yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Atrix 4G General] m3xician:
Cheers Mate

Thx mate gonna give it a good flash back to stock as GINGERBLUR Is not for me and update with the Latest supported Gingerbread from Mororola
[Atrix 4G General] spaceman.stew:
So I have a motorola atrix 2g and I soft bricked it it loads fastboot everytime i tried almost every firmware im downloading this one now to see if it works what are my other options if this does not work and my atrix 2g now says battery low im so scared i just got this for my birthday!
[Atrix 4G General] Swiftks:
First, I want to thank you for reviving a thread that was buried in the depths... :rolleyes:

Secondly, I have no idea what a Atrix 2g is... do you have some kind of super old prototype :p

Thirdly, if you're just soft bricked, we need more info.

- What firmware and/or Android version are you currently on?

- Was your bootloader unlocked?

- Did you have a recovery installed?

- How did you soft brick it?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bewrong666:
I just wanted to know if anyone here that has an xperia play or arc has already overclocked their unit and what app (setcpu?) did you use thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naranova7:
so some touchwiz 4 ports are out already, i tried one and i didnt really like it, so here's the question:

will developers be able to port ALL the touchwiz 4 elements, including the launcher, icons, functionality, widgets and wallpapers to the sgs and maybe other devices?

no matter what most people think, i really like the look and feel of touchwiz eventhough it might not be as professional as sense or launcherpro and so on..

BUT the new touchwiz 4 is almost close to an ideal launcher. so are we going to be able to use a full feature touchwiz 4 on sgs someday? maybe as an apk file or a theme package or maybe even a touchwiz 4 ROM?!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retskrad:
Sure hopes so, but you need some really great devs for this.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naranova7:
just to understand the procedure, wht exactly do the developers do to port the touchwiz 4 to sgs?

i mean, the stock rom gets deodexed, they extract it and find the .apks of the launcher, wallpaper chooser, widgets and such stuff, then what? wont they just work if they are installed on other wvga devices? what else should be done?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ayosopov:
Hi,my current ROM is HyperDroidGBX-v11 , It's a great ROM but I disappointed that I can't use the Headset Remote Control for answer and make calls and play back my music by simply pressing a button.

When I'm hearing music and suddenly I get a phone call.I must to take off the earphones before I answer.

This thing annoys me.

In which ROM the Headset Remote Control works?

Thanks.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ayosopov:
Does Somebody know?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ayosopov:
Does Somebody know?

???
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bates_1974:
I believe it's kernel dependant, try changing that
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nixda99:
It's right, Rafpigna 1.9OC Kernel supports the headset buttons. Try a rom with this kernel or flash the kernel to your rom.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ayosopov:
I managed to flash the kernel but still it's not resolve the headset issue.

As a matter of fact the kernel change damage my ROM activity and made the lockscreen smaller.

The lockscreen doesn't spread on the whole screen.

What is the best ROM that use Rafpigna 1.9OC Kernel?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ayosopov:
Does any of you tried a ROM based on Rafpigna 1.9OC Kernel ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chorl:
Hi,

I'm having that issue too. Mine is very strange: some ROM's I've tried works with wired headset remote, but only if screen is on :confused:

LAter I'll try to post ROM's I've tested with no luck.

People doesn't use wired headset? I found it very usefull, you can skip next song wthout pulling out your phone of your pokect!

I suppose it's all kernel-dependant, so I think our goal is to find the correct kernel (and the right ROM with that kernel). By the way, I'm using SD ROMs, because I have WP7 in NAND. Please provide info about SD ROMs, not only NAND ROMs :)

Thank you all.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chorl:
Hi,

In other interesting thread I've found that INCREDIBLE link (thank you ang1!)

http://android.hd2roms.com/

All HTC HD2 ROMs are listed, some of them have info about kernels, ant two of them are reported to use Raf 1.90C Kernel.

I'll try and later will post results.

Kind regards,

Ignacio Siles.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ayosopov:
I'm already knew this site.

But what is the best of these ROM's that use RAF 1.9OC kernel?

