yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] gabriolinari:
hi guys,

Been away from years and i think it's time to upgrade my beloved S8 which still works great. One of my needed apps will cease support for Android 9 so why not upgrading.

What's the best out there? Android 10 or higher? Guess there are unofficial builds to upgrade since Samsung stopped official support, right?

I did block all upgrades because i didn't want any of the C*****19 frame work tracking crap, so i'd hope a version from XDA is clean of that....right??? 😊

Anyway if anybody can point me into the right direction, that'll be appreciated.

thanks!

Gabrio
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewtoMODS:
So i used SP FLASH TOOL's format tab and it ended up hard bricking my device (lenovo tab 2 a7 20f) and now it just won't respond to ANYTHING [no response to hardware buttons, not being detected in pc either, just nothing appears to be working]...... {{ before all this happened, my tablet was stuck in a bootloop (ig softbricked) due to TWRP (ig) which i flashed in it }} well that was a bit of the backstory... current scenario --> Lenovo Tab 2 A7 20F is hard bricked and nothing works please help me!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joy36k:
bricked system should worn you..maybe is damned fully
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewtoMODS:
So is there nothing I can do? 😥
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joy36k:
i guess not....for example i have an old asus zen phone...nothing of nothing is like someone deleted completly the root or even the os..impossibile to repair

otherwise old T100 when bricked worned me with light of brick

even the old 360 if bricked i remember the red ring of death...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sunilrobin786:
Bro I did the same and recovered from there. Formatted everything and laptop doesn't recognise my device anymore. No vibration on pressing power button

1. Remove the back cover.

2. Unplug the battery ribbon from the motherboard.

3. Ready your SP Flash tool with the ROM you want to flash and press download button. Atleast have a bootloader to flash.

4. Now while holding Volume + key, plug the tablet to the USB. This time, the system will recognise your device and start flashing. You can let go of the Volume key after the system recognises your tab. Let go after you hear a TOoDoO sound.

5. After Flashing, plug the Tablet's battery back, and then close the back cover. Check beforehand if your Tab turns on. Charge it first maybe. You should see some screen here if you flash a ROM.

6. Profit
[Touch GSM General] onta:
hello Elfiners, i have a problem with my elfin here, i just bought it 3 days ago, and my battery always show 100%, but a minute ago my phone suddenly restarted and cannot enter windows CE, after i plug in the battery charger, the LED show orange color for about a minute and then go green again, and the battery like always, shows 100% charged, is there any solution for this problm, (i'm sorry my english is bad)

thx before
[Touch GSM General] Imyman:
You mentioned that the device was bought three days ago. Is it brand new or used? When you take the phone off the charger, does it still show 100%? Might be a faulty battery. Try with another battery if you can.
[Touch GSM General] onta:
yup, this one is new, i unplugged the charger, the battery still show 100%, i've been thinkin the same, but these days are big holiday in my country, so maybe i'll give ut a try tomorrow
[Realme GT] kutu34:
lag when set to 90hz (60hz works better), any fix?
[OnePlus 12] Varcain:
Just a heads-up. This is very easy to trip from proot-distro. People reported issues with windows x86 emulation like mbox, winlator or box86. I was able to trip it just by installing desktop environment on proot-distro. What happens is there is a pop-up about malicious software and Termux processed are getting killed. Note that this happens even with phantom process killer disabled.
[OnePlus 12] Varcain:
this is how it looks like, processes are getting killed when this happens

View attachment 6078091
[OnePlus 12] EtherealRemnant:
People were reporting this was fixed with the latest update. I can test myself if you tell me what to do. I installed and ran Mobox and managed to install some games without this issue but I couldn't really get much to actually work once installed. Not because of any security warnings though.
[OnePlus 12] Varcain:
this fix seems to be the case only for US version. I'm running latest EU and this is still happening for me.

