Why is this a Google Pixel only ROM? Anything special with the Google Pixel?

I even consider Chinese phones a better hardware dela than what Google does, and I know Google software (I mainly use AOSP ROMs, Pixel OS in this case) but if we are swapping right away the ROM of the Pixel and the hardware is subpar what’s the deal with it?

Which post/comment?

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Top notch content as always.

I like when you include fun or odd stuff, that resembles a lot of old magazines (yeah yeah, I suppose you get comments like that often).

Has anyone shared your posts outside the fediverse? I legit think this is unique and real content, no SEO or AI shit that I doom scroll on a daily basis, that could benefit users from other communities lol.

I thought we were social beings… With that said, ofc I would be happier with remote work only.

I am not sure, it is certain that heat makes it usable though.

It first began when it lost USB data transfers, I was like that for months, I thought I needed to replace the USB module as many users claimed that to be the solution, I didn’t, another common failure with this device is that the flex cable fucks up after a while, so you either replace it or add something to make pressure to the board and charging/USB module, I did the latter, applied black tape to both ends like 3 years ago or so, quick and normal charge worked since then, so I assumed USB data transfers failing me months ago was a symptom of my workaround giving up… Turns out it wasn’t.

Then after months I lost IMEIs, so no data transfers, I said, oh, I could use my phone as an iPod or something, but as this is my main device yet, I decided to look up for solutions, and playing around with QFIL, TWRP and lots of things (do note I had efs partitions backed up prior, which did nothing to help me), I was left without WiFi, so this one really hurts lol.

I forgot to say that when IMEI started to fail I detected that my phone USB data transfer worked for a while, so it was like a trade lol, that essentially gave me the opportunity to play around with it and flash something else.

Anyway, I said to myself, ok so be it, it would be a dumb phone (a very dumb one) no internet access whatsoever and USB data transfers gave up as well… I could load emulators or something (through BT perhaps) but as the partition image responsible of Wifi connection wasn’t loaded properly from the kernel it started to hinder the performance of the device with some wifi process (detected with FKM) if I try to kill it then it is replaced by a kernel binder process which I can’t kill (well I can but it auto starts), so yeah, having a phone that can’t deep sleep and is always wasting resources on that doesn’t seem smart…

Luckily the hairdryer and that Termux command (with quick charge) gave me everything back… Not all the times I get back USB data transfers (it seems like it is the 1st one to go when it loses connection) but I appreciate I can still milk this device that I got in November 2020 and somehow still can get 8 hrs of SOT from it (no gaming and with Wifi only).

Yeah, but it happens with different kernels as well, it happened to me in the stock ROM actually, moved to a custom ROM and it didn’t fix it (I needed to heat it up first in order to flash it with adb sideload 😂).

Also, not everyone who shares these newer A15 ROMs suffer from this, this is a very documented hardware issue I am afraid, but I am totally with you that this workaround shouldn’t make it last for something more than a mere hours perhaps.

Me too, sometimes I feel it is a software issue, but if that was it wouldn’t happen in all the ROMs I tried, on top of that a restore of efs and modem partitions should be enough (at least for IMEI and Wifi), but sadly it isn’t.

I have been like this for a month with this workaround, and yeah, I backup with Google backups and rooted Swiftbackup nightly 👍🏻

Every time I hop to boot camp lol.

If the customer support of my ISP doesn’t even know what CGNAT is, but AI knows, I am actually troubled whether this is a good move or not.

Yep, loops to heat up the CPU, in combination with fast charge to make it hot quicker.

CPU loses contact with the board or something like that making it not able to read modem, efs, and whatever is the responsible to transmit data through the USB port (charging works normally, even fast charge), it needs a reflow or reballing to fix this for good, but technicians nearby are… Simply put, thieves lmao.

So I’d rather keep doing this until the phone dies (the workaround makes it work for an undefined amount of time, which can be hours, days or almost a week) or change the motherboard myself.

I got the idea along with ChatGPT when a user in telegram told me that he got USB data transfers working again (in order to escape from MIUI once again) by heating up the SOC with a hairdryer, yes, that worked for me too to fix all above, thus I decided to create a software solution in the meantime 😅

I was expecting a joke comment mentioning Driver.

I am disappointed I had to scroll this far to find something like that.

And there is me using a 2019 (dying) device which I heat up with a termux command to get it back in working state 😁

For the curious the device is a Poco F2 Pro, known for IMEI and charging flex issues, the termux command I use to bring alive my IMEI, Wifi and USB data transfers is:

for i in $(seq 1 32); do sh -c ‘while :; do a=$((a+1)); done’ & done; for i in $(seq 1 32); do yes > /dev/null & done

This paired with fast charge will heat the SOC and make it work like the 1st day without an issue lol.

I have never had a Motorola smartphone… But Canta is a thing :)

Remember the Howarts Legacy situation?

Did the boycott really hurt them?

Also there is an old saying that goes by “there is no such thing as bad publicity”.

Yes, that one.

Toy Story 2 for PS1, it hasn’t aged at all, and it looks better than the praised MGS (silly comparison, and graphic style helps the Disney game, but I have never seen praises to that title regarding that field, also I played Toy Story as a kid and MGS as a grown up, that’s why I brought this) change my mind.

lol, yeah, that’ll teach her.

I guess so, my previous ISP also gave me IPv6 address (I could navigate using it) but I could never access my NAS services with it from an IPv6 ready network, I thought it would be the same with the newer ISP, but nope.

Maybe some firewall is active by the ISP? I could not do much thinker back then as I used the stock modem (router) and it was heavily locked.