Does someone try this ROM :http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=915159

Thanks.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Proz00:
I use motoman rom I can change the song with my Bluetooth headphones

If that what u mean
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chorl:
Well, I've just tested RAFDROID from SD (I'm not using NAND), with Raf 1.9 OC kernel, and no luck...

Headset buttons worked with screen on, If I turned off screen and wait 30 seconds, buttons don't work. Maybe it doesn't work if flash as NAND, but it's not am option for me.

Do you know any other option?

BT headsets work with no issues (as far I know), but I need a wired headset to get FM radio working.

I'll keep testing.

Thank you all.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chorl:
Hello,

I've been all day trying differents SD ROMs, but NONE worked with Sense FM radio APP!!

- MCCM (all versions)

- Jaguar

- RAFDROID

- BOYPPC

And several kernels: tytung, RAFPINGA 1.90 OC, gauner1986, etc

All the ROMs have same behaviour: buttons work, but when phone goes to sleep, hardware buttons stop working.

It's very odd, all works properly, but I have no luck with headset buttons. Is there anything I could done wrong when booting SD ROM?

Maybe buttons work with NAND ROMs, but I can't try.

Any help, please?
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
I've began to work on a ClockworkMod Recovery for the A500.

The work is based on what I've written down in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1056170

As I didn't have the chance to test yet but I'm pretty sure someone wants to play with the code I'm providing it via GitHub:

https://github.com/SeraphimSerapis/Acer-A500-Recovery

This is the link to a first compiled version of it: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1661232/cwm-alpha-2.img

>> Donate link for buying me lots of coffee :) <<

Everything is based on the log of the original recovery:

recovery filesystem table
=========================
0 /tmp ramdisk (null) (null) 0
1 /system ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 (null) 0
2 /data ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 (null) 0
3 /cache ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 (null) 0
4 /misc emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 (null) 0
5 /flex ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 (null) 0
6 /mnt/sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (null) 0
7 /boot emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (null) 0
8 /aboot emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 (null) 0
9 /recovery emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (null) 0

I couldn't check this part of the code of BoardConfig.mk because /proc/mtd is empty.

As this Device uses MMC this won't be important (IMO)

# fix this up by examining /proc/mtd on a running device
BOARD_BOOTIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 0x00380000
BOARD_RECOVERYIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 0x00480000
BOARD_SYSTEMIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 0x08c60000
BOARD_USERDATAIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 0x105c0000
BOARD_FLASH_BLOCK_SIZE := 131072

I'd be glad to hear if it worked well for you or if there occured problems.

Have fun with it,

Tim

Update: I've done lots of changes and tried to boot into my recovery.

I just got this message in the upper left corner:

secure boot: image SOS checksum fail!

This means that the bootloader is protected.

The good thing is: I could flash my recovery.img backup and I've got it working again ;)

Update 2: I've split the recovery.img and boot.img to get some more information:

These are the files I got:

recovery kernel: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1661232/recovery.img-kernel

recovery ramdisk: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1661232/recovery.img-ramdisk.gz

boot kernel: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1661232/boot.img-kernel

boot ramdisk: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1661232/boot.img-ramdisk.gz

I updated my fstab config at GitHub based on these findings.
[Acer Iconia A500] mapaz04:
AWESOME!!!

Thanks for getting efforts started in getting the A500 the Clockworkmod man... This is sweet. I am not an Android developer at all (mainly in WP7) but I would love to help testing anything that is needed.

Thanks DEVS for your hard work and allowing us to costumize our devices to OUR taste!!! jejeje
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
was exploring my rom out of boredom.... and found the kernel config "around" (: someone screwed up (:

anyone can tell me where to find a tegra2 kernel , wana start building some modules (:

UPDATE: I'm gonna try working with the xoom kernel...
[Acer Iconia A500] jabbawalkee:
Locked bootloader? That's a bummer and shame on Acer! Right now I love this device so much so that it doesn't bother me but I do indeed hope the wonderful devs get it cracked. I'm happy to test if needed. Good luck and thanks guys!
[Acer Iconia A500] dc13:
I hope this gets fixed talked to bumble bee in irc today and hes tryn also. my rom is ready when we get recovery.
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
nice :) i hope he finds a solution. my recovery is ready and wants to get flashed :)
[Acer Iconia A500] dc13:
anything i can do to help u get it before him or help u both find something?
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
as i've stated here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1059490 you're welcome to have a look if you can find the matter :)
[Acer Iconia A500] mrkrabs:
Any progress on clockwork???
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
The Recovery is finished already. What we need is a secure way to flash it
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
How likely is this? Could be a good enough reason to ditch the Iconia and get the Transformer which already has an unlocked boot loader.
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
I'm a developer, no fortune teller.

Sorry
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
i'm thinking an update must be inbound... because they cant be that retarded(excuse the language) to leave the device without at least basic recovery for the user.... that will mean massive warranty work...

this is the worst part we cant experiment very deep because theres no recovery... so fingers crossed on the update...

PS: if you what my opinion any device can and will be hacked just takes the right person or the right idea... a good example is the SE X10
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
Well if they aren't going to unlock the boot loader they had better be super fast with updates.
[Acer Iconia A500] nycbjr:
someone sent me an update.zip saying it was from acer.. its 300mb I have no idea really how to tell if its legit, the build.prop says a build date of 4/22, my current build.prop is 3/29. so maybe?

I'm going to drop it in my drop box, called acer.update.zip.. you guys take a look and tell me!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26425679/acer-a500/update.acer.zip

give it an hour to upload
[Acer Iconia A500] dsEVOlve:
So far its looking like the Android experience Google wanted to protect by holding Honeycomb source code isn't worth protecting. With an overpriced Xoom that still has nonfunctional hardware, Asus launching the TF without much of a supply chain, Samsung doing a full last minute redesign with some TouchWiz thrown in for good measure, and locked bootloader on the Iconia (which I was loving until I read this)...getting a tweaked Honeycomb seems like one of the few perks Android tabs and their users would have. I really hope the situation starts looking up fast
[Acer Iconia A500] kxs783kms:
Downloaded...But how would I go about flashing this? I'm willing to sacrafice my tablet and try this out for the greater good of man kind(or our Iconia community. Which ever you prefer. :) )
[Acer Iconia A500] hellcat82:
If I remember correctly when you boot hold power and vol down it will boot into an update mode looking for an update.zip on the SDCard. Perhaps if you renamed it update.zip and put it in the base directory of your sd card it might attempt to update.
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
I'll be having a look into that file..

Regards
[Acer Iconia A500] nycbjr:
that is what I was hoping for, I wouldn't just go flashing it, perhaps sir seraph can figure out If in fact its an update, and maybe it can bring some good :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] daveba:
I think he was asking for the partition table for the TF. It is different since our recovery is on p1 and TF is on p4 so flashing just the TF's CWM blob would not work correctly on ours and could do some major damage. We need to repack the kernel, initramfs into a new cwm blob and dd it to p1 for us with a new recovery fstab. I think we are close now...
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
Did u read my post?

I've already created the blob with a customized clockwork mod recovery I created myself.

p4 is not the transformer's recovery (regarding to the fstab file)
[Acer Iconia A500] daveba:
Did you read eBugs post ? According to the that the TF recovery IS on p4

Return to the shell from step 6 and do the following commands:

11. run “dd if=/data/local/CWM_BLOB_V4 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4″
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
so what is mmcblk0p4 :|
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
i dunno - i've read somewhere that recovery is hidden in normal mode.. we need someone with a transformer who can post the output of mount
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
for what I gathered so far its an unknown partition, its on the LG Optimus 2X too and its like a flash partition, anything that is found there and valided with the blob header gets flashed on startup by the bootloader on startup...
[Acer Iconia A500] secularhuman:
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[Acer Iconia A500] nycbjr:
I hope I'm not violating some posting rule, but I wanted to confirm that in linux I recived the same result, APX mode confirmed in pic one, result of nvflash --sync and --getbct in pic 2
[Acer Iconia A500] butchconner:
NVFlash Commands...

