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[Q] Stock Apps Keep Re-installing after restart?

So I unlocked my bootloader, installed TWRP and rooted my phone. Next I downloaded titanium backup and uninstalled all the apps that I didn't want like kid mode and fitbit and TV etc... But whenever I restart the phone, all the apps are reinstalled again. Never had this issue on my S4. Does anybody know what's up?

LiquidPrince said:
So I unlocked my bootloader, installed TWRP and rooted my phone. Next I downloaded titanium backup and uninstalled all the apps that I didn't want like kid mode and fitbit and TV etc... But whenever I restart the phone, all the apps are reinstalled again. Never had this issue on my S4. Does anybody know what's up?
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Try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viper.tbrestorefixerfree
Not to sure if it will work but won't hurt to try

Yep - check here and here.

rootrider said:
Yep - check here and here.
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So what you're saying is that I have to flash a new kernel? If so, that's too complicated... I only rooted because I wanted to remove the bloatware stuff and leave everything else untouched. I'm kind of regretting it now.
Has anyone figured out a way to unroot and lock the bootloader again for the M8?

I understand - you're pretty new to this device and maybe to HTC's write protection they invented last year. That's ok mate.
With TWRP installed it's a very simple thing to flash the new kernel. Did you already do some flashing on these devices? I think it's more complicated to get root the first time than flashing a zip from TWRP. :good:
Anyway I'll help you there. Simply download Flars kernel and copy the zip-file to your internal SD-card. Boot into TWRP and choose the install option. Navigate to your internal SD and select that zip file. Start flashing and choose simply the defaults you get offered by the aroma installer. Finish, reboot and the write protection is gone. TB will work as always.

rootrider said:
I understand - you're pretty new to this device and maybe to HTC's write protection they invented last year. That's ok mate.
With TWRP installed it's a very simple thing to flash the new kernel. Did you already do some flashing on these devices? I think it's more complicated to get root the first time than flashing a zip from TWRP. :good:
Anyway I'll help you there. Simply download Flars kernel and copy the zip-file to your internal SD-card. Boot into TWRP and choose the install option. Navigate to your internal SD and select that zip file. Start flashing and choose simply the defaults you get offered by the aroma installer. Finish, reboot and the write protection is gone. TB will work as always.
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Thanks a trillion. But this thing was bugging me, so I said to hell with it and just installed the GPE RUU. How I don't have to deal with any of that nonsense since none of the bloat apps are installed in the first place. Now I just have to figure out how to reinstall TWRP and root again... This stuff seems a lot more complicated then just using ODIN on Samsung devices, at least for the time being while I'm still so new HTC stuff.

worked.

I'm using HTC since a couple of years and bought a S4 Mini for my daughter last year. Last week my sister stepped in with her Sony device. Don't ask how long it took me to understand and root these devices... lol.
If you need to know sth about HTC devices simply step in and pm me. But I think you'll be soon familiar with the differences! :good:
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andrewnelson said:
worked.
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Supposed to.

Rootrider. Thanks for your posts on this subject. I too am new to HTC (3 x Galaxys before that).
How do you flash the wp_mod.ko file you posted the link to? Sounds like it will do the trick and stop reinserting of deleted apps.
Thanks

Stuck in bootloader

So yesterday I was taking a look to xda developers when I saw a post with cyanogen mod 14 for the Nexus 5x so I installed it. Everything went ok but after looking at the OS for a bit I thought that the OS i had was better (it was nougat 7.1.1, beta program) so before installing cyanogen mod i had made a backup of my older system. I tried to restore the backup but when i tried to turn on the phone it froze when booting, and that started happening over and over, it turns on shows google logo starts booting and freezes, turn of, turns on ....
I've tried to install many diferrent roms from here xda, the normal ones in root toolkit and nothing works, every rom freezes when booting. I've wiped the phone i've done everything i could do in TWRP.
Please if someone out there can help i would be very thankful.
Im sorry for bad english!

Usually you repair it by flashing firmware

rp158 said:
Usually you repair it by flashing firmware
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How can i do that?

mike_seventeen said:
How can i do that?
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Since you already tried toolkit and it didn't work,? Wugfresh?
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mike_seventeen said:
How can i do that?
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Read this carefully, at the end there is a tutorial how to flash stock. It's number 9 or 10. http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206930/page150

Stevica Smederevac said:
Since you already tried toolkit and it didn't work,? Wugfresh?
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Read this carefully, at the end there is a tutorial how to flash stock. It's number 9 or 10. http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206930/page150
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Sorry I had to leave. but i done what said in the tutorial and everything went ok. Now i have to install a rom right?
Thanks!

mike_seventeen said:
Sorry I had to leave. but i done what said in the tutorial and everything went ok. Now i have to install a rom right?
Thanks!
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Yes but be careful what version of Nougat it is and try to match the vendor accordingly.

