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[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jogabonitos:
Hi I bought a HTC TROPHY from one guy and his xbox account worked and everything was fine. After hard reset and main live ID and there is a message that the problem is main region. I tred to change even the region to UK or USA bout no success. Could you tell me how to solve this?
[Galaxy S II General] ragiut1:
Hello

The main reason i sold GS1 was TouchWiz, i love Samsung's hardware but not so much the software. What are the chances of getting AOSP like CM7 on GS2?, or would it be as painful as GS1? which still dosent have a stable AOSP ROM as far as i know

Peace
[Galaxy S II General] JupiterDroid:
We wont know until the device is released... CM7 was never released for the SGS so it might be touch and go;( But its my belief that if the bootloader can be unlocked or hacked then CM7 will support it... Its gonna be too much of a big phone not to support;)

JD
[Galaxy S II General] Funkym0nkey:
Buy something else. With AOSP you will lose some critical functionality of this phone. All of them in Multimedia dept. You loose fantastic code support. That's USP of sgs2.

From early previews TWUI 4 seems to be very much refined though.

Magically posted from thin air!
[Galaxy S II General] peadarog:
That's the USP for you.

For me, it's the hardware: thin, sleek, light. Dual-core. HDMI (or equivalent) +++ Unlockable boot-loader.

The hardware of the rival phones isn't as good and, quite a few manufacturers are in full lock-down mode these days.
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
Well, that was my thought exactly, that removing Touchwiz will remove all of the cool features and application support. To perhaps better serve your needs, it would be cooler to swap the launcher as suggested by many wise people here. This will give you a better UX while retaining the app support.
[Galaxy S II General] ragiut1:
SGS's bootloader isnt locked, and yet there is no stable AOSP ROM around
[Galaxy S II General] ragiut1:
I'm still not sure if i'll buy it, as for the so called "critical functionality", i would happily give them up and get rid of the crapware that i dont need, and head for the market for added functionality.
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
Well, since it is Android, you are more than welcome to do so. Although, more than the critical functionality, the features you are PAYING for are being stripped away. It would be better that you find a Rom that adds these features (motion sensing, etc.) while removing the "Crapware" from the device.
[Galaxy S II General] tintol:
Even if the SGS doesn't have a fully functional cyanogenmod, it has lot's of ROM's that remove touchwiz and crapware.

And CM7 is closer than ever from being stable on SGS, and there's actually a MIUI beta. I would say that the SGS2 will have a good dev support and we'll have a lot of choices in ROM's.

If not, there's always launchers like ADW, launcherpro, Regina...

That should be the least of your worries.
[Galaxy S II General] JupiterDroid:
If you read my post it doesn't say at any point that the SGS bootloader is locked;) I dont think the SGS was supported due to its many faults;/

Cheers...

JD
[Galaxy S II General] ragiut1:
Got u :)

Thank you and everyone else for ur input
[Galaxy S II General] Funkym0nkey:
You are paying heavy premium for these features.

With AOSP, you will lose all proprietary samsung apps and features. That includes codecs, Media player post processing functionality and probably MHL functionality.

Also all Samsung drivers will be lost that mean lots of work for developers to get camera working right, bluetooth, wifi working right.

By the time ASOP which is actually usable comes out, it will be time for next generation hardware.
[Galaxy S II General] Hampa_D:
i was wishing for the ability to use bt joypads to play me some emus but i guess its a no go then
[Galaxy S II General] ragiut1:
that's a good point

i hope samsung will release the drivers
[Galaxy S II General] fallenguru:
I'd also much rather have an AOSP build, as I just don't like any of the custom overlays, never mind the included bloat- and crapware. Heck, if I had anything to say Android phones would ship without an OS and there'd be a ton (metric, of course) of distribution to choose from.

And no, we're not paying a premium for these "features", since one cannot buy the same (or even similar) hardware without them, for less.
[Galaxy S II General] Funkym0nkey:
But then that would require some standardization. Or every phone maker will have to issue set of drivers that users will have to bake themselves into the rom before flashing the same.

I dont think phone industry is or will be ready for that any time soon.

And you are paying for everything that comes on phone whether you like it or not. Everything costs something and it comes out of your pocket (or Samsung on some parts for superiority claims ;) ).

AOSP usually rolls out faster for HTC phones (most of which share same DNA inside ) or sister devices of Google devices as its much easier.

