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Edit: This thread was originally started as a help thread, but I'm pretty sure it's a real bug now, so I've entirely edited the content of my first post to summarize the problem (for clarity).
After flashing 4.4.2 with MOP and rebooting into download mode to flash the bootloader with desktop Odin, some users were reporting Samsung keyboard force closes.
If you reflash the firmware with MOP and reboot normally, your keyboard will work, but handwriting recognition will not, and if you call *#1234# you will not have a CSC number.
If you reflash and reboot into recovery, your keyboard and handwriting recognition will work, and you WILL have a CSC number. However, if you were to check your call logs or messages, you will see contact numbers, but not names, even though the contacts are on your phone.
Let me illustrate with a fictitious contact: John Doe, 12345678. You will see a message from 12345678, not John Doe, even though you have a contact named John Doe with the number 12345678 in your contacts.
This problem has been verified by one user already: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51155409&postcount=722
Fix found: Remove Google account, reboot, and re-add Google account.
Hi all, i've purchased an SM-G900F but there is a problem, it has rooted.
I've noticed those :
- I can see IMEI number (if i do #*06#) but my EFS folder is empty
- When turn on WiFi , the device will reboot automatically and appear " Factory Mode is On"
- i can make first call with sim , after i'm unable to call , but the 3G network works
- Whit ES File Explorer i've see that my efs folder is empty (But i can see my IMEI with secret code)
- In Device Info i see one time "Official Status" and another time "Personalized Status"
I'm tinking that old owner is a very st......d guy. Howewer these are all information :
Model : SM-G900F
Version : 4.4.2
BASEBAND : NE2
BUILD : NE2
What do you think? How i can solve the problems?
EDIT 1 : i've formatted from recovery , now it ask me to insert the samsung account of old owner...
- Use Phone INFO ★Samsung★ app to obtain more detailed information about your device, including Model, Baseband, Bootloader, CSC, IMEI, S/N, etc...
- May be the Reactivation lock has been enabled. You should ask the ex-owner for the account.
qwertyup88 said:
Hi all, i've purchased an SM-G900F but there is a problem, it has rooted.
I've noticed those :
- I can see IMEI number (if i do #*06#) but my EFS folder is empty
- When turn on WiFi , the device will reboot automatically and appear " Factory Mode is On"
- i can make first call with sim , after i'm unable to call , but the 3G network works
- Whit ES File Explorer i've see that my efs folder is empty (But i can see my IMEI with secret code)
- In Device Info i see one time "Official Status" and another time "Personalized Status"
I'm tinking that old owner is a very st......d guy. Howewer these are all information :
Model : SM-G900F
Version : 4.4.2
BASEBAND : NE2
BUILD : NE2
What do you think? How i can solve the problems?
EDIT 1 : i've formatted from recovery , now it ask me to insert the samsung account of old owner...
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reactivation lock is on. you will need to contact old owner. There is also a way to "fix" that but not sure if it is appropriate for XDA.
kabloomz said:
reactivation lock is on. you will need to contact old owner. There is also a way to "fix" that but not sure if it is appropriate for XDA.
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Can you send me an email ? i really need hepl
vndnguyen said:
- Use Phone INFO ★Samsung★ app to obtain more detailed information about your device, including Model, Baseband, Bootloader, CSC, IMEI, S/N, etc...
- May be the Reactivation lock has been enabled. You should ask the ex-owner for the account.
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The guy was not traceable now. He's vanished ....
You are kinda between a rock and a hard place if reactivation lock is enabled and you don't have the login to toggle that. In most cases that means that the phone is stolen and this is an explicit anti theft feature. You need that login from the original owner. Or if you have the original receipt, you might be able to convince a Samsung repair center to disable the reactivation lock for you.
In any event, as to your original question the most likely cause of the problem is a corrupt configuration file, namely a text file named "factorymode". You can try this repair from the command line or a root aware text editor.
Code:
echo -n ON > /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode
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fffft said:
You are kinda between a rock and a hard place if reactivation lock is enabled and you don't have the login to toggle that. In most cases that means that the phone is stolen and this is an explicit anti theft feature. You need that login from the original owner. Or if you have the original receipt, you might be able to convince a Samsung repair center to disable the reactivation lock for you.
