yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] fuiyohtanay:
Can stalkerware(or malware) permanently/temporarily damage software or hardware so that the screen starts blinking in android?

Is there any way to detect it on the device itself other than using antiviruses(coming clean but symptoms (logged out of all accounts,media leaked) still persist) like using a firewall or dns?

i have the database but dns dont block it so how do i detect the traffic and block it so i know what it connects to?

Basically it should block what i tell it to is that possible?

Something like tinycheck but on the device itself or some method that detects compromise or malicious traffic or something?

Even tried factory reset but it survives i even took it to a store to flash it but they flashed my phone without unlocking the bootloader?

I thought it was needed to flash stock rom maybe thats why it didnt go

Is there any specific way to remove stalkerware like a tool or something?

It says unsigned images cant be flashed(without unlocking the bootloader) does that mean signed images can?

Also is it normal for devices to have verified boot is deactivated?

I have a redmi note 5
[General Questions and Answers] fuiyohtanay:
My case is that the sim from phone1 doesn't work properly in phone2 does that mean it permanently damaged it in some way or did it spread?

I highly doubt it can spread but just to be sure that isn't the case
[General Questions and Answers] blackhawk:
Conceivable yes. Replace sim card.

It you opened a infected message the sim could be infected.

Delete all unknown or suspicious text messages without opening. You are what you download.
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] _Devsur_:
Hi

After installing pixel experience by official guide, my phone start bootloping and newer shows the Google logo. I can only boot to recovery and fastboot. I try to clear cache, factory reset and reinstalling PE but this won't help.

Please note:

This is my first post on this forum so I don't know on whitch section I have to post.

Please someone help.
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] NOAKNAVAS:
Which recovery you using?

Which ROM are you using?

Which firmware are you in?

How you are flashing the ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] snapdragon teaks:
OrangeFox Recovery Project

Code:

/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* We're not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this recovery
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at us for messing up your device, we will laugh at you.
*
*/

OrangeFox is

FREE SOFTWARE

Download

link

INSTALLATION

Note20 (Exynos) only

0. Backup your ROM

1. Download the OrangeFox zip files to your device

2. Boot into the an existing TWRP

3. Flash OrangeFox zip file

4. The recovery should reboot automatically

5. Flash magisk (optional)

6. Enjoy!

CREDITS

* TeamWin - for TWRP

* The OrangeFox Team - for your hard work

* All our testers - for your patience and help

* @corsicanu for kernel source and device tree thank you

FEATURES

* Supports Treble and non-Treble ROMs

* Updated with latest TWRP commits

* Built-in support for installing init.d functionality

* Built-in support for installing Magisk

* White Flashlight (not working for now)

* Password, torch, led

* Support for custom ROMs

* Better language support

* Optimized versions of community scripts

* Fox theme engine:

- choice of theme (black, dark, etc)

- choice of color scheme

- choice of splash screen

* Alternative lockscreen

* And many more!

KNOWN ISSUES

-White Flashlight

-If you find one please tell us

Device tree : https://github.com/corsicanu/android_device_samsung_c1s

Kernel source : https://github.com/corsicanu/android_kernel_samsung_universal9830/tree/android-11.0

Recovery : https://gitlab.com/OrangeFox
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] sheebee:
Hi there and thank you for your work. Question - have you tested it on Note 20 (Exynos) SM-N980F?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] snapdragon teaks:
hi, no only N981B, dunno if will work in 980F but fell free to test it and tell us if works
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] Taipes:
Could this be made to work on the ultra? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] BotchedRPR:
B = F for the most part. It will work.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] pro2stinger:
Can I just flash the image in the zip without twrp? And is this safe on samsung galaxy note 20(sm-n980f) on anroid 13? And what is the `white Flashlight` issue
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] snapdragon teaks:
Hi,

1 - there is an alternative you can do "extract the zip, then take the recovery.img file inside and copy it to any directory then compress it into recovery.img.tar then add it to the odin AP table, put your phone in download mode and press start on odin. wait until the bar is 100% complete and wait for your phone to turn off the screen and quickly do a combo with the power and vol + buttons wait until the orange fox logo appears.

