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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SantinoInc:
Alpine:

When I first started flashing stuff I relied on the Clockwork app to do everything. I used it to flash roms and clear/wipe data and cache. However, after running into problems like yours I started doing it manually.

What I started doing was booting into RECOVERY (i know it sounds scary but it really isn't) A little off topic but there is a great app that I think every rooted user should use, it's called: Reboot Control Widget It only costs a measly $1 in the Market but it's well worth it. Basically you put the widget on the desktop and click on it. You are then given the option to Reboot your phone, Hot Boot (fast reboot), boot into Recovery, Bootloader or Shut Down. Best dollar you will ever spend on an app.

So anyway, l strayed from my point. The problem you are experiencing is partially due to not having fully wiped your phones data/cache. I know you think you did it through the Clockwork app but from experience it doesn't work that well. There is a "flashable" file called Calkulin's Format All. It is in the DEV section posted in Calkulin's Rom section. It will clear everything except the contents of your SD card.

1. Boot into RECOVERY

2. find: INSTALL ZIP FROM SDCARD

3. select the Calkulin's Format ALL.zip file (your phone will be totally clean after this)

4. Again, choose INSTALL ZIP FROM SDCARD

5. Select the ROM you want to flash. (If it is a Cyanogen based ROM you will have to flash the appropriate Google Apps file after flashing the ROM. If flashing a Sense ROM the Gapps file is not necessary)

6. Flash Gapps file (Google apps if necessary)

7. Once this is done select REBOOT SYSTEM NOW

I feel confident that if you follow those steps you won't run into any bootloops!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SantinoInc:
I have added the Format All.zip file that I mentioned in my last post.

Little advice:

- take the time to do a Nandroid before flashing a new rom

- use Titanium to restore only the apps w/o the data. I know it's nice to restore everything the way you had it on the last rom but from my experience this has led to instability in the new rom. Also from my experience when you are on a SENSE rom and use Titanium to backup your files and data when you install a AOSP (like CM) rom and try to restore those files and data it won't even let you. Just something to keep in mind if you are switching between CM to Sense or vice versa.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Yes it should.

Manually wipe you factory/data, cache, dalvik, then flash the rom with the latest gapps and you'll be good.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alpine-:
Wow, great post. Very informative and detailed, thanks a lot.

So why is creating a nandroid backup better than the ROM backup function in RomManager? I restored that rom once and it worked flawlessly. How does nandroid differ from the rom backup created in RomManager?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emcp422:
when you use clockwordmod recovery to wipe your phone the dalvik doesn't wipe with the wipe option you see on the main screen, i belive you will see the option to wipe it in the advanced menu
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eventer289:
They are the same. ROM Manager boots you into recovery and nandroids for you. People have mixed experiences with ROM Manager. From my experience it is best just to boot manually into recovery and take care of all your flashing and wiping there.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samMD:
I just installed the new ViperROM Synergy 5.0, found out the boot up/shutdown sounds were removed. Links are available to the sound files but I dont know which folder to place them in so I can hear the audio with the animations

Thank You xda
[G Tablet General] skeeterslint:
Nvidia dropping support for older tegra 2's

Hi all,

Someone just threw this link up in the #epic irc room.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/04/nvidia-tegra-2-support-stops/

Haven't seen it posted over here yet I figured I'd throw it out there.
[G Tablet General] CodeNinja:
Did you look?

There are at least 5 topics about it on the first page. :rolleyes:
[G Tablet General] mrnice225:
This was posted in the Nvidia forums yesterday:

Mar 16 2011 at 12:07 AM #1

NVIDIA is only supporting the Ventana platform for android releases going forward. At the moment we have released Froyo and Gingerbread OS images for Ventana and will release Honeycomb after Google has done so.

UPDATE 12 APRIL 2011:

Sorry folks looks like I caused a bit of confusion. Since this is a developer forum my comments

were targeted at Tegra Honeycomb developers and for this we’d like to focus on Ventana. For shipping or production products, customers should contact the device makers directly for OS support plans. They are responsible for the OS shipping on their device.

