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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bhambalek:
Hey guys, this is my first post, and I just wanted to say first off that all of you who have figured out how to root phones are awesome! Because of xda-developers and androidforums, I helped a friend root and put cyanogenmod 6 on his HTC Hero (cdma).

Anyway, I'm trying to put Zefie's CM7 on my LG Optimus V, and I'm stuck. First off I'm trying to root my phone. I'm following this guide: [How-To] Root the LG Optimus V on Android Central (I'd post the link, but the system won't let me since I'm a new user.). Usually I'd follow the instructions step by step, but I had to make some changes. I see this guide is written for Windows, but I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. After doing a lot of searching I was able to figure out that I had to install the Linux version of the Android SDK and use mono to run SuperOneClick.exe. That part was easy since I have a good knowledge of Linux and how it runs. The part that I'm stuck at is performing a Shell Root. When I click on Shell Root, SuperOneClick is stuck at "Waiting for device..." It's been like this for a while. If I click on Root, it gets stuck at "chmod psneuter..." Either way it's stuck and I don't know what to do.

Just to let you guys know, I have USB Debugging turned on, and I'm running Android version 2.2.1.

When I rooted my friend's HTC Hero, all I had to do was run a downloaded apk onto his SD card and run it, and then it would instantly root it. Is there a similar apk for the Optimus V? If not, is there a way I can manually root it via the terminal? Anyway, I'm stuck and would appreciate any suggestions or comments. Don't forget, I'm running Ubuntu 10.10, so some issues may arise since the tutorial was meant to be run on Windows machines.

Later tonight I'm going to try to root my phone at my friend's house since he has a computer running Windows XP. Hopefully I can get some better progress on his computer instead of mine. Thanks in advance for all your help!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bhambalek:
Okay, nevermind. I did a little more searching and found a way to root my phone without running SuperOneClick.exe. I'll post if I have any more problems.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bhambalek:
Well I spoke too soon. Here are the steps I followed to get to a # prompt in adb:

./adb push psneuter /data/local/tmp

./adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/psneuter

./adb shell /data/local/tmp/psneuter

I then did the following commands:

adb shell

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /system /system

exit

adb push su /system/bin

adb push busybox /system/bin

adb shell

cd /system/bin

chmod 4755 su

chmod 555 busybox

exit

adb reboot

After rebooting the phone, I installed Superuser and TitaniumBackup. I opened TitaniumBackup and it gave me an error stating that it could not acquire root privileges. I know for a fact that my phone has su and Busybox installed on it and have the correct permissions.

What bugs me even more is that when I run su via the adb shell root prompt or a terminal emulator on my phone, it returns the following error:

link_image[1997]: failed to link su

CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE

What's up with that? I did find out that some people have had issues with Android 2.2.1 on their phone, and unfortunately that's what my phone had when I bought it about a month ago.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bhambalek:
Okay, I figured it out finally and have my phone rooted. I had to run SuperOneClick.exe on my buddy's Windows computer. Instead of doing a Shell Root, I just clicked Root and it rooted. Now I'm stuck at figuring out how to do a Nandroid backup. I backed up everything using Titanium Backup, but I know I want to make a backup rom in case something goes wrong during the flash. What are the steps to performing a Nandroid backup?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bhambalek:
Lol nevermind. I got Zefie's CM7 up and running this morning.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] overthinkingme:
Nandroid is made using recovery. Glad you got it working :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] designate72:
I am having the same problem as you, can you link me the other method?

