Getting rid of OTA updates on a rooted device by freezing "Software Update" apps
I have a rooted Galaxy s10+ with android pie. Doesn't freezing "Software Update" system apps of my android by Titanium Backup make booting problems for my device? Is it safe for me to freeze those apps? I ask because I've heard freezing some system apps like "Device Care" stops the device from booting. As other fellas I get ota update notifications and I wanna get rid of them by freezing those apps.
not a soul to answer?
dont know, never used it on this app
why dont you just hide the notifications?
TexasHoldemJoker said:
dont know, never used it on this app
why dont you just hide the notifications?
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because they come back, of course I tried that. you cannot just hide their notifications. They are system apps which android doesn't let you to hide their notifications. you can even stop the apps with some apps but they come back. I just wanna know the answer to my question because all other ways has already been tried and they were unsuccessful.
You can freeze the software update without issues, or at least you could back in Galaxy S4 days. Pie might work differently than lollipop.
StoneyJSG said:
You can freeze the software update without issues, or at least you could back in Galaxy S4 days. Pie might work differently than lollipop.
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thank you for your reply but that is what I'm afraid of. As I have so many data and customization on my phone, I wanna be 100% sure that Android Pie works fine and boots successfully with frozen "Software Update" apps (there are two apps).
sorena2 said:
because they come back, of course I tried that. you cannot just hide their notifications. They are system apps which android doesn't let you to hide their notifications. you can even stop the apps with some apps but they come back. I just wanna know the answer to my question because all other ways has already been tried and they were unsuccessful.
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I am Sure Auto notifications can hide them permanently, and it works in pie
TexasHoldemJoker said:
I am Sure Auto notifications can hide them permanently, and it works in pie
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Thanks, I'd tried that too, it worked messy on my phone and used much of my mobile's resources. still waiting for someone to say that s/he tried to freeze the source of the problem and wiped the problem clean successfully.
sorena2 said:
Thanks, I'd tried that too, it worked messy on my phone and used much of my mobile's resources. still waiting for someone to say that s/he tried to freeze the source of the problem and wiped the problem clean successfully.
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If you are willing to wait until i geht my next Update notifications i can try it for you, but this might Take Long?
TexasHoldemJoker said:
If you are willing to wait until i geht my next Update notifications i can try it for you, but this might Take Long?
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lol that is very nice of you. If you don't mind messing with your Android Pie you can do it now because I just wanna see that the OS boots after freezing "software update" apps using Titanium Backup
sorena2 said:
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Some ideas:
Autonotification blocks permanent notifications permanently .
Or make a Nandroid backup with TWRP and restore if necessary.
Or use TWRP file manager (or aroma file manager https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108) to backup packages .xml file (should work also on PIE) in the data/system folder, which contains information About enabled and disabled packages.
ninestarkoko said:
Some ideas:
Autonotification blocks permanent notifications permanently .
Or make a Nandroid backup with TWRP and restore if necessary.
Or use TWRP file manager (or aroma file manager https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108) to backup packages .xml file (should work also on PIE) in the data/system folder, which contains information About enabled and disabled packages.
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Thank you, I still wanna wait for someone who has done the freezing way. No TWRP on my mobile and I also want things to be done clean. don't like any overload by other apps like autonotification.
sorena2 said:
Thank you, I still wanna wait for someone who has done the freezing way. No TWRP on my mobile and I also want things to be done clean. don't like any overload by other apps like autonotification.
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Ok.
Always know that having root without having a custom recovery (TWRP) can be very risky because, in case you or some root-app make your phone bootloop, you cannot recover easily (And you lose your data).
ninestarkoko said:
Ok.
Always know that having root without having a custom recovery (TWRP) can be very risky because, in case you or some root-app make your phone bootloop, you cannot recover easily (And you lose your data).
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Thanks for your advice. Yea you are right but at the moment s10+ was just released and its TWRP wasn't working properly. I'm an advanced user but I just don't have enough time to do it all over again let alone getting back up gets much time itself.
Still waiting for the answer folks ?
SO basically you are asking someone else to potentially F*** up their phone because you are not willing to try it yourself ? Sorry, but that's how it sounds....