In relation to our linux kernel git repository, NVIDIA will continue to provide full open-source support for all of our kernel components and will push more of that upstream over time.

Andrew Edelsten

Tegra Developer Relations

NVIDIA Corporation
[G Tablet General] skeeterslint:
Funny I did look and didn't see anything about it otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to post it.
[G Tablet General] life02:
UPDATE 4-13 - Nvidia Tegra 2 Harmony Support

This comes from Andrew over at Nvidia (http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/honeycomb-harmony?page=3):

UPDATE 13 APRIL 2011

A lot has been read into a very short post about a Tegra development kit. I'd like to clear up a few points.

First, nothing changes in what we’re delivering to the open source community or customers. NVIDIA will continue to post the Tegra kernel to kernel.org and publish our Android code to our public git servers. Additionally, we will continue to make our BSP (codecs, GPU driver etc) available to all our hardware partners. We will continue to do this and nothing about these processes has changed.

For our partners' Android devices, NVIDIA provides support until the hardware partner chooses to no longer support the device. So, for instance, NVIDIA will support the Xoom on all versions of Android Motorola requests until Motorola ceases to support the Xoom. The same goes for ViewSonic with the G-Tablet, Notion Ink with the Adam, Acer with the Iconia, LG with the Optimus 2X and so on.

In relation to my original reply, that was a response to a specific question about a Tegra 250 Development Kit. Given the confusion, we will work with owners of Tegra 250 Development Kits individually to determine their needs. The term "Harmony" is an internal codename for the Tegra 250 Development Kit. It is not a tablet reference design. Each shipping tablet is a custom design with varying hardware components and requires a custom OS image from the OEM who made the tablet.

Finally, while we cannot support or give out third party peripheral drivers or provide the Android 3.0 source before Google does, we do want to explore whether we can assist the open source ROM makers. We will be reaching out to them today.

Andrew Edelsten

Tegra Developer Relations

NVIDIA Corporation
[G Tablet General] lilsalmon:
Now this is a little more in line with what I was hoping for as a response from nvidia.

Robeet, any chance they reached out to you directly?

-Lil'
[G Tablet General] CodeNinja:
Wonderful news! :D
[G Tablet General] ZenInsight:
So does this mean that we may get Gingerbread Hardware acceleration after all? (let alone Honeycomb)
[G Tablet General] Version_3:
Exactly, which puts the ball back in VS's court.
[G Tablet General] dfin13:
My reading comprehension may be off, but I took this:

Additionally, we will continue to make our BSP (codecs, GPU driver etc) available to all our hardware partners.

As meaning we'll have to rely on Viewsonic to get the GPU driver for GB or Honeycomb.
[G Tablet General] cd112:
Much more like it.. :) I guess our voice is being heard.. I am impressed Folks.. lets all keep up the good work and thank our devs for making this all possible.

Thanks again to all of you.

best regards
[G Tablet General] cbay:
IMO the real question is, whether any enhancements made to the BSP (codecs GPU drivers) etc made for Ventana for honeycomb, will also be released for the Harmony.

Sure they will not stop the downloading of existing Harmony drivers, but will they enhance them for Honeycomb? Or at least release the codec, driver code to the OEMs (or general public?).

Does "continue to support" mean add enhancements, or merely fix bugs and make available.

If they do not add enhancements to Harmony, maybe they should rename Harmony based products to have Tegra 1.5 :)

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[G Tablet General] rbansal2:
we need to continue to keep the pressure on until they release new drivers
[G Tablet General] ZenInsight:
I agree. Viewsonic wants to make a Giner or Honey ROM and Nvidia will support them with the proper driver. Hear that Viewsonic...? HEllllloooooooo?
[G Tablet General] cd112:
I completely agree with you... We need to stay on top of them to make sure that we are pushing this to the limit.. :) we want out Gtab with the latest drivers and the latest OS.. :)
[G Tablet General] whiplash13:
If Harmony is just an SDK then why can't they just use the SDK codenamed Ventana? He eluded to the idea that the hardware hasn't changed and only the SDK has. If this is the case then Viewsonic would just need to use the newer SDK when coding their new ROM's for the Gtab. No?