Expecting AOSP for something as heavily modified as Galaxy S range quickly is unrealistic.

If your beef is against just TWUI launcher, its relatively easy to roll back to stock android launcher by just defaulting to stock android home (easy to do from Manage Applications ).
[Galaxy S II General] MikeyMike01:
Other than the launcher (which can be changed in seconds), TouchWiz is awesome.

I used CM7 for about an hour before I sorely missed the Samsung Contacts, Camera, Calculator, Dialer and Calendar.

Sent from my Captivate
[Galaxy S II General] peadarog:
I have no objection to touchwiz myself, except for one thing: I get REALLY excited by the innovations Google brings with each new version of Android. Owning the nexus 1 was/is amazing from that perspective. Every new, brilliant feature, is instantly yours.

Having said that, I like some of the new things Samsung are doing with their skin. I like the gyroscope actions and the resizeable widgets.

I guess what I want is a Nexus S2 :)

I'm going to wait until after Google I/O to see if rumours of a new Nexus surface. If not, it'll be the Galaxy S2 for me. It is a beautiful device.
[Galaxy S II General] MikeyMike01:
Even if the phone runs stock Android, you're still not guaranteed updates.

Honestly the whole update thing is a mess anyway.

Samsung provided Gingerbread for the i9000 already, so they have a good track record on updates.

Sent from my Captivate
[Galaxy S II General] fallenguru:
Well, to each his own. But that's what I like about Android - choice. There's something for everyone. :-)

That's true. The only thing stock does in that respect is make updates a little easier.

You're right about the GB update, even though it was pulled again, but their track record is still pretty bad. Let's all hope it isn't just a fluke.

Bottom line is that most phone vendors care about selling new hardware, for them, updates are a mixed blessing. Too few and nobody will buy their current phones, too many and nobody will want to buy the new model.
[XPERIA X8 General] opexblue:
So, what do you guys think about this:

Sony Ericsson W8 Walkman Android phone (Official site)

Sony Ericsson announces W8 Walkman Android phone

Sony Ericsson Adds the W8 Walkman to its Range of Walkman Phones
[XPERIA X8 General] bogdan_mihai554:
Yaayz!! It's got 2.1, we can get walkman app from it :)
[XPERIA X8 General] wujekandrzej:
what a shame... i was hoping for at least froyo so we can port it to x8...

well, this phone is just x8 without GSM module, i don't think there are any more changes in hardware.
[XPERIA X8 General] Chris95X8:
It's a pity W8 isn't running android 2.3

Developers would port that to our X8
[XPERIA X8 General] CaptainZap:
It's only for the asian market, but too bad if it has eclair.
[XPERIA X8 General] ThePietn1:
Lol, just a X8 with Walkman player. xD
[XPERIA X8 General] anmiman:
this is disappointing
[XPERIA X8 General] opexblue:
It's just another variant of x8, lol
[XPERIA X8 General] nizzle1:
it might be possible to flash this walkman customised version to our X8's if so that would be awesome :) just like the original SE day's of cross flashing phones :D
[XPERIA X8 General] Graveir:
I'm wondering if they'll actually rise the price of this device in comparison to the ordinary X8 simply because they wrote a new music app... Amusing, sincerely.
[XPERIA X8 General] wujekandrzej:
imho the price is going to be lower than x8's launching price, but still higher than prices of brand new x8's on internet auctions. it wouldn't be worth its price, i'm pretty sure of it ;p

however, it looks nice, combining black with orange looks cool to me.
[XPERIA X8 General] XperianPro:
Stupid phone but horewer i will flash fresh walkman firmware to my x8 it will give new fresh look,new kernel maybe but still it is only x8 with walkman app and some other theme.

Im 100% sure that everything will work if i flash w8 firmware.
[XPERIA X8 General] Graveir:
And I'm 100% sure that the kernel'll be exactly the same.

BTW, wujekandrzej, I see that you've got a psingwin, does it really not talk about Smolensk? :D
[XPERIA X8 General] maveloth:
A crappy piece of plastic, IMHO.

A new color combination, a new music app and a unpgraded device [it has 2.1 eclair just like our X8s] isn't worth the buying.

As far as I can go, I'd replace my X8 cover with this walkman one.
[XPERIA X8 General] XperianPro:
I do prefer fresh theme and firmware.

