So... I was in the Google Beta program to receive beta 12L versions. I then went and manually flashed A13 Developer Preview 13 because the 12L beta's were at their end.
I recently decided to come back to stock, so I could start getting my "flash on" again because it's been far far too long since i've developed anything for us here...
So... I opted out of the Beta program on the android developer site, as per Google's requirements. From there I was expecting to receive an OTA update to come back to stock... this was the same day the April update hit... I never received the OTA update notice, and decided to manually flash the April update... which I did, and everything is running nicely... however... in my System Updates, the device wants me to "update" back to A13 DP 2.
Is there some way I can get rid of that, so my device thinks I am truly on stock, and not in the Beta program any more? Or is this simply just some screw up on Google's end, and I am s.o.l. until they decide to fix it? (yes, I mentioned it to them both in their own forums, as well as their redit)
Figures. I post this.. wait a little bit, check my phone. Update is gone, and phone is back to normal SMH
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STOP READING MY STUFF GOOGLE!
Serious sh** 'Google,' I do not think is "people." The Pixel 6 chip was designed by A.I. link:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03544-w
Also in from "A graph placement methodology for fast
chip design.pdf" ends with this sentence:
"To our knowledge, our method is the first deep RL approach used in production to solve a combinatorial optimization problem, namely, in the design of the latest generation of Google TPU."
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Hey! I thought in the "Good Ol' USA" we got EVERYTHING FIRST! LOL! Including all the bugs, I guess, but yeah - For the longest I always see complaints or posts from folks worldwide waiting patiently (and sometimes NOT so patiently) for FOTO roll outs, whether its for the Prime or Phones or whatever. Now, I have been waiting for 9.4.2.19 (or .20 as Gary Key Hinted is a possibility) I see in this thread:
v9.4.2.19 New Features http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1556446
"[Google translate]
"At the end of this week Transform Prime owners are delighted with a new FOTA v9.4.2.19 update "
Does that mean they are delighted with the FW itself, or delighted to be GETTING it? Either way it seems to indicate that Asus has turned it's sights on the rest of the world to roll out and do real world testing, which makes me wonder if they are just trying a new sequence, or if they are tired of the *****ing and Moaning from US users when they roll a FW here.
I like the changelog, but like most folks I am more interested in fixes than I am in features or in Functions. For example, stuff like this:
+ Support the USB to LAN cable of UX series (Accessory)
yeah, I know, it's a TABLET, and as such should be super portable and WIRELESS. BUT... Because WiFi isn't exactly stellar even on the BEST, fully functioning Primes (Please spare me your Speed Test numbers and WiFi Analyzer db readings, I realize that it can produce decent WiFi under the right conditions, I am just stating the the Prime is not known to be a WiFi beast, and perhaps the hundreds of threads on the subject serve to corroborate the statement)
This could be just the tool to use for a huge download, or, say moving large videos to the tablet from a laptop or desktop in the house. Sure, it will be limited to USB 2.0 (oh, if Asus had only thrown a 3.0 USB connection on the Prime... sigh)
My multi-part question would be: What does this adapter look like, where can I get it, and how much?
People are saying this update doesn't add much, which I find comical, especially considering that since ICS first rolled out (at .11 I believe) there have been essentially NO NEW FEATURES AT ALL. Asus has been too busy chasing reboots, WiFi throughput, screen banding etc. to add features. While these don't amount to "life changing" additions, it is the largest combined set of feature upgrades we have seen since the initial 4.0.3 ICS. Personally? I can't WAIT to get my hands on it, LOL. I want to try the HDMI settings for one. And see the Lock screen additions... whee.
Just PLEASE Asus, try not to break anything again, and leave the GPS as you had it for .14 - .15 killed all functionality for me -yeah I know, and it FIXED yours, right? Well they can't please everyone, so they might as well fix mine, LOL! SO: I checked for an update to see if anything was available and CRAP! I have an update. Why am I not happy? Well, I rolled back to .14 to resolve a couple of issues (successfully) and when .15 kept notifying me I just ignored it and eventually it felt unloved and went away. It has not bothered me since (about a month) but now... how the heck am I supposed to get .19 (or.20) without doing this first? There is nothing in .15 update that I want, and there are a few things that cause me issues, so ideally I would like to skip it, bypass it, leapfrog it, WHATEVER, LOL! and get to .19 from .14
a) is it possible?
b) would I have to wait for the .19 or .20 to be available for a manual update?