Cholerabob said:
SO basically you are asking someone else to potentially F*** up their phone because you are not willing to try it yourself ? Sorry, but that's how it sounds....
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Of course not. Some people have enough time to try different software and ways to make phones better. Some even have recovery software like TWRP which can undo if something go wrong. I'm asking them to share if they had the experience I mentioned. I was one of them a while ago.
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Of course not. Some people have enough time to try different software and ways to make phones better. Some even have recovery software like TWRP which can undo if something go wrong. I'm asking them to share if they had the experience I mentioned. I was one of them a while ago.
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Cool:good:
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Hi everyone
So I just flashed cyanogens 5.0 mod and I just assumed android market would remember what applications I had downloaded (yes, I'm an Android newbie) so you can imagine my surprise when only one of my previous downloads showed up!
I have no idea where I got it from but I was under the impression the Google saved my download history in Market? I mean it obviously remembered that one application lol
Any help is appreciated!
It does sort of. On the first boot after flashing a Tom go straight to the downloads and your apparently will show. Install all your Alps right then, if you leave the download page they go away. I hop Google fixes that soon.
iVisionX01 said:
It does sort of. On the first boot after flashing a Tom go straight to the downloads and your apparently will show. Install all your Alps right then, if you leave the download page they go away. I hop Google fixes that soon.
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No way! So I'm screwed? Well that sucks...
Is there really no other way? If I re-flash it, will I be given the same "chance" to go to market right away, or was that a one shot deal?
I think its one shot but it would hurt yo try.
No luck... I guess I'm screwed huh
Actually another 5 apps showed up in Market after a while, but that's it.
I'm still in shock that it didn't remember all my apps, I mean, whats the requirement?? gah...
Sorry man, at least it will always remember your paid apps even when you switch devices. But for next time if you wipe first thing you do is redownload your apps.
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Sorry man, at least it will always remember your paid apps even when you switch devices. But for next time if you wipe first thing you do is redownload your apps.
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Lesson learned my friend, lesson learned...
Thx for the help!
Actually, when you boot up your phone for the first time (or after a wipe), there's an option for you to select if you want Google to save all your settings. If you don't check this option, your downloads (and other stuff I'm not exactly too sure about) won't save when you wipe or change phones.
I flashed Cyanogen's ROM yesterday and my whole list of downloads were there. Downloading them was a bit of a hassle though...
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Actually, when you boot up your phone for the first time (or after a wipe), there's an option for you to select if you want Google to save all your settings. If you don't check this option, your downloads (and other stuff I'm not exactly too sure about) won't save when you wipe or change phones.
I flashed Cyanogen's ROM yesterday and my whole list of downloads were there. Downloading them was a bit of a hassle though...
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Yeah I do get that question after flashing, have no memory of getting it first time I started the phone tho.
I always checked that option when I got it, thinking it was a good idea, guess I'll try not checking it next time, but I guess by now the damage is already done.
Hey, I just restored my nandroid to before cyanogen, and all the apps are there now in downloads again.
Perhaps there's a way to save this yet
Missing apps
Actually thing happened to me today after installing 5.0
all of my apps where gone except for the paid ones so what i did was restore from my nand backup copied all of my apps down, and then i went ahead and re flashed 5.0
hope that helps
(hope you did a nand backup before flashing )
thanks
M3manny
Celeborn_81 said:
Hey, I just restored my nandroid to before cyanogen, and all the apps are there now in downloads again.
Perhaps there's a way to save this yet
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All hope is not lost.
-Restore Nandroid
-Flash CyanMod and Google Apps
-Reboot
-Do what I showed you before
-Enjoy your apps
Is it really worth the hassle to avoid redownloading all the apps? I'm assuming by now the OP could have reinstalled the apps a hundred times already.
uansari1 said:
Is it really worth the hassle to avoid redownloading all the apps? I'm assuming by now the OP could have reinstalled the apps a hundred times already.
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Well you don't know how many apps he has and there's always the chance that you forget some that you liked.
uansari1 said:
Is it really worth the hassle to avoid redownloading all the apps? I'm assuming by now the OP could have reinstalled the apps a hundred times already.
