yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] V4lve:
Hi. I appear to have a bug in my x10 Mini address book (Eclair). Both apps I have (Contact Owner and Andrive) that allow me to pick a pre-defined contact from my address book get information from a different contact to the one I am picking. I have tried experimenting with different contacts and it would seem that there is a small subset of contacts that this picking method chooses instead of the one I want. I can force it to pick the contact I want by making a new one first but this is a pain because it is then a duplicate of one that exists. Any clues as to what is happening and how I can fix it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] js22:
So maybe its my background in Linux, but there's something that just creeps me out about Odin. I tried searching here and on Google, and all I can find are links (mostly broken) to download it from various cheesy file sharing sites.

Does anybody know where the software actually comes from? Who wrote it? Is it legal, or was it swiped from Samsung?

It seems weird to me that a software community that is based so much on open source software relies so heavily on such a shady system.

Am I missing something?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dani897:
i believe it is used at samsung repair centers to flash multiple phones similtaniously.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Radukk:
For Samsung engineer internal use. leaked with ROMs.

And saved tons of bricked Galaxy S. Thanks Samsung.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amtrakcn:
I think Odin is a Samsung internal maintainance tool. There are other tools to write the phone throuhg download mode under Linux.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
oh hey i dont think anyone mentioned that it came from samsung maintenance.....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TayzGpa:
Is there an Odin for the new 2.2 for I897?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamOutler:
Yes there is a 2.2. Just look for "Odin3 2.2 Captivate" on google.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amtrakcn:
Odin is not specific to any ROM.

You can use either the oldest Odin3 1.0 or the newest Odin3 1.81 to flash any ROM. Just some difference in features and UI layout.

To OG, I don't see a problem not to use an opensource way to write the firmware into the device through the device specific mode. BL isn't opensource and you still get the choice of CWM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
The ODIN one click 2.2 is the OLD JI6 leak and not the actual KB1 release
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] js22:
Okay, so the fact that its leaked (as opposed to released) from Samsung explains why it isn't hosted on a respectable site.

Again, I'm not used to the Micro$oft side of things, but it seems to me like running some binary you stumbled across on an unknown website might not be the best of ideas. Do Windows uses ever get computer viruses ?:cool:

How hard would it be to write a program called Odin that grabs your IMEI, sticks malware on your phone, or maybe just "accidentally" fails while writing your bootloader ? How do you know that the latest random "Odin" binary you stumble upon on the web isn't exactly such a program ?

One of the great things about open source (besides the price !) is that you (or at least somebody somewhere) knows exactly what you are getting. I haven't actually used heimdall (no affiliation with author) but I'm surprised that this or some equivalent open-source approach isn't more widely used amongst the xda crowd.

I guess that even with an open-source flashing program you still need the binaries for the bootloaders, the pit file, and so on. But (as I understand it) at least in theory you could legally, safely obtain these from your own phone before you start flashing stuff.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevewmn:
Odin, Heimdall and all of the various ROMs, kernels modems and whatnot linked in messages in XDA forums share the same safety mechanism - the XDA community. If one of the popular ROMs was crashing phones there would be shouting in all the forums about it. So that wouldn't work at all. What we need to watch for are more subtle attacks like botnet sleepers in the ROMs or something else gathering user data and passing it along for more sinister uses than Google's usual data gathering.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
the same logic could be used for any program for any operating system.

i remember over a decade ago when i was just a kid getting a virus from a fake edonkey download. viruses can be anything...

and viruses are not specific to windows (microsoft), its just the most likely OS viruses will come accross, so to do maximum damage it is written for that OS.

just because you dont run windows doesnt mean you CANT get viruses

, it just means there are less written for your OS.

ASIDE from that....

there is the Odin flashing program

and the Odin One click downloader. (2.1 ONLY)

2 programs both from samsung.

Safe place to get them??? HERE ON XDA!!! (the place you learned about them.. huh)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] modest_mandroid:
Had a coworker that loved Apple products like a religion once. Dude would go through all the talking points that he culled from tv commercicals with me daily about how PC's are rife with viruses and it's impossible for a mac to get one. He never gave me a solid reason for why it's impossible, other than "because you would have to compile it yourself (for some unknown reason)".
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dani897:
yeah the whole mac doesnt get viruses thing is simply based off the fact that macs rarely get viruses, the reason for that is explained above. the system may be more secure (or maybe it's not, if it isn't they wouldn't let you know that) you can't prevent downloading a file that you tell the computer to download. no computer system knows it's a virus before it is running on the computer. they can give warnings about file extensions but it really doesnt prevent anything.

mac users are either very knowledgeable and familiar with terminal but prefer mac for some reason, maybe a particular software package they want to run that isn't available on linux. or maybe they dont want the hassle of compiling from source, or some of the installation meathods you see in linux software that is not in the repositories associated with the distrobution.

