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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badasschris:
Hello I am quite worried about my phone.

After a little while with a new rom installed widgets will FC and stop working and some apps will disappear (and if on home screen you see default image and clicking it it says"Application not found") This usually (if not always) happens after the phone for some reason thinks it is the first time it has been switched on and goes through the initial setup (asking about language, setup accounts, wifi etc)

I first noticed this happen when I had darkys 9.3(i think maybe 9.somehting anyway) and when I replaced the sim all the above occoured. Reinstalling the apps didnt fix them and most apps FC.

Since then I have tried many roms and most seems to get this affect after some time. I was using some 2.3 roms and they were great but didnt have bln + very bad battery so they had to go. I'm currently on a romkitchen rom and it was fine for a while then after a restart it did the initial setup thing again and most things are broken again.

Anyone know anything about this?

Any suggestions on what I can try?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Try killing the rom that caused the problems the usual supect once again .

Flash to stock Eclair via Odin with pit 512 and repartition checked .

If thats ok upgrade to Froyo .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edude03:
Ehh, that sounds a lot like the Internal SD issue. Try a stock 2.2.1 rom with a recent modem and see how that goes.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badasschris:
Can you suggest any roms/modems? I'm from UK if that makes a difference.

Btw the most recent rom was all the newest stuff from the rom kitchen. I feel like there is something that is not being wiped from my phone on a reflash even though I have installed different roms/modems/kernels. I have even deleted everything from my internal sd (the bit you can see when plugging phone into pc) The only thing I haven't wiped is my external sd, could something on that be the culprit?

Oh also as I installed this latest rom no gallery app was installed? I thought I might have just chosen the wrong option in the rom kitchen but does that mean anything?

EDIT - Could it be this RFS corruption issue?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=848471

Should I follow these steps or is there a newer method?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frothe3:
I downloaded the flashtool and the folder for 2.1,which is on my pc desktop. How do I combine the two folders? Haven't extracted flashtool yet.

And how do I keep all the apps I have,even the pre- installed apps,then go back and delete the ones I don't want?

Have Titanium backup download in the mobile. Also purchased SD micro sd 8GB card. Can I back apps onto sd card?

All help and advice is appreciated,I am a novice at this,so I DO NOT want to brick my mobile, paid too much for it! !

Thank-you.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aval1392:
Go here for a guide...http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=928343

Although you want to keep your preinstalled apps, if you flash to the generic 2.1 you are basically debranding your phone and all the preinstalled apps will be removed. You could try "my backup root" but im not too sure if it will work. Plus it's nearly impossible to brick your phone..just make sure you follow the guide.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frothe3:
Flashing Xperia

Wow;

This is so cool!! Thank you ever so much for the link and the advice. Another question;do you think I can redownload some of the at&t apps?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aval1392:
There's only a select few you can probably get back from the market for free. But most of the AT&Ts apps can easily be replaceable with other free and probably better apps from the market.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=920746- probably more help for flashtool
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frothe3:
I agree,but I like there navigation, and have a subscription. But thank-you for the info.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frothe3:
Now,I gave a trial run,And think the flash MIGHT be successful. Now,I have Titanium,will this backup my current apps,or do I have to re-download them? And what about my browser bookmarks? Am I able to keep the oned I have now? Oh And I have a brand-new SanDisk 8GB micro sd card, should I put that into the mobile?

Any and all suggestions are helpful, and thank-you once again for the advice and help!!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frothe3:
Did all the downloads,are followed the instructions to the tee about combining the generic firmware into the firmware file,or something of that nature. A little nervous about flashing,but I'm going to do it. After flashing,should I use SEPC Companion to update OS to update OS?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Lee:
If i understand u, if u flash with flashtool, u want to flash over with pc comanion? If thats the case, u dont need to because u already picked the firmware with the baseband u wanted. So once u used flashtool u r done.

