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[Samsung Galaxy A50 Questions & Answers] TheMagnificent_Y:
Hello All,

I've been trying to get custom binaries onto a SM-A505FN (Samsung A50 A11, Exynos), but cannot get anything except official binaries working.

I've narrowed down the issue to a few things;

- AVB required for the system to boot. (Stock system binary)

- Newer TWRP ver. breaking. (Anything above 3.4.x)

The second one might cause some confusion; I cannot get any available TWRP versions working as of now.

Why not just use an older ver. of TWRP? Well I cannot find an older version. I do remember getting 3.4.0 to work, however the only Google Drive link has long since been taken down.

Has anyone had this issue? Did you find a solution? I'd be appreciate it if you could help me out :)

Note: Patching and zero-filling digests in the official vbmeta image dosen't work (Due to the way they're signed), although I've also tried provided blank vbmetas which do not help.

Clarification: With a blank vbmeta installed, I can get into the stock (official) recovery. However, I still cannot boot into the system. My understanding is that AVB is required for One UI 3.x to boot, so the issue could potentially be with the recovery image?
[Samsung Galaxy A50 Questions & Answers] V0latyle:
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[Samsung Galaxy A50 Questions & Answers] JuanTamqd21:
try this

Samsung Galaxy A505F

Disclaimer:Team Win strives to provide a quality product. However, it is your decision to install our software on your device. Team Win takes no ...

twrp.me

if it doesn't work, try the a50 twrp or shrp on github
[Realme GT Neo 3] mvikrant97:
Mod edit: Content of the opening post removed on request of the owner @mvikrant97! Oswald Boelcke, Senior Moderator
[Realme GT Neo 3] ZG_DEV:
Nice guide, bro 💯
[Realme GT Neo 3] Tr00zin:
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[Realme GT Neo 3] Tr00zin:
now apreseent user error View attachment 6006249
[Realme GT Neo 3] AlienZ51:
hi i did all thing but when i flash it fails immediately..
[Realme GT Neo 3] Badger50:
@mvikrant97

Thread closed at the request of the OP.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rocho:
Hello everybody.

I'm trying out Remote Desktop into my Fuze at 256 colors, full screen.

Icons with their letters and everything looks just perfect, but at the "START" button, letters seems little diffused and cutted, same happens in certain TAB Indexes (but after u hit the TAB, options appears normally down).

Wonder if there is any fix for this issue. Im attaching a sample picture.

PD: tried system size fonts, but has nothing to do with this issue.

Thanks in advance.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] irus:
i use rdp and it works great i don't have the problem you are having so i would try to make sure it has nothing to do with the font (i know you said you checked but i would check again or try something different). also try it in 16bit color not 256
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rocho:
16bit colors did the job ;)

thanks mate.
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
With shortcuts, you can access, in a single tap, public or private settings which are five levels deep in any app on your device (where Android "Settings" is just another app).

What one-tap shortcuts do you make on your homescreen so that you can access (in a single tap!) any Android activity?

[Please add them to this thread so everyone benefits from the work you've done!]

To kick this off, here's a step-by-step tutorial for how to manually create a one-tap shortcut to any package/activity that you can click down to (where this example spans two different packages and is five levels deep) - but where - at the start - you had no idea what package you would end up in - nor the name of the activity - nor even a hint at what the name of the activity might have been (so you can't even cheat by searching for the unique package & activity names in the hide-and-seek automatic tools).

The difficult job of manually creating a shortcut from scratch

See also:

[Privacy] Does Android upload your home AP SSID/BSSID/GPS if the home AP broadcast beacon is "hidden?"​

[PRIVACY] Precise Location vs Approximate Location: Google Maps will not route without it. It says "Can't apply some route options; try again" Why?​

[Tutorial] Illustrated (mostly privacy based) one-tap shortcuts so that you can access (in a single tap!) any buried Android setting or app activity​
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
Here is another one-tap shortcut step-by-step instruction set.

This method is simpler because it assumes two things which were not assumed in the first method shown above.

