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Soft-bricked a Quanta Gigaset QV830 Tablet

Thank you. I will see what I can do about that. However, as I have rooted the tablet, I am worried that Quanta will not cover it or provide the help that I need to re-flash the stock firmware.
Did you try pressing the Power button to reboot, then press both the Volume Up and Power buttons continuously for several seconds (ten or more) to see it it will start up in Recovery mode?


That did not work. I tried it, it re-entered the bootloop. Also, POWER + VOLUME DOWN is the correct combination to enter Recovery Mode on the Quanta Gigaset QV830. It seems to be the only one, which is unfortunate.

Boosting Volume

Thank you all for your responses. For now, I decided not to install a volume booster. I was pointed to a number of paid apps. However, I have no intention to pay for an app. There isn't anything wrong with my phone or the volume. It just so happens that my preference was to increase the volume both for Google Assistant and Google Maps. However, it is fine the way it is. Perhaps, a future system update will offer me a bit more volume. Thank you all for your assistance in this matter.

Google Pixel 4a, better than the 4XL?

My take is that they repeated the strategy of last year (Note 10+ and a down-specced Note 10) and cut a couple more corners to increase margins further. And the reason it costs so much is some combination of their being sure enough of their position that they think it will sell, that pricing it lower would cost them more sales of the Ultra, and that $/£/€ 1k devices are well enough established that they can get away with it.

Yes I'm sure they hope for upselling, just as they do with the S range (the S8 was the one time they gave you the same specs in 2 sizes, ever since they've tried to push people to the more expensive models via spec differences). I just don't think it makes sense for a device like this, still full of expensive components, to have that as its primary purpose.

I get what you're saying, but if just seems like a money grab to me. They go from a glass to plastic back, lower storage, and then charge more than the previous device. For people who can't or won't spend the extra for the Ultra, it's not so much stabbing them in the back as poking them repeatedly with the knife.

Considering there is a general feeling that plastic is less premium, many will figure that if I'm paying this much for a device, I should get that much out of it in specs & materials. I personally would rather have plastic or metal as they tend to be less prone to breakage, but I get their point. And I'd imagine that glass costs more to produce, so that's why a device with it should cost more. So for them to charge more using cheaper materials and with some lower specs, that just seems a bit greedy. They may be confident in their position, but you also have to wonder if doing this might change people's perspective towards them. If they're perceived as caring more about money than providing a quality product, it might turn people away from them. This might be the first $1,000 smartphone with a plastic back out there.

Already flash twrp but can't boot into recovery mode

I realized that i didn't unlock the bootloader, can i get a tutorial?
https://www.hardreset.info/devices/oppo/oppo-r7-plus/faq/tips-tricks/how-to-open-developer-options-in-android-device/#:~:text=The device must be turned,number to become a developer.]How to Open Developers Options[/url]
once there make sure you check "usb debugging" as well as "oem unlock enabled"

Cricket (Non)Icon(ick)

I FINALLY found it. The timeline of googoo's many misdeeds (and counting) is from Creative Future. Although it was late, I read the whole thing and one of the links that go with it. It's a real eye opener. I think it would be enough for most people that googoo tracks them when it's not supposed to, or that a data breach exposed at least half a million users' data. What would people think if they realized that googoo supports lies about coronavirus, interference by foreign governments, the abuse of kids, slavery, and terrorism? Would that at last be sufficient to move them away from this repugnant megacorporation?

Apps Why does an image appear blurry on a hdpi screen when it has been alloted the max possible pixels

I want to put a 40 X 40 DP icon somewhere on my app's screen. Now according to the ratio (3:4:6:8:12:16) of 6 different logical buckets, I have provided an icon(.png file) with different sizes in 6 different drawable folders.

In my case, the icon sizes must be "MDPI = 40 X 40 PX, HDPI = 60 X 60 PX, XHDPI = 80 X 80 PX and so on" to maintain the same quality across devices at 40 X 40 DP.

After doing so, I'm testing the app on a device with an HDPI screen, which means it should look into the "drawable-HDPI" folder and render an image that basically fills up all the pixels (60 px in a space that has 60px(based on the screen)). But somehow, the icon appears blurry.

What went wrong here !?

Meanwhile, I tried putting an icon with much higher pixels(512 x 512 PX) in the HDPI folder and it renders with high quality.

The only confusion is - Despite filling out all the pixels contained in 40 DP on an HDPI display, how an image with more pixels(512) has better quality?

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