I am open to ANY ideas here...
You might want to calm down with that Ritalin.
Why create yet another thread for speculative BS?
SmartAs$Phone said:
a) is it possible?
b) would I have to wait for the .19 or .20 to be available for a manual update?
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If the the update to .19 is patch, it is very likely you'd need to be on the latest "previous" version in order to get it.
If it is a complete update, you should be ok.
Regards,
Dave
SmartAs$Phone said:
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"At the end of this week Transform Prime owners are delighted with a new FOTA v9.4.2.19 update "
Does that mean they are delighted with the FW itself, or delighted to be GETTING it?
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You're asking for clarity regarding a Google translation?
Don't worry, you're still the lab rats, they released it first for Europe cause works fine, no rats needed.
This forum is rapidly going downhill.
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b) would I have to wait for the .19 or .20 to be available for a manual update?
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a) yes it is possible
b) you would most likely have to wait for the full package to become available, but that package would be the same files as if you update to .15 and then updated to .19 (.20). You never have to stay on .15 just use it as a stepping stone to get the next update.
My Lollipop 5.1 was hacked and keeps being hacked. Security software version MDF v1.1 release 5. Kernel 3.10.49. Build LMY47D.
I would like to stay on LP as it offers few features i like. Any developer know how to patch it or secure it. Any developers here that know any serious vulnerability in this release and if i can flash zip without upgrading to 6.0.
Does this 5.1 release have serious vulnerability or is my phone being hacked by "professionals" that there isn't a patch for that?
Can you describe a little more on the "hacking" situation like elaborate on what's going on.
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Someone or some party has on few occasions taken over my phone. In one instances someone has put a password on one of the applications i use, 1) i didn't even know how to set that up at the time 2) Never had a reason to set one as no one has access to my phone 3) setting it by accident on my part would require at least 4 steps which is not possible without conscious effort in doing so. 5) No one in my household, phone pattern locked. In another instance memory buffer was over flooded with "packets" in order to overwhelm the memory and processor and my droid slowed down to crawl. Yet in another instance they started "painting over" google maps roads. Basically where roads were certain color they turned black as i was driving. This was not a software glitch or bug. The last point i can see where it appear as it was software glitch, however i do not believe to be the case and other 2 instances occurred also. I don't trust the security of this phone anymore and if any developer here knows of any "back door" that can be exploited on LP 5.1 and security patch maybe android did? Are there any zips from OTA can be be flashed in TWRP? I have LG G4.
I just got the Android 11 update yesterday, & ever since, every time I try to open Minecraft it force closes. Sometimes it crashes immediately, other times it waits until I click on a map to play it but it does it consistently. This didn't start until after I got the update. Is this a bug with the Android 11 update or something else? I haven't had any problems otherwise.
Factory reset... you better start from the beginning
Updates tend to break things... especially Android 11/12.
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Hold up a sec. Help me out here because you left me staring at the screen like a doge getting asked a question. Why would the Moto G Play (2021) which already has its planned major Android system upgrade rolling out to all, in any way considered an "old phone" that isn't compatible with A11? Or did I miss an edit by OP claiming he had an older phone?
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When doing a firmware OTA upgrade a factory reset is best. An app reload may address some of the issues but not all.
Clear the system cache, at the least.
I don't upgrade or update the firmware once I have a fast, stable system that's fulfilling its mission. There's little to gain and a lot to lose.
With Android 9 and up, security is not an issue if the device is set up and used properly.
Upgrades break things and require considerable time/effort to find work arounds, to optimize and a factory reset is mandatory for best results.
A glitchy OS is no upgrade. A good, stable Android load can last for years, trouble free with minimal maintenance. This N10+'s load will be 2 yo this June, still running strong on Android 9.
Yesterday I got the Android 12 update for my Galaxy Tab S7.
I'm using the 'Good Lock' module 'Home Up' to customize a little here and there, and I noticed that I don't have the option to customize the folders anymore.
I'm using the latest 'Good Lock' for Android 12 (OneUI 4) and the latest 'Home Up' module. The "Folder" menu is simply not there anymore, but I've seen some reviews on OneUI 4 which still included this option.