You know in which app the activity is located

In this case, you know it's in the Settings app

And you know a keyword that can find that activity

In this case, you know the keyword is "notification"

How to make a one-tap shortcut to your Android notification history

Install & run any free adfree gsfree shortcut maker

The example below uses Shortcut Maker, by Rushikesh Kamewar (free, adfree, gsffree, rated 4.4)

<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rk.android.app.shortcutmaker>

But many shortcut maker apps exist on the Play Store

In the Shortcut Maker app, tap on the "Settings" button

This will list all public activities in the Android Settings.

Tap the 1st item named "Settings Activities" to list all the activities.

Tap the search magnifying glass at the top right of that display page.

Search for "notification" to get all activities with that in the name.

Scroll down until you see "Notification history" and tap it

To confirm that's the activity you want, tap "Try this shortcut"

Tapping on "Try this shortcut" should bring up notification history.

Once you confirm that, tap on the big blue "Create Shortcut" button.

Modify the name/icon as desired

Then longpress "Add to Home Screen".

This allows you to place the shortcut anywhere you want

My recommendation is you put all shortcuts in a folder in the middle of your dock.

Once the homescreen is populated, test the one-tap shortcut to your notification history

Your notification history should come up when you tap it.

You do not need to know these details, but this is the shortcut target.

com.android.settings

com.android.settings.notification.history.NotificationHistoryActivity

And this is the intent.

Action = android.intent.action.MAIN

Package Name = com.android.settings

Class Name = com.android.settings.notification.history.NotificationHistoryActivity

Data = None

Mime Type = None

Flags = None

Categories = None

Note that the Android settings is just an app - you can make a shortcut to any public activity in any app.

Please test this out; if you have additional value, please add it.

That way everyone benefits from every action you or I do here.
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
This is a placeholder for the step-by-step instructions to create a one-tap shortcut to HIDDEN activities!
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
For reference, each of these threads adds additional related value.

How to manually create a homescreen shortcut to a known unique Android Activity?

https://xdaforums.com/t/...t-to-a-known-unique-android-activity.4336833/

This (often hidden) Android activity will bring up band selection options on any Android phone

https://xdaforums.com/t/...lection-options-on-any-android-phone.4455941/

How to duplicate what adb does to ad hoc open any given Activity on the Android phone?

https://xdaforums.com/t/...-given-activity-on-the-android-phone.4337863/

What Android debugging tools will analyze any active homescreen shortcut to report the exact ACTIVITY and/or INTENT calls made by that app shortcut?

https://xdaforums.com/t/...tent-calls-made-by-that-app-shortcut.4624939/

Privacy: Is it possible to find the shortcut activity Google Maps uses to turn on "Google Location Accuracy"

https://xdaforums.com/t/...-to-turn-on-google-location-accuracy.4285243/

What one-tap shortcuts do you make on your homescreen so that you can access (in a single tap!) any Android activity? [Please add them to this thread]

https://xdaforums.com/t/...ivity-please-add-them-to-this-thread.4625951/

If you know of other useful shortcut-creation-related threads, please post them here so others can efficiently click on them to garner more information about making one-tap shortcuts.
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
Regarding making your own custom icons, it's just too easy - and - there are so many ways - that I'll only show one method I use - but it can be extended to zillions of methods to obtain customized icons.

Try this as an example:

On my PC (because the screen is bigger & tools better) bring the web browser to any searchable icon pack set.

For example: <https://www.flaticon.com/packs>

Search for "map" icons

(which garners 202,534 map-related icons!)

You could go to the trouble of downloading the PNG of the right size

(I use 100x100 pixels for the most part)

But I think the proper size is 48x48 pixels

But it's far quicker to just screenshot the desired icon

(then crop it and save as a PNG with transparent background)

Use any decent image editor to crop, resize & transparize the PNG and then copy it over to your Android icons folder.

