meu ingles nao é dos melhores mas dá pra ajudar! :D
[OnePlus 9] batmon15:
i have LE2115 single sim how can convert it to dual sim my bootloader is unlocked

what rom i have to flash and steps please ?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] tigo727:
Hey, I would like to have the latest version of the pixel launcher on the s23 ultra. Do you have any idea how to do it and if it's possible to have the notification center like the pixel?

I'm waiting for the pixel experience rom.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ULTRA90:
Are you saying that Pixel Experience for Galaxy S23 Ultra is coming out?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] tigo727:
No, I'm just waiting for it
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ULTRA90:
Ok 😮‍💨
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ggrant3876:
You can use Lawnchair 2 Launcher, I've used it previously on other than a Pixel device.

Lawnchair 2 - Apps on Google Play

No catchy tagline needed.

play.google.com
[Redmi Note 11 (spes/spesn)] bodiless_pensiveness:
Noticed there's no module or anything to balance out the volume of the stereo speakers (top one is a tad quieter than the bottom one) so i tried to make one myself. I think it works alright, though i only tested it on (and i pulled the mixer_paths.xml file from) .eu rom, so i have no idea if this even works on global or AOSP roms, so feel free to test and fiddle around with it. :)
[Redmi Note 11 (spes/spesn)] Sheist!:
Does this just reduce the volume of the louder side, or are you sure it actually increases the weaker side? This could be a negative thing here.
[Redmi Note 11 (spes/spesn)] Sheist!:
Yep! I'll let someone else install this first. (plus I am not EU)

"Sets top speaker to 91 from 84 and bottom speaker to 79 from 84 through mixer_paths.xml file."
[Redmi Note 11 (spes/spesn)] bodiless_pensiveness:
I tried to do both. And i said "tried" cuz with some trial and error i was able to find which values changed the volume of the speakers (which i was able to) but otherwise im not really familiar with how the mixer_paths.xml file works on this phone.

That said, i have to agree that theres probably a reason for the top speaker being weaker, but even then i have been using this module for quite a while now and i dont (hear) anything wrong.

Maaaaaaaybe the potential effects only start to show in the long term, but i hope not.
[Redmi Note 11 (spes/spesn)] Sheist!:
I don't think this is actually stereo, but rather a clever invention using the same one speaker. Since this is my daily driver, I am too skittish to try it though.

EDIT: OK, perhaps real stereo speakers, which were reviewed "professionally" as being accurately-sounded. I will grudgingly accept that even though this is admitted to be a lower-end phone model.

(skip to 2 minutes 5 seconds for the audio review section of this YT review)
[Redmi Note 11 (spes/spesn)] bodiless_pensiveness:
Also, i thought that i should show which values i changed, which are these; (the ones with 79 and 91)

<!-- Volume controls -->
<ctl name="RX_RX0 Digital Volume" value="91" />
<ctl name="RX_RX1 Digital Volume" value="91" />
<!-- lct modify -->
<ctl name="RX_RX2 Digital Volume" value="91" />
<ctl name="HPHL Volume" value="20" />
<ctl name="HPHR Volume" value="20" />
<ctl name="EAR SPKR PA Gain" value="G_DEFAULT" />

<!-- lct modify begin-->
<ctl name="TX_DEC0 Volume" value="79" />
<ctl name="TX_DEC1 Volume" value="79" />
<ctl name="TX_DEC2 Volume" value="79" />
<ctl name="TX_DEC3 Volume" value="79" />
<!-- lct modify end-->
<ctl name="TX_DEC4 Volume" value="79" />
<ctl name="TX_DEC5 Volume" value="79" />
<ctl name="TX_DEC6 Volume" value="79" />
<ctl name="TX_DEC7 Volume" value="79" />

And here is the file if anyone wants to take a look:
[Redmi Note 11 (spes/spesn)] bodiless_pensiveness:
it doesnt show wtf sorry
[Redmi Note 11 (spes/spesn)] Sheist!:
Here is the Global phone file, which has 76 and 84 values by default. (nothing has been changed)

I've fiddled with another xml file previously and while it saved, it did not actually change anything long-term (and did not even work temporarily) as the changes were auto-reverted by the system on reboot. I'd check yours again after a reboot and see if yours does the same, thus no actual changes being kept.
[Vivo V20 Questions & Answers] ramazan0121:
Vivo y35 unlock yapma android 12 yardımcı olursanız sevinirim
[Vivo V20 Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
Google Translation
[Vivo V20 Questions & Answers] vdbhb59:
Vivo Y35 has no way of unlocking bootloader. I did the same mistake of buying the phone without doing my due diligence on its back-end to front-end composure.