Stevica Smederevac said:
Yes but be careful what version of Nougat it is and try to match the vendor accordingly.
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I installed the lastest version from google's developers website and now it just stays in google logo forever when booting

mike_seventeen said:
I installed the lastest version from google's developers website and now it just stays in google logo forever when booting
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Didn't you say that everything went ok? What did you do in the meantime? You just flashed stock img? Try to do a factory reset from stock recovery

Stevica Smederevac said:
Didn't you say that everything went ok? What did you do in the meantime? You just flashed stock img? Try to do a factory reset from stock recovery
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I done step 10 as you said to do from that post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206930) then i installed the rom and know its basically happening the same thing that happened in first place.
I probably done something wrong installing the rom.
I've done factory resets several times in stock and custom recoverys

mike_seventeen said:
I done step 10 as you said to do from that post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206930) then i installed the rom and know its basically happening the same thing that happened in first place.
I probably done something wrong installing the rom.
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Or it's a hardware issue. Apparently, a lot of 5x are dying suddenly and lately. Try the factory reset first before you flash stock again.

Stevica Smederevac said:
Or it's a hardware issue. Apparently, a lot of 5x are dying suddenly and lately. Try the factory reset first before you flash stock again.
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I'll do as you say, but if i can´t solve this i'm kinda screwed because i have no possibilities to buy another phone and i have this one for like 3 months, i have to solve this, i really do. Thanks for all the help! Really appreciated.

Ran into the same exact problem as OP, while restoring 7.1.1 backup when coming from MIUI 8 rom.
Same stuff when completely restoring to stock/installing a different rom etc.
Mike, did you restore EFS from TWRP backup? I have a feeling that it gets corrupted and it wont let the device boot anymore.
Because TWRP runs absolutely fine and even the file manager in it works perfectly, which indicates that it may not be similar to the hardware issue which people might be having.
Phone restarts after first loop of the bootscreen (after all the blue-red-yellow-green dots have turned to their initial size), correct?
Edit: See post #14 for fix.

tauio111 said:
Ran into the same exact problem as OP, while restoring 7.1.1 backup when coming from MIUI 8 rom.
Same stuff when completely restoring to stock/installing a different rom etc.
Mike, did you restore EFS from TWRP backup? I have a feeling that it gets corrupted and it wont let the device boot anymore.
Because TWRP runs absolutely fine and even the file manager in it works perfectly, which indicates that it may not be similar to the hardware issue which people might be having.
Phone restarts after first loop of the bootscreen (after all the blue-red-yellow-green dots have turned to their initial size), correct?
Anyway I did not manage to get it to boot again, I recommend you restore to stock via fastboot and lock your bootloader before you take it to warranty.
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I restored through TWRP the backup i have then when i turned it on the dots just stoped the animation then the phone restarted and it just kept restarting over and over again. The problem is that the warranty ended few months ago, so or i solve this problem or i lose my money.
(I only have the phone for about 3/4 months but the warranty was almost over when i bought it(online))

mike_seventeen said:
I restored through TWRP the backup i have then when i turned it on the dots just stoped the animation then the phone restarted and it just kept restarting over and over again. The problem is that the warranty ended few months ago, so or i solve this problem or i lose my money.
(I only have the phone for about 3/4 months but the warranty was almost over when i bought it(online))
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It seems you made the same mistake as I - You backed up the EFS partition and restored it. I read that this function does not work correctly with TWRP 3.0.2-1,2,3. It will corrupt your EFS partition.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/announcement-twrp-3-0-2-1-fatal-bug-t3453119
Follow the first post exactly (even though its from the 6P thread), and it will get fixed .

tauio111 said:
It seems you made the same mistake as I - You backed up the EFS partition and restored it. I read that this function does not work correctly with TWRP 3.0.2-1,2,3. It will corrupt your EFS partition.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/announcement-twrp-3-0-2-1-fatal-bug-t3453119
Follow the first post exactly (even though its from the 6P thread), and it will get fixed .
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You have no ideia of what you've done, you are an angel, you just SAVED my life, i done as it says in the thread and the phone started, I can´t explain how thankful i'm feeling right now, THANK YOU SO MUCH, really, thank you so so so so much, I will never NEVER forget you. Thank you for saving my life! :victory: :good:

mike_seventeen said:
You have no ideia of what you've done, you are an angel, you just SAVED my life, i done as it says in the thread and the phone started, I cant explain how thankful i'm feeling right now, THANK YOU SO MUCH, really, thank you so so so so much, I will never NEVER forget you. Thank you for saving my life! :victory: :good:
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No problem, just share the link to the thread from the 6P forums if you find someone with a similar problem.

