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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghoststavanger:
First off all my Galaxy I9000 was trying to software update via Kies, and it failed. The it would not start, but i managde to root it with a stock "VOD" rom.. But after a while i wantet to root it back to "Nordic Version"... But i could not do this, because the 3 button combo dont work on my Galaxy I9000 anymore.. :/ So there for i baought a USB JTAG, that puts it into download mode. So far, So good But when it is finished rooting, it fails to mount/unmount a bunch of stuff.. I have a picture of the screen, so that you guys can se what the problem is. I have tryed to root it with the same version that worked before, but it dont work. I have also tryed with som pit files, and so on... I give up, i need help with my Samsung Galaxy S - GT-i9000. Please help me out with this..

Do you know where i can download this firmware with three files? i have to pay for every Mb i download, so i cant afford to download the wrong one :/ If you know where i can download it, or if you have the link for this download that would be great!! :)

I need the one for Nordic Countries (Samsung Galaxy GT-i9000), and it must be able to install the right CSC... wich is "NEE"

Thanks in advanced ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Overloaded:
Hey,

I want to remove the clock from my statusbar because it's just ugly and i don't need 2 clocks.

There are some threads about this, but this are old methods that don't work anymore.

somebody knows how to achieve this easily? I'm running latest MIUI ROM (Android 2.3.3)
[General Questions and Answers] Overloaded:
Really nobody that can help me? :(

I've found a tutorial to extract services.jar, i tried editting the files but i couldn't figure it out. Please? :)
[General Questions and Answers] Steve Punter:
I may be wrong, but I don't believe that removing the clock is an option in stock Android. Many of the custom ROMs have explicitly added this capability, I would image because there is a demand for it.
[General Questions and Answers] Dirk:
Wouldn't it make more sense to get rid of the stupidly big and unnecessary one that's taking up half your screen real estate?
[General Questions and Answers] Overloaded:
It is not a real option, but it should be possible. I've read that the clock removal mods don't really remove the clock, but the clocks are just posisioned outside the screen area. I tried to move the clock myself but i failed :(

No, that doesn't make sense to me.

I like it like this, but the ugly clock in the corner is bugging me
[General Questions and Answers] Dirk:
I see your point now! Didn't realise your homescreen was so well modded and tasteful. My apologies for jumping to conclusions and thinking that you'd have a Sense style clock.

If i were you i'd want rid of the smaller one too. If i come across anything that could achieve the desired result i'll post it here for you.
[General Questions and Answers] Overloaded:
Thanks, that would be great! :D
[General Questions and Answers] bouchigo:
Check this out, I think this is what you are trying to do:

http://androidforums.com/droid-x-all-things-root/325354-mod-remove-clock-gb-status-bar.html
[General Questions and Answers] Overloaded:
Thanks! I've asked what the guy changed because this mod won't work on Desire HD with MIUI rom ;)
[General Questions and Answers] bouchigo:
Are you baskuipers? You could have asked me here.......same "guy" ;)

Check your pm.
[General Questions and Answers] Overloaded:
Haha, yes, that's indeed me :p :D

Thanks, i'll try it out ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Kiray1982:
Does it works? Can you explain it, like a how-to?

Thanks a lot
[General Questions and Answers] mArtinko5MB:
I think some of luncher can do that ...

b.t.w.: Cyanogen ROM has that option native in seetings ...
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
I take no responsibility for any harm that comes to your phone as a result of applying this mod.

I suggest people start using genokolar's version instead, available here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1067490

Clockwork Recovery port based on Koush's 3.0.2.8 source.

Available here: http://www.multiupload.com/DQGL84P3A5

Source available on my github: https://github.com/stockwell/u8800-clockwork-recovery-port (bit messy.. will do a cleanup when I have the time)

BIG THANKS TO 357546 for creating the new kernel!!

v4 Notes:

- Now using 357546's kernel with fixed framebuffer driver capable of RGB565!

