Hey folks!
I followed the instructions posted by allcaps33 at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53549710 to get provisioning disabled, and the native hotspot app is working for me now! I just wanted to confirm if this was an operation similar to running Wifi Tether Router on an unlocked/rooted device (I had an S2Sky prior that I tethered off of regularly). I've got one of those too-rare Unlimited Data plans and am traveling cross-country, made possible by being able to tether my laptop to my phone to work. Just wanting to confirm that this was relatively as secure as using the Wifi Tether Router on my S2Sky. On a semi-related note, that app doesn't seem to want to run properly on my S5; when I click Enable Router it turns on the Wifi, which immediately connects to the house's wired router. It still broadcasts but doesn't send data, and it's hit or miss if a device can even connect to it from there.
Next question - I'm used to flashing a CM ROM within the first couple days of getting a new phone, which doesn't seem feasible just yet with the S5 (from what I can tell anyway; I'm not used to having a current-gen device). I've heard about the myriad evils of OTA updates, and was hoping to get help on how to disable them. I would like to avoid my device upgrading to a point where my above-stated desired functionality is disabled. Ideally, I'd like to get rid of the various bloatware apps as well, though am not sure how to go about that.
I appreciate your time and support, and thanks for being a community that's always been there for me as I derp along with my fancy internet boxes!
Hi!
The absolute easiest way is to use Rom Toolbox. I have the pro version, but I believe it's available in the lite version as well.
Download and open up RTB.
Tap on "App Manager"
Then scroll down until you see "AT&T Software Update"
Tap on it.
A popup will display. Swipe from right to left, and you will be on the "Advanced" tab.
Scroll down and tap on "Advanced Freeze."
You will come to a screen which shows you the Activities, Recievers, Services, and Providers. Tap on EACH box/line. This will Disable OTA services.
We're not done yet!
Go back to the App Manager screen again, and repeat the process for an app called "LocalFOTA"
Finished!
I also Disable most of the bloatware and Knox this way.
Have fun!
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Now for the hard part...
Yes this can be as secure as the other the tether. Ensure you use and change the password service with the app.
As for the tether turning your wifi on, it is supposed to do that. The best way to get this to work is to turn the tether on and off (then on again). If this does not work, try emptying the data/cache for the built-in tether app. And start from scratch.
allcaps33 said:
I also Disable most of the bloatware and Knox this way.
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KNOX - What is it? I'm under the impression it's some sort of security for the phone, to protect from malicious activity that you might not be aware of, but also that it'll "tattle" on you if you mod your phone in a way AT&T doesn't approve.
Knox is two things.
1) It is a security container for apps. It works as both a license/drm type software for Samsung official apps.
And
2) Android contains a root environment at all times. This is what makes SU possible. It used to be quite easy to invoke Android system calls as root.
Root is actually separate from super user. Knox, like SEPolicy, helps dev companies detect, halt, and/or hinder apps, not su itself, but apps that that use these root system calls.
Be wise, even though Knox itself does not "report" these types of actions, it still logs them. And there are other apps that can read these logs and send out these reports. I should say (and I'm only guessing) that only work/company issued phones are setup like this. Not your personal phone.
In fact, our phones actually contain a file which logs all root system calls. It has nothing to do with Knox but, I believe this binary is what hinders us open devs, but makes it easy for Samsung and AT&T to restore/repair our phones.
For more info on Knox:
https://www.samsungknox.com/en/partners/app-developers
I know nothing about any of this so bare with me guys/gals please. Just need help once and ill remove my account. If any of you feel like im wasting your time then please tell me and ill remove my post. Thankyou and i hope someone will give me an idea of whats going on.
Friends ex girlfriend is remotely accessing his phone from her computer, she can lock him out and write text out of format on the lock screen. She has deleted everything on his phone 8 times in the past hour. The Verizon recovery app has been disabled, we went into the Verizon store and changed EVERYTHING, number, passwords, made sure if she ever called in wanting info she couldn't get it. There is no way she figured out any of the passwords, she doesn't have access to any of his accounts, gmails facebook etc... i thought for sure she was using the recovery app but that's impossible cause no account has been created to access to his phone. Idk guys like i said im not an expert one thing that has me most skeptical she can write whatever she wants, whatever color, on his phone on any spot on the screen. Its completely out of set text formations on the lock screen looks like doodles i guess. Just curious if you guys have have ever heard of anything like this happening before. Thanks and i apologize if this shouldn't be here just on a desperate attempt to figure this out. Verizon is completely stumped they have no idea how she does it, even the main tech guy at the store (idk his credentials) cant figure it out.