UPDATE: So after some research these aren't SDK's they are Dev Kit's which basically seem like barebone tablet making kits.

Harmony:

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/tegra/docs/harmony_hw_setup.pdf

Ventana:

http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/devkit-ventana

As you can see from the material, they are very different hardware.
[G Tablet General] cbay:
I don't think Harmony and Ventana are the same hardware. The chip is the same (Tegra 2), but the hardware around the chip on the board is probably different. This causes low level software like device drivers to be different (not binary compatible) between Harmony and Ventana.

Based on simple browsing, (and someone may correct me on this), it seems that the codecs and drivers are released by Nvidia are in binary form, and not source code, and are therefore not "hackable". Such things are usually proprietary (not open source) and thus only distributed in binary format.

Not sure if the above is true for release to OEMs.

If the OEMs like ViewSonic get the codec/driver source code, they could theoretically adapt it to the new features of Honeycomb, and the burden would be on OEMs like ViewSonic. But it would be more difficult for OEMs.
[G Tablet General] whiplash13:
Post deleted.
[G Tablet General] StereoD:
NVIDIA drops support for Viewsonic, Advent and Notion ink tablets, falls prey of new Google rules
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NVIDIA has announced that they're dropping driver support for their Harmony line of tablets. This affects the Viewsonic gTablet and ViewPad7, Advent Vega, Toshiba Folio 100, and Notion Ink Adam, as well as the many users that jumped on the mostly cheap-ish tablets, not wanting to wait for Honeycomb. The announcement seals the fate of the above mentioned tablets, as without drivers, no future version of Android will get hardware acceleration. Not that the heavily customized UI they employ that mostly damages the eyes of customers would have ever gotten Rubin's blessing, but this leaves the dev community out of luck, too, pretty much. More info past the break.

Some of the tablets are merely months old and smiten with some pretty ugly UIs, Adam tablet aside (though it looks nicer than it's actually useable), but none are more than a year old. That's a very short shelf life, even for high-tech devices, especially considering a lot of users were hanging on for future updates to finally be able to start enjoying their tablets instead of living with compromises. Sure, there's a bunch of development around these tablets, mostly the Viewsonic and Advent, since they're based on the same exact hardware and fugly UI, but without hardware support, there's not much more coming but bug-fixes. Andrew Edelstein, an NVIDIA employee, posted the following on the developer forum

targeted at Tegra Honeycomb developers and for this we’d like to focus on Ventana. For shipping or production products, customers should contact the device makers directly for OS support plans. They are responsible for the OS shipping on their device. [...] In relation to our linux kernel git repository, NVIDIA will continue to provide full open-source support for all of our kernel components and will push more of that upstream over time.

The Ventana platform refers to the XOOM, Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Eee tablets and all other newer tablets for which support will, quite obviously, continue. Older models of phones often get neglected with updates, but nothing of this magnitude so far. NVIDIA's move is pretty clearly a reaction to Google's new policy on who gets updates ; after all, why should they continue spending money on the development of tablets that are never going to see an update again. Of course, Advent and Viewsonic could renounce their Tap-n-Tap UI for something more AOSP-like and beg Google for mercy, but at this point, it seems to late.
[Off-topic] deliriousDroid:
So I desided it was a good day to flash to stable cm7. But as my phone had a specific problem nobody else has I first restored my original nandroid backup, back to sense. Then realised I didn't do a recent backup in titanium backup, so restored that backup, did a backup, then restored back to my original. Did a factory reset, cleared cache/dalvik, flashed cm7, g-apps, fixed permissions, rebooted. All seemed well. Everything was working except GPS. So I also desided to change my SD card to my new 32G. A few hours later I was at work, and checked my phone, NO INTERNET, gaahhhh. Went to SMS a friend to see if she had internet. Realised Google account didn't restore my contacts. No internet=no restoring:( then went to do a nandroid restore, and found out that clockwork mod recovery goes away after a factory reset(after I thought about it I realised I didn't even have my backups anyways...new SD card) So there I was stuck at work, with a basicly broken phone, and I was kinda stressed about it. Had to wait 5 hours before I could even get to my computer to fix it. I can't believe I freaked out so much over it.... Hi, my names Justin and I am addicted to my Smartphone.