Could anyone please verify that the option is definately gone on the Galaxy Tab S7 with Anroid 12?
Thanks!
You knew the upgrade was dangerous when you loaded it...
Samsung will likely correct with an update, eventually... if doable.
Rule #1 if an OS is fast, stable and fulfilling its mission, let it be!!!
blackhawk said:
You knew the upgrade was dangerous when you loaded it...
Samsung will likely correct with an update, eventually... if doable.
Rule #1 if an OS is fast, stable and fulfilling its mission, let it be!!!
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Thanks for pointing out. Altough I wasn't aware that this update might be in any form 'dangerous', at least Samsung didn't warn me. I've been around since Android 2, so I guess I might take the risk.
Not updating is more dangerous in the end when you are starting to miss out relevant security updates.
But what I'd really like to know, and what was the reason for my post:
Is the "Folder" option in Home Up really gone for the Galaxy Tab, or is it just on my device?
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Thanks for pointing out. Altough I wasn't aware that this updage might be in any form 'dangerous', at least Samsung didn't warn me.
Not updating is more dangerous in the end when you are starting to miss out relevant security updates.
But what I'd really like to know, and what was the reason for my post:
Is the "Folder" option in Home Up really gone for the Galaxy Tab, or is it just on my device?
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If you don't do stupid things most times in real life all those security updates aren't needed. Just works out like that... a lot of hype and scare tactics are being used to herd the sheep.
I'm running on Pie on my N10+ which was last updated 2 years ago. The current OS load will be 2 yo in June, still fast, stable and clean with minimal maintenance.
I don't think it's your device. However after a major OS upgrade you should always do a factory reset.
At the very least clear the system cache.
That may fix it... unless it's a Samsung glitch which Samsung is known to do.
This happens all the time with Good lock.
I am having the same issue with the "Home Up" APP here. The Home Up App in Samsung Good Lock runs well on my Note 20 Ultra, with the option of "Pop-up folder" for me to switch it on or off.
However, for my tab s7, the folder option simply disappears! I really don't like the pop-up folders and I am looking for ways to change it back into the previous pattern of how the folders were opened up..
I have the same issue. It's not an Android 12 issue. The Good Lock apps have always lagged behind new OS updates. Samsung will probably fix it. It may take a while.
I use Microsoft Launcher though, so it isn't an issue for me.
As for the comments about OS updates being dangerous. That's a bunch of BS. This isn't 2012.
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As for the comments about OS updates being dangerous. That's a bunch of BS. This isn't 2012.
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Sarcasm. While they may not be dangerous they can still trash your phone in 2022.
You can upgrade at any time... let Mikey try it first
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Sarcasm. While they may not be dangerous they can still trash your phone in 2022.
You can upgrade at any time... let Mikey try it first
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I've never had an Android OS update trash my phone... EVER!
My first Android phone was the Samsung Fascinate which ran Eclair.
gernerttl said:
I've never had an Android OS update trash my phone... EVER!
My first Android phone was the Samsung Fascinate which ran Eclair.
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Lollipop did, on AT&T phones upgrades can intentionally trash them. Or if the update goes bad, corrupted, hard bricked. There are plenty of things to go wrong just like life... and they do.
As it is I will not go past Android 9 or 10 on my 2 N10+'s. No compelling reasons to and no desire to waste time finding work arounds for new bugs.
Android 12 looks like a bad Apple dream
Enjoy its cpu cycle wasting scoped storage... yeah it does that too.
Why is there always someone who hijacks a thread while contributing absolutely nothing to the intital thread?
Because they think they know more and really don't.
hi two nights ago when i found out that the beta program has changed and i'm not ever going to get a stable build i decided to unenroll my p6 from beta program. The issue is i got the update notification immediately like i always have in the past. Except this time the phone never rebooted when i went to apply the update. so after an hour of just letting it sit I tried to power it on and got the splash screen that usually comes up when you try to boot into recovery where you have to select recovery except there was no option for recovery. And even worse there was a message at the bottom of the screen that said there is no operating system installed on this device and gabe a website to go too. my heart jumped into my throat. But i regained composure and powered off the phone and started to prepare to use the android flash tool (unsure if that was even the right step to take) but then i looked at my phone and saw that the erase ring like when you factory reset was there. so i decided not to touch it and let it do its thing. So now my phone did factory reset which i am aware that when you unenroll that is what happens but it did not install the latest stable build. Weird right? So now I am still on s3b1.220218.004 Which if im not mistaken is the newest beata build which i was on before i started. My security update says march 2022 my play system update still says february 1 and when i go to the android beta website it says that my phone is unenrolled in the beta program!!!!
