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How can I unlock realme 5 pro bootloader? The app provided for accessing the option is called indepth testing but it doesn't work on the latest Android 10 update (I think it's for Android 9 and is not yet updated for 10 but who knows how long that might take) and without it I cant find a single way to unlock the bootloader

I have recently installed lineageos on my lenovo yoga tab 3 plus. With the stock rom I was able tonget fhd netflix. But know with the root and lineageos I cant. Is there any way to get this back?

So, I got a Coolpad Torino R108, it's and older phone but grandpa got his shit going. I broke the screen tough, nevermind. I want to change OS to like lollipop 8.1 or something along those lines, for that i know I need root so there is a BIG how to for me. Also, how dangerous is that, can I do it safe af, I have a fingerprint sensor, so that is requested within the OS and that would be it. Im expecting someone who done it to tell it to me, I really don't want to have a 13 yo kid who can't run a pc to send me a video of a 10 who done it and f...ed it up. Thanks in advance.

I want to Root my Galaxy S8+. I was wondering if anyone could point me to the right guide or tutorial? I've been trying to research the different kinds of roots but information is very weirdly scattered. I'm not sure if my google Algorithm is dumb today or what... So far I've figured out that the instant root stuff like SuperSU and KingRoot is not trustworthy and it's not a good idea to use them. I'm brand new at this stuff so I don't know much. Geekbench says I'm on Snapdragon 835 and on Android 8.0. Once I root will I still be able to get the Android Pie update that is apparently coming to S8 or does that mean I have to do something before I upgrade?

Help I have accidentally wiped my moto e5 play and I am trying to figure out how i can re flash everything I do have twrp installed I was trying to install nethunter and i didn't pay attention to what I was doing and I can't figure out how to get it to boot i tried re flashing the rom and it didn't work

I am looking for a decent root-able phone that will run on the Cricket USA network, While it doesn't need to be a flagship or flagship killer I do have a few specs I would need required 1. Proven Root-able 2. Micro-SD slot (support for 64Gb+) 3. at least 6in - 6.5in screen (1080p+ preferred) 4. Android 7+ 5. and if possible.... A headphone jack.... >_>; I have a Blade Max Z (Z982) atm and performance wise its not bad at all but there is no good way to root it without disabling a bunch of security on your computer and the "bricking" risk for the phone is way too high for this model (much higher then normal for rooting phones)

Hey, so It's pretty simple: I want to upgrade my Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7 inch version (T230) to at least Android 7.0 but I'm struggling to find any proof whether or not it will work. There are a bunch of custom ROMs for Tab 3, including Lineage OS (which is what I was aiming for, but it doesn't support Tab 4 apparently), however, nothing trustworthy for Tab 4. If anyone could provide some assistance it would be greatly appreciated!

I've been an android modder since 2013, started with a Samsung S4 Mini, and every android phone I had since was rooted / modded in some form. Last year I modded a Motorola Moto Z2 Play, with all the problems that now root and other mods causes, safetynet issues, netflix doesn't work, games like pokemon go doesn't work neither. Now I am with a Xiaomi Mi 9 everything left on stock, being my first phone without a mod, making me out of the picture of the Android Modding world. What's your opinion about Android Modding today in general? Do you still mod your device in 2019 with all the problems that causes? That was only a problem of mine or do you encountered similar problems?

Hey guys, so I took a little stroll through the Google Play Store and... Well what do you know... Here's an app promising root on any Android phone through the power of a second Android instance contained in a VM. ? Reviews are mixed, some mention the app is slow, some praise... At 1M installs I wonder how my YT binge career has never unearthed this before... And I'm afraid it's vapor ware at best or sketchy mal/spyware at worst. Anyone of you guys who tried it already? VMOS on the Google Play Store I wonder if that environment passes SafetyNet. ?