Irfanview is the canonical free image editor on Windows

Paint.NET is a free fully-functional venerable PhotoShop replacement maintained by Rick Brewster

Paint.net does everything for more detailed edits

Back in Android, longpress on your new shortcut icon

You'll get various options

Often these three will show up

Edit

App info

Remove

Choose "Edit" which brings up "Edit shortcut"

Click on the icon

That brings up a special activity to select icons out of

Built-in icons

Gallery apps

{each of your installed icon packs}

Choose "Gallery apps"

Choose your favorite file manager out of the list

Then choose the transparized 48x48 square pixel PNG icon you saved in the icon folder

(actually the size can be anything)

What's important is that it's square and transparized and a PNG file

Note since you're making your own custom icons, you can easily add some large TEXT to the icon to help you know what shortcut it's bringing up.

As always, if you know more than I do, please add value to this thread so that everyone benefits from your knowledge & experience.
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
To give users an example of how fruitful and easy it is to make your own custom icons, I created one each for the shortcuts that I recently made (see the attached examples).

All I did, for example, to create an icon for the 511.org shortcut was

On my PC browser I went to google images

<http://images.google.com>

I typed in a related search, for example, for 511.org

Up popped a web page replete with useful images

Since size doesn't matter, I didn't delve further

I screenshotted the entire page of useful images

And I pasted that screenshot into Irfanview freeware

I cropped the image square in Irfanview

And I resized it to 100x100 pixels in Irfanview

(where pixel number doesn't matter but why make it big?)

After resizing, I saved the icon to a PNG file

Tapping on the background when desired to transparize it

(Some icons look better - others worse - when transparized)

I slid those icons, en masse, over to my Android icon folder

And then I set the shortcut icon to that of the icon

If folks don't know how to set an Android shortcut icon's image, see the previous post which explains it for you (it's really simple).

It's really easy to make your own custom icons for Android shortcuts.

See my examples below using the method shown above.

Note: Many people would "download" the icons; but that's more trouble than it is to screenshot an entire page of potential icons and just cropping out the ones you want to use. The pixel size is so small for an icon (typically 48x48 pixels) that it doesn't matter that it's a screenshot.

As always, if you know more than I do, please add value as we all learn from each other.
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
In some cases, I wanted to edit the icons to put a big red X across it to show I was turning something off - where I could have done that in Irfanview but it's easier to do it in Paint.NET freeware (which is better than PhotoShop since it's as powerful but easier to use).

I opened the image in the Paint.NET freeware

I selected the line tool and set the width to about 5 pixels

I set the color to red and drew an X across the icon

I saved it

Had I wanted to add text to the image, I could easily have done so.

It's really easy to make your own custom icons for Android shortcuts.

See my examples below using the method shown above.

For example, I wanted to make an icon for my "Developer options" shortcut, so in images.google.com that was my search term and up popped a perfect icon for that "Developer options" shortcut!

It was the same when I searched images.google.com for my

511.org shortcut

traffic shortcut

notification history shortcut

It takes seconds.

Screenshotting is all you need for icons - no need to download the icon.

Run the images.google.com search

Screenshot the entire window of results

Paste that screenshot into Irfanview

Crop square in Irfanview

One trick is "shift Y" to crop & "control Y" to trim!

Save as a PNG file

Choose a transparent background (if desired)

Copy from Windows to Android

(usually Android is already mounted over Wi-Fi as a Windows drive letter)

Set the Android shortcut to that new customized icon

It took about five minutes to populate all my shorcut icons.
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
This has got to be the EASIEST way to create a one-tap privacy shortcut, bar none!

I found yet another privacy-based setting scattered deeply inside Android settings, where, surprisingly, this Android setting is the first I've ever seen that has its own button to make a shortcut to it!

Android 13 Settings > General management > Passwords and autofill > Google > Gear >

Offer to save passwords = on/off

Sign in automatically = on/off

That's all normal stuff... but lookey here!

Android 13 Settings > General management > Passwords and autofill > Google > Gear >

Add shortcut to your home screen

To get here quicker, add Google Password Manager to your home screen

I wish all Android privacy settings deep in the hierarchy would have their own button to add a homescreen shortcut!