Downgrade from CAN-L11C432B320 (EMUI5/7.0) to CAN-L11C432B100 (EMUI4.1/6.0)

hey community
I've tested CAN-L11C432B320 a while and miss the equalizer-app, also have an extreme powersaving device (...) but if i'm running runtastic they will turn off gps after 30 seconds display-off-time, background-services like whatsapp, pushbullet, etc.. will close after a few hours "inactivity", bad fingerprint-performace, some xposed-plugins have massive battery-drain and wont work....
so on.. i still search a while if its possible to get my stock emui 4.1 back...
...and yesterday i found this post:
h**p://w*w.htcmania.com/showthread.php?p=24388723
it looks like there was a full CAN-L11C432B100 and CAN-L01C432B100 firmware but i could not install them
i put the update.app in SDCARD:\dload and tried to install them with original EMUI5-recovery and the extracted EMUI4.1-recovery - everytime it hangs up at 5% and reboots after ~5 minutes.
i'm clueless.. maybe someone will also downgrade and found a solution how to get them work...
sorry from my bad english and the link-modification but i'm new here

I think we need to flash first the EMUI 4.1 recovery.img

Houamei said:
I think we need to flash first the EMUI 4.1 recovery.img
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i've flash erecovery.img and recovery.img extracted from the update.app --> reboots too on 5%
extracted 4.1 Recovery: mega.nz/#!1MdXmART!Bbd3COTNnCsOB4iVMwQ0vOQhdEvzWDaWVnRhMwFMg08

xCite86 said:
hey community
I've tested CAN-L11C432B320 a while and miss the equalizer-app, also have an extreme powersaving device (...) but if i'm running runtastic they will turn off gps after 30 seconds display-off-time, background-services like whatsapp, pushbullet, etc.. will close after a few hours "inactivity", bad fingerprint-performace, some xposed-plugins have massive battery-drain and wont work....
so on.. i still search a while if its possible to get my stock emui 4.1 back...
...and yesterday i found this post:
h**p://w*w.htcmania.com/showthread.php?p=24388723
it looks like there was a full CAN-L11C432B100 and CAN-L01C432B100 firmware but i could not install them
i put the update.app in SDCARD:\dload and tried to install them with original EMUI5-recovery and the extracted EMUI4.1-recovery - everytime it hangs up at 5% and reboots after ~5 minutes.
i'm clueless.. maybe someone will also downgrade and found a solution how to get them work...
sorry from my bad english and the link-modification but i'm new here
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There is a link for a rollback update, but i'm not home. When I get there, I send it. About battery, try to use greenify to help it to last long.
You can't just try to use a full package because of versioning scheme they use.

Here http://update.hicloud.com:8180/TDS/data/files/p3/s15/G79/g0/v72696/f1/full/update.zip

Same problem here, still drops at 5% even with the new file
I just wana know the best way to revert to stock
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and sorry I don't have an SD Card

Vinnom said:
Here http://update.hicloud.com:8180/TDS/data/files/p3/s15/G79/g0/v72696/f1/full/update.zip
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thanks for the file but it won't work for me too..
the install process stops at 5% "Installing update" and reboots after a few minutes

can we extract all from the ota update zip and install via flash? can this work?

xCite86 said:
thanks for the file but it won't work for me too..
the install process stops at 5% "Installing update" and reboots after a few minutes
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Hmmm, sorry, I thought it would help. In fact, the package is listed as a rollback to M, but it is for CAN-L11. The rollback for CAN-L01, I didn't find. As there isn't many differences between those models, I thought it would work
EDIT: now that I read the op again, I noticed that your model is CAN-L11. I wonder why it didn't work
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can we extract all from the ota update zip and install via flash? can this work?
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No, it won't.
The reason behind this is because system partition get smaller (because nougat way of update) after updating it to emui 5. So the old system.img won't fit the new partition

My phone only hangs up at 5% when the usb cable is connected. When i open the download mode without connected usb cable, it works.

Mikey94 said:
My phone only hangs up at 5% when the usb cable is connected. When i open the download mode without connected usb cable, it works.
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So you downgraded?

Mikey94 said:
My phone only hangs up at 5% when the usb cable is connected. When i open the download mode without connected usb cable, it works.
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did you downgrade your nougat successfully with the files above??
edit: i tried it without a connected usb cable and got "software install failed!" after short time

Is a restore of a CAN-L11 backup from Android 6 in TWRP not possible?

i think this should work if you or someone else share a backup i could try..

Michiel0912 said:
Is a restore of a CAN-L11 backup from Android 6 in TWRP not possible?
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no, in my opinion the nougat bootloader want work with mm.
I would flash the firmeware of mm and after that flash twrp and restore the backup after that [emoji106]

It will work. There is a backup within twrp thread, from bluesmothie.