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Sure I could have done that, but I'm used (from the windows mobile world) to flashing my phone at least once a week, and I'll probably keep that up here so I want to make sure I have a simple way to restore my applications afterwards.
I appreciate the help everyone, I'll try to re-flash later and see if they show up
Flashed CM 5.0 beta 3 now and went straight to market and voila, all my apps are present! :-D
Thanks everyone for taking your time to help me!
Hi, (this is my first post here)
well I have a really nasty problem. Since my kitkat update there have been apps facing a lot of issues, thanks to their bugs/wanted changes with the permission setup and so on... In an attempt to fix that I tried to flash the new A7 firmware yesterday. (was on the unbranded A6 from Poland)
The problem was that because I'm unbranded, it FAILED at the end of the flash. So the obvious solution would be to flash the FW with a PIT file. But I don't want to loose my data and restore everything. It will take me 8 hours at least. (and this with nandroid backups and what not)
Well after some trial and error it booted up. But the system was corrupted i.e FCs and and and... So I flashed A6 back. All worked/works well now but I have an enormous problem:
The Bluetooth is broken. It tries to turn itself on but doesn't get anywhere. And in the eventually it stops, after 30/40 seconds. And after that it starts again. Well the obvious solution would be to go and delete the bluetooth data/cache and also delete the /data/misc/bluedroid/ folder. But nope. No success. And the same goes for reflashing/dalvik cache+cache wiping and so on. I also tried to take the battery out for some time.
Well the catlog show a lot of problems. It seems to be permission problems in this case too. I know that you suggest that I should only wipe it. But if i restore this **** will get back too. And re-installing everything from scratch will take me 2.5 days. I have like 750 apps or something.
Please help me with this, I beg you!
This is the catlog(filtered):
ht tp://pastebin.com/Hy99A10y
And here is the complete log aswell (the one with the timestamp):
ht tps://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9fgteM7eke-MHFBOFpWcmZtVjg&usp=sharing
Anyone? ;(
kevin_1351 said:
Anyone? ;(
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Visit service center and make a fresh update
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Mr hOaX said:
Visit service center and make a fresh update
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I'm rooted so I tripped my knox. I have not warranty anymore...
But anyway I know that I can fix it if i restore fresh. But I want to repair the Bluetooth, without factory resets.
kevin_1351 said:
I'm rooted so I tripped my knox. I have not warranty anymore...
But anyway I know that I can fix it if i restore fresh. But I want to repair the Bluetooth, without factory resets.
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This is why I use cwm to make a backup...
But seriously, it looks like you might need to do a complete wipe... It sounds like some fragment of the A7 rom has been left there to corrupt your bluetooth....
Pain I know but sometimes this is the only way....
ultramag69 said:
This is why I use cwm to make a backup...
But seriously, it looks like you might need to do a complete wipe... It sounds like some fragment of the A7 rom has been left there to corrupt your bluetooth....
Pain I know but sometimes this is the only way....
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I love many things about android, but one thing that seems to completely miss is the ability to factory reset only certain things like your settings, radios and so on.
Is there really no way to extract everything there has to be, from A6? Like zeroing all bluetooth files but nothing else?
kevin_1351 said:
I love many things about android, but one thing that seems to completely miss is the ability to factory reset only certain things like your settings, radios and so on.
Is there really no way to extract everything there has to be, from A6? Like zeroing all bluetooth files but nothing else?
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Nope, unfortunately not...
Did you edit or flash the platform.xml(extSD fix KK) by any chance??
If so, others have reported Bluetooth breaking (among other things) after editing/flashing the platform.xml. The only fix was to start from scratch (factory reset).
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denski101 said:
Did you edit or flash the platform.xml(extSD fix KK) by any chance??
If so, others have reported Bluetooth breaking (among other things) after editing/flashing the platform.xml. The only fix was to start from scratch (factory reset).
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Yeah you're right. But I still can't wipe... Like that would mean hell for me.
I really DON'T UNDERSTAND why I can't reverse it. Why flashing that zip messed eveything up. Like why doesn't it work now that I've restored the platform.xml backup? Are you shure that there isn't any way? It really doesn't make any sense at all.
kevin_1351 said:
Yeah you're right. But I still can't wipe... Like that would mean hell for me.