So does anyone know how i get back to the stable channel now? I am lost any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for being an experienced Android tester.
Your post will help people that are not sure what to do incase things go sideways.
I am on stock and from what I have learned is if you install a newer android system. You can not go back. That is why I stayed away from beta testing. Unless things changed that I don't know about, your stuck.
The only thing as a stock user is to try downloading the full factory image and do a flash-all.
vandyman said:
Thanks for being an experienced Android tester.
Your post will help people that are not sure what to do incase things go sideways.
I am on stock and from what I have learned is if you install a newer android system. You can not go back. That is why I stayed away from beta testing. Unless things changed that I don't know about, your stuck.
The only thing as a stock user is to try downloading the full factory image and do a flash-all.
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Thank you for the answer. I did read that too but I didn't think it would apply in this situation. Oh wait I forgot the p6 hasn't gotten the latest security update yet. So your right I would be going back to February. Well hopefully since I am no longer enrolled in the beta program I will not receive anymore beta builds and either when March stable is released I will get that. And if that's is considered going back then I will have to wait till April thank you for bringing this to light. Man I wish Google would have given more of a heads up. If I knew I would not have installed this latest beta and stayed on beta 3. But I thought I was getting 12L stable. If I stayed on beta 3 and then unenrolled I would not have had a problem.
I am glad this will help others as I have received so much help on xda. In fact I learned everything I know from xda I do not work with computers I am a cook and a shellfish farmer. I see you helping alot of people so thank you for that. Keep up the good work my friend.
vandyman said:
Thanks for being an experienced Android tester.
Your post will help people that are not sure what to do incase things go sideways.
I am on stock and from what I have learned is if you install a newer android system. You can not go back. That is why I stayed away from beta testing. Unless things changed that I don't know about, your stuck.
The only thing as a stock user is to try downloading the full factory image and do a flash-all.
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One more question. I know it might sound silly but if I'm on the latest beta which is for the next feature drop if I understand correctly then shouldn't this at least have the code for 12L stable in it? Because I don't seem to have any of the latest feature drop stuff. Also oddly enough my wife has the pixel 5a and she is on stable channel and she has all that feature drop stuff plus she also has the newest version of Google's messages app. With the catagories at the top. Shouldn't I have that by now?
Sorry for the weird question.
The March beta build was released on Wednesday so the most likely case is that your phone has "automatic system updates" turned on (default) in developer settings & that the phone had probably already updated your OS in the background (overnight) before you unenrolled. Due to the pending reboot to finish installation of the QPR3 Beta 1 (a newer build than February), it is likely that whatever controls the unenrollment/system update noted that you are on a later build & only wrote the bit to wipe your device upon reboot rather than attempting to downgrade to Feb build, because an newer update was already pending installation.
If your bootloader is unlocked you should be able to flash February build with fastboot, if not you may be able to sideload the full February OTA in recovery mode, or re-enrolling and then unenrolling again should work to go back to a stable build. You absolutely can "downgrade" if coming from a beta, or just manually flashing. (Edit: or with Android recovery tool)
RE: your second question, QPR3 Beta 1 has none of the March builds feature drop stuff in it, yet, which is why you won't have the same features as your wife's 5A.
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RE: your second question, QPR3 Beta 1 has none of the March builds feature drop stuff in it, yet, which is why you won't have the same features as your wife's 5A.
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I'm running QPR3 Beta 1 and it seems like I have at least some of the feature drop stuff, including the new battery widget, Gboard custom stickers, and I believe the expanded stuff in At A Glance.
This build does include the March security update so I would think it would include the feature drop stuff as well.
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I'm running QPR3 Beta 1 and it seems like I have at least some of the feature drop stuff, including the new battery widget, Gboard custom stickers, and I believe the expanded stuff in At A Glance.
This build does include the March security update so I would think it would include the feature drop stuff as well.
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I should have been a little more specific, sorry for confusion lol.
