yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] sebgarsant:
Thanks for the link! Do you happen to know what to do if I keep getting “DeviceClass - [LIB]: Couldn’t get dwvice configuration” ?

No matter how many PCs I try this at, if I install the Samsung and/or MediaTek drivers, libusb I can’t get past this prompt
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] roiikka:
Hey guys, self-explanatory title here.

I did a Google search for a few minutes trying to find if there's a way to map the side switch to a different action than silent modes. I used button mapper from the Play Store to find if it can sense it but it doesn't.

Any options?
[General Topics] satur0:
Hi, "Launch on boot APK" no longer works with the latest "firestick OS 8". There are some other apk that work with Fire OS 8 to automatically start Kodi at boot?
[Samsung Galaxy S23] centered:
I recently switched away from iOS to android, since I wanted more freedom, and assumed that all androids could be rooted. But doing more research, it seems like bootloader cannot be unlocked? I am wondering if there is ANY way to get the OEM unlock feature to show up in developer settings? Could samsung members remote support enable to toggle for me? Or is there anyway to have it magically appear? I have the carrier unlocked version, so it seems like I should be able to SOMEHOW unlock it, right?

I am also confused because i've seen S911U1 listed on Chimera, so I would assume it is possible. Or if there are any exploits to unlock it, let me know.
[Samsung Galaxy S23] centered:
As you can see here, Chimeratools says it can root/unroot USA s23 version:

ChimeraTool supported models

5,789 supported models of Samsung, Blackberry, Lumia, Huawei, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Vivo, Generic Android, Oppo, Ulefone, Nubia, Deutsche Telekom, Cricket, Sony, HTC, LG, Motorola, Utility, ASUS, Generic UNISOC, Meizu, ZTE, Alcatel, Infinix, Tecno, Nokia, TCL, Blaupunkt, BLU, WIKO, OnePlus, Realme...

chimeratool.com
[Samsung Galaxy S23] centered:
Is it possible??
[Samsung Galaxy S23] fitrockx:
No. The bootloader can't be unlocked for US variants.
[Samsung Galaxy S23] centered:
But is there any known expoits or possibilities of unlokcing it inthe future? There has to be some ways to get around thsi
[Samsung Galaxy S23] fitrockx:
There could be some hope. Not yet for S23 US tho. Keep an eye on this thread. Also, they recommended to never update the bootloader.

[CLOSED][Android][UNSAMLOCK] Bootloader Unlock for Samsung US/Canada Devices

Important notice: If you are already updated post February 2021, do not update to April 2023 security update (XXXXXXXXXXWCX) or later. Examples: G998USQS6EWCA, N986USQU4HWD1. Samsung has patched the bootloader unlock again on those updates...

xdaforums.com
[Samsung Galaxy S23] centered:
Yes i hope so i would love to be able to root. ALso wdym never update bootlloader? LIke never install OTA updates?
[Samsung Galaxy S23] fitrockx:
You can install OTA's as long as it doesn't updates the bootloader version. You can find the bootloader version in the build number, it's the number you see at the fifth position counting backwards the build number. In my case, I have version 1.
[Samsung Galaxy S23] centered:
So incredibly disspointed. WIll never buy samsung again. Unfortunately There are no good options for people like me. Either pixel 8 or Xiaomi 13, but pixel 8 soc sucks, and xiaomi doesnt have all the bands
[Samsung Galaxy S23] fitrockx:
There is also the Motorola Edge+
[Samsung Galaxy S23] centered:
Yea theres some other options, but Im only looking for compact flagships
[Samsung Galaxy S23] coi01:
God please. Still waiting to unlock the bootloader on S23 (SM-911U) American version. I need to restore delete album so we need root access. Samsung no buy again if you don't enable that. Too sad.
[Realme C11 Questions & Answers] Oliwierw:
Hello sorry I'm writing this late at night but I recently got this phone and I want to unlock the bootloader. But the in depth test app won't install. I'm on android 11 and the model is RMX3231. I'm gonna head to bed thanks to any of u if you decide to help
[Realme C11 Questions & Answers] nokiplays:
Hey, i had that phone as well, now my dad is using it, i also tried to unlock the bootloader, but it seems that the OEM Unlocking option is grayed out, and if you cant enable this option, you cant unlock the bootloader, sadly, what you can try is using DSU Loader, and try to boot a GSI, but do this at your own risk, as it could brick your phone, and there is no way to recover it, as there is no way to flash stock rom, as the bootloader is locked. You can also try using the option to use a local update.zip file to root your phone, i know there is a glitch using MIUI to do this but i dont know if this works with realme as well. My idea is to, well, grab Magisk.apk and then rename it to update.zip and getting some stock ota update.zip file and firstly select the stock update.zip file, and when it asks to reboot your phone, delete the stock update.zip file and put the magisk update.zip file with the same name as the previus file, and reboot your phone, this does work on MIUI when changing ROM from Global to Indonesia ROM for example, but im not sure for rooting phone, i suppose it works, as it techniclly is the same thing your flashing a zip file in both scenarios, but as this patches your boot.img it might not work and brick your phone so

DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK

as once doing this, there is no way back!
[Realme C11 Questions & Answers] Oliwierw:
hey thanks for the advice. ill try it out as i have nothing to lose with this phone basically
[Realme C11 Questions & Answers] nokiplays:
Okay! Though again, if your phone starts bootlooping or anything like that, there is basically no way of recovering it!
[Realme C11 Questions & Answers] nokiplays:
the phone isnt a MediaTek

<Moderator Edit>: Removed quoted content due to quoted author's request. - @roirraW "edor" ehT
[Realme C11 Questions & Answers] mvikrant97:
This device can be unlocked using Unlock Tool.
[Realme C11 Questions & Answers] mvikrant97:
Thankyou for pointing that out.
[Realme C11 Questions & Answers] pnu-kun:
Were you able to unlock it if yes please let me know
[Treble-Enabled Device Questions and Answers] Holodroid:
When I flashed LineageOS for the first time it worked, now its not. I have tried solutions but they not worked.

Details:

Device: Samsung Galaxy A14 4G (SM-A145M).

Flashed with patched Fastboot recovery (So no TWRP things please, my device doesn't have TWRP). Now it has TWRP.

SIM Carrier: Movistar Venezuela.

Why reflash?: I flashed the phh superuser image and i wanted to install magisk, i have tried vanilla image, and Google Programs image.

Notes: SIM works perfectly on stock (OneUI 5.0).

When I flash stock a SIM Unlock program appears.
[Treble-Enabled Device Questions and Answers] G4stavoM1ster:
Have you managed to fix it?
[Treble-Enabled Device Questions and Answers] Holodroid:
No.
[Google Home] Ze_nium:
Hello! I have a xiaomi smart clock lx04, I am looking for the x04g global firmware variant, as lx04 has very limited usage.

I have spent countless hours trying to find any GSI, however all of them exceed the partition size, so I have no choice but to look for x04g firmware.

Thanks in advance.
[Google Home] Rainygortex3:
same here
[Google Home] Rainygortex3:
I think I've found a firmware:

Xiaomi Mi Smart Clock firmware dump : Xiaomi Tech : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Xiaomi Mi Smart Clock (x04g) firmware, dumped using mtkclient. Userdata partition has been removed

archive.org
[Google Home] Rainygortex3:
And I have a guide too:

[GUIDE] XIAOMI SMART CLOCK - Guide to convert LX04 (China edition) to X04G (Global edition) and vice versa

I have attached a guide for conversion below, from my successful experience: It is translated to English (for XDA), Chinese (for coolapk 酷安), Russian (for 4pda.to) and German.

xdaforums.com
[Fairphone 5] N00B1OOO:
Hello together,

Is anyone working on LineageOS for the FP5 yet?

(I am sure that someone is :-) )

Is there maybe a status update and a rough estimation how long it will take until the release?

Thanks a lot!
[Fairphone 5] Ice Fire:
e/os is based on lineage. Thats all i have heared.
[Fairphone 5] N00B1OOO:
Thanks.

I know, but i do not really like /e/OS.
[Fairphone 5] Ice Fire:
I know what you mean i only use it because of its native signature spoofing.
[Fairphone 5] Aranornen:
Hello,

I have a Fairphone 4 on CalyxOS - my wife will get it.

I've been using FP 5 for a few days, also waiting for CalyxOS, very good ROM for me
[Fairphone 5] aparthy:
Looking forward to calyxos as well, so far little progress

Fairphone 5 will be supported

Fairphone 5 will be supported

calyxos.org
[Fairphone 5] zalox:
I've successfully built LineageOS 20, based on the WeAreFairphone and MikeNG's work. The boot.img does not boot on my Fairphone 5 so I probably need to adjust the build somehow.