Having said that, I do believe the Vivo phone is one good example of not requiring full rooting, though there are simply few reasons to have privacy concerns, but still it is better off compared to Samsung & redmi/xiaomi filth.
[OnePlus 8T Questions & Answers] Faizanrehman25:
Hello , I have kb2007export 11 c.42 file , but I don't have msm id , I want to change .ofp file to .ops , I have extracted the .ofp file but I can't repack this in .ops file , I have also tried oppo decrypt tool from github , but I can't repack to ops for me , do you know how can I do thjs
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] zahbaker:
Can somebody please explain a step by step process on how to install the Bling Theme?

I tried copying the manilla files to my windows directory and it came up with a error message. I might be doing something wrong here.

Thanks in advance.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] tiffietatt:
You must use a program such as total commander to copy the manila files. Also, you can install the .cab file. I tried to upload the cab file, but I am unable to do so. If you would like it, just pm me your email and I will send it to you. HTH
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] scotchua:
Try posting the question in the thread you got the theme from. Don't start new threads for issues with specific softwares or roms.
[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
A recent WhatsApp backup was around 100MB smaller than the previous one. Whereas I would have thought that it should have been slightly bigger. The same thing happened like two or three months ago as well, where a backup was also around 100MB smaller than the previous one (which used to be almost 500MB).

Is anyone aware of any changes that WhatsApp implemented that caused the backups to be smaller due to a new compression method or something else?

Thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
Anyone?
[General Questions and Answers] TheMystic:
My WhatsApp backup size has also reduced in the last few days. It would normally be a little over 100 MB, but now it is less than 60 MB. That's a good 40% less than before.
[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
Thank you for your input.

Anyone else?
[General Questions and Answers] Snake.s9:
sane here, reduced from 560 to 290
[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
I wonder if they're using some new kind of form of compression that's causing the same amount of WhatsApp messages and media to produce a smaller backup file.
[General Questions and Answers] Snake.s9:
indeed that backup file conatins only messages, no media
[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
I wonder if anyone has any information on whether they started using a new compression method which would explain the smaller size. Didn't see anything on WABetaInfo.com about it.
[General Questions and Answers] WoKoschekk:
No, still using *.crypt14. See latest chat backup in your internal storage (msgstore.db.crypt14). This is the one that gets uploaded ro drive.
[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
Can there be any other method that they're using to reduce the backup size?

Have you noticed that yours has become smaller as well?
[General Questions and Answers] WoKoschekk:
you can't compress *.crypt14 files to reduce the size because they are encrypted.
[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
Perhaps first they do the compression and then the encryption?
[General Questions and Answers] WoKoschekk:
no they didn't. msgstore.db.crypt14 = encrypted msgstore.db in app data files and isn't compressed
[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
Any theories on how it could have gotten smaller for multiple people here (and I'm sure many others, if not everyone)?
[General Questions and Answers] arsfr:
Maybe your settings got updated or reset by its self and it's making a smaller backup size?
[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
Which particular setting might that be?
[General Questions and Answers] arsfr:
maybe removing videos from backup, I really don't know about that many whatsapp settings that reduce backup size?
[General Questions and Answers] Snake.s9:
as i said earlier, that file holds only messages, no media.
[General Questions and Answers] WoKoschekk:
If you upload a backup to Drive, the following will happen:

First of all, WhatsApp does a local backup. It includes

~/Databases/msgstore.db.crypt14 and all files you find in ~/Backups. Then all media will be checked for new files since last backup.

After that ~/Backups/*, msgstore.db.crypt14 and (in case any media files has been found before) the media files will be uploaded to Drive.

The backup of your media files is always incremental.
[General Questions and Answers] arsfr:
So it's possible you could've deleted some messages, right? Since there's no way its going to decrease for no reason.
[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
No. Deleted messages would take away a few KB or MB at most. Not the huge percentage that's been reduced.
[General Questions and Answers] Schrubbi:
I'm facing the same issue for three times already: From 13th to 14th of April '22 by message database shrunk by ~20% Between Jan and Feb '23 by another 10% Between 4th and 7th of April by almost 60%!

In total the database shrunk from 140MB to now 46MB, in one year, without having any messages deleted. All events seem unrelated to .cryptX changes. It's hard to believe that the compression has been improved by 3x. Whatsapp support was unable to provide any technical information or background on the first occurrence last year.

Another report of this issue can be found here: https://android.stackexchange.com/q...backup-shrinks-in-size-for-no-apparent-reason

I would assume it's easily possible that also the unencrypted message database is reduced in size, unfortunately can't check the internal files due to lack of root access.