Edit: BTW, not really sure why I wrote this long ass ramble/rant. But whatever :D at least my phone is awesome once more

Sent from my SilverBullet "HTCDesireZ running CM7"
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
Semi-happened to me once before... As always, keep your data safe :D
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xboxnightfallx:
is there anyway to change the overscrolling affect color? I used one theme where the effect was white, but I don't want a whole theme i only wanna change it from green or blue, to a different color of my choosing.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KCS05DC:
Yeah this is possible, but it requires editing images inside one of the apks. So you'd have to extract the apk, edit the image to whatever color you wanted and then push it to your phone.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtrplr71:
How do I hide videos from my gallery?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] behelit:
put a .nomedia file in the video directory
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
Put a '.' in front of the folder name.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
Put a '.' in front of the file name.
[EVO 4G General] blackroseimmortal09:
HTC sensation looks really good tell me what you think.
[EVO 4G General] SilverStone641:
It looks okay, but it's on T-Mobile so it doesn't matter.
[EVO 4G General] CheesyNutz:
bit late to the party :D
[EVO 4G General] blackroseimmortal09:
Is the sensation and pyramid the same phone, did it get a name change?
[EVO 4G General] heathmcabee:
Yes, the Pyramid is the Sensation. Phones rarely come out with the same name they are beta tested with.
[EVO 4G General] dirkyd3rk:
Every thread not related to general EVO information gets the seal of disapproval from now on. :-)

~ d3rk
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
That's funny I made the comment on face book "it looks just like the pyramid"
[EVO 4G General] alexisprz:
Meh, ill wait until some quad core phones start coming out. Should be around november if the trend keeps up.
[EVO 4G General] iitreatedii:
Exactly if it weren't for that it would be a good choice...they can't even announce plans correctly to the public the companies a joke
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
At least theyre not Att....yet
[EVO 4G General] blackroseimmortal09:
I heard somewhere that at&t was going to absorb t mobile and call it at&t&t. If anything t mobile should absorb at&t.
[EVO 4G General] AngelofChaos:
they could if they were the buyer, instead of being the buyee in this case, which in reality T-Mobile could never accrue the amount of revenue necessary to absorb AT&T. However I don't see the FCC rubber stamping the buyout/merger, as it looks more and more likely that AT&T is trying to reform its "Ma Bell" monopoly all over again.
[Xperia Arc General] arcanixX:
It's weird nobody has noticed or said anything about this yet, because it's really frustrating me.

As you probably know, Xperia Arc comes with a new screen technology called TrueTouch, which supports up to 32-points of contact. There's an issue which I believe Android is not handling apparently right. When writing (using any keyboard). If I try to write fast, it will make a drift between the first and second letter pressed, and of course, non letter will be written. Is it happening to anyone who likes to write fast?

If you don't see it, another way to see this problem, is going to the main screen, and just touching fast with two fingers, with a bit of distance between them, and not at the exact same time, and you will see how it changes to the next panel, because it's like you'd slided to change the panel (see the image below). I'm concerned about this, cuz I used to write really fast with a sucky iPhone. I really love my arc but this is annoying.

I even wrote to Cypress, the screen manufacturer, and they told me this: "Thanks a lot for sharing your experience with our touchscreen controller. The drift which you are seeing is because of the way application is written on the top layer. Unfotunately, I won't be able to share much of the technical information with respect to this part because this information is shared only if the customer is qualified."

I assume Android is not set up yet to work proper with this TrueTouch. Can any developer fix this? Or let the android people know? Maybe turn the screen into 2-points only so it won't drift? IDK! Please, anybody?

img718.imageshack.us/i/explanation.jpg/

UPDATE:

Guys I think there's something we can do to rush the update for this problem! Go in here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16112&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars and give a STAR to the case. When a case has more stars, the android dev team pays more attention. If it ask you to sign in, I think you can just use your google account as I did.