I've spent the last week reading up on the android build system and I acedently became a junior ROM developer. Please message me if you would like to help on the effort of creating an unofficial build.
[Fairphone 5] olof_:
Now I got curious.

So I started looking at this guide, would you say that is a good start?

Build for FP4 | LineageOS Wiki

wiki.lineageos.org

Just doing the initial repo sync took around two hours, and now I have a whopping 150 GB of source code (!).

I understand that the FP5 repo is the device’s device specific configuration?

I have a stock Fairphone 5, so the proprietary blobs step should also be doable.

How long time does a build take, if the source code alone is so large?

And once the initial setup is out of the way, how do you know what adjustments to focus on?
[Fairphone 5] zalox:
Frankly. I have no idea. I just made it my new goal in life to be able to build my own phone.

I pushed some of my initial changes to my repo at github. I will push the changes I made to make the build compile promptly.

> How long time does a build take, if the source code alone is so large?

My build took about 4-6 hours. I started watching Fringe from S01.

> And once the initial setup is out of the way, how do you know what adjustments to focus on?

I suppose I would start on the features that does not work.

zalox - Overview

Owner of juCi++ together with the @cppit team. zalox has 46 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

github.com
[Fairphone 5] zalox:
@olof_ Maybe these links will serve you well:

Android Device - eLinux.org

elinux.org

FP4: Rebrand to FP5 · WeAreFairphone/android_device_fairphone_FP5@0ddd18d

Change-Id: Iae17d25afb57d386152dfb97962e8d479b213ab5

github.com

Master-android - eLinux.org

elinux.org

Comparing 0ddd18d66f339278cd37ef4c16d783d4c9f2845d...7c79eaefb376dc13330324751d4f72f1a697dca2 · WeAreFairphone/android_device_fairphone_FP5

Contribute to WeAreFairphone/android_device_fairphone_FP5 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

What I'm focusing on now is to get the lineage recovery to boot.
[Fairphone 5] olof_:
Thanks for the links!

I found this page which also lists some info.

Fairphone 5 - Kernel Source Code — FAIRPHONE open source documentation

code.fairphone.com

My understanding is that the Fairphone is a payload-based OTA and thus needs this part of the wiki:

Extracting proprietary blobs from LineageOS zip files | LineageOS Wiki

wiki.lineageos.org

I tried out to extract the FP3 blobs from my /e/OS FP3 but that didnt work. My idea is to try to build a FP3 or FP4 image first before heading to uncharted territories.
[Fairphone 5] zalox:
I found it much easier to use extract_files.sh and extract the vendor and firmware from the phone using adb. I gave up on your approach. So if you have a FF3, as your profile suggest, I would try that first instead of extracting from the zip.

I had to root the phone and start adbd as root on the phone in order for extract_files.sh to work correctly.

In other news I just tested https://github.com/fairphone/android_device_fairphone_FP5 and it successfully booted on my phone.

It did not work as intended though. It is missing sdcard support so it is not possible to use it for anything yet. I suspect I forgot to run some sort of script before building the image.

Also I found that PostmarketOS is currently finishing support:

Fairphone 5 (fairphone-fp5) - postmarketOS Wiki

wiki.postmarketos.org

e/os/ is also building I think, but they don't release their staging branches.
[Fairphone 5] olof_:
Right, so there are two GitHub account in play here: the main WeAreFairphone and the secondary fairphone one.

I also managed to build the android_device_fairphone_FP5 project, but I havent installed it - a brief comparison between the https://github.com/WeAreFairphone/android_device_fairphone_FP4 repo for FP4 aligns with what you have noticed @zalox - one could assume that many pieces are not yet in place for FP5.

In the root folder of the FP4 device file folders such as audio, bluetooth, media and wifi are listed. In the FP5 device repo, these are not present (yet, I assume?).

Taking a second look at /e/OS and their GitLab, I did notice that they are actually publishing their test builds for FP5 - installation instructions and the current latest build can be found here: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/qa/testing-community/-/issues/55.
[Fairphone 5] olof_:
So another small update from my side: there are indeed a WeAreFairphone device published.

