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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] saq-xda:
While it is an older phone and will have limits (most notably the fact that it is 3G), "don't bother" is a call that only he can make. Not everyone has the discretionary income to drop a chunk of money on a newer phone, sometimes you gotta use what you're given.

Model numbers count. Especially here. The I9100, the one you can find all the newer ports for, is completely different (Exynos SOC in that vs an old Qualcomm in the T989). You can go up to Android 7.1 on the T989, just use Odin to flash TWRP and then flash the ROM from within TWRP. It's slow and doesn't have much free space (either in RAM or flash), but it works with older app versions and can be good for a kid phone. Make sure you look for "T989" "Hercules" or "Celox" or you will dig yourself a hole.

TWRP is here: https://twrp.me/samsung/samsunggalaxys2hercules.html
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] minecraftplayer2937:
I have one, and need help fixing it. I made a thread about it. I was dumb for this, but I installed a ROM for the I9100. I need to know how to force download mode, to restore the default JB rom.
[General Questions and Answers] nusya:
I control everything on my phone. There were no controls put in without me doing it. And when I go to look in the settings, it says the parental controls are off.

But when I go to search for this app, it says that they're on. I go into the settings, and now the controls are on, I turn them off, I go for the app again, and they're back on, WTF???

10.0.0.0.1 192.168.1.254

I've cleared the cache, and everything is up to date as well
[General Questions and Answers] EllieCat:
You should try restarting your phone or contact support.
[Introductions] petey218814:
I'm Petey and I'm new on XDA and I have a simple question? Will a desktop monitor work with my laptop? I broke my screen.

Also my phone IS NOT a T-Mobile phone it's a Verizon phone but both Verizon and T-Mobile swear I bought my phone from T-Mobile and I know where I bought my phone at because I bought an unlocked phone from OnePlus and bought my SIM card from Verizon anyway last weekend T-Mobile tried to lock my phone remotely carrier lock and bootloader lock and my phone has been a POS every since. How can I fix this before I blow up T-Mobile......lmmfao!!!!

As if I'd buy a T-Mobile phone. T-Mobile is the worst carrier out there. No service anywhere and they'll keep pushing your bill to the moon.
[Introductions] petey218814:
Thank you
[Oculus Quest] SobakaV:
Hello, I have a "little" problem with my oculus quest 2. He lay without charging for about six months, after which he entered an endless bootloop. All partitions are broken except bootload, but I can't flash the device through it because of the locked lock state. The last option is firmware via EDL - Emergency DownLoad Mode. But I need special oem firmware in the format .hex and .mbn (like msimage.mbn). If you have them, could you share them with me?
[Oculus Quest] SobakaV:
Maybe .hex only?
[Realme GT 2 Pro] tronjoy:
I have enabled all notifications options but still i dont see any notification on lockscreen apart from the music player.

Please help me if you know any fix.
[Realme GT 2 Pro] bilalbentoumi:
Which version you have, Chinese or Global?
[Realme GT 2 Pro] tronjoy:
Indian Android 14 beta 2
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] solHVzES:
I am here to share my experience of how I accidentally bricked my device and the lesson I learned.

Here is the thing. For whatever reason, I am developing a custom recovery for my own phone, which by the way is the Xiaomi xaga. After some trial and error, I am able to create the vendor_boot image, which is able to perform a normal boot or recovery boot, but the fastboot in userspace (aka fastbootd), which can be entered from recovery, does not work, the screen goes blank and no USB connection of fastboot interface appears on my computer. Without having any clues as to why the userspace fastboot isn't working, I press and hold the power button to perform a normal boot and run adb reboot fastboot to enter userspace fastboot again, the screen goes blank just like being entered from recovery, however, I couldn't perform a normal boot when I press and hold the power button, the phone reboots to userspace fastboot again which doesn't work. I also couldn't reboot to bootloader fastboot or recovery by pressing and holding the power button along with the volume up or down buttons. Then I realized that when I run adb reboot fastboot, it writes a command into a file on the device's flash memory to tell the bootloader to boot into userspace fastboot instead of doing a normal boot; if I haven't successfully booted into userspace fastboot, that file never gets overwritten, and when I press and hold the power button to force a reboot, the bootloader reads the command from that file and boots into userspace fastboot again. The problem is that this file seems to have a higher priority than user commands from the power and volume buttons, so the bootloader follows the command in that file and ignores user commands.

