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[Samsung Galaxy S23 Plus] zopostyle:
It depends the region you're in.

Each country has it's bands.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] Beefheart:
For no reason this morning my Fold 4 decided to stop working. The front display is fine, the inner display works when opened up until around 90 degrees, but anything beyond that it simply shows a black screen. If you move it slowly beyond 90 degrees it starts to flicker on and off until it stops altogether at around 100 degrees, presumably showing an issue with the ribbon connection between the inner display and the logic board, or perhaps the angle sensor. I was hoping it was a software issue, but it was never likely truth be told. This was confirmed by the phone still doing it when first powered on and in recovery mode before I performed a factory reset in the remote hope the issue would be resolved.

It's all the more annoying as it has never been dropped, and it has always been in a case from the first day I got it. A shame as I was hoping to have it for at least another 12 months and possibly look into the Fold 6 upon release, but this has knocked my confidence on folding phones a lot. Onto eBay for parts or repair it goes.

I have a 512gb S23 Ultra arriving tomorrow.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] _GRIZZLY_:
Bad luck for you.

I have question- how often are you fold and unfold? Every day, several times or rarely?

So you don't try send to service?
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] manolito1998:
I had the same issue two months ago. I created a ticket in samsung care, they took my mobile from my house and the day after they bring it to me. They changed the inner screen.

It was in warranty
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] Beefheart:
Did you have proof of purchase? It states on the the online form when booking a collection that it's required, and unfortunately I don't have one as it was a swap.

I might claim on the house insurance, but again that would be dependent on whether they require a receipt.

Probably 20-30 times a day, but I treat it well and it's less than 6 months old.

As said above, I have not tried to get it repaired with Samsung, but that's mainly because I know they'll simply say no due to a lack of a receipt. It's basically an easy out for them and stops an expense. It's annoying, if this was an iPhone a receipt wouldn't be needed.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] Nat.smith26:
you can send it to Samsung for repair if it's a hardware problem.

In France, they repaired it in 72 hours, including changing the screen and even the battery.

[EDIT] Oh you don't have the invoice.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] _GRIZZLY_:
You buy s23u so now maybe it's not worth but first why not try send f4 to pay repair ?

F4 are still good and valuable device
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] Beefheart:
Unfortunately, my experience of Samsung is bad when it comes to repair, even when you offer to pay for it.

I will try to get it fixed and will then sell it. It's in great condition so will go for around £400 I reckon.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] Zappapp:
Moved to Oneplus open. My Z Fold 4 is still with me and probably would go to my wife.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] Snopewar:
Samsung repair was super helpful in picking, updating status, repairing and delivering within a week for a hinge issue I had earlier. Was in warranty
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] relaxable:
I had very hardly used, juat over 1-year ZFold4 'die' strangely a week ago -

It will only operate if plugged in to power. It says battery is 98% and never changes.

Whenever power is removed from the USB, everything dies.

I =n retrospect, it had signs of failure - because I never used it much (because impossible to root US version) - I would normally just leave it on at home and use it only once a day or so. I would find it off whrn I didn't think I had turned it off. Then, it started going off even with full battery whenever I closed the screen. And, before it stopped on battery altogether, I had some really weird looking border on the screen reminiscent of an old dot-matrix isngle-color display. All this happened over course of about 4 days.

It's likely a bad component - I think Samsung doesn't really engineer their suff/parts to last. Thank goodness for Google and the Fold. Which can root!

I hope to get the Samsung reaired under extended warranty from credit card coverage.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] Putra:
This sounds exactly like what happened to my ZF4 on Nov 1 (in the airport just before an extended to Europe :( ) as I posted here

In my case, it's the flexible component. The fact that the Authorized Samsung Service Center does not have stock of it, shows it is happening quite often :(
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] relaxable:
Happy to report the USA Visa Signature extended warranty that comes automatically for purchases paid by the credit card paid me the $600usd quoted by authorized Samsung repair to fix the problem of it running only when plugged in to charger.