Which one are you running?
[OnePlus 12] EtherealRemnant:
Ah, I'm on the US version. I didn't realize that it was still broken in the EU version.
[OnePlus 12] Varcain:
after latest ota rolled out this week this is still the case. After some more thorough testing it looks like so far only proot environments are triggering this. Never saw this popup in native termux xfce. I will try finding rootcause for this since I want to avoid rooting for now and this kills a major use case for me (full blown debian desktop in a pocket).

Maybe this is fixable on proot side, I am in contact woth OP about this as well though...
[OnePlus 12] Varcain:
update:

it seems that this is triggered *only* when running from proot distro, and only when # of processes >= 40

the same thing doesn't reproduce with native termux and there I can spawn as many as I want until phone becomes unresponsive.

so, from native termux:

for i in $(seq 40); do
sha256sum /dev/zero &
done

does not trigger this, but after proot-distro login:

proot-distro login debian

for i in $(seq 40); do
sha256sum /dev/zero &
done[ICODE]

triggers the issue, but the following:

[CODE]for i in $(seq [B][U]39[/U][/B]); do
sha256sum /dev/zero &
done

won't

another weird thing is, after I trigger this enough times it stops triggering anymore and I can spawn more processes. If it's supposed to protect from malicious software then it's doing a terrible job anyway...
[OnePlus 12] juandante:
So there is not any solution to this ****ty problem?

In old Android versions like Lollipop 6.1, we could place Termux or what not on system partition to prevent it from being killed and probably this issue also.

I can't seem to figure out how to have the same effect on Android 13 with Magisk. And I guess on non-rooted Android this will be simply impossible by the way to solve to begin with.

Tried this with Su but this doesn't have remotely even any effect :

/system/bin/device_config set_sync_disabled_for_tests persistent; /system/bin/device_config put activity_manager max_phantom_processes 2147483647
[OnePlus 12] juandante:
Sorry, but if you don't have the change fixes of the update, sorry to tell you that this update ain't doing anything. This was probably a luck or bad tests.
[OnePlus 12] Varcain:
I also agree that it was very likely luck, not actually fixed.

It looks like this AV or whatever the app that kills processes actually is, it's running on some weird kind of heuristics to kill processes. These heuristics seem rather random to me because same behavior that triggers it at one point won't do it at another. It's does same thing phantom process killer does but I have no idea how to turn it off and there seem to be no strict rules on when this gets triggered, ie I could run 200+ processes hogging CPU for 30+ minutes and this wouldn't trigger. Then I could kill these processes and start some standard desktop stuff and kaboom...

What I can definitely tell is that this seems to trigger only under proot environment. I've done a lot of stuff under native termux and never saw this once. I don't see anything meaningful in logcat, unfortunately.
[OnePlus 12] juandante:
I am very badly impacted by this because I am delegating some Tasker tasks to Termux (Tasker API) for some home automation, it's easier for me to fine grain some controls with Curl requests, than managing and searching in Tasker profiles and tasks.

Now the thing is I would frequently encounter crashes because of this st*pid silly Android fantom process killer. Note that the programs are directly from Android 6 Lollipop, where I never had this problem, not because Android 6 doesn't kill process (it's Android's nature) but that I could counter it by using "resident" settings in AppSettings. This resident feature doesn't seem to work on Android 13.

Now what I observed, due to the fact that this behaviour is such problematic is that Android 13 don't like when an app creates to much process. Fine because this is known. But the big thing to not to forget, is that usually an app creates a lot of process because the phone is not enough quick to process the process queue. And as it's phones, the process queue can take randomly longer than usual due to temperature constraints (don't believe the marketing hype like CPU are faster and cooler, in fact they are, but even more CPU restrictions on temperature and speed are implemented by manufacturers the more CPUs are faster, but I will not explain this part)

I observed some sort of randomness on my phone, but when I installed the AIDA64 app (equivalent to CPU-Z but with far more sensors), it was like an eye opening because I seem to see a pattern where the more the phone throttles, due to heat constraint or even the fact that the USB charging cable badly delivers, the phone throttles, increases the process queue, and the more there are crashes. So what seem to work for me, is to put more delay in commands (it's like a software throttle), to give the kernel/CPU time to process all the queue. The more I increase the sleep time between commands, the more I see that the Termux crashes are reduced, while still completing the home automation tasks.