I want SE X8 Walkman not just SE X8
[XPERIA X8 General] wujekandrzej:
actually, he's not talkative at all... he's a type of a silent guy :)

sry for offtop :p
[XPERIA X8 General] junixquiaoit:
lol, the difference is only at the color.

if i would buy a new phone, it would not be sony @_@ lol :D
[XPERIA X8 General] Alex4utm:
the cpu have flash support.. and our cpu doesn't
[XPERIA X8 General] kuyagaol:
just a though..

w8 is 2011 product, hoping it will have an bootloader unlock key..

port that to our x8..

can it work this way?
[XPERIA X8 General] mati96PL:
It doesn't have , W8 has same processor like X8 , Armv6
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noisemonkey:
I've been searching the forums but can't find one. Does it exist?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
No. It was always ported as a part of ROM, since it has to include drivers etc - which means kernel support.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] Lastday2020:
Dear All,

I have personal spare items for 02 XDA II, XDAIIi, XDA IIs for sales. All are in good working/physical condition. I am located in SINGAPORE.

Would like to sell off to those in needs.

Why i have those spares? well, a couple of years ago, i broke down/lost few of my PDAs hence have these items. wish to clear it off for someone who need it.

Following items that i have.

Pouches, Cradles, Chargers, Batts, Earpieces, 3rd party directly Charger..etcs. I too have the box, original discs...etc.etc. All are original and in very good condition.

Willing to sell it off to someone to need it at reasonable price, for folks who are willing to take few items, i will throw in extras. (etc : 3rd party charger)

Anyone who is in need of these accessories especially these days, these Original accessories are no longer available its a good catch.

Interested parties, kindly pm me for details.

thanks all and have a good day.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] Hakim Rahman:
you'd better offer on the forum Marketplace --> http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=476#
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] Ajaba:
Dude... just shut up. This is specific to the phone. Let him post here.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] kenwirawan:
i need xda iis battery. please send me pm detailed
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] chroe1963:
item

I would be interested if you still have.
[Windows Phone 7 General] TomaHawk93:
Good morning everyone,

like you can see on the title of the this topic, i wanted to ask if is it possible to connect a flash drive to the wp7 and use it as a storage device. I wanted to test it my self, but i can't find the right right cable :P

Thx
[Windows Phone 7 General] ikke008:
No, you phone is not a computer?

Sent from my OMNIA7 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 General] TomaHawk93:
EEeeeehhmmm.... it doesn't have to be a computer xD The N900 have this function (with extra software) and some symbian devices can make it too. :D
[Defy General] JanHimpIII:
Hi,

Didn't find any posting to this issue, so maybe my Defy is the only one with this problem:

If I press the seach button for long time, nothing happens. All other long press functions (menu, home) are working.

The search button (short press) is working.

On rare occasions I managed to get the popup menu (Quick Settings is installed, so I saw that in the menu) from the long press search, so I know, the function is there.

I checked the key codes, every thing looks OK. This behaviour was there from the beginning (I didn't even know of this function untill I read about it). So it is nothing related to any modifications I made.

So I would appreciate, if some of the defy owners would report, if the function on their phone is OK. Then I at least know, if I should replace my phone...

Thanks in advance.
[Defy General] JanHimpIII:
Got answers on a different forum now:

normally long press search works on the defy. Seems to be a problem with my hardware.

Anyway, if anybody has a similar problem, please give a message.
[Defy General] ephumuris:
If i long press on my search key it brings up voice search. On Nordic deblur.
[Defy General] rafaelw:
I used some days ago a program name Buttonremmap from the Market.

U can change, ou re configure your buttons. (if it is not hardware problems, of course)
[Defy General] JanHimpIII:
Thanks for the answers!

Now I figured out how to start the function on my phone:

I have to tap the search button three times and leave the finger on it after the last tap. Like da-da-daaaaah :). Really, I'm not making this up!

