Without paying attention (because I had just broke my Galaxy S20-5G) I got a Galaxy A21 for cheap. I should have done the research but I honestly wasn't thinking. I didn't know this A21 would be stuck on Android 10. It's running the A215U1 stock rom build because I use Straight Talk, and I thought the latest stock rom for it would at least be Android 11, but it's not. I think I've gotten so used to Android 11 that being stuck on Android 10 is just really messing with my user experience.
So my question is, since Samsung doesn't seem to be releasing Android 11 for the A215U1 build, are there any custom roms with Android 11 floating around for it? I have a feeling that it's unlikely because when I finally decided to research it I've found pretty much nothing. But I figured I would come here to talk to the pros on XDA, because you guys pretty much know everything there is to know collectively.
If not, I was also given an FRP locked SM-A125 from a Telecomm friend who doesn't run any kind of MobileIron or MS InTune to be able to unlock old phones that employees turn in. The company doesn't want to invest in it, which just seems ridiculous, right?
The employee factory reset it without removing their Google account, and claims they don't remember the account email and password they created specifically for it. So the company literally just throws them away rather than deal with the process of sending them into Samsung with the proof of purchase to get them unlocked.
I've tried so hard to flash the right customization file on it to get to that service screen that allows you to remove the FRP lock, but I've been unable. I managed to do it once before for an S8+ that he gave me a couple years ago, but honestly I was trying so many different things that I can't even remember how I managed to do it. I'd at least like to have the A12 with Android 11 to use in the meantime, until (hopefully) Samsung releases Android 11 for the SM-A215U1.
It's only the screen broken on my Galaxy S21 5G, so as soon as I can get an extra $250 together I think I'll send it in to have it repaired. I just hope when I dropped it that something more than the screen didn't break internally. Anyways, even if you guys can't help, thanks for everything you all do here. Have a great weekend everybody.
J.R.
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Without paying attention (because I had just broke my Galaxy S20-5G) I got a Galaxy A21 for cheap. I should have done the research but I honestly wasn't thinking. I didn't know this A21 would be stuck on Android 10. It's running the A215U1 stock rom build because I use Straight Talk, and I thought the latest stock rom for it would at least be Android 11, but it's not. I think I've gotten so used to Android 11 that being stuck on Android 10 is just really messing with my user experience.
So my question is, since Samsung doesn't seem to be releasing Android 11 for the A215U1 build, are there any custom roms with Android 11 floating around for it? I have a feeling that it's unlikely because when I finally decided to research it I've found pretty much nothing. But I figured I would come here to talk to the pros on XDA, because you guys pretty much know everything there is to know collectively.
If not, I was also given an FRP locked SM-A125 from a Telecomm friend who doesn't run any kind of MobileIron or MS InTune to be able to unlock old phones that employees turn in. The company doesn't want to invest in it, which just seems ridiculous, right?
The employee factory reset it without removing their Google account, and claims they don't remember the account email and password they created specifically for it. So the company literally just throws them away rather than deal with the process of sending them into Samsung with the proof of purchase to get them unlocked.
I've tried so hard to flash the right customization file on it to get to that service screen that allows you to remove the FRP lock, but I've been unable. I managed to do it once before for an S8+ that he gave me a couple years ago, but honestly I was trying so many different things that I can't even remember how I managed to do it. I'd at least like to have the A12 with Android 11 to use in the meantime, until (hopefully) Samsung releases Android 11 for the SM-A215U1.
It's only the screen broken on my Galaxy S21 5G, so as soon as I can get an extra $250 together I think I'll send it in to have it repaired. I just hope when I dropped it that something more than the screen didn't break internally. Anyways, even if you guys can't help, thanks for everything you all do here. Have a great weekend everybody.
J.R.
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I don't know much about the A21s, but I remember being able to upgrade my Samsung S4 to Android 9 back when I still had it. In all likelihood: Absolutely, you can upgrade your Samsung A21s to Android 11 - and probably even 12 with zero issues.
First two ROMs here seem to yield the results that you're looking for:
Samsung Galaxy A21s ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & O
Improve your Samsung Galaxy A21s's battery life, performance, and look by rooting it and installing a custom ROM, kernel, and more.
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I have a SM-a215u that was frp locked. I spent 2 days trying various fixes, pulling my hair out, and this was only effective solution...