EDIT: I do see the instructions in the next post, however where did you find them and get the files?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
something really really strange has happened to my epic....

just a couple of hours ago, any time i type to search for something or if i select the search button, i get prompted to "Use My Location" "Do you want to allow Google to use location for improved search results and other services?"

doesn't matter if i select Agree or Disagree....i'm stuck in a loop to keep answering the question...

if i hit Home, the Task Manager i see "Google Search" and "Google Services Framework" runing...

i've never seen this before or how to fix it...

i've rebooted, updated my prl and profile, airplane mode on/off....i've given acces to Use Wirless Networks from within Location and Security but it doesn't help....

i haven't instaled anything new after flashing to 1.02 Syndicate rom last night...

i'm unable to use my phone and it's driving me nuts.... any suggestions?

thanks :)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Moved to Q&A ;) Do you have an app called root explorer?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qbking77:
If you go to settings, location and security, uncheck use wireless networks... see if that helps
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
wireless network is currently unchecked and it didn't help....also have same problem with it checked....

yes, have root explorer, adao and astro....

some apk to replace??

thank you.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Ok. Go into data/app. Find the apk called googlequicksearchbox.apk. Move it to system/app, and delete anything else having to do with search from data/app, and then reboot. This should fix it.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
wow...i don't have that apk....

in the data/app folder there is nothing called "googlequicksearchbox.apk" and there is no other apk in that folder with "search" in the apk folder as well....

in the system/app, i do see the "googlequicksearchbox.apk" as well as "googleservicesframework.apk"

:eek:
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Ok, try this then. Delete that app from system/app. Make sure you have no more google search functionality. Then, download google search from the market, and move it from data/app to system/app :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, says i have insufficient permissions to delete the google search apk from the folder....

what the heck...lol
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Make sure you change the box in the top right corner that says r/o to r/w :)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
daaaaaaaaaaamn....no good....

did what you said, rebooted and when i hit the search....got prompted for that damn question over and over again....

do i have to touch the 'google framework' apk??
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Shouldn't.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
after i move the googlesearch.apk from data/app to system/app and reboot....

the googlesearch.apk appears in the data/app folder again.... is that normal??
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Try clearing data in Google Framework in "manage applications".
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
it

finally

worked

i did it 3 times and it finally took..... i need a beer...

thank you for your help....

:o
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roghaj:
I had the same problem and clearing data on google framework worked for me too.

Thanks!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
well, it happened again.... and this time along with constant messages of Swype, Messeging and Google Framework FC errors....

maybe i have a bad flashed rom....this is odd...

will try to reflash the Syndicate 1.02 rom now...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
also got an android.acore fc error as well....never saw that one before...

anyway, i rebooted into clockwork and ran the wipe cache command....that seems to have stopped the errors...

what do you guys think? reflash the syndicate rom? wondering why this is happening now....not doing anything out of the ordinary in using the phone...

thanks!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Sounds like there is a bit of corrupted data somewhere. Have you been booting normally without a battery pull? If it reoccurs you might try a data factory reset and restore only data you absolutely need. Reflashing may work if you do all the wipes before hand.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
yes, regular reboots without batt pulls...

and so the errors all came back again!!!....so i booted into cw, wiped the cache 3x and reflashed the rom....

it's been stable for a while now, hopefully this is it.....if it happens again, then yes, i will have to wipe it out and reinstall rom and apps from scratch...

yea, something definitly got corrupt...wish i could figure out what i may have done to cause it...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decalex:
wha? right on, I have never heard of this.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vrupp:
get something better. sry
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
hahahaaahaahaaaahahahhahahaahahaahahahahaahhhahaahahah..

*whew* better now...

anyway, things working fine now....thanks for all the help earlier on....
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itspeiday:
I am thinking about flashing this rom. Is this a common problem
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
No prob. Glad it worked.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antmon:
there's nothing wrong with the rom....it's prob my fault for not remembering to wipe all three things 3x in cw...i think i only did the cache 3x....

anyway, yesterday i did that al 3x ad reflashd and it's been fine :-)
[Thunderbolt General] rotorocker:
I love this phone without a doubt coming from the OG Droid, although using my friend's incredible pretty often.

#1 the led notification is tiny. unless youre looking at it head on you wont know if you have one.

#2 the vibration is very weak, i hope there is a way to improve this

#3 the brightness. on my old phone on the power widgets toggle, you would tap it and it would go from minimum, medium, max, off, etc. On this one you either set it on auto or have to adjust the slider constantly. I have to think you can get more battery hours out of this if it was like the old display.