2 - in theory this will work on both 4G and 5G (exynos) models of the Note 20 on Android 13 OneUI 5 and also Android 14 Oneui 6 (excluding korean models) so it should work correctly.

3 - the phone's flashlight won't work in recovery, so pressing the flashlight button in recovery won't activate it (on Android it will still work correctly).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] pro2stinger:
Hello,

I flashed it without any problems using the twrp app with the image in the unpacked zip file. I do have a problem that I also had with twrp. For any operation that includes the data partition it will return `operation not permitted `. Do you have any idea how I can fix this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] pro2stinger:
I fixed this by flashing BL CP CSC and a custom AP tar (with magisk and ofrp) in Odin. I then proceeded to boot to recovery and factory reset and then wipe cache, dalvik art cache, data and internal storage. I then flashed multidisabler and now I don't have this error anymore.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] Qyuos_:
Hello, can you please do an update ?
[Xiaomi 12S Ultra] ipmanwck:
I just managed to purchase a 12s ultra for £370 on ebay and also have the 11 ultra also from ebay.

Wonder if anyone here has upgraded from 11 ultra and would share thoughts as YouTube doesn't really help and dxo mark says the 12s ultra is worst?

Thank all.
[Xiaomi 12S Ultra] tensux:
i did, I found i liked the camera better in the 11 ultra. The 11 ultra was also easier to balance in the hand holding it with my index finger with the square camera bump. The 12s however was noticeably smoother, and the battery life very much improved.
[Xiaomi 12S Ultra] ipmanwck:
Thank you. I feel the same.. Older chipset of the 888 has not aged well. The new sd 8gen plus 1 or whatever it's called is very good
[Android Head-Units] rogierg:
Hi all,

Finally got my radio installed, awesome stuff. I've installed Car Launcher Pro with the map theme and I quite like it but I'm wondering if there's a launcher that mimics Android Auto. I really like the map always being present and the uncluttered interface. Any ideas?
[Android Head-Units] marchnz:
From the many different devices and variants sold....
[Android Head-Units] Anton TNT:
Hi , no need to install anything, you can mimic just like android auto using icon in android (the one that opens all active apps - looks like menu with three bars). While all opened apps are shown when icon pressed drag desired opened app onto the right side till you see splitted screen. Desired app will be on left and other like radio station or whatever is opened will be on left side.
[Android Head-Units] rogierg:
Seems like AutoZen is a perfect fit. It has a mode that shows map, media and weather.

Linkie: https://forum.joaoapps.com/index.ph...different-launcher-when-at-work-and-away.240/
[Android Head-Units] rogierg:
Not sure I understand what you mean. Care to elaborate?
[Android Head-Units] -fluffy-:
I use fcc launcher

An i like it it also show gps maps

It have many features an maps are stable

Wen u think about it from china
[Android Head-Units] -fluffy-:
Here is a picture
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] AmiraliBeast:
Hi

I Have A Special MIUI Rom Ready For A52s _ A52 4G

As The Original MIUI Post Said The Rom Haved Security Bugs And Now They Are Fixed.

In My Country For A Long Time The Xda Wasn't Available

But Now After The Domain Change It Is Available!

Any Tester Will Be Welcome!

Just Complete The Form And I Will DM You ASAP

Thanks For The Support

Update:​

Sorry it's been a long time

I Am No Professional At Making Custom Roms And looks Like This Time The Lack of skills got me.

The Rom Will Won't Going to Be Shared For Many Reasons

Even if I want to work on miui for A52 it just doesn't Worth the time

Again I am really sorry

Maybe some time in future.....

[Link Removed]
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] Angeltechs:
Hi, i sent you my telegram id, now i am waiting😁
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] tomekcZ53w:
Me the same
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] Droid365:
Why not post it directly instead of filling a form giving you our Telegram IDs? Just asking
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] Zaid Orea:
Hi, AmiraliBeast, I'm Zaid.

I just completed the form.

