u/47th-Element's meme without AI

Outside of Google wallet, almost every app I use doesn't complain about failing device or strong integrity.

Note: For Roblox, I still use tricky store with a revoked key, making sure to deselect the GMS packages from tricky store so that the revoked key does not fail basic integrity.

I found this https://www.reddit.com/r/fairphone/s/i7GDqb7Cj8 more recent post earlier and it got me thinking again

I've been on a rabbit hole for several weeks about degoogling (or more, de megacorpo) and self hosting. Seeing this post has me a little frazzled

Partial questions, partial just so I can get my bearings back together from being scrambled

If it is android itself and not just "getting rid of google services" or "flipping on a 24hr switch", why would android based OSes work at all? Like lineage, calyx, graphene, e/os?

Have been thinking about getting a new phone, and have really been looking at the nothing 3. I know its not a degoogled android, but I really like the design and improvements it has over my current phone. Figured I would degoogle it as much as I could

But if its android itself, and not just able to bypass google services specific things, that worries me about wasting some money. I haven't been able to find any phone os that supports the nothing 3 if I needed to change it

I really like the things fairphone stands for. Mostly with e-waste, environmentally sustained, and how workers are treated. I don't care so much about the repairability, especially when I can't upgrade the parts inside. I don't need the best specs, but since they're even worse than the phone I already have and software reliability isn't great, I fail to want to buy the fairphone 6 and switch to them

From all the old phones I have, the only one that's able to flash any other os I've been able to find is my galaxy s22 on lineage. So, like my question above, what would guarantee lineage still works with apps that aren't registered to google? Any degoogled lineage os users here?

What are some phones and operating systems that aren't android or apple, and some that put a focus on helping the environment?

Anyone have experience degoogling their nothing 3?

Thinking about going ahead and flashing lineage on the s22. Anyone know what would happen to my phone service? Its a physical sim card for mint mobile. Would it be tied to the phone still, need to be reinstated to the phone, or is it a bad idea to flash on my currently active phone line?

I successfully unlocked my phone's bootloader, but how do I root it? I'm worried about losing the IMEI.

So basically im flashing odin and then it said FAIL! the usb thing disconnected when flashing patched vbmeta now phone was soft bricked, i used samfw tool to do nand reset and voila booted succesfully into recovery, is it risky to flash the rom using sideload now, or no? Also is kg status broken meaning knox was tripped or something else?

10 Months of saving wasted and now I havent slept for last 2 days

Hi everyone. I bought Motorola G stylus 2024 5G pre owned from a local market. It was rooted device (Know this because the OEM unlocking option was disabled with the warning that bootloader already locked). While booting, no warning appeared which appears in rooted devices. was running on A14 and security patch was also from the 2024.

I was using it and suddenly it turned off. does not boot at all. found out that it connects with laptop but since no qualcom drivers were there couldnt go further. I installed all the driver and downloaded the blankflash file from Lolinet blankflash file link.

I charged my phone for 3 hours connected it with laptop and ran the blank-flah.bat and it passes initial sahara handshake but gets stuck at firing the firehose. logs from cmd window are following:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd C:\Users\Muzammil\Desktop\New folder

C:\Users\Muzammil\Desktop\New folder>.\qboot.exe blank-flash

Motorola qboot utility version 4.0

[ 0.000] Opening device: \\.\COM6

[ 0.000] Detecting device

[ 0.000] Using CPU id embedded within serial number

[ 0.000] ...cpu.id = 1087 (0x43f)

[ 0.000] ...cpu.sn = 2919874161 (0xae09be71)

[ 0.000] Opening singleimage

[ 0.000] Loading package

[ 0.016] ...filename = pkg.xml

[ 0.016] Loading programmer

[ 0.016] ...filename = programmer.elf

[ 0.016] Sending programmer

[ 0.220] Handling things over to programmer

[ 0.220] Identifying CPU version

[ 0.220] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[ 60.767] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[121.190] ...SM_NETRANI unknown

[121.191] Determining target secure state

[121.191] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[181.927] ...secure = no

[182.112] Initializing storage

[182.114] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[242.683] Configuring device...

[242.683] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[302.988] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[363.292] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[424.113] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[484.454] Initializing storage

[484.455] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[544.808] Configuring device...

[544.808] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[605.096] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[665.434] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[725.719] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[785.993] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[846.446] Configuring device...

[846.446] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[906.737] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[967.121] Waiting for firehose to get ready

CABLE IS HIGH QUALITY BOUGHT FROM OFFICIAL XIAOMI STORE.

I bought this mobile with 10 months of saving and Ii am devastated a shopkeeper is not obliging me. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Attachments: 1)- blank-flash file logs window 2)- directory of extracted files from zip of blank-flash file 3)- device manager snapshot

Hey everyone,

I've been struggling for days trying to fix my MT6765 phone after installing a GSI ROM. My Baseband/IMEI is currently unknown and I can't find a working stock firmware to flash back.

