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[General Questions and Answers] koberulz:
Not if I'm trying to use them to navigate.

There was one directly across the road from me, it made for a good test. That its closest recommendation was 2,000km away despite one being in view was a pretty clear indication something was wrong.

I have a Tasker thingamajig that turns GPS on whenever I open navigation apps. Once I plugged in directions, it was able to navigate me just fine, give or take a few meters. It just initially opened in completely the wrong place.

My phone has never left the state.

While I have a VPN installed, and have used it, it was not engaged at the time of the issue occurring.

Apps are all up to date, I'm running Android 12. There are no pending OS updates.
[General Questions and Answers] ethical_haquer:
Is that ChatGPT?
[General Questions and Answers] Renate:
OMG, that's worse than going to McDonald's!

Don't you think that your phone needs a road trip?
[General Questions and Answers] koberulz:
Would anyone like to offer any actual help at all, or just snark?
[General Questions and Answers] ethical_haquer:
Both Google Maps and Waze are owned by Google, and therefore probably share some of the same code. Have you tried using location with any other apps?
[General Questions and Answers] Renate:
Mmm, snarking is fun!

Besides, I did say that Motorola is ruled out.

Also OnePlus/Oppo.
[General Questions and Answers] ethical_haquer:
Have you rebooted in the last couple of weeks?
[General Questions and Answers] koberulz:
Well...as I said, once plugged a destination into Google Maps (I was walking), it was fine getting me there. If I can get my destination into Waze it's also fine getting me there. I have Waze on all the time while driving and it functions just fine, it's only once I search for "X nearby" or the like that it suddenly wanders off. So I'm not sure if using other apps would help troubleshoot, as there appears to be two different levels of location detection going on.

Multiple times.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Common001:
Hello, I am planning on changing my 4 years old Redmi 5 for a phone that would have a good custom ROM support.

I am looking for the best brand when it comes to phones that allow good custom ROM support.

It seems One Plus is out of the question now, and there doesn't seem to be many brands that allow for ROM support and customization.

Right now I hesitate between a pixel phone (6a) or a Poco Phone.

Pixel doesn't seem to have very good hardware but they seem very easy to use when it comes to flashing a ROM.

The recent Poco devices don't have official support for Lineage for example.

I want to eventually try CalyxOS or LineageOS as they seem to be the ROMs that can allow some degoogling.

I also thought of tne Nothing Phones but tye don't seem popular enough to have continous support.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renate:
One minus vote for Motorola as their Firehose loaders are restricted.

Ok, you can "blankflash" the basics to get you to fastboot and then fastboot from there.

But for me the "gold standard" is a device with a released Firehose loader (or Mediatek equivalent, eww...) where you can save and restore the complete memory of the device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renate:
The Google/Pixel stuff is Exynos crap.

Can you trivially backup and restore every byte?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Common001:
You are too technical for me here, I actually thought Moto phones were good for roms are there seems to be plenty of support.

But I rarely change phones, I fondly remember my 1st gen Moto G who had plenty of support and was very good for its price back then.

I'm asking the question from an average user's point of view, what would you use ?

Exynos seems to be mediocre but i suppose it can do the work.

What about Poco/Xiaomi ? Besides the pain that is bootloader unlock
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renate:
Motorola is better than some for having (mostly) unadulterated AOSP.

They do have open tools for "rescuing".

OTOH, you can't just go to EDL and pull a copy of your boot image directly off your device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Common001:
But the why does Pixel get so much custom ROM support ? The difference is not comparable to other brands
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renate:
I wasn't judging the performance. I just don't want to have anything to do with Samsung related stuff.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snakeforhire:
I got a good souvenir of Moto phones, but that was before the coming of the "smartphone era" and the customization possibilities that come with these..

