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[Droid X General] jazaddict:
So I have downloaded directly to my phone bootstrap and Z4root. They are on my SD card.

I've enabled USB Debugging.

I can now run the z4root apk without loading the Android SDK and connectiing my phone to the PC, right? I came to this conclusion from reading the noobs Guide Sticky that said this:

"...If you don't want to have to mess with this method of installing, you could also download "Astro File Manager" from the android market. You would then need to save z4root.apk to your sdcard of your Droid X. Then open the Astro program and browse to your SDcard and file the z4root.1.3.0.apk...."

I ask because I read some threads about having downloaded the z4root to their PC first, then copying it to the SD & having had better luck that way.....or did I mis-read these threads?

And the kwes-chun:

The noob guide says "if you wanna remove the bootstrap...." but it doesn't 'splain why I'd wanna. What is the benefit of removing the bootstrap? And just to be clear, the bootstrap download on pg1 of the "noobs Guide" is for "removing" the bootstrap, right?

Thanky one & all.
[Droid X General] Jmoney47:
All you have to do is install the app and run it. If it doesn't do anything let it go for 15-20 minutes then pull the battery and try again.

For the question about the bootstrap, some people may want to return completely to stock and they will no longer be rooted. I personally wouldn't ever want to do that but some people may want to do this
[Droid X General] jazaddict:
ah HA...so running the bootstrap apk UN-DOES the rooting the z4root does....thereby returning to Stock?
[Droid X General] mattmartin77:
no, z4root is an app that can root and unroot you, there are options you can select. what you have described is that people download the apk onto their computer since download capability is faster, then transfer it to the sd card of their phone where they install te app and run it allowing them to root. z4root is completely stand-alone and can be downloaded and run without a computer if you so choose.

Koush's dxbootstrapper is an app that allows your phone to hijack the boot process to be able to install custom roms, and access the bootstrap recovery. it is needed if you want to customize your phone. the noobs guide tells you haw to uninstall it if you so choose so that it doesnt show up if you return your phone so you dont get in sum trouble wit vzw for example.
[Droid X General] jazaddict:
Awesome. I thank you very much; I understand
[Droid X General] jazaddict:
And. ..........it is done. I'm rooted.

I feel ...so...liberated.

Actually I feel the same. But im happy.
[General Questions and Answers] 5hamz:
OK, so I am about to receive a nice little bonus from my company here in London UK! I will come out the other side with just over £500.

my question is: Should I take the plunge and buy the Xoom?

some info:

1. This buy is purely to spoil myself. I dont 'need' a tablet. I have a PS3, HDTV, killer HP laptop , etc! (btw crysis 2 out this Friday...yay! )

2. No, I dont want an Ipad. (yes I have used/owned an iphone before...3GS)

3. Yes, I have an android phone (HTC Desire HD...R00t'd n Rom'd)

4. Yes I want honeycomb

5. I dont have any experience with motorola products. are they any good?

6. Samsung's 10.1 Galaxy tab seems to be a contender as well. Samsung's products are nicely spec'd but they have a tendency to feel cheap/plastic-eeey.

So i'm putting myself in the hands of XDA!

Help me decide please! and if you could elaborate (not just Yes or No) that would be fantastic! If its a NO, what are my options for tablets? (minus the Ipad)

THANX!

:)
[General Questions and Answers] 5hamz:
LOL...36 views....and No replies!

:(
[General Questions and Answers] somewhatdog:
I'd be impressed if you could get a Xoom for £500 given that, right now, they're exclusive to deals on Verizon so you'd have to buy someone out of a contract on that and cover the cost of import??

When it arrives in the UK I suspect it's price will exceed £500 by some margin - it's likely to compete with an iPad2 3G and the UK's sim-free/unlocked market isn't noted for bargains (and the lock-in prices on the old Galaxy Tab remain silly even now).
[General Questions and Answers] 5hamz:
Xoom is scheduled for UK release 1st week of April. PCworld announced they will stock it sim/contract free for £500. Thats the Wifi only version ofcourse.