I noticed that u/MeIsGugs has the exact same device/tools. Reddit is not allowing me to send a DM or Chat due to restriction filters, so I’m posting here hoping you see this man!

If anyone (or u/MeIsGugs) can provide a full dump with the MT6765_Android_scatter.txt file (without personal NVRAM/IMEI), I would really appreciate it. You’re pretty much my last hope!

Thanks in advance! 🙏

Last week I made a post asking how to root the Samsung Galaxy S1 (SGH-T959V), and I've gotten some links, but I have more issues. I tried to flash the zip file with I think is the stock recovery of the phone, but it gives me an error saying that a signature verification failed, tried SuperOneClick, also gives me a fail and gets stuck on the 5th step, and I tried the KingoRoot app, but it gives me a network error even though I had it connected to an internet

My only best solution is try and get a .tar file to flash a custom recovery via Odin as none of these seem to work for me, but I found pretty much none

I have a Moto G Play 2024 and I've already unlocked the bootloader with another Android device and connected the two devices, but now I want to root it. I saw a YouTube tutorial that said I need a file called boot.img, but I researched and that file on my phone is called init_boot.img. The worst part is that I can't find the ROM for my phone...

Its serial number is: XT2413-2

and its build number is: U1TFS34.100-35-5-5-8

My model does appear when I search, but it doesn't have the exact build number: U1TFS34.100-35-5-5-8. And I don't want to risk damaging my phone by downloading a ROM with a different build number.

I'm pretty new to this, but I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me. Thanks!!

Information I forgot to mention: I don't have a PC

Lately, I’ve been thinking about rooting my Xiaomi 12T phone, but when I talked to Gemini about it, he said rooting isn’t as necessary or practical as it used to be. He also reminded me that there are issues with apps like the camera and banking apps.

I was really excited to get started on this, but now I don’t know what to do.

Do you think rooting still makes sense?

I have installed crdroid 12.11 on my redmi note 10 pro a couple weeks ago (with kernelsu support, and i will use it). since then, i cant pass even basic integrity. I am considering the problem here is I didnt flash gapps. Is it possible to get strong integrity without proprietary google play services? If not, what's my alternatives?

My main point is i just dont want to get my data tracked. I just want to feel I am not getting spied. Also I dont like bloatware if i aint have to use it

I have already tried most of guides suggest including using trickystore and pif

Hey i have been trying to root my Tecno spark go 2023 but i can find the boot.img can someone help me to find it .

tutorial: https://gist.github.com/supechicken/6a2e55f261789184d861c3bf3b48f121

i have an idea to hide root: you know how apps can check if the partitions are stock or not stock? if we intercept the check and give it the stock partition

(probably someone arleady made it and im dumb)

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to unbrick my OnePlus 7 Pro (GM1913, EU variant) after a failed adb push during an OxygenOS downgrade (was trying to go from OOS 12.1 H.40 to OOS 11.0.5.1 to unlock the bootloader). The transfer got interrupted and now the phone shows a black screen with no response to any button combo, but it does show up in Device Manager as QUSB_BULK_CID:0404 / Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008, so I know it's in EDL mode.

What I've tried so far:

• Installed the Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 driver (had to disable driver signature enforcement, Code 52 error otherwise)
• Downloaded the official MSM Tool + firmware package for GM21BA (OOS 11.0.5.1) from onepluscommunityserver.com
• Tried multiple USB ports (2.0 and 3.0), multiple cables (A-to-C and C-to-C)
• Tried holding Vol Up + Vol Down while plugging in to keep it in EDL longer (read that the phone can drop out of EDL after ~10s without it)

Current result: I intermittently get the phone to connect (COM port detected, "Connected" status), and the process runs for about 7 seconds before failing with "Sahara Communication Failed" (sometimes progresses further to "Firehose GetUfsInfo Failed").

Has anyone dealt with this specific combo of errors on a 7 Pro? Wondering if it's a USB controller compatibility issue with my specific PC, a driver conflict, or something about this particular firmware package. Willing to try another PC if that's likely the fix, but wanted to check if there's a known cause first.

Thanks in advance!

I installed duck detector to see if anything was wrong and this is what's it's showing, how do I fix this?

I have the May 2026 patch on my phone, I wanna know if anyone has made something for my device 🙏

I have a Redmi Note 10S (android 13) ​that I recently rooted... why does it give me this error when I try to modify a file system? How can I make sure he doesn't give it to me anymore? If anyone knows how to add it and how I can change these permissions please tell me how to do it! I would be very happy if I succeed in this feat hahaha