Of course sometimes with Proot it is not obvious how to slow down the increase of process queue, so for one time I had to dirty edit the Linux files in the Proot init to add waits/sleeps and also stop automatic updates to prevent them being overwrite. I would like to have a magic solution with a Magisk module patching the responsible memory space ior an ADB command for Android 13 but this understanding solves a lot of crashes.

Ps: one other solution I read on one link is to use nice/renice but this seem to be less reliable because Android like to overtake on those type of settings.
[OnePlus 12] Varcain:
Please create ticket with OnePlus for that, I already did on my end and maybe if enough people report this they will do something about it, like switch to disable this behavior.

I want to avoid rooting this phone and/or installing custom roms on it, this is the only annoying thing which might force me to :/
[OnePlus 12] aygul12345:
Did you managed to fix this? WTF why has oneplus this feature.
[OnePlus 12] Varcain:
no fix so far...
[OnePlus 12] Varcain:
This still happens with latest update. And I got ugliest brightness slider ever as a bonus lol.
[OnePlus 12] DavidKalil10:
I didn't have problems with termux/mobox, but I got it trying Winlator. If I am fast enough I can click on the pop up and open the game, but if I am too slow I have to try.from 0 again
[OnePlus 12] khalisz:
I had too... very disapointed.
[OnePlus 12] akaloith:
I reflashed rom cause it kept delete magisk

it worked for me
[OnePlus 12] swejuggalo:
I can confirm that a Proot-distro of Manjaro in Termux and running the command "pacman -Syyu" instantly triggers the error.
[Xiaomi 14 Pro] Wagwam:
So did anyone experimented yet any gcam with configs that is working on xiaomi 14 pro?? If so please share it here thank you
[Xiaomi 14 Pro] Qidamin:
Thinking about buying the phone, but I don't like the painting effect on some pictures, so thinking about Gcam. Did you try any version yet?
[General Questions and Answers] NimoImran:
Could anyone be having the "Passing Notes" Magisk Font Module and kindly share with me? Thanks in advance
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oswald Boelcke:
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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] golamus:
Thank you Oswald Boelcke our respectable moderator, for your approximate translation! I will make sure to respect the rules in force on the forum.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] golamus:
I'm still waiting for an answer to my problem... Please be more cooperative and attentive! Thank you so much!​
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] golamus:
Topic to close!

Thank you for your silence, but I found the solution to make the annoying Watermark disappear.
[Nokia 6.1/6.1+/6.2/7/7+/7.1/7.2 Cross Device Devel] CRUECY:
PixelExperience for Nokia 6.1/Nokia 6.1+ [PL2/DRG]

What is this?

PixelExperience is an AOSP based ROM, with Google apps included and all Pixel goodies (launcher, wallpapers, icons, fonts, boot animation)

Our mission is to offer the maximum possible stability and security, along with essential and useful features for the proper functioning of the device

Based on Android 14

Whats working?

Wi-Fi

RIL

Mobile data

GPS

Camera

Flashlight

Camcorder

Bluetooth

FM radio

Fingerprint reader

Face unlock

NFC

Lights

Sound/vibration

Known issues

Nothing yet

You tell me

DON'T FLASH GAPPS, THEY'RE ALREADY INCLUDED

Download for Nokia 6.1 [PL2] from PixelExperience website

Download for Nokia 6.1+ [DRG] from PixelExperience website

NOTE: PLEASE READ THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS (We're using the Retrofit Dynamic Partition)

Instruction for Nokia 6.1 [PL2] (Retrofit Dynamic Partition)