£600 for 3G/wifi @ the carphone warehouse

:)
[EVO 4G General] jgalan14:
Which one you think I should get? Mm I don't like Samsung but I hate to wait for updates I might go with the nexus s!
[EVO 4G General] go4the1:
Buy the Evo 3D and root it. Problem solved.
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
Lol nexus s is old news. I wouldn't buy an old phone! Hah that, and I need my 4.3 inch screen.
[EVO 4G General] Laoto:
3D for me!
[EVO 4G General] jgalan14:
Mm OK I ma wait to see what it has to offer I just hate to wait for updates and yes roms like cm7 can save us and stuff, but I found them unistable some times, stock sense is slow but is a stable as it gets never ran into a problem in stock sense, I like all roms like MIUI and cm7 but at the end I keep going back to sense because I need something stable a reliable :) that's y I was thinking of nexus s , is rock android and it should be stable from the get go, I wonder if hotspots will be free?
[EVO 4G General] gear.h34d.2012:
I won't survive the next 12 months without a dual core phone so the choice for me is obvious.
[EVO 4G General] jayharper08:
I'm going with the 3D. Nexus S is a sexy looking phone, but my Evo has served me very well and with the specs on the new version....... I'm drooling. :cool:
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Until technology makes internet/bandwidth/tower capacity cheaper/better, hotspot will not be free

Edit: Then again, I forgot hotspot works free on the Nexus line
[EVO 4G General] akarol:
Why anyone would purchase a single-core phone nowadays is beyond me.
[EVO 4G General] novanosis85:
My EVO is single core but no app has cried for more power except games that need a better gpu.. aka nexus s.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Because not everyone needs all the bells and whistles. The average consumer doesn't even know what a core is, let alone why they need two to (as they will describe it) "make a few calls, play a game maybe and shoot a couple of text messages."
[EVO 4G General] nabbed:
Because by the time dual cores become actually useful to people who don't play with benchmark tests, you are going to need a new phone anyway.

Having said that, I'll probably wait for quad core phones before I upgrade.
[EVO 4G General] AyyRayy:
+1 amen

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[EVO 4G General] xHausx:
There are also time when a single core can out perform a dual core.
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
Lol not if they are clocked the same. And the evo 3d is clocked faster supposedly :p
[EVO 4G General] notasimpleway:
I said before and I will say it again. The Nexus is not really an upgrade for us Evo users. Not IMHO. If I am going to get an upgrade it has to be just that...an upgrade. Not just slightly better. I am looking for something that will be like going from the Hero to the Evo gap upgrade. I was not ever impressed with the Nexus S.

Sent from my iPhone with the bigger Gee Bees.
[EVO 4G General] BrianDigital:
Some of us do not really play alot games on our phone so nexus s looksto be right up some peoples alleys. I would like a multi core multi gpu tablet though
[EVO 4G General] mmegalodon:
This. If I could survive another year with my Evo I could do so easily with the Nexus S. Seems pretty tempting. Might not be the most epic of upgrades ... and no LED notifications / removable storage is pretty silly in all honesty, but its a step up in other manners.

Too true about the tablet, too. I want a Xoom but not sure I even really need it at the moment. Was thinking about using some of the return on one but I'm not too sure. Time will tell. Hope the Evo3D is cool, don't doubt it'll be a beast.

blah blah effin blah
[EVO 4G General] BrianDigital:
I'm hoping Google does a nexus line for tablets cause that's the only way ill fork out big money

I want both nexus and the 3d. If the nexus comes out in April but if I have to wait till October who knows what going to available or also close by then to the next nexus phone
[EVO 4G General] NewZJ:
I want a tab that can make phone calls
[EVO 4G General] tom62015:
google voice + sip droid = phone calls through dialer... been doing that on gtab for a while (international and 3g usb stick
[EVO 4G General] freeza:
While Sprint getting the Nexus S is a major WIN, it is last gen hardware, and the EVO 3D is BOSS.
[EVO 4G General] Durden44:
I'm gonna rock the 3D.

+1 Like a BOSS
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
the nexus s 4g will be redone for sprint. it's not old news. that phone will receive google builds before any other device. if it comes without touchwiz and with a sd card it will be my new phone.
[EVO 4G General] He123321:
Sign me up for the Evo 3D please...
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
**** just saw the nexus specs, it's the same phone only it will have 4g. no sd card = fail for me.

but it will only be $399 off contract. i could easily get $300 for my evo right now. i wonder if the evo will be released in june since the nexus will be in early spring? that will also play into my decision making.
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
i need a release date so i can put my evo up for sale!
[EVO 4G General] dougdascenzo:
Really, easily get 300 for a used Evo?
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
Yup its mint and thats what they go for on craigslist.
[EVO 4G General] jgalan14:
i guess evo 3d will do :) afterall

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/21/evo-3d-specs-confirmed-1080p-2d-video-720p-3d-dual-cameras-1/
[EVO 4G General] androd:
Will the EVO 3D have NFC?