From what I can read around nowadays, Motorola and Nokia are the most averse to 3rd-party development, and severely lock down their devices to prevent it. 😮‍💨

Next in my book comes Samsung : they used to be solid buys back before they got the "Apple fever"(which makes you increase the MSRP of your offerings ever higher with each new generation, for little to no technical value-added features most of the time). But ever since the Galaxy Note3/S3 series and the systematic implementation of the Knox and FRP locks they've become rather over-complicated to unlock; and if you do unlock one there's no going back, the Knox trip-counter will stay set forever whatever you do... This means forget about using it again in a corporate network -those who are managed by competent sysadmins and who have the cybersecurity budget to go alobg, anyway. 🙄

Can't speak much to other brands.

Personally I'm on my 4th Xiaomi/Poco phone and -apart from the annoying waiting period to unlock them- so far they've given me a truckload of joy and steady faithful service time, and then some : I'm still rockin' my vayu (Poco X3Pro 8/256GB Global) as my testing device and it still flies through anything I throw at it ! (albeit with some tremendous heat at times, but that's a recurrent thing on series 8 Snapdragon devices so no surprises there) 🙂
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Common001:
My wish is to simply get a phone to install LineageOS.

I wanted to avoid Chinese phones because of the waiting period and MIUI but it seems that it's only Xiaomi or Pixel.

I was eyeing the X5 Pro.

I guess OnePlus is not dev-friendly anymore ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omar_62:
I feel like Nexus phone might be a cool choice.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChriMo:
I find the topic remains relevant and wonder why xda etc. does not give more hints with specific articles. I like good CPU & memory, good IMG/VID performance, crDroid, Audio Cinch and possibly microSD card slot, so the Pixels are not the favorites however judging from Custom ROM activity it seems those are the brands to consider:

Google Pixel

OnePlus: did not understand why they lost Dev Support recently?

Xiaomi especially Poco: long/complicated unlocking

Motorola: locked down hard?

ASUS (ROG)

Nokia: locked down hard?

So it seems very difficult to select from new devices available for order.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omar_62:
nokia locks their phones. nexus are more accepting if youre on a budget and dont care for performance
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChriMo:
Thx for the hint, did not have them on the radar.

The only ones still available "new"? at a decent price in (some of) Europe are

Google Nexus 6 32GB since 2014 90€ (ebay.de)​

Google Nexus 5X 16GB since 2015 105€ (amazon.uk)​

I'm not sure if getting a good used one from 2018 or later with top Custom ROM support might be the better choice. More then 5-6 years old (either used or introduction year) is not attractive to me.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omar_62:
Hmm.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SomeRandomGuy:
Please excuse my ignorance... I must have missed what happened?

As @Renate desires, they usually have a EDL key that gives you full access to the phone, so they are nearly impossible to brick; and they have both economy and power user price points.

I know a few of the newer models went away from QC chipsets (and hence lost EDL) but I didn't know they suddenly hated developers...?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henonchschonleinpurp:
Red hot official custom ROMdevelopment within 2months after the phone itself got released: no joke!

Happemed for poco f5 (paranoid os and 1 more)

Here's the fastest and surest custom romdevices

Pixels > Nothing phones> poco F series > Redmj note series > poco M,Xseries > xiaomi mi series > Motorola

- wjthin a year, you,'ll have 4-8Official custom roms for them.. for a detailed report, cgeck the pdf and this thread post:

**What phone should I buy next?** -- Not sure what device to buy? Ask here!

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Ofcourse xiaomi devices,with their newer hyperOS are trying to delay blotloaderunlocking policies starting from China ..so that mean from the current 1 year latency, custom roms will arrive after 2years of release.. which is still quite impressive as opposed to samsung/oneplus
[Introductions] quaTTr0000:
Hi! To be honest, I got here because of me finding ways to bypass the FRP on my daughters phone which she has not used in a while since the phone she has been using was stolen.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] spoda21:
Hi guys, im pretty new at this and im just looking for the wm6 upgrade for my Hermes if anyone could help me out i would greatly appreciate it, Thanks in advance, G
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] keraunos:
You can read here what you need to do http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Hermes
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kareeem:
Straight up question with a straight up answer. There are many ROMs to choose from so read and choose one that best fits your preference.

Thread closed.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] bailen.jorel:
I am having issues with the package installer of Oneplus7t after its update to android 11 and then 12 while installing third party apk files from non-Playstore sources ONLY. It worked fine at android 10.