Instruction for Nokia 6.1+ [DRG] (Retrofit Dynamic Partition)

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Stay tuned

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​

Android OS version: 14

Security patch level: February 2024

Build author/Device Maintainer: ARINDAM BHATTACHARJEE

Device Source code: https://github.com/PixelExperience-Devices

Kernel Source code: https://github.com/PixelExperience-Devices/kernel_nokia_sdm660

Source code: https://github.com/PixelExperience

ROM Developer: jhenrique09

​
[Nokia 6.1/6.1+/6.2/7/7+/7.1/7.2 Cross Device Devel] RootedLee:
Hi CRUECY. Thanks for the links. Are you just sharing with us, or are you part of the ROM's developer team?
[Nokia 6.1/6.1+/6.2/7/7+/7.1/7.2 Cross Device Devel] nitroax:
Anyone using on PL2?
[Nokia 6.1/6.1+/6.2/7/7+/7.1/7.2 Cross Device Devel] apbucaneg:
I'm currently on LOS with gapps from this thread, will i still need the dynamic re-partition and Retrofit Dynamic Partitions steps in the instructions? already have a custom recovery already
[Nokia 6.1/6.1+/6.2/7/7+/7.1/7.2 Cross Device Devel] nitroax:
Im using it right now and its great.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fits79:
Hi.

Is there any frp remove tool that we can completely remove frp lockdown from any brand(Xiaomi, Samsung, Huawei e.t.c.) with easy steps???
[OnePlus 11] jjcode:
my oneplus 11 can't boot into fastboot or bootloader mode after flash the edl rom(PHB110domestic_11_A.08_2023011401410122), What needs to be done to make the bootloader work?
[OnePlus 11] jjcode:
i get it, the oneplus with android 14 can not be booted into bootloader mode
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Zaklin:
A few days ago I started getting this message on my diamond that says:

DataBase Update Check

It may cost you data connection fee to check if new database update for Connection Setup. Would you like to proceed?

How do I get rid of this message?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Driskol:
Updating?...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] WMguy:
Not sure if this is the same thing but have you tried:

Start/settings/connections/connection setup/menu - then untick "Enable Auto Configuration"

Again, no idea but it was just a thought.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Zaklin:
Yeah, forgot to mention.

It has 2 options; Yes and No.

I choose yes, and it comes back again in 3-4 minutes.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Zaklin:
Just tried this to no avail :(
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] zoltar99:
I have been getting the same thing for the last 3 days, since coming back from holiday abroad, and it's very annoying, I never got that before, I thought it had something to do with the fact that i'd been roaming, but i see that other people are starting to get it at about the same time, could it be a network thing?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] kaoz:
I've got the same issue since a couple of days... it's really annoying!

Is there a solution yet?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Wernaldinho:
Same Issue with automatic update

I also got this issue since a couple of days! I have already stated it here but also still no answer yet.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=402091

Any support is highly appreciated!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Rockweiler:
I had this like 12 times while driving for 2hrs and using tomtom, the message would pop up over tomtom and take several presses to get it to disappear then often dumping me back to the HTC start page forcing me to faff with menus while driving to get tomtom back up, by the end of the trip i was nearly ready to throw the phone under the next lorry that passed me on the motorway

Really pi**ed off with this one
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Hude:
Hi,

I have same problem and it started when I proceed connection setup application. Now when I update weather or make a phone call that same note apears database update check.....

I did try soft reset also no help.. Any solved this problem?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] runewa:
Same here, pops up over my TomTom while driving - really annoying!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Zaklin:
It happens every time I make a call.

