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    Thread using google assistant from bluetooth device to call a contact

    Hey guys, so I have a bose quietcontrol 30 that I wear around for work all day. It has a little button by the right earbud if you hold down it triggers google assistant which is great. When I tell it to "Call John Smith, mobile", it works great up until the fact that it defaults to putting...
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    Thread web messages & whatsapp keep timing out

    Hey guys, I've searched endlessly online and can't seem to figure out what the problem is. It's not the "optimize battery settings", that's where most of the guides online start with. I've checked the data savings settings and from what I can find there is nothing wrong there either. I keep...
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    Thread Sync certain contact groups to car over bluetooth instead of "all contacts"

    Hey everyone I've done some searching but all I can find is the "old" way of doing this which used to work but doesn't anymore. You used to be able to go into the Contacts app and customize the view to certain groups, and that's all that would be sync'd over bluetooth. You can still customize...
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    Post [ROM][OFFICIAL] 9 || walleye || VoLTE/WFC* || Theming - JULY 14th

    That's what I thought too at first but I did it a couple of times. My phone wouldn't boot last night so eventually I just gave up and flashed the stock rom just so I could get back to work. I'll give this a shot again when I have some more free time, I'll try a different cable or upload...
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    Post [ROM][OFFICIAL] 9 || walleye || VoLTE/WFC* || Theming - JULY 14th

    Hey guys, not sure if I am missing something incredibly obvious or what.. when I try to install the zip file it says: Skipping Digest check: no Digest file found Error installing zip file "AquariOSxxxxxx.zip" ...done Anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong? Thanks everyone in advance.
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    Post Stuck at boot.. can get into bootloader but not sure what to do next...

    This was my mistake when I was having all of those problems. I was using older versions of adb/fastboot. Everything looked like it was installing alright but then it would just keep bootlooping.. was very frustrating. It was a relief when replacing those binaries with the updated ones worked...
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    Post RomAur-v1.8- [09/05] - [8.1_MAY]-[Pixel 2 XL]-FAST-STABLE

    This both answered my previous question and worked great for me. Link to tool in question: https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/development/tool-deuces-bootloop-recovery-flashing-t3704761 Thank you!
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    Post RomAur-v1.8- [09/05] - [8.1_MAY]-[Pixel 2 XL]-FAST-STABLE

    I think I am having the same problem as everyone else.. I have however admittedly been out of the loop on custom roms for a while now so the whole active slot thing is really messing with me. Hoping for a little guidance here. If I run the stock flash-all.bat (from taimen-opm1.171019.013)...
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    Post Ridiculous root blocking apps somehow seeing past Magisk Hide?

    Hey everyone sorry I wasn't getting alerts that there were responses here. Magisk says: SafetyNet Check Success ctsProfile: true basicIntegrity: true I am not running a custom kernel. When I read this I remembered seeing a setting in Magisk to repackage itself so I went in and...
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    Thread Ridiculous root blocking apps somehow seeing past Magisk Hide?

    Hey everyone, I had ADT in my shop earlier today installing a security system. It comes with an app they call ADT Pulse which lets me arm/disarm/receive alerts/update profiles/all the usual stuff you'd expect. The problem is for some ridiculous reason it's checking for root and I don't know...
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    Post [TOOL] SKIPSOFT ANDROID TOOLKIT -Google Pixel 2 XL- Drivers,Unlock,Firmware,Root

    I appreciate the response but no explanation necessary. I know what I'm getting into when I buy a device that was just released.. and I further know what I'm getting into when messing around with it while development on it is only a handful of weeks old. Thanks for your contribution to...
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    Post [TOOL] SKIPSOFT ANDROID TOOLKIT -Google Pixel 2 XL- Drivers,Unlock,Firmware,Root

    I was using the versions of adb/fastboot that I originally used with my Pixel XL without even thinking of updating them. It completely screwed everything up because when I flashed the patched_boot.img that Magisk generated, the phone wouldn't boot. And I was trying everything including the...
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    Post [TOOL] SKIPSOFT ANDROID TOOLKIT -Google Pixel 2 XL- Drivers,Unlock,Firmware,Root

    Yes I read that also.. it's no problem I know it takes time to get this stuff developed and the bugs out. In the mean time to get my phone working again I just extracted the factory image and ran the flash-all script directly. My problem yesterday ended up being outdated versions of adb &...
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    Post Stuck at boot.. can get into bootloader but not sure what to do next...

    Yep.. it definitely did. I guess this is a lesson for knuckleheads like me who start messing around before properly updating everything. I just did all of the same things I did earlier, and it booted fine, with root. Lots of wasted hours over a dummy move. :) Thanks again for all the help!
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    Post Stuck at boot.. can get into bootloader but not sure what to do next...

    Circling back to how this all began, do you think those old binaries would have caused this to happen in the first place? What I originally did was push the stock boot.img to the device, used Magisk Manager to patch it, then pulled the patched_boot.img from the device. Then booted into the...
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    Post Stuck at boot.. can get into bootloader but not sure what to do next...