In any event, as to your original question the most likely cause of the problem is a corrupt configuration file, namely a text file named "factorymode". You can try this repair from the command line or a root aware text editor.
Code:
echo -n ON > /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode
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Just now the guy told me account and password . Now i'm able to use my phone !!!!! But now i see that the efs folder is empty...
qwertyup88 said:
Just now the guy told me account and password . Now i'm able to use my phone
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Great. But you neglected to tell us if you tried (or even noticed) the suggestion to check your factory mode configuration file. The contents should show "ON" (yes, "ON") and the permissions 0644. Your efs folder may appear empty to you when it really isn't. It depends on whether you have your file browser (or command line options) set to display hidden and system files or not.
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fffft said:
Great. But you neglected to tell us if you tried (or even noticed) the suggestion to check your factory mode configuration file. The contents should show "ON" (yes, "ON") and the permissions 0644. Your efs folder may appear empty to you when it really isn't. It depends on whether you have your file browser (or command line options) set to display hidden and system files or not.
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y factory mode is on , because i can't acces my wifi, and it appear that factory mode is on. I've set to see hidden files , but now i haven't root on my device
Edit: terminal emulator say : no such file or directory
Edit 2 : Solved with terminal emulator and busy box Thanks to @leoaudio13 for his dump
These are the command for mount efs :
su
mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
mount -w -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
reboot
After then , with text editor i've disabled FactoryApp in efs folder tanks to all
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For the benefit of anyone else reading this thread, do not repeat the steps in the post above until
you understand what they do. A typo in those steps could easily cause you endless grief.
Glad you go it working.
If those steps fixed your issue, then you mislead us with erroneous information earlier. You said that you had an empty efs folder earlier. But those steps would not have been necessary or effective if that was accurate. You must have had a missing efs partition. There is a considerable difference between an empty and nonexistent item and that datum would have led us to a solution.
On a normal phone, there would be an extant efs folder and it would be automatically mounted at boot. A missing folder strongly suggests that the wrong firmware or a flash error took place. Presumably by the previous owner.
Anyone using the make filesystem command mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 should be very careful with typos as an incorrect address could cause major corruption that would be difficult to recover from.
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Originally Posted by qwertyup88 View Post
Hi all, i've purchased an SM-G900F but there is a problem, it has rooted.
I've noticed those :
- I can see IMEI number (if i do #*06#) but my EFS folder is empty
- When turn on WiFi , the device will reboot automatically and appear " Factory Mode is On"
- i can make first call with sim , after i'm unable to call , but the 3G network works
- Whit ES File Explorer i've see that my efs folder is empty (But i can see my IMEI with secret code)
- In Device Info i see one time "Official Status" and another time "Personalized Status"
I'm tinking that old owner is a very st......d guy. Howewer these are all information :
Model : SM-G900F
Version : 4.4.2
BASEBAND : NE2
BUILD : NE2
What do you think? How i can solve the problems?
EDIT 1 : i've formatted from recovery , now it ask me to insert the samsung account of old owner...
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Ive got almost the same problem, i bought my s5 to a friend who visited Philippines from Korea, He acquired the Phone in a Pawnshop in korea, i restore the phone and now it asked me for a password which i dont know, send it to the Technician, Force to delete the account (dont know how) but the problem is that, Phone has NO SIGNAL from then on, it has a NO signal above instead of a bar signal, EFS folder is empty, IMEI was null 000000000000000.
Anybody has the same experience? how can i fix this? please help.
Not perfectly solved .... After first call it don't connect to the network. Only after reboot it connect.
Any suggestions ?
qwertyup88 said:
Not perfectly solved .... After first call it don't connect to the network. Only after reboot it connect.
Any suggestions ?
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could be a block imei by the operator? if it is POSSIBLE to solve? or it could be due however to the efs folder, or the firmware, modem?
edreab86 said:
Ive got almost the same problem, i bought my s5 to a friend who visited Philippines from Korea, He acquired the Phone in a Pawnshop in korea, i restore the phone and now it asked me for a password which i dont know, send it to the Technician, Force to delete the account (dont know how) but the problem is that, Phone has NO SIGNAL from then on, it has a NO signal above instead of a bar signal, EFS folder is empty, IMEI was null 000000000000000.