I saw u got titanium backup. U know your phone must be rooted right to use it? U can use flashtool to root too after u flashed the 2.1 update

Sent from XDA Premium from my X10a rooted running 2.2.1 CM Rom from Rendeiro2005
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agentJBM:
It looks like you're on the right path, but here's a step by step guide that will answer all your questions especially for AT&T X10a.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1012380

You can't use Titanium Backup until after you have rooted. Instead use Mybackup, free in the Market.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frothe3:
Yes,I believe so. And yes,I know I can root AND have SUPERONECLICK up and running. Boy,I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!! Guess I am becoming tech savvy after all.

If you can,give me reasons WHY I should root. Once you reply,will give it a go.

And really, thank-you so much for your help and guidance, couldn't have done it without it
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frothe3:
Wow!! Goosebumps!! Thanks for the link,a fantastic thread. Will take both of your advice:download mybackup,put it fresh,brand-new 8GB micro sd,and backup apps. If you think it is also advisable to root,will do that also. For the ROM,what do YOU advise? That is what you change when rooting,correct?

Your info has been DO VERY VALUABLE, THANK-YOU EVER SO MUCH!!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agentJBM:
Rooting allows you to remove preinstalled SE system apps that you don't use, like Timescape and Face Recognition, which will greatly increase performance. It also allows you to enable JIT (optimize), and install xRecovery. See the guide I linked above for safe system apps to remove.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frothe3:
I cannot believe it!! I did the root,when I sort of whacked my phone up,SE PC Companion came to the rescue.

It is like having a new mobile!! The changes are major,same withthe apps,but I certainly live with the changed.

Now,how do I get rid of Mocked,by rooting? I don't need it,so I wouldlike to delete it.

Thank you for your guidance,advice and help. Wouldn't have done it without it!!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JimzFreebies:
I want iPhone/iPod screen ROTATING effect with the accelerometer. (Landscape/vertical) in my xperia x10

Plz don't talk about launcher such as LauncherPro(plus) or ADW and stuff, because they only can do screen transitions. (Swithing from app/screen)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kxhawkins:
"Plz" don't repost just because you didn't get the answer you want.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Buddha:
+1

lol I want it too.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sudermatt:
When I first got my GT, I immediately installed Culkulin. He's a rock star, and I new it would be good. Quadrant scores over 2600. I was impressed. But...it's froyo. I've used Honeycomb on my NookColor and really like having the full time menu bar on the bottom. Culkulin doesn't have it.

Well I tried Corwin's latest C7...and it's really nice. market fixed and I can see everything. The fulltime bottom menu bar is nice....just like Honeycomb. But the quadrant scores are around 1800...

"But do you notice any difference in speed?"

Sort of...not really...I'm actually thinking the speed of having onscreen access to the menu and back button all the time is the biggest time saver.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssmug:
Functionality trumps speed

IMHO, most gain in speed is offset by loss in functionality. You may be able to launch faster or scroll more smoothly, but if you can't actually do what you want to do, then what's the point?

This is amplified more if the increased speed only really shows in Quadrant scores as opposed to what you can actually feel and discern. There are, in fact, real differences between, say, an Archos 101 with a score of 900 and a customized GTab with a score of 2200, or between stock GTab and customized GTab. But when you get down to Quadrant scores of, say, 2000 vs. 2500, it's almost certainly negligible, and more of a placebo effect.

I'm sure there's a minimum perceived improvement score at which you actually feel the gains. Other than that, scores are just that: numbers. And although it can be fun to tinker and push our gadgets to their extremes, at some point it becomes nothing more than a fun challenge with somewhat diminishing returns.

I'm reminded of a comment on Slashdot about benchmarks for the iPad2 and the Xoom. I wish I could find it because my paraphrasing won't do it justice, but the essence of it was that the reason the iPad is beating Android so much is that the focus is on usability and experience not benchmarks. People often get hung up on benchmarks when, in many circumstances, they are practically meaningless.

Executive summary: unless there are large, meaningful speed improvements, functionality, wins, hands down.