Disclaimer: This is from the pov of me, someone who could care less about what most people look for in a smartphone (battery life, cameras, screen-to-body ratios, speakers, and probably more), I will still try and touch on these but don't expect me to talk much about them. I am going to structure this review as more of a list than a traditional review, if you are interested in an overall conclusion it's hopefully at the bottom if I remember to put it there... Performance: I don't really do anything performance intensive on my phone (like gaming) so that was one of the reasons I didn't mind going with the Exynos based Note9. That being said it has been super quick and snappy, if you lower animation scale everything is super quick to open and switching between tasks has virtually no lag. Rating: 8/10 - it ain't an SD855 plus but for most people it's plenty and should be fast enough for a long time. Screen: It's awesome. High resolution, bright, vibrant OLED display. Best of all it doesn't some stupid f***ing bite taken out of it. Watching YouTube on the Note9 is awesome. Rating: 10/10 - it's probably not the "Best smartphone screen ever" or whatever but it's awesome. Battery: It's big and it lasts a long time, idk what else you want me to say, while playing with it for ~90 minutes of screen on time (at about 65% brightness) it only dropped to 87%. Rating: 9/10 - I'm sure there's bigger, better batteries but I'm also sure it could easily last a day for almost anyone. Size/Build: It's a big phone, like a really big phone so If you're coming from a non-plus Iphone or something like a non-plus galaxy s series there is quite the difference, that being said there is a one-handed mode and it (at least for me) isn't unwieldy or anything (unless you need to tap something in the top left with one hand, that's kind of an issue). Build quality and feel is awesome, feels sturdy and not like it's gonna fall apart or anything, that being said it is also quite heavy so I would hope it's solid. The S-pen doesn't feel as quality as the phone, it's all plastic and honestly feels like it could snap in half with little force, but it is nice to write with. Rating: 8/10 - great feel, but large and pen feel could be better Camera: I haven't used the camera much at all so look at another review for detailed information on the image quality, that being said the 2x optical zoom is cool and 960fps slow mo looks awesome. Rating: 6.66/10 - It's got the zoom and standard lens, just needs a wide angle. Now we are getting into the smaller features category, things that don't need their own paragraph or ratings, just nice-to-haves Headphone Jack: It's there, it isn't anything special but hey, at least it exists *glares at Note 10 angrily*. I personally like it better on the top, it makes the phone easier to hold when charging and listening to music. SD Card Slot: Awesome to have (even though the BASE model is 128GB and even with my 70GB music library I still have plenty of space... Bio-metric Authentication: The fingerprint sensor is lightning fast and easy enough to reach, I don't mind it on the back but in-screen ones are the future. Iris scanning was absolutely awful in my testing, took 3 tries to register and once it did you basically have to stare straight at your phone at just the right distance or it doesn't work, useful if you have it in a car maybe? or a desk dock? easier for me just to pick it up and unlock it with my finger. Speaker(s): Honestly haven't tested it, again if you want information on this go find a better review... That being said Stereo speakers using the earpiece is cool. S-Pen: Super cool, that being said you probably won't use it that much but having it as an option is still nice, the remote features are useful and there are a LOT of different things it can do now with the Note9. Writes very nice and feels natural to write with (in landscape mode, portrait mode makes you kind of lean your hand over the edge but it's still usable) Bixby: why tho? I mean routines are cool but that's about it... (at least you can remap the button with root+ button mapper) Now comes the part that talks about the more technical side and rooting/other stuff If you are interested in rooting make sure you get a model that actually can be rooted/bootloader unlocked, these are: All Exynos versions (N960N, N960F, N960FD, N960F/DS, there are probably more I forgot) The China Snapdragon variant (N9600) There are some annoyances even with these versions: In order to unlock your bootloader you need to factory reset, this isn't a big issue as you're most likely doing this right after you get the phone anyway but it leads into the second annoyance. There is a 7 DAY PERIOD where you can't flash custom binaries EVEN AFTER you enable OEM Unlock. There are workaround (I did manage to bypass it), just search 'Note 9 KG State: Prenormal fix' but it's still annoying that it exists. After you get the bootloader unlocked it's simple to flash TWRP, ROMs and get root. The Galaxy Project is working great for me. Overall Conclusion It's an awesome phone, the Exynos ones are great for people who want/need root, highly recommend it. The successor is frankly a shame and is not a worth upgrade. As Linus said it's kind of a catch all phone, doesn't have the best anything (except maybe screen) but it has everything and that's the key. I can not find another comparable phone on the market that has even most of the features of the Note9. This will probably be updated later but it's long enough and I have only used the phone for ~48 hours.