Anybody has the same experience? how can i fix this? please help.
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it's a different problem , you have a null imei , in your case it's more difficult to resolve.
Originally Posted by qwertyup88
it's a different problem , you have a null imei , in your case it's more difficult to resolve.
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As you can read i said, Ive got almost the same problem, i don't say we have the same problem. in a sense that previous owner account or the reactivation lock is present. sorry if i made a statement that bothers you, just looking for a solution.
hello guys, always about the efs folder I was reading this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2705524.
according to you through this tool is possiblile restore the backup I had done with samsung tool? I would like to try this because the efs folder on my sm-g900f is 23kb, but the backup I had done with samsung tool is 14mb !! what do you think?
sm-a500fu, rooted, 4.4.4
My wife got a new sm-a500fu like our daugther has. To save work (after rooting) I restored the data and systems partitions (with Flashfire) of my daughters a5.
I deleted all my duaghters accounts and logged into google with my wifes account.
Still both phones have the same GSF and Androide ID.
I know that the Androide ID can be set like this:
Code:
adb shell ettings put secure android_id nnnn
- But which should I use ? Can I use the one of here old phone ?
- And what about the GSFid ?
Hoping for help now ...
What I found out so far:
android_id: *#*#8255#*#*
/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
its name in the database is android_id, value is HEX
gsf id: *#*#GCM#*#*
/data/data/com.google.android.gsf.gservices/databases/gservices.db
its name in the database is android_id too, value is decimal
Theese questions remain:
1 Is it necessary to change both or would GSFid be enough ?
2 If I change the IDs in the databases of the cloned phone to its original, what apps do I have to reinstall ?
3 Or is it cleaner to reinstall GSF and GAPPs ?
3a But would I get another ID this way ?
I realize this is an old thread which I found by searching for more information on changing the GSF-ID, where I'll just point people who may come here to a new method I found which changes the GSF_ID using basic Windows tools on a non-rooted Android phone without having to Factory Reset the darn thing (which is kind of nice indeed).
I am not the author of this ROM, I just share it for you!
Unofficial MIUI 8 builds for Huawei Honor 6 by Ry09iu from China.
You can go to see Ry09iu Blog to find new Builds: http://r-rom.com/2016/11/29/huawei_miui8_release/
UPDATE LOGS
Fix when connect to PC, it does not show the notification about the connect ways.
Fix when connect to PC with some software(which can manage your phone), it does hot restart.
Fix when you did not give some apps Position or other permissions, it does restart.
Fix when you open some apps, it does restart.
Fix when you open Theme Manager, it does force crash.
Fix sometimes it shows dark screen or you could not use status bar.(If still, try to open Power saving mode)
Fix every time you boot phone, it shows "SD card: click into the file manager"
Fix on the phone cover from the sensor screen flicker problems will happen
Fix phone click recording function prompts the device being used
Fix Xposed cannot use problem, has been integrated in the Settings - advanced Settings - Xposed framework option, please do not brush Xposed framework into any other version
Add desktop icon custom function layout, can be used with proper DPI values( MIUI Settings - advanced Settings)
Remove the ROOT administrative authority authorized application tedious confirmed many times
Remove MIUI system protection on the application of the parts of the system, users to delete Mi Market/System Update can boot your phone normally.
Optimizing the time into the boot speed for the first time, although still very long, but shorter than before
I am not the author of this ROM, I just share it for you!
HOW TO INSTALL MIUI 8?
1. Unlock your bootloader
2. Upgrade your phone to EMUI 4.0
3. Flash TWRP
4. Download this ROM
5. Download Google Apps if you need(Well, I write an app to download OpenGApps:http://coolapk.com/apk/com.jakting.opengapps)
6. Wipe
7. Flash ROM and GApps if you need
8. Reboot and Enjoy
I am not the author of this ROM, I just share it for you!