I wouldn't worry so much about it. Android 10 is very good as is, Android 11 doesn't really add that much except for google trying to further lock things down and make life harder for running custom things, if I had this phone I'd just be on the look out for a solid custom Rom, something like LineageOS or based off.
I own a different phone, which had Android 10 and eventually got 11, but after trying 11, I much prefered to stick to my custom Android 10 rom.
I want some option to. The A21 is really bloated. I tried to remove stuff manually, but there a lot and there was not much change. I would like to try to install plain android, but even enabling EOM is tricky. and root to...
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Someone I work with his come to me for help because he knows I'm all into android gadgets. I have rooted my last two phones within hours of getting them and have become a flashaholic. Always messing with my devices.
He has a Samsung Captivate that he has "retired" and I'm interested in buying it for a few purposes. Unfortunately, he let his (adult) son play with it and the lock screen pattern is set. He doesn't know the pattern or the google account password associated with the account on the device. (When he upgraded and moved out of the device he had to create a new google account.)
He wants to look into the device one more before he turns it over to me. (I will wipe it and root it for my purposes.) Is there a way to get past the lock screen without the complete reset in recovery?
Sent from my GS4 running GoldenEye 26 while holding a homebrew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs642eujuLA
This might depend on what update it is on, but you can try that.
More generic ideas:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800799
There are also tools that have the capability to bypass it that some professional shops would have, but probably would be hard pressed to find one of them and between the time and $, probably not worth it.
Good day everyone, I got a Net 10's LG L16C phone today, at first it was all good since I needed a new phone, but then I discovered this particular phone doesn't have a sim slot, which is bad since I don't like in the states so I can't use their pre-paid services, so I decided to use it for the apps and the like, I have an old galaxy 2 I777 which is still good but using the wifi and apps drain the battery fast, so it's just for calls.
Long story short, I want to install a custom ROM to the LG phone but I haven't had any luck finding any, does anyone know where I can get a ROM for this particular phone? or some way to upgrade at least to android 4.4.4? This phone is 4.4.2 by default. Thank you for your attention and a have a great day
After digging a little more.
I've been researching for the past few days to no avail, there doesn't seem to be a custom or official ROM upgrade for this particular phone, if someone knows something about it I would appreciate the help
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I don't think you'll find any. I had this phone gave to me so our team could dump the system and add it to our root/frp collection. FRP wouldnt apply to this but the one click root would. Also thought about a simple custom rom. Problem with these LG tracfone variants is you cant get into download mode. At least thats what our team has found out so far messing around with a Rebel now this Lucky. Might be a way but so far weve not totally looked into it. If you do find anything out there please share it with everyone. Im sure a lot of people with this $10 phone would be happy to have the advantages those of us with more higher end units have. I have to sell this phone after IF we get a dump. Wish me luck.
Hi I am fairly new to rooting in general, at the moment i have a rooted Note edge (SM-n915t) and have had lots of troubles with stuff like xposed. Anyway im getting a new phone soon and was just wondering what would be the best option of the newest android phones to get (which would give me the most freedom to explore what i can do with a rooted phone.) it does not have to be a samsung phone, just as long as its android, doesn't generally have problems (like bootlocking) just something that gets developed on alot .
I cannot even find any information on this device let alone a root method. Apparently from my searches methods for the zenphone may work but im not sure if I want to risk bricking this device, but verizon would just replace it anyway. I guess its fairly new? It came with MM and already has an OTA which i keep putting off while I am going to try out various methods to get this one rooted and unleashed since one verizon store essentially scammed me over my new s7 edge so another store refunded everything for me. Now I got this 4g tablet I want to fasten in my car and it would be nice to root or unlock and put some custom vehicle firmware on it or something like that.
I have the same issue with my new Zenpad 3 8.0 . KingRoot and some other rooting apps didn't work for me.
At least someone finally replies.... I am still stuck trying to root this thing. I've tried nearly everything to no success. Even the temporary cwm wouldn't work for me
Same here buddy. Why did ASUS remove such features as App to SD and multi user support?
Anyone found anything? I have the tablet too...