I really DON'T UNDERSTAND why I can't reverse it. Why flashing that zip messed eveything up. Like why doesn't it work now that I've restored the platform.xml backup? Are you shure that there isn't any way? It really doesn't make any sense at all.
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Well, I didn't encounter this problem when I edited the file. But I'm just relaying other's, who had this prob and had to factory reset. I would of thought restoring the old platform.xml, setting right permission & rebooting would have fixed it, but apparently that doesn't work. You could possibly try this as a last ditch effort, but going by what other's have experienced, I think resetting is going to be the only fix.
Would you like me to upload my platform file for you to test?
EDIT: (you'll need root) here's one I prepared earlier- rename the xls to xml, move to /system/etc/permissions and set permissions (file)6,4,4: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49574602
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kevin_1351 said:
I'm rooted so I tripped my knox. I have not warranty anymore...
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Who in this world put that crazy idea in your head??? Did you even try? Maybe you should
Well I really love android, I do. And it has too many good aspects to switch back to iOS, BUT, Two things really are missing:
an uncomplicated, selfupdating store for mods (it's slowly getting better with the arrival of xposed framework but we still aren't at the same level).
Before xposed, xda was the only place for mods. And devs have to implement auto updating features in their apps themselves if they want it...
With xposed it's as I said better but not really the same actually.
And the last thing is really about my problem here. Nandroid backups/etc are good but not always an option with 25/30 gb of data on your phone (im not including media only apps and so on). So I really ask myself why there isn't a restore/reset option for some things like the system backbone, wifi, bluetooth etc. And this whole permission thing is really pathetic.
I also miss Icloud because it does backups without living a big fingerprint on the device. No bat drain and no errors. Carbon/Helium and all that other crap even titanium are really good but to complicated and battery/process hungry compared to icloud.
So while almost everything else is awesome about android IMO, this really sucks ass. And it's not that I am a noob or to stupid to backup. It's about the fact that it's not as convenient.
Well well....
Just bought a S5 on ebay it's rooted on android 4.4.2. when I went to setup the phone Samsung account was not an option. I can not add one under settings add accounts. Any suggestions? I've never had this issue with a phone before. Thanks. Oh and i already did two factory resets didnt help.
Is there a way to install framework possibly to do this?
Droid9684 said:
Just bought a S5 on ebay it's rooted on android 4.4.2. when I went to setup the phone Samsung account was not an option. I can not add one under settings add accounts. Any suggestions? I've never had this issue with a phone before. Thanks. Oh and i already did two factory resets didnt help.
Is there a way to install framework possibly to do this?
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I believe it is just an app. Is this it? Found it in data/app folder
https://www.dropbox.com/s/59n5kd9vk0dmd4l/com.osp.app.signin-1.apk?dl=0
Tulsadiver said:
I believe it is just an app. Is this it? Found it in data/app folder
https://www.dropbox.com/s/59n5kd9vk0dmd4l/com.osp.app.signin-1.apk?dl=0
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Umm usually its built in the phone as a option at setup initially.
Tulsadiver said:
I believe it is just an app. Is this it? Found it in data/app folder
https://www.dropbox.com/s/59n5kd9vk0dmd4l/com.osp.app.signin-1.apk?dl=0
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Ok I got a samsung account setup now but S health automatically keeps force closing. Why? I thought since i have a samsung account it would work??? Can you send me all the samsung apks needed if thats the issue?
Droid9684 said:
Ok I got a samsung account setup now but S health automatically keeps force closing. Why? I thought since i have a samsung account it would work??? Can you send me all the samsung apks needed if thats the issue?
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My ROM is pretty lean. I don't even have S health. You might be better off installing a new ROM to make sure you have everything you need.
Droid9684 said:
Ok I got a samsung account setup now but S health automatically keeps force closing. Why? I thought since i have a samsung account it would work??? Can you send me all the samsung apks needed if thats the issue?