Isn't there any one who knows how to get rid off this message?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] mematt:
Seems like this message pops up each time you try to connect to EDGE. So anytime the weather updates this message pops up. Very annoying!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] capo56:
Same problem here for at least one month already... :confused:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] zoltar99:
I performed a hard reset of my phone, it seemed to be ok, but since i installed Windows Live application, and set Hotmail to check emails once an hour, it has reappeared. Really annoying thing. Looks like everyone has been affected by it and it has only been happening for a few weeks. Something must have happened to trigger it on everyone's phones. We need to get to the core of it. I have been through all my Connections Settings trying to find a way to turn it off, but couldn't find anything yet. It would be great to get rid of this annoyance.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] capo56:
What ROM do you have? I have DUttys 3.1....
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Srem:
i get this on dutty 3.3. think its only started popping up recently. im on o2 in uk
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] runewa:
I'm on Dutty's 3.5 (I think). Will revert back to Swiftblade's during the weekend, I'll post my findings then.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Zaklin:
and I am on duttys 3.3, could this be connected to duttys rom?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] sh500:
I've also got Dutty's 3.3 ROM but have had it working fine before this message started coming up. I'm on T-mobile UK.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Hude:
hi,

I was using dutty´s 3.4 when this problem started. Problem started for me when I used connection setup app. I tryed hard reset also, but didn´t helpt. Now I flashed dutty´s 3.6b ROM and problem disapeard. Thank god!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] micha:
i am on dutty 3,4 kpn netherlands same problem
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] icrazy:
Looks to me like a Duty ROM problem , would be too much of a coincidence if not .. anyway , maybe he can help.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Wernaldinho:
Also Dutty´s ROM 3.4

I have also installed Dutty´s ROM version 3.4 on my device and I faced the same problem. For me, it seems to be quite reliable that our problem is linked with Dutty´s ROM. How to contact him?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ruffage:
Hmm, I'm on Dutty's v3.1. Do we see a trend here ppl?

I'm thinking of splatting his latest release onto my device soon. Hopefully that'll put an end to it.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] yrreP:
I'm seeing it on unbranded, stock ROM's. Seems as tho HTC have turned the feature back on. Simply by allowing it to update should resolve the problem, no?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] zoltar99:
Also Dutty's here... could we have confirmation from people with other roms that it is not happening to them?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] runewa:
I've just installed Swiftblades 7.5 ROM and this problem is no longer present.

Question is, has this been fixed in a later version than Dutty's 3.5? Anyone running 3.6 that can enlighten us?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] runewa:
Luckily I'm not easily offended by people questioning my intelligence:D Of course we've tried both answering Yes and No to the update question, that's what the big fuss is all about :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Hude:
Hi,

I flashed duttys 3.6b and problem is no longer present. When I was using duttys 3.4 problem apeard.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ruffage:
Dutty's v4 is free from the update plague too. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] runewa:
Yup, can confirm that Dutty's v4 is working like a charm, no annoying database update messages:) It's a really fast ROM as well, would recommend everyone to upgrade!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] zoltar99:
It disappeared for two days, since I had the extended battery, as soon as I put the original battery, it came back, not sure what to think about this.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] runewa:
Switch to v4 ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] frederikk:
Hi, don't blame the battery or whatever ROM, i got the same problem on a touch HD.... with stock ROM and original battery.. .for me it happens often when i try to connect to 3G with opera mobile. The message is in french, so it is related to my phone... and not to a specific software (english ).

I tried to update once, but it crashes before the end.

Don't know what is is exactly.. didn't have this message yet with a wlan connection.

Ciao

Fred
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] zoltar99:
Updated ROM to Dutty's 5.2, seems ok so far...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] frederikk:
Got the message one more time after launching a connection to 3G.. without opera this time ( internet sharing ). Said yes... the database download to 100%, then the phone rebooted... till' now i see no differences... Still don't know what it was...

Ciao

Fred
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Kage Musha:
Solution in Registry

For the ones who cannot or do not want to update their ROM can solve this problem by doing this:

Open your favourite registry editor:

Go to [HKLM]\Services

There you should see "ConnSetupDload". Export this one first as backup.

Now you can remove this entry and press confirm to delete it's subkeys as well.

Now soft-reset your device.

This should solve the problem.