Ry09iu said that it will be the final build for Honor6 MIUI8.
Get MIUI 8
[7.2.26] https://mega.nz/#F!ds0jXS7S!zeQdMLeaSf5DGWE9nsrvaw (Uploaded by @fazi2015 )
http://pan.plyz.net/s/?u=1192430225&p=miui_hwH60_7.2.26_8t5j4ad29r_6.0.zip
[6.12.12] http://pan.plyz.net/s/?u=1192430225&p=miui_hwH60_6.12.12_plfiass0h8_6.0.zip
XDA:DevDB Information
MIUI8(Shared), ROM for the Honor 6, Honor 6 Plus
Contributors
hjthjthjt, ry09iu
ROM OS Version: 6.0.x Marshmallow
Based On: MIUI
Version Information
Status: Alpha
Created 2017-01-23
Last Updated 2017-03-18
Nice rom but sim bug makes it unable to make calls and hence this rom needs work to render it for daily usage. Looking forward to use it...
nishant1695 said:
Nice rom but sim bug makes it unable to make calls and hence this rom needs work to render it for daily usage. Looking forward to use it...
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You can make a call or send sms normally.
It just shows that "it has no signal", but working normally!:laugh:
hjthjthjt said:
You can make a call or send sms normally.
It just shows that "it has no signal", but working normally!:laugh:
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I'm sorry i might have been mistaken... But i tried for like 30 minutes but was unable to place a call.
How long have you been using this rom? How's the performance, battery life etc.? Are there any other bugs we should be aware of?
nishant1695 said:
I'm sorry i might have been mistaken... But i tried for like 30 minutes but was unable to place a call.
How long have you been using this rom? How's the performance, battery life etc.? Are there any other bugs we should be aware of?
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I am now with EMUI because I could not flash xposed on MIUI8 now.(I could use phone without xposed:silly
But other Chinese users said that these bugs will not influence your daily use.
Wow, this is like a dream come true. Do you think this ROM will be updated to fix the bugs (especially random reboots)? I'm looking forward to use it but I would prefer if there was a little bit more stable version for daily usage. Oh and by the way, what happened? Custom ROM based on Android 6.0 for Honor 6? Did Huawei finally release ALL the sources?
As for the SIM icon - I read on his blog that this problem happens only for the Sim Card #1. I think (but I'm not sure) than in MIUI you can actually mark SIM cards as #1 or #2 in settings. Maybe this bug could be "fixed" by simply changing the settings and marking SIM card as #2?
finnenhawke said:
Wow, this is like a dream come true. Do you think this ROM will be updated to fix the bugs (especially random reboots)? I'm looking forward to use it but I would prefer if there was a little bit more stable version for daily usage. Oh and by the way, what happened? Custom ROM based on Android 6.0 for Honor 6? Did Huawei finally release ALL the sources?
As for the SIM icon - I read on his blog that this problem happens only for the Sim Card #1. I think (but I'm not sure) than in MIUI you can actually mark SIM cards as #1 or #2 in settings. Maybe this bug could be "fixed" by simply changing the settings and marking SIM card as #2?
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right now, nothing is a big issue, other than signal display.. unless it's perfectly usable.. and signal issues are quite common in miui ports.. honor 5x had it too. but solved eventually
finnenhawke said:
Wow, this is like a dream come true. Do you think this ROM will be updated to fix the bugs (especially random reboots)? I'm looking forward to use it but I would prefer if there was a little bit more stable version for daily usage. Oh and by the way, what happened? Custom ROM based on Android 6.0 for Honor 6? Did Huawei finally release ALL the sources?
As for the SIM icon - I read on his blog that this problem happens only for the Sim Card #1. I think (but I'm not sure) than in MIUI you can actually mark SIM cards as #1 or #2 in settings. Maybe this bug could be "fixed" by simply changing the settings and marking SIM card as #2?
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6.12.12 is the first built for Honor 6. Since Ry09iu has been made so many ROMs for H60, like FIUI, Mokee, Flyme4, Flyme5, MIUI6,MIUI7, IUNI OS, BaiduOS, Tencent TOS, and so on!
So I think He will not give up ..