#4 i dont like that there isn't a camera button. I don't care who you are, this is more like iphone using the touch screen to take a pic and youre more likely to move the screen while hitting it.

Other than that, i love this phone. it's nitro fast even compared to the 1ghtz overclocked droid, I can't wait to root and overclock and put on CM7
[Thunderbolt General] @RichyRich:
Why don't you use your fancy new Thunderbolt to call someone that cares.
[Thunderbolt General] rotorocker:
Jealousy is a stinky cologne
[Thunderbolt General] arasky:
i've noticed 1 and 2, i dont feel the vibration in my pocket and i thought it was my case. after taking it off it make no difference. my og droid had an awesome led and i customized it like crazy.
[Thunderbolt General] HonestEnd:
I agree that the LED notification can be pretty hard to see sometimes. But the brightness toggle widget does indeed change the brightness to min, med, max.
[Thunderbolt General] rotorocker:
only if you use the slider, you cant click on the brightness icon and have it rotate through brightness
[Thunderbolt General] R1lover:
Mine works that way... with each click you can see the screen and the widget change modes.

You don't see this when clicking on your widget?
[Thunderbolt General] HonestEnd:
If you take the brightness out of "Auto" the brightness widget allows you to select threed different modes.
[Thunderbolt General] rotorocker:
right, if its not in auto mode, it brings up the slider. I can't just tap 2-3 times on the icon to change different levels.
[Thunderbolt General] R1lover:
I just doubled checked mine to be 100% sure.... No matter the setting (auto or not) I can tap the widget and it will change through the modes like normal.

If your's is not doing this then something is up I would say.
[Thunderbolt General] HonestEnd:
That is VERY wierd because I works on mine. All if have to do is tap the widget and it gets changes modes. Are you using the Official HTC brightness widget? Also are you using the "solo" brightness widget? (The one with just the brightness, not the power bar widget)
[Thunderbolt General] rotorocker:
okay, what exactly is the name of the widget youre doing this with so were on the same page?
[Thunderbolt General] Capt.D:
I just tap mine....No problems it adjust up and down....I used the screen on my incredible to take pics so this is the same to me.....
[Thunderbolt General] HonestEnd:
It's called "Screen Brightness" located under the "Settings" category under Widgets. I'm guessing you're using the Power Dashboard widget which displays all of different settings on one bar.
[Thunderbolt General] rotorocker:
you are correct, mine is listed as power widget. I don't see the one you're referring to
[Thunderbolt General] R1lover:
Just to test, I installed both and they both work the same for me... each press changed the brightness as it should.
[Thunderbolt General] HonestEnd:
You're running Sense right? No ADW or LauncherPro correct? I'm starting to think he's running a launcher and using the default widgets that come with Android.
[Thunderbolt General] rotorocker:
oh sorry, I am running launcher pro. I apologize, i didnt know that made a difference
[Thunderbolt General] HonestEnd:
Yea, you can't access the HTC Widgets when you're running another launcher such as ADW or LauncherPro.

Edit: Dammit, I made my 10 posts, where's my "Edit Signature" option in UserCP XDA?! :)
[Thunderbolt General] @RichyRich:
I have a Thunderbolt, Atrix, iPhone 4, and BlackBerry 9700 sitting next to me; what exactly is it that I'm supposed to be jealous of?
[Thunderbolt General] gregdalfonso:
Me. I have a beer in my hand and no pants on
[Thunderbolt General] @RichyRich:
You win

/10char
[Thunderbolt General] Devildog8791:
My wife has the Droid 1 and I have often heard of it referred to as "OG Droid". What does the "OG" stand for?
[Thunderbolt General] HonestEnd:
OG = Original