Well damn this sux, Verizon stuck me with another unrootable device, at least I can say I got my pixel in time to unlock the bootloader and route it but not much activity for it since decided to lock them down. I thought I learned with my G4 that's why I got the pixel got home just to find out they're going to be locked down too lol Oh God how I loath Verizon
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Well damn this sux, Verizon stuck me with another unrootable device, at least I can say I got my pixel in time to unlock the bootloader and route it but not much activity for it since decided to lock them down. I thought I learned with my G4 that's why I got the pixel got home just to find out they're going to be locked down too lol Oh God how I loath Verizon
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I hear ya. I have this tablet too: Asus Verizon Zenpad Z8 ZT581KL with V.3.4.23. Despite my best efforts, the damn system update notification keeps coming up telling me to update to Android 7--which I DO NOT want to do since doing that very well could kill any small hope I have on rooting the device. Since this is a Verizon branded tablet, they made an agreement with Asus to lock it down like Gitmo, so any official bootloader unlocker will not work with Verizon. Maybe one day when Verizon get's their head out of their ass and understands that people have the right to screw with their phones, they will allow unlocking options--though I doubt it.
This would be a great little tablet, if Verizon gave us more control over it--Jesus Christ, you're still getting $$ from me on your non-unlimited data. Bunch of ****-tards---I used to work for them back in the day at one of their corporate locations in Folsom, CA. Sadly, I think it's that prison mentality (Folsom Prison) that must have been carried in the air a few miles to the Verizon offices there. That was WDTS (Wireless Data Tech Support)....I was there right when EVDO just came out/expanding (Before Iphones...closest thing would have been a BES-Enabled Blackberry, or a fancy PDA)--oh those were the days...
There are rooting options available if you understand Chinese--but even its for older software versions 3.3.x, etc, and from what I can understand, the flash might actually take (hackers take note: if the flash can take..maybe we can piece together a flash with proper rooted versions)...but since this is a Sim/LTE tablet by doing that it will screw up the radio (Cellular) and recovery partitions. But maybe something round-about could be done that does that, then reflashes modified signed firmware to root it--I dunno.
My google-fu is pretty good and I came across some cached, or snippet that said SRSroot might root 6.0.1 on the ZT581KL, but not sure now legit it is.
Unless more people get this tablet/devs play with it, I don't think we will get root/bootloader/recovery anytime soon. I wish I lived in a country that allowed multiple wifes, because I would do a bounty for root on this devices and give away one of my wives for payment.
I used the tablet mostly for navigation, but I want root/twrp for backup purposes, if I need to wipe the device crossing the border since police now wanting to look at peoples phones/tablets. I love using Waze since I'll be driving down the road with a FAT blunt smoking away, so it's good to know if cops are around.
Zenpad z8 running on Fi
I also have this pad. I bought it from Verizon because it's USB-C and I loathe micro USB and even more so because the helpful sales guy at Verizon let me try my Google Fi data only sim...and sure enough it works awesome after setting h2g2 as the apn. Would love to root it though I hate how I can only have one user account on this for now.
Kind of off-topic, but I can't find any clear answer to my question about the Z8 and Z8s. I'm considering buying one, but I do not want a data-plan. Do these tablets work without a SIM in them, or will I be stuck at a home screen that says "Insert SIM..."?
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Kind of off-topic, but I can't find any clear answer to my question about the Z8 and Z8s. I'm considering buying one, but I do not want a data-plan. Do these tablets work without a SIM in them, or will I be stuck at a home screen that says "Insert SIM..."?
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Of course you can use it without a SIM.
I just ordered this tablet. I'm sad I can't root it, but I mainly use root for adblocking. I will have to use DNS66 or BlockThis instead.
This method doesn't work?
https://neopodapsi.com/how-to-root-asus-zenpad-z8/
replica9000 said:
This method doesn't work?
Nope, just a scam to fill out never ending surveys
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Zenpad P008 Verizon root - no luck
I just tried One Click Root and that didn't work either. Upon chatting with support they were stymied by the lack of an 'OEM Override' debug mode setting.
Can anybody help, I'm new at this stuff. Plus I'm teaching myself. I've rooted some devices. Did some firmware jobs, kinda' familiar with Odin. But I've tried everything from KingRoot PC to adb tryna' root this thing (P008). Between this thing and that Knox MDM shizzle. Man!, Anybody got anything on these topics......
Anyone try Magisk?? I also want to root this thing. Cannot get a usb gaming controller to recognize either.
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I have a Galaxy A21 running Android OS 12 and One UI Home 4.0, it has a TracFone logo on the start and its already unlocked. I'm having some issues with the fingerprint reader and with the phone saving my passwords, patterns and biometrics. I think bringing it back to version 11 or 10 will solve the issue. But I've never reflashed an Android device and it didnt get bricked, I was good with Motorolas and nokias but since these came out, I didn't have much practice.