The way to build MIUI8 for honor 6 is that MIUI has put out patchrom, which help developers to make roms easily.
(So it is possible to make a CM13.0(Well, now called Lineage OS) on the same way, But no one did it...)
As for the SIM icon...Well, some Honor 6 supports TWO SIM CARDS.
Thanks for your answers. I installed it right now (on top of official B860 with TWRP 3.0.2). Unfortunately I seem to have a problem with my IMEI and Baseband. Every few seconds pop-up window appears, telling me that my Device ID is unknown and it couldn't find IMEI, therefore some Mi Account options like MiCloud will be unavailable. In my Settings > About Phone it says that Baseband is also "Unknown". I'm doing another Wipe Data / Factory Reset and we'll see how it goes. Other than that the ROM seems to work OK, however there are some chinese apps.
EDIT
Nope, it's even worse now. After doing a wipe in TWRP, phone boots up and shows the starting configuration screen. I choose language, press Next and it shows up the message that there is no SIM card. I press "Skip" and phone instantly reboots. It's the same every time.
EDIT2
OK, I figured what was the problem at the first time - I flashed OpenGAPPS just after I flashed MIUI, which was not a good idea, I guess, and caused the issue described above. I formatted everything in TWRP and reinstalled MIUI only (no GAPPS). System started and had the original MIUI configuration (before it was different, probably due to the openGapps). There are, however, some bugs.
First of all, the configuration can't be finished in my language (Polish). At the step where you can choose to enable or disable "Find my phone" option it would just kind of hang (you can't finish that step). When I pressed "Next" it would just slide back to the same screen over and over again. I couldn't get past that step. However when I switched the language to English in first step, the configuration went fine. So if you have troubles and you use other language than Chinese / English, then I recommend you finish the first-time setup in English and later on switch the language to the desired one in the settings.
Problem with SIM card is quite annoying. Device doesn't recognize SIM card (even though it might actually work) and the icon is flashing all the time at the status bar. Because of that Mobile Data switch doesn't work. By default Mobile Data is enabled all the time and you can't turn it off with the switch nor with the settings (settings crash when you try to go to anything SIM related). The only way to switch on/off mobile data is by connecting the device with USB cable and using ADB commands:
adb shell
svc data disable <- disables Mobile Data
adb shell
svc data enable <- enables Mobile Data
There's also plenty of chinese apps (some chinese store + chinese VOD). The browser also has some chinese texts + some options have chinese left-overs (Mi Account Settings). The performance itself is quite good and it's a good start. However for daily usage it, in my opinion, needs a bit more polishing. Would be nice if we had someone here that could make a port for Western countries like the modified KangVIP (removing chinese apps, repairing western languages and so on). Unfortunately I don't have that kind of skill so the only thing that I can do is to report bugs I noticed
finnenhawke said:
Thanks for your answers. I installed it right now (on top of official B860 with TWRP 3.0.2). Unfortunately I seem to have a problem with my IMEI and Baseband. Every few seconds pop-up window appears, telling me that my Device ID is unknown and it couldn't find IMEI, therefore some Mi Account options like MiCloud will be unavailable. In my Settings > About Phone it says that Baseband is also "Unknown". I'm doing another Wipe Data / Factory Reset and we'll see how it goes. Other than that the ROM seems to work OK, however there are some chinese apps.
EDIT
Nope, it's even worse now. After doing a wipe in TWRP, phone boots up and shows the starting configuration screen. I choose language, press Next and it shows up the message that there is no SIM card. I press "Skip" and phone instantly reboots. It's the same every time.
EDIT2
OK, I figured what was the problem at the first time - I flashed OpenGAPPS just after I flashed MIUI, which was not a good idea, I guess, and caused the issue described above. I formatted everything in TWRP and reinstalled MIUI only (no GAPPS). System started and had the original MIUI configuration (before it was different, probably due to the openGapps). There are, however, some bugs.
First of all, the configuration can't be finished in my language (Polish). At the step where you can choose to enable or disable "Find my phone" option it would just kind of hang (you can't finish that step). When I pressed "Next" it would just slide back to the same screen over and over again. I couldn't get past that step. However when I switched the language to English in first step, the configuration went fine. So if you have troubles and you use other language than Chinese / English, then I recommend you finish the first-time setup in English and later on switch the language to the desired one in the settings.