The only reason id rather get a nexus s 4g over the evo 3d is the battery life is amazing on the nexus s as well as it has a nfc chip. Will the evo 3d have a nfc chip built in?
[EVO 4G General] swaze:
Yep

Sent from my HTC Evo running CM7
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Do you actually know this?
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
Part of the leak.
[EVO 4G General] lamakila123:
no mention of of NFC on sprints page: now.sprint.com/evo3d

I dont think it has NFC although I honestly doubt I was gonna use it.
[EVO 4G General] dirkyd3rk:
Don't know if you guys saw the video of evo 3D in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJwHckFluY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[EVO 4G General] androd:
Well Google is going to put in nfc readers in San Jose and New York so if that goes well it might be nice to have since it would get to the San Jose area quickly. I would personally love to make purchases using my phone for food, coffee, and such.

http://www.slashgear.com/google-nfc-payment-trials-in-nyc-and-san-francisco-15139956/
[EVO 4G General] gmap516:
Not sure if you've already visited my thread yet, but it offers a comparison and nearly full specs for each.
[EVO 4G General] absolutzero1906:
Interesting. I haven't tried to make calls on my gtab, but it sounds promising. I will have to look a little more into it. Is it wifi only or you have a data plan? Of course with the new tab announcements I may wait until something better comes out sell Evo and gtab and see what I can get.
[EVO 4G General] mic.mayorga:
Fat first i was thinking the 3D and the only way ill do that is if i get it with my upgrade for a price which i can sell my current evo 4. honestly though... I would never use 3D and i dont need the BEST phone, i just want a SOLID android phone that does what I need, and i think the nexus s will do more than that. plus its sexy.
[EVO 4G General] kratos313:
I've decided on getting the Nexus S 4g this spring over the Evo3d. Why my reasons are simple sense is a battery drain we all know that its one of the reasons we root the phone in the first place to make the phone better and remove sense the screen is huge but that's another drain the battery on the evo3d is 1730mah that's not enough to run the evo4g so what makes you think its enough for a 3d screen and camera? Sprint will try and sell all these people an ugly extended battery for the evo3d that you will have no choice but to buy cause you need the battery life to use the phone for the simple stuff at the end of the day. Then on top of that look at what's going on with the incredible s and the thunderbolt having locked down bootloaders and needing roms to be signed by HTC to run on the phone that sounds like another 4 to 5 month wait till a full root and custom rom can even be made by that time Google will have released the next android OS and HTC will wait till 2012 to release it to everyone cause sprint and HTC have to add there crap to the phone. The current evo should tell you what's going on HTC is a great company but look at the facts sense 2.0 has been out for awhile now they have another version out and the evo there pride and joy never even saw the first sense update the thunderbolt probably will never see that update either as some in the dev forum stated HTC has NEVER updated sense on any of there devices. Dual core is great and all but combined with playing a power hungry game or emulator with the screen on and 3d running your battery will be dead at around 3 or 4 hours. Even Motorola put a bigger battery in there phone and it doesn't have all the same specs that should tell you what to expect down the line either stay with the evo4g and pray they give the update like they saw they will or get a pure google device that was bulky to what Google wanted in there current lineup and get your updates in a timely fashion not a year later

sent from a EVOlved device modded by the Borg.
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
So much wrong with this....

1: Processor is more energy efficient, how would you know that bettery wont be enough? No one has used it yet.... its bigger then our current evo and is rated at an additional 1.66 hours of talk time over our evos.

2.thunderbolt already has roms... so that whole comment is bs. Look how long that took... :rolleyes:

3.When the evo was first released we were the first phone to get the update.. besides the nexus phone. There was almost no wait time, at all. Sure now that the phones almost a year old we havn't gotten it, but i think thats more to do with them wanting people to buy the new phone.
[EVO 4G General] BrianDigital:
Im going nexus for the tight gv intergation
[EVO 4G General] toddlmr:
The EVO 3D is too sexy!!!! Sell them Evo's quick cause when the new ones come out the price is going to drop fast!

Todd
[Thunderbolt General] Franzie3:
Coming from a DInc, i know there was an issue where the battery would never 100% charge and after liek 5 minutes off the charger it used to drop 5% or something like that.

Has anyone tried the bump charging their TB? I am going to try it now and report results after some testing.