It would make it easier to make a "Privacy" folder of privacy settings as shown below.
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
Here is another neat trick you can do with one-tap homescreen shortcuts.

Easily save failed Aurora Store attempts for use at a later date

(such that a folder of one-tap action app-specific shortcuts result).​

Sometimes you want to install an app but Aurora Store temporarily fails. Maybe you don't want to waste all that effort - particularly if you went to the trouble to find the exact URL to the app you were seeking - so here's how to regain efficiency by placing that lost effort into an "AuroraPending" homescreen folder.

Arbitrarily, let's say this is the specific app you want to install.

<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tasomaniac.devwidget>

Assume you wasted all your effort trying to install that app only to find the Aurora Store failed because of the rate limitations.

(which means you just have to try again some time later)

To SAVE that wasted effort into a homescreen shortcut for re-use.

Open that URL in a web browser (I used Ungoogled Chromium)

Tap the 3dots at topright to share that URL from the web browser

Share to "More..." and then to "Shortcut Creator"

Create a targeted homescreen shortcut to that app for the Aurora Store.

In Shortcut Creator change "Use app chooser" to "Aurora Store"

Tap the "+" icon at the top (i.e., Add) & select "To Launcher"

Tap the "Touch & hold to place manually" to place in your todo folder

Minutes... hours... days... weeks... months... later​

Whenever you think Aurora Store is ready for you, tap the shortcut!

Voila!​

Aurora Store will open directly to the location of that app install!

At this point, you've NOT-wasted that effort since you can tap that AuroraPending folder homescreen icon at any point in time until the Aurora Store works again.

Software:

Android 13, Samsung Galaxy A32-5G

Aurora Store version 4.3.2(50)

<https://aurorastore.org/>

Shortcut Creator by AlexTernHome, version 3.2.4

<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alextern.shortcuthelper>

Note that I optionally used the excellent App Finder search engine whose automatic-URL-creation capacity eliminated manual typing of the app URL.

App Finder by Skyica

<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=scadica.aq>
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
To followup on the folder of failed Aurora Store shortcuts so that you don't waste your time, here's another app installation with a DIFFERENT set of Aurora Store errors (lest you say that this shortcut shouldn't be needed).

Note the inordinate number of steps it takes to just attempt to download an app using the Aurora Store when the Aurora Store is recalcitrant...

The goal is to eliminate almost all those steps to make it as close to a single-tap as possible - for use when the Aurora Store is in a better mood.

Assume you want to install this app but Aurora Store failed

.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.smarquis.applinks

If you copy that link & share it to Shortcut Creator, you can save a homescreen active link to obtain it minutes, hours, days, weeks later

Simply tap on the saved active shortcut and, if the Aurora Store is ready this time, the Aurora Store will come up with the app to install.
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
I was helping someone on Usenet today who had a screen zooming issue (he wanted to make the fonts bigger in a settings activity) where I realized that, over time, we FORGET the exact activity being called in our folder filled with various and sundry one-tap shortcuts we've made over time....

That is...

Days...weeks...months... later (after having created a shortcut)...

We know what the one-tap shortcut does (by tapping it)

But we forget HOW it does it (i.e., package & activity name)

For example, in my one-tap shortcuts folder, I have a score of one-tap shortcuts which were created by a variety of methods - but - if I needed to explain it to someone else - I need to know HOW the shortcut works - i.e., what Package Name & activity does it call.

While I wish there was a program out there where you just OPEN the shortcut from that program and it will tell you what the shortcut does...

File > Open > {choose shortcut to inspect what it does}​

Until I find that program, here's how I figure out what a shortcut does.

I start an activity inspector (and I turn on its watch daemon)

I tap the one-tap shortcut (to make it call up that activity)

I go back to the inspector (to visualize which activity just ran)

In this case, that activity turned out to be

Package Name = com.android.settings

Activity Name = com.android.settings.Settings$SecScreenZoomActivity

Once you have that, you can always manually create your own shortcut to that activity.