they may do some type of editing to video or audio and run a software package not available on linux and that doesnt run as well on windows. ive seen that.

or they are people that are led by media who either believe the hype. or are trying to make some kind of statment.

with user friendly linux disrtos like ubuntu and mint there is little advantage to mac unless you have a specific software package you plan to run and linux isn't one of your options. but people are afraid of linux. mac seems more friendly even if the ui completely sux, i guess the ui prevents unskilled users from flooding the screen with windows by opening more when you click the icon, thus keeping things clean but i personally hate it with a passion!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amtrakcn:
It's impossible to check anything software before you use it. Odin is actually from samfirmware.com which is a trustable site to get Samsung ROMS. And Odin itself is a Samsung software. After long time usage it's reliable (and improving reliability with newer version).

Also from my experience with old Moto phones and HTC phones, all the flashing program are like Odin. Nothing really surprised me when I started using it.

Pit, BL(boot.bin, Sbl.bin) is not related to Odin, it's inside the ROM package, usually is PDA.

I would trust Odin more because it's from the manufacture. Also my friend from i900 told me they use Odin too. So it seems Odin is Samsung's standard firmware writing tool.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
Will Odin work on any brand phone, or is it specific to Samsung?

Sent from a place my wife doesn't know about yet using XDA App
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickm50:
Next time your talking to him tell him OSX is just FREEBSD (version 5.xx, its an old version) with a gui change, that he paid for :)

That should create a nice debate for you!

Although you can make any Linux distro resemble OSX in about 2 minutes, and most mac users wouldn't know the difference.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickm50:
As far as I know its for Samsung only. I use it on My GF's Samsung Spica as well!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepherian:
i just convinced myself that it came from a magical land, so i wouldnt be scared of screwing my phone with a program with such a shady background
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Johnnie5000:
+1

I actually learned something reading this thread.
[Android Apps and Games] anujtechboy:
I have app for my blog.the blog provide free links to premium software,files,movies download.and i made a app download here ...

i want more feature likes download manager inbuilt like app of 4shared. Help me
[Android Apps and Games] the_scotsman:
We do not allow any type of warez discussion.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dismal moron:
Well, today my girlfriend found out that she can play Words with Friends on her Samsung Fascinate. Only, she had AdFree for Android installed, and it was causing numerous errors. So she did what any person of average intelligence would do: She googled an answer.

http://neallambert.com/?p=5

The gist of the issue is, when instructed to make sure her screen matched the screenshot exactly, of course she didn't. She dd'd two extra lines. Since then, she's not been able to search or go home.

When pressing the Search or the Home Softkey, it provides the haptic feedback and blinks the light, but nothing happens.

Also, I installed Galaxy Tuner as a workaround until I discovered a way to fix it (or enlisted the help of those of you here that are far more savvy than myself), and mapping the touch gestures to home and search, the same thing happens. Meaning, when the specified gesture for home is executed, it will provide the haptic feedback, but nothing else happens. So it registers the command, but it is not completed.

If you have any ideas how to fix this, or can just point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help!
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chopper the dog:
Flash THIS FILE via CWM and it should reset melfastouchkey settings.

good day.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dismal moron:
Hey Chopper, Thanks for the response. I did flash the download, but it was still exhibiting the same symptoms. In the end, I just did a wipe/reinstall.
[Desire HD General] niks_5in:
I get sound when I receive Facebook Notifications.. what am I doing wrong
[Desire HD General] niks_5in:
Any idea
[Desire HD General] alexluckett:
Go into the application -> Menu -> Notification ringtone -> Silent

Then you shouldn't get sound when you get a notification.
[Desire HD General] Rodix85:
I am on Android Revolution HD 3.3 amt and the Facebook Push Notification are not working for me, too.

Is it working for anyone?
[Desire HD General] 917:
Im also on droid Revolution HD 3.3 and the Facebook push works for me.
[Desire HD General] Rodix85:
Are you syncing your contacts with FB for HTCSense or with the native FB app?
[Desire HD General] noisy_lightning:
Me too but I put it down to the new messaging system in fb which out app doesn't handle well!

Sent from my Desire HD
[Desire HD General] 917:
I am using both the native as well as the htcsense build in
[Desire HD General] sean2390:
I must admit the Facebook app is weird. For weeks the push notifications didn't work but after I rooted my DHD is started working. Very strange
[Desire HD General] niks_5in:
Sorry I wrongly spelled it. I don't get a sound notification when I get messages frown friends. I have enabled everything under settings but still not getting sound notifications
[Desire HD General] mrfalliq:
i agree after i rooted my phn... the notification starts to work
[Desire HD General] ABorgh:
Same problem!
[HD2 General] lcddarkangel1:
I did the hardspl to my hd2 to see if i could fix the no sound issue on my hd2. Tryied numorous android roms. No luck. I loaded nexus one and i get no sound. I changed stock roms and radios. I dont know what else to do. My friend had a tmobile us version and his works fine.