From what I've seen so far, Android Device Manager (part of Google's setup) can do remote wipes. as can Motorola ID. I imagine both of these may "automatically setup" when you re-activate the phone. Beyond that, you'd need an app to perform such changes, I'd think.
Also, if he's on a joint-account with his exGF, and if she has access to the account, VZ may be doing this without the store-people knowing it?
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From what I've seen so far, Android Device Manager (part of Google's setup) can do remote wipes. as can Motorola ID. I imagine both of these may "automatically setup" when you re-activate the phone. Beyond that, you'd need an app to perform such changes, I'd think.
Also, if he's on a joint-account with his exGF, and if she has access to the account, VZ may be doing this without the store-people knowing it?
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If it's Android Device Manager, maybe it would be sufficient to just change the Google login password?
Yeah, he changed his Google password right?
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From what I've seen so far, Android Device Manager (part of Google's setup) can do remote wipes. as can Motorola ID. I imagine both of these may "automatically setup" when you re-activate the phone. Beyond that, you'd need an app to perform such changes, I'd think.
Also, if he's on a joint-account with his exGF, and if she has access to the account, VZ may be doing this without the store-people knowing it?
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He was on a joint account but upon breakin up with her he took her phone, cancelled it, removed her from the account changed his passwords to facebook and google and everything else. Just for the guy to call in and request info he has to answer 5+ extra security questions before hes allowed any info. But ill check out the ADV maybe thats it. Thankyou
Hey, guys - I've been scouring everywhere whether anyone has been able to perform a system dump of a Smart Display device. Since the Home Hub is using Cast as its method of being display I'm almost positive it won't be able to be engineered on old Android tablets or elsewhere.
However, any other Smart Display should be running the Smart Display APK on top of Android Things. If we can get a hold of that I think we may be able to start porting it over to older devices.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm tempted to go purchase a device just to test.
Sadly it seems there isn't much of a hacking community for these devices, and if you want anything, the best option is to simply buy the device yourself and get hacking.
I just purchased a Home mini for this reason, it seems you might have to to the same yourself for the devices that interest you.
(Shame there's no firmware section here, I imagine the few posts it would get would be invaluable)
Hey guys, did you manage to get anywhere with Smart Display APK?
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Hey guys, did you manage to get anywhere with Smart Display APK?
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Guys I have a Lenovo Smart Display under my hands. I found the hidden USB Tipe-C port but there's no way to make the PC/Mac to see it.
adb fastboot are not working and there's no settings to enable developer options
Btw this thing is indeed Android Things...
If someone has any idea how to dump the memory this thing I will share the package ASAP and the portings will begin!
I don't know if this will help.
https:// smartsupport. lenovo. com/us/en/products/SMART/SMART-SPEAKER/LENOVO-SMART-DISPLAY/downloads/DS504927
Someone shared this link on another site, not sure if the open source code could help or not. (1st post, had to add spaces to the link because can't post links until after ten post) Shout out to Shloime Rosenblum for sharing on stack overflow https:// stackoverflow. com/questions/53029653/android-things-on-lenovo-smart-display-or-google-home-hub
Hey guys,
I have attached the usb-c connector to my pc and have gotten the smart display in fastboot mode (by holding the volume down and applying power). Some fastboot commands work and I have tried installing different recovery.img to the device, but it won't boot them. I have also entered recovery by holding down the up volume button and tried to initiate an adb session, but adb does not respond. I have also tried flashing in qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008, by holding both volume up and down and applying power. I have tried a sahara img for qualcomm 625, but the img won't take. I have also tried extracting the imgs from the smart display via fastboot, but no luck. I think it needs to be done in adb.
Does anyone know how to enable developer options in android things?
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Also, does anyone know how to compile the source from lenovo? If I could get a binary of the imgs, we might be able to flash a modified rom (unlocked bootloader, root, etc).
Hey all, I am looking for a factory image for this device that I can sideload in ADB. Anyone been able to find one?
10 in smart display
Hello fellow androideans. I am wondering if anyone has gotten any further on finding a way to mod the smart display from Lenovo. I have purchased 3, to do some miss to. In this case, I'm sure I will mess up 2 before I get to my 3rd. I will keep checking back to see how we can make these things, our own.
Compile
I have the source code, but I have no idea how to compile it. Any updates?
Did you happen to try the "fastboot oem unlock" or other similar commands? If the bootloader is locked, it will never allow you to flash any sort of image with fastboot.
