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please help Chinese mtk6580

I'm not actually an expert on these devices, but I'm afraid that I'm pretty sure that's a clone. A web search on the baseband version indicates that that baseband corresponds to firmware for a MediaTek MT6589 SoC, not the Kirin 970 that the P20 Pro should have. These clone devices are usually programmed to lie about their identity, android version, etc, but the basband firmware is usually reported correctly which is why that's the first thing I check.

That explains why HiSuite won't work with it, because it isn't a Huawei device. I hope you got it for a good price, because the MT6589 is an older much less powerful SoC than the Kirin 970, and probably other components are similarly cheaper and lower-end than they should be. The whole business model of clone manufacturers is to produce the cheapest possible device they can pass off as something newer: in the best case they sell to someone who wants people to think they have a fancy new phone and know they are buying a fake, worst case they try to con people by selling it as the real thing.

What's worse is that it's probably actually running Android 5. Note that it says "Android 8.1 / Lollipop MR1": Lollipop is Android 5 (many clone manufacturers do a better job of hiding it than this). Also the MT6589 is a 2013 processor, and I doubt that MediaTek ever produced drivers for it for anything later than Android 5 (most 6589 devices run 4.4, and at that time MTK-based devices were infamous for never getting software updates). As I say I'm not an expert on these devices, so you might get lucky, but I really don't think you've any chance of actually running Android 8 on this phone.

Unfortunately I have no good news on firmware. It won't be easy to identify what device it really is, and if you don't know that you've no chance. Even if you can identify it it's likely that there is no newer firmware. Sometimes these clones are based on the same platform, and sometimes you can find firmware for that platform, but I'd want to be very, very sure that it's exactly right, because for example if you flashed firmware for a similar device with different video hardware your display would stop working.

Sorry to be bearer of bad news, but everything you've shown points to that being what you've got.

*rotated & moving pipes*Flipper bird [flappy bird like game with rotated and moving pipes.]

Hi guys, I hope you are all fine and healthy.
After watching a YouTuber video of flappy bird animation, I got an inspiration to create a flappy bird clone with rotated and moving pipes. See the screenshots below.

Features :-
* 3 difficulty levels.
• Easy :- pipes will come straight.
• Medium :- pipes will be rotated.
• Hard :- some pipes will be rotated and some will be straight and move up and down constantly.
* 2 control modes :- 1 like actual flappy bird(I hope so) and second one like idk, something different.
* 2 backgrounds.
* 3 birds.

Link :- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SoloDevStudio.FlipperBird

Screenshots :-

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Help Recovering data from locked android phone?

What sort of "locked" do you mean? There are 4 meanings of that word for Android phones:

* SIM-locked, i.e. locked to a service provider. That's irrelevant to this question.
* Bootloader-locked, which you've already told us it is (this is what OEM locking means). Whether that's an obstacle depends on the phone.
* Screen-locked, i.e. a lockscreen password or PIN has been set. That will prevent you enabling ADB, but anyone with legitimate access to the phone should just be able to unlock it.
* FRP-locked, i.e. the factory reset protection system is active following a reset and you need to enter the previous Google login credentials to access the device. Again, anyone with legitimate access to the phone should be able to unlock it.

Frankly it probably doesn't matter which you mean, since the answer to "is it possible to recover data" is usually "no" anyway. But knowing what data you mean, how they were lost, and what sort of "locked" you are dealing with, will allow a more definite answer to be given.

Help Removing Phone permissions prevents phone calls!

I don't even have Google Pay installed, so can't test anything related to that.

Though it's curious that the "tap and pay" settings have Google Pay listed as the default even so, as opposed to showing no options at all. Maybe this is Google trying to steer people towards their service: you look at the settings, see their name, assume that's what you need to do? There's a lot of money in these mobile payment systems, plus the data that Google, the world's biggest advertising company, would get on your purchasing, so they certainly have the incentive to push people towards it (I'd also be utterly unsurprised to find that manufacturers with their own payment systems try to steer users towards using those rather than Google Pay, for exactly the same reasons).

Selfie video question

Hi mikedt, I very much appreciate your help!
I am now recalling that the interrupted video I made was done before installing the micro-SD.. This means that there was a problem with the phone storage causing the video to stop recording at 52:42. Perhaps it was just a coincidence that the file was at 4.1GB. It would be helpful to know what went wrong.
I'm going to remove the micro-SD, free up as much space as I can, and try recording another video.
I'm not quite ready to get a 512GB micro-SD, but if you have any suggestions how to reduce the file size so that I can record for a full hour I'd love to hear it.
I should check into EXFAT for my Moto G5Plus. A 512GB micro-SD card would be awesome, and then I wouldn't have to worry about file sizes.
Thank you.

Firmware for Samsung Galaxy J337U 2018

Did you get that TWRP to work ? Or find a working version? I have not yet been able to find TWRP for the j337u yet.
I do have various fw of different binary and some combination files for the j337u if needed.