Feedback please thanx
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
Gotta be hardware fault if it happens on all roms. Go back to stock, if its the same then its deff hardware.
[HD2 General] lcddarkangel1:
my hd2 works fine with the stock rom. was just trying to find an android that will work with my phone.

im using 3.14.720.3 (04666) WWE

radio: 2.15.50.14

i have used other radios but no luck.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elrey75:
I've been looking for the thread that walks you through retrieving your MSL? and entering a ## code to remove the data governor. Has anyone tried that trick on this most recent update?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musclehead84:
Yes and it works. Both bonsai and acs come standard with this trick already

Sent From My Evo Killer!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elrey75:
Cool, still can't find the thread with the steps. If anyone can post a link, that would help.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdelano:
Thar she blows ... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=925898
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Deivid85:
Hi!

I've seen many, many threads with different battery icons for all sorts of tastes, but I haven't found the ONE I'm looking for, namely, ANYONE without the numeric percentage display... Any ideas? I'm on Paragon RC 6! :)

Thank you very much!

Best,

David
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Vivified:
Have you tried using the UOT Kitchen? I believe there is the option to have the battery without the numeric percentage.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] SeanHacker:
search button this one. you'll find a ton of stuff out there. hope you find what you're looking for.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mib1800:
I have been using lagfix - ext4 since eclair and I was convinced of its benefit.

BUT recently I discovered it may not be such a good idea after all on froyo (v2.2.1). Why?

IT WILL LAG much more than RFS not at the beginning but at a few days into use/uptime later.

I only realised this after converting all my partitions back to RFS. After boot, I can't really tell the difference betw. RFS and ext4 smoothness (both are very smooth). But after 48-50 hours uptime later, with ext4 lagfix, I realised that free RAM seldom goes above 50MB and there is always a constant heavy cpu usage by kswap0 process everytime I use the phone. With RFS only, the free RAM varies up to 65Mb and the kswap0 cpu usage isnt as high as ext4 (i.e. there is still some lull period where kswap0 is not constantly hogging cpu). Of course RFS still slows down (but tolerable) overtime but not as bad as ext4.

I'm suspecting that the ext4 filesystem is hogging or leaking memory leading to smaller pool of useable RAM. This is causing the constant swap of dormant apps out of memory thus contributing to the lag. I am kind of convinced that the hated LAG is caused by this kswap0 process. (This kswap0 process usually has low usage just after boot thus the great speed but as time goes on it deteriorates)

Anyone has the same experience or want to comment on this?

(I am using doc rom 9.6.6 + speedmod k13d kernel)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzledazzle:
I never had lag with RFS on 2.2 and above, but ive been running lagfix (ext 2/4) since the day i got my phone,

i do find that after a long time RAM gets reduced alot, but if my phones been running for 48+ hours, (which is rare cause i always flashing) i do a reboot to spice up my life a little lol

you should just do that too.

ext4 isnt harmful to the phone in the same sense as lets say...... overclocking CPU.

lagfixes only cause problems, like file corruption (when flashing without disabling) but a re-partition in odin fixes that up :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] flow68:
Hello all,

I think my SDCard is currently broken and it's quite strange but I can not make partitions anymore.

I am running Typhoon CM7 Rom, and I wanted to know how to create and enable data.img in order to have more internal userspace.

From where must I begin ?? help me please
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] flow68:
up... really no one ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] XthelordinatorX:
hmm long time ago for me but i think you sd boot should make an data.img by itself but you can also (atleast i had it when i was still on sd) download a data.img file provided by the dev
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] flow68:
This is a NAND build, not SD, so there's by default no data.img, and the dev doesn't provide any data.img too =/
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] yourbayt:
hi all

i do (msg) for my galaxy s, and after finish the signal not working i don't know whay.

i am try many time to reboot, and format, but also same problem.

please give me step by step solution.

thanx all
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] yourbayt:
sorry it's xsg

sorry it's xsg
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] yourbayt:
other attached.

other attached.
[Focus General] Strider88:
Hi guys,

How am I supposed to safely disconnect my Samsung Focus from my iMac? There's no icon of the device in the finder windows or in windows phone 7 connector.

Thanks! :D
[Focus General] foxbat121:
Just unplug it. It is not connected as a USB mass storage. Hence there is no need for safely disconnect. It is always safe to disconnect as long as you are not in the middle of syncing.
[Focus General] Strider88:
Is it true for Zune on the PC as well? or do I have to safely remove it when i'm using windows?
[Focus General] foxbat121:
Yes, same on the pc side.
[Focus General] Strider88:
This is... unreal.