UPDATE 2:

[UPDATED]

We got answer from a Google's Developer:

"Thanks for your report. However, in this case it is best that you bring this issue to the attention of your phone manufacturer. The Android Open-Source Project allows companies to bring devices to market by customizing the Android source code as they see fit. Therefore, the Android team is unable to help with issues regarding specific devices."

And as I replied to him: how comes? I don't think this is a "specific devices" problem. It's just S.E. was the first to implement this kind of screen. Google should add support considering other brands will probably start implementing this technology too. However, I guess we will have to wait until custom ROMS start coming out and some developer fix this for all of us.

Does anybody knows how to contact Sony Ericsson? Their website is too limited and all customer service representatives only say "go to your operator's office" and useless stuff like that. We need to send emails to the HQ. Any ideas?
[Xperia Arc General] commodoor:
I also noticed this I thought the touch was very bad even broken and take the phone back.

But after some testing I concluded it wasn't broken but it was a software issue. So I think we have to wait for updates to fix this proplem.

Hope to see it get fixxed.

PS. Not every touch visualiser works well on the arc.
[Xperia Arc General] mtechfan:
Works fine for me, way better than my X10 :p
[Xperia Arc General] arcanixX:
Thank god I'm not the only one, hehe. Do you think there's anything we can do to notify this to Sony Ericsson? I think if we do so, they'll fix it fast.
[Xperia Arc General] arcanixX:
That's right, because they're not written for TrueTouch support. Android should be aware of this, considering this is the first phone with this type of screen. Is there any developer who can check on this?
[Xperia Arc General] StickyGeko:
Ive noticed trouble as above too, but mainly when pinch to zoom my screen always shoots to the right, try it, zoom in, keep your 2fingers still once youve pinched in or out and youl see what I mean
[Xperia Arc General] arcanixX:
Damn! You're right. As I said, there's gotta be a way we can notify Android Developers or Sony Ericsson to make the fix in the software so the TrueTouch can work right. Any ideas?
[Xperia Arc General] arcanixX:
I think we can solve it with this

Guys I think there's something we can do to rush the update for this problem! Go in here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16112&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars and give a STAR to the case. When a case has more stars, the android dev team pays more attention. If it ask you to sign in, I think you can just use your google account as I did.
[Xperia Arc General] arcanixX:
A star to fix the arc's screen problems!

Hey guys I think there's something we can do to rush the update for this problem! Go in here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16112&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars and give a STAR to the case. When a case has more stars, the android dev team pays more attention. If it ask you to sign in, I think you can just use your google account as I did.

If you don't know which problem i'm talking about, you can read the thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=12880602

[UPDATED]

We got answer from a Google's Developer:

"Thanks for your report. However, in this case it is best that you bring this issue to the attention of your phone manufacturer. The Android Open-Source Project allows companies to bring devices to market by customizing the Android source code as they see fit. Therefore, the Android team is unable to help with issues regarding specific devices."

And as I replied to him: how comes? I don't think this is a "specific devices" problem. It's just S.E. was the first to implement this kind of screen. Google should add support considering other brands will probably start implementing this technology too. However, I guess we will have to wait until custom ROMS start coming out and some developer fix this for all of us.

Does anybody knows how to contact Sony Ericsson? Their website is too limited and all customer service representatives only say "go to your operator's office" and useless stuff like that. We need to send emails to the HQ. Any ideas?
[Xperia Arc General] Karooluss:
I confirm this problem! I had similar situatiot at hd2 so I decided to change into Arc :-S lol btw now I'm not going to change the phone because I very like arc. We have to inform SE about this issue and I hope some firmware can fix this;-) now I have to write a little bit slow to avoid that

Sent from my SE ARC
[Xperia Arc General] Ambroos:
Also noticed this when typing, especially in landscape mode using two fingers...
[Xperia Arc General] Karooluss:
I bought ARC to avoid this issue from HD2, and what: surprise... But hd2 is old timer and old touch technology.. Has anybody inform se support about that??

Sent from my SE ARC
[Xperia Arc General] commodoor:
Response from google:

so we go knocking SE door?