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[General Topics] Maximum-King:
Package name: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring

Activity name: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring.player.ScreenSharingReady

How to create a one-tap shortcut?
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
Just in case the named activity actually exists, I tried the next slightly harder manual method, which requires me to type (aurgh) the package name and the activity name (instead of just clicking on them as we did with the Muntashirakon App Manager).

Since we know the "Casting Activity" exists on my phone, let's test that first:

Package: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring

Class: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring.CastingActivity

1. Launch the "Intents" app <krow.dev.scheme>

2. Press the (+) & enter the fields specified below.

Action: Select the radio dial for "ACTION.MAIN" & tap the back button​

Package Name: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring​

Class Name: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring.CastingActivity​

Category: Select the checkbox for "CATEGORY.LAUNCHER" & tap "Choose"​

3. Tap the airplane icon at the top right to open up the activity.

Voila! That works just fine.

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Now let's try the exact same sequence with the given package & class.

Package: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring

Class: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring.player.ScreenSharingReady

1. Launch the "Intents" app <krow.dev.scheme>

2. Press the (+) & enter the fields specified below.

Action: Select the radio dial for "ACTION.MAIN" & tap the back button​

Package Name: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring​

Class Name: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring.player.ScreenSharingReady​

Category: Select the checkbox for "CATEGORY.LAUNCHER" & tap "Choose"​

3. Tap the airplane icon at the top right to open up the activity.

Drat. It can't find that specific activity. Are you sure it exists?

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Here is the error message on my phone when I try the Activity name you provided.

Unable to find explicit activity class {com.samsung.android.smartmirroring/com.samsung.android.smartmirroring.player.ScreenSharingReady};have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml, or does your intent not match its declared <intent-filter>?​
[General Topics] Maximum-King:
its available on all recent samsung devices… it’s just that it is hidden and needs permission to be run using a non-system shortcut. shortcuts on the bottom left and the bottom right of the lockscreen are system shortcuts and when i assign them to this particular activity, it works, but if I just create a shortcut to open the activity using a 3rd party app on the homescreen or any other place, it doesnt work.
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
To illustrate another manual method, albeit with a bit more typing (aurgh!), let's go back to an activity that we know exists, and then try another manual method.

Package: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring

Class: com.samsung.android.smartmirroring.CastingActivity

Repeat the previous 3 steps performed in the "Intents" app <krow.dev.scheme> except after using the airplane icon, do these steps instead.

4. Press the "X" button at the top left of the Intents GUI.

5. Tap the "History" tab and longpress on the desired intent

6. Select "Copy uri text"

The result will be the following URI syntax.

#Intent;action=android.intent.action.MAIN;category=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER;package=com.samsung.android.smartmirroring;component=com.samsung.android.smartmirroring/.CastingActivity;end​

Now we need to construct an HTTP URI to put into our shortcut.

For that, install "Instant Intent" freeware, by TrianguloY​

<https://github.com/TrianguloY/intent>​

<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy.instantintent>​

7. With the URI in your clipboard, start "Instant Intent".

8. In the "intent uri" field of "Instant Intent", paste the URI above.

9. To confirm the syntax, tap "Open Intent" which should open the desired activity.

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WIP... I'm working on this so don't quote it yet... as I recall there is a tiny syntactical change we need to make in the URI due to, I think, Android changing the syntax after the Instant Intent app was built.

Looking in the Android Firebase indexable details for syntax examples...

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Using Android 13 Settings > Google > Firebase App Indexing > Google Play services > MobileApplication > (arbitrary app selection) as the syntax example, I see the syntax should be the following format.

intent:#Intent;action=android.intent.action.MAIN;category=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER;package=com.samsung.android.smartmirroring;component=com.samsung.android.smartmirroring/.CastingActivity;end

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intent://#Intent;action=android.intent.action.MAIN;category=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER;package=com.samsung.android.smartmirroring;component=com.samsung.android.smartmirroring/.CastingActivity;end