Edit: Love how this thread got hijacked, haha.
[Thunderbolt General] ksizzle9:
Original gangsta
[Thunderbolt General] perdurabo2:
I'm jealous of your backwards hat and cool gangsta arm tats, bro.
[Thunderbolt General] chimpsnest:
FWIW I'm using the Beautiful Widgets Brightness toggle (w/o autobrightness checked in settings) and it toggles from 100% to 40% w/each tap.
[Thunderbolt General] rotorocker:
Yeah I may have to use that instead.
[Thunderbolt General] ksizzle9:
one thing that i have to gripe about is this, either when the battery is low, and recharging, or sometimes when it get hot on the charger, the phone starts to lag, and lag badly, oddly enough, i restart it and unplug it and the lag is gone. This has only happened one time but i got a little concerned. Again, a reboot fixed it immediately. I def have to say that this phone is lighting fast, seeing as how it isnt dual core, but i was lucky enough to play with a bionic through a friend in a high place and i wasnt impressed. it was studdering through the home screens just like the droid x. I think blur is such a memory hog that it might actually take a full 1gb of RAM to run it. The only phone that i have ever seen run blur smoothly is the atrix. If the Bionic comes out with 512mb RAM this phone will at least seem faster, maybe not benchmark wise, but real world it will. Especially when we get those 1.6+ OC kernels that are out for all the other 2nd Gen snapdragon phones, then it will be a rcoket, anyway, no big nit picks for me. Overall great phone, i have to VZW iphone 4s(one is the wifes) and honestly the speed at which things get done on the Bolt is MUCH MUCH faster. The only upside to the iPhone is the screen res.
[Thunderbolt General] shaddix2:
Don't like that sense brightness widget. The low setting isn't low enough.
[Thunderbolt General] Devildog8791:
I didn't mean to hijack the thread. I have seen that "OG" reference in several threads and I finally had to ask. Thanks
[Thunderbolt General] 1454:
i would just be happy with a luminosity type of app like i had on winmo before buying the d2. that way u can set your own brightness that u are comfortable with based on different lighting environments. but thay isnt a big issue since k didnt have it on the d2 either.
[Thunderbolt General] MadFoodScientist:
no nitpicks about battery life?
[Thunderbolt General] rotorocker:
No, I either got one of the better phones or I am just smart about how I use it. I use an app killer to stop the **** ton of bloatware that runs in the background and I keep the display brightness down. I was so scared reading other's posts that I ordered the 1600mah Seidio battery along with the Innocase so it's only going to get even better! I charge it during the day here at work with the kickstand vertical and I can still barely hear the thing vibrate for a phone call with it 1 foot away :( combine that with not knowing I have a missed call unless I have it turned directly at me from the tiny led and I've missed a couple now.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tacginc:
I want to push some ringtones (*.OGG) to the /System/Media/Audio/Ringtones folder/library on a rooted Atrix (AT&T). Heres my question:

If I push these files to the library/folder, will this affect the AT&T/Moto OTAs? In other words, will the AT&T/Moto OTAs not happen, or be rejected, due to this system library/folder having non-stock files in it?

Reason being, custom ringtones assigned to the phone notifications, which are stored on the SD (internal/external) cards, get unassigned when those SD cards are unmounted then mounted again. This happens either manually or via USB reassignment.

Thanks,

M
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t0dbld:
As we have never received an ota its not possbke to say with 100% certainty I can say that it prob wont bother it, also if it does stop it it is an easy fix, how ever I will remind you of limited space on that partition and your decision to do so might not be worth it, his bout just placing them on the internal storage rather than system partition or the sd card
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tacginc:
Tried that. When I umounted that SD card for whatever reason, it resets the ringtone to a default tone. Gets annoying. To consider space, I'll probably just copy over the ringtones I want.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thatusmguy:
I'd love to have a solution to this as well, as i've encountered the same problem many a time and it's annoying to miss a call because a random song gets assigned to a contact.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tacginc:
I have a rooted solution, just concerned that foreign files in the System folders affect OTAs.

Root you phone, convert you audio files to OGG format, use Root Explorer to move the file to the folders:

/system/media/audio/alarms

/system/media/audio/notifications

/system/media/audio/ringtones
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phobos512:
Why do you keep stating they have to be in OGG format? I have a file in MP3 format in there and it works fine.

If it's determined that it does affect an OTA, then it's not a big deal because you can always pull the files out, apply the OTA, re-root and put them back.