I've just started trying to catch up on this thread, but I've seen a couple

of people comment they didn't know much about NVFlash.

Attached is a listing of Commands that work with NVFlash.

There are many commands that do everything from get the Partition Table

and put it into a file to the obvious flashing commands.

Hope this helps.

Rev
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
can u upload img file（cwm-alpha-2.img） to this website ：http://localhostr.com/，3Q

i cannt visit that web u give above
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Has development stopped or just fixing roadblocks behind the scenes my f5 key is dying.
[Acer Iconia A500] lrs421:
Honestly I think they've done all they can for now.
[Acer Iconia A500] webfly2:
I'm not a developer, but did anyone think about another aproach? Something like AlphaRev did to get the Bootloader of the HTC Desire working? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they didn't open the bootloader, the disabled the security "features" somewhere else...
[Acer Iconia A500] huxflux2003:
The dropbox link with acer.update.zip is now allowing any more traffic. Do we have a mirror somewhere?
[Acer Iconia A500] nycbjr:
yeah they cut me off

I moved it to this http://db.tt/QyGT50O

not sure how long b4 they do it again, I should look into how much it is, I kind of like it lol
[Acer Iconia A500] gammaRascal:
This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!
[Acer Iconia A500] huxflux2003:
some thing again!
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
"Links that use up more than 10GB/day for Basic (free) accounts and 250GB/day for Pro (paid) accounts are automatically suspended."

https://www.dropbox.com/help/45
[Acer Iconia A500] dc13:
ill upload it to my site when i can DL it
[Acer Iconia A500] richardtrip:
update.zip for recovery

Here it is:

http://xda.richardtrip.org/?dir=./Acer/Update
[Acer Iconia A500] lrs421:
Wait, what, is this, really....RECOVERY???

Richard, you are the man.
[Acer Iconia A500] richardtrip:
That is only an update.zip to recover if you have a problem.
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
Is it the Chinese one?
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylb:
Yes it is, All text is in Chinese.

Does anybody have the US wifi version? thx
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
maybe this http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13427976&postcount=7
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylb:
That links is working now, did not before. I'm downloading it now.

Thanks !!!
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Is this a custom recovery? Please say it is so. I would love clockwork or amon
[Acer Iconia A500] Wes90:
Sorry i'm new to this subject, could this be useful if you have some issues like not being able to connect to wifi?(i did some modifies in the root and i did something wrong)
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylb:
The acer_update file just allows you to boot up your Iconia, even though its in Chinese, you then need to get the system.img and update the correct partition which can only be done if you have adb access.

I dont believe this fixes up any wireless issues, but if I am wrong, somebody please chime in here.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Then why post this on recovery and config?
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
could you explain me how can i enter recovery mod? by holding minus on boot right ? but it just dont want to flash from update.zip which is on my micro sd it just give me a warning sign and nothing. what im doing wrong
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylb:
I guess its one way to recover you iconia if you want to revert back to stock.
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylb:
Make sure update.zip is in root of your micro sdhc card. Hold power and vol key closes to power button. Hold until you see white text writing on top left of screen. i just did it and it works.

text should say something about "erasing cache, it found sdcard:update.zip" then you should see an orange bar going from left to right displaying progress with android man and a white box :)

Although this version is Chinese by default you can hit Settings icon and go to 2nd or 3rd from bottom and select 1st option and it will allow English, then you good to go.
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
im doing that but it starts

"Eracing data before sd update

sd update cmd:recovery

update_package:sd card update.zip

booting recovery kernel image"

then loads android robot with running line and immediately running line changes to warning sign and nothing happens

update.zip is the only file on my micro sd fat32(not sdhc)
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylb:
What you describing makes me think it is not finding the update.zip. Do you have another flash card lying around? maybe from a Droid phone? What size is your micro sd card?
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
typical microsd size with 2gb, worked in device before brick

ive edite smt on my prev post
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylb:
It is possible then that your download could be corrupt - try to download it again. If you had that card working before it should still work now.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
So is this update zip an update or just a way to recover from brick status could the poster please explain
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylb:
update.zip is generally used on Droid devices as you hinted to, an update. but a way to recover a bricked device is to use the update.zip to restore the image. it is a failsafe if recovery code or system code is not present.
[Acer Iconia A500] Firothical:
Can You Create an ISO

androidx86.com had created an ISO install for the 1.6 version of android... im looking for either a 3.0 ISO or a 3.1 ISO

i have the Iconia W500 with Windows 7 on it for work; since it has the exact same hardware as the A500 i should be able to install the A500 OS and it will work... the process of installing android is my short-falling.