- Seems to be fully functional aside from rom manager integration

- Some small cleanups in init scripts and sbin

Detailed Installation:

- Ensure that there are no Huawei rom updates on your SD-Card in the dload folder and unplug the phone from your computer

- Boot to bootloader mode by pressing the up and down volume keys and pressing the power button. This will show a plain violet/purple screen.

- Connect the phone to your computer. In windows it will automatically mount one mass storage device which corresponds to the /cust_backup folder on your phone. If your OS supports EXT3 it will mount multiple devices, look for the one with an images directory and this is the device to use.

- In the images directory rename recovery.img to something else (ie. recovery.bak) and then copy the new recovery image in its place.

- Unmount the mass storage device to ensure all cached writes are completed and then disconnect from the computer. Exit bootloader mode by pulling out the battery.

You now have the clockwork recovery installed. Boot to recovery by holding the volume up and power buttons to turn the phone on.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] 298800577:
wow！

hope for a perfect recovery!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] gundamboyx:
Any feedback on this?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] 298800577:
good news！！！

seems that the32bpp mode is a big problem

hope to see changes!!!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iJebus:
Good stuff man, thanks for the work you're doing.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] starfriend.y:
good job bro
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] crusty210:
Thanks for the support! I've got an issue though, I've applied the recovery but when I press the vol buttons and power I am taken to the purple screen instead of the green recovery menu. V2 worked fine though......not sure if anyone else is having the same issue?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Pretor:
VolUP+VolDown+Power=Purple screen

VolUp+Power=Recovery screen
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] crusty210:
Got it, thanks!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] wmi543:
tested, backup ok, wifi ok

thanks for your work, tested V4, backup ok, wifi is working fine, so far no problem
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iJebus:
Hey, just a question on that topic - I goto 'Backup Current ROM' and it asks me to install clockmod recovery, and asks to verify what model of phone; obviously u8800 isn't an option on the list.

So.... Aroo? Sorry if I'm missing something obvious :)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] wmi543:
actually you don't need to install rom manager

just follow the instructions in this post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1043232
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iJebus:
Yep, so just skip using the app entirely. Got it :)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] blup1:
What's the difference between this and Reckas recovery?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
That would be v2 of my recovery port actually. As stated this version fixes usb mass storage mounting and implements off-mode charging.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
made a backup without problem.. thx..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Recka:
I mentioned in mine that it was Stockwells, maybe I didn't make this clear. Sorry about that in that case.

Either way I better get this up on my site to be mirrored :)

http://www.apksmash.com/x5/recovery.img

New version uploaded :)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] blup1:
When you are in recovery after the last step which says so, are you just suppose to take the first option "reboot system now"?

Sorry, completely beginner with these kinds of stuff.

Edit: I guess I should choose backup and restore> backup but when i do so it says "Can't mount SD-card"
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Playron:
I have serious problem by finding the bootloader drivers! The driver update is failing all the time? Do some of you have the driver folder you can give me?

THX!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
Feel free to just have a poke around and see what it can do. At the moment the only really useful thing is backup and restore.

I'm not sure why it won't mount the sd. I should mention that it does not use the internal 'sd-card' so you'll get that error if you don't have an external sd-card inserted.

I didn't think that drivers were needed, it should just come up with the mass storage device. From what I remember there are two other devices that windows detects but cannot find drivers for, but don't stress about that as it's not needed. Try it again and see how it goes, it may have mounted but you were stressing about the drivers so missed that it was working.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] blup1:
Oh, then that's the problem - I don't got an external SD-card mounted. Thanks.

Edit: Now it did work! Thanks!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
refer to: http://bbs.goapk.com/thread-1976779-1-1.html

a chinese expert seemingly fixed the "double-screen" display issue of the recovery image..

not sure if u can see the below image, as im a member of the forum and thus have no problem in seeing the attachment image:

however, there was report that this recovery has problem with power-off and off-mode charging (same issue as in v2 of stockwell recovery)..

maybe stockwell could work with this expert (Big Big Star) on fixing the frame buffer issue? if needed i can act as the coordinator..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
That's great! Yeah it would be awesome if he would share his source code changes with me since I think the only issue with mine is the graphics problems. Would you be able to ask him to do that? I'm more than happy to publish my stuff on github as well, and will post it up later on today or tonight.