Vinnom said:
It will work. There is a backup within twrp thread, from bluesmothie.
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found it...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70259615&postcount=2
re-unlocked bootloader
flashed twrp with fastboot flash recovery twrp_huawei_generic_a53_YYYYMMDD.img
copied all the dropbox files to /external_sd/TWRP/BACKUPS/FPFDU16930014596/1970-03-18--16-40-58_CANC432B100/...
wipe all partitions except sd-card
recover the complete backup
so @Vinnom many thanks for your help. i got my phone back to life (after fomatted data partition) and got downgraded to CANC432B100 now.

Michiel0912 said:
Is a restore of a CAN-L11 backup from Android 6 in TWRP not possible?
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Yeah, thanks Vinnom...

xCite86 said:
found it...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70259615&postcount=2
re-unlocked bootloader
flashed twrp with fastboot flash recovery twrp_huawei_generic_a53_YYYYMMDD.img
copied all the dropbox files to /external_sd/TWRP/BACKUPS/FPFDU16930014596/1970-03-18--16-40-58_CANC432B100/...
wipe all partitions except sd-card
recover the complete backup
so @Vinnom many thanks for your help. i got my phone back to life (after fomatted data partition) and got downgraded to CANC432B100 now.
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Did the same thing, but first TWRP didn't find the backup. So i did a small backup just of the boot partition, so that TWRP makes a new backupfolder "FPF4C16A07000014"". Now i renamed the " FPFDU16930014596" to the new "FPF4C16A07000014" and TWRP found the backup and i was able to restore :highfive::highfive:
Small Addition:
It was a freaking fight to get my bootloader unlocked again, cause i lost the unlock code.
The websites (english and asian) are freaking BS. Was not able to get to the page where you get the code, so i downloaded DC-Tool and payed 4 dollars for the damn code.
Now the code is saved in my owncloud, dropbox, google drive, on a sheet of paper and google notes. No way to lose it again
B100 firmware is much smoother than B320 but has a lack of comfort, like i'm missing the new quick settings with double pull down and the touch responsibility of slide bars (like the volume bars) is not very good in B100... But i won't upgrade to 320 again, because of the following points that make it a no go for daily driver:
- Camera is very slow and hangs up
- Video playback is very slow and buggy (no matter if it's in the galery or youtube, ect.)
- Fingerprint is too slow
- Whole system gets very slw if you dont clean up the app history
Will upgrade again when there is a new version out

please am having same issue here. tried restore but still not booting.
problem is cust. what do i do about it.
HELP ME

[GUIDE] How to correct a wrong shown build number from settings menu

Yesterday i was upgrading my phone from B368 to B369, and wronging by impatience, i decided to shut down while my phone was apparently blocked on the NAG screen (your phone has been unlocked and can't be trusted screen at startup); in truth, it wasn't blocked but it was just applying updates during reboot and he was tooking some more time than usual... The result? My model number changed from BLN-L21 to generic_a15, and so apps like camera was keeping crashing and became not usable.
After had restored a TWRP backup made before updating, and so on B368 build, i ended up with BLN-L21C432B369 as build number, but without having the latest security patch and latest improvements. In poor words, the B369 build was shown even if i was on B368 at all, and so system update wasn't detecting any other updates since that i was apparently on the latest build.
[DISCLAIMER: don't point your finger on me if you end up with your phone exploding, emitting toxic spores or radiations, please. I'm just putting this simple guide here as a way to possibly solve your issue, but i can't know if it'll works on EVERY different model, variant or kind of issue; in mine case it worked like a charm, but BE CAREFUL. I'm not responsable for anything]
What i did for fix this issue was very, very simple, much simpler than what i thought to face; i just started combing here and there in the various root folders thanks to a root explorer (i used MiX, for example) containing the various local.prop and build.prop files scattered around the system folders, until i found the right one to tweak with. The path to follow is very simple: you just need to browse to
Code:
root/version/special cust/BLN-L21/hw/eu/prop/local.prop
(note that the path will obviously change if you own a BLN-L22, a BLL-L22, ecc. but the road will be always the same - you'll find other folders name after special cust, BLL-L22 other than BLN-L21, china instead of eu for example, but often it's always straight to the last folder that finally contains the local.prop file)
and once there, with the help of a text editor, correct all the errors that you'll find mismatching with your actual build number. The voices that i had to correct are circled in orange in the picture that i attached here below, (note: the picture shows voices already fixed) and there was four of them to adjust;
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ro.build.display.id=BLN-L21C432[B][COLOR="Red"]B369[/COLOR][/B]
ro.build.version.incremental=C432[B][COLOR="red"]B369[/COLOR][/B]
ro.build.description=BLN-L21 -user 7.0 HONORBLN-L21 C432[B][COLOR="red"]B369[/COLOR][/B] release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=HONOR/BLN-L21/HWBLN-H:7.0/HONORBLN-L21/C432[B][COLOR="red"]B369[/COLOR][/B]:user/release-keys
since that in this case i was on B368 other than B369, as shown by phone info in settings menu, i just tried to modify that number with an 8 instead of a 9, gave the phone a reboot and... It's done!
**Method Update!**
 @BakedOnSomeSour pointed out a way to definitely correct the build number, permanently and safer than my method!
To do this, flash the version.img matching your firmware build, an image that you can extract from the UPDATE.APP of each update.zip package through TWRP (flash the file as image of course, by selecting the dedicated option in TWRP menu). In this way, the build number will be definitely fixed!
Thanks to BakedOnSomeSour for finding a faster and more efficient method.​
Be aware, and backup before doing this or everything you're dubious about.
Cheers