If anyone else has any input, fire away
[Thunderbolt General] superchilpil:
Its not an "issue" its a kernel mod by HTC to prevent your from ruining your battery

And yes its present
[Thunderbolt General] Franzie3:
ahhh ok, was not aware of that. Thanks. Do we"advise" against it, or fight the machine
[Thunderbolt General] superchilpil:
Some ppl advise it haha some fight it

I'd say give it a month at most before we have the modded kernel
[Thunderbolt General] palomosan:
No Bump charging on the TB, that's the first thing I checked since I came from a Dinc.
[Xoom General] galtom:
Hi,

probably most of you know a long discussion in many threads about issues with video playback that Xoom/Honeycomb/Tegra 2 has.

Some of you say it is in the hardware some of you say it is just a software... so far none of the comapnies involved had confirmed anything either way.

But... I found this news.... what do you think?

http://androidcommunity.com/ainol-h...ps-display-huge-1080p-codec-support-20110321/

Ainol may be better known for their Full HD capable PMPs, but the company is turning to Android 3.0 Honeycomb and a proper tablet. According to some teaser spec pages, the so-far unnamed slate will have a 1280 x 800 IPS capacitive touchscreen display and run a SoChip Cortex-A9 processor.

They’re impressive specs, given tablets with IPS displays – such as the iPad 2 – are in relatively short supply. 1080p HD support is promised, with a fair amount of codec compatibility as well: MKV, AVI, WMV, H.264, XviD and MPEG.

Considering one the continued shortcomings of Android is its patchy media support out of the box, that could be enough to earn the Ainol slate a niche of its own. Pricing, screen size, release dates and other specs are still unknown at this stage.
[Xoom General] gogol:
They can say whatever, but bring it on :)
[Xoom General] DebianDog:
Really?

You mean OLD codecs/containers?

AVI now is typical just DivX which is really just another H.264 (which is already supported) As DivX runs nativity on my Droid X so I am sure it is a licensing issue on the Xoom.

Xvid, is just another DivX without the licensing issues

MPEG 1 and 2 Seriously you are excited about that?

WMV another old container we really should be moving away from as it is the MS version of MPEG-4 part 2. Now if the devices supported VC-1 MS containers that would be a bit exciting.

Now granted not having to convert everything would be nice but if people would just rip H.264/AVC in the first place life would just be easier IMO. I would be more exited about seeing more/better WebM encoders out there (which your Xoom also supports nativity)
[Xoom General] Eclair~:
Why won't any other company use IPS displays. If some company that I've never heard of (that I'm assuming just isn't popular here) can, then why cant Samsung or Motorola?
[Xoom General] rjoudrey:
Here is a well known maker coming out with an IPS display and more:

http://tablets-planet.com/2011/03/2...er-android-3-0-tablet-first-launch-in-3-days/
[Xoom General] spitfirerx:
the issue with the tegra 2 as i know it is with playing high profile H.264, ive confirmed this with the notion ink Adam (i had for about a week)

i preordered the xoom and ill test when i get it but from what ive read its the same issue.
[Xoom General] Divine_Madcat:
Even worse, you have "cheap" ;) tablets like the Nook Color rolling out with IPS goodness. With devices like these, where there isn't one normal way to view the screen, high quality panels like IPS should be the norm. It really is crappy that companies are still cheaping out on some of the most important parts (viewsonic G-Tab, and Archos....)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ntrop:
Hi all : )

I just got my TP2 this week. I am trying to find a way for my wallpaper to stay in landscape mode when i slide open my phone instead of creating a portrait and then multiplying it to fit the screen.. hope that makes sense.

I have spent hours searching for a solution.

Thanks
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ntrop:
If no one knows what I mean or how to do it please let me know, or point me somewhere.

Im kinda surprised no one else finds this issue annoying.

Thx
[Galaxy 3 General] Minschant:
I have flashed Kyrillos' ROM 3.0 and did the app2sd and swap.

But latter I found it more lag than that without app2sd and swap.