Edit:

Source available here: https://github.com/stockwell/u8800-clockwork-recovery-port
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
i have messaged him with the source link.. waiting for his response now.. :)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] 357546:
You can try this kernel.

cwr used RGB565,but U8800 RGBA8888

So,I make a kernel with RGB565 support

It can fix the display issue

The kernel download link: http://dl.dbank.com/c0gsohmzg2
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
Awesome mate thanks so much for doing that!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
just did a backup.. looks good (literally as well.. 8)

thx guys..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] bujcri:
thanks!

Recovery V4 is excellent! Thanks a lot!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iJebus:
Yep, all working :)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] mattbee:
:D

yup v4 working.

nice one, it was beginning to hurt my eyes trying to read it double screen lol..

M..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Isakk1:
so if i got this right:

This is a recovery so if something is going wrong with OC or root it is just to start up again?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
im no expert and x5 is my first android phone..

i just learned what recovery mode is here in xda and from those experts around this board..

from my own experience, stock (built-in) recovery mode is for doing simple tasks such as wiping cache or factory reset the phone..

with stockwell's custom recovery, we can do much more in recovery mode, in particular, backup/restore phone partitions (system/data/cache)..

this is where this custom recovery really becomes useful..

say u wanna try rooting the phone, u start by first doing a full backup in recovery mode, then u may go ahead and experiment with the phone..

if anything happens, u can recover ur phone by doing these 2 steps:

(1) flash the original rom in recovery mode (in ur case i presume its the swedish version which u can probably find/download from huawei's site) so that ur phone is back to the state when it just came to ur hand..

(2) do a restore in recovery mode

guys, pls correct me if i miss anything or provide any wrong info, as i just theoretically know the steps, but have yet to try it actually.. :D
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] andreasha:
What's missing for the ROM Manager integration to work?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] magictwins:
do i need to root the phone to do all these things?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
no u dont need to..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] magictwins:
thanks for the quick reply

one other question: I bought the phone with China Unicom's rom, now i am trying to flash another ROM into it. My plan is to download the ROM i want from huawei website, put it in the sdcard of my phone, and then booting into recovery to install it. Am I right about this?

or is there any easier way to do it?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Poulsen8r:
Is it just me or do the loading bars not work properly anymore?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
No, follow the installation instructions that come with the rom. This will wipe /data though so make sure you do a full backup before installing it, then after installing do an advanced restore and only restore /data.

I just did a backup to test and the loading bar works fine. Was this while loading an update.zip? The update script informs the loading bar when to change manually, so it could be caused by a badly made script.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
there are some apks in my /cust/pccw/hk/app directory which seem not backed up by the recovery backup..

thus if im going to flash a new rom to my phone, how should i restore those custom apks then?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
Yeah this was something I was thinking about the other day.. nandroid doesn't backup the /cust directory. I came to the conclusion that there wasn't really anything that people wanted in there so it wasn't really an issue, but I guess the unicom rom for example has quite a few apps in it.

Easiest way is just to copy the app and lib directories them to your sd card, do the update then afterwards move them back into the /cust directory.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Poulsen8r:
I'm guessing this is the reason I lost swype on restore :/

Yeah I was applying an update...
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
Just realised I made a mistake, if you're moving to a different custom version (which atm is almost always the case) then it won't link the directories in cust correctly, so if you put them back in cust then it still won't work. You might be able to use the original directory structure of cust but I'm not sure...