nice one buddy and a detailed one...Thanks for sharing with us. as usual, great effort.

shashank1320 said:
nice one buddy and a detailed one...Thanks for sharing with us. as usual, great effort.
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Thanks mate. I discovered how to do by myself while trying to get rid of this error, and so i thought to share with others who could face this in future.

nice one D
just curious, can we use the same trick to revert the model number when it's changed to generic_a15

sreekantt said:
nice one D
just curious, can we use the same trick to revert the model number when it's changed to generic_a15
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Nice question dude, i was just asking myself the same. Maybe, modifying eventual errors in the same file, or alternatively in the one in root/version/etc/component_version.txt (here there is a file with only one string with the general model; mine shows "Version-BLN-L21-432000 5.0.0.1(N.17110801)" obviously, but if it should show something relative to generic_a15, modifying it could do the trick) it could be possible to easily fix this issue. I'd like to test it by myself, but at the moment I'd like to avoid to mess up my phone again also since that I'm busy with other stuff anyway I'll finally test this sooner, and eventually I'll update the guide.

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Nice question dude, i was just asking myself the same. Maybe, modifying eventual errors in the same file, or alternatively in the one in root/version/etc/component_version.txt (here there is a file with only one string with the general model; mine shows "Version-BLN-L21-432000 5.0.0.1(N.17110801)" obviously, but if it should show something relative to generic_a15, modifying it could do the trick) it could be possible to easily fix this issue. I'd like to test it by myself, but at the moment I'd like to avoid to mess up my phone again also since that I'm busy with other stuff anyway I'll finally test this sooner, and eventually I'll update the guide.
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yeah same with me - don't wanna delay other things as of now... :highfive:

I would like to switch my build number so i can receive an OTA since it is currently messed up. Every time i change the build number i get an update available. But in order to install i have to remove root and TWRP. When i remove those the build goes back to original and my phone cant find an update because it says im on the lastest build. Why does it switch back when i remove twrp and root? Im assuimg it may have something to do with the boot image?

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I would like to switch my build number so i can receive an OTA since it is currently messed up. Every time i change the build number i get an update available. But in order to install i have to remove root and TWRP. When i remove those the build goes back to original and my phone cant find an update because it says im on the lastest build. Why does it switch back when i remove twrp and root? Im assuimg it may have something to do with the boot image?
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Yes, i assume that too... Maybe when the root is removed and the original boot.img is restored, the error is restored too. You could maybe solve that by flashing the boot.img of the build just before the one you'd like to update to (but be aware and take a backup before, in case something happens. Once i flashed a boot.img of a previous build instead of the one that i had to flash, and at phone startup, my code to unlock wasn't anymore recognized, so i had to restore a backup)

RedSkull23 said:
Yes, i assume that too... Maybe when the root is removed and the original boot.img is restored, the error is restored too. You could maybe solve that by flashing the boot.img of the build just before the one you'd like to update to (but be aware and take a backup before, in case something happens. Once i flashed a boot.img of a previous build instead of the one that i had to flash, and at phone startup, my code to unlock wasn't anymore recognized, so i had to restore a backup)
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Flashing a boot.img is having no effect on the build number. The strange thing is im on b366 but my phone wont accept that firmware with the dload method. It only accepts firmware much lower. I just need that build number to change without root but no amount of flashing does anything. Ive had a ton of android phones and they've never been as unpredictable as this one.
Edit: Flashing a version.img and vendor.img see to do it.

BakedOnSomeSour said:
Flashing a boot.img is having no effect on the build number. The strange thing is im on b366 but my phone wont accept that firmware with the dload method. It only accepts firmware much lower. I just need that build number to change without root but no amount of flashing does anything. Ive had a ton of android phones and they've never been as unpredictable as this one.
Edit: Flashing a version.img and vendor.img see to do it.
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Reading that i was worrying, since that I'm about to update to B369 again after that Magisk V15.0 ****ed up my build.prop and other stuff too, and i thought the boot.img could fix that... But I'm glad you solved it. Both of them are needed so, or only one it's ok? By the way yeah, i can say that Huawei and their cosmos of firmware builds, different for every variant, is way too complicated. A project like Project Treble is what they need.

