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[sravants]

HELP... Please.........

I have purchased a used Google pixel 3. But only airtel (an operator )sim card is working on the phone. Other operators sim card is showing signal but it is not fully functioning (can't make or receive calls,same in the case of text message)but Internet is working fine. Is there any solution to solve this?

 

[hsoma94]

Hi everyone!

Ever since 12 got out of beta my wifi keeps bugging out from time to time. I can't even open the network settings, only a full restart solves the issue. I did a factory reset too.

At work the wifi works just fine and when I get home I am suddenly not able to connect to anything and vice versa.

I've got the final OTA.

Sorry, if it's already been answered!
Any help is appreciated!

 

[mikolej]

Hello all,

I am definitely new to xda and somewhat of a Noob to Android hacking/development, though not totally unfamiliar. I posted this as its own thread but then I found this thread. It seems I should have posted my question here.

Any help on this matter is appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[nasch007]

HELP... Please.........

I have purchased a used Google pixel 3. But only airtel (an operator )sim card is working on the phone. Other operators sim card is showing signal but it is not fully functioning (can't make or receive calls,same in the case of text message)but Internet is working fine. Is there any solution to solve this?

Sorry it is over a month old, but do you have other APNs that show up? Perhaps the SIM card is being read but the APNs are not being connected to?

 

[nasch007]

Greetings, all!

Boy do I feel like a noob.

I did a bonehead move (again) and wondering how to fix it.

I read about someone adding a custom Dyslexia font into LineageOS and that got me thinking... why can't you just add any custom font you want? Thought I'd try it out for funsies.

So I followed the guidance I found and did the following:
- Copied the font I wanted to use into /system/fonts/
- Edited /system/etc/fonts.xml and added the following entries:

<family name="ubuntu-reg">
<font weight="300" style="normal">Ubuntu-Light.ttf</font>
<font weight="300" style="italic">Ubuntu-LightItalic.ttf</font>
<font weight="400" style="normal">Ubuntu-Regular.ttf</font>
<font weight="400" style="italic">Ubuntu-Italic.ttf</font>
<font weight="500" style="normal">Ubuntu-Medium.ttf</font>
<font weight="500" style="italic">Ubuntu-MediumItalic.ttf</font>
<font weight="700" style="normal">Ubuntu-Bold.ttf</font>
<font weight="700" style="italic">Ubuntu-BoldItalic.ttf</font>
</family>
<alias name="sans-serif-light" to="ubuntu-reg" weight="300" />
<alias name="sans-serif-medium" to="ubuntu-reg" weight="500" />

I rebooted my phone and now it is stuck at the LineageOS logo, won't proceed any further.

... bad, but it gets worse.

I can still boot into recovery, so I decided to reboot into recovery and use ADB. I was able to pull the file, remove the edits, and push it back after mounting /system as writable (strangely it mounts as mnt/system/system/etc). Still bootloop. So at this point I'm figuring maybe permissions error??

My phone never likes to OTA update, so I figured well now as a good a time as any. I rebooted into recovery, downloaded the latest nightly build for blueline, and from the Lineage recovery menu chose Apply update, Apply Update from ADB. I am wondering if this was not the way (do you know the way?)... it errored out at 47%, but I recall that being normal. The phone itself said Step 2/2 and just stayed on that with no output for >10 minutes. So I tapped the back button in the Recovery menu and reboot.

Now stuck at the LineageOS loading splash.

What can I do here... did I apply the update incorrectly? Do I need to chmod or chown the file(s) I edited?

Still have recovery and ADB access... decent enough with the shell, but then again that just means I know enough to be dangerous lol

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[adabo]

Is there a way to block gif searches on this device? I need parental controls but none of the controls I found are able to lock out gif searches. The gboard app is used virtually in every app that needs texting, and from there you can search gifs using the gboard keyboard.

I thought about blocking the domains at the router level, but that won't stop them from turning off WiFi and using regular data plan to search.

I don't know where else to get help for this. Thank you very much for reading and any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[nasch007]

Greetings, all!

Boy do I feel like a noob.

I did a bonehead move (again) and wondering how to fix it.

I read about someone adding a custom Dyslexia font into LineageOS and that got me thinking... why can't you just add any custom font you want? Thought I'd try it out for funsies.

So I followed the guidance I found and did the following:
- Copied the font I wanted to use into /system/fonts/
- Edited /system/etc/fonts.xml and added the following entries:

I rebooted my phone and now it is stuck at the LineageOS logo, won't proceed any further.

... bad, but it gets worse.

I can still boot into recovery, so I decided to reboot into recovery and use ADB. I was able to pull the file, remove the edits, and push it back after mounting /system as writable (strangely it mounts as mnt/system/system/etc). Still bootloop. So at this point I'm figuring maybe permissions error??

My phone never likes to OTA update, so I figured well now as a good a time as any. I rebooted into recovery, downloaded the latest nightly build for blueline, and from the Lineage recovery menu chose Apply update, Apply Update from ADB. I am wondering if this was not the way (do you know the way?)... it errored out at 47%, but I recall that being normal. The phone itself said Step 2/2 and just stayed on that with no output for >10 minutes. So I tapped the back button in the Recovery menu and reboot.

Now stuck at the LineageOS loading splash.

What can I do here... did I apply the update incorrectly? Do I need to chmod or chown the file(s) I edited?

Still have recovery and ADB access... decent enough with the shell, but then again that just means I know enough to be dangerous lol

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Just an update, I was able to remedy the situation. Redownloaded the latest Lineage recovery and nightly. Flashed recovery, then nightly, then nikgapps, addons, and finally magiskv23 (which is what I had). Was able to boot and seems to be working normally.... since I guess this is all a dirty flash, I expect some issues but at least I can snag my data and make preparations for a clean boot. Just posting here in case this can help anyone else.

 

[nasch007]

Is there a way to block gif searches on this device? I need parental controls but none of the controls I found are able to lock out gif searches. The gboard app is used virtually in every app that needs texting, and from there you can search gifs using the gboard keyboard.

I thought about blocking the domains at the router level, but that won't stop them from turning off WiFi and using regular data plan to search.

I don't know where else to get help for this. Thank you very much for reading and any help would be greatly appreciated.

What do you mean by GIF searches? You mean when sending messages? Or some other context...

 

[adabo]

What do you mean by GIF searches? You mean when sending messages? Or some other context...

I mean, let's say, for example, you are using the text messenger and typing your text, there is a little bar above the keyboard that has icons. One says 'GIF'. When you tap that it opens up a gif search function. I want to block this function so that no gifs (images) will show, or altogether remove the gif feature from the keyboard. (See attachments)