Poulsen8r, assuming your phone was bought in Australia, can you try and rename the folders in the /cust directory so the structure is like /cust/roadhound/au, reboot and then see if swype is back?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
yes this is one of the methods i have in mind too, and i have some doubts on this method..

for it to work, im thinking whether this "/cust/" directory is a special location (like /system/, /data/, etc.) that any android system will pick up the apps inside, or there is some property file that i need to edit to point some custom variable to this location..

what if the new flashed rom does not have a /cust/ directory? then how can the system know that i have some apps in this location?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
thats probably the case.. my input method apks are all in /cust/pccw/hk/app/ directory..

i just wrote about this concern at the same time as ur post.. i think there should be some property file which stores custom variables that point to this location..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
The /cust_backup directory is mounted by init.rc in boot.img when booting from /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 so yeah it's kinda like /system and /data (stored on its own partition). The /cust directory is then symlinked from /cust_backup/image/cust to /cust so that's how that whole structure is built.

I don't really know too much other than that, such as where it stores the information about which cust version you have. I haven't bothered to explore it because it will become irrelevant with custom roms.

If Poulsen8r has success just renaming the directory structure (or if someone else can try it first) then I guess that will be our easy fix. If not, you can backup the app and lib folders then put them in /system/app and /system/lib after the update. If there's not enough room you can get rid of the flash apk from /system/lib and some things from /system/app which can be downloaded again from market such as google earth and facebook.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
i found the following code segments in init.rc:

# mount cust to /mnt/emmc
mkdir /cust_backup
mount vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /cust_backup ro
symlink /cust_backup/image/cust_data /cust

the above seems to be the code equivalent part of ur 1st paragraph.. :)

on cust
mkdir /data/cust

custcopy apk_name_need_to_enable.xml /data/cust/apk_name_need_to_enable.xml
chmod 0666 /data/cust/apk_name_need_to_enable.xml

custcopy nv.bin /data/cust/nv.bin
chmod 0666 /data/cust/nv.bin

# the follow is a example for customize config copy,please pay attention to the mode of the file.
mkdir /data/cust/wifi
custcopy wpa_supplicant.conf /data/cust/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
chmod 0666 /data/cust/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf

custsymlink xml /data/cust/xml
custsymlink prop /data/cust/prop
custsymlink wallpaper /data/cust/wallpaper
custsymlink ons /data/cust/ons
custsymlink app /data/cust/app
custsymlink lib /data/cust/lib
custsymlink media /data/cust/media
custsymlink logo /data/cust/logo
custsymlink nv /data/cust/nv
exec /system/bin/load_oemlogo

and then the above segment seems to be sym-linking those directories under "/cust/xxxx/xx/" to respective links in "/data/cust/" directory..

if this is true, then can we assume that the linkage already exists after init.rc execution during reboot?

and if this assumption is true, then whats said in the 1st sentence of ur 3rd paragraph should work, right?

anyway /system/app/ and /system/lib/ should be the safe fallback if the above speculation turns out wrong..

so just for the discussion.. :p
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] VoltageNZ:
Working great, thanks heaps!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] magictwins:
can you tell me where the instruction is? cuz I've only got the rom's direct dl link from this page

wiki.modaco.com/index.php/Huawei_Firmware_U8800
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
the instruction is included in the ROM download zip file..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] magictwins:
thank you , i just started downloading:)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
Actually I'm an idiot. Not sure why I forgot about this but the dload directory has two files, UPDATE.APP and UPDATE_CUST.APP. Only copy the UPDATE.APP to your sdcard and forget about UPDATE_CUST.APP and it wont touch the cust directory, problem solved.

I would assume you can have just UPDATE_CUST as well, so if you're in a situation where you've flashed a rom with a different cust version I would go and download the original rom and try and flash just UPDATE_CUST.APP to restore the original apps.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Poulsen8r:
Yep that seemed to work. Haven't come across any other side effects yet (since cust is only a liked directory and not a real one i'm guessing the critical files should be reffering to the /cust_backup and not the /cust directory.)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
nice! now we have 2 ways to handle the /cust/ directory when flashing..

either fooling around with update_cust.app (to flash or not to flash) so that we get desired /cust/, or flashing first and then directory renaming afterwards.. :)

just a further thought, if my desired outcome is the new rom's /system/, my original rom's /cust/, and also my current image's /data/, can i just do these minimalistic steps?