The hardest part was getting the service center to provide documentation the credit card benefit provider requires - an estimate that includes diagnosis indicating the repair would have been covered under warranty if the failure happened during the mfr warranty period. I did get them to include statement in their repair quote, but I did find a link on the card benefit site to a Device Diagnostic Form that card benefits says can be filled out and signed by repair center if their estimate doesn't provide the needed info.

See- https://www.cardbenefitservices.com/Content/Files/Generic Diagnostic Form.pdf

https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VC...ts/extended-warranty-protection-signature.pdf
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4] Shadow Death:
Mine died a few days ago while I was using it. 2 days ago while typing it shut off, no magic smoke but it smells like burnt electronics. A few days earlier I had the adhesive issue where the dust filter/shield/sweep comes loose. I gently pulled that out after it poked out of the hinge. When I first got the phone it ran great, battery was great, but in recent months it would get hot, run slow, and battery would last half a work day. After that material came out it ran great, stayed cool, and battery lasted almost a whole work day. Then 2 days ago I opened my phone to respond to a message and it shut off.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S8] ParrotSquawk:
My uncle passed recently.

I had him my two phone plan (ATT senior. His kids never paid his bill).

I am locked for another year. Can I take the SIM card and use it on my non- cellular S8 Ultra to give me a data plan (I'm paying for data and messaging already.) It has its own number.

Years ago, there were 3G dongles.

Do these devices exist for modern devices?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S8] V0latyle:
If you transfer your SIM card, yes the tablet should have data access. Any calls to that number won't work obviously so you may want to consider having that line changed to a data only plan.

I don't know if network data dongles are still a thing considering most mainstream tablets are available with LTE.
[POCO M3 Pro / Redmi Note 10 / 10T 5G] ZG_DEV:
Thanks for this great guide, mate:)
[POCO M3 Pro / Redmi Note 10 / 10T 5G] tito_puente:
Is it really save to disable or uninstall globalminusscreen? As it is said here (other miui version) it can cause problems:

Removing all unnecessary bloatware from Xiaomi MIUI 11/12 (Android 9/10) without root

TLDR: If you just want the list of bloatware app package names for Xiaomi MIUI - scroll to the end of the artice.

selivan.github.io
[POCO M3 Pro / Redmi Note 10 / 10T 5G] bg0169:
Sorry for the delay. Yes, you can, you'll just lose features as Google Discovery on CN Roms and what not. The device will work as usual.
[POCO M3 Pro / Redmi Note 10 / 10T 5G] imachocbar:
android.autoinstalls.config.Xiaomi.model does pretty much the same thing as the cust partition AFAIK. Most likely to be related to the autoinstall of Google apps.
[POCO M3 Pro / Redmi Note 10 / 10T 5G] MSI-MATZE:
have times with my tablet Xiaomi tab 6 Pro

deactivated everything that was in the China text.

use the original firmware.

but use the ADB APP CONTROL program.

I would have to try the program.

Are there any problems with future updates?

if everything is deactivated.

Alo does it lead to problems, or is it advisable to reactivate everything before the update?
[General Questions and Answers] buckeyestargazer:
I've been using a very old app called Power Control Plus for many years. I really like it because it exposes most of the settings and allows you to place small widgets on the home screen to quickly change things like screen brightness and different volumes for different situations. And it was extremely customizable. For example I could toggle through three different brightness settings very quickly.

I knew the death of Power Control Plus was coming for several years and now with Android 14 and a new phone that time has come.

Are there any good alternatives that can do what I describe above? There are a few apps I've looked at on the play store, but usually the widget just sends you to the system setting where you still have to adjust it there. What I'm looking for is a widget button that will actually change the setting from the widget. I've searched and I can't come up with anything even close to the same functionality.
[General Questions and Answers] xXx yYy:
https://alternativeto.net/software/power-control-plus/
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] LolFlasherNoob:
I have my beryllium and was stable on Project elixir .

Suddenly my device randomly reboots , even after following flashing instructions, kept rebooting on the poco logo over and over again.

I flashed fastboot MIUI with mi flash tool , thinking the problem was solved I relaxed , only to be disturbed again by a bootloop , now after flashing fastboot MIUI , the device still keeps bootlooping over and over on the MIUI logo . Sometimes it will pass into the UI only to reboot a few seconds later , any idea to fix this ?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] Retrial:
Does this happen you have the device connect to a charger?