Long story short: I need help finding a device under $250 that is easy to root, has good battery life, and a nice display. Long story: I'm trying to root a phone so I can spoof my location in Pokemon Go. I don't want to void the warranty on my personal phone, so I tried doing it with my old one, an LG Stylo 2V, it didn't work and the phone's battery sucks. I decided that I would buy a cheap phone that's easy to root, has a good battery life, and decent display. I went into bestbuy and decided on the Moto G7 Power. I ordered it from Amazon and when I got it I discovered that the phone has a ridiculous flaw, it's a brick. The phone doesn't respond when plugged in or turn on when you press the power button. Apparently the solution to this is to hold the power button for 15 seconds on and off until it turns on again. I've only successfully done this once and it took an entire day. The phone was forced to restart when updating and the same thing is happening again, so I'm going to return it. Now I need help deciding on a new device that I can root easily.

I used odin on my Samsung Galaxy A10, to flash twrp. I followed the guide, and ticked EVERY box from the options list (including nand erase and re-partition). Currently, the phone rejects all flash attempts I've tried (check fail device 2 binary 1 is the error I get) Is there anything I can do to recover it, or is it just an expensive-ish paperweight?

A person I know is to lazy to root it himself, is there a good place to buy a phone with LineageOS? :3

Hello everyone. I am trying to understand how exactly account permissions work in relation to the root user and the sudo command. I had thought that using the sudo command would elevate you to the root user. However, using the root password that I setup when installing does not work. It accepts my user account password. My account should be a stander user. It should not be able to run elevated commands right? So why does that password work and the root password I set during setup not work? Furthermore, I also tested this by opening a root terminal. Same thing: root password does not work, but my stander user account does. I am getting confused looking into this myself. Is this normal behavior? If so, then why? Does sudo actually run a command as root? Does my user account have some elevated privilege? When does the root password that I set come into play? I am currently running off ParrotOS 4.10 with XFCE; but from what I understand this does not have to do with my specific distro. Thanks!

Hello guys recently I tried to unlock the bootloader on my old Lenovo Vibe K5 Note(a7020a48) to Install twrp recovery and then root the phone with magisk. I have done everything in other forums to install unlock the bootloader but everytime I try with adb platform tools it shows the following error: FAILED (remote: download for partition 'recovery' is not allowed) Can anyone tell me how to unlock the bootloader thanks in advance! <3 NOTE: OEM UNLOCK is enabled / USB debugging too I've preformed a factory reset on the device and the error still persist

Hello there, First of all I'm new here... So I hope this is the right category. ^^ Today I tried to root my Galaxy A5 2016 with the Model Number SM-A510F. My goal was to flash Lineage OS 17 so I can try some sweet Android 10. Unfortunately I was not able to get TWRP working in the first place... It failed after the bootloader mode, even though I switched on USB Debugging and OEM. So I decided to try it with Odin. But even with Odin and my device being in the download mode I was not able to get the TWRP image working. It simply did not install it (Odin even said it was installed successfully, but it didn't. Woops.) After that I tried CF-Auto-Root (https://autoroot.chainfire.eu/). Surprisingly this one actually worked! My device now was rooted. I then decided to give the official TWRP App a try and install the image twrp-3.4.0-0-a7xelte.img directly onto my phone. (I think this is where my error began, I should not have tried this right?) The installation was successful, but I was not able to go into the TWRP recovery mode where I could flash Lineage OS and Gapps... So I selected the "reboot in recovery mode" option in the TWRP App. The device shut down, but then froze in the boot loading screen. Since then I was not able to boot it again. Furthermore I was not even able to get into Samsung own recovery mode from now on (by pressing the home button, power button and volume up). The only mode I actually got working was the download mode, in which I also installed CF-Autoroot in the first place. And now I have no clue how I can get my device working again... I'm not able to boot or even do a factory reset (since I cannot even enter the recovery mode). My PC does not recognize my phone. Only when I turn the download mode on, but then I does not recognize it as "Samsung Galaxy A5", my PC tells me I have connected something different. What should I do now? Should I wait until the battery is empty and then try to reboot it? You guys are my only hope. Help would be greatly appreciated.