(1) do backup in recovery

(2) wipe data/cache/dalvik-cache

(3) in dload directory, put new rom's UPDATE.APP and original rom's UPDATE_CUST.APP, then flash

(4) in recovery restore /data/

is step (3) a reasonable action?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
Yep sounds good to me. I haven't personally tried it so I can't say for sure but I believe it will work fine.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Fruitgull:
Thanks for v4! Keep up the good work.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] adrdsouza:
Hi, I put in the customer revovery and on booting into recovery it says clockworkmod recovery v3.0.2.8. Is that right?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iJebus:
Yeah, it's v4 of v3.0.2.8 for the U8800 :p

At least, that's my understanding.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dibb_nz:
AWESOME!!! my eyes thank you:)

working well so far, even the 'back' button works and can use search button to select
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] faheemkh:
can't mound sd card

when i every i try to use apply zip from sd card, it gives me error "cant mount sd card" i do have external sd card in phone.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] typek3003:
Hi, im having problem copying the recovery.img file to phone.. Although I see the phone and file which I am supposed to replace, but the storage seems to be read only , not allowing me to do anything.. Anyone has this problem ? Thx, Mike
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] stockwell:
Did this fix itself? I can't really think of a reason why this would occur, assuming that the card is fine and works in android system.

I have had this happen once, not sure what the cause was. I think I did a reboot of both the phone and computer and it started working again. You can also copy the image using something like root explorer so maybe try this if you don't have any luck with your computer. It might be cause by some software on your computer blocking it (antivirus maybe? who knows..)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
i've heard on chinese forum hiapk that if the sdcard contains both ext3 & fat32 partitions, it may not mount..

if this is the case, need to format it to fat32 then..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] typek3003:
Thanks for your reply. But I´ve already tried it on 2 computers / XP, Vista/ both playing the same. My problem is, that my phone is practically dead and flashing original firmware just wont help. If I do falsh original firmware, flash seems ok, says it´s completed and tick with rebooting, but nothing happens. When I power it again, it just shows Huawei on the display, then it shuts off , restartint itself showing the same, but continuing with andorid logo and some kind of un-packing picture saying : Formating data, formating cache, then restart and everything replays in infinite loop. I was trying to get it to fastboot to replace the file with ADB but i can´t mainly because I can´t turn on debugging because I have no system working. Thank you very much for your ideas. On the top of the thngs, I should say, that the phone is SAMPLE T2 , I got it at work / I work in mobile company/ . Mike
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
whats a "sample t2"? isnt this thread for "ideos x5"?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] levibuko:
it doesnt work :(

i followed your steps but it doesn#t work....

when im in the standard recovery and connect with my pc it shows a folder.

In this folder is just images which contains cust_data, recovery boot, amss.mbn and EMMCBOOT .

i replaced the recovery img with the rec from the download, but it doesnt worked -.-

i've root and b135sp01

i've the overclock bootloader from haipk. is this a problem?

E: it was my msitake. i pressed always volume up and down + power button....
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] typek3003:
Sorry for missunderstanding but it is IDEOS X5 , but it´s not normal production piece , but it says SAMPLE T2 on the sticker under the battery
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iamelton:
probably ur phone is what they called an "engineering model" in the chinese forum.. these are pre-production sample phones used for testing the production process, and therefore may have potential issues on functions..

i guess u just hit one of those issues..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] typek3003:
ok, I managed to copy new recovery to phone, install B160 - New OC Kernel, Root, Wifi-tether this ROM, but again. I power on the phone Huawei - off - huawei - clockwork menu ... :mad: But progress :))
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] typek3003:
Can some one post full folder that is shown when changing recovery.img ? I have a feeling, that the error might be there as well.. Thx EDIT : I see, that size of my boot.img is nearly half than on the picture somewhere here... Please, upload this file .Thank you again EDIT 2 : Isee that boot.img is a part of ROM ... Now I got to moment , when only huwaei logo is showing and that´s all :D Oh my :)) But still, i would like that folder , thank you :)