Create Your Own HUAWEI Watch Face and Win a HUAWEI P40 Pro!

The recent launch of the HUAWEI Watch GT2 Pro is an exciting moment for smartwatch users everywhere. This new smartwatch has a heavy focus on personalization and design. Creative people from around the world are putting their skills to use by making watch faces that others can enjoy. These creators include Medialink Creative, who designed the Le Petit Prince Watch Faces [seen in the image above].

The selection of watch faces continues to grow as HUAWEI’s community is constantly uploading new designs. You can also participate in this, by submitting your own design for a new watch face. By submitting your own design, you will be entered to a HUAWEI P40 Pro giveaway.

HUAWEI Themes has started the Empower Designer Incentive Program to encourage people from Europe to upload their Themes and Watch Faces. Join the Empower Designer Incentive Program and upload your own creations!

Get more information here.

Huawei Watch GT2 Pro

It offers a range of impressive features, including a 1.39-inch AMOLED display made from Sapphire Glass, battery life of up to two weeks, over 100 different fitness modes, wireless charging, around-the-clock heart monitoring, sleep monitoring, and oxygen saturation detector, 4GB of onboard storage, the ability to answer or reject phone calls, water resistance, and lots more.

View at Huawei Store

 

One of the best ways to show off your custom watch face is with a Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro. This premium smartwatch comes with LiteOS, which is one of the best fitness-based OSes that there are. Pairing your watch with Huawei Health app can help you set up your ideal fitness tracking environment. You’ll find features for people who love snow sports, golfing, hiking, running, and just about any other major sport you can think of. There are over 100 workout modes that you can use to track your progress. The watch will automatically know when it’s time to start tracking, based on your movement. This means you’ll spend less time setting up a workout, and more time doing what you love.

Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro

The benefits of the Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro don’t end with fitness. Weather alerts can be seen at a glance. You can also monitor your health with Oxygen Saturation Detection and heart monitoring. A key aspect of good health is good sleep. Use the Scientific Sleep Monitoring with HUAWEI TruSleep 2.0. These features just scratch the surface of the many capabilities of the Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro.

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[Update 2: Xiaomi Files Complaint] US bans Americans from investing in Xiaomi, citing ties to Chinese military

Update 2 (01/31/2021 @ 2:05 PM ET): Xiaomi has filed a legal complaint against the U.S. Defense and Treasury Departments. Click here for more information.

Update 1 (01/14/2021 @ 07:06 AM ET): Xiaomi has released a statement on the ban. Click here for more information. The article as published on January 14, 2021, is preserved below.

The U.S. Department of Defense under the outgoing Trump administration has named nine Chinese firms to an investment blacklist, including Chinese phone maker Xiaomi. The list that Xiaomi and eight other firms have been added to is a list of companies that are alleged to be “Communist Chinese military companies” that are operating either directly or indirectly within the United States. This is in accordance with the statutory requirement of Section 1237 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.

The Department of Defense announced its latest list earlier today. Under Section 1237 of the NDAA for FY 1999, the U.S. defines “Communist Chinese military companies” as “any person identified in the Defense Intelligence Agency publication numbered VP-1920-271-90, dated September 1990, or PC-1921-57-95, dated October 1995, and any update of those publications for the purposes of this section” as well as “any other person that–(i) is owned or controlled by the People’s Liberation Army; and (ii) is engaged in providing commercial services, manufacturing, producing, or exporting.” It’s unclear how Xiaomi fits this bill, as the company has mostly stuck to making consumer products.

As reported by Reuters, American investors will need to divest their holdings in each of the blacklisted firms by November 11, 2021. That’s because of an executive order signed by President Trump in November of 2020, barring Americans from investing in any companies added to the DOD’s list. Companies previously placed on this blacklist include Huawei and SMIC. What this means for the future of Xiaomi is not immediately clear, as while it’s not an outright ban on all trade, it’s possible that the company receives a large amount of investment from U.S.-based companies. For example, Qualcomm Ventures has publicly invested in Xiaomi, so by November 21st, Qualcomm may need to divest its holdings. That would affect Xiaomi’s stock price, but fortunately for the company, it won’t affect their supply chain.

If Xiaomi were to be placed on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Entity List (à la Huawei and DJI), the company would be barred from conducting any business with U.S.-based companies. Furthermore, any company using hardware or software developed primarily in the U.S., which includes many chip foundries and chip design firms, would also be subject to a trade ban with Xiaomi. Huawei’s placement on the Entity List crippled its ability to sell Android-based smartphones internationally, owing to its lack of a GMS license. The placement also crippled Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon’s ability to design new ARM-based chips.