I hope you can count me in to test your MIUI ROM, I'm really excited to see what's new in it and how it's working.
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] AmiraliBeast:
Bugs exists and i don't want to introduce a bad Rom to the community
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] AmiraliBeast:
After enough peoples have signed up we will start the process
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] Parid89:
Here i am
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] tomekcZ53w:
Good developer 🤕​
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] Droid365:
Can you share screenshots of the rom?
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] TestaMic:
Sent! Waiting for your response.
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] tomekcZ53w:
Well, you probably won't wait, you will buy Xiaomi sooner than the "developer" will be active
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] itzParsaYC:
WHY MIUI?!? The xiaomi users do anything to get rid of miui but you ported this to other device?
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] tomekcZ53w:
I don't do everything, hyper os is awesome
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] tomekcZ53w:
lol
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] tomekcZ53w:
Buy Xiaomi first and then express your opinion
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] itzParsaYC:
i have a citrus (POCO M3) with many bugs and MIUI 13 Firmware and a tapas (Redmi Note 12 4g) with HyperOS and many bug's. what's your response?
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] itzParsaYC:
i can list the bug's i've found in TAPAS and CITRUS!
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] tomekcZ53w:
If you use low-end devices, then yes

I felt the same way on stock Samsung

If you have a device like Xiaomi 12, which I have, you won't notice any errors and if you install Hyper OS eu, it will be awesome.

Besides, as you said, you have old miui, not hyperOS, but also an old version (13)

Here is my response
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] itzParsaYC:
if this is xiaomi.eu rom ported i can change my feedback.
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] tomekcZ53w:
My approach to Xiaomi devices has changed since I bought them.

As I said, I don't understand people who don't unlock their devices and stay on stock global

And when it comes to miui China, it is overall the best experience

Regards
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] AmiraliBeast:
Sorry it's been a long time

I no Professional At Making Custom Roms And looks Like This Time The Lack of skills got me.

The Rom Will Won't Going to Be Shared For Many Reasons

Even if I want to work on miui for A52 it just doesn't Worth the time

Again I am really sorry

Maybe some time in future.....
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] itzParsaYC:
:( anyway i just wanted to see a screenshot :(
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] tomekcZ53w:
Brothe

Bro, it will be 3 months before you hear from me again, so please send me the rom, and for some unknown reason you blocked me on Telegram
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] AmiraliBeast:
ngl same as the stock miui with some tweaks
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] tomekcZ53w:
You wrote that you have this rom ready, but there are many security flaws (so why can't you just send it?)
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] AmiraliBeast:
I live in Iran

The internet access is real limited and I have to depend on a vpn that never works

I will look out and contact you pretty soon
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] itzParsaYC:
answer: i know but how it running on samsung device
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] itzParsaYC:
also i'm living in iran. you can read my name itz*Parsa*YC. Parsa is iranian name.
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] AmiraliBeast:
As said the pros are working on this device.

I just can't upload a crappy rom and say MIUI for A52. I just started working on custom Roms and I don't want to ruin my name

Let's just call this project Closed For Now
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] itzParsaYC:
add [TEMP-CLOSED] to title
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] AmiraliBeast:
Great dude !

The Roms runs and it's not that bad

But not as good like PE or Any custom Made OneUI Roms
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] TestaMic:
Then please contact me on telegram i want to test it, i cannot wait another year for you to comeback
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] TestaMic:
Hi! I saw that the developer made a updated version but i missed the download link, if someone has it, please reply to this thread. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] V0latyle:
@TestaMic I have removed the Telegram @ from your post per the XDA Telegram Policy. As a reminder of the Forum Rules:

Do not use XDA as a means to promote or otherwise encourage members to use social media.

Your understanding is appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy A52 4G] TestaMic:
Yea your right. Sorry.
[Samsung Galaxy A22 5G] Dan Gnana:
Why is the A22 5G capped at 30fps at all resolutions my older phones that aren't flagship from 2019 get this feature. When I use open camera none of the frames work apart from 120 fps which lowers the quality. I also can't get 4k. Gcam 60 fps doesn't work either. Is there a magisk/twrp mod for this?
[Samsung Galaxy A22 5G] Dan Gnana:
Anyone???
[General Topics] brandon12344:
I need firmware for Vorago Pad-7 V5 tablet :cowboy:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frituurvet:
I download their sorry excuse of a flashing tool and I'm greeted with this:

View attachment 6029063

Everywhere I click I get text in Chinese!