It may be battery issue.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] LolFlasherNoob:
While connected to a charger this sometimes happens and sometimes not . Well I also believe that it is a battery issue . Went to service center and they rejected my claim because my phone fell in water , it works completely fine though and this issue is occuring before that . They said that it is a motherboard issue and have a hefty cost . Certainly they are planning to scam me , but I won't get scammed . Well Thnks for your support.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] Retrial:
I have seen similar issues with the bootloops and 90% of the cases were battery. It doesn't have enough power to boot properly.

Try to replace it, I can suggest you a Nohon battery which I also use, I got it from AliExpress.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] LolFlasherNoob:
Sure , I would be delighted , Please share the link or details of the battery.
[OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers] DinIslamJoy:
The box says it's hd1907 made in India version, but after an update to android 12 it says hd1901 at the about section and one sim isn't working anymore. I downgraded to android 10 tmobile rom but it's still showing one sim
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] foobar66:
The Google One VPN starts up very slowly ~7 seconds.

Anybody else experiencing this?

Not a very big deal but anyway ...

I do not have this problem on my P6P.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Ultimoose:
2 to 2.5 seconds for me after clicking Use VPN / pause VPN a few times.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Major Tokage:
I had to turn it off completely. It was slowing down my WiFi and data so much that it wasn't worth having it on. I hope they fix this soon.

Also WiFi by itself is painfully slow no have to turn it off/on multiple times a day to get it to work right. Then after a while it slows to a halt again
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Ultimoose:
Connectivity/throughput is pretty hit or miss for me on TMO but that's pretty standard in my area. As a result my mobile speeds are all over the place VPN or no VPN.

This data is right at this moment in time of course and is only indicative of my phone, Cox cable and Tmobile 4G. Too many variables such as google's load/capacity, internet routing/pathing, mobile saturation/signal strength, overlapping wifi AP's, time of day, etc to be indicative of anything definite.

From my house I can see no less than 23 AP's on my p8p. Ironically half of them are very likely to be Cox panorama WiFi AP's running factory settings because they're all called Setup-XXXX where XXXX is two hexadecimal values.

I don't have amazing cable from Cox, highest I've ever gotten is about 440mb down/ 50 up wired on any device in my house. It's capped at 500/50 in theory.

Tests were run using google speed test in Brave one after another without pause other than to enable and disable VPN- (updated with three new data points from wifi)

WiFi -

P8P no VPN: 260/52, 255/52, 258/53, (New data point) 308/53

P8P on VPN: 258/53, 262/52, 260/51, (New data point) 335/53

macbook no VPN: 330/52, 322/51, 325/52 (New data point) 325/53

Tmobile 4G (the crazy slow speeds below are not a typo and why I ran extra tests) -

p8p no VPN: 321/51, 350/50, 148/7

p8p on VPN: 162/6, 144/6, 143/7, 58/7

p8p no VPN: 25/7, 170/8, 182/7, 155/6
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Ultimoose:
Side note: A better test would be to pull data from a local server on your LAN to remove all the variables assocaited with going across the internet. I'm not set up well for that. My servers are windows based and Macs do not play well with SMB in terms of speeds and I don't have any SMB clients on my p8p to test with at the moment and I'm honestly not sure what kind of throughput is normal over SMB being pulled into android OS.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] foobar66:
Raised the issue to Google via One Support ... they wanted to send me a replacement device.

I did not accept, it's a software problem. I have asked support to raise it to the dev team.

Let's see if Google will fix it.
[Moto G Stylus 5G] migoblu:
I am trying to figure out how to add word documents and a folder on the Home screen on my Moto G Stylus 5G,2022. In my Samsung A53 it was fairly easy, but I am having some difficultly doing the same thing with the Motorola Moto 5G, 2022. Can some one suggest a web site with instructions? Thanks for any help.
[OnePlus Nord 2 5G] the.nebular:
I have never updated my DN2101 since I got it. I'm currently running:

Build - DN2101_11_A.10

Baseband - M_V3_P10,M_V3_P10

It periodically bugs me to update and I'd like to do so, but I'm currently rooted and I'm afraid I'll lose my root updating.