Kind of strange, but I can live with it. At least I have a really individual phone :D
[Wildfire General] itsmerabbi:
Hey I am using cm7 Stable version...I love it but the screen-of animation dose not work for me....witch is the most favorite feature in CM7...any Solution??:(
[Wildfire General] steve_032:
No, it was removed from the build quite a while ago, and from what I've read, I don't think it'll be coming back any time soon! Sorry.
[Wildfire General] itsmerabbi:
But for other device it steel running...and also I have an option in my CM7 setting>Display Setting>screen-off animation on I ticked on this option but nothing happens...
[Wildfire General] nhnt11:
its disabled for wildfire
[Wildfire General] ijestan:
try this, http://www.appbrain.com/app/screen-off-and-lock-(donate)/com.katecca.screenofflockdonate

more info here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1038562
[Wildfire General] vext01:
It was laggy as hell anyway...
[Wildfire General] David Nguyen:
Go to spareparts application and make sure that the window animation and the transition animation checked at "normal"
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
It wont work still then. Its disabled.

However, a new patch has been submitted to re-enable it, it should be there on the future nightlies.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] DHowett:
I've been working for the past couple of days on a multiboot/multi-ROM system for the Incredible, based conceptually (no code or implementation has been lifted) on Team ADX's DualRom.

It's a bit of a work in progress, right now, so I'm not entirely comfortable releasing anything (ROM images, the app), but I can give a couple screenshots and a brief technical rundown of how it works.

Screenshots

Implementation

ROMs (meh, I don't like calling them that anymore, they're not read-only :P) are stored in /emmc as a collection of filesystem images. This is at odds with DualRom, which takes over all of /emmc as a system volume and maintains symlinks for /data and /cache. HBOOT seems too evil to leave well-enough alone, and may try to tinker with the /emmc volume, corrupting certain non-FAT32 partitions.

ROM update.zips need to be modified to create these loopback filesystems and loopmount them. I will be providing reference implementations for these update.zip modifications.

initramfs images will also need to be modified to loopback mount these images from /emmc. I will be providing reference implementations for these modifications, as well.

ROM icons and information are stored next to their images.

Example Filesystem Layout

$ ls -lh /emmc

----rwxr-x 1 system sdcard_r 45 Apr 19 23:20 CM7.ROM.json
----rwxr-x 1 system sdcard_r 17.4K Apr 20 03:12 CM7.ROM.png
----rwxr-x 1 system sdcard_r 1.9M Apr 19 23:20 CM7.boot.img
----rwxr-x 1 system sdcard_r 128.0M Apr 19 16:27 CM7.cache.img
----rwxr-x 1 system sdcard_r 640.0M Apr 19 16:31 CM7.data.img
----rwxr-x 1 system sdcard_r 200.0M Apr 19 16:31 CM7.system.img

Critique

Super ROM Switcher isn't actually its final name, but I am rather uncreative ;). I'm open to suggestions and feedback (about names, the interface, etc.)

There are a few rough edges that I plan to work out before release, such as the fact that it clutters /emmc and the interface doesn't display much useful information.

Planned Features

Mount a ROM hierarchy (reconstruct / from the initramfs into tmpfs, loop-mount /system, /data and /cache into it).

Possibly download prebuilt images.

Delete an entire ROM image set.

Release

TBD

Thanks

Team ADX - DualRom as inspiration

jaykresge - Nothing Special (used as Stock-style ROM in my testing)

MIUI devs - MIUI (used in testing)

CyanogenMod Team - CM7 (used in testing, and is awesome :P)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] TheLynxy:
Looking forward to this!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tdiman:
I think this is a great implementation concept, which is quite clean. The only issues I can think of (until I try it) is likely sd-ext, but I stopped using it long ago. I figure once I actually run out of space in data I'll switch.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] djh816:
Now we just need someone to modify the clockwork recovery code to intercept the updates so we can get nightlies and other non dual boot .zip's working

EDIT: Meant to say great work! Looks very promising. As soon as I can use the existing (at least majority of) zips with this set up, would easily switch.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] corypaul:
I like this too....now we could boot more than 2 roms
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dscribe:
How do you feel about calling them "Loads," rather than ROMs? (This might also help with giving some permanent name ideas for this cool project.)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] davwman:
So how many "loads" can this app take?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] sd5500:
Then why don't we call this app "She". How many "Loads" can "She" take. :D

Oh, and I can't wait to try this. Awesome work!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] corypaul:
I don't get itt
[Droid Incredible Android Development] frostincredible:
This looks awesome! Will this let us install ROMs that have system folders larger than 250MB? If so, Sense 3.0 will be here in no time.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] sucker4pa1n:
Ill tell you when you're older. ;)

Tapatalk Pro Sig. Yep, boring.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] baciv:
ROM Glom?

glom

verb

to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Crans:
Dual boot is great.. it takes less than a minute to push a button to switch from stock sense to cm7 .... aka dual " she " boot :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] godsmacked4653:
I think this kind of thing would be great as long as both ROMs can actively read each others texts and phone logs and that sort of thing.

