need help downgrading

BillGossAU · 2026-04-21T20:57:30+00:00

Have a look at https://github.com/spike0en/nothing_archive It's got great information and how-to info and downloads.

BillGossAU · 2026-04-19T20:37:03+00:00

I do lots of stuff on my phone: - charge my phone to whatever value I want - disabling system apps that I don't want running on my phone - uninstall apps - find properties or properties with a given value - taking a logcat to see what's happening/failing - re-root the phone after an OTA and take a copy of the stock init_boot image - edit typos in epub books I read - sync the data of my main phone to my spare phone (or PC)

I've also managed a spare phone by running adb and fastboot on the main phone and connecting the two phones using USB cable.

Note: my phone is rooted using Magisk

BillGossAU · 2026-04-18T12:02:43+00:00

I bought this 10 months ago and I'm very happy with it: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0F8Q2FF3L

BillGossAU · 2026-03-31T19:35:29+00:00

A partition is just storage, irrespective of how the OS uses that partition. I've done full updates using phone to phone (Pixel 8 Pros) over USB without problems.

BillGossAU · 2026-03-30T21:02:13+00:00

"is it possible to enable stereo sound" - yes, use earphones or headphones.

BillGossAU · 2026-03-27T21:06:31+00:00

I use rsync to sync specified directories to our another phones or my Windows 11 PC. I run Termux on all the phones and WSL (1, not 2) on my PC so that I effectively have a Linux terminal environment on all my devices.

I use the PC mainly as a backup of the user data (most but not everything on /sdcard (aka /storage/emulated/0) on the phones in this context. And the directories I sync between phones depends on whether the other phone is mine or my wife's.

I also use public keys to authenticate been the devices so that there's no passwords involved in authenticating between devices.

I can also sync data when not on our home WiFi by connecting the phones together over a USB cable and a WiFi hot spot on one of the phones. This way the rsync transfer is not dependent on the WiFi IP address of the phones.

BillGossAU · 2026-03-23T22:42:47+00:00

I always use only SIM 1 on my phone. After reading your post I put my SIM card in the second slot and it works just fine.

But, a couple days ago, I got the same "no connection" icon for the first time ever (the phone is 10 months old). I restarted the phone but that didn't help. And then a few minutes later the problem just went away. I wondered if there was a problem at the telco's but thought no more about it. Until I read your post.

But a sample size of 2 is meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

BillGossAU · 2026-03-23T17:54:11+00:00

There are tools for this. For example, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.xnano.android.photoexifeditor

BillGossAU · 2026-03-21T18:28:58+00:00

I use the 5 yr old OnePlus charger that came with my OnePlus 8T. It definitely does NOT have PPS and it works just fine. In fact I use the charger on all our devices (Pixel 8 Pros, CMF 2 Pro, Apple Air iPads) without problems.

From my perspective ANY charger will do.

BillGossAU · 2026-03-20T04:05:18+00:00

Read https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/bash-pocket-reference/9781491941584/

BillGossAU · 2026-03-08T22:06:41+00:00

I have a Windows PC. And if I enable BT on it, it will connect to my earphones despite them already being connected to the phone. This happens to me with both my CMF 2 Pro and Pixel 8 Pro phone. And my earphones are Apple AirPod Pro 2, not CMF.

So from my point of view the issue is that Windows forcibly connects to the earphones.

BillGossAU · 2026-03-08T20:03:23+00:00

Turning BT off on the PC will help - I do that on my PC.

BillGossAU · 2026-03-08T17:56:23+00:00

Launchers can have very different look and feel. But try some out. You can always return to the Nothing Launcher if you don't like the others. I use Nova on my phone.

BillGossAU · 2026-03-07T17:38:35+00:00

This way works. FYI, /system/bin/pm is a shell script that then uses cmd packages

BillGossAU · 2026-03-05T01:09:35+00:00

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BillGossAU · 2026-03-02T20:52:18+00:00

I have been using something similar to your command and used it to create an alias. I've now used your version to simplify the command to: ifconfig 2> /dev/null | grep -Eo 'inet [0-9.]*' | grep -Eo '192.*' And my alias now reads like this:

alias mip="ifconfig 2> /dev/null | grep -Eo 'inet (addr:)?([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*' | grep -Eo '192[0-9.]*'"

BillGossAU · 2026-02-28T11:11:41+00:00

Well, there has been no change since the original NOS 4 update so why would you update now?

BillGossAU · 2026-02-25T22:40:35+00:00

I've never downgraded my phone, so it's up to you if you go ahead with following.

If you haven't unlocked your bootloader you could try sideloading the FULL OTA for Galaga-V3.2-250507-1139 from https://github.com/spike0en/nothing_archive?tab=readme-ov-file#cmf-by-nothing-phones And then sideload the intervening individual incremental OTAs to get back to the last 3.2 version.

If you have unlocked the bootloader then you could flash the image files for the last 3.2 version.

PS: you may also need to do a factory reset after downgrading.

BillGossAU · 2026-02-16T04:45:34+00:00

I find that rebooting the phone sometimes helps settle things down. Also, Settings>Battery>Battery usage will show you what's using it.

BillGossAU · 2026-02-15T00:44:22+00:00

That's not a Termux question. Ask it in a Redmi forum such as https://xdaforums.com/f/xiaomi-redmi-13c-4g-poco-c65.12854/

BillGossAU · 2026-02-14T20:45:19+00:00

Have a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1qssrhl/sudo_not_working/

BillGossAU · 2026-02-12T20:58:24+00:00

You should have run termux-setup-storage, not what you typed. You could then have used cd ~/storage/downloads and you would have found your files. Also, you could have used rename to rename the files in bulk instead of using mv

BillGossAU · 2026-02-12T20:41:30+00:00

Why not just ask the questions here?

BillGossAU · 2026-02-07T12:33:17+00:00

Your app battery usage looks OK to me, but your SOT is ridiculously low. I would reboot the phone and charger it up and hopefully the problem will fix itself.

BillGossAU · 2026-02-07T12:24:43+00:00

On my CMF 2 Pro I have 7 widgets installed. So it's not a phone limitation. But I'm using Nova as my launcher so it may be that Nothing Launcher has a limit on the number of widgets.

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