It contains all the folders I mentioned were missing: https://github.com/WeAreFairphone/android_device_fairphone_FP5

By combining the two pieces of knowledge, one can adjust the used device information.

```

➜ fairphone cat .repo/local_manifests/roomservice.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<manifest>

<project name="WeAreFairphone/android_device_fairphone_FP5" path="device/fairphone/FP5" remote="github" revision="staging/lineage-20" />

</manifest>

➜ fairphone

```

The lunch build command will need to be adjusted too, as the entrypoint file name is different:

```

lunch lineage_FP5-eng

```

That does technically speaking work, but it does not compile because its missing some vendor/fairphone, vendor/lineage as well as device/qcom (make)files. A quick look at the https://github.com/WeAreFairphone/a...blob/staging/lineage-20/proprietary-files.txt gives me the feeling that these files are the vendor and firmware files we talked about earlier?

The plot thickens...
[Fairphone 5] zalox:
This is great @olof_ .

I haven't seen the e/os/ issue. I will take a look at the issue tomorrow to see if I get some hits towards booting on my phone. I'm to tired now to look at it now. European time and all that.

I would suggest you look at my forks of the projects you mentioned from github. (you can find them in the pull requests of each project, they contain my changes)

Thank you for sharing this with me.
[Fairphone 5] olof_:
On the note of linking up various efforts across the net, here is the calyxos issue for FP5:

FP5 support (#1817) · Issues · CalyxOS / calyxos · GitLab

Summary You know what this is! Details ...

gitlab.com

As of today, it seems that they have not started the work, with 3 of 28 checklist items completed.
[Fairphone 5] Rakor:
I really hope they manage to get things going as soon as they're done updating all the other phones to Android 14. I think that's the main hold up right now🤞🤞
[Fairphone 5] doremus0:
Hi everyone,

I have lost my FP3 for which i built some Roms, and for christmas i will acquire an FP5.

So i start to build lineage 20 for my (future) FP5 with the WeAreFairphone device tree.

Concerning the vendor part of the sources i achieve to build with vendors founded here :

GitHub - BLeQuerrec/proprietary_vendor_fairphone_FP5

Contribute to BLeQuerrec/proprietary_vendor_fairphone_FP5 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

(This seems to be ok regarding of vendors from FP3)

And kernel founded here :

GitHub - WeAreFairphone/android_kernel_fairphone_qcm6490

Contribute to WeAreFairphone/android_kernel_fairphone_qcm6490 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

@zalox have you built with these source trees ?

I can't test my build until january so if someone is interested to share around it i will be happy to discuss about it.
[Fairphone 5] zalox:
@doremus0

I haven't tested with BLeQuerrecs repo. I got the blobs of my FF5 using extract_files.sh from LineageOS. I haven't successfully been able to flash the zip-file yet. I hope I can get more time to work on this during December.
[Fairphone 5] olof_:
@doremus0 thanks for linking the repo with the vendor and firmware files! I didnt manage to get to that part yet.
[Android TV General] amermalik:
I have a chines Smart LED TV board model Nm368_818 1gb 8gb Full HD but its firmware is old that's why it can not run most of the apps.

Can someone point me to a upgrade for this boarrd?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro] zey133:
so i didn't turned on my phone for some days and today after turning on the phone keep rebooting i still have access to twrp i wiped all and flashed the custom rom but that change nothing.. idk why ,
[Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro] XdekHckr:
Are you sure you formatted data correctly? (the part where you have to write "yes"). Also try flashing original ROM
[Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro] zey133:
yea i tried every wipe possible, ok im trying that right now i tell you if it worked
[Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro] zey133:
so i finished flashing the original rom with miflash tool via my computer and it still boot loop :/
[Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro] DahakePL:
X3 Pro's are prone to motherboard deaths, basically your CPU or memory *might* have just died. That's just a thought.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro] zey133:
huh, just i saw a thread with a (fix?) but i don't understands the steps where i should flash the rom and format data partition?

"Success!

I tried once more, and it's ok.