/goes back to trying out experimental ROMs :p
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racketier:
I'm running Calkulin's 1.1 rom and Clemsyon's v9 kernel. When quadrant decides to work (which is rare) I get around 2300. Normally it force closes on me, and when it does work it doesn't seem to do any of the CPU tests (0/12).

That being said, it's my favorite combination to date. I recommend sticking Gojimi's VTL launcher on it and you're good to go. It's ADW launcher modified for tablets, and allows you to have a dock at the bottom of the screen, as well as the left and right.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1017451

I also keep the stock TNT status bar that comes with Calkulin's rom, which has the normal Home, Back, etc buttons.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acomiskey:
Make sure you hold the tablet in portrait when pressing run full benchmark, it won't run the cpu tests if you hold it in landscape.....at least that's how it is for me.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racketier:
you're right! thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbman1996:
I'm on the Gingerbread MIUI, which is based on CM7.

I have a Desire Z, living in the UK.

I'm not bothered about data speed, since I don't have a plan.

There's a ****load of pages on all the radio related threads and I was hoping I would get a nice definitive answer if I opened a topic :)

Cheers
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coszy:
im using the latest radio, and in my opinion( I might be wrong) it's a bit better, Gps lock pretty fast, and signal relatively the same.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HLeenders:
Do not change your radio if you already have decent reception in common areas.

Remember: if it ain't broken, don't try to fix it.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spastic909:
What he said
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbman1996:
The reason I though about it was that apparently you get better battery life if you use a newer one on CM7 because of the (RILs?) Cyanogen used, which are not replacable. Or am I about to open up a massive debate here" :D
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
The best radio is often dependent on your geographic location. Different radios work better in different areas. That's why people have said, if you reception is good (and I'd like to add battery life), don't mess with it.
[General Questions and Answers] peanjr:
What's up y'all? Been lookin online for info bout these and all I find are specs, I have a chance to get the 10.2 inch one for 80$...is it worth it? It does everything I need it too and all..
[General Questions and Answers] peanjr:
And it seems to have 2.1 eclair on it. Thus, it is rootable no?
[General Questions and Answers] peanjr:
Found an augen gentouch thread, seems all the info I need is in there.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ubnub82:
Droid Life had leaks for the new Google apps like music, clock, etc that are all honeycomb style but work on our phones. I installed all of them except Desk Clock which wouldnt install and the new gallery app always force closes. Camera works but when turning it to camcorder it FC's. Music app works fine but I heard landscape has a few problems and you also cant sync your Google account. None of these apps replace your current stock apps. I found this file in the Nexus One forums btw.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] XGodOfModzX:
Make a zip file. I'm on my phone and I don't feel like downloading a unrar file explorer.

Sent from a delicious CDMA HTC Hero baked with Gingerbread covered in honey......mmmmm.....
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] bernard_photography:
How do you install these? I am getting an error that says "There is a problem parsing the package".
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ubnub82:
Did you download them from your phone or from a computer?
[Droid 2 General] 7April:
Specifically: how can I utilize the internal memory and possibly make it visible to apps? I'm not very sure that a complete picture has ever emerged on why this isn't possible, or even addressable. If the thread accomplishes anything it would be to summarize the problem, the blockers, and perhaps a way forward. Ultimately if an app or some other means is required, at least that will be apparent to any readers.

So, from what I understand, I cannot simply remount internal storage as a symbolic link on my sdcard, and the facility to map it like emmc (as on a Nook Color, let's say) doesn't really exist. Is this correct? Why is it this way?

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[Droid 2 General] 640k:
what are you saying? are you posting based on the assumption that apps can only utilize 512MB of RAM? you do realize that barrier ceased to exist some time ago, right?

the D2 has 8GB of internal storage. install 8GB of apps and see what happens.

or are you stating that apps like readers, are incapable of utilizing the internal storage of the storage of their files that reference books, graphics, etc?

if it's the later, you've got a whole different boat. it's dependent on how the app is developed. the developer would need to program an option to allow for the app to pick where to store its data.

once i realized that my apps were barely using the 8GB of internal storage, i stopped trying to move them to the SD card.
[Droid 2 General] Phoible:
This is possible (what I'm assuming you mean is that internal memory can be used like an SD Card). In fact Gingerbread has built-in support for this (the Nexus S doesn't have an SD Card slot).