Maybe anyone could confirm?
[General Questions and Answers] WoKoschekk:
I compared an older msgstore.db of Whatsapp from 2020 (Titanium Backup) with my current msgstore.db from /data/data/com.whatsapp/databases and did an analysis with the Termux command file. The output was the same for the *.db meta data. No changes.

It's possible to compress databases but it creates a special file format. So, the output of file shows that the current database isn't compressed. To cross check it I also archived the current database as a zip file and that reduced the size more than 50%. I assume that wouldn't be possible if it was already compressed before.

A *.db file contains only raw text and even with hundreds of chat entries you'll never get a database > 100MB. The most of your 140MB should be media data that is not part of msgstore.db.
[General Questions and Answers] Schrubbi:
The 140MB refers to msgstore.db.crypt15 in it's former version.

I haven't looked into this db for some years, but it didn't use to contain any media files, except maybe for tiny previews not larger than a few kb. Do you know what's exactly contained in that file?

As my database contains thousands of messages of more than 10 years now, I wouldn't exclude that they can make up to several 10s of MBs.

Thanks for looking into the db file meta data.

Not sure what to make out of it though, as the only possible conclusion from your statement would be that the backup now contains less than a third of my original messages. I wouldn't expect that Whatsapp is so sloppy of making backups lose such an amount of data.

But still I don't have any better hypothesis what's actually causing the reduced file size.

Maybe I could use a formerly retrieved encryption key to open the .db and compare their contents.
[General Questions and Answers] WoKoschekk:
To open the encrypted msgstore.db.crypt14 files you'll need the key stored as ~/com.whatsapp/files/key. Only accessible with root.

Another way would be to install a VM like BlueStacks, root it and install Whatsapp on it OR ask someone with a rooted device. With both methods you can extract the msgstore.db.

It contains everything related to your chats except the media files and any settings. See attachment for all the tables inside it. All databases of Whatsapp:

axolotl.db
chatsettings.db
commerce.db
companion_devices.db
daily_metrics.db
emojidictionary.db
hsmpacks.db
location.db
media.db
msgstore.db
payments.db
stickers.db
sync.db
wa.db
[General Questions and Answers] arsfr:
This thread started a whole theory......

lol
[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
Makes sense, considering WhatsApp's strange behavior lately.

I also wouldn't.

But recently I looked at a chat that started in the last few months and saw that my first message disappeared, and the conversation starts with the other person's reply to me. I subsequently looked at other chats and/or groups and noticed that a few of them also have one or more missing messages at the beginning. So it would seem that WhatsApp indeed started getting sloppy recently.
[General Questions and Answers] Schrubbi:
That's really odd behavior! Have you tried to contact Whatsapp support?

After pushing them a bit in the quite obvious direction, they were at least able to confirm that this shrink is intentional. I'll let them double confirm there's no lost data due to it, but it seems like Whatsapp did indeed optimize drastically the way message backups are stored. Still surprising it's not signed with a change in .cryptX but if that really only refers to encryption methodology, that could explain it.

Overall very much appreciated I have to say.

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[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
Yes. Completely worthless. A bot or dumb human kept on replying with long generic messages related to keywords in my message, but no actual answer to my specific question.
[General Questions and Answers] Pralltiller:
I've just stumbled across some WhatsApp backups from mine (from several devices, dating back to 2013) and I also wondered about the drop in file size on my newest device. Google lead me to this thread and since nobody came up with a plausible reason, I registered an account here to share my findings with you:

I decrypted two backups of mine. One is from Feb '23 (65.4 MB) and the other one is from yesterday Jun '23 (24 MB). I have never deleted any messages so I was curious as of what data has changed between the backups.

I decrypted both backups (using wa-crypt-toolswa-crypt-tools). Both backups have a .db.crypt14 extension (although I had to recover them using different keys). After decryption the uncompressed file size changed to this:

Feb '23 Backup:

Encrypted/compressed: 65 MB

Decrypted/uncompressed: 127 MB

Jun '23 Backup:

Encrypted/compressed: 24 MB

Decrypted/uncompressed: 50 MB

Note that I haven't used WhatsApp in a long time, so the changeset of these two files should be minimal (just a few group messages).

I used sqldiff do compare what has changed between the two databases. And from the looks of it they simply dropped a few indexes (without replacement) and migrated some tables to a new structure. Just by dropping the indexes on the old database lead to a decrease in size from 127 MB to 90MB. I am still not certain how the remaining 40MB file size difference (90MB vs 50MB) can be explained, but I assume it comes from the the new table structures (which involves dropping a few tables).

This is an excerpt of the changeset, for those of you that are currious:

sqldiff msgstore.february.db msgstore.latest.db | grep "DROP":

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[General Questions and Answers] xda-eh:
Thank you for that information.