I understand that this design may be intended to prevent users from interrupting an OTA update, but since OTA updates are now performed seamlessly on devices that support A/B updates, which the recovery does nothing to, this mechanism only increases the risk of bricking the device when using a custom recovery. Without details on other brands and other models made by Xiaomi, I have a reasonable suspicion that all models made by Xiaomi with MediaTek chips such as the D8100 and D9000 are affected by this mechanism.

Finally, on how to reduce the risk of bricking your device when using a custom recovery, the suggestion is to use the volume keys to boot into recovery and enter userspace fastboot if necessary, and not to use the command to reboot into recovery or userspace fastboot (such as adb reboot recovery, adb reboot fastboot) unless you have successfully booted into recovery and userspace fastboot at least once. Note that this suggestion comes from my own experience of bricking my phone, and may or may not apply to your case, so anything you do is at your own risk.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] V0latyle:
Custom recoveries have been a staple of Android modding since Android was first released. Modding your device always carries risk, as does development, but people who follow instructions correctly generally have no problems. I'm afraid your post is rather misinformed.

Also, are you insinuating that this is a risk for all Android users, or only users of certain Xiaomi models? This forum is separated into sections for most contemporary devices, and we require that device specific topics be posted in the appropriate section.

A/B devices do not have a recovery partition, nor do they generally use recovery mode for updates. The recovery kernel is compressed into the boot image and is only used for sideloading OTAs. Custom recoveries usually aren't necessary on A/B devices, but the proper way to use them if desired is to live boot the recovery image, instead of flashing.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] solHVzES:
Yes, an A/B device may not have a recovery partition. In my case, the recovery ramdisk has been merged into the vendor_boot ramdisk, as documented on this page. As for how many users are affected, I think this may affect as many users as those who have a device with a MediaTek chip, like the Dimensity 8100 which is what my device is equipped with. I'm not sure if Xiaomi changes the behavior of the bootloader or if this is the default behavior of the MediaTek bootloader.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] V0latyle:
It's possible; after all some OEMs don't correctly follow the prescribed Android model. So, I think it would be fair to state that using a custom recovery in of itself does not necessarily risk bricking your device, so long as you follow the correct process, and any issue experienced on Xiaomi Mediatek hardware is likely limited to those devices and not true for all Android users.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] solHVzES:
One way to test if the file that tells the bootloader what mode to boot into has higher priority over user commands from the power and volume buttons is to run adb reboot recovery after a normal boot, and press and hold the volume down button to boot into the bootloader fastboot while waiting for the device to reboot. If your device boots into recovery instead of the bootloader fastboot, then your device is likely at a similar risk of becoming bricked because it may keep booting into recovery if you are using a recovery that is not functioning properly. Don't try this unless you know that the recovery on your device is working properly.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] solHVzES:
This issue may have existed since the launch of the HTC Dream, the first Android phone. It may not be limited to a particular brand or chip and could potentially affect a larger number of users than initially estimated.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] giosal:
Just got OneUI 6 stable here in Switzerland for S22 Ultra 5G Exynos (S908B-EUX)

First impressions:

- uses less RAM (4.5-5.0 GB vs 6.0-7.0 GB when idle and optimized)

- much snappier

- games run faster

- even Geekbench 6 produced higheer results (~10% on average, especially in single-core), see results here:

OneUI 5.1 CPU vs OneUI 6.0 CPU (1405 vs 1614 SC & 3768 vs 3709 MC)

OneUI 5.1 OpenCL vs OneUI 6.0 OpenCL (8307 vs 8987)

OneUI 5.1 Vulkan vs OneUI 6.0 Vulkan (9385 vs 10241)

Seems to have gone through thorough optimisation

Battery life remains to be seen
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] ZG_DEV:
Thanks for the review !
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Village_Idiot:
Verizon just pushed it out today. First impressions. It's smooth and responsive. The new pull down is nice. I'm not sure why people were complaining about it.