Not sure whether this requires some sort of Kernel support/module, or is done via something like FUSE (but the source is available, so you should be able to figure it out).
[Droid 2 General] 7April:
internal memory for data usage

Yes I do.

I mean exactly that: I have 8Gb of internal storage. I am currently using 1.2Gb of it. I am not fully exploiting the full capability of internal storage. How can this be accomplished? To wit: symbolic linking does not appear to be a solution, i.e. mapping internal storage to something most/all apps can see without recoding; mounting/remounting as emmc doesn't seem to be possible, e.g. merely modifying vold references that work for other devices does not seem to work for the D2/X.

What I would like is a "state of the art" thread that summarizes the problems in detail so that solutions can be attempted. I'm happy to design a solution, if only I knew where to start.

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[Droid 2 General] 640k:
the problem is, these apps are most likely referencing the SD card implicitly through a common mount point like the folder name as it would appear in a file manager.

if you could figure out how to change the sdcard to mount to sdcard2 and mount a portion (partition?) of the internal storage to sdcard, you'd easily accomplish your feat.

i don't think anything "state of the art" is required here. just a firm understanding of the strategy used to mount and address the sdcard to begin with.

you are starting to peak my interest, however. even with 16gb in my sdcard, i find that capturing video eats up space fast and moving all of that data internally would help that situation.

heck, i've got 4GB of emulator ROMs i'd like to move off there.
[Droid 2 General] 7April:
State of the art, not state-of-the-art

Most seem to scan sdcard subdirs and look for ".nomedia" to exclude, so mounting a pseudo-subdir would solve the problem for most apps.

Umm, yeah.

"State of the art" means "where is the current practice as of this moment". "State-of-the-art" means "the latest solution to a specific problem". So what I am looking for is a list of things that have been tried, and why they failed.

So, I'll return back with a compilation of what's been tried already, and see if warehousing it here sparks some additional interest.

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[Droid 2 General] ihtfp69:
Remapping is a bad idea.

The media provider in android scans both your phone storage and external storage for media. It stores what of finds into databases; one for each type. Apps can easily then access this information through the API. There are methods that are accessed to return a URI which gives the program direct access to the media and all information about it without needing to know the exact path per se on your device. So it all boils down to developers are not correctly utilizing android by only bothering to check for external storage devices (SD cards).

CyanogenMod has solved this problem, sort of. Koush wrote a media provider that scans media from every storage type and puts it into a single database. This gives any application full access to media no matter where it is. The only issue this presents to a rom with Sense or Blur loaded is it will no longer be able to save to your phone storage. However, I suspect that is only because that capability was not needed for cm so it was left out.

The media provider is open source so you can grab it from github.
[Droid 2 General] 7April:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ha...

I don't see an argument against remaps. It's just largely obviated by what you post below.

Am I to understand the media scanner would work unimpeded, as an installable APK, on a DX/2? Or it needs an APK container?

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[Droid 2 General] problematic:
I think this would allow me to solve the problem of that damn motorola partition which is auto-mounted and seems to do nothing except confuse in-car music players.

-EDIT-

I found the code being referenced. https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_packages_providers_MediaProvider/commit/aa20f4dbf99f9f11122e560a2087d8999728c71f

I'm not a developer so I have no idea how to do anything with it.
[Droid 2 General] ihtfp69:
There should be a MediaProvider.apk in /system/app. Switch the dex file inside for the one in the same file found in cm6. Do not re-sign the file. Push the new file back to /system/app. Next wipe the contents of this directory: /data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases. Finally reboot. After it reboots, wait a few minutes for the system to rebuild the database.