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S-Health still not working. After change to build prop. All thats under Sasmung account is to sync calendar now.
http://www.andromods.com/fix-troubleshoot/fix-xposed-framework-shealth-problem-galaxy-s5.html
Droid9684 said:
S-hHealth still not working. After change to build prop. All thats under Sasmung account is to sync calendar now.
http://www.andromods.com/fix-troubleshoot/fix-xposed-framework-shealth-problem-galaxy-s5.html
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Whomever you got this from must have deleted too many files. Odin this and start from scratch. Re-root and everything.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23610159112652178
Tulsadiver said:
Whomever you got this from must have deleted too many files. Odin this and start from scratch. Re-root and everything.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23610159112652178
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Who ever did this I think deleted samsung files. I dont have access to Odin because I have a mac. I installed samsung apps apk and health service. S-health does open up now and gets to the backup part for data then force closes.
Do you have safestrap? Install RicksRom v8. Great ROM for 4.4.2 NGC.
Tulsadiver said:
Do you have safestrap? Install RicksRom v8. Great ROM for 4.4.2 NGC.
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I do have safestrap but last time I used it screwed up my last S5 thats why I had to buy a new one. It's a long story but it got stuck in download mode when i went into recovery. There has to be a way I can get S-Health to work correctly without Odin!? And I have multiple G900 tar files from users saved on my computer. This one you sent is new to me.
It's one of the original ones. I use it all the time on my spare phone (I've been experimenting a lot mainly with flashfire). It does a full wipe. Like a brand new phone afterwards. A moot point since you don't have Odin. Safestrap has saved me a lot of heartache, never caused me any. I would be happy to pull whatever files you need but what those would be, I don't know. I have RicksRom on my sdcard so I have access to all its system files.
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It's one of the original ones. I use it all the time on my spare phone (I've been experimenting a lot mainly with flashfire). It does a full wipe. Like a brand new phone afterwards. A moot point since you don't have Odin. Safestrap has saved me a lot of heartache, never caused me any. I would be happy to pull whatever files you need but what those would be, I don't know. I have RicksRom on my sdcard so I have access to all its system files.
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I'm still trouble shooting the issue with s health. Currently in process of uninstall health service then s-health, reboot then install service first. See if it helps. I do appreciate all your help in this matter and hope you can get me the orignal files needed for this. Is the samsung account still an issue? I installed that apk you sent and login to my account with no problems. All that can be sync is calendar it says. I'm a bit worried using safestrap to be honest after my ordeal with my last phone. I cant take chances ruining this phone by mistakes, especially since i'm going out of state for nearly just over a week starting this weekend.
Tulsadiver said:
It's one of the original ones. I use it all the time on my spare phone (I've been experimenting a lot mainly with flashfire). It does a full wipe. Like a brand new phone afterwards. A moot point since you don't have Odin. Safestrap has saved me a lot of heartache, never caused me any. I would be happy to pull whatever files you need but what those would be, I don't know. I have RicksRom on my sdcard so I have access to all its system files.
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THANKS FOR THE HELP! Well I figured out somehow I fixed it after reading another xda fourm in conjunction with uninstalling s-health and health service then reinstalling them. I installed also a modified s-health app that works along side xposed frameworks. :good:
http://wanamlite.com/xsecurestorage/
http://repo.xposed.info/module/ma.wanam.xshealth
Great! Good job!
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Great! Good job!
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Yeah but after i rebooted it said s-health force stop right away. So im going to try again to uninstall health services and s-health again reboot then install.
Fixed 100% working
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Ok so after a struggle and a couple reboots I got it work 100%! DONE!
Hello, im new here so sorry in advance if i seem like a noob haha
I have a S8 with stock rom but rooted with magisk.
I have firmware AQK7 installed but would like to upgrade with flashfire to AQL5 so i keep all my data and root.
I use flashfire and select the zip file, uncheck the inject supersu, add to flash magisk v15.0 zip and start to flash.
The screen just turns black and the phone just reboots and nothing has changed.
What am I doing wrong?
pls help
silverik1 said:
Hello, im new here so sorry in advance if i seem like a noob haha
I have a S8 with stock rom but rooted with magisk.
I have firmware AQK7 installed but would like to upgrade with flashfire to AQL5 so i keep all my data and root.