Fortunately for Xiaomi, they have had time to prepare for the worst, which has yet to happen. “In any case, if in the future something happens, we have a plan B. Among other things, we are investing heavily in various semiconductor manufacturers in China, but we believe that our business strategy should not be conditioned by decisions made by politicians. Until now, we have opted for integrating the best components into our products, and we will continue to do so in the future”, Abi Go, Xiaomi’s global product manager, told Xataka early last year. It’s also possible that the forthcoming Biden administration may remove Xiaomi from this blacklist, though that reversal is not guaranteed. Whatever the case may be, this is a major developing story and the impact may not be felt for some time.

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Update 1: Xiaomi releases statement; Qualcomm had already exited long back

Xiaomi has released a statement on Twitter disputing the allegations that it is a company tied to the Chinese military. Xiaomi says that the company is not owned, controlled, or affiliated with the Chinese military.

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— Xiaomi (@Xiaomi) January 15, 2021

As well, it turns out that Qualcomm has already divested its holdings in the company at an unknown date. The venture capital arm of Qualcomm, Qualcomm Ventures, lists Xiaomi as “exited”. While no date has been confirmed for this exit, I was able to verify that the company has been marked as “exited” since at least August 6th, 2020.

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Update 2: Xiaomi files legal complaint

On its official blog, Xiaomi has announced that it has filed a legal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The complaint is addressed to the Department of Defense and the Department of the Treasury, which are undergoing changes in leadership with the transition from President Trump to President Biden. Xiaomi claims the DoD’s decision was factually incorrect and deprived the company of due process. The investment restrictions are set to go into effect on March 15, 2021, unless Xiaomi is removed from the list.

 

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How to run multiple Android apps on your Windows 10 PC with Microsoft’s Your Phone

As a part of its partnership with Microsoft, Samsung had announced during the launch of the Galaxy Note 20 in August last year that the Your Phone app would soon offer support for running multiple apps on Windows. Following the announcement, Microsoft had started rolling out the feature to users who had opted for the Windows Insider program in November. The feature recently became generally available for all users with select Samsung smartphones.

According to Analy Otero Diaz, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, the multiple apps experience in the Your Phone app is now available to all users running the Windows 10 May 2020 update or later. In order to run multiple apps from your Samsung device via Your Phone on Windows, there are a few prerequisites. These include the following:

• The latest Windows 10 May 2020 update or later. It is recommended that you update to the latest version of Windows 10. You can check and update by heading to Settings > Updates & Security > Check for update
• A recommended 8GB of RAM on your Windows PC
• The latest version of Your Phone app on your Windows PC with version 1.20102.132.0 or higher
• Your Phone companion app to link Windows with your Samsung device. Make sure you have version 1.20102.133.0 or higher. You can download the app from the Google Play store
• You also need the latest Link to Windows Service with version 2.1.05.2 or higher. This can be downloaded from the Galaxy Store
• Both the phone and PC should be connected to the same Wi-Fi network

While Microsoft mentions that you need an Android 11 device to enable multi-app support on Your Phone, not all devices running Android 11 are supported. On a separate page, Microsoft lists all supported smartphones which currently only includes a bunch of Samsung devices. Here is the full list:

• Samsung Galaxy Fold
• Samsung Galaxy Note20 5G
• Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G
• Samsung Galaxy S20
• Samsung Galaxy S20+
• Samsung Galaxy S20 FE
• Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G
• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 5G
• Samsung Galaxy Note10
• Samsung Galaxy Note10+
• Samsung Galaxy Note10 Lite

How to run multiple Android apps on Windows using Your Phone:

1. Once you have met all the requirements mentioned above, open the Your Phone app on your Windows PC
2. The app will ask you to select between Android or iPhone. Select Android and click on Continue
3. Next, you will be asked to install/update to the latest version of Your Phone Companion app on your Samsung smartphone by heading to this link (www.aks.ms/yourpc)
4. After you have installed/updated the companion app on your phone, confirm the same on the Your Phone app on your PC and open the QR code
5. On your supported Samsung smartphone, head over to Settings > Advanced Features and head to Link to Windows
6. Enable the service and tap on Add Computer and use the phone’s camera to scan the QR code displayed on the Your Phone app on your PC
7. Sign in to your Microsoft account and wait for a confirmation to allow your phone to be connected to your PC
8. You should now be able to see your phone on the Your Phone PC app
9. Head over to the Apps section on the left to get access to all apps installed on your phone

How to interact with apps:

One can interact with apps using your PC’s mouse, trackpad, keyboard, pen, or touch-enabled screen.  Here are some tips if you are using a mouse and keyboard:

• Single click  will behave the same as any single touch/tap interaction
• Right click  anywhere on your phone screen to navigate to the previous page
• Click and hold will behave the same as a tap/hold interaction
• Click and hold and drag to select content
• Mouse scroll to move between pages vertically or horizontally

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OnePlus Nord N100 unbrick tool is now available

OnePlus had a busy 2020. Apart from the regular offerings, the Chinese OEM also dipped its toes into the budget smartphone market with the OnePlus Nord N10 5G and the OnePlus Nord N100. The wallet-friendly Nord N100 might not be a powerhouse with its 4G-only Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 SoC, but it does share a few things in common with its siblings: a display with a 90Hz refresh rate, an unlockable bootloader for tinkering, and last but not least, the ability to boot into Qualcomm’s Emergency Download Mode (known as EDL) on user trigger. Well, who doesn’t know that the easy availability of EDL flashers (commonly referred to as “MsmDownloadTool”) is the reason why most OnePlus devices are, for the most part, unbrickable?

OnePlus Nord N100 XDA Forums

In case you have a OnePlus Nord N100 and cannot help but wonder why the unbrick tool is not yet available for your device, we are glad to inform you that your wait is over. Our favorite OnePlus aficionado Some_Random_Username has managed to mirror the device-specific MsmDownloadTool package and write a guide explaining what steps are needed to recover a bricked Nord N100 all by yourself.

Download MsmDownloadTool for the OnePlus Nord N100

If your OnePlus Nord N100 is already bricked, connecting the device to a USB port on a PC running Windows should expose it as “QDLOADER 9008” (or “QHUSB_BULK”, if the required driver isn’t properly installed) under Device Manager. To manually trigger EDL mode, hold down both volume up and volume down buttons, and plug the phone into your PC.

There are a few caveats that you need to be aware of prior to using the tool to unbrick your OnePlus Nord N100. The most important being that if you wish to cross-flash a different regional build of OxygenOS during the flashing process, this will not work as the low-level firmware is now tied to the internal device region ID. Also, since OnePlus utilizes VMProtect 3.0 as an obfuscation/anti-debugging measure while building the flasher, your antivirus might flag it as a potentially rogue piece of software. This is a typical case of false-positive, so just ignore the warning and add the tool to the exclusion list of the antivirus.

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Discussion: Has Samsung actually gotten good at software updates?

If you’ve been keeping watch these past few months, you’d have noticed that Samsung has been slaying it with its software updates. Besides working relentlessly to roll out the latest Android 11-based One UI 3.0 update to a wide range of flagships and flagship-killers, Samsung has also rewarded several mid-range devices with a similar treatment. Along with this commendable promptness, the brand also deserves our appreciation for updating mid-rangers that other brands often forget. So, in this edition of our weekly Discussion series, we ask you if you think Samsung is leading the way among Android manufacturers when it comes to software updates?

Here’s when your Samsung Galaxy phone may get the One UI 3.0 (Android 11) update

While Samsung appears to be at the top of its game, the condition was certainly much different a few years ago. Ironic to the brand’s global reputation, Samsung also earned the blame for delaying software updates, limiting key updates — such as Android version incremental updates — to its flagship devices, and offering a cluttered user experience with its TouchWiz user interface that was later refreshed as Samsung Experience. Samsung addressed complaints about the poor UX by majorly overhauling it with the first One UI update back in 2018. Not just that, the frequency and the availability of the latest updates have also improved majorly in the last few years.

Samsung started floating the first One UI 3.0 beta in October 2020 and subsequently started rolling out stable updates in December 2020, starting with the Galaxy S20 series on Verizon. Since then, a slew of devices has received the stable One UI 3.0 updates. The list includes:

• Galaxy S10 series
• Galaxy S20 series
• Galaxy Note 20 series
• Galaxy Note 10 series
• Galaxy Fold and Z Fold 2
• Galaxy Z Flip 4G and Galaxy Z Flip 5G
• Galaxy S10 Lite
• Galaxy S20 FE
• Galaxy M31
• Galaxy Note 10 Lite, Galaxy M21, and Galaxy F41

Aside from these devices, Samsung’s latest Galaxy S21 series comes pre-loaded with One UI 3.1, which brings a few extra features such as the improved Google Home Device controls. The Galaxy Tab S7 has also been updated with One UI 3.1 with a set of features to enhance collaboration and productivity.

Despite this promptness, however, Samsung still lags in one area and that is support for Seamless Updates on Android. The feature was introduced with Android Nougat, and it allows new updates to install in the background while the phone is still being used. While updates may normally take only a few minutes to install, we cannot deny that saving that time is also a bonus, especially in an age where we are constantly dependent on our phones. Until Google does not make Seamless Updates mandatory for manufacturers, we can expect Samsung to its own sweet time.