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Reading that i was worrying, since that I'm about to update to B369 again after that Magisk V15.0 ****ed up my build.prop and other stuff too, and i thought the boot.img could fix that... But I'm glad you solved it. Both of them are needed so, or only one it's ok? By the way yeah, i can say that Huawei and their cosmos of firmware builds, different for every variant, is way too complicated. A project like Project Treble is what they need.
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Well after flashing them the phone booted but I was unable to get into developer settings. It just kept crashing. It did change the build number though even after flashing to stock recovery without root. I flashed both through twrp. Maybe that was the problem. Maybe you can just try flashing version.img and let us know if it helped. I would try it without vendor.img first.

BakedOnSomeSour said:
Well after flashing them the phone booted but I was unable to get into developer settings. It just kept crashing. It did change the build number though even after flashing to stock recovery without root. I flashed both through twrp. Maybe that was the problem. Maybe you can just try flashing version.img and let us know if it helped. I would try it without vendor.img first.
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I can extract the version.img of B368, but once i have it it's possible to flash it through fastboot/TWRP, or i have to follow another path, like typing somethin' by adb like "dd if=/sdcard/version.img of=/dev/block/mmcblck..." ?

RedSkull23 said:
I can extract the version.img of B368, but once i have it it's possible to flash it through fastboot/TWRP, or i have to follow another path, like typing somethin' by adb like "dd if=/sdcard/version.img of=/dev/block/mmcblck..." ?
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try fastboot first. So "fastboot flash version VERSION.img". If that doesn't work flash it in TWRP.
After its flashed try removing root and flash a stock recovery and see if the build number stays.

BakedOnSomeSour said:
try fastboot first. So "fastboot flash version VERSION.img". If that doesn't work flash it in TWRP.
After its flashed try removing root and flash a stock recovery and see if the build number stays.
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Yeah got that, thanks. I'll write here a feedback as i'll be able to do this

@BakedOnSomeSour okay i bring nice notices, here's what i did.
I tried first to flash the BLN-L21_data_hw_eu package from official firmware around 700MB by TWRP, but after some bloat apps installed that i always remove as i update, it failed with error 7 (if i don't remember bad). So i restored a backup made just before flashing it, to avoid issues of any kind.
Then i tried to flash version.img by fastboot, but it failed with error command not allowed.
Finally, i simply flashed the version.img through TWRP, then i completely removed Magisk, i flashed by fastboot the stock boot and recovery images as i do when i make an update, and... It worked. After booting to OS, my build number remained correct. It stopped from turning back to B369 after a reboot (even if I'm on B368 at all), solving the issue that i was facing. Thanks for the tip, I'll add it to the guide if you'd like to be credited

RedSkull23 said:
@BakedOnSomeSour
Then i tried to flash version.img by fastboot, but it failed with error command not allowed.
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New mess with Huawei every day. They keep stopping us and we keep trying them

RedSkull23 said:
@BakedOnSomeSour okay i bring nice notices, here's what i did.
I tried first to flash the BLN-L21_data_hw_eu package from official firmware around 700MB by TWRP, but after some bloat apps installed that i always remove as i update, it failed with error 7 (if i don't remember bad). So i restored a backup made just before flashing it, to avoid issues of any kind.
Then i tried to flash version.img by fastboot, but it failed with error command not allowed.
Finally, i simply flashed the version.img through TWRP, then i completely removed Magisk, i flashed by fastboot the stock boot and recovery images as i do when i make an update, and... It worked. After booting to OS, my build number remained correct. It stopped from turning back to B369 after a reboot (even if I'm on B368 at all), solving the issue that i was facing. Thanks for the tip, I'll add it to the guide if you'd like to be credited
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Im glad it all worked out :victory: Sure if you want to give me credit. Im just glad i could help

shashank1320 said:
New mess with Huawei every day. They keep stopping us and we keep trying them
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What a bore is this, man?! :laugh: never admitting a loose against them!
BakedOnSomeSour said:
Im glad it all worked out :victory: Sure if you want to give me credit. Im just glad i could help
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Of course, you deserve that :highfive: thanks for the idea, even faster than my workaround (and maintains properties overall)

RedSkull23 said:
What a bore is this, man?! :laugh: never admitting a loose against them!
Of course, you deserve that :highfive: thanks for the idea, even faster than my workaround (and maintains properties overall)
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Never
Happy new year brother. Hope we continue to grow in year ahead with more mess and fixes with Huawei phones :silly:

shashank1320 said:
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Happy new year brother. Hope we continue to grow in year ahead with more mess and fixes with Huawei phones :silly:
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Thanks pal, wish you the same i can say that until I'll have an Honor device, that will be almost at day order