{Mod edit: Inappropriate language in thread title edited. Oswald Boelcke, Senior Moderator}
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZG_DEV:
This tool never works

For most of oppo devices you have to flash / upgrade manually through sp flash tool
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frituurvet:
Thank you kind sir, for your sound advice.

Also my apologies for the foul language. I had a bad day.

The tool looks promising although it won't work on any modern distro because of non-existing imports and the binary wasn't statically linked at build time. Oh well, qemu works.

I've successfully managed to obtain the boot.img for my oppo device. Here's how: the coloros update tool has a directory under $HOME/AppData/Local where there's a ZIP file of the latest OTA update. This zip file contains a binary diff in BSDIFF4 format. So I went through the archives and found an earlier vm with the coloros update tool and it had a full 4GiB+ ZIP file with the entire ROM inside. It was the previous version and most importantly, I now have a boot.img. So I created a python environment like so:

mkdir bsdiff4
cd bsdiff4
python -m venv .
source bin/activate

Then I installed bsdiff4 as usual:

pip install bsdiff4

Recreating the final boot.img with the boot.img.p file and the original was pretty easy and quick. I inspected the initrd inside and it checks out. Gunzip ate it without a hitch and the text files are readable.

The real question remains if the device will boot to fastboot, unlock the bootloader as it's supposed to (the switch is enabled in developer settings), and then flash a Magisk patched boot.img and still boot fine (probably yeah if fastboot works). I will have to investigate.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZG_DEV:
Fastboot binaries are removed for all of oppo / realme devices since 2015, but you still get a hope of unlocking bl through mtk client tool if your device has mediatek chipset
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frituurvet:
Thanks, I looked it up and it was mediatek indeed.

mtkclient bricked it :(

EDIT: oh nvm it turned on after holding all three buttons. However, mtkclient says:

upload_data failed with error: DAA_SIG_VERIFY_FAILED (0x7024)
Error on uploading da data

This doesn't bring up much results in google
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZG_DEV:
Did you install usbDK drivers, vcom drivers and mtk drivers?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frituurvet:
No, this was using a generic kernel. I did install the udev rules though.

But okay, I'll load up a vm again... Thanks for the help ^-^
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZG_DEV:
You are welcome❤
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frituurvet:
One Eternity Later

I've installed all the things in a vm with MS-Windows 10 and the instructions in the readme are:

But when I do this, no USB device appears whatsoever and it boots into recovery. Perhaps I should short the test pin but I have no idea where it is ;-;

So the question is, brom mode how ppls?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZG_DEV:
Brom mode is being booted into it by pressing only volume buttons (no power button), release the volume buttons once connected to pc.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frituurvet:
Thanks. In order for this to work I may have to downgrade to Android 12 or 11. Not sure if upgrading to Android 13 afterwards will be possible though. I think I've found the right file on google drive to roll back to 11.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frituurvet:
View attachment 6041095

It appears that it's not possible to create a scatter file. Would this gist work, or does the scatter file differ per brand and model?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZG_DEV:
Get your stock rom from "oppostockrom" website and in the rom zip file you will get the scatter file in there
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frituurvet:
Thank you very much. It only has the Reno 5 Z CPH2211 not the A94 5G CPH2211. Would the scatterfile be compatible? Sorry to be such a noob ._.'
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZG_DEV:
Your device is Oppo a94 5G Variant ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frituurvet:
Yes
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZG_DEV:
This one is better : {Mod edit: Link to paid services website removed. Oswald Boelcke, Senior Moderator}
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frituurvet:
So a ROM for CPH2203 works on CPH2211?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oswald Boelcke:
Hello and good afternoon, @ZG089▼

I've edited your post and removed the link to a paid services website that are not allowed by rule no. 13 of the forum rules. In future, please refrain from sharing such websites. Thanks for your cooperation.