Is running the OTA update safe to keep root, or is there another way I can do it that is safe for rooted devices?
[OnePlus Nord 2 5G] ZG_DEV:
OTA update make your phone loses root , exactly with OP phones, oppo and realme as well

So you have to re-root your phone, the bl will stay unlocked as you did so, do not worry ;)
[OnePlus Nord 2 5G] blackhawk:
Rule 1- if the firmware is fast, stable and fulfilling its mission, let it be!

If the above is true you have little to gain and lots to lose...
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Questions & Answers] alexmercer910:
ok let me introduce to the same issue a dev discovered on xiaomi phones, the kernel source itself has a bug, the phone he discovered it on was apollo (mi 10t)

the issue is:

" xiaomi battery calculations are broken at all, the issue been there since day one in kernel source itself so that's a stock tom issue and all custom kernels issues..

What was happening is

U charge the device then it reports 100% before it gets really 100% and report to charger driver that this cell capacity is *and reports some number much lower than the actual one* then next time u charge reports number less than the first one and so on .. this will happen and happen till u charge ur device more frequent and be using almost only half of ur battery cell then charge more and more till the battery cycles are overused resulting of a damaged cell requires to be changed with a new one (that was my case btw)

But now this is issue is totally fixed ur device is now reported calculations correctly and everything goes as it should.. if u battery REAL capacity is 4.7k it will charge to that and that's what was it supposed to be..

Btw this fix is only here i just did some ports from google kernels to fixup what ximi failed in .. and u can see the results.. wait for other guys to pick mine changes then it will be available in all other roms asap"

this is what he said about apollo, but im thinking that surya also has that issue since my battery health dropped too much too.. just like apollo, so im asking for someone to check it out for us since this dev doesnt own surya?

thanks <3
[Android TV General] unloopme:
Hello all.

So I keep seeing/reading stuff about how generic android TV boxes could be shipped with malware waiting to be activated and steal my life. Scary stuff. I was actually satisfied with performance with kodi and tivimate before I disconnected from paranoia.

Questions:

Is there any way for me to determine if my box indeed has malware?

Is there a relatively simple way I can install a clean android on my box?

Thanks in advance!

Android TV Box 11, 4GB RAM 32GB ROM Smart TV Box RK3566 4-Core 64bit Cortex-A55 CPU​
[Android TV General] blackhawk:
Put it behind firewall(s) and watch it.

Make sure it can't link with other devices it doesn't need to function.

It can't steal what doesn't have access to...
[Android TV General] unloopme:
I fear this might be beyond my skillset. I did some google searches but couldn't find anything specific for a putting a tv box behind a firewall and block it from sending any compromising info.

thanks for reply!

if there's a simple enough walkthrough anyone can suggest I'm not beyond learning something new
[Android TV General] project_2501:
Can you install apps from GooglePlay or allow apks from unknown sources? Try installing termux and running MVT (if possible).
[Android TV General] blackhawk:
I haven't used one so can't say specifically what's best. You need to play with it and learn as you go. What settings options does it have? Lock it down there if you do.

Can you install 3rd party apps? If so install Malwarebytes and scan it. Also add online NextDNS as the DNS provider (some sites may not work with it and automatic DNS will need to be temporarily enabled with some risk).

Online Virustotal can be used to scan app files.

Reflashing or changing the firmware should be the last option and used only if needed.
[MTCD  Android Head Units Q&A] lukas_wwa:
Hi,

I have few coreboards left, is someone interested?

4x px3, 2x px5 , - tested

and few with some tech issues, like not working wifi,

View attachment 6022506
[MTCD  Android Head Units Q&A] marchnz:
They all look to be MTCD platform.
[MTCD  Android Head Units Q&A] lukas_wwa:
As far as I know, yes
[MTCD  Android Head Units Q&A] tebukan:
Hi friend how much this coreboards ?
[MTCD  Android Head Units Q&A] lukas_wwa:
120€ for all :coffee: I got some.more coreboards wirh minor.problems which I can add for free if you are interested
[MTCD  Android Head Units Q&A] FMode:
so they all have a unified pinout?