To clarify further, i am trying to install Tachiyomi app and downloaded all the build types provided like with different types like arm64 or armeabi and then tried to install them but after clicking them giving permission and allowing to install from third party sources for the "File Manager" there is no prompt or anything and it does not perform any follow ups. This is not limited to this particular app but any third party apk i download for installation leads to the same result. Clicking it a number of times leads to a pop-up saying along the lines of package installer keeps stopping. there haven't been any different worded pop-ups and only this one. i havent been able to recreate the issue on command.

Just to add to more details to my problem that it recognizes the apk, the icon and size and all that stuff shows up and when i go the Apps>System Apps>Package Installer, it shows the apk size loading in it like a CD. Repeated attempts to install same file piles up and shows in the Size section of the Package Installer app so it does recognize it but does not go through.

I looked up some methods and was led to some solutions and tried them.

-clear data and cache

-reset system settings

-reset

So far none of them worked so i switched to the adb method and tried to look for the a suitable apk for it in order to downgrade it from the current version

"Package installer 12-7567768". I tried to install the one from android 10 since the issue was also in the android 11 version's package installer but it showed a Verification Error.

Now some of you might think that i should just install tachiyomi from the adb method and I did do that but it works on extensions that are also THIRD PARTY APKs.. and im back to square one.

TL:DR

android package installer being a repetitive d**k to third party apks ONLY

cant downgrade through adb

what happens if i uninstall the Package Installer to downgrade it with an older version from adb since i feel like i wont be able to install anything if the current one goes away and ill be stuck, cant go forward and cant go back either.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] Droidriven:
It is probably a setting that you need to enable or a permission that you need to grant in order to install 3rd party apps from alternative sources.
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] lossehelin:
I had this box for just over ayear and all of the sudden it gave me a boot error. I let it sit for a while without touching it and then i thought maybe i can repair it. I went to turn it on and it didnt. I tried to flash it with the amlogic usb tool but it stops at 5%

Not sure what to do next. i tried pretty much everything i saw on this forum.

Any sugestions?

This is the model

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003655356390.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.15.3ce71802C5sQv1
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] linoxodan:
Maybe you have luck. Try to reflash by wyndows method and when it's stuck bound 2 points on motherboardView attachment 5969303

and maintain bound until relash it's done.
[Nova Launcher] Willykit:
Hey there!

I have recently bought a Realme 11 Pro and I am using Nova as my default launcher app. However the home button does not work as expected. I'll try to describe the issue the best that I can, forgive me though if that's not that clear...

Although the home button initially works fine and takes me to the home screen, after a few minutes using any app the button stops responding and the only way to return to the home screen is by pressing the recent apps button first and then hit the home button. So, simply put the thing goes like that:

Home screen -> open any app -> home button works -> return to that (or any other) app and stay there for some time -> home button not working -> hit recent apps button -> home button works again

...and so on...

I have contacted Nova and they said that it must be some kind of bug or limitation placed by Realme. They also suggested that I install a different 3rd party launcher to make sure that I have the same issue and it actually did happen in Apex as well. I have turned off any battery optimisation for Nova and allowed background activity but without any result.

Has anyone else faced that issue with any phone?
[Nova Launcher] Willykit:
I'm not sure I understand what you say. Nova Launcher is not in beta...
[Nova Launcher] Willykit:
Because apparently it's an Android issue rather than a Nova issue... 🤔
[Nova Launcher] Willykit:
Well if that's how you feel, I would gladly welcome your input to edit the title accordingly 😏
[Nova Launcher] pndwal:
🤔... Does member have Xiaomi Redmi?... Or are we talking Realme?... PW
[Nova Launcher] Willykit:
We're talking about Realme 11 pro
[Nova Launcher] pndwal:
🤔 I thought Xiaomi runs MIUI and Realme (originally Oppo) runs ColorOS or Realme UI... PW
[Nova Launcher] Willykit:
Actually yes, Realme runs Color OS
[Nova Launcher] Willykit:
So I have managed at last to narrow down the problem. Here's what happens exactly.