Doesn't it ruin the internal memory or something? I never heard of a similar storage device.
[Focus General] foxbat121:
One more time, it does not show up as a storage device. So there is nothing an OS can ruin.

On PC, even most flash drives are automatically recognized and configured in a way that can be removed anytime without fearing of ruining of the storage device.
[Focus General] Strider88:
Got it. okay, thanks!

One more question: if I delete all the AT&T apps, where can I find them if I want to reinstall them?
[Desire HD General] tuddsta:
Hi all.just passed my galaxy s onto my girlfriend,we both had iPhone 4 .but as a gadget man it was beautifully in design,but limited in its use,even with the jailbreak I found the handset and apples attitude to phone freedom,dissapointing.The galaxy s once rooted and running custom Tom outstanding.Now its desire HD time loving it to bits.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijkap:
I am stuck my phone. It does not proceed beyond the initial screen after normal boot and does not show adb interface in the device mmanager of my laptop. When I boot into Safe Mode, it does show adb interface in the device manager of my laptop, however, adb on command prompt does not show any device.

This indicates adb interface does not establish for a normal boot and for Safe mode device is not recognised. I can get into recovery and have tried flashing boot.img through update.zip, however, it returns with Installation abroted message. Here, it seems bootlogger is locked.

I have complete romdump of my phone with boot.img and recovery.img.

Please help!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MSF Jarvis:
Give some more info like device name, root status, current recovery, recipe for the mess you created out of it etc.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salman Al-Badgail:
This post was posted on 29th March 2011
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MSF Jarvis:
I've been making these kind of mistakes quite often recently, maybe I need a break after all
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salman Al-Badgail:
Doesn't matter, finally he got answer after 5yrs :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MSF Jarvis:
He actually posted on one of my ROM threads, that led me to here
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BatDroid:
kill me!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdadevelopers23:
this is the error i m facing(in bold):

E:\Setup\android\root\Downgrade>adb push misc_version /data/local/tmp

1104 KB/s (15837 bytes in 0.014s)

E:\Setup\android\root\Downgrade>adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/psneuter

E:\Setup\android\root\Downgrade>adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version

E:\Setup\android\root\Downgrade>adb shell /data/local/tmp/psneuter

mmap() failed. Operation not permitted

what should i do?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkoljo:
Well you did not push psneuter there, so you cannot run it :) You just pushed misc_version.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdadevelopers23:
i did it its just that i missed it while copying the the text from cmd. here it is:

e:\Setup\android\root\Downgrade>adb push psneuter /data/local/tmp

1661 KB/s (557962 bytes in 0.328s)

e:\Setup\android\root\Downgrade>adb push misc_version /data/local/tmp

1189 KB/s (15837 bytes in 0.013s)

e:\Setup\android\root\Downgrade>adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/psneuter

e:\Setup\android\root\Downgrade>adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version

e:\Setup\android\root\Downgrade>adb shell /data/local/tmp/psneuter

mmap() failed. Operation not permitted

phone connected to Windows7 in charge only mode with usb debugging enabled.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aradhyat:
hey,

I am facing the exact same problem, I live in India and my DHD isn't carrier branded or anything.

Earlier when i tried to downgrade, I was getting CID failed...so i did a goldcard and now I am getting the exact same error as mentioned above...can anyone plz help?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CodeNameUnknown1:
Yea, i got that error when i was trying to downgrade too, just a week ago!

my phone was branded, and when i didn't do the GoldCard, i didn't get the error.

but as soon as i did the goldcard, then the error came twice.

what i did was restart the phone, the computer and formatted the SD card and did the whole process again, then i typed

>adb shell /data/local/tmp/psneuter

and i got the error again. I waited like 3-6 seconds and tried the above command again, and it worked.

honestly, i dont know where the problem comes from. but good luck
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apppu:
wrong n missing image files error in bootloader

after the temp root.. when it goes in bootloader , it does say that the image files are missing and wrong image file…

m running on htc desire hd 1.84 stock rom unlocked.

please help me out
[LG Optimus 2x] trashuser:
It's beyond me why manufacturers go through so much work to customize the UI, when most users would actually be happier with a vanilla version of android. LG's implementation on Optimus 2X is a great example of third-party developers managing to cripple the speed of a otherwise amazing piece of hardware :) (launcher pro fixes most of this, but still)

It seems, however, that the G2X will be coming with a vanilla 2.2 - does anyone here know if this will be installable on the ordinary LG Optimus 2X (without 4G)?
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
Isn't the G2X just the LG 2x just rebranded for another carrier?
[LG Optimus 2x] gensplejs:
Not really. The hardware is the same (or at least as simmilar as the su660) but the G2X comes with vanilla android not the LG skin thing we have on the p990.
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
Well the LG 2x is about as Vanilla as you can go, when it comes to phones with a "measure" of maker branding. So its not like the 2x is THAT far away from a vanilla experience as I understand it.