MTCB has a different pinout?
[MTCD  Android Head Units Q&A] marchnz:
Yes correct
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] captainarni:
Hi, I sometimes have issues with the camera on my pixel 8 pro.

For whatever reason the camera app sometimes opens with a black screen and automatically closes a few seconds later.

I have a screen recording of this behaviour here:

Screen recording: Pixel 8 Pro camera bug

Force closing the app and empyting cache does not seem to help.

Restarting the phone always fixes the problem right away.

Furthermore this problem seems to fix itself after some time e.g. leaving the phone locked, waiting a few minutes => camera works again.

But this is really annoying when I want to take a quick picture and this bug happens.

I have no idea how this is happening. I cannot reliably reproduce this problem. It seems to happen randomly.

Does anyone experience the same issue / know a solution?

Could this be a hardware problem?
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Santi3598:
I haven't experienced this. I don't know what you've tried so far, but have you cleaned the app's data?
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] old_fart:
Sometimes a problem arises out of nowhere. Let's hope that when you reset your app data cache that the problem disappears. If resetting the app data doesn't cure it, then you should do a factory reset. Please let us know what happened next.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Samuel Holland:
I tried just now to see if the problem occurred but everything seemed fine. I'm on the same device.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] captainarni:
I tried that bug it didn't work either.

I even tried to reboot into safe mode but the problem even exists there :/

See:

Pixel 8 Pro camera bug in safe mode

Seems I have to contact google support.

Also this mostly seems to happen after I have my phone locked for some time.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] kpjimmy:
I had slow camera issues out of the box and updated to the latest updates. Camera would take a good second or two to open and then when editing from the camera mode, it would crash. I had to wait for an update on the Play Store. It's called the Pixel Camera app now. I uninstalled all the updates and wiped cache and then applied the update from the play store. I think the update helped, not my wipe. I then had other weird issues like my lockscreen clock not changing from the default. I tried everything barring from a complete reset, so I opted to go with the Google Beta builds for the P8P. Now the metro clock is available and I can update my lockscreen clock.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Morgrain:
I also have camera problems.

Whenever tilting the phone, it's only a matter of time until the app crashes. So e.g. from going vertical to horizontal, or vice versa.

It doesn't happen in safemode, or when using 3rd party apps.

It also only happens with the newest P8 Pro camera app version (with the 50 MP). When I delete all updates to the pixel camera app, and it reverts back to its default state, the problems are also gone (can't use the pro features then, however).

It makes me think that there are massive software issues still, and that the app for some reason doesn't like certain other apps, or maybe its a problem of running out of ram (on average my P8 pro uses 8.5 GB, maybe the camera app doesn't like having only 3.5 GB to work with).

Whatever it is, hopefully Google can quickly fix it.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Lughnasadh:
Hmm, I'm not have any camera issues. When in Pro mode (50 MP) I can tilt, go from vertical to horizontal and back with no problems. I am on A14 QPR1 Beta 2.

Camera version=9.1.098.571038950.24
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Ultimoose:
Unfortunately I can't reproduce it on my p8p running October FW. I've taken several several minute videos while running to test the stabilization, quality etc so it was jostling and tilting a fair bit. Because active stabilization isn't available at 4K most of them were in 1080P but I did test a couple of times with 4K and standard stabilization but your issue didn't show up for me.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Morgrain:
I just created a guest account on my P8 Pro, and there is no issue there. It's definitely some issue with my account/setup of the phone. It's probably either caused by root/Magisk, and/or a rogue app/app causing issues.

Someone here got an idea how to narrow it down? I tried to pause every app and see it if works, but that didn't help.

--

According to BUG REPORT, this is what happens when the Camera App crashes:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to read from field 'java.util.List com.google.android.apps.camera.zoomui.view.ZoomUi.c' on a null object reference in method 'void lig.k(ljn)'

at lig.k(PG:1)

at hde.run(PG:3)

at edf.run(PG:7)

at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:958)

at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)

at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)

at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:294)

at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8177)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)

at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:552)

at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:971)