Question Touchscreen not working

Hi, recently I got this a32 from a friend because my phone is broken, but there's a problem. Some time ago she updated this phone from android 11 to 12 and the touchscreen completely stopped working, i got the phone yesterday hoping to fix this problem but i updated to android 13 (oneui 5.1) and it still doesnt work, i tried do downgrade to android 11 but its impossible and for last i tried to install twrp and then a gsi (following a guide here on the forum), i noticed that in twrp the touchscreen does actually work but after installing lineage os 20 it didn't again, is there any hope for this phone?

persifele said:
Hi, recently I got this a32 from a friend because my phone is broken, but there's a problem. Some time ago she updated this phone from android 11 to 12 and the touchscreen completely stopped working, i got the phone yesterday hoping to fix this problem but i updated to android 13 (oneui 5.1) and it still doesnt work, i tried do downgrade to android 11 but its impossible and for last i tried to install twrp and then a gsi (following a guide here on the forum), i noticed that in twrp the touchscreen does actually work but after installing lineage os 20 it didn't again, is there any hope for this phone?
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Did you contacted the assistance? Seems a bad driver or kernel problem.

zSyntex said:
Did you contacted the assistance? Seems a bad driver or kernel problem.
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no because i dont know how much it would cost and the phone isnt mine either so if possible i dont want to spend money

persifele said:
no because i dont know how much it would cost and the phone isnt mine either so if possible i dont want to spend money
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We couldn't provide support for the hardware, mostly because you said that you've tried to reset the device and flash the stock ROM again.
If this doesn't fix the hardware issue, the assistance is the only way.
Probably a failure batch etc.

to be completely honest i flashed the stock rom by a backup i did before flashing lineage os, so if there's a guide on how to flash one ui 5.1 in order to have a clean installation it would be rlly helpful

persifele said:
to be completely honest i flashed the stock rom by a backup i did before flashing lineage os, so if there's a guide on how to flash one ui 5.1 in order to have a clean installation it would be rlly helpful
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Simply download the latest firmware from SamLoader (Bifrost) and use Odin in order to flash it.
Tell me if you couldn't flash

I tried installing the latest firmware with odin, everything went fine but nothing, touch still doesn't work, i think tomorrow i'll take it to someone to fix it.

persifele said:
Hi, recently I got this a32 from a friend because my phone is broken, but there's a problem. Some time ago she updated this phone from android 11 to 12 and the touchscreen completely stopped working, i got the phone yesterday hoping to fix this problem but i updated to android 13 (oneui 5.1) and it still doesnt work, i tried do downgrade to android 11 but its impossible and for last i tried to install twrp and then a gsi (following a guide here on the forum), i noticed that in twrp the touchscreen does actually work but after installing lineage os 20 it didn't again, is there any hope for this phone?
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what model of a32 is it? SM-A325F or??
One ui 5.1 firmware cannot be downgraded. I currently daily drive crdroid from nazim on one ui 5.1 firmware. my touch has never had issues. May be a hardware issue. Maybe a custom kernel would solve it. I built one for A325F that works on one ui 5.1 firmware. Give it a try from here. Its permissive btw. Just flash it in twrp. Although take a backup of boot before flashing incase something goes wrong

Captain_cookie_200 said:
what model of a32 is it? SM-A325F or??
One ui 5.1 firmware cannot be downgraded. I currently daily drive crdroid from nazim on one ui 5.1 firmware. my touch has never had issues. May be a hardware issue. Maybe a custom kernel would solve it. I built one for A325F that works on one ui 5.1 firmware. Give it a try from here. Its permissive btw. Just flash it in twrp. Although take a backup of boot before flashing incase something goes wrong
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Hi, I tried to flash from twrp but it just gives me a series of "unable to unlock /dev/block/mmcblk0p14" and so on, btw yes its a A325F.

persifele said:
Hi, I tried to flash from twrp but it just gives me a series of "unable to unlock /dev/block/mmcblk0p14" and so on, btw yes its a A325F.
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its fine. those are normal. if the flash suceeds at last that is all that matters

Captain_cookie_200 said:
its fine. those are normal. if the flash suceeds at last that is all that matters
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The problem is that after flashing it goes in a bootloop where it says that "this phone's bootloader is unlocked, press power button" i do it and it starts the galaxy logo with above the writing "the software you are using isnt official, you may have problems with security and features" and it gets stuck there, rn i flashed the original firmware with odin and the phone is working but touch still isn't.
EDIT: i forgot to add that when i flashed with odin everything was going fine until the phone's screen went from green to red, i've never seen this so idk if i should be worried or not (phone is still running normally).

persifele said:
The problem is that after flashing it goes in a bootloop where it says that "this phone's bootloader is unlocked, press power button" i do it and it starts the galaxy logo with above the writing "the software you are using isnt official, you may have problems with security and features" and it gets stuck there, rn i flashed the original firmware with odin and the phone is working but touch still isn't.
EDIT: i forgot to add that when i flashed with odin everything was going fine until the phone's screen went from green to red, i've never seen this so idk if i should be worried or not (phone is still running normally).
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oh weird . you are using one ui 5.1 right? whats the firmware name or version. Also those things def look like hardware issue. you should get it checked.