Did you upgrade to 12?
If so did you do a factory reset?
At least clear the system cache.
Rule #1- if a OS is fast, stable and fulfilling its mission let it be!!! Upgrades and updates can and do break Samsung's.
blackhawk said:
Did you upgrade to 12?
If so did you do a factory reset?
At least clear the system cache.
Rule #1- if a OS is fast, stable and fulfilling its mission let it be!!! Upgrades and updates can and do break Samsung's.
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I did a factory reset
All caches are cleared
Samsung wasn't a phone builder from sunrise and at sunset, they're still struggling. These are just businessmen or women making the cheapest, cutest phones possible. These batteries were made over 5 years ago so the device has little or no battery life and a whole host of other complaints from espionage to unlawful conduct. Android is fine, samsung is crap!
I actually purchased the phone with the Android OS 12. but I know it's just the One UI 4.0 not mapping onto the android OS as it should. I've been trying to unlock the boot-loader, trying to root, and downgrade to A OS 10 or even 11 to get it running stable.
Besides that, something weird happened. I got frustrated with the phone and put it in the case backward. It pressed all three buttons and the phone did this in the pic. It entered a mode requesting a Custom OS.
My final plan for this device is RiceDroid or another custom OS.
OUI.JI said:
I did a factory reset
All caches are cleared
Samsung wasn't a phone builder from sunrise and at sunset, they're still struggling. These are just businessmen or women making the cheapest, cutest phones possible. These batteries were made over 5 years ago so the device has little or no battery life and a whole host of other complaints from espionage to unlawful conduct. Android is fine, samsung is crap!
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The Li batteries are days or months old when assembled into the phone. They have a finite storage life because of self discharge. They are never fully charged before being shipped as it would degrade them faster during storage. A 70% or so charge is typical.
OUI.JI said:
I actually purchased the phone with the Android OS 12. but I know it's just the One UI 4.0 not mapping onto the android OS as it should. I've been trying to unlock the boot-loader, trying to root, and downgrade to A OS 10 or even 11 to get it running stable.
Besides that, something weird happened. I got frustrated with the phone and put it in the case backward. It pressed all three buttons and the phone did this in the pic. It entered a mode requesting a Custom OS.
My final plan for this device is RiceDroid or another custom OS.
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I have two stock N10+'s Snaps that were bought new. Both still running on the original firmware Pie and Q. The oldest in my hand is over 3 yo with well over 8k hours on it. It looks, feels and runs like new, zero display degradation. Only repair is a battery replacement. Last factory reset was over 2.5 years ago, it still running fast and stable. Samsung is capable of making high quality flagships if they want to. In my opinion the N10+ was the last great one they made; Samsung's zenith. Samsung's been dropping balls now for 3+ years. They've abandoned their loyal power user base completely.
One reason you buy a Samsung is for the UI. A custom rom will cause you to lose a slew of features and have numerous new issues. Android 12 is a known to be a mess. 13 doesn't impress me either. Google is trashing Android Apple bad. Now Samsung started following their lead by removing expandable storage.
Snapdragon's are notoriously hard or impossible to root so you may be stuck with 12. If so the bootloader version determines if you can roll it back. Most times the bootloader anti rollback prevents this. Those who upgraded to 12 from 11 can generally roll it back to 11. I doubt this is true with a new Samsung that was factory loaded with 12.
Call Samsung tech support and share the wuv, I do. If you do speak with them ream them out for no expandable storage as well as their other ongoing blunders. If I was in your position I be real pissed too...
oh man, this one is serious. I got gypped. Big time, $33k JMD for a phone that wasn't even $130 USD online.
But there is a route there to download a custom OS that I posted in the picture i think that's built into the bootloader, I dont know of samsung running/building custom roms for Galaxy A21 I'm still trying to unlock the BL, root it, TWRP it and RiceDroid. Maybe I'll have to bring it to a tech to at least unlock the BL and Root it, I can handle the TWRP and RiceDroid.
I almost forgot to mention; I got to a good level in the BL unlocking but when I adb it. It brought the phone to a screen that said entering fastboot and it got stuck there and I had to restart the phone.
To close this out:
I got frustrated and sold the phone and got a Nokia C1 Plus that works fine.
Blessings
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