1. Open any app->home button works fine

2. Hit recent apps button -> kill all apps - > then open any app -> home button doesn't work

3. Hit recent apps button -> kill all apps -> then open any app ->hit recent apps button -> home button works again
[Nova Launcher] lelloide66:
I solved the problem.

go into the developer options and scale all animations to 0 or 0.5x.
[Nova Launcher] Willykit:
Wow! I'm really impressed! Many thanks for sharing! That actually worked 😀

All I need to solve now is some random sim pin requests I'm getting now and then but I'll open a new thread for that.

Thanks again!
[Nova Launcher] Willykit:
24 hours after trying @lelloide66 solution and here is my feedback:

1. The bug seems to be connected with the animator duration scale only. Setting it at 1x or more crashes the home button function if you have cleared all active apps before.

2. Setting it at 0x fixes the bug but results in losing some or all animations within some apps (i.e. Aquamail, Deliveries etc.). Setting it at 0.5x worked for me yesterday but today is a bit problematic as it works on a per case basis. Rebooting seems to fix the issue for some time but not permanently.

3. Transition and window animation scales are not relevant to this issue and can be adjusted at will.

Any additional input is always welcome 👍
[Nova Launcher] lelloide66:
I saw it too. I keep the animation speed at 0x just to be able to use the Home button. Nova launcher is indispensable for me
[Nova Launcher] damole:
I have had this problem with 3 OnePlus devices for the past year and only this morning considered that I run Nova Launcher on all of them and that might be the problem not the OnePlus software.

I just changed the animation settings on my phone and it seems to work. Will know for sure after a couple of days.
[Touch HD General] johnhedge:
The proscribed method of pressing both up and down volume bar (while PDA is off) and then briefly pressing the power button doesn't produce the desired result.

Is there a programatical way of achieving this, please?

TIA

John
[Touch HD General] saleemhd:
Try this, it may work:

Touch HD Clear Storage

You can also use Clear Storage to reset your device back to factory default settings.

1. On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab and then tap All Settings.

2. On the System tab, tap Clear Storage.

3. Enter “1234” and then tap Yes.
[Touch HD General] Kangburra:
I would check the buttons work then. I have used this method and it does work. Turn the phone off, long press on the power, yes to turn off. Then hold both volume buttons down, press the power button (keeping the volume buttons pressed).

When the boot screen appears you can let go of the volume butons.

Or use the clear settings above ;-)
[Touch HD General] faisal:
I think the trick is to BRIEFLY press

the power button while keeping both

up and down volume buttons pressed.
[FYT Android Head Units] MakabraTV:
Hi, I bought a 12.3 inch multimedia station on Android 12 for my BMW F31 with the NBT EVO system. Apart from the fact that I was cheated because according to description, it was supposed to be a station with Snapdragon 662 and a completely different launcher (KSW), it works very well and I am most satisfied with the sound quality from the DSP of this station, so I decided to keep it. From what I've been able to determine, it's FYT on UIS7862S with 4GB RAM and 64GB Rom on Android 10 with fake 12. The biggest problem in the station is that you can't change the launcher to one where I could assign my widgets myself - I only have 4 factory launchers to choose from, they are all useless. I dealt with it by installing car launcher pro from the play store. However, there is one thing I cannot change. When I press the phone button on my steering wheel, the bluetooth phone application starts. I can't find an option to change it anywhere because I would like nothing to happen in android after pressing the phone button on the steering wheel. Is there any way to change that? My MCU has it sort of defaulted in its launcher and I can't change it.View attachment 5967827
[Android Head-Units] Jp230:
Hello!

Recently I purchased an MTK based headunit (8227L?) and tbh I didn't like the UI, it has poor audio quality and connectivity problems with my phones.

I have another chinese headunit with a PX30 for about 2.5 years in another car and I'm in love with that thing, great audio and I never had any problems with connectivity, the UI lags a bit due to the age of the SoC but it isn't bad at all.