EDIT: make sure you backup your rom before trying this. You should have a way out if something goes awry.
[Droid 2 General] 7April:
Okay, it's close.

This assumes we can unpack the apk and switch the dex, then recompile the apk. Pointer?
[Droid 2 General] ihtfp69:
Winrar or 7zip?
[Droid 2 General] 7April:
That easy?

An APK is just a compressed archive? Really? Somehow I don't think so...

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[Droid 2 General] Phoible:
An apk is actually just a jar file with a specific organization and a different extension.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APK_(file_format)
[Droid 2 General] 7April:
No dex inside.

These are the contents of the MediaProvider.apk:

Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\C\Desktop\MediaProvider

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> .

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> ..

15-Apr-2008 19:40 4,572 AndroidManifest.xml

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> META-INF

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> res

15-Apr-2008 19:40 2,908 resources.arsc

2 File(s) 7,480 bytes

Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\C\Desktop\MediaProvider\META-INF

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> .

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> ..

17-Mar-2011 15:55 1,451 CERT.RSA

17-Mar-2011 15:55 1,828 CERT.SF

28-Oct-2009 18:28 1,788 MANIFEST.MF

3 File(s) 5,067 bytes

Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\C\Desktop\MediaProvider\res

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> .

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> ..

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> drawable

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> drawable-hdpi

0 File(s) 0 bytes

Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\C\Desktop\MediaProvider\res\drawable

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> .

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> ..

15-Apr-2008 19:40 9,894 card_radio_stream_full.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 2,940 ic_genre.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 2,960 ic_launcher_gallery1.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 1,126 ic_menu_music_dashboard.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 1,215 ic_playlist.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 11,057 ic_podcast_unknown_stream_full.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 1,769 ic_search_category_default.png

7 File(s) 30,961 bytes

Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\C\Desktop\MediaProvider\res\drawable-hdpi

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> .

27-Apr-2011 09:58 <DIR> ..

15-Apr-2008 19:40 1,920 ic_search_category_music_album.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 2,325 ic_search_category_music_artist.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 2,052 ic_search_category_music_song.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 962 ic_single_list_generic_artist.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 1,319 ic_single_list_generic_genre.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 1,173 ic_single_list_generic_internet_radio.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 1,124 ic_single_list_generic_music.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 1,124 ic_single_list_generic_playlist.png

15-Apr-2008 19:40 1,556 ic_single_list_generic_podcast.png

9 File(s) 13,555 bytes
[Droid 2 General] oTToToTenTanz:
Are you looking for somethign like this? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=948887

We should share more knowledge then =)
[Droid 2 General] 7April:
internal remap; next up, internal remap + sdcard

We absolutely should share, that's the sole purpose of this thread!

So it seems as if a UNIX-savvy person (myself) can execute the shell cmds and get int storage mapped as an sdcard... this is exactly what I was looking to do.

#dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/sdcard.img bs=1024 count=4194340

#busybox mkfs.vfat /data/sdcard.img

#busybox mount -o loop /data/sdcard.img /sdcard/

Now, the additional question: how to get an sdcard working with int storage. There was an allusion to the Samsung Galaxy S using a technique to mount the physical sdcard as "sd" under the remapped sdcard. I suppose precedence would be in order: can you remap that subdir to external storage without a conflict in the existing mnt structure?

This is very good; at least sans sdcard we can use int storage.

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[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitroc:
Hello, I"m from Russia, please tell me if there are any firmware "EnergyROM" for HTC touch diamond 2 in Russian, or is there a way to Russify? I like your work! Thank you in advance for your reply ...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Senax:
Russian MUI

In my opinion there's no Russian interface for Topaz excisting on XDA, see;

Cooked ROMs for Topaz

and

Shipped ROMs for Topaz

though after a Google search, the top link was this link ($2.99) which states it excists afterall.

Remember XDA WiKi is your friend :)

Here is my preferred Russian site (I have got to use http://translate.google.com, being dutch ;) );

http://www.ppccabfiles.ru/

Success Nitroc