I want to disable it, hope someone can tell me how to do it.:confused:
[Galaxy 3 General] sheron:
first flash the phone with any rom maybe original or froyo or kyrillos with the memory card removed

next connect ur mem card to pc with use of a card reader (DO NOT CONNECT IT WITH UR PHONE OR OTHER DEVICES!!!!!! USE ONLY A CARD READER!!)

download and run mini tool partition wizard(free software) u will find 3 partitions after ur local computer hard drives

delete all three partitions so that the result would be a single unformatted/unallocated partition select accept and wait for it to complete

(DO NOT CONVERT THE PARTITION TO ANY OTHER FORMAT, IT SHOULD BE UNFORMATTED "SINGLE!" PART)

insert the card into ur flashed phone (ignore any message that ur card is damaged) and goto settings>memory card and format it

after formatting once using the phone u can format it using the pc anytime just not after creating or removing any partitions!!!

n-joy!!!
[Galaxy 3 General] Minschant:
Thanks a lot!

I have not done the process you said above cause I don't have a card reader right now.:( But I noticed that my phone shows RAM is 246 even without sd card.(I used to set 50M to swap)

Will the RAM return back to nomal after I do all these things? Or I still have to do something with my phone but not the sd card?
[Galaxy 3 General] sheron:
yes it will return back to normal
[Galaxy 3 General] Minschant:
I've got a card reader and did as you said, but the RAM still show 246M:(
[Galaxy 3 General] Minschant:
Sorry for this post, the RAM should be 246.

Maybe I did some thing wrong with the swap so it did not show the extra space after swap.

This made me think the original RAM was less.:o
[Galaxy 3 General] only4omkar:
Go for Indroid v3.0 . it is more stable !
[Galaxy 3 General] sheron:
but the forum shows numerous bugs a few days ago

where all the bugs cleared????

personally i believe indroid was released without thorough testing due to release of both Kyrillos v3.0 and lestatious v2.0 roms
[Galaxy 3 General] Docnus:
in kyrillos, almost all bugs has been cleared, but i still have a concern...

i flashed my phone, and a friend flashed his.. at the same time (we were talking over teamspeak at the moment :D) and his phone behaves weird... like system hangs and stuff all the time... and my phone, it's ok...

i'm thinking to flash lestatious and give it a try. :D
[Galaxy 3 General] sheron:
i wasn't talking abt kyrillos i was mentioning indroid which was released a few days after kyrillos v3.0 and lestatious v2.0

if u come across any bugs in kyrillos or lestatious roms (very minimum in both cases) then go through their respective forums the bug and it's fix will already be mentioned
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LINKSLOVESANDROID:
how do i go about adding a custom boot animation sound? i would love the kingdom hearts main menu music to play but not sure how to. can ne1 help me plz?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crendot:
Hi,

you have to edit the file

in /system/customize/resource/

there is the android_audio file

after editing push per adb

cu
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LINKSLOVESANDROID:
there is no audio file. on cool sense hd, the boot animation file is in data/local and there is no sound file. just bootanimation and down animation.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geenius:
not sure if this helps because of the ROM your using but here is a tutorial I found:

Pre-requisites:

1. Put your phone in recovery mode (Hold Volume down at powerup)

get a working adb shell (needs Android SDK)

Remove sound

Command Step 1

For Froyo 2.2: 'mount /system'

For Eclair 2.1 and below: 'mv /system/customize/resource/android_audio.mp3 /system/customize/resource/android_audio.mp3.disabled'

Step 2: mv /system/media/android_audio.mp3 /system/media/android_audio.mp3.disabled

How to Replace Replace sound:

in an open Windows CMD window just enter:

For Froyo 2.2: 'adb push [local mp3 file] /system/customize/resource/android_audio.mp3'

For Eclair 2.1 and below: 'adb push [local mp3 file] /system/media/android_audio.mp3'

Source: android-tutorials
[Defy General] merrittbruce:
Help i keep getting E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command

everytime i try to wipe data.
[Defy General] juppi:
at my defy i had the same problem...

before i flashed the 3.4.3_11-Stock.UKTmobile_BLUR.sbf there was no problem with the cache!

also i can´t install apps from the market. is here the problem the cache?
[Defy General] merrittbruce:
No. I got it the old recovery is still installed
[Defy General] merrittbruce:
Ill try to find a way to remove it and only boot clockwork. I'm also a defy user
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxwell.95:
Hello,

I just buy à htc desire not blocked but it previously was to orange how can i install the normal ROM android 2.2 frayo without orange?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
Do not understand perfectly.

It is branded ir not (unlocked)?

If yes, then ROOT it, install custom ROM.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aca85:
Is the phone branded-does it have the Orange logo with an Orange msg when u turn the phone on?

also ,go to Settings > About phone > Software inf > what Kernel does it have ?