Kind of like how I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows. The Ubuntu partition is relatively small, but I've got symlinks for the music, pictures, videos, etc. on the Windows partition. It keeps everything very smooth and convenient. (I know the music stored on the SD card will do this, I'm just using that as an example.) :P

I'm assuming, though, that since the AOSP and Sense DBs are so different, that it might not be feasible. Either way, I'll definitely be trying this. It's a really cool concept.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] DHowett:
Mounting

localhost / # ls /emmc/SkyRaider4
bootcomplete.inc.rc init sbin
cache init.goldfish.rc shutdown.inc.rc
data init.inc.rc sys
default.prop init.rc system
dev proc

localhost / # ls /emmc/SkyRaider4/data
app dalvik-cache drm misc system
app-private data local property
backup dontpanic lost+found skyraider

localhost / # df -h
...
tmpfs 8.0M 304.0K 7.7M 4% /mnt/emmc/SkyRaider4
/dev/block/loop17 371.9M 235.4M 136.5M 63% /mnt/emmc/SkyRaider4/system
/dev/block/loop18 629.9M 121.9M 476.0M 20% /mnt/emmc/SkyRaider4/data
/dev/block/loop19 124.0M 5.5M 112.0M 5% /mnt/emmc/SkyRaider4/cache

The rootfs simulacrum is in tmpfs and mounted read-only to mimick that the ramdisk can't be modified easily. Everything else is accessible and modifiable.

Research

I looked into a couple means for booting kernels without reflashing boot.img. kexec() doesn't work properly (and most kernels aren't actually built with support for it, so it's a moot point). Meh, oh well.

Addendi

I'm going to open-source the management program once it's ready.

Questions

Sense->Sense and AOSP->AOSP works, but anything else is a little bit iffy. I actually brought mmssms.db through Sense to AOSP but it required a full dump/reimport (with table fixing in between). It's too difficult to allow. However, mounting (as above) might help in copying over some data ;).

Yep! Pretty much any size up to 4GB is supported (FAT32 limitation).

I have an edify parser that (with some prodding) will turn an update.zip into ROM.system.img, ROM.data.img (etc)... a recovery modification isn't out-of-the-question, however!

Thanks for the support!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Atlas.rouge:
This sounds genius lol, would definitely save a lot of time and stress from flashing, switching, and wiping our phones all over creation lol.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Quite excited about this project I have to say. :D
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Blanko6:
What theme is on the screen of the OP?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] daftlush:
Super excited about this. Is there an irc channel?

--

Sent from my Android phone. Please excuse my brevity/typos.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] DHowett:
Rover, but just the statusbar icons split into a separate theme.

irc.saurik.com #superrom
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Treken:
When is this going to be released?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] daftlush:
I really really hope it's not dead.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] DHowett:
It's not! I'm just a bit busy finding/moving into a new apartment right now :(

I've been working on SuperROM in my rather-minimal free time. Sorry for the delays.

I imagine it might start to look like vapourware if I don't make some obvious action on it :-/
[Droid Incredible Android Development] r2DoesInc:
Sounds like an awesome project, if you need/would like some help, give me or a team member a holler.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Treken:
Agreed. I would help if need be. I'm pretty busy deving over at greenromproject, but might be able to squeeze some time in.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tribbey:
is there a thread with those icons or anyway to find just that battery or could one of our great devs create that battery for a z based rom please(im running optimized z) :confused::D

the battery in the OP
[Droid Incredible Android Development] daftlush:
search for "rover"
[Droid Incredible Android Development] -viperboy-:
This is really sweet! Can you bring this to the EVO when you finish with the Incredible? I'm sure the EVO guys would love it, but it might be a challenge since we don't have the emmc that you guys do. Nice work!!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] DesireC:
SD-Ext isn't really an Incredible issue, it's for phones like the Desire that have very little internal storage. The Inc has plenty :D
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ldaggerl:
bump, I want to see this go somewhere.