Problem with SIM card is quite annoying. Device doesn't recognize SIM card (even though it might actually work) and the icon is flashing all the time at the status bar. Because of that Mobile Data switch doesn't work. By default Mobile Data is enabled all the time and you can't turn it off with the switch nor with the settings (settings crash when you try to go to anything SIM related). The only way to switch on/off mobile data is by connecting the device with USB cable and using ADB commands:
adb shell
svc data disable <- disables Mobile Data
adb shell
svc data enable <- enables Mobile Data
There's also plenty of chinese apps (some chinese store + chinese VOD). The browser also has some chinese texts + some options have chinese left-overs (Mi Account Settings). The performance itself is quite good and it's a good start. However for daily usage it, in my opinion, needs a bit more polishing. Would be nice if we had someone here that could make a port for Western countries like the modified KangVIP (removing chinese apps, repairing western languages and so on). Unfortunately I don't have that kind of skill so the only thing that I can do is to report bugs I noticed
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THANKS FOR YOUR TEST!!!
I will try to report bugs you found to Ry09iu
(if He will listen to me. Some developers In China did not like answer users' questions because there are too many users trying to report their questions.)
In My test, I flash OpenGApps at the same time and it can start Into system. So I think it is not a bug or just OpenGApps's bug.
hjthjthjt said:
THANKS FOR YOUR TEST!!!
I will try to report bugs you found to Ry09iu
(if He will listen to me. Some developers In China did not like answer users' questions because there are too many users trying to report their questions.)
In My test, I flash OpenGApps at the same time and it can start Into system. So I think it is not a bug or just OpenGApps's bug.
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Yeah, I normally do that on other phones too. I can flash CM13 and then flash OpenGapps just after that and it works perfectly fine. However for some reason it didn't work too good on my Honor 6 with this MIUI ROM (I'm using H60-L04 btw). Maybe there was some error during installation, hard to say. However whenever I started my phone it would show up "No SIM Card" screen immedietaly on top of MIUI Configuration. When I pressed "Skip" my phone automatically restarted. Weird - that probably would fix itself automatically after SIM Card bug is fixed in MIUI.
finnenhawke said:
Yeah, I normally do that on other phones too. I can flash CM13 and then flash OpenGapps just after that and it works perfectly fine. However for some reason it didn't work too good on my Honor 6 with this MIUI ROM (I'm using H60-L04 btw). Maybe there was some error during installation, hard to say. However whenever I started my phone it would show up "No SIM Card" screen immedietaly on top of MIUI Configuration. When I pressed "Skip" my phone automatically restarted. Weird - that probably would fix itself automatically after SIM Card bug is fixed in MIUI.
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I use H60-L01 and OpenGApps seems works normally.
I uploaded it to mega all of you now easily download it miui8(7.2.26)
https://mega.nz/#F!ds0jXS7S!zeQdMLeaSf5DGWE9nsrvaw
fazi2015 said:
I uploaded it to mega all of you now easily download it miui8(7.2.26)
https://mega.nz/#F!ds0jXS7S!zeQdMLeaSf5DGWE9nsrvaw
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Bro do u experience battery drainage?
@hjthjthjt could you request Ry09iu to fix the sim card bug in the next update?
omeir7 said:
Bro do u experience battery drainage?
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Yes and some other bugs it's not for daily drive...
there are still bug?
wiizard91 said:
there are still bug?
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yes but in development forum I create a post to request developer to fix it you also have to do so if you want it in stable conduction the developer of this rom is belong to China no other claim it but @Ale who can fix the bugs we have to request hin...
How do you go back to stock EMUI from this MIUI 8 ROM?
I have the Indian H60-L04 model, and I would like to know how to go back from this MIUI 8 ROM to the normal EMUI ROM.
Thanks for any help!
pranayshah said:
I have the Indian H60-L04 model, and I would like to know how to go back from this MIUI 8 ROM to the normal EMUI ROM.