Captain_cookie_200 said:
oh weird . you are using one ui 5.1 right? whats the firmware name or version. Also those things def look like hardware issue. you should get it checked.
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yes i'm on android 13 one ui 5.1, the firmware is A325FXXU3DWB8_A325FOXM3DWB8_ITV. I got it checked and they said that it cant be fixed because i cant downgrade from android 13 to another one, i could try installing crdroid like you and if you could send me a guide it would be amazing, thanks again.

persifele said:
yes i'm on android 13 one ui 5.1, the firmware is A325FXXU3DWB8_A325FOXM3DWB8_ITV. I got it checked and they said that it cant be fixed because i cant downgrade from android 13 to another one, i could try installing crdroid like you and if you could send me a guide it would be amazing, thanks again.
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Just flash twrp for this thing from here. Follow steps on that thread to decrypt your storage and stuff. Then download crdroid gsi. Extract it. flash img file to system partition in twrp. Afterwards wipe dalvik, cache, internal storage
(internal storage is not necessary). You should be able to boot into twrp sucessfully.
I also have some workarounds and the stuff i use for my daily driving in this thread here.
If you need any further help i'll be here to assist.

Captain_cookie_200 said:
Just flash twrp for this thing from here. Follow steps on that thread to decrypt your storage and stuff. Then download crdroid gsi. Extract it. flash img file to system partition in twrp. Afterwards wipe dalvik, cache, internal storage
(internal storage is not necessary). You should be able to boot into twrp sucessfully.
I also have some workarounds and the stuff i use for my daily driving in this thread here.
If you need any further help i'll be here to assist.
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Oh um i am sorry looks like thread doesnt contain instructions to that. I'll write em here myself
When you boot into twrp after flashing go to advanced and go to terminal
type
multidisabler
run it two times. Then go to format. Then press format data and type yes. Once its done reboot back into twrp again. Then flash crdroid as i said in my post above. and format the things i said. you should be able to boot into crdroid normally.

Captain_cookie_200 said:
Oh um i am sorry looks like thread doesnt contain instructions to that. I'll write em here myself
When you boot into twrp after flashing go to advanced and go to terminal
type
multidisabler
run it two times. Then go to format. Then press format data and type yes. Once its done reboot back into twrp again. Then flash crdroid as i said in my post above. and format the things i said. you should be able to boot into crdroid normally.
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I followed everything you said, flashed crdroid but nothing, touch still doesnt work if not for when im twrp, i tried to flash kernel again and it still didn't so i don't know what to do anymore.

persifele said:
I followed everything you said, flashed crdroid but nothing, touch still doesnt work if not for when im twrp, i tried to flash kernel again and it still didn't so i don't know what to do anymore.
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So uh looks like you have no options left. I just want to make sure. could you list the exact methods you used to flash the fw. Along with where u got the fw from? Lets see if the fw itself is broken or something.
Also this is very unrelated and time wasting. but you could try download one ui 5 firmware. Then extract super.img from ap. unsparse it and extract vendor.img and flash it to vendor partition using twrp. Then decrypt by typing
multidisabler twice in terminal as said in my previous post. Check if maybe an older version one ui 5 firmware has this issue fixed. one ui 5's kernel boots so one ui 5 vendor should work on 5.1 as well. It may not work but worth a try. you could also try doing this with android 12 firmware if that fixes it. if you do not have a linux machine availible i'll do it for you and upload the files for both firmwares here. Otherwise if its a hardware issue get your phone replaced or try getting the screen replaced. if still nothing happens ig switching to a new phone would be the only optiion.

So, to flash the firmware I used odin, the fw was from sammobile.
For trying to extract super.img and so on idk how to actually do it so if you could explain it would be really helpful. Btw trying to flash android 12 firmware is impossible because samsung made it so,
thank you again for the help.

persifele said:
So, to flash the firmware I used odin, the fw was from sammobile.
For trying to extract super.img and so on idk how to actually do it so if you could explain it would be really helpful. Btw trying to flash android 12 firmware is impossible because samsung made it so,
thank you again for the help.
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i use samfw mostly for my firmwares. anyways. You need a linux machine nearby. ubuntu or arch. any distro based on them would work.
first you need to unsparse the super.img
for that we use
simg2img super.img super-raw.img
then we can use lpunpack or mount it to get our vendor.
we flash it using twrp and then we run multidisabler twice like we did when we first flashed gsi.

As you said above if you could do it for me it'd be awesome because i don't have a pc with linux rn.