Someone that can help???

I am willing to pay for the ISO if it will take time

Anyone Care to Assist?
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
I'm familiar with what an update.zip does. I'm wondering what this update zip will do is an update over the current US version or the same just in chinese
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
it works with my pc , and i have too same update.zip no one is working ( what should i do
[Acer Iconia A500] blabub:
I updated with the update zip, but my device is still encrypted. Is there a way to undo this? Now everything is in Chinese fonts but still can't unlock my device. :)
[Acer Iconia A500] blabub:
MD5 should be 9a3c8bafb7c27e6ff1c131c732c27a8e update.acer.zip.
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
sorry its not the same hardware at all... A500 is tegra2 ARM based and W500 has a AMD C50 ALU witch is a x86 architecture...
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
md5 is maches
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Can anyone who used the update zip posted today please tell me what it did for the device. Is it an update or is it just for people who are bricked. Or is it to unencrypt the bootloader or a DB.

Sent from my Acer Iconia A500
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
adb. Got to love auto correct

Sent from my Acer Iconia A500
[Acer Iconia A500] blabub:
You named it update.zip or? :)

Someone managed to install gingerbreak after installing the update.zip? Can't find a file manager.
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
yes i named it update.zip

try to use adb to install gingerbrake
[Acer Iconia A500] blabub:
If you are on linux, you can try to hard format the sd card with dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd(x) where x is your device.

Had a long time ago a similar problem with an android phone, after that it worked without problems.

@adb

Installed a file manager and then installed it. So now .img install time. :)
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
ive hard formated it in windows, nothing changed.

do u have any options in recovery ?

how recovery is look like?
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
How did you format through Windows.

1. Did you right click format?

2. Did you go to disk management and make sure there were no other partitions on the card.
[Acer Iconia A500] blabub:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13579596&postcount=130

But got this screen only after flashing the update.zip, don't know why.
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
hm i dont have any clicable options at all it just do his weird processes(see above) and everything ends with warning sign. micro sd is ok i think
[Acer Iconia A500] blabub:
I'm out of ideas. Sorry.
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylb:
How long are you holding down the buttons? You should hold it down long enough until the progress bar appears. i find if I don't it does not always detect it.
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
ive recorded a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4rTW1eg_lc

anyone got ideas why thas happening?
[Acer Iconia A500] dc13:
like i have said many times this so called usa update.zip is broken unless u r trying the chinese version the u might have a bad dl so u will need to re dl it and try again.
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
where i can get chinese update.zip ive downloaded that http://xda.richardtrip.org/?dir=Acer/Update
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylb:
Saw your video, its not picking up the update.zip file for some reason. I think in this thread or the other ones names system images there is mentio of acer_update.zip - download that and rename it to update.zip. it will bootup fine, then if you do a factory reset it will reboot with all text in Chinese, you can still go into 2nd or 2rd last option , choose 1st new option and select English.
[Acer Iconia A500] Wes90:
I get an error when i try to turn on wifi, after having modified a file in the root. Could this fix that problem?
[Acer Iconia A500] lpachuong:
Updated with that update.zip and have no problem. Things seem smoother.

Thank you.

From Aus.

Edited: Can't find market :|
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
anyone noticed that partition 7 ~10mb is not used for anything... didn't find anything useful in its dump...

by the way i did a entire flash dump and found what i think is the bootloader in the first sectors of the flash with the normally found loops and found no signatures what so ever.... so if some signature checks are in place I think they are located somewhere else...