If you happen to do that again download frp hijack by haggard and it has a soft brick fix that loads the working files, and long as none were corrupted. Saved me more than a handful of times. its free & easily found.

[Free][Game] 1812. Napoleon Wars TD

In this game you have to war against the Napoleonic troops.
Participate in the Battle of Borodino, guerrilla, defend and liberate cities, escort convoys, defend the battery of Raevsky and Bagration’s flushes.
Take the path from cornet to general.
Choose a strategy leading to victory, upgrade weapons, take part in battles yourself.
Non-linear plot, change of weather and seasons, night levels.
Two difficulty levels (Normal+hard).
Tower Defense strategy game.

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Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.first.napoleon

1812. Napoleon Wars TD Tower Defense strategy game features:
✅ Non-linear storyline and exciting quests
✅ Fun and addictive tower defense gameplay
✅ Beautiful graphics & interesting sound effects
✅ Over 60 levels with multiple difficulties
✅ Over 30 types of enemies
✅ 8 types of fighting weapons, each containing a variety of system upgrades
✅ 5 types of installable gears for combat vehicles
✅ In-game seasons and weather changes
✅ Bosses at levels
✅ Real military marches
✅ Supports Russian, English, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese & German language
✅ FREE to play

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On June 12, 1812, the “Great army” of Napoleon crossed the Neman River,
the western border of the Russian Empire.
Four days later, French troops occupied the city of Vilna.
The Russian army began a retreat, avoiding a major battle...

Video:

App says its installed,but isn't

You are trying to install from the Play Store but don't have Play Services installed? Have you had problems with other apps, or are you serious enough about deGoogling that this is the only one you have installed from the Play Store?

(I admit that my version of deGoogling would not include the Play Store or a Google account on the phone, but I guess this is the only safe way of getting that banking app?).

That's correct, I don't have play services installed. No probs with other apps and I've got loads of apps. I'll have to check the Lineage OS reddit and see if others are encountering the same issues. It makes sense a financial app wouldn't work well with a degoogled lineage os phone. The world sure does try to punish you if you attempt to opt out of Google cult. Guess I'll have to rock two phones, one contaminated with Google products so I can zelle my landlord (who annoyingly insists on being paid through zelle), and a clean phone for everyday use. The real annoying part here is that I need the Ally mobile app in order to use Zelle to pay my landlord. My other bank wasn't "zelle preferred" so now I'm going down this rabbit hole of tech issues that are seemingly impossible to solve. All this BS was forced upon me - I was doing just fine previously with my super dope Lineage OS phone. I know y'all feel my pain. And I thought it was bad enough the googlers are driving up real estate costs in my hood. They just love to disrupt and the make the world a "better" place with their invasive practices. Thanks for offering your take! End of rant!

App Inventor Sizing images to fit all screens

Hi,

I've been reading and searching on how to display ImageViews that sizes the images based on the device. I have 16 cards that need to be displayed. My card size is 127X177px png files. I'm storing them in the Drawable folder. The top for cards are constraint by the top of the screen. I chain the row together, and force the left and right edge card to have a constraint to the edge. Each row has constraints on the row above. I've tried fitXY, Center, nothing seems to scale the cards, when shown they all overlap each other.

Thank you to any one that can help.

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Unused app using data and power

Well without knowing what app it was it was impossible to really answer. Some apps will run in the background and use data in the background just because of what they do. For example if you install a weather app and that app's default is to update its data every 30 minutes (which would be a silly default), and you never look at its settings and change this, then even if you don't open the app it's probably going to log on to its server and download an update every 30 minutes. That's a made-up example, but the point is to illustrate that an app could be doing this while legitimately carrying out its function, and that perhaps by looking at the app's settings you can make it behave more reasonably.

Conversely if you say that it was a flashlight app behaving like that then for certain it was some piece of trash data-mining your device and uploading your activities to the Chinese Government/Russian Mafia/Facebook (whichever you think is worst ;)).

Or it could be some badly-written piece of junk that was misbehaving through incompetence on the part of the developer rather than malice. This is why it's usefull to supply information such as what app you are asking about, because it's really hard to say anything useful without knowing that.

new to android , apps badges

I believe that Samsung use Google's implementation of these badges, which means that the badge is literally a "notification badge", i.e. it is showing you that you have a notification and will remain for as long as the notification does. But you should be able to swipe the individual notification away rather than having to clear all. Also if you touch the notification that will probably take you to whatever it is notifying you about and clear the notification (I say "probably" because I've never heard of "badoo", but that is the normal app behaviour).

What's surprising is that going into the app and reading whatever the notification is about doesn't make it go away. Just opening the app shouldn't, but if you read the message or whatever the notification is notifying you of that should clear the notification, and hence remove the badge. If it does not clear the notification then the problem is with the Badoo app not behaving properly rather than the operating system, and the fix is to tell the developer that their app needs more work.

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