So I changed the username on my Kali Linux VM and now it doesn't let me login. When i login it just takes me to the desktop but I can't do anything or click on anything in the toolbar. This happened after changing the default Kali username to my own one. I can login as root fine but not as my other user. Thanks in advance.

hello everyone, i need all your suggestions regarding all android diagnostic tools, like for example how can i see the phone specs if it's screen is broken ? i mean i know that i search the model online, but i need a program that view all the phone specs when i connect it to my PC . so what are all the android tools a technician/engineer need to have ? any and all opinions are more than appreciated, Thank you all

I have been searching the internet for days on a clear cut method to reset, unlock and root my fully stock OP3T. I am finally sick of being rootless and I have no clue where to start. The last time I rooted a phone was -years- ago, A Samsung Galaxy S5. I have no clue where to start but have a Windows PC (I can whip up a Linux Mint VM or use a Live USB Linux Distro if that's better) , my USB-C cable and my phone, running stock and still fine. I know full well I will be losing all data on it, and have already backed up everything to my OTG Flash drive. I am, however, a layman and need things in simple terms, I am having a lot of trouble following the stuff I've found so far on XDA Forums & on YouTube. Please & Thank you. ~Divide

I finally rooted my Samsung Core prime G360V, but I want to be able to flash custom ROMs along with being able to hide the root from apps. I don't think my device is supported on TWRP so I can't get a custom recovery for Magisk. I can't get RootCloak because Xposed also doesn't support my device. I switched KingSu for SuperSu and was wondering if I would have could get MagiskSu somehow. (I posted this here instead of XDA because I never get replies there)

I know iRoot does not void warranty. Any other choices?

So after finding out that you can change a network locked phone to the carrier of your choice, I've made the decision to buy a T-Mobile LG G5 because it has an unlocked bootloader which will allow me to install a custom recovery and such for rooting. The Verizon version of the G5 simply doesn't allow such things. Bootloader issues and such. My concern is will flashing a custom recovery once the T-Mobile G5 is network unlocked revert those settings? Will it stay unlocked for me to use my Verizon SIM or once flashed will it only accept a T-Mobile SIM?

Hey. I have been trying to root my OnePlus 5. I managed to enable the boot loader and place the SuperSU zip on my device(also tried Magisk). But when I then try booting into TWRP again to install the zip it does not show. At the top it says "Internal Storage (0MB)" or something similar. So I tried mounting it, as well as wiping it, but nothing worked. I haven't found any way online to fix this. So I need some suggestions or help to fix this? Would I be able to install it from a USB-c flash drive?

Is it possible to root the Cricket LG Fortune? I want to try and root something again as I have this phone just doing nothing. The last 2 times I tried to root something resulted in both devices being bricked. I can't find anything useful over at XDA, Reddit or any other forum I know of.

I've been using a Google Pixel for about a year now and I love it. I got a second one to mess around with, and I can't decide what to do/what would be worth it. It's been a while since I've been active in the rooting and custom ROM scene, and a lot has changed. None of it is above my head really, I just can't make up my mind. I had read up about rooting the pixel last summer, and it was still relatively new, but straight forward (with custom ROMs being still too experimental for my tastes). I decided to hold off until my warranty was up (the hardware issues common with the pixel spooked me), but now that I have another I'm ready to dive in. One thing I forgot about though: SafetyNet. I would like to keep that intact. So, that said, which would be most optimal (stable&secure) yet also useful (features&root)? I'm mostly unfamiliar with Magisk, and am hesitant to see how it interacts with applications in granting root, not sure about benefits over Xposed, etc. etc. TL;DR help my indecisive self figure out what to do to my phone