I got the AAG widget in Beta 3 through a update on the Play Store so I assume that everyone would get this widget even outside of 12L (12.1), and believe that the Gboard stuff is also pushed by a server side update for US English? So those definitely work for most, I think.
I am only going off my experience and things I've heard online from other people though - Snap at night, live translate (of the new languages) and recorders transcription of Italian/Spanish (+assistants quick phrases) don't work for me on the QPR Beta 1. I can't say if Captions in calls work on this build though as I think that's a US only drop.
Google actually dropped the "Feature Drop" part from the Beta page too, so 100% unsure of what the QPR builds will actually entail now.
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Google actually dropped the "Feature Drop" part from the Beta page too, so 100% unsure of what the QPR builds will actually entail now.
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Yeah, seems like the QPR Beta builds will be mostly updates to the QPRs rather than actually testing any feature drop stuff. Hopefully they'll mix in a bit of those though. I'm actually ok with that as the QPR Betas should include some non-security fixes, so that's at least something to stay ahead of the game a bit.
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Yeah, seems like the QPR Beta builds will be mostly updates to the QPRs rather than actually testing any feature drop stuff. Hopefully they'll mix in a bit of those though. I'm actually ok with that as the QPR Betas should include some non-security fixes, so that's at least something to stay ahead of the game a bit.
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Ok I am.actually still on the feb 1 Google play system update. Despite getting numerous updates this month each at 761 kb. For some reason I get those updates much much later than everyone else. Even my wife. It's only been with the pixel 6. All my other pixels were fine.
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Ok I am.actually still on the feb 1 Google play system update. Despite getting numerous updates this month each at 761 kb. For some reason I get those updates much much later than everyone else. Even my wife. It's only been with the pixel 6. All my other pixels were fine.
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I don't think anyone's getting Play System updates very quickly at the moment - Google pushed February's update out over like 5/6 different parts, from what I can remember - mine only started showing "February 2022" when I manually updated a related system app on the 27th of Feb, so I'd expect March's Play System update to be pushed slowly over the month too.
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I don't think anyone's getting Play System updates very quickly at the moment - Google pushed February's update out over like 5/6 different parts, from what I can remember - mine only started showing "February 2022" when I manually updated a related system app on the 27th of Feb, so I'd expect March's Play System update to be pushed slowly over the month too.
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Yeah I noticed that too. It just happened to start when I switched to Verizon from fi. I thought that maybe I was getting some Verizon parts injected into my phone. I guess it was just coincidence. What app did you update that caused it to change dates?
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Yeah I noticed that too. It just happened to start when I switched to Verizon from fi. I thought that maybe I was getting some Verizon parts injected into my phone. I guess it was just coincidence. What app did you update that caused it to change dates?
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These apks from ApkMirror, once they were updated to February - https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/playstore-update-february.4399625/page-4#post-86493165
No March updates available yet though.
Well hopefully today the stable channel will get it's March update. Then hopefully I will get the ota to move me to stable channel. If not then I am going to try the android flash tool to see if I can get back on stable releases.
vandyman said:
Thanks for being an experienced Android tester.
Your post will help people that are not sure what to do incase things go sideways.
I am on stock and from what I have learned is if you install a newer android system. You can not go back. That is why I stayed away from beta testing. Unless things changed that I don't know about, your stuck.
The only thing as a stock user is to try downloading the full factory image and do a flash-all.
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So it looks like Google might have released the stable March build. I am at work and haven't had a chance to read anything yet but I just got an update for 451mb and it says it's for the latest stable release of android 12. I just.left my phone on the way it was and didn't re enroll in the beta program. It looks.like it finally caught up for me. It's going to wipe.mymphonenagain so I'll report back after I'm all setup.
Edit: so I just looked on Google website and I do not see the March build yet. I really hope that I'm not going back to February that would not make any sense. I thought you that you can't go backwards with the builds.
so i just went through the whole proccess and it did not put me on the latest stable build im still on the same one. I guess that they did not come out with the march stable update. But the weird thing is it did the same thing it did last time. when i finished the download and restarted my phone the boot menu came up with a message that said no vaild operating system. and i could not boot into recovery or do anything at all. i just let it sit and powered it off waited a minute and powered it back on and it gave the erasing ring. then rebooted. Is that normal now? it has never done that before the last two times