Recent content by vintagepc

That seems to have fixed it. Thanks!

So this is a weird one. I cannot access my lock settings anymore, it fails with "too many attempts" even if the pattern is correct. No, I haven't forgotten my pattern as I can still use it to boot the phone and unlock it. Weirdly, the same message pops up briefly in a popup dialog after...

I managed to get things to work by using a later version of tar from https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/utils-data-recovery-tools-testdisk-t3709380 However, I've now hit a new issue. After extracting to /data/data, or /data/app, the files are there, but vanish after a reboot, so...

That's fair, though I was hoping for something that doesn't require a paid third-party app. Forgive my ignorance - is the integration tasker specific or will it work with any generic "task" application?

Long story short, had to send the phone in for repair, so I did the obligatory backups and unroot/reflash of factory images. I don't have TWRP, too much hassle together with magisk for taking OTAs, so I took my backups (/data, /data/media) with tar/split/gzip. Did my due dilligence to make...

Thank you for this - it's what the factory tool should have been. Small feature request - is it possible to get an option to enable respecting the system's do-not-disturb hours (or a schedule option that says "don't light up between these hours")? Would be icing on the cake.

It's not a question of the hardware, but rather the SOFTWARE being capable. Some folks have had success using the info here, others have not. Current thoughts are that whether you are successful depends on whether your phone has an RF calibration for the required bands. That is a step that...

Finally had some time to get back to this and can't find TWRP flashable zips of recent ROMs... (PG2/1.) Well, not quite. I found a PG2 near stock pre-rooted and deodexed, but it gives zip verification errors when trying to flash despite the MD5 being right. Guess I'll shelve it again until I...

Has anyone here tried a G900T ROM on their G900P? I'm curious whether this can be used to enable wifi calling. (Just the system zip, not bootloader/kernel/modem, of course). I recall reading a thread on cross flashing with all kinds of info on doing this but I can't for the life of me find it...

Yeah... there was some discussion as to whether the 900P doesn't have band calibrations for non-sprint LTE bands. I'm not really looking for a new phone, just figured that if I could get LTE it would be a nice bonus. Re FM radio: I looked into this some a while back, it works on the G900P...

I think I'm SOL with my only remaining option to try flashing a custom ROM. The LTE radio in my device simply won't start on any band other than 25.

In my case... I've managed to get it to look like the bands in question are enabled via QPST/QXDM (confirmed with readback through DFS/EFS pro)... but the LTE radio still doesn't activate (band ID in the debug screen is -119, LTE radio is "idle") the write "block" you're experiencing is...

Did you make any further progress with LTE on touchwiz? Been tinkering and trying to get T-Mobile LTE (band 2 & 700Mhz) working on my own G900P. Something interesting I found is that if I have it set to LTE/GSM (autoPRL) sometimes it will remove (hide) any T-mobile APNs and force you to use...

Do post back how things go, I'm curious to know whether mine is just an exception or whether it's something I'm doing wrong and it is possible. :)

In theory the contents of that thread should still apply, you'll just need to do the appropriate math to turn on LTE bands 2 and 4, and possibly the 1700 AWS band. (I have the LTE bands enabled on my device and cannot get LTE, but I'm unable to get the AWS band enabled, so it's possible that is...