I use flashfire and select the zip file, uncheck the inject supersu, add to flash magisk v15.0 zip and start to flash.
The screen just turns black and the phone just reboots and nothing has changed.
What am I doing wrong?
pls help
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Its probably starting to flash. The screen for some devices is VERY dim while doing flashfire flashes and can look like its off. Take it into a dark room and check.
Although if you have g950f why not just use twrp?
Its not a dark screen....it just reboots.
And if I use twrp do I keep my data?
Sorry im a rookie at this.
Learning fast but still....
silverik1 said:
Its not a dark screen....it just reboots.
And if I use twrp do I keep my data?
Sorry im a rookie at this.
Learning fast but still....
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Nobody???
I guess if nobody knows its not possible???:crying:
silverik1 said:
Nobody???
I guess if nobody knows its not possible???:crying:
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Use titanium backup on the playstore to backup all your apps incase somthing happens.
silverik1 said:
Its not a dark screen....it just reboots.
And if I use twrp do I keep my data?
Sorry im a rookie at this.
Learning fast but still....
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Same thing happens for me, buddy. Sadly I haven't found out why.
amon-san said:
Same thing happens for me, buddy. Sadly I haven't found out why.
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Are you sure the screen isn't just really dim? That's a known issue with flashfire, especially older versions and older roms
partcyborg said:
Are you sure the screen isn't just really dim? That's a known issue with flashfire, especially older versions and older roms
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no, i know how it should look like because it worked fine on another device.
there is was rather dim but legible. took quite a lot of time to finish.
on my new device it really just quickly rebooted without doing any work.
amon-san said:
no, i know how it should look like because it worked fine on another device.
there is was rather dim but legible. took quite a lot of time to finish.
on my new device it really just quickly rebooted without doing any work.
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I finally got it working using magisk v14 instead of v15.
Works great with v14.
I really miss the FULL backup that twrp used to have. Aka "nandroid" backup where you can backup partitions in case you add a module that screws up the phone. Is there another way to do this since there is no working twrp for the 8pro? (I'm on 11.0.2.2.IN11AA if that matters)
Thanks
glhelinski said:
I really miss the FULL backup that twrp used to have. Aka "nandroid" backup where you can backup partitions in case you add a module that screws up the phone. Is there another way to do this since there is no working twrp for the 8pro? (I'm on 11.0.2.2.IN11AA if that matters)
Thanks
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No there is no functional TWRP for Android 11.
Primary reason for this is because it simply isn't needed.
There are scripts for ROMs that work just fine.
As for magisk modules then there is a simple fix for that too
Magisk module failure.
This works for any magisk module failure.
1. Power off your phone by holding the power button, then turn it back on.
2. As your phone gets to the bootloader warning screen, press and hold volume up and down and continue to hold until the phone shows the boot animation.
3. You'll boot to safe mode, simply reboot once more.
4. On next boot all your magisk modules will be disabled, remove the problematic module and re-enable the functional ones.
Unfortunately this all also means that there probably won't be any TWRP in the future as we just don't need it, it didn't hinder the developers of ROMs and we have an escape path from dodgy magisk ROMs and modules.
Xposed and kernels are slightly different but you still have a way back without restoring your OS.
So twrp is the only way to do a full backup then?
dladz said:
No there is no functional TWRP for Android 11.
Primary reason for this is because it simply isn't needed.
There are scripts for ROMs that work just fine.
As for magisk modules then there is a simple fix for that too
Magisk module failure.
This works for any magisk module failure.
1. Power off your phone by holding the power button, then turn it back on.
2. As your phone gets to the bootloader warning screen, press and hold volume up and down and continue to hold until the phone shows the boot animation.
3. You'll boot to safe mode, simply reboot once more.
4. On next boot all your magisk modules will be disabled, remove the problematic module and re-enable the functional ones.
Unfortunately this all also means that there probably won't be any TWRP in the future as we just don't need it, it didn't hinder the developers of ROMs and we have an escape path from dodgy magisk ROMs and modules.
Xposed and kernels are slightly different but you still have a way back without restoring your OS.