It may let you "boot" an image, though....
you could try:
"fastboot boot <your_recovery_image.img>"
gigahurts said:
Hey guys,
I have attached the usb-c connector to my pc and have gotten the smart display in fastboot mode (by holding the volume down and applying power). Some fastboot commands work and I have tried installing different recovery.img to the device, but it won't boot them. I have also entered recovery by holding down the up volume button and tried to initiate an adb session, but adb does not respond. I have also tried flashing in qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008, by holding both volume up and down and applying power. I have tried a sahara img for qualcomm 625, but the img won't take. I have also tried extracting the imgs from the smart display via fastboot, but no luck. I think it needs to be done in adb.
Does anyone know how to enable developer options in android things?
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Also, does anyone know how to compile the source from lenovo? If I could get a binary of the imgs, we might be able to flash a modified rom (unlocked bootloader, root, etc).
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I found the hidden USB Tipe-C port but)
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Hi nello,
can you tell me pls, where you have located the USB Port?
Thanks
Boris
It is under one of the rubber feet, Lenovo's website details it as a service port
I am shocked I can't find more people trying to port NestHome / EchoShow firmware to older devices. Google/Amazon should want to help people do this. It would not make any meaningful impact on device sales, and it would incourage platform growth amongst coders.
What about some other Linux smart-display... Something like that has to exist and be easy to put on old devices no? It would be awesome to have a custom smart-display capable of talking to any of the big-4 voice assistants, that we can run on old tablets and phones.
I miss the old days when a computer didn't come with an OS, you bought hardware and software from different companies. How did we allow manufacturers to lockdown OUR devices like this?
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I am shocked I can't find more people trying to port NestHome / EchoShow firmware to older devices. Google/Amazon should want to help people do this. It would not make any meaningful impact on device sales, and it would incourage platform growth amongst coders.
What about some other Linux smart-display... Something like that has to exist and be easy to put on old devices no? It would be awesome to have a custom smart-display capable of talking to any of the big-4 voice assistants, that we can run on old tablets and phones.
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I'm shocked no one has been able to pull the APK from any of these devices. Lenovo or any Android Things powered Google Smart Display is running off of an apk and theoretically could work on any device.
Amazon's OS is available here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=amazon.speech.sim but you can only download it from select few Lenovo tablets.
I miss the old days when a computer didn't come with an OS, you bought hardware and software from different companies. How did we allow manufacturers to lockdown OUR devices like this?
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We're hackers and very capable engineers. Most people are not. By locking most of these things down the companies are making it much easier for consumers to understand not to mention support at scale.
Hi,
if you press and hold down powerup an give power you cemt to the basic bootmenü
Hey, I don't know if you guys are aware, but the Lenovo Smart Display was recently unlocked, and the dump of the firmware is available at https : // github . com / deadman96385 / things_mt8167s_som_dump (just remove the spaces). System/system/app does contain DeskClock and AndroidThings, but they don't install/parse respectively on my Moto X4 (Oreo 8.0) directly anyway. But if you can figure something out, that would be great! I've got an old Moto G3 and instead of turning into electronic waste it could actually be useful.
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I'm shocked no one has been able to pull the APK from any of these devices. Lenovo or any Android Things powered Google Smart Display is running off of an apk and theoretically could work on any device.
Amazon's OS is available here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=amazon.speech.sim but you can only download it from select few Lenovo tablets.
We're hackers and very capable engineers. Most people are not. By locking most of these things down the companies are making it much easier for consumers to understand not to mention support at scale.
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Hey, I don't know if you guys are aware, but the Lenovo Smart Display was recently unlocked, and the dump of the firmware is available at https : // github . com / deadman96385 / things_mt8167s_som_dump (just remove the spaces). System/system/app does contain DeskClock and AndroidThings, but they don't install/parse respectively on my Moto X4 (Oreo 8.0) directly anyway. But if you can figure something out, that would be great! I've got an old Moto G3 and instead of turning into electronic waste it could actually be useful.
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Unfortunately that dump isnt really of much use. Its from the Smart Display 7 from Lenovo which is a different beast. Mediatek processor, and the original Lenovo Smart Displays and the JBL Link View are all Qualcomm. So the process to dump a ROM and the tools would be different
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Internal photos are here. Any ideas folks?
https://fccid.io/APILINKVIEW/Internal-Photos/Internal-Photos-3884185
Without being able to get the thing in dev mode or unlocking the bootloader, doesnt seem to be a way of us either dumping, or flashing, a ROM via the USB port. Unless this has changed.
Looks to be a 10-pin interface on the board, no telling if this is standard 10-pin JTAG or not. Might be a way to dump a rom though.
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Mainboard seems to be the Intrinsyc SD624 Audio Kit board, which has the wifi, BT, and Qualcomm SoC onboard. Probably if someone is able to get dev tools or manuals or intel on this board, that would lead to the tools to dump/extract a ROM.
Or, at a minimum, perhaps a stock / generic development ROM.