Whether Seamless Updates improve the user experience or not is another topic for yet another Discussion. For now, we would like you to share your opinions on what you think about Samsung’s enthusiasm for updates. Comments your views below!

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How to (maybe) bypass SafetyNet hardware attestation on devices with an unlocked bootloader

Over the last couple of years, the challenge of bypassing SafetyNet Attestation has evolved from a simple cat and mouse game between Google and the modding community to a burgeoning battle chock full of obscure barriers. Thanks to the rise of hardware-backed attestation techniques, it is very difficult to bypass the boot image integrity verification routine and hide root access. Installing Magisk alone wouldn’t be sufficient to circumvent the latest SafetyNet update, especially on newer devices. This is exactly where the Universal SafetyNet Fix Magisk module comes in.

While legacy device owners, as well as custom ROM users, often utilize modules like MagiskHide Props Config to spoof the CTS profile to pass basic attestation, as long as the method in question relies on a valid combination of device and model names, build fingerprints, and security patch levels, there’s no guarantee that the root hiding trick will remain useful in the future. This is due to the fact that Google Play Services is starting to use hardware attestation for CTS profile validation in many cases, even when basic attestation is selected.

In more technical terms, even if the SafetyNet Attestation API response from GMS will report that basic attestation was used, hardware attestation is always used regardless of the reported state in order to enforce integrity. As a consequence, the existence of a bootloader unlocked state in the key attestation report results in SafetyNet Attestation failing to pass.

In case you have an Android device that has an unlocked bootloader (or locked using custom verified boot keys) and thus doesn’t pass hardware attestation, then the Universal SafetyNet Fix Magisk module may fix that. Created by Danny Lin AKA XDA Senior Member kdrag0n, the module works by taking advantage of the opportunistic nature of the hardware attestation routine. Quoting the developer:

… it (hardware attestation) falls back to basic attestation if key attestation fails to run — and prevent GMS from using key attestation at the framework level. This causes it to gracefully fall back to basic attestation and pass SafetyNet with an unlocked bootloader.
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The “not implemented” error code from Keymaster is used to simulate the most realistic failure condition to evade detection, i.e. an old device that lacks support for key attestation.

The workaround is already available pre-integrated on the ProtonAOSP ROM from the same developer, which lets you pass SafetyNet without Magisk on fairly modern devices such as the Google Pixel 5. If you are a custom ROM maintainer and you wish to integrate this method with your build, you can do so by cherry-picking the necessary patches from this repository. On the other hand, the latest version of the ready-to-flash Magisk Module variant can be found here. Note that MagiskHide is still required if the target device is rooted.

Universal SafetyNet Fix: XDA Thread ||| GitHub Repo

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OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T seeing work for mainline Linux kernel support

One of the perks of buying a OnePlus smartphone is the aftermarket development support. The company is generally known for its timely kernel source code releases (they have been slow at publishing sources a couple of times) and promotion of custom ROMs for EOL devices among other things, which makes it a fan favorite in the developer community. We often speak about devices outliving their generation by leaps and bounds, and now it looks like two OnePlus phones are about to achieve a similarly remarkable feat in terms of third-party development. It’s been nearly three years since the launch of the OnePlus 6 series, but if you still have a OnePlus 6 or a OnePlus 6T lying around, it may soon be possible to boot it with the mainline Linux kernel.

OnePlus 6 Forums ||| OnePlus 6T Forums

The one thing that might convince many users to finally lay their old device to rest is if unofficial software support ends for the foreseeable future — something that is almost a guarantee to happen with nearly every smartphone out there. However, there is an independent developer named Caleb Connolly, who has been working hard to include the OnePlus 6 and 6T in the mainline Linux kernel, which will surely help pave the way for the prolonged life of these devices. He has already taken the important step of successfully booting a postmarketOS instance on the device duo.

With the OnePlus 6/6T being built atop the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 platform, the upstreaming effort isn’t too convoluted but principally adding the appropriate device tree bits for the kernel. Thanks to the existing minimal mainline support for the platform, features like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3D Acceleration are already working at the current stage of development. What’s more interesting is that users can even dual-boot postmarketOS and Android on the OnePlus 6 and 6T using the custom installer created by the developer.

postmarketOS for the OnePlus 6 and the OnePlus 6T

Previously, there have been Windows 10 ARM bootstrapped for the OnePlus 6T by another independent developer, albeit it didn’t spark too much interest. The situation is entirely different now, as Caleb has been actively involved in the process of upstreaming kernel patches with hopes of improving the situation for those wanting to run Linux on the OnePlus 6 and 6T in the near future. We look forward to many years of continued development for these phones.

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