I'm looking to buy another headunit but with a better SoC, what should I look for nowadays? I'm mainly looking for fluidity and decent audio,
[Android Head-Units] PrinceLc:
I had an PX6 unit and the audio quality was good and performance was also good too. Now I have an Junsun with mtk8257/59 it's an 8 core 64bit soc the integrated DSP chip is doing a good work. Performance of the soc a bit less than PX6 but ok
[Xiaomi 12T Pro / Redmi K50 Ultra] @Peterrrrr:
Im in thoughts of rooting Mi 12T Pro so I can enable 60fps 4K in MotionCam app(RAW movie), so what it the best method to root the phone?
[Xiaomi 12T Pro / Redmi K50 Ultra] artulappi1:
Only magisk :)

The best way nowadays. Probably the only one on the 12t pro.
[Xiaomi 12T Pro / Redmi K50 Ultra] NOSS8:
Do you want to use Magisk modules or modify config files?
[Xiaomi 12T Pro / Redmi K50 Ultra] @Peterrrrr:
Modify config files
[Xiaomi 12T Pro / Redmi K50 Ultra] @Peterrrrr:
Do you need to unlock bootloader to root with magisk?
[Xiaomi 12T Pro / Redmi K50 Ultra] NOSS8:
The system on A13 is read only even with root, find a Magisk module or create one.

or use

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but in this case, unlocking the bootloader is necessary.
[Xiaomi 12T Pro / Redmi K50 Ultra] @Peterrrrr:
So if I have understand it right in order to be able to edit I need both unlock booloader and root?

Creating a module is out of my knowledge 😄
[Xiaomi 12T Pro / Redmi K50 Ultra] NOSS8:
if you install this module you can edit, but with an unlocked bootloader.;)
[Xiaomi 12T Pro / Redmi K50 Ultra] @Peterrrrr:
Are there any guide to unlock the bootloader on Mi 12T Pro? And does unlock the bootloader reset the phone and wipe all data?
[Xiaomi 12T Pro / Redmi K50 Ultra] NOSS8:
Yep,unlock erase your data.

Same method (safer) just use the boot.img of the current rom (ignore the boot init).

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Or with the TWRP just rename Magisk .apk to zip and flash it with the TWRP.

Recovery for Xiaomi devices - Browse /diting at SourceForge.net

List of relevant recovery in one place

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[Xiaomi 12T Pro / Redmi K50 Ultra] @Peterrrrr:
Thanks!
[Touch HD General] Bill80:
Hi everybody, I hope this is not a too stupid question, but which setting should I use in S2U2 to display the weather? I use the build in weather forecast in the touch hd, but it seems not to matter what I select, it is never anything shown on the start screen :(.
[Touch HD General] umexed:
First make sure you have the weather feature of S2U2 enabled and then select Manila 3D

works fine here :)

cheers
[Touch HD General] Bill80:
Thanx :)

Thanx for the tip, it seemed to work for a moment after a soft reset, but than I got a call (2sec after restart), and it was gone again :(. So I think i now know which is the real one, but it just doesn't work for me.

I have the 15 tabs installed, could that be a reason? Do I have to change any setting directly in the weather tab itself? To activate it, do I have to do anything else in S2U2 than to choose how to display it?
[Touch HD General] umexed:
maybe the 15tab is the issue but i cant confirm this since i dont use this mod.. maybe someone else confirm this?
[Touch HD General] stavros_f:
i don't think that's the 15 tab issue cause i 've never installed it though the weather on S2U2 doesn't seem to work. I've got the same that Bill80 got. Somebody can help with this?
[Touch HD General] Ascenca83:
Same here...after a soft reset the first time S2U2 is started the weather is displayed. The second time S2U2 is started the weather is not beeing displayed anymore! :(

Ascenca
[Touch HD General] stavros_f:
as i understood the reason that weather is shown after a soft reset is because TFlo3D hasn't launch yet. As i read in a other post, when you deactivate your Manila 3D then the weather on S2u2 works, when is activated the weather on S2u2 doesn't work. Funny huh??? may someone here knows how to fix it?