I use Microsoft Launcher, so I can't really speak about OneUI 6.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] ZG_DEV:
Thanks for the review

TBH I hate oneUI 5.1 but I hope oneUI 6 get dropped for my phone soon :)
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Village_Idiot:
TBH, I don't hate OneUI. I just like Microsoft Launcher better. I primarily use Microsoft services like M365. OneUI is a lot better than TouchWiz, its predecessor.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Village_Idiot:
Btw, Samsung fixed the bug that required you to turn off Link to Windows before starting DeX. Overall, I like the update.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] andreasarxon:
Looks like nice update , first impression are good. Feels smoothest ever on exynos . Also some micro laggings on video recording that i had dont exist anymore. Not faced any bug as for now . Camera interface looks better but photo quality didnt improve (video improved for me but maybe placebo) , still get better photo quality from gcam . As for battery is to soon to tell .
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Setting.Out:
Everything has been good, except a rotation bug while watching YouTube... after forcing rotation it returns to normal and isn't constant, only twice so far. Android 14 itself doesn't like old apps, I use Amazon music and it complained on compatibility with the new software..
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] TheMystic:
Google apps aren't adapting to the system colour palette in OneUI 6. Also, one has to redo all the themes for OneUI 6.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] ratchetrizzo:
well my update for tmo is downloading now, i cant wait to see whats broke, or if the screen goes green and kills it like updates did to the note 9/10
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] DangerousB:
Has anyone the problem.with big icons? My app icons are huge...
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] ratchetrizzo:
ok, my update went fine except for AOD saying it's for a older version of android and i cant pull down in the center, also how do you open the galaxy store now since i have no galaxy store icon

no issues with big icons
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] biged1218:
U or U1?
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] ratchetrizzo:
U
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] the_scotsman:
Anyone with weird issues, I'd advise wiping and starting with a fresh install. It's always the best way to solve these random issues that only you have.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] TheMystic:
Are apps (e.g. Google apps) adapting to the system colour palette for you? Mine has reset to default colours (for the apps).
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] the_scotsman:
I don't use or change themes. I just use the default black system setting.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] TheMystic:
Hopefully it is not me alone who is having this issue.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] the_scotsman:
To test it, I just tried applying a free theme. But none of the apps change colour. Is this what you mean, or is it something else?
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] TheMystic:
THANK YOU FOR TESTING THIS! 👆

If you go to System Settings/ Wallpaper and style/ Colour palette, you can choose one of the palettes there, which is generated by the system based on the colours of your homescreen wallpaper (i.e. the palettes offered changes dynamically based on your wallpaper).

Whichever you choose there, all apps that support colour palette will change colours (I'm talking about the app UI itself, not the icons). All Google apps, including GBoard, will instantly reflect this change. This is not happening in OneUI 6. Yet.
[Samsung Galaxy J5 Questions & Answers] klorita1:
Hello great developers and pp...i want to upgrade my j5 2016 phone ..it is now on a stock rom which is laggy ..i want to try a custom rom but iam really confused which one is the best (stable and little battery drain and maybe 10 android version at least)..i searched and read alot and i really became more confused and amazed with the number of good roms related to this phone ..could u please help me choose..

Thx alot
[Samsung Galaxy J5 Questions & Answers] V0latyle:
All Questions go in the Q&A Section

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[Samsung Galaxy J5 Questions & Answers] klorita1:
Sorry for that👍🙏
[Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] V0latyle:
If you are asking a question, DO NOT post in Development.