Thanks for any help!
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simply wipe all and flash rom..
As you may noticed since last week google wants us, the custom rom users to manually register our android_id to the link https://www.google.com/android/uncertified/
It looks simple isn't it?
But there's a catch. Each google account can register up to 100 ids. So if you keep registering new ids after every clean install you'll more likely to hit that 100 ids limit soon. That's even worse for fhe rom developers as they may flash up to 20-30 roms a day.
I'm figuring out that in a different way though. The procedure I'm following is:
A. BEFORE ANYTHING
If you're doing this first time:
1) Copy this database from /data/data/com.google.android.gsf/databases/gservices.db
2.1) Open the database with a sql editor or from adb shell or a terminal emulator in sqlite3, see android_id with this sql command:
SELECT *
FROM main
WHERE name="android_id";
2.2) OR from adb shell:
$ adb root
$ adb shell 'sqlite3 /data/data/com.google.android.gsf/databases/gservices.db "SELECT * FROM main WHERE name = \"android_id\";"'
3) Then save the value you're seeing to somewhere else, and register to your account at https://www.google.com/android/uncertified/
B. THEN FOR EVERY CLEAN INSTALL
1) Backups and wipes.
2) Flash rom (pt roms with vendors have the firmware included).
3) Flash gapps.
4) Optionally flash a custom kernel.
5) Reboot and configure your device.
6) Flash magisk, reboot.
THEN THIS PART IS IMPORTANT:
7.1) Again copy this database /data/data/com.google.android.gsf/databases/gservices.db and open in a sql editor (or with sqlite3 in terminal emulator, or adb shell) and execute this sql command:
UPDATE main
SET value=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
WHERE name="android_id";
7.2) OR from adb shell:
$ adb root
$ adb shell 'sqlite3 /data/data/com.google.android.gsf/databases/gservices.db "UPDATE main SET value=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX WHERE name = \"android_id\";"'
Note: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is your android_id as you've learned and registered to your account before (You can see the android_id s you've registered at the same google link).
I just registered my IMEI, that one stays the same across factory resets.
Also, Titanium backup has an option to restore a previously used android ID.
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muff99 said:
I just registered my IMEI, that one stays the same across factory resets.
Also, Titanium backup has an option to restore a previously used android ID.
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Yes that works too but this is the manual method for the gsf android_id. Wifi only devices doesn't have IMEI for example.
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-removes-100-device-registration-limit-uncertified-device-page/
G4B33 said:
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-removes-100-device-registration-limit-uncertified-device-page/
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Yes so now we don't have to do that much of hacky-wacky stuff just to get gsf certified status anymore. #YayGoogle? ?
What if you don't do that?
seems not working. After rebooting, it went back to previous id
You know I've just realized that doing exactly what's written on Google's page (that I've shared link of it) doesn't change my status too. My id is exactly what I've registered on the id registration page but no it stays uncertified so you can ignore this post too... I hope we can find a solution soon :/
ccelik97 said:
You know I've just realized that doing exactly what's written on Google's page (that I've shared link of it) doesn't change my status too. My id is exactly what I've registered on the id registration page but no it stays uncertified so you can ignore this post too... I hope we can find a solution soon :/
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I think the display will always stay on "not certified", but you are atill able to use the Google services (which unregistered custom ROM users are not any more, if I understood correctly).
This is just a guess on my side, I have not tested this (and I can't since I added all kinds of IDs to that registration page ...).
All in all the information flow from Google on this topic has been spectacularly bad, imho.
When I register my GSF id, its not saved or a different number is display, see my correct I'd in the enter field vs ones registered.
image45 said:
When I register my GSF id, its not saved or a different number is display, see my correct I'd in the enter field vs ones registered.
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That's because you entered it in hex format, it gets converted into decimal.
Also, don't post your id here ... Not sure what happens if other people register your id with their Google account.
muff99 said:
That's because you entered it in hex format, it gets converted into decimal.
Also, don't post your id here ... Not sure what happens if other people register your id with their Google account.
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Do I need to convert it or is that an accepted way to submit the information please?
If I try to resubmit it advises already registered.