Hey Guys, sad to see this project is still on halt. I landed on here with the same idea of trying to put that Lenovo smart clock app/rom onto my old phones and use them as smart clocks instead of letting them sleep in a corner. I had a run through this thread and someone pointed out that the source code for the clock was available at https://smartsupport.lenovo.com/au/en/products/smart/smart-home/smart-clock/za4r/downloads/driver-list/component?name=Software%20and%20Utilities
I had a look at it, and I don't know how to compile it but I am now following through some guides to see the available options to compile it. I have zero knowledge of making roms or apk, and my coding skills are utmost basic, but I don't think it should be super out of reach in 2020. Lets see how it goes, anyone with ideas, please shoot them through!
Cheers
Sounds like very complex development...
I have 3 lenovo 10" smart displays. I purchased them because they are still in store display mode. This mode has the option to test all aspects of the display, gives sound and touch with no issues. I can get into bootloader menu. Only this is as far as I can go. My goal was to set one of these up as just a stand alone android device. Not caring what android version it was running. I thought it would be nice to have a full android tablet available, capable of all android features; by your bed side. If someone is willing to get this going. I would happily send you a Lenovo 10" smart display, so you can do what you like with it.
I learned that Samsung forces security updates, is there a way to disable the phone from not updating? It literally says you can only delay it 3 times before there's a forced update.
This is insane!
Hope that isn't true.
Sadly it could be...
I too want to have control over that and hope there's going to be a solution.
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Hope that isn't true.
Sadly it could be...
I too want to have control over that and hope there's going to be a solution.
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I could not find any way to disable it even through developer options enabled. This is very very ****ty to say the least.
There is a workaround: install adhell3 and block the Samsung update server Ip/domain.
I don't know their IP but you can scan it with Wireshark or another network sniffer.
Just install Wireshark (or another) on computer, enable proxy http capture... and force manual update checking to see the IP
The fact is that is possible they push their securitypatch from another server or from channel and you are screwed ahah
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Or just looking for the Samsung update process on adhell3 and disable all traffic
I bought a s20 Fe 5G sm-g781v off on Mecri everything comes back clean the IMEI check the phones paid off I cannot bypass the FRP lock the new September security update Samsung cloud is not available restore data is not available can anybody please give me any suggestions that might help me unlock this phone I have receipts showed where I paid for it I can't seem to get help anywhere
take it to a phone repair shop, with your receipt and some ID.
Closest one is almost 80 miles away I'm a single father you want to come watch my kid
dugger42032 said:
I bought a s20 Fe 5G sm-g781v off on Mecri everything comes back clean the IMEI check the phones paid off I cannot bypass the FRP lock
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Talk to the Mecri seller about the issue. The simplest way unlock FPR is using original Google account password. Or you can download an APK to bypass FPR. Google search returns many tools to bypass.
I can't stand reading content when obviously someone needs real answers not being advised to take it to a repair shop. XdA is about people coming together to help share code and troubleshoot devices. Some of you guys are so green. You must not have made the cut to work for google.
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I can't stand reading content when obviously someone needs real answers not being advised to take it to a repair shop. XdA is about people coming together to help share code and troubleshoot devices. Some of you guys are so green. You must not have made the cut to work for google.
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some people don't like giving out info that would be useful to people who steal phones.
I was successful on att version I was on Android 10 but I had to upgrade to 11 bootloader 2 to work..I used a moto g7 plus as my device to transfer google account with smart switch and it only worked with wireless transfer not OTG.. The software i used is the same in all the videos that boots you to chrome or YouTube after you disable antivirus and signature verification in windows 7/8/10/11....I found one updated video that had the most important information because i spent two weeks stuck on failure to launch chrome script and searching and I hate that Indian techno dub step music...lol... USE WINRAR ONLY TO UNPACK THE PROGRAMS WINDOWS UNPACK 7ZIP OR TERMINAL UNPACK FAILS.... then once you chrome YouTube scroll to version then feedback then find rom in search bar select Samsung store update then select smartswitch to restore backup google account and lock screen pattern... Profit..and no I didn't steal mine mine was an unclaimed repair bad info and 60 days later I'm the official owner registered on samsung.com and brought it back to att as byop....until I purchased carrier unlock from carrierunlocker.net for $25...
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dugger42032 said:
I bought a s20 Fe 5G sm-g781v off on Mecri everything comes back clean the IMEI check the phones paid off I cannot bypass the FRP lock the new September security update Samsung cloud is not available restore data is not available can anybody please give me any suggestions that might help me unlock this phone I have receipts showed where I paid for it I can't seem to get help anywhere
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I can help you with the frp if you like, let me know if you already solved it