Rule #15:
[Thinkpad Tablet General] luki343:
Hello,

Is there way to force this Lenovo to turn on after connecting to charger?

I tried:

luki@debian:~$ fastboot oem off-mode-charge 0

OKAY [ 0.001s]

Finished. Total time: 0.001s

but after check its still:

luki@debian:~$ fastboot getvar off-mode-charge

off-mode-charge: 1

Finished. Total time: 0.001s

Any other ideas?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] atttoush:
Did you manage to find any guides on how to unlock bootloader yet or/and flash GSI? I found it hard to even hunt for the name for this tablet other than Lenovo Tab M10 Gen3, and the codename is TB-328FU or TB328XU
[Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3] firulais_777:
I have a z flip 3 that I bought second-hand, it is blocked by AT&T in the USA, and I am in Colombia, I tried to flash the phone with all the firmware that I found in samfw but it just doesn't, I tried rooting it but it doesn't show me the option to unlock OEM, someone does the same ?? Model SM-F711U with Baseband: F711usqu2dvg7 android: 12
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NormalXDAUser:
When i tried to copy a script to the vendor catalog Android.bp was empty
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NormalXDAUser:
That's not what i meant
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodken:
Quite possible, it's incomplete or a corrupted Android.bp file, missing vendor-specific configuration, or incompatibility between the script and the Android framework.

If you can attest to the fact that it's not corrupted, you can try recreating the file or obtaining a fresh copy from another reliable source.

If that's not what you meant, please elaborate.
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] BabyDoe:
Hi people. As the title says my phone is stuck in fastboot and I can connect to it from my laptop, but that's where it ends. I can't boot to recovery or download mode. I have tried powering it down, but a few seconds after the screen goes dark the phone turns itself on again and after an unsuccessful boot attempt it ends up in fastboot, no matter which key combination I try. Unfortunately, I can't flash recovery through Odin because I can't get to download mode and when I try flashing it from fastboot I get an error message that recovery partition size is 0. In fact all fastboot getvar commands result in blank. It seems that I might have inadvertently wiped the partitions off the phone as well, thought I have no idea how.

Is there a way of rescuing this phone? Right now I'm letting the battery drain so I can try to enter download mode once I know the phone is off due to dead battery, but that is my only idea.

Thanks in advance for any useful advice.
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] V0latyle:
Samsung devices don't generally have a fastboot mode, what do you mean by this?

Do you have ADB Platform Tools installed on your PC and the requisite driver to use ADB/fastboot commands with your phone?

If you're unable to issue ADB/fastboot commands, I think you're on the right track - you need to power the device off completely, then hold both Volume buttons while connecting the USB cable to enter download mode.
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] BabyDoe:
I have platform tools and fastboot driver installed on my PC. I can only issue fastboot commands at the moment and the phone responds to them, but it seems like all partitions have been obliterated.

When I issue command

fastboot flash recovery recovery.zip

the result is something like "recovery size 0 recovery,zip size 56911, sending file" This operation never completes.

Prompted by this I issued

fastboot getvar partition-layout

the result is "partition layout: " which is why I think there are no partitions left on the device.

I'll see whether I'll be able to get to download mode once the battery runs out.
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] V0latyle:
Again, Samsung devices don't have a fastboot mode like many others. You can't directly flash partitions via USB, unless you patch the stock recovery to have fastboot with something like this.

The proper way to install a custom recovery on Samsung devices is to use Odin; you flash the recovery.tar in the AP slot.

What happens when you send fastboot reboot download?
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] BabyDoe:
UPDATE:

after the battery ran out I was successfully able to enter download mode, flash TWRP and reflash stock firmware. The phone booted up normally then.
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] BabyDoe:
Nothing happened when I entered

fastboot reboot download

or rather the phone would reboot back to fastboot.

I'm not understanding what I'm seeing then. The screen on the phone was all black with red text "entering fastboot mode" and I was able to send fastboot commands. I did have a Magisk patched stock ROM if that has anything to do with that.