Solution:

1. Wipe all via recovery

2. reboot to recovery

3. flash rom

4. Format data partition (format, no wipe, if mke2fs doesn't work, try with rm-f)

5. Reboot system."
[Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro] zey133:
someone know how can i edl my phone please?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro] zey133:
Up?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro] Bakarios:
If reinstalling the factory system did not solve the problem, I recommend that you take your cell phone for technical assistance, it could be that there was an error in the nand or the power button was shorted.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro] zey133:
Hey, someone said me its a self bricking (hard brick) imma try to go to the shop he tell me he can fix me that for 30€ cuz i don’t have any soluce i tried everything with mi flash..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] T3Kgamer:
If I understand correctly Samsung provides this magical app that unlocks the china variants link

I'm not quite clear on how the tool works with the information available. is there a way we can modify this apk to unlock u/u1/w variants? or is there differences i'm unaware of on the 9600? (aside from dual hybrid sim)

I've only gotten as far as installing the app and it does not work. it closes immediately maybe because it was installed from an APK and not the store directly? I'll have to do some debugging to see what's up with it.

My device is a n960u I got secondhand already with BL V9

it's running SM-N960U1_VZW_N960U1UES9FVA1 currently.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] ze7zez:
As far as I know, you will not change anything in the hardware version from Verizon.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] powershift:
I'd like to upgrade from the 7 Pro to get the temperature sensor. But I need root to be able to use the hotspot (Verizon subscription bypass). Do the rooting guides get posted soon after release or does it take time?
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Tracker31:
of course bro
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Lughnasadh:
Rooting should be the same process as the 7 Pro. There is already a guide here, based on the 7 Pro.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] almahix:
In another post it says you use the init_boot rather than boot, and you flash it rather than boot it with fastboot and not direct install in magisk. Do I understsnd correctly? I'm coming from p6pro.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Lughnasadh:
Yes, same as Pixel 7series

Yes

Since you can't live boot with init_boot, direct install would be used when already rooted and updating Magisk.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] almahix:
Coming from p6 I didn't realize that. While we're on the subject, does one extract the init_boot file from the release (which I observe isn't yet posted)?
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Lughnasadh:
Yes, extract it from the factory image just as you would the boot.img on the Pixel 6.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] almahix:
Thank you for your guidance. Much appreciated!
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] netgar:
Interesting article:

Android 14 blocks modification of system certificates, even as root

Update: This post sparked a lot of excellent discussion and debate on workarounds, and there are now multple working solutions to allow…

httptoolkit.com
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] almahix:
For some reason I am unable to unlock my bootloader. I've enabled oem unlock. When I run "fastboot flashing unlock" I get an error. It doesn't seem to recognize "flashing" in the command line. It is not recognized as an "option". I ordered an unlocked phone from google. I've tried two different version of platform tools. What am I missing?
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Morgrain:
Depending on your system setting, you might have to place

./ before adb, so a command would (for example) be:

./adb devices

It's also possible that your chosen PC port or your cable create problems. For example I tried to unlock the bootloader on my P8 Pro on my laptop earlier (stock USB-c cable from the P8 Pro, USB-C port of my laptop) and everything worked perfectly in terms of using the ADB commands to get into the fastboot mode, but there was no way to actually unlock the bootloader (it always said: "wait for devices") and then: nothing.

Only when I switched to my PC, repeated the exact same steps and used the same cable there, did it suddenly work. There was no logical reason to, but...

Sometimes ADB doesn't like specific machines, or ports, or cables, or ports with certain cables. Don't ask why. It's tech. Sometimes it doesn't make sense. If you have found a cable and a port that work for rooting purposes, hold on to those forever, since there is no guarantee that others will work.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] almahix:
That is weird. I've never had an issue unlocking a bootloader in all my Android years. I don't use the adb command in this context. and I'm using a known good cable.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] danw_oz:
also note the init_boot.img file is much smaller (approx 8MB on 7 Pro at least) than the boot.img (approx. 60MB file used previously 6 Pro), that is the correct file
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] Ultimoose:
I played a bit with the temperature sensor. From my casual testing I wouldn't trust it for anything important and they quite loudly tell up front it's not for taking readings from people as soon as you open the app.

In taking several readings off my arm it would range a full degree from high to low. That was holding it in the same place give or take a few mm and just repeatedly hitting tap to take temp.

YMMV but it won't be replacing my 'are you sick' thermometers any time soon.

FWIW I just posted how I got root with minimal fuss in a mostly automated way and no requirement to know ADB commands over in the rooting thread.
[Google Pixel 8 Pro] almahix:
I may have been using the previous version of platform tools. I've used 34.0.4 (something like that) because I read the subsequent (and latest version) was ,potentially faulty. I've installed .5 and will give it a go.