    Thank you again for all the advice. - Downloaded 8.0.0 (OPD1.170816.025, Nov 2017) - I believe my rookie mistake was using the previous versions of adb/fastboot that I've had for a while.. on google's SDK website it clearly says ***26.0.2 (October 2017) Add support for Pixel 2 devices***...
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    Post Stuck at boot.. can get into bootloader but not sure what to do next...

    Thank you very much for your response. I left it at the splash screen for a pretty long time.. probably about a half hour at one point.. nothing was happening. However right now when I boot into recovery I get the little android dude on his back and it says "No command"..
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    Thread Stuck at boot.. can get into bootloader but not sure what to do next...

    Hi everyone, this all started when I tried to flash a patched boot image for root and seemed to get worse from there. There's no data on the phone that I care about so just wiping it and getting it to boot would be preferable. I've tried using the skipsoft toolkit (I have the ultimate version...
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    Post [GUIDE] Unlock/Flash/Root for the Pixel 2 XL (taimen)

    Tried doing this.. still wouldn't boot. I don't have anything on the phone that I'm trying to save so at this point I don't mind just wiping it and starting fresh just to get it working again. I just tried downloading the factory image and using the flash-all script to just start over but now...
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    Post [TOOL] SKIPSOFT ANDROID TOOLKIT -Google Pixel 2 XL- Drivers,Unlock,Firmware,Root

    Hi everyone, I am trying to flash a stock google factory image (I have the ultimate version) right now because I think I screwed something up. I can get into fastboot and the toolkit will walk me through all the way to the point where it should actually do the flashing part. Then it just...
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    Post [GUIDE] Unlock/Flash/Root for the Pixel 2 XL (taimen)

    Hmmm.... okay I can try that but right now I just need to figure out how to get this thing to boot again. I can get to fastboot and I've been trying to use the skipsoft tool kit (I have ultimate) to flash just a stock image so I can boot but it is just fighting for some reason.
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    Post [GUIDE] Unlock/Flash/Root for the Pixel 2 XL (taimen)

    Yep yep that makes more sense now. That worked.. I flashed the patched_boot.img but now it just hangs at the white "G" screen with the moving progress bar on booting. Doh. ;/ :confused:
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    Post [GUIDE] Unlock/Flash/Root for the Pixel 2 XL (taimen)

    Hey everyone, when I try to patch taimen-opd1.170816.010-factory-c796ddb4.zip with Magisk Manager it just keeps crashing. It gets to the black screen with the outputs, says "extracting files", then "use boot image: ....", then Magisk Manager keeps stopping [close app]. Tried uninstalling...
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    Post [GUIDE] Magisk/Root + Snoke Kernel + Viper4Android on 8.0

    Thank you I will look at that.. honestly at this point all I am looking for is root. I can patiently wait on all the other goodies until everything is a bit more developed.
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    Post [GUIDE] Magisk/Root + Snoke Kernel + Viper4Android on 8.0

    Hey guys.. I know twrp isn't stable yet but when I try to fastboot into it, it just hangs at the splash screen. Tried rebooting and doing it again, same problem. Anyone else experience this? Edit: Am I doing something wrong? It seems like it's downloading a 40mb file way too quickly. Feel...
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    Go to settings and search for "active edge"
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    Post [HELP THREAD][Noob Friendly]Samsung Galaxy S8+ Ask any question

    Thank you, I appreciate the guidance. I remember pre-ordering that Note all those years back and was pretty steamed waiting for months and months for the devs here on xda to try and break through it. I recall a lot of whining on the forum. I guess I'm still a little sour towards Samsung over...
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    Post [HELP THREAD][Noob Friendly]Samsung Galaxy S8+ Ask any question

    Hey guys, so a few years back I was am avid Samsung phone buyer. Right up until I bought the note (I think it was the 4), only to find out that Samsung had locked the bootloader preventing root and a bunch of other mods that I was always accustomed to. My question is, is it still like that with...
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    Post Problem w/ fastboot - FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

    Yep, you got me. I got home and tried a different cable and different computer, it didn't fail but it just booted normally so I'm like hey now what the heck. But yeah.. so now both problems are solved. ;) Good catch on that. I don't remember what I was reading but it directed me to that link...
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    Post Problem w/ fastboot - FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

    Hmm this is kind of a crappy problem to be having. I just tried the only 2 different cables I have here and every usb port that's on here and it's doing the same thing.
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    Post Problem w/ fastboot - FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

    Hey guys I appreciate the responses.. I thought of that also and (I thought) I updated my android SDK. C:\Users\Michael>fastboot --version fastboot version 3db08f2c6889-android Installed as E:\Android-SDK\platform-tools\fastboot.exe C:\Users\Michael> Did it not update? Not sure which version...
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    Thread Problem w/ fastboot - FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

    Hey guys, I've had the Pixel XL for a while but I just got a new one with the insurance because the plug failed. Anyhow, long story short.. didn't have a problem rooting or putting custom recovery on the other one 8 months ago or whatever. bootloader is unlocked. This one however, I'm...