I'm also puzzled by flashing recovery from the AP slot. I've tried that several times and only managed to install it from BL slot in Odin.

Anyhoo, after the battery died I was able to get into download mode and from there I flashed TWRP and patched ROM and now I'm back in business with root and all.
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] V0latyle:
What version of Odin are you using, and what recovery?
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] BabyDoe:
Odin is 3.14.4 and recovery is TWRP 3.7.0_11-0-z3s.

Before this particular event I flashed multidisabler as well as vbmeta, but was able to reboot into system sucessfully before attempting to flash a ROM and bricking the phone in the process.
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] V0latyle:
Where did you download Odin and TWRP from? Current version of Patched Odin should be 3.14.1.
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] BabyDoe:
I think it was from Odinflash.com.

Excuse my ignorance, but what it patched Odin?
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] V0latyle:
Patched Odin 3.13.1

For those looking for a modified, modded, or patched odin that is a newer build than all the fake and renamed prince comsy 3.12.3 versions floating around. I patch recent Odin versions to offer similar functionality to the princecomsy; in that...

xdaforums.com

That is the only source of Odin I would trust.

As for flashing recovery, assuming you downloaded TWRP from here, you should be downloading the .tar file, not .IMG. Put your phone in download mode and flash the TWRP.tar in the AP slot, not BL.
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] BabyDoe:
OK. Thank you. I've now downloaded the patched Odin and yes, you were correct, the TWRP came from the official website in the .tar variant.

I'll try reflashing the TWRP to see if ADB sideload works on the patched version.
[Samsung Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Questions & ] en11gma:
i would still like to know how he got a snapdragon that usually uses adb into "fastboot" mode???

the OP never did say how he was able to do this.

does anyone know?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodevderrick:
Is anyone willing to share an

exhaustive

list of settings keys for Setedit Settings Database Editor app? Or a link to one?

I have searched for hours and can find none, neither here, nor elsewhere.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodevderrick:
thank you
[OnePlus 11] cabagekiller:
Are there any custom kernels in development for the OnePlus 11? Or just mainly custom roms?
[OnePlus 11] halloweenm925:
bro there is like (6+ custom roms) (3 custom recovery's) (no custom kernel yet) all on the main tread of our device! you just got to look a bit hahaha
[OnePlus 11] shootind5nukes:
I am working on getting the kernel source from Oneplus for the 5.15.94 kernel. I have been messing around with making kernels though I don't know much yet. I'm not sure why no custom kernels exist yet because they did release the source for their a13 kernel. I'm guessing since no one has made one yet that something is stopping us from building it. I'm trying to build one with the ip tables target module. I'd like to be able to set the ttl to 64, as I'm sure many of you would too.

If anyone has any info as to why we can't build one even though we have the source please explain why. Thanks.
[OnePlus 11] dekefake:
Custom ROMs are built from source with the kernel source code which is already tweaked with a few more features. A lot of OnePlus/Oppo specific stuff has also been removed as it's not needed in AOSP, so you will have issues if you're using this source to build an OxygenOS/ColorOS kernel, but you can build a custom kernel for custom ROMs no problem.
[OnePlus 11] cabagekiller:
Yes I specifically asked for custom kernels. I know there are rooms and such. Recoveries are hit or miss based on Android version due to encryption. I guess I'll have to research building kernels so I can make one that can overclock and undervolt and add in specific files.
[FYT Android Head Units] Terrum:
I received an M700S today from AliExpress, I like everything about it except the launcher, it is not very customisable, no matter which theme I select. The one I show below is best in my opinion:

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Currently I have the launcher set to Waze, which I installed and the launcher detected it as an app I can select, but I installed the Poweramp music player and it does not show on the launcher:

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I really want it to support my music app (Poweramp). Any help on how I can get it to work? Or will I have to use a different launcher entirely? This launcher shows YouTube but it does not even work, it just shows settings and when you press the back arrow it closes:

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Any help is greatly appreciated!