However, remember to NOT run an OTA until root has been figured out, or else you'll lose your root. I can't wait till the first OTA when all the folks will be posting "Lost root!" threads.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marhodges:
I would also appreciate a solution to this problem. My assignments will only be retained if on the system folder; they just will not stay if on the external or internal memory.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KaLiBLeeK:
Now that the stock retail SBF has been leaked, I would think this is a non-issue.

I've moved a few ringtones to the system/ partition, because having my settings lost after every SD-mount was getting annoying.

Once there is an actual OTA for our phones, I'll be backing up my phone, flashing back to stock, and applying the OTA.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marhodges:
Bte, a font app bricked my phone yesterday so I had to use rsd to flash sbf 1.5.2. Still could not use tones off storage, only system. So I installed Gingerblur 7.2 & the possible persists.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redThd:
I don't think this will break any updates.

But for those who want to make sure, just convert the file you need to .ogg and then rename it after a file that already exist and replace it with SU permissions.

Has the advantage that you replace sound files you don't want with ones that you need.

The disadvantage being you need to remember the file names.
[EVO 4G Accessories] phreezex:
i just bought the following for like $25 bucks.. any thoughts?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160553226837&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
[EVO 4G Accessories] kids88yj:
Well ill find out with you, I bought one to. :-o
[EVO 4G Accessories] phreezex:
I mean, its a measly $25... couldn't find any proof this is a genuine sprint oem or not... also picked up a HTC incredible 1800Mah for $6.
[EVO 4G Accessories] mexiking713:
Nice find. Got my Platinum 3500mAh for $21 shipped

Found it at amazon for $49. There is one review.

http://www.amazon.com/EXTENDED-HTC-Supersonic-T-Mobile-35H00124-12M/dp/B004OTNHTO
[EVO 4G Accessories] JoeLithium:
I don't want to be a pooper, but the battery in that Image looks like the stock evo battery which is 1500mah.

I also don't think sprint sells an OEM 3500 mah battery, they do have an extended 2200mah, and even that is larger and comes with a door. Also I've NEVER seen a 3500mah that small.
[EVO 4G Accessories] souleman:
The Sprint OEM batteries are black with a white label, not red. So it definitely is not a sprint/htc oem battery. They also don't have any 3500 mah batteries for any phone that I could find.

Checked HTC, and they also only sell the 1500mah battery. They don't have any others at all.

Not going to say your not getting an actual 3500 mah battery, but I will say for certain that your not getting an OEM sprint or HTC battery.
[EVO 4G Accessories] flight01:
Yeah i dont think this is real either, Sprint already has a extended battery and htc does not sell any extended batteries , if they did it would show up in HTC's online store.
[EVO 4G Accessories] linhpham2:
I did a google search for the model number in the Amazon listing (BTE6300, BTE6300B, 35H00124-12M). That battery is only rated for 2150 mAh.
[EVO 4G Accessories] phreezex:
When I get this battery, is there a way I can charge and take a multimeter or something to test it?
[EVO 4G Accessories] Cryt:
The stock battery that came with my original Evo was red. HTC makes red batteries. Not to say that this battery is legit, though...
[EVO 4G Accessories] _MetalHead_:
It's not OEM, there is no OEM 3500 mah battery. Here it is from a different seller, same battery. Most of these "3500" mah batteris are the same battery just with different wrappings.

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Acesoft-350...ccessories&hash=item336560a609#ht_2595wt_1141
[EVO 4G Accessories] JustRuin:
This should probably be reported, since they are trying to sell it as Sprint OEM, and it doesn't seem likely that it is. Or at least tell the seller to remove those words from the listing.
[EVO 4G Accessories] OneStepAhead:
It's fake, htc doesn't make a 3500.
[EVO 4G Accessories] BrianDigital:
you would have to charge it full and for lack of better eletronics experience. You would need to use a resistor that would pull the mAh of the battery.

take for instance the 3500 mAh battery that battery can give out 3500 mA over an hour
[EVO 4G Accessories] aronslusa:
Not to mention that the Sprint extended battery is not red....... Its black with a silver sticker.