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Thanks for your response... However i did find a case that the numbered steps above would not work. This was for renovate ice module. Safe mode produced system ui failure and couldn't get past it. I think it was you who helped me by resetting the system
glhelinski said:
Thanks for your response... However i did find a case that the numbered steps above would not work. This was for renovate ice module. Safe mode produced system ui failure and couldn't get past it. I think it was you who helped me by resetting the system
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That's correct and probably due to the fact that R-ice does a lot more to your phone and doesn't revert back the changes it makes whereas the likes of xXx does,. AFAIK R-ice affects system but xXx does not.
For anything else it should be fine.
And lol yep I remember I think.
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So twrp is the only way to do a full backup then?
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In that sense yes, in regards to data and content no, titanium/swift, pc back up, Google sync
dladz said:
In that sense yes, in regards to data and content no, titanium/swift, pc back up, Google sync
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I'm having good luck with swift. Titanium not so much anymore
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I'm having good luck with swift. Titanium not so much anymore
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Yea I know what you mean tbh
@glhelinski
What I found with titanium is that certain apps won't restore, games for example seem to.
But if you install the app from the play store it does allow you to restore app data
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@glhelinski
What I found with titanium is that certain apps won't restore, games for example seem to.
But if you install the app from the play store it does allow you to restore app data
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I could never nail down which apps wouldn't restore... Some would some wouldn't. I have never tried just restoring data (and not the app). Thanks
glhelinski said:
I could never nail down which apps wouldn't restore... Some would some wouldn't. I have never tried just restoring data (and not the app). Thanks
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Tbh I'd like to know why too, I think it's down to security on Google play, perhaps it needs to check in or something within the app itself has to hit Google play to install, probably a DRM feature.
Anything installed from the internet will restore, WhatsApp and telegram restore.
All emulators fail, games in general fail.
I'm surprised that the developers of titanium haven't kept on top of that.
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Tbh I'd like to know why too, I think it's down to security on Google play, perhaps it needs to check in or something within the app itself has to hit Google play to install, probably a DRM feature.
Anything installed from the internet will restore, WhatsApp and telegram restore.
All emulators fail, games in general fail.
I'm surprised that the developers of titanium haven't kept on top of that.
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Titanium backup does not work for split apks, it could be because of that, or simply due the fact that's it's just outdated.
Swift backup on the other hand handles everything fine. There is also a free open source alternative called OAndBackupX which I've heard works great as well.
Full nandroid backup should *hopefully* be possible soon though, mauronofrio is currently working on updating TWRP to 3.5.
Lossyx said:
Full nandroid backup should be possible soon though, mauronofrio is currently working on updating TWRP to 3.5.
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Many would love this
glhelinski said:
Many would love this
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Totally agree dude, it's a ballache wiping your whole phone every time you want to change OS
Only reason I keep TiB is because I freeze some apps. Like when I install goog's camera and messaging ( and their phone . . . maybe too ) and don't want to see oneplus stuff. So, does 'swift' bu do the freezing thing too ?
I suppose the guru members know how to freeze with adb and maybe can share their knowledge . . .
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Only reason I keep TiB is because I freeze some apps. Like when I install goog's camera and messaging ( and their phone . . . maybe too ) and don't want to see oneplus stuff. So, does 'swift' bu do the freezing thing too ?
I suppose the guru members know how to freeze with adb and maybe can share their knowledge . . .
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Never really looked into the freeze method visa adb, I would imagine it has a different term. After all it essentially disables apps instead of uninstalling them.
Swift does things on a different level to tib, so it can back up contacts, messages and call logs grouped or individually.
I haven't explored it enough buy it looks good and the apps seem to restore just fine.
You could adb uninstall the apps that you don't want. There's also another university called rabbit that can relive system apps where tib fails to find the APK. I think this is due to data/app being restricted by Google for certain apps
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Only reason I keep TiB is because I freeze some apps. Like when I install goog's camera and messaging ( and their phone . . . maybe too ) and don't want to see oneplus stuff. So, does 'swift' bu do the freezing thing too ?
I suppose the guru members know how to freeze with adb and maybe can share their knowledge . . .
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SD Maid will freeze apps.