Regards

Oswald Boelcke

Senior Moderator
[Motorola Edge 20 Lite] ForForkSake:
after smashing my pixel 6a and 6 pro =

I found a refurbished Edge 20 Lite on ebay - costing half of the price of pixel 6 pro screen

It arrives on Tuesday :LOL:- in the mean time I will update and refresh my recovery projects

Looks like I didn't miss much over here anyway
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] Noobmaster205:
Does anyone have this, couldn't find it in any site and i can't open my phone for testpoint contact to unlock my bootloader.
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] W00fer:
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[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] Noobmaster205:
i was able to update using EVA-L09C432B210 but when i tried b360 or b361. it reaches 40% then stops, why?
[General Topics] GalaxyA325G:
Possible things to test (where others can help)...

We probably need to check APEX files against APKs

We can check if other people have the exact same paths

We can check how adb "pull" differs from adb "backup"

And can check how adb "install" differs from adb "sideload"

What else?
[Sony Xperia 1 III] Stormwing:
I've been having some incredibly annoying issues with my 1 III for a few months, namely that it'll suddenly shut off and attempt to reboot almost at random. It's much more likely to occur when in a pocket with less-than-ideal signal conditions, though it can also happen while actively in use. Putting it in airplane mode reduces these chances by quite a bit, but for a phone that's kinda dumb. Weirdly, popping my case on and pulling out the SIM tray with airplane mode off seems to guarantee a reboot, but dropping the phone fron any height...doesn't.

If its attempts to auto-reboot fail and it stays off, I'll have to do the volume key+power button dance to get it to try to boot, with a varying number of attempts before it finally gets past the Sony logo. Even when it boots into Android, sometimes it'll crash again, and sometimes the 'Restarting...' overlay pops up by itself and the loop continues.

My attempts to troubleshoot include:

- turning all sensors off (I thought it might be the proximity sensor or the sometimes-defunct) gyroscope

- trying to look over the tombstone/kill/wtf/etc logs for recurring errors but nothing seems very obvious and I'm no expert

- wiping and reflashing the phone from Android 12 to 13

Other issues with my device include:

- very rarely com.qti.phone crashes

- sometimes the gyroscope doesn't provide any readings

- sometimes the battery percentage gets stuck until I reboot

- sometimes my SIM card fails to be read or fails to connect until I reboot

- the phone is unable to detect most SIM cards in SIM slot 1 (only a couple of random foreign, maybe slightly thicker, cards read consistently). This particular problem has been going on for about 5 months now but I used the 2nd SIM slot instead, even if it meant no SD card.

Does anyone has any clue what's going on? Is it simply a bunch of hardware failures going on at the same time and it's time to upgrade from a phone I've been using for under a year?

😥 Thanks for looking.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] blackhawk:
Sounds like a mobo failure.

You could check to make sure all connectors are seated. The intermittent loss of sensors poi ts to a mobo failure. Maybe a cracked solder joint(s) under the SOC or elsewhere on the mobo.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] Stormwing:
Ah yeah, makes sense. Doesn't seem like it's worth an uneducated DIY attempt if it's actually the mobo dying...

Guess I should probably start saving up my pennies for a mark 5.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] blackhawk:
It's worth a cover pop. Could be a loose connector.

Always use a good case. High G impacts can damage the mobo, it's not just the display you need to protect. A good case will help keep the G loading in the survivable range during a impact from a drop. Drops and water exposure are the leading causes of mobo failures. Manufacturing defects are probably last... or should be.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] Stormwing:
I suppose if it could be as simple as that...it's worth a look then. Thanks.

Having had a decent case and screen protector on it forever the phone still looks flawless and none of these failures happened after any tumbles, which made it even harder to pin down the cause(s). As you said, a manufacturing defect like a busted solder joint or mobo also sounds too ridiculous to be true too. Or maybe I'm just that lucky. Fingers crossed.